#queued accessories

[buglaur]

🔖 pictures from the family photo album

[guardian-angle22]

911 lone star fashion -> every marjan outfit

↳ 4.14

[14dayswithyou]

What if we asked them to use their hands as a bra for our lockscreen pic

🔞 YOU MUST BE 18 OR OLDER TO PROCEED. MINORS DNI! 🔞

Ren He's down horrendous for this idea. Anything that that tells other people that he's yours is a great idea in his books. And if you squint enough at the final photo, you'll probably be able to make out your initials painted onto the nail of his ring finger.

[REDACTED] Might playfully tease you a bit with the cool sensation of his rings, but otherwise he's just as down for it as his Haruko counterpart. He's also more likely to peer over your shoulder and send the camera a fixed look.

Violet As long as her face isn't in the shot, she'd be happy to do it! Violet might even make the final photo look even more aesthetically pleasing by putting on accessories or something.

Elanor The most hesitant out of the bunch, purely because she doesn't want theses kinds of photos of you to be so accessible — but she isn't fully opposed to the idea. You'll have to instruct her on exactly what you'd want her to do, otherwise she'll just ghost her hands over your chest.

Moth Only if you do the same for them in return. They're going to miss their old BNHA lockscreen, but having you on it instead would definitely be worth it. Would probably do the reaper death seal over your chest while they wait for you to line up the shot.

Leon Would be more than happy to do it if that's what you wanted, and would probably try to get his BFF bracelet into the shot as well. He'd prefer if you just kept it in your camera roll rather than making it your lockscreen, but that's only because he doesn't want others to see you like that.

Teo I'm pretty sure I've already said that he'd do this in the past, but Teo's 100% open to it. He'd probably ask you not to make it your lockscreen as well since he doesn't want people to think you're in a relationship with him, but won't ask you to take it down if you end up doing it anyway. Like Ren; Teo has large hands, so it'd probably end up looking like a whole crop top on you lmao

[ocwearingthis]

[unladielike]

    "...Holy crap, I definitely need this!" Vivian exclaims while examining what looked to be an Amazon listing for a headband on her phone. Now, was it excessively gaudy and had a high chance of colliding against low ceiling-ed doors or buildings? Perhaps, but Vivian liked looking at it so much, the consequences of wearing it outside didn't exactly occur to her; in fact, she was thinking about potentially buying Alex one as well.

[daemon-in-my-head]

Ok I'm possibly boutta screw this one up, but, this is one for the writers and the visual artists. This one's gonna get up close and personal too.

Durge Asks - Creator Edition

What or who inspired your Durges design the most? A particular idea or vibe or perhaps another hottie or baddie?

How does their race play into the design? Was it a conscious choice because of the racial features or did you simply enjoy the playstyle or lore?

How do you prefer to portrait your Durge? Do you enjoy them in writing or their visuals more? If you're a writer or artist, would you/have you commissioned someone else before? Would you like to, in case you couldn't yet do it?

How did Durge come to be? Why them? Was it a vibe you tried to capture or a specific visual you wanted to represent? Did you borrow them from previous works or were they handcrafted for this story you have in mind?

Are they a plot device or the driving force? Do they exist to enhance Gortash or has Gortash developed to become the accessory wife? Do they compliment or foil each other?

Personality or looks, what came to you easier?

Is their personal story represented in their overall design? Do they carry any mental scars or physical alterations from the shit that happened to them?

Contradictory or easy to understand, which one applies more to your Durge? Is their design and personality a conundrum, or did you try to keep it as clear cut as possible?

How much did Bhaal influence their design or personality in the end? Did you research lore to purposefully get the resemblance or do you just go with the flow and what feels right for the story you want to tell?

How much of yourself can be found in your Durge? Do you share the same personality, taste, a specific feature? Are they who you want to be or who you used to be? Are they entirely removed from you as a person?

What's your go to medium for their portrayal? Google Docs, a niche notes app, perhaps one specific for writing, Procreate, Clip Studio, MediBang? Hit me with those recs. Do you sometimes mix em up?

OC Art/Stories or shipping content? What do you enjoy the most? What's ur little hidden passion?

Final and spiciest question. How down bad are you for your durge. Would you hit it even though you'd probably not make it out alive?

Ask prev when u reblog, be nice, this isn't strictly romantic, bla bla bla yk what I usually put here. Basically, have fun, go wild, save a fading fandom or smth (yes I copy pasted this, laziness is the great mother of all bad habits and good mothers should be honoured)

Also yes ik I said I'd get to answering asks and they are queued I just wanted to drop this one first so y'all have smth entertaining to do. Time to return to the shadows until I have ideas for these again, aka another temporary retirement lol.

[chaosgremlinmunson]

STWG 04/16/2024

Prompt: motivation 

Pairing: modern Steddie pre-relationship 

Rating: mature; sexual themes

Eddie had been down in the dumps for the past few weeks, Steve knew his best friend better than most people. Robin and Eddie were two of the most important people to him, and he knew Eddie had decided to talk to Alec and let him know about his feelings. Steve and Robin had encouraged him to do so since Alec had seemed into Eddie everytime they'd all interacted, so to see Eddie now almost sulking around spoke to Steve in a way they couldn't quite explain.

Steve had made it his mission to cheer Eddie up, and he had some ideas, granted it may not be the best ideas, but ideas he had nonetheless.

Steve went into his closet and pulled out his distressed black jeans that hugged the curves of his hips and ass and cupped his bulge perfectly, he paired that with his baby pink crop top that said “yes, daddy” and pulled on his pink combat boots with the tiny bat wing accessories on the laces. He looked over his reflection and smirked, and went to his playlist on his phone to make sure Motivation by Kelly Rowland was queued up on his screen then headed out the door. 

When he pulled up he waltzed into Eddie's apartment seeing him slouched in front of the TV reading through his screen, he sighed tossing it to his side running his fingers through his curls and Steve made the move to come stand between his legs while his eyes were closed temporarily. When he opened them, he yelped his eyes wide looking up at Steve and swallowing. 

“Hey Eds, I missed you.”  He said leaning down into his space, “I have an idea to cheer you up.” Steve was beginning to feel a little shy, if Eddie didn't like this idea he could very well ruin this friendship, but he had to try. 

Eddie ran his hand up Steve's pant leg and a blush had spread over his cheeks, “Okay Stevie, whenever you're ready.”

Steve gulped his time, but stepped out of Eddie's space to set his phone in the dock for the surround sound system and hit play, the song filtering through the speakers as he started rocking his hips to the sultry voice pouring through.

“Whoa lover, don't you dare slow down

Go longer, you can last more rounds

Push harder, you're almost there now

So go lover, make mama proud (turn the lights on)

I don't wanna feel my legs

(And when we're done) I just wanna feel your hands all over me baby

But you can't stop there (whoa, lover)

Music still playin' in the background (whoa, lover)

And you're almost there

You can do it, I believe in you, baby

So close from here

Baby, I'ma be your motivation (uh-huh, yeah)

Go, go, go, go, motivation

Go, go, go, go”

Steve kept his eyes on Eddie's face who slowly had started to lean forward, as he moved within reach Eddie's hand snapped out and pulled Steve onto his lap, he grinned up at Steve's stunned face. 

“Stevie, baby.” Eddie breathed leaning up and nipping at Steve's jaw before rolling his hips, “Had I known I had a shot with you, Alec would have never been on my radar. Stay the night with me?” 

Steve moaned in response, rolling his own hips down before whispering back, “Yes, daddy, anything for you.”

[derangedbutdedicated]

queuing this photo from the other day to post in a little while cause im gettin surgery in 10hr!! will update when im allowed accessories and nail polish again // sotd is 'lesbian vampyres from outer space'

[theplottdump]

📩 Simblr question of the day: It's time to appreciate the small things! What's a small detail from one of your posts that you love? Could be a small tattoo on a sim, specific clutter in a sims' room, a little detail in a render or screenshot, whatever is applicable to you

(p.s. I've been scouring simblr, and I've noticed people don't like how picky SQOTD feels, so please! Share around SQOTD asks, anon or not, I'm only one person and can't find and ask every person on simblr ~ 💛)

First off- Bless you anon for spreading so much love. You're seriously a joy and I can't believe you're getting flack for that. I'll see if I can slip some more of these into some more inboxes for you.

Secondly- AHH like A LOT OF STUFF wehh I'll stick it below a cut cause its dumb, specific and I'm not going to be normal about it and also old spoilers for past arcs!

MUSEUM HEIST

Leanne's lil transition from- 'there's a man watching you' to 'oh you know him' 😏😏😏

Throughout their first confrontation I slowly had the boys get closer and closer together as they spoke.

I converted, cleaned up and retextured this pistol for this arc and I have used it incessantly since as my main spy pistol. I wanted a vintage WW2 pistol similar to the one Lupin the Third uses.

CONSEQUENCES AND FUNERALS

LOL at tiny background Val and Leanne being dramatic creeps

HAPPY WINTERFEST

Leanne jumpscare that scared the pants off me in real life taking these pictures. She had an action queued up to talk to Chad so whenever he wasn't in the middle of an action she'd get steadily closer like a FNAF animatronic

but from her perspective ^

this sequence is actually a giant dumb animation I made, the first one I ever tried! I wanted to do a soft lil yearning scar touch.

HANDS!!

CASINO HEIST

I had to handpaint every shot this ring appears in at the beginning cause the accessory I had in was sooooo thin and shitty (before and after ^)

Chad mentions Poppy needs to stop telegraphing her moves so clearly after they have a conversation about UNIT always getting the leg up on them.

I liked this final shot as a transition into the main story as well as a way to highlight the principal cast for the arc! (Also like, so many hand placed pins. AND Chad and Poppy's sexy calendar (which should be set to feburary but the feb swatch has her mother on it sakjdkajd))

Shots with both sets of characters in them my beloved. ( I never ended up using that last one tho rip )

When Poppy mentions she has some errands to run you can see the UNIT building in the background of the shot.

Val mentions thinking he's losing his mind because he swore he smelled Chad's cologne the day before the party- because they were in the same elevator minutes apart!

Not only is the Starlight drop dead gorgeous and a whole chunk of @doctorsimcraft's soul, I also made a custom animated sign, portraits, ceiling lightbulbs and room numbers for it.

Oh god I ran out of picture space. I'll probably do a part 2 then ahh- theres still some fun stuff. SEE I TOLD YOU I WASN'T GONNA BE NORMAL ABOUT IT

PART 2 👈

[guardian-angle22]

911 lone star fashion -> every marjan outfit

↳ 2.14

[cats-are-grey]

FFXXIV Directory - Ley Qunya

Art by @minoruru

Roleplay and Inspiration Blog for Ley Qunya, FFXIV RP character on Balmung (Crystal). Most things are queued. Occasionally NSFW.

Ley is the reclusive and somewhat aloof owner of Spell Bound, a small bookstore specializing in rare, powerful, or lost tomes, for those who know where to look for it.

Carrd Screenshots and Art Prompts and Asks My Art (Coming ... Eventually) Writing OOC Tumblr

Name: Ley Qunya

Age: Unspecified Adult

Nameday: 16th Sun of the 1st Umbral Moon

Race: Miqo'te (Keeper of the Moon)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Demi Bi (Polyamorous)

Relationship Status: It's Complicated

Server: Balmung

Art by @the-sycophant

Appearance: Ley is a fairly unremarkable Miqo'te, aside from the fact that she is nearly all grey. Her hair is well cared for, long and silky and cut in a straight line across her back, the silvery tone nearly identical to her skin. Paler clan markings flow across her body and marks her face, along with a small teardrop shape at her forehead.

Eyes: Grey

Favored Clothing Style: Ley's clothing preferences falls somewhere between Hobo Wild Witch and Dark Academia Prodigy.

Common Accessories: She almost always carries a tome tied to her belt.

Profession:  Rare book dealer. Author.

Hobbies: Perhaps unsurprisingly, Ley reads a lot. What may be less expected is that in her spare time, she finds a decent amount of guilty pleasure in reading romance novels, preferably with an adventure spin. She also plays the cello.

Residence: Gridania, though she spends a decent amount of time traveling

Birthplace: The Black Shroud

Patron Deity: Menphina, the Lover

Spouse: No. Marriage is not a part of her culture and while relationships are not out of the realm of possibility to her, she values her independence and mostly solitary lifestyle too much to give it up.

Children: None, and no plans for that to change.

Parents: She doesn't know her father, but she grew up in a small family clan with her mother and a couple of aunts, who co-parented all the children.

Siblings: Ley has several sisters, and while they don't always see each other a lot, it's not uncommon for them to check in on each other once in a while. She also has a brother she has not seen since he became an adult and left their clan.

Other Relatives: A bunch of cousins she also grew up with.

Pets: While not exactly a pet, Ley is often accompanied by a small faerie named Nox, and a Carbuncle. She also has a silvery Chocobo named Andraste.

* Bold your character’s answer.

Extroverted / In Between / Introverted

Disorganized / In Between / Organized

Close Minded / In Between / Open Minded

Calm / In Between / Anxious

Disagreeable / In Between / Agreeable

Cautious / In Between / Reckless

Patient / In Between /  Impatient

Outspoken / In Between / Reserved

Leader / In Between / Follower

Empathetic / In Between / Apathetic

Optimistic / In Between / Pessimistic

Traditional / In Between / Modern

Hard working / In Between / Lazy

Cultured / In Between / Uncultured

Loyal / In Between / Disloyal

Smoking Habit: None

Drugs: It depends. Not regularly, but she can enjoy certain kinds of drugs.

Alcohol: Rarely.

Spell Bound: Ley runs a small bookstore called Spell Bound, specializing in rare and sometimes dangerous (and sometimes illegal) books, tomes, and grimoires. Appointment required.

Forged in Ink: Ley is a fairly decent forger of books and documents if she can be convinced to take on the work

Wild Steps: Ley's tribe traveled heavily through the Black Shroud, and traded with other Keeper tribes. She may be familiar to other Keepers of the Moon.

I am generally open to RP and connections, but I work a lot so I'm not always around. Contact me here on tumblr or find me in game is the best bet.

I do have a Discord and I do RP on it. I don’t give that information out right away though. I’d like to interact in game or through tumblr a few times before I feel comfortable giving that information out.

Player is +30. I am open to most kind types of RP, but please don't expect immediate romance, Ley is a pretty reserved character.

[nonsensical-pixels]

4t2 conversion of oydis's aspen hair & luthien circlet [download - sfs]

briefly rising from the queued-posts grave because i spotted this hair by @oydis and could not resist converting it the moment it released, it's ridiculously cute! the model was also wearing their luthien circlet and i thought they looked really good together, so that got yeeted into the download, too!

everything has been tooltipped and compressed, i hope you enjoy these! 💕

credits

@oydis for the incredible ts4 meshes & textures!

items included

oydis aspen hair 🌺 - just over 22k polys, you have been warned 😅 - binned with grey linked to black - tf - ef - comes in @skittlessims skittles hair system 🍭 - i only converted the version with the roses because that was what interested me in the first place

oydis luthien circlet 👑 - just over 3k polys, found under the glasses/accessories category - comes in the original 15 metals - tf - ef - it's the v3 version because i didn't see that much difference between the versions and didn't want to clog up the cas columns too much...

if there are any issues, do let me know! happy simming 💘

[ocwearingthis]

[suedesongs]

These Are The Suede Songs 001: Early Recordings

Suede’s early trajectory is often described, especially by the band themselves, as “the world’s longest overnight success”. Four years of slogging the toilets of London, from playing humiliating gigs to, on one occasion, nobody at all, to appearing on the front page of Melody Maker, may sound quick, but in musical terms can feel like a lifetime. This was during the era of musical trends coming and going in rapid succession, a little like fashion microtrends today. Within those four years, Baggy and the Second Summer of Love, The Stone Roses and Spike Island, raves and ecstasy,  made way for American grunge - precisely the opposite, and amongst this cultural shift, quietly grafting their way, were Suede. 

Whilst there aren’t a great deal of surviving bootlegs or demos from this era, I still felt incredibly compelled to cover what I could find in a dedicated post. Research was rather fruitless at times, and I found much of the writing on this period of the band’s career to be marred (cough) by the insistence of male writers to throw all of their energy into a somewhat troubling obsession with what is perceived as the infamous Anderson-Frischmann-Albarn “love triangle”. I took to Twitter (or, blegh, X) to vent my frustrations, and received a reply from my friend Tasha who, much more eloquently than I, expressed how Justine Frischmann is viewed as merely an object in an interpersonal drama, rather than a fleshed out musician in her own right. Are women doomed to simply be accessories to their male counterparts? I find this disheartening when Frischmann is so integral to not only the Suede “story”, but, in my opinion, to what would go on to become the sound we all know, and love.

My analysis will frequently include my personal opinions, and should not be taken as definitive. Where necessary to the discussion of the songs, tidbits of info may be provided in order to “set the scene”. This series should not be used as a biography, but instead an exploration of a body of work. It will be by no means objective. I’m a massive Suede fan. I’ve travelled up and down the country for gigs, queued from as early as 6am for a coveted barrier spot, my cat is (in a roundabout way) named after an obscure Bloodsports-era B Side. I’m a self-professed fangirl. Having said this, I’ll do my best to not let this get in the way. And with all of the preliminaries seen to, we begin with,

Just A Girl (Anderson/Frischmann)

Though credited to Anderson-Butler, this light, airy folk ballad is reportedly the oldest surviving Suede tune, dating far before Bernard Butler joined. The version that appears online, and on the deluxe edition of the debut, is likely a home demo recorded by Brett Anderson and Justine Frischmann. 

Anderson, in his memoir Coal Black Mornings, explains the titular girl, “north of England way”, is a Middlesborough-born Chemistry student called Emily, with whom he shared a flat on Daisy Bank road in Longsight, Manchester, in the year after he moved from Haywards Heath to the rainy industrial Northern city. ‘Just A Girl’ really couldn’t be set in any city other than Manchester. It describes the beginnings of a fond friendship, perhaps more, distinctly against the backdrop of a harsh, wet winter, overlooked by grey skies and red-bricked former warehouses. It’s the first, blushing, awkward flushes of young love. It’s leaving your University lectures at half past three when it’s already pitch dark. It’s when you say something you shouldn’t to the person you fancy after a few drinks. It’s huddling under the covers to stay warm, the excitement of closeness and companionship. 

I typically have a complete, and near visceral, aversion to anything, musically or otherwise, that can be described as “twee”. Just A Girl, I feel, does undeniably dangle its harmonies and lyrical depictions of turning the page of one’s favourite book perilously close to the jaws of this accusation.Yet, I simply cannot bring myself to dislike it. Whilst musically competent, if a little naive, it’s sweet and genuine, and for that, it’s rather lovely. 

There are already some allusions to Anderson’s later lyrical themes; the combination of love and tragedy as he laments how “it could have been so different if we’d only had more time”. Anderson, as we’ll explore, is rarely one to write a straight love song. No matter how they may seem, there is always a thread of tragedy, or drama, which underpins the affair and protects against it veering into saccharine territory. 

For a few years now, I’ve cited the “ashtray eyes and bootlace ties” line to be a direct harbinger of some of Anderson’s later lyrics, most likely thinking of 2011's ‘Brittle Heart’,from his solo album Black Rainbows. However, this is in fact, lifted from Ian Drury’s ‘Sweet Gene Vincent’, more directly alluded to with Anderson and Frischmann lamenting how “Sweet Gene Vincent was never that good”.

According to Anderson, on regular rotation on the turntables of himself, Frischmann and Mat Osman around this time, were a band called The Lilac Time. Quoted in David Barnett’s comprehensive biography, Love And Poison, he describes them as “quite light, leftfield pop sort of thing (...) lots of major seventh chords”, and this influence is abundantly clear on ‘Just A Girl’, and would have possibly done even more had it made it to the studio around this time. 

Frischmann’s, when she and Anderson met, record collection was largely comprised of folk music. In an irritating display of arrogance, Anderson insisted that these records would “no longer be listened to '' with him now in the equation. This decision would, of course, prove seminal in the trajectory of Frischmann’s music career in Elastica, as Anderson introduced her to spiky post-punk, however I find this to be rather ironic considering the undeniable folky nature of this particular song.

‘Just A Girl’ would later be re-recorded by Anderson and Richard Oakes, possibly around 1994, though reports of this vary, but not released to the public until a B-side was required for the single ‘Attitude’ in 2003. More on that (much) later, of course. 

Natural Born Servant (Anderson-Butler) 

‘Natural Born Servant’ is the actual first song in our timeline to be written by Anderson-Butler, and sees Suede as close to flirting with Baggy as they ever would. 

As a result, this one comes across as rather trite, not to mention overlong, clocking in at six minutes and twenty seconds. 

During my initial re-listen in my research for this project, I found myself incredibly puzzled as the chugging, Madchester intro spluttered into a half-hearted groove, before realising I’d gotten it entirely confused with a later track, ‘Be My God’. Frischmann shows herself a competent backing vocalist, possibly more so than Anderson. One YouTube commenter, possibly humorously, alludes to him “doing a Phil Oakey”, and there is indeed a resemblance. Anderson’s, however, is more naive, though he can certainly carry a tune and his voice is pleasant and sweet, possibly to the song’s detriment, when one considers the subject matter. 

Much like a large proportion of Suede’s work, ‘...Servant’ sees Anderson dallying with sexual imagery, and more specifically, BDSM imagery. This attempt, however, whilst enjoyable enough, is surprisingly sexless. It’s almost a feat in itself to write about sex in such a decidedly virginal manner, but I’m glad this was a theme he stuck with throughout his lyrics and it hints at greatness yet to come. More interestingly, however, is the use of sexual imagery as a commentary on class struggle. “You’re a natural born servant/this is the time to open your eyes”, can be viewed as a submissive accepting their place, or a working class individual gaining class consciousness and becoming aware of their oppression in society. 

I must say, I’m glad that this was as far as Suede’s relationship with Baggy really went, at least in the recordings I could find and actively listen to. It’s common to speculate of a song like ‘...Servant’ being indicative of a type of “alternate universe” Suede, but I couldn’t disagree more with this. Suede and Baggy just doesn’t work, and they would have always found their sound one way or another. 

Justice (Unknown, possibly Anderson-Frischmann-Butler) 

Surprisingly, this is the only song of this lot that I find myself drawn to the YouTube search bar to listen to out of choice. It’s almost certainly my personal favourite of all of the pieces we’ve covered here.I even found myself lip syncing to the chorus as I wrote this very paragraph! Oddly, I can’t find too much to say about it. It’s a sweet little, possibly even catchy, slice of Jangle pop. One of the thousands of happy-sad breakup songs of the late 1980s and very early 1990s. Anderson likens it to Aztec Camera’s ‘Oblivious’, which is a far, far better citation than the endless Smiths comparisons I once myself fell privy to, which have since become a cliche.  

We again hear Anderson’s vocals not quite having come into themselves yet, there’s a hint of insecurity and hesitancy. They’re so far removed from what we understand as his vocal styling, that one YouTube commenter on the version I found asks if Butler sings vocals. There is present, however, a deep understanding of melody and an undeniable hookiness. I can see myself going back to this one for the odd listen. 

Wonderful Sometimes (Unknown, possibly Anderson-Butler) 

Gary Crowley, the geezer-ish presenter of the Sunday Afternoon show Greater London Radio, was the host of Demo Clash; a competition held each Sunday on the aforementioned radio station. As the title suggests, this was a show where London bands would send in demos, that would go head-to-head in a public vote. As pointed out in Love and Poison, however, this would largely amount to a game of “who has the most mates”. Anderson would later show dismissal, if not outright disdain for ‘Wonderful Sometimes’. In Dave Thompson’s Suede The Next Life, First Time Around, he describes the song as “shit (...) nothing to get interested in. (...) [GLR] was a little local station, and we’re talking about London where everyone’s in a band.” Still, it would end up on a compilation cassette called What The World Is Waiting For compiled by Adrian Gibson, programmer at Powerhaus on Liverpool Road, N1. 

According to the Discogs listing, the idea was to showcase ten up-and-coming bands who were performing at the venue during this time (from a title like that, go figure). There was additionally a launch night at The Powerhaus, and Gibson was interviewed by Crowley to promote the gig. 

As for the song itself? ‘Wonderful Sometimes’ contains a few witty one-liners, “you couldn’t liven us up with a cattle prod” and “i’ve heard of happy ever after / it was just a joke but you could die laughing” particularly stick out. Personally, I quite enjoy “Do I just love you ‘cause you look quite good”, but that’s because, as a young-ish woman and a passionate fan, this is an accusation I’ve had levelled at me in the past, and I know I’m not the only one! 

‘...Sometimes’ is viewed by many as the holy grail of early Suede recordings, but for something so revered, it’s a decent enough piece of music, but it’s nothing special, even in the context of the other songs we’ve covered. Musically, I try to avoid Smiths comparisons, but here it’s unavoidable as the whiff of William, It Was Really Nothing and even some base notes of Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now, is enough to give you a migraine. Butler’s playing really is more Marr-ish than Marr, but drenched and sadistically drowned in a wah-wah pedal at times, eliciting a comparison to Fool’s Gold, though, mercifully, this is over much sooner. 

More excitingly is a noticeable shift in Anderson’s vocal styling, now carrying slightly more confidence and having something of a personality. Here, he’s sounding almost like Robert Smith of The Cure, minus the “Robert Smith-isms”. A deliberately but self-consciously Sussex drawl (The Cure, and Smith, were from up the road from Haywards Heath in Crawley), and a slight nasal intonation. 

Ultimately, I don’t so much understand the hype around this one - the reviews on RateYourMusic are unanimously positive, but it’s a jolly tune and, likely because of that, decidedly un-Suede.

[goatskickin]

hey, could you explain how you recolor hairs with accessories? i'd like to recolor a hair with beads but i want the color of the beads remain unchanged

Of course, anon! I’m happy to help. 😊

All you will need to do is keep a copy of the accessory separate, and then paste it back into the texture once you’re done doing what you need to do. Visuals help!

We are going to use @platinumaspiration 4t2 conversion of @oydis's Aspen - with the roses.

It's nice!

And, it's got an accessory on it - roses! 🌹

Once extracted in BodyShop, this is what the texture looks like - hair texture to the upper left, and the bottom of the texture is the accessory - the roses.

First, what I would do, is put in the texture I'd like to use in the hair part.

This was easy, as I've already got this hair queued up to go out in October, lol.

But, you can also leave it as-is if you're just changing the color, of course!

If you have a program with layers, you can just keep the texture as one layer, separate from the accessory.

See? Like this!

Or, you could save the accessory texture all on its own, and then copy and paste it on top of the texture you're working on. :)

Let's do an experiment!

Let's color this texture a nice, deep red - @pooklet's TNT.

Applying a Photoshop action to the whole texture gets us the result we DON'T want - the accessory got colored red too. BUT!

Remember how we saved the roses texture?!

Just copy and paste that section on top of what you've recolored!

I hope this was helpful for you, anon! Let me know if you have any other questions.

[blue-disco-lights]

Tag Game Tuesday (it's still) Wednesday

Thank you @celestialmickey @thisdivorce @deedala @creepkinginc @energievie @suzy-queued for tagging me in!

name: julia

age: (peaks around the door and waves at @francesrose3)

favorite season: Fall (which is also sometimes the height of summer where I live)

movies or tv shows?  I have emotional attachment to media in general, so both!

do you carry a bag/purse? what kind? I like a lil backpack for work & commute, and a crossbody purse on the weekends that’ll fit my phone, keys and lip balm (the most important accessory). With a special pocket for emergency candy.

what color is your water bottle? I got one of those water bottles (and it's beautiful, like purple/blue/pink) that marks the hours of the day to encourage you to successfully hydrate - You Can Do It! Almost There! It’s been sitting untouched on my floor for a while now :(

what color is your phone case? Turquoise green, and has lots of pockets (like my purse, no candy tho)

do you sleep in silence or do you need white noise/sounds/music? Definitely complete silence 

top sheets: yes or no? Why yes!

you’re in the candy aisle at the corner store, what are you grabbing? Oh good, candy ideas for my purse. I love those gummy candies that are shaped like hot dogs or sushi, do you know what I’m talking about? Basically any gummy things. If you ask me what candy I’m stealing from childrens’ trick or treat bags, it’s Twix.

preferred mode of travel (plane/train/car/bus/on foot/etc?): i love driving but also taking the bus (which in my town, is really fun for people watching and sightseeing), plus i love to grab a seat in the back and zone out with a book.

what’s your phone background right now? A photo I took of Lake Michigan last time I visited Chicago

are you more of a minimalist or a maximalist? Minimalist for sure - for whatever reason, i can think better surrounded by clear surfaces

it’s time to paint your bedroom! what color are you choosing? Light light teal … that sounds really relaxing

and finally, tell me something that brings you joy: oh you know, romantic stories…

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