#for example the color..chartreuse

[mansionworld]

hello new followers :] i just thought of a cute little game. send me an ask with a color, object, or emotion and i will post a photo that corresponds!!

[sparrowsgarden]

As I have been promising for years, the eye color chart is all cleaned up and ready to be shared! I'm totally ok with this being saved and passed around, that's why all my info is on it.

Basic image description is in alt, and a full transcript of all text in the image is under the cut.

This model has been in a process of expansion and tweaking for a very long time. Huge huge thanks to all the folks who contributed and hunted down photos, helped me name all the colors, and gave the final proofs!

Sparrow's Eye Color Chart 2025 Edition

Eye colors in cats are difficult to model because they vary to a significant extent on two axes. This is my best attempt at a general model of cat eye color based on observation and research into how eye color works across species.

Pigmentation refers to the amount of pigment in the colored layer of the iris. Higher pigmentation causes darker colors.

Refraction means the extent to which light is scattered in the structures of the iris. Higher refraction causes deeper blues or greens.

Eye colors are related to coat color, but not as closely as breed standards might have you believe! Most coat colors can have most eye colors outside of purebred lines selected to meet breed standard.

What Color Are My Cat's Eyes?

Color names are descriptive of the actual color of the cat's eyes - I chose them all to sound nice so that breeders can use them if desired. Note that breed standards have a much broader use of color names - "Amber", for example, may include much of the golden to orange range.

Colors are based on pictures of cats in full white light (such as midday sun fully illuminating the eye), and tweaked to look good on properly color-calibrated screens. Always determine eye colors based on how they look in full light.

Main Block

standard eye colors possible with most pelts

Every cat is assumed to have genes that specify some genetic eye color in the main block, but certain other alleles can depigment the eyes partially or completely, creating the lower block.

Pigmentation and Refraction are modeled here as dependent on multiple genes, which seems to best fit the wide spectrum of possibilities in cats. The actual number of genes is unknown and could be very many, but for simplicity they are shown here on a scale from 1-7.

In theory, the genetic eye colors of the offspring should tend to fall somewhere between the genetic eye colors of the parents. Then, any depigmentation factors are applied, which may result in an actual eye color somewhere below the genetic eye color.

Lower Block

occur with phenotypes which cause depigmentation of the iris.

Gray-blues: Fairly rare coloration. The cause of gray eyes in humans is not well understood, but one theory is that collagen or very small amounts of pigment in the eye alter the scattering of light.

Blues: Most common depigmented colors. Can be caused by white spotting/dominant white, colorpoint, and sometimes mocha. There are also multiple Dominant Blue-eye (DBE) mutations known which cause blue eyes as the main effect.

Albinistic: Caused by complete albinism, which also fully depigments the back layer of the iris meant to keep light from getting through. This allows the red color from the retinal blood vessels to bleed through, and also causes poor visual acuity.

Following is a list of all eye colors shown on the main diagram. Rows are pigmentation levels starting from the highest pigmentation, refraction increases from left to right.

Main Block: Copper, Chestnut, Umber, Walnut, Earthen, Olive, Moss; Ochre, Caramel, Bronze, Serpentine, Artichoke, Fern, Forest; Orange, Amber, Brass, Peridot, Avocado, Clover, Malachite; Saffron, Butterscotch, Shrub, Spring, Jade, Pine, Emerald; Gold, Citron, Pear, Lime, Mantis, Grass, Viridian; Yellow, Chartreuse, Sprout, Laurel, Mint, Turquoise, Teal; Canary, Chiffon, Honeydew, Sage, Celadon, Aqua, Cerulean.

Lower Block: Gray-blues: Frost, Opal, Flint, Storm, Steel, Slate, Cadet. Blues: Ice, Powder, Celeste, Sky, Azure, Lapis, Cobalt. Albinistic: Pink, Mauve, Lavender, Periwinkle, Cornflower, Royal, Indigo.

Combo Colors

Cats can exhibit a few different heterochromia types, most commonly a blue with a non-blue. The other most common cause for heterochromia appears to be localized hyperpigmentation, which can be caused by damage to the eye. It can also happen simply due to differing iris structure or unusual pigment migration within the iris.

It is also relatively common for the center of the eye to be a slightly different color, without being marked enough to constitute full heterochromia. My provisionary term for this is "dual-toned". The boundary between this and "true" central heterochromia is somewhat subjective.

For any form of heterochromia or dual-toned eyes, my recommendation for describing them is to note both colors with a slash. For dual-tones, I generally write the outer color before the center one.

Complete Heterochromia Blue/non-blue is commonly caused by white spotting/dominant white, other combos are rare.

Sectoral Heterochromia Blue/non-blue sometimes occurs with white spotting/dominant white. Can also be from hyperpigmentation.

Central Heterochromia Can occur due to hyperpigmentation, uneven pigment distribution, or iris structure. More common in certain breeds.

Dual-toned Irises Relatively small differences in central eye color are common in cats.

Iris Atrophy Iris atrophy due to old age can cause a distinctive lighter ring in the center of the iris.

All writing, art, and chart design ©Sparrow Hartmann 2025

Icon designs are released to the Creative Commons under a CC-BY-SA license and will be made available for download.

Go to sparrows-garden.com for more genetics resources!

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing Notes: Match Clothes Using the Color Wheel

Start with analogous colors. Analogous colors are next to each other on the color wheel and share a common hue. When incorporating new colors into your wardrobe, find a color that feels safe to you—for example, light blue. On the color wheel, blue falls between teal and blue-violet. If you feel comfortable with light blue, add on a teal or blue-violet for a subtle, two-color palette.

Embrace complementary colors. Complementary colors are opposite each other on the color wheel and can make for a beautiful power clash: Think fuchsia and chartreuse, or burgundy and forest green. When you make bold color choices, both colors stand out.

Wear accessories that don’t “match.” Unless you're going for a full monochrome look, don't worry about matching your belt to your handbag and shoes. These smaller accessories are actually a great place to experiment with bright colors.

Mix neutral colors. Neutral colors are a great base for working with brighter colors, but they can also work together. Color mixing isn't just about bold colors—neutrals like brown, black, navy blue, and white almost always pair well, so don't be afraid to wear black pants with brown shoes.

Wear denim as a neutral color. Consider denim a neutral color, meaning you can mix it with any other color (including blue) and it will probably look great. This also means you can mix denims. The easiest way to do it is with shades of denim that are similar to each other but different enough that your look won't be too matchy. Try pairing mid-wash jeans with a light-wash denim shirt, or dark-wash jeans with a mid-wash denim jacket.

Organize your closet according to the color wheel. Simplify the process of choosing an outfit by organizing your closet by color. Color-coordinating your closet will make it easier to find exactly what you're looking for, and it will also help you create new color combinations. Grab the piece that you want to wear and hold it up next to the other items in your closet; you'll be able to see which color families work best with your main color. ⚜ Color Wheel

Source ⚜ More: Notes ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs ⚜ How to Describe Clothing

[galadrieljones]

Chartreuse, P.A.D.R.E., The World Beyond coda, and some other potentially wild connections to Daryl Dixon season 2 (Team Delusional)

Hello friends. This post contains spoilers pertaining to recent script leaks, outlined in this helpful post by @bookqueenrules. If you don't want to know anything about these leaks, you can read this post all the way until I post a WARNING. At that point, you should stop!!

Anyway, here we go. Let's look at the shot above.

When I saw this shot in the DD2 trailer, I paused for several reasons. First of all, and most obviously, I saw the Mona Lisa, which is housed at the Louvre. Recall this shot from season 1, which draws a visual connection between the Mona Lisa (shot in the left side of the forehead) and Beth. Daryl literally stops to look at her, as if he is seeing exactly what we are seeing.

Now, the second big thing I noticed in that shot from the trailer, and what I want to talk about today, were several bottles of some sort of green liquid...

These are definitely bottles of CHARTREUSE.

Chartreuse is a unique French liqueur made of alcohol infused with 130 different herbs, flowers, and plants, and which always appears to be either bright green or yellow. Of course, the color green is always interesting to TDers when it is used out of context (ie: on things that are not usually green). It reminded me of two other important out-of-context examples of green in TWDU: the green chlorine gas from The World Beyond and The Ones Who Live, as well as the green corrosive substance which causes Amanda's death in the Tales episode "Davon."

The thing is, while it seems out of context here, it's really not. Chartreuse is supposed to be green. Very green. As far as alcohols go, it, just like moonshine, has quite a bit of symbolic significance pertaining to what's going on in TWDU...

A Quick History of Chartreuse

Chartreuse has many imitators, but much like French Champagne, there is only one real Chartreuse. Real Chartreuse is very expensive because it is in limited supply, literally produced by Carthusian monks near Paris. It is named for a monastery in the Chartreuse Mountains near Grenoble, France. It began with an alchemical recipe in 1605, presented to the Carthusian monks in the monastery outside of Paris by French King Henry IV, called an "elixir of long life." Over 120 years later, it was enhanced by a monk named Brother Gerome Maubec, and over the next 60 years became quite popular in France.

Anyway, during the French Revolution in 1793, the Carthusian monks were exiled from France. They took refuge in Spain until 1816 during Napoleon's reign, when they returned to France and continued to hone and develop their "elixir of long life." But in 1903, they were exiled again, their distillery confiscated by the French government, and they returned to Spain, specifically a city in Catalonia named Tarragona where the French monks would remain, distilling the only authentic Chartreuse in the world, until they were finally invited back to France after World War II.

Parallels to French History in DD season 1

Okay, why is any of this important? To answer this question, we need to return to the World Beyond season 2 coda, but first, we should recall the events of Daryl Dixon season 1. In season 1, Daryl is taken in by Catholic nuns in an abbey near Marseille. He befriends a nun who implores him to embark on a journey to Le Havre, a place called the Nest, where he will deliver Laurent, a "sacred" boy whose "power" we don't really understand. When they finally arrive at the Nest with Laurent, we meet Losang, who is, in fact, a monk, and who has just come from Spain. Losang is not just a monk, and he wasn't always a monk. Though we know little about his past, we do know that he is originally American, and that he came to Paris to study before the fall.

In season 1, we also meet Genet whose movement The Power of the Living (or Pouvoir des Vivants) espouses strong French Revolutionary vibes. She wishes to return the power to the people in France, implying that in order to do this, the people must rise up to "usurp" said power from somebody else. We don't know for sure who Genet's true enemies are, but it does seem that Genet's enemies have some relationship to Losang, The Union of Hope, the Nest, and the USA, hence her relentless hunt for Daryl and Laurent and her impending assault on the Nest. She even shouts "Vive le France!" during the arena fight at the end of season 1, an exclamation associated with the Storming of the Bastille in 1789.

Losang's faction the Union of Hope is described in season 1 as a movement that unites all religions and all people. While it is helmed at the Nest in Le Havre, it knows no borders. We meet several sub-factions in France, including Lou's group of "Lost Boys" as well as Fallou's people in Paris. We also get some sense that there are arms of the faction in Spain, as Isabelle mentions a spaniard on the radio, and Losang has come from a pilgrimage in Spain, one that @frangipanilove has written about brilliantly. Read here.

The World Beyond: The Science of Wildfire

Let's return now to the World Beyond coda. In the coda, we meet a nameless French scientist who downloads the contents of several hard drives onto her laptop at what appears to be an old bioresearch laboratory, somewhere in France. One of the hard drives contains several folders of interest, including one titled "TB Ellis Papiers" and another titled "Slingerland," which is currently still a mystery, though very interesting, as it is the name of a prominent American musical instrument manufacturing company from the mid-to-late 20th century, which mainly manufactured drum kits and guitars. (If anybody has their own theories on Slingerland, let me know, as it's an obsession for me lol).

The French scientist proceeds to watch a video of correspondence from Dr. Jenner from season 1, who discusses at length many scientific angles on producing or addressing a cure or some sort of treatment or mitigation factor for the Wildfire virus.

As she is watching, an assassin enters with a gun and asks if she is on the "Primrose Team." She corrects him to say that she is on the "Violet Team," and that the Primrose Team was in Toledo, Ohio at the time of the fall. The Teams, as we can gather, are groups of scientists, possibly dispersed internationally, who developed the Wildfire virus and, in their efforts to curb its effects, the French teams specifically, created deadly variants, which, according to Jenner in the video, are not endemic to the US. We believe that the Jenners were members of the Violet Team, given their correspondence with the French scientist on the Violet Team and the fact that Jenner's computer assistant is named "Violet." Of course, that's just speculation...

The assassin in question seems to be unaware of the details of what's gone on with the French teams and is only carrying out assassinations on his leader's behalf. He mentions that they are no longer simply jailing the scientists. They're killing them. His faction, which I believe is the Power of the Living, blames the scientists for causing the Wildfire spread, and also for "making it worse." He shoots the scientist in the head and leaves, at which point, even despite the headshot, she turns into a walker and runs violently toward the door.

In this interaction, we learn that at some point in the first ten years after the fall, a major faction (likely the Power of the Living) began hunting the scientists responsible for the Wildfire virus, jailing, and killing them. Some of the scientists were in America at the time, in Ohio, and we think that some of them are still there, and that they possibly attempted to migrate down to the CDC in Georgia at the beginning of the outbreak. The reason for this is that there are variants of "smart" walkers which seem to exist *only* in Ohio and Georgia and *not* in Virginia. In seasons 1-4 and 11 only, we run into walkers who can run, climb, and use tools. Some even have keepsakes, such as the very first walker we see in "Days Gone Bye." She reaches for her stuffed bear, which implies some semblance of "memory" hanging on from her old life.

Mainly these walkers are encountered in Atlanta and later at the Commonwealth. Since Jenner verifies in his video that he hasn't seen any evidence of variants at the American CDC, this suggests that the variants arrived in Georgia at some point in the first three weeks of the outbreak, or before Rick enters Atlanta for the first time.

Anyway, given that we meet one of the scientist in the WB coda, this suggests that there are more in existence, but that they've simply left France. She came back to see if the Primrose team might be there, after all this time. She was wrong, but this scene has given us many massive clues. This is where the folklore of Chartreuse becomes very interesting.

When the Carthusian monks, or the makers of the "elixir of long life" were kicked out of France, BOTH times they went to Spain.

In Spain, they continued their operation until the French were so threatened by it, they finally invited them back after WWII. Given all the WWII callbacks we get in DD season 1, including the revelation that Daryl's grandfather died on the beaches of Normandy, it may be that we are currently entering into a "proxy" situation, in which Daryl fights alongside his allies in France to defeat an existential threat. Only this time, unlike his grandfather, he will survive, and he will live to see his home and his loved ones again, and soon, the "cure" or science which could mitigate the Wildfire virus, could return to France.

The "elixir of long life," aka Chartreuse, could be a compelling historic and symbolic proxy for the Wildfire virus, which I have speculated, based on its regenerative effects in walkers (ie: slowing down their rate of decay, a scientific process that is discussed in World Beyond, but which is not well understood) could have started as a cure for death or the aging process, or a way to heal and regenerate mortal wounds. A literal fountain of youth. The holy grail. A true "elixir of long life." Unfortunately, it was leaked and allowed to infect humans en masse before it was adjusted beyond its most destructive phases. This is just a theory, mind you. It's just based on a hunch.

Either way, remember that the holy grail, which is determined to be "holy blood," is the object of an intense search in the book and film The DaVinci Code, which has been cited multiple times in relation to the lore of TWD, particular TD theories, and which was the inspiration for the TV show DaVinci's Demons, which Scott Gimple wrote for prior to his work with TWD.

Like the Carthusian monks, the scientific teams in France were hunted, jailed, and exiled by a revolutionary cause and took their science with them. If this comparison is intentional or holds any water, it creates a very likely scenario for why season 3 will take place in Spain. If Genet is behind the exile, then this would also explain why Genet is so intent on attacking the Nest and neutralizing Losang and his forces. She wants the scientists dead and out of France.

What are Losang's Motivations?

Returning to Losang, my fellow theorists and several other TDers are suspicious of Losang after his motivations come into question in the ten minute preview currently available on AMC+. Losang is hesitant to attack Genet even though she has taken several of his people as prisoners. He is also critical of Daryl's attempts to teach Laurent self-defense. Why would that be? He says that it is unhealthy to expose Laurent to so much violence, but he says this knowing that Laurent traveled all the way to the Nest with Daryl and Isabelle, and was almost killed multiple times, that he already had to kill a walker to save Isabelle's life, and that said walker was his own biological father. In what way will teaching him to protect himself in a dangerous world keep him from experiencing the same trauma that he's already experienced?

One reason could be to keep Laurent as helpless as possible, ignorant, focused only on the intellectual and the spiritual, not the physical. It could, of course, be innocent but we believe Losang may have ulterior motives or plans for Laurent, who was born to a walker. The speculation that Laurent may have inherited some sort of immunity to the Wildfire virus has been rampant in the fandom, prompting many to make comparisons to Ellie in The Last of Us. Within TWDU, Laurent having any sort of immunity would make him very valuable to cure research and very interesting in terms of deepening the Wildfire origins lore.

If Losang, as an American, was in Paris to "study" at the time of the fall, it is likely he was at one of two major research universities in the region: the Sorbonne or the Pasteur Institute, the latter being at the forefront of vaccine technology in the modern world. While, of course, we don't know for sure, and we could always be wrong, the notion that he could be a scientist or medical/research doctor is not unfounded. Eastman, a good character proxy for Losang, and who counsels Morgan in the season 6 episode "Here's Not Here," found a similar spiritual awakening in the Eastern philosophy of Aikido after the fall. Eastman was a psychiatrist in his previous life.

I also believe that, logically, it is time for Daryl Dixon to follow through on the connection to the World Beyond coda, considering the fact that Scott Gimple verified a connection between the two some time ago. The set-up with Losang, a highly intelligent leader and "pilgrim," reformed monk who has just come from Spain despite being an American with an academic past, would be the perfect opportunity for the writers to draw a strong connection between two major themes in TWDU, which have been percolating for a while: science and faith.

Child Abduction, the Nest, and P.A.D.R.E. (***Major Spoilers Ahead***)

This is where you should stop reading if you don't want spoilers!

Something my fellow theorists and I have started kicking around, in the wake of a recent script leak, which is apparently the final moments of the final episode of season 2, is the possibility that Laurent will be abducted, or that he'll be lured away from the Nest by someone he trusts, perhaps Losang.

Note that the leaked script implies that, by the end of season 2, Isabelle has apparently died. Laurent is also not present in the final scene. I do not believe the writers will kill off Laurent, but that instead, they'll use him to broaden the scope of the world (and to soften the hearts of both Daryl AND Carol). I also don't believe that Daryl would leave Laurent behind in France with Isabelle dead, or that Laurent would want to be without Daryl, given all they've been through and their attachment to one another. In the trailer, we hear that Daryl and Isabelle have begun to discuss taking Laurent back to America. After the war in France, if Isabelle is gone, it might be that Laurent will still want to go back with Daryl and Carol. But since we don't see him in the final scene re: the leaked script pages, and we haven't heard anything about him in Spain, could it be that, when Daryl and Carol return to the Nest to retrieve him (in a coda, perhaps) he's just gone?

Let's talk about child abductions and missing children in TWDU. While the notion of child abduction starts with Jocelyn in "Scars," it comes to a head in Fear, seasons 7-8, in which we learn that children are being abducted by mysterious "snatchers" and taken to a highly secretive place called P.A.D.R.E., where they are trained to fight, essentially, a walker war. P.A.D.R.E. began as a US Military operation, designed by politicians, military personal, and other experts to maintain sustainability after the fall of civilization due to the Wildfire virus; however, for reasons I don't have time to get into, it turns into something else completely. The children at P.A.D.R.E. are all given BIRD NAMES, ie: Finch, Dove, Wren, etc. Madison Clark, who turns up alive in season 7, is nicknamed Lark, and she starts her journey toward redemption as one of the "snatchers" who steals "eggs" or babies and children from "unfit" parents and returns them to the safety of P.A.D.R.E..

This is very interesting. Let's consider the terminology, which greatly revolves around BIRDS. Children who are good prospects for "snatching" are called "eggs," and where might eggs be stolen from?

A NEST.

The children are then nicknamed after birds and taken to P.A.D.R.E.. "Padre" is a SPANISH word. It means priest or father.

So we have bird eggs being snatched from their nest, taken to a place with a Spanish name related to themes and inventory of Catholicism. Is it possible that P.A.D.R.E. was foreshadowing for the events of Daryl Dixon? Is this why the writers chose bird names for P.A.D.R.E.'s wards?

This is also where we might consider Beth coming in, because Beth's main job when she was with Team Family was taking care of Judith and the children. When they escape the prison, she survives because she leaves the bus to go searching for the children. In "Inmates," she leads Daryl on a search for missing children, which ends badly.

Beth also has a bird cage in her cell in "30 Days Without an Accident."

Is Beth in Spain? Will Laurent be taken there? Is this where the French scientists are hiding out, continuing to develop their "elixir of long life" in secret? Some sort of "Spanish Slabtown?" Are they conducting research on children who are "special," people who have "immunity?" Was Beth part of something bigger than we realize? Bigger, even, than the CRM? Something that spanned international borders? Something related to the origins of and cure for Wildfire?

For a very long time, the season 5 templates have lead us to believe that Daryl and Carol will leave together to search for Beth, but what if they're searching for Laurent, and they find Beth by mistake? OR, what if, while they're searching for Laurent, Beth finds THEM? In any case, it's very important that Carol be there for it, as she is the only other living person who we know of that has been inside of Grady and might have memory of what went on there.

Only time will tell. For now, it's fun to speculate...

💫

[womenclature]

Color Monologue

Because color is one of my obsessions, I figured I’d share this. It’s nice to have names for the colors we don’t often have words to describe.

Below are some charts for examples, followed by a personal monologue.

List of Colors: 550 Color Names and Hex Codes

(If you can distinguish between these shades of black, let me know…. I can’t! Lol)

Finding My Favorite Color

Spoiler alert: It’s #E0EE00

Their “summary” color charts don’t include my favorite color, so I went into their more in-depth lists and found Bitter Lemon, which I think is about right. Actually, this “traditional” Chartreuse is likely closer:

My Favorite Color is an Experience

When people ask me what my favorite color is, I may come off as ridiculous when I respond “the color of new spring leaves when sunlight shines through them,” but it’s really the truth.

I care a lot about that exact sensation. It’s very captivating to me. I don’t even have to get on a plane to witness it. I can just go down the street or to a local park.

The experience of standing under a tree and gazing up through its branches is enchanting, and this array of color tones glows around me and inside of me. The below image kind of communicates this idea.

I particularly like the yellower green, right where the sun hits the leaves. Source

The term “chartreuse” is still inexact because the examples provided are usually not yellow enough.

This next pic is just for fun:

Source

Using a Color Picker to Find My Favorite Color

Here are some more examples of my favorite color.

Color Picker Source I’m aware these are multiple shades, but oh well. I’m searching.

Sometimes I feel like I get to my favorite color fastest if I go to yellow first, then darken it a little.

Funny how this color now looks worse as I place it against the dark background of Tumblr. In fact, it looks like boogers and I don’t like it as much at all.

The hex code “E0EE00” is really satisfying. Old Macdonald had a farm, E-0, E-E, 0-0…..

I think I’ll settle there for now.

Clothing With (Almost) My Favorite Color

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It’s very, very difficult and rare to find clothing in my favorite color.

Is Chartreuse Green or Yellow?

(and who cares?)

Sometimes I wear a sweater from F21 that is pretty close to my favorite color, and people compliment me on my “yellow sweater,” at which I am always amused. To me, the sweater is green. So I have fun randomly asking people if they think the sweater is yellow or green. I just like to see which one they say. There are no wrong answers. I, too, remain uncertain as to which general category my favorite color inhabits. Relatedly, “Chartreuse” falls under “Green,” while “Chartreuse (traditional)” falls under “Yellow” on the first website I linked, List of Colors: 550 Color Names and Hex Codes. (Their version of “Chartreuse” I do not like at all. It is way too blue-green and not yellow at all.) Well, It’s a good thing that the determination of whether this shade is “yellow” or “green" is not particularly important one way or the other, because if people cared about this, I do think they’d never come to a consensus.

Clothing Website Color Pickers

I do, however, wish clothing websites would recognize “chartreuse” in a keyword search or have a more intelligent color picker when filtering results. It would not be too hard to code a tool that analyzes each clothing image and provides 10-20 color names depending on the hex codes it picks up. One could build in a “margin of error” where hex codes that are within a few degrees of variation are also included under those names. So the user could actually use a color picker (or a longer selection of specific colors, at least) to filter by color, and all matching or near-matching clothes would be included in the results.

Thanks for coming to my color monologue!

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[miasiegert]

Trust the Process—well and do it a long time…

The hard thing about acid dye is that you don’t know the color until it’s steamed, unless you work with it for a long time. You also need to learn how it reacts to different bases.

Example (if you go to The Fulton, you’ll see this bad boy):

You can see layers next to one solid—nothing has been steamed.

Chartreuse, moss green, emerald green, forgot what brown I sprayed. I haven’t used spruce yet.

All these colors are flat and will be until steamed. That’s when the color comes out. At that point. I’ll be really layering unless we determine the unitard doesn’t need it—which sometimes happens.

This is a more bare design than what I normally do but one of my favorites.

[catgirltoofies]

shiny pokemon aside, i think it would be really cool if pokemon came in a set range of colors, and shinies had a separate range. example given, eevees whose coats range from a lighter brown to a darker brown, while shinies ranged from silver to a more yellowish gold; lucario's blue ranges from almost greenish blue to barely shy of purple, while the shiny ranges between nearly orange to chartreuse. do you see my vision or am i insane.

[planet-of-the-machines]

What are your eye colors? Are they white like most WDs? Or are they different?

Ok, the “all white eyes” part only applies to the Drones built before the Flash, both Worker and Heavy. (Yes, that includes Mr. Trailbreaker and our resident mad scientist.) There were exceptions, including Dr. Ratchet, Mr. Archivist, and the late Mrs. Doorman (respectively neon green, sky blue, and violet), though JCJenson chalked them up to glitches in their hardware.

The ones built since humanity kicked the bucket (including us) bucked this stale trend almost immediately. We have a rainbow of different eye colors. Me and ‘Swipe’s eyes are orange, for example. So are Whirl and Heatwave’s, though his are more reddish than the rest of ours. Meanwhile, Boulder’s are chartreuse [greenish-yellow], Arcee, Bee, and Hot Rod have similar shades of blue, the red brute’s are a light purple, and those of Chase and the-murderer-in-our-midst are yellow — this being indicative of the latter’s kin. 

-Sun

Are you sure about that? Murder Drones all having yellow eyes, I mean.

-Bee

Absolutely. Why do you ask?

-Sun

I say this because G had green eyes (I know she’s not a normal MD, but still), and I remember N’s sister’s eyes and headband not being yellow during the breach. They looked a little bit… Pink? Red? 

-Bee

You mean the one who you stabbed with a pen? How’d you even do that?

Also, Sunny, I hate that name. I may be tough, but a brute?

-Cliff

I WAS PANICKING!!! :(

-Bee

O – O

No comment about what happened last week.

Yeah, so J’s eye color may or may not turn magenta whenever she’s super-focused on killing someone? Me and my team have no idea why that happens. 

Also, some of the other teams mod themselves to have different eye colors, among other things.

-N

…I stand corrected. 

-Sun

[cutiepieautistic]

How do you edit your gifs? I’m on my iPad so I can’t use photoshop

Hi hello! I don't use photoshop for any of my content,including my gifs but I do use online gif editors,and sometimes also my preferred gif editing app.

First I save my gifs of choosing,then I upload them to ezgif or lunapic.

Then I'll decide which kind of edits i want to make.

For example,if i want to hue tint this tangle gif,I'll do this: first I select "gif effects" on ezgif.

Then I enter the number I want in the hue box.

If I want it to be more green tinted,then I choose a number lower than 100. If I want it to be more blue tinted,I select a number high than 100.

For this specific edit,I chose 95.

Then I saved the gif with the save button,and went over to lunapic.

I uploaded it there,and clicked on the hamburger menu(that's what the button with 3 lines is called!) And select "filters" I chose the color tint option for this one.

Then I selected the bright chartreuse in the color options menu,and set the tint to 45. Then I selected adjust,and saved the gif after it was tinted.

[zenkindoflove]

8. What's Alexius, Theo, Patty, and Nyssa’s favorite cocktails?

3. Give an example of something Fiadh might wear 👀

Ooooh the the squad! LOL I love this question because I'm thinking of them out on the town in their favorite spot - The Sunshine Tavern.

Alexius - Naked & Famous: I picked this because I think Alexius doesn't have a strong preference for drinks. He is attracted to anything colorful with a fun name. And he will ALWAYS be famous. ;)

Ingredients: equal-parts combination of mezcal, Aperol, Yellow Chartreuse, and lime juice.

Patty - Black Manhattan: Patty is a basically the definition of a mean, little twink lmao. So I felt like this was his vibes all the way. Something with bite.

Ingredients: Take the classic Manhattan and give it a twist, mixing its rye whiskey and bitters with Averna, a bittersweet Italian liqueur, rather than the usual sweet vermouth. 

Nyssa - Mojito: I picked this for Nyssa because I feel like she'd have a go-to drink and I sort of designed her with having the color of the ocean in her eyes. So I thought a beachy drink would be really appropriate for her.

Ingredients: rum, mint, lime juice, and simple syrup, topped with club soda.

Theo - red wine: Theo is snobbier and more high class than the others. Day Court is known for its rich red wines, and he doesn't want to mess with a good thing. So he keeps it classy.

As for what Fiadh would wear, I think in my head I sort of imagined her as a femme fatale archetype, so I think this dress with Ava Gardner in The Killers is really perfect. This is sort of how I imagine how Fiadh would dress at a formal function now that she is out of the skin business. And the gloves are essential for her to interact with others in a more normal way, without using her daemati powers. Of course, the gloves can always come off. ;)

[korkorali]

The Many Dimensions of Della Duck sounds really interesting!

That one is interesting, in my opinion! It would be a multi-chapter story about like- how Della might exist in different media besides just DT17. What her story looks like, and what she's like, all explored in a 'DT17 Della is sent through a bunch of different dimensions and helps different iterations of herself.'

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Most people in the world had a generally 'normal' kind of life. They woke up, did their job, did something else like talk to friends or something, and then went to sleep. They didn't have to worry about cultists, or portals, or getting stuck on the moon, or strange occult writings, or the botched summoning of an Ancient One in the heart of Duckburg, or glitching out of reality because you perceived That Which Cannot Be... all that most people had to worry about was whether or not they'd get a raise this quarter.

And unfortunately for her, Della Duck was not a normal person. Not by a long shot.

Which, in certain cases, did serve her well. For example, if a 'normal person' was hurtling through spacetime in a painful, glitching wormhole type situation, they'd probably be freaking the fuck out to the point where their mind would shatter. Della, however, didn't get that. Some (read: her) would say that she wasn't allowed to have something as simple as a broken mind at this point.

No, no, instead her mind had to just latch on to the color of those cultists' robes. Who the fuck thought that chartreuse was a good color for a cult getup? Seriously, she really hoped that whoever had decided on that had been one of their sacrifices.

...Maybe her brain was already broken. That would explain some things.

Of course, none of this would've happened if she'd just- stayed home for a change. Weathered out the stupid thoughts in her own brain and slept in 'till morning, like a normal person would. Normal people, after a loud and hurtful and very destabilizing fight, would simply cry themselves to sleep. But not Della! No, no, she just had to sneak out in the middle of the night to take a walk. 'Just to clear her head,' she'd claimed.

'Well good job, Past Della. You certainly did that.' She thought to herself, closing her eyes as the stream of colors that technically she wasn't supposed to be able to see burned into her eyes. Honestly, she should probably be kinder to herself, she knew that, but- at the same time she couldn't help but consider that maybe all this self-deprecation was her brain's way of protecting her.

Hurtling through the metaphysical equivalent of time and space wasn't exactly something people were built to handle. The fact that she wasn't even sure if she had a body or not at the moment spoke wonders to that. Maybe the self-hatred was just a way of keeping herself from thinking about how she was totally fucked, and it was all her fault, and this was just like the moon and she was going to die alone and nobody would know where she was and she deserved it-

Okay, maybe she needed to dial it back from that.

It was hard to do, though- all she was at the moment was thought. And even that was strained, the image of What Isn't still burned directly into her mind every time she tried to think of something else, and just- the way that they were built, too. Like damn, for something that didn't technically have any form, That Which Cannot Be was honestly kinda ripped, she had to admit.

'Della, you are hurtling through reality at breakneck speed and you have no idea where you're going- or if you're even going anywhere.' She reminded herself, 'C'mon, get your head in the game and think of a way out of this! There always is, you know this! Come on, focus, let's fix this shit! After all- Nothing Can Stop Della Duck!'

Unfortunately a positive attitude did very little to actually substantially impact one's being in the para-zone, the kaleidoscope colors only bleeding a slightly different shade in response.

However, before she could fall back into another internal monologue she felt something, which was actually kind of amazing in a place where material sensation had no meaning. It was a tug, a vibration, a reverberation that rippled through the thought 'Nothing Can Stop Della Duck!', in a way that was almost but not completely unlike the humming of a tuning fork or the string of a guitar vibrating.

Della didn't know what exactly that meant, but something was better than an eternity of trippy visuals, so she focused her will on that thought, and around her she began to feel other things, things that had the shape of chemical reaction and the weight of time where cause preceded effect. All it needed was a little push, a small touch of effort and focus to spark a cascading effect that pulled her in like a hard boiled egg being sucked through the mouth of a bottle that held a vacuum.

And then she landed face first on cold wet stone floor, and became aware of the fact that her physical form was now actually smarting quite a bit. Pain was good, it meant you were alive, but it was also painful.

"...Aaaghhh, ow." Della breathed out, rolling onto her side as she clutched her head. Apparently, something could stop Della Duck. Said thing was a rock.

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(Tagging @imjustusingthistolikeartists so that they can add their two cents to the whole thing if they'd like!)

[misqnon]

15, 17, 18!

hello cora!!

15. How do you come up with titles for your fics/chapters?

oh god this is like asking how i come up with titles for my playlists (absolute nonsense)

for fic titles, i usually like something simple and descriptive but with a bit of cleverness in there too. some examples: for my sanji backstory fic, "royal blue" its a double entendre on sanji being royalty and also the fact that he wears a lot of navy blue suits/blue is a thematic color for him lmao. "chartreuse is a shade of green" comes from the (weirdly common) misconception that chartreuse is a dark maroon color when actually it's a lime greenish - worked for the fic bc red is the color of blood and zoro is uh. lime green.

for chapters i either go for short and vaguely descriptive of what happens but also mysterious sounding. and then sometimes i just do references or song titles (every chapter of "with him?" is a song title...embarassing) (<- totally going to make a playlist for it later)

17. What’s something you’ve learned about while doing research for a fic?

i wish i kept a list as it happened bc i know im forgetting some crazy ones. i've learned about the intricate ingredient details (and history!) behind beef bourguignon and various types of risotto. i've learned how much blood the human body can lose and still live. ive learned about pueblo architecture and victorian vs gothic vs. etc. the definition of equinox vs solstice. intricacies of the word soothsayer. probably more

18. What’s one of your favorite lines you’ve written in a fic?

OH MAN THIS ONE'S HARD. IDK IF I KEEP TRACK...i know there are some but hell if i remember what they are 😭 i do have one i wrote recently that i shared in this ask, i'll share just the line im talking about again:

Sanji sees red. “You just don’t wanna admit your self-esteem issues are just as glaring as mine, you ‘honorable’ prick.”

the line itself is not that impressive but i really like the energy i created with their argument and the way it points out something i think will boil over eventually in canon...

and also some other fun random easter eggs ive thrown in: like the final chapter of "parallel" being called "vertex" bc the opposite of parallel lines are perpendicular lines, with the vertex being where they meet (hence the meeting of the two worlds in that fic) and things like sayer island from my current fic being named after,,,soothsayers (as mentioned earlier) BC. FORTUNE TELLING

ok done rambling now 👍thank u for giving me the opportunity to talk about writing i love it so much lmao

[rwby-necromancer-au]

Say Oz… I just noticed this but, why are your eyes green?

Ozpin: I am capable of changing my eye color depending on my emotions.

I can manually do it, but it’ll also automatically do it if my emotions are strong enough.

It’s typical in many powerful necromancers, although it’s not a requirement. For example, Qrow and Glynda are also very powerful necromancers, but they don’t have the same ability.

I’ve managed my emotions well enough to where very rarely will they change on their own, but sometimes I can’t help it.

I technically have three eye colors:

Gold: strong level positive emotions

Brown: regular level or neutral emotions

Green: strong level negative emotions

The other Oz’s, including Ozymandias, also had this trait, so I always figured it had something to do with Ozma’s magic, although that’s purely a theory.

Qrow actually has his own variant of this, but instead of the color changing, his eyes tend to glow (more so when he’s angry, he too, has learned to be careful about that however.)

I think the only other people I met with this ability were Summer and Chartreuse.

Also possibly the songbird that saved us when we were younger, the one I talked to the most. Although I’m not entirely sure because I only got a glance for a split second before his eyes returned to normal…

[semiotomatics]

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WOAH tytytytytyty 💚💚💚💚💚

2. thoughts on veganism? - perfectly valid lifestyle choice, no comment on any health benefits/downsides, could never be me in a million years (cheese is my family)

3. a specific color that gives you the ick? - CHARTREUSE

5. favorite form of potato? - mashed 💚💚💚 i can't wait to be old and senile and toothless and living in an old folks home where i can subsist entirely on mashed potatoes

7. what animal do you look forward to seeing when you visit an aquarium? - already answered! over-answered in fact lol

9. do you have a skincare routine (and how many steps is it)? - it's incredibly complicated, but i'll try to lay it out for you:

shower days: wash face w/ facewash in shower

non-shower days: wipe face with baby wipes whenever

HTH!

11. anything from your childhood you’ve held on to? - oh god, so many things. my keepsake is up to 2 full bins now. but i think the best example of smth i've kept from my childhood is the blanket i sleep under every night and am currently wrapped up in 💙 it's name is bluebird and we bought it when i was?? 2 or 3?? and i've been using it to sleep with literally ever since (making it almost 30 years old!)

16. thoughts on mint chocolate chip? - nasty

19. the veggie you dislike the most? - genuinely difficult to answer this q, i just really love vegetables. i guess radishes? or red cabbage, not a fan of that either

23. do you wear jewelry? - already answered!

[philosophicalparadox]

It’s true. No other plant on earth has a higher calorie-to-acre ratio than the potato. Potatoes are SO calorically dense that they defy what a plant should really be capable of. And it’s all down to the frankly weird obsession than nightshades have with amino acids and long chain/complex starches.

The great irony being that potatoes are really an oddball in the nightshade family, that just happened to grow in a place — the high Andes — where there weren’t very many root-eating insects or indeed many predators, so they lost the expensive function of making their tubers extra toxic, like literally every other nightshade does.

Tomatoes at least have an excuse. Birds are often the primary seed distributors for this group of plants so it makes sense that many of them produce toxins, yes, but not ones that affect birds — hot peppers being a good example. Tomatoes just coincidentally happened to evolve in a part of Central America that didn’t have quite as many moths or butterflies, so they didn’t need super toxins like freakin atropine (deadly nightshade) to protect their fruit. They did well enough pumping their fruit full of astaxanthins that turn tomato hornworms a lurid shade of chartreuse that makes them stand out on the plant, and another chemical that makes them smell distinctly appetizing to wasps, dragonflies, garter snakes and other predators.

But potatoes? Complete fluke of evolution. The very principle of “waste not want not.” Those toxins are hard to synthesize continuously and they don’t keep well, so potatoes just skipped the step of pumping those toxins into their tubers, which needed to be quite large on account of they live in an alpine desert, where rains might come once every 6 months. It’s better to just have large stores of food for growing and use what toxins you can produce to defend the precious greenery, particularly if nothing is really going after your roots.

The domestic potato has, of course, become a more fussy creature, but will quickly revert back to wild form in just a few generations if allowed to. Tomatoes will too, particularly cherry varieties.

Now, I do want to emphasize that wild potatoes aren’t particularly edible unless they’re cooked because while they don’t have the seriously nasty stuff most nightshades do they still produce a few noxious amino acids that cause symptoms similar to aspartame poisoning. Reverted potatoes from domestic stock seem to have lost the genetics to produce these naturally, but they do sometimes spontaneously hybridize with other nightshades, which not only can reintroduce these genes but also others that synthesize much much worse toxins, so do not eat feral potatoes. Not even ones in the garden. If it grew from seed, and you’re not 1000% sure you know exactly what the parents are, do not eat the progeny. It’s a great way to poison yourself.

This is extra true of tomatoes — particularly if you live in an area with wild nightshades. Take it from someone who has been there and done that. Random cherry-sized and dark colored tomatoes growing in a group of re-seeded romas does not make them cherry tomatoes. (Though to be fair we did have “chocolate” cherry tomatoes out front). Those ones happened to be hybrids of the Bittersweet Nightshade plant (we think- the flowers weren’t yellow on that plant but a weird lilac-pink; bittersweet nightshade has purple and fuchsia colored flowers, so that’s my best guess) as my poor mother found out the hard way. Fortunately, not a super duper toxic nightshade, certainly not like deadly nightshade, Bittersweet nightshade is more akin to Mandrake with a potent sedative effect, though it can cause hallucinations too. More Fortunately still, my mother merely became a sluggish, nauseous, drooling mess after eating them, and managed to sleep it off, though she complained about a racing heart and dry mouth for a few days after that. The only other remark she had about them was that the skins were tough and tasted bitter, but the rest of the “tomato” was tasteless. (Didn’t stop her eating half a bowl of them though.)

Anyway — yeah. Potatoes are awesome. Just be aware that they’re not the most trustworthy of plants if you turn your back on them. A word to keep in mind for all your post-apocalyptic needs.

not even JRR Tolkien, who famously developed the concept of the Secondary World and firmly believed that no trace of the Real World should be evoked in the fictional world, was able to remove potatoes from his literature. this is a man who developed whole languages and mythologies for his literary world, who justified its existence in English as a translation* simply because he was so miffed he couldn't get away with making the story fully alien to the real world. and not even he, in extremis, was so cruel as to deny his characters the heavenly potato. could not even conceive a universe devoid of the potato. such is its impact. everyone please take a moment to say thank you to South Americans for developing and cultivating one of earth's finest vegetables. the potato IS all that. literally world-changing food. bless.

[thoughtportal]

E va Victor is carrying a ludicrously capacious bag. When I can’t help but reference the now memed-to-death Succession bit, Victor juts out their jaw and says, in a pitch-perfect Tom Wambsgans impression, “Shiv.” 

I’m relieved, if not surprised, that Victor got the reference. The actor-writer-director, who is 31 and uses they/she pronouns, has spent the last decade or so as a niche internet presence, going viral periodically on Twitter (and then X) and TikTok with satirical front-facing videos and bone-dry one-liners. (Example: “someday i hope a man takes off my clothes with the same care he takes off the tinfoil of his carnitas burrito.”) But now, they’re introducing themselves to a whole new audience — in a whole new way — with Sorry, Baby, an intimate, poignant drama that wowed audiences at both the Sundance and Cannes film festivals, and will be released in theaters by A24 on June 27. The film, which Victor wrote, stars in, and marks their directorial debut, heralds the arrival of a singular voice.

Victor suggested we meet today at Color Me Mine, the pottery-painting studio, in Pasadena. They’ve recently started painting “as, like, my new lifestyle.” Victor pulls out their phone to show me a couple of canvases they recently completed at home in L.A.: One is a mouse and the other “is like an eyeball thing.”

As we consider potential color palettes for our respective mugs, I notice that Victor is wearing four shades of green, from the chartreuse stripes on their track pants to a forest-tone knitted scarf, a khaki sweater-vest, and an olive-colored crystal pendant tied to a string around their neck. That last item is called a wishing necklace — a Christmas gift from Victor’s cousin. “You make a wish, and when [the crystal] falls off, it means the wish is coming true,” Victor explains. “So either I have a necklace, or my dreams are coming true. What a perfect situation.”

VICTOR SHOULD GET READY for that necklace to break. The early accolades for Sorry, Baby — which won both a standing ovation and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance — are well deserved. Quietly stirring and wryly funny, the film stars Victor as Agnes, a grad student turned English lit professor, and captures the events leading up to and following her sexual assault at the hands of her thesis adviser. As she fights to retain a sense of normalcy and process the experience, Agnes runs up against institutional failures at the doctor’s office and the university admin office, panic attacks and bodily dissociation, and the creeping suspicion that everyone else — including her best friend Lydie (a sparkling Naomi Ackie) — is moving on with their lives while she remains frozen in place. The film reinforces Agnes’ emotional suspension through literary references. In one foreshadowing scene, Agnes’ professor gives her a first-edition copy of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, a 1927 novel set in a family vacation house where, as one character puts it, “time stands still” and inspiration is clouded over by memories.

While Sorry, Baby is centered around trauma and the nonlinear healing process, it isn’t one-note. Victor deftly toes the line between soul-shaking hurt and sly observational humor, which are much more closely related than a lot of scripts know how to communicate. The film is also based on Victor’s lived experience, though they are reluctant to expound upon how literal they got while writing it, or exactly which events inspired the story. 

“I think part of the point of making a film is that you say everything you want to say in the film,” Victor says. “People ask me questions, and it’s like, I promise whatever you want to know, the answer I want to give you is in the film.”

The fact that Victor has an intensely private streak might read as ironic, given how they first came to prominence: a series of comedy videos that were all over Twitter and TikTok as Covid lockdown took hold in 2020. Until that point, Victor had been living a typical postgrad creative life in Brooklyn, matriculating through the stand-up comedy scene and working part-time at the woman-run satire website Reductress. (You can thank Victor for then-viral, now-classic headlines like “I Never Thought I Would Find Love. And Then I Didn’t.”) In addition to doing a little stand-up, Victor hosted Reductress’ monthly show, Haha Wow!, at the UCB Theatre in Hell’s Kitchen. But after the pandemic temporarily shut down New York’s live comedy scene, Victor realized they could still make audiences laugh, if just a little more on their terms. 

“Performing would cause me a lot of anxiety,” Victor says. “I really didn’t want to talk about my private life onstage. The best stand-up people are willing to be completely transparent in certain ways. And then when the pandemic happened, it was like, what I’m experiencing is actually relief. 

“I’ve always been someone who likes to go to bed early and doesn’t feel so social all the time,” they add. “When I imagined the future, I was like, ‘This isn’t sustainable for me.’ In order to be good at stand-up, you have to do it all the time. You have to care about it more than anything in the world. And it became clear that that wasn’t true for me.”

Though Victor had gone viral before — thanks to their “me explaining to my boyfriend why we’re going to straight pride” video in 2019 — the creative exploration that lockdown offered proved fruitful. The next couple of years raised their profile even more, with videos about coming out to your friends, who instantly make it about themselves; how to social distance, from a pre-lockdown expert; and a one-woman parody about “the girl from the movie who doesn’t believe in love.” By then, Victor had left Reductress and was paying the bills with a job at a bridal shop, where they would secretly film videos wearing the wedding dresses. 

“When I was writing this film, it was a joyful experience to have it exist in my life so privately.”

“They found out about my videos and said it was the most disappointing thing anyone had ever done who worked there,” Victor says. “All my childhood stuff of, like, ‘you failed’ came up. I felt so ashamed and so embarrassed. I almost wrote them a letter. And then I was like, that’s insane… I think they are still hugely upset with me, and I legit am afraid of them.”

As we paint our mugs — Victor is working on a butter-yellow, sky-blue, and mauve swirl — a little girl peeks over her shoulder to stare at Victor, who says, “Hi!” When the girl wordlessly turns away, Victor deadpans, “She hates me.” 

BORN IN PARIS IN 1994, Victor and their parents (who are American) later moved to the Bay Area, where Victor grew up attending an “intensely disciplined” French-speaking school in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley. “There was no, like, cafeteria or anything,” they say. “It was just, bring your lunch or go out for lunch. I don’t know, I think I had this fantasy of a suburban life where, like, I drove a car and had Uggs and boyfriends and stuff.” 

Before attending college at Northwestern University, Victor was primarily involved in a choral group (“We rehearsed, like, three days a week. We low-key performed at Obama’s inauguration. It was cold as fuck”) and college-level theater courses. “I was in the musical my senior year, which was Spring Awakening. It’s genuinely the most proud I’ve ever been. When we did that, I was like, ‘OK, I think this is what I want to do with my life.’”

Victor discovered comedy at Northwestern, where they studied acting and playwriting, and after graduation moved with a bunch of friends to New York to hit the stand-up circuit. After gaining a sizeable social media following, Victor started making videos for Comedy Central’s YouTube channel, many of which zeroed in on anxiety-inducing situations like trying to figure out who will pay at the end of a date, making elevator small-talk, and mustering up the courage to pop open a can of seltzer mid-meeting. From 2020 to 2023, Victor also appeared on Showtime’s Billions, where they played Rian, a young hedge-fund trader. 

All the while, in the background, Victor was hard at work on a deeply personal project, one that would eventually turn into Sorry, Baby. They had grown weary of making front-facing comedy videos and soon felt as if they’d said everything they needed to say within the format. So when Billions filming shut down during Covid, Victor took the opportunity to spend a couple of months subletting their cousin’s house in Maine, where they worked on their screenplay. 

“It was really intense,” Victor says. “It was super wintery. I got my car stuck in banks of snow. But it was really cool. I felt really purposeful. I was really using it as a time to write and be introspective and just spend time with myself.” 

When the screenplay was ready for another set of eyes, Victor sent it to the director Barry Jenkins, who’d followed them on Instagram with an encouraging note that Victor should feel free to send him a piece of work when they were ready. Victor also had a champion in director Jane Schoenbrun, who let Victor shadow them on set while filming last year’s I Saw the TV Glow. “It was amazing,” Victor says of studying Schoenbrun (who also uses they pronouns) at work. “They’re so confident and so funny. They taught me antidote lessons to what my issues are. I came in feeling someone needed to give me permission to [direct]. And then I saw them being like, ‘I’m supposed to do this.’ It was a real eye-opening experience of, ‘Oh, directing a movie can look a lot of ways.’”

The feeling was mutual. “Eva shadowing me on TV Glow was one of the most generous gifts I’ll ever receive,” Schoenbrun tells Rolling Stone over email, describing their time together as “a really fun and special experience that bonded me to Eva for life.” Schoenbrun also heaps praise on Sorry, Baby and Victor’s startlingly honest performance. “I believe they’re a true star in the sense that there’s no one else on earth with anything close to their style — that strange mix of psycho charisma and deadpan awkwardness,” Schoenbrun says. “Watching the film as a friend, it’s easy for me to take for granted how brilliant their performance is. But when I step back and see the magnitude of their accomplishment in front of and behind the camera, I’m just truly left in awe of their bravery and wit and artistry.”