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Swordfighter Swordfigter Fight Me a Sword

Swordfighter was I believe the sixth playbook and was kinda aiming to address areas untouched by the others.

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I recently had surgery, and at the time I came home, I had both my cat and one of my grandma's cats staying with me.

- Within hours of surgery, I wake up from a nap to my cat gently sniffing at my incisions with great alarm.

- I was not allowed to shower the first day after surgery, and the cats, seeing that The Large Cat is not observing its cleaning ritual, decided I must be gravely disabled and compensated by licking all the exposed skin on my arms, face, and legs.

- I currently have to sleep with a pillow over my abdomen because my cat insists on climbing on top of me and covering my incisions with her body while I sleep (which is very sweet but not exactly comfortable without the pillow). She also lays across me facing my bedroom door, presumably on guard for attackers who may try to harm me while I'm sleeping and injured.

That's love. 🐈‍⬛🐈❤️

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So I'm gonna try and do a bunch of TikToks just talking over PSYCHODUNGEON (and I'll probably cross post all of them, but also will write actual posts with words on most of the same stuff).

The first one is about the Wizard playbook which my editor has referred to as Degree Regret: The Class.

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ocean spirits

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Remember this joke?

Well, I am going to do something similar only with photography. This is a photo someone took for an Amazon review of their Clinique products.

Honestly, it is not a terrible photo. They did some staging. They have an interesting background. All of the labels are legible. It is properly exposed. This would be a perfectly acceptable product photo for an Etsy page.

I've been taking these advanced photography courses in preparation for whenever I am able to create a new studio in the house. And my teacher is a photography badass. I just watched a 6 hour class on how to recreate a professional Clinique ad. And at first glance it looks deceptively simple. It's just some skin care products being splashed with a little water.

Which is why I wanted you to see an average person for reference.

This is what Karl Taylor came up with.

And I don't think I've learned so much about photography in one tutorial before.

Product photography is just loads and loads of problem solving. You have to light the chrome caps with a gradient. Which requires giant diffusion scrims.

Those big white panels are literally only there for the two chrome caps.

You need a pure white background, but you can't let light spill all over the studio, so you put up giant black light blockers.

And you have to add another light just for the orange bottle on the right.

Oh, and if you want the bottles to glow, well, you have to hide a silver reflector behind them.

But you still want the edges of the bottles to be darker so they have some contrast. So you add some black tape to the sides.

And in order for the reflective labels to have bold black lettering, you have to reflect black cards into them.

Ack! Karl's beautiful bald head is showing up in the chrome caps! He must put on the naughty blanket.

And once you get every aspect of every bottle perfectly lit, you finally get to yeet some water at it all.

I don't love product photography because I have a weird obsession to help greedy corporations make their wares look more beautiful. I love it because it is a complicated and challenging new puzzle every time. Every product is a different shape and requires a different technique to make it look its best.

I don't know if I will be able to live up to Karl's standards.

This is about the level I was at in 2017 before I quit photography.

I have so much more knowledge in my brain now. I'm really hoping I can surpass that.

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Just a reminder that while prehistoric fish are cool, there are plenty of neat babies still around!

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Now at IPR: This Wretched House

You are the Tenant. Your new home is many things. Huge. Sprawling. Too much for you. A refuge. A prison.

In this solo, journalling roleplaying game of gothic horror, move into an eerie, dilapidated house that may well be the death of you. Resist the ghosts, fix the damage, shoulder the demands and burdens of the outside world, and wrestle with your own melancholy.

This Wretched House uses the Wretched & Alone system, so you'll need a six-sided die, a pack of cards, and an optional wooden block tower. This Wretched House includes instructions on how to use additional playing cards instead of the block tower.

https://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/This-Wretched-House-Print-PDF.html

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The Beast that Bothers

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Sculpted a little flygon trinket box with a secret trapinch inside!

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fit goes hard

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Dungeon Meshi Food Guide

lines & design by me, colours & lettering by @sillypastries !

original reference poster and uncoloured lines wip

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“It's just a Chinese New Year period so I tried making Yukihami Oshiruko! ❄️ I wanted to make Yukihami's body as transparent as possible, so I used tapioca powder for the corners. The eyes are black rice.” -EverdayBewear

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Bothering the beast

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mdzs/untamed misc text posts (pt 2)

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it's really hard to line everything up freehand when they're this small, I imagine it gets easier with larger pieces

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been thinking about turning this into a sticker