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wisteria-lodge · 3 years

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Archetypes: Sorting Hat Chats

I’ve been asked about my rationale for naming different primary/ secondary combinations. I did this originally as a tool to help me sort characters - I wanted to see how these types tend to be used, so I could more easily see what subversions looked like. I'll run through my thoughts, but know there’s a lot of variation within each category. But even WITH that variation, I do think that each one has its own specific energy that makes it interesting to talk about. An explanation of the terms I'm using.

DOUBLE LION “THE REVOLUTIONARY”

Pretty straightforward. The Lion primary knows something is wrong, they know it in their bones even if they can’t articulate it, and they’ve got to go out and do something about it. Probably charging at whatever power structure is directly in front of them. It’s unlikely you find a character leading a revolution who isn’t a Double Lion. These guys are intense, inspirational, single minded.

The villain version of the Lion primary tends to be the person who “went too far" or "became the monster they were trying to fight.'' But I think that the much more interesting Lion primary villain trope is the Traitor. Since Lions work from their feelings, and their philosophies can’t necessarily be articulated or linked to individuals outside of them - they can definitely have their head turned while still feeling moral about it.

One of my favorite examples of this Revolutionary archtype is actually Christian Bale‘s character from Newsies. He’s the spark that starts the unionizing revolution, but 100% needs his Badger and Bird lieutenants to keep him focused and keep him from defecting

LION SNAKE “THE ROBIN HOOD”

These guys are similar to the Double Lion - they will recognize a cause or injustice revolutionary style - but Robin Hood doesn’t go up and bang on wicked Prince John’s door. His move is the snake secondary one: confront the problem indirectly. Undermine the regime by stealing tax money and re-distributing it to the poor. Be simultaneously Robin Hood the outlaw and Robin of Locksley the noble, infiltrating and getting information. The Lion Snake is more likely to work within society (or deliberately separate from society) versus just breaking everything down.

LION BIRD “THE LAWMAN / THE VIGILANTE”

The fact that the Lion Bird can either be the Lawman or the Vigilante shows off the very clear hero/villain split you get with Bird secondaries. We also see this with the Snake Bird (simultaneously the Mastermind and the traditional Villain) and the Double Bird (either the Scientist or the Mad Scientist.) This is why I think I had such trouble naming the Badger Bird. I wasn’t leaning into the duality of the Bird secondary enough. The Badger Bird can be the King Arthur, or he can be the Mob Boss, and he’ll look kind of similar either way.

The Lion Bird also has that Lion primary conviction and drive, but they want to follow up on it with investigation, evidence, and plans. I actually think there need to be more stories about Lawmen turning into Vigilantes and vice versa. Because Lion Birds are their Cause no matter what external alignment gets attached to it.

LION BADGER “THE LINCHPIN”

This is my own sorting - although when I came up with this name I still thought I was a Double Bird. The linchpin is the pin-axle thing at the center of a wheel that prevents the whole thing from falling apart, and I think it's a good way of talking about the energy of this combination. The Badger secondary means they’re a lot less single minded than the other Lion primaries: their power comes from being part of a group. They become the emotional “heart” a lot, and have a way of quietly keeping things together just by existing. They can be leaders, but a Double Lion will lead from up front while a Lion Badger will lead from in the middle (if that makes sense.)

I do think it’s really funny that this is a common sleeper villain trope. Peter Pettigrew, Prince Hans, and Randall Boggs of Monsters Inc. all became integral to a group, and then exploit their position within it. They’re kind of the evil bureaucrat. Maybe that's a good trope for children’s media

DOUBLE SNAKE “THE TRICKSTER”

This is another straightforward one. Double Snakes are in it for themselves (and maybe like three other people.) They're going to be clever and tricksy about how they get what they want, and will not mind doing things backward and unofficially. And they won't mind if you know that's what they're doing. There’s something very unapologetic about the Double Snake which makes for very attractive characters. They are consistently voted the sexiest... and when they’re villains they’re fun villains. You know what they want, and what they want is not that complicated. I think that’s a big reason for the appeal of Snake primaries in general. They’re the easiest primary to understand and explain.

SNAKE LION “THE LANCELOT”

I used to call these guys “The Rebel,” which... is too generic, doesn’t really mean anything. So I started thinking about the Lion secondary as the Knight secondary, and I liked that. Double Lions are the Crusader Knight, riding for their Cause. Bird Lions are Grail Knights, riding for their own personal truth. Badger Lions are Champion Knights, here to help the helpless and defend the innocent.

And if that's that case… Snake Lions have to be the Knight Errant, the knight who rides for his lady. It is that simple. Lancelot might be a Knight of the Round Table, but he’s riding for Arthur the person, not Arthur the King. And for his lady, Queen Guinevere. I feel like his dilemma is one that’s common to a lot of Snake Lions: what happens when they’re forced to split their loyalty? It’s tragic, but Lancelot can’t have Arthur and Guinevere simultaneously.

(At least not until my awesome Arthur/Guinevere/Lancelot OT3 which I will totally write at some point :)

SNAKE BIRD “THE MASTERMIND / THE VILLAIN”

The classic. We see a little more of the Bird Secondary split, and well… this is your stereotypical villain. They want power. They’re going to use an elaborate plan to get it. There’s a lot you can do with this sorting, but I actually do think it’s fun that whatever you do, this slight undercurrent of villain and/or mastermind… never quite goes away.

SNAKE BADGER “THE LOVER”

The Love Interest sorting. Chances are very good that if there is a love interest (who does not serve some other role in the story...) they're going to be a Snake Badger. Devoted to one person, solving problems by caretaking. This is the Badger secondary who is likely to have the smallest group, which is just going to make them look excessively devoted to their friends. This type is pretty gender neutral, which is fun. A lot of female love interests, but also your Mr. Darcys and Peeta Mellarks.

One of my favorite things about this trope (mostly just because I think it’s funny...) is that if you write a character who is not supposed to be a love interest, but who is a Snake Badger... subconsciously I think people are going to read them as a love interest anyway. Looking at you Jaskier, Horatio, and even Captain Barbossa.

DOUBLE BIRD “THE [MAD] SCIENTIST”

I think that (especially if you aren’t a Bird Primary yourself) your response to hearing a fictional Bird Primary’s motivation is kind of …huh. That seems random. Or oddly specific. You get your Hannibal Lecters, whose entire motivation is... wanting to eat people while drinking nice wine.

Double birds seem especially unusual, just in terms of society. They are Bird secondaries and they interact with the world through gathering data, but their Bird primaries mean that data can literally lead them to any conclusion, no matter how potentially wacky. These guys consciously build themselves from the ground up, and that can make them kind of detached - either in a logical way, or an unmoored way. They're written as either really stable, the rational mentor figure. Or really... not. And that’s how you spot a Bird villain. They’re not after money/power/safety, they’re after something weird.

BIRD LION “THE GRAIL KNIGHT”

This is the trope of Perceval or Galahad, questing after the Holy Grail chalice... which is really just meaning, and truth. It’s a personal quest. Grail Knights tend to ride alone, and a lot of the things that concern them are metaphysical, to do with identity, purpose, things like that. You can have extremely different Bird Lions, but I do think there is a sort of spiritual core there. Doctor Harleen Quinzel sees freedom and truth in whatever the Joker is doing, and then once she recognizes his hypocrisy, has to go build her own meaning.

I actually think these guys are pretty easy to spot because of that Lion secondary. When they change direction, they change direction, and there’s probably a period of despair between the direction changes. I’ve talked about how Bird Lions having a habit of falling apart pretty dramatically, and that’s where this idea comes from.

BIRD BADGER “THE SURVIVOR”

A rare sorting, but an interesting one. I call this one “the Survivor” or “the Last Man Standing” because, well, they seem to be. They seem remarkably stable. This is the Bird primary least likely to be a villain, and maybe the sorting least likely to be a villain. I think what’s going on is that they are grounded and integrated in whatever community they happen to be in (because of that Badger secondary), but they can define themselves and rebuild themselves in the Bird primary way. This makes them uniquely suited to building a new version of themselves for whatever situation they happen to find themselves in.

Maybe a better name for these guys would be “The Adapter.”

BIRD SNAKE “THE ARTIST”

Like all Bird primaries, these guys are inspired by their own projects and their own worldview, but because of that Snake secondary, Bird Snakes have a more easy-going ‘take the world as it comes' kind of energy. They are “the Artist” because everything they do is art: they want to use themselves and the world around them, put all of that towards whatever their Bird primary happens to be interested in.

You can have villains like the Nolan Joker, or the Talented Mr. Ripley, who kind of turn the world into their own personal philosophical social experiment. Or Scotty from Star Trek whose meaning is solely the well-being of the Enterprise. Maybe they just like traveling, and that's all they need. (It's a way for the Bird primary and the Snake secondary exist very happily together, so I wouldn't be surprised if that was pretty common.)

DOUBLE BADGER “THE PEACEMAKER”

Badgers are interesting, because while I think they’re generally regarded as “correct,” they’re also seen as kind of boring. That’s the case with both Badger primaries and Badger secondaries, which means it is doubly reflected in the Double Badger. They often get written as simplistic, the sweet Jane Bennet type who loves everybody and caretakes everybody and just wants everybody to get along.

They are often the targets of what TV Tropes used to call “Break the Cutie.” What could be more interesting than making this character, who wants to be happily part of a community, be forced to build protective models, be all tortured and angsty? I actually think we’re seeing a return of the Double Badger as an interesting character in their own right, with people like Aziaphale, and I'm here for it.

BADGER LION “THE PROTAGONIST”

What can I say? There are a lot of protagonists that are Badger Lions. They want to help the group - so we know they're the good guys - and then they charge and make stuff happen. Lion secondaries are very useful in fiction - you drop them into a situation and stuff just happens. I also think of this as the Starfleet officer sorting - because if you’re a Starfleet officer, either you are the sorting, or can model it really well.

I will say that this is kind of the stock Protagonist sorting, the way that the Snake Badger is the stock love interest and the Snake Bird is the stock villain. There’s just something sort of generic good guy about this one, which is why I want to see it used as a villain sorting more. Badger villains - mostly people who define ‘human’ very narrowly - are insanely terrifying.

BADGER SNAKE “THE ADVISOR”

Possibly “the Power Behind the Throne.” This is another one I had difficulty pinning down. I called it “the Politician” for a while, which unfortunately came off as a little bit more negative than I meant it to, since I think this sorting has a lot in common with Lion Badger, the linchpin of a heroic team. The difference is that Lion Badger takes on that role kind of unconsciously, while the Badger Snake does it very consciously.

Their loyalty is to the group, but their skill set is all about subversion and different ways of going around the group, which is why there’s an interesting contradiction at the heart of Badger Snake. A lot of real life Badger Snakes struggle with feeling like “bad people" and it's too bad. These guys are ridiculously powerful and competent when they are sure of themselves, and I love seeing them in action

BADGER BIRD “THE KING / THE MOB BOSS”

Another difficult one, despite (or because) I really like them. I was calling them “the Architect” because “The City Planner” sounded too boring… but that’s what they do. They’re all about the community but they problem-solve the way all Bird secondaries do, by prepping, and gathering knowledge. I talked more about this in the Lion Bird entry, but Bird secondary seems to have this villain split going on, and that’s what I see here too. This is a controversial love-them-or-hate-them sorting, and I think that’s why. There’s a lot of room in whether or not you see this sorting as villainous.

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thegeekyseamstress · 5 years

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Photographer credit: Chez Photo

Oh man, talk about a big project! I decided to tackle this fuku for a couple of reasons. First, I’ve had several commission requests for Eternal fukus over the years, but I’ve never been comfortable making one for a commission without doing some trial and error first. Second, I wanted a big solo competitive piece, so I could use that as an excuse to go balls to the wall with this build and try out lots of new techniques. Third, I’ve had an interest in making several Sailor Moon accessories for my fuku commissions, which explains my rationale in how I approached a lot of these items, especially the smaller resin accessories.

So, let’s get this started!

Wig

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The wig is both fairly straight forward but also time-consuming. I’m not going to write a tutorial here on creating a Sailor Moon wig, since several folks have done that already and much better than I could. I used a Chibi from Arda in Fairy blonde along with 2 long ponytail clips and short wefts.

After fixing the bag hair, I tweaked the bang line, stubbed the ponytails, created the odango and styled the bangs.

Special shout-out to Vickie Bane for giving me lots of helpful tips and keeping me sane when I wanted to chuck this in the trash.

Here are a few helpful tutorials:

Anime Bangs

Bag Hair

Antiquity Dreams Sailor Moon tutorial

How to style wigs with a garment steamer – Note: I ultimately wound up doing this for the bangs.

Wig Accessories

Here’s where we start getting to the fun stuff! As I mentioned above, I went into this build knowing that I wanted to create resin molds so to sell as part of my commissions. With that in mind, I started by creating odango shields in TinkerCAD. I made these as a two-part set: the base white layer and a top layer that I could cast with tinted resin. These are printed on PLA at my work (having easy access to a Makerspace is the best), then sanded and finished by me. Once the lines were SUUUUUUPER smooth, I took the pieces for the odango shields and created molds using Smooth-On products, specifically OOMOO 30.

Once the molds cured, I used Smooth-On 300 to cast the pieces. To create the white pieces, I “painted” white glittery powder from the Jacquard Pearl EX set into the mold, then poured in the resin, which cures in 10 minutes. For the red pieces, I “painted” Cast Magic Red Devil powder into the mold cavity and tinted the resin with a tiny bit of Red SO-Strong tint. I attached the pieces together with e6000.

The hair feathers were super fun! I traced the feathers from some ESM clipart I found online and created a vector of them in Inkscape. From there, I converted the files and cut them off on 2mm EVA foam using my Cricut Maker. I heat sealed the pieces prior, then glued them in a staggered pattern to match the pearl width. For the pearls, I found some flat back pieces on Amazon and glued them on the front and back of the feathers with hot glue. Once the full piece was dry, I glued the piece on a hair clip. This process is essentially the same for the other pearl/feather bits on her sleeves.

Again, here’s a helpful list of resources!

TinkerCAD

Finishing 3D printed pieces

Smoothing the Surface of a 3D printed model using XTC

Creating simple molds

Using dyes and powders with resin

Base Fuku

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Ahhh, the big part of this. Thankfully, I have a lot of experience making fukus, so this part wasn’t too daunting, but there are some big differences between making these and making classic fukus.

Note: I’m going to do a more comprehensive “how-to” tutorial over on Cosmic Coterie for this build (eventually), so my discussion below will mostly detail my thought process as well as trial and error.

One of my big hold-ups with making an Eternal fuku was the sleeves. They’re such an odd shape in how they look like bubbles, but are often drawn clear in the manga. I wanted something that had that bubble shape, but wasn’t *just* gathering. I turned to this tutorial by Angelic Threads as my prototype. This process requires A TON of tulle stuffing (I used nearly 4 yards of tulle in each sleeve), but it’s by and far my favorite way to make the sleeves. In fact, these turned out so well that I ditched my other protype ideas and stuck with this one! For the bottom of the sleeves, I used our glove roll approach at Cosmic Coterie, but just tweaked the pattern so it was 2 rolls instead of 3.

Once I ironed out the sleeve issue, it was time to tackle the belts! Proportions on the Eternal leotards are essentially the same as the classic fukus, so I took the base leotard pattern I normally used and built the pink belt into the leotard. The pink “belt” is my normal hip roll pieces cut on the bias and treated essentially in the same manner as the hip roll for a classic fuku. I will note that you must be EXTRA careful with the bias cut satin to prevent weird pulling. I cut a strip of interfacing and fused it to the top layer of the “belt” and also was extra mindful of my pressing. Additionally, you will likely need to taper the belt in at the center back to prevent puckering (if you care about that and I did).

The gold belt was very similar. I again took my hip roll pieces, cut them on the bias, and interfaced them. Once they were stitched together, I tacked the center front onto the leotard, then used snaps to hold the belt in place. Cutting the belt on the bias helps it curve around the body and lay flat!

The skirts are treated in the exact same manner as the skirts we use over at Cosmic Coterie. I did 3 circle skirts for each layer, basted them together, and treated them as one before pleating and attaching them to the base leotard. Then came the ETERNALLY (I crack myself up) long process of cutting and hemming 30 yards of fabric *dies inside*.

The collar was the most straight-forward part of the base fuku. I used the collar pattern Vickie Bane drafted up for us with my giant person alterations. From there, I made bias tape from my scrap gold fabric to create the stripes.

For Katsucon, I opted to create a standard butt bow since I didn’t want to travel with large wings. I’ll add those on when I get ready to compete!

Helpful tutorials:

Cosmic Coterie Fuku Tutorial

Eternal Sleeve Tutorial

Chest Brooch

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This was another trial and error piece. I had a resin heart mold on hand that I love for my Super senshi. I experimented with some shimmery mixes for the resin casting before ultimately deciding on an opaque design with Cast Magic.

Like the hair feathers, I created a basic vector of the wing shape based on some artwork I found online and played with the sizing until I found the size I was most comfortable with and suited me proportionally. I then converted the files and cut the base shape out on my Cricut. As with the feathers, I heat sealed the pieces prior to moving on.

Once that was done, It was time to mount everything! The heart resin piece attaches onto the base wings with industrial strength Velcro and then attached the pearl feathers to the sides with e6000. For a little extra flair, I also glued a few fluffy feathers onto the base and also added some Swarovski crystals for extra sparkle.

To help keep all this nonsense on my chest, I attached 4 spin clips to the back that are held in place with Black Worbla.

Helpful Tutorials:

Inkscape

How to use the Cricut to Cut Foam

Gloves

Ugh, I hate how inconsistently the Eternals especially are drawn. Sometimes Moon is drawn with the points on her gloves, sometimes not. My preference is with them, for a very specific reason: hand access.

For these gloves, I bought a base pair of white wrist gloves from We Love Colors. I then made arm stockings from the same material as my leotard for the top (the glove rolls were made using our normal approach over at Cosmic Coterie and then adding on the feather clips). To create the point, I made some bias cut satin strips and used the same angle I use for hip rolls (app. 90 degrees). I then treated this as really fancy bias binding and stitched it around the edge of the arm stockings, gluing crescent moons I cast out of resin on the tip.

Once the bias binding was on, I hand sewed snaps on the stocking and the base glove, enabling me to easily remove my glove while in costume without having to take the whole piece off.

Boots

There’s not a whole lot to say on these that hasn’t been approached in other Eternals write-ups. I bought a pair of base white boots, but unfortunately they weren’t quite large enough for my calves. This was a pretty easy fix, thankfully. The boots had a center seam in the back, so I opened it up down to the bottom of my calf and sewed in a wide pieces of elastic.

After cutting the boots at a 45 degree angle, I stitched more pink bias cut satin around the tops and then glued on more crescent moons that I cast out of resin. Easy peasy!

Other Accessories

A few years ago, my Cosmic Coterie teammate Space Cadet Cosplay had plans on making ESM, so she bought a ton of generic molds for this project. When I mentioned I wanted to do this build, she was super sweet and gave me the molds. I used the mold she gave me to create all the stars you see on this build. The crescent moon molds are from MoldsbyMia.

For the heart/moon piece, I built a small model in TinkerCAD and printed and cast them as I described above. These two pieces are mounted on the choker, which is also a piece of bias cut satin stitched at an angle.

Thoughts on this build:

I nearly talked myself out of wearing this build so many times, but its one of my favorites to date! I love how everything came together and how many new skills I picked up, which is refreshing after making so many Sailor Moon costumes. I do plan to add on to this build for competition later in the summer and will absolutely document the process to share with all of you.

In the name of the Moon, make gorgeous things! ❤

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Costume Notes: Eternal Sailor Moon Photographer credit: Chez Photo Oh man, talk about a big project! I decided to tackle this fuku for a couple of reasons.

#eternal sailor moon #sailor moon #sailor moon cosplay #usagi tsukino

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bethkerring · 5 years

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9 Reasons to Read Big Magic

1. It takes writing seriously. I don’t think I’ve ever felt more passionate about my own writing—and more inspired about my life as a writer—than after reading Big Magic. For the first time probably ever, I really thought about how important writing is to me as a person and to others who read it: how it can transform someone’s life, inspire them to make a change, and how it can make me a happier and more complete person. Creating things has always been an essential part of my life, but this book not only affirms that, but inspires me to always make room for it, in big or small ways, because creation can both bring tremendous joy and keep you from slipping into (self-)destruction.

2. It doesn’t take writing seriously at all. Yes, this book contradicts itself. A lot. And does it both intentionally and effectively. Yes, it takes writing seriously, but it’s also an important reminder that writing isn’t (or at least need not be) nearly as serious as we often make it. It’s not a matter of life and death. We’re creating entertainment, something that makes life brighter and happier, and may even change the world in some small way, but not something worth the pain that many artists insist on putting themselves through for its sake. Which leads into #3.

3. It reminds you that sacrificing yourself for your art isn’t a virtue. This was honestly the first time I really thought about my own self-sacrificial tendencies (as an artist and in general). Artists aren’t alone in this, but they take quite a bit of pride in putting themselves through hell for the sake of their work, as if this automatically makes them a better creator or even as if their work depends on their suffering. As Elizabeth Gilbert repeatedly points out, this is BS. If you want to suffer, you certainly can, but it’s unlikely to help your work—and even if it does help your work, even if your work ends up tremendously successful, you will be miserable (or even end up dying early) because of it, and entertaining others is just not worth that.

4. It’s realistic. You might think that a book written by a best-selling author might talk about, well, how to write a best-selling book, or even present that as a goal. But Elizabeth Gilbert, while acknowledging her own success, doesn’t put it down to skill or hard work. She certainly does have skill, and she did and does work hard, but that’s simply not enough to guarantee a book will sell millions of copies: luck still plays a huge role. Though she gives her best wishes that writers will find that kind of success, if they want it, she reminds them that a lot of it is out of their control. She also reminds writers that their work alone may not always support them financially, and encourages them to find other ways to make money, so they won’t feel so desperate for their art to do so. This might sound like the old “writing doesn’t make money” or “don’t quit your day job” advice, but the rationale she gives is to not only ensure your own life and comfort, but to ensure that your art doesn’t become a source of stress when it doesn’t “pay up,” which could potentially lead you to lose your inspiration and love for your craft. She also makes something very clear: just because art isn’t a full-time career does not mean that it is a failed pursuit.

5. It’s magical. Let’s be clear here: I’m not a strong believer in paranormal phenomenon, magic, or anything else of the sort. I see nothing wrong with it if it’s not hurting anyone, but it’s usually not my thing. But Big Magic, as the title suggests, discusses writing in a way that is, both figuratively and literally, magical, talking about ideas as sentient beings that search for a creator to bring them to life. Even if you brush this off in a literal sense, most of us could use a little more magic in our lives, and this particular type of magic is fun to imagine, regardless of whether you take it seriously, and also encourages writers to look at their ideas and their work a little differently—as I’ll expand upon in #8.

6. It’s funny, witty, and blunt. This one really speaks for itself. I adore Elizabeth Gilbert’s writing style. It feels like having a conversation (albeit one-sided) with a good friend, who isn’t afraid to make jokes, tell fun stories, and even swear now and then. I feel like I’m reading a book from a human being, someone who is both deeply wise and incredibly approachable, which makes her insight, even when it surprises me, much easier to accept.

7. It reminds you to fall (back) in love with your art. I don’t think it would be exaggerating to say that this book is, in part, a love letter to creativity and the products thereof. I see so many artists that, in the pursuit of proving that their work is real and serious, lose touch with their love for their creations. Gilbert reminds us of that love, and gives several very helpful tips on how to find it again if you’ve lost it. She also reminds us how important it is to keep that love and to create for the joy of it, whether your art is a part-time hobby or a full-time career.

8. It gives a new perspective on inspiration. I won’t try to explain all the details because I don’t want to go on forever, but in short, Gilbert’s view of inspiration is different than any I’ve seen—but is apparently one that was held by many people in certain ancient cultures. It’s magical, as referenced in #5, but also freeing, because it presents inspiration as something that comes from outside the self, instead of inside it. If you’ve ever felt like a failure because you couldn’t find your inspiration for a while, I think you’ll find this perspective both encouraging and refreshing—whether or not you believe the more supernatural aspects of the idea.

9. It gives a new perspective on art and what it means for your life. This ties in a little with #2 and #7, but also stands on its own. So often, artists—including writers—feel such an intense personal responsibility with their art: that it needs to change the world, be profound, or live up to certain grand expectations. And of course, we should always consider what effect our work will have on the world, to avoid hurting others whenever possible. But as I mentioned in #2, art is, in and of itself, a form of entertainment: of bringing joy to your life and those around you. It doesn’t have to transform the world and it doesn’t have to be the best thing that’s ever been written. No one else even has to see it, if you don’t want to share it. It can just be a way to make your own life better, to bring you more joy during your short time on this planet, and that, Gilbert reminds us, is as worthy a cause as any.

#book review #reading #big magic #elizabeth gilbert #writerblr

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duhragonball · 5 years

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Reading your DBZ live blog I was surprised there is only two episodes of filler during the three year time skip before the androids show up. In your opinion was it a good thing they did this or do you think they should have had some more three year filler episodes so as to have less filler during the actual events of the android/cell sagas?

That throws me off too sometimes. I remember a couple of months ago looking over the episodes that were coming up and thinking “Wow, there were only two here, weird.” I think that just speaks to the high quality of Episodes 124 and 125. They packed a lot of story in those two, so it’s easy to think of it as lasting longer than it did.

It would be easy to say “Yes, more of this, please,” but we live in a world where they keep making sequels and remakes and bonus content for just about everything that’s popular. I haven’t watched WWE in months but from what I understand they don’t bother puttiing anything cool in the third hour of Raw because everyone accepts that no one watches the entire show anymore. Why is there a third hour? Because the USA network finds it more profitable than running something else in that hour. But the fans don’t want it, and WWE doesn’t know what to program for it, so it seems like a waste.

With regards to filler episodes in anime, I get the sense that Toei only produced those for Dragon Ball when they absolutely needed to. Generally, their preference seemed to be for adding filler scenes to pad out episodes mostly based on the manga. But the Frieza Saga’s structure made that very tricky to do, which is why you have so many filler episodes in and around the Trunks Saga. I can’t really see Toei deciding to just add an extra one in for the sake of it.

The thing you have to remember is that there were eleven filler episodes before Trunks showed up. The Garlic Junior Saga was ten, and then Episode 118 showing what the characters were up to before Frieza came to Earth. Then you have Trunks do his thing from 119-123, an then you get “Z Warriors Prepare” and the Driver’s Ed episode. That’s a pretty long run, and I’m guessing if some writer pitched an episode about Tien and Yamcha having a side-story together, they would have nixed it, no matter how good it might have been. “We’ve been doing filler for the last four months, it’s time to get back on track.” That’s probably what they’d say.

And I’m speaking as someone who enjoys the Garlic Junior Saga, but it generally hasn’t been well received by fans, and with good reason. It doesn’t advance the main story, it’s missing a lot of key characters, and the plot isn’t exactly groundbreaking. Toei’s main goal was to meet deadlines more than anything else. Episodes 124 and 125 were much better, but they’re not necessarily indicative of Toei’s output at the time.

I know the fanbase is fascinated with that time period, mainly because that’s when Vegeta and Bulma got together, and there’s plenty of other things that could have happened during those three years. But I think most of the appeal is based on the mystery. If they made a spin-off series set during that time period, I think it would disappoint a lot of people, just because it wouldn’t live up to their expectations.

I’ll give you an example: I used to be really fascinated with Darth Maul. Where he came from, how he was trained, what he was up to before Episode I happened, and what might have happened if he survived that movie. Then Lucusfiilm (and later Disney) actually started producing stuff with the character. They fleshed out his origin story and resurrected him as a cyborg so he could run around in their cartoons. I liked some of that stuff, but I think they missed some good opportunities to re-kill him in a suitably epic style. Instead, they just sort of left him running around in the background. He’s a side-villain in Rebels, and he’s the secret mastermind in the Solo movie, and both of those roles seem beneath a guy who used to be the Dark Lord of the Sith. If anything, the Maul revival just proves why they were right to kill the guy in Episode I, and why there should only be two Sith Lords at a time. A third one just dilutes the concept.

I detest the whole chesnut about writers “giving the fans what they need, and not what they think they need.” It’s been used as a cheap rationale for hacky writing, and nonsensical plot twists. Even so, I think there is some wisdom to it, in the sense that you can’t just give people more even when they say they want it.

The other thing I was thinking about recently was Michigan J. Frog, the character from the classic Chuck Jones cartoon, “One Froggy Evening.” If you haven’t seen it, this singing, dancing frog gaslights a construction worker for seven minutes. It’s a good cartoon, and people love the character, but there’s really no good way to do more of that. They used the character again in the 90′s, but not in the same context. There was a Tiny Toon Adventures short where he heckles a turtle who’s trying to to cross a busy freeway. The WB network made him their mascot, which amounted to him singing jingles and not much else.

Today, I discovered the obscure sequel cartoon, “Another Froggy Evening”, made in 1995 which was probably made as some sort of cross-promotion for the WB network. But it’s just the same gag as the original 1955 cartoon. Different characters through history find the frog, think they can make money off of his act, only he won’t sing on cue, and they suffer for their hubris. It’s just the construction worker from the original, only he’s wearing different historical garb.

The only innovation is the ending, where Marvn the Martian finds Michigan, and he accepts him unconditionally, because he’s just happy to have a singing frog, whether he actually sings or not. Also, Michigan’s croaks are apparently him speaking Martian, so Marvin likes that even better. It’s kind of cute, but it also has nothing to do with the original appeal of the 1955 short. I don’t think anyone liked the frog for the frog. It was never about the character, it was the strange enigma he represented. No one knows how he can sing or why he only does it for one person at a time. Was he being a dick on purpose, or did humans simply misunderstand him? I don’t think we were ever supposed to know. I will say that my favorite thing about “Another Froggy Evening” is that they kept the metal box he was stored in from the original short. Somehow the frog is immortal, but the metal box has always been around too, even in caveman days. So in that, at least, Chuck Jones preserved a sense of mystery.

And that’s why you really can’t do more of Michigan J. Frog, because if you repeat the same story, it’s unoriginal, and if you take the story in new directions, you lose the original appeal.

That’s not to say that it’s pointless to try to tell more stories with characters. Dragon Ball Z’s cast has a much wider range than Darth Maul and Michigan J. Frog. I just mean that sometimes it may not be worth the attempt, even if there’s popular demand for it. Sometimes it’s best to just leave the party early.

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hey i’m that entp anon, honestly thanks so much. i really like how you break things down. i can def see high ti; i usually respect ppl’s reasonings more-so than their argument. i often feel like i have to explain to ppl why i do what i do so they understand that it’s very efficient. like when a manager asked me to dry trays. i set the trays sideways bc they dry more quickly that way. he got angry w me bc i wasn’t actually taking a towel to dry them and that by messing w the trays i was 1/2

being less efficient but i told him that my way will yield more trays than hand drying them in 15 minutes. even now i’m tryna explain my rationale. this also explains my love for exposition lmao. anyway what happened at work tho? and like jw wdym by i write like a si-ne? i’m hella curious. once again thanks for reading my rambling and you’re amazing 2/2

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So I mean this does sound like a straight up “you changed the procedure, why?” sort of management problem which is fair and I think most Ti or Te users who came up with a similar procedure would run into a similar issue.

I’ll return to that in a second; regarding your writing style it’s on the list of “I know it when I see it because I’ve been doing this a long time but I struggle to put it into words.” Basically, I’ve typed enough and read enough high Ne users to have a sense of it. I suppose some of the signs are lots of casual abbreviations and text speak, a sort of rambling stream of consciousness style with lots of asides or unrelated segues (high Si users can be stream of consciousness too but they seem to edit it) and not using capital letters. Which isn’t always the case! My ENFP brother sends incredibly long texts but they are in full formal punctuation, and I sometimes type in the no-caps Tumblr style myself, so it’s more a sign to consider high Ne, but not to definitively type it without other evidence.

Regarding Ti/Te at my work: I work in a scientific field, but one that involves participating in regulatory testing. A lot of people in this field came to it because they love the science of it, but then really struggle when they are faced with the fact that sometimes you need to do things that don’t make sense because they are the regulation, and I agree they are stupid and don’t make sense, but you still need to do them.

It’s sort of the double punch in fact of sensing with Te in this case; Te says “yeah it’s stupid and doesn’t make sense but I have to do it so I will and advocate for better requirements,” and sensing says “we need to work with the current situation even if it’s kind of stupid, because that’s how it is in reality.” Meanwhile Ti says “this doesn’t make sense” and then like...grinds to a halt.

I also find that some Ti users tend to basically live in the slippery slope fallacy, which I understand now that I understand Ti but it doesn’t make it easier. Basically, Te users are incredibly okay with saying “oh the coherent and consistent system doesn’t work for this edge case, we’ll make a bunch of exceptions and document them and it’s a bit messy but it works, and then for the next thing, we’ll go back to the system.” And Ti is like “if you make one exception then you’ll have to make two and then three so if we can’t meet this requirement we may as well pack up and go home” and that’s like...not how reality works. Especially in regulations - if you say “Hey, I followed everything you asked except for item 4 because that’s just not feasible”, you open a productive dialogue and often you can make a case because you’ve shown that you tried to do your best. But if you say “item 4 isn’t possible so I threw everything out because I can never perfectly adhere to your requirements which don’t make sense” someone enforcing the requirements will think you just don’t give a shit.

I should note that this is not a huge sample size. It’s like, 3 people. But I have in general found that I can be excellent friends with high Ti users and collaborate on non-work projects, but in an office environment, we are likely to clash.

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Process and wip images for A House That Holds Long Limbs (Part 2)

See Part 1 process and wip documentation

Read the pages for part 2 here (full complete version will be linked from YYH North Bound master post)

As a story progresses, I tend to become more comfortable with jumping ahead and around in my so-called process. This is mainly because the idea of getting deeper into the action is exciting and I want to get to drawing the pages as quickly as possible. The downside is that it usually results in a lot of “oops” and rework on what was supposed to be a final page.

Here you’ll see that script/pagination/thumbnailing and final pages are all starting to drift even more than in Part 1.

The (last version of the) script

Earlier versions were even more point form and incoherent with typos. But, it only needs to capture enough that I can recognize key actions, points of dialogue, the mood, things to draw in the panels, etc. A few specific items to point out:

“[new part 2]”: The script originally had no exposition on rokurokubi - it went straight to Hokushin telling Raizen he was leaving. It occurred to me later, after I’d started thumbnailing, that inserting a few pages of storytelling narrative right here would help to further solidify the kaidan (traditional Japanese ghost story) effect and mood. More importantly, it creates a baseline reference for what the reader will know about rokurokubi for the purposes of this story. I was lucky that Part 1 and Part 2 were cut neatly enough that this wouldn’t be jarring.

I’m still not entirely happy with the text for this section, mainly the “features of note” about rokurokubi. Not just the fact that it’s oversimplification and slight adaptation of actual Japanese folklore - which can’t be avoided unless I want to write a historical essay here. I’m mainly not super keen on how each of the three items has been phrased. It’d be nice to make the three points more parallel in terms of length, but I couldn’t seem to edit, increase the number of points (by splitting them up), or reorder it effectively without negatively impacting other aspects of pacing and information reveal. More points would draw out the pages longer than I wanted, and some points were clearly sub to other points. The final here is the “good enough” version. JUST GET IT DONE ALREADY SO THAT IT CAN GO OUT INTO THE WORLD.

Sooo many word choice changes. The biggest one, done at the last second, was “They are almost always female” to “They are rarely male”. Other phrasings I debated - “They are very rarely male”, “They are almost never male”, etc. Lemme tell ya, it’s easy to get lost in the weeds… Anyways, the main reason for this was because after I drew it and ran the text through my head, the originally-intended juxtaposition of Hokushin on this page with the word “female” felt too subtle. I felt it would create a brief moment of cognitive dissonance that didn’t serve the flow of the story, so I changed it to create emphasis on the same gender instead with the rationale that it will flow more smoothly and allow the reader to focus their attention on the fact “males are very rare” more than the mental hiccup of processing the juxtaposition. DOES THAT MAKE ANY SENSE?? It made sense in my head.

Anyhow, I’m sure there are people who will disagree with many of the decisions I’ve made, but at least you can see what I was trying to do.

Thumbnails

As mentioned, these thumbnails were done BEFORE I decided to insert the exposition at the beginning.

The first two rows on the left hand page are actually the same set of pages - you can see little arrows pointing down or to the right whenever I’m dissatisfied with a thumbnail and attempt to redraw it.

WIPs

I really like how Hokushin turned out in the last panel here; I like the pencils more than the final inked version. It’s also another example of changing text up to the last second. In case it’s hard to make out, it says (along with what happened to them in the final):

First thought bubble: Ugh, whatever… (moved to the next page, seemed to work better as the end exclamation for this sequence of thoughts before he turns his attention to something else)

Over Hokushin’s head: Aaaargh (moved into the thought bubble)

Second thought bubble: He’s not my responsibility anyways! (no change)

First arrow: *already feeling bad* (no change)

Second arrow: *too responsible* (dropped, since a previous panel already said “too responsible”. Too redundant)

Next to Hokushin: All he did was tie me up in a tree (no change)

The above panel “And at night...” was a thrilling and scary thing for me lmao. I don’t usually tackle large patches/fills of black, since many of my comics are scribbly in style (pencils, hatching) or colour. I’m too lazy for screentones, traditional or digital. It’ll be interesting as parts of the story coming up will involve poorly lit/dim/dark spaces. I’ve been reviewing how other artists handle it, particularly those with styles driven by pure-ink or minimalist type approaches. Two immediate examples from Yu Yu Hakusho that I’ve been going back to are the dark room fights during Genkai’s successor trials (I’ve taken a similar approach here), and the haunted bedroom case in volume 19. Hardcore cross-hatching seems like a likely route, but that freaks me out when I have to do it over faces. I’d like to minimize or avoid screentoning out of principle, but I still want to create a clear mood, so we’ll see how it goes...

This was my view while inking this page - holding the book in one hand while inking Hokushin with the other. Using the more freehand, sketchy inking style for this comic was so helpful in terms of reducing my inking anxiety and allowing me to work faster.

It’s always great when you can find a reference for period armor (because I find armor very difficult) that is so close to the pose you’re already drawing. There are some small differences - for example, Hokushin’s head is turned more to the right; his left arm is turned and raised more as he’s pulling the sword upwards. But it’s close enough.

Also, spotlight on a few of the books I’ve referenced over the course of working on North Bound in general and this part specifically.

Clockwise from top left:

日本服飾史女性編 and 男性編 (History of clothing/costume in Japan female and male editions). This marvelous set of books highlights Japanese fashion throughout history. I’ve actually been referencing these photos for a long time before I ever picked up these books - you can see them at the Costume Museum’s website here, alongside helpful line drawings and translations of some of the details. But the books allow me to see a lot more detail.

Hokusai manga vol 1 (this book is published as part of a set of 3). Sketches by Hokusai. This one focuses on “The life and manners of the day” and includes drawings of youkai, including rokurokubi, as well. You can check out the drawings online at places like The Pulverer Collection Online Catalogue.

Action references!! Real Action Pose Collection 02 (focuses on sword fights) and my favourite Samurai & Ninja Action Scene Collection. Not used as much in Long Limbs, but was helpful in some of the other chapters. The time frame is really much later than what I need for ideal clothing references, but it’s helpful for things like movement.

Kekkaishi volume 32. SPOILER a key flashback takes place about 500 years ago, which is actually a few centuries off give or take from but at least it’s closer than the Edo period. I’ve been looking at it for houses, some clothing.

Osamu Tezuka’s Phoenix - Civil War parts 1 and 2. I reference this so much while working on North Bound in general. It has scenes with peasants and commoners and some appropriate street and interior environments, not just stuff focused on the aristocracy or warrior classes. Just have to remember that they flipped all the artwork in the English version lol

Bunch of Yu Yu Hakusho manga and anime references from the end of the series, mostly for Raizen, the kudakusushi and just to check against things he or Hokushin said. The actual clothing and environments are not helpful at all lol

Last minute edits

After I posted, I discovered a few mistakes (of course). I used to freak out a lot and drop everything to fix it. Now I just sigh and laugh (and still freak out a little bit, depending on the mistake) and then decide what’s important enough to fix and what is like, “Oh well, whatever, move on with my life”.

I feel that seeing other artists share their frustrations and mistakes helps a lot of people feel better about it when they realize IT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME TO EVERYONE (including professionals. There are errors like this in professionally published series, like Yu Yu Hakusho, too). YOU’RE NOT ALONE.

So, these ones bugged me enough that I quickly redrew them on the computer.

#yu yu hakusho #comics #fanart #hokushin #process #wip #art supplies #sketches #art by Maiji/Mary Huang #yyh north bound #raizen

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Eyelash Extensions 101 | Full Tutorial on Application

Hey guys! Welcome again to my channel thank you for tuning in today. We’re gonna go over eyelash extensions 101 so the consumer i’m gonna demonstrate on, she wanted a very usual eyelash set… That is the patron’s very first time of ever getting eyelash extensions so i am going to illustrate how I explain and how I advisor them via the procedure so they are not scared and they’re relaxed in the course of it so i will cover the prepping, the applying, what I do with them it should be the full-on procedure and i’m going to reply suggestions and tricks as i go so it can be style of a long video so if it is if unique constituents that you believe like you don’t maintain or you recognize the best way to do i’ll put a breakdown of the time of which question I reply and what time of the video and which you can simply pass through and get your questions answered but truly let me learn you the list of the questions i’m gonna answer a while i’m doing the whole set of basic natural look on this client.K so on this video i will go over find out how to tape down the bottom lashes or use underneath eye patches for those who opt for to where to situation the eyelash extension so you can location it or apply it to the client’s ordinary eyelashes and the reasoning at the back of that and how I decide upon the curl and the length founded on what the consumer needs on this video she wants an awfully typical seem so and it is her very first time of ever getting eyelash extensions so i am gonna go over how I prefer the lashes to make sure it is not gonna be too dramatic for anyone who’s under no circumstances had eyelash extensions. I will also go over the options of customers who’ve very straight eyelashes how one can investigate for those who will have to do the eyelash extensions what curl to choose for them or if it’s a better choice to do a raise after which do the eyelash extensions on high of them i’m going to also cover what what to do in the approach if the patron is establishing to consider uncomfortable or if the tape underneath eye patches sort of moved and it’s itching them or find out how to isolate and observe the eyelash extension on top of the typical lashes.I will additionally reply the question of what to do with youngster lashes if it is k to apply an extension on there or not and tips on how to assess that how much glue to use and where to select up the eyelash from… I quit! So very first thing we’re gonna do is tape down your bottom eyelashes to look after them from sticking to the highest okay so um it’s a bit weird but it’s no longer uncomfortable or it would not damage so it can be just a bit weird when your eyes are open however once you shut them you do not really consider anything okay so open for me k I know it’s super bizarre ok there we go and this is to guard them from touching the highest ok i’ll offer you a break k try opening again or let your eyes unfastened variety of close them but let them loose and i’m going to just carry there with out opening them k commonly that is more at ease okay that used to be the worst section I promise is that okay k it’s now not a nasty one that’s cool don’t worry about your eyes twitching slightly preserve it closed they will come down once they trust me.I’m just gonna put somewhat additional layer of clear tape on high of that tape identical method and this is typically to have a smoother floor just in case if any of the lashes get caught we will conveniently just peel them off without detrimental or hurting your usual lashes ok Worse than surgical procedure? I do know the primary-time so it is super bizarre but I promise. So now i am gonna simply put this tissue on your forehead ok only a tissue i’m gonna gently tape it down this is what i’m gonna use to position the extension so one can practice it to your usual eyelashes okay and to additionally not have my palms stick with your brow.Only a tiny bit longer than yours looks like So i’m gonna do a D curl which is a little bit bit extra curly due to the fact your traditional eyelashes are so straight this curl will aid it have more curl so what it is, simply, the extension itself is curlier so the bottom of the extension is connected to your average eyelash after which the relaxation of it is going to curl up. It won’t curl your average eyelashes but the way it sits on there it look curly total and i’m going to style of additionally maybe create somewhat little bit of a double layer influence for your ordinary eyelashes when you consider that they’re a bit of bit straighter and it would supply it, it gives it a relatively fine appear. So a different option with straight eyelashes is we have now a elevate or a perm system so if you want your typical eyelashes to stay completely curly for 2 months then we can just do that and we will curl them and it stays like that for two months and then if you want it extra dramatic than we can add extensions so a number of instances men and women are ok with just having the curlier extensions, normally humans that want them particularly curly then they’d curl their normal eyelashes if they have them really particularly straight after which put the extensions on the top but due to the fact that you wish to have a usual this should be best you don’t have got to memorize that we will be able to write it down and your system so should you like it or if we need to prepare something to vary in case your gonna get them filled we will always we will normally have a starting point and keep making minor changes to get that superb look you need however I feel you’ll be able to be joyful with this in view that also in case you open your eye when the glue’s not thoroughly dry, it kinda stings or tingles so anytime you are gonna open or gonna alter some thing I need to make sure we fully dry it earlier than we repair or we organize the tape otherwise you open okay so don’t open until I let you know truly.Yeah it’s the tape that is it Yeah preserve it closed okay it is the interior corner or each? Did that aid? Generally it sneaks up at the same time it is closed, it simply wiggles up. Is that better overall? Okay if it kind of strikes up again and it’s itching you let me understand ok Do you mind if I do like a little speaking for the video? K so I zoomed in the video so that you guys can see how i am keeping apart making certain that there is just one usual eyelash in between my tweezers earlier than I practice the extension k and it’s very predominant to do that and no longer stick whatever together on account that that is when which you could reason damage to the natural eyelash for the reason that each eyelash has a further growth fee so if too many matters are stuck together like that and one is making an attempt to grow out and the one subsequent to it is not ready to grow or yeah grow yet it can be gonna be pulling, pulling the eyelash that’s now not in a position to grow.. Does that make sense? I hope it is smart! Ok, if it doesn’t make experience remark below, i will give an explanation for more but clearly very very most important for you to make certain nothing’s caught collectively and you are best applying one extension on one of the most common eyelashes ok and also if you will find how far i am applying them from the common growth of the eyelash line there it can be only one or two millimeters faraway from it ok you don’t want it to contact the epidermis due to the fact that that is when that you would be able to rationale infection or close the pore of hair follicle but you also do not want it too a long way so it would not appear humorous okay so about one to 2 millimeters correct there and i want to exhibit you guys you see how there’s all these little little one hairs round this one eyelash if they’re very very tiny do not observe it on these however for example this one’s just a little bit thicker we can nonetheless apply a shorter lash on it given that the extra we apply the longer they’re gonna final.On account that customers or because all people loses 1 to 5 hairs a day, you want to attempt to place it on nearly every single eyelash unless they may be very very tiny little one hairs and the guideline of thumb is you under no circumstances need to practice more than double the amount of extension as the typical eyelash so if the natural eyelash is ready that thick I in no way want to put anything more than double the thickness of that ok or else it’s gonna be too heavy and it’s not gonna support it.I additionally need to exhibit you how to dip the eyelash extension in the glue in view that some people put too much glue or have no idea what’s enough to be certain it can be gonna be appropriate so what I do what my trick is in the event you guys can see my little glue ring over here after I take hold of the eyelash and you can find I seize it from almost on top of the place the hair is and that i dip it in more close to all the way unless it is no longer touching my tweezers and then I style of wipe it on the rim of the glue ring and then I practice it so like that i am getting adequate disbursed all over the place the eyelash but i am not losing time into you recognize removing any excess over right here or yeah i’m hoping that is sensible.I’m gonna attempt to focal point on the glue ring so you guys can see k so grab an eyelash i am grabbing it virtually from the highest and i am dipping it in nearly the place my tweezers are and i am wiping on the rim and then it goes on the traditional eyelash. See there may be a baby hair attaching to it so i’ll gently peel that off to make certain nothing’s stuck collectively. Sorry there it wasn’t specializing in this so there used to be this little child hair that was connected to my eyelash extension all I did used to be form of peel it off from it to make certain nothing’s stuck to nothing’s stuck collectively alright to protect the health of the normal eyelash.Now they’re getting beautiful full so it is more difficult for me to seek out to any extent further empty typical eyelashes to apply on however i am gonna are trying my fine to look and make certain, make sure that we’re placing on almost or each single considered one of her ordinary lashes. See once I went again and appeared for it once more I located one other one so i am gonna go forward and practice an extra one i am gonna maintain searching. Oh look there’s another one so continuously double double assess to ensure you received each single eyelash if you wish to have a good full set i guess given that for those who don’t put ample they won’t final as lengthy given that we do lose one to five a day k it should seem just right at first however they will not last so you wish to have to make certain that you are double-checking despite the fact that it looks relatively full now that it looks like I put it on each single eyelash i am nonetheless gonna go in there and variety of lift them and seem round to look if there may be anything that I would have overlooked the primary time around appear there is a different so do the due diligence and take additional five minutes to do this and that’s what’s going to set you apart compared to anyone who would not take their time to do that for his or her consumers and of direction that’s what makes a loyal patron or a joyful patron and you that’s your purpose to ensure everyone’s blissful.I need to dry them particularly well so it doesn’t burn while you open i’m gonna go forward and untape this section. We are going to assess to make certain nothing is caught we’re excellent. So hold it close i am gonna gently take the tape out I might pull a bit, should now not be too unhealthy however we’re gonna try to dry a little bit extra and i’ll also need to tape this part so you could open *BLOOPERS* She also asks the question in there hi guys welcome again to my channel Yegi right here I want to go over… In a few days i’m going to go forward and submit one other video so that what happened with this consumer used to be clearly once we have been accomplished along with her very first time ever doing eyelash extensions she inspiration they looked means too traditional ok so plenty of occasions it is higher and it is safer to go extra natural for a purchaser who’s under no circumstances had them before considering the fact that if they’re now not used to it many times they suppose oh my god is too dramatic it is too much and it can be more difficult to dispose of them then add a couple of additional k so what I so in few days i’m going to post a video of how I control that situation and the way I became it right into a hybrid seem to give her a little bit fuller look and maintain her blissful and yes that is i am carried out for at present.Bye! .

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Eyelash Extensions 101 | Full Tutorial on Application

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Examine every one in Camping pods Italy its have section. Look at the assorted forms of hair salon provides. Review the reasons your hair salon tools is much better than that sold by Many others. And even listing the characteristics and benefits of the road of manicure tables you give.

#2 – Substituting Keywords and phrases for Generic Phrases

This system (much like the one earlier mentioned) is properly fantastic IF you use it sparsely. However, to replace just about every occasion of a generic phrase that has a keyphrase will induce your copy to sound downright silly. Allow’s take a look at an illustration from a Web design internet site.

New Orleans Website design

Our New Orleans Website design agency offers a high level of creativeness to businesses located in the general location. Our New Orleans Website design kinds are never made from templates. Each individual New Orleans Website design is really a personalized development just for your website.

In the event you walked right into a Web design firm’s Business and the employees began to communicate like that copy is prepared, you’d most certainly think they have been on medications! So why on this planet would you compose your web site copy that way? The rationale is for the reason that most amateurs mistakenly Believe they are able to’t create for equally the various search engines and the internet site site visitors. I’m delighted to say They're Incorrect! You may most undoubtedly publish for the two with good achievements.

Do this:

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Progressive, Inventive, upbeat. People are phrases that most effective describe quite a few on line corporations situated in New Orleans. Website design to your Firm should match your fashion. Under no circumstances produced from templates, the positioning patterns youll receive is going to be certainly reflective of your company personality. Mainly because we get the job done completely with businesses located in or around New Orleans, Website styles keep that Huge Straightforward experience.

Did you see it? The phrase was damaged up making use of punctuation. That gained’t harm your rankings one particular little bit, nevertheless it can make your duplicate sound lots greater.

They're not all the errors. I want they were! But most of the problems made by novice writers may be fastened working with one particular basic check. Examine it out loud. When the duplicate Seems absurd to you personally any time you examine it out loud, it's going to seem equally preposterous to a internet site customer.

Choose your time and energy. Master the ins and outs of Web optimization copywriting prior to deciding to get started to build the textual content on your (or your clientele) internet pages. Then you can certainly rest assured that the duplicate will change superior though it contributes to the substantial rankings.

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Survey: Acer Aspire R7 tries truly difficult to address needs nobody has Awkward frame consider and aimless outline abandon us befuddled and unsatisfied.

"Infomercial gives." It's an expression my significant other and I use to portray the stance and expression that appears in the start of most infomercials—the ones that begin with expressions like, "Are you felt burnt out on of not having the capacity to pour your pop like an ordinary person?" It's constantly joined by film of individuals hurling their hands in disturb in the wake of neglecting to fulfill undertakings that the greater part of us can manage with no issues.

The Acer Aspire R7 gives me infomercial hands. Always.

I get that PC OEMs are confronting diminishing edges as non-customary figuring gadgets keep on gaining notoriety, and I get that there's shareholder weight to think about the following enormous thing in the compact space with a specific end goal to keep income up and hit the quarterly direction. However, the Aspire R7 is lamentably not the following enormous thing. I'm not by any stretch of the imagination beyond any doubt what it is, truly, or what its objective market is, or what specific undertaking or errands it should exceed expectations at that different gadgets don't as of now improve.

What hath Acer fashioned?

We got a few hands-on time with the Acer Aspire R7 back toward the beginning of May, when Ars Senior Products Specialist Andrew Cunningham called it "the most bizarre convertible PC we've ever observed." Having spent two or three weeks with the gadget, I can approve that. In the hours I've spent utilizing it, I never became completely OK with its format and capacity, and I came to disdain its weight and general disagreeableness.

The Aspire R7 is a convertible, that charlatan item class that ended up noticeably famous with OEMs after the dispatch of Windows 8. It includes an expansive 15.6" touchscreen mounted on a twofold jointed pivot, called the "Ezel Hinge" by Acer's advertisers. The Ezel pivots at both closures, enabling the screen to be raised, brought down, and turned. The R7 utilizes its huge pivot to change over between a customary portable workstation like appearance, a console improved tablet-like appearance, an upheld tablet, and a full hand-held tablet.

The way that the gadget has certain set "modes" into which you should change it isn't promptly evident at to start with, thus Acer has invested a considerable amount of energy guaranteeing that clients see how the R7 functions. Its site contains various livelinesss demonstrating the R7 happily flipping forward and backward; the gadget likewise accompanied a pack-in bit of paper graphically clarifying its diverse designs. New clients can even tap on a video on the distinctive modes inserted in the Task Bar for reference.

Putting aside the pivot and its suggestions for a minute, the R7 is positively not terrible equipment. It has a double center 1.8GHz Ivy Bridge Core i5-3427U, a low-voltage 22nm CPU with hyperthreading, and a maximum evaluated TDP of 17 watts. It has 4GB of welded in RAM, and the setup we assessed accompanied its one RAM space loaded with a 2GB SODIMM, yielding an odd-yet not-awful aggregate of 6GB. Its coordinated Intel HD 4000 GPU is consummately satisfactory for non-bad-to-the-bone gamer utilization. We would have gotten a kick out of the chance to see the new Haswell CPUs show up, yet Ivy Bridge isn't an awful performer.The portable PC/convertible/whatever-we're-calling-these-things characterizes robustness; it's 5.29 lbs of aluminum, plastic, and glass. The Ezel Hinge and its hostage touchscreen need even a small piece of tumble or play—the screen moves with adjusted expert on the pivot and the pivot thusly turns against the portable workstation base with without squeak smoothness. The screen stayed precisely at whatever edge I situated it without moving up or down. Truth be told, now and again it required maybe a lot of push to move the screen, and I'd wind up moving the whole tablet around on its little elastic feet. In any case, I'd much rather have a pivoted show like this sprung on the firm side than free to move around at will side.

The show itself is huge and brilliant. The IPS board underpins entirely expansive survey edges, which is vital on the grounds that the R7's shape-changing plan implies that the screen is probably going to be seen from a wide assortment of separations and positions. The LED backdrop illumination was even and with no conspicuous problem areas or dying. Its 10-point capacitive touch layer additionally gave me no issues—it reacted to touches and drags promptly with no observable lag.Unexpectedly, I like the console. I end up detesting most island-style consoles, however this current one's very decent. The keys require a modest measure of push to discourage and after that in a split second plunge their full short length to hit rock bottom definitively. There's no feeling of mush, thank heavens. What's more, the backdrop illumination, however it seeps out from under the keys, is to a great degree splendid at its maximum setting.There are likewise some reasonable estimated (for a convenient) speakers on the base of the gadget—a couple of 2W "Dolby Home Theater" marked grilles. The sound leaving them sounded very clear at low-to-medium volume. I don't know that slapping a "Dolby Home Theater" mark on them implies you'd need to utilize them to tune in to a motion picture at full volume, however for easygoing tuning in to gushed sound, they were splendidly fine.That is tragically the finish of the positive things I need to say in regards to this gadget. In every day utilize it performed enough, however it certainly wouldn't win any honors for speed. I didn't try running any organized benchmarks since Ivy Bridge is an altogether known amount now; the greater part of its equipment is as of now all around reported. (You can check our Asus ZenBook Prime and 2013 MacBook Air surveys for hard numbers on the off chance that you need them.)

The absence of a SSD for its essential working framework didn't make as large of an effect as I thought it would—at any rate, not at first. The R7 accompanies a 500GB 5400 rpm hard circle drive, however it's expanded with a 24GB mSATA SSD that capacities as a reserve for the working framework boot documents and for oftentimes got to applications. Subjectively, it was slower than utilizing a SSD yet considerably quicker than utilizing only the hard circle drive—which I got the chance to take in a ton about.

In any case, to begin with, we should discuss the R7's flippy screen and pivot. The issue with the R7 is that in spite of the fact that it has four essential "structures," it's not especially helpful in any of them—similar to how Astrotrain wasn't a decent space transport, prepare, or robot.The R7 is a terrible fit for a customary note pad—truth be told, a few outline decisions make the gadget exceedingly disappointing to utilize. The way that it weighs very nearly five and a half pounds (that is around 2.4 kg) makes carrying it around a clear errand. In all actuality, it's not as substantial as the 7.7 lb HP Elitebook 8770w, however the Elitebook was a scaled down CAD workstation with gobs of CPU and GPU and RAM—the R7 is an average spec semi-versatile.

In the wake of pulling the R7 to Starbucks, the topsy turvy plan of the console and trackpad immediately made me surrender portable PC mode. The trackpad is arranged over the console, and the console is about flush with the front edge of the tablet. This prompts two issues: to begin with, with the R7 in my lap, I couldn't locate an open to writing position. Mousing was also disappointing, since the main place to rest hand or arm while working the trackpad is decisively on the console. Prompt infomercial hands.

Ezel mode

Along these lines, I changed the portable workstation (ch-ch-ch-ch-ch) to its "Ezel mode," where it would seem that a console prepared tablet.The rationale for situating the trackpad over the console turns out to be clear: it's so you can pull the screen forward this way and utilize the R7 as a tablet-with-console. This doesn't change the way that the console is as yet disappointing to use with no considerable separation amongst it and the front edge of the portable PC, yet it does in any event spare you from the trackpad.As an interface gadget, the touchscreen worked fine. Windows 8 remained Windows 8, with all the great and awful that suggests. I gave working in this design a genuine go, however most of the assignments I needed to do included working not in touch-accommodating Metro tile arrive but rather at the order line and in non-Metro customary applications. Only utilizing the touchscreen to connect with non-Metro applications was exceptionally all in or all out—not each tap went where I implied for it to go. Infomercial hands.

Show mode

That night, I sat down at the kitchen table with the R7 while my better half and I watched Archer and gone for the R7 in its "show mode," with the screen gliding noticeable all around held by the pivot and the console confronting far from me. I could see the utilization on the off chance that we'd been really watching Archer on the R7, yet we weren't—we were home, so we were watching it on the significantly bigger TV. I perused the Web for somewhat, looking into Archer trivia as we played through our backlog.This was really the most valuable and regular the R7 had felt in the whole time I'd been utilizing it. Its over the top weight didn't especially make a difference when it was on the table before me, and the screen appeared to skim unequivocally before me, not moving or truly notwithstanding squirming as I tapped it.

Be that as it may, as I perused around, I started to notice irregular things happening. Site pages would re-stack as I was gazing at them; superfluous letters would show up in inquiry fields as I wrote. The mouse cursor would gradually float over the screen and incidentally enlist clicks apparently at irregular.

A suppressed chuckling uncovered the guilty party—my dear spouse was secretively tapping the incidental key or touching the trackpad as I worked. R7 clients observe: when you have the R7 in upheld mode like this, the console and trackpad confront far from you... furthermore, they stay live. Infomercial hands once more.

Tablet mode

The R7 can likewise be utilized as a full tablet, in the event that you are the Hulk or conceivably a gorilla. It is essentially too substantial to hold before you for augmented periods.It additionally doesn't really overlay flush as a tablet either.

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Toyota: A Plea for Alchemy

For many years now, Toyota has delivered cars that are underwhelming and boring; the quintessential purveyor of mediocrity, if you will. Their needs-based formula yields cars that are monotonous, with the only emotional outpouring being the hatred fueled slur directed at reckless taxis or painfully slow Uber drivers. Toyota seems to have quite a knack for developing cars that are so detuned and devoid of want that sometimes its rationality is often overbearing.

Don’t get me wrong, technically speaking, there is nothing wrong with their cars. Toyota is world renowned for their stupendous reliability and proven track record. They’re unequivocal. Their attributes can be considered dogmatic, perpetuated through their culturally iconic status within South Africa. I wouldn’t be surprised if one day we will find a bronze statue of the Hilux perched on top of Constitution Hill, so we can all marvel at the monumental contributions they have made to our country.

However, you always get the sense that Toyota can do better. That they don’t have to engulf their consumers in an avalanche of average; and the philosophy of stagnation for the sake of consistency is in fact a shroud for their underlying regression. This incremental degradation manifests in the superficial and the mechanical, resulting in a tiresome game of constant catch-up; an arbitrary case of the leader actually being the follower. How is it possible for the world’s biggest - and possibly richest - auto manufacturer to always be so conservative and withstanding in their approach to making cars? Well, they haven’t always.

You see, Toyota hasn’t always been the inducer of narcolepsy. They have, in fact, produced simply outstanding cars; spawning groups of cult followers whose debauchery serves as a eulogy for what Toyota used to be. The likes of the 1983 Celica Supra, the 1985 MR2, the 1985 Corolla GT-S and the 1993 Supra Turbo will all go down in the history books as the cars that committed sacrilege. The ones that went rogue. The ones that were crafted not developed. They exhibit a time where Toyota’s mantra encompassed words such as enthralling, fast and beautiful. A time where they eschewed the corporate hierarchy and instead, focused on becoming synonymous with the likes of Jaguar and Porsche.

The 2000GT (pictured above) is a soulful rendition of this rationale – the car that epitomized Toyota’s mantra. Trying to conjure up words that describes the unparalleled magnificence of this car is an infinite task. The sensations seemingly boundless; a titillation that only a car of this stature can exude. It wasn’t just a stylistic icon that was mechanically bankrupt – it had a wealth of substance behind it; so-much-so that it was the only ever Japanese car to feature in a James Bond film, namely: You Only Live Twice.

When you watch a James Bond film, it generally involves action, fast cars, stunning women and a slight tinge of preposterousness; where the fragmentation of rationality only helps you succumb to the surreal. However, You Only Live Twice was subject to an abundance of contestation. The plot of the film swayed violently off course and landed in the hands of the famous Roald Dahl. It was the first Bond film that deviated from the plot set by Ian Fleming and instead, entrusted one of the world’s greatest movie series in the hands of the whimsical children’s story teller.

This is exactly what Toyota did with the 2000GT. They banished their accountants and nay-sayers into the dungeons and released the shackles of condemnation from their artisans; giving them carte blanche to do as they please. Toyota relinquished any sense of doubt that may start brewing in their minds and gave them unconditional access to reenact the surreal; simultaneously allowing them to create a subjective narrative with James Bond but also forming a dialogue with James soaring to reach the Giant Peach.

This infusion crafted a car that perfectly collocates the starkness of Ian Fleming with the waggish nature of Roald Dahl. It was, and possibly always will be, Toyota’s finest moment. What an ominous statement that is. The abundance of supporters who yearn for cars like this can provide Toyota with the catalyst needed for emancipation. A salvation that will hopefully demonstrate that the pulsating heat of consumers hearts mean more than the monetary suffocation of their souls. Where they will ditch the disgustingly archaic digital clock and revert back to a nostalgic childish manner; where style and substance overshadows corporate dominance.

Recently, Toyota had demonstrated slight glimpses that resonate with their prior magic. The likes of the S-FR Concept, FT-1 Concept and the Corolla Furia Concept. You get the sense that the purpose of these concepts is to taunt rather than fulfill; temporarily appeasing the enthusiasts without deterring the loyalists. They are just bombastic marketing tools. Sadly, the production versions will mostly always be dumbed down to such a point that all that remains are the mere silhouettes of what could have been; and with that, disappointment once again bellows across the motoring world.

Toyota has the ability, the resources and the know-how to make these concepts a reality. They have everything that they require besides for the will to do so. So, why don’t they, you may ask? Well, Toyota is comfortable. No matter what they churn out, as long as it bares the markings of Toyota - it will sell. An unrivaled narcissism that either represents trepidation or a lack of empathy.

So, I write this article not to document their pitfalls or to show discontent, I write this to showcase their magic and reinforce their capabilities. Most of all: I write this as a plea; for Toyota to stop resting on their laurels and give motorists a reason to say I own a Toyota with gleaming pride. Where their heritage can provide a platform for a progressive mentality of fun and exciting cars. My plea is not for an elopement, all I’m saying is that a little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest men. Their cars don’t have to have missile launchers or engines that are powered by Wonka Bars; all it requires is a simple amalgamation of the rational with the irrational.

Remember: shaken, not stirred.

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