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9. Gosh that's a really hard one. I've got a ton, but I'm gonna have to go with the cat fight in Re-animator (close runners up are 'I'm moving out' from bride and 'alright, I like your lobster' from the lighthouse)

11. This is actually really funny because for the absolute longest time, I hated literally anything scary. I was really young when Monsters Inc came out and I had to be carried out during the door scene. It wasn't until I got to college that I started exploring horror. As for the first horror themed thing that scared me, what's coming to mind is Nightmare Before Christmas. We had a DVD rental place near me growing up and I remember clear as day seeing it on their tv screens and saying Fuck this.

22. With this one, in no particular order, I'm thinking Mandy (2018), Cabin in the Woods (2011), The Bay (2012), The Lighthouse (2019), and Motivational Growth (2014(?)). Motivational Growth really has a soft spot in my heart. I reached out to the director, Don Thacker, to see if they knew where I could buy a digital download since it was taken down from my favorite streaming site. He was exceptionally nice and sent one for me and my buddy for free. He seemed so excited and even told the staring actor, who sent a video telling us he was glad we liked the movie and his favorite quotes. It honest to God made my year and I think the movie will always be special as a result of it

38. I know I just got done talking about it, but I think it's gotta be Motivational Growth again. Jeffery Combs voices a mold growing in a misanthrope's bathroom, someone tries to fuck a television set, and you see a fungal titty. Here's the trailer:

me: Prince Fomar looks like young Eli—

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people this mad are always funny to me because they seem so passionate but aren't brave enough to put their name to their words

honestly though. @ this anon if you’re really serious channel some of this energy

re:which italian gesture now i'm curious

when you make finger guns with one hand but not with your fingers completely straight, just slightly bent, and you rotate the hand right to left repeatedly

A book that a certain friend is always telling you to read:

My partner and I are both booksellers so I can’t keep count of how many books they want me to read but they’ve been pretty persistent when it comes to books by Chloe Delaume or Martin Winckler. Lately they also told me about that manga by Nekomaki about an old man and his cat, I’m pretty sure I’m gonna love it.

A book that’s been on your TBR forever and yet you still haven’t picked it up:

Circe by Madeline Miller. I know I’ll fall in love once again with her writing. I also know that it won’t be as special as The Song of Achilles has been to me. So I’m waiting for the right occasion for me to read it.

A book in a series you’ve started, but haven’t finished yet:

I own but still haven’t read the second novel of Six of Crows. I’ll probably read it this summer tho.

A classic you’ve always liked the sound of, but never actually read:

Of Mice and Men.

A popular book that it seems everyone but you has read:

Alice in Wonderland.

A book that inspired a film/TV adaptation that you really love, but you just haven’t read it yet:

There are many. Gone Girl, Tales of the City, The Hauting of Hill House...I could go on. I did the opposite with Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro tho and I don’t regret it, I don’t know about the movie but the book is simply amazing. 

A book you see all over Tumblr but haven’t picked up yet:

The Raven Cycle.

Oh, thank you! I’m happy to share! 

I think for me the hardest part of colouring is skin tone, and in some of those Fen gifs the lighting complicated things a fair bit. I find that colour balance really helps, as do vibrance and hue/saturation. I did use quite a few layers in these gifs so I won’t go into specifics of what settings all layers were on as those are all factors that vary from gif to gif. 

To start I used a curves layer to brighten things up, a levels to balance it with a bit of darkness, a brightness layer and then 2 or 3 selective colour layers to increase the colouring. 

To pop the colours I added a hue/saturation layer, a vibrance, a brightness and then another hue/saturation. I found that taking the hue/sat too high was no good, so in this case I kept it the saturation between 5 and 15, vibrance I took up to 45. 

The colours were still not what I wanted so I threw in a colour balance. This is what kicked the colouring up to where I wanted it. To decrease the blue/darker tone I took the settings between -15 to -25 in the yellow/blue, the reds up to 30 and magenta/green to -5. I added another colour balance directly after with cyan/red at -6, magenta/green to -2 and yellow/blue to -5. In the darker scenes I changed these settings to +8, +8, -5. When it comes to colour balance, it can take a fair bit of time to find the right balance. I couldn’t remove the purple lighting from Fen’s face completely in one gif, but the colour balance definitely improved the look.

To finish off I threw in another brightness, vibrance and hue/saturation but these were all just to pop the colours further, as I personally really like my gifs to be quite colourful. 

Basically though, when it comes to skin tones I would recommend experimenting with colour balance. Mess around with the settings, I generally only adjust the midtones but the shadows and highlights can be useful too. I also find that you need to find the right place to put these layers as depending on where you place it within your colouring process it can look drastically different. I kept mine towards the end of my colouring, as it created a more natural looking colouring. 

i think you made a typo. i think you meant "brain cell" and not "gaydar"

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