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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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prideknights

We are going to bake a rainbow cake!

darkmagicpracticioner

Can you teach us how to bake one??

prideknights

Of course! But keep in mind, this is only our second attempt!

For the cake we are going to bake, you will need the following:

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Step 1) Put the sugar and butter into a bowl and mix together until smooth.

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Step 2) Mix the eggs and the vanilla extract into the mixture until combined.

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[Here you see Pride Knight Roderick cracking an egg]

god-is-an-alpaca

A one-handed egg crack and baking while wearing helmets…absolute legends

prideknights

After seeing Wizard Howl cracking eggs with one hand in Howl’s Moving Castle, I just had to practice it!

Step 3) Mix the flour into the mixture until combined. Then separate the mixture equally into six different bowls. After this, put food colouring into it. You don’t need too much of it! (We used about half a teaspoon of each colour) Then stir the colours into the mixture.

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Step 4) Grease up some sandwich tins (we used 20cm/8 inch ones) and put one of the coloured mixtures into it. We used two sandwich tins at a time because we could only fit two tins onto a single tray in the oven. You don’t want to put the tins onto different trays because they will cook at different speeds. Then put the tins with the mixture into the middle of the oven at 160°C or 320°F for 15 minutes, swapping each colour out until you have them all done.

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Step 5) Once they come out of the oven, you’ll have cakes that look like the photo below! Don’t be worried if your cake looks a bit discoloured, it’s normal as the cake baked while touching the metal tin. We used a bowl as a template to cut around the cake to make it a bit smaller and to show off the vibrant colour!

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Step 6) Now lets make the icing! Mix 350g (1.5 cups) of butter, 700g (5.5 cups) of icing sugar, and 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract together with an electric whisk until nice and smooth. Be careful, icing sugar can be messy!

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Step 7) After the cakes have cooled off, place the first cake layer down (purple) and cover the top with icing. Next place the  blue cake layer on top and again cover the top with icing. Repeat this step for all the colours, next placing green, yellow, orange, and then red. Finish this step by covering the whole cake with icing.

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Pride Knight Gareth is putting on the icing now. Look at how focused he is!

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We are almost done! Stay tuned for the big reveal!

ihavetoomanyshipsandfandomsfuck

Im so excited, ive never been this invested in a cake before

prideknights

We did it!! Who wants a slice?

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the-worm-man

This is how i know we’re not in hell because these people exist

idontknowgerman

I love you guys but the cake….it looks a bit messy  🙈

prideknights

You are right, but all that matters in the end is what is inside

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blood-lunacy

How did a slice of cake become so inspirational, how do you guys manage to make everything so wholesome and affirming?

rainbow cake yay omnomnom omfg i want some
luxflora
secondbeatsongs

as a bi person, the bisexual flag brings me infinite joy and always puts a smile on my face, however as a person who has a Passion for Graphic Design, that undersaturated shade of purple infuriates me when it's used digitally

like, on an actual flag - which was its original purpose - it looks great!

some people marching with a big bi flag stretched on a frame. the flag has "Bi-friendly South Bay - www.southbaybi.org - So B O A" written on itALT
A picture of a bi flag, looking bright in the sunlightALT

those look fine! lovely, even! with the semi-transparent fabric, the way it catches the sunlight, it looks beautiful!

but now look at how it looks digitally

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the pink and blue are so vibrant compared to the sad, lonely lavender!

and let's look at this statement from Michael Page, the creator of the bi flag:

In designing the Bi Pride Flag, I selected the colors and overlap pattern of the bi angles symbol. I selected, which to me, is the most attractive combination of pink, purple and blue. In flag-maker parlance this is magenta - PMS 226 (pink), lavender - PMS 258 (purple) and royal - PMS 286 (blue). I decided to make the top of the flag pink and would give it 40% of the vertical dimension. Purple, which is the resultant color when you overlap pink and blue, would be the middle stripe and would be 20% of the dimension. The lower 40% would be blue.                         SYMBOLISM:  The pink color represents sexual attraction to the same sex only (gay and lesbian), the blue represents sexual attraction to the opposite sex only (straight) and the resultant overlap color purple represents sexual attraction to both sexes (bi). The key to understanding the symbolism in the Bi Pride Flag is to know that the purple pixels of color blend unnoticeably into both the pink and blue, just as in the 'real world' where bi people blend unnoticeably into both the gay/lesbian and straight communities.ALT

(sidenote: he created this flag in 1998, so if his takes on bisexuality is different from yours, it's okay to notice that! a lot has changed since the 90s when it comes to lived experiences and the way we describe them. but, it's also important to respect his thoughts about this and the way he presented them, even if today, we'd probably not say that bi people "blend unnoticeably into both the gay/lesbian and straight communities.")

so in pantone colors, the pink is 226 C, the blue is 286 C, and the purple of the flag is 258 C.

but...here's the deal

Michael talks here about how the key to understanding the symbolism is to know that the purple blends into both the pink and blue. and on a physical flag, I think you can see that!

but digitally, it absolutely does not blend. it clashes badly, and looks oddly separate from the other two colors.

which got me wondering...what purple do you get if you actually blend 226 C and 286 C?

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oh! oh, my god.

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look at that! look at how nicely it fits between those colors!

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look at it next to the original color scheme! look at how much more vibrant the purple is!

and friends. this is just blending through rgb! you get even more purple variations when you use other color spaces!

let's compare all of them:

original flagALT
labALT
linear rgbALT
lchALT
perceptual rgbALT
hslALT

(top: original, lab. middle: lrgb, lch. bottom: rgb, hsl)

look at all of the different purple options you can get just by combining these two colors!

if you want almost too-vibrant saturation, you can go hsl, if you want something more relaxed that's closer to the original, you can go lab or lrgb. and if you want to split the difference, lch is bright and violet, while rgb is there with its saturated but darker purple.

anyway, I guess I don't really have a point here? this isn't so much an informational post as it is Me Getting Weird About Colors, but I think it is a useful lesson about how colors look very different on screens compared to how they look on objects in real life.

and sometimes, I think it's okay to compensate for that.

out of all of these, this is my favorite bi flag:

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it's the one where the colors were blended in lab color space. for me, the lighter, softer purple is close enough to the original bi flag purple, while also feeling like a smoother blend of the blue and pink

but that's just me! and it might not even look the same to you, since every screen is different, because technology is a nightmare!

anyway, thank you for coming with me on this colorful journey! I will now retreat back to inkscape and make pained sounds about inkstitch gradients until something tangible pulls me back into reality

bisexual bisexuality bi flag yay quiltbag
blackberreh
mah-blackberreh:
“ In celebration of reaching 1700+ followers, I’m going to do an art giveaway! I’ve grown a hell of a lot over the past few years, had some ups and downs, made and lost some friends, but it was in the One Piece fandom that I feel...
mah-blackberreh

In celebration of reaching 1700+ followers, I’m going to do an art giveaway!

I’ve grown a hell of a lot over the past few years, had some ups and downs, made and lost some friends, but it was in the One Piece fandom that I feel like I really began to develop as both an artist and a person. I want to give back in some way, and this is the only way I can think of to sort of do that at least :”D 

But yeah, the give-away will last until the end of June! On the 30th, I will pick 3 winners!

  • 1st winner will receive a fully painted picture of a character of their choice
  • 2nd and third place will get coloured sketches!

Rules to enter (There aren’t many though):

  • You must be following me
  • You must reblog this post, and only once!
  • I select the winners with a random number generator, and will announce who won at the end of June and send them a message, but if I get no reply within 48 hours I will pick someone else
  • Winning pics cannot be NSFW

So yeah! Until the end of June guys~ Good luck! 

mah-blackberreh mah blackberreh yay
sieline

blogquantumreality asked:

Roronoa Zoro! :)

sieline answered:

• How I feel about this character

I really love Zoro. He is an adorable, badass, protective, dorky, strong, all around amazing character. Plus his hair is green, my favorite color. Honestly pictures of him was part of why I started watching One Piece, I had to know who this Hottie McHottieson was.

• All the people I ship romantically with this character

Perona. Zorona is my favorite Zoro ship. I just love those two together, as anyone who follows my blog probably know now. I also like him with Tashigi and Nami, when it is written well. As far as yaoi goes, I don’t ship him with any guy but art of him and Sanji is really hot.

• My non-romantic OTP for this character

Like a brotp right? Oh man, so many! Nami, Luffy, Chopper, Law, hell everyone of the Strawhats! I love his friendships.

• My unpopular opinion about this character

I’m not sure I have an unpopular opinion of him, are there unpopular opinions of this perfect specimen?

• One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

I wish we had gotten, or will someday get, an arc based around him. Everyone else has gotten an arc about them or their back-story except him. He didn’t even share his motivations with Luffy.

keirra13 roronoa zoro yay excellent we are in agreement