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theadventurerslog · 1 year

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King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella | Part 2

The Adventurer's Log

King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella Part 2

Oh boy. Ohhh boy. This session is one of the highlights of the several ways you can dead-end yourself! Let's get to it, shall we?

I left off last time with my goal being to bring Lolotte the unicorn. I (mostly) knew what to do or this would have been more of a mess and probably would have had me running to hints.

First, while unrelated, I did want to have a quick look around for the minstrel to give him that Shakespeare book. I didn't find him, but the RNG (sooo much RNG in this game) was kind and I encountered Cupid at the pool who dropped his bow. At least I assume it was RNG; it could be a kinder situation have him always show up there after you're sent on the unicorn mission. That bow is one of the things we'll need for the unicorn.

After that I decided to just get on with things. First step: go back to the beach and start swimming. Now, there is a hint about this--at the beginning, when Genesta says it's time for her fly back while she still can she does fly out to the ocean. Still, I doubt I would have thought of that myself. But, since I did know, it was time to go swimming!

And get eaten by a shark.

I got eaten a few times before I made it. Gotta love that RNG. Hovering near the top or bottom edge helps, so you can switch screens quickly to hopefully get rid of it, but even that isn't a surefire way to be safe.

I did eventually make it to land--Genesta's island itself.

Pardon the tiny point discrepancy you may notice in the upcoming screencaps. I took this after wandering the island.

Look at that fairy-tale castle. It's actually quite a nice island. With peacocks!

But maybe I do need the peacock.

Further along the beach is a peacock feather lying on the ground. Unlike the peacock I apparently don't need, the feather is needed as will be shown soon.

More exploration. It's pretty! And I feel a good highlight in the update in graphics from the previous three games. Putting that SCI engine to work!

Then I entered Genesta's castle and was proven she's good. Look at these stairs having railings. I didn't fall off even once.

The most leisurely stairs ever.

At the top is Genesta's room.

I couldn't talk to her snow leopard :(. Rosella needs some dough in her ears.

Other than looking around and of course visiting that glorious snow leopard, there's no point in coming up here yet. If you look at Genesta the game reminds you she's fading. If you try to talk to her, her fairy companions get mad and furiously shoo you away. Still, seeing the snow leopard seems like reason enough to me to come up here.

Now that that's done, it's time to swim back to the main land. Start swimming back, hope you don't get eaten by a shark again (haha, that sure happened again) and then see a whale! Isn't that neat? Until a whirlpool sucks you in.

Here it is. We begin the chain of potential dead-ends and why was this a good idea again?

But first I was gross.

I love it when the game get emphatic at my crap.

Anyway, there's a bottle with a note in it. The note has a bunch of random messages pleading for various help with puzzles from Sierra's other games. Just a cute easter egg.

The skeleton is a skeleton of "an unlucky man (let's call him James)..." This feels like a possible reference I don't know.

And now the why. The first step to get out of this predicament is to climb that big ol' tongue. There is a set path. There is no way to identify that set path except to just keep trial and error-ing it. Even having a rough idea of where the path is from seeing it done, I still fell several times. You don't die from falling...which I shouldn't have to clarify, but this is King's Quest. But, it is still annoying to nearly make it only to fall. Also, you can die if you take too long because you succumb to noxious fumes. I did at least manage to avoid that.

Once you make it up you need to get close to the uvula, also without falling, and if you look at it the game tells you that it is an uvula and that it looks like a big punching bag, which is completely useless information. You can punch it, which is mean, but it doesn't do anything except to tell you it doesn't do anything.

Nope, you better hope you got that peacock feather on the island because you need to tickle the uvula with it.

If you miss the feather you're stuck here forever. Better hope you have a recent save.

The whale sneezes you out into the ocean near a small island where there are a couple more possible dead-ends.

A Monkey Island joke pardon me.

Okay, as said a couple dead-end possibilities here.

First: there's a mandatory item here. If you look at the boats it tells you there are wrecked boats and a glint though it doesn't specify which boat. Still, the one of the sand is the only one you can get to. If you keep looking you get the same message. You have to get close and Look in the boat to find a golden bridle. This is, as far as I can tell, your one and only chance. Once you get off the island you can't return and you can't get the unicorn so you can't progress. If you miss it you'd have no idea and there's 0 reason to even expect to find a golden bridle here. Not great!

Second: To get off the island you need to feed the pelican a fish. If you didn't fish up a fish, you're trapped here. Now it might be possible to fish up a fish here, but only if you found the worm! And that's assuming you've even gotten the fishing rod yet. I did try swimming away a few times and always drowned.

So, you feed the pelican the fish and it spits out a whistle. You use the whistle to summon a dolphin which you can ride back to shore. All is well.

So yeah, to sum up three rapid dead-ends. Miss feather: you're doomed. Miss fishing pole and/or worm or possibly fish: you're doomed. Miss golden bridle you're hooped without even knowing it until it's time to deal with the unicorn.

Thankfully, these were all things I knew aside from forgetting to feed the pelican and trying to swim away a few times before cluing in.

Safely back on shore and not in a dead-end state I wandered around until the unicorn appeared. Gotta love more of that RNG. And I kind of hate this.

First you have to shoot the unicorn with Cupid's bow to make it trust you. And then you can talk to it and it whinnies softly at you. You can pet its velvety nose. You can kiss its velvety nose. All these nice things before you put the bridle on it and have to ride it back to Lolotte's mountain where it makes a point of telling you it gets fearful.

I'm SORRY. The game is cruel in many ways, but I'll save you...

Once that wretched task was done, Lolotte decided she still doesn't quiiite trust Rosella, because of course she doesn't, not while she can still make us do things for her. Now she wants a golden hen.

This time in my wandering I found the minstrel. He very happily accepted my book of Shakespeare and gave me his lute, for he shall "become a famous ACTOR!". With lute in hand I quickly ran into Pan again and we had our own little jam session.

For Rosella's good playing or maybe just the fun had, Pan gave her his flute in return for the lute then off he went cheerfully playing at the end of this little trade chain.

I wasn't quite sure what to do next. I knew I'd have to deal with the ogres and after running into one of them a few times--yay more deaths--I was able to enter their house only to die to their big dog.

I wound up wending my way back to the manor. I did discover I'd forgotten to grab the shovel again after reloading away from the dreaded stairs last time. I also tackled the dreaded stairs again which went much better. At the top is a pipe organ you can play but it doesn't do anything at this point. At least I mended my wounded stair ego by making it up the stairs this time.

I mean, I accidentally stepped into the hole and died anyway but I did make it up!

None of this was helpful at this point and I wandered around more before succumbing to looking up a hint, not a walkthrough, just hints. I got bone. Yes, of course, that would be good for distracting the dog, and I was also reminded of the waterfall. Right. I knew I had to do something at the waterfall, but I hadn't been able to figure out how to get behind it because the water pushes you away. After staring at my inventory I realized I'd been forgetting that small crown from the frog.

The crown turns you into a frog and then you can hop into a cave behind the waterfall which leads to the other awful part of this game that I mostly avoided for now.

Most useless lamp ever. I got my bone from that pile there and skedaddled for now, but I will have to go there. The lamp at best lights up wall edges a little as you can see there. A troll will also randomly appear and is hard to get away from. I did make one attempt but ultimately got killed by the troll. So that whole bit will be stumbling through the dark while hoping the RNG gods are kind and won't keep spawning the troll...

I'm going to focus on getting the golden hen first, but then that'll be my next step. Getting the talisman back from Lolotte isn't the only goal after all; I still need the fruit.

Next time should be...interesting?

Points: 83/230

Deaths: 22

Time: 2:40

#king's quest #king's quest iv #the perils of rosella #KQIV #KQIV_Log #sierra #adventure games

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valkyrieblogs · 1 year

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i haven't posted here in a bit, but like a lot of people, i've picked up the latest pokemon! i'm playing pokemon violet. i'll be tagging my posts with valkyrie plays pokemon violet so feel free to filter that tag if you're not interested! i'm doing more in-depth posts about it here, while posting more immediate reactions on my discord server (feel free to request that if we've ever talked!) and/or twitter/mastodon.

so, i haven't really paid much attention to anything surrounding this latest gen. like everyone else, i'm seeing all the glitches going around (most of which i think are hilarious, but i also understand that things shouldn't have been so rushed that the game launched with all them). otherwise, i haven't been too into how this particular game looks. (i really enjoyed the visuals in swsh, for comparison.) that said, hoping i'll still have fun?

immediately noticing issues even in character creation, where my character keeps having their blinking animation freeze. full disclosure: i'm playing on a launch switch, and i am currently playing handheld. i'll probably switch to docked to see if that's any better. i've also heard reports that the game runs into memory leaks, so it's best to save and restart every few hours, ideally.

here's hoping we get a patch soon to help with some of this.

anyway! character. when i'm playing games that tend to gender you, i usually default to using the name "ezra", since that isn't me. i'll be using that here, too. i used that in swsh, and i'm sort of modeling this character off of that one, replete with obnoxious colours. i really have to see if i still have screencaps anywhere of my old character.

okay, there. i had a lot of fun with customization in pokemon swsh.

okay, i also just ran into an issue where i almost got stuck in the living room of my character's house?? walked to one end of the room and couldn't walk out of it for a bit, and at one point, the screen went totally black. very stable and good.

i mentioned this to some friends and some of them have reported the same thing happening to them.

chose sprigatito for my starter... i'm not really big on any of the evos that i've seen, but sprigatito is cute and i'll just pretend i do not see the evos.

one thing that i think is cute so far is running around with the starters and how they gravitate to different things depending on what i assume is their type?

i briefly lived in a world where we actually had our pokemon actually follow us, like in HGSS. i miss it :(

no real thoughts on nemona yet... mostly i'm just perplexed at the fact that we're classmates and yet. she looks so much more adult than the player character does, and it's a little jarring to me.

in going through my screencaps on my SD card, i also just realized that taking an in-game picture does not save it to the SD card!! lesson learned... next time i'll hide the guide and take one in addition to using that.

okay, i've actually enjoyed this sequence getting out of the cave with miraidon... even feeding it on the beach reminded me just a little of how to train your dragon.

OKAY WAIT THIS "LET'S GO" FEATURE WITH THE POKEMON IS GREAT. i can have my pokemon running around on its own picking things up and fighting?? yes please. i've played every gen of pokemon but i do get really bored of turn-based battles (so i'm one of the people that's grateful for exp share as long as i'm not messing around with EVs) so this is great. i know i was just saying earlier how i wished i was back in HGSS, but maybe i partially am with this... good.

stopped at the first pokemon centre after catching as many pokemon as possible and running around... i'm starting to see how people have been commenting on getting lost. i'm really glad we have the map and how it even includes GPS-like functions, though.

#valkyrie plays pokemon violet

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minbinchan · 2 years

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hiiii!!! i absolutely love your gifs, they always look so clean (despite tumblrs need to crönch images aha!). can i ask what your process is? :)

hi friend!! ahh thank you so much that means a lot <3

my process depends on what method i'm feeling like using on the day lol i gif using screencaps and i also gif importing my videos on photoshop. also this is the base of what any gif maker will tell you, but use always 1080p or higher res videos, anything below that will look terrible, but if you can't help it for lower res videos always go for small gifs.

i'm putting this under a read more bc i like to use images to explain things bc i'm a visual learner and i feel like i get my points across more if i use images lol anyway *chan voice* leeeeeeets go!

if i use screencaps, i use the program mpv.net to get them! here's a tutorial on how to set it up (this program runs on windows only iirc, for other platforms original mpv works, but i've heard of people liking potplayer or kmplayer for screencaps)

once i have my screencaps in a folder and everything i open photoshop and go to file->open and find the folder with the images and then click on the first image and then at the bottom of the window that opened i click on "Image Sequence". This makes your screencaps look like a "video without sound" when uploaded to photoshop

once you click open it's going to ask you for a time frame, usually i just click okay bc i fix it later but some people just like to pick whatever the video timeframe was, for skz videos their MVs are in 24fps, for other things like talkers or skz code they usually are in 30fps.

when you go OK it'll show u this

here i do the basics, like cropping to whatever size i want my gif to look like, photoshop will ask you if you want to convert what you cropped to a smart object, you click on YES and then for good measure click on the "never ask me again" box so you don't have to be giving it the okay every time you are cropping things.

for the other method what i do is going file->open and look up my clip of what i'm going to make, photoshop can open .mp4 files, .avi files, .mov files & some .ts files depending on how they were encoded

anyway, you open your video and photoshop will start loading it and once it does it will look exactly like the other method, take a look

here i crop it to whatever size i want my gif again, if my clip is waaaay too long i use the timeline to trim it (this also goes the same for the prev method!) for example i wanted my jeonghan gif to be only this part of a longer clip so i moved the red line to look up where it started and where it finished and moved the both grey rectangle thingies that are at the start and end of the timeline to the points i wanted, like this

and to make my gif i use a photoshop action that i recorded myself with my process, if you want it just lmk! but what it does is basically edit some things like taking it out of that video group

duplicate the layer so it doesn't have these annoying white lines on the sides that are from cropping close to the borders of the video, and then sharpen it so it can look more "clean" and then flatten everything so i work in the frames timeline. This is where i fix my gif speed.

my sharpen is very basic lol i use an older photoshop (bc i just like the way it works jhfdjhfd) so my settings look like this

on newer versions you need to have the "Legacy" option enabled to use it like this

sometimes i go for 500, 0.4 if i want it sharper but for 4k mvs with that setting you're more than good. for other content i try not to overdo my sharpen bc it looks like shit so yeah, just mess around with what you find looks best tbh

after that i do my coloring, i make everything from scratch bc i don't like to use psds and i like to make my gifs very.... vibrant lol my go to layers are curves, levels,vibrance & selective color to fix up things! if i want to make edits with a color with more accent i use selective colors or hue/sat

and then to finish up i go to file ->save for web (in newer versions of photoshop this option is in export!) and these are my settings

and thats it! thats whatever i do that gives me okay looking gifs lol

if you want to check out other basics i made a very simple guide on my main blog HERE it's kinda a bit old so maybe a couple links won't work but nothing google can't give you a result for if you search :P

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nitnendoswinch · 2 years

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TIM REREADS HOMESTUCK PART 1: PAGES 0-21

In which John messes around in his room for a bit, and I discover maybe the only reason for me to regret switching to a more privacy-focused web browser.

Liveblog Archive

First, while I wait for the Unofficial Homestuck Collection’s asset pack to finish downloading, some housekeeping to get out of the way:

First off, this is my fourth time reading Homestuck. Wait. Actually. Hang on. Is it my fifth? I’m writing this paragraph as I think this over, this isn’t a bit, I’m genuinely not sure. I guess I’m gonna have to go over it one reading at a time:

I was a serial reader, first catching up close to the end of Act 6 Act 6 Intermission 2 in 2013.

I read it all the way through for the first time in 2016, a couple months after it ended.

THIS is the one I wasn’t sure about. I feel like I remember rereading it in 2018? But I’m not really sure. I was thinking of looking way back in my browser history to check but I recently switched from Chrome to Firefox and can’t conveniently check on my desktop and mobile chrome doesn’t let you filter your history by date.

Another reread in 2020 because I was feeling nostalgic for it during initial covid lockdowns, appropriately I started on 4/13 this time around.

So there you have it, this is at least my fourth read-through of Homestuck.

Next up, the structure of this series of posts. My intent here is for this to eventually be a dialog of sorts with the podcast I’ve been listening to, Homestuck Made This World (I’ll just be referring to it as “the podcast“ from here on to keep things from getting too bloated). So first, I’ll be catching up to the point in the comic they’re covering (currently in the early parts of Act 6, about halfway through the comic). I’ll be publishing posts like this one as I go every couple days, whenever I feel like I’ve written enough. After I’ve caught up to the podcast, I’ll publish one post covering the same material that’ll be covered in the next episode, unless that makes the posts too long, in which case I’ll split it up into multiple posts. We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it. I’ll be tagging each post “#tim rereads homestuck” for convenient searching (or blacklisting) and will be keeping an archive post updated to make it easy to jump from one post to another.

As I alluded to above, since Flash is dead I’ll be using the Unofficial Homestuck Collection. This is essentially an app that lets you read the whole comic in a sort of offline browser of sorts, making Flash and other elements that may be unsupported in modern browsers work as intended. It has some features to make the experience even better than reading on homestuck.com would be, like inline music credits with links to the official bandcamp, a “spoiler free mode” to hide things that might spoil future events for archival readers, and even mod support to add things like author commentary and replace some of the slurs in the early parts of the comic. I’ll personally be running mods to add author commentary and news posts, as well as mods to translate things like that one morse code segment and Damara’s dialog in A6I3. This is my first time using the collection, so while this isn’t my first reread I do hope it’s my best!

Without further ado, let’s dive in:

The first thing you see when booting up the collection for the first time, after a brief intro page, is a list of content warnings. For whatever reason, Tumblr’s post editor won’t let me add text to a post after copy-pasting these, so I can’t show the full list. If I explicitly comment on anything that warrants a warning I’ll include it at the top of future posts. After that, there are some prompts to configure spoilers, locate the asset pack, and we’re off to the races!

I’m not gonna screencap every page but I can’t not include the first one. It’s so iconic at this point!

Also, I learned listening to the podcast that the name “Zoosmell Pooplord” is a reference to an old AH webcomic called “Zoosmells”, which I’m... probably not gonna read as a part of this project.

Another comment relating to the podcast, one of the hosts says at one point that “Andrew Hussie is really good at describing a type of guy.” The description of a new character’s interests are always some of my favorite bits to read. They start to get a little silly after Act 5 but the early ones are great. I feel like a 13 year old with this exact set of interests probably existed somewhere lol

I didn’t react much to the fake arms bit as I obviously knew it was coming, but it was pretty funny the first time around, taking what you think is a joke about the art style and using it to mess with you and all that. I know now that this is a running gag of sorts in MSPA - I wonder how many of those I still don’t pick up on considering I haven’t read Problem Sleuth or the other adventures (Maybe I will at least read PS this time around but no promises).

Another quick note: I don’t have a whole lot of programming knowledge other than a little bit of Python from college - Homestuck basically is all I know about What Data Structures Are.

And a few pages later, we get the first perk of the collection: instead of linking to Youtube, the Con Air clips linked when John examines his poster are archived within the collection itself! I gotta say this is pretty terrific, I wonder how many jokes I forgot the punchline of because they depended on a dead link?

And with that, oh shit I have work in the morning and this post has gotten pretty long anyways. I’ll probably keep the next one in my drafts til I’ve read a somewhat decent chunk, but it shouldn’t be more than a couple days. Thanks for reading!

#tim rereads homestuck

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scaryorganmusic · 3 years

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#i was just messing around with some screencaps and ended up with this so here it is i guess #obviously i don't *know* how to edit i am literally just playing around like a kid with the spray tool on ms paint #sam winchester #spn #spn edit #myposts.png

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serasvictoria · 2 years

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Hope that you guys enjoy this filth fest.

Title: Movie Night

Pairing: Guess 😏

Rating: Explicit. Duh.

Word Count: 8038

Summary: Ubbe and his girlfriend use a movie night as an excuse to cheer up Hvitserk after another breakup.

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Tagging @deans-ch-ch-cherrypie @ritual-unions-gotme @quantumlocked310 @adrille88 @actual-queen-of-hell @youbloodymadgenius @punkrocknpearls @zuxiezendler @whenimaunicorn

“Hey, baby?”

“In here!” You stopped folding clothes when Ubbe poked his head through the bedroom door and smiled at you. “Oh no, I recognize that smile. What’s up?”

“What? Nothing!” He came up behind you, wrapped his arms around your waist and started kissing your neck, in the same way that he usually did when he was going to ask a question that you might not like. You waited for him to open his mouth. “Mmmm,” he pressed his nose against your neck and inhaled deeply. “Are you wearing new perfume?”

“Ubbe!” You swatted his hands away and turned around, only for him to pin your hands behind your back and start kissing you again. “Just ask the damn question!”

“I can’t kiss my girlfriend and tell her she smells good?”

“Not until you tell me what’s up.”

“Okay, okay.” He held his hands up to signify his defeat. “Can Hvitserk come over tonight?”

“Huh.” That had not been the question that you’d been expecting. Hvitserk came over so much, he might as well be living with the two of you. “Sure, but he’s round here all the time anyway.”

“Yeah, I know, but he broke up with Margrethe.”

“Again?”

It was a saga that had been going for a long time from what you’d heard from Ubbe, long before he had even met you. Hvitserk and Margrethe had first met in high school and became an item of sorts. Both of them played the field, never really serious about having a relationship, and you knew that Margrethe had flings with Sigurd and Ubbe as well.

The “thing” that was going on between her and Hvitserk didn’t develop into something more real until they went to college. Their relationship had been built on alcohol and drugs however, not a particularly good combination. It had gotten fairly volatile a couple of times as well apparently. Nightly screaming matches, clothes thrown out of the window, changed locks, that kind of thing.

As long as they were drunk or high, things were great, but whenever they weren’t using, it wasn’t quite as good.

Hvitserk eventually went to rehab because his mother had put pressure on him and a few months later, Margrethe was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder when she had started spiralling out of control in his absence.

They drifted back together when he was clean and she was in therapy, but Ubbe often commented on how bad they were for each other and that it was almost as if Hvitserk had quit one addiction only to become addicted to her.

“Yeah, again.” Ubbe shrugged and wrapped his arms around you again. “I don’t know. He’s a fucking mess. You know how he gets.”

“I know.” Whenever Hvitserk and Margrethe were ‘on a break’, he would get very down and wouldn’t leave his house for several days on end. “It’s nice that you’re asking him to come over. You wanna watch a movie or something? I could make some popcorn.”

“Something like that.”

“You have something else in mind? We could go out. Go to that new burger place.”

“Nah, I want to stay in.” He started kissing you again, with some more intent this time. “With my two favourite people.” You didn’t think anything of that particular remark for he said it often. When his hands started to wander, you wondered if Ubbe was going to sneak in a quick fuck before his brother arrived. “We could have some fun together…”

“We always have fun together,” you replied and you sat down on the bed, because you were pretty sure where this was going now. “Not as if I hate your brother or anything.”

“Oh yeah?” He pulled your shirt up over your head and started kissing a path from your neck down to your chest. “You like my brother?”

“Uh-huh,” you replied. “He’s nice.”

“Just nice?” He started kissing your breasts through the fabric that they were framed in and then scooped them out so he could circle his tongue around one of your nipples. “You don’t think he’s cute?”

“All of your brothers are cute.” The sentence ended with a moan when he scraped his teeth over your skin. “I told you before.”

“I know.” You heard an unrecognizable tone in his voice and when he stopped kissing you, you looked down at him to see why he had stopped. His expression was very serious all of a sudden. “What I guess I’m asking is if you’d want to fuck my brother.”

“What?” So that was what he had been building up to all this time. “You want me to… what?”

“No, no. I’m asking you if you want to fuck him. I’m not going to force you into doing anything you don’t want to.”

“Okay. Wow.” You’d almost entirely forgotten that you were half naked at this point and shifted on the bed. “I was not expecting that.”

“I know that this is a weird thing to ask, but he needs a distraction.”

“You want me to distract him by fucking him?”

“Yes. I mean, no. Yes. Technically.” He sat down next to you and grabbed your hand so he could hold it tightly. “Only if you want to.”

“Are you trying to palm me off to your brother?”

“What? No!” Ubbe made you move on the bed until you had folded your legs underneath yourself and was facing him. “Listen, I love you, okay? I’m not trying to get you to hook up with Hvitserk to get rid of you.”

“Then why ask me to do this?”

“Well, you see,” he started talking, but paused when he started gesturing with his hands. “We kinda used to do this kind of thing before.”

“What kind of thing?”

“Share.” Your frown told him that you didn’t really understand. “Girls. We shared girls.” You raised your eyebrows inquisitively in reply. “Fuck’s sake. You’re really going to make me say it, huh?” he said with a laugh. “We used to share Margrethe.”

For a long time, you had your suspicions that something more had been going on there. Ubbe had always insisted that he had just dated her for a while, but there was always something about the looks that she gave him that made you think otherwise.

And then there had been the openly hostile way that she had treated you with when you had first met her. You had formed an odd kind of friendship with her since then, based purely on the fact that you saw each other quite regularly, but you’d never forgotten about that first introduction.

“I knew it!” You poked a finger into his cheek that he brushed away. “You were always so fucking secretive about it!”

“Yeah, yeah, Sherlock. I’m dating a real genius.” He grabbed your legs and pulled them out from underneath you. You squealed when your back hit the mattress. “I was a teenager. I screwed everything that moved.”

“You still do.”

“Nah. I just screw you, baby.” The sweatpants that you’d been wearing were yanked off your legs and he made an appreciative noise when he noticed that you hadn’t been wearing any panties. “Preferably several times a day.”

“Sex addict.”

“Addiction runs in the family,” he said with a wink. “I’m just addicted to fucking you.”

“Lucky me.”

“But what do you think?” Ubbe leaned back and pulled his own shirt off. When he moved back within arms length, you unbuttoned his khakis. “Swear I’m not pressuring you. If you don’t want to do this, it won’t happen.”

“I’m thinking.” You slid your hand into his trousers and loosely wrapped your fingers around his half-hard cock. “What did you have in mind?”

“Fuck.” His eyes closed when you started pumping your hand up and down, his hips thrusting up into your hand along with your movements. “We could start making out and take it from there.”

“That’s it?” You held your hand still suddenly, just to make him open his eyes and look at you. “We kiss and then Hvitserk just joins in?”

“He’s going to need more than that obviously.” He dipped his head down so he could take your bottom lip in between his teeth and gave it a gentle tug. “I need more than that.”

“Oh, I’m sorry.” You stuck your tongue out at him at the exact moment that you jerked your hand up. “Worried I wasn’t going to let you come?”

“Maybe.” He pulled your hand out of his trousers and pushed them down far enough for his cock to spring free. “So.” He moved one of his hands between your legs, sliding it up your thighs until he reached the top. “What do you say?” A single finger swirled your entrance, picking up your slick and spreading it. “You want to fuck my brother?”

“How about you fuck me first and then I answer?”

“Fair enough.” He pushed your thighs open wider and settled between them. He rubbed his cock against your folds a few times, to coat himself in your juices before pressing himself inside. “I already know your answer anyway...”

*****

Ubbe’s prediction was right.

You did want to fuck Hvitserk.

Even if you had never had any particular thoughts or fantasies about sleeping with any of his brothers, you were more into this than you had initially thought. Which was a surprise.

All that Ubbe had done after he had gotten out of bed was call Hvitserk to tell him that he was going to pick him up in a couple of hours and that he wasn’t going to accept any excuses. Hvitserk had barely even objected since he was more than used to having Ubbe drag him through these little episodes. He also knew that Ubbe would find a way of getting into his apartment anway, no matter how much Hvitserk pretended that he hadn’t heard the doorbell or his phone.

Right before Ubbe was going to pick up his younger brother, he had checked with you one final time to make sure that you really were okay with this and when you had assured him that you were, he finally left so you could prepare all kinds of foods that were bound to cheer Hvitserk up.

The fastest way to get to him was through his stomach, something that you had found out about a long time ago.

The two of them came back about fifteen minutes later and Ubbe nudged his brother into the living room before disappearing into the kitchen. When Hvitserk slumped down on the couch, barely acknowledging your presence, his shoulders pulled up so high that you could barely see his neck, his hands stuck in his sleeves and folded in front of his chest, you knew that it was particularly bad this time.

“Hey, Hvitserk.” You leaned over him and gave him a quick hug, but it was hard to do when he wouldn’t budge an inch. “I’m making super sweet popcorn. Your favourite.” His green eyes met yours for a split second and then he pulled the collar of his hoodie up over his chin. “I can make you some cinnamon hot chocolate too. With loads of whipped cream.” He huffed out a breath, somehow determined not to respond. “Got some peanut butter cups too.”

“Really?”

“Yeah.” At least that got a reaction. “Even baked some double chocolate chip cookies. I know how much you like those.”

“You’re the best,” he sniffed. “You got some…”

“Yes, I bought some strawberry cheesecake ice cream as well.” He beamed you a huge smile which didn’t reach his eyes, but you’d take it. This was the fastest that you had ever managed to get a smile out of him when he was in this state after all. “Honestly, Hvitserk, it’s like you’re on your period.”

“I wish.”

“Careful what you wish for.”

You ruffled his hair and disappeared into the kitchen. Ubbe was already shoving a bag of popcorn into the microwave and you grabbed the tin of cookies out of one of the lower kitchen cabinets.

“That bad, huh?“

“He cracked a smile when I told him that we had ice cream.” When you moved in to stand next to Ubbe, you briefly leaned your cheek against his arm. “He hasn’t been this bad in a while.”

“You still want to go through with it?”

“Do you really think that it will help?”

“Yeah, I’m positive. It’s either this or he’ll just keep locking himself in his apartment as he eats junk food for days. He’ll snap out of it faster this way at least.”

“If you say so.”

You were still highly skeptical. You’d known Hvitserk for a couple of years now and whenever he and Margrethe broke up, people would just leave him to his own devices for a few days and then, like clockwork on the third day, Ubbe would go round to his place, drag him out of bed and take him out to treat his brother to one of those huge ice cream sundaes that no normal person should be able to finish.

“Don’t know how the hell you can snap someone out of a depression with sex, but I’ll take your word for it.”

“We’re talking about Hvitserk here.” Ubbe leaned in closer to press his lips against your forehead. “He loves food and sex. It’s simple really.”

“If it was that easy, why not just take him to a stripclub?”

“Because you’re not supposed to touch the stripper, baby. You know that.”

“I did not know that and I don’t even want to know how you know that.” You patted his ass and gave him a quick squeeze. “At least I’m allowed to touch you.”

“I don’t think I like where this conversation is going,” he said with a quick wink. “But if you want me to put on some music…”

“You offering to give me a lapdance, big guy?”

“Maybe.”

“I’ll remember that for later.” Ubbe might have been joking, but there was no way that you were going to forget about this. “I’ll go bring Hvitserk some cookies.”

“He’ll eat all of them if you let him.”

“He looked like he needed them so it’s alright.” You walked back to Hvitserk with a smile on your face and put the cookie tin on his lap. “Eat as many as you want, okay?”

Hvitserk sniffled a bit when you gave it to him, but tucked in to his first cookie anyway which he practically shoved into his mouth. By the time that you and Ubbe returned from the kitchen, him with the drinks and you with a tray full with all the aforementioned snacks, Hvitserk had already eaten half of them. He didn’t even look remotely apologetic when Ubbe chastised him over it, even going as far as to shove two cookies into his mouth when his brother tried to grab one for himself.

The movie that was eventually switched on was something that Ubbe had picked, because apparently Hvitserk’s woes could only be cured by watching a dumb action movie that didn’t require much thought. The choice had initially been left up to Hvitserk, but when he kept picking really depressing movies, like Leaving Las Vegas and Melancholia, Ubbe drew the line. You only wished that Ubbe had picked something other than a Steven Seagal movie, but you supposed that you wouldn’t have to pay attention the entire time. Not that you were paying attention now.

Ubbe’s fingers were swirling patterns onto your arm, lazily at first, but he was starting to press harder and moving his fingers towards the inside of your arm, occasionally brushing them against the curve of your breast.

Hvitserk for his part wasn’t noticing anything. He was far too preoccupied with reaching the bottom of the popcorn bowl. He was stuffing great big handfuls into his mouth and not really caring much about how it looked.

Seeing him eat had been mildly off putting at first. You remembered the first family get-together that Ubbe had brought you to and Hvitserk had sat opposite you, shoving great big spoonfuls of food into his mouth and talking with his mouth full. Ubbe had helpfully translated some of the things that Hvitserk had asked while he had grinned at you. Margrethe had been sitting next to him and would not stop glaring at you all throughout dinner.

It had taken some time, but you had gotten used to it now. Though whenever one of his other brothers introduced a new significant other, you saw them struggle with it just as much as you had done.

While you were busy reminiscing, Ubbe had decided that the time for teasing was over and cupped your breast. Caught somewhat off guard, you gasped loudly, your eyes darting to Hvitserk who was looking into the bowl, a frown appearing on his brow, quite possibly because of the fast dwindling contents and wondering when he could ask one of you to make some more.

Ubbe gave your pliant flesh a squeeze and you couldn’t stop a giggle from bursting free from your lips. Since nothing remotely amusing was happening on screen, Hvitserk looked in your direction and his green eyes fell on where Ubbe’s hand was in an instant. There was a hint of excitement present shortly followed by annoyance.

“Really, Ubbe?”

“What?” Ubbe squeezed again and started pressing light kisses against your neck. “I can’t kiss my girlfriend?”

“I’m eating, asshole.”

“So?” Ubbe’s hand was on your chin, turning your head in his direction so he could kiss you full on the lips. Your hands went up to the back of his head, threading your fingers in his short hair and keeping him close. “I love you, baby,” he murmured against your lips.

“Love you too.”

Hvitserk groaned. “Great. Rub it in.”

“I’ll rub something else,” Ubbe bit back. He clamped his other hand down on your thigh, waiting until Hvitserk was looking directly at it, then he slid it up and rubbed his fingers over your crotch. “You really need me, don’t you, baby?” His voice was low in your ear and drew moans out of you just by talking. “You’re seconds away from burning a hole in your sweats.“

“So do something about it.” You pushed your hips up against his hand, groaning when he applied more pressure. “I need you, now.”

“So demanding.” Whenever Ubbe commented on your lack of patience, that was usually the moment where he decided to take his time. Apparently seeing you grow more and more desperate was one of his favourite pastimes. “Don’t worry, baby. Won’t make you wait.” Your discomfort must have been visible on your face already. “Not that long anyway.”

“Bastard.” You swatted your hand at him, connecting with the back of his head. “Don’t you dare.”

“If you’re going to be like that…”

“Ubbe.”

“Just kidding.” He grabbed your legs and pulled them to the side until you were sitting sideways on the couch. You opened your thighs so he could fit between them. He leaned over you and kissed you underneath your ear so he could whisper, “We’ve got a show to put on.”

When you looked to your right, you locked eyes with Hvitserk who had been looking straight at you. His pupils were already dilated, reducing his green irises to nothing more than a thin green line. When Ubbe slid his hands under your shirt and started squeezing your breasts, Hvitserk’s tongue darted out of his mouth to swipe over his lips.

Ubbe pushed your shirt up over your torso, revealing the plain bra you were wearing underneath. You had suggested wearing something sexier, something just a little bit more exciting, like those barely there sets that you and Ubbe had picked out, the ones that never stayed on long enough, but you had been overruled. Apparently Hvitserk must have been led to believe that this was an “accident”, even if you had no clue why since it was highly likely that Ubbe would tell him that this entire thing had been concocted earlier.

Wanting it out of the way, you pushed yourself off the couch a little, and took your shirt off which you threw onto the floor. It didn’t take Ubbe long to take your bra off as well, so now you were half naked in front of his younger brother, which felt weird but also exciting.

“Doesn’t she have the prettiest tits you have ever seen, brother?” Ubbe cupped them from below, pushing them up, presenting them almost, his thumbs brushing over your hard nipples. “I know that you wanted to see them.” Your eyes darted back to Hvitserk, who had the almost empty bowl on his lap, his eyes fixed on your bare chest. “You told me you did.”

“He… What?” You looked back at Ubbe now, who had a mischievous smile on his face, and then at Hvitserk again, whose expression was a mixture of arousal with a hint of embarrassment. “When?”

“Remember when we went to the beach? That first time?” You nodded in reply, you did remember that day. “Serk was single, on another break,” he said the last two words with a sneer. “And you came out in that red bikini that you’d bought a couple of days earlier.”

There wasn’t anything in particular that you remembered about Hvitserk’s behaviour towards you that day, but that was probably because that fun outing was dominated by one event only. Ubbe had practically ambushed you when you’d come back from the restrooms at some beach club, only to drag you into another stall, and pulling your bikini bottoms to the side as he fucked you up against the wall.

“I remember, but you never told me about that.”

“What kind of boyfriend would I be if I had said that my brother had told me that he wanted to suck your tits after he’d had a couple of beers?” He picked that exact moment to lightly pinch your nipples and you moaned loudly in return. “Does that turn you on, baby?” Ubbe leaned down, his lips and tongue connecting with your skin. “You want Serk to do that to you?”

Ubbe pushed you back against the armrest, his mouth very much occupied at the moment. Even if Ubbe’s eyes were on your face the entire time, you wanted to know what his brother was doing and when you sneaked a peek, you saw that he was watching what was happening right in front of him very closely. You’d only ever seen him invest this level of interest in a sports game or in eating. His long fingers were playing with the rim of the bowl, moving in circles along the edge, back and forth, over and over again.

“Yeah,” you breathed out, your eyes still following his digits in this almost graceful dance over the ceramic. Hvitserk’s head snapped up so he could look straight at your face, noticing for the first time what you had been looking at all this time. “I do.”

“That’s a shame,” Ubbe murmured against your skin. “Because he’s going to have to wait his turn.” He sat back on the couch, hooked his fingers in your sweatpants and panties, and took them off in one fluid movement. “You can wait, can’t you?”

“Do I have a choice?” Hvitserk replied. He grabbed the bowl, put it on the coffee table and drew attention to his crotch when he readjusted himself in his trousers.

“Not really,” Ubbe said with a laugh. “She’s my girl, so I should have the first go, right?”

“Your house, your rules.” Hvitserk gestured at Ubbe to continue which Ubbe did by looming over you, giving you a quick kiss and then kissing a trail down your body. “Just don’t make me wait too long.”

“Because you might lose interest?”

“No, because I might end up shoving my dick in her mouth if you take too long.”

His words might have been crude, but they turned you on nonetheless. The thought of Hvitserk sticking his cock into your mouth as Ubbe fucked you was enough to push you to the brink and apart from Ubbe rubbing his fingers over your then still clothed core, nothing much had happened yet. When Ubbe reached your belly button, he pinched the inside of your thigh.

“Eyes on me, princess,” he said when you were about to ask him what the hell that was about, making the words die on your tongue. “Don’t you dare look away.”

With Ubbe’s intense gaze fixed on you like that, you wouldn’t have been able to look away even if you had tried. Even with Hvitserk sitting almost next to you, his legs were close enough to touch if you only reached your hand out, but you didn’t want to distract yourself. This was all about Ubbe and he was commanding your attention right now. The last few inches were torturously slow, moving so slowly that every time that he kissed you just a little bit closer to where you wanted him, you couldn’t help but shiver as nothing but excitement coursed through your veins.

His hot breath was the first thing that you felt, making you want to push your hips up into his face, your patience wearing thin, because it was taking too damn long. Sensing your impatience, he grabbed your thighs and hooked them over his shoulders first. You rolled your eyes at him, practically issuing him with a challenge, and he chuckled because of your flippant gesture.

“Am I boring you?”

“A little,” you shot back and he made your squeal in retaliation by pinching your ass. “Don’t.”

“You want me to stop?” You purse your lips tightly together to stop yourself from saying anything, knowing that he would only drag it out longer if you did. “Didn’t think so.”

Your silence was rewarded for once. He dragged a single finger between your folds, a quick little teaser, and then you felt his tongue part your folds, the muscle briefly pressing against your entrance, only to move up and stop right before he reached your clit. A frustrated groan escaped you and you could feel him smile against you, as he skipped the parts that would send you tumbling over the edge within seconds.

“Ubbe…” He applied just a tiny bit more pressure, making you gasp and buck your hips up into his mouth. “Please…”

“I love it when you beg.” He pressed one sweet, blessed finger into your channel, and pulled it out just as quickly. “Come on, sweetheart.” You felt the last syllable more than you heard it for Ubbe attached his open mouth over your entrance, exploring your swollen lips and lapping up your juices before pulling away yet again. “Beg.”

“Please, Ubbe.” You gave him exactly what he wanted, out of fear of him pulling away again, but he didn’t this time. “Please.”

But you were too far gone, too desperate to care about how the need laced your voice, repeating two words over and over as he sucked on your clit, flicking it with his tongue. Your voice grew higher in pitch, still saying only two words as if you were in a trance, when he pushed two fingers deep inside you, fucking you hard and fast with his digits.

A gasp was ripped from your lungs when his fingers curled up inside you, pressing the spot that made pleasure erupt inside you without fail every single time. Ubbe edged you closer still, his movements rougher, his tongue swiping against your clit harder. Your hands had reached back, grabbing the armrest so hard that your knuckles had gone white, pushing your upper body off of the couch the closer you got.

Ubbe doubled down, fucking you harder still, his mouth latched onto your swollen nub. You cried out as name as your orgasm reached its zenith, the balls of your feet pressing down hard at the top of his spine, one final quivering push of your hips up into his mouth, before you crashed back down onto the couch, completely and utterly spent. You laughed breathlessly, barely aware of your still twitching muscles and Ubbe’s tongue which was still licking you albeit more gently now.

The intensity of earlier was gone. The need to give you a scorching orgasm had passed now that he had done just that. If you didn’t know any better, you could be led to believe that he was merely showing off in front of Hvitserk, but the truth was that Ubbe had you screaming like this at least twice a week.

You had never had it this good before. Ubbe was a godsend, truly kissed by the gods in your humble opinion.

“That was amazing, baby.” Ubbe unhooked your legs, pushed your limp legs open further and crawled up your body. “You okay?”

Looking up at him lazily, a smile tugging on your lips, you were still completely blissed out. You wrapped a hand around the back of his head and pulled him down for a kiss, so you could taste yourself on his tongue. Ubbe settled into this lazier pace for a short while, knowing that you needed it after your earth shattering climax. It didn’t take long for his hips to start moving, grinding his rock-hard erection against you to make you aware of the fact that you might have come once already, but that he hadn’t.

“Feels like you need me, handsome.”

“What gave it away?” Ubbe pushed his hips up hard, ramming his clothed erection into you until you gasped. Your hands reached to his back, grabbing the collar of his shirt and pulling it up roughly. “Off?”

“No, I want you to keep your clothes on,” you retorted and you exploded into a fit of giggles when his hands grabbed your sides, laughing well before he even had a chance to tickle you. “Yes. Off. Please.”

Ubbe pushed himself up until he was on his knees, sitting between your thighs. He reached down and pulled his shirt off, his head turning to the side so he could flash Hvitserk a wide grin. Your hand settled at the top of his sweats and you pulled on the waistband impatiently until he pushed that down as well. Since he hadn’t been wearing any underwear, his cock sprang free, swollen with need and drops of precum already leaking from the tip.

When you reached for it so you could wrap your fingers around his shaft, you turned your head to the side to look at the other couch. Hvitserk was watching what you were doing, his hand shoved down his pants, and you could tell that his hand jerked up at the exact moment that yours did. He was mirroring your motions and copying them as best he could, but he did not pull his hand away when Ubbe removed yours.

“Wait.” You blurted the word out quickly, knowing that Ubbe was seconds away from shoving his cock into you. He looked down at you questioningly when you pushed him back, wondering what you had in mind. “Change of plan.”

Pushing yourself up into a sitting position as well, you winked at Ubbe before turning your back on him and getting on your hands and knees. It didn’t take long for his palm to connect with your ass and when you wiggled your hips back and forth, he did it again. You put your elbows on the armrest, looked at Hvitserk and then at the empty spot right in front of you.

Hvitserk caught your meaning instantly and got to his feet so quickly that he almost slipped and fell, which would have put a severe damper on an otherwise fun evening. One of Ubbe’s hands followed the path of your spine, going up and down, as his brother got into position right in front of you. One of his hands had been stationary on your ass, but he squeezed the pliant flesh when you unzipped Hvitserk’s pants.

You felt the tip of Ubbe’s cock pressing against you, not quite pushing into you just yet, and you realised that he was waiting for the exact moment that you would take Hvitserk’s cock into your mouth, probably wanting to time it just right. You scooped Hvitserk’s erection out of his pants and boxers, his cock springing forward and standing at attention. You pressed a kiss to the tip first, tasting the salty precum on your lips when your tongue darted out.

Looking up at him, you held his gaze as you ran your tongue over the underside of his shaft, feeling every single vein underneath the smooth skin. Hvitserk groaned and reached down so he could run a few fingers over your cheek, in a gesture that was almost loving, before settling his hand on the top of your head and threading his fingers through your hair.

Ubbe pushed his tip into you, your walls already gripping him to pull him in deeper, the second that your lips slid over Hvitserk’s length. He kept going until his hips connected with yours, until you were gagging on his brother’s cock. When he pulled out, you followed suit, bobbing your head up and down along with him, and after a short while, the three of you had a rhythm going.

Whenever you moaned, the noises came out all garbled because you had Hvitserk’s cock in your mouth. It was almost too much to take, the way you practically choked on it whenever Ubbe rammed himself inside you with more force, causing you to propel forward slightly. Hvitserk for his part was fighting very hard not to grab your face and simply fuck up into your mouth. You could tell by the way his fingers settled at the base of your skull and how his other hand kept petting your cheek and jaw, his fingers constantly clenching and releasing as he fought the urge.

You slipped a hand down to his balls, which made him groan your name, and caused his hips to buck up. You felt his cock slide in deeper than before, hitting the back of your throat, making you suppress another gag. His balls tightened slightly and you knew he was close. You could also tell by Ubbe’s grunts that he didn’t need much longer either.

Hollowing out your cheeks, you sucked hard on Hvitserk’s tip at the exact moment that Ubbe’s fingers found your swollen clit. He always wanted you to come alongside him no matter what. Pushing your ass back, taking Ubbe’s cock in as deep as was humanly possible, your walls gripped him tightly and his rhythm stuttered immediately. Moaning your own release, you buried Hvitserk’s cock deep into your throat and made your eyes water.

Hvitserk was mere seconds away from blowing his seed into your mouth, but it was a shame that Ubbe had other ideas about that.

You released Hvitserk with a sudden pop when Ubbe pulled you back against his chest, his fingers splayed out over your stomach, needing you close as he finished. His last few thrusts were desperate and uneven, his cock twitching inside you as he painted your walls with his cum.

As Ubbe hung onto you, his breath hot in your ear, Hvitserk dropped himself down on the couch right in front of you a few short minutes later. All his clothes had been removed, something that you were ashamed to say you hadn’t even noticed, having gotten too caught up in the heat of the moment with Ubbe. He was grinning widely as he looked at the pair of you and you wondered what was even going on inside his head right now after having been treated to such a display.

“Hvitserk’s turn,” Ubbe husked in your ear suddenly and then he let you go, sitting down behind you and laughing when Hvitserk raised his eyebrows expectantly. “Idiot.”

“That’s not nice,” Hvitserk replied and then he beckoned a finger at you, urging you to come in closer, but when you had been about to swing one of your legs over him so you could straddle him, he appeared to have changed his mind.

“What?” He put his hand on your sternum, urging you to stop. “What do you want me to do?”

But not even you had been expecting him to slide off the couch until he was sitting on the floor with his arms spread out in an invitation.

“Come on, hot stuff.” Hvitserk shifted, leaning back so his head was pressed against the seating area and his shoulders were pressed against the edge. “Right here,” he said as he started gesturing at his face.

“Are you sure?” You sounded more apprehensive than you actually were, like some virginal schoolgirl that had never tried anything, and inwardly, you were slapping yourself. “You don’t have to.”

“Fuck yeah I’m sure,” he shot back, reaching out to grab your hand and gently pull you in his direction. “And I want to. I want you to sit on my face.” Your eyes widened considerably and you made him snort with laughter. “What? My brother never does this to you?”

“What do you think?” Ubbe gave your shoulder a gentle nudge and you moved until your knees were pressed into the sofa right above Hvitserk’s shoulders, your shins and feet on his chest. “I wouldn’t skip something like that.”

“Maybe you got lazy.” The sentence ended in a laugh, because Ubbe had slapped his side. Hvitserk’s teeth nipped at your thigh which was so unexpected that it made you jump up a little. “Relax,” he said before pushing his chin up, opening his mouth and running his tongue over your pussy. “You taste divine,” he breathed against you.

You let out a loud moan, rocking your hips against him, your hands pressed against the back of the sofa to keep yourself upright. Hvitserk kept licking, tasting your juices and savouring every single drop. His arms circled around your thighs, pulling you down lower so he wouldn’t have to stretch his neck too far.

“Oh fuck,” you moaned, tilting your hips forwards, to keep his tongue on the sensitive bundle of nerves at the top of your slit. He grazed it with his teeth and it made your hips stutter, so close already to making your muscles spasm and contract. “Hvitserk… oh my…”

The tremor in your voice made him laugh, making you push down on him in turn, as you chased the momentary vibrations. You felt a hand on your temple, brushing your hair out of your face. Ubbe seemed to want to see you as Hvitserk gave you another orgasm, your third, but the first one by his hands, or his tongue to be more precise. You turned your head to the side, barely seeing Ubbe because you had difficulty focusing.

Hvitserk didn’t exactly remedy the situation when you felt one of his fingers push between your wet and swollen lips and you cried out when he pushed a finger inside of you. You wanted to rise up, fuck yourself over his hand, but the one arm that was still wrapped around your thigh was like a vice, not allowing you to pull away.

When two fingers started plunging into you, you were a goner. You started bucking your hips up frantically, chasing the sensation, your walls clamping down on his fingers, your legs trembling as he batted his tongue against your clit one final time. You cried out when your entire body tensed up, every muscle contracting, pulled so tight you didn’t think you’d ever be able to move.

Finally releasing you, you felt Ubbe’s hands wrap around you, pulling you into his lap, pressing his lips against your hairline and telling you what a champ you were. You were panting so hard that it felt as if your lungs were on fire and you were vaguely aware of Hvitserk sitting down next to you again, hands circling around your ankles and pulling your feet onto his lap.

How long you sat like that, you didn’t know, but when you swallowed, your throat dry from all the noises that you had been making, Hvitserk handed you a glass. When you took a sip, you realised that it wasn’t the glass of coke that you had previously been drinking, but one of the beers that the boys had been having, probably his own.

“You okay?” Hvitserk took the glass when you handed it back, emptied it of its contents and put it away.

“Fine.” You were still breathless and looking down at Hvitserk’s lap, realising that there would be no chance to catch your breath anytime soon. Not until you had repaid the favour that he had just bestowed on you. “Perfect. Excellent.”

“He gets it,” Ubbe interjected with an amused chuckle. “You don’t have to name every synonym for ‘good’.”

“I know.” You grazed your lips over his lightly and added, “Just wanted to make him feel as good about himself as he made me feel.”

“Pretty sure he knows that already.” He pressed his forehead against yours, his bright blue eyes locked in on yours. “You were very noisy after all.”

“That bad?”

“Nothing I haven’t heard before.”

“New to me though.” Hvitserk cut in on the conversation and both of you looked at him. “You gonna scream in my face like that?”

“Do you want me to?”

“Would I ask you if I didn’t want you to?”

“Fair point.” Ubbe put his hand on your lower back, very gently pushed you forward and off his lap. “You trying to get rid of me?”

“Never.” He gave you one more nudge until you were sitting on your knees between them. “But Serk looks like he’s going to explode any minute now.”

“It’s not that bad, dude.” Hvitserk extended his hand and gave Ubbe’s shoulder a push. “But I’m not going to say no.”

“Good,” you said as you moved closer to him. “Because that really would have hurt my feelings.”

“Wouldn’t want to do that.” When he pulled his hand away from Ubbe’s direction, he extended it to you. You took it and he started pulling you in his direction, until the only thing that you could do was to lift one of your legs over his thighs and straddle him. Finally. “Now. Where were we?”

“You tell me.” Hvitserk leaned forward and his lips connected with your neck. Your eyes fluttered shut as he left a trail of kisses over the column of your throat. “Are you-“ you started but cut yourself off before deciding to rephrase. “I’m on the pill and haven’t been with anyone apart from your brother in ages. I’m fine with it if you don’t want to…”

“Clean,” he whispered back. “I’m clean. Get tested regularly just in case.”

“I’m sorry,” you replied, knowing full well why he even did that in the first place. “I didn’t ruin it, did I?”

“No way!” Hvitserk cupped your face and gave you a fiery kiss to show that he was still as into this as he had been before you had bothered him with potentially unnecessary questions. “Think that would put me off?”

“Could have.”

“Well, it didn’t.” He moved his hands down to your ass, grabbing you and pulling you towards him until nothing but his hard cock was between you. “Feel that?”

“Yes.” You gyrated your hips against his just once. “I do.”

Shoving one hand between your bodies, you circled your fingers around his shaft. You studied his features when you started stroking him. The closed eyes with lashes that would make any girl jealous, button nose that was way too cute, his lips slightly parted and letting out little groans. Deciding that you couldn’t help yourself, you surged forward, pressing your lips against his and practically shoving your tongue in his mouth.

His hands lifted your ass up and you complied eagerly, using your hand to guide him into you and then slamming down a little too hard. You were so incredibly wet that it was almost embarrassingly easy for him to slide in. Hvitserk gasped when he felt your warmth envelop him, sheathed into you up to the hilt. His head fell back against the couch, essentially presenting his neck to you. You leaned forward and licked a stripe all the way up to his chin. He tilted his head back so he could look at you, the delight plastered all over his face. You sucked his bottom lip between yours, scraped your teeth over it and let him go.

When he opened his mouth to say something, you finally rocked your hips against his and effectively silenced him. Since he hadn’t minded how you had basically impaled yourself on him earlier, you picked up the pace, riding him hard. You could see that his hair had gotten loose from the bun that it was usually in. You reached for his ponytail, wrapping his soft hair around your fingers and tugging hard.

“Fuck, girl,” he whimpered, his fingers digging into your ass so hard by now that it would definitely leave a bruise. “Fuck yes.”

A breathless laugh burst free from your lungs, the pressure inside you growing. You bounced harder, plunging him as far as he could possibly go, rotating your hips against him until he let loose a slew of curse words. Very briefly, you wondered what this even looked like, if Ubbe was watching you as intently as his brother had done earlier. Curiosity peaked, you sneaked a glance in his direction, to find him with his head leaning on his arm, proud grin on his lips, watching you take what you needed from Hvitserk.

“Don’t look away,” Hvitserk said suddenly.

It had only been a few seconds, no longer than that, but when you focused all your attention back on him, he had a feral look in his eyes.

Hvitserk shifted slightly underneath you and then without any prior warning, started thrusting up into you hard and fast. You had taken from him before, but the tables had turned now. You yelped loudly and tried to meet his thrusts, but it was impossible. All you could do was let him set the gruelling pace, ramming himself into you over and over, barking out a laugh when you were past the point of coherency, sobbing and whimpering as he shattered you into pieces.

“Serk.” You barely even heard Ubbe’s chiding voice. “You’re forgetting something.”

“Fuck off,” Hvitserk bit back, his concentration broken for only a few seconds. “Didn’t forget.”

One of his hands moved to the front of your body so he could press his finger against your severely overworked clit. You screamed through your teeth, giving him exactly what he had asked for, your head thrown back as your fourth climax tore through you. Your walls clenched down on him hard, muscles fluttering around his cock, giving him just what he needed to finish himself.

Falling forward against his chest, your breath came in harsh gasps, mewling in between breaths as Hvitserk spilled into you in his final thrusts. He wrapped his arms around you, holding you close, his breathing just as laboured as yours. Ubbe’s fingers wipe at your cheek, making you aware of a wetness on your skin that could not be attributed to sweat alone. You hadn’t even been aware that you had shed tears from coming so hard four times in a row.

“I am never coming off this couch ever again,” you said breathlessly. “I can’t feel my legs anymore.”

“So you’re just going to stay on top of me?” Hvitserk inquired and you nodded in reply. “I’m not getting a say in this.”

“No.”

“Brother?”

“Don’t look at me,” Ubbe said. “Whatever my girl wants, she gets.”

“See? Even Ubbe’s fine with it.” You nuzzled his neck, letting out a contented sigh when Ubbe covered the two of you with a blanket that you had draped over the couch. “I’m keeping you. Get used to it.”

“Fine.” Hvitserk tried to sound annoyed, but failed miserably. “Whatever you say, baby.”

#vikings #vikings au #ubbe ragnarsson #ubbe lothbrok #hvitserk ragnarsson #hvitserk lothbrok #ubbe x reader #hvitserk x reader #of course it’s smut #smutty smut smut #happy birthday!#vikingstrash #mar writes #mar moodboards

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You said in your finnrey/zutara post that studio meddling was involved for both. I knew that this was the case for finnrey because of racist cowards. But I never knew that was the case for zutara? Tbh I just assumed from the get-go that aang and katara were the main ship and I thought it was cute for them to end up together in the end. Though it is really interesting to learn that zuko and katara could’ve also been a serious thing and I think they could also work together rather nicely. What happened behind the scenes that caused it not to happen? Was aang originally gonna be set up with toph or have no love interest?

Oh hello! Hi! My first anon. Welcome :)

Before we start: I’m going to write Kat/aang, A/ang and Bry/ke like that so it doesn’t appear in the tags and I’ll bold some sections for emphasis.

I don’t think the writers even considered Toph as a love interest for A/ang. It was always about Kat/aang vs Zutara.

It’s no secret at this point that Dante Basco and Mae Whitman, who voiced Zuko and Katara respectively, ship Zutara. Dante Basco is known as the “captain of the Zutara ship”. They’ve written multiple times about Zutara on Twitter and Dante Basco said in an interview that he really thought, at one point, that Zuko and Katara were going to end up together, that he thought it was going that way, and that he loved the idea of fire and water together.

As for the writers, it’s a bit more difficult to find information, since the show ended 15 years ago. But Aaron Ehasz, head writer of ATLA, has come out and said there was supposed to be a fourth season and it was dropped in favor of the movie. He said it on Twitter on April 1rst, 2019 (while also saying sorry for picking that date, it wasn’t an April Fools!). He said that M Night Shyamalan wanted them to focus on Book 4, but Bry/ke (Bryan Konietsko and Mike DiMartino) “wanted to focus on the movie”. You can find those tweets here. Not about Zutara per se, but it does show not everyone was on board with how the show was going to end behind the scenes.

Speaking of the movie, when asked about The Last Airbender, M Night Shyamalan also gave his input on the situation. He talked about how, by the time Book 3 came around, he wasn’t sure if the series was supposed to end there or if there was going to be a Book 4. He said to Bry/ke: ““Dudes, I gotta know this. This is critical! This has to end. This has to end. If it doesn’t end, I’m not on board. But if you don’t want to end it - it’s all good.” They were like “no, we saw it as three seasons for each element that he has to learn.” And I said “great.”” This is where it gets interesting, though: “At that time they hadn’t even decided where things were going to end, even like who Katara was going to end up with. All of that stuff hadn’t been figured out yet.”

It’s interesting to me how he mentions this is who Katara will end up with. Not A/ang, not Zuko. It’s always about Katara.

Someone who interned on ATLA has been quoted as saying that “If you check out the I.P. Bible then you’ll see a Kat/aang endgame was never planned from the start, it was supposed to remain a one-sided crush throughout the whole show.“ and that “The actual decision to make them a couple came about much later at Bry/ke’s request, largely because they were frustrated at the popularity of Zutara.“ Of course, not everyone in the production was full on one side or the other, as the post says some were neutral about it. “Some of the crew liked Kat/aang, I know Joaquim [Dos Santos] was a big Kat/aang supporter but more of them were neutral about it, Ehasz was not fond of Kat/aang but he didn’t mind too much since he’s a mature adult and all that.”

Avatar Extras (special events on Nicktoons where episodes of ATLA were shown with fun facts) were released where it was said that Zuko was supposed to be Katara’s love interest. It was said two times at least. I’ve only ever found screencaps of these, but I found these here on Tumblr.

When asked about these in the Avatar Extras, Bry/ke said that it was just a joke and that Kat/aang was always in the DNA of the show. But if you’re here to tell fun facts to your audience about your show, maybe put a disclaimer that says some things might not be as truthful as they think they will be?

And the intern mentioned earlier also said that “No one was having full-on ship wars in the writer’s room but we did joke about it, and we toyed with the idea of Zuko and Katara falling in love a couple of times.“ So that goes well with the Avatar Extras.

Meanwhile, other writers, like John O’Bryan, have been quoted talking against Zutara in favor of Kat/aang. EDIT: Thank you to @exhaustedhope for giving me a source for this quote! This link also has a few images for the quote, so I’ll add them here.

Thank you again! And also the use of Zutara fanart to badmouth the ship in favor of Kat/aang? Dude.

If this was the way people behind the scenes were thinking of Katara and A/ang’s and Katara and Zuko’s relationships... well that doesn’t really make me think “Kat/aang was in the DNA of the show” either, huh? Zuko was never officially her love interest, Katara never actually “went after that guy”. But the thought that she might made them uneasy.

(Btw, let’s not forget Zuko actually does care about Katara, enough to put his life on the line for her in Book 3, so that mischaracterizes Zuko.)

This comment by John O’Bryan fits with this vision of Zutara Bry/ke has, where Zuko is nothing but a broody, emo “bad boy” who doesn’t care about Katara at all. It’s shown pretty well in their dreadful “joke” made at Comic Con in 2007. You can find the video here. Here, Katara ends up with A/ang and “should have never doubted the will of Mike and Bryan!” (yuck). So Kat/aang was always the “right” way for them to end the show, right?

But then! Even Bry/ke themselves have said that Kat/aang was forced. They said it in 2014 when Korrasami became canon in Legend of Korra. On Korrasami and Kat/aang, they said this: “Originally, [Korrasami] was primarily intended to be a strong friendship. Frankly, we wanted to set most of the romance business aside for the last two seasons. Personally, at that point I didn’t want Korra to have to end up with someone at the end of series. We obviously did it in Avatar, but even that felt a bit forced to me.“

So they admitted that Kat/aang was forced. They even mention the ATLA ship wars in the post. “Either direction we went [about Korrasami or Makorra], there would inevitably be a faction that was elated and another that was devastated. Trust me, I remember Kat/aang vs. Zutara. But one of those directions is going to be the one that feels right to us, and Mike and I have always made both Avatar and Korra for us, first and foremost.”

Okay. So what’s real about the behind the scenes of ATLA and what isn’t? Was Kat/aang in the DNA of the show, or did they go back and forth between Kat/aang and Zutara like they did with Korrasami and Makorra?

There have been conflicting informations scattered across the Internet over the years. Some people say one thing and others react, saying the opposite and that the first thing was false. Some people lied, or joked, to mess with the audience and toy with Zutara - or not, or maybe, or perhaps... What I think, though, is that not everything was set in stone. Some people were for Zutara and some people were for Kat/aang. And even after all of that, the big takeaway for me was: the end result that Bryke wanted so badly was lackluster in and of itself.

#zutara #anti-bryke #anti-kataang #atla salt

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butt-watch · 3 years

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Deltarune Chapter 2 Theory

DELTARUNE SPOILERS AHEAD

I'll put under a read more, but just in case it doesn't work. Here's your warning to block "#delatrune spoilers" or scroll really fast.

Spoilers for end game and bonus boss, and a long ass dump of all the ideas I have in my head before I forget them. So, sorry if I got anything wrong or it's a mess.

I've seen a lot of theories flying around, but haven't seen this one yet. (Sorry if it is already out there and I just haven't seen it, I'm sure somebody will already have put it together better than me.) This is just some funky ideas I've been throwing around, because I'll be honest here, I love the main 3 so much, and would be sad to see any of them turn out to be evil like so many theories are suggesting.

Maybe I'm just trying to be optimistic, maybe it's the weird nb kid deep inside me latching onto a kindred spirit, maybe I'm on to something.

So here's the thing. I don't believe Kris is the knight.

I know, I know, but stay with me here.

There's no denying that at the end of the chapter, Kris created a new fountain, and with it, likely a new dark world. But I'd like to argue, this is the first one they've created. My evidence is shaky, but I think there's something there that could blossom.

I'll start off with the simple fact that multiple characters who have met the knight, Spades King especially, didn't recognise Kris at all, and you would have thought they'd recognise the person who's been feeding them so much information. You do also have a couple of dialogue options with the king this time, and definitely with the Queen, so it seems strange that neither of them recognise the voice of their Knight in shining armour.

This is where stuff starts to get a bit flaky, but also, a lot more intriguing.

At the end of the chapter Kris opened a fountain, and the night before, we saw Kris remove the soul inside them and brandish their knife. Assuming that Kris spent that time without the soul creating a fountain is a fair assumption to make, and I think it's possible that was Kris's intention, perhaps they have some connection to the knight, and knew how the fountains could be opened. But, they were missing one important ingredient.

In Chapter 2 we get an explanation from the Queen about how dark fountains are created, and with it a word that has largely been missing from Deltarune.

That's right, good old Determination.

Fountains are created when a determined Lightner plunges a sharp object into the ground. And here's where the theory comes in. I believe prior to the end of chapter 2, Kris didn't have Determination. Throughout the game, they've been filled with various sources of power, from Fluffy Boys and Mean Girls, to Cat signs. But at every save point we've been missing the signature Determination.

The closest we get is at the end of Chapter 2, just before the fight against the queen, when "a certain power" is alluded to.

And that lack of Determination, would have made opening the fountain impossible for them, after all, Queen spent the whole game building Noelle's determination high enough to open a new fountain. A smidge of determination doesn't seem to cut it.

So how did Kris get the determination?

Through the good old power of Friendship. Through the trials with their new friends, Kris has gained determination, even without the soul inhabiting them. And even though that started as half a joke (only half), whilst writing this post and trying to find screencaps, for the next section, I realised it's actually more likely than I suspected.

And that brings me to everyone's new favourite:

Spamton. During his dialogue and initial boss fight he offers a deal, rewarding Kris with [[Hyperlink Blocked]] if they accept. As far as I'm aware you're forced to accept the deal. (If anyone else tolerated more than a few minutes of smashing no deal like I did and managed to get a different outcome, kudos to your perseverance.)

What is [[Hyperlink Blocked]]? Well I'm sure you can guess where I'm going with this. I believe it may well be Determination or something similar.

During the initial confrontation, Spamton refers to the players Soul as [[HeartShapedObject]].

But prior to the boss fight against Spamton NEO, he has no qualms about saying SOUL.

I've seen a lot of people theorising Spamton is being censored, and I agree that definitely seems to be the case. From a meta standpoint though I think it's interesting that the [[Hyperlink Blocked]] he mentioned so much in his first encounter doesn't seem to be mentioned at all, now the he has slightly more freedom of speech. I personally believe it's because revealing whatever Spamton was offering would have given too much away.

So how does this come back to the power of friendship? Well, upon defeating Spamton, whether through ACTing or beating the crap out of him, he realises the real treasure was the friends we made along the way.

He suggests that together, the three of them could "break their own strings"

Following the fight, there's a moment, where Susie notices that Kris is acting out of sorts. Whichever option you choose, it's obvious that Kris is shaken by the event, even going as far as to yell the answer if you let them admit how they're feeling.

The similarity to Kris's own situation, being puppeted by the player is a valid reason for the response. Whatever shook them did so with enough effect that the fear showed despite the players control. Either that, or Kris has something they didn't have, more control. More... Determination to overcome the soul.

That last part is reaching a little, which is saying something, given the amount of shaky evidence presented in this post, so I want to wrap this up mostly with something slightly unrelated, but still a Kris theory.

Why do they open the fountain?

There are a lot of theories, about being a pawn for Gaster, being an asshole, etc.

I'd like to think Kris is just a weird kid who's gotten caught up in a mess they don't really understand. They created a scenario where Susie would be forced to stay the night, and opened up a new dark world, that Susie, their friend, expressed a want for before they left the dark world.

A place where they could get away from their lives for a little while and have more adventures together. And I can understand the reasoning, opening a new fountain isn't bad, I mean, as long as they close it at the end, nobody gets hurt and they have more memories. Where's the harm in that? Right?

As much as Kris obviously wishes to be free of the soul's control, that very soul has helped them make real friends. It's taken them on adventures and well.

Somebody had to let it out before the morning.

So to summarise, the strongest power known to man is a group of lonely teenagers, if you run through a peaceful game murdering everything and then blame a video game character for the decision you made, I'll kick your ass, and I guess I'm a Kris stan now, oh god.

#deltarune #deltarune spoilers #kris deltarune #kris dreemurr #The amount of people I've seen jumping on this weird kid and calling them a murder makes me feel... uneasy #Kris sweetie I got your back #and I pray to Toby that he shows mercy and doesn't do you dirty

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Hi! Would you mind telling me how to tweak the Taste the rainbow psd? Whatever picture i put it on, it ends up being b&w only or it remains the color it was before... Thank you very much!

sure thing , noonie ! under the cut you’ll find a small tutorial explaining how to tweak the psd. if you’re still having trouble with it , please message me off anon so i can help you.

alright , before i get started on the actual tutorial , i need to preface this by saying the psd focuses on changing blues to the chosen color. so , if the picture you’re trying to edit doesn’t have prominent blues in it , that would be why the psd only shows up as B&W. you can fix that by either messing around with the hue / saturation.

this is the picture i’ll be using as an example. as you can see , it does have blues in it , meaning the psd works perfectly and i don’t have to tweak it at all.

BUT let’s say that instead of focusing on the background / blues , i want the color isolation to be on her shirt - aka yellow -. what i’m gonna do is click on the ‘pick your color here’ group and select one of the colors ( it doesn’t matter which one you choose , since we’ll be working with a different base color - yellow -. you can also create a brand new hue / saturation layer if you think it’s easier , just don’t forget to switch off the visibility of the group so it won’t interfere with the new layer you’re about to work on.

as you can see above , only the blues have been altered. by dragging the saturation all the way down to -100 , here’s what the picture will look like :

completely black and white , which is exactly what we want. now onto the fun part !

in the hue / saturation layer , switch from blue to yellow. you should have the saturation set for -100 , which means any parts of the picture that are yellow will also be b&w. ( if you’re using a brand new hue / saturation layer , go ahead and set the saturation of all of the individual colors down to -100. do not mess with ‘master’ , leave it the way it is. ) then , start dragging the saturation up until you’re content with how vibrant the color is. ( *hint: if you enjoy pastel - y psds , try moving the lightness somewhere between +30 and +50 , depending on the color and what you’re looking for , to acquire the pastel look. )

now , let’s switch the color of her shirt from yellow to color you want. in order to do that , you’ll have to use the hue bar. slide the arrow back and forth until you find the color you want. again , mess around with saturation and lightness to create unique shades until you’re content with what you’ve got.

here are some examples :

things to be considered :

if you choose to use base yellow for the pop of color and the person in the picture has blonde hair , there’s a good chance it’ll change their hair as well. as it can be seen in the pictures above , the tips of betty’s hair have been colored. it doesn’t bother me unless it messes with her entire head , but that’s something to keep an eye out for.

base reds are tricky to work it as it’s heavily present in skin tones. so if you’re using the psd in the screencap / picture of a person , i’d suggest using selective color to change the base to another color , or simply picking another base color and making it red if that’s what you want.

happy coloring !

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gif cut-out tutorial

ok ok so @subtledean requested a tutorial on how to do stuff like this post with the gif cutouts and the text effects. hopefully this helps aria ;w; i’m not the best at explaining things but i included some screencaps for clarity. i’ve tried to compress all the sample gifs and screenshots down to under 3mb to avoid tunglr compression on mobile so if they look a little different from the actual gifset, that’s probably why!

what you’ll need:

photoshop, i’m using PS 2021 but any version of photoshop will work out

a basic knowledge of gif-making (i’m assuming you already know how to make a gif and color it).

step 0: storyboard

this isn’t strictly necessary but i HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend it. you don’t have to do any photoshopping this first step, but it’s really important to check out your footage and the shots you have gathered to see what works, especially if you’re trying to combine three or more gifs onto the same canvas. like literally take a piece of paper and draw out where you want the character’s faces to be, where you want the cutouts to be in relation to their faces, and think about whether or not there’s enough empty space to the right or left of characters heads for a cutout to be placed. is there too much movement that would be distracting or messy in an already busy gif?

things like that really help, and it also makes you double check on your footage quality and feasibility. if you end up making a gif where you want one character’s face to be on the left side of the gif but it turns out there’s not enough empty space on the right side of their face to place a cutout and you then have to hunt for new footage or start all over, it’s kind of a trainwreck and you just waste another hour of your time as you deepen your procrastination hellhole. that’s not a real story—

step 1: make the base gif

i’m assuming you know how to color it already. and aria i KNOW you know how to color already so :) size it accordingly to your desired dimensions.

as you can see, i left enough space on the right side of abaddon for the knight cutout to be placed.

save this as a .psd file. you don’t actually have to sharpen and do everything that comes at the end of making a gif right away, but make sure your layers are clearly labeled. do NOT convert to video timeline/smart object just yet.

step 2: make the cutout gif

this is critical: make absolutely certain your cutout gif has the same number of frames as your base gif. otherwise it could get really messy! abaddon has 20 frames, so the cutout will also have 20 frames. again, do not convert the cutout gif to a video timeline/smart object. just keep it as a frame animation. here’s my cutout gif. it’s just a simple b&w gif but i added a touch of purple for color consistency sake whatnot.

now for this particular gif i’ve actually cropped abaddon to be roughly exactly where i would want her face to be in relation to the first gif, but that is unnecessary. helpful, but unnecessary. you do NOT need the cutout gif to be cropped exactly perfect in order to make this work.

step 3: combining the two gifs

there are many different ways to combine two gifs onto the same canvas. some people like to do it via video timeline. i prefer to do it by frames and convert everything to a video timeline only at the end (it’s just a personal preference). here’s a tutorial if you prefer working with timelines, but i’m gonna go over how to do it by frames.

first group everything in your base gif into one folder. then group everything in your cutout gif into one folder as well. you can name them however you want to keep track of things.

then, select all of the frames in your cutout gif. in this case, all 20 of b&w abaddon get selected. make sure its not just frames 4-20 or whatever, but all the frames you made. you can click frame one and then shift-click your last frame to double check.

click the timeline tab group options bar and then go to options > copy frames

now go to your base gif canvas. select ALL the frames of your base gif as well (it’s critical that all of them are selected).

now do options > paste frames.

a popup should appear and you’re going to select the “paste over selection” option. do not link layers.

your cutout gif should now be completely or partially obscuring your base gif. however, now you should see two groups on your sidebar of layers. one for the base, one group for the cutout. if you labelled them with names you can tell which one is which.

step 4: creating the cutout

in order to create the cutout, we use my favorite thing in the whole world of photoshop. layer masks.

to make a layer mask, you simply select a layer or group you want to mask and then click this little icon on the row of icons at the bottom of your layers panel.

white on a layer mask means whatever group or layer is getting masked is completely visible. black on a layer mask means that the group or layer is invisible. if there is 50% gray on a layer mask, then its 50% visible. so on and so forth.

i love these so much i abuse them on the daily. i’ve made a few gifs where i’ve masked every frame one by one because i wanted to get some cool effects. admitting that kind of embarrasses me but oh well.

anyway this is simple though. just find a picture or an outline of a knight. i used these boyes:

obviously i cropped out the knight of the bunch, got rid of the watermark, and then i placed it on the canvas where i wanted it to go.

select the interior of the knight with the magic wand tool. should be pretty simple since it’s all black.

now click over to your layer mask. make sure you have selected the mask and not the group. you can tell you have selected the mask when a little white rectangle pops up on it.

when you know you have the mask selected, click command+i or control+i to invert. if for some reason you do not have this keyboard shortcut, just take a brush tool and color over the area in complete black. as long as the magic wand tool is still selecting just the interior of the knight, it should be fine.

now once again, black means a layer will NOT be showing, white means a layer will be showing. so right now after i disable the visibility of the top layer we used as a reference for the silhouette, it looks like:

do not fear the clownery. layer masks are great because they are always non-destructive. meaning that even if you somehow mess up and your canvas is showing something completely gross, you can always go back and edit your layer mask and your original gif would be unharmed as long as you did not touch any layers in the group, only the mask. simply invert the mask (again, make sure your mask is selected and then command+i or image > adjustments > invert) to get:

for a layer mask that looks like:

you could have also just made a black layer mask to begin with and then inverted the knight outline to be white. many different ways to do the same thing.

another tip: if you select your outline and then click layer mask upon a group or layer with no mask at the current moment, it will automatically make a layer mask with your selection as white and the unselected pixels as black. this is normally how i do my cutouts, because it’s a time-saver even if it like. saves a few seconds max. but i typed out the above for explanation and clarity, so hopefully i didn’t just make anyone more confused.

anyway.

now say you don’t like where the cutout abaddon is positioned. layer masks can also be linked or unlinked, depending on the little link icon you see between the group and the layer mask in the image above. if the icon is visible, the layer mask and the group are linked. if you cannot see the link icon, they are unlinked.

linked layer masks will move in conjunction with the group if any type of transform is done upon them. if the group moves, the layer mask also moves. but if a layer mask is unlinked, you can move the mask and the group independently of one another. for instance, i can change where the cutout is located on the overall canvas of the gif by simply moving ONLY the layer mask (and thereby changing where the blacks and whites of the layer mask occlude the cutout gif contents). but i can also transform the cutout gif layers without changing where the overall outline is located relative to the canvas itself. basically, i can transform the interior contents of the cutout independently. so here (make sure all of your frames are selected):

group unlinked. i’m also making sure that now i am selecting the GROUP (ie. the frames of the layers you are actually going to move) and not the layer mask. you can tell because the little white rectangle around the layer mask can no longer be seen.

now i can transform/adjust the contents of the cutout solely “within” the cutout, and i don’t have to worry about changing where the cutout is located in relation to the overall gif. when transforming, make sure all the frames of your gif are selected. like select the whole group and not just an individual layer, basically.

i’ve seen a lot of how to combine and cut out gifs tutorials on this website, and here is a really good one that i know sully also used <3 big shoutout to all the photoshop queens being inspired by each other!! however i haven’t seen anything that mentioned the linked vs. unlinked layer masks, which i really feel like deserves a shoutout. you don’t have to crop your gifs out perfectly every time, you can always adjust them later. for demonstration, i’ve positioned abaddon in a few different positions with an unlinked layer mask.

step 5: creating the outline

so in order to emphasize the shape of the cutout (the knight), i simply delete the white space surrounding the picture of the knight in the original silhouette that i used. magic wand tool + delete. you can also make a new layer, then paint bucket tool it. many ways to do the same thing.

now with only the knight on a transparent background, i double click the layer to pull up the effects. select outer glow. i used these settings:

when you are doing this, make sure you are on frame one of the frame animation and the “propagate frame one setting” is selected, otherwise you might end up only applying the effect to one out of your many frames, which blows.

then i go change the fill setting to 0%, BUT i leave opacity at 100%. fill is basically like opacity, but it doesn’t affect layer effects (whereas opacity does). so you basically get only the outline but not the black. you can also set the blending mode of the layer to screen and get the same effect, etc, etc. feel free to adjust however you see fit, in addition to the outer glow settings.

i move this layer over a couple pixels to give it the little offset effect, but you don’t have to.

step 6: adding the text

okay the two fonts i used are avenir and perla. i think a LOT of gifmakers use them because they’re really pretty.

i make TWO different text layers, one with avenir in a smaller size and one with perla in a bigger size. this is because for the perla one, i’m going to be changing the blending mode whereas i don’t want to be changing the blending mode for the smaller text. i position the text where i want it to be and make sure the perla font is in the color i like:

then i change the blending mode of the fancy text (perla) to difference. ONLY that layer, and again make sure to check “propagate frame 1″ and make changes on the first frame to apply the change to all of your frames.

but i still don’t think it produces enough of a difference. so i right click on the text layer for knights of hell, and then go to: select pixels.

then i click the curves adjustment layer. this will automatically make a curves layer with a layer mask that occludes everything BUT the area you selected. beautiful. i drag the curves around until i get enough of a difference that i like. normally i make the lights lighter and the darks darker. yeehaw.

again there are sooooo many different ways to achieve the same effect on photoshop. this is just want comes easiest to me, and it’s totally okay if you find a different way that works better for you at producing the contrast you want or the colors you want.

step 7: export and cry

NOW you can convert everything to a video timeline, put your video frame layers to smart objects, and then apply your finishing sharpening filters. export, cry, and hope tumblr compression doesn’t screw you over.

hopefully this was helpful! pls like... idk support my edits if you found this helpful or reblog this post. feel free to dm me about how u do some of the text effects as well bc i’m always trying to learn new things and i am by no means an expert on like. any of this.

aria please go write your fucking thesis before i delete this entire tutorial challenge. :D

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