Tree Tutorial V1

"You must come with me, loving me, to death;

Or else hate me, and still come with me."

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla 1872

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Adobe Photoshop 2022 (v23.0.0.36) - Windows

IMPORTANT NOTE: Do not use this crack on any pre-existing or pre-installed version(s) of Photoshop on your PC as it is specific for this version and this version alone. In the event that you’re struggling to get through the steps or Photoshop is somehow not working properly, I am but a message away! Don’t hesitate. <3

1. Download from my mega.nz (don’t hesitate to let me know if the link no longer works!) 2. When done downloading, unzip it somewhere you can find it back (Windows can do it for you, but otherwise, I personally use a program called 7ZIP), even your desktop works fine. 3.  Open the unzipped folder and double click the file called ‘Set-up.exe’ (the one with the blue icon) and let the installation run. 4. When the installation hits 100%, close it and everything should be functional. As it’s pre-cracked, there’s no additional steps to take!

Is your Photoshop closing upon startup? Here’s the fix:

5. In the unzipped folder, you’ll find a folder called ‘Creative Cloud’ with a setup executable inside of it. Click it and go through the installation. If you’re prompted to log in, simply use your existent Adobe account or a brand-new one, either works! Once installed, you don’t need to launch it, as it simply being installed will fix the auto-closing problem. If you ever do launch the program on accident, never allow it to update Photoshop, as it will break the cracked version of Photoshop. If it does happen, however, do not fear; simply uninstall Photoshop entirely and refollow the above steps.

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Naughty words in a godless world

Imagine you're writing a story that takes place in a world that has no God, or gods, or saints. What do you do with exclamations like "Oh gosh!" (derived from "Oh God") or "Jeez!" (derived from "Jesus!")? And - oh god - what do you do with curses and swear words? If your characters can't say "Oh my god", "hell no", or "damn" because there are no gods to damn anyone to hell... what are your options?

Here is a list for inspiration

In general, non-religious curse and swear words refer to local cultural taboos.

Many languages swear by referring to cleanliness: dirty, sweaty, sticky, smelly etc. This includes things you do on the toilet.

Some languages, like Dutch, use diseases as curses and insults. For example, someone nasty/bothersome might be called a "cancer sufferer" in Dutch. These swear words are combinations of (derivates of) typhus, cholera, and cancer.

Societal hierarchy and family trees, mainly the inferior positions like a bastard (seen as inferior in the family tree) or a derogatory word that refers to lower class people (seen as inferior in that society).

On the other hand, you could insult a highly valued member of the other person's family, like their mother, or of their society, like their Queen/Emperor.

Sexual taboos, often implying someone (or their mother) is more sexually active than society accepts of them.

Calling someone the word for someone's genitalia refers to the same taboo.

How do you apply this to your language?

You could use explicit/taboo words as ... :

... an intensifier: "It was a shit-hot day."

... a negative adjective: "This is a shitty job."

... an insulting noun: "This journey is shit."

Or try to be creative and combine different taboos for a multi-hit offense. My favorite one is the Spanish "I shit in your mother's milk", which combines insulting the other person's mother, the taboo of bodily functions, and the taboo of cleanliness.

During my research I came across this article, which contains a number of concrete examples from all over the world you can draw inspiration from.

And on a less offensive note, you could always make up your own equivalent of "Merlin's beard!", "Great Scott!", or "For Pete's sake!" (Pete, by the way, is a catholic reference: Pete is Saint Peter.)

I hope this was helpful. Don’t hesitate to ask me any questions, and happy writing!

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ingrid sundberg's colour dictionary - writing help

from baby lucerys and aemond messing around behind the scenes to older lucerys and aemond messing around behind the scenes 🖤

Vhagar had come at last, and on her back rode the one-eyed Prince Aemond Targaryen, clad in nightblack armor chased with gold.

He had not come alone. Alys Rivers flew with him, her long hair streaming black behind her, her belly swollen with child. Prince Aemond circled twice about the towers of Harrenhal, then brought Vhagar down in the outer ward, with Caraxes a hundred yards away. The dragons glared balefully at each other, and Caraxes spread his wings and hissed, flames dancing across his teeth.

The prince helped his woman down from Vhagar’s back, then turned to face his uncle. “Nuncle, I hear you have been seeking us.”

“Only you,” Daemon replied. “Who told you where to find me?”

“My lady,” Aemond answered. “She saw you in a storm cloud, in a mountain pool at dusk, in the fire we lit to cook our suppers. She sees much and more, my Alys. You were a fool to come alone.”

“Were I not alone, you would not have come,” said Daemon.

“Yet you are, and here I am. You have lived too long, Nuncle.”

“On that much we agree,” Daemon replied. Then the old prince bade Caraxes bend his neck, and climbed stiffly onto his back, whilst the young prince kissed his woman and vaulted lightly onto Vhagar, taking care to fasten the four short chains between belt and saddle.

Prince Daemon took Caraxes up swiftly, lashing him with a steel-tipped whip until they disappeared into a bank of clouds. Vhagar, older and much the larger, was also slower, made ponderous by her very size, and ascended more gradually, in ever widening circles that took her and her rider out over the waters of the Gods Eye. The hour was late, the sun was close to setting, and the lake was calm, its surface glimmering like a sheet of beaten copper. Up and up she soared, searching for Caraxes as Alys Rivers watched from atop Kingspyre Tower in Harrenhal below.

So many of you asked for a tutorial on how I paint faces/ add a light source, so here you go! 😍 Let me know if you guys have any feedback or if you want to try it yourself! 💜

Tolkien’s “actually none of these characters are speaking English and this story is a translation into English” is my favorite worldbuilding thing right now

because there’s no such thing as a perfect translation, right? there are always decisions made about how best to render something where a direct translation is not possible. different languages articulate different thoughts and ideas which make up different ways of thinking. Translation involves making things culturally intelligible, not just like, conceptually or semantically intelligible.

as a worldbuilding thing this is so rich. what elements of the story we know as the lord of the rings had to be incompletely translated into something we could understand? Are the potatoes really potatoes? Are the horses really horses? But that is just the basic stuff. What do we miss about the traditions, songs, poems? Are the hobbits’ ties of kinship exactly as we are told? Is the birthday party exactly that? What concept was rendered “wizard?” Or “lord,” or “king?”

No one who knows a lot about LOTR correct me, I would prefer to simply allow this to haunt me forever thank you

core classes as undead :)

Here’s the first half of slides from my comic class on Lettering! 

Rest of the slides: https://gingersnappish.tumblr.com/post/616487287636803584/the-rest-of-the-comic-lettering-slides-first