#and loooooove your gifsets too!

[angelic37]

Hi, just wanted to tell you how much I love your Christopher Eccleston gifsets. I love all your edits and enjoy seeing them. The CE posts are always a nice surprise and make me want to watch more of his work (which I'm trying to do anyway). Hope you're having a nice day. :)

Thank you for your lovely words! I'm so glad you enjoy these random 'spam' ♥♥♥

These last few weeks I didn't have much time so I made a bunch of gifs, and we are good until late may! Every post is scheduled and I'm trying to mix all the things he did but clearly, I'll drop a few gifs from interviews too here and there :) I have planned up to part 50 (meaning early august) so... :D

I'm a 'tag' person so I was a little disappointed that his was lacking so much in content. He is so talented, he deserves more stuff on tumblr that isn't DW! At first, I was planning a 60 days of CE before his next birthday but it's too far away and well yes it's always nice to go into a tag and find stuff!

Also, I bought a lot of his stuff, I don't have everything yet but most of his filmography. If you can't find something, drop me a little message and I'll see if I have it ;)

[waiting4kraven]

just wanted to say I loooooove your gifsets i be scrolling through the jann tag and it’s such a treat that it’s mostly your gifsets I just adore them

hehe thanks anon! this warms my heart<3 I love him too much.

[bluedalahorse]

On fandom currents, likes, and loves

I agree with a post that’s currently going around about letting people enjoy the fandom trends they like, and not being judgmental and calling things cringe.

I want to raise another point, though. I feel like a lot of these posts urging people not to be judgmental tend to discuss these fandom trends primarily in the terms of personal preference. The message is “let people like what they like.” Which, again, I agree with! I grew up when the “don’t like don’t read” era of fandom was going strong. At the same time I also think we need to expand this discussion to consider the social function that trends serve, and what kinds of trends are most likely to get social reinforcement. Signing on to a particular in-joke or interpretation of a particular character or pairing is also a way to bond with others who share that preference with you. When a trend takes off in a particular fandom, people who like that trend get a chance to bond with one another and feel a sense of fandom unity. Generally, people get positive brain chemicals from being able to connect with others.

People do acknowledge the social function of fandom trends—I saw a lot of commentary in the tags of the original post I’m mentioning with “if you aren’t finding what you like, just find your people! Write some fic for that pairing you like! Make a gifset or write some meta about that less beloved character! Inspire others to like the thing you like!” Which I think is also well-meaning and not always bad advice—it’s advice I try to follow myself. As I’ve gotten older and become more of a Fandom Adult, I mostly try to post about what I like, and try to inspire others through my meta and so on. I get a lot of joy from that! It feels nice to put what I love out in the world.

This is getting long, so I might as well use a cut…

To that end… fandom can be a great experience when your personal preferences line up with what most other people in the fandom like. It can be a little more frustrating when you come into a fandom swimming against the current. And l don’t always mean in that in the most dramatic way, or the more sarcastic “unpopular opinion but…” way. (I’ve existed on both sides of the fandom current; I’ve been in the mainstream and tried to swim against the current at times.) Maybe you’re entering a particular fandom and you like pairing A and enjoy some fanworks for it, but you loooooove pairing B, like in the way where you’ve cried and lost sleep over it and generally done the cringe fangirling (meant in the gender neutral sense) that people roll their eyes at so much. But then you show up in the fandom and the general trend is that most people are doing the crying and losing sleep over pairing A, while being neutral-to-negative about pairing B. Maybe there’s smaller pockets of people who have strong feelings about pairing B, but you haven’t found them yet. Or they don’t engage with the rest of the canon the way you do, and even if there are fans of pairing B, they aren’t “your people” at all. The fact is that you’re not going to have the same fandom experience as someone who comes in crying and losing sleep over pairing A.

You also have to make decisions about how you want to interact when you enter a new fandom. Are you going to push against the current, or let yourself get swept up in it? Do you play up your mild enjoyment of pairing A and downplay your love of pairing B publicly, so you can get along with folks and not alienate people in your first week, and maybe get more hits on your fanfic? Or do you post the fic and gifsets your heart demands, regardless of how people are going to interact with you or how much engagement you’ll get or what assumptions people will make about you? Maybe the front you put up in that case is “I don’t need many kudos, I’m happy writing for my group of ten people who truly appreciate my rarepair.” (Which I’m sure some people do mean genuinely, too! But for others it may be more a self-soothing technique. Posting one’s work is a vulnerable thing, and many of us like attention.) I think we want to believe that fandom is always a place where people can be their truest, most imaginative selves. At the same time, I don’t think fandom is immune from being an environment where people present curated versions of their personality and preferences so that they can fit in with others.

Idk. A lot of the “let people like what they like” gets framed very simply in terms of likes versus dislikes and people being kind about that, but I think the binary isn’t so simple there. Sometimes what you’re feeling is about mild likes versus passionate loves, and being grateful for those who share your mild like while still wishing you had more people to share in your passionate love. Sometimes it’s about a fandom consensus we can tolerate versus what we feel we should challenge. Sometimes it’s about what tag is easily blockable versus what’s so ubiquitous we can’t avoid it in a fandom. Sometimes it’s just seeing the way that worldly biases affect trending fandom preferences or opinions. (Look, I don’t want to bring back the Your Fave Is Problematic era of tumblr discourse, god no, because it made me defensive and non-reflective about my preferences. But I do love it when a well-written post encourages me to see a character or a pairing or a trope differently than I did before, while also getting me to question my biases about things like gender/race/ability/etc that I carry as A Person In The World.)

Because all of those are nuanced situations, I want people to have language and space to express the nuance in their frustration at not always finding what they want in fandom, or what they want being much harder to find. People go to fandom to make connections, and sometimes there are just fewer connections out there, or you feel disconnected from the larger group. Sometimes griping to a private group chat is the right strategy, but I also think sometimes it doesn’t hurt to express these feelings in a relatively public space, in a non-accusatory manner? Also, we’re lying to ourselves if we think these conversations aren’t already happening in public spaces. It’s just like… how against-the-current is the thing that people are expressing frustration about? Sometimes there are assumptions being thrown around about what “everyone” likes or believes about a particular fandom, or what draws “everyone” to that fandom in the first place, so it’s really commonplace to bash certain characters or pairings in tropes in ways that are invisible to people. You don’t so much notice if you’re in the main current of a fandom, but you do notice if you’re swimming against it.

So, yes, I still agree with the point made in the original fandom post. We shouldn’t bully people or organize harassment campaigns and the like against fandom trends we deem silly or cringey. That’s a nasty form of internet behavior, and it’s a nasty form of behavior period, one which often hits the most marginalized people the hardest. Let people enjoy things! At the same time I think it’s important to recognize that there’s a difference between someone organizing packs of fandom bullies against a “cringey” trend, versus one person expressing temporary frustration about the difficulties of swimming against a particularly strong fandom current. It also sucks when that temporary frustrated venting gets reblogged and co-opted by the bully crowd and is used to target people. Sometimes you just don’t find a particular fandom in-joke very funny, but you don’t want to do a whole campaign about it.

Tl;dr sometimes people want to connect around their preferences as much as they want to express their preferences, and sometimes that sense of connection can be hard to find for people because they’re overwhelmed by trends that don’t interest them. Maybe this is something that was already included in the original post I’m talking about. But it’s on my mind. Fandom seems like an escape from the world, but can very much be part of it sometimes. I think it helps to keep that in mind when we analyze these trends and people’s feelings about them.

[loisfreakinglane]

Every month of 2021

Rules: Post your favorite or most popular post from each month this year (it’s okay to skip months). (i def went with most popular posts lol not most favorite at all)

Tagged by @silvertons THX BB!!!!!!!!

this will likely be just a long list of very unpopular dark angel posts lmao but LETS SEE 

January!

lol dark angel OFC! but this one was v real for our quarantine times tho, max and kendra struggling over buying toothpaste during an economic depression. also featuring REALLY BAD TEXT over these gifs omg how did I think this was visible rip our eyes

https://loisfreakinglane.tumblr.com/post/640175798090874880

February

YAAAAAAAY FEMSLASH FEBRUARY!!!!!!!! actually the most notes I got all year i’m like 99% positive. god i love debs. my kingdom for a sequel about them being sexy middle aged lovers flouncing around europe, BUT THEY HAVE TO DO A DIAMOND HEIST

https://loisfreakinglane.tumblr.com/post/643052722938134528/femslash-february-debs-amy-bradshaw-lucy

MARCH

kay i love that the second dark angel set to feature in this list is ALSO kendra/max content. love the relatability of shit neighbors

https://loisfreakinglane.tumblr.com/post/647133353114484736

april.......

lmao I got 3 gifsets, all dark angel, all with the exact same number of notes..... SO HAVE LINKS FOR THEM ALL. 

love how done max is with logan here, also love that THIS is the moment i realized logans gay ex was samantha smith

https://loisfreakinglane.tumblr.com/post/647410456010653696

MAX POPPING THIS BUBBLEGUM IS ONE OF MY FAV MAX MOMENTS OF ALL TIME

https://loisfreakinglane.tumblr.com/post/648123107944660992

oh ngl this is one of my favorite dark angel gifsets i’ve ever made, i love the lydecker max dynamic SO MUCH. def something s2 is lacking, that rly strong villain....... BUT THATS A TOPIC FOR ANOTHER POST lmao

https://loisfreakinglane.tumblr.com/post/647475229104455680

MAY

HEYYYYYYYYYY PEAK SEXY MONTH IG BC ITS A 365 DNI GIFSET!!!!!!! i love this movie and none of u can stop me

https://loisfreakinglane.tumblr.com/post/652297063070056448

june.

aaaahhhhhhhhhhh starstruck!!!!!!!!!! I LOOOOOOVED THIS SHOW SO MUCH

https://loisfreakinglane.tumblr.com/post/654567729574051840/bonus

juLY!!!!!!!!!

MORE STARSTRUCK CONTENT!!!!!!!!!

https://loisfreakinglane.tumblr.com/post/655643306797285376

AUGUST

lmao welp the beginning of s2 dark angel giffing. here’s alec about to murder joshua. but he gives him ham hocks later to make up for it

https://loisfreakinglane.tumblr.com/post/659977205804335104/bonus

SEPTEMBERRRRR

more alec content, max giving him a name. tho now i’m curious if she’d never named him if he’d have gone back to going by simon........ he did have an emotional connection to that name before...... tho maybe it just would have been a horrible reminder of what happened WHO CAN SAY

https://loisfreakinglane.tumblr.com/post/663148065433206784/bonus

OCTOBER!!!!!!!

alec vs the inexplicably blindingly white group of x-kids that i find painful to look at as they are indicative of SOME of the ways s2 drained this show of its whole entire soul but w/e. when he said ‘i wanna get rid of you. and i just met you’ i felt that in my soul actually. i too wanted them gone 

https://loisfreakinglane.tumblr.com/post/664688199708377088

noveeeeeeeembeeeeeeeer

alec just can’t stay away from max no matter how many anvils she throws his way

https://loisfreakinglane.tumblr.com/post/667409910654484480

DECEMBER,,,,,,,,,,,, THUS FAR. 

welp they’re neck and neck and thus u get BOTH, alec posts again

HES GOTTA LEARN TO PAY ATTENTION, AND GUNS ARE WORTH A LUKEWARM SARCASTIC YIPPEE

https://loisfreakinglane.tumblr.com/post/669674846236606464

and he is always alright

https://loisfreakinglane.tumblr.com/post/671215017416343552

THX FOR TAGGING ME!!!!!!!!

and in return i tag!!!!!!!

@bluetiefling @tomwambsganscorleone @saint-cecilias OR WHOEVER SEES THIS AND WANTS TO DO EEEEET I TAG YOU WHO SEE IT YES YOU

[alipeeps]

New tag game: Post pictures of your first ever (fictional/celeb) crush to the latest one and tag five others to continue the game

Thanks to @minmoyu for tagging me and ooof, are you sure you’re ready for this?!! :D I have been around/in fandom for a loooooong time and at first I thought, okay, no way I can list all my crushes, there have been SO many and we’ll be here all day but then as I started compiling a list I found I was having fun reminiscing and decided, what the heck, yeah, let’s do em all... or at least all I can remember! :D

There have absolutely for sure been other more minor crushes and passing fancies along the way, but these are the big ones that I remember (and that, in more recent years, I can track by going through my posted fanfics on AO3 and even *shudder* FFNET and seeing which shows I was into enough to want to write fic about the characters).

[Quick note: with rare exceptions, for actors I am listing them by the character they played rather than just the actor. Whilst there are actors that I like in multiple roles (and conversely, characters who on paper I would normally be into but are played by actors who do nothing for me, and hence the character generally does nothing for me either), for the most part it is the character I really have the crush on.]

I’m going to put this under a readmore cos it has gotten ridiculously long:

So... without further ado:

1. MORTEN HARKET from a-ha - OKay so, dating myself badly here but... I had the *biggest* crush on Morten Harket when I was a teenager. Pretty much the entirety of my side of the bedroom I shared with my sister was covered in posters of a-ha, and Morten in particular. I even had a heart-shaped Morten Harket pillow! :D I loved a-ha’s music (still do!) and I wanted to go see them in concert when I was 14 but my parents wouldn’t let me (*sob*). I did finally get to see them in concert in the early 2000s and they were BRILLIANT live (and Morten was still very very pretty)! 

2. RICHARD DEAN ANDERSON as MACGYVER - MacGyver is the first tv character I remember being really into and having a crush on, to the extent that I would record episodes of the show off the tv (onto VHS tape - yes, I am *that* old!) so that I could rewatch them (especially the ones where he got hurt - yeah, I was a whumper even then! :D)

3. KEIFER SUTHERLAND - One of my rare exceptions. I think I first saw him in Lost Boys (and loved him in that film) but it was his role as Doc Scurlock in Young Guns that really made me fall for both the character and him. I definitely remember seeking out any and all films he was in and buying any magazine he was interviewed in (and knowing far more facts about him than was probably healthy! :D) and even drawing a fanart portrait of him. :)

4. KYLE MACLACHLAN as SPECIAL AGENT DALE COOPER - I remember hearing about Twin Peaks before it started airing in the UK and it sounded so different and interesting... I watched it from the very first episode and very quickly developed a crush on Coop.  

5. BRENT SPINER as DATA - I think ST: TNG had been airing for a while before I stumbled across it but I quickly became hooked and Data was my favourite character right from the start. I definitely remember at one point buying an (unofficial) episode guide book so that I could look up which episodes were good Data-focused ones (especially ones where he got hurt! :D) so I could go out and buy the videos that had those episodes on (at the time the show was available to buy on VHS-tape with 2 episodes on each tape).

6. DAVID DUCHOVNY as FOX MULDER - Another show that I heard the buzz about and started watching right from the start and, like so many others, I immediately developed a crush on the snarky, enigmatic, troubled FBI agent with the weird name. The X-Files was the first show I ever tried writing (one, never-finished) fanfic for.

7. PAUL GROSS as BENTON FRASER - Man, Due South was such a good show! It was so quirky and clever and funny and Benton Fraser, with his huge heart and his serious demeanour and his gorgeous blue eyes, was just so darn attractive! He also got whumped a fair bit too! :D Due South was also the show that introduced me to the music of Sarah McLachlan (I was enough of a fan that I bought the show soundtrack on CD).

8. HUGH LAURIE as DR GREGORY HOUSE - This was a bit of an odd one for me because I had grown up knowing Hugh Laurie solely as a comedian/comic actor, known mostly for playing buffoons and genial idiots. And suddenly here he was with stubble, an American accent, and a limp, and he was hawt AF! :D It caused quite the feedback loop in my brain for a while which pretty much went “Wow, House is hot.... but it’s Hugh Laurie... but he’s hot... but it’s HUGH LAURIE!!1!”

I *loved* House (the first few seasons, at least) and oof a character with persistent pain (and a self-destructive streak a mile wide!) was a whumper’s dream. House was the first show for which I wrote - and published online - completed fanfics.

8. JOE FLANIGAN as JOHN SHEPPARD - Stargate Atlantis was my first proper online fandom, the first show I prolifically and repeatedly wrote fanfic for, and the first time I ever met in person an actor I was a big fan of (and while the show was still airing, to boot!). It was also my first introduction to the online community of whumpers! A bunch of us from the Shep Whump thread on Gateworld heard that Joe was going to be at a convention in London and we decided to book hotel rooms and meet up and go to the convention together and it was AWESOME! I can still remember seeing Joe *in person* for the first time and just,,,, struggling to believe he was actually here, in person, in front of me! He was super super lovely and humble too and took time to chat to everyone at the signing table and I clearly remember my brain just pretty much fritzing out during the photo session and being intensely aware of the sensation of Joe’s hand on my shoulder....

It was also super lovely to meet fellow fans, and online friends, in person for the first time and we had so much fun, and it kickstarted me going to lots of other conventions, including specific Stargate/SGA ones where I got to know lots of other lovely fans and online friends. I’ve met Joe about 4 or 5 times in total now and he’s been lovely every time.

9. PAUL BLACKTHORNE as HARRY DRESDEN - Gosh I loved the shortlived tv adaptation of The Dresden Files. I loved the fantasy aspect, the stories, the humour, and I especially loved Harry Dresden and how often he got whumped! :D 

10. DAVID TENNANT as THE 10TH DOCTOR - I had watched the Christopher Ecclestone revival of Doctor Who and enjoyed it well enough but I can clearly remember watching David Tennant’s first episode as The Doctor - on Christmas Day, at my brother-in-law’s house - and being aware, as I watched it that... ooookay, yes, I’m in trouble here... I like him... I like him a lot... :D I mean, I’m sure the fact that he got whumped so thoroughly in his very first episode had nothing to do with how quickly I fell for him... right? :)

11. ALEX O’LAUGHLIN as MICK ST JOHN - Another show that ended far too soon and just as it was getting *seriously* good. But also a prime example of my point about having a crush on the character not the actor. I looooooved Alex as Mick St John... and yet in Hawaii 5.0 he pretty much does nothing for me (the character is too stoic and the whump often too unrealistically glossed over). Anyway, in Moonlight he was my favourite kind of character - angsty, brooding, dangerous AF when he needed to be... and essentially immortal so you could whump the heck out of him and he’d recover so you could whump him again! :D

12. SIMON BAKER as PATRICK JANE - There is so much to love about Patrick Jane... his smarts, his sass, his angst... and Simon is a rare “against type” blonde crush for me (you may have noticed by now that most of my crushes follow a similar physical aesthetic - tall, slim/wiry, and dark-haired) and again here I think my crush is almost all to do with the character rather than the actor.

12. BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH as SHERLOCK HOLMES - I’m almost ashamed to admit it, given the clusterfuck that both the show and its fandom became, but in the earlier seasons I had quite the crush on Benedict’s Sherlock (and okay, a little bit on Benedict himself - I did definitely enjoy some of his other roles too). It helps that I was already a huge fan of the Sherlock Holmes character (I’ve read all the stories and novels multiple times and was a big fan of the Granada adaptation starring Jeremy Brett - whose Holmes would definitely count as one of my more minor/passing crushes) already. Benedict is another crush that I have met in person, at a (actually, the first!) Sherlock convention and he was lovely in person - very genuine, very articulate and thoughtful.

13. TOM MISON as ICHABOD CRANE - I was excited for Sleepy Hollow as soon as I heard about it and I was SUCH a fan for the first couple of seasons (before TPTB completely destroyed it and it inevitably got cancelled (I didn’t even watch the last season and a half)) and Tom’s Ichabod (and his amazing chemistry with Nicole’s Abbie) was a large part of why. I also quickly became a big fan of Tom himself as he came across as so witty and self-deprecating and *fun* in all the behind the scenes/convention clips etc. I was lucky enough to also meet Tom at a convention and he genuinely is that witty and charming and lovely.

14. TOM WISDOM as ARCHANGEL MICHAEL - I think Dominion was possibly the first show that I got sucked into by seeing whumpy gifsets on tumblr! :D It was such a great show and also to date the most immersive, welcoming, cast-and-crew-interactive fandom I have ever been in. The cast and crew regularly live-tweeted the episodes, and interacted with fans on Twitter, and it was SO much fun. And Tom’s Michael was my favourite character right from the start - seemingly aloof but so much going on under the surface... and some really nice whump, especially in season 2! I was heartbroken when it was cancelled after only 2 seasons (and just as the plot was getting *really* interesting).

15. OLIVER JACKSON-COHEN as LUCAS - I was hooked on Emerald City right from the first episode. It was visually stunning, so atmospheric, and really intruiging. I love love loved Adria Arjona’s Dorothy (ngl, I had a bit of a crush on her too) and she and Lucas together were just... *chef’s kiss*. I mean... what an introduction to a character... she finds him crucified, bleeding, his wrists tied with barbed wire, and amnesiac.... and the whump only gets better and better from there on in! Like the entire first two episodes are just... Lucas whump! :D And his devotion to her... Emerald City was honestly the first show where I really got into a ship. I was *invested* in Dorcas, dammit! Aaaand sadly another excellent show that never made it past its first season.

16. JASON RALPH as QUENTIN COLDWATER - Another show that I watched right from the start, was heavily invested in.... and that the writers absolutely tanked and destroyed in later seasons. *cries* Quentin was such a brilliant viewpoint character for the show and I loved his awkwardness, and his angst, and his enthusiasm, and his adorable floppy hair... and how often he got whumped! 

17. COLIN MORGAN - I fell for Colin in Merlin (which I stumbled upon late, long after it had finished airing, and hence was able to binge-watch the entire 5 seasons!) and liked him enough to seek out his other works, such as The Fall, and Humans, and The Living and the Dead, and he was brilliant (and very pretty) in all of them... and his characters also seem to get whumped quite a lot! :D 

18. MATT LANTER as WYATT LOGAN - Wyatt was another of my favourite archetypes... absolutely badass and competent... but also tortured and angsty and capable of intense devotion. Another show that I watched because of whumpy gifs on tumblr and the second ever show where I actually got invested in a ship - Lyatt all the way, baby!! :D - aaaaaand yet another show cancelled before its time.

19. NOCTIS LUCIS CAELUM from FINAL FANTASY XV - my very first video game crush! I was recommended to play FFXV by fellow whumpers on the whumpshire discord because it was whumpy... and they were not wrong and I loved the game and I absolutely adored Noctis. FFXV is one of very very VERY few video games that I have actually played right through to the end. And possibly the only video game that has ever affected me to such an extent... I became so invested in the characters and their world and I actually found the last couple of chapters really hard to play because it was actually upsetting me emotionally. I had to take a break for a couple of weeks before I could go back and finish it!

20. CONNOR from DETROIT BECOME HUMAN - and from there I jumped straight into another video game crush! DBH was another game recommended to me for its whump potential and I, and many others, immediately fell in love with the quirky, sassy, self-sacrificing (if you play the game right!) “android sent by Cyberlife”. The game itself is really good too... although, I have tried to play through all the different endings to the story but have never yet managed to make myself play the machine Connor storyline.... I want to complete all the story branches... but I also just want Hank and Connor to be friends and to be happy! :D

21. ZHU YILONG - Ahhh... the beginning of the asian drama arc of my fandom life! I first came across Zhu Yilong after getting sucked into watching Guardian because of pretty (and whumpy) gifs on tumblr... and I’ve never looked back. He is one of the rare entries where I am pretty much guaranteed to like him in pretty much anything he does and my crush extends beyond Shen Wei, or his other characters, and into reblogging his fashion shoot photos, and keeping up with news of his work in general. He’s just... so darn pretty! And also so... blur! :D And the behind the scenes stuff and interviews of him with Bai Yu, during the Guardian era, just made me fall for him all the more. He’s also ridiculously talented - not only a fantastic actor, but a really good singer (I love his singing voice), he plays guitar and piano, and he can paint too!!

He’s also pretty much what made me start learning Chinese... because after Guardian I went seeking his other dramas to watch... only to find that many of them are only partially, or not at all, subbed. So I thought... why not try learning Chinese and then I’ll be able to watch his other shows? :D

21. JI CHANG WOOK - My first kdrama crush, and what a good one to start with! Healer was the first drama I ever watched and can you blame me for falling for JCW... especially when I followed up Healer with The K2?! I’ve liked him in pretty much everything I’ve watched him in. Although I do wish he would go back to doing more action-based shows as he is sooo good at them... but he seems to prefer the romcom genre these days, which is something I am nottt always a fan of tbh.

22. JAKE HSU as MENG SHAO FEI - Yet another show that I got sucked into by tumblr - and also one with a great, fun fandom through which I met lots of lovely people who I still follow/am mutuals with to this day. I just *adored* Jake’s character in History and I also loved the ship - Tang Fan and Meng Shaofei were awesome and adorable together and I was totally invested in both the ship and the gangster/cop/what happened years ago story happening alongside the ship. And Jake is just all kinds of cute.

23. XIAO ZHAN - Aaaand we are pretty much up to current day now... where The Untamed took over my life in the summer of 2019 and has yet to let me go. Xiao Zhan is another disgustingly talented human being - a fantastic singer and a really good actor, and also an artist - and he also just comes across as a genuinely sweet and charming person, and a very thoughful and earnest one too. And lbr he is ridiculously pretty, and his smile is just pure sunshine. 

24. LEE DONG WOOK as LEE YEON - The most recent entry to the charts.... a Korean actor I was aware of but whose work I hadn’t watched and whose looks didn’t particularly seem to grab me... until I watched Tale of the Nine Tailed and fell head over heels for Lee Yeon (and daaayum does red hair suit LDW!!) and very quickly began to find LDW’s looks very appealing (and oh my, does Lee Yeon whump well!!). And yes, I have now started watching Goblin. :D

Phew! Aaaand we are done! I’ll admit, I did think of a few more as I was compiling this list but I decided to categorise them as more “minor” crushes and not include them... otherwise we really could be here all day!!

I’m going to tag: @sarah-yyy​, @arlothia​, @howdydowdy​, @thepromiseweheldforlife​ and @the-wandering-whumper​!

[lengthofropes]

your 5 favorite creations you've ever made ??? ✨

Oh my god thank you sp much for this!!! <3 

but it’s hard to choose)) ok, here:

1. I started to write again recently, and this was the first thing I published. idk I wrote it in 3 hours, it was an instant inspiration of a thought on writing from Castiel’s pov. and it really just... BAM! I just... love itttt:)

I love to combine words with visuals<3!!! so few next will be some of my poems on gifsets 

2. PLEA poem 

3. LONGING poem  - this was, actually, the first poem I published here. it holds very special place in my heart gggg:) 

also, I think this line:

“but yours is a mouth to feed

with kisses.”

is one of the best lines I've ever wrote I'm my life, honestly:))

4. anon requested Crowley + black, and I came up with THIS . I cried(((

5. aaaaaand of course the whole CORRECT SPN QUOTES series, it’s just my stupid sense of humour but I just LOOOOOOVE making these!!!!:))) and people, I suppose, like em too ahaha) THIS ONE is probably my fav of them all, cause I've been looking to find the right expression on Castiel’s face for two hours:))

But it ended up fitting just PERFECT and I'm so very pleased!:)))

Thank you for your question again!!!! This made my dayyyy!!!

[ocarinnas]

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Ah, I am sorry that I did not manage to reply to that last ask. I shall just continue our topic of horror films and say: i also love everything james wan does (aquaman do not interact), he's a fucking genius and my favorite horror film maker!! did you see his newest film, Malignant? Cause I loved every second of it. Also what's your favorite horror film made in the past few years? (like in 2020 onwards). (and to answer your question very late, my favorite colour is red)

also I also love playing around with blending. I have a lot of fun when I make like color isolated sets, and lyric sets seem to be a lot of too, with lots of typography. Also, I feel you so much, I've also had a giffing block for the past couple weeks. I think the only set I've made was a simple one from a random movie just to try and get some creative juices flowing, though that didn't seem to work much haha.

And I agree, I always have more fun making gifsets if the goal isn't to get notes. Like yes getting notes and validation is great, but that's not the goal. the goal is to have fun and be creative, right?

What are your favorite songs/albums to listen to while you gif?

- psc anon

omg no problem!!!! and no i haven't seen malignant! like i said, i'm not super into supernatural/paranormal horror films but i might have to check it out anyway just for him! honestly i have such a bad habit of watching movies years after they come out, so i unfortunately haven't seen that many in the past 3ish years...the only ones i can really think of are spiral: the book of saw which i watched right when it came out since i was really anticipating it, and then i recently watched X which was really fun. i have a list of about 70 horror movies (i counted) that i've been meaning to watch but it's slow going. i've also been meaning to go see nope but i'm not a huge theater person lmao i really only go out to the movies a few times a year bc i just prefer to watch movies in bed snuggled up with my cat. do you like going to movie theaters for the Experience or do you prefer watching at home?

i loooooove gifsets with typography, i'm always in awe at how beautifully people are able to play around with text effects and stuff like that, bc that is absolutely not something i'm good at sdfjhgds

i'm more the type of person to watch shows while i'm gifing then listen to music. sometimes if i'm in a particular mood i'll throw on a playlist (normally the same 12 hour playlist that i always listen to that has a bunch of different genres on it) or if a new album has just come out by a popular artist i'll listen to that (i've been listening to sabrina carpenter's new album a bit over the past few days). i love procedural crime shows so i'll throw those on, like i was recently rewatching criminal minds and then i also just started a law and order rewatch (of the original version, not svu) just bc i've seen both those shows multiple times and i'm already familiar with most the episodes, since i'm not paying close attention while i'm gifing. what about you? what do you like to listen to while you gif? do you have any music/artists to recommend?

[userpurple]

I loooooove a good video essay theyre basically just reviews of things but theyre fun to watch. There’s a youtuber named Jenny Nicholson who does my favoriteeeee ones and she has one on Frozen 2! my favorites are the ones she has on greatest showman, fantastic beasts 2, and vampire diaries but keep in mind she really critiques them so maybe only click on the videos with movies that you’re not too attached to hahah. There’s also a more “professional” channel (by that I mean theyre just interesting and not funny) called lessons from a screenplay that does cool deep dives on movies. and yes same that’s my favorite scene too! i took a look through your editing tag and you’re so talented! There’s so many different types of edits in there. I love gifsets but I cannot make them to save my life (they always turn out blurry😩) but during 2020 quarantine I used to make a lot of collage-type edits. One of my favorite movies is into the spider-verse, im so happy theyre making a sequel! happy evermore anniversary btw, what’s your favorite song from the album? - pixel ⭐️

ooooooooo i will be sure to check them out for sure! thanks for the recs💜💜💜💜

@ohh-goddamn look marshie i found another collage-maker lkkhaslfhas

also omg you went through my editing tag🙈😳pls i'm an adept at best among so many editing grandmasters in this hellsite😩😩😩but thank you! i worked hard on all of them and i'm proud of the progress i've made. i hope to keep working on them and get better😊

awww but why do they come out blurry tho? do you use the actual photoshop software or a site like photopea because photopea is just absolute crap for giffing lksfhah that's why some of my earlier edits were just...edits lmao. any gif i made would turn out pixelated af >:( i finally downloaded a working version of ps and i'm stoked at the whole new world i've unlocked XD

if you'd like, i'd be happy to link you to some GREAT resources that have personally helped me so much!

belated happy anniversary to you too! and it's tswizzle's birthday haha🎊🎊🎊🎊truthfully i still haven't processed evermore but my favorite song would be 'dorothea'! such a catchy but also relaxing tune. what about yours?