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Heads up if you're a sewing hobbyist...

Buy those patterns you've been thinking about while you still can.

The legacy sewing pattern brands Simplicity, Butterick, McCalls, and Vogue, commonly referred to as the Big 4, have been sold to a liquidato

Dunno if anybody will see this but this person made a how to guide on how to make this at home (this guide is from 2 yrs ago btw)

A handy spreadsheet to work out the dimension of the parts to cut

lifehacksthatwork

Signs of a heart attack are different for each gender yet we only really teach the male warning signs. Make sure you’re aware of both and spread it to as many other women as possible!

branwyn-says

EVERY SINGLE TIME I HAVE TAKEN A CPR CLASS I have had to be that person who points out that the training videos ALWAYS frame the “male” symptoms as the default universal heart attack experience, while the “female” symptoms are framed as though they’re a deviation from the norm, rather than the primary symptom set that cis women experience.

ALSO: I just showed this post to my roommate, who is an MD at a clinic that specializes in care for the LGBT community in the Baltimore area. I asked her whether hormones were responsible for the difference in the “male/female” symptom arrays. I asked how that would apply to her trans patients (which, she treats a LOT of trans patients). She said, basically, that the longer you’ve taken testosterone the more likely you are to get the intense chest pressure and the arm pain, versus the upper back pressure and shortness of breath.

Obviously I am not a doctor myself, consult your own health care provider, etc.

sanscarte

Reblogging this comment because this is the FIRST TIME I’ve ever seen someone address what XYZ medical condition would look like in trans patients. Also this is partly why my great-grandma died: the (male) doctor dismissed her heart attack as basically indigestion, because she didn’t have the typical male symptoms.

solarpunkarchivist-deactivated2

Oh my God someone was able to answer the trans patient question!

dyinginthearctic

SIXTEENTH-CENTURY BASQUE WHALER'S CAP

Are you from the 16th century? Are you a whaler? Are you a Basque whaler? Yeah, me neither. But would you like to look like one?

Saw this post. Thought, I want that hat. Made it. Wrote the pattern. Bon appetit.

PATTERN ↓

the-messhall

Smash Potato Quiche —

mikodrawnnarratives

I actually went and found the video and this guy listed the full recipe

Recipe:

Ingredients:

2 lbs boiled yellow potatoes

1 cup local milk

1/2 cup local 35% Cream

6 whole eggs

1 cup diced ham

1 cup sliced cherry tomatoes

2 cups cleaned spinach

1 scotch bonnet pepper or jalapeno sliced thinly (optional)

1 cup grated local mozzarella

3 tablespoons salt - 2 for the water to cook the potatoes and 1 for the egg and milk mixture

1 tablespoon black pepper

2 tablespoons chopped chives

2 tablespoons local salted butter

Method

Add your potatoes to a large stock pot and fill with cold water. Add salt and allow to boil until fork tender. Once ready strain water and allow to cool for a few minutes

Preheat oven to 350°F

Grease a large cake tin thoroughly with butter and add your now cooled boiled potatoes.

Using the back of a cup gently press down on the potatoes to form your crust.

Add spinach, diced ham, and tomatoes

In a large bowl whisk together milk, cream and eggs. Then carefully pour this into your shell.

Top this with a sprinkle of salt and pepper, hot pepper slices, and mozzarella.

Place this on top of a baking sheet and bake on the middle rack for 45-50 minutes.

Remove from oven and let cool for 10 minutes before slicing.

Finish with chopped chives and enjoy.

ivyblossom

I am here for this Ontario content. Smashed potato quiche for the win!

amethystineprose

This sounds fantastic! And a much easier gluten-free crust than my proprietary mix of teff, oat, and rice flours, etc.

rederiswrites

There used to be a lot of activities that took place around a populated area like a village or town, which you would encounter before you reached the town itself. Most of those crafts have either been eliminated in the developed world or now take place out of view on private land, and so modern authors don't think of them when creating fantasy worlds or writing historical fiction. I think that sprinkling those in could both enrich the worlds you're writing in and, potentially, add useful plot devices.

For example, your travelers might know that they're near civilization when they start finding trees in the woods that have been tapped, for pitch or for sap. They might find a forester's trap line and trace it back to his hut to get medical care. Maybe they retrace the passage of a peasant and his pig out hunting for truffles. If they're coming along a coast, maybe your travelers come across the pools where sea water is dried down to salt, or the furnaces where bog iron ore is smelted.

Maybe they see a column of smoke and follow it to the house-sized kilns of a potter's yard where men work making bricks or roof tiles. From miles away they could smell the unmistakeable odor of pine sap being rendered down into pitch, and follow that to a village. Or they hear the flute playing of a shepherd boy whiling away the hours in the high pasture.

They could find the clearing where the charcoal burners recently broke down an earth kiln, and follow the hoof prints and drag marks of their horse and sledge as they hauled the charcoal back to civilization. Or follow the sound of metal on stone to a quarry or gravel pit. Maybe they know they're nearly to town when they come across a clay bank with signs of recent clay gathering.

Of course around every town and city there will be farms, more densely packed the closer you are. But don't just think of fields of grains or vegetables. Think of managed woodlands, like maybe trees coppiced-- cut and then regrown--to customize the shape or size of the branches. Cows being grazed in a communal green. Waiting as a huge flock of ducks is driven across the road. Orchards in bloom.

If they're approaching by road, there will be things best done out of town. The threshing floor where grain is beaten with flails or run through crushing wheels to separate the grain from its casing, and then winnowed, using the wind to carry away the chaff. Laundresses working in the river, their linens bleaching on the grass at the drying yard. The stench of the tanners, barred from town for stinking so badly. The rushing wheel-race and great creaking wheel of the flour mill.

If it's a larger town, there might be a livestock market outside the gates, with goats milling in woven willow pens or chickens in wooden cages. Or a line of horses for the wealthier buyer or your desperate travelers. There might be a red light district, escaping the regulations of the city proper, or plain old slums. More industrial yards, like the yards where fabric is dyed (these might also smell quite bad, like rotting plant material, or urine).

There are so many things that preindustrial people did and would find familiar that we just don't know about now. So much of life was lived out in the open for anyone to see. Make your world busy and loud and colorful!

ahedderick

This is a big reason that I have always loved the Brother Cadfael novels, set in the mid 1100s. Written by Ellis Peters, each book has such a vivid sense of the place and the time period. Many different settings around Shrewsbury are described, along with the people and their various jobs.

toooldfortumbling

I love that kind of world building and would add that many resources were tightly regulated that we don't consider nowadays. Examples are the right to herd your pigs in an oak forest belonging to a specific monastery (saw an example where an altar piece had a carved pig to make sure the claim was known and advertised) or down to which farmers had the right to tree leaves in the fall (shortage of other animal bedding in certain Swiss valleys). The idea of a wilderness in a medieval setting is not what we think.

rederiswrites

Great points! Thank you.

batbetbitbotbut

Forever recommending A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry as an introductory resource for this! The author is a historian of the ancient mediterranean and he has a lengthy two-part blog post on "lonely cities": how fictional cities tend to look in pseudomedieval fantasy versus how real cities actually worked, specifically how they reshaped the land use for many miles around. Part I, part II, or available read aloud on YouTube here.

jartita-me-teneis

vaspider

So I've been busy.

This isn't even all of it.

vaspider

What are those?👀 And would you teach us? Ok no that's too much maybe, point us in the right direction to resources to learn how to make … Forgot the word of bottling things uuighhhh

Canning is the term you are looking for. :)

In this cabinet we have:

Jams & Jellies

grape jam (grapes from my backyard)

plum jam (neighbor's tree)

fig jam (other neighbor's tree)

lemon jelly

kiwi jam

blackberry jam

low-sugar blackberry jam

strawberry jam

Pickles

pickled beets

dill pickles

Dinners

chicken, veggies & gravy

"pot roast in a jar" (beef & veggies)

chicken curry

french onion soup

chili

Savory

salsa

Singapore chili sauce

basalmic caramelized onion

As far as "can I teach you," there are a lot of good resources online, and I can recommend a few books. I cannot stress enough that canning is not hard, but that you must follow the instructions very carefully. Botulism is no joke.

Do:

Read the entire process several times.

Have everything ready before you start.

Start with water bath canning.

Make sure that you are using the right method of canning (water bath vs. pressure canning) for the food type. Water bath canning is only for acidic foods (ph below 4.6).

Use recipes only from vetted, known sources. This is not a time to use random website recipes. Reputable. Sources. Only.

Use only name-brand jars and lids. Seriously, don't fuck around. Ball/Mason, Kerr. That's it. (I only use Ball jars because that's what my mom and grandmother used.)

Use a very long-handled spoon to stir jam, or wear grill gloves. I have scars from jam splashes. :) We ended up buying a wooden paddle usually used for stirring crab boils or gumbo.

Check your jars every time to make sure the rims are not chipped and the jars are not cracked.

Be careful looking up videos, or just skip looking up anything on YouTube. You may fall into white supremacist YouTube via the prepper route real fucking fast. Also, you may find people who tell you that you can safely use an Instant Pot as a pressure canner or reuse lids or whatever and YOU CANNOT DO THOSE THINGS.

Make sure any vinegar you use is 5% vinegar. Some companies are putting out 4% vinegar and that is not acidic enough.

Use your bubble popper to make sure there are no bubbles hiding along the sides of your jar. Bubbles add to your head space, and can cause spoilage or seal failure.

Get yourself a set of reusable jar lids for after the jars are open and in your fridge. Much less annoying than the 2-piece lids once stuff is open.

Accumulate stuff slowly. You can start out with a stock pot and a hand towel and some jars.

Buy your jars and lids (and as much stuff as you can) at your local hardware store. It's cheaper than Amazon, and also your local store.

Use white or apple cider vinegar when called for by the recipe. Other vinegars may not be acidic enough. (Rice vinegar isn't.)

Use bottled lemon juice when called for by the recipe. Fresh lemon juice may or may not be acidic enough. Bottled will be consistent.

Don't:

Substitute ingredients unless the recipe says you can.

Ever ever ever put dairy or any kind of flour or powdered starch (tapioca starch, etc.) in things you're canning.

Use an Instant Pot for canning. No, it does NOT get up to sufficient pressure. I don't care what that YouTube video says.

Use broth concentrate or bouillon if a recipe calls for broth. (They pretty much always have vegetable starches in them.) Unless you're using homemade broth from a recipe in your canning book, just buy the boxed stuff. Yes, you're mostly paying for water, but seriously, safety.

Try to use your grill gloves or hot pad to pick up jars out of the water. Always use a jar lifter.

Cut corners or try to rush. Take. Your. Time.

Use anything but very fresh vegetables, fruits and meats.

Touch the underside of the jar lid with your fingers after you wash the lids as you prepare them for use. Go wash that lid again.

Reuse jar lids for another batch. They won't seal properly again. I can't say this enough: DO NOT REUSE THE INNER LIDS. You can reuse the rings.

Put jars in a water bath canner directly on the bottom of the pot. If you don't have a rack, put a hand towel on the bottom of the pot.

Leave the rings on your jars after they've cooled. This can cause a 'false seal,' where you can't tell that the jar's seal has failed, and that's a botulism party.

Forget to measure the head space in your jars. Seriously. Do it. Every time. (See the funnel I use, below. Makes it easy. Check it every time.)

Forget to wipe the rim of the jar with a clean damp cloth before putting the lid on. Food particles on the rim can affect your seal. (For foods containing animal fats, dip the cloth in vinegar to make sure you wipe away all of the fat. Water won't do the trick.)

Websites:

USDA Guide to Home Canning

National Center for Home Food Preservation

Basics of Home Canning

How to Can (Ball/Mason)

Canning Foods At Home (has good instructions on how to dispose of food which may have botulism toxin in it)

(Everything from here down is something I own and personally use.)

Books:

The All New Ball Book Of Canning And Preserving - lots of pictures and diagrams. My favorite beginner's guide. Also contains recipes which show you how to incorporate what you've preserved into your meals.

Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving - fewer pictures, lots and lots and lots of recipes.

The Complete Guide to Home Canning: Current Printing | Official U.S. Department of Agriculture Information Bulletin No. 539 (Revised 2015)

Tools:

Progressive Canning Scoop - This thing changed the game for me. Every scoop is a half pint. It hangs on the edge of the pot, so it doesn't need a plate on the stove to sit on.

Progressive Canning Funnel - Ditto this. It has a head-measuring marking set on the 'feet' of the funnel. The funnel has feet! It doesn't make a mess.

Canning Essentials - A good, inexpensive starter set. I use most of this and then my upgraded funnel.

Progressive Reversible Stainless Steel Canning Rack

Presto Pressure Canner - this is an investment, when you're ready to move up to pressure canning.

I also recommend having ph test strips to check the acidity of things you're water bath canning. Better safe than sorry.

asphodelimago

This is a fantastic resource list but ALSO, if you're just getting into the idea of canning/pickling, consider recipes which aren't shelf-stable!

Have you made quick pickles before? It’s fast, easy, and fun. Onions, cucumbers, asparagus, parsnips, radishes, and pea pods are great veget

For instance, here's a guide to refrigerator pickles. You can use it with almost any vegetable or combination of vegetables. You can also find recipes for refrigerator jam, applesauce, and so on.

You must keep these in the refrigerator, and they won't last for years like shelf-stable canning. However, this also means they're much more low-stakes - they're no more (and no less) dangerous than ordinary cooking.

They're also much quicker to make, because you don't need to pressure-can - you can just put them in the refrigerator. Fifteen minutes of work, pop them in the fridge overnight, and you have pickles!

Just about any shelf-stable recipe is fine to put in the refrigerator without pressure canning - in fact, that's the easiest thing to do if a jar doesn't seal correctly while pressure-canning. Just use it within a week or two, like any other cooking. (Exact shelf-life will vary by recipe.)

Again, this is not a way to make shelf-stable canned food - all the safety precautions are absolutely necessary there, don't play with botulism!

I was pretty spooked by the risk of botulism when I started canning and preserving, and this was a low-stakes way to try the recipes.

It's also a great way to try out flavor profiles without making a big batch - is tumeric good with pickled beets? - and... how cool is making your own pickles? I never realized how easy it was until I tried it.

vaspider

Yeah, absolutely! I actually started out with fridge pickles. I think a lot of people do.

Dehydration is also a good "starter food preservation" option. :)

(You don't pressure-can pickles, tho - they're in vinegar brine, which is acidic, so they get water-bath canned. I am a stickler for correct method, so I am gonna correct that.)

taavicleric

Have an awareness of how much you and your friends and family can reasonably consume in a year. No really. I have cleaned out too many pantries full of home canned stuff where it is not even clear how much of it was maybe canned by a previous generation. (My grandmother handled estates and she did not learn this lesson, EITHER.)

So label and throw out things that are old. Yes. Canned food lasts a while. But if the beans are from 1984, they still shouldn't have made it into the 90s, never mind the 00s. It's not the good china, it's food. Eat it.

vaspider

Oh, for sure. I label every jar with when they were made & make sure we go FIFO.

sharkcougarhawksnakescorpion

Most home canned items are good for 18 mo at MOST. Many thrift stores frequently have Ball/Mason/Kerr jars cheaper per jar than the packs at the hardware store. It’s a great option for small batches. Buy the lids separate. Weck jars are quite a bit pricier but their lids and rubber rings are reusable. It doesn’t matter how old the jar is, as long as it isn’t chipped or cracked, you can use it to can. I use Ball jars that belonged to my great grandma (early 20th c). They work just fine.

You can use canning jars to ferment at home. Just make sure to burp them every day or get pickle pipes.

The freezer is your friend. Things that you can’t safely or reasonably home can (lots of soups, stocks, and meats) will freeze and be safe to consume for months. The USDA has freshness and food safety guidelines for freezing.

Label everything you make with the date you made it, canned it, or froze it. Rotate your storage and put the newest items at the back. Don’t make it if you won’t eat it.

literaryvein-references

When your Character...

Gets into: A Fight ⚜ ...Another Fight ⚜ ...Yet Another Fight

Hates Someone ⚜ Kisses Someone ⚜ Falls in Love

Calls Someone they Love ⚜ Dies / Cheats Death ⚜ Drowns

is...

A Ballerina ⚜ A Child ⚜ Interacting with a Child ⚜ A Cheerleader

A Cowboy ⚜ A Genius ⚜ A Lawyer ⚜ A Pirate ⚜ A Spy

A Wheelchair User ⚜ A Zombie ⚜ Beautiful ⚜ Dangerous ⚜ Drunk

Funny ⚜ In a Coma ⚜ In a Secret Society ⚜ Injured ⚜ Shy

needs...

A Magical Item ⚜ An Aphrodisiac ⚜ A Fictional Poison

A Coping Strategy ⚜ A Drink ⚜ A Medicinal Herb ⚜ A Mentor

Money ⚜ A Persuasion Tactic ⚜ A Quirk ⚜ To be Killed Off

To Become Likable ⚜ To Clean a Wound ⚜ To Self-Reflect

To Find the Right Word, but Can't ⚜ To Say No ⚜ To Swear

loves...

Astronomy ⚜ Baking ⚜ Cooking ⚜ Cocktails ⚜ Food ⚜ Oils

Dancing ⚜ Fashion ⚜ Gems ⚜ Herbal Remedies ⚜ Honey

Mushrooms ⚜ Mythology ⚜ Numbers ⚜ Perfumes

Roses ⚜ Sweets ⚜ To Argue ⚜ To Insult ⚜ To Kiss

To Make False Claims ⚜ Wine ⚜ Wine-Tasting ⚜ Yoga

has/experiences...

Allergies ⚜ Amnesia ⚜ Bereavement ⚜ Bites & Stings

Bruises ⚜ Caffeine ⚜ CO Poisoning ⚜ Color Blindness

Facial Hair ⚜ Fainting ⚜ Fevers ⚜ Food Allergies

Food Poisoning ⚜ Fractures ⚜ Frostbite ⚜ Hypothermia

Injuries ⚜ Jet Lag ⚜ Kidnapping ⚜ Manipulation ⚜ Mutism

Pain ⚜ Paranoia ⚜ Poisoning ⚜ More Pain & Violence

Scars ⚜ Trauma ⚜ Viruses ⚜ Wounds

[these are just quick references. more research may be needed to write your story...]

Writing Resources PDFs

dragon-in-a-fez

genuinely wild to me when I go to someone's house and we watch TV or listen to music or something and there are ads. I haven't seen an ad in my home since 2005. what do you mean you haven't set up multiple layers of digital infrastructure to banish corporate messaging to oblivion before it manifests? listen, this is important. this is the 21st century version of carving sigils on the wall to deny entry to demons or wearing bells to ward off the Unseelie. come on give me your router admin password and I'll show you how to cast a protective spell of Get Thee Tae Fuck, Capital

bigmann-mclargehuge

Share the knowledge

dragon-in-a-fez

Okay, here we go! I'm gonna try and put this in order from least to most technical knowledge required. I'm not responsible if you accidentally create SkyNet etc.

Level 1: browser extensions

This one is basically impossible to get wrong, or at least to get wrong badly enough that it causes any problems.

Get Firefox, or a Firefox fork like Waterfox. If you use a fork, make sure it's one that will let you use add-ons. On a PC, pretty much any Firefox fork will take add-ons, but on mobile devices, many don't. Iceraven is one that does.

Get the add-ons uBlock Origin, YouTube Sponsorblock (if you use YouTube), and FBCleaner (if you use Facebook).

uBlock Origin comes with a built-in list of filters to block ads and trackers, but you can add your own filters to block any specific element of a website you don't like. You know those goddamn floating frames on fandom.com sites that block half the screen? Now you can zap 'em.

Sponsorblock uses crowdsourced timestamps to automatically skip sponsor spots and self-promotion in YouTube videos. Never listen to anyone say "hit like and subscribe" or "Raid Shadow Legends" again.

FBCleaner hides all content from your feed except posts from people, groups, and pages you've actually chosen to follow.

Level 2: leaving enshittified services

The software that's become standard over the years in a lot of fields is steadily selling more of your data, showing you more ads, and pushing you to buy more expensive subscriptions. Time to tell them to get fucked.

Dump Adobe apps for Affinity or Krita. Drop Microsoft for LibreOffice. Change your default search engine from Google to DuckDuckGo or Qwant. Use OpenStreetMaps instead of Google or Apple Maps.

Level 3: network-level DNS fuckery

DNS, or Domain Name Service, is the thing that tells your computer where www.website.com is actually located. By hacking your network's DNS you can force it to tell your devices that ad-hosting domains don't exist at all. Some of the steps on this one can get pretty technical, but because you're doing all the difficult stuff on a dedicated device, you can't really fuck up anything that seriously.

Get yourself a Raspberry Pi (a cheap older one like a model 3B will work just fine for this purpose), and follow a guide like this one to get it set up running AdGuard Home. AdGuard, like uBlock, has built-in filter lists, but you can also add your own if there are specific domains you want to block.

Once it's up and running, you'll need to change the DNS settings on your router to point to your AdGuard service. This is different for every router but will always start with logging into the admin panel with a password printed on a little sticker somewhere on the router.

With that done, every time a device on your home network looks for ads.website.com, it'll get back a message that says "sorry, can't find it", so it won't be able to load any ads.

Level 4: Android-specific DNS fuckery

Because AdGuard runs on your home network, it can't block ads on your phone when you're away from home - and what's worse, your phone will sometimes remember the addresses it got when you were out and about, and ads will get past your AdGuard wall even when you're home.

To avoid this, get AdAway for DNS-based ad-blocking directly on your phone. The easy, but less seamless, way of using AdAway is the "local VPN mode", which doesn't require you to do any mucking about with your phone's operating system.

Level 5: automated media piracy

The best way to stop seeing ads on all your streaming services is to stop using streaming services. There are loads of ways to do this, but the best ones involve setting up what's called an "arr stack" (Google that for setup guides) along with nzbget and a usenet account. Most of the time you'll want to set this stuff up on a dedicated device - an old laptop gathering dust in the closet is a great option, or you can grab something used from a charity shop or a local electronics recycler.

The great thing about usenet is that unlike with torrents, you don't have to do any sharing from your computer, so you're in a lot less legal jeopardy - legally speaking, distributing pirated content is waaayyy more serious than accessing it. I pay about £3 a month for a secure, high-bandwidth usenet service.

Once you start getting your own collection of media on your own computer, use the open-source media library manager Jellyfin to browse and play things from basically any device.

Oh, and don't be a dick. Pirate all you want from big corporations, but please pay independent small-time creators for their work.

Level 6: fucking with Android

Android phones are a lot more locked-down than they used to be, but depending on the device you own you can still do a lot of messing around under the hood. Note that if you get something wrong while doing this, there is always the possibility that it will turn your device into a paperweight.

Before you buy a device, check where it sits on the Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame. Once you've bought it, check the xda-developer forums for guides on how to unlock it and "root" it (gain admin access) with Magisk.

Once Magisk is installed, you can add modules to do all sorts of cool stuff, including using AdAway in "root mode" which makes it basically invisible.

You can also install YouTube ReVanced, which will do all the ad- and sponsor blocking stuff we took care of in your Windows browser a few paragraphs ago. Be careful: there are a lot of fake sites out there pretending they're associated with the ReVanced project which might be injecting malware into their downloads. This Reddit post has the official instructions and links.

Also, try out the modded version of Facebook from APKmoddone, which will block most of the same shit as the FBcleaner add-on from earlier. There's always a possibility that modified apps like this are doing something dodgy, but I've never had any issues with this one personally.

Level 7: fucking with Windows

This one is scary because it can seriously fuck up your shit if something goes wrong, but some really cool people have actually made it very simple to strip all the bloat, ads, and spyware out of Windows. The tool I use is ReviOS. Start reading at https://www.revi.cc/docs. Basically, you'll need to download a tool called AME Wizard and the ReviOS "playbook" that tells AME what to do. Read the documentation before you do any of this.

Level 8: switching to Linux

I'm not going to pretend this is an option for everyone. Half the software I use on a weekly basis isn't available on Linux. But if you can switch? Do it. These days, Ubuntu - one of the most popular flavours of Linux - is built with people switching from Windows in mind, and a lot of things will be pretty intuitive. It also has great documentation and a huge community you can go to for help if you're confused about stuff.

And that, friends, is a comprehensive approach to banishing the demons of capitalism from your home!

victusinveritas

beardedmrbean

Fancy tricks

pronouncingitwang

at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

thoodleoo

classicists will make the ugliest least functional website in the history of html and it will contain the entire library of fragmentary papyri of the works of aeschylus. for free

no-siema-co-tam

the best references of bronze age armor and weapons are on a site called salimbeti.com that literally looks like this:

factual-fantasy

danidarkarts

@factual-fantasy

fynori

i'd like to add that the shadow color isnt necessarily dictated entirely by the primary light source, but the bounce light! so for the example of a sunny environment, the reason the shadows are blue are because of the light from the blue sky reflects across the environment; but, if the character were to be under tree cover, the bounce light would be coming from the leaves and thus the shadow would look greener.

danidarkarts

Yee yee!!! You got it right on the nose!

Bounce light is something I didn't cover but I adore it!

Gotta work on my bounce light 💪

labrador-entity

My good friends this is called using a

Gamut Mask

(image via )

James Gurney is an absolute master and gives really good clarity on colour techniques. Yes, it is traditional paint focused, but the principles are the same. Yes it is informed by the environmental colour but as a painting technique it is achieved this way!

I would also suggest that in digital processing, rather than apply a regular colour layer at a mid opacity, try out the different types of layers, Eg. Screen or Multiply. This can give you at least a starting point to help direct your colour palette.

technecat-scratchings

Layer Blend Modes are so so so important to working in digital art. There's a ton of math that goes into figuring out how the layers should blend together, which is why some of the modes you can pick are literally called Multiply, Add, Divide, and Difference (that's subtraction). The graphics software takes the color values of your base and blend layers and runs a calculation to get your resulting layer appearance. The ones that don't have specifically mathematical sounding names are still doing calculations, but they're more complicated (think linear Algebra and higher). Some of them, like dodge and burn, are named for actual photo editing techniques.

While it's not super important to know about the mathematical side of blend modes, I think it's worth knowing at least enough about how each of the categories of blend modes works and why they do what they do; if for no other reason than having a starting point when you start experimenting with them in your work.

An overview of the basic blend modes and how they work from Genevieve's Design Studio: Accessible with minimal color knowledge; practical and illustration focused. https://youtu.be/kMc87hQrJd0?si=TWCB365pKSfWS8p0. (16 minutes) This creator also has a ton of free resources you can download, including a Blend Modes cheatsheet, but fair warning: you have to create an account to get them!

Want to learn even more about the math-y stuff? It has great film visuals! A video from FilmmakerIQ: You need some basic knowledge of RGB color models, understanding of values/luma, and at least a tenuous understanding of Algebraic formulas. (26 minutes) https://youtu.be/F7_kaTP7_W4?si=x0urqXZ8f51nQVKl

shamebats

From the OP: "If you sit at a desk or stare at your phone all day, this is for you. Here's how to undo the damage: - Banded Chin Tucks - Strengthen your neck flexors and fight forward head posture - Banded Pull-Aparts - Target your rotator cuff and improve shoulder stability - Banded Abduction - Activate the midline of your scapula for better posture - Lateral Deltoid Raises - Build shoulder stability and control - Banded Up-and-Overs – Boost scapular mobility and range of motion These simple banded drills will help you stand taller, move better, and feel stronger - even after hours at a desk."

Some of these are the same or similar to the exercises my physical therapist taught me.

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