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Memento Mori. Unus Annus.

Some doodles of different people. Consistent artstyle who?

DHMUUUUU LISTEN TO THEM!!!! George being absolutely tired of dream ... his little hiccupy laugh paired with dreams freakin guffaws....

Some dream content because I'm falling for this man

*sigh*

Here are a few subtle-ish lgbtq wallpapers/backgrounds I made for pride 2020. Enjoy!

gay | lesbian

bisexual | pansexual

asexual | aromantic

transgender | non-binary

If you saved any, I would really appreciate a like or reblog!

Happy pride, everybody! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

🏳️‍🌈1/8 septic pride icons🏳️‍🌈

You can use these an the old ones if you want :>

Ight im doing this shit again so beware spam-ish for a lil bit ALSO i will be posting transparent ones on here this time an like last time I'll make a separate post for the other lesbian flag

Some lgbt+ icecream wallpapers

Like/reblog if you save

I also take requests

looks like you unused in the wrong annus, bud

two easy steps to get a boyfriend by kirishima eijirou:

say it's for a bro bond

#pwned you got em boys

Vocal warmups.

Kirishima’s here, everybody stand down!  │ 𝐆𝐢𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 by Anon

How to edit traditional art for social media

Being a mainly traditional artist myself it always irks me a little when I see sketches or even full illustrations being posted without any proper editing, making for a terrible presentation of an otherwise great piece. 

So here are my tips for making your art not look shit in just a few easy steps. 

You don´t need a fancy scanner for this, but if you have a digital camera at home I´d recommed you to use that instead of your smartphone. (However smartphone photos are also okay! Use whatever you have on hand)

Take a photo of your piece during the day in ambient lighting and try to make the paper lie as flat as possible. Avoid direct sunlight and artificial light as both will lower the quality of the picture. The inital photo will look something like this:

Not exactly breath-taking, huh? but don´t worry, we´ll get this prettied up. 

Open the photo on your computer and turn + crop it 

For the following editing I use Adobe Photoshop CS2, which is legally available as a free download, so there really is no reason not to get it. It comes with everything you´ll need for the edit.

(Unfortunately I have it set to German but I did my best to make my steps understandable)

Now, let´s get on with the edit! Select “Image” (Bild) in the top bar, go to “Adjustments” and first of all set the “Saturation” to zero (if you have a black and white drawing)

After that, pick “Brightness and Saturation” (also found in “Image” –> “Adjustments”) to brighten up your piece some more

Aleardy much better, hm? But as you can see, the bottom-left corner of the image is quite a lot brighter than the upper-right one, which prevents you from getting an even result. 

Thankfully, this problem is easy to fix.

This way you can even out the brightness of the overall piece and finally use the “Brightness” and “Contrast” sliders one last time to get a clean result

This is already pretty good, but if you want to go the extra mile, you can use the eraser tool as well as filters (such as the liquify tool and sharpness) to remove little sketchy lines or fix small mistakes (classic example: adjust the position of the eyes to make them look more symmetrical)

And that´s it! With just about 5 - 10 minutes of editing you can get your drawing to look clean and presentable! (Coloured illustrations are usually easier to edit, just play around with “Brightness”, “Contrast”, “Color Balance” and “Saturation” until you manage to emulate the original look of the piece.)

I hope that this tutorial will help you level up your own editing from now on. Play around with new settings and see what works; you might discover even more useful options in the future!

guys help i’m LOSING MY GODDAMN MIND over these fat tiger art scrolls

(source)

guys help i’m LOSING MY GODDAMN MIND over these fat tiger art scrolls

(source)

markiplier | #bestlooks 2

The Host Headcanons

I finally have some time to write some headcanons that have been regurgitating in my mind on a daily basis about one of my favorite egos. Oh, to be an unidentifiable entity in a trench coat with bloody eyes narrating someone’s death. The mystery. The intrigue. This is Peak Character Design. I am living for this.

Origins

The Host is the end result of the psychopathic murderer known as the Author, who, after being shot by Daniel, was left to die in his cabin in the woods. 

The Author, having discovered his supernatural ability to control one’s actions with his writings, began tapping into forces that would eventually lead to the Host’s creation the moment he put his pen to paper.

Something happened in between the period of the Author being shot and the Host sitting in the ego office. As the Author was dying, he was visited by the manifestation of the forces that gave him his power. It is unknown if this manifestation was physical or simply a vision. The forces offered him survival, but at a costly price. The Author agreed without hesitation, and without knowing the price.

The forces used the Author’s body to fashion the Host. The price was the Author’s freedom, independence, humanity, and eyes. This transformation led to additional changes in both its physiology, personality, and appearance.

What It Is

After losing its humanity, the Host lost its right to be called “he.” It is not a person anymore. It is an extension of the forces that created it.

Whatever forces created the Host are not benign, but they do follow a certain order or code. No one knows what that code is, but it involves the death of selected, unrelated individuals.

The Host cannot physically break that code. It was made by the code. To break the code would be to kill itself. 

The Host does not live by our rules. It can exist at any point in time it needs to be, while simultaneously living in its own illusioned time. Its old-fashioned clothes, its 1900s microphone, and its garishly yellow studio light have all been chosen by the forces that created it, and it is a part of the Host. 

The Host cannot change its appearance, cannot age, and cannot be killed.

The forces have a sense of irony. The Host cannot see or read or write, but it can see far into the future and is selectively omnipotent. It knows everything about its victim, as well as future occurrences that will happen in the world. 

Abilities

The Host can see its victim’s entire life, as well as their death. It can accelerate occurrences in their life to happen in an instant, or change them completely. It almost always leads the victim to their swift death.

The Host, while unable to see the path in front of it, is able to move from one point to another, say a room. No one has seen it walk, however. 

Despite its lack of sight, it’s known on occasion to look directly into its victim’s eyes before they die.

Exactly like the Author, anytime the Host narrates the victim’s actions, the victim will be compelled to do so. If something it narrates something happening to the victim, it will happen.

There is no known defense against the Host.

I love the Host with all my heart and soul, oh my gosh, I love him so much. I have no idea where this love suddenly came from, but I wanna blabber on about him forever. His Aesthetic. His origins. What he might be. I wanna write all the headcanons in the world for him. Heckity heck, I love the Host.

“I’M MARKIPLIER BITCH!”

I’m starting to get why I love Unus Annus so much. Sure, the cursed content is great, but that’s not why I go back to it every day.

It’s Mark and Ethan’s friendship. It’s not that their friendship is particularly unique or somehow so much better than any other friendship. It’s just. A normal-ass bonding time. Just one guy daring the other to do something and then laughing when they fail miserably. Snickering at each other’s shared humor. Making sex jokes and seeing how much it takes to make the other break. Despite its mature content, Unus Annus reminds me of when I was ten years old, kicking a ball in the suburbs with my friends and telling them that they ain’t shit before I fall on my ass and make everyone laugh. It’s that pure good feeling that you get just hangin’ with your pals.

I saw a comment on the channel saying that Unus Annus feels like Markiplier Makes but without YouTube boundaries. And I think the reason why the Markiplier Makes series is so popular is because it’s just a twenty-minute recording of just friends hanging out and doing something dumb together.

I feel like Unus Annus has managed to take that innocent but chaotic joy of just being with the boys and made it a highlight of their whole channel. Maybe it wasn’t their intention, or maybe it was. But damn. Every time I click on a video, I’m always smiling at the end, and thinking to myself, “Wow. They are such good friends.”

I don’t wanna be free

Of these amenities

If I tried to live this good out there

I’d have to be a thousandaire

Visitation Day Gift Exchange! For @cupcakegirl101sblog ‘s request: “Yancy teaching them how to dance to a Frank Sinatra song.” I’m so happy I was a part of this fantastic event! @yancy-support-group

My AHWM Yancy Theory: A Truth About Love~!

Disclaimer: 

This post will contain spoilers on A Heist with Markiplier

This is a headcanon theory so please do not think I am stating any of this as fact

    I was able to complete AHWM on the first day it came out in about 4 to 5 hours. I wrote down every ending and posted about all of them as I went on Twitter. A week later Mark and Amy had their stream on Youtube talking about the behind the scenes and process of making the videos. I was able to watch almost all of it, I probably only missed around 20 minutes all together. So this is the kind of information I am working with as I write this down. 

   Now the theory I am proposing today is that Yancy actually becomes Illinois and Captain Magnum through paradoxical time shifts based on the similarities between them and how Mark has formed his previous characters in other works. 

   It all begins with the Scientist ending that is the canonical ending to AHWM. In this ending you receive the end credits and behind the scenes snippets. The Scientist, during her time on screen, explain that there is some type of anomaly out there causing all of these strange things to happen. These strange things include paranormal/supernatural phenomena, events overlapping, repeating, and skipping, and overall time manipulation. Taking the paranormal phenomenon out for a moment, let’s focus on the elements related to time. If say that no matter what time line you go through this artifact you have stolen, despite it’s content, could still be causing a temporal paradox as you are the one carrying it around. If so, my theory could totally be happening. 

   In Mark’s stream on the filming production he mentions how the first day was the jail house, so Yancy was the first character besides Mark himself he focused on (not yet called Yancy though). We could also see this as the secondary timeline a player should go through when diverging from the true ending. Now Yancy as a character is a showman, he is playing a game of pretend in an environment he feels comfortable in. As seen through his tough guy act even though he’s from Ohio. He admits that he has killed his parents, he has killed people he loved, and in one ending he even kills his fellow inmate (who he cares for) to stay in jain in order to remain inside this constructed delusion. So love is a big part of Yancy’s character and it’s actually apart of the other two as well.

  While interacting with the character Illinois he mentions two key things, one of them being that all those who fall in love with him tragically die. Now this is obviously a reference to a popular film series we probably all now about, but what if they don’t actually die in these so called tragic ways? What if, Illinois is Yancy years in the future where he actually falls in love with you, decides to escape prison, and make up for his crimes by doing some good in the world? Yancy is able to find all the nooks and crannies of a location and you have experience in stealth, together you go all over the world looking for treasures to share with the world. Obviously, he’ll have to change his name since he escaped so why not go with another Midwestern state to stay true to home. 

   Yet, tragedy really does strike and you die somehow and Yancy, who is now Illinois, breaks down in grief. He no longer has the jail , a comfortable and familiar place,  or you to cling to. You were still his connection back to that lifestyle of routine and control. Now, there is no control so he has to make it all over again as Illinois. Back to that first key point about how all his love interests die tragically, what if it’s all a fantasy? What if he has gone back to his old ways of killing those he loves? Illinois is actually killing all his lovers in a similar manner to how you died in order to keep this new delusion stable and concise. You don’t die; however, because you never actually did fall for him like you did with Yancy in another timeline. 

   Now what about that second key thing Illinois mentions, well that deals with Illinois’s love for treasure and adventure. It’s time to talk about how Illinois, once Yancy, becomes Captain Magnum! Illinois at this time is a serial killer that has now scoured the Earth, but he can’t keep it up forever. One day that boulder that follows him everywhere (probably possessed by all the lovers he killed) finally catches up to him and takes away his feet. This breaks him down even further into his own delusions as he can no longer go exploring the way he used to. He has to find another way to reconnect with you and now sees treasure as a means to do so. Killing lovers like you is no longer an option, but collecting treasures is. Illinois, now without feet, has to wear large log peg-legs to maintain his balance. decides that the best way to collect large amounts of treasure is to become a pirate. Thus, going back into his criminal roots. 

    However, this time he works to make no human connections and finds it easy to toss away his crew or neglect them. You can see his uncaring and awkward expression as his first mate cries and prays for his fallen friends.  Additionally, Yancy is a showman at heart so he decides to create an eccentric character like Captain Magnum in order to appear dominant and in control. As the leader he can maintain his delusion himself unlike in the jail when the warden dictated his life or with his solitude and grief as Illinois. Yancy has always had a problem with authority, but now he is the authority. You could also say Captain Magnum is Yancy/Illinois’s magnum opus of a character and the final character. 

   In another timeline you do end up meeting Captain Magnum and as well takes a shine to you as Yancy and Illinois did (at least over time). If you pick the right path you end up as part of his crew and you can see the Captain start to develop some kind of feelings for you, but more as a parent since he is older at this time. He trusts you enough to pick which island to go explore next for more treasure and as you end up on the Island of Golden Treasure (a choice the Captain agrees with) you are sacrificed for his beloved treasure. Yet another person he loves killed by his hands. 

   This is the story I’ve put together around my theory/ headcanon. I’d love to know if the first character besides himself that Mark came up with was actually Prison Mark, because that would be amazing!

   Either way I think the way Mark writes and develops these characters follows a pattern of looping. The idea that each character influences the other and that eventually a loop will be created. This can be seen in all of his fleshed out characters! Damien and Celine in a loop of revenge, the Colonel aka Warfstache in a loop with madness, Warfstache and the Detective in a loop of vengeance, the Colonel, Celine, and Damien in a loop of tragedy, etc. Mark’s characters become other characters, but at the same time retain parts of who they used to be. 

   So it’s not strange for this idea to be unintentionally true. I’m not saying it is, but it’s kind of interesting to notice. Nonetheless, I had a good time writing this theory and I hope it blows your minds even a little bit!

  Thank you!

P.S. @markiplier is going to hate this. 

A full color of Illinois drawing and some Yancy doodles since both are great boys

@markiplier

Mark really gonna be like, "Hey guys, here's AHWM! Hope you enjoy!" Wait a week then throw us another cryptic series for us to understand. He and Ethan really gonna do that to us?

Wanna be musically serenaded by both Yancy and Mark??? It’d be better if youse wear headphones.

Yancy: Right

Mark: Left

Who do you think sang it better?

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Some Yancy because he's great

Darkiplier doodle

I was also testing some new brushes that look like color pencils :0

Here’s the origin of the IT WAS ME THE WHOLE TIME and IT WAS MY JOKE endings from A Heist with Markiplier.

From SWEET JUICY MELONS | Prop Hunt #49

Thank you @coolboxofcandy for telling me where to find the bit!

HERE’S THE DARKIPLIER EXPLANATION

Acting darkiplier in front of 30 people = MEGA-UNCOMF

Those new effects were cool huh? Andre did em. Wish I was that good.

White suit. You’re welcome.