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btw orange cat update - he's doing great but he can NOT get the cat fur off of the one rug in the living room (ironically the one he's pictured on above) so we did buy a hand vac specifically for this rug

But otherwise it's great, I love having vacuuming/sweeping be as easy as telling orange cat to go do it

we got a roomba today and let me tell yall, I have never known serotonin like this

we named him Orangecat

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also in other news hi tumblr, my transgenderification is proceeding on as planned

I look currently like a cross between that one stoner/skater guy in my high school art class, and my fucking grandpa? which, y'know, maybe wasn't my exact vision when I started on this journey but it's where we are atm and I'm just enjoying the ride lol

I also tried switching from gel to injectibles, I 2000% could not handle it, so now I'm back on gel lol. switched to a pump at least so it's less wasteful.

acne has been miserable, but there's a lot more shit for your skin these days compared to when I went through round 1 of puberty? I finally bit the bullet and signed up for curology and they've got me on some good shit, so hopefully my face will clear up soon

I am on day 137 of T, I have the worlds shittieat mustache and it's fuckin great

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annoyed because someone in our building has picked up a habit of chain smoking every night which, like, this is a nonsmoking building and the smell low-key makes me feel sick

but when I casually mentioned to the LL liaison that someone might be smoking her suggestion was that next time I should call the cops and I'm like ????? ??? Excuse Me But No, that's just not happening.

but so now I just have to smell cigs while I'm trying to fall asleep 🥲 and it fuckin sucks

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Oh, and by the way, that Supreme Court ruling is where that Harry Potter money goes.

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finally organized this lil mantle in the apt, also I did in fact buy... a typewriter... it's a smith-corona classic 12 and it was $45 at forage and it's very Cute and makes fun noises and. Idk I just wanna make stuff!! I like machines with manual parts and not touch screens!!

I got some cool colorful ink ribbons online too - there's a shop on Etsy (The Modern Typewriter) that sells a ton of ones for all sorts of different machines, those will be showing up on Saturday so that is. Exciting

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i hate when top wildlife predators are just lil babies teeny tiny babies

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people: do you like (character)?

me, a little unhinged about said character: He’s fine. He’s alright.

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you ever see a character and are just like “oh, I cannot wait for them to finally have a breakdown.”

like they take everything that’s thrown at them more or less but you know there’s a breaking point. Where Is It. I Must Know.

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we got a roomba today and let me tell yall, I have never known serotonin like this

we named him Orangecat

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An ad for your deepest desires :)

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Environment.

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FF14 Battle Portrait Tutorial

For the past few weeks I was trying to find a way to recreate the battle portrait from FF14 as there was a few characters that I want to see in that style but don't officially have one yet. I think I got it down more or less (see image below) so I thought it's a good time to share what I did.

First of all, I made a few files that would help make life a little easier. They can be grabbed here .

Note: I did use Reshade to do a bit of work at the screenshot stage to help speed up the process but the same effect can be recreated in Photoshop with a vanilla screenshot. There are a lot of tutorials on how to do comic/cartoon effect in photoshop and those would make good bases to work off of.

Step 1: Take the screenshot with the PortraitBase Shader on. I usually take two screenshots. One with "Comic" on and one with it turned off. This is so that I have more to work with if needed.

Step 2: Drag all the screenshots into photoshop and remove the background. In photoshop, arrange the layer so that the screenshot with the Comic lines visible is on top of the one with the effect off.

Step 3: Duplicate the the layer with the "comic" effect and apply Blur->Gaussian blur (radius 0.5)

Step 4: Take a look at the hair. In Eric's case, It still doesn't look blur enough to me so I used the blur tool and blurred it a bit more

Step 5: Create a new layer above the layer in the previous step and use the brush tool to start outlining the edges. Where to outline is up to you but the idea is to make edges defined so that it looks more like a drawing.

Step 6: Duplicate the outline layer and then hide that layer. Step 7: Merge everything under the outline layer. Step 8: Drag and drop the "Texture.png" into the project and Clip it to your character layer. Set the blending of the texture to "soft light". Step 9: Drag and drop the "stroke Texture.png" into the project and Clip it to your character layer. Adjust the size till you are happy then set the blending to "overlay". Step 10: Adjust the opacity settings of both texture layers until it looks good to you.

Step 11: Click on your character layer and go to image->Adjustments->Hue/Saturation (note: you will see I dragged in the official Hades portrait as a point of reference to work off of). Adjust the saturation till you are happy.

Step 12: Go to image->Adjustments->Color Balance and adjust the color till you are happy. In this example, since Eric is also wearing the Sophist robe, I tried to match that color to Hades' Sophist robe color.

Step 13: Once you are happy, drag the "Template.png" into the project and scale that to the size you want. Make sure it is completely covering the character. If it's not, you can just use paint more of it with the brush tool to extend it till it covers everything.

Step 14: Hide the "template.png" layer and select your character layer. Use the magic wand tool to select the outside of the character.

Step 15: With the selection still selected, click on the "Template.png" layer and press delete on your keyboard. You should now be left with a blank in the shape of your character.

Step 16: Drag the"Template.png" layer to be below your character layer. Then click on your character layer and clip it.

Step 17: Click on the "Template.png" layer and add a 2px stroke and shadow to it.

Step 18: Drag "Back_Deco.png" into the project and place it behind your character. Scale it till you are happy with it.

And that's it! Now you can recreate portraits for any NPCs that you want (in theory). A lot of it is also fine tuning to what you want but this should at least give you a decent base to work off of :)

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they should hold 4 versions of every olympic event in this order to witness the full breadth of human capabilities:

primary schoolers

random nonathletic adults

olympians

olympians roided and doped up to the max

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sup kiddos, so update on the grand Elias transgendy transjourney

1) I stopped T back at the end of January because Big Scared, all my hEDS pain came roaring back with a vengeance, I have resumed T as of literally today because fuck it, I'd rather be scared and living my fucking LIFE instead of not as scared but still scared and also in agonizing pain all the time

So Yeah! I believe today is like. Day 91 of T for me, let's fuckin go.

2) I also did cancel my top surgery that was scheduled for April, but that was largely due to the unknowns of my type of hEDS, I'm not due to see the medical genetics clinic until July so like.... I wanna make sure I've got a grasp on what my actual condition is before I elect to get them chopped off

2b) also might be going on wegovy for pre-diabetes/insulin resistance/weight stuff soon? so I gotta let my body level out from that first before top surgery, also if I lose weight I could potentially go to the surgeon I really want to, sooo yeah....

yeeeee haw

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how are we all doin my fellow el gi ti bi kyew plus ers