Flight Rising [And Not Flight Rising] Commissions!

the post: everything has a right to exist in fiction, even if it's fucked up

the comments: i was going to reblog this until i realized op likes fucked up stuff in fiction. this is a common dogwhistle phrase for people who like fucked up stuff in fiction. they have to talk in code to trick people into agreeing with them. stay safe out there!

Why on earth is the announcer now attached to the header... actually i can't even remember where i attached the header. this skin is now to the point i'm forgetting what i've jury-rigged to where,,,

I'm gonna have to yoink it from the flow of the page but god knows how I'm gonna fix the layout after that, welp.

Niki Lauda — Sunday 28th March 1976 Long Beach

Another go at colouring a black and white photo. The full colour image above is only 75% the size of the full colouring I did due to Tumblr's image size limit.

Some explanation to my process below.

From what I learned with the previous image, I did a lot more manual editing on this one to hammer out more of the small details. The days of colouring it took just to get the overall picture, aside:

Had to desaturate his hair and skin from my original colouring. Niki's a lot more ash-brown than first assumed. He's also a pale lil' rat with some notable five-o'clock shadow and some minor pockmarking.

The sunglasses also ended up being further desaturated because I think an aspect of the time's colour photography made the lenses appear much more orange than they were in reality.

Four different very shades of red I had to keep track of the palette for, please save me.

Manually went back and desaturated/detailed the shading on the fireproof and jacket's stitching, and the black of the inner-jacket.

Manually detailed his skin more where some shadow and flush was not captured in the original black and white, or was lost when coloured. Skin is the hardest part to capture in colouring, so please tell me how I did!

Manually painted in all his flyaway hairs and the temple and sideburn area.

Manually placed back in a lot of lost shadow throughout pretty much the whole thing.

Manually fixed some photo degradation and other photo issues, and ran it through Topaz to denoise the image to make it easier to detail the colours in.

Added a very minor warm lightening tint since the day was so bright. It also adds colour continuity, which helps it look more natural.

All of Niki is coloured fully accurately to the times and to real life. Only the background (not including the road and concrete barrier) has been coloured with some amount of creative liberty, though it still matches the colour of the area from other photos.

Please tell me what you think, and if you know any photos that might look really nicely coloured. Who knows, maybe I'll take coms for it.

Yeah I'm hm uh huh

I originally was trying to decipher the design of his chest but then got distracted lol

‘Oh, Niki Lauda? He’s just some little Austrian fellow with a creepy-crawly insect dæmon. If you’ve ever seen the man, I think you’d agree it’s quite the fitting form.’

Niki could say a lot in response to that quote now fed back to him; that James’ own dæmon is some puffed up, squawking lorikeet whose colours are clearly compensatory. ‘Centipedes are myriapods,’ is what he instead responds with, 'which are not considered part of the insect class.’

It’s true; they’re not. Nevertheless, it seems to win him no favours.

Finally, the vintage Niki Lauda and James Hunt F1 dæmon au, which is certainly not niche at all. I don’t know how to tag this post, but I do know RatHunt is the best ship name ever created.

Petitions - UK Government and Parliament

Petition: Legally enshrine the right of adults to physically transition using NHS services

Introduce a law to legally protect the right of those aged 18 and over to transition using NHS services. This should specifically cover phys

Uk peeps!! Let’s get this going! 🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇧

actually you know what that's exactly it i would rather someone add 5 parantheticals after every sentence than use tone indicators it's 1. accomplishing SO much more in terms of clarity 2. extremely funny to look at depending on how they're used

this code is supposed to be 'if the first character is dan, change background of the blurb to green' but all my attempts have failed so far D:

.blurb:has(li.characters:first-of-type a[href*="Dan" i]) {

background: green !important;

}

do you think this isn't possible or is my syntax just wrong ?

I thought this was impossible for a good while, but ended up figuring it out! Use the following:

.blurb:has(.relationships + .characters a[href="Dan" i]),.blurb:has(.warnings + .characters a[href="Dan" i]) {background: green!important;}

And here is my understanding of what went wrong

Closing my anons for a bit because I'm quite literally getting about 30 spam anons a day and I cba to keep blocking them when they seem never-ending. Tumblr is a functional site.

GODDAMMIT

Checking the Etalon horse genetics database start of every month just to make sure they haven't found another fucking dominant white.