#grouping these together

[secondbeatsongs]

as a bi person, the bisexual flag brings me infinite joy and always puts a smile on my face, however as a person who has a Passion for Graphic Design, that undersaturated shade of purple infuriates me when it's used digitally

like, on an actual flag - which was its original purpose - it looks great!

those look fine! lovely, even! with the semi-transparent fabric, the way it catches the sunlight, it looks beautiful!

but now look at how it looks digitally

the pink and blue are so vibrant compared to the sad, lonely lavender!

and let's look at this statement from Michael Page, the creator of the bi flag:

(sidenote: he created this flag in 1998, so if his takes on bisexuality is different from yours, it's okay to notice that! a lot has changed since the 90s when it comes to lived experiences and the way we describe them. but, it's also important to respect his thoughts about this and the way he presented them, even if today, we'd probably not say that bi people "blend unnoticeably into both the gay/lesbian and straight communities.")

so in pantone colors, the pink is 226 C, the blue is 286 C, and the purple of the flag is 258 C.

but...here's the deal

Michael talks here about how the key to understanding the symbolism is to know that the purple blends into both the pink and blue. and on a physical flag, I think you can see that!

but digitally, it absolutely does not blend. it clashes badly, and looks oddly separate from the other two colors.

which got me wondering...what purple do you get if you actually blend 226 C and 286 C?

oh! oh, my god.

look at that! look at how nicely it fits between those colors!

look at it next to the original color scheme! look at how much more vibrant the purple is!

and friends. this is just blending through rgb! you get even more purple variations when you use other color spaces!

let's compare all of them:

(top: original, lab. middle: lrgb, lch. bottom: rgb, hsl)

look at all of the different purple options you can get just by combining these two colors!

if you want almost too-vibrant saturation, you can go hsl, if you want something more relaxed that's closer to the original, you can go lab or lrgb. and if you want to split the difference, lch is bright and violet, while rgb is there with its saturated but darker purple.

anyway, I guess I don't really have a point here? this isn't so much an informational post as it is Me Getting Weird About Colors, but I think it is a useful lesson about how colors look very different on screens compared to how they look on objects in real life.

and sometimes, I think it's okay to compensate for that.

out of all of these, this is my favorite bi flag:

it's the one where the colors were blended in lab color space. for me, the lighter, softer purple is close enough to the original bi flag purple, while also feeling like a smoother blend of the blue and pink

but that's just me! and it might not even look the same to you, since every screen is different, because technology is a nightmare!

anyway, thank you for coming with me on this colorful journey! I will now retreat back to inkscape and make pained sounds about inkstitch gradients until something tangible pulls me back into reality

#bi #bisexual #bisexuality #bi flag #bisexual flag #sbs rambles #graphic design is my passion #id in alt text #but #the ids are probably deeply unhelpful for the different variations of flags #in the alt text of the six flags all grouped together #I just put what method the purples were blended with #and then tried to describe them more in the paragraph below #but this is an inherently visual post #so if you're reading it with a screen reader I am sorry :(

[zivazivc]

first night alone

#i love them your honor #trolls #dreamworks trolls #trolls 3 #trolls band together #brozone #trolls john dory #trolls spruce #trolls clay #trolls floyd #trolls branch #as the egg #my art #they just lost their mom and they lost their dad only a couple of months prior #this is before grandma moves in with them #young brozone #floyd is 11 here and jd is 18 #so you know why floyd looks so baby #group hug #i had a reaction to the film orphan on in the other window for background noise while drawing... #so i titled the file trolls_orphan before i even fully knew what i was going to draw 🙃

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

anyone else have multiple traumatic memories associated specifically with holidays/family vacations? because that is a topic I never see discussed in all the So You Had A Shitty Childhood, Now What? self-help books i've been reading. but for me, it was a significant thing. and the more i think about it the more it seems like this would be an (unfortunately) common experience. would be grateful to hear if this matches other peoples' experiences...

#not a shitpost #serious post #ask to tag #tw trauma #cptsd #c-ptsd #and if so we should TALK about it #because it means there are a whole group of survivors out there whose mental health regularly worsens during holidays #like i know i am most certainly not the only person who feels an undefined Dread hanging over christmas/my birthday/july 4 etc #bc too many shitty things happened during those times and now my brain is hypervigilant bc traditionally these are the Danger Times #and this seems like it would be particularly common for survivors of abusive/dysfunctional households (aka most people with c-ptsd) #because holidays/vacations typically mean 1) the whole family is together/being forced to interact #2) and undergoing external stressors e.g. travel/relatives aka 'outsiders' visiting/routines & coping mechanisms being interrupted etc #3) there is social pressure for this to be a Fun Family Bonding Experience which only highlights the cracks in the foundation #and exposes the common Everything Is Fine/We Are A Happy Family lie #4) the cognitive dissonance of feeling tired/anxious/stressed/afraid during a time when you are 'supposed' to be Making Good Memories #and then everyone is angry/tired/anxious/triggered and things boil over and something or someone goes Very Wrong #weird that i'm posting this in october when halloween is...sort of the ONLY holiday i have only good and happy feelings towards #i got lucky there #also i have positive feelings towards Labor Day but that's for socialist reasons

[confettisharkparfait]

okay everyone take ur t shirts now

#we deserve them #so many feelings #hermitcraft #hermitblr #hermits charity live 2024 #hermitcraft charity livestrream day #gtwscar #gtws #goodtimeswithscar #grian #geminitay #etho #martyn inthelittlewood #solidaritygaming #impulsesv #we got a desert duo #we got bad boys #we got the hermitgals together #we had ranchers #we had every hermit being dads #we almost hit the dono goal #we had the shiney duo #WE HAD SOUP GROUP #tangotek #WE HAD IT ALL !! #skizzleman #joehills #iskall85 #pearlescentmoon #zedaphplays

[adeleba]

Something about different teens coming together to fight some prophesized evil, and gaining something more

(DR season 2 save me i miss em ToT)

#found families my beloved #manifesting euphrasia being part of the group eugfwiuef #Also “Missing the og 4 on screen being cute (dumb) together” hours #ninjago fanart #lmao am i really gonna tag them all ToT #ninjago euphrasia #arin ninjago #sora ninjago #wyldfyre ninjago #zane julien #cole brookstone #jay walker #kai smith #yes. yes i am #adelebart #ninjago

[tumatawa]

I wish she had more scenes... Whateva

#dungeon meshi #rinsha fana #kabru #tumatawart #dont tag as ship #? Do people still use that these days #**SPOILERS in the tags I will ramble a little.** #I like how they have opposite ways of thinking with their shared environment shaping them greatly. I wanted them to talk about it together #Kabru just separates from the group for the rest of the series when the Canaries arrive without any reaction and I was like What... #Maybe briefly entrusting Rin as the party leader since in his eyes she's the most reliable... Having her do things her way. #Not necessarily showing how they fare. Thatd get messy but a slight change in dynamic after they come back together in the finale dinner #Maybe I need to reread I might be missing something u__u

[gazkamurocho]

Dreaming of Hawaii

#someone save my baby #I just want them to be happy and retired together ;; #Whenever I'm playing IW and see Ichiban's group having fun in Hawaii #I can't stop thinking of Majima (and Saejima and Daigo) having a miserable life in a fish shack lol #I worry about him!! #yakuza #like a dragon #ryu ga gotoku #rgg #龍が如く #真島吾朗 #桐生一馬 #真桐 #桐真 #goro majima #kazuma kiryu #kiryu kazuma #majima goro #kazumaji #fanart #my art #gazkerber #gazkamurocho #illustration #games #videogames #like a dragon infinite wealth

[taxinealkaloids]

behold hitherto unposted htn doodles! harrow+her terrible mentor, harrow+her terrible roommate

#tlt #my art #these were unfinished which i thought was a shame so i sort slapped some colors nd background stuff on them and now here they are. #top one soooo old but i still liked it and didnt want to condemn it to a fate of sitting in my wip folder forever and ever #bottom ones are more recent; they were scattered throughout the margins of a bunch of different wips and i grouped them together #in this one canvas so i could post them cause i like em. im charmed by soup bowl harrow w/ her normal pajamas. she would probably #not wear that. #ive been thinking abt harrianthe a lot lately i want to post about them more but i can't finish anything lately #not cause im artblocked or anything i'm fine in that respect i just have no free time 💀

[ferviduspizza]

I love that shittysawtraps post that's going around rn like "you can make a character playlist for any character but you can't use Mother Mother or Lemon Demon" and then every reblog is like "and for a REAL challenge, don't use any of THESE wildly popular artists, either" and then proceeds to list twenty artists I've never heard of in my life

#I don't even have esoteric music taste like 90% of my music diet is big name k-pop girl groups/artists #like how am I out of touch with what everyone else on Tumblr likes I thought we were all entering our golden years together

[knightmareaceblue]

Happy October! It's the perfect time of the year to gather around the fire, roast some marshmallows, and tell horror stories about that time you and your roommates took in a monster that broke into your house!

#Animator vs Animation #AVA #AVM #Animation vs Minecraft #Purple #Yellow #Green #Blue #Red #The Second Coming #Orange #Color Gang #Knightmare Art #Purple learning about the group's past together must be a total roller coaster #“You guys fought the Dark Lord and lived???” #“LOL No. We died and were brought back by shenanigans probably.” #“?!?!?”

[nosnexus]

It's occurred to me that I've never drawn Wuvvy. A crime, really.

Huevember Day 1

#d20 #dimension 20 #d20 fanart #a court of fey and flowers #acofaf wuvvy #huevember 2023 #my art #might have gone a bit too hard for day one... #I'm working so much this week I probably will have to group some of the days together #but stay tuned!

[johns-prince]

“I’m sure that if [Paul] had been a woman or something, he would have been a great threat, because there’s something definitely very strong with me, John, and Paul.”

— Yoko Ono, Revolution Tape, June 4th 1968. [x]

“. . . I mean, I think really what it was, really all that happened was that John fell in love. With Yoko. And so, with such a powerful alliance like that, it was difficult for him to still be seeing me. It was as if I was another girlfriend, almost. Our relationship was a strong relationship. And if he was to start a new relationship, he had to put this other one away. And I understood that. I mean, I couldn’t stand in the way of someone who’d fallen in love. You can’t say, “Who’s this?” You can’t really do that. If I was a girl, maybe I could go out and… But you know I mean in this case I just sort of said, right – I mean, I didn’t say anything, but I could see that was the way it was going to go, and that Yoko would be very sort of powerful for him. So um, we all had to get out the way.”

— Paul McCartney, interview with German tv program Exclusiv, April 1985. [x]

“It’s just handy to fuck your best friend… and once I resolved the fact that it was a woman as well, it’s all right. I liked her cause she was like a bloke in drag… like a mate.”

— John Lennon talking about Yoko Ono - Powers of Two by Joshua Wolf Shenk. [x]

“I still think at the back of John’s mind was this fascination of wanting to get back with the first girlfriend, if you like, and that was to get back with Paul, who he had so much history with.”

— Tony Barrow, The Beatles’ press officer, on the Lennon/McCartney reunion that was never to be. [x]

“My “simplest, most logical” reason that Yoko treated Paul as her main rival for John’s affections was… he was the main rival for John’s affections… How many books have been written about Lennon and McCartney, and on that period specifically, and not one of them has seriously suggested that John might be a bisexual man in love with his songwriting partner and closest adult companion? Now, we have writers timidly peeking out and saying, “Gee, it’s almost as if John was in love with Paul.” Has the evidence changed? Not much. Have we as a society become more educated and tolerant? Yes.”

— Michael Gerber, Hey Dullblog. [x]

#mclennon #paul mccartney #john lennon #yoko ono #anthology of mclennon #i just needed these grouped together because there's definitely significance

[chipchopclipclop]

it twas only a matter of time before i broke on my own fantasy au design nonsense. my dnd bones.

#chipchopdraws #yakuza #like a dragon #ladiw #like a dragon infinite wealth #my god i dont want to tag everyones names #ichiban kasuga #nanba yu #koichi adachi #saeko mukoda #zhao tianyou #joon gi han #seonhee #eric tomizawa #chitose fujinomiya #kazama kiryu #all the fucking warriors #bottom group ended up looking so goth together (aside from tomi) so now im laughing #yakuza 8 spoilers #slighttlyyy

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

yall like to pretend that "don't split up" is the most obvious rule in any horror scenario, but what's the alternative? stick together and cooperate ? to find a solution? in a life-or-death situation??? babe surely you have been in enough group projects to guess how that shit ends

#honestly would prefer to try to strike a work-study deal with the Killer #rather than team up with your average group of horror movie characters #listen. the Killer has their shit together. they've planned this. they have clear goals. they have tools. they have a timeline. #whereas the So-Called Protagonists decided it would be 'fun' to get drunk in a cabin in the woods with no cell reception #honestly i'm siding with the Killer on this one. at some point that's fair game. ethically sourced murder victims

[offkilterkeys]

The world isn’t ready for my alpha kid readings.

#jane crocker #jake english #roxy lalonde #dirk strider #homestuck #alpha kids #Jane is the struggler don’t you EVER contest that #many might argue it’s Jake but he doesn’t struggle inherently #usually he just vibes until he’s forced into situations wherein he struggles #Jane struggles from the beginning #her entire arc is a struggle #also had to change it from “the fujoshi” mostly cause I don’t like that and also cause it’s not as versatile as the other labels #I don’t actually think Dirk is boring btw i just think that when put up against his friends he has a lot less complexity going on #like his arc is fairly simple as opposed to Jane and Jake’s #and even Roxy’s #His problems seem inherently a lot more straight forward to me simply because he’s articulate enough to realize he has problems #Jane and Jake are almost there #problems are like on the tip of their tongues #and Roxy is kinda like the John of the team where she isn’t even gonna acknowledge the possibility of problems #girl is like “problems? haha not me #I’m the put together one in this group :)” #and just ignores all her internalized misogyny and heteronormativity #she is a mirror to Vriska in that they both put a lot of emphasis on preforming romanticism as a means of affirming their gender #anyway my alpha kid readings are way too boring so I feel like nobody would really be interested in them Sighhhh

[comingyourlugubriousness]

Here is a transparent version of this manga panel. Please run free with this. A meme to kick it off:

#twst meme #twisted wonderland #disney twisted wonderland #twst memes #twisted wonderland memes #transperent meme #mymeme #recently learned rook leona and idia have art class together what a group lol #leona kingscholar #idia shroud #twst manga #twst manga cap