Ancalagon Malqir

Independent Warrior of Light rp blog

10+ years of rping, Rping on Tumblr since 2011

Multi-verse| selective multi shipping | mildly OC selective

one liners to Novella format. para to Multi-para is my go too

NSFW and 18+ at times, Dark themes included

Mun and Muse are over the age of 18

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"A little ale, perhaps?"

"If he drops him, it's war!"

"Tell me, was it all worth it?!"

"And her accomplices? What of us?"

"But, why should anyone ever know?"

"I'm not your dear. I'm nobody's dear."

"He uses some intemperate language."

"You understand? You don't act alone."

"No, I wouldn't. I'd die a martyr's death."

"Can you not plead some indisposition?"

"I could still do it. I could find a way to poison her."

"May I ask your opinion of the King's new marriage?"

"Now, my love, let me conceive… and we will have a son."

"He meant my predecessor, and to be fair, he has a point."

"You've never even seen a man being tortured, have you?"

"We forgive him, because he is a genius… whatever that means."

"It is rumored that, perhaps, you have a great sympathy for her."

"I need hardly remind you of the consequences of not doing so."

"I'm sure we both know the object that has brought us together."

"I would rather lose my own son, than to see any hurt come to you."

"I'm not heartless, whatever some people think... quite the contrary."

"Don't you know that I can drag you down as quickly as I raised you?"

"No, you told me that we would always be truthful with one another!"

"We found no evidence against you. You're to be released…eventually."

"It would be blamed on my master. At the moment, he doesn't need that."

"That is your judgement, Your Grace; it is not mine. Neither is it the King's."

"They would find you and torture you, and you would tell them everything."

"You must shut your eyes and endure like your betters have done before you!"

"I'm going to have to attend on the king and that bitch of his at her coronation!"

"He was a lion in my defense. Now he will die ashamed and alone in a prison cell."

"Please impart to the King my utter faithfulness, truthfulness and loyalty to him."

"So keep your head. It's a pretty head in any case, and I don't want to lose it either."

"I have no opinion. I neither murmur at it, nor dispute upon it. I never did, never will."

"You know, I cannot think whether it would be a bad thing, or a good thing, if he died."

"But store up your knowledge and your anger. Don't act impulsively; it's always a mistake."

"She pleaded not guilty to all charges against her, but the evidence being overwhelming."

"If I did, His Majesty would remove my head. And then, I should be genuinely indisposed!"

"I was married before and, I must confess, I rather like the liberty of not being married, again!"

"Then he will have to wear it upon his shoulders, for by the time it gets here, he won't have a head to put it on."

"His Majesty also desires that you leave court and that you never show yourself in his presence again, on pain of death."

"I think you'll find His Majesty's arguments are as… persuasive and powerful now, as they were when he first wrote them."

For any FF14 Bozja fans (and especially Beastmaster ones), please feast yourself on this absolutely incredible Lyon Helsos comm by @thewickwheat! Wick graciously took on my request to have Lyon featured in an affectionate moment with Dawon and some of the other creatures in his care, and I'm in love with how it turned out.

highlights include:

killing the lights and fucking booking it when you defeat him, and then just straight up deserting the garlean army with absolutely no remorse or hesitation

leaving the praetorium and almost immediately posting up under a streetlight in a stupid outfit in revenant's toll like some kind of clown hooker, waiting to direct wol to the crystal tower questline JUST so he could involve himself, too

showing up in the middle of a major city not even slightly in disguise to walk up to a meeting of world leaders and say "now it's clear the problem you're having is that you haven't involved MEEEEEE"

accepting wearing an ironworks uniform but dying it red because #aesthetics

magical girl armor transformation

bonus: cid keeping his sunglasses and then just silently handing them back afterward as if they do this all the fucking time

getting attacked and injured but just refusing to tell anyone about it until he literally collapsed

sneaking out of the infirmary but not before forging cid's signature on his expense report

telling his fellow garleans that if all they were gonna do is whine and refuse any solutions to their problems they could just fucking die for all he cares

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1. “Uh… should your arm be crooked like that?” 

2. “Hope that wasn’t your shooting hand.” 

3. “If you apply pressure, it might stop the bleeding.” 

4. “Nice limp you’ve got there.” 

5. “That leg’s going to slow us down.” 

6. “Hey, your arm oka… shit.” 

7. “You ain’t winning any brawls with your arm like that.” 

8. “Not gonna last if you keep using your head as a catcher’s mitt.” 

9. “You okay? You seeing lights?” 

10. “Don’t think a leg’s supposed to bend that way.” 

11. “Take it slow. Don’t put too much weight on that leg.” 

12. “Shit. You okay in there?” 

13. “Whoa. I thought I lost you there.” 

14. “Don’t try to run. Just look after that leg.”

15. “I wouldn’t put too much weight on that leg until you’ve tended to it.” 

16. “You all right? You look like you caught the brunt of that with your face.” 

17. “All right, focus. Stay with me now.” 

18. “Your gonna be fine, but you’re gonna want to take a ______. Now.” 

19. “Don’t worry, it’s still attached. Mostly.” 

20. “On the upside, that’s gonna leave one hell of a scar.” 

21. “I didn’t think arms bent that way.” 

22. “Easy now, ______. That leg’s real beat up.” 

23. “How are you still standing?” 

24. “Come on, focus. A couple ______ and you’ll be right as rain.” 

25. “Don’t worry, your arm’s still attached. I think.” 

26. “Your leg okay? ‘Cause it’s looked better.” 

27. “Ouch. That’s a nasty head wound you’ve got there.” 

28. “Can you even see straight?” 

29. “Patch yourself up! Your arm looks like swiss cheese!” 

30. “Keep fighting, we’ll make it out of this!” 

31. “Beaned your bean pretty good there.” 

32. “Oh _____, that looks like it hurt.” 

33. “Stiff upper lip. You’ll pull through.” 

34. “Clipped your noggin good, _______. Try not to fall unconscious.” 

35. “Oh no, ______! Your arm!” 

36. “Your leg is damaged. We should repair it at once.” 

37. “You should not move fast with your leg. It could aggravate your injury.” 

38. “Oh no! Can you see? Your head looks very bad.” 

39. “Keep your arm still. Otherwise the injury could get worse.” 

40. “Damn. Is it broken?” 

41. “Don’t worry, it’s not as bad as it looks.”

42. “Fight through it, ______.”  

43. “Ouch. That had to hurt.” 

It's hard to overstate how important lighting is for photography in general- and the same applies to gpose shots.

This is a huge topic, so let's start with the basics!

GPose Controls

There are 3 different kinds of lighting control available when in gpose: Global, Character, and Points.

Global illumination is controlled by the manual brightness adjustment slider. This is equivalent, in real-life photography, to exposure. Character lightning has no real-life equivalent, but may be thought of as a brightness control that only influences characters and similar entities (minions, NPCs, and enemies, for example.)

GPose also gives you 3 point light sources that can be used to emulate the 3-point lighting traditional method for illuminating a subject.

Positioning a source isn't exactly intuitive: A source is placed exactly where the camera is at the moment it is toggled. So to place it you need to move the camera to the desired position, and then enable it by toggling its button.

Oddly enough, these points do NOT project shadows. (in fact, a great deal of 'glowy' elements don't, like weapons and armor.) But you can use this fact for great effects!

You can, for example, create shots with perfect dark backgrounds by strategically placing gpose light points behind objects that do not block the emitted light. You can learn more about this technique here:

Ok, so where was I? Oh, right- lighting!

Let's play around with what we just learned then. Here's a default setup for a scene: Notice that the ceiling light *do* project shadows, but it's kinda low-res. So let's set ambient light to zero and control the shades ourselves.

Some rotation and gshade filters from Neneko Colors for better luminance, color, and model shades. It's better - but still looks pretty flat.

We want to pop the character out, so let's add some highlights and rim lights. First, the hair: let's give it a lustrous shine. Camera up top and a slightly bluish point.

Now the weapon. Remember that the item itself doesn't emit light? so let's place another point with the same tone as the weapon to illuminate Louise. To her left and behind her, slightly distant so as to project on her legs as well.

And finally, a directional key light to help illuminate her face.

Her model is still too dark, so let's use the character lighting control to help with that.

Now let's make the whole scene a bit brighter. Change the brightness adjustment slider to manual mode, and bring it up as needed.

This should be a good point to compare the initial setup with our results so far, showing how much basic gpose lighting can enhance a shot.

Now that you know how it's done, it's easy to see how some of my poses were set up! Here's one with a yellow source top-right, an orange source bottom-right, and a dim white source to the left of Louise:

Or this one: A very bright white source to the left (and a bit to the front), and a dim bluish/purplish source to the bottom right. Notice how much Louise pops out of the scene.

Next, I'll talk about exterior shots, fixture light sources, and other neat things.