Tales From The Veil

Blender is an excellent freeware 3D renderer,possibly better than After Effects

Lightzone to replace Lightroom

Inkscape to replace Illustratr

Audacity to replace Audition (I also received a free version of Pro Tools with my Scarlett Solo audio interface)

- Medibang Paint and Fire Alpaca for more cartoon style illustration

- Krita for painting

- Clip Studio Paint (not free, but often on sale and cheap even at full price) is better than PS for art and I’m about to cut adobe entirely. Even does some photo editing.

- Paint Tool SAI (again, not free but cheap) old but good, there’s a ton of hacked copies around too. Not hard to get for free.

Also, heads up to anyone using it,

As of July 5th 2021, Audacity is now considered a potential spyware security risk,

“Oh, that?” Dara shrugged nonchalantly, “it’s nothing. Just hurt myself a bit”

Gently, Silvano ran the pad of his thumb around the edge of the bandage “But the nannites are supposed to protect you, from such harm, are they not?”

Dara flinched beneath his touch but forced a smile all the same “it’s not that kind of thing. It’s…you’re going to laugh at me…”

“Laugh? You’ve been injured, Dara, despite having assured me that your cybernetic implants provide protection. I see nothing funny about that. Perhaps we should discuss this with the technology department to make sure the implants haven’t malfunctioned.”

“They work fine, it’s just…” Dara laughed despite herself, “gosh, it’s so stupid. I literally just tripped over my own feet and fell. On Earth. With normal gravity and everything. I wasn’t even wearing heels.”

Silvano’s eyes widened, “you fell hard enough to draw blood…and you’re laughing?”

Dara scrunched her nose raising an eyebrow. “wow, you’re really worried about this?” she sighed, “babe, we’ve had this conversation. Modern science is a thing. Normal humans generally have better immune systems these days, at least most of us do. Even if it did get infected, a little pus and swelling wouldn’t kill me. Absolute worst case scenario, I could get antibiotics from medical, but I promise I it’s not that big a deal, okay? My pride was hurt more than anything else.”

Silvano’s brow furrowed a moment, as he considered this. Finally, he replied “I will do my utmost not to overreact, but I cannot cease worrying about you for all my promises. I love you.”

“You sound like my mom,” Dara giggled, resting her head in the crook of Silvano’s shoulder

“I should be so lucky,” Silvano laughed, kissing the top of Dara’s head and finally offering a smile, “as for your pride…”

A Masterlist of Black Period FCs

Below the cut is a masterlist of 70+ Black faceclaims who have appeared in a period and/or fantasy drama. They are organised by gender, age, and with their specific ethnicities listed.

If you have any other suggestions, feel free to send me an ask!