Shapes And Stones

Why be a square when you could be Kevin?

[noisyghost]

local woman alarmingly quick to throw herself in the face of danger if it means she might get to kiss a werewolf

[noisyghost]

you miss 100% of the shots you dont take

[hottestthingalive]

'the greatest reveal in the history of media was-' no. the greatest reveal in the history of media was in the novel Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (1986), wherein after having spent the entire book up to this point in the fantasy land of Ingary, where fairy tales come true, it is revealed that the real reason that Howl is so odd, so strange, so different from everyone else is that he is not, in fact, like everyone else. and this is not because he is a wizard, or a layabout, or heartless--it is because he is Welsh. as in, he is from modern day Wales. as in, he and his pals from Magic World go for a quick trip to visit his family in Wales, circa 1984-6. and suddenly everything about Howl Pendragon aka Howell Jenkins suddenly makes a lot more sense

[phantomrose96]

God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers and I'm dodging the draft

[phantomrose96]

hang on I gotta look something up.

[i-suggest-vore]

DW I know that one from heart if you need an explanation

[phantomrose96]

Thanks tumblr user i-suggest-vore. I can always count on your for theological literacy wait is there a different reason you like this story

[trawl]

for the record flatting is one of my favorite parts of the comic process and it's extremely satisfying and extremely important and is also one of the most chronically underpaid parts (with flatters usually only getting paid $10 a page) and least-well known parts (99% of the time flatters dont get a credit)

[trawl]

flatting is also one of those forms of art where i think people would point at it and scoff and go "i can do that". which, yeah, true, you probably can. but can you do it well? can you do it quickly? more importantly: can you do it better and faster than established professionals? people who do it for a living? because as someone who took an entire class where one of the requirements was the ability to flat quickly and accurately, and who saw the ways people struggled with something so seemingly "simple", i really doubt it

[nielsthecat]

question b/c i didn't know what flatting was until you started talking about it--what is it?

[trawl]

hi! so flatting is basically the process of prepping pages for final renders by a colorist. this involves taking the scans of the inks into photoshop, converting them into CMYK, adding trappings* layers, and finally going in with a pencil or similarly pixelated brush (so you have hard edges) and making separations between different elements on the page. this allows the colorist to go in with the magic wand tool, select those separations, and make sure they render (for example) only the skin/hair/jacket/etc on a panel without worrying about "coloring outside the lines". it's a pretty essential process for a lot of comics and while it can be done by a colorist, it's often outsourced to others, who are chronically underpaid, and rarely ever credited.

for an example ill just show my walking dead flats again since theyre all i have on hand at the moment LOL

ignore the color discrepancy screenshots dont like CMYK. anyways as you can see all the major elements of the picture are separated out into clean chunks for easy selection later

*trappings are, to make something kind of complicated a little simpler, an extra layer of inks, basically. they have a specific cmyk value (60 40 40 0 i believe) and are there to make sure that inks are fully opaque for final prints. they're made by selecting the lineart, then shrinking the selection by 2 pixels, then filling in. this is usually done by the flatter but i'm guessing sometimes it's done by the colorist if the flatter forgets.

[nielsthecat]

thank you!

[huffylemon]

[sigynpenniman]

“Sunset over the Grocery Box,” by me. The view from my father’s front yard in January 2014.

[slowspinningredemption]

“Sunset at the End of My Driveway (Excluding Pavements Covered With the Shite of One Million Dogs)” by me.

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

“Sunset from My Front Yard Taken on an iPod Touch in 2010″

[hydrojinn]

“Sunset in Nov 2021 Taken in the Parking Lot of the Pharmacy”

“sunset from the parking lot of the diner taken on an iphone 5 in 2016”

[vimbry-moved]

the view across the road partially eclipsed by house, 2017

[xxtc-96xx]

Taken from a stepladder putting up Christmas lights

-2014, front yard

[an-autistic-with-personhood]

“Brewing Storm on an Evening Commute”

And “Finally, no Power Lines”

-Sept. 30, 2020, passenger seat of a moving Buick

[naamahdarling]

Behind a near-defunct mall in super small-town OK. HUGE rays.

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

congrats on re-creating do you like the colours of the sky, lads

[ahhhhhhhh3613]

@lonebee411

[hug-your-face]

via @swatercolor [insta]

[hug-your-face]

This is the best tag I've ever received on a post, I think

[wakandas]

p4 - well, then...

gambit, storm - gold

[tiktaalic]

Arugula is some crap they found on the ground for real

[creepymutelilbugger]

thats because its plance. there are others as well

[heartwarminganimals]

Tail inspection

Source on twitter

[191195-deactivated20240210]

this is so beautiful im actually crying!!!!!

[jackironsides]

I have seen this before and possibly even reblogged it, but I didn’t notice the added cricket ball until just now

[ryuuna]

goading retribution

[st-hedge]

Stab stab fall in love or whatever the fuck

[bloodfreezer]

[wyvernbladesilver]

a great change and a great way to execute the idea

[hamthezombie]

This reminds me of some of the options in Shadows Over Loathing:

Arachnophobia: Pretty straight-forward, all random encounters with spiders are prevented, and the game won't let you in one spider-heavy location. Weirdly it DOES let you into another spider-heavy location (probably an oversight), but that place is optional and literally called "The Department of Spiders", so if you still go there I think that's on you.

Arachnophilia: Every single combat has a spider added to the enemy side and a friendly spider added to your side.

Arachnophonia: Replaces every single sound effect in combat with one of the ones that spiders make in the game. It is VERY unpleasant!

[charlataninred]

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

[meraarts]

Might I add:

The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

[eater-of-hopes-and-dreams]

The adventures of a space roomba

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

I don’t know a snappy description but the my nemesis cynthia story certainly lives in my head

[blitzlowin]

hilariously, these are almost all in my fic tag. so, a compiled list from the notes (and some extras):

The God of Arepo (graphic novel 1 / 2 / 3) (ebook)

The Monster of Sentan

The Witch’s Cat

Raise Both Children

Stabby the Roomba (honorable mention)

Cinderella Marries the Prince (comic)

My Arch Nemesis Cynthia

Pirates and Mermaid

Eindred and the Witch

The Demon King

The Cornerwitch

Grandmother Beetroot

Apocalypse Daycare Worker

Grandmother Accidentally Summons a Demon

New Year Saga

A Story About Changelings

Ranger in the King’s Forest

The Difference Between a Hare and a Rabbit

Goblin Men (Canines)

[charlataninred]

I am in love with you /p

[inkvoices]

Adding Faceblind Prince Charming and Cinderella

[inkvoices]

21. The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

22. The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

[lightningladybug]

adding the Doctors Without Borders one

[inkvoices]

I LOVE tumblr storytime, so here’s a bunch more your weekend reading. Enjoy!

24. The Queen with Three Cursed Children

25. Tiny Dragon with one coin hoard

26. Haunted house

27. Shark hero was about to go rogue

28. Grandma lives in the woods comic

29. A Different Aftermath comic

30. Battery (microstory but I love it so much)

31. It’s A Date comic

32. Supervillian kidnaps rival’s kid and they want to stay

33. Narrative Town

34. I have been hired to clean the wizard tower comic

35. Robot Apocalypse

36. The Statues That Do Not Weather

37. Kushiel

38. Tooth Fairy

39. Alien abduction

40. Felonious wish-granting

41. When humans met actual space orcs

42. Space cousins

[dannnnnnnnnnnnex]

WAIT REBLOG THIS VERSION INSTEAD

[captainpissofff]

Who ever added those links without asking is doing lord’s work fs.

[captainpissofff]

Reblogging this again cause I never want this post to die

[fokindiabolical]

Making it a tradition to reblog whenever I see it.

[idislikethissite]

Smack barm pey wet

[charlesoberonn]

"Oh you had a plague? Come back to us when you had a World War, brand new unconventional weapons, and a new international order."

[charlesoberonn]

I apologize.

[noroquian]

[demareth]

insert that YOU chihuahua post where theyre being pinned down i cant for the life of me find it

[charlesoberonn]

This one?

[schwazombie]

[ruffboi-mags]

Oh, Charles. The hubris. Honey. You had to know this was a possibility. Why would you tempt Apollo like that.

[dzamie]

I love how we don't even need Apollo to be captioned, it's just "he's holding a dodgeball and looks Greek statue, of COURSE it's Apollo delivering the gift of prophecy unto unsuspecting tumblr users"

[nebulous-nebuli]

[sour-charity]

[blueelectivire]

Absolute fucking trainwreck of a post

[seven-very-hot-fish]

Oh gee I wonder why this is going around again

[zack-creeper]

Art

[the-doctor-and-the-asshole]

How. Interesting

[rainbow-dash-the-ultimate]

Absolute bog standard post

[oli-bird]

@charlesoberonn

How about now?

[charlesoberonn]

Still not as bad as 1910s and 1940s but definitely getting there

[demareth]

[randomalienencounter]

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[alanaisalive]

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

[iguanamouth]

oh shit

[throughshadow-to-the-edgeofnight]

[alanaisalive]

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

[docd666]

Y'all know what to do Tumblr.