#all within 3 years

[silvermoon424]

might i ask where you work (if it doesn’t doxx you)!! or maybe just what industry you’re in lol. I’m really needing a new job 😭 I pray one day we’ll all get paid to breathe

I can't give out the name because I don't want to doxx myself or get in trouble, but I can tell you what it does! My company is a non-profit within the insurance industry. Our parent company helps set laws that benefit consumers and regulates the insurance industry (the ENTIRE insurance industry, not just healthcare). It's actually made up of insurance industry professionals, regulators, and elected officials, on top of staff who support them.

The smaller company that I work at is a non-profit that helps insurance agents electronically apply for/renew licenses. I'm in the (small) billing department and- as of right now- help track down payments.

If I could offer any advice, accounting is a really good field to be in. It's very stable and once you work your way up the salaries are pretty nice. I've heard really good things about medical billing in particular; it's not exactly thrilling work but once you build up your skills there are TONS of remote jobs with good pay. The insurance industry for billing is also pretty lucrative.

Hope this helps, and good luck!

#personal #work #I went from being a receptionist who did a bit of AR work #to a billing person in the consulting/geotechnical industry #to now a billing specialist in the insurance industry #all within 3 years #and my salary has almost doubled #each job has gotten better too #I REALLY encourage people to look at the accounting field it saved my life lol

[hopeinthebox]

bts + make up a guy pt.2 | for @cordiallyfuturedwight

#horrifically overdue shitpost from yours truly #a christmas miracle.. if you will #dedicated to love of my life kayla for annie's giftmas <3 #because she's been an absolutely irrepressible light this year and we're all the better for it #so i'm sending all my love and then some packaged the only way i know how - within a shitpost #annietrack #boongietrack #usersky #heyryen #usermaggie #tusercelia #userkelli #trackofthesoul #dailybts #dailybangtan #textsfrombangtan #makeupaguy #make up a guy #bts #huge shoutout to annie for being as exceedingly wonderful as ever and organising this distribution of loveliness #- please do consider taking part if you haven't already!! #anyway. alexa play bring them home

[buglaur]

tutorial contents:

1 ‣ gshade & photoshop actions 2 ‣ template or cropping & colouring 3 ‣ notifs & pop-ups

okay hi! i have a really old editing tutorial from back in january that i've been linking people to, but it's pretty outdated by now. i also keep getting anons asking about the same things, which is fine, but i always have to go searching for the post explaining it, so having it all in one place will be a lot more convenient lol

i use a ☠ copy of photoshop cc 2017 to edit my screenshots, however the majority of everything i'm doing also works on photopea

photopea is an online version of photoshop that's 100% free and works very well! i can't recommend it enough, it's fantastic

first things first, you're going to need some screenshots to edit. for the sake of this tutorial i'll be working with this one of raffy:

in all honesty, gshade will do most of the work for you. of course it's not needed, but i definitely don't think i could live without it! in this screenshot i used sunset n' vinyl by nesurii

when opening the screenshot, the first thing i do is run it through 2 photoshop actions:

butter action by early-grape

smooth sharp (no topaz) by poolbrop

to add actions in photoshop go:

windows > actions > the 4 lines at the upper right corner of the newly opened window > load actions > your downloads folder > open up the .atn files!

if you're using photopea, as far as i'm aware you can't use photoshop actions, but i've found that 'filter > stylize > oil paint' and 'filter > sharpen > smart sharpen' have a very similar effect when using the right settings. try these:

i like these two actions because they smooth everything out nicely, but keep it sharp at the same time! i always run butter before i run smooth sharp, however butter may leave you with 2 layers. make sure to merge these layers before running smooth sharp to achieve the full effect.

here's a before and after (of the photoshop action):

from here you can move on to step 2

before anything else i want to share the template that i use to make editing a lot faster. you don't need to use it but it's definitely made things a lot easier for me! it's a .psd file and will work perfectly in photopea

download (simfileshare)

if you're using the template you can skip right on to the next section, as it's already cropped to the right size and has the colouring folder included. just drag your screenshot into it and resize to fit the height.

if you're not using it, crop your edited screenshot to:

1707 width x 1280 height

then adjust the colours to your liking. it always varies slightly depending on the picture but my regular process for each screenshot would be:

up the saturation by 8%

up the lightness by 3%

up the contrast by 12%

all of this can be done by looking in the 'images > adjustments' tab

you should end up with something similar to this!

if you want to add a moodlet or social interaction or anything similar, it's all the same process. what you'll need is a screenshot of it straight from the game. i just press the 'c' key to capture them! i'll be working with these two:

for the blue notification i'm going to select it using the box select tool. try to get it as exact as possible. one you have it selected

for photoshop users:

click on the 'select and mask...' option located at the top

adjust the global refinements at the side as follows:

smooth: 70 feather: 0.0px contrast: 50% shift edge: 0%

for photopea users:

go to select > modify > smooth

set it to 15

select 'ok' and press 'ctrl + c' to copy it, then 'ctrl + v' to paste it into your screenshot. adjust the size and position and you should end up with something like this:

next you want to add the transparent border around the notification. if you're using my editing template, right click on the reference notif in the layers tab and select 'copy layer style' (photopea > 'layer style > copy'). from there you can paste that layer style onto your own notif through the layers tab.

if you're not using the template, here's how to set it up on photoshop:

right click your notification layer and select 'blending options'

under styles, tick the checkboxes for stroke and drop shadow

input these settings:

on photopea, it should be more or less the same. repeat the exact same process with the social menu option, but instead of selecting it with the box select tool, use the magic select tool. in the end you should end out with this!

from here you're finished! thanks for reading! go to file and export as png

if you've got questions never hesitate to ask, just make sure to read the faq in my pinned. i might edit this post soon to include the gen intro traits and aspirations bit, but this is all for now. hope it helps, my editing process post has been in need of a revamp for a very long time. i haven't proof-read this so apologies for any mistakes!

#ts4 #sims 4 #ts4 tutorial #5 anons in my inbox asking the same question after not reading my faq #this ones for you #3 anons in my inbox asking about cas pics #ones coming for you soon #okay maybe not soon but sometime #all my free time has been eaten up #i signed up for extra saturday morning classes and not having a lie in is sucking the life out of me lmao #when i'm busy i just wanna play video games and when i get the chance #to play games i just wanna sleep #its a vicious cycle #i'm currently playing resident evil biohazard tho #enjoying it very very much #i've only got 2 and 3 left to play and i've played every mainstream re game 💪💪 #it was a very fun journey! i played them all within this year #long post

[sluckythewizard]

these are A BIT OLD but uhhh here check out these aggio doodles i did forever ago. still VERY happy w my colors :3

#this was back in uhhhh jan 2023!! hot dog!! and its still perfeclty good to eat! #i think kian and chip would get along. they could talk about feelings. kian could give chip the therapy he needs. maybe kiss? who said that #jay and rand could also get along i think. smoke buddies. cigarette fans. i bet they could play dnd together. or build a contraption togeth #also WAUHG the way i colored in kira here is SO PERFECT.. SHES SO SPARKLY N PRETTY. ALSO THAT HOOORNN i remember bleeding for that #shading is HARD lighting is HARD drawing a crazy unicorn is HARD but SOOOO WORTH IT I SITLL LOVE HOW IT LOOKES..... #waht else is there. oh yes the prime defender doodles #i love mark so much.... i miss being crazy and strange abt mark winters... i need to draw him killing more people someday #anyway i gotta go to bed soon to keep my sleep schedul on track but I DONT WAANNA!!!! recently relistened to bitb. that might release spore #im also chippin away at that am i in heaven animatic between workin on commissions. I GOT RLY FAR!! i think that i could finish it within #like. 3 or 4 more inspo waves. it wont be unfinished forevcer..... its so close... just 4 more full scenes to rly fleshh out #so basically another 2 years. YEAH BABy. in the meantime i have a backlog of things i can poast. i got plenty o drawings and doodles to sha #alrigh thats all the ramblin im gonna do for now. sleep well everyone hope shool or work goes easy on u in the coming week

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Lmao Frank would absolutely keep a list of everything they tried to do to fix this situation. He has his work cut out for him with poor wally as well. Does he know what happened to Sally?

Frank does know what happened to Sally! ofc he caught his first glimpse of her when he sorta woke up, then after he Actually woke up, Wally made sure to sit him down and be like "she will kill you if you go near her <3"

still, Frank didn't really believe Wally. so Wally showed him proof:

and Frank quickly changed his tune.

and honestly, it's more like Wally has his work cut out for him with Frank lmao. cause by the time Frank fully wakes, Wally's pretty much given up. and rightfully so, there's... not really anything he can do except protect his sleeping friends.

so Frank's initial attempts to make a plan kinda went like:

Wally is very earnest about saying "that's nice". it is nice. it's refreshing to have someone around that still believes something can be done, however futile that hope is. Frank will catch on eventually.

#these two are very fun to explore in this au because its kind of a role reversal? in a way? #bc after literal decades of being alone in the dark #wally is jaded. hes learned things. hes unlocked a variety of emotions. hes adapted. hes had an all around bad time. hes Different Now. #and frank? frank (at least in the above scribbles) hasnt dealt with that #comparatively hes bright eyed and bushy tailed!! #so hes like drawing up plans and brainstorming #and meanwhile wally is just lounging off to the side with a book hes read about a thousand times #frank: I HAVE A NEW PLAN! #wally: *pats his head* good job neighbor <3 #wally: *goes back to staring into the void* #wh lights out au #scribble salad #welcome home au #within the year tho frank goes from We Can Fix This! to actively talking to a stick with eddie's hat hung on it #and i mean. there is really Nothing they can do. its out of their hands #but perhaps its in someone elses door.... #also thank you for the opportunity to Talk about this au! ive been marinating it in the braintisserie a Lot!

[galactic-glamour-girl-posts]

Enjoy the show!

(The reboot should've lasted longer though.)

#animaniacs #gravity falls #animaniacs 2020 #animaniacs reboot #animaniacs season 3 #yakko wakko and dot #yakko warner #wakko warner #dot warner #pinky and the brain #patb #grunkle stan #after all these years #finally i have them all #meme #I'm glad each Warner got to have a poster/promotional artwork where they're front and centre at least #even if the reboot is ending honestly I could see the franchise coming back within the next few years #I mean Powerpuff Girls Phineas and Ferb Gumball and Kim Possible are all confirmed or rumoured to be coming back #and literally all those shows/franchises have already made new content within the past 4 years #I'm just saying it's not unheard of for a property to come back more than once

[ourfavoritetorturedwriter]

#the evil within 2 #the evil within #stefano valentini #my adventures with photo mode #listen #i have no idea why i'm suddenly back into tew after...*checks* 7 years #but uhhhhh... #he <3 #let me tell you 16 year old me did NOT have enough appreciation for stefano #like AT ALL #also #did you know i'm bad at photo editing #because i'm bad at photo editing

[ragnar0c]

🪸Happy 14th Etrian Odyssey III!🪸

Thank you for being my favorite video game!

#EOCS #Eoc: Hana #EOC: Alope #EOC: Enid #EOC: Tank #EOC: Ignis #etrian odyssey #etrian odyssey iii #OUGHH I WISH I COULD HAVE 100%ED IT ALL 3 TIMES WITHIN THE YEAR BUTTTT #This is enough. I just have to get the gang to level 80 and it’s fair game tho #Almost exploded making this too ough…….. 8 hours and it was mostly today

[emjoyy]

Me literally every time I talk to anyone: Black Sails is the greatest tv show ever made. It is the pinnacle of queer representation. It is the ultimate example of storytelling as a narrative theme and medium for the story. It is about queer people with blood on their hands, fighting to destroy the systems of oppression that want them dead. It is about intersectionality. It’s about systems of power. It’s about radical liberation. It’s about gay pirates. It is poetic cinema, it is high art. Flint with blood on his face, Silver’s transformation, Miranda’s everything, Anne’s sexuality, Max’s quest for power, Jack being Jack, Eleanor’s fate, Vane’s indenture, Madi’s speech to Woodes Rogers, MEDITATIONS BY MARCUS AURELIUS/ KNOW NO SHAME -

#black sails #black sails always got me going feral #just thinking about it #it’s the most show ever #this is not up for debate #it just is #captain flint #john silver #it’s been 3 years since I watched it and it still just lives in my brain all the time #this is the hill I will die on #also me always bringing it up within the first two dates with someone #like buckle up

[aibidil]

Oh, friends. I'm sitting here with my dog dying on my lap. Send us some love and strength?

#he's 15 and has truly wrung every second out of life #he was diagnosed with kidney disease 3 years ago #a stroke 2 years ago #one year ago he was so anemic the vet thought he would die within weeks #each time he laughed in the face of death and kept living his good life #so there's really nothing to regret or wish different and I wish we could all have lives as full and charmed as his #but he's been with us since he was 8 weeks old and seen me through so much shit #he's also a complete asshole 💜 #and so many of my daily routines are shaped around him #so it's not just losing him it's losing the entire shape of our lives for 15 years #pet loss #cw pet death #pet death #cw pet loss

[plusultraetc]

okay okay but. no one helping Shigaraki when he was a child because they'd all been conditioned to think that a hero would help him vs Aizawa "an ordinary person's only got so much power" Shouta not feeling capable enough to even save a cat left out in the rain EXCEPT. Aizawa left the cat his umbrella and walked the rest of the way to school without it.

#if i'm doing the math right these events happened within like. a year or two of each other. #i'm feeling sane #liza reads vigilantes #aizawa shouta #shigaraki tomura #shimura tenko #aizawa said 'i wasn't even close to being myself back then' and i said but weren't you #aizawa <3 self sacrifice forever #'are you--' 'rereading vigilantes 8? yeah i am' #and reading all of my little margin notes #liza blather #i'm never going to be normal about the aizawa shigaraki dynamic am i

[snakeoid]

I just know when lucifer said I'm going to my room he went in there to cry. his youngest sister died + lost a war and became a demon + gave birth to an angry baby + taking responsibility for six brothers in a realm that hates them + feels guilty about dragging his brothers down with him + now his brothers keep saying things that (usually unintentionally) make him feel guiltier like personally i'd throw up

#obey me #nightbringer revolves in my brain #theres probably so much weighing on him its great <3 #like this is all happening to him within the past 1-2 years crazy #also now at the very end of lesson 10 he now has to worry about whether the mc is a threat or not #obey me spoilers #<- ig i tried to keep it vague outside of known lore from the first game

[moveslikekeithrichards]

its so hard to talk about how traumatic it is to watch somebody be claimed by dementia without going "well i cant complain because at least i wasnt the one losing my mind (for now)" but that shit fucks you up so much. that ghost is going to haunt me for the rest of my life and all i can do is hope it Stays a ghost

#tiddytaco #b #thinking about it rn bc today while i was driving my mom home from pt #she saw someone she knew from years ago driving & was like FOLLOW THAT CAR & we met them in a parking lot #& the conversation turned to 'hey what the hell happened to your parents' pretty quickly bc our families hadnt been in touch #& it was a long conversation in the hobby lobby parking lot #& idk if itll ever Stop being fresh in my mind but now its Extra fresh in my mind #that whole time period was just so insane & awful #bc it was like Ok we're caring for both grandparents #& then my grandpa died #& all our pets at the time were very old #& when he died it occurred to me that we could easily lose both grandparents and all 3 pets within the year #it turned out to be like a long drawn-out year & a half from the first to the last #& looking back it seems impossible that is was that short a time period bc it felt like an eternity #we got off easy with grandpa bc he died before it got too bad but with grandma it just kept getting Worse #& the climax of the caring experience was traveling to take her to my uncle bc he wanted to take his shift caring for her #& that was so . So bad. SO bad #like it literally could not have gone more smoothly and it was SO bad #just thinking about it i feel like im there again i get so stressed out

[perhaps-in-anotherdream]

[CN] Victor’s Carbon Pen and Glass Bead Event (Day 1)

⌚ This post contains detailed spoilers for content yet to be released on the global server! ⌚

✦ thursday || friday || saturday || sunday || monday || tuesday || wednesday

【High School Affiliated to Loveland University Second Year (Section 1) Semester Schedule - Thursday】

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[Tidbits]: To not break the flow, gonna put the note first– in the first dialogue, Victor’s classmates address him as “老李” (Lao Li)~ the way I hate English vocabulary at times like this LMAO the term “老” here is used as a teasing remark by his classmates to express their respect/ honor for him sarcastically given that not only he’s ahead of the crowd but he acts far too mature beyond his years as well~😂

—

[MATH]:

“Sir Vic, what answer did you get for the second-to-last question?”

“Square root of 2.”

“OK! Now, what option did you choose for the tenth question?”

“I chose option C, but I’m not sure.”

“It should be option A… P is the symmetric point with respect to the straight line x-y=0…”

For the math teacher who loves giving impromptu quizzes, getting the students to engage in discussions during the ten-minute break is also one of their “conspiracies.”

—

[BIOLOGY]:

Looking at the textbook he’s already highlighted with the key points long ago, Victor takes out a collection of competition-grade questions that are carefully sorted to align with the relevant exam topics. As he listens, he begins contemplating the problems.

—

[CHINESE]:

Everyone is on their “best behavior” during the homeroom teacher’s class. The beaming woman is speaking eloquently on the stage, while Victor looks down at a reading comprehension analysis. He finds that he understands it even better than the original writer.

There are so many incomprehensible things in this world.

—

[CHEMISTRY]:

There are less than ten minutes to go until the end of the class. Glancing from afar, Victor notices that Zheng Xi, who is seated near the front door, already seems to be in a stance ready to bolt at any moment. Victor can’t help but feel hungry as he feels himself being infected by the sight.

—

[PHYSICS]:

Is it really possible for anyone to stay alert and not feel sleepy in the first class of the afternoon?

Yes, Victor doesn’t feel sleepy in the slightest.

—

[MUSIC]:

“Aside from focusing on studies, I hope that everyone can enhance their perception of various forms of “aesthetics.” This semester in music class, the teacher aims to create a platform for self-expression, where each student can showcase their talents through musical instrument performances, singing, or dancing. Last week, several students performed exceptionally well. Now, we’ll continue with the presentations in order of student numbers. Up next is student number 23.”

“Does the vice class monitor know how to play the piano?”

“I’m not sure, I’ve never seen him playing it.”

“...”

“...”

“...”

“...Thank you, Victor, for your performance. Music is a form of self-expression. But, next time, perhaps you can also consider singing a song?”

—

[ENGLISH]:

Led by the arrangement of the passionate young teacher, the class is divided into multiple small groups, each assigned to perform different roles based on the textbook content. However––

With a sense of resignation, Victor touches the curly wig on his head and remains silent for a moment. Despite so, he still earnestly delivers the lines of the judge.

“I’m already a mature high school student,” he thinks to himself, feeling at a loss for words.

—

[ENGLISH]:

One of the biggest benefits of the campus activities on Thursday is that Victor can seamlessly participate in the Model United Nations (MUN) right after his English class.

Even if one practices their lines in advance, no one will raise an eyebrow. The school administration teacher is really nice.

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✧ next stop: Friday

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#uhh in case it confuses you - second year of senior high school is equivalent to Grade 11 in the US~ #Chinese education system consists of 6 yrs of elementary- 3 yrs of junior high and 3 yrs of senior high school. and then you go onto uni~ #*weeps* his mum wasn’t around enough to teach him how to play the piano... ༎ຶ⁠‿⁠༎ຶ #this whole event fleshes him out as a character so much more- and someone a little within reach. #it really just sings how he grew up to be such an extraordinary human despite all setbacks and everything else that went down ❤️ #mlqc victor #mlqc li zeyan #mlqc #mr love victor #mr love queen's choice #李泽言 #恋与制作人 #love and producer #mlqc cn #mlqc spoilers #mlqc translations

[probably-not-a-rutabaga]

i've been using shows to keep track of how long i've been working on tmnt aberration short

so far i've watched the entirety of wander over yonder and am starting mao mao: heroes of pureheart,,,,,,, so we're at a total of 1 day and about,,, 17 hours???

will happily take suggestions on other things i should watch once i finish mao mao !!! i'm thinking abt rewatching teen titans,,,,,,,,

#this is my subtle way of saying that i'm gonna be struggling to work on anything other than this project for a while #it's !!! more time consuming than i thought <3 #and i'm behind schedule working on these keyframes <3 #i feel like i should mention that i've watched all of these shows within the past 1-2 years #i'm just very unwell about them #THEY'RE SILLY !!!! I CAN'T HELP THAT #rutabaga nonsense

[hellishgayliath]

Shoutout to 2023 for getting me to draw animals more than I ever did in my life and then essentially making me a furry lmao

The art summary template I used --> https://www.deviantart.com/hedgecatdragonix/art/Art-Summary-2023-Template-1001234860

#my art #2023 summary of art #im really proud of myself tho #i managed to draw multiple pieces each month within a whole year #there were so many drawings i wanted to fit into the spaces above cuz im honestly really happy with a lot of the things i made ;w; #sure energy levels were somewhat all over the place BUT I STILL DID THINGS :D I EXPERIMENTED #maybe here's hoping i can get an ipad and procreate in 2024 #happy new years yall #and thanks for sticking by <3