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Numb // Linkin Park 80s Remix
I didn’t know how much I needed this until I heard it.
The original song is how depression felt at first, this version is how it feels now
@l-heure-du-the this is so VIOLENTLY your fucking aesthetic
From “… nothing matters…” to “NOTHING MATTERS! :D”
Therapist: it’s okay Cullen’s early concept art can’t hurt you
Cullen’s early concept art:
An inexplicably proper response to bullshit from a bigot.
From The Murmurations of Starlings, one of 25 photos. Starlings perform their traditional dance before landing to sleep near the southern Israeli city of Rahat, in the Negev desert, on January 22, 2018. (Menahem Kahana / AFP / Getty)
Oh shit I thought this was pointillism for a hot second!
roomba.
he monch
Swip…Swip….Swipswipswip…omnomnomnom
@immunologist
The real Greek tragedy in Odyssey is that you can’t smooch Brasidas
Wild
i wanted this to never end
Reblog if you have used dude as a non gender specific term.
where I grew up in California not only is “dude” generally non-gender-specific, half of the time it doesn’t even refer to a person at all.
I said it to a faucet today.
A customer once came to me to order a sandwich and said “I want this dude”
Dude is more than a word, it’s an emotion.
dude is a way of life
Some Photoshop Tips
I’ve been getting quite a few asks about the process for the patterns in my stylized artworks, so I decided to put together a couple of tips regarding them.
Firstly, what you need are
— CUSTOM BRUSHES —
Most of the patterns I use are custom brushes I made, such as those:
For the longest time I was convinced making brushes must be super extra complicated. I was super extra wrong. All you need to start is a transparent canvas (2500px x 2500px max):
This will be your brush tip. When you’re satisfied how it looks, click Ctrl+A to select the whole canvas and go to ‘define brush preset’ under the edit menu
You will be asked to name your new glorious creation. Choose something that describes it well, so you can easily find it between all the ‘asfsfgdgd’ brushes you’ve created to be only used once
This is it. Look at it, you have just created a photoshop brush. First time i did I felt like I was cheated my whole life. IT’S SO EASY WHY HASN’T ANYONE TOLD ME
Time to edit the Good Boi to be more random, so it can be used as a Cool Fancy Pattern. Go into brush settings and change whatever you’d like. Here’s a list of what I do for patterns:
- under Shape Dynamics, I increase Size Jitter and Angle jitter by 5%-15%
- under Brush Tip Shape, I increase spacing by a shitload. Sometimes it’s like 150%, the point is to get the initial brush tip we painted to be visible.
- If I want it to look random and noisy, I enable the Dual Brush option, which acts like another brush was put on top of the one we’ve created. You can adjust all of the Dual Brush options (Size, Spacing, Scatter, Count) as you wish to get a very nice random brush to smear on your backgrounds
The result is as above. You can follow the same steps to create whatever brush you need: evenly spaced dots that look like you painted them by hand, geometric pattern to fill the background, a line of perfectly drawn XDs and so on.
BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE
— PATHS —
But what if you want to get lots of circles made of tiny dots? Or you need rows of triangles for your cool background? Photoshop can do all of that for you, thanks to the magic of paths.
Typically, paths window can be found right next to Layers:
Draw whatever path you want, the Shape Tool has quite a bit of options. Remember, paths are completely different from brush strokes and they won’t show up in the navigator. To move a path around, click A to enable path selection tool. You can use Ctrl+T to transform it, and if you move a path while pressing Alt it will be duplicated.
Now, pick a brush you wish really was in place of that path you’ve drawn and go to layers, then choose the layer you want it to be drawn on. Then, click this tiny circle under the Paths window:
Then witness the magic of photoshop doing the drawing for you while you wonder how tf have you managed to forget about this option for the past 2 years
You can combine special brushes and paths for all sorts of cool effects. I mostly use them in backgrounds for my cards, but you can do whatever you want with them.
I hope that answers the questions for all of the people who were sending me inquires about the patterns. If you have any questions regarding this or any other Photoshop matter feel free to message me, I’m always up for complaining about how great and terrible Photoshop is C’:
BEST. VIDEO. EVER.
Oh God!! 😂😂😂
Everything below is posted with liberty and credit to Jemima Harrison and the PDE blog, with the sole purpose for this information to spread as far as possible.
Time to get tough
It is… • soon to be 10 years since Pedigree Dogs Exposed • five years since The Advisory Council on the Welfare Issues of Dog Breeding highlighted the issues linked to head conformation in brachycephalic breeds • 18 months since the publication of research (funded by the kennel club) spelling out the link between stenosis (pinched nostrils) and respiratory issues, especially in French Bulldogs • a year since a veterinary petition demanding urgent reform for flat-faced dogs • almost a year since the Kennel Club set up the Brachcycephalic Breeds Working Group in response to that petition .. and of course I have highlighted the issue of pinched nostrils endlessly here on this blog. Endlessly.
And yet… the picture at the top is one the Kennel Club has used as the ideal depiction of the French Bulldog in its new edition (2017) of its Illustrated Breed Standards. And it isn’t a one-off. Here’s the one the KC has used for the Boston Terrier standard.
The Bulldog.
And the Pug.
Dogs are as near-as-damn-it obligate nose breathers. And even if they can supplement by mouth-breathing when they are awake, they are unable to do so when they are asleep, meaning thousands of these dogs live lives of interrupted sleep as they have to wake up in order to not asphyxiate. Study after study has shown that these dogs pay the price for not being able to pull in a decent lungful of air and that starts with the nostrils. These pictures are all the proof you need that the Kennel Club is not taking this issue seriously; that at its very core the KC is paying nothing more than lip-service to the demands for reform by the veterinary profession and animal welfare campaigners. At one of the first meetings of the Brachycephalic Breeds Working Group, then KC Chairman Steve Dean expressly said that he didn’t want “changing the breed standards” to be at the top of everyone’s list of actions that could be taken. And indeed, it hasn’t been. There have been some new measures. The KC continues to fund brachy research. There is also now a brachy learning resource available on the KC website, the promise of better education of judges and a breed club commitment to educate better about the importance of keeping brachycephalics slim. There are also now health schemes for the Bulldog, French Bulldog and the Pug which do test for respiratory issues. All this is welcome. But, bottom line, the Kennel Club continues to bat for the breeders who do not want the basic phenotype to change because it’s the breeders that pay their wages. Of course the simplest, quickest remedy is to give these dogs back some muzzle - to help not just with breathing issues, but to help protect their eyes from trauma and to give their teeth some room in their overcrowded mouths (a Pug here compared to an Australian Shepherd).
The problem is that breeders are wedded to flat faces, particularly in Pugs and Bulldogs. They talk about the perfect “layback” - which essentially means that the nose should not interrupt the line between the forehead and tip of the dog’s chin. In fact, there’s a new book out on the Pug head (yours for only $159) which reminds everyone that the word Pug comes from the latin for “fist” and that this is the shape the Pug’s head should be in profile - i.e. totally flat.
Here’s a reminder from a top UK show breeder of what the Bulldog’s head should look like.
As you can see, a protruding nose or a less severe underbite is considered a fault.
There was a big review of breed standards following Pedigree Dogs Exposed but it was mostly to add vague qualifiers such as, in the Pug standard, "relatively" short rather than just short when describing the length of the muzzle. This gives the breeders way too much wiggle room. We need proper metrics - a defined minimum skull/head/muzzle ratio and we need to find more profound ways to change their minds about what constitutes their breed in their eyes.
Large open nostrils are a requirement in brachy breed standards, but this is widely ignored because other points of the breed are considered more important. There would be outrage if a Frenchie with one lop ear or a Bulldog with a liver-coloured nose won in the show-ring, but dogs with slits for nostrils continue to be made up to champions.
Meanwhile, on my CRUFFA group, whenever you post a picture of more moderate examples of the breed, current of historical, the breeders heap scorn. A few days ago, one breeder insisted that the dog featured in this famous painting of a Pug by Carl Reichert, dating from the late 19th century, was a crossbreed.
Same for these ones. Mongrels, the lot of them.
She admitted that the eye-white showing was undesirable but preferred the look of this Crufts dog.
Today, this was posted on a public Facebook page by one French Bulldog breeder in response to a plea by vets for more moderate dogs.
(My bolding below)
To those who say you cannot rebuild Rome in a day I say… rubbish. There are already more moderate versions of these breeds out there being bred by breeders more interested in health than the current fashion.
For more than 10 years, I have called for moderation and hoped it would come from the breeders. But I now know it won’t. If we want anything more than a wee bit of tweaking round the edges, then we need to demand it.
It is time to get tough. These dogs suffer - not all of them all the time but too many of them too often.
Brachycephalics live a third less long than non-brachy dogs. Fifty per cent have significant airway disease. Almost all struggle to cool themselves. Most Bulldogs still can’t mate or give birth naturally. Pugs have 19 times the risk of developing corneal ulcers. All suffer from very low genetic diversity. And so on.
Today, Bulldogs, French Bulldogs and Pugs make up one in five of the dogs registered with the Kennel Club - up from one in 50 in 2005.
Yesterday, a new petition was launched asking for a ban on brachycephalics. Over 20k people signed it in the first 24 hrs.
Have we reached a tipping point? With your help.
I haven’t been able to blog much recently because I am busy finishing off a television series for BBC2. But I have taken time out to write this because the new breed standard pictures made me so angry.
So please… Although it’s moderation I want, not a ban, sign the petition. Make your feelings known to the Kennel Club (see here). Complain if brands or media use generic pictures of brachycephalics to sell their wares.
Vets: thank you so much for all that you are now doing, but please keep the pressure on.
And, of course, to everyone out there - please don’t buy that puppy.
It is not safe to buy a Pug, Bulldog or French Bulldog. Not safe for them and not safe for your wallet.
Seriously people. This deserves 6000 notes. It’s not even my text, so it’s not like I’m attention-fishing.
“I started bodybuilding after my chemotherapy. At first it was just a way to get healthy again. But I discovered I was good at it. I started winning competitions. And I got hooked. My boyfriend didn’t like it. He thought it made me less desirable. But the worse our relationship got, the more I focused on working out. It just felt so great to be recognized for something. I was really, really good at it. And the bodybuilding community is so great. They’re some of the least judgmental people because they’re used to being judged all the time. For the first few years I was really self-conscious about my body. But I’ve gotten to the point where the small comments don’t really bother me anymore: ‘ew,’ gross,’ ‘disgusting’, things like that. I can usually block people out if they can’t type more than a sentence. But occasionally the criticism sinks in. It still hurts when people question my gender. Or my sexuality. And I’ve had some awkward Tinder dates. The last guy said: ‘Holy fuck, you’re bigger than I thought you’d be.’ But despite all this, I’ve gotten comfortable in my own skin. I actually feel more feminine now than I did growing up. I was always skinny. I never had breasts. I didn’t ever feel like a natural woman. But what is natural? Is make-up natural? Or botox? Or fillers? Or breast implants? All of us are flawed. My mask might be different than other people, but we all hide behind something. I just hide behind my muscles.” (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Ha ha seriously tho.
I needed to hear this right now. <3
My new favorite post.
me as support, yelling encouraging words to my tank and dps
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Its interesting to me how the fandom seems to take Cullen having PTSD as fact. Especially considering if thats true, then he has no place leading armies in a position of power.
I don’t normally reblog these types of confessions, but I noticed something very strange with this one: I’d seen it before, or so I thought. This prompted me to see if maybe it was double posted, but it wasn’t, and that’s when I noticed a pattern.
There’s this confession above, then this one, and this one, all on the same blog and posted within the past month. So my question is this: Is someone spamming the blog’s inbox, or is Cullen’s abilities in leading the military arm of an organization really so obscure and difficult to surmise?
Granted, these confessions suggest differing things, but the overall theme of them is his experience and qualifications. However, given the amount of time that’s not only passed between games, but also during the games when we’re not with him 24/7/365 or however many days a Thedosian year possesses, why is it so hard to believe that he’s acquired the necessary skills and is completely qualified to be a General of the Inquisition’s army?
I can’t help but ask this question considering he’s spent over half his life in the ranks of a military organization that would certainly train its members. Additionally, if you’re looking for actual experience on a battlefield, we don’t know exactly what his part in the Mage/Templar War has been so far, or if he’s fought there/done whatever else (aside from the fight against Meredith, which I guess doesn’t qualify as being a battlefield or something).
We also don’t need evidence aside from Bioware’s word that Josephine is skilled at diplomacy (and I’m most certainly not picking on her either, just using this example because I’m not seeing anyone asking what her qualifications are).
So yeah, as stated above, I don’t normally reblog these confessions, and I’m not naysaying the OPs’ opinions here in my points. Just couldn’t help but make note of the hubbub everyone’s making over this particular topic and wondering why it’s apparently such an issue. =|
It’s an issue because people don’t understand what Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is.
I’ve lived with it now for thirteen years. I was diagnosed by a psychologist and that diagnosis has been upheld by the therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and specialists that I’ve had to see in the years since. And living with PTSD is nothing at all like what they show in the media.
People seem to get most of their facts from the media or “public knowledge.” But when PTSD shows up in the news, it’s inevitably because someone killed someone else. So there’s this idea that people with PTSD are dramatically unstable, violent, and about ready to kill someone at the drop of a hat.
I’ve been confronted with this idea over and over again, to the point where I just don’t tell people about my diagnosis anymore.
“Oh, god, you have PTSD. You don’t have guns, right?”
“Holy shit, are you allowed to be walking around free like this?”
“Do you think you’ll be able to handle the stresses of a desk job?”
“Give up. You can’t handle the stress of working or having a house. You should get on disability instead.”
“Does that mean that you’re going to kill me?”
There are times when I just want to scream shut up, but I’m pretty sure that would make it worse.
Not everyone reacts to PTSD the same way, just like nobody reacts to depression, ADHD, OCD, grief, loss, or transition the same way. As Sten once said, “People are not simple.”
Here’s the thing about PTSD: it turns you into a control freak. Many, many, many people with PTSD need to control their environment somehow. Most victims attribute their PTSD to “not being in control” of the traumatic event.
If only I had just done something.
If only I had moved out of the way.
If only I had grabbed the gun.
If only I had pushed him off me.
So there’s this overwhelming fear that if “[I] lose control of the situation again,” someone will be there to take advantage of that so-called vulnerability. Victims blame themselves as much as society blames them. They (we) want to be stronger, smarter, faster, with quicker reflexes and the ability to stay ten steps ahead of everyone else. We don’t want to follow; we want to lead and make sure the traumatic event never ever repeats itself again.
What Cullen is doing is not out of character for someone with PTSD. He was hurt by both the templars and the mages. Now he’s on top. The way the thinking goes for someone with PTSD is like this: he was hurt by both the templars and the mages, and both times he didn’t have control over the situation, so if he has control (as a General), he can make damn sure that neither inflict that sort of pain on anyone else (or him) ever again. He wouldn’t trust someone else to make those decisions again. He trusted Greagoir and Meredith and Hawke and things still went to shit. He was still hurt.
Now he’s in charge, and he’s going to make sure that things get done right this time.
Does Cullen have PTSD? It’s never been stated. Anywhere. Given that Dragon Age is a medieval fantasy with no real psychology, it probably never will be. I have my own opinion that he does have PTSD, because of his actions and statements, but this isn’t supported by the Word of God. The writers haven’t said a word.
Would Cullen’s PTSD (if he were diagnosed properly) prevent him from being a General in the Inquisitor’s army? No. If anything, it would push him straight into it.
This.
I have PTSD thanks to an unpredictably violent childhood. It took me a long time and several therapists before I would even accept it as a valid thing for myself because I’ve never been in war I don’t have unpredictable violent outbursts I am not a danger to other people I don’t have vivid flashbacks etc etc. For twenty years I insisted it was just garden-variety anxiety.
Media portrayal was something I had to get over before I could even accept my own goddamned diagnosis, so I can appreciate that there are lots of people out there who don’t have a great understanding of how it would manifest in fictional characters.
Mine manifests in extreme claustrophobia, fight-or-flight reactions to violence (physical, psychological, and verbal) perpetuated against me (even by myself), a need to be as in control as possible in any given situation, and absolute perfectionism to the point where if I can’t do something 100% I don’t do it at all.
Cullen’s behavior in DAI is righ in line with my own experiences. Throwing the lyrium kit, throwing daggers at a training dummy, punching a bookshelf: those are all reactions I could see myself having (I’ve punched a couple of walls in my day). Wanting to quit being the commander because he doesn’t feel he’s in enough control of himself: absolutely something I would do, and I’d be too scared to even tell Cassandra and probably just run way in the middle of the night because even though it’s not a reasonable fear I’d be scared of her abuse at my admission of failure. Knowing intellectually that most mages are probably perfectly safe but unable to stop his deep-seated fear from allowing him to be truly at ease with their presence: welcome to how I feel about most men.
All of this wonderful brave commentary that I have nothing to add to, plus the fact that it’s stated repeatedly by multiple characters in-game that he’s doing a great job. I really don’t know why this keeps coming up; it’s a shitty red herring, it’s insulting and insubstantial.
Okay, I have a question, and I legitimately don’t know anything about PTSD so I apologize if I’m way off base.
If you romance Cullen (which, why wouldn’t you???) then you know that he has nightmares. I always took this as a pretty obvious case of PTSD. Am I wrong in assuming that? I always thought it was definite that he has PTSD.
Prepare for a rant
So, I’m a 28 year old woman who has had awful period cramps since starting puberty. Like barfing, light headed, nauseous, prescription strength meds kind of period cramps.
SCREW schools and jobs that require a doctor’s note if you can’t show up. Okay, fair I am not sick, but my suffering is no less, and probably more than if I was sick. I can’t stand up. I can’t concentrate. I am in a horrible amount of pain. Anyone who doesn’t accept period cramps as a valid reason to not show up to work/school is an asshole.
/endrant
Dug up this WIP from 2014 and finished it up. Technically it’s the first complete digital painting I’ve ever finished, though there’s tons of WIPs. I keep beating myself up about digital, since I’m still learning, so I hardly finish anything. Trying to change that!
