#Proper Knowledge

[oldbutchdanielcraig]

take my rpf quiz boy

[lenny-link]

birthday gift for the most amazing person ever @homkamiro ♡♡

[cynicalmusings]

anaxa is actually such an incredibly deeply passionate lover (both in a romantic sense and his general care for others). he just doesn’t let himself ruminate on it for very long at all and deludes himself into thinking he is acting 100% out of reason whereas he’s actually such an emotionally motivated person; and when he cares about somebody, he cares with his whole heart and body and soul and whatever. he’s just very good at performing, so he fools everyone about that fact, including himself; he’s caught up in his own facade.

[essenceofarda]

Not Tolkien related, but I'm actually lowkey proud of how this self portrait embroidery is going 🤩 Ignore the eyes being proportionally and directionally "off" lol, and the too-long nose/anatomical mistakes. I'm more focusing on learning "thread painting" techniques than exact and accurate anatomy representation (or at least, that's my excuse 😅)

Also I chose to do a self portrait bc at the time of needing a reference photo to practice embroidered portraits, I have, in fact, the face most readily available to me lol

[356migoro]

I want to know how you render.

A lot of people seemed to be oddly interested in how I render so...

Shape first

I use solid brush or lasso to block in the light and shadow first.

You can see this in the Till drawing because it's all hard edges

2. Add high saturation colour in the area where the light turns into shadow.

I like to do this cause it gives a glassy transparent feeling to my drawing.

like these:

3. Cause most of my drawings are 70% in shadow + 30% in light, i will render the shadow

that means, adding another "light" to the shadow, like reflective light or so. For the till drawing, its a blue light from the left

However, we need to make sure the secondary light doesn't destroy the main light source, so this secondary light will only cause hue and or saturation changes instead of value changes

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Above are the logic for my doodle drawings, but if i want to continue, i will do the following:

4. Separating more forms

ie, for the till drawing

if the form faces left, it will be affected by the blue light.

if the form turns away from camera and not affected by the blue light, it will be redish

if the form is hard, shape will have hard edges

if the form turns, shape will have soft edges

5. Separate space

Things in front are solid and things in the back are blurry

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Well, in my art logic, i think "rendering" is separating more layers of information, ie

separating form's plane (via lighting, edges etc)

separating space (via blurriness and light decay)

separating material (e.g. if hair strip is thin, it will be more transparent etc)

oh and i usually add gradients, so it contrasts with the hard blocks i make ✌

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hope this helps

I posted some of my drawing process on Bilibili @356Migoro, if anyone is interested.

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🤔Actually, I intended to make a YouTube channel to share my art shenanigans, but I'm just a bit too busy lately, let me know if there's anything else you are interested✌

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also, normally I don't paint in a solid step-to-step process, its usually i realise that after i have done something, there's still not enough information, so that i "add logic" to my drawing. (e.g. adding the blue light for the till drawing)

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and since people asked before:

i use CSP to paint everything

I only use 5 type of pens, they are my main partners in crime✌✌✌ (1) lasso and Default G-pen to line and block in hard edges, (2) Transparent pens for mixing colour (3) Blur tool, (4) Gradient (5) texture pen

glhf

[deceit-and-knowledge]

ooc: the them

[scintillatingshortgirl19]

gee i wonder if the issue could be at all related to the fact that the current treatment plan for his chronic pain consists solely of FUCKING IBUPROFEN

[shallowseeker]

I love when Sam is dumb, Dean is lazy, Cas is mean, or Jack is ruthless. It’s like getting your favorite skittle from a bag.

[that-butch-archivist]

"The New York Femmes, 1991" by Morgan Gwenwald

source: The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader, edited by Joan Nestle

[cybrfrd]

Viper and Her Linguistic Quirks

Hello! I was reading the latest chapter of @/craving-for-chaos’ sagebean fic (oomf, your fic is so peak) and while trying to imagine Viper’s dialogue in her voice, I started thinking about the peculiar way Viper talks. Peculiar is a bit harsh, but she does have little linguistic quirks I thought were interesting and just had to talk about it! In fact, I paused reading the chapter just so I could start narrowly transcribing the way Viper has said some words LOL. That being said, here’s what I find interesting about the way Viper talks:

1) Aspiration where it isn’t typical in American English

Viper sounds very proper when she speaks and it isn’t just because of her word choice. Viper tends to aspirate /t/ in the way a British person would (or at least a British person that speaks using Received Pronunciation (RP), that typical accent Americans associate with the UK).

What is aspiration? Glad you asked! Aspiration is that puff of air you hear after the sounds /p/ (as in “park”), /t/ (as in “talk”), and /k/ (as in “cat”). /k/ is the IPA symbol for the c/k sound. We’re going to focus on /t/ here. In American English, when /t/ is in the middle of the word, it typically becomes a tap/flap. A tap/flap is when your tongue tip very quickly touches your alveolar ridge (that bumpy part on the roof of your mouth, behind your teeth). It sounds like a quick /d/ sound. Take the word “thirty” for example. That second /t/ sounds very much like a quick /d/ if you speak American English.

Another thing that can happen to /t/ in the middle or end of a word is that is can become glottalized. Now what the hell is glottalization? When you talk, air is moving through your vocal folds. Glottalization means you pause the flow of air. Think of the word “uh-oh.” That pause you feel in between “uh” and “oh” is a glottal stop.

Lastly, /t/ (as well as /p/ and /k/) can become unreleased in the middle or end of a word. When these sounds are unreleased, you won’t hear that typical puff of air. If you speak American English, try saying “bat.” It’s very likely you won’t hear any air after the /t/.

Now that typical British accent features a lot of glottalization of /t/ (think of how a stereotypical British person would say “bottle of water”), but there are many cases where they aspirate /t/ where an American wouldn’t. For example, when a British person says the word “important,” they aspirate that first and second /t/, unlike an American who would typically glottalize the first and keep the second /t/ unreleased.

Viper, however, will often aspirate /t/ in the middle and end of words like a Brit would. Here’s an example:

Listen to how aspirated /t/ is. The average American wouldn’t release the /t/ in these words, but Viper does. I think that British quality to her pronunciation contributes to how proper she sounds (because, come on, British English sounds all proper and hoity toity to Americans).

2) Changing voiced sounds to their voiceless counterparts

Viper is quite breathy when she speaks and this sometimes affects her pronunciation of voiced sounds.

What are voiced and voiceless sounds? When a sound is voiced, air is passing through your vocal folds as they tense up and come together and vibrate. On the other hand, when a sound is voiceless, the vocal folds do not come together and air passes freely between them. You can test the difference yourself! Put your hand on your throat and go “zzzzzzzz” then go “sssssss.” When you say “zzz,” you’ll feel buzzing against your hand. That’s because /z/ is voiced. When you go “sss,” however, you won’t feel anything because /s/ is voiceless.

Because Viper can be so breathy when she talks, she will sometimes pronounce a voiced sound like its voiceless counterpart. Listen to this voicemail and pay close attention to how she says the word “exhausted.” Instead of saying it like how it’s normally pronounced, “egzausted,” she says it more like “eksaustet.” In the word’s normal pronunciation, you will hear the sounds /g/, /z/, and /d/. Viper pronounces it with the voiceless cognates /k/, /s/, and /t/.

I also think of this voicemail where she says the word “second” like “secont.” Now these are very specific examples, but if you listen to how Viper talks, she won’t always change the sound straight up, but it won’t sound as voiced as it typically would. I think of that one voiceline where she says “If any of you die, I lose a bet with Brimstone. So don’t embarrass me like that please.” The end sound of “please” sounds closer to /s/ instead of /z/ when Viper says it.

TL;DR Viper aspirates the hell out of her Ts and her breathy-ness affects her pronunciation of voiced sounds.

If anyone has anything to add, please feel free to! :D

[incorrect-agatha]

Lilia totally has some sort of ancient family soup or pasta sauce recipe that’s been passed down from generation to generation and has ridiculous levels of secrecy surrounding it.

One time she made it for the Coven, and now Jen is determined to figure out what it is. She goes to great lengths, from trying to recreate it herself based on educated guesses to trying to get Lilia to slip up and tell her.

Everyone else has a running bet about if Jen will figure it out and how and if Lilia will slip up.

[raayllum]

Anyway borrowing from the Rayllum relevant sections of my "arc 2 is about the pursuit of knowledge / knowledge as a burden" meta for s4 and s5 (minimized/condensed text is from previous meta) let's talk about S6

Season four in a lot of ways was the journey of

Mutual Love as Self Actualization: Part 1 — Uncertainty to Certainty (S4)

As previously noted, Callum starts out S4 at both a loss with the mirror, and still coping with the uncertainty and stagnation of his loss of Rayla. When Ezran reaffirms that Callum still loves her, all Callum can helplessly rely that he doesn’t “even know if she’s alive.” Things don’t really improve once Rayla shows up, either, even if we see the persistent thread of not knowing vs knowing being knit throughout their arc with one another.

When Ezran is trying to get Callum and Rayla to work together, he doesn’t tell them to set everything aside, or even harkens back to their good old days. He asserts their identities and says, “Don’t you remember who you are?” because to him — and evidently to Callum and Rayla, because it works — working together and helping each other has become a fundamental, core part of who they are as individuals. They are that interwoven with each other, and Rayla reflects that in 4x07 with, “Callum, you’re the 'destiny is a book you write yourself’ guy. No one can control you or make your choices for you” as well as what Callum offers up to her in 4x09 where we see the turning point in their prior uncertainty. Although they’ve both changed, they are fundamentally still the same people they were when they fell in love, and there is both comfort, sadness, and acceptance in that realization, where Callum says:

Mutual Love as Self Actualization: Part 2 — Certainty and Discovery (S5)

Upon reconciling once Callum has said what we knew all along — “I’m so glad you come back” — Callum and Rayla return to the castle, and their searches for knowledge become arguably more explicitly stated by the text. Their first scene together in 5x01 establishes that Callum wants to know the Ocean arcanum (“I thought it would be about controlling the tides or fighting the currents” thereby exerting control, which he desperately wants over himself post-S4) as well as Aaravos, whereas Rayla is seeking answers about her family: “If I can figure out how he put you into the cursed coins, maybe I can find a way to get you out.”

This is, of course, something we know she doesn’t trust Callum with yet, not wanting to burden him with her problems especially before she’s reached her own conclusion of what to do about it (to delay it for the good of the world) and we see that the certainty and forgiveness Callum found in 4x09 has more than carried over.

Opeli: Don’t you want to know what she was up to? Why she did all this?

And although very uncertain about opening up, Rayla still expresses certainty that she knows Callum could and can be there for her, if he wants to be — if he’s ready to be.

This is, after all, with both Amaya’s encouragement and Callum’s reassurance that 1) “You can tell me when you’re ready” and that 2) he does want to know from 5x01. Then, we see both their arcs in this way largely — or at least they would, in a perfect world — be resolved in many ways by their interaction later in 5x04:

Previously, we’ve mostly talked about knowledge, especially within the text of the show, as a positive thing. It is the foundational rock of a strong relationship, it can lead to positive self actualization, and it helps the heroes keep Aaravos from being unleashed. When you do not have enough knowledge or perceived understanding of someone (Claudia assumes Soren could never understand her, and Viren and Harrow’s relationship breakdown), your relationship accordingly deteriorates. When you share knowledge, and share experiences (Rayla to Callum about the coins, Soren to Elmer about abusive cycles), you can become stronger together.

But knowledge is not exclusively a good thing. It can also be harmful, or unwanted, or unwanted precisely because it’s harmful. It can bind you to deals or bonds you don’t really want, and once you know something, you cannot un-know it, whether about yourself or about others. And we see this most plainly in the story Archmage Akiyu shares about the prison ("I knew too much").

So if S4 is about beginning to navigate both in spite of and within uncertainty, S5 is about having the safety of that uncertainty stripped away, both in creating more of it, and in removing some of it. Namely, the Ocean arcanum.

He chased the Ocean arcanum because he thought, if Sky granted him potential and freedom, then Ocean would grant him control, but the truth was more complicated than that. While it did grant him control (the ability to break free from Finnegrin’s spell), it also granted him a rather hard truth he’d rather not know.

The first time he cites his poem about true tides and untold depths, he is talking about his faith and trust in Rayla — the way he views her: “If she didn’t tell me, she has a good reason. […] I trust her. Unconditionally.”

The second time he recites the poem, it is about himself. The untold depths are within himself, are parts he is still trying to understand in full because they are uncomfortable truths. In many ways, Callum unlocking the Ocean arcanum is his version of Ezran’s 4x03 speech (see how we looped all the way back? 'Totally’ intentional I swear), that multiple things can be, and sort of have to be, true in order to gain new ground, even if there’s a part of you that wishes it could be simple.

Season six develops this theme, too, but it takes it and calls it Truth, and we see this reflected most notably in 6x06.

Mutual Love as Self Actualization: Part 3 — Certainty and Salvation (S6)

In season six, we see Callum build upon this certainty with Rayla by the way he remains emotionally open with her about his hopes and fears. After his 6x01 nightmare freaks him out, he runs right to her to receive support; when the guilt and fear gnaws at him in 6x03, he tells her the truth of what he did on Finnegrin's ship.

While the obvious facet of knowledge (truth) and salvation here is in 6x06, I also like to think it starts an episode earlier in 6x05. Callum wants to go along with the mission because he knows the quasar diamonds will be what they get in exchange whereas Rayla goes along with it because he's pushing for it (and well, helping people is always nice).

However, where Callum believes that the icy beast they seemingly have to slay is a monster, Rayla believes differently and hedges her bets on what she knows.

This is a great mini turning point in season six for a few reasons. For one, it merges the idea of truth and knowledge into one ("I know it's true") as well as emphasizing the concept of knowing something in your heart, which 6x06 will build on of "dark magic tears a hole in your spirit/heart that light can fill". It also clearly ties back to something that Callum knows he knows, which is that he trusts Rayla unconditionally (5x01). So he goes with it.

When Rayla does reach out to the behemoth, it's with more facets of knowledge: "I know you're in pain. I don't want to hurt you...", knowing the creature's name and the stories ("I know who you are"), and even in her lullaby:

(We'll come back to the lullaby for 6x06's relevancy as well). Once Rayla's kindness and compassion gets through, of her knowledge and seeing the truth of Esmeray's pain much like Ezran saw Zubeia's ("and the truth of you seeing that made it feel like less, like healing"), we return to how well Callum knows her and his knowledge about the trial ("You knew this was the reward"):

If I'd told you, you would've refused to go, because you never do anything for yourself.

To love someone is to know them, and to know them is (in these cases) to develop love for them. The same way that Rayla brings Runaan out of his grief and guilt induced darkness in 6x09 ("I'm your daughter and I love you") and recognizes the grief and guilt plaguing Esmeray, likewise, she represents and is Love to Callum.

He's gone from being uncertain about her survival, about expressing his love, all the way to looking to her for support and direction about the trials set before him:

Kosmo: Dark magic left a hole in you, but the Star-truth ritual can fill the darkness with light. [...] You must search your mind and heart for your one deep truth, the star within you. Then you must let that truth shine and fill the darkness. Callum: One deep truth, huh? Kosmo: Your deepest truth. [...] You must find the star within you, the one deep truth so bright it can fill the darkness.

As know, Callum's trial is still a struggle for him at first. But luckily Rayla's lullaby also foreshadowed the principle of looking inward rather than outward, too, and precisely what kind of answer and truth Callum is going to find.

Callum: I found my one truth.

His truth, his knowledge, his constant, his light... is love, his love, for Rayla and from Rayla. At the end of 6x06 in many ways, Callum is at his most self-actualized, freed from the taint of dark magic and paranoia about Aaravos' control... saved and allowed to become the best version of himself, a bright shining light. A star in his own right. Which is likewise why he expresses his truth before the episode is done. He did dark magic for her, but she's so much more than just darkness or desperation or sadness for him; she's light and hope and Love, too. She's his Constant, Deepest Truth. She's everything.

It's taken two and a half seasons, but he's ready to do more than just know it. He's ready to say it.

So he does.

[rena-yume]

Nora Ostern

[saltyyetbland]

something something newt pushing lukey out causing him to fall something something the entrance to the lab being a freefall something something the void floor of the living quarter something something meteors falling out of the sky something something icarus, hubris and the pursuit of creation something something how the physical act of falling is easier for him to stomach than the metaphorical fall of love, loss and life

[star-staruck]

I tried drawing

I suck at drawing eyes but it's decent

ALSO LIGHTING IS SHIT COZ SAMGSUNG AHH

I will delete later

[enden-k]

YOUN! YOUN! WHY YOUR BRAIN SO BIG!

Assuming you made the cutout lower then it actually is ingame (my brain is mushy and i cant remember)

Everyone loves big man tits but actually grabbable waists to show of is such a goal for me. Waaa you make me fall in love so much with Ratio 🤤💙

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i didnt lower anything bc the cutout exposes his entire sides and its so... 🥰🥰🥰🥰

i just added an additional strap around his waist for stability bc unless its a body suit, this tight ass top will curl and untuck for sure (unless theres more straps to keep it in place)

this is what i imagine (body suit or straps)