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crisis/urgent support lines and sites

hotlines/crisis lines for depression, domestic abuse, alcohol and drug abuse, teens, pregnancy, lgbt and more

mental support community - a forum where you can post that you are in a crisis right now and need peer support as soon as possible

imalive crisis chat - online one-on-one chat for if you’re in at risk of hurting yourself etc

self harm alternatives

si urges alternatives

relaxation/anxiety relief

do nothing for two minutes

interactive silk art

guided relaxation

watch a dream

100,000 stars

thisissand - create sandscapes on your screen with your mouse

calming gif

the quiet place project

the quiet place - find some quiet

the thoughts room - a super calm page to unburden yourself from bad thoughts

the comfort spot - a place for anonymous venting with out anybody judging you for who you are

the dawn room - my personal favourite, especially good for when you feel alone

know that it will be okay - when a moment is too hard for you - come here.

music and sounds

my anxiety relief playlist - on 8tracks

my positivity/recovery playlist - on 8tracks

‘stay strong’ playlists - on 8tracks

coffee shop sounds

rain sounds

calmsound - nature sounds

rainycafe

comfort food

one minute cookie in a mug

brownie in a mug

several cookie recipes

25 hot chocolate recipes

loads and loads of snacks - 533 quick and easy recipes for a range of snacks on studentrecipe

lots of different in-a-mug recipes

chocolate pudding in a mug - my personal fave (lil tip: add mini marshmallows for extra gooey yumminess)

advice and tips

how to be okay with yourself

25 resolutions

life hacks

more life hacks

a hella ton more life hacks - so many life hacks dude soon ur gonna never have a day-to-day stress again

school masterpost - school sucks so bad but hopefully this can help ease the stress

how to love yourself

how to bypass restricted wifi omg

alleviate menstrual cramps

boost your confidence

love yourself!

self help after anxiety

stop biting your nails

stop procrastinating

stop skipping breakfast

videos and movies

cure to sadness (video)

the movie blog - a blog dedicated to movie masterposts you will never be without a movie to watch again

cute roulette - THE BEST PLACE ON THE INTERNET ITS LITERALLY JUST A HUGE ROULETTE OF VIDEOS OF CUTE ANIMALS WHAT MORE COULD YOU WANT FROM LIFE

random acts of kindness caught on film

disney movies

movies for angsty teens

distractions etc

rice questions - answer simple questions and donate free rice to people in poverty!!

click to give - just click a button to donate (it costs nothing) food to animals shelters, people in poverty and homeless veterans; mammograms to fight breast cancer; therapy for people on the autism spectrum; alzheimer’s and diabetes research; a book to a child; protect wildlife habitat

break something - good for anger

loads of cute games

how to make a blanket nest

learn something new - a masterpost of hobbies

exercise like a superhero

nice words

things to do when your sad

slap a bald guy with an eel - this is ridiculously entertaining

watch a dog lick your screen - it loops, so you could literally watch for hours if you want

calmingmanatee

daily puppy

how to make a comfort box

download free books

extras

emergency compliment!

lots of compliments - they even include ur name aw

huge list of bloggers who have put themselves forward as willing to listen/chat without judgement

getting anon hate?

:) tag - all the posts that i’ve tagged for making me happy

7cupsoftea - free, anonymous, confidential talks with trained listeners

get a hug

Calming songs, playlists and instrumentals:

Sing Me to Sleep

The Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Boost your Mood (peppier and happy songs)

The Driving Mixtape

Study

Summer Nights

It’s Going to be Fine

Calm & Collected

Once Upon a December - Piano (song)

Clair de Lune (song)

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (song)

Calming/distracting Websites

The Quiet Place

Rainymood.com

Calm.com

Soundrown.com - calming sounds to mix and match

A website to distract yourself

A recovery masterpost

A post of interesting things

Ungruntle yourself

Press a magic button and fix everything

Play cute games

Almost every movie your little heart desires (i suggest you use with adblocker)

How to love yourself

A website that compliments you

Crafts and activities, easy and fun DYI projects

Glitter calm jars

A list of things to do to curb anxiety

Make a blanket nest

Silky summer legs

Lots of food recipes; mostly desserts  

For bad days masterpost

Make some microwave snacks

Five minute fudge

Make a phone case

A bunch of hobbies!

Self care list!

Pretty gold-dipped feathers (for decorating or anything)

What to do when:

You’ve been triggered

You’re having an anxiety attack

You’re having a panic attack

Your face is red and puffy after crying

You just had a fight

You hate yourself

You want to avoid being stressed

You want to get over your ex

Meditation and breathing

Guided Meditations

Do Nothing for 2 Minutes

Calm Down

Meditation Tips

90 second relaxation exercise

Simple things

Pretty Tree

When You Feel You Have Lost Everything

See Some BLOOD

Press a Button to Make Everything OK

Calming Manatee

Calming Gif

Make Something!

Jump into a Sofa Fort!

Make a Comfort Box

Glitter Jar Or This One

Other Nice Things

A Page To Help You Recover!!!

Coping Skills & Distractions

The Quiet Place. Shhhhh

For When You’re Upset

The Nicest Place on the Internet

Player 2

10 Most Relaxing Online Games

Talk To Someone That Will Listen

Not Having a Good Day?

How-to Love Yourself

Ground Yourself X X  X

Mood Chart

Do Nothing For Two Minutes

Rainymood

The Comfort Spot

Weave Silk

Seed Plant Breeder

This Is Sand

C.A.L.M

Calming/Relaxing Music:

Soft Piano: x, x, x, x, x

The Sound of Waves: x

Don’t.

We need you. The world needs you. We’ve been through this before, in one way or another, and we have prevailed. Who benefits from your death? Only those who want you silenced.

There will be blue skies ahead. There will be triumphs. This is not the end of the world.

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1800-273-8255

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: Online Chat

Crisis Text Line: Text START to 741-741

The Trevor Project (LBGT+):  1-866-488-7386

Trans Lifeline:  (877) 565-8860

If you need support outside the USA:

yoooo my incredible coworker @vivifx made an amazing trailer for our game *____* 

tank/healer - you won’t find a better combination, they know exactly how the other works and are the best at keeping the whole group alive

tank/tank - they have the guild or group of friends divided and everything turns into a popularity contest. even if one of them accepts their fate as subtank the bitter resentment is a ticking bomb that one day will go off. good luck.

tank/dps - the human representation of the “hoe dont do it” *does it* “oh my god” meme

healer/healer - would be like tank/tank if it weren’t because they’re probably the most stable relationship in the world with all that saintly patience. bless

healer/dps - snarky pieces of shit

My friends have created this site for tracking your images, it’s called copypants.com.

It sucks finding people who repost your art without crediting you. On top of finding your images, Copypants acts as a middleman for interacting with the reposters. They make it really easy to send credit requests to people reposting your work.

if youre only planning on posting your art online, them please save it as .png ;this is also better for transparencies as well

BUT

please, if youre planning of printing your art, NEVER use png. it makes the quality of the image pretty shitty. use jpeg or pdf instead. and always set your work at 300dpi to get a better printing quality - this means, the images are crisper and sharper and theres no slight blurriness. i had a talk with my friend who is currently taking design, and pdf is much better to use when youre working with a bigger publishing company because it still has the layers intact, but if youre only planning on printing your stuff at staples or at some small publishing store, the jpeg is the way to go.

This is all utter bullshit.

I’m sorry but if your qualification is working on the school yearbook, you have no qualifications. Do not pretend otherwise. As a former professional photo manipulator for advertising brochures, I can say that you’re not comparing apples to oranges here - if anything, you’re comparing fruit to farmyard machinery:

JPEG is a lossy format. It is suitable for web imagery because it sacrifices detail for reduced file sizes, but in doing so it introduces artifacts that weren’t in the original; if you load a JPEG for editing, then save it as a different JPEG, then you’re adding more artifacts formed from those first artifacts. Do this often enough and you end up with a horrid glitchy mess that looks like a puddle’s reflection after a stone’s been thrown in. You’ve seen those memes that have 3 or 4 different “found at” tags along the bottom, that look like fingerpainted copies of the original? That’s why.

PNG is a lossless format that comes in two primary flavours, PNG-8 and PNG-24, which use 8 and 24 bit colour respectively. 8-bit colour is what you have in GIFs, a limit of just 256 different colours in a predetermined palette, usually automatically chosen by your software when saving. These files will look the same as GIFs, potentially with large patches of solid colour instead of the usual gradual shading seen in 24-bit imagery. This is usually better for small banners or pixel art, as it can yield smaller filesizes than GIF format. (There is an animated version called MNG but it has very little web support, hence the continued use of GIFs.)

PNG-24 is great for larger images where detail is as important as colour depth, as well as printable RGB images and (if supported by the client) full colour images with gradient transparencies. It most certainly does not make “the quality of the image pretty shitty,” as it preserves every nuance. File sizes can be smaller than JPEG for small images, or significantly larger for large images.

PDF is a container file, whatever you put into it will be pretty much preserved as it was, so you gain nothing but lose nothing.

TIFF is what you need to be using for archival or print-quality imagery. It has support for multiple layers, multiple colour channels (RGB as well as CMYK, which is essential for accurate print rendering), and everything is preserved exactly as it was seen on-screen when being composed. There are compressed versions available, they use similar methods to PNG in order to maintain detail without sacrifice; next to whatever your graphics program uses natively, this is the most interchangeable format available for professional use.

DPI is important only when used in combination with image dimensions; in and of itself it serves no purpose. If you make a brilliantly detailed 640x480 image & set it to 300dpi, you’ll receive a brilliantly detailed 2 inch x 1.6 inch print. This is great if you want to make a postage stamp, but not if you’re creating an A4 flyer! Determine the image’s dimension then set the DPI accordingly; 72dpi isn’t hideous especially for text-heavy work (it’s ~3 pixels per millimeter), and 150dpi can be suitable for many images. Unless you’re interested in photo realism, 300dpi is usually overkill - for our hypothetical A4 flyer, you’d need a file of 2490x3510 pixels for edge to edge printing, with a correspondingly high memory requirement and filesize even if using a compressed format.

Keeping the layers intact is utterly unimportant for print work unless you want to use a separated colour print method that requires multiple passes to lay down each ink. If you send a file with all the layers, masks, etc. off for printing you’re liable to get it sent back unactioned, as they won’t want to take responsibility for choosing the wrong elements for printing. Save your work with everything intact, then save a flattened copy especially for printing purposes - this is one of the reasons Save Copy As… is a common option in graphics manipulation software.

As a designer who’s worked a few years for a newspaper, I cannot begin to tell you how much OP’s post (edit: response, technically) made me cringe. I would have killed to get a photo as a TIFF for once instead of having to tear apart PDFs only to find a 50x100px 72dpi shitty JPEG inside for the 5 millionth time…

Listen up you fucks because I’m not wasting thousands of dollars on an art degree to watch y’all fuck up basic color theory.

Red, yellow, and blue are the primary colors

If you’re using p i g m e n t.

Do you hear me? When you’re using traditional media, fucking actual goddamn paint, Bob Ross style, your primary colors are!

When you use paint, your primary colors are red yellow and blue and don’t forget it.

NOW THAT CHANGES COMPLETELY WHEN YOU GO FUCKING DIGITAL.

THE DIGITAL PRIMARY COLORS ARE RED BLUE AND GREEN IF AND ONLY IF YOUR WORK IS GOING TO STAY DIGITAL, ON THE SCREEN, AND NEVER LEAVE THE SCREEN, AND OF COURSE IF YOUR WORK IS GOING TO BE PRINTED. ON A PRINTER. WITH INK. THEN. AND O N L Y  T H E N.

ARE YOUR PRIMARY COLORS.

CYAN. 

MAGENTA.

AND YELLOW.

So say it with me folks!

Red yellow and blue, are the primary colors for traditional pigment that’s mostly used in paints and shit. You use red yellow and blue when you’re painting traditionally, Bob Ross style. 

Red blue and green is light, which is what you’re painting with when you pick up your tablet and go digital.

CMYK is ink, and ink only. You could use cyan, magenta, and yellow as your primary colors in paint if you wanted to be a complete dick, but they’re not your primary colors unless your work is going to be printed using. i n k. The only time they could be considered the primary colors in a traditional medium is if you’re using ink.

Is my icon. I painted this using RED. GREEN. AND BLUE. AS MY PRIMARY COLORS and they turned out fine. Of course, I used the finger smudge tool first and then the color mixing tool and then the blur tool, but hey what do I know.

Clearly using the blur tool only doesn’t cut it.

“Oh but Leo!” You say. “You used cyan and magenta in that color wheel!”

Well bitch guess what.

this is the digital color wheel. I’d say I mimicked that pretty well, don’t you think?

Oh and one other thing, notice how Blue and Yellow are directly opposite each other on this color wheel? That’s because we’re dealing with light, and with light, yellow and blue are complimentary colors.

Which is why when you mix them, it looks like this:

Which is a pretty neutral gray tone: They cancel each other out on the rgb color wheel when you mix them together.

BUT WITH PIGMENT THE PLACEMENT IS DIFFERENT

If you’ll notice, yellow and violet are now opposite each other, meaning they’re complimentary colors and if you mix  them, they’ll make a neutral gray.

But if you mix yellow and blue, same colors as before, YOU GET THIS:

Now keep in mind that the person in the video uses a darker blue, so they get a darker green, but the point is that it doesn’t make that neutral gray.

Now what happens when we mix yellow and violet paint?

Ah yes, you get a bunch of muted colors the more evenly you mix them.

What happens when you mix yellow light and purple light?

The reason the primary colors for light are so dramatically different from the primary colors for paint and ink is because your eye only receives combinations of red light, blue light, and green light. Our eyes do not have a sensor (cone cell) for yellow light. So when we paint with light, red green and blue are our primary colors. Because of our eyes.

Furthermore, paint primary colors are colors that cannot be created by mixing other colors together. For paint, they are red yellow and blue, because you cannot mix orange and green to get yellow. Mixing orange and purple paint does not make red. And mixing green and purple paint does not make blue.

Mixing blue and green paints will make cyan. Mixing red and blue paints will make magenta.

That’s why cyan and magenta aren’t primary paint colors.

However, you can’t mix yellow and blue ink and get cyan. You can’t mix red and blue ink to get magenta.

And that’s why cyan and magenta are the primary ink colors.

Brighter and stronger paints are created through tints and shades, through a thorough understanding of color theory and a few quality paint recipes. Not by bullshit posts on tumblr designed to mislead you.

It’s finally here! Thank you guys so much for supporting and being part of my life. I cannot tell you the inspiration, motivation, and happiness you all have given me in the few months since I’ve made my studyblr. Okay I’ll stop being mushy :)

Please read the rules below for how to enter, and I will announce the winner on November 2nd, 2016 with a random generator after inputting all of your names. So, heres a big giveaway that I’ve been saving up for for weeks! Here are the 5 things that you will receive if you win!!! 

Here is what you will win:

1- 10 pack of Staedtler Triplus Fineliner Brilliant Colours

2- 1 Blue Fjallraven Kanken Backpack

3- 15 pack of Zebra Mildliner Cool Soft Colour Double-Sided Highlighters

4- Ban.do Sticker Book

5- 20 MT Washi Masking Tapes

RULES:

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Must reblog this post (likes are for bookmarks) You can reblog as many times as you would like!

If you won, I will send you an ask on November 2nd, 2016 and ask for your PO box or mailing address, so please be comfortable with me asking for that :]

No giveaway accounts, please!

P.S.: This giveaway is open internationally!

****This is optional, but if you have the financial means to afford these items, please try to reblog this less, as this is for people who cannot afford these luxury items :)

Aka “That little f*cker stole my art and I am not okay with it.”

The follow up to my Guide For Reporting Stolen Artwork and Get Consent, Kids

If you haven’t heard by now, I’m just someone who hates stolen artwork and those who do the thieving, literally has run out of fucks to give, and knows a thing or two about copyright law and will fight you on this.

NOTE: THIS ALSO WILL CONTAIN A FEW HELPFUL TIPS FOR ARTISTS WHO GIVE PERMISSION TO DUB!

In the weeks I’ve been reporting stolen artwork to artists, it’s really broken my heart to realize just how many of them didn’t know what rights they have when it comes to their artwork simply because it’s fanart. Like…nooo…

If you are an artist–be it of traditional/digital pictures, videos/photos, words (prose/poetry), music, or a voice actor–you have rights to your work.

For the sake of conciseness, I will only be referencing traditional/digital art throughout this post.

No one can use your artwork without your permission. Even fanart cannot be used by the company/creators of the show WITHOUT YOUR EXPLICIT CONSENT. Otherwise, it’s theft. YOU OWN THE ART. YOU MAY NOT OWN THE CHARACTERS BUT THAT PICTURE IS YOURS. YOU DECIDE WHERE IT GOES, WHO CAN USE IT, HOW, AND WHEN.

Note: selling fanart is a different monster altogether and that’s not what this is about. I’m not even gonna go there.

Wellp. This is my art and I sure didn’t put it here.

You have three options:

Do nothing

Talk to them - ask them to get permission next time, make them credit you

Flag – DMCA TIME. Don’t know what this is? I gotchu fam.

DMCA stands for Digital Media Copyright Act. Also known as a copyright claim. In short, if you’ve ever used something that was copyrighted and got told to take it down by the website or had it removed by the website, then you’ve been slapped by a DMCA report. Those are legal actions and should be respected and obeyed.

If you’ve ever flagged a video for having your content, reported stolen artwork on tumblr or anything else, odds are you were filing a DMCA takedown.

Personally, I would always recommend DMCA. If you wanna go route 2 that’s fine, I won’t judge you. From my point of view, however, that person didn’t have the fucking courtesy to even ASK YOU. Why should they be allowed to reap the benefits of your hard work? 

Well…they might not have known…they’re just kids…

I stole a doll from a thrift store when I was 3 and my mama sent me right back inside, crying, to apologize, and give it back. From then on, I knew that taking things from the store was wrong. You’re never too young to learn right from wrong.

A DMCA might be just the thing to teach that whippersnapper not to steal artowrk. Especially if they’re already refusing to cooperate.

I don’t want to start trouble…

They stole from you. They started it.

Ok but…DMCA reports want my full name and address!

Yeah, probably. But this is a legal action…so why are you surprised?

Many people on the internet want a degree of anonymity, I understand that. The internet is a dangerous place. But DMCA take downs are legal actions. Companies need to do everything they can to ensure honesty. If there’s a dispute, they might need to contact you for further info. If things end up getting heated, someone needs to be able step up and own up to the claims–though I’ve never heard of it getting this far for stolen artwork on youtube. Otherwise, people would flag videos left and right just because they don’t like them. I mean, they already try, but DMCA is much more serious and they’re forms are intimidating enough to scare off the filthy casuals.

DMCA is one of the only weapons you have to defend your rights. Take it or leave it.

I’m not a US citizen… (or the thief isn’t)

That’s okay! Most websites where your stuff could be reposted ARE based in the USA and, therefore, are under the jurisdiction of USA copyright laws.

HOW DO I FILE A COPYRIGHT CLAIM???

Youtube

Tumblr

Deviantart

Pintrest

Instagram

For any other websites, just google the website name plus DMCA.

IF YOU ARE A DUBBER, LIKE ME, AND ONE OF YOUR DUBS GOT STOLEN, WORK WITH THE ARTIST AND THE VOICE ACTORS TO REPORT IT. ALL OF YOU CAN FILE A COPYRIGHT CLAIM ON IT. You as the editor, the artist obviously, and the voice actors since they “appear in the video without their consent” ;) you’re welcome.

If someone reposts a song cover or an amv you made, you can DMCA those as well even though you don’t hold copyright to the original material. You made the video. You have some rights to it still. …But if the original content owners say something to you, shut up and listen your ass might end up in court.

Tips for Artists Who Get Dubbed

Rule 1 in my field: ALWAYS COVER YOUR ASS!

…kay wait. I think “wrap your cables properly” is rule one. Rule 2 then. But it’s a good rule and it applies everywhere.

If someone comes to you asking to dub your work, this is what you should do:

State your answer clearly. If it’s a no, you don’t have to explain why but it might be a good idea.

State how to credit you, provide links if you want

State that they cannot monetize it. This is important.

State any place where the artwork may not be posted

Ask for links to the finished product, maybe even the username they plan on posting under.

Finally, TAKE SCREENSHOTS OF THE CONVO AND SAVE THEM. This way you can know who you gave permission to and who you did not, as well as if they violated the terms of your agreement.

By giving them consent, you are basically entering a contract together. Screenshots are your evidence of the contract just in case the original is lost. Failure to comply with your terms is a breach of this contract and you can take action against them.

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The Warlock’s prophecy is about to come true, but he still needs our help. I need everyone to reblog this and add “Thank You Warlock” in order to give him more power.