#Convolutional layer

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[shizunitis]

trying to write a serious emotional scene with shen qingqiu as the pov character. you can imagine how that's going

[synthaphone]

If it's not too much to ask, how do you shade complex patterns easier?

Its not too much to ask at all!!

My easy trick for shading complex patterns in cel shaded Neopets style art, where you'd want to hand pick your shadow colors for each element:

First, I make a flat base layer, and put each unique color on its own layer that i clip to the base.

After i finish the flats, i then duplicate ALL of those layers, lock them, and recolor each duplicate with the color i want to use for that element's shadow. these are now effectively my Shadow layer, and i rename the base duplicated layer so i know its my shadow base.

and then i use a layer mask on either the base layer or a folder i put the shadow layers in- i use this to paint in the spots where i want the unshaded areas to be.

This method makes it really easy to change my mind on a shading color for a specific area without having to carefully repaint the shadows, or tweak where i want the shadows to fall without having to worry about matching the colors, similarly to having the shadows painted on a multiply layer.

if i'm using a PSD where I already made a shadow layer, like my basic Centibyte base, i just duplicate all of the clipped areas from the flat color base, clip the dupes onto that shadow layer, recolor it to be the shadow color for the base color, and proceed from there.

You can do this trick for highlights also- I've noticed that highlights are typically used sparingly in Neopets art though, so I kind of just go with whatever i think looks right.

For Tyrannian, I decided it looks fine with solid white highlights at a lowered opacity of 70%, so i didn't bother coming up with a unique highlight color for each area. Sometimes I'll make the highlight layer an Overlay layer since that can help the highlights with not looking washed out, but it feels a little inauthentic and loses contrast over certain colors, and in this instance Normal ended up looking better.

I hope this was helpful and not too unclear! I'm not super experienced with making tutorials, but I'm always happy to share what works for me as best I can!

[tristantzara]

HEARTWARMING désiré fact: she has a soft spot for children and finds this utterly humiliating (she's supposed to be evil and untouchable!!!) and she tries to act like she doesn't care about the urchins but she very clearly does

[domistique]

carlos feminization is actually something that can be so personal

[murdocs-sweetheart]

Also like. The way Matty tells him she knows he’s more human than he’d have us believe. The way that you can tell it makes him SO uncomfortable and yea he does a decent job of hiding it but you can see it in his body language, the tension- he hates being reminded that he has all the same human failings as the rest of us. Those failings being compassion and altruism and the like lol

He’s got this carefully crafted persona (among others, each to fit an alias of his own creation) that he manages to keep up for most everyone around him.

He wants to be seen as a threat and so he is. Partially because he actually IS but also bc he leans so heavily into the unfeeling, cruel killer vibe.

He does this on purpose. And yea, some of it is just how he is, but a lot of it is him playing into everyone’s existing assumptions about him.

I do think that Murdoc is simultaneously both aware of the way he uses other peoples beliefs about him to construct his personality and also somehow oblivious to the fact that he does this just like how everyone else is a sum of their interactions with other people.

I think even he doesn’t realize how human he is sometimes, having denied that narrative of existence for so long. He forgets that he is just as human as the rest of us and he’s not happy about being reminded of it-

But like with every emotion he expresses, it’s done through several intricate layers of deceit.

He doesn’t really know if he remembers the last time he was open and earnest about any of his feelings-

Prior to me, anyway…

Something about me just.. made it easy to talk to me. Too easy. At first, he thought perhaps it was the anonymity of a computer screen between us. But as time went on and we learned more about each other (him finding out waaaayy more about me,at first, than I did about him) he realized that it was something about me specifically.

He couldn’t quite put his finger on it but something about me was just enrapturing to him. He found himself baring his feelings to me about stupid, mundane stuff that he wouldn’t have to anyone else, in a million years.

It really was little things but those little things were so earnest in comparison to his usual deceptive behavior. He would tell me about how his day was, on the days when he didn’t have a hit to carry out, so he didn’t have to lie to me. He wanted to be able to be as honest as possible with me. That feeling in and of itself baffled him beyond comprehension.

And yet he kept doing it. Murdoc kept giving me little bits and pieces of his truth and I kept them with great care.

When we finally did meet up in person, it struck him, how much of an effect I had on him. How vulnerable I made him feel in some ways. And many months ago, before he’d encountered me, this feeling would’ve probably caused him to kill me- eliminating the source of his vulnerability.

But he was in too deep now. There was no way he could bring himself to kill me. Absolutely no way.

And it hit him, Matty had been right-

he was far more human than he’d ever let anyone know.

[muse-bs]

N E WAYS probably gonna stay up all day/night to fix my sleep schedule again so I will try to open Alice's blog up tomorrow bc I'll be awake during the daytime and doing that will hopefully inspire me to stay up

we'll see if I can be bothered to keep it this time lmao

[rad-roche]

still boning up on the basics! done in realistic paint studio, fixed up in clip studio paint

you can see me really fighting the tools here. still, practice is practice

[starscelly]

5, 11, & 17!

5. what team do you support and why?

im just gonna do a quick summary of all teams! its really a how more than a why i guess but... whats the diff...

stars: early getting into hockey, watched one of those funny nhl clip comps on youtube -> silly jamie benn commercial -> fell in temp love with him via other videos like that -> through that discovered tsegs -> steers and queers tweet -> part time stars fan -> learned who stephen johns was, watched him stream here and there -> 2019-20 season -> full time stars fan

bruins: grew up in mass, i am no greater than any new england sports fan!!!!!! well. i am only greater than the racist new england sports fans!!!!!!!!!!

fleet: see above. also reallyyyyy loved the boston pride. also in love with müller and frankel !!

sens: got compelled by the concept of the msrh (mark-stone-rookie-house). watched a lot of silly content in a very short amount of time. i am very easy to capture i guess

11. what's a sports moment that lives in your head rent free?

in terms of like. Iconique! then probably the back to back series clinching hat tricks from the 2020 playoffs.... guri ending round 1 with a dick trick!!!! and kivi clinching round 2 with a hat trick in ot.... will never forget.. can never forget..

in terms of like. My Narratives ! roope miro combining for miro's first ever pro league goal. i think abt her everyday.

17. have you ever met an athlete? who?

ummm not like Really... in 2020 like i said i watched stephen johns stream and stuff and then was in his minecraft and discord server so i like. objectively talked to him but idk if that counts as Met ... i also went to school k-8th with a guy who got drafted into the nhl if that counts lololol but hes not in the nhl so! maybe uninteresting!

sports asks!

[conceptuma]

Soooo how did your idea of dark being the captain started ? how different would his role be compared to the y/n captain in iswm ?

Alright... Let's get into it

Question 1: It actually started as a theory that I gradually believed more and more in a short span of time as everyone was consuming ISWM part 1, and when part 2 dropped, it both lead me on further, as well as disproved it. … (but really Markiplier's live stream on it disproved the theories for real) But that didn't really bum me out, because I had been ready from the start for it to not be true, so I just converted it to an AU, because I was projecting my own measure of story/characterization into it anyway.

Question 2: I don't have 1 answer for this! Either a complicated one, or one that enables any kind of headcanon… Answer A: The captain's choices and behavior doesn't change because we are sharing a body with Darkiplier('s parts) -- I just really like the idea of "What if we (D/A) stayed with Dark" and how that would be like a dramatized version of DID (of which I have! /info) of the "D/A" part (us) (…on top of likely forgetting the events of WKM due to AU stuff, but then remembering after gaining the multiverse abilities of the paradox…) forgetting or not knowing what Dark is doing in other timelines, (my favorite characterization idea of Cpt.Dark is that he's fronting in the routes where he throws Mark around or generally leads us to demise that might benefit him in the looooooong run- aka how he somehow canonically "finds" the paradox gem for the box at the post-credits) … while the Captain chooses to get along with Mark in other routes, doing something childish as sharing candy, which is much closer to my personal "D/A" characterization, not at all what Dark would be doing ahhaha

Answer B: If I wanted a timeline to occur differently from the "Canon" events of ISWM, to characterize Captain Darkiplier as separate from Canon Captain… well, Dark could just do about anything he wanted,

(from here onward is rambling, not relevant to the question!:)

… if he could .. If he somehow escaped the inevitability of the causality of meta-narrative events of what has and will occurred in ISWM via the writing of Market Plier- lol Kind of like how Damien and Celine can't outrun their fate or Actor's bullshit as seen at the end of DAMIEN, which I think holds some thematic power or significance over the future events after the "seal" is broken on the multiverse stuff- aka everything After WKM. … Mark has said a lot in live streams but one thing that stuck with me is how he explained the "timeline" noting that moment when Dark picks up the staff , as the exact moment where the events of DAMIEN is condensed. IIRC. And then for this AU I kind of added more onto that- AHWM ISWM ADWM could have happened in a condensed fashion similarly… The glass breaking in the first video of ISWM, the ice breaking in DAMIEN twice… The lines Head Engineer speaks at the canon ending mirroring the lines spoken by Damien and Celine at the end of DAMIEN… It's as if it's like, a loop, or pocket, or spiral, some kind of non-linear shape… Whichever way it is, I guess the most important point is that it's non-linear. I like to call it wobbly time (a theme in my OC's as well) It's not essential to consume nor understand a story by understanding how its universe works. After all, we as people in real life don't know how our universe is shaped. Is it infinite, or does it loop? (Can you tell I'm a bit autistic about space?) But the desire to adventure and discover what's out there is sometimes commendable and a beautiful instinct of human life… other times, not so much. We could all learn from Head Engineer's mistake. But yea, Dark is powerful but not God of this Universe powerful… I think it'd be funny that if Dark tried everything in his power to defy the laws of the universe, once he finally got a hold on the time paradox that literally allows him to traverse the multiverse to find any timeline that gives him an upper hand on his #1 Enemy, when he travels to literally the ends of the universe, Mark (The Real Life Author) is like "no" so Dark has to go back to the main story line (or at least close to it, there's plenty of legroom for fanon things to occur around the "main timeline") Dark's like "ugh fine" and completes the ending of ISWM like it's a videogame to gain back his agency splitting from D/A (You and your choices in the "videogame") again, and to get away from Head Engineer- even though he's one of the more tolerable Marks, I GUESS- (Frenemies trope x The Unlikely Friendship trope x Doomed trope, and some other dynamic or development that can't really be similarly labeled as a trope, which hopefully I will be able to share to everyone who will want to know about it) I also like to think that's why he's dangling the box in front of us in AHWM instead of actually using it for anything. He can use us to get what he wants quicker than by doing it alone. Using the anomaly gem in the box for his own needs a second time would not work nor worth the risk of ISWM 2.0

What I love about Markiplier's cinematic universe is that it involves both distortion of identity and distortion of time/space- anything and anyone can happen. I relate to it and my chaotic (and also very analytical and ""DeeP"") creative style is very compatible with it. :)

Thank you for the questions !! Feel free to ask as many questions as you like about what I said here if it didn't make sense, because damn it's compact. It could be explained better if paced out (or storytold?) instead of all dropped into one post heheh

[dandelionjack]

yayyy the shining! minotaur! labyrinth! house of leaves! running down impossible yellow-walled corridors! malevolent architecture!

[portmantaur]

?? apparently they don’t even just let you apply for ssi anymore?? you gotta request an appointment to be cleared for application??? there is another level of rejection built into the process now??????

[smuclge]

There's nothing like sitting in an empty google meet only to receive an email 10 minutes in that the time has been changed 🙃

[xlillyle]

Me: an entire ramble about FMAB’s good writing in terms of storytelling and characterization and about how often I rewatch it and how much I love it

@devilrin9: ignores all of it and zooms in on my remark about Mamoru Miyano

[itwoodbeprefect]

end of episode 6 summary of the player. everyone's a bitch and i love them <3

[recents]

i said "hey d&d hey world of forgotten realms i'm writing a story about a little guy who was Turbo Gaslit. i am talking identity shattered, i am talking forced murder that he then was convinced by others he actually chose to do all along, i am talking ability to believe his own most basic perceptions about not even just his sensory experience of the world around him but even his ability to correctly identify what emotions he is feeling just wrecked. do you have any magical spells what might, perchance--" and d&d really said "BIIIIIIIIITCH welcome to the motherfucking enchantment school what do you need you need geas? you need command? you need fuckign modify memory? if cast at a high enough level you could obliterate someone's fucking personality with some of these king. what do you even need? you want us to get the fey in here?" and i said MODIFY MEMORY? and they said "modify memory? oh bitch you need fuckign modify memory?"