Beetsandink - Beets And Ink

"The Well" by Brett Leeper. 17-minute run time. For a mature audience.

SMOKE CATNIP, HAIL LUCIPURR!

We have a new dungeon master for the time being in a new campaign, so I made a new character.  I haven't played a ranger before, so this should be fun.  He's maybe a bit similar to my last orc barbarian so I wanted a specific character inspiration to help me keep them separate.  I decided I wanted to channel Half Russian-Viking and Half Queequeg-from-Moby-Dick.  HARPOON TIME!  I named him Sven Liefson, last name subject to change.  Maybe someday I'll figure out how on earth these characters are supposed to carry around all the fifty different weapons on their person.  He's got a bow as well.

it is weird that celiac stuff has become part of the 'culture war'. because it's literally just a medical thing.... I get super anemic unless I cut a certain protein out of my diet, because it bulldozes the villi in my intestines. but if I post about it, right-wingers send me gore images. I guess you can't expect shitty people to be logical, but I've even heard lefty people make fun of gluten stuff, and it's like why are you mad about this??? why are you pissed off that I'm eating bread that doesn't taste as good so that I can have blood in my body? it's so morally neutral.

Photo-editing is not something I do much of.  So forgive me whoever this still belongs to (somebody's film project here in Springfield I take it), but I decided to play with your lighting in photoshop to see what I would do post-production. I had two goals, one was to improve the overall contrast and saturation, which is easy enough, but secondly I wanted to see if I couldn't fake a lighting change as though either the window light or the interior fixture light were dominant over the other. If I weren't working with a facebook jpg the quality I might be able to find out if it's possible to do it without the artifacts all over. On each I used a blue or red curve-corrected layer set to "color" blend on top of a channel extracted from either the blue (window) or the red (ceiling fixture) channel, which then had an opacity of 95% or so on top of the original layer.  The resulting color is a little flat on the alterations, looks like basic cable's use of chroma subsampling (where they preserve the black and white value but compress the color ranges, which is why when somebody has a five o'clock shadow it looks like somebody rubbed grey makeup on their face).

I like the idea of the blue one best but it's just not very good.

The red one wasn't a far leap at all, I may go back in on it later when I figure out how to do range-based (highlights, midrange, etc.) adjustments.