#this is it!

[shareddreamingexperiment]

thoroughly obsessed w this art

[madewithonerib]

sahlesummerhill via | cluster of <fill in the blank>

[wonkazoid]

Dear Readers why must we stoop to such Lows. Where is our Kindness. Our Decency. When did our Fellow Man become that of Beasts.

shame On you “””Anonymius””

[cometkins]

Your colouring looks like opal to me, it is gorgeous and I love looking at your art aaa

Ah thank you!! If you like that sort of look then I recommend giving Hard Light layers a try.

I use a lot of Hard Light layers with sort of rainbow-y colors that really does the magic for me. For example this is what Pyro's skin looks like with the hard light layer at 100% opacity vs the 15% it was in the final. I used green/red/purple to he looks more Dead and Gangrenous. It helps sell it a lot I think! His shirt was the covered in the whole rainbow before i used a flat grey to tone it down.

I didn't use this technique on his hair but I did use an overlay layer to adjust some of the colors as well! I used indigo in the shadows and then more of a cyan/teal on the lighter parts so there'd be more variety.

These are all great ways to get more color and that "opal" look

[symbiosexual]

sooooo fucking nervous to go to my first ever apartment showing (at least, first one by myself)

[dafpork]

had a good chat about this with a friend, and is compounded by a sentiment i've been saying a lot lately... i'm attempting to overcome my frustration at how underrepresented Dafpork is in fandom circles, because groaning about the lack of it rather than contributing to More of it is not productive. but i do just want to again stress to anyone who might be following me, who wants to interact more but feel like you can't for any reason--too shy, the ship is too small, it's not [insert ship here] so why bother, etc--that is all the MORE reason to be even more out and loud about it. i've mentioned on here before that i was very vocal about it on main for a point in 2020, before clamping down and trying to divorce myself of it and act like i was above it all. this was because i felt insecure, both in how "niche" my interest and "content" was, and because i had certain people make me feel insecure. and my insecurity accidentally rubbed off on multiple other people who have told me as such in later years. and it makes me so sad to hear that!! but is completely understandable, too. i didn't know how many people were out there who wanted to interact but didn't, and then were made to second guess their choices when they heard me scrubbing my blog or trying to act above it all. there is nobody to "blame", but i probably wouldn't have done that had i known there were other people out there who felt similarly!

so this is my plea to you! if you're in this situation, of feeling like you want to interact but can't.... do it! it's all the more reason to be out and loud and proud about it. and not to be like "SPEAK UP OR ELSE YOU'RE MAKING OTHER PEOPLE SAD", absolutely not the case. but i think there is a lot of incentive in speaking up and letting yourself have fun and engage on the chance that it inspires, or at the very least emboldens, people lurking in the shadows who you didn't even know existed but share your line of thinking.

when i finally "came out" about it on main and in a server i'm in, i was a very nervous wreck. Dafpork is stupidly personal to me and very much embedded into my identity, because Daffy and Porky are embedded into my identity. they mean more to me than i will ever be able to articulate, and i've made peace with the fact that most aren't going to understand. i felt like i was peeling my skin off and showing off all of my innards. it was an extremely vulnerable experience for me. but i had a trusted friend say to me "the only thing that could make us lose your respect is thinking that you'd lose our respect", and that's stuck with me. there are certain factors prohibiting me from being my loudest and fullest and freest, but i've overcome much more than i ever thought i would. so if anyone is in a similar situation, i hope you can do the same. and i also hope that you know anything is possible. change is possible. you control more than you think. you don't have to keep doing things the way they are or aligning with predetermined patterns, just because it's always been that way. you have the power to change that. yes, even that.

[i-am-livingthisnow]

This is it!

[angryopossum]