#and since they had to be bw then i had to make 3 more gifs bw to keep a cohesive look/pattern

[shinneth]

Hmm... this is actually quite fascinating.

Conway being the debut user of Trick Room in the anime is a well-known fact amongst us Conway-loving geeks. But I didn't actually stop to recognize that he's either the sole user or one of very few in this 2.5 decades-long series of moves beyond that. Part of that is because I stopped keeping up with the anime after XY, but it's still wild to me that to this day Conway's the only trainer to use Power Trick!

I actually considered putting moves on the poll list, but held back when I saw that Professor Kukui is already listed as a move specialist and was trying to avoid repeat specialties. It's been several years since I played Moon, and at the time it didn't hit me that the moves Kukui focuses on are actually the Z-Moves. I don't personally recall Kukui focusing on moves outside of those, so that's my bad, lol.

Conway being a professional esoteric move enthusiast makes a hell of a lot of sense, actually! And it's distinct enough from the Z-Moves to warrant eligibility.

By extension, his choice of Pokémon factor in as well. After all, Trick Room could be used by an ignorant trainer with a speedster-type 'mon and they could be wondering why everything went south for their battle, leading to them never wanting to use the move again because seemingly bad things happen whenever they do. As a casual player, I know there are a ton of moves out there that I initially dismissed because their descriptions often belie just how useful they truly are. I never would have figured out on my own how crucial a move like, say, Baton Pass was in fact a very useful move to have in battle. Seems like that move specifically, despite existing since Gen II, never got used in the anime at all.

The anime is often inconsistent with how moves are learned, though sometimes they kinda have to write around new special moves they wanna promote that didn't exist when the show began. Volt Tackle, for example - normally Ash's Pikachu could only have that as an Egg Move whilst one of his parents were equipped with a Light Ball if we're strictly following the game rules, meaning he should have had at the start. But being that Volt Tackle is a Gen III move, there was no way to plan for that ahead of time, so they had to improvise a bit.

I'm still fucking salty BW took it out of Pikachu's move set in favor of stupid-ass Electro Ball--

It does feel like, starting around maybe the Advance era but especially in the DP era, the writers were actually paying attention to game mechanics and adhering to the rules and limitations set by them for the most part. Going by Ash's Pikachu's move set across the entire series, it feels like maybe they weren't really adhering to the 4-move limit rule until much later on. Because by DP, it definitely felt like they were consistent with Pokémon only having four movies apiece.

Thusly, by the DP era I'd like to think the writers were at least on the starting point of being more faithful to how moves are learned in the games. All of Conway's Pokémon, for example, have no more than 3-4 moves each. Shuckle does learn Power Trick via leveling up, although in Gen IV it only gets that at Level 48. I know levels aren't really a thing in the anime, but there is a precedent for major characters' Pokémon learning moves in a logical order. Ash's Turtwig, for example, didn't learn Energy Ball right off the bat. It only learned that move over 50 episodes after its capture. So going by that reasoning, Conway likely had a set plan he wanted for Shuckle and fully intended for it to learn Power Trick down the line.

For Trick Room, however, that is only learnable by Dusknoir via TM in Gen IV. TMs were never a thing in the primary series (only in that Pokémon Mystery Dungeon special and Origins). So while I'd love for Conway to become someone who invents TMs down the line, it wouldn't explain how various Pokémon in the series were learning TM moves beforehand. I suppose one could say Conway identified the specific phenomenon in which Pokémon learn moves that are not part of their native move set and managed to create a tangible simulation in the form of TMs, perhaps?

He could also function as a Move Tutor. Lickilicky does have Rollout in its native move set in Gen IV, but interestingly, in Platinum and HGSS, it can also learn the move via a Move Tutor. There are a load of informal move tutors in the anime, amusingly. The aforementioned Energy Ball eventually learned by Ash's Turtwig was via tutoring by Kenny and his Breloom. As it turns out, in-game Turtwig can't naturally learn Energy Ball - that's a TM move. Incidentally, Breloom also can only learn Energy Ball via TM, so how Kenny's knows it is anyone's guess, though he spouts some stuff about how Turtwig would've learned Energy Ball quicker if it knew Bullet Seed first for their similarities in "focusing power" - except Bullet Seed is ALSO a TM-only move for Turtwig so I like to believe Kenny's talking out of his ass here---

There's a more straightforward example in Reggie, who used his Staraptor to teach Ash's Staravia Brave Bird - a move it learns via level-up, so it's not just TM moves this is restricted to.

Much later in DP, there's a CotD named Wilma - interestingly, a direct adaptation of an NPC by the same name in DPPt. In the games, her sole function was to teach Draco Meteor to eligible 'mons who have their friendship maxed out. Ash and his Gible meet her, try to learn Draco Meteor, but as we know, Gible didn't properly learn said move until...

Guess Conway was inadvertently move-tutoring even then!

Interestingly, all the anime "move tutors" listed in Bulbapedia only come from the AG series, the DP series, and the SM series.

Damn, I feel like I went on a tangent. Basically, AG/DP felt like the starting point of the anime taking game mechanics a little more seriously/faithfully. We saw a proper Pokémon trade, a lot more active status effects (Burn debuted in AG, but was shown off only once - it was shown off several times in DP), as well as abilities that can cause status effects. There were several times where physical moves were distinct from special moves, and so on. I appreciated how typing wasn't the end-all, be-all factor in winning a battle during this era, yet it wasn't completely disregarded, either.

This totally isn't me being salty at BW for going ass-backwards with how it treated type interactions, Ash going out of his way more often than not to pick a bad type match-up for his battles, and losing the few times he DID adhere to type logic, and the narrative trying to make it out like it's totally in Ash's character to just flip the bird to established game mechanics when they were largely respected in the two prior series--

SO, I see no issue with referring to the native game mechanics and making efforts to connect the anime to the game concepts that weren't adapted. Conway always struck me as someone who just loves to learn everything he can about Pokémon - it's pretty much why making him a Professor makes the most sense for his career path. I've written Conway as something of a Pokémon Freelancer - dabbling in anything and everything, trying to find the route that truly speaks to him. He's got tunnel vision whilst ironically being directionless.

Luckily, he's already got something of a unique style that makes him stand out above the crowd even if he's gotta shout out loud.

Arguably, it can be said that Conway fits the Metagamer, Compatibility, Battle-Extracurriculars, and maybe even Type categories as a Move Specialist. After all, as was said way further up in this post, Trick Room can be a great move, but requires context for the right kind of Pokémon to use it. By extension, it requires the wisdom of determining what Pokémon are best suited to any given trainer's style. How it's going to be used - in battle, in a Contest appeal and/or battle, or something else. Maybe Conway discovers that STAB is indeed a thing that happens in the anime!

I can also see him massively geeking out over Inverse Battles - just the concept of flipping the entire Type table on its head and going over how wildly certain Types differ under Opposite Day circumstances. I'd love to see Conway create the whole damn concept, considering it was never utilized in the anime.

If he can teach math to a Venonat, Conway could do damn near anything he sets his mind to. ♥

Damn, #Conway Day snuck up on me again! My first instinct was to rush a shitty picture, but honestly, with my years of accumulated artist's rust, I doubt I'd be able to draw anything better than that piece-of-shit second picture anyway. :P

But I had a better idea soon after!

So, all of these pictures are three separate perceptions of a grown-up Conway becoming a Pokémon Professor: the first design belongs to @nerdinsandals , the second is mine, and the third is @anghappylady's.

We all seem to be in agreement that this is what Conway would ultimately grow up to be, or at least, ideally, what suits him best!

Two things none of us ever seemed to settle on (independently or as a collective) was A) Conway's surname... and considering current-gen Profs are branching out into other plant-based names rather than sticking just to trees, means the potential name pool got a lot wider, potentially.

But the more interesting aspect is this: What would Professor Conway specialize in?

This also seems to be a point none of us were able to pin down. Unless of course I'm missing anything, in which case beat me over the head with it--

So for this Conway Day, I figured the best contribution I can make is open up the discussion for what route of Pokémon study would best suit a Professor Conway?

A lot of those ideas I pulled straight out of my ass, but hopefully this might foster a nice, fun discussion for a character who deserves the love and attention, what little he receives?

[wandaromanova]

Little Sister

Pairing: Natasha Romanoff x Fem!Reader

Warnings: one cuss word, minor BW spoilers

A/N: hello! i’d like to note that this takes place sometime before the events in the Black Widow movie! if you haven’t seen the movie yet, please skip over this story and come back later if you’d like! happy reading <3

anon requested: hiii i have a fluff request after seeing bw haha: could you do nat x fem reader where they're laying in bed snuggling, and r asks her about her family and nat tells her and r notices how cute she looks when she's talking about yelena and it's so soft and ahhhh

Summary: Natasha tells her girlfriend about a piece of her past that she never talks about; her sister.

Word Count: 2K

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Natasha Romanoff has lived a lot of lives. She has been through more than most.

Nat had been taken as an infant by an organization that trained little girls to become lethal assassins.

She was psychologically conditioned to become a killer, having taken more lives than she could count.

Eventually, Natasha had managed to break free from the cage she was forced into and was recruited as a S.H.I.E.L.D agent; it was a new start for her, an opportunity to compensate for the red in her ledger.

So, Natasha took her job seriously, saving as many people as she could, even more so when she became an Avenger; one of earth’s mightiest heroes.

Natasha found something in the team that she never really had before; a family. She found a home within the dysfunctional team she had been recruited into.

Not only did Natasha find a family within the Avengers; she also found the love of her life.

Natasha hadn’t even considered the possibility of ever finding love.

For starters, the Red Room had instilled the concept that love was nothing but a distraction; a liability.

She had been taught that love was for children and it was nothing but a weakness that needed to be avoided at all costs.

She was quite literally programmed to be emotionally closed off and to always have her guard up. Letting someone into her heart was a risk she didn’t want to take.

When Natasha gained her independence from the organization, she had to do a lot of self-discovering. She had never been able to be her own person, but now that she could, she quickly learned that she didn’t even know herself.

However, it was Natasha’s insecurities that truly turned her off from the entire idea of love.

How could any ever possibly love her? She thought she was a monster for the things she’d done. She has done the unspeakable since ever she was a child.

What if she wasn’t enough? What if her baggage was too much for someone else to carry? She didn’t want to be a burden. She didn’t want to have to protect someone, just to fail them like she had failed so many others.

Natasha was positive that no one would ever be crazy enough to love her.

Little did she know, she would end up finding someone crazy enough to do so; you.

•❅──────────────── ‎⧗ ────────────────❅•

When the Avengers were formed, you were extremely nervous about it.

All of the files that you’ve read on your new teammates were unbelievable; they were all phenomenal in their own rights. A super-soldier, a god, a genius, a trained-spy.

You were a spy yourself, so you knew exactly who Natasha Romanoff was. She was a S.H.I.E.L.D legend, the best of the best.

You were more nervous about meeting her than anyone else. What if she judged you? What if she didn’t think you were good enough to be an agent, let alone an Avenger?

Not only was she your superior, but she was also your crush. Yeah, you’d never even met the woman before, but you were crushing on her hard.

She was drop-dead gorgeous, but also quite literally a deadly force. Natasha could easily take down anyone she wanted to, and honestly, you wanted to be one of those lucky people.

When you met Natasha for the first time, you were a flustered mess. The redhead found it amusing, how your cheeks turned a bright shade of red and you stumbled over your words as you praised her work.

Natasha never told you this, but she was immediately smitten the moment she laid eyes on you.

There was a kindness and positivity that just radiated off of you and it was extremely contagious.

You were this beaming ball of light that lit up the darkest parts of her soul.

•❅──────────────── ‎⧗ ────────────────❅•

You got to know Natasha extremely well while being on the team. From observing her closely and paying very close attention to her actions, you had managed to pick up on little things.

She didn’t put any creamer or sugar in her sugar; opting for strong, black coffee.

She was kind of a clean freak. If she saw something out of place, she would be quick to put it in the correct place or position.

When she was happy, she would let a small smirk cross her features. When she was annoyed, she would raise her eyebrows.

When she was stressed out or angry, three little creases would appear on her forehead as her eyebrows would knit together tightly; a subtle frown on her face.

Of course, when you began dating the redhead, you didn’t really have to survey her so closely anymore because she’d tell you things herself.

No matter the circumstances, Natasha would always come to you and rant about it. Whether it was about how shitty a mission went or how she beat Clint’s ass during training; you were the only person she wanted to tell.

Natasha had opened up to you, something she never did with anyone. She told you all about her past.

•❅──────────────── ‎⧗ ────────────────❅•

You had some knowledge of Natasha’s previous life, considering it was in her files, but you didn’t realize just how horrible her childhood truly was.

The Red Room, the heavy weight of guilt that rests on her shoulders, the nightmares that forced her to relive the murders she committed, her time as a S.H.I.E.L.D agent, and becoming an Avenger.

She’d go on and on about her road to redemption or ‘clearing the red out of her ledger.’

Natasha was terrified when she told you about her demons. She figured you were going to leave her the second she finished talking, waiting for you to get up and walk out the door, but you didn’t.

So, you completely caught her off guard when you pulled her into a bone-crushing hug, placing a soft kiss onto her temple, the redhead relaxing in your embrace.

“You’re the strongest person I know. It’s not your fault, you were forced and conditioned to do the things you did.”

Natasha focused on the sound of your voice and took in your words as you softly caressed her red locks with one hand.

“Baby, the amount of respect I have for you is immeasurable. I applaud you for turning your life around for the better. I’m so fucking proud of you.”

Your words had brought tears to Natasha’s eyes, which was a rare occurrence.

She was expecting you to run for the hills, but you chose to pull her closer instead.

In that moment, Natasha knew she never had to be afraid of love again.

You were the most understanding and accepting person she’d ever met.

You would never judge her for her worst mistakes; Natasha had found the one for her and she wasn’t ever going to let go.

•❅──────────────── ‎⧗ ────────────────❅•

Now, a few months later and a year into your relationship with the Russian, you were both lying in bed and cuddling.

You were both watching a movie when a particular scene came on. It was of a family gathering around a Christmas tree, children excitedly opening up presents with gleeful smiles across their faces.

“You know, my sister and I got to take pictures with a Christmas tree once.” Natasha spoke, her eyes fixated on the screen.

You looked up at her in shock. You didn’t know that Natasha had a sister. She told you that she didn’t even so much as know her parent’s names.

Natasha looked down and noticed your confused expression. She reached for the remote on the bedside table and paused the movie before returning her gaze to you.

“There was a mission I was assigned to in Ohio, as a kid. I was assigned to play the daughter of two other Russian spies, Alexei and Melina. It wasn’t just me though, there was a little girl who was assigned as my younger sister. Her name is Yelena.”

Natasha had a reminiscent, happy smile on her face as she recalled the brief period time of her childhood. She looked absolutely adorable as she rambled on about this part of her childhood.

“We took photoshoots of various holidays to make our family look more realistic. My favorite one was Christmas. Even though I knew they were just empty boxes, I wanted to rip open every single one.”

Natasha let out a small giggle at the thought. Even though she had a smile on her face, you could feel and hear the underlying tone of sadness in her voice.

“Yelena and I would spend hours outside, just playing together. Swinging on the swing-sets, looking up at the stars, bending over backward, and getting into a ridiculous competition to see who could hold the position the longest… I always let her win.”

You could see the fondness in her eyes, the longing. It warmed your heart that there was a small glimmer of light in Natasha’s past. There was at least a sliver of hope that she clung tightly onto throughout her time in the Red Room.

“After 3 years, the mission ended. Yelena and I were sent back to the Red Room and were torn apart from one another.

Natasha’s breathing grew heavier as she recalled the unfaithful day. The sight of her sister being taken, and not being able to do anything to help her; still haunted the redhead to this day.

“There were so many men with guns and armor, they literally ripped us away from each other. I was eleven and she was only six.”

Your heart sunk at your girlfriend’s words as her smile dropped. She tore her eyes away from yours as she blinked rapidly, fighting back tears, but failed. You reached your hand up to her cheek and wiped away the fallen droplets.

“I haven’t seen her since. I’d like to think that she found a way out and got a life of her own; a nice, happy life.”

Natasha placed her hand on top of yours before looking down at you once more. You sent her a soft smile when she let out a shaky breath.

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ

“I knew that the it was all fake, but it was still the best part of my childhood. It was real to me.”

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ

You nodded your head at her words. She took a brief pause, trying to regain her composure, before continuing.

“Even if we have no true relation to one another, and even if I haven’t seen her in years, she is still my little sister.”

Natasha finished off with a big gasp as sobs wracked her body. You sat up from her embrace and pulled her into your arms, just like you had many times before.

You rubbed her back soothingly as she cried into your shoulder, her tears hitting the exposed skin.

“She sounds amazing, baby. I’m really happy that you had some sort of happiness back then and I hope one day you get to see her again.”

You whispered and Natasha pulled away from the hug, still in your arms as her emerald eyes surrounded by a sea of red, a result of her crying.

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ

“I doubt she’d even want to see me. I didn’t even try to find her. I’m a horrible sister! I-“

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ

You immediately pressed your lips against hers, effectively getting the Russian to calm down. You broke the kiss when her breathing slowed.

“Honey, of course, she’d want to see you again. Like you said, you guys are sisters. I’m positive that it was just as real to her as it was to you.”

You reassured your girlfriend, her eyes a pool of worry and guilt. You rubbed your thumb against her waist, the material of your her hoodie beneath your touch.

“From what you’ve told me about the Red Room, it would’ve been impossible to find her. Stop beating yourself up over it. You’re the best, and I’m totally not biased or anything.”

Natasha let out a small chuckle at that and you smiled at her, wiping away the last of her tears. She collapsed into your hold further, shoving her face into the crook of your neck.

“Thank you. I don’t know what I’d do without you. I love you so much.”

Natasha’s words came out muffled as her face pressed further into your skin.

“You never need to thank me for anything. I’ll always be here for you, Natty.”

You hugged her as tight as you possibly could, her cold skin meeting your warmth. Natasha let out a small sigh at the feeling.

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ

“Wherever you go, I go.”

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ

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[kangyeosaang]

#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.

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thank you csenge @imdefs​ for tagging me to show how i made this set ✨

buckle up folks this is gonna be long bc min. character limit uni papers thought me a lot of things but def not how to be concise 

01. planning

this was a long time ago but i do remember wanting to make something with overlays bc quite honestly i started working on this way too late and it seemed the fastest lmao. jokes on me i had 2 failed attempts and this also went through some changes along the way. initially i wanted to combine dye, bol and present:you... them being my fave eras for this lovable dumb man. so it would’ve been one pair for each gif.

02. creating

picking footage

so onto creating,, first things first the concept had to be changed bc present:you only had light shots so that had to be removed rip, here you can see a failed attempt at me trying to include it. this was before i started making proof on concepts for gifsets which later on saved me so much time... but not this time

once i accepted defeat i had to reshuffle the shots and add some new ones but it was all good i was not losing braincells at all. so onto the real gifs, gonna show you the red one bc that’s my fave of the three. 

making the base

btw i’m always working with timelines and smart objects bc it feels way easier than frames. so here we started with this jaebeom, and since the background and his hair it’s pretty dark those will be the parts which will be covered with the next gif. i made it black and white and also adjusted the levels a bit to make it a bit softer (lowered the whites and lightened the blacks)

for aesthetic purposes i always go for one close shot and one wider shot, then literally all i did was add the other gif on top, and set it to lighten. okay this is it that’s the whole process bye. oh we need the rest too? okay okay. so btw for a while i was considering making both of them coloured but then bw looked better when having all three gifs under each other, felt more like a ‘set’

now for this gif in particular i did not need to mask anything, shocking, but for the others i had to either blend the edges or make the bottom layer darker at some places to let the top layer show up a bit more e.g. for the second gif i needed a tiny blending like so (it’s the layer 1 copy 3 lmao)

making the overlay bits

then we are basically done with the main part of the gifs, obviously i applied colouring to each inside the smart object. but i always like to add something extra on top which are usually two things: 1.) full overlay gif something blurred (literally any kind of footage.. i used leaves, water, space renders etc. so far), or a light leak, oooor a bokeh effect whatever and just keep it subtle. and 2.) some smaller moving bits which are usually sparkles, dust, stars, galaxy stuff etc. u get the idea. for the above gif this happens to be Layer 1 copy 2 rip. also in this case this overlay is actually this jaebeom footage blurred and with some colouring added on top of it to have this redish brassy tone (not me forgetting about this completely lmao) obviously it’s zoomed in and i’m using the top left part of the video blurred. look at me explaining my chosen gif with another gifs gahd i’m bad at this. anyways it just goes to show i use practially anything i can think of and just blur it. 

for the full overlay footage i either go black and white and set it to overlay or soft light, whatever works best, or go coloured and set it to lighten again.... whatever blending mode works best. for this specific 2nd gif i went with lighten. for the smaller moving bits same tbh i just adjust the levels/curves to only show the bits i need when it’s set to lighten, i.e. i make its background more black so it won’t make the gif hazy. 

 adding the text

so anyways i add those on top so it’s not boring anymore,, practically just concealing the fact that all i‘ve really done was adding a gif on top of another and set it to lighten rip. oh yeah we have the text layers, nothing fancy here: for the script i used Challenge and the serif is FogtwoNo5. For the script i sampled some red from the background and just set it to overlay, and for the serif i just went with full caps adding some extra kerning bc one: for full caps you always need that, not this much lol, and two: it just looks better okay. 

last touches

then i added a levels adjustment layer because i felt the gifs were a bit brighter than i wanted, so we ended up with this 

saviiiiiing 

oh my gahd we are almost theeeere, for saving gifs here are my settings, i did not have to tell photoshop which colours to use luckily so it was an easy process.

03. posting

eeehmmm posting... yeah nothing exciting? i just save it in my drafts check it on mobile, and if something is really messed up i’ll change some colouring and saving settings, but this was a fairly ‘easy’ gif for tumblr to compress decently so none of that. 

if you read this far bruh.... i don’t think i’ve made sense anyways thank yooouuu 💕

and the five amazing CCs i’m tagging are 

🎬 dear wifey, rosie @se-jun​​​​ for these victon posters which i definitely did not make her choose and we ended up with the same i would’ve chosen 🌈 vivi @yeekies​​​​ for making a rainbow from the mostly yellow blob that is the fireworks mv 💙 yv @woodzm​​​​ for this beauty where the blues are colourmatched so well it makes me mad 🌸 lotta @halahala​​​​ for this miracle of a gifset which made me not despise pink 🌈 bridget @lilacwoo​​​​ for this 12/10 rainbow right here because apparently i like rainbows. shocking.   

feel free to ignore and all them usual stuff

[highwarlockkareena]

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!

Thank you ali for the tag on this collaboration with @nyx4, ali! @wendashanren

tagging: (I mostly talk about collaboration for this one but if you check #showyourprocess most people talk about how they made their creations or check my first post about giffing here!)

@elysean for this set @timothyolyphant for this set @sugardaddyahxu for this set @jun-hee for this set @bloominflowers​ for this art

I wanted to collaborate with Jackie on a set. We’d talked about it anyway, and thought about what we could work on. So when I saw this request on mdzsnet, i knew this was the one for us.

wei wuxian, black/red, cql, yp!wwx/sunshot campaign scenes/nightless city scenes, the lyrics from "the war" by syml

I knew Jackie loved Syml, so she’d want to make this request, so I put both our names down to claim it, then when Jackie was online checked if she’d prefer to do this one solo, or shared. She loved the idea of a collab, so we got to work.

First we listened to the song a couple of times, thinking about how it worked for wei wuxian. then we broke down which lyrics we wanted to use and the general scenes for them.

We split them out across a number of gifs (originally it was 4 but I don’t have a screenshot of that) with a general idea of scenes we’d work from for each. As you can see, I do plan but my notes tend to be sparse reminders rather than detailed. jackie wanted to dig the angst knife in deep and wanted the ‘my war is over’ to coincide with wei wuxian falling off the cliff, so we worked back from that for our scene choices. 

Jackie:

Originally it was going to be 4 gifs, all of them with the lyrics that made it to the final set, but it would have been too much text on each gif so first we decided on a gif without text in the middle before deciding on spreading out the song a bit more which led to the 7 gif set.

We started making gifs 1 and 3. in my usual fashion i made about 10 gifs to pick which scenes i wanted to work with & jackie made 1 because she isn’t an idiot. 

Jackie:

Kareena does make a ton of gifs just to choose one or two, which is both amusing and amazing. I have proof!

Luckily we’re both admins on WoHDaily, so we used the drafts in there to share a post we could both edit gifs in & out of. 

I’d wanted to do a silhouette edit similar to one in @lan-xichens lovely overlay tutorial, but it wasn’t coming out the way i’d liked, so I had to keep trying different things until it worked as I’d envisioned. 

I finished a touch before Jackie who had taken time to pick emotionally devastating scenes for her gif, so we used my red throughout both, but then  tweaked each gif with feedback from each other. 

Jackie:

When we first decided on the scenes, I waited for her to do the first gif so I could match her colors. Once she made the first one, I showed her this template I made so we could visualize how it’d look.

Then we moved on to the next gifs. This was harder, because we didn’t want to overload the set by making every single gif super fancy, so we tried out a variety of things to see what would hang together nicely. 

Above is an example of one idea of mine that got discarded. I think i had 3 iterations before we got to the gif below. 

Jackie:

I then moved on to gif #6 and I made a gif which Kareena completely shut down. She said, Jackie, this is really ugly. I accepted it, because she is the one with the skills here, and because she was right. (KAREENA: this is a lie - the gif is *gorgeous* but it just has a lot going on in an already busy gifset.)

There was too much going on in that gif and it didn’t really fit with the set we were making. The gif we ended up with fit much better and I’m glad she said something. For the last gif, I showed her a few shots and we both agreed on those two (wwx crying, walking backwards on the cliff). I made a couple of gifs that Kareena was nice enough to say were gorgeous, but I thought they sucked. Third one is what we ended up with.

For me, most of the work was in getting the scenes to fit the lyrics and to work with the color scheme that the requester gave us.

We continued to work this way, making ideas and sharing them, tweaking or discarding or remaking as necessary until we were both happy with the gifs. It wasn’t too hard to get them to work as a set, it was mostly about communication and honesty. jackie and i get on well enough to crit each others gifs without worry, so we both liked what was created. We pushed each other, Jackie knows I’m very lazy & she didn’t let me slack. I pushed her in other areas so that we both tried out new skills. 

Once the seven gifs were made, it was time for typography! We spent a little time discussing our love of simple fonts, sharing a few examples, before I handed over to jackie as the typography queen.  

Now, fonts:

Yup, I like simple fonts and for the typography not to take over the whole set. Luckily, Kareena feels the same way, so early on we decided on two fonts, one of them to highlight a word here or there. I showered her some fonts samples, we agreed on a style, and then I got to work.

The fonts used were:

Ostrich Sans  https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/ostrich-sans

Memories  https://www.dafont.com/memories-2.font

I kept it simple, just looking where the text would look best. I didn’t know how to wrap text around a shape before, which is what I wanted for gif #3. Turns out it’s very easy and people probably know this already but I’m a ps noob (lie). Still putting this here just in case anyone wants to know.

Using the Ellipse Tool/Custom Shape Tool, I made a circle 2px bigger than the bw gif i wanted to wrap the text around. I didn’t want the shape to be visible, so I chose Path there. (If you choose shape, the actual shape will be visible in whatever color you have chosen)

With the Type Tool, just hover over the line of the shape and a squiggly thing will appear. Click and start typing. I then dragged the text and fit it over the bw gif. I made the shape on the side so I could see it clearly, but you can make it over the actual shape you want the text to wrap around. Listen, this is the best I can describe it ✌

We discussed how to post the set. Since it was a group effort, should one of us post it or should we post it via the net? Since we’ve also got another request lined up to collaborate on, we decided that I would post this set & Jackie would post the next one. 

TLDR: 

It was fun, it was about communication and compromise. Pushing each other in our weak spots, nitpicking at each gif to make them the best we could, agreeing why one gif might not work in this set. It was about mixing two styles but still creating something we both liked! It was enough fun we have two more collaborations planned, just to keep having fun and to keep learning.

[otnesse]

Well, I wouldn't say Misty's the most hated character in the fandom. One of the most divisive, sure, but definitely not the most hated. Otherwise, she wouldn't have gotten nearly as high as she did in that Movie 20 poll (top 3, only being beaten out by Serena and Brock, and I suspect Serena was mostly due to her being more recent). I also won't say Serena's the most hated, either, for essentially the same reason.

As far as the online bits, I'll acknowledge there's toxic fans at times. However, I should point out there have been plenty of May fans who go out of their way to attack Misty fans and even Misty herself, even spread defaming lies like her "not doing anything" in Johto, going stale, lacking her temper, holding an egg in the background, all of that. All while outright shilling May. And one of them I most certainly CAN call him a traitor, assuming he was ever loyal to Misty to begin with since he implied in one of his posts on IGN that he's a notorious troll. In fact, part of the reason I joined SPPf and BMGf (my home base was Pokecommunity with its Bring Misty Back club) was to defend the Misty fans from the assaults of those May fans (especially the likes of CyberCubed). And while I'll acknowledge Misty's departure definitely made my ire of May worse, I'll be quick to point out that my intense dislike of May was actually largely unrelated to Misty other than maybe the sense of complete disrespect of how she was replaced regarding characterizations (the fact that I still disliked her successor Dawn about as much despite her having nothing to do with Misty, far less than May, should make that apparent). If anything was directly tied to my dislike of May, it's the following:

And you can blame an ER visit to Scottish Rites right before exams and having to watch (or rather, listen, since I was too scared of being called a baby for watching) an AG episode while waiting for x-rays for pains in my chest for how I came to the conclusion that May was like the above, sounded EXACTLY the same as either what I witnessed directly, or what I've heard of characterizations in the case of Love Hina (if I recall correctly, the episode in question involved a Surskit). Oh, and BTW, those same girls, from Princess vs. Princess (also Love Hina), are also essentially the reason why I'm extremely LOYAL to Misty, mostly because she DIDN'T behave like them at all (at least, not in THOSE particular scenes).

And speaking personally, I actually didn't mind Iris too much. Found her a worthy successor (then again, I hadn't actually watched BW for a variety of reasons, and while I WAS disgusted with how they had Ash's character regress from what I heard, I also had enough sense to not blame Iris for the regression.). In fact, part of the reason I was fond of Iris was precisely BECAUSE of her similarities to Misty from what I could gather of her. Serena's more of a true neutral to me, mostly because I haven't watched XY and have VERY little basis for me to like or dislike her (unlike with May and Dawn, where I at least WATCHED some bits of AG and DP before making a determination). And until I actually HAVE an opportunity to bingewatch episodes of Pokemon that aren't either Indigo League or the most recent series, I HAVE no real way to make any determination first-hand.

Replying to ****IrisHatersSay

Making it its own post since I can't directly reblog due being blocked:

"Anonymous asked: You know Pokémon ranger boy 12? The XY fanboy who sexualizes Serena and literally screamed of S&M- I'm surprised he isn't an iris hater he actually said he didn't mind her

shitirishaterssay answered:

GIF by youtubevirals I’m sorry, the XY fanboy who WHAT Serena? She’s ten. TEN (yeah, it’s surprising that he apparently doesn’t hate Iris, but that’s not the issue here). What IS it with this fandom and sexualizing underage girls?"

You can blame Masamitsu Hidaka for why there's sexualization for 10 year olds in the anime. Starting with May in fact. Just read up on the 2008 WPM interview with him, and you'll see EXACTLY what I mean by that. A side note, HE'S the reason Misty got kicked off after Johto, even bullied Takeshi Shudo into choosing Team Rocket over her.

To be fair, though, neither Iris nor Serena's ages were actually stated in the anime, so you COULD argue they were ambiguous, but still...

[nyxetoile]

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My Top Posts in 2021

#5

Mom’s nuanced reaction/review of Captain America: Civil War

“Did they get an actor that looked like young Robert Downey Jr or was that effects?”

“Can you imagine being on your commute and seeing Captain America running past you?”

“Winter Soldier is much cuter than Captain America.”

“Black Panther is cuter than both of them.”

“That motorcycle thing? When he grabbed it and flipped? That was nice.”

“Is Spiderman Marvel? I thought he was something else.”

“I didn’t know Ant Man could do that! I guess he is relevant.”

“It was good. I liked the Star Wars and Manchurian candidate lines.”

25 notes • Posted 2021-03-27 23:29:56 GMT

#4

Y’all ready for Mom’s in depth Infinity War review?

“It’s all action and no plot.”

“I’m not done yet, I fell asleep and had to rewind.”

“Why did Josh Brolin even do this movie? Money, I guess.”

“Is this the one you had to wait a year to see what happened?”

“I was promised Idris Elba and I barely saw him!” (Gotta watch Ragnarok for prime MCU Idris, Mom.)

“All in all, I don't think I liked it.”

Edited to add, since I forgot: “Well, that’s most of my day I’m not getting back.”

29 notes • Posted 2021-03-30 00:00:04 GMT

#3

More spoilery Black Widow review

Told in bullet points, train of thought style

There were 7 previews and 2 different commercials reminding us that theaters were open again and this was how movies were made to be seen. A) We’re already in the theater Cinemark, chill and B) When I watch movies at home they start with I hit the godsdamned play button.

Flashback to 90s Ohio with adorable spy children. All my head canons of Nat knowing random 90s trivia is now valid.

Excellent use of American Pie.

The opening credits are more harrowing than any Marvel movie so far.

General Ross will never not be an idiot.

Hello attractive British fixer guy. I suspect you to be evil but you are not and that is a relief.

“People with friends don’t call me.” Dude all her friends are in prison, way to rub it in.

No, Nat! Don’t just put the McGuffin in your back seat!

Taskmasker is a Taskmistress, calling it now.

SHOOT HER LEGS NAT. Her shield is the size of a dinner plate. Don’t you meme?

I feel like the fact the gas is glowing is, like, a health hazard warning? Is there radium in it?

Nat and Yelena have an all out brawl when they reunite, which, based on sisters I know, seems accurate.

So Budapest is code for “that time we blew up a building in an attempt to kill my old boss and had to lie low for 10 days” I’m with Clint, here, that doesn’t resemble the Battle of New York at all.

Maybe plan an escape that is less likely to cause bodily harm.

Taskmaster shoots an arrow to remind us she can copy ALL The Avengers, even the ones without solo movies.

I REALLY don’t think either of you survived that car crash. Especially considering it’s Nat’s second major crash in two days.

So Clint DOES like hanging out in vents? That’s amazing. Which writer’s been hanging out on Tumblr?

So THAT’S where they took Sherif Hopper.

This is the most badass yet stupid prison break in cinema history.

“This is an awesome way to die.” I love Yelena, she’s my new favorite.

Don’t make period jokes to Black Widows, apparently.

“I was about to talk about Fallopian tubes.” I AM ADOPTING YELENA.

Alexei trying to give the girls a fatherly pep talk. Insert Will Smith “He’s got the spirit” gif.

Please let the pig breathe morally grey Rachel Weisz!

That being said, heavy Amanda vibes from Melina. They’ll get along.

“Pain makes you strong.” I feel like that’s supposed to feel like and inappropriate thing to tell a kid but that’s like, one of my family mottos.

Keep trying Alexei, you’ll get one of these right.

My biggest beef with this film is “No one has noticed a floating fortress over Russia only 4 years after aliens invaded New York.”

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33 notes • Posted 2021-07-10 05:48:28 GMT

#2

I turned 40 yesterday. According to the Young People™ on Tumblr, I am well past my expiration date and should sit quietly in a hole somewhere doing taxes and emotionally abusing my children.

Instead I’m going to play Sims and write some Captain America porn. Maybe listen to some Jimmy Buffet.

Age is just a number, kids. It will take years, if not decades to figure out who you are and what you’re good at and what brings you joy. Don’t stop your interests just as you find them. Life is a banquet and most people are starving to death.

35 notes • Posted 2021-07-24 20:03:58 GMT

#1

It’s been a few days so can we all appreciate that Vision beat his evil clone not with force but with a philosophical thought experiment? Like we still got the over the top shiny lights battle with Wanda and Agatha, but even THAT was won with Wanda out smarting her. WandaVision said brains over brawn and I’m living it.

98 notes • Posted 2021-03-09 21:42:25 GMT

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