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“Brothers,— sisters! A whole city rises against us, while his murderer waits and watches from the Arsenal, laughing. Fight with me, and show him what it means to cross the Assassins!” — As understood by Sae.
New Tutorial Links
With my reboot being complete, the links in anyone’s reblog of my text/icon wrapping tutorials broke. While the posts respectively still exis here and here, I also rewrote them on my rebooted blog with some added clarity which hopefully makes them easier to follow. Now as I’ll cease to check up on this archive in the very near future, I wanted to pass on the links to the rewritten tutorials and note that if anyone comes across any problems, that you’re more than welcome and are even urged to contact me on the new blog, I’ll be very glad to help you out!
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“Brothers,— sisters! A whole city rises against us, while his murderer waits and watches from the Arsenal, laughing. Fight with me, and show him what it means to cross the Assassins!” — As understood by Sae.
“Brothers,— sisters! A whole city rises against us, while his murderer waits and watches from the Arsenal, laughing. Fight with me, and show him what it means to cross the Assassins!” — As understood by Sae.
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“Brothers,— sisters! A whole city rises against us, while his murderer waits and watches from the Arsenal, laughing. Fight with me, and show him what it means to cross the Assassins!” — As understood by Sae.
Blog swap incoming—
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Psa from someone who studied both Sexology and Psychology about rape and triggering roleplays.
Alright, it’s nearly two am and I’m not native english so bare with me for this.
First and foremost, roleplaying rape or triggering topics does not make anyone a sickfuck or someone who condone the themes in real life.
I went to university for four years and studied sexology, which is a program offered here in Quebec, Canada. I learned many things about the human psyche as well as sexuality in general. I also have a minor in psychology and am currently studying to become an author. Because I have many interest, yes, I have spent many years in school for. And all of my programs and studies can relate to this.
Some humans are interested in taboo and triggering topics because it pushes the limits of the human psyche. Some people are interested to see what would happen if their characters would be pushed in the most extreme situations. Whether they are playing a victim or an abuser does not matter. For someone like me, who roleplay as both, I can tell you that I like, revel even in the despair of my muses when they’re victims of something. And as someone who roleplays a villain, I like to explore the darkest part of the human mind that pushes someone to the most heinous acts possible.
There is nothing sick about this. It’s in human nature to be curious and it’s actually completely healthy to explore those topics. My studies in sexology made me learn that having phantasms, however perverted they are, as long as they remain in a fantasy setting, there is nothing wrong about it. As a writer, I can also tell you that the dichotomy between author and muse is INCREDIBLE. If you roleplay a self insert, it might be different, but when you roleplay a muse that is apart from yourself, then it automatically becomes FANTASY. You wouldn’t tell the actor that roleplayed Hitler in the movie “The Fall” that he’s encouraging nazism by playing the role of the leader of them, so why would you tell an author that they’re condoning rape or triggering topics by writing them? Did you ever read an horror book? A suspense with lots of murders and crimes? What about jigsaw? Or even the human centipede? You cannot judge of the weight of a crime that happens in fiction the same way you would a crime in reality. The author knows that. The author isn’t their character. Stop associating the two and shaming people for what they want to write.
Some people wants some vanilla fluff poneys rainbows and flowers, some wants blood gore guts and vile, unfathomable things. Both are healthy outlets.Neither are sick.
As someone who studied psychology, sexology and is currently completing literature studies, I am disgusted that such things are still shamed among the roleplaying community. There are tags you all can block to not see those triggering topics, but you have no right as an author to call out someone who writes about heavy topics because you think it’s wrong. You are no professional critique neither are you a psychanalist. You are a fucking tumblr roleplayer for christ sake.
Block the tags. Shove your disgusting shaming up your ass without lube.
Thank you.
Alright, time to spend a bit to swap this guy over to his reboot. Preparing tags, a promo and whatnot on the other blog and then it’ll happen. And then I need to figure out a way to unbreak the link to my tutorials. RIP.
Just a small FYI/PSA in regards to Screencapped.net closing on July 31st, in hopes to soothe people’s minds a small bit. The galleries are closing, yes, but we will still have access to the screencaps, just in a different fashion. Not ideal, but it’s definitely something.
“While the galleries are closing, we will be continuing to provide zip downloads of screencaps for movies and TV shows, both new and old.” (x)
Just a small FYI/PSA in regards to Screencapped.net closing on July 31st, in hopes to soothe people’s minds a small bit. The galleries are closing, yes, but we will still have access to the screencaps, just in a different fashion. Not ideal, but it’s definitely something.
“While the galleries are closing, we will be continuing to provide zip downloads of screencaps for movies and TV shows, both new and old.” (x)
I’m pretty set on actually doing the reboot I was planning on doing in the first place, because I need to clear this dashboard. I’m tired of muting left and right, I’m tired of blocking posts, I’m tired of seeing call out posts and PSAs warning people for shows and breadcrumbs. I’m not here for this. I don’t feel like looking at people policing everything as if it’s it’s doing any good. Tumblr has the atrocious reputation it has because of this ridiculous culture of either calling out or censoring.
Regardless, I’m not here for this. I’m 28, but this site and my dashboard on this guy make me feel as though I’m 85 at all times, going, ‘The youth of nowadays’ on a 5 second loop in my head. I used to have fun here, I used to reply to threads within a day or two at most, because I was so excited to get on my dashboard due to it being light and filled with people doing what they love to do: writing. It was inspiring and utterly motivating.
It’s 2017, I’m making it my year’s resolution to return to the bubble I had for years and the one that worked. Ezio will be getting his reboot, and I’m going to be utterly selective with who I’m going to follow.
#⌈✧⌋ desynchronized. ( writer. )#[ anyone i plotted with-- rest assured you're getting a follow. ]#[ i'm also not really going to drop threads that're heavily plotted. ]#[ anything that wasn't however-- will be dropped. but i will come to you for a different idea. ]#[ i'm just done with this high school cafeteria mess. guys. i really am. ]#[ i've learned who tends to have the tendency to follow that culture i want to avoid. so i'm sorry to say-- but as i said. selective. ]#[ because i may sound harsh-- but while your mental state matters to me. mine is even more valuable to me. ]#[ because without mine-- i don't have the sanity to help with any other. ]#[ and i don't want some mental midlife crisis because i'm so salty and tired over things on tumblr. ]#[ my mood is fine and all. trust me on that. i have thick skin to be peachy. but man. i just. yeah. ]
falls down & loves on you
Why are you falling, do I need to be worried? —Are you falling on me? Because if the latter, please continue, ‘cause then we can cuddle and we can go on a cuddle honeymoon all over the globe because I’d drag you everywhere. I’m that devoted, okay. On a very serious note, though, can I express how much I appreciate you for being around? For always having been around? I was peeking on my old Anna blog the other day, and it has some of my earliest memories of us occasionally speaking (and that blog is nearing three years old); I already thought you were a peach and sunshine to the community back then alongside Wappy (hey, it’s how I grew to know her, okay; that ever so lovely Castiel), showering people with positivity and motivation left and right. And I love you, because you still do it to this day. You’re beautiful, I hope you know that and that you never forget it.
Consider this some love from me to you to help start your day off with. You’re magnificent, you’re nothing short of wonderful with a heart of gold that I might just be a little envious of, because of how brightly it shines. Not only that, but you’re one of the most dedicated writers I’ve ever come across, your love for the muses I’ve known you to write for, is unprecedented, it honestly is. And it’s such a joy to see on my dashboard, day in and day out. You have a friend in me, okay. You had one in me nearly three years ago and you still do now. That will not change. I am always here for you.
tryina find someone’s Rules page like
“hey sorry, I can’t find your rules and about? I’ve looked around for a bit but I don’t know where they are.”
“Hey thanks for asking! If you go to my blog there are some glittering sparkles around the picture of my muse. Click on the one between his left knee and his crotch. It’s going to open up to a page where you have to enter a password and then play a pinball mini game, and if you score higher than 100,000 it’ll drop a key to a P.O. box near you. Take the key and open the box and my rules are in there.”
#⌈✧⌋ desynchronized. ( writer. )#[ this is literally me. ]#[ i can't and will not hide it. ]#[ if it takes me longer than 15 seconds to find your nav links-- i'm sorry; the chances of me abandoning your blog increase tenfold. ]#[ if you complain about tumblr making things difficult for you to use or find-- but simultaneously have impossible to find links-- ]#[ i wholeheartedly want you to sit on a cactus. ]#[ there are so many trends that i'm so tired of. and this is the primary one. ]#[ if you want me to interact with you-- let me find your pages. ]#[ without having to spend 30 minutes squinting and ruining my eyesight for you. ]#[ i cannot deal. i won't deal. ]#[ i feel so strongly about this. ]#[ i mean any friend of mine will tell you that i adore aesthetics and i understand. ]#[ but you do /not/ need to blend your white sparkles into a white background without any drop shadow for 'aesthetics'. ]#[ do i sound bitter? perhaps i do. but i really am. ]#[ welcome to salt Wednesday with sae. ]
Resource: Coding Icon Borders into your theme
Just like many, I’m incredibly indecisive when it comes to my icons and when I’m not, I get tired of coloring (my fix for that can be found here) or more often than not, borders. Trends change (the curved corners are very popular right now), preferences change, it’s just a whole lot of headache having to potentially remake icons solely because I’ve come to dislike 4 lines around an icon. That doesn’t fly with me, so I’m going to tell you how to code your borders into your theme. Trust me, you have a fair amount of beautiful options if you’re a bit creative and the coding isn’t that difficult. But just like with my previous coding tutorials, even if you’re not familiar with coding at all, you should still be able to follow this. Welcome to... ‘Code-cheating with Sae’, I hope you’re as excited as I am.
Resource: Making/Saving Icon Batches
In light of recently having changed and grown accustomed to a specific routine in making large icon batches, I’ve been kindly requested by a friend to share my ways and I’m very happy to indulge. I’ve never been much of a fan of icon-making, it’s always been such a tedious affair that’d quickly come to bore me, until present, as some automatism has made it a lot more enjoyable for me.
The following tutorial will not only include the steps in Photoshop (my program of choice) itself, but also the initial process of obtaining the needed screen captures. From start to finish, A to Z, this may get long, but I’ll list the steps accordingly for easier navigation. I have also included links to visual demonstrations for numerous steps, click the (x)’s to see them in full-size.
I’ve decided against a new reboot, as it’ll screw over links such as my tutorials and whatnot, which’ll simply create a mess I can avoid. Instead, I’ll be going through this blog, deleting posts as I see fit and possibly look into a script to hide posts that have a specific tag from the index page— making said posts only visible when searching for the specific tag (which would have a separate ‘archive’ link in my navigation). But that is work for the near future.
For now, I’ll be uploading/swapping over my new/massively cleaned up theme, which includes updated popup pages, which includes a separate one for my ASOIAF verse. Some posts may look a little wonky due to my new theme’s coding, but I’ll be cleaning it up in the near future. And in a few hours, I’ll be uploading/posting a new tutorial of how I make my icon batches and save them with the ability of very easily going back and editing them if the .PSD displeases me.
Aaaaaand it may just be followed by a small/short tutorial as to how to code borders into your theme like I have them in my theme. In case anyone’s like me: a bit lazy and doesn’t feel like actually drawing ‘em in Photoshop, coding is a perfectly viable option too!
Anyway, bear with the mess! <3 Do let me know if the animation for the BG works-- it should have ten different image cycles, staying on each one for roughly 15 seconds.
I need to share my thoughts here, muse-related, nothing bad. Nothing controversial.
When I mentioned yesterday that I have every intention of making a Francis II blog, Reign-based, but with as much historical influence as possible; I didn’t exactly realize what I was saying. This boy was once the living and breathing King of France. No matter how short his reign was, no matter how long he lived; the fact of the matter is that he was an actual human being. Not fictional, not out of some show, movie or fairy tale— but once upon a time, he actually lived.
This is a historical character, and it wasn’t until I woke up today that I realize how immense that is? I mean, I’ve very recently come to realize even more that complexity is my driving force, anything that challenges me mentally and on a psychological level is something I yearn to have and experience. But this is on such a different level. I see people write historical characters (no matter if initially based on a portrayal from a show or anything else), but I’ve never quite grasped the concept of the weight of doing so. Of course, we all want to do justice to characters, but this is attempting to do justice to people who have actually drawn breath from the same air as us. These are individuals who, in one way or another, have influenced people on a small or large scale, to get where we are today. These people have left footprints on this world, on our history.
This doesn’t change my mind, but realizing this. Not just thinking about it, but really letting it sink in, it’s one insane reality check. And I‘m finding it to be terrifying, challenging and somehow insanely honoring yet humbling at the same time. Part of me feels weird to think and feel this deeply about this, but I can’t feel any different about it.
#am i bizarre? weird?#for feeling so strongly about this?#like i mean it-- my mind got this massive reality check randomly as i got up.#and i'm realizing what it means to rp a historical character.#what it /really/ means.#they're not just characters like you have them in shows and series and books.#they were actual human beings once.#it sounds so insane to me.#but i wonder if we forget about that sometimes-- that this isn't just a 'hey i like this character. let's try them'#these were full-fledged and existing people.#they had feelings. they had views. they had opinions. they had actual lives like we do.#i just?