#maybe a little stippling idk

[etrosgate]

heey eliza（＾∀＾●）ﾉｼ

i interpreted this ask as the last 5 songs i listened to, but i guess it could be your 5 most listened-to songs right now? who knows! unrelatedly (or, well, relatedly actually) i keep seeing you tweet about enstars and was wondering if you have any song recs :)c

🎶✨️when u get this u have to put 5 songs u actually listen to, publish. Then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool)🎶✨️

hehehehe. for general music, the 5 songs i've been into lately:

i can't stop listening to this gumi cover of nin's closer for some reason

kiss by buck-tick. since i've been very into shiki again

oops an enstars song snuck in here. it's lemon squash cheers by crazy-b and 2wink. perhaps i've been listening to my own cover of it 😶

ragequitted by black dresses. and the full album (forever in your heart) in general, i tend to listen to the full thing from start to finish instead of individual songs

don't forget about me by anomie train. one of my favorite synthv original discoveries. sometimes you just need a little song about a vsynth contemplating their eventual obsolescence

as far as enstars goes;

lets get the stuff i don't have 1 million words to say about out of the way first:

crazy-b's entire discography is really fun, but i could listen to the aforementioned Lemon Squash Cheers and Be The Party Bee! all day

i also love all of alkaloid's discography. it's just a style of music i really enjoy. can't really pick out faves

the tempest night by fine. so funky, i've played this so many times in the rhythm game

melty kitchen by ra*bits. extremely cutesy and i get the chorus stuck in my head all the time

stippling by double face. idk i just think it's really pretty

moonlight disco by getto spectacle. a classic.

marine blue rendezvous, kanata's solo. it's so soothing, i've definitely put this on loop and zoned out for a few peaceful hours.

i love listening to the cover of (RE)PLAY by eden and trickstar. even if the flute part is bizarrely prominent.

okay now i get to gush about my faves <3, eden (made up of sub-units adam+eve). their vocal performances are always really fantastic. and they tend to have really great choreography. in-universe they're one of the Big 3 most successful/popular units, and unlike fine and knights (sorry) they've really sold me on why. even if some of their songs will have me oscillating between "maybe this song isn't very good" to "this song is their best one" as i listen to it.

ANYWAYS, im about to talk way too much about eden.

something neat about enstars is that the va's are instructed to sing in-character, one of my favorite aspects of this is how jun's va sings from their earliest songs compared to now.

in Sunlit Summer (earliest in the the timeline, and a favorite of mine lol), hiyori and jun sound so similar it's genuinely difficult to figure out who's singing what by ear. and this is intentional!

at the point when eden is formed, jun is in a place where he has very little sense of identity, terrified to voice any personal opinion or desire, crafted by his former environment to be subservient. so in his early vocal performances he is literally imitating hiyori's vocal style, doing everything in his power to vanish into hiyori's shadow. early eve songs in general are very distinctly "hiyori" in sound, vocals and orchestration. (and ibara, as their producer, crafted in an inherent hierarchy of hiyori being the Center and jun Support at the beginning. which is reflected in adam too but that's off topic)

so it's really fantastic to see how much has changed as the timeline goes forward, such as eve's most recent song, Ruby Love, where Jun sounds distinctly like Himself (even though he retains elements of his inspirations like hiyori and jin sagami), is the center with hiyori playing support, and the song itself is a style of music very Jun. as part of an event where jun actually feels equal enough with the rest of eden to voice a dissenting opinion from everyone else! it's really satisfying to see.

tangentially related, jun's solo (Back-Alley Monologue) might be one of my favorite ballad's like, Ever. the performance is gorgeous and tender on its own, but every time i actually think about the lyrics about how eden saved jun from the worst time in his life, and how being with them is so much everything that he's ever wanted that it feels like an impossible dream. it makes me so emotional that my stomach hurts. if i hear this song in a vulnerable moment i might die.

another i really love is Deep Eclipse. it's pretty notable for being very different from the rest of the discography, a sweet and soft and kinda inspirational song (so different that many people who don't read eden stories think it's their worst song, that it doesn't suit them). this difference is important for a few reasons;

eden as a unit was created to be particularly artificial compared to most enstars units, with highly crafted stage personas and even a clause in the contract forbidding personal relationships between members. their unit concept is literally being The Antagonists who seek to corrupt the world into sin (particularly adam, where nagisa's stage persona as God is so different to his personality that ibara literally writes scripts for him to follow).

HOWEVER, instead what happens is all the members build a deep connection with each other, to the point that they become THE most important people in their lives, and they inspire each other to become better, happier people. i'm pretty sure every member (excluding ibara, because he's extremely repressed) has explicitly said that eden saved them.

and so Deep Eclipse is notable, for being a song where the Stage Personas are dropped the most, for being very emotionally honestly and vulnerable, and being about healing from their trauma (which, being enstars, is substantial). it's probably The biggest example of how the unit has changed from what it was supposed to be when it was formed. also the singing is really pretty.

okay that's enough of that i'll just do general recs for actual sound now:

ibara's solo Poison Strategy is an absolute banger. even if it's basically just a song about being The Poisoner.

cannot overstate how ibara's Concept in eden is literally the poisoner. and in real life. he loves to be evil.

i think Ruler's Truth is my fave adam song

i love every eve song. Sunlit Summer is my fave i listen to it everytime i want a sunlit summer. Trap For You is my fave, yaoibait aside it's soooo fun to listen to. Ruby Love is my fave, idc if its gay club music!

love Faith Conquest. i will defend hiyori's weirdly autotuned wail that sounds like he's dying.

lyrics aside, i really love the sound of Dance in the Apocalypse

on a non-eden tangent. i haven't really read any valkyrie stuff, but i do really love the ex-valkyrie songs, for how well they evoke the absolutely terrible fucked up state of the unit in that moment of time.

A Castle Built of Sand and Sacred Youth's Games are very clearly both about the imminent self-destruction of the unit, in a meta sense. the former in a bittersweet tragic mourning of everything good that original valkyrie had, and the latter dwelling in the misery of everything terrible about it.

Sacred Youth's Games especially, it's a song that sound like anxiety. the sharpness to the vocals in general, the vocal parts feeling like the ebb and flow of an argument that occasionally breaks into a shouting match and how the chaotic instrumentation sounds like it'll fall apart if one note gets out of place. all while still being convincingly like a professional song they would feasibly be performing in-universe

OKAY IM DONE

#ask #long post #haematicspectre #enstars #my god i typed so much

[yandere-daze]

AHHHHHHH OHMYGOSH I LIVE!!!!! ANON 🍡 IS ALIVE!!! DAZE SHAKES U BY UR SHOULDERS ITS BEEN SO LONGG WAHH HOW ARE YOU???? ive been so busy with catching up on all of my school works that i havent been able to open tumblr at all AND THEN I COME BACK TO SO MANY SELF AWARE FOOD KSJDJD THE FOOD IS GOOD 🙏🙏🙏 i literally just skimmed thru the masterlist and WOAH. /POS

also ive only read ur reply to my ask now so sorry abt that! but i do agree with stippling being rlly short.. ironically its not even the shortest song 😭 its like on the middle of the list when u sort the songs in the wiki page from shortest to longest and that really just made me question everything like. HOW?? it just passes by in a flash i dont understand 😭

AND YES TWST!!!! TWST MY BELOVED!!! HAVE U SEEN THE NEW BIRTHDAY SET DAZE. HAVE U. HAVE U SEEN JAMILS BDAY CARD. HE. HE IS SO GORGEOUS. WHHHWHWH WHEN JAMIL.

(okay thats all I HOPE YOU DONT MIND ME POPPING BACK INTO UR INBOX AGAIN FHFHHFJ)

Omg welcome back 🍡 anon, it really has been a long time since I´ve last heard of you! Yeah, there has been a lot of new stuff for the self-aware AU, mainly stemming from the fact that I tried to write as much as I could before I would have to go working and have way less time. I can only imagine how overwhelming it must have felt to look at that masterlist after coming back dnfsl

And I know right?? like realistically speaking I know that there are definitely shorter songs but it just feels so fast! Maybe it´s because I just love the song so much so it doesn´t feel long when I´m playing it? Or because the last few seconds of the song are only a slow instrumental? Idk, there´s some weird stuff happening with Stippling. I notice that the songs keep getting longer the more we get. Like have you seen the new Alkaloid song, Vermillion? The mv is 2:50 minutes, like holy shit that´s long. The full version of Believe 4 leaves is 3 minutes 😭 That song is way too short btw, like if you agree. Like the full version is barely longer than the game version! It´s the best Alkaloid song imo and it´s a shame we got so little of it

AND YES OMG I SAW! I really love the new theme we have for the 3rd birthday cards, Jamil looks so good in those wizard robes, I´m very excited for all of the future birthday cards we´re going to get! Only the first card has been revealed so far but I think this might turn out to be my favorite line of birtday cards, I just think the groovy looks really good! Don´t get me wrong, I loved the jackets we got for the second line of birthday cards but for some reason I wasn´t too fond of the groovied versions? Like they were fun and silly but it´s not the kind of cute/ pretty I would normally pull for? Idk if I´m making sense here

#anon ask #🍡 anon

[brothfan1997]

i think 10 years of wanting a homestuck tattoo is probably enough time to start taking that desire seriously but the real question is should it be rose lalonde or vriska

#i have an image in my head and its like a tarot carde esque rectangle #with a cool worms view angle of a lady in a heavily stylized god tier ish outfit with #an also very heavily stylized hero of light symbol. #it would not be immediately reconizable as homestuck and will just be simple black lines prob no shading #maybe a little stippling idk #Anyway…

[mattelektras]

jessie do u have any tips or advice for a begginer editor (started using ps literally last week) that just pumps out the most boring flat edits ever like... i do not know what to do besides a solid color background....

FIRST OFF. never underestimate a solid color background!!!! i am BUILT on solid color backgrounds. im nothing without them

but if you want to go a little further every now and then try a super minimal, non obstructive texture like paper or a gradient or even just like. stippling or a faint grain. even a noise filter can give a little bit more dimension to things.

you can also just add another layer and do a gradient of the same colour as your background but set it to overlay or screen etc etc (u gotta mess around w layer styles a lot, the best fit can depend on the color). just do something like this (set to vivid light in this case)

and u could end up with this

instead of just this

add some noise like i mentioned 

idk maybe everyone’s reading this n thinking. bitch thats the same blue 4 times but its about the depth!!!!! the image you put on a background will have depth and shading, sometimes texture, so to have a background that uses the same elements makes for a more cohesive graphic imo. and since u mentioned feeling like your graphics are flat maybe depth and dimension are what you need. dont ever feel bad about it tho because youre doing all the right things, just take it a bit further 

no one’s expecting u to produce editorial level design in the first two weeks. you gotta start w the basics, build on them and then gradually you get a feel for when to stop, when to add a little more etc etc

#tutorials tag #ps help #anonymous #q & a