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open a new window somewhere in the world. 

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I’ve had an older version of this hiding on my blog (well not hidden but I never announced it in a post but it was there.) but I have since then updated it. This includes 3 sharpenings, a Load Multiple DICOM Files action, and a convert to Timeline action to speed up your gif making process.

DL: action // psd

Please read this for a more detailed breakdown of how these actions work and why I do this.

Sharpening v1: Normal sharpening (amount 500%, .3px, remove gaussian blur,)

Sharpening v2: Gaussian blur sharpen (First layer: amount 500%, .4px, remove gaussian blur. -> Duplicate layer: Gaussian blur, 1px, opacity 40% [adjust opacity] It’s at 30% for the gif above.)

Sharpening v3: Normal sharpening -> adds second sharpening (amount 10%, .10px, remove gaussian blur)

If you have any questions or help about this, please ask me! <3

~ psa: i almost always use v1 for my gifs, as do majority of people… and i use ps cs5

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Those links for all asking Deadly history of women using perfume as poison -Girlhood, medusa and female rage -The allure of gothic horror -Essays and thoughts on girls in horror -Why girls get hungry in horror -Mothers and witches -Women in horror -The female poisoner -female werewolves -Monstrous women - Catherine Lundoff -Female cannibals and consumptive horror -Horror films directed by women -Women, killer plants and annihilation -Female identity within the gothic genre -Women in horror - the vvitch -the vvitch, female sexuality in horror -Angela Carter - The beast is female sexuality -Body horror/monster reading list -Consumptive horror

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That’s so cute

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hi! can i ask how did u make the gradient colors for your captions like in this post /post/182564108707/lust-fullmetal-alchemist ??

Sure! Here go:

01 - Go to: http://jsfiddle.net/j7vLfbw1/22/02 - Enter your text here, and choose your text colors: 

03 - Click in “Run” and copy the code:

04. Go to Tumblr, do a new post and select “HTML” then, paste it:

05. Click in “preview” and it’s done! :3

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so here it is finally, a doc with a lot (900+) of film books that i’ve collected for some years now. i’ve separated them into a few categories of personal interest (like horror films, women in horror, silent films, world cinema etc), but there’s all kinds of subjects really. enjoy & please be nice.

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Nasa has blessed us with this generator to find out what Hubble saw on our birthdays. tag your results!

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How do you read so regularly? I used to read often but after being in university for four years I no longer read as much as I used to, and am finding it difficult to reestablish the habit. Do you have advice?

Are you able to pinpoint why you don’t read as much as you used to? The main reasons I can think of would be lack of time, lack of concentration and lack of motivation. The first two issues probably interact since all of us, including avid readers of books, now experience reading mostly in the form of online snippets—emails, social media posts, news articles full of distracting links—and browsing all this online text is at once time-consuming and attention-scattering.

1. If you think lack of time is the issue, then try to see what nonessential activities are taking up a lot of your time on a regular basis, and whether you really choose to prioritise them over reading, or if it’s just a bad habit that you fell into and could break. Sometimes there are very specific ways in which we let another habit get in the way of our reading habit, like browsing our phone rather than reading a book on public transport, and it’s relatively easy to reverse it (in this case, by carrying around a particular kind of book that you find easy to read in sporadic increments, like poetry or short stories, or by downloading some books on your phone if that’s more practical for public transport). 

It can also help to identify moments throughout the day that would be “wasted” time unless you make sure to have reading material at hand in various places and formats. Not in the sense of optimising your schedule and filling your every waking minute with “useful” activity because that’s horrid and daydreaming is vital too—just, if there are “lost moments” in your day that you think would be enhanced by a book, make it super convenient to read in these moments. My bathroom is very cold and when I get out of the shower I always stay glued to the heater for 10mn before I force myself to hang my towel and get dressed, so I have a stash of books in the bathroom cabinet, as heater reads. I find peeling vegetables a boring chore so I have a stereo in the kitchen with a USB key full of audiobooks already plugged in and ready to go. I know that when I’m working on a translation on my computer, there are moments when my focus falters, so I have a PDF of an in-progress book open in my work session (and no other source of distraction), to read a couple of paragraphs as a break. If I didn’t have it at the ready my mini-breaks would probably involve going online for 3mn of mindless browsing, and I’d much rather read.

2. If it’s a lack of ability to concentrate then it often has to do with the fact that, as I said, we now do most of our reading online, and our brain always does its best to adapt to whatever weird challenges we throw at it, so it has helpfully redefined “reading” as an activity that involves scanning, fast scrolling, eyes jumping around to extract relevant keywords from a page as quickly as possible while dodging distracting nonsense like ads. It is now very good at this! But opening a book to do some “reading” that involves none of it requires a quick, painful reshuffling of skills and priorities that can feel like a reluctance to read an actual book and an inability to focus, when it is actually just a temporary disturbance as you go through this annoying moment of readjustment (which probably takes more time if your ratio of internet reading to “deep reading” is currently high.)

I don’t suppose there’s a miracle solution to fix it (and of course there are many other things that can make it difficult to focus; any kind of distracting problem really), but maybe having a pleasant little “starting ritual” for reading could help? If you struggle with insomnia they say never to use your bed for anything but sleeping, so that when you go to bed your brain automatically realises it’s time to sleep. You could find something that you associate only with reading a book, like making tea of a specific flavour, using the same chair & blanket, or playlist, or a specific scented candle, so your brain starts preparing for book-levels of focus when you start this ritual, rather than when you actually start to read. 

3. I think the third one, lack of motivation, is the easiest to fix, as it mostly involves focusing on the books you want to read, and giving yourself a break regarding the books you want to have read. You can go back to these later after you gather some reading momentum! Make a to-read list (or reorganise the one you have) with books that you would consider guilty pleasures at the top. I find personally that reading several books at once is the best way to eliminate the notion of guilty pleasure books, because there is no guilt at all in reading a fluff book or two when I am also reading more substantial books at the same time. There are topics I genuinely want to explore more in-depth, but I am also very allergic to academic speak and find some nonfiction books hard to get through, so I just read them in small doses, over a couple of months if that’s what it takes, while reading books I find more enthusiasming (as we say in French) at the same time, in higher doses. This way I get rid of the paralysing tension between “delightful books I want to read for the sheer joy of it” and “interesting books I want to read to transfer the information they contain into my brain” (it’s so rare to find both at once!). I’m reading both kinds at the same time, just, not at the same pace.

Also if you make a guilty pleasure-heavy reading list to hoist yourself out of a motivation slump, don’t hesitate to include books you’ve already read (and loved) if you enjoy rereading! In I’d Rather Be Reading, Anne Bogel says that when we are in a reading slump, it is often because we are “not in the mood to take a chance, we’re looking for a sure thing, a book we’re guaranteed to love.” Find your “sure thing” books and let them do their magic.

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Listen, I’m part of the generation that uses humor to cope, I love all the memes about 2020 just as much as you guys do. I laugh at the “we got the real roaring 20′s”, “we wanted 2020 to be a movie but we got the wrong genre”, “we really thought 2020 would be our year” sardonic tweets.

But to the people like me, who really thought 2020 would be their year?

Love, I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry you walked into this year with a smile and hope, and that smile immediately fell, and that hope was immediately crushed

I’m sorry that every day there’s something else, I’m sorry that you’re scared, I’m sorry that you’re angry, I’m sorry that you’re tired.

And I know, I know that you’re having a hard time hoping again. Trust me, I know.

But this year, Adam Castillejo became the second person to be cured of HIV

This year, James Patterson art up a fund to help Indie bookstores

This year, scientists finally managed to record the narwhal 

This year, White Storks have hatched the first wild chicks in 600 years

This year, the worlds largest open-air gallery was opened with paintings by individuals with learning disabilities

This year, an eleven year old skateboarder landed the worlds first 1080 degree turn

This year, scientists mapped the entire surface of the moon for the first time ever

This year, Sweden and Austria closed their last coal plants

This year, White Tailed Eagles are spotted flying over England for the first time in 240 years

This year, NASA launched astronauts to a US space station for the first time since 2011

To all the people like me, who thought 2020 was their year: We’re here. We’re alive. The world will grow. The world will heal. Maybe 2020 isn’t our year of stress free fun and memories, but it can be our year to learn and stand up and fight, so that next year? We get everything we hoped for.

Don’t give up, don’t leave. There’s a world waiting for you.

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Please buy this game bundle. It’s $5 (or more if you want) for literally 700 video games, tabletop games, not to mention game engines and assets. All proceeds are going to the NAACP and Community Bail Fund, split 50/50.

Night in the Woods and Oneshot are both in it, not to mention literally hundreds of other cool indie games I haven’t played yet that look really cool and promising. 

Also I’d like to reiterate it is $5 minimum for over $3,400 worth of content, which is just fucking insane.

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hello!! may i ask what fonts you use for your graphics? because they're so damn pretty ahhh!!!

thank you so much 😚 I tend to switch between a few different fonts depending on what type of edit I am doing. But the ones I like using the most are: century gothic 8-9pt (regular/all caps), modern no. 20 (all caps), title wave, mermaid (lowercase), Oxford, and good old times new roman (lower or upper case). 

Hope this helps👍🏼

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Could you recommend books about loneliness? Or about all kinds of interpersonal relationships? :)

I am going to focus on loneliness, or solitude, because the second one is so very vast!

The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa—he deserves to be at the top of any list about loneliness considering how many alter egos he invented to keep himself company

Solitude: A Return to the Self, Anthony Storr (A quote: “In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes difficult to persuade well-meaning helpers that solitude can be as therapeutic as emotional support.”)

Island of the Doomed, Stig Dagerman (Some beautiful prose in there; but it is quite bleak)

The Stranger, Albert Camus

Pedro Páramo, Juan Rulfo (Very haunting novella; a Mexican classic. Someone on goodreads said “There are passages that I want to cut out and hang upon my walls like a valuable painting” and that is how I feel about it as well…)

Journal of a Solitude, May Sarton

Wish Her Safe at Home, Stephen Benatar (I found this book to be a strange mixture of extremely funny and desperately lonely)

More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon (science-fiction of the “alienated because of special powers” type)

The Eerie Silence, Paul Davies (books about the Fermi paradox tend to be really about existential loneliness…)

Notes from Underground, Dostoevsky

Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse

A Biography of Loneliness, Fay Bound Alberti (there was an interesting part where she compared loneliness to a “contagion” that can “spread” through a given society, and also to a form of hunger, a message from your body indicating that you are deprived of something you need)

Emily Brontë’s poetry has the same atmosphere as Wuthering Heights, which is pretty lonely.

The Wall, Marlen Haushofer (I was a bit disappointed by this one; I thought it was rather insubstantial, compared to what it could have been)

Alone, E.J. Noyes (A woman volunteers for a scientific experiment that requires her to spend four years without any human contact)

Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes

Pond, Claire-Louise Bennett

Everything Emil Cioran wrote was suffused with solitude. I liked reading his Notebooks, as well as All Gall is Divided, because he is at his best when he writes short, biting aphorisms.

The Solace of Open Spaces, Gretel Ehrlich

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, Elisabeth Tova Bailey (could fulfill your second request if human-snail counts as an interpersonal relationship :) A really sweet book about a woman isolated due to illness)

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“Sub rosa”

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(adv.) happening or done in secret, privately or confidentially. [latin sub rosā, under the rose (from the practice of hanging a rose over a meeting as a symbol of confidentiality) : sub, under + rosā, ablative of rosa, rose.]

Paintings of roses on the ceilings of Roman banquet rooms were also a reminder that things said under the influence of wine (sub vino) should also remain sub rosa.

In the Middle Ages a rose suspended from the ceiling of a council chamber similarly pledged all present (those under the rose) to secrecy.

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any advice for editing video games/making vg edits?

•smart sharpen instead of any other kind of sharpening•add a low noise filter if the quality of the image is lower just to•i smart/surface blur in comics editing but don’t to that in live action or video games because it makes it look like a shitty webcam selfie•if you want it black and white then use a gradient map instead of an adjustment layer •levels to brighten instead of the brightness/contrast tool•exposure n stuff makes it look awful so be very like…. minimal with it •i tend not to change the colours quite so much as in flat images because they’re obviously much more realistic in video games and there’s a lot of shading to account for??? so be sparing and make slight adjustments in a lot of layers rather than a lot in one layer •polygonal lasso tool to cut stuff out instead of the magic wand. there are less obvious lines in video games so it’s harder for the wand to pick the bg from the foreground•if you’re taking your own screencaps, take a LOT of the same thing because they’re like photos in that the tiniest bit of variation can make it ugly when it’s edited so keep a lot of options of the same screen •it’s been a while since ive edited video games this is all that comes 2 mind i need to do some more gaming graphics but i hope this helps!!!

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60+ bw vintage astronomy textures edited by me (undomielle) ★ No credit needed, but very appreciated ★ Please like or reblog if you use ★ Find them [download]

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tags not working

As you have probably already noticed, tumblr is screwing up the tags. This is sudden for many users, as they were working a few hours ago for me and others so it may be a one time thing, but it is also something that occurs often and for longer durations of time for multiple users. This can lead to less exposure for you edits, which is pretty much not what you want. I have noticed in the past that if I send staff a support request here highlighting my issue, the tags will start working suddenly. This may not be the case for everyone but hey, does not hurt to try. 

Just choose the something else category, make sure to select the blog for which the tags are acting up and here is a message I sent in the what’s going on section that you can just copy paste if you don’t know how to word your complaint!

Hello, my posts have not been showing up in tags or search and as someone who creates content for this website, it is very discouraging to see this happen. I know that it may an issue out of your hands but I do hope it can be fixed somehow, thank you and have a good day.

Politeness is key, the people behind tumblr are people too. Don’t be an asshole. If you see this, please reblog so others can know this bit of info too!