Was watching my friends play Deadlock and the instant the game started the Drifter Player dropped this line in the chat and I felt inspired

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An abandoned theater in Rochester, New York. Formerly a pornographic theater, then just a facade after the Walgreens next door gutted it to use as a warehouse. The Walgreens with it's shampoo and baby formula and half of the store locked in cages; the contradictions stare into you. You go because it is the nearest pharmacy, close in walking distance for you and your disabled loved ones.

The Walgreens shuts down and it too, is now just a vacant facade, next to a vacant facade. You stare into the large windows meant to advertise it's contents, now only showcasing absence. A wide open space with torn up floors. You think about how perfect the location could be for low income housing, for squatting, for anything other than standing as a constant reminder of the city's failures to her people. The parking lot is empty, save for the occasional cop car, to ensure no one uses the lot or the building for anything at all. The cop ensures the space will stay as useless as himself.

They add letters to the theater's marquee; a reminder and encouragement of surveillance. "If you see something, say something. In progress call 911, over and done call 311." They board up the doors, ensuring that the space will stay in it's intended form: empty, useless, an eyesore that reminds everyone of their place. The freshly boarded up door has been emblazoned with a message from those who lack.

i found the first half! "the only thing i can see"

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

"I do hope you realize how many artists or creators on this website love or need approval.

Imagine one week your post gets 2k likes 800 reblogs and 15 comments or something, as the ratio tends to be on here. Pretend that's average for your posts.

Imagine the next week, you post something, to find 50 likes, 5 reblogs, and 2 comments or whatever they're called.

Was this one worse? Did people just not find it?

You check, and nope. Reblog with someone you smiled at who said "OMG BLORBO FROM MY SHOWS!!!" Makes up for another 100 likes, 30 reblogs, and 5 comments, by account of most of the reblogs after that not adding anything and going right up to them.

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Above: plant growths caused by the larvae of three different species of gall wasp, including Trigonaspis teres, Callirhytis seminator, and Feron izabellae

These tumor-like growths are known as plant galls. They develop in response to chemicals that are injected or secreted by certain insects, mites, and nematodes. Each plant gall forms around the body of a single larva (or, in some cases, a small group of larvae), and the structure serves as both protection and sustenance for the tiny creature developing within.

Above: the plant gall of the oak apple gall wasp, Atrusca quercuscentricola, with a bisected view that shows the larva within

There are many different insects that can trigger the production of plant galls, including certain aphids, psyllids, flies, beetles, scale insects, and caterpillars, but gall-forming wasps are especially diverse. They also create some of the most distinctive plant galls in nature.

Above: the photo at the top shows the plant gall of an unidentified gall wasp from the family Cynipidae, and the photo at the bottom depicts the plant galls of the urchin gall wasp, Cynips quercusechinus

The color, shape, size, and texture of each plant gall varies depending on the species of gall wasp that induces it. Some wasps are associated with plant galls that look like fuzzy little pom-poms; others produce mushroom-shaped structures, colorful discs, cones, pink spheres, cottonballs, etc.

Above: this photo shows a mushroom gall wasp, Heteroecus sanctaeclarae, which produces plant galls that look like tiny mushroom-shaped houses

As this article explains:

Galls are plant growths (similar to tumors) that are induced by various organisms such as bacteria, fungi, and insects. Gall wasps have evolved to “trick” the plant into forming this growth which they then use for food and shelter as they transform from a larva to an adult.

The wasp larvae secrete chemicals that mimic growth hormones in a particular plant upon hatching. The chemicals trick the oak into growing a gall on its flowers, acorns, leaves, or stems. The larva is then encapsulated by the gall as it grows, waiting patiently inside until its metamorphosis is complete.

Above: Feron parmula, commonly known as the disc gall wasp

Many of these plant galls have elaborate, colorful features that are truly stunning.

Above: the spined-turban gall wasp, Cynips douglasii

Gall-forming wasps are only parasitic toward plants -- they do not parasitize other animals. The larvae feed on the nutritive tissues of their plant galls, but the adult wasps do not feed at all.

Above: plant galls produced by two different species of gall wasp

These wasps also have a peculiar reproductive cycle:

Many species have alternating generations, meaning all of the adults emerging from galls during one time of the year are female-only, while the adults emerging in a different season have both males and females. Most species have females that can reproduce using parthenogenesis when they emerge by themselves. This means that their eggs are essentially clones of themselves. What’s more, some species appear not to have any males at all.

Above: the huge, fuzzy plant galls of Striatoandricus furnessae and Druon pattoni

Scientists have named and described roughly 1400 species of gall wasp, and that's likely just a fraction of the number of species that actually exist, as gall-forming organisms are widely understudied.

Above: close-up of a gall wasp larva nestled in its plant gall

Once the larva transforms into a fully-developed wasp, it finally emerges from its gall.

Above: adult gall wasps

Sources & More Info:

Forest Watch: Gall Wasps

Gallformers: What the Heck is a Gall?

Southwick Country Park Nature Reserve: Ecosystem Engineers

Insect Systematics and Diversity: Comparative Anatomy of Venom Glands Suggests a Role of Maternal Secretions in Gall Induction by Cynipid Wasps

Entomology Today: Gall-Inducing Wasps Have Enlarged Venom Glands, Study Finds

The British Plant Gall Society: Plant Galls

more!! gosh this is taking forever, sorry for the spam!! (＞﹏＜)

also the version without fx so you can see everything ( ⸝⸝>ᴗ<⸝⸝ )

i start the roughs in toonsquid (i work very quickly in it and it has great tools for animated storyboards— blurs, a ton of very intuitive tweening tools, a scene editor, etc). in order to preserve the 2D camera movement in the storyboards, i make 2 copies of the storyboards: an export copy, where i export each animated layer of the storyboard from; and an import copy, which is just the 2D camera and a bunch of folders for each scene to import the finished animation into for the first compositing pass.

i then send the roughs to clip studio paint (csp has really really good vector layers and the best fill tool i’ve ever used, which are incredibly useful for filling and coloring drawings quickly, and it just has good 2D animation cleanup tools) in layers as png sequences, where i do final FX, tie downs, final lines, colors, and shadows/lighting. this is the most time consuming step, and what is being shown above.

once i’m done, i export each animated layer as a png sequence from clip studio back into toonsquid, into the import and do basic compositing stuff (glows, gaussian blurs, changing opacity on layers, etc) and adjust the camera movement as needed.

once i’m done, i export each animated layer as a png sequence from clip studio back into toonsquid, into the import copy with the camera and scene folders and do basic compositing stuff (glows, gaussian blurs, changing opacity on layers, etc) and adjust the camera movement as needed.

then i export the layers as png sequences once again (now with camera movement!!) into after effects to add things like motion blur, light bleed, final color grading, and anything else i feel the shot needs in the compositing department.

once the entire project has been finished and composited, the plan is to export all of the fully composited shots back into toonsquid again, into a project file with the same aspect ratio as the 2D camera (1920x1080 in the case of TRUTHS MEET), so i can add audio. 

this is somehow the fastest and most straightforward way of doing it for me. the different tools that each software has are really helpful in different parts of the animation pipeljne, and putting them together makes up for the time lost in all that importing and exporting.