#tarastarr1

[rageprufrock]

tarastarr1 replied to your link: Disgrace to Scholars

I don’t have a paid Dreamwidth account, so I don’t seem to be able to get email updates on this. Is there any other way to get notifications of new content?

I'll probably end up just posting a link to Tumblr when we have new posts go up!

[andhumanslovedstories]

So what's your favorite type of pen?

now I love a Nice Pen, but I’m no highfalutin pen snob, also I am fundamentally cheap, so I don’t have any fountain pen recommendations or anything. And honestly, we all find our own perfect pens. It calls to us. Maybe you like felt-tip, you monster. It takes all kinds. 

For me, for the everyday favorite pen, I do the Pilot G2, which is usually the highest quality of pen that I encounter in the wild (i.e. CVS while shopping for large bags of candy). They make my thoughts feel sharp and quick, and the finer the tip the sharper and quicker I feel. There’s also these SmartLiving pens that you can actually get by the bagload for like two bucks, they feel nice and soft. Gentle thoughts, gentle words, gentle feelings. Good for different types of writing. When I feel ~specialty stationary store fancy~, I get a few Le Pen pens, while quietly muttering to myself in a fancy French accent because you gotta treat yourself right. There’s also a truly incredible pen I’ve bought a couple times at Papyrus but I can never remember what it’s called because I rarely have them on me (I’m doubling checking all these brands against what pens are currently on my person). It’s four dollars and it feels very heavy. It was made for signing the bottom of important contracts. It makes everything look like cursive. My handwriting is beautifully illegible in it, and it makes me feel like an important business woman taking important notes. The most important part of a pen is if you feel like it makes writing easy and your words important. Sometimes I buy four dollar gold pens and then biology notes feel like an extravagant exercise in delicious decadence. Pens are very good. Everyone should have an everyday four dollar gold pen. 

[fahye]

I didn't know any of the musicals at the tonys so I decided to listen to all of them, starting from Come From Away which led to UNEXPECTED CRYING IN THE KITCHEN. Did not expect to be hit with those feels.

I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO HAPPYSAD JUST FROM A SOUNDTRACK.

[valencing]

harrythighles replied to your post “sashayed replied to your post “lotstradamus replied to your post...”

Val did you see Tom Wilson before you blacklisted the new tags

IS HE THE TIM RIGGINS ONE BC IF SO HE WAS MY ORIGINAL BLACKLISTSPO I’M SORRY I LOVE YOU AND I KNOW I HAVE MERCILESSLY INFLICTED SUPERHEROES, POLITICS, AND POLLSTERS ON YOU AND YOU WERE TOO GRACIOUS TO EVER COMPLAIN, ALL THIS IS NO MORE THAN I DESERVE

baking-soda replied to your post “shout out to the last seven ppl on earth not into hockey”

Same tho

fitofpique replied: 

Ha ha! You are not alone, my friend. I wish I could make everyone falling into hockey fandom experience what it's like to grow up in a Canadian household with a hockey playing brother so they would be inoculated against this horrible disease. Bleh.

kittenstyles replied:

lol-ing at tilda's tags and that one person's comment about not being into young white fit boys anymore. ME TOO

tilda reblogged your post and added:

i’m with you too val. wtf.

IN THESE HARD TIMES IT’S SO EASY TO FEEL HELPLESS, ISOLATED AND OVERWHELMED. HOWEVER, WE CAN TAKE HEART IN THE KNOWLEDGE THAT WE HAVE MORE LOVE AND SUPPORT THAN WE KNOW. #ImWithThem

tarastarr1 replied to your post “shout out to the last seven ppl on earth not into hockey”

I worried about missing Check Please stuff, but you can whitelist stuff so it'll show up even if another part of the post is blacklisted.

LIFEHACKS FOR THIS STRANGE NEW WORLD!! 

theroadverytravelled replied to your post “lotstradamus replied to your post “shout out to the last seven ppl on...”

"I can’t get into young white fit boys anymore. No more." lord, SAME ✊�� i feel like my friends getting into hockey is like sam watching frodo get on the ship with the elves, idk

THIS IS SO POIGNANT OMG!!!!!!!!! YES. OFF HE GOES INTO THE WEST WITH ALL THOSE LARGE SWEATY MOUTH-BREATHING ELVES AND THEIR HITTING STICKS. IT’S HARD TO SEE THE SHIP THRU THE MIST OF TEARS THAT OBSCURES MY SMALL STALWART HOBBIT VISION. BYE MR FRODO WE’LL NEVER FORGET YOU!!!!!

[fahye]

"THE WORLD IS SO FULL OF A NUMBER OF THINGS, I’M SURE WE SHOULD ALL BE AS HAPPY AS KINGS" I have never heard the end of that phrase, only the beginning of it as quoted by Cosmo in Singing in the Rain, so that you for helping me finally understand what he was getting at. :)

that is a poem from the child’s garden of verses by robert louis stevenson, which I read MANY TIMES as a child! 

...and now I’m all grown up and freaking out about gay pirates in a tv show based on treasure island. thank you, robert louis stevenson. truly you continue to enrich my life.

[brofisting]

tarastarr1 replied to your post: ok it seems that Mike/Tom feelings are IN THE AIR,...

I had not read them before Salt Year, but now, yes

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! will post fic-rec primer after work today

[brofisting]

What's your favorite way to pick out color palettes?

uhhh unfortunately: by pulling them directly out of my ass

I hardly ever plan color palettes going into a piece; if I do at all it’s based on generally conceptualizing the setting/environment– setting being how I flesh it out when I get to coloring basically every time. I end up letting the palette be dictated by the lighting/environment– I’ll flat it with “neutral” colors (skin = skin tone, hair = hair color, shirt = whatever color I decide the shirt will be), then figure out where light is coming from and add in a layer of shadows, and THEN decide what color the light is going to be and start adding adjustment layers and color layers based on that, so the whole piece feels coherent!

If I’m not sure what the lighting should be like, I’ll do some really sloppy “test” color images– doing the flats and then throwing messy colors/gradients/etc all over it, saving it, then trying again a different way. Then I’ll pull those up all together and decide between them, and then mimic those colors going forward for the final! I actually have an example of that– here are 2 test color/lighting schemes I worked up for a recent freelance job:

I ended up going with the one on the right, so it ended up looking like this, but I had wanted to try a more monochromatic palette because I wasn’t sure if the other one was too busy!

…..uhh anyway this got kind of long, but still TLDR: pull em right outta my ass

[fahye]

Hi Fahye! I listened to the first two eps of Be The Serpent and I loved them! I was wondering if you guys are going to put it on iTunes?

thank you!! we will hopefully be moving onto itunes (and a handful of other podcast sites) when we put out the next episode