#I'll start tagging the videos I add subtitles to

[royalarchivist]

Tubbo: We are figuring out who the mole is, Technoblade. Techno: I bet it’s JSchlatt.

Tubbo and Quackity: Tubbo: He is not on our side Technoblade. Quackity: What are you talk-- WHAT DO YOU MEAN “I bet it’s JSchlatt”!?

Old clip from November 16th’s “Quackity Goes to War Against JSchlatt” stream: featuring Technoblade having a very serious debate with Tubbo and Quackity explaining how JSchlatt is, somehow, secretly on their side.

[porcupine-girl]

Guess what!

Remember how I said back here that I'm in the middle of a project to edit down Our Song episodes, fix the subtitles, and add annotations?

Well, I'm starting to post them! I've got Ep 1 up now and Ep 2 I need to adjust a few translations but then it's ready. Ep 3 and 4 I've got rough drafts of. The rest of the season (12 episodes in total) will take a while, since I haven't started editing them yet.

I also have help with translation now!! @artknifeandglue offered translation from Chinese in @fandomtrumpshate and will be doing song translations for me - since I'm mostly done with the first few episodes he'll just be doing some spot-checking of things I wasn't sure on, but beyond that he'll be doing full translations of many of the songs!

I'm hosting the videos on GDrive, because they'd probably get taken down from YouTube for copyright violation, and I also have copies of the annotations in docs in the same drive.

But! I am also posting the annotations - with links to the videos - on AO3!

So if you're actually interested, you can subscribe so you're notified when I post a new episode!

I'll post here, too, of course.

Below the cut I'm tagging everyone who expressed interest before - please let me know here if you'd like me to keep tagging you when I post future episodes (even if you're not tagged here, let me know if you want to be added!)

@json-derulo @poetry-protest-pornography @emmajanereading @percy-persephone @nuttysaladtree @thelima-aka-chickwriter @writergamermom @oneringtorulethem @trickybonmot @lovebird17 @erza155hasleftthebuilding

[blighted-elf]

If I wanted to get into making gifs, how does one start? WHERE does one start?

Sorry for the late response! I feel like I might not be the best person to ask, just because I don't make my gifs in the most typical way. There are a bunch of ways to make gifs, and none of them are wrong per se, but most other gifmakers go frame by frame, whereas I like to import the video files directly onto the Photoshop timeline. My way was easier to learn, but can be a little limiting in what I can do with them. I'll include an updated tutorial on how I make mine under the cut below, but if you'd like to go the more typical route, then I recommend checking out one of the popular gif making tutorials, such as this one, as a base tutorial and then playing around with it.

How I Make My Gifs

Needed:

- Adobe Photoshop (I currently use 2023) - Any video editing program (I currently use Adobe Premiere Pro 2020) - A screen recording program (I use OBS)

How to:

1 - Record your game footage using OBS (or any screen recording program). Always make sure your game is running the highest settings. 2 - In Premiere Pro (or any video editing program), import your captured footage and create short, identical length clips that are under 2 seconds each. I recommend exporting in 1080p, no less than 30fps, using the best quality. Export as .avi or .mp4, something Photoshop accepts. 3 - In Photoshop, create a new 1920×1080 file. 4 - Click the Windows tab and make sure you have Timeline ticked. 5 - On the Timeline, click Create Video Timeline. 6 - Click the down arrow to the left of the video layer, and add as many New Video Groups as you have clips. 7 - Click the down arrow on each of those video layers and Add Media (your clips). One video per layer. 8 - Right click on one of the videos in the timeline and change the speed (I usually go 70% but if you like slower gifs, go with 60% or 65%). Then bump the Duration slider all the way up. Do this for all the video clips. 9 - In the layers tab to the bottom right, convert each video clip to a Smart Object. 10 - Resize and crop depending on which size is needed for the set. Here are the dimensions to use for Tumblr. The height can be whatever you want, but the width is very important. 11 - Now for colouring. If you're unfamiliar with editing in Photoshop, it might be helpful to look through the #psd coloring tag and finding something you like. I personally make mine from scratch because game lighting is so unpredictable and varied. It's up to you! 12 - I really recommend some Smart Blur and Smart Sharpen on each of the video layers. How much or little you use will personal preference. At the moment I'm typically doing 0.3-0.5 Smart Blur radius and 0.4-0.5 Smart Sharpen radius. 13 - If you're looking to use subtitles, check this tutorial out. 14 - Click on File > Save for Web, and save each clip this way. Play around with the settings. Just make sure each gif comes out under 10mb, because that's what Tumblr's current limit is. That's it! Hope that was easy enough to follow. If you do make/post some, please feel free to tag me in them. I'd love to see! :)

[vaggieslefteye]

Request Guidelines and Rules

Important Things to Note:

This blog is just one of my hobbies that I do for fun in my free time, and I make these gifs for free - of course I am going to prioritize getting requests done in a timely manner, but I might also just chill and take an extra day or three to finish.

Rest assured I'll always communicate if, for whatever reason, life decides that I need to put gifmaking/requests on hold for a few days or longer. Same goes for when I'm back up and running - I will not reopen requests until all previous accepted slots are filled.

Guidelines:

Send gifset requests through the askbox only, please. I won't consider requests made through comments/dms. I'll be more lenient with icon or video requests made through comments, but I'd prefer the ask box in general since I pay most attention to that.

If your request is simple in nature, don't be shy to just send it as it is.

That being said, the more specific, the better! I can get closer to your vision with the more details you can provide, otherwise I'll fill any gaps myself as I see fit.

EXAMPLE: "can i request a set of the scene where niffty stabs adam in episode 8?"

Simple request, but easily doable - in cases like this it would be entirely up to me on certain aspects like how many gifs I'll end up doing, which parts of the entire scene I show, if I add subtitles or not, etc.

Here is an example of a request for the same scene, but with more detail:

EXAMPLE: "request: a set of the scene when niffty is stabbing adam while laughing maniacally (starting from 16:32) and ending when lute shouts "no!" with subtitles? thank you!"

Also just as doable, and now I have clear instruction on what exactly to include. Heck, you can even throw in details like, idk, "including vox's reaction"/"can you take out vox's reaction though?"

If you're asking for a set focused on a certain character and you want it done in what I call a Spotlight style (eg: adam, angel dust), you can specify how many gifs you'd like: The minimal I'll do is 2, with a maximum of 8. Otherwise I'll do 4 by default. If you don't specify that you want this kind of style then I'll just do whatever feels fun for me at the moment :D

My minimum of 2 and maximum of 8 applies to all requests, as of now (though I won't be so tough on this either, if I'm cooking and the set ends up being 10 gifs, it ends up being 10 gifs lol)

Other Kinds of Requests I Will Do (will add more in the future, probably):

Make Me Choose - send me an ask and make me choose between two things related to Hazbin or Helluva, or even both! It can be characters, a particular scene, a character's dynamic with another, anything really. All you gotta do is send an ask that says "[x] or [y]?" no additional details required, but you can totally add some if you'd like. Like instead of just sending "lucifer or stolas?" you could send "who do you think is funnier, lucifer or stolas?" Either way I'll make a gifset dedicated to who or whatever I choose.

Episode Clips - Is there a scene from Hazbin Hotel or Helluva Boss episode that you like? Check out my #episode clips tag, I may have posted it already, but if I haven't, feel free to request a scene! I won't do scenepacks, but I may in the future, who knows.

Screencaps/Icons - I'll also post screencaps or icons of a character, scene, etc, just ask.

Rules:

Repeating this only once more: I will only consider gifset requests made through the askbox.

Keep your request contained in a single ask. I will not fill a request if it is split between two or more asks, so get those details all within the character limit.

For my personal comfort, I'm asking that you don't request gifsets or interact with me directly (ask, dm, @) if you're a minor (also like what are you doing here? lol). As I state in my bio, I'm an adult posting about an adult show that very much has adult themes prevalent in it so like it's not rocket science as to why the idea of talking to a minor about this show is Fucking Weird, right?

That being said I'm not anyone's parent and I'm not gonna spend hours combing through every single blog that sends in a request off anon looking for age confirmation but also like, if I hover over your name and you have your age right there in your bio that is very much under 18, sorry but I'm gonna block you.

I'll try to do every single request I get, but if I can't, I'll always state my reason why. But I'll definitely encourage you to send in another request or link you back here if necessary.

I don't know how to put this eloquently but like, try not to go overboard with requests? I'm still pretty new at this and I don't know how to do a lot of those cool color effects/blending/layering stuff the actual good gifmakers can do lmao. If I feel like I don't have the ability to fulfill the request and/or feel that it would just take too long to complete I'll decline and state my reasons why + encourage that you send another request. I don't exactly see this being a real issue, but hey, just in case.

For personal comfort, I won't do requests that are specifically asking for shipping content - yes, even if I myself do ship it! I figured staying neutral is the easiest way to go about this. Chaggie would be the only exception since they're less of a ship in my eyes and more of just a canon couple whose relationship is an integral part of their own respective stories/the main plot as well.

UPDATE: Since I do Helluva Boss now, I will now include canon relationships from there as exceptions to this rule as well, so Stolitz and Moxillie.

Don't ask for ships, ask for source material instead. What do I mean by this? Instead of asking for content of the characters by their ship name, or by wording the requested interaction in a way that paints it in a romantic light, you can just ask for the scenes as they are.

Example of a request I won't do: "can you do a gifset of huskerdust moments/interactions from the beginning of episode 4 pls?"

I would decline this, but you can still get this exact scene filled if you word it like this instead:

Example of a request I will do: "can you do a set from the beginning of ep 4, when angel is flirting with husk and he tells him he sees right through his act?"

Much better. Yeah, I very much ship huskerdust myself, but I'd only take the request if it's worded in this way.

If you're wondering why the hell this is even a rule, it's for me, mostly. I don't like the idea of constantly declining requests of ship content for ships I'd be uncomfortable doing. Or denying myself making gifs of moments between characters I like in a context outside of shipping. I think this way keeps it fun for everyone.

As for reblogging it and tagging it with a ship name: eh, do whatever. Tag it as you like! Tag it as you will! Not like I can stop you, but also I genuinely don't really care beyond that point AKDKSJFJSJF. Humor me, yeah? I promise this is my only weird rule lmao.

(You may see me talk about a ship I enjoy every now and then, but those will be contained in my own brainrot where the context becomes way more fandom-like and less source material-like. I am just focused on keeping requests neutral this way.)

[halliescomut]

Masterpost (Under Construction)

It will likely take quite a while to get this off the ground, so please be patient.

I will also be slowing instituting a new tag for my meta posts (because if I had been using one all along this would be infinitely easier). Said tag will be #HallieSMeta.

Until there's something more interesting to look at here, please enjoy Jeffrey being a little punk:

Look at this motherfucker!!!! How dare he be so goddamn adorable!!!

Be aware that many of these posts are written months apart and so sometimes information is repeated...it happens.

KinnPorsche

KimChay MixTape- This is my post-canon KimChay fic- as of 10/10/23 it's at 88k words and will probably be 100k by the time I wrap things up. The links below are lil preview posts I do when I update. This is the Google Drive link to the first 3 chapters (which is a complete arc in itself. Otherwise it is posted on AO3.

Ch 1 Ch 2 Ch 3 Ch 4 Ch 5 Ch 6 Ch 7 Ch 8 Ch 9 Ch 10 Ch 11 Ch 12 Ch 13 Ch 14 Bonus Chapters

KP Season 2 Unhinged Wants- these are a bit of an amalgamation, but all original posts should be link here as well and will be posted as I start to curate.

KP Week 2022: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7

Meta-Posts:

Kim-Vegas and Main-Minor family relations: 1 2

Porchay: Post Break-up Behavior

Acting: Tong and Jeff

Porsche & __: Hugs Vegas Queer awakening (?)

VegasPete Sad Hours: 1 2 3 4 5

PrettyBoy ship (TankhunTay): 1 2

Kim-Hannah Montana theme song Kim-Kimhant-Wik

Masquerade Ball: KinnPorsche Pete Bodyguards

Pete and Morality

Theerapanyakuls and musical instruments

Jeff Satur Music

Song Theory part 1

Lucid MV Discussion

Lucid costar-Nene

You can also search the tag 'jeff satur menace' to see many posts of Jeff looking handsome as fuck.

BL Industry Musings

2022 BL opinions

Colorism Fanservice Assumption of Queerness

Faux Incest in BL

BL Botany 1 & 2 Jeff

My Personal Weatherman

Mashiko Atsuki appreciation

No-subtitle watch throughs (eps 3-8): 3 4 5 6 7 8

Ep 2 Ep 5 Yoh's drawings 1 Yoh's drawings 2 Finale thoughts

Minato's Laundromat S2

Midseason check-in I have feelings Amnesia trope

Asuka and Shu

Our Dining Table

Please watch this show: 1 2 3

Costuming Analysis

Kiseki: Dear to Me

Ep 5 Ep 8 Ep 9

Mame/MeMindY BLs

Love Sea: Intro to characters

Boy Next World: Intro to story and characters

Wedding Plan: They met as Children Lom Nuea

Love in the Air

Payu & Rain Conspiracy Theory

1 year Anniversary video

Sky becoming soft for Prapai

Pai/Sky oneshots

Prap-Eyes gifset

We were robbed

Prapai/Sky and boundaries

Prapai & Reformed Rake character type

Sky/Prapai thoughts

Episode 8 thoughts

Sky in the One Night Stand

Noeul’s acting

Rain is not a bad friend

Payu and having his hair down-hair care as a show of affection

Love in the Air is a Character-driven story

Naughty Babe

Ep 4

Tadaima, Okaeri

Eps 1-3 kind of intro

Ep 4- Meta discussion, discrimination allegory?

Ep 5- Meta discussion, portrayal of parenting

It's not letting me add the links right now, so I'll try again later.

Stray Kids

Social Path MV Analysis

Hallie is TOO honest on Tumblr:

Broad backs

Discovering my Asexuality

Human Imperfection

[stackthedeck]

Hiiiiiiiiii i kinda had a question #lol. The fact that you write is awesome and makes me wanna write too, but every time i try i feel like i have such a large amount of self doubt that comes with it. Every single scene i finish is accompanied by an "oh god this sucks" in my head. Im also having a lot of trouble getting character voices down?? Like wow. Writing's harder than i thought it would be🫡 anyways just wanted to see if you had like tips or anything for dealing with that😨😨😨

Okay so my most practical advice is for how to get character voice. What I'll do as a writing exercise is I'll pick an episode of a show or like a scene from a movie or maybe a podcast episode, pick a medium that has a focus on dialogue. Transcribe the dialogue as you watch or listen (pause or turn on subtitles as needed) and pause the thing between chunks of dialogue and add the action tags, describe what the characters are feeling, give them internal monologue, describe the setting. I know this sounds tedious and like it is and it might not work for you and you definitely can't post it. But it makes me super aware of characters' speech patterns, the way they pause between words, what nicknames or phrases they use often, etc. It's also something that I just pick up on naturally, like I'll talk like my friends not as like an impression of their voice but how they talk and people say it's spooky.

The short cut to nailing how a character talks is to steal dialogue directly from the source, have them use nicknames from canon, and like be aware of their general tone. Like in most situations, Deadpool leans into a more jokey way of speak while Spider-Man is sarcastic with dry jokes and Daredevil is serious and gruff. These will change with each situation you know characters have moods and stuff. But if you're familiar with the source material you're probably really close to a character's voice that you think

with original stories, if I want to create a strong voice for characters and narration, I'll do a writing warm up by going outside or like a library and describe what I experience. I'm not allowed to start writing my actual thing until I include all five senses in those descriptions. I also tend to narrate how I think which doesn't work for everyone but I love metaphors and alliteration so it works. With original characters, they're usually based on someone I know so I'll just memorize their exact words or watch videos that they send me. It's kinda creepy tbh. But rule of thumb is to always read your stuff out loud, heck I usually say the dialogue before I write it, and it gives it a more human sound.

Okay practical advice done now I gotta tell you the thing you won't like. The best way to get over the "this sucks" mentality is to just write a lot. Anytime I'm not so sure about my own writing, I got back to the Hamilton fanfic I wrote in middle school that I proudly put on the internet and sent to my friends and I think "okay it could be so much worse" self-doubt will always be a part of the process you will always be your worst critic. But also you've also gotta be your biggest fan, it helps to find someone else to hype you up, but I dare you to read what you've written a say at least one nice thing about it. Any time you're in the editing stage, say one nice thing about what you've written before you say something that's not working. When you finish editing, say one thing that you're happy you added. You gotta write a lot but you've gotta be good to yourself

[sapphorarelyreads]

I posted 189 times in 2021

90 posts created (48%)

99 posts reblogged (52%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 1.1 posts.

I added 90 tags in 2021

#gaya sa pelikula - 10 posts

#bl memes - 9 posts

#gea - 9 posts

#gun attaphan - 9 posts

#thai bl - 9 posts

#gl series - 9 posts

#lgbt memes - 9 posts

#lgbtq memes - 9 posts

#ppkrit - 9 posts

#nadao music - 8 posts

Longest Tag: 126 characters

#this is very vague but i can't think anymore like if i do i'll have to end up writing more and more and im pretty busy so yeah

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

Fragrance of The First Flower - Taiwanese GL - Lesbian Drama

Fragrance of the First Flower - Taiwanese GL

Director: Angel I-Han Teng

Cast: ZaiZai Li (Bisexual irl), Lyan Chen, Lee Yi

"Fragrance of the First Flower" reveals the love and lust between two women, the conflicts between gay family and traditional stereotypes. It finds back the forgotten love with a romantic touch.

Yi-Ming, whose husband works outside of town, lives alone with her son. After years apart, she reconnects with Ting-Ting at a wedding, a girl she was intimate with back in high school. The encounter with Ting-Ting not only sets Yi-Ming free from her oppressive marriage but also reawakens her feelings for Ting-Ting. Now that Taiwan has finally legalized same-sex marriage, will Yi-Ming have the courage to change her life ?

Teng also wanted to add some non-gender related elements from her personal life into the film to further break stereotypes — Yi-ming’s son has some autistic tendencies, but Teng draws from her educational background to create a character that differs greatly from most people’s impressions of an autistic child.

The six-episode mini-drama series made headlines earlier as Taiwan’s first title to be officially selected to the prestigious French Series Mania International Festival.

@ahxu-laowen @disaster-j @raiko101 tag others too guys :)

207 notes • Posted 2021-10-26 14:28:54 GMT

#4

Indian WLW Short Films/Videos

1. FilterCopy | Signs That She Is The One | Ft. Alisha Chopra and Lauren Robinson

2. Coming Out Short Film | LGBTQ Short Films | Lesbian Short Film Award Winning 2020 | Content Ka Keeda

3. Love is Love | YouTube Creators For Change | Girliyapa M.O.M.S

4. Gays Vs Gharwale | Indian Parents on Gay Children | Funny Short Film | Valentine's Day Special

5. Kavavukkai Negilaa | Award Winning LGBT Tamil Short Film

6. IT ADHU BUT AANAAL short film (It That But Still)

7. Thiyagathin Parisu | Chennai Memes (The Gift Of Sacrifice)

8. IVIDE Malayalam Short Film 2018 |Reshma Sivakumar | Deepa Esther | Mithila Venugopal

9. ഹറാം Haraam | Two Minutes Malayalam Short Film | LGBTQ Pride | College of Engineering Trivandrum

10. Phir Milenge Chalte Chalte | LGBT Short Film | With English Subtitles

I'll post mlm and trans rep videos and short films too. There are a lot of films and its hard for me to compile them all.

sorry for the frequent tagging y'all T-T

@disaster-j @ahxu-laowen @raiko101 @liyazaki @jiang-yanlis @badbudddy @non-binarypal7 @laowen @jenniepanhan @piningbisexuals @tantawans @smittenskitten @patrooclus @musicdramalove @lesbwheein

218 notes • Posted 2021-10-16 09:37:52 GMT

#3

Upcoming GL series

TERFs DON'T INTERACT

1. BetCin - Starting October 15, Every Friday, 8 PM on WeTv

Online couple Beth and Cindy, aka BetCin, is on the verge of breaking up. As they cook up their plan on how to best to say goodbye to their followers the UMAMI'S - they receive an oddly- timed message: You have been selected as one of the semi-finalists for our search for #RelationshipGoals of #RelationshipGoals. What is at stake? 10 million pesos cash and a lot of other prizes! They both need the money, but can they pretend that they are the ideal couple in front of every Umami liking, sharing, and commenting on their every social media content? Can they still tolerate each other's crazy? What chaos will this contest bring to their already chaotic relationship?

2. GAPYuri - GAP the series

The plot is about newly graduated student from uni who start working in a big company cause she admire this super rich girl since young age but when she met her again her image of her completely crashed cause she wasn't like what the media show her and they will ofc fall in love. Mon has just graduated and gets a job in the same company as her idol, sam, who she has admired since she was young. however when she meets Sam her image of her completely changes as she realises that sam is nothing like how the media portrays her.

Starring Becky and Freen

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279 notes • Posted 2021-10-15 11:12:48 GMT

#2

TRANS/ENBY MEMES FOR ALL MY NON CIS FOLKSSS

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305 notes • Posted 2021-08-21 05:14:19 GMT

#1

Indian WLW/NBLW movies/series

Let's start with the oldest wlw indian movie (i know of)

1. FIRE (Movie - 1996) : By Deepa Mehta; Sita and Radha are young Indian women whose husbands choose celibacy or mistresses over their wives. This leads them to form an intimate, passionate relationship amidst a close-minded society.

2. The Married Woman (Series - 2021- Zee5 and AltBalaji) : Astha sets out on a journey of self-discovery and meets Peeplika on the route. Astha sets herself free from the society pressures and boundaries when she finds an intense connection with Peeplika, something that she always longed for.

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[sassassassins]

#showyourprocess

From planning to posting, share your process for making creative content!

To continue supporting content makers, this tag game is meant to show the entire process of making creative content: this can be for any creation.

RULES — When your work is tagged, show the process of its creation from planning to posting, then tag 5 people with a specific link to one of their creative works you’d like to see the process of. Use the tag #showyourprocess so we can find yours!

I was tagged by @baoshan-sanren for this word of honor set (thank you!!!)

I'll be tagging:

@cescedes for this wangxian set with really interesting blue coloring

@thatgothsamurai for this fanart of Wen Kexing that lives in my head rent free at all times

@yvlan​ for this lovely lwj set

@ostardust for this heartrending wangxian set (especially the last gif with the blue coloring in the trees)

@absentia123 for this aesthetic edit of Wen Ning

no pressure, especially if you’ve been tagged already or if you made the edit a while ago!!

I was very excited about this set. I started thinking about it when I was writing a meta about Zhou Zishu that included the line "A ghost and an assassin, two entities who should never see the light of day, walk side by side in the human realm."

I thought that could serve as a summary for the drama as a whole, so I tweaked the wording and turned it into a gifset.

Process:

1. Choose moments -

gif 1 was Zhou Zishu as an assassin, so it had to be ep 1

gif 2 had to parallel gif 1 with a shot of Wen Kexing looking towards the camera, and I wanted a moment with the red robes, so ep 31

gif 3 has the text "step into," so I chose the moment in 32 when Zishu steps towards Kexing for a visual pun

gif 4 had to be episode 37 when they're diffused in light (I found 37 on tumblr, downloaded it, and cropped it to avoid the subtitles)

That also meant the set started with Zhou Zishu's first appearance and ended with the final shot of the whole show, and it set up a nice color gradient of dark to light.

2. Import video frames to layers in photoshop - I have the raw .mp4 files downloaded, dm me if you want to know where to get them. I use frame animation, so I then selected 63 frames for each gif and set the frame rate to 0.07. I really like all gifs in a set to be the same length, and I think 0.07 usually looks natural and smooth, so I try to have my number of frames as multiples of 7. Does that matter? Probably not, but it makes me feel better.

3. Create smart object from layers

4. Add base coloring - for Word of Honor, I borrow @zhouszishu 's coloring as a base, which they shared here. I do my own coloring for cql sets, but their WoH base coloring is gorgeous and I like saving time.

5. Add text - I used Trajan Pro Bold, which is a basic font that comes with photoshop. I tried using a fancy font I downloaded from the internet first, but then I realized I didn’t know what I was doing and gave up. :)

6. Sharpen gif - I follow this glossy sharpening tutorial

And now for the fun part -- figuring out how to add effects!! I am a photoshop newbie in many ways, so I was looking at tutorials while doing this.

The process was largely the same on each gif, so I'll break down the most complicated one:

I had the base gif and the base coloring, and I wanted to make the background red.

Following this tutorial, I used a giant soft brush (300-400 pixels, 0% hardness) and colored the background red, then set the blending mode to color. I did the same thing in black around the edges, but with blending mode soft light. There was still some blue showing through between the ribs of the fan, so I used hue/saturation to desaturate the blues to make it less obvious.

Then I added the text and set the blending mode on the text to "difference" to get the effect of reversing whatever is behind it.

I then added a gradient mask (solid to transparent), clipped the mask to the text layer, and played around with it until the gradient was visible, but you could still read the text.  And we end up with this!!

I then repeated that with each gif, and made additional adjustments on each, including using a giant soft brush in black around the border of gif 1 to make the rooftop less visible and intensifying the greens in gif 3

I had subtly different versions of gif 1 and gif 4 saved, because I wanted the text to dissolve into the background, but also to make sure you could still read it. I also made an alternate version of gif 3. I like to save multiple versions and usually an alternate gif or two to make sure I actually like the way things look when they're uploaded. So I made this:

But I decided that final version was more satisfying even though the text placement is meh, because he actually completes the movement before the loop restarts.

And that's it!! Nothing too complicated, and I am in awe of so many other creators on this site. But thanks for tagging me!

[thistledropkick]

Here are links to the matches I recommended in this podcast, along with some others I meant to recommend but forgot. I'll post these in two parts - First Taichi and Suzuki, and later I'll add El Desperado.

You'll need a NJPWWorld membership to watch most of these. I've linked the matches in both available commentary languages when available.

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Taichi vs Ibushi Kota - G1 Climax 30, 2020 JP ENG

One of my favorite Taichi matches and one of his most unique matches as well.

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Taichi vs Naito Tetsuya - G1 Climax 29, 2019 JP ENG

I meant to recommend this one on the podcast but forgot. These two always have great chemistry together.

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Taichi vs Takagi Shingo - KOPW 2022 JP ENG

Taichi vs Takagi in a sumo-themed match that they both take surprisingly seriously.

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Tele Pro-Wrestling Unione Edition

Taichi and his old tag partner and current NJPW commentator Milano Collection A.T. watch their old matches together while commenting on them. Taichi spends much of that time either trying to leave early or trying to make Milano jealous of his current tag partner Zack Sabre Jr. I still can't believe NJPW actually subtitled this whole thing into English. It's a must-watch if you like Taichi.

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Suzuki Minoru vs Okada Kazuchika - Great Pirate Festival

This match is free to watch without a NJPW subscription! Suzuki chose Okada as his opponent for his outdoor 30th wrestling anniversary event in Yokohama. It started pouring rain as soon as Okada made his entrance. This match is legendary and I can't believe I forgot to mention it on the podcast.

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Suzuki Minoru vs Jyushin Thunder Liger retirement feud

This was a prolonged feud but here are three of my favorite matches from the series.

Suzuki steals Liger's mask the first time JP ENG

Suzuki steals Liger's mask a second time and almost gets stabbed for it JP ENG

Suzuki Minoru vs Jyushin Thunder Liger - their final match together JP ENG

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Also here's the youtube video I referenced where Liger calls Suzuki the second cutest pro-wrestler, subtitled in English!

I was a guest on a pro-wrestling podcast! If you ever wanted to hear me yell about El Desperado for an hour or so, you're in luck!