#this is SO DARK AND SATURATED on one of the computers I was looking at it with

[tennant-davids]

Using Neural Filters to colour correct

i’ve had a couple of people ask about how i’ve coloured the pocket dimension scenes so i thought i’d just do a run-through tutorial kind of thing to show it, rather than going through it with everyone separately.

so this is a tutorial for how i made this:

from this:

follow along under the cut:

so just some things to point out before we move on which are essential and could get in the way of this working for you:

you will need adobe photoshop cc - v.22 or above. any versions older than this won’t work. you can find what version you currently have by opening photoshop, clicking ‘help’ on the top toolbar, and selecting ‘about photoshop’. my current version is 23.2.2.

you should know how to make a gif from frames, use timeline and work with the gif as a smart object. if you don’t know what i mean, i’ve tried to explain it briefly below.

using neural filters is resource heavy so expect photoshop to be slow in processing/exporting/saving anything you use them on. it might be worth having other programs closed while you use it if your computer has a lower or mid-range spec.

and so... 

1. make your gif to do this, import your frames, crop, set frame speed etc however you normally would. if you usually make gifs with the animation bar set to ‘frame animation’, you will need to change this so that you can create a smart object. you will need to press the button with the video timeline symbol on your animation bar:

then you should select all your layers (not frames as you shouldn’t see them anymore) and right-click > convert to smart object:

you should leave your animation in timeline mode, but the purpose of the smart object is so you can add smart filters. this is especially good for things like sharpening, any effects you want to add, and of course... neural filters.

2. brighten the image and convert to black and white contrary to what we’re trying to achieve here, you should change the image to black and white and brighten it up so that you have as smooth and plain a base for the filters to apply to. 

i do this by adding a black and white adjustment layer, and clicking ‘auto’ on the properties tab:

you should then add a ‘levels’ adjustment layer and drag the right tab along until it meets the beginning of the histogram. you should also move the left tab along a little bit for some contrast - how far depends on how you want your gif to look:

following this, select the smart object and two adjustment layers > right-click > convert to smart object. you don’t have to do this but i find it helps and it reduces the number of layers you have to work with.

my gif now looks like this: 

3. adding the neural filter now your image is about to change in a huge way. click on filter on the top toolbar and select ‘neural filters’:

from here, you will see this screen and a bunch of current filters and beta filters on the right-hand side. you may have to download them to get them to work. for this, we’re using ‘colorize’ so at least make sure you have that one downloaded and ready to use:

when you turn the ‘colorize’ filter on, after processing (this can take a few seconds), your image now looks like this:

(note: this gif is an exception in how well it turned out first time - the filter has applied evenly minus a couple of issues i’ll go over below. how successful it will be depends on how much movement is in the clip, or how many colours it will need to find, and it sometimes gets confused with dark and light tones. you’ll find most of the time that the gifs will have patches that aren’t coloured, or will have incorrect colour correction that you’ll need to go in frame-by-frame and patch in by hand. the filter does do a lot of heavy lifting though.)

you can then play around with the saturation (i usually reduce it to -10) and the colours similarly to how you would in ‘colour balance’, however it has a more all-over even tone:

the last thing you need to do is select ‘smart filter’ on this drop-down menu:

if you don’t change it to smart filter, the filter will only apply to the frame you can currently see and won’t apply to the whole animation.

my gif now looks like this:

this might be enough for you in which case great news! you get to stop here, apply whatever sharpening and colouring you want, and save as normal!

however, i’m a perfectionist to a fault so i need to do a few more things first...

(note: it’s always worth doing the next step even if you’re happy with the finished product here, just in case you missed a spot)

4. check the filter has applied throughout the whole gif you’ll see that you now have a much more even base to work from and colour your gif as normal, however neural filters aren’t perfect and do leave funny little glitches throughout your gif sometimes. in order to check this, i usually scrub through to see if there are any issues. in this gif, i spotted two.

in these two areas - on the moving gif - i can see the colouring flickering. the filter hasn’t applied the right colour on every frame, or simply hasn’t coloured it at all:

this gif isn’t the worst offender for this, but if you look closely you’ll see it. so...

5. make a new layer and fill in the flickering areas press the ‘new layer’ button:

and now use the ink dropper tool to pick up the colour you want to use, and paint over the area where the colour is flickering - e.g. i used the dropper to pick up the colour from the desert in the background and painted over that area. i also picked up some of the colour from the sky and coloured over the flickering by the storm. i used these brush settings:

when you’ve painted on the colour you want, and as much as you want, set the layer to ‘color’. i also change the opacity to 80% to let some of what’s underneath still come through a little bit, but do what’s best for you and your gif:

my gif now looks like this, with less noticeable flickering:

7. brighten, colour and sharpen however you normally do idk if you have an existing psd or just experiment with adjustment layers, but your gif is now ready to start colouring however you normally would. the neural filter is basically acting as a reset to give you a blank canvas in which to gif as normal. for this gif i started with a ‘hue and saturation’ adjustment layer to change the green background to a more dirt/sand colour as it’s meant to be the desert, and then just played around with my usual combination of adjustments until i came up with the final product! i then sharpen using filter > sharpen > smart sharpen and it should be done.

8. export (save for web) you all know how to do this by now, but be aware that these will load slowly. gifs aren’t the fastest things to save on a good day but with the neural filter applied, they’re particularly slow. this is why i said to do work on the gifs one at a time - don’t have photoshop doing more than it needs to do or it might slow down to a halt.

so after all that, this is the final version of my gif:

tips and tricks

avoid making gifs of moments with a lot of movement - this could be the subject of the gif moving, the background, the wind blowing something around etc. while normal colouring can tolerate these changes, the filter isn’t yet clever enough to work it out and it makes the gifs unsalvageable because you can’t paint over the flickering accurately enough - e.g.:

(p.s. if anyone knows how to get the filter to work on this specific scene you have to tell me lmao it’s been driving me mad...)

try and keep the gifs short - i haven’t made one above 55 frames, i think. that is still quite a lot but it is a challenge to ensure the filter can cope with it. shorter gifs would probably mean a cleaner result.

you have to set the gif to black and white first - the colorize filter is designed to bring black and white photos/videos to life. i tried it over the blue filter directly and it was successful but i had more consistent luck when starting in black and white.

make sure you brighten the gif significantly before applying the filter - it really helps to give a cleaner canvas for the filter to apply to, but it’s not essential if you really don’t want to.

if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ASK. i’m by no means an expert and this is just what i’ve observed from using this feature and the workarounds i’ve found working for me so far, but happy to try and help where i can and happy to take suggestions too! <3

#malex #roswell new mexico #gif tutorial #photoshop tutorial #ps help #allresources #completeresources #itsphotoshop #*laurengifs #*tutorial #this is so long #but i hope it's helpful #i think needing the newer versions of ps is probably what's going to get in the way most but just in case it doesn't... ta-daaa #1k

[chaos0pikachu]

So @doyou000me sent me an ask about the film making of Love for Love's Sake (which I have learned is based on a novel and now I'm very interested in reading it lol) so having watched the currently available episodes the big thing I noticed was the shows use of Aspect Ratio.

"In simple terms, the aspect ratio of a movie is how wide the frame of the movie is versus how tall it is, usually expressed as a ratio. For example, most TVs and computer monitors are 1.77:1 (more often expressed on consumer packaging as 16:9), which means the screen itself is 1.77 times as wide as it is tall. The higher the first number in this ratio is, the wider the screen will be." (source)

I know, nerd math.

Basically you know those black bars you sometimes see on the top and bottom of the screen when watching a film or tv show? That's a director filming in a specific aspect ratio:

(source)

Film makers use aspect ratios in a ton of ways, there's a lot of examples out there from Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino), and Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan) where the former used aspect ratio to invoke the film making style of old westerns, while Nolan used a taller aspect ratio for fight/action scenes to give the scene more physical impact.

A recent example that I've seen that I think applies really well to Love for Love's Sake is Marry My Husband:

See how the first scene has black bars above and below? The director is using a different aspect ratio than in the second shot (these are both taken from ep01). What does this signify in the story?

Flashbacks. Flashbacks in Marry My Husband are always filmed in a different aspect ratio than scenes in the "present" storyline of the show. Perfect Marriage Revenge also uses aspect ratios this way.

Love for Love's Sake does something similar but instead of flashbacks it uses aspect ratio to denote between "worlds".

The game world is filmed in a longer aspect ratio than the "real" world which is filed in a different ratio (not a standard full screen but it does have a taller ratio than the game world):

This, so far, has been consistent in the four episodes that are out. We have another return to the "real" world in I believe ep03 and we see this same aspect ratio dynamic.

Another thing I noticed is the "real" world's color saturation is much higher and warmer than the "game" world, but it's also (ironically) much more enclosed - this could honestly be a story choice or a budget issue - and boxed in. Something I don't see discussed a lot in terms of cinematography in BL is the use of Lines and Shapes in film and how they add to the composition of a shot.

I really like this video on the subject though it focuses mostly on animation it's still relevant:

Now if you look at the "real" world scene in Love for Love's Sake we see that the protagonist, before we even know who he is, or anything about him, is in a highly saturated room, warmly lit, but also boxed in:

The warmer saturation denotes a sense of intimacy, which makes sense in a bar setting, but the boxed in frame around him gives us a sense of tightness, tension even, maybe a sense that he feels trapped. We later learn through dialogue he's unhappy with his life and unhappy with the way the novel story he read has played out.

Then, when the scene transitions into the "game" world, the protagonist is in a different aspect ratio, the color grading is now more desaturated and has a higher blue hue to it, the character is also in an open space and filmed front forward facing instead of from behind:

This all works well because the audience knows, even before the character does, they are in another "world" and its very different from their own. It creates to specific aesthetics which help set the worlds apart from one another.

For more on color theory, this is one of my favorite videos on the topic which has more to do with like, hue and saturation rather than "the blue curtains mean xyz" which is a singular and narrative heavy way to focus on color theory instead of how color adds to the tone, emotion, and world building of a piece of media.

I think the first episode of Love for Love's Sake is the best filmed of the episodes so far, the budget starts to chip away in other episodes but I do want to give them their roses b/c they do work within their budget well. There's a lot of interesting visuals used especially with the game pop ups that I really like, and some nice camera work. The editing is a bit weak at times but there's been some good choices too.

I also really liked the scene with Yeo Woon running and how his feet lit up and how that aligned with his affection points going up. The editing for that was well done.

So yeah, those are my film making thoughts on the show for now lol

Check out other posts in the series:

Film Making? In My BL? - The Sign ep01 Edition | Aspect Ratio in Love for Love's Sake | Cinematography in My BL - Our Skyy2 vs kinnporsche, 2gether vs semantic error, 1000 Stars vs The Sign | How The Sign Uses CGI

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#love for love's sake #kbl #chaos pikachu speaks #spot my kofi some coins if y'all like these posts lmao #also love for loves sake is cute as hell I'm into it #its a bit slow but last episode picked up and it's very charming #chaos pikachu metas #also if you wanna have a fun time watch any video on transformers the last knight and learn how to NOT use aspect ratios lmao #god that was such a frustrating thing to witness #Youtube #pikachu's bl film series

[wildglitch]

Spider-man x Batfam Prompt's

Ok so lately I have seen a lot of "Spidy goes to gotham and gets adopted fics" probably cause of Dark Matter by mysterycyclone cause like, duh, that fic is a goddamn masterpiece. But I feel like a lot of them are sort of the same thing with diffrent fonts ans it feels a bit saturated. Not all of them...but most of them.

Am I saying that there needs to be less of these fics? Hell no! Keep writing them please. I just feel like there could be more variety is all.

I suggest maybe try one of these ideas out

1: Peter going straight to the Batfam or other heros (dosent always have to be Batfam) and they try to work together on how to get him home, while slowly realizing "omg, your life is terrible! We want to help you, we do, but maybe we shouldnt and try to give you a better life here. Then its just a moral delema on what to do as they get to know the spider child.

2: maybe another Spider-man is the one that goes to Hotham like Andrew or Toby. Insted of being sent home at the end of NWH, they where accidentally sent to the DCU. Or maybe one of the Spider verse characters or a cartoon version of the character. Dosent always need to be Toms Spider-man.

3: on that same note. Please give more love to What If...Zombies Peter. You guys have no Idea the amount of angst and "haha, my world ended and im fine" potental there is. And you can have the other surviving member also be there as they look for eachother (characters that "survived* (no one survived that episode) are Peter, King T'challa, Scott Lang+cape, and Ig Bruce Baner/Hulk, and Bucky Barnes since we never saw them get turned or eaten) just think about Spidey and the Batfam investigating a lab or sometbing and all of a sudden they find floating head Scott in a crate. Everyone if scared shitless while Peter is crying tires of joy as he moves to hug the floating head. Think about that and tell me Im not on to something here.

4: Have the fic start our like halfway through. Maybe skip him getting to Gotham and have him be there for a few months already or something. This will help with adding more crack fics.

5: Maybe have the fic be that Peter is there for a while, he knows everyone, they know him, they might or might not know the identitys but they trust eachother. And Peter has been looking for a way home and he finally finds it! But... he accidentally brings some of the Batfam with him. So now its the Batfams turn to learn to live in the MCU with help of Spidy and they finally understand so much about him, how he lived, and vigilanties he knows (team red!) As they learn the history and pubilc opinion or Spider-man and the world.

6: Just a react to fic. Yk, those fics where they're stuffed in a room and forced to watch something? Yeah. Have the Dark Matter cast stuffed in a room and watch some MCU clips. It dosent even have to be some magic forth wall bull shit if you dont like that. In chapter 44, Peter and co. are said to be going back to the cave, and Peter still have is suit. Canonically, Karen records everything. Maybe Peter ends up so tired he dosent even want to try to explain everything. So he just hooks up Karen to the computer and and has her show them everything from the suits recordings to security cameras and news reports, to the memes and videos spiderman fans have made.

7: have the Justice League get involed cause "Hes to bright to be one of yours Bruce!" And have him be a honorary member of the league of have them put him on Young Justice. Peter gets adopted by Batfam? Yes. Peter becomeing Bffs with the Young Justice kids and actually forming normal relationships with kids his age? Also yes.

Do I have more? Probably but Im too lazy for it rn

If you for some reason use one of my ideas, pls tag me and maybe credit me for the original idea (but I mostly want to be able to find the fic if you do make it ( o_o) )

Who knows, I might just write some of these myself if I ever get the motivation lol

#writing prompt #fanfic writers #fanfic #spider man #batfam #marvel mcu #mcu #dcu #dc universe #peter parker #dark matter #crossover #crossover fic #fic ideas #please #I have had some on these ideas in my head for so long now TvT #send asks

[nicotine-and-heartaches]

today i met a fanboy - at least that's what he calls himself. he said he's been following my socials for a good eight years. he said he fell in love with my writings - that my prose and poetry were drenched in darkness and dripping blood that he'd gladly bathe in. i told him im not worth fanboying over, that i can no longer write like i used to. he stopped me right there and told me not to say that again because it breaks his heart and of those who appreciate my stuff. i jokingly responded that if that's the case, im better off as a concept

my poetry bared fangs and spat acid. it blew my mind how anyone would want to touch it. i would use the word BLOOD far too many times in a paragraph that the paper would resemble a war zone. just a tortured internet poet who could not get over her teenage angst - yet people loved her. you see i still get messages from people online recognizing how my past works impacted them. yet i often find myself downplaying the compliments. idk but she feels foreign to me. i guess i don't identify as her anymore.

she - who would come home intoxicated at 2am and vomit words onto paper. she was all razor blades, collar bones and sharp edges. i did not know how people would find beauty in such dangerous things. but so did i. i still write here and there but mostly on my gratitude journal or write cheesy letters addressed to the universe which i safely stored in a password-locked-folder on my computer. blood has been replaced with words like HEAL. GROW. ACCEPT. it took years for my brain to learn how to generate these words and start using them - even start believing them.

some days i would hear her banging on my chest wall, dying to escape. adults would warn children of the monsters in their closets, but what about the ghosts of all your past versions haunting you even when you are awake. i almost freed her one night just to see what other metaphors she can create out of blood. but i remembered how i've sworn not to dig graveyards just to end up scraping my skin and scrubbing dirt under my fingernails.

so im sorry it's disappointing you that i can no longer write poetry that compares my own blood to venom, or how i glorified my suffering by saying "i tried to look for love at the bottom of countless vodka bottles tonight", or how i would describe the color of bruises on my knuckles as having the same saturation as the skies just a little after the sun sets. i closed that chapter long ago. hopefully one day i am going to figure out how to write with the same voice as her (maybe with a different tone this time) because as messed up as she was, that same voice spoke and resonated to a lot of people.

— alaska grace // im better off as a concept

#poetry #poem #writing #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #prose #personal #poets on tumblr #alaska #writers on tumblr #alaska grace #prose and poetry #teenage angst

[cochineal-leviat]

Marquis Fluff reference The Midnight Soirée chapter 1 to 5

It's Fluff's turn!

Kirby 1-2

A warning for spoilers for the Midnight Soirée. Please go read that first if you're interested in the story. Please enjoy

Back reference without Fluff's long hair.

Colour Pallete:

All Fluff's colours are saturated, and compared to Kirby, who uses all colours - Fluff only uses the CMYK colour palette except the green for the leaves. (Cyan, magenta, yellow and key colour. The key colour is usually black or brown, with the latter fitting in here. And well, the cyan is more blue, but I ended up using it for Fluff's eyeshadow.) CMYK is known as print colours and are subtractive, which means the more colour you add, the darker it becomes. The opposite is RGB colours, which are additive colours. The more colour you add, the closer it becomes to white, with white being every colour. RGB is used in electronic displays like TVs, phones and computer screens, and eye cones are also RGB. Though very rarely, people are born with four cones rather than three. Animals like the mantis shrimp have sixteen colour receptors and can see in more colours than we do. 

Clothes:

From top to bottom: we have his wooden crown. In my extra trivia chapter from the Midnight Soirée, I explained how all fae royalty wear flower crowns when they marry and afterwards. But since Fluff is a bachelor, he does not wear a flower crown. So, he dons a crown of wood instead. A few small branches grow from it, resembling horns, as Fluff's true form has four horns. 

All the gems on his person are diamond-shaped. This is because the shape of a diamond represents perfection, which is also why I used the diamond pattern on his jacket. Although with the shading, the diamonds look like triangles, considered half or incomplete perfection. They also resemble cushions, which refers to Patchland being made from arts and crafts. 

The jacket of a concerto maestro with their long tailcoats inspired Fluff's overcoat. Fluff's coattails resemble broken clipped dragonfly wings; the top half is missing, and Fluff's pouldrons are very prince-like. Kirby never thought Fluff was a prince because his crown was humble compared to the royalty Kirby knew. Duke Dedede wears a singlet, which is normal for Dreamland Nobility. A passage in Chapter 1 explains this as crowns are passed down the aristocracy family tree from the head of the family to the next heir. 

Before designing the characters, I had already visualised the starlight tights, which fit well with Kirby's starry night cape. They resemble Lapiz Lazuli, which are some magnificent stones. They have these golden flecks in them and crushed are called Ultramarine, which is a very vibrant dark blue powder. It was believed that wearing lapis lazuli warded off bad spirits, and in Ancient Egypt, they crushed the stone to wear the powder as eyeshadow. 

Fluff's shoes are styled like flowers/vines that wrap around the foot and legs like boots but have the appearance of high heels. It is both elegant and intimidating. A fun detail is that they, from the front, resemble hooves from a bovine. Which is not the correct animal, but hell, why not? It is one of the few drafts I kept from the first sketch because it fits well. 

Without the sash. Marquis Fluff gave his sash to Kirby in chapter 2

Close up from face. I had a lot of fun designing the makeup for Fluff in this AU.

Fluff's glamour is constructed out of many things. However, as a fae, Fluff has no hair shine as a human like Kirby does. Neither do Fae have eyelights. You can see it best in this close-up. The only light that reflects back is on Fluff's clothes or gems. This is why the only light is at the bottom of Fluff's hair, as it is a gradient. This is because the fae use an illusion to hide their true yet ever-changing eldritch forms. So Fluff's eyes and hair are fake, so his skin and really everything about him. It is all magic, which is why, throughout the night, he changes appearances so rapidly and why his expressions can go from warm to cold/deadly so quickly. He mimics human expressions and mannerisms while filling the rest with fae manners. The fae are an adaptive species that outwardly change like nature as nature, even if we don't see it, is constantly adapting for survival. 

As for why Fluff decided to adapt to his form - who knows? Partly, it is to resemble the portrait that hangs in the real world in the debilitated mansion's foyer.

(remember this bad boy? Yeah, it's old but I still love the colours)

All the features that have been added or changed are meant to lure Kirby in. Fae are said to tempt people with their magical beauty and, in some instances, transform to fit the human's preferences. In some myths, it is even said when someone casts their eyes on a fae they have already lost as they are that beautiful.

Fluff took something Kirby was familiar with and was already bewitched by. Or perhaps the portrait is magical of itself and was the first part of the curse. Who knows.

Chapter 3 & Beginning

Fluff with his hair done up and a few other things. Fluff looks more elegant/handsome with his pair-up. It might be because I've been staring at Fluff's reference model with his hair down, so putting up his hair is refreshing.

Fluff was sure at this point that he and Kirby would be together as husbands, so he felt more free to express himself and put more thought into his appearance. The diamond skin from Chapter 3 to Chapter 5 is not part of his makeup, as that was his glamour starting to slip. Luckily for him, it was something that could be considered beautiful. Although the lights can look creepy in the dark as they are essentially glowing freckles. The pointed ears are also from his glamour weakening but he does not feel ashamed to hide them since Kirby knows he is Fae. Fluff's first appearance was meant to attract and yet hide his true nature so here he is much more open. 

Also, diamond earrings = symbolise perfection. Fluff looks a lot more sheep-like with his nose. 

Midpoint Chapter 4 and 5

Here, Fluff is without his maestro jacket - seemingly vulnerable as he wanted to be left alone. Despite his obvious otherness, he seems more down to earth in his upset state. We also see his shirt and hands without his blue coat/gloves covering them, so that's neat. I had a lot of fun designing the ruffled shirt. I wanted to ensure it was not a stale design when I eventually disregarded the jacket for Fluff's angry/hurt role in those two chapters. 

Oh yeah, Fluff is pissed, alright. Well, he is more hurt, but he gets to be angry too. Even if he understood deep down, it was a misunderstanding. He was so close to one's goal, and finding someone who he could love and loves suddenly reject him stung. As did Kirby returning after they rejected him. Fluff did away with all the makeup and jewellery. Even his crown of wood/thorns is gone. His hair is messy, and his eyes and cheeks are covered in cracks. Yeah, Fluff does not care anymore how he is perceived in that moment. Still, he holds onto his glamour just a little longer for sentimentally. Because as hurt as he is, he did enjoy his time spent with Kirby. He also stopped glamouring his natural red peepers, and from this point, he never hides them behind the yellow lenses he conjured from the beginning of the night. They have horizontal pupils like sheep do. 

The pin in his bun is a button. 

Thank you very much for looking at my art & reading. I hope you have a wonderful day or night further! Happy spooky month (*^▽^*)

#kirby series #kirby gijnka #my art #art reference #The Midnight Soiree (Kirby fic) #RosenRotAU #faerie #fae folk #fae #Fantasy medieval #Prince Fluff #Marquis Fluff #Fae Prince Fluff #glamour #fae lore

[okthatsgreat]

Hello Lee.... I come bearing QUESTIONS about your MLP versions of your OCs. Such as: was there a process for coming up with their names? And: how did you figure out their colours? Who was the hardest to name? And, similarly, whose colours did you struggle with the most? :0

YAHOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OUGUHGRU YOURE SO COOL

THIS IS THE POST WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BTW

OK SO as for the names there was a forum online that i specifically referenced with a guide to naming mlp ocs and it was hella funny, the gist was this:

i mostly ignored that first rule just bc a few of these ocs would not have a super """"girly"""" name so most of them are puns or figures of speech!!!!! theyre all based off of their ultimate talents or their personalities, which means what i do is i think of an adjective or noun that could be associated with them (for example, free runner -> light on her feet -> light) and then either think of a pun or go to google and type in "phrases with [word] in it" and choose one that makes sense (light + speedy = lightspeed)!! some of them were straight up references WITHOUT me mashing two words together ("turing" is from alan turing father of modern computer science, "chatterbait" is a specific type of lure for fishing while also being a reference on how sae tends to go on tangents lmao).

rie's was a bit of a struggle at first just because i was going back and forth between MULTIPLE names, like i was kinda set on her having a one word name like rarity but i needed it to be more specific to her?? she was royal charm for a bit, then royal, then PEARL (bc i looked at her actual outfit), and THEN the pearl jam pun struck me like the hand of god

I STRUGGLED THE MOST WITH ERINS NAME LMFAOOO!!!! which is why that name was not even my idea it was @makowo 's fhdjhgfkdgjkd. i was so ready just to call her pippy because:

BUT thankfully i got a much better name. also the idea of her cutie mark basically condemning her to a life of childrens entertainment is both horrifying and kinda funny. girl you are NOT getting a break even in the my little pony universe.

COLOURS WERE VERY FUN!!! just for the sake of them Being Recognizable as My Ocs i kept their hair colour the same lmfao, if i were to go back id probably get a little more funky (pearl gem could absolutely use some purple highlights). for their haircoat i typically would use a primary colour on their outfit and would sometimes adjust!!! for example, i knew i wanted naomi's haircoat to be associated with red as that is the main colour i typically associate with her, so the coat was the colour from her jacket. because her hair was already very dark, having the coat colour also be dark wasnt as clashing so i didnt need to adjust a lot!! i DID however adjust erins to be a bit lighter just because it looked nicer than having an extremely saturated yellow lol. hooves were usually decided by me choosing a colour on them (very typically hair colour) and either adjusting it to be darker or leaving it white in two cases!! OTHER COLOURS were decided based on how important the colour is to the character's outfit. like filly shapes/erin HAD to be yellow in my eyes just because she is soooooo bright + it sits nicely with the red hair, but because she is a very colourful character i added a whole lot of ribbons with the other colours of her costume :)) naomi got a few spots on her just because of her moles, sae got her birthmark, and a few other characters got their stomachs coloured in just because i thought it looked cool lmfaooooo

hardest to colour hmmmmmmmmmmmmm for RIE i initially had her coat as light purple, as she is a very purple character to me lmfao, but thought it would both compliment the hair colour and also accent the purple more if she was primarily white (the colour of her undershirt, ALSO i was looking up white show horses as reference for her specifically lol). so i went back and forth for a bit....... chatterbait also tbh. originally she was a lighter green colour for her jacket but then i was like nahhh the green on her overalls is better and went back. other than that they were pretty straight forward!!!! mouse trap and turing were the most obvious to me i feel like i had colouring in mind for those two from the second i placed my pen on my tablet

GOD i really am talking a whole lot about ponies THEYRE HONESTLY JUST SO MUCH FUN LOL. IVE KINDA BEEN GOING CRAZY JUST DESIGNING A WHOLE BUNCH FOR SOME FRIENDS LIKE IM HAVING A BLAST OVER HERE. I LOVED COMING UP WITH EVERYTHING AND IM SUPER HAPPY YOU ASKED ME ABOUT IT :]]]]] SO THANK YOU!!!

#i love questions ................... #im serious designing ponies are so fun. taking requests. call me the pony maker the way im. #ask lee #badromancebullsquid #mlp

[strawberryslayer0]

OMOZAI (bsd x Omori au)

An AU where instead of dazai joining the agency, he stays isolated from society after oda's death. Dazai blames himself for his death feeling like he should've tried harder to convince his friend not to go and that he should've gotten there earlier to stop oda from dying. He dreams of another reality where everything is different, the same darkness, but a little lighter.

(BTW, I can't tell if this is a script for a game or a fanfic, my writing style through this goes everywhere, I am so sorry for that-)

It starts with text that says "no matter whether your on the side of killing people or saving people," the screen goes to black again, another line of text shows up that says "there will never be anything that can surpass your mind." The picture they took that night they all shared together one last time. The screen goes black again "there is no place in this world that can fill your loneliness." The screen goes black again "you will linger in the darkness forever." The text fades again and we are transported to white space. It's dazai (the player), he's dressed in his pm outfit. It's the same layout as omori, but mewo is nastume, the sketchbook is his suicide book, the tissues stay and so does the computer and of course, the door. If you go to the door, you cant do anything yet. If you go to the computer and you check your computer, the options are to either stare at the computer or look at you calender. If you click the calender it just says "stayed with sensei" and "went to see ango and odasaku" scattered on different days throughout the calender. If you stare at the screen, the screen becomes blurry as you start to zone out. You can zone back in by just exiting the computer. If you check the suicide book, it's scattered with a bunch of little notes next to passages that say stuff like "don't try, too painful", "tried, didn't work", "that sounds disgusting!", "this doesn't sound too bad, might try". If you go to natsume you get "meow (what are you waiting for?)" And the tissue box is for "wiping your sorrows away". Suddenly something drops. You go to find the thing in a generated spot but in the meantime there are blue hands that try to get you if they see you (if they do get you, you go back to the a square), suddenly, you find a riot gun. You pick up the gun and it is now in your inventory. You can finally enter through the door, so you do. Once you enter, you're transported into a bar everuthing is dim at first until you see your two best friends sitting at the table, everything magically becomes more saturated, showing that his friends are his light. The one with black hair was sitting on the right, the red head was on the left, and there was a spot in the middle, a spot they were saving for you. They both notice you and the red head stands up and walks to you, taking the cigarette out of his mouth

ODASAKU: *with a slight smile* "hey DAZAI, how are you?"

ODASAKU: "ANGO and i were just catching up on work, we were hoping you'd show up"

ODASAKU: *he closes his eyes still with the same smile* "come sit down with us."

ANGO: *he looked tired, as always, and had a stoic expression* "well hello DAZAI, I'm surprised to see you, we didn't think you'd make it"

You sit with them in the middle on your little stool as the bartender serves you whiskey in a fancy glass with a huge chunk of ice in the middle, it was what you ordered everytime.

ODASAKU: "So, DAZAI, how are you? How's work been?"

Options: "it's been alright, just stressful with that shrimp always bothering me" or "it's been stressful cause of MORI"

First option scenario:

ANGO: *he slight smiles*"I know, it must be, but you two make such a great team together on missions."

ODASAKU: "I agree, You just have to be patient with him and yourself."

ODASAKU: "are you sure you hate him? You seem to be really passionate about hating him.."

Dazai starts to blush a ton and his cheeks turn a bright red seeming to squirm in his seat from that comment (he's clearly speaking but I wanted dazai to be like omori where be barely talks, but I still wanted his personality to shine through so it's gonna be a lot of that lol),

Odasaku laughs and says

ODASAKU: *clearly amused* "don't worry dazai, we'll keep this secret to ourselves"

Second option senario:

ODASAKU: "Yeah....the boss is tougher on you than anyone I've ever seen, even if he tries to keep it behind closed doors."

ANGO: "tell me about it. I don't know how you deal dazai."

ODASAKU: "He recently gave me a mission where I had to clean up a crime scene that occurred involving a kid being murdered by his parents. I know he did that on purpose just to break me down and make me quit."

ANGO: " What a terrible person we all have to work for"

ODASAKU: "tell me about it"

Resume:

Everyone stays silent for a moment until ango speaks

ANGO: *he clears his throat* "moving on...MORI assigned me to go look at some documents at the port mafia's accounting facility, would you two like to come with me?"

ODASAKU: "Yeah, sounds interesting."

ODASAKU: "you in, DAZAI?"

Options: "yes" or "no"

First option scenario:

ANGO: "Wonderful, let's get going"

Everyone gets up and goes into a line, dazai leading.

Second option scenario:

ODASAKU: "c'mon DAZAI , don't you need more information on one of the people who died anyways?"

ANGO: "that's right, I remember you telling us about someone that you were interested in knowing more about"

ODASAKU: "you need to stop avoiding work, DAZAI, it's not good for your reputation. People won't take you seriously if you keep this up."

Dazai finally agrees and everyone gets up and goes into a line, with dazai leading.

Resume:

They all get out of lupin bar and get there in no time. Once they get in, they start looking through documents that have been written by ango and former obituary writers. Dazai opened a drawer and found an old picture that ango took of oda trying dazai's homemade curry. Needless to say, it wasn't tasty and it showed on oda's face in the picture. On the back of the picture it said "Dazai made curry, but of course since dazai made it, it wasn't that great. Oda agrees." Dazai held up the picture for everyone to see

ODASAKU: "I remember this day, it was the day I learned to never let DAZAI touch a cooking utensil ever again."

ANGO: "that's what I told you in the first place, but you just HAD to insist on letting him try to cook."

ODASAKU: "Well, maybe we can try again next time"

ANGO: *He sighs* "let's hope not..."

While they were still looking for the document Ango announces that he found the document that dazai was looking for. But...somethings off..

ANGO: "wait...I don't remember writing this obituary.."

ANGO: "wha...what Is this?!"

ODASAKU: "what's wrong ANGO??"

ANGO: "ODASAKU...You..You're--"

Suddenly, the screen than gliches out...

#omori #bungou stray dogs #dazai osamu #oda sakunosuke #bsd odasaku #ango sakaguchi #bsd ango #bsd dazai #omori game #omori aus

[kirk-says-wah]

𝐃𝐢𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐄𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 - 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝟑

Pairings: Kirk/Lars

Tw: torture, murder, blood, gore, violence, kidnapping, drugging, cannibalism

You can also read it here

They’re skinning Dave’s shin when there’s a shrill sound from the computer.

Lars pauses, his knife slicing off the skin under Dave’s knee. Dave is drifting in and out of consciousness, whimpering wordlessly. Kirk frowns, takes his own knife away from where he’d been slicing flesh from bone, cocks his head.

Lars looks at him, then at Dave, then back at him.

“Go look,” Lars says, gesturing to the computer before he continues to scrape skin away from tendons.

Kirk nods, gets up from where he’d been kneeling in a pool of blood, deposits himself behind the computer to see someone just paid them ten grand.

Ten fucking grand.

Kirk’s eyes nearly bulge out of his head, reads the note underneath the dollar sign.

‘Keep this pretty boy alive for a while. I like him’

Kirk looks up. Dave’s head is lolling against his shoulders, still not completely wrapped in consciousness.

“Lars,” he whispers, watching Lars look up from Dave’s leg.

He beckons Lars over, who complies with an eye roll, letting Dave’s flesh slap  downwards as it hangs from his bone.

“What?” Lars hisses, stalking over to Kirk.

Kirk shows him the computer screen, and Lars’s eye light up, bloody hands grabbing the keyboard.

“Holy shit,” he whispers, before looking back up at Kirk.

“Seems like we’ve got some work to do.”

Kirk grins, twiddling the knife in his hand.

— —

When Dave becomes alert again, he starts pleading, please and no’s dribbling from his lips as Kirk and Lars make their way up his body.

Lars hooks his knife into the skin of Dave’s peck, slicing into it lightly until he gets to his nipple. Dave starts to squirm, but Lars pays him no mind, hacking of his nipple in one until he’s sprayed with blood, and Dave is shaking his head, gritting his teeth.

Kirk goes to the opposite end, fisting a hand in Dave’s hair to stop him from moving before placing the knife under his ear lobe. Theres a silver earring in it, Kirk thinks it would be a pity if he couldn’t get the whole thing in one. He swaps his knife for a machete and instead hacks at Dave’s ear until it tears away from his head.

Dave cries out, shaking, but the head injury must have hurt his damaged jaw for it shuts him up, only low whimpers coming from his mouth.

Kirk wipes the blade against Dave’s open shirt, liking the way the blood marrs his clothing.

Lars bends, slots the knife into Dave’s rib, hitting on the hilt until it punctures a lung. Dave gasps, heaves, his chest rattles.

Then the doorbell rings.

Kirk stills, Dave’s bloodied ear in his hand.

Lars looks up at him, alarmed.

“What are we supposed to do?” Kirk hisses, holding up Dave’s ear, the earring sparkling under the low light.

Lars shrugs. “Don’t answer it.”

The door bell rings again.

“We can’t not answer it,” Kirk replies, throwing the ear at Dave’s cheek. Dave wheezes, pleas starting to spill from his lips again.

“Well I can’t answer it like this,” Lars exclaims, pointing at himself. Out of the two of them, he’s the one coated in the most blood, his clothes mostly saturated in a dark brown, and it’s all over his face and neck. And hands.

Kirk looks down at his own. They’re bloody too, but he’s come away from this so far mostly unscathed. He could just change his jeans and wash his hands.

“I’ll go,” he says, dropping the machete to the floor. “You shut him up,” he says, pointing to Dave.

Lars nods, grinning, and Kirk leaves, hastily running up the stairs, slamming the basement door behind him.

He quickly changes his jeans and washes away the blood crusting between his fingers before finally, he opens the front door.

James stands on the other side. He’s his best friend, and he looks upset if the bags under his eyes are anything to go by.

“What took you so long,” James says, pushing his way into the house.

Kirk rolls his eyes, shuts the door.

“Me and Lars were-“

“Actually don’t finish that sentence,” James says, flopping down on the sofa. “I don’t wanna know what you two have been up to.”

Kirk knows James doesn’t mean the torture because James doesn’t know about it, but he can’t help but feel a little offended.

“Where’s Lars?”

“In the shower,” Kirk lies, sitting on the armchair opposite, trying his best not to look too fidgety.

“Of course,” James says, rolling his eyes.

“So what’s up with you,” Kirk says, getting right to it.

James sighs, hikes his legs up to rest on the coffee table.

“I was meant to meet someone at the bar last night.”

Kirk quirks a brow. That’s not what he was expecting.

“Do I know them?”

James shakes his head, scratching at his jaw.

“Not yet.”

“What does that mean?” Kirk asks, because when has James started seeing someone?

“I was gonna introduce him. We’ve been seeing each other for a few weeks,” James replies, rubbing at his nose.

“Maybe he was busy man. Or he forgot,” Kirk offers, because he doesn’t really know what else to say.

“Wow that makes me feel so much better,” James says sarcastically, shifting a little before he points at Kirk’s arm.

“Is that blood on your arm?”

“Oh, erm…” Kirk falters, looking down to see red brushed against his forearm. “I hurt my finger earlier. It must have been from that,” he says, waggling the finger Dave had bitten into.

“What happened, dude? Looks like someone chomped on it,” James says with a laugh.

Kirk swallows. “I trapped it in the door,” he says before changing the subject. “Are you gonna be here long? Me and Lars have got plans to go out.”

James exhales dramatically, taking his feet off the table.

“Nah, was just dropping by. I needed someone to complain to,” he says, standing up. Kirk stands too, showing James to the door.

A muffled cry breaks through the silence, and Kirk inwardly flinches.

James frowns. “What was that?”

Kirk laughs shallowly, rubbing a hand over his neck. “It was probably Lars singing in the shower.”

“Dude that man is tone deaf,” James says with a laugh.

“Tell me about it,” Kirk replies, opening the door. “Call me if you need something.”

James nods, patting Kirk’s shoulder.

“I’ll see you later.”

Kirk smiles, giving a little wave as James leaves before finally shutting the door with a heavy breath.

God he’s gonna fucking kill Lars.

He stalks back downstairs quickly, opening the door to find Lars kneeling on the floor between Dave’s legs.

Dave lifts his head, looking at Kirk, his scream muffled by the thick wad of fabric pressed into his mouth.

“What did I say about keeping him quiet?” Kirk seethes, but when Lars looks back at him, he stops in his tracks.

Lars has got blood all around his mouth, dripping from his chin.

“Sorry I couldn’t help it,” he says, smiles devilish.

“What- what did you do?” Kirk asks a little hesitant, stepping forwards.

Lars points down to his handy work, a huge chunk of flesh missing from Dave’s hip bone. Theres obvious teeth marks in his flesh, and Kirk’s mouth goes dry.

“You ate him?” Kirk asks, mouth agape.

Lars tilts his head. “It was only a little bit. He tastes so good.”

Kirk wants to be sick. They’ve never eaten someone before. That’s crossing a line.

Lars grins, teeth red.

“Cmon, have a go,” he says, beckoning Kirk closer.

Dave shakes his head, cries muffled by the gag, tears streaming down his face.

Kirk blinks, unsure. He can’t say he’s not curious, he just thinks this is wrong.

“Go on,” Lars says, straightening out Dave’s arm.

Kirk swallows, searching Lars’s eyes before finally bending down, sinking his teeth into the slender flesh of Dave’s forearm. Dave screams, tries to move his arm away, but Kirk rips away the skin, the meat hot in his mouth as he chews.

#metallica #metallica fanfiction #die dead enough #james hetfield #kirk hammett #lars ulrich #dave mustaine #megadeth #kirk/lars #my fics

[beanbagbuddies4life]

hi, I'm very photosensitive and also sensitive to flashing! the gif on your pinned post is a little bad if i concentrate on it, but since it's small i can just scroll past it. flashing is much worse if the entire image flashes. especially if those flashes are highly contrasting colors. (red and white are but again, it's not big enough or on enough of the image to hurt)

I do, wherever possible, avoid websites with automatically starting videos or gifs, and one of my favorite sites (4dopt) has several themes for accessibility and does not allow moving gifs at all. i love that!

the deal breaker for me, besides even one flashing image I can't handle that appears at the top of a page where i consistently have to scroll past it, would be writing that aggravates my photosensitivity. absolutely can't do fully saturated red on blue or neon green, yellow on purple, or vice versa for any of those combos, or basically any "highlighter color" unless it's on black. if the writing and bg are opposites on the color wheel, that's Very Bad. my favorite color schemes to read on are light gray on dark gray, or full sepia tone. all sites I visit regularly have dark modes enabled bc light writing on a dark bg is way easier than vice versa.

I have filters on my computer as well and dark mode extensions to help me navigate the Greater Internet comfortably without being blasted in the face by fully saturated blue text on a white bg or something.

I would be happy to look at your neocities site for you if you wanted, but obviously my sensitivity level is only mine, and flashing does not trigger seizures for me, just overstimulation and migraines, so I can't speak for someone who does experience seizures specifically ^^;

Ooohhh this is very helpful! Thank you very much! This must have taken a long time to write out and I really appreciate that you would go out of your way for me and my hypothetical webpage.

Even though I proably would have avoided it for design reasons, thanks for mentioning the text colors, I tend to overlook that for accessibility. :P I'm screenshotting all of this!

#im on 4dopt also!! i made the uhhh flatworms and bawling buddies #not a fan of either of their art anymore but thats ok #they have a really nice and thoughtful website imo... their themes are probably above my level of commitment for now but like #thats how its done i think

[florasletter]

i am gonna rant, tomorrow is the oscars, i need to say something ive been wanting to say for a while

any fucking filmmaker that makes drama/comedy (taika, gunn, greta, etc) movies would make barbie, its easy marketing, hoards of money, its a low risk investiment since its a popular, PG 13 movie, colorfull, appealing for everyone, has all the IP to make money, WB is thirsty for good press and is swimming on money, they will give its full support, its a story everyone knows for 60 years of a ficctional character or a doll the whole world knows. i like barbie it was a good movie. greta did a wonderful job for what was giver her. period.

now tell me

a book about a historical controversial figure, boring ass talks abt nuclear war, ww2, communism and cold war, phsysics stuff, relased in 2006 and won a pulitzer prize.

no director dared to make a movie abt it. very high risk, why?

the pandemic and its inflation and new habits of consumption post super hero (very saturated) cinema era in an era quick shitty streaming movies bc they dont need theatrical release, little effort, just pump movies out, no control wheater is good or not no one (as many would think) would want a 3 hour movie, with heavy dialogue (bc it needs it to tell the story properly) with many black and white scenes, Rated R, nudity and s3xual representation scenes about this historical controversial figure. tiktok and reels era, most people are obssessed with a 30 seconds videos in their hands, keeping a very bad habit of zero attention span and quick serotonin, unable to enjoy the development of a full story that is longer than 30 without a pop music playing on the background can't go around marketing the movie like its super fun and colorfull for the entire family ahah cool, lets make it a competition like ahaha BARBIEMHEIMER ahah so fun lol why dont they get into it too? it would help their marketing bc lol who wanna watcha 3 hour R rated movie abt a physicist lmao get real!!! No buddy, you wanna scrutinize what happened the people of japan? this guy was scrutinized by its own country after everything he was asked to do? no, you cant market it like that, its harder, but thankfully the ppl making the movie ARE THE MARKETING. also the ppl saying "who cares abt nuclear war lmao, it wont happen" guess who just did a speech abt it the other day abt using them?? i am not gonna say his name yall know who it is. now invest 100mi on a movie like this. didnt see all the others directors around rushing to make a movie abt oppenheimer like chris did, he thought it was very interesting and passionate abt it, he had a vision for it, to contextualize yall: he has been wanting to make something biographical for years (will we ever see his howard hugues movie? thanks martin for doing it first??? will chris ever recover from this? poor bby). and ffs this movie didnt even use that much computer VFX, so much amazing pratical effects it didnt even an oscar nom for it, any other director could have done with the computer technology from 10 years ago. buddy literally asked for black and white imax films, no one did this before. buddy dark knight came out 16 years ago, the first movie shot in imax, back then there was 4 or 3 cameras in the world and this idiot i love even managed to break one of them during the shooting (see the behind the scenes of dark knight its amazing and hilarious). what other filmmaker is going this far for a biography? they could have made this movie but

they didnt make it. period.

i am not here to say that this is better than every other movie, oppenheimer should be forever praised (it is not in my sincere opinion chris' best movie, neither my fav of his) but this is for the ppl whining abt barbie and putting oppenheimer against it.

the reels i saw the other day "greta could make oppeneimer, but nolan couldnt make barbie" HONEY... WHAT DO I DO WITH THIS INFO? IS THIS SUPPOSED TO ME HER LOOK GOOD ? you are not helping her at all... if she can make oppenheimer why didnt she make it before? is it bc it would be hard to pitch? it wouldnt be easy to make money from it or get funded? it would just be another oscar winning box office flop? bc lets be real, many amazing oscar movies i love, they were commercial flops, and its ok, BUT YOU SEE IT RIGHT?

marvels endgame was a huge commercial movie and a great box office, no one here is screaming the russos to get noms

"ah its a groundbreaking movie bc of feminism"

honey please there's more groundbreaking movies better than barbie, are you fucking kidding me. this is the stuff that makes me ashamed of saying i am a feminist.

also who cares abt margot, isnt it abt to be feminism or is it white feminism ? i wanna see support for lilly gladstone who did and insane work in KOTFM than emma stone in PT.

i am biased, i am his fan afterall, i have no hate for the others, but i am a realist. chris has been making movies for 20 years, groundbreaking breathtaking beautiful stuff, i am not here to throw the party like "visionary director" but i wanna put things on the table, he has been way past what the academy considers cinema, he has been snubbed for so long it became ridiculous. he has been doing an imppecable work of supporting filmmaking and the theater industry, supporting the craftsmanship of filmmaking the studios' inverstors and companies look down on just for profits. to end my rant now, the last thing i wanna say is: i don't care if yall say "ah just another cis het white man winning/being nominated" yes honey, it is.

if anything, this is the "cis het white man" who you just can't believe has not won yet. insane right? he has been snubbed by other cis het white males who would believe it right? lmao

now i am done.

we take in the sheets tomorrow evening. have a great saturday yall

#christopher nolan #oppenheimer #cillian murphy #rant #oscar 2024 #BEEN WAITING 10 YEARS FOR THIS MOMENT I HAVE ALL THE GUNS TO MAKE IT HAPPEN DONT THIS AWAY FROM ME #be a nolan fan you have to suffer even through the wins

[spinningbuster98]

The Metroid Prime Remaster

Welp! I played it! So here’s my personal thoughts

I think everyone knows by this point that this is mostly a face lift of the OG, meaning that structurally it’s the same game. This means that any issue you might have had before will still be there, like the Artifact Collecting. Personally I’m fine with this, as the game is very honest with what it is, it’s not a Remake.

However there are a few new options, such as settings for people who are Color Blind, the option to turn on or off the Pal Narrator, and of course at least 4 different control options: Dual Stick, Gyro, Classic and Hybrid (a mix between Classic and Gyro). I’ve only tried out Classic since that’s the one I’m most familiar with, and it’s....mostly fine. I immediately noticed that movement felt looser than in the OG, causing me to “slip around” and make inprecise jumps. Thankfully you can adjust the sensitivity in the options so I was able to recreate the feel of the OG controls much better, though they’re still not 100% precise, around 90% on the way there.

I’ve seen people whining about the Y axis controls being reversed....and yeah they are....but there’s an option to revert them back guys XD

As some have already pointed out there is a sort of delay with the charge shot, if you keep holding the button you will first shoot a couple of shots before actually charging (with the exception of the Ice Beam). This wasn’t the end of the world and it’s relatively minor but I still hope they patch this

But enough about this, we all know what we REALLY wanna talk about here

The graphics

This is honestly the best looking Switch game I’ve seen, it genuinely looks like a PS4 title. Yeah some textures are pretty simple when you look at them up close, and you can sometimes tell that this is actually a 2002 game, but it’s still goddamn impressive, especially since it runs at a consistent 60 FPS, no drops whatsoever!

However I wanted to adress something that I’ve only seen few people talk about. Yeah the game is really pretty, but does it preserve the original’s atmosphere?

Because here’s the thing: remasters and remakes often have the bad habit of screwing up the OG’s aesthetics in an attempt at making the game look prettier, usually by messing with the lighting. Some famous examples being Sonic Adventure DX with its brighter-than-the-sun lighting and plastic characters, or the 3DS remasters of Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask.

Prime Remastered is generally more colorful than the original, and brighter also. And yes I do believe there are a couple of instances where this messes up a little the look of some parts of the game.

An example being Flaahgra, who is now too brightly clolored for a corrupted, poison producing monster plant, or the Hive Mecha Room, whose green fog effect is too saturated. Anothet example are the leaves throughout the Chozo Ruins: in the OG they were a dull red color, indicating they were rotting, but here they’re bright orange.

However I believe the game is mostly careful in preserving the original’s atmosphere.

The Tallon Overworld certainly emphasizes its greens, giving its natural setting a stronger feel, but on the whole the picture is still “greyed out” due to the overall rainy atmosphere, just like in the original.

The brighter oranges of Magmoor Caverns emphasize its “hotness” pretty well.

The Phazon Mines are still pretty dark looking and now Phazon is more bioluminescent than ever, emphasizing the area’s neon-like atmosphere

Phendrana was mostly unchanged from the original in regards to lighting I found.

Perhaps the areas that received the biggest makeovers were the Space Pirates’ labs and frigate: the areas are now brimming with a new cool-blue color pallette generated by all the computer screens and force fields, though they’re still quite dreary looking at points. I’m of two minds here: on the one hand it sorta changes the OG’s atmosphere quite extensively here, but on the other it replaces it with something that is still pretty effective in a way, as i think this serves to emphasize the areas’ more cold and sterile feel (they are laboratories where amoral genetic experiments are being performed after all), and naturally their Sci-Fi flavor.

In general I’d say the game knows when to crank down the brightness, sometimes even more so than the original

The room with the dead parasite queen on the Frigate is noticebly darker here, making it moodier, and the room with the Omega Pirate is generally darker, letting you mostly see its phazon spots, and with the area lighting up in response to attacks

I genuinely believe these two instances (and others) add to the OGs atmosphere!

However even the original had many instances when in wanted to be more bright and colorful, to emphasize the beauty of its locales, and the remaster does an absolutely outstanding job here, with completely new assets, particle effects galore, and plenty of “light beams coming from the sky” kind of shots giving places like the outdoors of the Chozo Ruins, Phendrana, and especially the Underwater Frigate (which made my jaw drop) an almost heavenly feel!

When it comes to graphical details many from the OG’s Gamecube release are kept and even enhanced, like the after effects of each beam’s charge shot, water droplet that not only fall on your visor and arm cannon but actually trail downwards or upwards depending on the curvature.

In the original there were some jet streams that didn’t fog up your visor, like the ones in the depressurization room on the Frigate, but they do now.

The Space Pirates on the Frigate have missing chuncks of flesh and are bleeding (though for some reason some of the ones you find already dead don’t have this feature, weird)

Not only can you sometimes see flashes of Samus’ face, but for a split second she will be looking at whatever direction you’re aiming at

The Ice Beam doesn’t register on the Thermal Visor, but the Plasma Beam appears bright yellow

The lava in Magmoor produces heat waves

When you enter a bright area from a dark one the brightness level will initially be higher before being toned down, to give the idea that your eyes are adjusting

There’s a lot more here. However there are also some details missing strangely enough

Your beam shots don’t light up hallways anymore

Some light effects are missing

The mirrors in the Chozo ruins don’t reflect your image anymore (though they do reflect thye rest of the room which is something the OG didn’t do)

The scar on Tallon IV visible at the beginning is far smaller for some reason

In the room with the two big broken test tubes that used to contain two Parasite Queens the left one used to be covered in lots of green slime that formed a trail leading to a big open vent, indicating that that’s where the Queen you fight came from. Here there’s far less green slime giving a much less clear visual message

While you can still see Samus’ arm with the X-Ray Visor you can no longer see its blackened silouhette for a split second when switching beams

There’s more, and it’s a shame but for the most part I’d say the original’s sense for attention to detail is kept and even enhanced.

Some enemies have also received some slight redesigns which....are not bad but I tend to prefer the originals, like the adult Sheegoths having “angry looking eyes”, or Meta Ridley being slightly more organic. They’re minimal, so I don’t have any big issues.

For some reason on Normal Hive Mecha shoots the same number of Wasps for each phase, only on Hard does it correctly mimick its original behaviour which is weird.

 The Log Book entry for the Metroids has been modified to specify that they’re TALLON Metroid, a new variant born from Phazon Mutation, which is a nice touch.

The Wasp Hive on the ceiling of the room with the Incinerator Dron is now scannable, nice.

So is this the definitive version of Prime? Depends

The multiple control options and the better graphics are enough for most people. I think this is probably the best version to date overall though still not 100% definitive, due to those litle snags regarding the controls and those few instances where the atmosphere is not quite up to snuff with the original, and the missing effects.

Still this is overall one of the best remasters I’ve seen, especially in an industry where the word remaster is often synonimous with “half assed”. There was lots of genuine love and effort put into this and for this it should absolutely be commended.

Please give us Prime 2 and 3 as well Nintendo, you dirty money goblins! Releasing the Trilogy most likely one game at a time when stuff like the Crash Nsane Trilogy exists...

Also no Fusion Suit, can’t wait for the DLC :^)

#metroid #metroid prime remastered #long post

[virtuallidol-archive]

how to make an aesthetic coloring filter on photopea (nobody asked)

also here is be4 and after

step 1: first ur going to wanna go on photopea to the homescreen. it probably looks like the image above. then drag the image u wanna edit onto the "drop any files here" or open from your computer.

step 2: next your going to want to click on the folder button on the bottom right. i drew a red circle on it so you can see what im talking about

step 3: next your going to want to click on this button that looks like half of a circle, then click on "selective color"

step 4: now you can edit the amount of cmyb in a certain color in the image. click on the colors slider to change the color u are editing

this is what it looks like after selective color:

now you are going to click on the same circle button you used to get to selective color, but your going to click on "hue/saturation"

how you will probally see this. you can change the hue, make it more saturated, and make it more light/dark. use the range slider to edit certain colors. if its master that means its editing all colors

this is what it looks like after hue/saturation:

step 5: if you want to, you can do threshold. it makes there black spots in an edit. if you have ever seen those black lines in an edit before, thats where they come from. you are going to go the same circle menu then find "threshold"

you are going to go the the "normal" slider and then click "multiply". there are other blending options you can use, but most editors use multiply. edit it with the threshold slider to make it as clean as POSSIBLE. make sure there are no black patches on the edit. trust me, it does not look good and it kinda ruins the edit.

reccomendation: i would not use threshold on lighter edits because it kinda makes it look worse lmao. sorry!

this is what it looks like after threshold:

step 6: next we're going to put on a gradient map. go to the circle menu and then click on "gradient map" set the blending mode to "soft light"

now you have two options, create your own gradient map or use a preset. for most of my edits i create my own gradient map. but i will show you how to create your own and how to use a photopea presest

click on the arrow if you want to use a preset then choose one u like

photopea is so generous w/ its presets

how to create ur own:

click on this black and white thing

click on the little squares to change the colors

then click on the little squares to add another color to it

this is what it looks like after gradient map:

step 7: now you can use black and white. go back to circle menu, click on "black and white". change it to soft light and now you can edit how dark and light colors are.

this is what it looks like after black and white:

step 8: now go back to mr. circle menu™ and go to "curves"

now bend and snap that little stick you see

reccomendation: when it gets higher, it usually becomes lighter. when its lower, it becomes more darker and less contrasted.

here is what it looks like after curves:

(not much of a difference, i know. but it looks a little bit darker and i like that)

erm here is be4 and after

#not an edit #goofy ahh tutorials #the character is mashiro kuruta btw #shes from bandori

[lethalhoopla]

I feel like I’m losing my mind. Had a twenty minute conversation with the only other two people I work with, one of whom is the boss/owner, about colors for the updated logo/new space we’re gonna move to. Boss and I have been talking for months about the new logo, colors, design, etc; I’m the only one with any experience with art, let alone design work. She’d been saying she was going to move away from the TealTM that was core to our current logo, and was toying with the idea of a dark blue or forest green. I was very pro-this, as it suits what we do/the vibe she kept describing she wanted (many a debate about ‘is teal feminine’ and ‘what is outdoorsy’ and ‘what will average dudes view as neutral’ occurred).

Cut to now. Saw the logo’d been completed, to the point she’d ordered some stickers - I’d gotten the updated design via group chat, but thought she was still changing colors. So I ask her - hey, did you decide to keep the teal after all, or will we get a final change to a darker blue, or green?

She looks at me, surprised, and says, “oh, I mean, it is blue?”

And I look at her, then back over my shoulder at our lil office computer where the logo was.

“That’s... teal, still?” I say carefully. I’m trying to get a pay raise next month.

“... No, it’s definitely blue,” she says, with a laugh. She neatly snapped shut her tupperware of ravioli, or something. The lid was teal.

Coworker, 6 feet away, chimes in: “Yeah, it’s really more a navy!”

I made a sound that couldn’t really be considered words.

Friends. Romans. Countrylads.

It was a shade or two de-saturated from that.

NAVY??

Cue five minutes of back and forth and me having to bring up an image search of “TEAL”. They were both convinced teal had to be the greenest possible version of the most saturated blue to be considered teal. And coworker still mumbled about it looking navy-ish, if you asked her.

#lethalhoopla nonsense #navy..................... #i wasn't even mad at the teal i was just BAFFLED. #flashback to the war of my days doing some freelance logo work #talking color - esp deeply specific color - with people is a nightmare (and that's without even touching on screen differences lmao) #gonna be thinkin bout that navy comment for months................................... #i know i do art for fun so i'm looking at colors a lot but GIRL. #basically the new teal *is* more blue in hue than the ultragreen teal we had before but. that's. that's still teal guys i'm so sorry

[your-local-uwu-artist]

Yoooo Marilou has a sword? :O

Also I saw something about waterproof hair and fabrics in that gijinka universe, which is really interesting! Are there any other little details like that, about the funky traits pokemon can have and how they affect the world?

(my inital response got too long and crashed my computer lol TAKE TWO)

SHE DOES! She's an oshawott so her sword is her scallchop :3 it looks and behaves mostly just like a normal non gijinka one does. is attached to her belly button and considered a part of her body. the suction to her belly button is strong enough that it can be attached through a thin layer of fabric: but ussually marilou will still have her clothes either modified to have a hole or have a special belt to attach it too. Her scallchop extends to a full length sword when she chooses! no one else including another oshawott can make it extend to sword mode.

the sword itself is based off of pirate swords and samurotts' sword thingie

THERES SO MUCH FUN FUNKY STUFF so much i'm working on some drawings of eevees evolved into every eeveelution as an excuse to infodump lol

heres some fun psmd gijinka au world building/lore facts!

-if marilou were to put on a normal collared shirt, the collar would transform into an upturned frilly one: bassically a pokemon 'pokemonness' (being very connected to not just nature but like the nature of the world) connects with the physical natural material in the clothes and can modify it slightly. never by a whole lot. but enough that theres a canon explanation

so yeah the universe has a species dress code basically

-species names function a bit like last names. most (but not everyone!) does have a 'real' name, and in smaller communities generally everyone will know and address others as such (with the exception of like, an elder figure, like a kid won't call the kind charizard across the street by her name she's 'ms charizard' ), but generally speaking it's rude to ask for someones name, or adress someone by such if they havn't told you you can. whats wacky is sometimes if someones adopted by another species they'll adopt an aspect of one of their adoptive parental figures names as a middle name. Marilou and Comet both do this! Marilou's full name is 'Marilouise Brazil Oshawott' Brazil as in the tree nut (Nuzleaf's name) and is 'Comet Costa' Bulbasaur' Costa like Carracosta

- humans (while considered exitnct technically can still exist in the psmd-gijinka verse) can't have 'unnatural' hair colors! within anime reason of course like a black haired humans hair can be actually a shade of blue but like, a human can't naturally have a bright colorful hair color: they can have any color eyes though!

-pokemon still come from eggs in the psmdgijinka-verse. And they still can only reproduce with pokemon from the same egg group and the species of the kid will ussually be that of the 'mother' theres a chance it can be the other parent's. though maybe some species may give live birth like how there are some reptiles etc in our world that do that, but i'm not sure yet. yeah I'm that one nerd that will go on about how theoretically how pikachu can be both a mammal and lay eggs

-most fairy types have particularly like idk the word cause usually 'fair' means pale but what I really mean is that when drawing a fairy type I'll make sure they're skin tone is more saturated than I'd usually choose has more noticeable blush and is closer to the red/pink then orange/yellow hue

-so the shades of color a pokemon can be varies a lot! however the shiny color of a pokemon does effect this. like take vaporeon for example, It's more common for a vaporeon's shades of blue to be teal then indigo sense indigo is closer to purple (vaporeons shiny color)

-while more rare type exclusionist/discrimination/not comparable to any real life bigotry so idk what to call it does exist: like they make grass type dominated towns where fire types aren't allowed and dark and ghost types are often stereotyped as mischievous and up to no good. like yeah sometimes they are but not to the extent that people act

#marilou oshawott #psmd #pokemon super mystery dungeon #pmd #yumehocshi #kyuchat

[fayevalcntine]

what psd did you use for your interview with the vampire gifs? if you don’t mind sharing! it’s gorgeous!

I don't mind at all! For IWTV I made a psd from another one that I used as a base, but I changed up a lot of the layer properties. The main guide I used for it was this tutorial, but my approach is a bit different in terms of changing the properties for Selective Color Red. The biggest issue with coloring scenes in the show is that almost all lighting (save for the Dubai scenes) is yellow, so that will obviously be reflected on the characters throughout. In order to avoid over-saturating skin tones, I'd recommend adjusting the Selective Color Layer properties, and maybe using Color Balance Layer to neutralize the yellow a bit by switching the value over to Blue. Usually I would add a negative value to the Cyan property on Red for Selective Color in order to highlight the color, but for this show I don't think that is necessary. Another problem is the difference in lighting and Vibrance when it comes to how your gif may look on a computer screen vs the tumblr app. I have this issue every time I make gifs for IWTV because the gifs will look fine on my computer, but then look slightly over-saturated on the app. So I'd suggest going for a middle-ground in some way when coloring scenes. Also, dark lit scenes can be a literal pain to color and it's very hard to brighten them up without ruining the overall look of the scene. Brightness-Contrast and Curves layers can help you out a lot, here. The Curves layers I use are pretty simple, so I adjust the Contrast by using a Gradient Map in order to not lose the shadows in scenes, but you can easily adjust the curve with two or more points and emphasize the contrast through it, if you'd like. Here's the PSD. This one looks good for most past scenes, but for the Dubai ones, I'd highly recommend that you get rid of some of the Levels/Brightness layers because all Dubai scenes are better lit, and they're all with LED lighting, so the issue that you'd normally have with neutralizing the yellow in past scenes is the opposite here. I'd recommend maybe adding more Vibrance for these scenes and adjusting the Selective Color Red properties here, so that none of the characters (particularly Louis and Armand) look washed out, and getting rid of the Color Balance layers or using it with different properties. Hope this helps!

#interview with the vampire #psd #ask #answered #I'm sorry for rambling but yeah it goes without saying #don't be afraid to adjust properties! even in ready-to-use psds #photoshop ask

[logically-asexual]

I wanted to be seen

summary:

Superheroes AU. Roman, Patton and Virgil are a team of good guys who fight against Evil (Janus and Remus). They get Logan to work for them with like hacking and getting important information from the villains. But Janus tries to convince Logan that he deserves better.

I wrote this in a bit of a hurry because I have schoolwork to do but I also want to procrastinate so I just translated this part of a daydream I've had for a while into words. So sorry if it's not great.

Title from Not What I Meant by dodie.

warnings: Even though he has no dialogues, i made roman (and patton and virgil) kinda mean to Logan again. i'm sorry (not) but i'm not creative and it's really the easiest way for me to make Logan suffer and want to move to the Dark Side lol

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Logan walked inside the building as silently as he could, following close behind Anxiety. Prince was leading the group, with Morality by his side, Anxiety was just behind them and Logan was last, struggling to keep up with their pace while also staying quiet. He had a habit of bumping into things. 

They made it through the back entrance all the way to the stairs without crossing a single person, Logan had made sure they’d come at an hour when the way would be empty, and he also disabled the cameras with which they could be spotted. At this point, Prince decided it was time to split up. Each of them would search in one of the four floors of the building, Logan got the second one. He followed the instruction and began exploring the labyrinth of hallways on his own. 

He didn’t really want to participate in this. He did his best work from a safe distance, sitting down and staring into a wide computer screen. Alas, Prince said it was urgent that they found and retrieved the stolen relic before anything happened to it, and they needed Logan to cover the most distance in the least amount of time. 

To “look in every room for the small, golden crown” sounded easy enough. However, Logan struggled to move fast while keeping quiet. It was hard to tell if he was making any noise through the pounding of his heart in his ears. He had never done anything like this. All he hoped was to not get caught. He prioritized being quiet over velocity, walking slowly and carefully. 

He picked the lock of the third room in his second hallway and walked inside. The entire building was mostly empty and extremely clean in an uncanny way. The rooms in this floor seemed to be for offices, some bigger, with several desks and file organizers. This one was smaller; it was probably for storage. It had no windows, only illuminated by a yellow light bulb hanging from the ceiling. There was an empty shelf rack on one side and a few plastic containers of cleaning products on the floor. He crouched down to look for anything on the floor between the shelf and the wall. 

As he did so, he heard the door close behind him. He stood up, but before he could turn around he was shoved to the wall and his mouth was covered by a hand in a yellow glove. Logan didn’t have to look up from it to know who had caught him. The yellow gloves were his signature. Logan breathed deeply through his nose, as much as he could, as the pounding in his ears returned. “You had one job,” he heard Prince’s annoyed voice in his head say.

Once he gathered the courage, Logan looked up. 

He had read many descriptions of what Deceit looked like, his job was to research him and get inside his computer systems to allow the team to stop whatever he was planning. He had seen a few cryptic pictures of him, low quality camera footage. He knew he wore a black mask that covered the left half of his face, a bowler hat, a cape, and the famous yellow gloves. Still, all this knowledge wasn’t enough to prepare him to face the man in person so closely. 

He was smiling. His right eye was brown, appearing completely normal, while the left one, behind the mask, was a vibrant saturated green, slitted like a reptile’s. Logan was captivated by both of them, so different and yet both had the same hypnotizing effect. 

“You’re new,” Deceit said, with a low pitch that shook Logan to his core. 

Logan just swallowed. 

“You’re going to stay quiet, right, little mouse?” Deceit asked as he raised an eyebrow. 

He was too frightened to even consider moving a muscle, let  alone speak. He did his best to nod ever so slightly, never moving his stare from the criminal’s eyes. 

“I know who you are,” Deceit said as he pulled his hand away, without stepping backwards, staying too close to Logan for his comfort. “You’re the one that has been meddling in affairs that are not of your business.” His tone was calm, but Logan could feel the threat in his gaze. “I know they got someone else because none of those airheads could even get close to the information you’ve been trying to find. I might need to improve my security.”

Logan knew he was lying. He might have been able to find some information, but nowhere close to what could actually be useful. He had the suspicion, but now he was in this situation it was confirmed that all he could find had already been laid out intentionally by Deceit. It was better than nothing, though, he reminded himself of that. 

”Do they pay you?”

“No, sir,” came out of his mouth before he could think. Perhaps Logan’s brain had translated the intimidating demeanor of this man into an authority figure, and addressed him as such. 

There was a moment of silence. Logan had lowered his gaze but he could still feel Deceit studying him. Suddenly, the villain took Logan’s hands in his. 

“Strong fingers,” he muttered, rubbing his thumb over Logan’s knuckles, “do you play piano?” 

“I code.”

“Right.” Deceit hummed, still staring and Logan’s hands. “What a shame… I could teach you.” 

“What do you want from me?” 

“Oh, nothing at all,” he sounded almost offended by the accusation. “I just wanted to talk and get to know the new team member.” Deceit let go of his hands slowly. Logan pulled them up to cross his arms as soon as they were free. 

“You’re wasting your time.” Logan’s irritation was allowing him to become a little braver. 

“Ah, you mean because of your friends? Don’t worry about them, they won’t find anything.” He said with a smirk. 

Logan bit his lip, ignoring the urge to correct him about the others being his friends. Only Virgil talked to him sometimes. Prince wouldn’t even tell him his real name. Logan wished Virgil was here now, he always knew how to escape difficult situations. He looked towards the door, trying to figure out a way to get out of this. 

“Waiting for them?” Deceit asked with a mocking tone. “It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Maybe they forgot about you.”

“They didn’t.”

“How are you so sure?”

He wasn’t. He stayed quiet as Deceit grinned. His fangs were visible, and Logan couldn’t help but stare at them. He wondered if Deceit was venomous as some kind of unknown superpower. There were never civilians around to witness when he committed a crime, people only knew of his appearance through rumors. He never needed any supernatural ability to defeat Prince and the others, who all had their own, but maybe he kept it hidden, just like he did with everything else. 

“You know, if you worked with me I wouldn’t leave you behind.” He gently uncrossed Logan’s arms to hold his hand once again. “I would appreciate you for the brilliant gem that you are, unlike those ungrateful, egotistical attention-seekers.” 

“Flattery won’t get you anywhere.” Logan said. He couldn’t deny, however, that he had thought about leaving the team before. They needed him, though. And he needed them, they gave him a place to live and he had nowhere else to go. 

“How about some proof, then? Since you’re such a pragmatic guy.” 

Logan looked into the other’s eyes in confusion. 

“Here’s my proposal,” he said, lifting Logan’s hand from the wrist. Then he pulled out a pair of handcuffs, to which Logan reacted by trying to pull his arm back, but Deceit was too strong. He gave up before getting hurt. “I’ll leave, and give you three minutes to make a choice.” After closing the handcuff over his wrist, he leaned over Logan’s shoulder to cuff both hands behind his back. 

Logan had to make an effort to pay attention to what the man was saying over the panic growing in his chest. 

“I’m going to leave that door unlocked for three minutes. If you leave, then this never happened, but I will keep trying to show you you’re better off on my side of the equation, where your work would actually have an impact, instead of leading those losers to more humiliation.

“After that, though, the door will lock, and you’ll have a chance to prove me wrong. If your friends still look for you and find you here before the day ends, then it’s proved that they care, and I’ll leave you alone. I won’t even interfere with your attempts at breaching my digital storage.” He smirked again, as if reminiscing about having fun with that. “So,” he laid his hands on Logan’s shoulders and whispered in his ear, “do we have a deal?”

Logan wanted to ask what would happen if no one found him, but he felt like doing so would be admitting defeat, which the faint hint of pride he had left wouldn’t allow. He was already too embarrassed from how hot his face felt from Deceit’s touch. He simply closed his eyes and nodded slightly. As if he had any other option. 

“Wonderful!” Deceit’s smile showed his fangs off once more, as Logan tried to control his tachycardia. “I’ll see you later.” He finally said with a wink, before swiftly walking out of the room and closing the door behind him. 

The lock was electronic, Logan observed. 

His immediate impulse was to run out and get away as far as he could. He didn’t even have to go back to the team of heroes, he could find somewhere else to go. 

As he struggled to reach the door and turn around to try to hold the handle with his cuffed hands, anxious thoughts plagued his mind. 

Could he go somewhere else? Would he constantly be haunted by Deceit and other villains he had worked against? He didn’t have any powers, he wasn’t even strong or fast. Who knows what they would do to him if they found him. Would he survive out there on his own, without protection? 

Maybe he should just look for the others. But what if they had left already? From what he could hear, the hallways were dead quiet. Logan didn’t know how long it had been since he split up from the rest. They didn’t bring any electronic devices to avoid being tracked. What if they were still here but Logan got lost searching for them? People said it was best to stay in one place if you wanted someone to find you. But could he stay there doing nothing?

What if Deceit broke his promise and was waiting for him right outside the door? That wasn’t improbable given his name. Would he mock him for being a coward? Did Logan care about being a coward more than his own safety? What if he wanted to hurt Logan, not before playing mind games with him for a while? What would Logan do without help? Would he take Logan hostage and threaten his life to get away with whatever he was planning on doing today? 

He stopped for a moment to think, resting his forehead on the door. This was supposed to be easy. They promised him it would be. 

Maybe Prince, Morality and Anxiety would find him. They did need him. Even if they didn’t always voice their appreciation Logan knew he was a crucial part of the team now. Even if they didn’t care about him as a person they should at least care about what he could do for them. Perhaps they would save him just for appearances, so Prince could have his heroic act of the day, since they probably weren’t able to find the relic they were looking for. Maybe they were looking for him right now. 

Logan breathed deeply. 

Then he heard the click of the lock activating. 

There was nothing left to do now. So Logan waited. 

In a security room somewhere else inside the building, Janus was looking at the cameras’ footage with Remus sitting by his side. On their left side, Logan was now sitting on the floor, with his back rested against the door. On the right, the entrance to the building was empty. Prince and his teammates had left hours ago, showing no sign of planning to come back. 

“How long till we tell him?” Remus asked, propping up his feet on the desk and leaning his head back on the chair’s backrest. 

“I told him that he had until the end of the day, can’t break a promise.” 

“But you do that all the time!” Remus whined. “Last week you told me I could buy some arsenic with our booty and then you took it all!” 

“I simply saved it for later.”

“Yeah, right. And tomorrow there will be another golden snake statue of mysterious origins in your house.” 

“Listen,” Janus said, dismissing Remus with a wave of his hand. “I have to teach him a lesson.” 

Remus looked back into the camera, where Logan still sat in the same position as before. “What are we going to do with him after?”

Janus shrugged. “We’ll find him some use.”

Logan didn’t have any way of telling how much time had passed. There wasn’t even any natural light in the small room, it could have been night for hours already and he wouldn’t be able to see any difference. 

He estimated that an hour had passed when he began trying to escape. He tried everything, breaking the handcuffs, breaking the lock, sliding his hands free, tackling the door, looking for something to deactivate the lock, to dismantle it, or turn it off… Nothing worked. 

Eventually he grew tired, sat back down on the floor, in one of the room’s corners, and waited some more. His head hurted, there was a knot in his throat, his eyes stinged and his muscles were shaking. It wasn’t long before he drifted off, and was fast asleep before he could realize. 

Later, he felt he was being picked up slowly. With one arm on his back and the other below his knees, Logan could faintly see Deceit lifting him from the floor and pulling him close. He let his eyes close again, and rested his head against the other man’s chest, letting himself drift off once more as he was carried out of the storage room. 

He opened his eyes fully as they walked out through the main entrance. It was dark outside. 

Deceit put him down to allow him to sit in the back seat of an old car. Logan couldn’t see anything outside, he didn’t know if it was because of the darkness of the night or if the windows weren’t fully transparent. He counted his breaths as Deceit moved to the front seat. The driver’s seat was occupied by a man in a green suit covered in glitter. 

“Where are we going?” Logan whispered when the car began moving. 

Deceit made eye contact with him through the rearview mirror with a jarringly earnest expression. “Home.”

#loceit #pre romantic loceit #kinda #or platonic if you want but i wrote it as kinda romantic #logan sanders #janus sanders #remus sanders #i wanted to be seen #my writing #logic #deceit #ts #lunas writing