Tag: Gwen and Phil

3 September Wallpapers (one for anyone!)

September 7, 2018 / Calise Sellers

Hey look, I made some wallpapers! (Finally…) And one of them is available to anyone, even those who aren’t Patrons! I’m going to be making three a month to try and catch up on all the many months missed, and each month I’ll make one of them free to everyone.

Here’s a preview of September’s free wallpaper! This one was an idea from the amazing Mariana, who said basically “There’s one pic of Gwen and Phil looking bad a**.” so I added a couple of modifications to the original picture, and here they are!

I would like to imagine this is aLBoP’s tagline: Making definitions look good. Although I’m pretty sure Gwen and Phil are cooler than me. I’m kind of okay with this.

Get the full-size versions here, in two sizes, again totally free and you don’t have to sign in or anything.

For our $5+ patrons, there are two more! Quotes from The Four Types of Love and The People of Stranger Things. Here are the watermarked versions:

The badly repeated aLBoP logo won’t be on the actual ones lol, I just wanted you guys to be able to see the overall preview. Here’s the $5+ patron-only link for those. So fancy!

I’m hoping in the months coming to get all our rewards in shape and update them to what you guys want, so if you were considering becoming an aLBoP supporter, it’s a good time.

Let me know what wallpapers you guys want next! Quotes, stick figures, ~~weird pics of me and Justin~~, whatever you guys want! As always, if I use your idea, you’ll receive that wallpaper, even if you’re not Patreon-ing atm, so let me know what you’d like to have as your background!

Oh and let me know if you guys would use phone backgrounds! I was going to do it for this month, but they’re a little more effort, sizing-wise and everything, so I didn’t want to bother unless I know you guys actually want them.

And as another Patreon housekeeping thing, on our next Thank You vid, I’m planning on adding the list of patrons to the end of the video, but if you’re a patron and you don’t want your first name listed, let me know privately the pseudonym you want, or if you just don’t want to be listed at all. I want to give due credit, but not if you don’t want me to! 😉

Okay, I think that’s it for now. If you use a wallpaper, send me screenies! I’d love to see!! Thank you for all you guys do, especially if you are or have Patreon-ed, but even if you haven’t or can’t. Support in general means the world to us and I never know what I’d do without you guys.

Much love,
<3 Calise

Typing Tutorial (plus Character Spotlight!)

August 23, 2015 / Calise Sellers

Hey! This is Justin! Since I’m gonna be doing a lot of Phase 2, it’s probably good for me to say hi. It’s been awesome getting to talk to you guys over chats and emails, and I’m excited to finally get to do some character spotlights!

For this first one, we’re going to be focusing especially on how to type people. A lot of you have asked for help with typing people yourselves, so let’s walk through the process!

We’ve also convinced a couple of stick people, Gwen and Phil, to sacrifice their dignity and show us how *not* to type. They’re going to do their best to type correctly, using oversimplified, stereotypical methods and definitions, and we’ll see how they do.

For this tutorial, we wanted to type a cool, engaging character who’s also kinda obscure. That way, we shouldn’t have to worry much about preconceptions of the character’s type. We wouldn’t want to start out with Darth Vader, say. (We’ve seen Lord Vader typed as pretty much every single type :P)

That’s exactly the sort of subjectivity that we’re excited to get past here! Regardless of whether we’re typing someone’s behavior or their cognition, if it all ends up coming down to subjective arguments over what type they are, then there’s something wrong with our methodology. A reliable, repeatable, useful science needs to be objective, no matter who’s looking at it.

This kind of independent objectivity isn’t something a lot of people would associate with personality typing. All too often, personality typing gets misused as a vague, horoscope-ish way of boiling people down to a simplistic little list of traits that could really be true of almost anyone. Gwen and Phil are gonna demonstrate how this vagueness doesn’t work. Aren’t you, guys?

We, on the other hand, are all going to show these two the consistent roots of cognitive typing. We’re going to walk through how the cognitive definitions of the letters leave no wiggle room for subjective fudging; once we know how the letters work at their root, then every typing becomes clear.

So who’s our lucky, obscure victim for this demonstration? Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I give you…

…a peacock.

But not just any peacock. This is the nefarious Lord Shen, the brilliant and, in my estimation, very charming villain of Kung Fu Panda 2. Yes, there really is a movie called Kung Fu Panda, if you didn’t know. Two of them, actually, with a third on the way. And they’re really fantastic, with excellent themes told in a skillful way, and very good plot structure, and also very pretty. Continue reading