icons! updates! trauma!

[raietta]

I've been meaning to post all this stuff for ages. What a slacker! Quelle slackeur! ha!

Important Business 1) lyrebird made me lovely Punch-Drunk Love icons. *points to icon* Isn't it lovely? I'm just thrilled! This is why my heart is a seething pit of secret jealousy, because CC can use brushes and gradients and I'm just now figuring out the Quick Mask

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[lyrebird]

Oooh, both your sites are lovely!! Aris's site is so clean and stark, and your is too. I love the origami theme you've chosen - pretty and not in the least overwhelming. It looks great to me. *goes off to link*

You have a lot of memories of people killing things. I think city dwellers miss out on a lot of this - we use sprays to kill insects, we get our meat cut up and scaled and already gutted. We forget the violence required beforehand.

I have no idea how the Mask tool works :P

Here is a tutorial on how to make brushes: http://hybrid-genesis.net/free_tutorials/tut_definebrushes.html

To use a brush you downloaded, go to Edit > Preset Manager. Choose Preset Type Brushes. Thenn click on Load to install your new brush set (you get to browse through your computer, so you need to be organised about saving them in folders and stuff.) The same goes for gradients. Now go and play!!

[raietta]

we use sprays to kill insects, we get our meat cut up and scaled and already gutted. We forget the violence required beforehand.

Hmm! How silly of me, I never thought of people growing up in cities not having any traumatic nature memories, but, I mean, Duh. Still, maybe you have some anyway--evil rabid roaches scurrying around, or dead birds, or pets that got run over by a car--anything? Anything at all? Hamsters in your classroom that ate each other? Anything?

I still eat beef because I have yet to go to a slaughterhouse, and I still eat shellfish because I can't help myself. Still... a lot of people kill and clean and eat fish, rabbits, deer... Maybe I'm just easily freaked out by stuff. Anyway, that's neither here nor there. ;)

Aris's site is so clean and stark, and your is too.

Ahhh... ego stroke! I love it! Actually, your site is now stark and clean, too. ::puzzles over this coincidence:: And--my iframes show up? YES!!! I was worried about that.

I have no idea how the Mask tool works :PNo way! I don't believe it. *g

[lyrebird]

Roaches still scurry about now! I've learnt to live with that.

I remember the death of my dog - he let out this blood-curdling shrieking sound before he died. He was a big German Shepherd who died of cancer, and my dad didn't want to put him down. So he kept caring for the dog, even though he had lost the use of his hind legs and was incontinent. I wish my dad had put him down - I'm sure he was suffering towards the end.

It is possible to become desensitised to blood and and gore. It's essential in some fields of work. There's a point at which humans have to turn off emotionally in order to function - otherwise we'd be too paralysed to do anythng.

Wow - I forgot Opacity had tutorials! Thank you for this link!! I'd been using Lassoo then Eraser all this time.

so many yesterdays...

[arisblue]

it must be something, my dear, to have your childhood memory of nature trauma screening before your eyes like an old time vedio

Re: so many yesterdays...

[raietta]

It's amazing, what the mind remembers, and how some memories aren't even memories, but continuous loops of thought and image, over and over again.

Fear of death and mutilation... I guess that's what those memories signify... yes, I suppose so. Death anxiety? I feel so metaphysical all of a sudden.

We really should put up our "Silence of the Rats" challenge fic to our sites, aris. I know I had at one point, but now I'm not sure I even have the story anymore. What a shame! now that the Cube site is down, too!

You pick a line! All I can come up with is "Out, out brief candle!" or perhaps "These are pearls that were his eyes"... what do you think?

Re: so many yesterdays...

[arisblue]

Death anxiety? I feel so metaphysical all of a sudden.

we all did, from time to time. since death is the last mystery of life and all that... hmmm, sweetie, perhaps you can write your life story in your LJ, starting from today... who knows, a year later maybe you can have materials enough for a book! :)

oh yes i got that SotR story!! i bought Cube's CD-rom just a while ago... need i post the story in LJ for you? :)

and i like "These are pearls that were his eyes"!! oh those pretty pretty eyes of Mulder~~~

[akaspeedo]

Thanks for the link to your site. Looks great to me.

[raietta]

As long as the iframes work, all is well. ;)

Where's YOUR link to your fic?

[akaspeedo]

I just redid the site but I wasn't going to tell anyone, because according to the update page a certain story is finished that isn't quite. I'll post it soon ;)

[raietta]

*looks at watch*

*taps foot*