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tojisun · 2 months

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!! bimbo f!reader; daddy kink; john’s pov // shiu’s version // dividers by @/plutism <33

john loves you so much; he loves spoiling you lots.

you're a sight for sore eyes, round and sweet, but that's not what only gets him going—you're kind to a fault, looking up at him all starry-eyed like he's not a bad man. like he's not broken and angry, and all mangled from within until it has him toying with people's moralities.

you curl in his arms, so giggly and bright, almost like you're unknowing of what he does, of what he's capable of, but you've always known better than anyone else. after all, john trusts no one more than he trusts you.

you are so, so lovely; stoking his desires, filling him up with this miasmic need that burns from within. he aches every time, so desperate to feel you. to touch you. to have one more taste because you've turned john insatiable, his hunger constant, burrowing deep in the yawning of his stomach.

he wants more from you. he will always want more.

"daddy?" you call, pattering out of your room with a little pout. john's quick to drop the call, not bothering to say any goodbyes to ghost, and turns all of his attention to you.

he gulps, feeling himself chub up underneath his slacks. you've got your neon green tube top on, the fabric taut as it clings to your skin. there's a little slip of cut by the front of it, and all that's keeping the fabric twined together are the little straps that converge into an 'X', framing your pretty tits in a way that has his throat constricting, his thirst palpable as it rolls off him in waves.

you don't notice of course, eyes turned to the baby blue slip of a dress you're carrying.

"hi, sweet'art," he croaks out, pulling your attention back to him, almost pleading.

you look up, blinking like you've forgotten he was there or that you were even asking for him, before a smile dances on your lips, tugging that kissable pout away.

"john!" you say, giddy, bouncing in your place and it—

jesus, it makes your tits wobble, your tight tube top not really doing anything to hide the fact that you don't got a bra on.

you tryna kill him or somethin', doll?

"c'mere," he grunts, patting at his lap.

you fall on top of him with a squeal, all your tender parts dimpling as you nuzzle close, humming in delight when john brushes his lips on your forehead. he adjusts himself on the seat, arm curling around your waist, tugging you impossibly closer.

"so what's got you into a tizzy?" john asks, rubbing his hand atop your belly, his cock chubbing up even more at the softness of your pudge.

"oh," you murmur, breathless, your eyes tracking his caresses. "was jus' wonderin' if i should wear this top or the blue dress, s'all."

"yeah?" john begins peppering kisses along the shell of your ear, huffing when you squeak, body jolting at the ticklish feeling that his stubble makes. "and y'wanted daddy's thoughts, s'that it?"

"mhmm." you sound distant. distracted.

john trembles, just as dizzy with his need. he wonders if he can coax you out of that outing you were planning with your friends. he wonders if he can ask you to stay because there's something else he'd rather do than talk to his mates.

(maybe he'll have you kiss his cock and have you smear that lipgloss all over the leaking slit; or have you sit on his face since it's been a while since he's got a taste, and john is parched.

or maybe he'll have you ride him, give him a view of those pretty tits bouncing, your nipples hard and in need of being sucked on. maybe he'll make a mess out of that top, yeah? lick you through it, watch it go damp and see-through, until the green of your top is muddled with the colour of your areolas.

or maybe he'll breed you, huh darlin'? you'd want that, wouldn't you? have him fulfill his promises—make a mom out of you?)

"well, baby," john begins, his voice gruff as he pulls himself out of his imaginations. he kisses the slope of your neck, and breathes in the smell of your body wash. "i do love that green top better—shows more of y'r girls, doesn't it?"

you giggle, almost a touch shy, before nodding. john's heart swells, the aching need in the pit of his stomach peaking, bloating. he can't help himself—his darling love is warm on top of him, beautiful and soft. a lesser man would've crumbled faster; pawing at your body, hand rough as it fondles your tit—

really, john deserves a goddamn award for how saintly he's acting; holding back like he's not leaking in his boxers.

but he remembers how excited you've been about this night out and jobn would rather fuck his fist than ever be the cause of your disappointment, so he takes a ragged breath in, leashing his desires back in the pit of his stomach, weaving it beneath his blood, and taps your hip to send you off.

you climb out of his lap with a huff before you twirl, bending forward and planting a sloppy kiss on his lip. you leave them sticky, marked by your lipgloss.

"see you later, daddy," you trill, waving, before you run back to the room. john can only grunt, unable to trust his weakened voice.

driven by his deprivation, john fishes a lingerie out of your hamper and pockets it. he'll need it for later—the night is young.

#john price x reader #price x reader #john price smut #cod x reader #f!reader #john price #suns #wrote that shiu one w a shifting vision of john n shiu bc theyre both been burning in my mind since :((#(wrote this w one hand yadda yadda)

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yasmeensh · 1 year

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A Master Study featuring Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. In which Link hangs out with the two Zeldas post-game (Who do you think became the Queen of Hyrule?)

This was a difficult piece, but I'm happy with it!

Based on 'The Chess Players' by Jacques-Clément Wagrez (1902)

Information on inspiration and process under the cut!

Original piece: "The Chess Players" by Jacques-Clément Wagrez (1846-1908).

The moment I saw this artwork I immediately thought of Zelda II. One of the women is wearing a medieval-esque red velvet dress, and she looks a lot like the design I made for the cursed princess Zelda!

I thought it would be very fitting to reimagine this artwork in a Zelda II context, so I went ahead with it! doubles as a master study and LoZ fanart.

I learnt a LOT from making this piece! Since I worked on it digitally, I got and made brushes that acted as close to traditional brushes, and I also worked on the entire piece in one layer. So whenever I made a mistake, I'd have to paint over. No return. But it was a big learning experience! Learnt more about rendering silk and velvet by observing how they are painted and blended in the original.

Here are some WIP shots! It took a long time to get to where it is now xD It was difficult to finally pen down the right proportions and placement. I probably should've done a grid copy, but I opted to just eyeing it out all the way through. It was... hard. (lesson learnt?)

I read that in a lot of older pieces, they are made in greyscale, then flat colours are overlaid on top. makes rendering much easier. and it truly has! I probably should’ve rendered the greyscale version even more. Since there were still a lot of mistakes that I had to rework and adjust while colouring.

Very fruitful experience overall, and I’m just happy to make a grand-scale Zelda II artwork xD I’ve never seen one so I made it!!!

#please check the cut!!!!#loz #legend of zelda #Zelda 2 #Zelda II #The adventure of link #master study #atelier hylia #shoutout to my atelier hylia friends for their support #this was a difficult one #very glad to have an artist community I can turn to for critiques and support <3 #Jacques-clement wagrez #I should pair this one up with my other zelda 2 master study and sell them as prints huuuhuhuhu #but I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START #catprint?#if anyone has experience with selling prints dm me ;-;

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dystopianam · 1 month

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[DOWNLOAD] 20 3t2 SKIES RECOLORS FOR LOWEDEUS LOT SKYBOX [PART 2] - FIXED 08/22/2024

I was very undecided about publishing these skyboxes because they didn't convince me much, but since it seems that someone is interested in them...

Like the other skyboxes the resolution is 1920 x 470 and I tried to keep only the skies with the best textures. If you are wondering why I wrote "3t2" it is because I made these skies by taking screenshots of the sky of The Sims 3 in its various phases of the day using the Uranesia lighting MOD!

Unfortunately, since the skies must be bright even at night, at certain angles sometimes the "sunlight" illuminates the skybox so much that it becomes blinding. I can't do anything about it, I can't adjust the brightness intensity of the material (if there is a way I would like to know). The brightest skies therefore cannot be seen very well from the direction of the light...

I had also prepared another set of skyboxes with pastel colours, but due to this problem I had to discard it for the moment…

08/22/2024 - I FIXED THE BRIGHTNESS PROBLEM! PLEASE DOWNLOAD THEM AGAIN IF YOU HAVE THEM!

All files have been compressed and as usual, these are just recolors, you need Lowedeus mesh which you can find here to make them work! (MORE PREVIEWS HERE)

CHOOSE ONLY ONE VERSION!!

DOWNLOAD INTENSITY 2 (SFS - less saturation)

DOWNLOAD INTENSITY 3 (SFS - more saturation, like in the screenshots)

#the sims 2 #the sims 2 custom content #the sims 2 download #my cc #the sims 2 skybox #the sims 2 skyboxes

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petermorwood · 6 months

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Food on St Patrick's Day (in the USA)...

...is usually Corned Beef & Cabbage, which is the Irish-American version of the original Irish boiled bacon & cabbage, but while the celebratory Irishness is still going strong, try something a bit more authentic.

A nice warm coddle. Not cuddle, coddle, though just as comforting in its own way. (Some sources suggest it's a hangover cure, not that such a thing would ever be necessary at this time of year, oh dear me no.)

Coddle is a stew using potatoes, onions, bacon, sausages, stout-if-desired / stock-if-not, pepper, sage, thyme and Time.

You'll often see it called "Dublin Coddle", but my Mum made Lisburn Coddle lots of times, I've made West Wicklow Coddle more than once, and on one occasion in a Belgian holiday apartment I made Brugsekoddel, which is an OK spelling for something that doesn't exist in any cookbook.

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I do remember one amendment I made to Mum's recipe, which met with slight resistance at the time and great appreciation thereafter.

Her coddle was originally cooked on the stove-top, not in the oven, and nothing was pre-cooked. Potatoes were quartered, onions were sliced, bacon was cut into chunks and then everything went into the big iron casserole, then onto the slow back ring, and there it simmered Until Done.

However, the bacon was thick-cut back rashers, and the sausages were pork chipolatas.

Raw, they looked like this:

...and the bacon looked like this:

Cooked in the way Mum initially did, they looked pretty much the same afterwards. The sausages didn't change colour. Nor did the bacon.

While everything tasted fine, the meat parts always looked - to me, anyway - somewhat ... less than appealing. "Surgical appliance pink" is the kindest way to put it, and that's all I'm saying. This is apparently "white coddle" and Dubs can get quite defensive about This Is The Way It SHOULD Look.

I'm not a Dub, so I persuaded Mum to fry both the bacon and sausages first, just enough to get a bit of brown on, and wow! Improvement! I remember my Dad nodding in approval but - because he was Wise - not saying anything aloud until Mum gave it the green light as well.

Doing the coddle in the oven, first with lid on then with lid off, came later and met with equal approval. So did using only half of the onion raw and frying the other half lightly golden in the bacon fat.

Nobody quoted from a movie that wouldn't be made for another decade, but there was a definite feeling of...

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There are coddle recipes all over the Net: I've made sure that these are from Ireland to avoid the corned-beef-not-boiled-bacon "adjustment" versions which are definitely out there. I've already seen one with Bratwurst. Just wait, it'll be chorizo next.

Oh, hell's teeth, I was right. And from RTE...

Returning to relative normality, here's Donal Skehan's white coddle and his browned coddle with barley (I'm going to try that one).

Here's Dairina Allen's Frenchified with US measurements version. (I feel considerably less heretical now.)

And finally (OK, not Irish, but it references a couple of the previous ones and is a VERY comprehensive write-up, so gets a pass) Felicity Cloake's Perfect Dublin Coddle (perfect according to who, exactly...?) in The Guardian.

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Returning to the beginning, and how boiled bacon became corned beef (a question which prompted @dduane to start an entire website...!)

The traditional Irish meat animal for those who could afford it was the pig, but when Irish immigrants (even before the Great Famine) arrived in the USA, they often lived in the same urban districts as Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.

For fairly obvious reasons pork, bacon and other piggy products were unavailable in those districts, but salt beef was right there and far cheaper than any meat Irish immigrants had ever seen before.

Insist on tradition or eat what was easy to find? There'd have been contest - and do I sometimes wonder a bit if sauerkraut ever came close to replacing cabbage for the same reason.

The pre-Famine Irish palate liked sour tastes: a German (?) visitor to Ireland in the mid-1600s wrote about about what were called "the best-favoured peasantry in Europe", and mentioned that they had "seventy-several sour milks and creams*, and the sourer they be, the better they like them."

* Yogurt? Kefir? Skyr? Gosh...

Corned beef and Kraut as the immigrants' celebratory "Irish" meal for St Patrick's Day? Maybe, maybe not.

Time for "Immigrant Song" (with kittens).

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Corned beef got its name from the size of the salt grains with which the beef was prepared. They were usually bigger than kosher salt, like pinhead oats or even as large as grains of wheat, and their name derived originally from "corned (gun)powder", the large coarse grains used in cannon.

BTW, "corn" has been a generic English term for "grain" for centuries, and "but Europe didn't have corn" is an American mistake assuming the word refers to sweetcorn / maize, which it doesn't.

Lindsey Davis, author of the "Falco" series, had a couple of rants about it and other US-requested "corrections". As she points out, mistakes need corrected but "corn" is not a mistake, just a difference in vocabulary.

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In Ancient and Medieval Ireland pig would have included wild boar, the hunting of which was a suitable pastime for warriors and heroes, because Mr Boar took a very dim view of the whole proceeding and wasn't shy about showing it (see "wild boar" in my tags and learn more).

Cattle were for milk, butter, cream and little cattle; also wealth, status, and heroic displays in their theft, defence or recovery. It's no accident that THE great Irish epic is "The Cattle-Raid of Cooley" / Táin Bó Cúailnge (tawn / toyn boh cool-nyah).

Killing a cow for meat was ostentation on a level of lighting cigars with 100-, or even 500-, currency-unit notes. Once it had been cooked and eaten there'd be no more milk, butter, cream or little cattle from that source, so eating beef was showing off And Then Some.

Also, loaning a prize bull to run with someone else's heifers was a sign of great friendship or alliance, while refusing it might be an excuse for enmity or even war. IMO that's what Maeve of Connaught intended all along, picking undiplomatic envoys who would get drunk and shoot their mouths off so the loan was refused and she, insulted, would have an excuse to...

But I digress, as usual. Or again. Or still... :->

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For the most part, "pig" mean "domestic porker", and in later periods right up to the Famine, these animals were seldom eaten.

Instead, known as "the gentleman who pays the rent", the family pig ate kitchen scraps and rooted about for other foods, none of which the tenant had to grow or buy for them. These fattened pigs would go to market twice a year, and the money from their sale would literally pay that half-year's rent.

For wealthier (less poor?) farmers, pigs had another advantage. Calves arrived singly, lambs might be a pair, but piglets popped out by the dozen. A sow with (some of) her farrow was even commemorated on the old ha'penny coin...

What with bulls, chickens, hares, horses, hounds, pigs, salmon and stags, the pre-decimal Irish coinage is a good inspiration for some sort of fantasy currency.

But that's another post, for another day.

#food and drink #St Patrick's Day #Irish cuisine #Dublin coddle #corned beef or boiled bacon #pigs and cattle in Ireland #The Cattle Raid of Cooley #Youtube

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pictureamoebae · 11 months

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USING RELIGHT FOR RESHADE - a tutorial by amoebae

[You can also find this tutorial over at imgur and patreon]

ReLight is a premium shader for ReShade made by Marty's Mods (Pascal Gilcher). It allows you to add four new lights to your scene that help illuminate, and create realism and drama. To download and use ReLight you need to subscribe to the Path Tracers tier on Gilcher's Patreon to get access to the iMMERSE Ultimate package of shaders. Once subscribed, you'll be prompted to link your Patreon account to discord, and then you'll be granted access to his discord server, and, most importantly, to the Path Tracers discussion channel and the Downloads Level 2 channel, which is where you will find ReLight (along with the other premium shaders included in that tier).

Be sure to also download the up-to-date free iMMERSE shader package, because you'll need the Launchpad shader and some of the other included files.

The following guide is for the older qUINT_relight.fx version of ReLight. The latest version of ReLight is MartysMods_RELIGHT.fx, released on 31st December 2023. Many of the settings have changed in the newer version, but you can still use this guide to help understand how to enable and position lights. The guide will be updated/rewritten once I've had time to properly play around with the new version. You can continue to use the older version if you'd prefer.

When you turn on ReLight in the ReShade menu you'll be greeted with these settings. Yours may look different because I've used it a lot and it remembers your last settings.

Take a look at the settings at the top.

Use Smooth Normals = On

Trace Shadows = On

Filter Shadows = On

Use Temporal Supersampling = On

Shadow Mode = Trace All

Shadow Quality = Ultra (change this if you get bad performance)

Shadow Sharpness = I have mine set around 0.65 but you can play around with whatever looks best

Z Thickness = Play around with this too. It controls how realistically shadows fall on and around objects

At the very bottom of the settings is Visualize Light Position. Turn this on so you can easily see where your lights are.

Now we can turn on one of our lights. Remember, it remembers your previous settings so yours will look different to mine the first time you use it.

Under Light 0 check the Active box.

You should see a big circle appear somewhere on the screen. If you have any object close enough to it, you should see them get brighter. If nothing is close to the circle you may not see any difference.

You can see a difference between this screenshot and the last - Shadowheart's face is brighter.

Now it's time to move the light where we want it and change it to a colour we like.

Under the Active box you'll see a row of 3 boxes containing numbers, next to the word Position. These control the coordinates of your circle of light in relation to the screen. You can place your mouse inside these boxes and move it while holding down left-click to change the value a little like a slider.

Left box = moves the circle left/right

Middle box = moves the circle up/down

Right box = moves the circle forward/back

In this shot I've moved the circle of light over to the right and a little further back so it better illuminates the front of Shadowheart's face.

Next you can choose the colour of your light.

In the row below Position you'll see it says Tint. Click on the coloured box next to Tint and it will bring up the colour picker you see in the screenshot. Choose your colour from here. Click anywhere in the main ReShade menu to close the colour picker.

I adjusted the position and the tint a little more until I had it exactly where I wanted it. You can see a darker circle now over in the top right of the screen (my mouse cursor is hovering over it to make it easier to see).

You can use the Intensity slider (directly below Tint) to control how bright the light should be.

You may need to go back and forth between the Position, Tint, and Intensity settings until you get just the right effect.

Here's a reminder of what the picture looks like without that added light. Compare it to the screenshot above to see how great our new little light has been at helping illuminate Shadowheart.

You can turn individual lights on and off whenever you want by checking or unchecking the Active box next to the light in question. It will save your settings.

Now I want to add a second light. I've moved my ReShade window over a little so I can see what I'm doing.

I turned on the Active box under Light 1, and positioned my new light where I wanted it. Look over to the left of the statue in the background. You'll see my mouse cursor, and directly above it is a tiny blue circle. That's our second light!

The further you move the light away from the camera (using the right-hand box under Position) the smaller the circle gets, because it's further away!

I made this light blue, and I turned the intensity up quite high. This has helped illuminate the statue and added nice shadows that help give it some depth.

Here's a screenshot to remind you what everything looks like without any of the ReLight lights I added.

And here's a screenshot showing how everything looks with ReLight turned on and my two lights in action. I chose a subtle effect because I just wanted to draw attention to Shadowheart's face and to the statue behind her.

When you close the ReShade menu the circles that helped you know where your lights were will go away, but the light they cast will remain. Notice how you can't see the two circles in this shot?

You can also uncheck the Visualize Light Position box if you want to hide the circles while keeping the ReShade menu open. This can be helpful if they're obscuring parts of the scene that you need to see while you continue editing.

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And that's it! You can add up to 4 lights and control them independently from one another. You can use them to just help illuminate a character for a portrait, to add drama with bold lighting, or to increase the realism of a scene with better shadows and light falling where you would expect it to. If you have a big fiery sword you can add a light to it that makes orange light cast onto the character who is holding it, which can look really cool. The only limit is your imagination.

(If I ever learn how to make videos I'll translate this tutorial into an easier format, but for now I hope this helps.)

#reshade faq #relight faq #reshade tutorial #relight tutorial

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hgfictionwriter · 9 months

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Quiet

Jessie Fleming x Reader

Summary: Jessie takes you camping. She has a surprise in store for you, but you have to promise to be quiet.

Warning: Smut. Even more smut. And it's even longer. Too long, but here we are! All this because I was inspired by Jessie in a beanie.

The gravel crunched underneath your shoes as you walked up to your and Jessie's tent. You took one last glance at the adjacent sites where a few of Jessie's teammates were set up, and they too had retired to their tents for the evening. The whole campsite was quiet in the still of the night.

There was a dull light emanating from your tent as you zipped it open and stepped inside. Jessie had zipped together your sleeping bags and was just shuffling down into it as you closed the tent back up.

"Thanks for setting everything up," you spoke quietly as you gestured to your surroundings in the tent. She gave you a smile.

"Of course."

"And thank you for making me smores," you added with a teasing lilt in your voice. "Best I've ever had."

She chuckled as she adjusted her position on the inflatable camping mattress. "Anything for you," she relayed with a wink.

"Charmer," you deadpanned with a smile lingering on your lips.

You turned around to rummage through your duffle bag and you dug out your sleepwear. You began to get changed, already knowing before you turned around that Jessie would be watching you. When you first started seeing each other, Jessie was a gentleman of sorts - or maybe it really was that she was just coy - and would look away anytime you changed, blushing of course. Now, here she was laying with her hands behind her head and watching you unabashedly. You loved your blushing Jessie, but you had to admit this version of her did something extra to you.

"Nice shirt," she said with a smug grin.

"Oh, this?" You feigned as she turned slightly and lifted the collar area slightly to accentuate the name across your back. "It's just a nice shirt. That Fleming girl - meh, she's alright."

"Alright?" Jessie asked aghast, her pitch rising and her eyes growing wide. "Wow. I guess she's going to have to step up her game to impress you a little more, then," she laughed before opening up the sleeping bag for you. "Come on, princess."

You turned off the small lamp and climbed in, snuggling into her side and giving her a sweet kiss. "By the way, you look so fucking cute in your beanie.”

She kissed you back before subconsciously adjusting the beanie on her head, pink colouring her cheeks that you could see even as your eyes adjusted to the dark. "Yeah, well, you don't look so bad yourself out here. I saw you building that fire. I'm impressed."

"I'm not just a pretty face, you know. And if you want to talk attractive, seeing you chop wood? Well, I'll tell you that's a fantasy I didn't know I had, but consider it fulfilled."

You gave her one more peck as you turned onto your side, your back now to her. She snickered as she turned into you to wrap an arm around your waist and press her lips to your shoulder.

"Thanks for being out here this weekend with me and the girls," she said as she kissed your shoulder again and gave you a light squeeze.

"Of course, babe," you said as you reached behind you, your fingers sneaking under her beanie as you caressed the back of her head. You fidgeted slightly as she tilted her head up to give you a single kiss on the neck.

"I've always wanted to bring a girlfriend camping with me," she said quietly, ending her sentence with another light kiss.

You tilted your head back to look at her to see her watching you tentatively. "I'm the first girl you've brought out here with you?" She bowed her head a bit, ducking behind your shoulder.

"Yeah," she said shyly.

"Aww, Jessie," you cooed and she immediately gave you a light shove, starting to complain.

"Don't make a big thing out of it. Don't make fun of me," she whined.

"I'm not," you chuckled, though making sure to shore up your tone. You just thought she was too fucking cute. "I swear. I think it's really sweet."

"Mhmm," she pouted.

You grabbed her arm and pulled it back around you, trying to pull her closer into you. She let you move her arm, but she didn't move beyond that.

"I love you. I really do. And thank you for bringing me out here," you continued, lifting her arm to give her a quick kiss on her hand before returning it around your waist.

"I love you, too," she grumbled.

"Come closer." You tugged on her arm only to receive a teasing scoff.

"I don't know if you deserve it," she said with mock indignance.

"Babe." You drew the word out in complaint. "I'm sorry." You held your hand up in surrender. "I'll be good now, I swear." You smiled complacently as the mattress shifted as she inched back towards you, though still not as close as you wanted.

"Yeah?" She asked, her voice ever so husky as she planted a small kiss on your shoulder.

"Mhmm," you promised with a series of nods as you gave her arm another tug.

She leaned up on one arm so she could move her head up over you and she laid a slow kiss on the pulse of your neck. You felt her smile against you as you subconsciously moved beneath her.

"I'll have to think about it," she said quietly, her voice low and teasing as she continued to lay slow, sensual kisses along your neck.

"Mm, what can I do to convince you?" You said as you reached your arm back and ran your fingers along the back of her neck.

"I guess we'll have to see."

You were readying a complaint when she pulled away from your neck, but she soon resettled herself - her arm wrapping around you tightly and pulling her flush up against her this time. Your complaint was replaced by a small gasp leaving your lips as you suddenly became very aware that Jessie was wearing a strap with her boxers.

"What's wrong, baby girl?" Jessie asked innocently as she peppered slow kisses along the back of your shoulder.

"Nothing," you replied with a breathy laugh. You turned your head to see her wearing a shit eating grin. You lowered your voice to a low whisper. "I just didn't expect to feel your cock up against me. That's all."

"Hm? This one?” Jessie asked as she gave a roll of her hips. You moaned subconsciously and before it was even fully out of your throat you found yourself on your back, pressed into the mattress. Jessie was on top of you in a flash, her hand fully, but gently covering your mouth. While that was a new experience for you, you were even more distracted with the fact that she was now between your legs and her strap is pressing against you through the fabrics between you.

Jessie tilted her head down so her lips were brushing against your ear, sending goosebumps across your skin. “You know I love hearing you moan and call my name. But new rule tonight. You can’t make any noise.”

You let out a muffled groan through Jessie’s hand and she chuckled lightly into your ear, causing you to squirm under her at the sensation that went through you as her hot breath tickled you. “Not off to a good start, my love,” she chided. She shifted against you once more, purposely grinding the strap against you through your clothes. You frowned in frustration as you shifted back against her and another small moan worked its way up.

Jessie sat back just enough to give you a look as she tutted in disapproval. “Baby. If you can’t keep quiet I’m going to have to stop.” She couldn’t hold back a smirk as you began to whine and fidget. She leaned back in, this time her knee nudging your leg further out as she pressed up against your core again. “You don’t want to wake our friends, do you? Or worse, the other campers?” She nipped at your ear lobe and you grit your teeth. “Everyone hearing you moan and beg and call my name? What would people say?”

Heat immediately pooled between your legs at her words. You weren’t exactly a prude before you met Jessie. But what you had with her was very special - she always made you feel safe and cared for, and God was she attractive. Never mind how she looked, but it blew your mind to think about the things she'd say to you in bed. Everyone saw her as sweet and innocent Jessie; they had no idea how dirty a mouth she had for you. Needless to say, she brought out another side of you when it came to sex. To this day, even in this moment, it still shocked you how much of a slut you were for her.

You inhaled deeply as your gaze shifted to the top of the tent in an attempt to focus on staying quiet. She kissed your cheek gently as she removed her hand from your mouth. “That’s my good girl," she said as she dipped a hand past the waistband of your shorts and into your underwear, her fingers easily sliding through your slick folds. Her breath hitched and you felt her roll her shoulders as a satisfied smirk crossed her lips.

"Mm, so wet for me already."

You ran your hands up the back of her neck and massaged the taut muscles there. Her eyes closed as she leaned into your touch. Your ran your fingers up the back of her head and removed her beanie before playing with her hair as it fell to frame her face.

"I'm always wet for you," you murmured quietly in her ear as you shifted your hips up against her fingers.

She paused and stiffened, suppressing a moan of her own. Her words always got you going, but your words could get her too.

After a moment of recovery she exhaled gruffly and you soon found your shorts and underwear pulled off and carelessly thrown aside and she shifted you both back onto your sides so she was spooning you. Her hand gripped the back of your thigh and she lifted your leg to began slowly grinding her hips against you, the strap pushing back and forth through your folds, hitting your clit and sending shockwaves through you.

You inhaled sharply and she moved in closer to whisper in your ear. "Remember, baby, no noise." A purposeful pause before she took your earlobe between her teeth and flicked her tongue across it. "No matter how hard I make you cum."

You practically melted into her and the mattress at the sentiment. You could feel her prideful smile against you at having you so worked up before she'd really even gotten started.

"You are so fucking wet," she whispered as she drew the strap back and forth through your lips painfully slow. "I can hear how much you want my cock."

A small moan moved helplessly up your throat though you did your best to stifle it. Still, she gave you a disapproving noise.

"Uh uh," she warned with a teasing voice, although she continued to move her hips. "You keep that up and I won't give you what you need." She tightened her grip on your leg and lifted it a touch higher. You needed no encouragement and you spread your legs further for her. She moaned into your neck and kissed you. "I know you want me inside of you. You want me to fill you up. You want me to fuck you so hard you can't think straight. And I want to fuck you so hard and so thoroughly that you can't think of anything but me for days."

"Jessie," you whimpered.

"Babe," she scolded as she stilled her movements. Her fingers dug into your thigh momentarily before she pushed you firmly down so you were flat on your stomach. Your hands gripped the sleeping bag as she shifted to straddle you from behind, her legs on either side of yours and her hands up by your arms.

"I thought you said you were going to be good?" She said tersely. She snickered as you wriggled beneath her, desperate for her. You turned your head as best you could to look at her and you nodded, pleading to her with your eyes.

"I don't think you deserve to have my cock inside of you," she taunted. Her sharp words juxtaposed by how she tenderly caressed your arm with her thumb.

"Lucky for you," she continued, her tone now light as she began sitting back, tracing her fingers along your arms until her palms were resting on your back, "I've been waiting all night to be inside you. It was all I could think about and I can't wait any longer."

Your mouth fell open and she shifted back to adjust herself. Your back arched as you felt her line up the tip of the strap with your entrance. She leaned forward just so and you felt the tip enter you. A deep breath filled your lungs and you tightened your grip on the fabric beneath you at the feeling of her entering you. You desperately wanted more.

"God, you're gorgeous," she murmured before leaning forward and easing herself into you to the hilt. You had no hope of stopping the gasp that escaped you at her filing you so fully.

"Mmm," she warned as she moved her hands up your body and rested them under your arms. She held herself up to not let her full weight rest on your, but her body was planked on you now and her head was next to yours.

She remained motionless inside of you, making sure you were quiet - torturing you, really - before drawing her hips back. Your back flexed under her as pleasure flowed through you at that simple action. She paused again, the tip barely inside of you as she held you transfixed, before slamming down into you.

This time, there was no more teasing. She began thrusting into you repeatedly, rolling her hips in a way that made sure to send spasms through you at every contact. You buried your face in the pillow and had to bite it to prevent yourself from crying out. The mattress gave under you with every thrust and it only added to the force and sensation of it all.

She tilted her head down, her breath hot and heavy in your ear as she expertly pulled out and rammed herself back into you.

"How does that feel, baby?" She whispered. She latched onto your neck and sucked hard on the skin there when she saw you clench your fists in response to her question. "Mm, I know you like that. You love when I mark you. And I love letting everyone know you're mine." She clamped down on your neck again. You arched into her touch and were now white-knuckling the sleeping bag to keep quiet. "I love knowing that anyone who sees you will know you're taken. I'm not sharing you with anyone," she said with a sharp thrust for emphasis.

A small moan escaped you - her possessive claims and her skillful actions proving to be too much. Jessie stopped immediately and a whine fell from your mouth. She leaned down whispering into your ear. “I told you I’d stop if you made noise.”

You clenched your fists impossibly harder, using every ounce of strength to not groan in frustration. You rolled your hips back up at her and she let out a low moan at the friction it caused. You opened your eyes as you heard rustling as she clutched the sleeping bag within her fists now too.

Despite how blown out her pupils were from lust, she still scolded you. “That wasn’t nice."

She wrapped an arm across your front along the collarbone, but still gave you a kiss on the back of your shoulder. You grasped her arm as she started moving inside of you again, your nails digging into her forearm and she sunk her teeth into the flesh of your back in response.

She held you tightly as she began fucking you roughly into the mattress. You dug your nails deeper into her forearm and she bucked harder against you.

"Fuck, babe," she panted. "Nobody makes me feel like you do."

You tossed your head back in response and she began hungrily kissing your neck once more. Even if you didn't make a peep, the sound of your arousal filled your ears every time she moved. Her boxers were going to be ruined with your juices the way you were dripping and with how she was slamming into you. You know she had to be soaking as well - she loved fucking you with her strap and from the hitches in her breath and the moans that fell from her lips, she was nearing her edge too. You felt that pit deep inside of you tightening and tightening and your legs squeezed together as your climax quickly approached.

"It's okay, baby," she whispered encouragingly into your ear as she pulled you closer against her. "You can come. I want you to come for me." You reached behind you and found the back of her neck and clutched her down to you. She grunted and squeezed you tighter as she breathed against you. "I'm gonna come for you, too."

You couldn't help it, a longing groan fell from your mouth as you tightened around her and your insides began to pulse. Waves began to rush through you and your nails clawed at her, you were sure they had to be breaking skin by now.

"Ah fuck," she panted, her voice thick with desire as her head lolled against yours. Then she moved one leg up to plant it on the bed so she was kneeling, her hands now gripping your hips and began fucking you feverishly.

You buried your face back into the pillow and bit down hard, nearly screaming as she plowed you into the bed. A wanton moan escaped as she suddenly dug her fingers into you.

"Y/n." Your name fell from her lips, her voice suddenly high with need. Her thrusts stuttered as her own orgasm overwhelmed her. Her breathing was ragged, her grip on your hips releasing and tightening and back again as she rode out her climax.

As your waves began to dissipate, her strokes evened and slowed until she pushed in one final time and collapsed on top of you.

"Oh my God," she breathed as she shifted her weight a bit to give you some reprieve. You liked having her fully on you, but she always felt like she would hurt you if she did. You both lay there catching your breath and recovering.

"I love you so much," she eventually said in reverence as she kissed along your back.

You turned your head slightly, head still fuzzy and in a daze, but you smiled at her. "I'll never get over how good you are," you said with an airy laugh. "Jesus. That was," you trailed off, your eyes fluttering shut momentarily, "beyond amazing."

She pulled out of you, one last jolt going through you as she did so. She leaned down and kissed the corner of your mouth before laying on her back next to you. She reached down and took off her boxers and the strap. She held up the boxers briefly before tossing both items over to her bag.

"Well, those are definitely laundry."

"Shut up," you whined as you ducked your head a bit into the pillow.

"Hey," she chuckled as she rolled back over, placing her arm around you and kissing your temple. "It wasn't just you," she said pointedly, before adding, "besides, you know how much I love how wet you get for me."

A smirk crossed your face. "Honestly. Dripping wet for you." You saw her jaw clench at the proclamation and you arched as her fingers dug lightly into your hip once more.

"You're getting me worked up again," she warned as she tugged you towards her.

"You say that like it's a bad thing" you retorted as you hooked a leg over hers.

"Fuck, babe," she breathed and she firmly ran her hand across your back and pulled you closer. "I don't know how you do this to me." She inhaled deeply, before letting out a sharp breath as she pushed you onto your back and moved on top of you. Her gaze was dark and it sent renewed sensations through your core. You dragged your nails teasingly down her back before gripping her firm ass.

Her eyes closed as her back arched into your touch. She opened her eyes once more with a shuddering exhale.

"I would do anything to keep you happy," she said earnestly. "You mean everything to me."

You cupped her face and pulled her gently down towards you. "I have never been this happy in my entire life. Jessie Fleming," you took a quick breath as you trailed a finger across her collarbone absently, "you are the best thing that's ever happened to me."

She let her head fall gently against yours and she let out a content breath. "I love you. So much."

You wrapped your arms around the back of her neck and tilted your chin up to capture her lips with your own. You both quickly deepened the kiss and soon your tongues were teasing each others.

You shoulders rose and your breath hitched as her hand began to run up your thigh.

"I want to feel you," she whispered against you as her fingers began to explore between your folds.

"Oh my god, Jess," you breathed as you tightened your grasp on her and rolled your hips into her fingers. You winced in pleasure as her other hand gripped the base of your neck.

"I want you inside of me," you told her between kisses and this time she obliged you quickly. Her thumb came down to rest on your clit as she sunk two fingers into you and curled them upwards. A quiet moan fell from both of you.

"Fuck," she gasped, "you feel so fucking amazing," she praised as her head lolled from side to side at the feel of you tight around her.

"Jessie," you panted as she began to move, her fingers now soaked in your arousal. "You feel what you do to me?" You asked as you ground into the palm of her hand.

"Oh my god, Y/n."

Your eyes opened as Jessie withdrew and began to sit up. You gave her a puzzled look before realizing that she was about to move down your body. You gripped her toned arms and held her in place, urging her to come back up. Her brow furrowed in confusion.

"I want you up here with me tonight."

Her expression relaxed and she gave you a small smile as she climbed back up you. She moved one hand into yours and laced your fingers together before kissing you deeply.

"Anything for you," she said as she dipped her fingers back inside of you. You melted into her touch. You gripped her hand tighter and you spread your legs wider for her. "Mm, baby," she said with a groan of appreciation. "I love when you do that. Jesus."

"Fuck me, Jess," you whispered into her ear as you moved your hips in time with her. "Make me yours."

A low, hungry growl rumbled in Jessie's throat and she released your hand to wrap her arm around your lower back and she pulled you into her. She flexed her legs, shifting them to spread yours even more before leaning down into you, pinning you to the mattress with your legs now up on her shoulders.

"Always," she said, her eyes locking on yours. I'll show you who you belong to," she promised as she gave a strong thrust of her hips, her fingers thrusting hard and deep into you.

"Oh God," you said as your eyes rolled up into your head. She began fucking you, her whole body moving with you and she quickly added a third finger, stretching you out even more.

"This pussy belongs to me," she stated as she hit your g-spot again and again. "You belong to me." Your mouth fell open and all you could do was try to breathe. "Tell me," she demanded as she began moving into you harder. "Tell me who you belong to."

"You. Only you, Jess," you managed to say, your voice filled with need. Jessie was truly the sweetest and kindest person you knew, but when she was knuckle-deep inside of you, she - and you for that matter - became someone else entirely. And you fucking loved it.

"That's right, baby," she breathed. "And I'm yours. You have all of me."

"Jessie," you moaned, "I'm going to come already."

"Come for me, baby. Show me you're mine."

You wrapped your arms around her tighter. You brought your head up and bit down on her shoulder, smothering a scream as you came around her fingers.

As you came down from another high, she slowed her pace and laid you gently back down on the mattress. You only now realizing that she'd been basically hold you up in her arms towards the end.

You covered your face in both exhaustion and elation, your body completely limp. You didn't think you could move even if you tried.

Your eyes were closed as she crawled up your body again and gave you tender kisses on the cheek.

"My beautiful girl."

Her fingers traced feather-light touches across your arm as she patiently waited for your to come around. When you did, you gently cupped her cheek and pulled her in for a slow kiss.

"I'm just gonna say it. If we ever split up - which we won't," you said, added the latter in exclamation knowing she'd interject, "I would definitely be coming around and begging you for a thorough fucking."

She frowned at you displeased. "But I don't want to just fuck you."

"I know," you smiled, "and I love you desperately for that."

Jessie huffed. Pouting still as she curled up against you, wrapping an arm protectively around her waist. "I don't like you talking about us breaking up," she complained.

"Baby, you're perfect. I could never leave you," you placated, though it was true.

"Stop," she whined as she buried her face in your shoulder.

"I'm sorry," you chuckled. "What can I say? I'm a little discombobulated after those core shaking orgasms." She scoffed, but you felt her smile against you. You knew she got a high off of how good she made you feel and you knew she'd be wearing the marks from you like badges of honour tomorrow.

You laid a kiss on the top of her head and she kissed your collarbone.

"Now," you said, a lilt in your voice as you grabbed her wrists and moved so you were now straddling Jessie's waist with her hands pinned beside her head. "Let's take care of you."

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Though Jessie was normally an early riser, the camp was full of activity by the time you both woke from your sleep. You both got dressed and stepped out to see her teammates prepping breakfast already.

"Better get these two some coffee. They were up all night.”

#jessie fleming #jessie fleming x reader #woso #woso community #woso x reader #chelsea wfc #canwnt #jflem

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djarin · 11 months

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hi i'm sorry to bother you but do you have any tips on giffing dark indoor scenes? yours always look so good!

hi there! not a bother at all :) i can definitely try to explain the steps i usually take under the cut!

this tutorial will assume that you already know the basic steps of gif-making — if you don't, there are lots of great tutorials floating around on this site that can help you out! :)

here's the gif i'll work with to explain my steps, the bottom being the original and the top being the coloured/brightened version.

before we start, a general tip i recommend keeping in mind: if you want to brighten a dark scene, you'll want to get your hands on the highest quality download you can find. 1080p is decent, but if your laptop can handle 2160p 4k hdr files* without sounding like it's about to explode, that'll get you even better results!

(*colouring hdr 4k files requires a different set of steps — the scene will appear washed-out on photoshop, so you need to make sure that you don't end up whitewashing anyone if you do choose to work with this type of file.)

since most of my downloads are 1080p, i'll use this type of file in this tutorial.

the first step of my gifmaking process with 1080p files is almost always the same no matter what scene i'm giffing. i make a brightness/contrast layer and set the blending mode to screen:

now my gif looks like this:

depending on the scene and how washed out it looks after this layer, i'll play around with the opacity. for this gif, i didn't touch the opacity at all. use your best judgement for this, because every scene is different!

i find that dark indoor scenes are usually tinted in yellow or green. one of my first goals is to try to fix the undertone of this scene before focusing on brightening it any further. i go to colour balance for this, and play around with the midtones, shadows, and highlights.

again, every scene is different, so the amount to which you use colour balance will differ, but for this specific scene, my goal was to neutralize the yellow. i focused particularly on the midtones and shadows of the colour balance layer, moving the scales to the opposite of the reds.

doing so will help with neutralizing the yellow. the only reason i moved the scales towards magenta and blue (therefore making it a bit more red than less) rather than green and yellow in shadows was because i wanted a darker contrast in the blacks. moving them to green and yellow made the overall scene more yellow since there were so many dark spots that shadows affected. (you'll see what i mean when you start experimenting with your own gif — this part of the process really just depends on your preferences!)

our gif might not look that much better yet, but it will soon! our best friend channel mixer is gonna help us out. for an in-depth post about how to use this adjustment layer, i recommend checking out this tutorial.

i'm someone who prefers to make more than one layer for the same adjustment layer for a reason i can't even explain (i just find that it helps me stay more organized). so don't think of this process like i can only use this layer once so i MUST fix it NOW. you can create multiple layers of the same adjustment layer, because every layer on top will affect the ones underneath it.

since my priority is getting rid of the yellow tint, i went to the Blue section of the channel mixer and increased it in all of the scales:

this step alone has helped us out so much, because look at our gif now!

not only does the background look less yellow, but so does izzy's skintone.

now i'm going to focus on trying to brighten the scene even more without destroying the quality. the levels layer can actually help out a lot with this.

the amount to which i move each toggle differs per scene, and i think experimenting depending on your gif works best for this layer.

side note: i prefer not to use the ink droppers on the side because the contrast in the result usually ends up feeling too strong for my preferences, but if you find that this works better for you, then go for it! basically, the first dropper with the black ink should be clicked before you select the darkest part of the scene that you can find, and vice versa for the third dropper with the white ink — click it, and then select the brightest part of your scene.

curves is the next layer that does fantastic work! unlike the levels layer, i do actually use the ink droppers for this. it's the same concept, with the first dropper being used on the darkest part of the scene, and the third dropper on the brightest.

try to think of curves as something that not only further brightens your scene, but also helps with the colour neutralizing process.

i grab the first dropper, then click the darkest parts of the gif that i can see. depending on the undertone of the blacks that you're clicking on, the tint of your gif might actually change significantly. this is why i prefer to click once, then undo the action if i don't like what it gives me. izzy's leather jacket was the sweet spot for this gif.

when i'm satisfied, i make another curves layer and use the third dropper to click the bright/white parts of the scene. for this gif in particular, the lights in the background were a good fit because they carried a yellow undertone — this meant that my curves layer actually helped to further neutralize the yellows in the scene as a whole!

(i manually dragged the curves graph upwards for the third dropper to make it brighter. i don't need to do this if the dropper does this for me automatically, but since the lights were pretty bright, it only changed the tone of the scene and didn't increase the brightness — hence the manual step.)

pat yourself on the back, because this is what our gif looks like now!

this is good, but it's not great — there's still just a bit too much yellow in the scene for my liking (sorry, i'm picky! :P)

i created another channel mixer layer and played with the toggles until i was satisfied:

ta-da! the gif as a whole is much less red/yellow now:

this is when i start fixing the colouring now — namely, his skin tone. selective colour will be your best friend here. i wanted to make his face just a tad brighter and less of a yellow-ish magenta shade, so i focused on the reds and yellows.

then, out of habit, i created another selective colour layer and took out more of the "yellow" in the whites to make them whiter, and increased the black (just by +1, since the contrast is pretty good enough already).

note: i switched to "absolute" for these two colours. basically, relative = less vibrant colour manipulation, and absolute = more vibrant/stronger colour manipulation. i prefer to stick to "relative" for fixing skin-tone since "absolute" can be a bit too strong for that.

our gif looks like this now!

his face looks brighter and much less yellow, so i'm satisfied!

this next step is not mandatory at all — again, i'm just picky and despise yellow-tinted scenes. i personally believe that indoor scenes that are yellow/green tinted make them look more dark than they actually are, so i do my best to get rid of these colours.

i also don't always do this, but for this gif, i just simply went to hue/saturation, selected the yellows from the drop-down menu and decreased its saturation.

be careful not to do this too much. depending on the quality of your download, this can significantly decrease your gif quality. i tend to worry less about this when i'm working with 2160p files, but again, those files require an entirely different set of steps when it comes to brightening/colouring.

since this was a 1080p file download (and one that was actually less than 1GB, oops, don't do that), i played it safe and decreased it by -39 only.

note: you also want to be cautious of colour-washing skintone when it comes to this step. i find that another selective colour layer can help perfect the skintone in case the yellow drains out of it too much, but skip the hue/saturation step if it's too difficult to work with — better to be safe than sorry.

anyway, this is the final gif!

that's usually what i do when it comes to colouring dark indoor scenes! i hope this tutorial makes sense, and if you have any further questions, don't hesitate to reach out! :)

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elizabethsnuts · 3 months

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Mini Genius

Spencer Reid x Daughter!Reader

Summary: You and Spencer go see the team at Quantico, you wanted to show everyone how similar you were to you dad.

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Spencer carefully adjusted your tiny beige cardigan, making sure it sat perfectly on your small shoulders. You looked up at him with wide, curious eyes, you absolutely loved dressing up like your daddy. Your hair was neatly styled, and you wore a small bow that matched the colour of Spencer’s tie. You were getting ready to go see the team at Quantico, you loved going to see all your aunties and uncles.

Spencer helped you put your white socks and little Mary Janes on, getting you out the door of the house. He carefully strapped you into your car seat, checking the harness twice to ensure it was secure. You giggled in delight as you watched your daddy’s focused expression. "Ready to go see the team, sweetheart?" Spencer asked with a smile.

You nodded enthusiastically and smiled brightly. “We gonna see, Auntie JJ, Auntie Emily, Auntie Penelope! An’ Uncle Derek! An’ an’ an’ Uncle Hotch!”

Spencer chuckled as you listed off the team with your little high-pitched voice, you really did adore the team. “Yep, we’re going to see everyone!”

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Spencer walked into the elevator, you securely on his hip, your tiny feet swinging and wiggling as you eagerly waited for the elevator to go up. Your outfit really was a miniature version of Spencer’s, you wore a tiny vest over a button-up shirt, complete with little slacks, your tiny Mary Janes and of course your cardigan that sat over the vest and button-up shirt. It was clear that you idolized your father, mimicking his style down to the last detail. You had it down to a T.

When the two of you reached the bullpen, the team was already there, immersed in their work. JJ was the first to notice you. Her face lit up with a bright smile as she stood up and walked over.

JJ took you from Spencer’s arms and hugged you. "Look who's here!" she exclaimed, drawing the attention of the rest of the team. You squealed with delight as you saw familiar faces, waving excitedly to everyone.

"Well, if it isn't the littlest profiler!" Derek called out, standing up from his desk with a broad smile. "And she's dressed just like you, pretty boy!" He approached the three of you and he couldn’t help but tease Spencer. He raised an eyebrow and crossed his arms. "Reid, did you forget to check your mini-me's wardrobe this morning?" he teased, earning a chuckle from the others.

Spencer chuckled and looked at you. “What? There’s nothing wrong with her outfit. She likes it!”

You nodded and smiled. “Daddy looks nice.” You stated simply.

"That he does," JJ chuckled, stroking your hair. "But I think you definitely pull it off more."

Morgan bent down and ruffled your hair. "So, Y/N, do you also have the smarts like your dad?"

Your eyes lit up, and you nodded vigorously. "Uh-huh! Daddy says I remember lots of things."

Morgan raised an eyebrow and looked at Spencer. "She's already showing off, huh? Just like you."

Spencer shrugged, a proud smile on his face. "It runs in the family."

"Alright, then," Morgan said, turning back to you. "What can you remember?"

You quickly pulled out a small, colourful book from your backpack. "Daddy took me to the aquarium, an’ I learned all about fishies!"

"Oh yeah?" Morgan's interest was piqued. "What did you learn?"

You opened the book and pointed to a picture of a clownfish. "This is a clownfish. They live in warm waters an’ like to hide in sea anemones. The daddy clownfish takes care of the babies."

"Wow, that's impressive!" Morgan said, genuinely astonished. "You remembered all that?"

You nodded enthusiastically. "An’ this," you flipped the page, "is a hammerhead shark. They can see really well because their eyes are on the sides of their heads. They like to eat stingrays."

Morgan looked up at Spencer, “Okay, pretty boy, I see you’ve made a carbon copy of yourself."

Spencer smiled proudly. "She has an eidetic memory, just like me. She remembers everything we read about at the aquarium."

JJ smiled at you as you flipped through your sea animal book. "I take it you had fun at the aquarium?"

You nodded vigorously, continuing to flip through the pages. "Yes, yes, yes, Aunty JJ! I saw lots an’ lots of fishies. An’ I remembered all their names!"

"Tell Aunty JJ about the octopus," Spencer encouraged you.

Your eyes lit up, and you turned to JJ. "An octopus can change colours to hide from predators. They have three hearts an’ blue blood!"

"Three hearts and blue blood?" JJ repeated, clearly impressed. "That's amazing, Y/N. You're so smart!"

You smiled shyly at the compliment. “Thank you! You know that boy seahorses carry the babies? An’ that starfish can grow their arms back!” You said excitedly with a smile. “Daddy reads bedtime fish stories lots and lots!”

JJ chuckled at your excitement and hugged you closer. “I think that all your sea animal facts are super super cool! I think that when you see Henry next he’d love to hear all about it!”

You giggled and nodded, clapping your hands together in your toddler-like excitement. “Daddy we go see Henry soon? With Aunty JJ!”

Spencer chuckled and nodded, taking you back into his arms. “Sure we can! We’ll organise a day for it, don’t worry.”

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As the afternoon turned into evening, Spencer gathered up your things, ready to head home. The team gathered around to say their goodbyes, each one giving you a hug or a high-five.

"Come back soon, okay?" Garcia said while she hugged you and gave you double high-fives. “We love having you here, N/N."

You hugged her tightly, your little arms wrapped around her. "I love you, Auntie Penelope."

Spencer took your hand once more, and you waved goodbye to the team. As you walked down the hall, you looked up at your father. "Daddy, can we see more fishies tomorrow?"

Spencer smiled down at you. "We can do anything you want, sweetheart."

You grinned, satisfied with that answer. "I love you, Daddy."

"I love you too, Y/N," Spencer replied, lifting you up into his arms for a hug. He knew that no matter where life took him, as long as you had each other, everything would be alright.

#daughter!reader #spencer reid x daughter!reader #spencer reid #spencer reid criminal minds #criminal minds fluff #criminal minds #spencer reid fluff #spencer reid x child!reader #fluff

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kozachenko · 4 months

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Here's a digital sketch dump of some pose/anatomy practices and some 2hu doodles, I think from now on if I don't have any big final piece to post, I'll just post sketches I liked that I did digitally (might also reblog some drawings of mine that I want more people to see, maybe idk).

Artist's Notes:

Ok so after the recent Hifuu fanart I did, I've been hoping to experiment more with how I draw faces, how I render, as well as how I stylize things. In some of the earlier sketches I did, I had an idea for a pose that I wanted to try drawing, so I took a ref pic of myself doing said pose (the leaning one btw) and then did a sketch over top of it just to get an idea for the shapes, negative space, and silhouette. After that, I wanted to do some simpler breakdowns of the shapes so I can get better at simplifying the body (these ended up being the bottom right sketches in the post). I also did some experimenting with how to push certain parts of said sketches to create a different body type (via liquify and then a more refined version based on that sketch), as well as figuring out what makes a pose feel natural and not stiff. This was also a bit of a foreshortening practice just so I can get more confident with it, and I ended up using the arms from the liquified version for the coloured Zanmu sketch I did since I liked them so much (dw I'll get to that).

The next thing I wanted to try and draw was Hisami, mainly because.... I am very bad at drawing her in my style. Last time I drew her I made her look really creepy and spindly, and it is my headcanon now that she can switch between a more human, and more creepy look whenever she wants. I'm liking where the face is going a lot, might have to refine a few things about it in the future, but it's cute (I also made the blush purple which I think is what I'm gonna do with her face from now on). I also like how her hair in the sketch turned out a lot, but the outfit..... not as much... Ever since I started changing my style to something less cartoony, I've had a hard time drawing her outfit in my style. Especially the flower veil thing she has on, which, I did try to find a way to draw, but I ended up deleting that sketch because I didn't like it. I'm also not a fan of using the colour purple, like, pure purple, magentas are fine, indigos are fine, but not strict purple. I also have a hard time with drawing all the little pattern details on her dress. I also need to find a way to draw the flower veil in a way that looks good because everytime I try it ends up just looking off (very similar to whenever I try to draw Zanmu's blue spears). I think the only solution to this problem is to do what I normally do and make my own version of the outfit, but with adjustments to suit my style while still trying to keep core elements from the original design intact (like I do with Zanmu and Keiki, and yes I am going to get to that Zanmu drawing just gimme a minute).

Ok next up is Keiki, my favourite Touhou character who I haven't drawn since the beginning of the year. Since my style has changed a lot, I wanted to just do a face sketch of her to get a hang of drawing her again, and I..... really really like how it turned out! When I drew her eyes, I realized that a good way of keeping faces too same facey can be via varying the sizes of their pupils, so that's an idea I'm gonna keep in mind from now on. I had a lot of fun with her hair, I initially was gonna do it like how it is in the official art, but I ended up not liking it, so now I'm gonna draw Keiki with wavy heir like this because it's fun and it looks nice. I also included my base sketch for Keiki's face since I was initially struggling with drawing her bandanna, and in the coloured sketch I added some more detail into her hair.

Now to finally talk about the sketches for Zanmu. Good lord was I having a tough time with her face. I also did this sketch before I figured out how I wanted to draw hair, so that's why the rendering on her hair is different (I did this soon after the Hisami sketch actually). Since I changed my art style a lot, I had to find a way to translate her face from my more cartoony style to my more detailed style, so while the face shape, nose shape and mouth was fine, I was really struggling with the eyes. I did get somewhere eventually though, and I am super happy with how it turned out. I wanted to lean more towards the androgynous side of the gender presentation spectrum, mainly because I think that makes sense for her character. Also made sure to include the silver hairs and some wrinkles just to bring some signs of her aging into her face because those are just staple features of how I draw Zanmu at this point lol. You will also notice that I gave her some scars on the right side of her face, and that's because I am a Zanmu-with-scars truther, I fucking love it whenever I see someone give Zanmu visible scars like that it just adds so much omg (I also tried to put a wolf bite mark on her arm in the full body drawing but idk if it reads well). While you can argue that her not having scars sells the idea of her being this "powerful, untouchable mastermind who is impossible to defeat," I'd say that instead of those scars representing times she got injured, they represent everyone who has failed to defeat her.

As I was drawing Zanmu's face, I referenced my sketch of to help with contrasting their features since I made Keiki's face more traditionally feminine. I also didn't mention this in my commentary on Keiki's face because I wanted to save it for here, but giving Zanmu scars also plays into the fact that she used to be human, wheras Keiki doesn't have any scars because she's a god who doesn't follow the rules of normal human biology. Plus I'm thinking about the two of them interacting again (return of Zan/Keik??? (I'm a multishipper btw) maybe???) so drawing their faces together will definitely help me in the future if I wanna draw them together (again, maybe as a ship? I've kinda been ironing out the kinks in their potential interactions (romantic and non-romantic) for a while now so idk maybe expect that in the future lol).

And now for the full body drawing, when I was doing the face sketch I did this little snippet of an outfit, had a vision, and the made it into a reality. I'll admit, part of me was worried that it would end up looking too much like Yuugi's outfits in the spinoffs and mangas, but I feel like I made enough changes to differentiate them. I tried to keep a few of the major details in Zanmu's design (i.e. the red tassles and yellow lining on her shirt) while putting a new spin on it. I also dialed up the scars to 11 since without them the whole thing kinda looked incomplete. Also, while I could say that the leaves on her kimono are "a nod to the fact that technically she should be a tengu because back then people belived that corrupt monks would turn into tengu but no Zanmu is an oni and they're maple leaves because...tengu...ahahahaha" what really ended up happening was that I looked up clothing patterns from Sengoku era Japan, liked the leaves the most because the red picked up on the red from the rest of her design and just ran with it. I also always had the idea to put Zanmu in men's clothing from Sengoku era Japan and while the accurate thing to do would be to put her in a Buddhist's clothes from that era.... from a character standpoint, I don't think Zanmu is pious enough to strictly wear the proper monk uniform, and also since she's basically the king of Hell, she would probably dress herself like royalty from that era. TBH, I probably could've been a bit more historically accurate, but again, this was mainly for conceptual purposes because I had a vision and I needed to see it through.

If I were to draw her in this sort of outfit again, I should probably try and use more references, although now that I look at it, if she were to wear it properly this would maybe, probably look a bit closer to a Kyūtai sugata (a very huge stretch, but it just kinda reminds me of that) just without the layers under and over the main piece of clothing (In the website that I searched up to try and compare the outfit in my sketch to, they name the outfit pieces but don't label them on the image, so I don't know 100% what everything is called) so I will definitely have to use that style of clothing as a reference going forward.

Also, I was kind of inspired by the ToTK design for Ganondorf since I have finished the game a while ago and I absolutely love what they did with his design (it's just so fucking cool omg) and I thought that sort of look would look good on Zanmu, so yeah got some inspo from that.

And those were all the notes for each of the sketches, I'm motivated to draw rn but kinda art blocked, so doing these little coloured sketches helps a lot.

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Photoshop Tutorial #1 - Change Background & Add Reflections

Before & After

You will need

Photoshop

Internet Access

I was inspired to make this tutorial after facing a dilemma in my game. I wanted my sims to swim in Brindleton Bay, but, shock horror, the water there is not swimmable. Luckily, I know how to change the background of my screenshots to make it appear as though it is - and I'm going to bring you through the process of how!

Starting off, in game, I brought my sims to Tartosa and got my desired shot. Then, heading over to Brindleton Bay, I got some shots of the horizon that I wanted as a backdrop.

Here's a picture I took:

Okay! Let's open up Photoshop!

For reference, I have Photoshop 2024, but most if not all of the features I've used should be included in older versions too.

Here's our image! Now I'm selecting the Background layer in the layers panel and press CTRL J twice to create two duplicates.

I'll turn off the bottom two layers for now, (by clicking the eye button, for newbies) and go to the properties panel. this should be on the right hand side, above the layers panel, but if it isn't, simply go into window > properties to switch it on.

With the layer selected, I click remove background and voila! Photoshop has... er... done her best to remove the background (she sometimes gets it wrong, but at least it's a help)

You'll see that a layer mask has been created. (circled in image).

If you haven't used layer masks before, the only important thing to know is that black will erase and white will add.

So with my brush tool (shortcut B) selected and set to black, I can go around the image and erase all of the parts I don't want.

If you have a steady hand and a tablet/cintiq you can do the same job a little quicker with the lasso tool (shortcut L) by selecting any unwanted area and simply pressing delete

Once I've removed all that needs to be removed, I see that there's a little slice of her hair that needs to be added. I can change the brush colour to white and paint it in.

Done! Easy!

Okay, let's switch off this layer for now, and switch on the one beneath it.

This is the layer I want to make look like the Brindleton Bay sea. So I'll make sure to pull an image of the water up as reference for colour.

This time I'm going to create a layer mask using the polygonal lasso tool

It's easy.

Find the lasso tool in the tool panel on the left of screen (the third icon from the top - or by pressing L on your keyboard)

Left click & hold, and a menu will pop up. Select the polygonal lasso tool.

Click around the area you'd like to mask, in my case, the sea. Tip: if you hold down the shift key while clicking, you will be able to create perfectly straight lines.

Click on the layer mask button at the bottom of the layers panel (pictured)

Everything except the selected area should disappear!

A small thing here, but I don't want the reflection of the rock in the water in my picture. I'll select the layer (not mask), take the eyedropper tool (shortcut i) with the sample set to all layers, and use a soft brush (B) to paint it away.

Next I'm using adjustment layers to edit the colour of the water, to try and make the blue turquoise paradise look more like the horrible green bog water of the bay.

You'll find these next to the mask button in the layers panel.

For my picture, I'm using hue/saturation for the colour and levels for the light. you can fiddle around with any of the adjustment layers to find what works for you.

I've shown the adjustments I've made for my specific scene below, just for reference.

When I'm happy with the colours/lighting, I select all adjustment layers (shift + L click to select multiple), then right click and choose create clipping mask. This is to ensure that the adj layers don't affect any other parts of the image, just the area I want it to.

And there! My water is looking sludgy, just like I wanted.

Okay! I've decided that I'd like some texture in the water. It always annoys me that sims water looks so flat. So here's where Pinterest enters the story.

I like Pinterest because unlike Google, the majority of the images are not watermarked. You're also slightly less likely to find AI slop.

I wanted some water ripples, so I searched for something like Water Texture, found one I liked, and dragged and dropped it into my photoshop file.

From here, I transformed it (CTRL + T) by resizing & rotating the bounding box, then grabbing the corners while holding CTRL to create some kind of perspective that works for the image.

I didn't bother bringing it all the way to the horizon, because I intend to fade that out with a gradient anyway. I had to sacrifice the bottom of the image for the sake of correct perspective, but that's fine. I will crop that out later.

With the texture layer selected, set the blending mode to soft light. It blends nicely!

Now! Another layer mask! These are our friends

With the texture layer still selected, I create a layer mask.

This time, because I had nothing in the image selected first, the layer mask will appear white. That just means nothing has been masked yet.

With it selected, I find the gradient tool (shortcut G) if you press G and the paint bucket tool is activated, simply navigate to the tool panel on the left of the file, hold the paint bucket tool down and select gradient.

I'll change the colour to black, and make sure I have the foreground to transparent gradient selected.

Other settings are pictured.

I'll drag the gradient over the area I want to mask. In this case, the top of the water texture to make it appear as though it's fading away towards the horizon.

(Doubly make sure you've selected the mask, not the layer while performing this action.)

Looking good!

Time to drag the layer above your adjustment layers and create a clipping mask again.

Alright! Let's do the background.

I'll drag that image of Brindleton Bay that I took earlier into the file.

I want to place it below my sea layer, and above that original background layer (I am going to leave that untouched for insurance reasons)

Then, using the move tool (shortcut V) I'm simply going to move it to the correct place. Basically I just want the horizon lines to match up.

Tip: hold the shift key to drag an image in a straight line.

Enter to confirm.

You can see that the sky is now unfinished, but it's such an easy fix. I'll just select the sky colour with the eyedropper tool, then use the paint bucket tool & brush tool to fill in the sky.

Done!

Now - note that the sea doesn't quite blend in with the background. To fix this, I'm going to take my eyedropper tool (shortcut i) and select some of that dark green colour beneath the mountains.

I will create a layer (+ button on the base of the layer panel) and drag it above that sea texture layer I created earlier.

Then I'll create a layer mask to clip it to the sea.

I'm grabbing that gradient tool again (G) and creating a nice gradient on the horizon.

The horizon line is a little sharp, in my opinion, I want it more faded. So, using a soft brush (B) and that same green colour, I'm going to create a new layer & place it above that green gradient, this time I'm not clipping it.

Holding down the shift key, I'm going to draw a straight line right across the horizon. This helps to blend it all together a bit better.

Now! for Reflections!

Firstly, I'm going back to that sky layer with the Brindleton Bay mountains, and I'm going to duplicated by pressing CTRL + J

I'm dragging it above the sea layer, but below all of the other clipping masks. This will automatically create a clipping mask for the new layer.

Next, I'm going to edit > transform > flip vertical

With the move tool (V) I'm moving the image upwards so that the horizon lines meet and it looks like the lighthouse and mountains are reflecting in the sea.

Note: make sure auto select is off while using the move tool on a layer that lies beneath several others.

This leaves a little bit of a mess on the bottom on the canvas, which can be fixed by creating a layer mask & the gradient tool set to black, and dragging a gradient over the bottom of the image until it blends nicely into the sea.

With the mountains reflection done, I'm going to move onto the people.

I'll turn that top layer that I worked on earlier back on.

Then I'll duplicate it (CTRL + J)

Right click on the layer mask of the duplicate and select Apply Layer Mask from the dropdown. This simply bakes the layer mask into the image. Usually I try to edit non-destructively as much as possible, but in this case it's fine to destroy.

I'm going to rename this layer Reflection

With that new, reflection layer selected, I'll go to Edit > Transform > Flip Vertical, just like before.

I want to add a little water/shimmer effect to their faces, so I'm going to Filter > Distort > ZigZag

I'll just mess around with the settings here until I find something I like.

This is optional, obviously, I've done reflections in edits without doing any of this, but it just adds something a little extra to water scenes, I think.

Here's a time I didn't do that.

anyway, my sims are looking a bit crazy now, but it's fine, because I'm going to, you guessed it, add a layer mask and gradient.

But first, using the lasso tool (L) I'm going to draw around one of the characters and drag her into place. I can move the bounding box around a bit to make her shoulders meet in the right place.

Then I'll do the same for the other character.

Tip: Hold CTRL while moving, warping or resizing something for a smoother, more precise experience.

Now, I'm doing what I said I would, and I'm creating that layer mask. We know how to do it by now, right?

Make sure everything is deselected first by pressing CTRL + D

Create layer mask

Select Gradient (G) set to black

Drag gradient over bottom of reflection (If you ever need more precise gradients, you can select the round gradient at the top of the file. I needed it to blend the reflection on the right more, because the characters are not at an even height.)

In the Layer panel, change opacity to 20% (or whatever you like) and hit Enter to confirm

Using Crop (shortcut C) I'm going to crop my image, cut off that pesky strip at the bottom and just basically make the framing of the picture a little bit nicer.

And viola!

I could edit this image more, throw in bounced light, splashes etc etc but I'll leave it like this.

The only thing I will add in is a little lens flare to indicate sun, so again, I'm taking to Pinterest and searching for one that works.

Tip: make sure the background of a lens flare image is completely black. Otherwise it will be harder to use.

Below is the one I have chosen.

I'm simply changing the blending mode to screen, moving it and resizing it with the transform tool (T), and fiddling with the opacity until I'm happy.

That's it!

I made a video running through this whole process, with all of my shortcuts in the bottom right hand corner so that you can see exactly what is happening.

youtube

If there are other tutorials you'd like to see in future, please let me know!

And I'm more than happy to answer any questions!

Good luck <3

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