#self reference

[tls12lessthan3]

kim dokja [side character] [self imposed]: protagonists like yoo sangah really are a different type, haha................and me? im just your average salary worker.....well, maybe slightly less than average.........

(is stuck in a self-perception of eternal bystander to his own life. this keeps him rooted in place, unable or unwilling to either desire more for himself or take active steps to achieve it. he avoids forming relationships, putting unnecessary effort in or generally doing anything that could draw attention to himself due to this self-perception as doing so may violate it. a coping strategy from when his mother's book got popular and he became an unwilling main character who desperately wanted to once again be relegated to the background. this is obviously bad for him and both causes an absolutely miserable stasis and prevents him from connecting with others. however, because it forms a core part of his self identity, it will not easily be shaken off)

han sooyoung [villain] [self-imposed]: nyehehehe i love doing evil and murdering puppies #girlboss #villainsontop!!!!..........what, what do you mean how do i feel about almost killing lee gilyoung and shin yoosoung back at the beginning of the scenarios........well, it was what a villain would do, so.......

(views the world as a story almost as much as kim dokja does and adapted her role from 'heroine of a trashy power fantasy novel' to 'villain of an extremely different trashy power fantasy novel' when the world changed in order to cope. genuinely likes being a bit chunni and cackling about her evil schemes but neutral-to-negative on the actual murdering that comes with them, so uses this self-perception to prop herself up and justify her behaviour. invested in keeping it up because it prevents her from having to reflect on her past actions or how she might feel about them - all she has to care about is staying alive and grabbing power wherever necessary. bad for her as it prevents her from any self-reflection and causes guilt to build up without any outlet)

yoo joonghyuk [hero] [externally imposed]:.............................hm.

(stuck in a protagonist role and absolutely despises it. cannot shake it off entirely at any point because it is quite literally what he was made for but constantly yearns to drop the hero worship and just be seen as he is. his protagonist status is tied to his captive nature in the star stream and something he must transcend to finally escape the novel. metaphor for genderisms (subtle))

yoo sangah [heroine] [externally imposed]: i think people are little too kind to me sometimes........but i do try my best to do my best where i can!

(shoved into a heroine role against her will by society around her, a role which coincides with the uncomfortable expectations her parents have put on her as Their Daughter and one that often leaves her feeling isolated. she's aware of how people see her and the issues it causes for her, leaving her frustrated with this role. even when she thinks she's escaped it, she often finds herself shoved back in without warning (e.g. her entire relationship with dokja) and so she dedicates much of her time to tearing down that wall. metaphor for genderisms (overt))

[xspiderchloe]

Have you ever had a mascot OC of sort? No? Yeah me neither but I wanted to try lol

[a-thing-for-pixels]

Inktober prompt: "Puzzling"

[spicethehamster]

Tutorial: MSPaint Risk Auto-tiling with GIMP

Hey, this is a tutorial for how to do a specific thing when making maps for a game I play with friends on discord. If you don't know what the title means and you're seeing this, you can just scroll past(or join our server to learn about the game and play maps with us, it's fun https://discord.gg/yUZkeeFrhm). Actual tutorial below the cut.

Do you have a map idea that you think would be funny but you don't want to put too much work into? Are you just feeling kind of lazy and you don't care about nice looking tiles? Then this tutorial is for you. I used this method to make Wyoming Risk, which, as you can see, has A LOT of tiles that I definitely didn't hand draw.

To achieve something like this, or maybe something slightly less ridiculous, all you need is a free copy of GIMP. This definitely works on GIMP 3.0, and I'm fairly certain this works on 2.0 as well, but I haven't tested it and you should probably just move on to 3.0 anyway.

So. We have this map opened in gimp, it has two continents, one broken up into regions, and one not.

The first step is to select the area we want to tile. I'm gonna start with the continent with no regions, as there are a couple of ways to handle regions. We're gonna use the fuzzy select tool(bound to 'U') on the keyboard by default) to select just the part of the map we want tiled.

Next, in the menu bar we're gonna navigate to Filters > Distorts > Moasaic..., which will pull up this menu which by default has a lot of options that we do not want.

Pretty much every time you use this for tiling, you're going to immediately turn tile height and tile color variation to 0, untick color averaging, untick allow tile splitting, and most importantly untick Antialiasing. Just those changes are gonna bring us from tiles that look like this, and are pretty much unusable for Risk:

To tiles that look like this, and are most of the way to being usable

Here's what your mosaic dialogue should look like now:

The big options you can mess with depending on how you want your tiles to look and how many you want there to be are as follows:

Tile Geometry: This determines approximately how many sides your tiles have. Our options are square, octagon, hexagon, and triangle. I think hexagons are generally gonna look the best.

Tile Size: this one is self explanatory. Bigger numbers mean larger tiles, smaller numbers mean smaller tiles

Tile neatness: This one determines how similar to the shape you selected in Tile Geometry your tiles are. At a max value of 1, your tiles will be uniform. The lower the value, the more natural your tiles will look, but if you get too low there are gonna be gaps in your tile walls. I've found going below 0.5 makes things too messy, with .6 being a good sweet spot. If you do want to go below 5, make sure to increase tile spacing to prevent gaps in your tiles.

Tile Spacing: determines your line thickness. It defaults to 1, but if you want thicker tiles you can increase it by whole number values to achieve that.

Joints Color: this determines the color of your lines

The following are some examples of tile variation you can achieve by messing with those settings.

If you find something you like, or you just want to save the default with the settings you always turn off, you can use the Presets options at the top of the Mosaics menu to save all of these options to a named preset that you can quickly load.

Once you have them how you want them, click OK to close the Mosaic Dialogue. Then, in order to make them an actual editable part of the map, go to your layers, and click the fx icon next to the layer you made your tiles on.

Now in the Layer Effects window that pops up, click the button with 3 horizontal lines and a down arrow to merge the tiles on to the actual layer.

Now that we have our tiles as we want them, there's one final VERY IMPORTANT STEP to make these tiles usable as a Risk map. If you zoom in very closely, you'll notice these tiles have shadows between them.

This messes up our ability to use the bucket fill to actually run the maps properly. To fix this, make sure your region that you're filling is still selected. Grab the Select by Color tool(which is bound to shift+O by default), then in the select by color options under mode, choose the third option, "subtract from current selection". Also in this menu, make sure to set the threshold high(I set it to 95).

WIth your tool, click on one of the lines that makes up your tile. Then, making sure the color on your palette is the same as the background color you're using, navigate to and select Edit > Fill with FG Color on the menu bar(this is set to Ctrl+, by default). This will fill everything but the tile lines in the region with your selected color, thereby eliminating those pesky shadows.

From here, you can do any cleanup you want to do and export your map!

When doing continents with regions, you can either use the fuzzy select tool while holding shift to select all of the regions at once(or use the select by color tool depending on your map), which will give you uniform tiles between your regions, but may lead to some tiles crossing over between regions. This will look like this:

Or you can handle each region individually, which prevents the tiles spanning regions, and allows you to fine tune your tile size and shape on a per region basis, like this.

That should be everything you need to know to do auto-tiling. Have fun!

[storkmuffin]

In your opinion, who do you think is the most or best at being jealous and possessive out of Ateez?

(Sorry if you've been asked this before, I just wanted to ask a fun, kind of light hearted question.)

ask sent 2025.11.30

Ooh, I actually wrote a whole post about this:

Yunho's Way of the Live #3: Jealousy as Currency

Yunho As Usual Does It The Best. Just starting off with a little bit of a lecture: Jealousy in a man you're in a thing with is not good, ri

Enjoy!

[mychemicalbachelorhood]

"How many ages hence shall this our lofty scene be acted over in states unborn and accents yet unknown."

Cut to me – a boy who's sad and scared from big politicians and powerful assholes closer to my life – reading about the time they offed a tyrant.

[digiweed]

The Makapansgat pebble or Makapansgat cobble (ca. 3,000,000 BP)

Though the pebble is definitely not a manufactured object, it has been suggested that some hominids might have recognized it as a symbolic face, in possibly the earliest example of symbolic thinking or aesthetic sense in the human heritage, and brought the pebble back to the cave. This would make it a candidate for the oldest known manuport.

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