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Absolutely love the side by side comparison gifs you did with the Deimos gifs (comparing Alexios and Kassandra)!!! I love seeing the difference of their actions, whether it's obvious or subtle... were you planning on doing more side by side comparisons like that? They're just so interesting to see! Thank you for making them!

Thank you so much! I am definitely planning on making that a series as I play through the game with both Kassandra and Alexios. I don't know exactly when I'll have time to get those out, but they're definitely coming! I love the amount of detail they put into things like that, giving each character a distinct personality even when they're playing the same role.

Thanks for the ask!

Finally made a watermark that's better than just typing out my url on top of my stuff, it's over for you bitches

I love your edits so much! Thanks so much for your hard work and for sharing them! Is there any chance you'd be interested in doing one with two of Alexios?

Thank you! I do plan on doing an Alexios version, but they're quite time consuming, so I can't promise when I'll be able to do it. I was also partially waiting to see what the response would be to the first one I made before I spent too much time making other versions, lol.

Thanks for the ask! I really appreciate the support ❤️

Ya girl finally got into grad school!! Very excited (I will be complaining about this in two weeks).

hi!! just wanted to ask, what mod are you using for ciri’s clothing? your tw3 gifs look really great and i got curious lol

Thank you! The armor mod is "Ciri Warrior Outfit" on Nexus Mods, and it looks so good on her.

Also, I'm not sure if I've gifed her in it yet, but for segments where it doesn't make sense for her to be in the armor (like in Novigrad where she'd want to be less conspicuous), I use "Dhu's Cirilla" (Outfit V1, armor texture only). It basically just darkens the leather on her vanilla outfit, which I think looks much better.

Thanks for the ask!

Just wanted to say that the light and coloring in your recent "Doing Time" gifset is truly excellent. Not sure if you're posting these as-captured or doing some post-processing, but whatever your method, your gifs look great!

Thanks for sharing them with us. -s

Thank you so much!

There is quite a bit of post-processing on most of the gifs I make. That set in particular was one of the really satisfying ones where (in addition to just having the artistic liberty to make it look however I want) doing the coloring felt a lot like wiping a layer of grime off the camera to show the image underneath.

Out of curiosity, I just went back and put a layer mask over two of those gifs to compare the raw footage vs. my edit:

Definitely a different vibe in the raw footage, lol... this scene is also really purple for some reason? Trying to emphasize the Cult-y aura, I guess.

Anyway, I had fun with this one. Thanks again for the ask and the compliment - definitely made my day!

So, I semi-recently got into making mead. I took an elective class on brewing and distilling my last semester of undergrad (it was classified as a chemical engineering class, lmao) and I loved it. Distilling is something you can only do with a license, and beer brewing is technically easy, but requires a whole setup I don't have space for. Mead, though, is pretty much just mixing honey and water and letting the yeast go to work (it's also a lot less carbs than beer, which my body appreciates).

The first batch I made was pretty terrible, but it wasn't hard to figure out what I did wrong, and the next try was much better. And since I have chronic gamer disease, once I had the method figured out I obviously had to try some of the Skyrim recipes - after all, if it wasn't for Skyrim, I probably wouldn't even know what mead is. I started with the Honningbrew recipe from the official Elder Scrolls cookbook, and it came out great! I have some ideas on how to improve the next batch (I'd really like more flavor from the apple), but I was proud enough of it to whip up a fun little label in photoshop, so I figured I might as well share it here, too.

Anyway, here's your friendly internet reminder that if you think something looks fun, you can literally just.. go do it. It probably will be fun, even if you're bad at it! No one's stopping you except for you.

More gifsets coming once I finish fighting these demons (12-page final paper).

More gifsets coming once I finish fighting these demons (12-page final paper).

I'm away from home with no access to my editing software for gif making. I have just resorted to opening a word document instead. I humbly ask for your thoughts and prayers in this difficult time.

Not my usual content, but here are a few of my favorite pictures from my recent trip to the Grand Canyon (part of the reason I haven't really posted in a while).

I don't have a super fancy camera, but I'm pretty happy with how a lot of my shots turned out, especially after a bit of editing, so I figured I'd share a few.

...and it's probably a good thing I didn't bring a high-end camera, because the one I did take is now full of sand. Lol.

Anyway, click for higher res, etc., etc.