MeiCottonsoul

im mei. i write a lot, and i use my writing as a coping mechanism more often than i truly mean to

this is my MSPFA. it means a lot to me! i want to write stories discussing things that have affected me and my loved ones my whole life AND make it into an interesting and fun adventure at the same time! this is what i use to do that, a fucking homestuck fan adventure. i do agree that thats a little silly but hey! its fun!

ISOLATED INCIDENT contains politics, existentialism, gore, LESBIANS (mostly trolls), other queer creatures, sins-of-the-father type shit, denial, constant struggling and a whole lot of lore that i spent (way) too much time on. im going to keep working on this even if it doesnt get a lot of attention, because god fucking damn it i love this thing and i love my team and i love the way we work on it together

you can read it right here

but!! that is RAW text!! meaning its just the WRITING. there are files there that show the PANELS as well, but all of the story content is from just the documents. if you dont wanna read that much, but still wanna see how this goes, dont worry! ill post about it regularly.

Now, if you'd like to see this baby on MSPFA, check out the UPDATED AND EDITED VERSION OF ACT 1 RIGHT HERE!!!! https://mspfa.com/?s=49917&p=1

here are some of those panels btw, theyre sexy af because @crabbchips is sexy af and she draws these

I, however, can no longer get new panels. I need to find another artist one way or another, but I must wait until I can pay said artist. ISOLATED INCIDENT will likely resume visualisation in 2024, sometime, somehow. I refuse to give up on the project, I'm still writin' motherfuckers. I got a story to tell.

im mei. i write a lot, and i use my writing as a coping mechanism more often than i truly mean to

this is my MSPFA. it means a lot to me! i want to write stories discussing things that have affected me and my loved ones my whole life AND make it into an interesting and fun adventure at the same time! this is what i use to do that, a fucking homestuck fan adventure. i do agree that thats a little silly but hey! its fun!

ISOLATED INCIDENT contains politics, existentialism, gore, LESBIANS (mostly trolls), other queer creatures, sins-of-the-father type shit, denial, constant struggling and a whole lot of lore that i spent (way) too much time on. im going to keep working on this even if it doesnt get a lot of attention, because god fucking damn it i love this thing and i love my team and i love the way we work on it together

you can read it right here

but!! that is RAW text!! meaning its just the WRITING. there are files there that show the PANELS as well, but all of the story content is from just the documents. if you dont wanna read that much, but still wanna see how this goes, dont worry! ill post about it regularly.

Now, if you'd like to see this baby on MSPFA, check out the UPDATED AND EDITED VERSION OF ACT 1 RIGHT HERE!!!! https://mspfa.com/?s=49917&p=1

here are some of those panels btw, theyre sexy af because @crabbchips is sexy af and she draws these

I, however, can no longer get new panels. I need to find another artist one way or another, but I must wait until I can pay said artist. ISOLATED INCIDENT will likely resume visualisation in 2024, sometime, somehow. I refuse to give up on the project, I'm still writin' motherfuckers. I got a story to tell.

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The Lesbian Herstory Archives, based in Brooklyn, is similar.

The Digital Public Library of America covers a great many topics, but they also have LGBTQ+ stuff.

I'd also recommend searching "lgbtq+" and "libguide" in your preferred search engine. Many universities list helpful resources and databases, some of which are freely accessible.

Many public and academic libraries in the US and Canada (not sure where you're writing from) subscribe to the Gale Archives of Sexuality and Gender. If you have a library card or are a student at a given library, you can access it for free.

But also kind of looping back to the first post: you personally might have relevant records. Photos of Pride or protests you've been to, journals, a blog full of trans headcanons even. That's all part of queer history and that's the stuff these archives and museums are made of.

Glad you've been finding it useful so far!

For that panel, he used a Gaussian blur filter. Recreating this panel would be fairly straightforward. First, the background and subject would have to be three separate layers: one for the foreground subject, one for the background subject, and one for the actual background.

I've grouped them together as you can see here, and duplicated it four more times. The gun starts off with a strength of 4 pixels, and for each subsequent duplicate layer, the strength of the Gaussian blur filter is reduced by 1 pixel for the foreground element, and increased by 1 pixel for the background element.

Decreasing foreground element's blur

Increasing background element's blur

I believe the background was done differently, however. Instead of increasing the strength of the blur, Hussie duplicated the background layer on top of the original background, blurred it by 4 pixels, and increased the opacity of the duplicate for each frame of animation.

Here's my recreation:

And here's the original panel:

Here's the PSD for my recreation, too. It has information in it that can only be editable in Photoshop, though.

i have nothing to animate btw so heres like. a behind the scenes think

.. i mean thing

from a few days ago

lil test animation with dave strider (i dont know if he is in this comic but i think not)

guest starring: Google Images Claymore (https://www.wholesaleblades.com/silver-william-wallace-braveheart-medieval-scottish-claymore-sword)

to be completely honest its not great. made dave's rig myself out of separated images and there just... weren't enough for all the actions.

so if i'm using any of these wrong, sorry.

i'm hoping as @crabbchips makes separated bits for the characters these will up significantly in quality.

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