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She’s a Darklord now too

I have some hours before work so I’ll use them to actually detail why I’ve found CSPaint to be so efficient for bastard-aligned painters who like to take shortcuts.

This will seem familiar to most of you guys, but this functions a little bit different from Photoshop. It turns everything you draw on the layer into editable curves, but retains the aliased smoothness of an ordinary raster layer. Practically a cheat to access the whole suite of amazing tools CS offers for lineart. Such as:

The vector eraser is The Best™. You can be as messy as possible and this tool erases the excess. One pen-flick and it’s done. Much faster than cleaning it up by hand. You can also tweak the settings of this brush to encapsulate more/less lines as you erase but that’s getting a little more involved. Anyway, last thing:

Maybe the only thing better than the vector eraser. There are multiple settings, but these three are the most handy. You can smooth wiggly edges, connect broken strokes, and tweak the width/weight to exactly how you want it. This also has a ton of settings you can play around with. It’s great!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AIZAWA 11/8!!! A photoset with love from a handful of your colleagues <3 a collab done with my friend @66an GO GIVE HER SOME LOVE

Along with reclaiming the symbolism of my hair length, I’m also on the journey to reclaiming my femininity. Both of which don’t have to be related. Being non-binary doesn’t default to any one look, and an outfit/style can mean anything to you. I’m fighting the idea in my head that I have to look androgynous to look passing as an enby. I can dress and style however I please and it will not change who I am. 

Personally, I’ve had traditional femininity shoved down my throat growing up and it still happens to me to this day. I’m working on taking it in my own time and pace, when my mood suits it with no pressure from the outside. I’m building better strength to say “no”. Though I still struggle and get irritated by hurtful words, I know my past self would be happy to know I’m in a much better place than before.

If your journey is anything like mine, non-binary or otherwise, I hope you’re growing too. It takes time, but keep fighting for you.

LISTEN TO PANTHERLILY!!!!

Oh where to begin, I’m really excited the issue about Levy’s pregnancy is fucking finally addressed….!!! It took like 9 chapters but it’s happening yay! lol.

Anyway, I feel like both are being really stupid right now and for the same reasons: not being honest with each other. And contrary to many, I believe Levy is just frustrated (and not jealous) and feeling lonely because now, of all times, Gajeel is playing detective and not listening to her.

Gajeel’s stupidity comes from unconsciously hurting Levy with all his bullshit and not telling her outright he just wants to protect her.

They both need to talk seriously about this and it seems like we might get that soon, considering Gajeel’s look after she left. He looked completely panicked lol. He knows he fucked up.

^Look at Lily, the only sane one in all this shit.

Levy needs Gajeel but I think she needs a friend the most right now. The problem is that I can’t really see Levy trusting anyone but Lucy about this and she’s busy on a quest with her boy Natsu.

I can see Ju//via trying to help them since she also didn’t want Levy to think anything bad was happening (she’s loyal af to Gray pls), she’s very empathetic about relationships and love and could help Levy sort out her feelings too. When Ju//via is serious, she can be very wise and helpful. So I’m really looking forward to how they resolve this conflict, with or without an outsider’s push.

^There’s also the possible scenario that Levy hasn’t actually told Gajeel she’s pregnant yet and that what we saw in the last chapter of the original manga was Levy asking Gajeel to make a baby and not actually announcing her pregnancy, which adds to the issue of not being honest with each other lol.