>>11367095
forgot to add that my gaussian blur "stroke" (outline) layers (3 total) have a value of 7.5 when the normal "stroke" layer is 3 pixels. also my gaussian blur "stroke" layers do not have any "grow" size added to them. i explained such here >>11363459
>so i did "alpha to selection" on the text layer as usual, but rather than going to "select" > "grow", growing it by an arbitrary amount, then creating a new layer below the text to paint bucket fill with black (which is how anon taught me how to do "stroke"), you skip the "grow" step