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masters of the air part vii.

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BRANDEN COOK as ALEXANDER JEFFERSON MASTERS OF THE AIR · part eight

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I am coming out of a week filled with dental treatments, including the extraction of a wisdom tooth, and I am thankfully recovering pretty well from all of it so far! 😊

Apparently my distraction of choice while I'm in recovery has mostly been gifmaking, as you can probably tell. 😂 And while I love doing that, I love writing a lot more. I have felt a little blocked on that front with everything that has been going on in my personal life, because it's a superbusy time and I am juggling a lot of stuff.

My default solution to that in the past has always been to go on hiatus, but I think that now I just need to give myself some grace and simply do what I am currently capable of doing. If that is just gifmaking, y'all are in luck. If that is writing, nobody will be more surprised than me!

I hope y'all are doing all right on this fine Monday? 😊

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100th BG Missions:

I absolutely love graphics and charts, so I made a calendar and started overlaying the missions of the 100th Bombardment Group on top of it where every gray circle represents a day that the 100th flew a mission. The red number associated with them is the number of crews lost on the given mission.

Note: the 100th BG arrived at Thorpe Abbotts on June 9th

Full Circles - Missions

Empty Circle - Mission Recalled

Empty Circle w/ Line - Mission Scrubbed

Full Circles w/ Green - Chowhound Missions

Full Circles w/ Orange - POW Revival Mission

Full Circle w/ Black - Troops Ferry

I also went ahead and used the same format to make mission calendars for just a couple of the main people in the 100th, again using the records provided by the 100th BG's website. If there is a member of the 100th you would like me to do this for other than those I have listed, please let me know and I will happily do so!

Gale "Buck" Cleven:

John "Bucky" Egan:

Note: Bucky Egan arrived in England in May 1944 in advance of the 100th BG's arrival

Additional Note: According to 100th records that I don't have access to, Maj Egan flew 16 missions with the 100th Bomb Group

Robert "Rosie" Rosenthal:

Note: Rosie Rosenthal joined the 100th BG in early October 1943

Harry Crosby:

Note: Harry Crosby flew 32 official missions, but the exact date of the 30th mission is not known.

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can i ask how many frames do you usually shoot for in a gif? followup question do you try to make every gif in a gifset the same # of frames cus i do and im wondering if thats weird lol

Hi! Of course. 😊

How many frames I use really depends on gif size. For the 540x540px gifs, I tend to use 35 frames or less. (35 is ideal, less is when the scene just doesn't last long enough for 35 frames lol.) For the 540x300px gifs, I tend to use 50-55 frames. Rule of thumb is always that the bigger the size of the gif, the less frames I use.

And I do try to make every gif in a set the same number of frames, or at least as close to that number as possible. I might occasionally have a gif that has 36 frames in a 35-frame set, but the difference usually isn't more than 2 or 3 frames. I find that the gifs tend to flow better if I do that: they look seamless that way, like natural follow-ups to each other. So I don't think that's weird at all!

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damn i wish u guys could read this fic i haven't written and this fic i haven't finished writing and this fic i'm putting off outlining and this fic i outlined but haven't started and this fic i'll never write and this other fic i haven't written and this fic that exists only in vague impressions in my head that fall apart every time i try to commit them to the page and th

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