1000% Real Human Being Don't Worry About It

That list might say things like “Paint a picture. Go birdwatching. Finish that great novel I started reading. Call my grandma. Learn to bake a cake. Visit my sister. Play piano.”

I wanted to send a new ask filled with joy that everything worked out better than I could have ever hoped! The state I live in is one of the most progressive around right now and it turns out my surgery is covered for short term disability through the state AND for LOA from my job so I get almost all my wages paid while I recover for 6 weeks! My family was also able to pitch in to cover expenses until the pay actually hits my bank account.

My surgery went really great, and I'm recovering better and faster than I thought I would (I was able to get my drains out after only 9 days)! My nurse has been impressed with how well I'm healing and all in all Ive been riding so high with releif that everything got sorted out better than Id ever dared to hope. Life for me has been one bad luck and intense struggle after another for so long now, I was so sure something would happen to fuck up my surgery, but it didnt!

I hope its ok I came here to be all excited. Your blog is such a haven for so many of us right now and youre always so kind and supportive and I just really wanted to share how joyful this has been and to spread the hope to others that their transitions go equally as well <3

We persist and we thrive!

That's awesome, I'm so happy for you! <3

And those are some great options for other people to look into - thank you so much for sharing. I may consider short-term disability for my hysto.

"3d6+d8" is an implicit summation thanks to the plus sign, so your code there is asking for the middle two of a list containing one value (i.e., the middle function has no effect).

Anydice's native "middle" function doesn't accept non-homogeneous dice, but you can construct a custom function that does easily enough. For example:

function: middletwo of A:s B:s C:s D:s { result: {2,3}@[sort {A, B, C, D}] }

This function accepts four arbitrary dice, stuffs their results into a sorted list, and spits out the sum of the second and third results in the list. Thus:

output [middletwo of 1d4 1d6 1d8 1d10]

this. indie animators

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So to start off we've got our line art, we're assuming for the sake of this tutorial that it's all neatly closed up under those couple layers that are blocked on top of it, make sure you're on the lineart layer. Then we're going to use the "auto-select" tool on the setting "Refer-to-editing-layer-only" (In CSP at least it looks like a little magic wand)

Then we're going to select OUTSIDE of the lineart, now for this to really work well it helps to draw on a large canvas, I tend to draw at 600 dpi and then actually post the images scaled way down at like 300-72 dpi or smth depending.

So when we zoom in it should look something like this, because we've selected the area OUTSIDE of our lineart

then we're gonna go up and click on "expand selected area" and expand it by like ~2 pixels

After that we're gonna go back and click on the option directly Above "Expand selected area"- "Invert selected area"

And then we're going to create a New Layer UNDERNEATH the lineart layer, find some nice light color that contrasts well with whatever the color of our background is, and use the fill tool

Now, obviously that wasn't perfect, there's some issues there with space filled in that shouldn't be and such, but that's a pretty easy fix, just go back to the line art layer repeat the above steps in the areas outside your lineart that were filled in(skipping the inversion) but instead of picking a new color we're going to use whatever the fuck this thing is on the color slider. I do not know if it has a name but it is my best friend and lover

and use the fill tool with that. (Just like be careful to remember to switch back and forth between your lineart layer and your new solid block color layer, and also the expanding the selection by 2 pixels before erasing from the Solid Block Color Layer and NOT your lineart layer. The amount of times I accidentally erase like 2 pixels off my lineart and have to go back and undo that....)

ANYWAYS ONCE THAT'S ALL SET UP we now have this beautiful wonderful solid block of color under our lineart which!!!!! Shouldn't be crackly b/c it should be fairly deep into our lines. And this is my personal favorite part. Everything about digital art got so much better when I learned how to use this shit->LAYER CLIPPING

We're gonna make a new folder above the color block layer, and we're gonna use that little button right there to clip it to the color block layer we just made under our lineart, and now every single layer that we create inside that folder will only be visible over that color block, so you can't color outside the lines. (So if you DO want to color outside the lines, like for effects or for something that doesn't require line art that will need to be it's own layer outside and above the folder)

Thanks for responding and reblogging! Sincerely, a person involved in volunteer groups whose members are getting older every year without enough young people stepping up to replace them and she'd like to figure out why so she can help improve things. without judgement or criticism.

In Undertale, the difference in physical structure between humans and monsters represents their different... let's say "ontological" status; humans are more physical because they're more real that monsters, right, they're the ones with real agency and moral patienthood; the world is implicitly telling you that monsters don't matter, they aren't moral patients, they are to humans as NPCs are to a player. They aren't real people made of flesh and blood, they're made of magic! That's the joke, I think.

Now Deltarune, with Lightners and Darkners, takes that subtext of ontological superiority and brings it even closer to text; the Darkners are literally not real, Ralsei encourages you to disregard their lives; the Lightners stand above them in the great chain of being, and closer to the Sun.

It would then stand to thematic reason that Monsters, as Lightners in the world of Deltarune, where we already know they don't have Magic, all bleed. This is what I have been staunchly defending for years now. And yet the game has just danced around it the entire time— if it's just a simple fact of the world, why not be straightforward about it? Why treat Susie bleeding four chapters in like a big deal? Why let Darkners so consistently talk about blood?

—Deltarune does not borrow Undertale's symbolism here; blood does not anymore stand for "real", or, rather, if it does, it stands for "real" as in "visceral", as in the opposite of "sanitized".

I don't actually know if Lightners bleed or not, but it doesn't matter, because either way, this fact would not be brought up. This is not a place where things like violence or blood are talked about (just ignore the weird man in the weird costume). This is just a quaint little town! Nothing bad ever happens here. We especially wouldn't talk about it around the kids! We're protecting them from it! Kids shouldn't worry about things like blood or trauma— So even a giant bloodstain on the floor goes unacknowledged.

The Light World doesn't allow talking about anything uncomfortable. Horror movies and rock music that may contain references to scary things are banned! But in the Dark Worlds, where the kids are free from the eyes of the grown ups, and can talk about everything weird and uncomfortable they're going and have gone through, the things they know are there just under the surface but aren't allowed to speak of— they can talk about blood. The Darkness itself manifests gushing from a wound in the Earth!

And Susie— well she talks about blood all of the time. She bluntly acknowledges the truth that "everyone bleeds". And when she rejects the prophecy, when she calls out the lie of the religion which claims to be all about everyone being always nice to one another, she, herself, bleeds.

tl;dr :

Noelle can't say "Kris did something," she can only say "it snowed," and "It was snowing so hard, I couldn't see anything." Kris goes to Art Therapy, trying to depict what they saw behind the tree, and draws the trees of Card Kingdom instead – and the Forgotten Man and Mancountry are games, too. The closest we've gotten to the "core" of what Kris is hiding was through MANTLE, game abstraction wrapped in game abstraction wrapped in game abstraction like the shielding of a nuclear waste disposal site, while some shrieking, giggling, unspeakable fear sits at its center and writhes hard enough to tear through that defensive layer and torment Kris in flesh.