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whoever keeps popping in and out of the zelda dissertation ignore me im drafting another totk comic in my head

#no fear like being an hour and a half deep into a reread of your own insane ramblings and seeing anonymous panda pop into the document #anyway. hope youre enjoying it <3 #personal

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I actually love it when videogame adaptations are bad. It's the natural way of things to me. Of course you can't remove interaction from the interactive medium you fucking moron. You stupid dumb shit.

#god willing the zelda movie will be so bad nobody will ever try to do this shit ever again

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i havw. one final left to finish. i am SOOOO CLOSE

#well aside from my fucking 9am in class essay on monday. that prof is evil for that. but yk #6 days left of junior year. jesus christ #at this point in this semester alone i have produced something like 84 pages of comic altogether btw. #that number is JUST comics. not including all my OTHER schoolwork that wasnt comic related. lmfao #seq arts minor goes crazy. every day i get closer to giving myself carpal tunnel #personal

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hello! i love your zelink stuff sm😭 do you have any advice on how you get your characters so textured? like,, idk how to explain, but the clothes, hair and skin have a cool smudged effect. it might be rendering, but i really like your style of it!

uhhh okay im not sure exactly what you mean so i'm just going to go over everything you could potentially be talking about lmfao. (this is the problem with having multiple coloring styles)

what i think you're probably talking about is the very soft, smudgy rendering style that I sometimes use for more finished pieces. I haven't used it that much recently though so i'm not entirely sure?? for examples it looks like this:

this is a combination of 3 different sai brush presets. I sketch with a custom crayon brush, do flat colors with sai's default paper acrylic brush, and shade with a custom watercolor brush, and then i do a second pass overtop of all that with the crayon brush again to smooth things out and define important details. these are the settings for those brushes:

if you're talking about the kind of cleaner block-color look like this, which I think is the style I use most often:

this is the same crayon brush and paper acrylic brush mentioned above, but instead of shading with the soft watercolor brush I use the same paper acrylic brush to cell-shade. color and line do most of the heavy lifting here, since the only brush with any special texture is the paper texture on the crayon brush that's used for the linework.

the third potential style this could maybe (?) be about is this rougher, more obviously textured style, although in my mind i wouldn't call this 'smudged':

this is my new holy grail brush. i love her and i use her for absolutely everything. this one is for CSP, not sai. it's called sketches / doodles by REN99W, content ID 2024976 on the asset store, and it's FREE which is insane because it's the best csp brush ive ever used in my entire life. its pressure sensitivity is really cool because at normal pressure it will basically act like a normal linework brush with a bit of nice crunchy texture, but if you press harder than normal you get that sort of spray effect that looks almost like a halftone. literally incredible. works for sketching, lining, painting, ANYTHING. this brush has carried my art for the past semester and a half

#asks #i hope one of these was the answer you're looking for <3 if not im gonna need a specific example because i switch it up so often lol

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Could I beg you to tag Taylor swift stuff I can't escape the rhetoric everywhere I go and it's driving me bananas 😭

yeah ill tag all it w her name from now on lmao

#asks #sorry. once every few months i do have to be swiftie on main for a bit

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deeply refreshing to see someone critical of Swift who also like, genuinely likes her. Like i'm neutral to positive on her, but the online discourse has been absolutely rancid. flipping between "Taylor Swift has never done anything wrong ever and she's a fucking genius" and "Taylor Swift is the worst lyricist of all time and also a bad person" is exhausting, so thank you for like. nuance or something lmao

not to make it serious for a sec but i genuinely think that being able to like things that are bad is really important. like I think that it's an important skill to be able to look at something and see what you personally enjoy about it and then take a step back and acknowledge that objectively it's flawed. and to also be able to acknowledge that liking something isn't necessarily an identity or a moral stance. and i think that fandom space in general could really benefit from more people taking the time to learn how to do that. it's okay to like things that are bad

#people ask me sometimes why ill occasionally talk about something i like and then go 'but it's bad' and the answer is usually because it is #i love teen wolf. i love genshin impact. i love detective conan. and i fucking LOVE taylor swift. that doesnt mean theyre good #it just means i like them. and recognizing their flaws actually helps me better identify what i like about them! #it's like. in my mind bad > good is the x axis and i like it > i dont like it is the y axis yk. they're not mutually exclusive #tldr it's not that serious. we can all relax a little #irt taylor swift i do also think she has done some real harm to her fans in enabling them to deflect all criticism of her as misogyny #and i don't think it's fully the fault of these people who are parroting that response bc so much of her marketing has deliberately #reinforced this idea that to be a swiftie is to be a part of a sisterhood and that any attack on taylor is an attack on all of those women #who are in that in-group. when that's obviously not the case. but she's marketed herself as. for lack of a better term. 'girl music' #to the point where it makes her fans feel as though any criticism of the music or the woman responsible for it is an attack on their #personal experience of womanhood/girlhood/sisterhood/etc. and that's how you get all of thess bad-faith accusations of misogyny #i don't necessarily think this was her deliberate goal with her marketing tho because like. on first glance such a strong sense of communit #among fans sounds like a great thing. the friendship bracelets i got at the eras tour movie are really genuinely special to me. #but it does present a problem when your fans are unable to separate how they feel about the community and experience your music has fostere #from how they feel about you as a person. especially when you are a billionaire who absolutely CANNOT be above criticism in this economy #anyway. tldr i love taylor's music and i don't think swiftie hivemind is as deliberately malicious as it may seem #but it's obviously necessary to be able to take a step back and look objectively at what you're participating in. #anyway stream ttpd or don't idc <3 #taylor swift

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anyway ttpd ranking?🎤

this took SO long and some of them are genuinely only in the spots theyre in because i couldnt remember what they sounded like off the top of my head. subject to change as i listen to the album more except the last 2 which i will be skipping forever

the albatross

clara bow

ttpd

who's afraid of little old me

the black dog

the bolter

the prophecy

i can do it with a broken heart

down bad

i look in people's windows

the smallest man who ever lived

florida

my boy only breaks his favorite toys

but daddy i love him

so long london

guilty as sin

loml

thank you aimee

peter

the manuscript

chloe or sam or sophia or marcus

how did it end

robin

fortnigtht

the alchemy

i can fix him no really i can

imgonnagetyouback

cassandra

fresh out the slammer

i hate it here

so high school

#god. figuring this out was hell why are there 31 songs on this fucking album #asks #prophecy is as high as it is because it's a botw zelda song btw. not taking criticism #taylor swift

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being a swiftie in 2024 leaves me suffering more than jesus ever could. that woman is embarrassing me everyday

i was in the trenches in 2016 and i almost feel like it's worse now because i'm being embarassed by other swifties now too. like girlies we dont have to lie publicly about the racism line being good in order to enjoy the album. please

#like at least in 2016 we all collectively knew to KEEP OUR MOUTHS SHUT. PLEASEEEEEE #asks #taylor swift

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the crazy thing abt travis kelce is that he's my baseball coach's cousin. as in they actually look ridiculously similar and have the same last name. on one hand he's dating taylor swift and on the other he's Just A Guy to me

can you pull some strings and get me eras tickets

#statistically a few of my followers have to have connections. help a bitch out #asks #taylor swift

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its wild because some of these songs have great lyrics!! and then theres a gta reference 😭

to be fair that song is about travis kelce. you can't expect lyrical brilliance

#taylor swift does this thing where she'll write like. good lyrics. lyrics that i like and relate to and feel good singing #and then she'll throw in one line thats so FUCKING CRINGE that it kills the whole vibe #ttpd is a great song that i enjoy singing (not you tattooed golden retriever) #asks #taylor swift

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its so funny to me when such bad lyrics get thru cause like... if I were a billionaire I would hire people to make sure my songs were lyrically perfect. i would simply not fumble the bag that hard

unfortunately i think shes gotten to the point where no one wants to say no to her. shes so rich and famous that no one is willing to look her in the eyes and say taylor you cannot put that in a song

#and even if someone DID she would probably be like 'youre a misogynist' and put it in the song anyway #truly i think she and jack have created like. a creative echo chamber. if that makes sense. #where like neither of them will criticize each other and they won't listen to anyone else's criticism #so they end up putting out questionable shit. #i also think that that sexy baby line in antihero was her testing the waters and when it got played to death on the radio she was like #ok i can say whatever the fuck i want with 0 consequences? cool. and jsut started writing deranged shit #asks #anyways. tldr i hate it here is a skip lmfao #taylor swift

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ttpd has plenty of bad lines but personally i don't think shes getting enough hate for "like you were a poet trapped inside the body of a finance guy"

#it's overshadowed by the racism line in the same song. that whole song is bad lyrically tbh #ykw at least the finance guy line pulls you out immediately so the racism line isn't as insane of a gut-punch #sigh. taylor this one should have stayed in the vault #personal #taylor swift

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So, to a returning fan who hasn't watched a lick of Voltron after season 2 and wants to do a rewatch, what do you say is the best point to stop before things go downhill?

oh you’re not gonna like either of my answers to this question. personally i think it was bad from the beginning but it starts noticeably deteriorating after season 2 so. basically if you insist on rewatching it don’t watch any more than you already have

#i am the wrong person to talk to about voltron btw. i was 13 and suicidal when it came out #so thinking about it objectively is basically impossible for me. lmfao #asks

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oh…..a swiftie… I’m sorry I hope you recover soon

you guys need to stop being surprised when i like things that are bad. this used to be a voltron blog

#my last life-changing hyperfixation was MTV'S TEEN WOLF. it's a miracle i like anything that's good tbh #asks #taylor swift

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Oh my god you're a swiftie... My condolences

yeah pray for me. im currently trying to explain the last 3 years of her relationship history to my mother so she can understand the new album

#'whos joe alwyn' mom i KNOW you listened to lover. #i appreciate her dedication to not learning any of the men's names tho. she insists on calling travis 'the football guy' #asks #taylor swift

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What’s ttpd? A game?

close! a taylor swift album

#sorry to everyone who didnt know i was a swiftie until just now. unfortunately i was blonde as a child and my dad played acoustic guitar. so #asks #taylor swift

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whats your favorite song on ttpd?

right now it's ttpd (the title track lol) but i havent actually listened to the whole album all the way through since release night and my tastes tend to change as i re-listen so that's subject to change! ttpd just has that sort of 1989/reputation-ish sound which is my favorite kind of music from her lol. my other favs so far are the albatross, clara bow, and the bolter :)

#similarly to midnights i wasn't SUPER excited about any of the base album tracks on first listen except ttpd #but the extended release has a TON of songs on it that i really like lol #asks #i was actually TRYING to listen to the full album again last night but having those insanely dense lyrics in the background while trying to #translate and explain a bunch of japanese coherently was NOT possible so i had to turn it off lmao #taylor swift