#i don't do progress videos because a) idk how to do that but also b) i zoom in likE CRAZY and also flip between canvases

[ozonecologne]

like HOW did you do the shading on that lnx piece!! the velvet?

🥰 I will happily walk you through my layer process for this piece!

First, I do a sketch of my subject from reference to get the general shape of things. Once I'm happy with it, I line everything in solid black with a default hard round brush.

You can see the outline of the durag above the forehead here, and my navigation panel to the right that shows where in the piece this is overall. This canvas was 8.5x11 inches at 720dpi, so I think the size of this outline brush was 15px? I think the smaller lines were a 5px, used with a really low pressure.

Once everything is outlined, I add a base color layer underneath the outline layer. I try to match this color to the reference as best as I can just using my eyes, but sometimes I help myself out by color picking the middle tone. I'm still learning about color so this step is hard for me. Cheat when you can!!!!

Once the main color is under there, I look really carefully at my reference and block in the shadows and variations in the colors that I can see, checking myself with the color picker as I go. I'm sure someday I will get faster at this, but color theory is hard 😮‍💨

I noticed a gray reflective purple-y shadow at the front, but also that the velour/velvet is not uniform. I use a soft round brush at different levels of opacity to make little dots that really tell you what texture this is, and then make the brush bigger and softer to unify them with some longer strokes. There's no rhyme or reason to this part, I just flip really fast between my canvas and the reference image to try and paint what I see.

Once all these colors are more are less where they're supposed to be, I adjust the line art color with clipping masks to make the shape a bit more organic. I just match the surrounding colors I've blocked in so we have a smooth blend, also paying attention to edge highlights.

Time for the bigger and brighter highlights to make everything pop! I lay down some bigger shapes first, like these long strokes of white that I soften at the edges with a low opacity soft round eraser.

You can see on the navigation bar to the right what the zoomed-out piece looks like at this stage. It's getting there, but there's a lot more texture and brighter highlights on this area! To really make it look like velour, I zoomed in on the reference image and noticed that a lot of the highlights at the front here are actually more of those dot shapes. That's what makes it look soft to the touch. I use a really small soft round brush at full opacity to pop those in:

YEAHHHHH now we're talking.

I've spent a lot of time on this area, so I'm ready to move on! Once the whole piece is finished, I use a trick that I learned from Elicia by duplicating everything I've drawn, merging it into one layer, blurring it, and lowering the opacity.

It might not be that noticeable here, but zoomed out it gives the whole piece a bit of a glow and softens up the lines. It makes the painting a little less crisp, a little more dreamy. I love learning tips like this from other artists I admire -- it doesn't always work out when you try to map someone else's style onto your own, but sometimes you find something that really sticks!

Finally, I put on some adjustment layers. I especially like to play with saturation since my color theory is still not that good, and I always worry about my contrast so I usually do a curves layer as well (lighten up the lights, darken up the darks). I'm also a fan of a nice pink overlay, but I didn't do that here. I don't think it needed it!

So now I'm done! And here's the finished piece:

Looks great :) Hope this is cool to you!!!

[aptericia]

OMG SIS SPILL THE TEA I WANNA HEAR

For those interested, here's the video:

Angry rant below the cut!

Ok, so I actually don't mind the person's main points, which seem to be that a) at a time when it was harder to get LGBTQ+ representation into video games, the Tellius duology was pushing the boundaries and being progressive, and b) the author of the video likes a lot of gay ships in Tellius. Those are perfectly fine topics to make a Youtube video about. My main issue is that the author just... doesn't seem to know what "canon" means?? They refer to Elincia & Lucia's romantic paired endings (with Geoffrey & Bastian respectively) as canon, despite the fact that both are significantly harder to get than their unpaired endings, which screams amatonormativity to me. They also refer to Ike & Soren's romance as "so canon", and although their paired ending is at least a bit easier to obtain than those other two, it's still very much not the default, AND IT'S NOT EXPLICITLY ROMANTIC BY ANY MEANS. There are also a bunch of other comments, like "oh I see x relationship as this so I can imagine this pairing as canon". That is literally not what that word means please, it's okay to say "fanon" or "headcanon" or even "opinion".

They also use a lot of absolutist language such as "definitely fucking", "definitely has the hots for __", etc., or that a specific straight ship "could never be together", and say they're shocked they even have to explain why Ike and Soren are "so in love with each other". Maybe it's just me, but I find statements like that very irritating in what is clearly an opinion piece, because it feels like they're saying other opinions aren't valid.

I also found it mildly irritating that they just got some of the lore wrong... they claim that [SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!] the Black Knight kills Greil because Sephiran told him to... while in reality Sephiran only asked him to obtain the medallion, and the BK fought Greil to the death because of his own personal reasons (wanting to surpass his former teacher)

Everything I've mentioned so far is something that personally annoys me, nothing blatantly harmful, and I can at least understand why they included it in the video. What really drove me into a rage is the statement that "Ike is, at the very least, asexual". Like I'm sorry. The fuck is "the very least" supposed to mean???? That asexuality is a "lesser" form of queerness than homosexuality???? (Also note that the author equates asexual with aromantic, but as a non-SAM aroace I don't feel qualified to speak on how harmful or not that is) And then they immediately turn around and say that the Ike/Soren romance is canon????

There are a bunch more irritating off-hand remarks near the end of the video, such as implying that people who disagree with the author only do so because they don't like slash pairings, claiming that "everyone" would ship a pairing if it were straight, etc. I also loooooove how they blatantly skip over the discussion of Kyza's transgenderism, and also make the claim that there are no people of color in Tellius, like wtf????? idk I could talk more about both those issues but they aren't related to the video's topic so whatever I guess :/

[weareuniqueandimportant]

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[cinna-monroe]

im almost totally convinced that yesterday was a fever dream so i've decided to write it all down to make sure i'm not insane.

my little brother (L, 14) has this friend (A, 14). It was A's birthday. A thought it would be hilarious to have a Barbie - themed birthday party. A's older brother is my age (T, 16) and so A invited my friend B and me as well, and one of A's younger brothers is my little sister's age (Y, 12) so she was also invited.... um anyway.

We went over early to help out cuz our families are friends yk? I walk in to see this rope of Barbie Tinsel work in progress. Just a string of barbies tied at the waist???? OK? A lot of pink balloons.

I went upstairs and T was in a little pink maid dress (with cat ears, a frilly collar, those thigh strips idk). A was in a sparkly fedora, gray sweatpants and a leopard print suit jacket. L, my brother, was in a blue flowery dress and three randomly placed barrettes in his short hair.

They have 2 TVs and 2 X-boxes in their shared room, so A and L played Halo while me, T and B watched markiplier and memes. I DON'T KNOW WHERE T GETS HIS MEMES BUT THEY ARE THE FUNNIEST CLIPS KNOWN TO MANKIND.

When everyone arrived, their mom and my mom held up the now-finished Barbie-Tinsel outside... all of the Barbies had donuts on each foot. They held it up like a limbo and had each kid come up individually and kneel with their hands behind their backs and eat the donuts off the barbie feet. "YAY WE GET TO SUCK TOES" "I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO SUCK TOES" "WE'RE SUCKING TOES" yeah this was a bad idea.

T was still in his maid dress with thigh high white stockings so he couldn't kneel but he still sucked barbie toe donut feet. It may or may not have scarred me for life. I also ended up sucking barbie toe donut feet. Not my proudest moment. It is on video and can never be taken back. I blame the fact that I had just drank a lukewarm "radioactive lemonade" flavored G-Fuel from some random IT guy from my college who had given it to me for free. I looked like a crack addict because of the powder all over my face by the way.

My little sister Y asked everyone "how was your toe-sucking experience?"

child one: ten out of ten would do again

child two: it was great but men's are better

child three: i highly enjoyed sucking women's feet

and so on.

The next activity was coloring. They had a HUGE Barbie poster coloring page that they all worked on collectively, and it got GRAPHIC. I wasn't over there for that part, but I heard all of the "hail h*tler" and saw some n*zi salutes. They came back with a naked Barbie with a h*tler mustache and they had drawn on her privates to make them further vulgar.... They tied a rope around her neck and the other end to the fan, turned it on. There's a video of the naked n*zi barbie spinning around by the fan and them in a circle jumping to hit themselves in the face with it. At the end of the video they chase down the shortest of the kids and scream "SACRIFICE! SACRIFICE! SACRIFICE!" as they carry him to get him to get hit in the face with the naked n*zi barbie.

um.

T (the dude in the maid dress) at some point grabbed some balloons and shoved them down his shirt to make himself breasts so the rest of the boys copied him. They grabbed at each other's balloon chest thingies. Idk. After that I went with my mom to pick up the pizza.... when i got back they were playing basketball and making the most offensive jokes ever - racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and vulgar jokes.

i ate pizza and cake and then my mom took me and B home. We were pretty silent on the way home and I feel really bad for dropping her off at her house with all of that to unpack, but she has a therapist.

dang idk what happened

how do i TW this???

[dirty-urie]

More Questions (if you don't mind):

1. Favorite game you've watched B play?

2. Favorite music video?

3. Favorite era?

4. Favorite collab?

5. If you could ask Brendon to explain any song in-depth what would it be?

6. What would be your dream Twitch stream for him to do?

7. If you could see any song live what would it be?

8. What non-album project/collaboration would you want next?

9. You mentioned THROAM, so were you ever a ryden shipper?

10. Do you think Panic! is a "dying fandom"?

1. Life is Strange was fun for sure, and I loved that one Red Dead stream with him in the dumbass hat he stole from his dad, and the pirate game was super fun because of his sailing playlist.

2. Either G/G/B because I’m a whore or New Perspective because Megan Fox <3

3. Vices was fun because of his onstage banter (he was so little and scrappy), but knowing how depressed he was at the time ruins it a little. I don’t think I could have a favorite era anyway though.

4. Ms. Jackson I guess? The problem with most collabs is that there’s another person singing when Brendon could be sooo (jkjkjk, I’m sure there’s a collab I like that I’m forgetting.)

5. I feel like DTMWAGT has a BUNCH of stories behind it, so I’d be getting my money’s worth, but he’s specifically said he doesn’t want to talk about New Perspective, which means I want to hear about it more. What does “there’s a haze above my TV mean”?

6. I wanna make him watch Twilight. All five movies. Mostly because he’s said he won’t. Other than that, AND I NEVER SAID THIS, but if I did say this, which I didn’t, it’s only because Brendon himself has briefly mentioned it, but I think a stream of him reading his own fanfic would be fun. Like if he did it as a charity thing? Maybe the fics get progressively more explicit (or just weirder if he wanted to stay away from the sexual ones) as more money is raised. I NEVER SAID THIS THOUGH, fanfic is for the fans, etc, etc.

7. Idk, probably anything from Fever because I’m sad I missed that era.

8. Anything Broadway (either him performing in another show or him finally doing that Panic! musical he’s talked about). I’d love him to do a podcast, mostly telling stories and chatting with people in the general panic orbit. And I want him to write a book at some point, but not until he’s older. Also a sex tape.

9. Not really. I definitely get it, but it’s not my thing.

10. This was a jarring question, Jesus. Yes and no? We were slowly losing fans as pre-allegations (because he was cancelled before then AND instagram and Twitter were cracking down on fan accounts) and then we lost fans en masse when the allegations came and since then, it’s steadied out. Some have come back, but even if you support Brendon, it’s kinda hard to be a panic! fan because to this day, anti’s are BRUTAL. I don’t think the fanbase will ever be the same (I think it’ll probably skew older, probably be smaller, less involved), but I don’t think you can have a dying fandom when the media it’s based on isn’t dead yet. And even if Panic! breaks up (which I don’t think it will, knock on wood), I think Brendon will continue working publicly in some capacity, and fans will support. And if the panic! fandom dies, no one will be around to like my posts. :(

[ashanddreams]

Back in Time Glitch: Twilight Princess Wii (IDK about GameCube cause I don't have one and not for HD because IDK how to get back in time started)

So this is really me tracking down my progress with doing the back in time glitch with Twilight Princess. I'm doing this because no one else really has cause I think they get stuck at one part. So, here we go:

So starting this glitch is pretty easy; all we have to do is go to Arbiter's Grounds and die (fun amirite). We have to make sure that when we die, we only see the tip of Link's gauntlet (or fingers, since it's different than how I remember it). Now, there are two things we can do while performing the glitch: either take damage or get it on the first try. Getting it on the first try is good, but we can't push the a or b buttons (all other buttons are fine, the other two will crash the game and we will need to unplug the Wii). Taking damage (any amount is fine) will allow us to push a and b, which will bring up the title screen where we can push a and b together to go to the menu and select any file. Whether it's new or not will not change anything from normal.

(Here is the title screen without crashing the game)

The first thing that will happen when we perform the glitch is we will be taken to the title screen area with no map, health, music, or item/action abilities. Don't push a or b if we didn't take damage before (damage will not be saved between resets, only if we perform the glitch right). This is where we need to die again. Responding from this will give us the normal screen, but we will be at one heart. Now here is where things get kinda weird. We can save and quit here and we will be brought to Faron woods (this is the right way). However, dying again will result in a game over. If we continue, we will be brought to the King Bokoblin fight (IDK). Skipping the cutscene will allow us to fight him while letting play will get us stuck on the bridge. If we defeat him and save Colin, we’ll be taken to Kakariko. No matter what we do here, either skipping the cutscene or not will softlock us there and we cannot leave or do anything (side note: after having done this, I had a nightmare about twilight Kakariko and Barns' Bomb Shop, so now I don't like it there lol).

Going the Faron route, we will be in the save Talo sequence. Do what we’d normally do, save him and go to the next day. (Now this part is very fuzzy since I did this part a few months ago, so I'll come back later). Go through the day, heard the goats, leave and DO NOT SKIP THE CUTSCENE AS YOU WILL BE STUCK. Go about, go to the house, and if my memory is right there we can give the kids the sword (keep in mind we won't get the first bottle, fishing rod, sword, or slingshot- but we can still give them a sword). Before we continue, go into the mayor's house since the door is now open and get the iron boots. This will save us time later. Now, do everything as normal until we come back to the world of light. This is where people give up I think, as there is "no way to progress."

We cannot get the sword and shield as there are logs blocking the hole to get the sword, the area to get to the shield is closed, and there are no characters around. However, this can be skipped using the sword and shield skip (there are youtube videos showing how to do this on GameCube and Wii). We’ll need a Bokoblin from the are and DO NOT KILL IT AND SAVE OR YOU ARE SCREWED. We’ll need to bring it to the wall of twilight, align it with a black mark on the wall and do a really big double attack on it. If we do it right we’ll bypass the area where Midna will tell us to go back and she'll let us into the twilight. Please note: this glitch is the hardest thing to do (in my experience). It took me over a year to do this, as I rage quit a lot from doing it over and over and over again, and I got it cause I was very lucky.

So, after that long intro, it's all good. Progress as normal, get to the forest temple and prepare to think you're stuck. Everything was great and normal until the first room with the spiders on the vines. Remember: we don't have the slingshot. But, the solution is easy: find some Boko Baba seed things and throw it at the spiders. Easy peasy. Now before we leave, there is one thing to note: beating the mini-boss of this dungeon with jump attacks is a no-go, cause that will hard crash the game with a very fun sound playing. Beat him (and the boss) slowly and it'll be good.

Go to the Eldin province and we'll be at the glitchy part of the run (twilight and light). Go through normally until we get to the gate to Kakariko. Go through it and we'll be taken into a cutscene. Remember the King Bokoblin fight? Yeah, that's here now, just will no voices for the NPCs. Watch the cutscene. Now the world is weird cause it's the world of light with a twilight filter. Midna will tell us to help Colin and there will be no shadow monsters or dying spirit of light. To fix this, just leave the area (side note: this is where we go if we fight King Bokoblin right after doing the glitch and we'll be softlocked cause we're human, but now we're a wolf and can do things now). Going to a new area puts everything back to where it should, but we can go back to the gate and start the same cutscene as many times as we want, as there's no limit to this or the number of times we can fix it. When we're done, go on as normal, get the bugs, and save the land. Once we are done talking to the spirit, another cutscene will play, the one where we get our horse. The game most likely triggers this because we have the iron boots (remember?), and it has to play it for later, which starts the Epona scene. Get her and save Colin. Do that and go to death mountain.

(if we wish, we can go to Ordon spring to get the hidden skill from the stone we probably activated in the twilight, but we’ll be unable to do it because we need a shield. We can buy a shield, but we either lose the nice metal shield for a cheap wooden one that burns or we pay 200 rupees to tell the game "Hey, I have the shield now, even though I've had it the entire time," which is something I didn't want to do, so I'm not getting any of the hidden skills, which pains me cause I want the back slice)

(This is in the Arbiter's Ground area but it's the same thing) (Also grandpa Time is blind cause I GOT A SHEILD) (ok boomer)

Back on point, go up to death mountain and realize that we don't have to take damage from that Goron because we got the boots (we won't be softlocked so it's good).

Now play through the area normally. Actually, play through the game normally, as everything from here on out is just a normal playthrough. We just do get the slingshot, the Ordon sword or shield, fishing rod, two bottles (one from the shop in Ordon and the other in the fishing area since we need the fishing rod to get it), and six hidden skills (if we don't want to part with a FREE metal shield).

So, I bet someones thinking about a problem in the future part of the gameplay. Right now I am it Arbiter's Grounds. (I found out it is possible to perform back in time again (but I think the point of restarting is just a bit later than I remember, since past of Link's gauntlet had to be seen then, and now it's the tips of his fingers). I think everything will go fine until we get to Snowpeak, or rather, not get to Snowpeak. We need the fishing rod to get the reekfish, and guess what we don't have: the reekfish. I believe one of three things will happen-

1) The game will hard crash (or just regular crash) cause we don't have the fishing rod, and the game will get really confused and die.

2) Nothing will happen. What I mean by this is that we won't be able to accept the earing addition and either Ralis will keep the earing or it will vanish and we never see it again.

3) The game spawns a fishing rod for the player to have and we go on as normal. With this, we'd be able to get a third bottle.

With the first two points, we will be softlocked, as the game will put us back at the start if we go into the blizzard.

I'm not sure what will happen at that point, but no matter what happens, whether we get the rod or not, I'm going to keep exploring with this glitch; I'll find the do's, don'ts, and mega don'ts. When I find something new I'll add it here later. Hope someone has fun with this and wish me luck! 🤞

Edit: So there's actually a fourth option: the fish hook is a new item in your inventory and now we're stuck.

So.....not what I was hoping for but that's what we get for trying to kill the game. The sad thing is that if we go to Colin's house we can see a fishing rod on the wall. I even found out that we cannot buy the slingshot because it's not in the shop in Ordon and the wooden sword doesnt appear in our house. Another new piece of info: we dont have the Ordon Spring warp since we never got the sword and shield in the beginning of the game.

So I'm going to see if there's a way to skip snowpeak. However, this will definitely be a problem later on during the Zant fight since we need the ball and chain. Wish me luck on that!

TL, DR: go back in time and save Hyrule on hard mode.

UPDATE: So I saw a video on YouTube talking about having all of our items in the king bulblin fight. What we need to do is do back in time and take damage before doing so. I did it in Arbiter's Grounds and got there fine. Then we need to pull up the title screen and fall into a void. Right before Link starts screaming, we push a+b (or start since this works on the gamecube). If done correctly we should here Link screaming on the file select. Now we have to choose a game file. If we choose a new file, we go through naming Link and Epona and when we start this happens:

(I sat here for 10 minutes. We can't do anything except power off and press home, but pushing reset still keeps us at this screen and now we can't use the home button).

If we select a file that already has data, then we go to the bulblin fight with all the items we had before the glitch, including the master sword (I'm doing this on a file where I already did the back in time glitch so I still dont have the fishing rod).

UPDATE: THE RUN'S NOT DEAD

So, I was watching YouTube and looked up Twilight Princess glitches and saw a glitch for early City In The Sky. By doing this glitch, we can skip all of Snowpeak Ruins and the Temple Of Time. Seeing as how the ball and chain is not needed to finish the game after Snowpeak and the dominon rod is only needed for the search for the sky quest (which we can skip while doing this glitch), we will be able to progress without the fishing rod and skip three hours of gameplay. I was hoping we could find a way to get the fishing rod so we could 100% the game, but now we definitely can't do that.

Early City In The Sky glitch:

Requirements: Master Sword and visited the desert at least once (completion of of Arbiter's Grounds recommended)

As soon as we have access to the Master Sword, we need to head to Lake Hylia. We need to go to the desert. Once at the desert, I recommend completing the Arbiter's Grounds, but that's not necessary right now. Now we warp to Kakariko village and go to Renado's basement. By sliding with z-targeting into the space between the statue and the wall (right on wii, left on gamecube). The angle is kinda precise so finding a YouTube video is recommended for finding a good angle. Once we're positioned right, we need to turn into wolf Link. If everything is correct we will clip past the statue. Now, as wolf link, go up to the cannon and say you'd like to warp. Midna will say Shad is still standing there (even though he's not). We can still warp the cannon as long as we open the map right after Midna is done talking (spam the button it has to be right after she's done). Turn on portals and warp to Lake Hylia and Midna will warp Link and the cannon there (we have to be in wolf form. Also, DO NOT AND QUIT IN THE ROOM. Apparently doing this on the wii will trap us as Midna won't let us warp)

Now at Lake Hylia we talk to the cannon guy and cough up 300 rupees. Here we can do some side quests. I finally caved and bought the Hylian shield and got the four hidden skills I had yet to get. (Note: apparently if you dony visit the desert before asking the guy to fix the cannon the game might crash). I have yet to to to the sky so I will see how that goes later.

End of the game stuff: We will be able to beat the game with a max of 16 hearts, 43 poe souls, 23 bugs, 2 bottles, five hidden skills, no Ordon sword/shield, no fishing rod, slingshot, no ball and chain, and no dominon rod. This is the max amount of items we can get. I will attempt this run again but try and see what the least amount of weapons required to beat the game is.

Edit: oof speedrunners use this to go fast in the game. This is just a way if you want practice doing speedruns of this game so you can get gud