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I don’t know why I did another one of these when I could’ve worked on an update. Oh well

Happy (belated) Birthday, @zeiva !

I know it’s late, but I would like to say that I deeply love your games and your art inspires me to draw. (I’ve been a fan of X-Note in one of the websites I’ve played back in my childhood). Also, after playing Phantom Seeds, that is the time I’ve finally inspired to write and create characters.

My most favorite game is OASE, a romance game where it doesn’t always involve a kiss scene, so I thought I would draw Mirage XXIV.

I hope you have a great day ahead of you \(//∇//)\

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Outside

I proudly present you my latest greatest project! You might’ve seen the preview already, now it’s finally complete

The lyrics are from Outside by Hollywood Undead - there’s not much else to say other than the first time I heard this song was after watching Civil War, and I thought it suited the movie and Stucky perfectly. Enjoy~

I hope you liked it - I’ve worked really hard on this

Fire Emblem:if - Hoshido/Nohr Drama CD Complete Box set

Includes:

- Special 4 disk box set - In-game voice data CD - IC card stickers (as pictured) - Small booklet

Release date: September 21st 2016 Price: 12,400 yen (tax inclusive)

Cast | Cd tracks

watercolor tips and tricks

some tips and tricks that have seriously helped me in excelling at watercolour

1. PAPER WEIGHT. for the love of god do not use any paper under 110-120 lbs to paint with watercolour, a very VERY wet medium that will soak clean through the paper if it’s not thick enough (most paper pads sold at craft stores have the weight listed on them. printer paper is around 20 lbs, sketch pads will be about 60 lbs, IDEAL watercolour paper 140 lbs+). i use only 140 lb paper for my serious watercolour works. canson and strathmore are my favourite brands

2. there’s no need to have very expensive watercolour paints, but it is important to use something better than crayola. my dad gave me a 24-pan windsor&newton watercolour set when i was 8 and these are still the paints i use today (i was a very careful child, but i never even had to replace my paint pans after almost 10 years either, so this brand, while super expensive, lasts and earns my gold star.) some other cheaper options are: x and x

3. if you’re going to be using watercolours, prepare to use WATER. so many people forget this, but it’s so important to realise this media is meant to look translucent, so you should see the paper through the paint. if you can’t see it, then you’re using the paints as if they’re gouache or acrylics, so try using more water and work with lighter colours.

OKAY NOW FOR THE ACTUAL TRICKS

4. SALT

quite overused in watercolour but it’s so freaking cool it can be pardoned. *remember for all of these effects, you have to use lots of water with the paint for it to work!

5. ALCOHOL/VODKA/HAND SANITIZER IF YOU’RE LAZY LIKE ME

you have to be very careful here because the second image can turn into the first if you use too much alcohol and it soaks through the water and paint gets in the spot, so be sure to experiment plenty before using this!!

but yeah you can use whatever clear alcohol you can find and it does p much the same thing

6. LIGHT SKIN TONES

okay while the darker skin tones are more easily achievable with browns and additional yellows/blues/reds to bring out the undertone, light skintones are hard as hell to make with watercolour because it’s hard to even think of what to mix. think no more!

YELLOW OCHRE + ANY PURPLE = perfect skintone you can play around with. adding more of yellow or purple will give you either cool or warm skin tones you can build up on and layer until they’re the proper value. remember to use purple/cool shadows with skin in compositions with normal lighting!

7. PAYNE’S GREY

and finally to repeat my previous post, use PAYNE’S GREY instead of black for a richer, darker colour in your painting. don’t use black unless your entire composition has warm colours, but even then, try to use a very dark brown instead of black.

8. WHITE

finally, it’s very important to mention this: never use the white watercolour they sometimes give you. EVER. EVER. dilute your paint with water instead to get a lighter value, or else you’re not using watercolour to its full extent (which is something you might struggle with if you’re used to using acrylics or oil)

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that’s all i can think of at the top of my head, but if you have any questions or need further brand recommendations etc, feel free to message me!

How to call your reps when you have social anxiety

When you struggle with your mental health on a daily basis, it can be hard to take action on the things that matter most to you. The mental barriers anxiety creates often appear insurmountable. But sometimes, when you really need to, you can break those barriers down. This week, with encouragement from some great people on the internet, I pushed against my anxiety and made some calls to members of our government. Here’s a comic about how you can do that, too. (Resources and transcript below.)

Motivational resources: There are a lot! Here are a few I really like:

Emily Ellsworth explains why calling is the most effective way to reach your congressperson.

Sharon Wong posted a great series of tweets that helped me manage my phone anxiety and make some calls.

Kelsey is tweeting pretty much daily with advice and reminders about calling representatives. I found this tweet an especially great reminder that calls aren’t nearly as big a deal as anxiety makes them out to be.

Informational resources: There are a lot of these, as well! These three are good places to start:

Find your representative at house.gov

Find your senators at senate.gov

Use the “We’re His Problem Now” scripts when calling (or write your own!)

Keep reading

18 OF THE MOST POWERFUL QUOTES ON HEARTBREAK IN LITERATURE

The Remains of the Day- Kazuo Ishiguro 

“Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.”- Stevens

Gone with the Wind- Margaret Mitchell 

“If I said I was madly in love with you you’d know I was lying.”- Scarlett O'Hara

A Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickens 

“Remember now and then that there is a man who would die to keep someone you love beside you.”- Sydney Carton

The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald 

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… . And then one fine morning

— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. ”- Nick Carraway

Little Women- Louisa May Alcott 

“I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn’t love me.”- Laurie Laurence

Memoirs of a Geisha- Arthur Golden 

“The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”- Chiyo Sakamoto

Twelfth Night- William Shakespeare 

“If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.”- Duke Orsino

Love in the Time of Cholera- Gabriel Garcia Marquez 

“But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.”- Florentino Ariza

The Wise Man’s Fear- Patrick Rothfuss 

“I thought of all the others who had tried to tie her to the ground and failed. So I resisted showing her the songs and poems I had written, knowing that too much truth can ruin a thing. And if that meant she wasn’t entirely mine, what of it? I would be the one she could always return to without fear of recrimination or question. So I did not try to win her and contented myself with playing a beautiful game. But there was always a part of me that hoped for more, and so there was a part of me that was always a fool.”- Kvothe

The Hunger Games- Suzanne Collins 

“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”- Katniss Everdeen

Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte 

“You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart- you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.“- Heathcliff

Venetia- Georgette Heyer 

“There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one’s sentiments.”- Mrs Hendred

Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte 

"I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at once called my sensations to order; and it was wonderful how I got over the temporary blunder–how I cleared up the mistake of supposing Mr. Rochester’s movements a matter in which I had any cause to take vital interest.”- Jane Eyre

Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy 

“Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.“- Anna Karenina

Like Water for Chocolate- Laura Esquivel 

“When you’re told there’s no way you can marry the woman you love and your only hope of being near her is to marry her sister, wouldn’t you do the same?”- Pedro Muzquiz

The Notebook- Nicholas Sparks                                                      "The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”

The Time Traveler’s Wife- Audrey Niffenegger 

“I won’t ever leave you, even though you’re always leaving me.”- Clare Abshire

Atonement- Ian McEwan                                                                 “He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.”

Liar! uncover the truth~ Keychain is now ready on my storenvy!

Featuring 8 from 10 characters from the popular game!

It all begins from one chibi Itaru and BOM I made 8 little liars!

You can buy them from here : http://nanoringo.storenvy.com/