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kitikara · 11 hours
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Sourozenci každé velikonoce
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Hey, non-slavic people wanting to write about characters with traditional to oldtimey first names.
Forget every baby name page you've heard of and go to this wikipedia page. It's very comprehensive, correct as far as I can tell (I'm czech but i don't have any language education) and it's really cool to have all the names sorted into groups like this, it makes it easier to understand how people making there names were thinking.
Just please, if you're using more than one name, make sure to stick with one country, or at least the east/south/west group, because while some names are used more widely, because when you put names like Svyatopolk, Dragiša, Wojciech, Václav and Ľubomír it feels likely they are from from different places.
(To figure out how the example names look in different slavic languages and which forms of them should be used together is left as an exercise left to the interested - or bored - reader.)
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kitikara · 12 hours
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Your tears can save him...//...will you be the death of me?
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kitikara · 12 hours
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kitikara · 13 hours
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kitikara · 13 hours
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kitikara · 14 hours
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I wrote a book! Very excited to announce that my first book, Sex Lives of Superheroes, will be coming out next year, published by the good people at Smart Pop Books!
It’s a series of comedic (yet scientific) essays that explore how super powers would affect the sex lives of the heroes that have them. And boy do things get weird. I can’t wait to share some strange science and big laughs with you all in 2024!
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kitikara · 14 hours
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!!! FREMEN WEDDING !!! Yes, I love them! I pled guilty, your honour!
One of my headcanons for the Fremen culture is that weddings are a super special thing - especially if it´s the wedding of a Naib, a Sietch leader. The whole community comes together to celebrate with dance, music, and food. While the groom wears quite simple but traditional robes for that occasion, the bride wears the opposite: bright colours and a beautiful crafted ensemble of jewellery with particular attention to the highly decorative headdress. The jewellery is usually passed down in the family of the bride.
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kitikara · 14 hours
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A beginners guide to improve your phone photos
Now even though most of my recent pictures are taken on a proper camera, I very much started taking pictures using just my phone and the natural light I had, so this is very much aimed at people who don’t have any “expert” equipment.
Anyway… Lights, Camera, ACTION! A quick introduction to what you’re working with.
Lights - Lighting (and it’s playful friend shadow) is the most important thing you will need - even the most basic of camera phones can take a decent picture if things are well lit, but the best camera in the world will struggle to make anything out of something that isn’t. My advice with lights is to stop thinking of them as a specific thing, but rather as relative levels, because that is what creates shadows and makes things look more interesting. So if the light one one side of you is more bright than the other then you’ll get some pretty shadows. If you are standing nearer a light source than the background you’ll be much brighter than it will be. etc
The sun is your friend as it’s a massive free light source, however it’s a bit hard to control, as it slowly moves around (OK so technically we move, but… you know what I mean), varies in intensity and sometimes disappears behind clouds. Depending where you are in the world, the sun’s position in the sky varies not only throughout the day but how high it is in the sky. There are some shots I can only manage at certain times of day during the winter because it’s the only time the suns hits parts of my bedroom at the right angle.
As a rule direct sunlight, unless it’s early in the morning or in the evening is quite difficult to control - because it’s so much brighter than anything else you can end up having very harsh shadows (you can do things like hold a thin white sheet over a window to diffuse the lighting, but I want to keep this simple).
But really any light source works, so long as it’s brighter than your other surroundings.
Camera - without getting too technical, basically a camera can change three different variables (which I’ll get onto later) to adjust how much light it lets in. In automatic modes, both on professional cameras, and your phone it adjusts these automatically to get the results. These tend to be geared towards the type of shots most people take, which is usually pictures of people’s faces, so they aren’t always so great at capturing the human body - this is why I prefer to use the manual settings (it might be called something like Pro mode on your phone). These aren’t usually available on the “selfie” camera so you’ll probably have to use the front facing camera (which will take better pictures anyway, it will just take a bit more practice to get right).
Another important feature taking self portraits is using a timer, or as I prefer to do if your camera has it, a voice activation mode, or both - so you can say “capture” and your phone will take an image. I think this is a feature on Android phones but might require something to be downloaded on Apple devices.
Action - this is where you get involved! It’s important to try lots of things - don’t be afraid to try lots of different poses to see what works. Move around in the light and see what works - don’t be afraid to move the camera up or down a little bit so it changes the angle it’s looking at you. My best pictures are nearly always ones I haven’t planned, but I just tried standing in a different position to normal, or used a prop in a different way and I liked the results.
So now you know all that, here’s a quick step by step guide to taking some nice pictures.
Set your phone to selfie mode (or take a video and watch it back). Find somewhere to balance it (or just use duct tape to tape it to a wall or object). Generally I find if you hold one hand in the direction of the main light source and one hand towards the camera you want your hands to be at a 90 degree angle or less. Move your body around and look at the results of the video (or the selfie screen if you can see it - if it looks quite good then you’re ready to go, if not just try adjusting things until you find somewhere that works. Remember the place you stood to get the best results (if in doubt use a bit of tape on the floor to mark the spot).
Change the phone to manual mode - you only really need to worry about changing two things  - the shutter speed and the ISO (phones tend to have a fixture aperture - or in non technical speak how much of the shot is in focus, or even more simply the background blur thingie, so we don’t need to worry about the final variable) . As a rule you want to keep the ISO as low as possible (usually around 100) as on phones it’s essentially just a “auto enhance in low lighting” mode, so the higher the setting the grainier the picture will end up looking. Set the shutter speed to around 1/50 second (if you are standing still this should avoid you looking blurry). If the image is too bright, then keep lowering the shutter speed (1/100. 1/200 etc) until you are happy with how it looks - if it’s too dark at 1/50 still, then start to raise the ISO).
If you are using the timer, set it (I usually find 5 seconds is about right to get into position). This method requires much more patience as you have to go back to the phone each time to take a new picture. With voice activation you can get into position and just shout “Capture” at your phone like a lunatic and take a whole load (although I would recommend checking the first few to just make sure things are looking great).
And that’s it really. But really the most important things are patience and being willing to experiment and try different things. You don’t need to know much to get going - just try lots of different poses and positions and eventually you’ll find something that works for you. Sometimes you just need to get lucky with the time of day when you’re using the sunlight, or a nice thin cloud can create beautiful lighting. Move the camera position around. Move yourself around and look at how the light moving changes how the shadows fall over your body.
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kitikara · 14 hours
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Melancholy 🌷
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kitikara · 14 hours
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Population: 396,101
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kitikara · 14 hours
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Found in the trash can
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kitikara · 14 hours
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Things I didn't know I needed to know
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kitikara · 14 hours
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Gift for a very dear friend of mine. He had a really hard time lately and I wanted to draw something to make him happy. He has a very weird sense of humor and his hobbies are birdwatching and ecology activism... It made him laugh♥(so I hope my dear followers here will not be offended by this doodle x_x )
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kitikara · 14 hours
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S m o l n e s s
My fancy mouse appreciation post feat Fëanora, Fingolfin, Ecthelion and Legolas, Sam, Dean (unfortunately he passed away) and Legolas again.
Bonus: Clumsy Dean
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kitikara · 14 hours
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ujela mi ruka
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kitikara · 2 days
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hodím si to ještě sem heh...
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