#bc it's not paying for photoshop either is it!!!

[tyrannuspitch]

learning so much about computers against my will while im just trying to find a stupid little video editing program that Works

[lycandrophile]

it's silly but the biggest reason why im not into t yet is bc im so afraid of losing my hair. do you have any solutions/tips for it?

first of all, i don’t think it’s silly — it’s natural to be worried when hair loss is talked about by so many people as like…one of the worst results of aging for men. listening to my dad talk about how much he hates balding definitely did not make me feel particularly good about the knowledge that i may very well be joining him someday. i’m not saying the fear is right, because i don’t think hair loss is something awful that we should avoid at all costs, but it’s an understandable fear given the beauty standards we’re working with, and it’s one that a lot of us (myself included) feel.

one thing that’s helped me is just…paying more attention to the guys that i interact with on a daily basis. i’ve learned two things from it: 1) hair loss is super fucking common. i’d say it’s much harder to find an adult man who isn’t balding at all than it is to find one who’s completely bald. and 2) if you forget everything you’ve been told about how bad hair loss is, you’ll realize that quite frankly, every single one of those guys looks totally fucking fine. it doesn’t ruin their appearance and make them ugly, it looks totally natural and isn’t really even something you’d notice if you weren’t looking for it. we put so much weight on it but it’s really just not that big of a deal. i’ll hear my parents talk shit about men in my family who are losing their hair when i didn’t even notice a difference last time i saw them. it’s one of those things (like so many other appearance-related things) that you really only notice at all because you’ve been taught that you’re supposed to care about it.

this isn’t something i’ve done personally, but if you really want to desensitize yourself to the idea of it, embrace the time-honored queer tradition of just shaving your whole damn head! find out what you’d look like without hair, find out how you feel about it and what you can do that makes you feel good about your appearance without hair, test the waters while it’s still a temporary change and not something permanent. that way, it won’t feel like this big scary unknown, and you’ll actually have a frame of reference for your feelings about how you look without hair rather than accepting the societal assumption that you’ll inevitably hate it. if you don’t want to actually shave your head, you could also just fuck around with bald filters or photoshop and see what happens.

oh, and if you’re attracted to men, keep an eye out for guys who are bald or balding and also hot as fuck. in my experience, there’s no insecurity or potential future insecurity that being gay for other men hasn’t helped me with. just off the top of my head, i can think of a couple actors who i think are absolutely fucking gorgeous who have helped me get over my fears about losing my hair. despite what our anti-aging-obsessed world might want you to think, there is no such thing as a physical feature that automatically makes someone less attractive, and while making attractiveness less of a priority in your life is good, it can’t hurt to also give yourself some proof that actually, you might lose your hair and look hot as hell doing it.

basically, entertain the possibility that it won’t be a bad thing at all! whether that’s just because it turns out to be a neutral thing for you or because you end up actually liking it, it’s not an inherently bad thing. i’ve ended up liking a lot of things that were “supposed to” be bad effects of t — i love the weight i’ve gained and the new shape it gives my body, i get a lot of gender euphoria from the fact that my acne is now on parts of my face that i saw a lot of guys in high school get it and i’m not complaining about the scars i get from it either because i’ve always liked the added texture that acne scars give my skin, and so on. i think there’s a lot of joy to be had in the changes we’re taught to fear, once we look past that conditioning and actually explore how we feel about it.

but if it’s something you really don’t want and you just want to improve your chances of not having to deal with it, it’s not like there’s nothing you can do! products like finasteride (oral) and minoxidil (usually topical but i think there might also be oral versions) are pretty commonly used among trans guys, for the purpose of avoiding hair loss and for other reasons, and there are plenty of other anti-hair loss products out there (though i don’t know how effective any one of them might be). if it’s a big enough deal for you, you can just decide that you’ll go off of t if/when you start noticing signs of it, since no longer having higher t levels would stop the process in its tracks. and if you don’t find prevention options that work for you so it ends up happening, you can always explore different hair styles (judging by the pattern of hair loss i see in my family, i suspect that keeping my hair long would make it less obvious if i started losing mine), find your preferred method of covering it when you don’t feel good about it (personally i love a good beanie generally and would probably wear them a lot more if i didn’t have hair to worry about because my main complaint is the way they press my hair onto my neck), or just shave it all off if you don’t like the look of the partial balding but don’t mind a shaved head. the point being — you have options!

at the end of the day, whether you go on t or not, you’re going to see your body change as you age in ways that aren’t always going to be attractive to others or aesthetically pleasing to you. that’s just the reality of having a body. even if you never went on t, you’d get older and you might see your hair thin out even if you don’t bald, you’ll see your skin start to wrinkle and sag in places that used to be smooth, your metabolism might slow or your body fat might start to gather in new places; hell, you might lose your hair for a totally different reason and end up in the same place but without the benefits of having been on t that whole time. life is full of bodily changes like that. transphobes will fearmonger about the permanent changes of testosterone all day long but the truth is, there is no escaping permanent bodily changes. whether or not you go on t, your body now isn’t the same as it will be in 1 or 5 or 10 or 20 or 50 years, just like it isn’t the same as it was at any point in your life before now. our bodies are never supposed to stop growing and aging and changing throughout our lives. there’s no guaranteeing that we’ll love every single change our bodies go through, but that’s okay! there are so many things in life that are more important than the way our bodies look. even if you go on t and lose your hair and don’t like how it looks, your life won’t be ruined; plenty of other things will bring you joy and more than make up for the insecurities.

just think about the gender euphoria and relief from dysphoria that t could give you. would losing your hair be bad enough to outweigh all of that? or is it just the pressure of a society that decided balding is bad that’s making you fear one single change despite how much joy you could have if you let that fear go? only you can decide if going on t is worth the potential downsides for you, but i suspect that for most of us, the benefits of going on t far outweigh the possibility of side effects like hair loss happening down the line.

[cosmicpoutine]

Hello I’m here to make propaganda for medibang, great drawing app in my opinion and available for free on android

im using csp for animation. i know medibang has an onion feature, but does it have a timeline? because their official website don't rly show that?

i know krita has a timeline feature, too, but for some reason i never got used to krita (i tried like a million times)

i was using my cracked photoshop to animate and paint tool sai to draw the layers bc for some reason, i can't get photoshop to respond to my xp-pen tablet

either way, i don't think i will use csp for too long once my free trial expires. lol im not paying all of that just to animate my silly angel oc bouncing around

[cornerstorebitch]

yay we’re talking about baby gate again omg… I was a big larry girl back in the day but hadn’t been into 1D for ages when news of the “pregnancy” broke and I remember initially being like 🤨 because it was Louis come on… and felt that way further after taking a cursory glance at how he and the girl supposedly met and everything bc it was all so sketchy. then I forgot about it until a couple “pictures of the kid” a couple years later were out and im ashamed to say I went whoaaaa he does look exactly like Louis ok I guess it was real after all wow! Again did not think about any of it for ages and THEN stumbled across a long ass post matching up the kid looking exactly like his step uncle or cousin or whatever that was AND proving that the one pic in particular where he “looked exactly like Louis” was literally photoshopped with a well known picture of Louis as a kid like it was the same position, the same little hand holding something etc… wild. Also it’s just so fucking crazy because with that “picture of the kid” specifically, the one mixed with the well known of Louis I literally remember people saying ALL the time “oh wow no paternity test here!!! Twins!!! Haha no doubt at all about this kids dad 😍” to the point where I almost wonder now if some of those were bots/fake comments/tweets/whatever… just to make it look like everyone obviously felt that way. Also you make such a good underrated point about how (kind of unfortunately since it complicates things) that whether they were ever actually involved or not Harry or Louis coming out would immediately implicate the other one and there would be NO avoiding it. I personally get more of a bisexualish vibe from Harry and tend to think he’s maybe less ok with being known as legitimately attracted from men (apart from his word salad vague interview answers which I think are mostly for attention tbh) but at the same Louis seems like kind of a sensitive and sweet and still pretty lowkey (not spending a ton of time around other celebrities etc) soul so maybe he’s not entirely comfortable with the idea either? Idk it’s sooooo weird thinking of now and then too. Back in 2012-2014 it really did seem like both of them wanted out ☹️ And truly maybe im just not paying close enough attention (or maybe the residual “once they’re free from modest/simon they’ll be out for sure!!” thinking of back then?) but i get a more leery vibe from both of them now. I guess it’s probably really naive but part of me is a little surprised nothing changed for either of them after Liam’s death… idk im sure they really were not in contact with him at all anymore but it still seems like it would be such a jarring experience! That would make someone who’d been in band with him when they were all so young reassess things but who knows… also I just googled out of curiosity and there’s literally pics from like 2 days ago with Louis and his “new girlfriend” in Costa Rica that look absolutely staged to high he’ll 😭 what is going onnnnn. Anyway sorry for the essay omg but this shit will forever be compelling to me unfortunately. Super curious to hear any other thoughts you have, especially larryish ones and how that’s all interwoven with each of them individually

i think the unfortunate reality of closeted famous people is that the longer they keep the secret the less likely they are to ever actually come out and even when they do it's usually more along the lines of playing "this is my close friend and long time roommate" and not necessarily denying it than outright saying yeah i'm gay. and at this point if either of them want to have mainstream careers they basically have to stay closeted, although idk at this point how popular either of them really are, which might be more of a self fulfilling prophesy than anything. they're too old to be courting the teen girl audience and they'll never be taken seriously by a mainstream audience, even 25-45 female audience, if they come out as gay In My Opinion. not that they really are anyway as far as i've ever been able to tell but ya know.

as far as the babygate stuff goes i think the biggest reason why it's all so blatant is that everyone involved rightly assumed that no matter what anybody noticed or pointed out or said on tmz, nobody is gonna outright accuse them of lying about the whole situation bc to the average person it sounds so absurd and off the wall that they just think there's no way it could be true, no matter what they see or hear. and people by and large believe celebrity reporting and pr stuff even when it is obvious both bc people are in general gullible and bc people want to feel like they have some kind of intimate knowledge abt these people and social media naturally exacerbated that significantly, despite giving people way more opportunity to play arm chair detective

ig in conclusion if they're not out now they probably never will be and even with like. instagram and shit. the average person is always gonna discount any sort of celebrity conspiracy theory if it contradicts the party line, even when there's plenty of reason to believe otherwise

thank u for your long one direction message. i like to read yalls anonymous essays

[rotanawrites]

What do you use to gif if you don’t use photoshop?

Thank you for the question, anon!

Because I’m a broke bitch, I don’t use PS. I use a free open source application called instagiffer instead. I download videos mostly from YouTube, but some of the websites I use to watch international TV shows are easy to download from as well. Idk how to gif from streaming platforms yet and I’m scared to torrent 💀

Anyway!

I put the video file into instagiffer and I move the time toggle as I make the gifs. I typically set them to gif 4 seconds of footage at once, 10 frames per second, and I trim off a few frames as needed. You can’t adjust the coloring or sharpen the gifs unfortunately, so I know why people say my gifs aren’t HQ enough or whatever, but I find as long as the lighting in the OG footage isn’t bad, if you use the brightness toggle and adjust it once on either side of darker or lighter, depending on the lighting, it does make the FC you’re giffing clearer.

Sometimes I’ll edit 8 seconds of footage at once if the FC is in one position and camera angle for that long and use the “delete even number frames” option to make a gif of them make several expressions while they talk. Sometimes the gif looks good as is, other times you’ll need to slow it down by one speed.

You can adjust brightness, size, crop, FPS, and frame speed with Instagiffer. If anybody has suggestions for free programs where I CAN color and sharpen gifs I’d love to hear them. But I like Instagiffer because it’s very easy to crank out gifs quickly. This is a hobby. I don’t take commissions (largely bc I don’t feel my gifs are HQ enough to OFFER commissions, and my turnaround time would suck), and nobody has ever donated to my kofi for my gifs, which is fine!!! But this is a free hobby! I have a full time job, I’m autistic and have adhd so even HAVING FUN can be hard for me to want to do because of burnout from working full time. I’m hopefully to go finish my degree this time next year too. Instagiffer is free and fast and to ME what’s fun isn’t sharpening and coloring gifs painstakingly. To ME sharing tons of cool FCs I giffed is fun hence my numerous 25-50 count gif packs.

If anybody likes a fc I gif but hates my gifs they’re welcome to pay someone who takes commissions to make really pretty ones or to find the time and PS skills to make their own, I’ll stick with free programs 😂

[krytus]

spent the last two hours trying to break photoshop so i wouldn't have to pay adobe $20 and i failed. computers truly have the mark of the beast

[f1-stuff]

How to Make High Quality Gifs

A few people have asked me for a gif tutorial, so here we go! As a disclaimer, there are many parts of gif-making that are subjective, and this is just my personal process/preferences. If anyone is confused about a particular step, or wants more in-depth info about something, just message me!

Tools: ✧Laptop/computer ✧Adobe Photoshop 2024 ✧External Hard Drive (mine is 250GB) ✧Video Downloader (I use the Video Downloadhelper extension on Firefox)

PHASE ONE: Make Animated Gif

1. Download high quality video This is very important! You should download the highest quality of the video you can find. I use the free Video DownloadHelper extension on Firefox, but it doesn't download audio sometimes (it could be me not using it properly, or they want you to pay to get audio). No audio is fine for gifs, but if I'm doing a video edit, I either need to record the audio separately with Quicktime or use a free online downloader for youtube, twitter, or instagram videos.

For this gif, I downloaded an HD interview from the F1 website with the Video DownloadHelper extension on Firefox.

Tip: Make sure your video file is an .mp4 -> photoshop can struggle with .mov files bc they're larger

2. Import: Video Frames to Layers...

File -> Import -> Video Frames to Layers... -> Open your video -> Selected Video Range -> Make Frame Animation

If photoshop has to load a while to make the frames, it means you should select a smaller portion of the video to animate.

Tip: If you discover that there are duplicates of every frame or that there are way too many frames for the portion of video you want to gif, you may need to re-import and check the "Limit to Every _ Frames" box, and write in "2". This will import every other frame of the video and get rid of duplicates or too many frames.

Once your frames are imported, make sure you're working in the "Motion" workspace by going to the top to Window -> Workspace -> Motion.

Now, all your frames should appear at the bottom in the Timeline. Make sure that the box in the left corner is set to "Forever", and now it should play the frames and loop back to the beginning each time.

3. Choosing your frames I usually aim for around 60 frames total for a gif, but sometimes I'll go under or over that number. This particular gif is 55 frames in total. In general, I want my gif to be around 3 seconds in length bc under that feels too short and over that starts to be a large file size. Totally subjective, though! (edit: I have started to experiment with up to 80 frames for some gifs, which comes out to about 4 sec.)

Play through your frames and if you want to delete some, select them and click on the trashcan icon, which you can see in the screenshot above. (If you don't delete them this way, you'll have issues later.)

4. Set Frame Delay

Once you're happy with your frames, select all of them and click on the part that says "0.02", then go to "Other..." I usually choose 0.05 or 0.06, to land my gif around 3 seconds, but it depends on the video and how many frames you have. This particular gif is set to 0.06 because it looked good and brought me to around 3 seconds.

You can always choose a delay and if you don't like it, go back and change it! Just do what looks good to you.

5. Convert to Video Timeline

Click on the symbol that looks like 4 lines stacked, and choose "Convert to Video Timeline". Now is usually when I play through the gif to see what the speed is looking like/if I like the frame delay and it's landing somewhere around 3 seconds. If not, you can just Undo and adjust anything when it's still in the frame animation stage.

Next, scroll through the Layers on the right side and delete any layers that don't have the "eye" symbol next to them -> these are frames you deleted in the frame animation stage, but they need to be deleted in the timeline stage as well. Lastly, select all your remaining layers (which should all have the "eye" symbol) so they're all highlighted.

6. Convert to Smart Object

With all layers selected, go to the top to Layer -> Smart Object -> Convert to Smart Object. Ta da! You have a gif.

I always make sure to save my file at this point (you can do it before, but it just depends on how fast you work). Remember to frequently save your progress while gif-making: sometimes, photoshop gets overwhelmed and quits while you're mid-color correction 🥲. You never want to start over from scratch...

Now, some people like to crop & resize their gifs first. Or do sharpening before color. Or color, resize, then sharpen. It's really up to you. The order I like to do is Color, Sharpen, Crop, Resize, Export.

PHASE TWO: Color & Sharpening (the fun part!)

1. Brightness/Contrast

So here's where we start getting into the really subjective stuff. I always use the Brightness/Contrast and the Selective Color adjustment layers to do my coloring. I rarely touch the contrast bc that can be adjusted in selective color, but almost always, the gif needs overall brightening.

Tip: Even when I think a video looks bright to my eyes, sometimes I post the gif and they look dark once they're in the app. My advice is to always brighten a little bit, even when you don't think it's needed...

Here shows the very subtle shift in brightness I did for this gif. It can be a lot more intense depending on the video quality/lighting. The difference will also look a lot more stark after the color layer is applied.

2. Selective ColorNext is color. This is totally up to you and what looks good to your eyes. Make sure you have any software turned off that might change the color of your screen (like a nighttime filter or something that removes blue light).

I use selective color bc you can adjust the levels of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black in each color channel independently. This is how I adjust the specific color of red that Charles and Carlos wear, or the amount of cyan in the blacks, etc. The "Neutral" layer effects the whole image, so I'll sometimes add some yellow there if I'm wanting a warmer image, or I'll add or remove black to brighten or darken the mid-tones.

Just play around! Sometimes, I'll take the slider from +100 to -100 back and forth just to see what it's doing to the gif. And I frequently turn on and off the color layer to see what the gif looked like before and after color. (I've found that most F1 content is really magenta-skewed, which you may not even notice until you've corrected it out).

Above is Color vs. No Color. It might look extreme to you presented this way, but when the whole gif is colored, no one questions it! As long as there's consistency across gifs, that's all that matters. I frequently copy and paste my adjustment layers onto another gif from the same interview/video so the look stays consistent.

Above is Color w/ Brightening vs. Without. This gives you a better idea of how much of a difference that Brightness/Contrast layer makes.

3. Sharpening I got my Sharpening routine of choice from this tutorial on gif-making. To be honest, I don't know if it's the best sharpening procedure bc I haven't taken the time to in-depth compare to other ways of doing it, but it looks good to me! So I've stuck with it. (edit: I've also added a Reduce Noise filter to my sharpening routine. But as always, just do what looks nice to you!)

I copy and past the sharpening from my other gifs onto new ones so I don't have to do all the steps again. There are quicker ways of doing this, like using quick actions and stuff, but how I do it is fast enough for me.

If you want to figure out your own Sharpening routine:

With the gif layer selected, go to the top to Filter -> Sharpen -> Smart Sharpen. It will bring up this window:

Here you can play around with the amount, radius, noise reduction, etc. and see what you like.

I also add a Gaussian Blur effect, which you'll find under Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur.

^All of your Sharpen and Blur effects will stack up underneath your gif layer like this. To adjust the opacity of one of these effects, double click on its adjustment/slider symbol to the right, and it'll bring up the Blending Options window.

If there's any sharpening or blurring layer you don't like, you can easily drag it into the trashcan symbol to get rid of it.

Above is a visual of Sharpened vs. None. You can really tell with the difference in the Snapdragon logo on either shoulder. But I also personally love how much more Carlos' eyes pop to me on the Sharpened side.

As you can see, it's up to your preference. Sometimes, I really love gifs I see that aren't sharp, but rather really smooth and almost painterly. It's up to the gif-maker!

PHASE THREE: Crop & Resize

1. Cropping

Go to the toolbar on the left and choose the Crop Tool. Above where it says "Ratio", you can choose from preset ratios that photoshop has, or you can make your own. I like to use the presets, or at the very least, clear numbers that you can apply to a whole gifset. Free transforming without a ratio makes it nearly impossible to maintain consistency across a gifset.

If it isn't already, uncheck "Delete Cropped Pixels". This will allow you to move the gif around inside the cropped area later if you want to adjust what's in frame. It also gives you the option to increase the frame later, if you want. You can also click the gear icon next to "Delete Cropped Pixels" and change how you view the gif during cropping.

When you're done, click the check mark or hit Enter. Now, you've got a cropped gif!

2. Resizing

Go to the top to Image -> Image Size...

Make sure you have Pixels selected. For the Resample tab, I have it set to Automatic here, but sometimes I'll use Bicubic smooth or sharpen, depending on what I'm doing. Here's a cool post that compares the different settings. Just experiment with it.

(edit: I no longer change the resolution to 150. I've found that increasing the resolution, and therefore the size, before ultimately resizing down to 540 px means you are compressing even more (the larger something is, the more it has to be compressed within 540 px). I now leave the resolution at 72, which is what it's set at originally, and if the image composition allows it, try to crop in as close to 540 px as I can get so that when I resize, there's the least amount of compression happening.)

If I know a gif is going to be the full width of a tumblr post, I'll resize the width to 540 pixels (the height doesn't matter). But if I make a portrait-style gif which will be sharing a row with another gif, I'll resize anywhere from 270 px -> 350 px. If it's smaller than 270 px, tumblr will enlarge the gif and it'll look bad. If it's wider than 270 px, tumblr might reduce its quality a bit and it won't look as good. But personally, I prefer that if someone clicks on the gif to enlarge it, it looks better enlarged, so I usually will leave it around 345 px as long as the file isn't too big.

PHASE FOUR: Export (last one!)

Once you're happy with everything about your gif, it's time to export. (Remember to save your progress frequently!)

Go to the top to File -> Export -> Save for Web (Legacy)...

^It'll bring up this Save window.

These are the settings I like to use for gifs. You'll find a lot of differing opinions out there about Adaptive vs. Perceptual/Pattern vs. Diffusion, but you should always have "GIF" selected, "Transparency" checked with "No Transparency Dither" selected, Looping set to "Forever", and Colors set to "256". I like "Bicubic Sharper" for my Quality tab, but there are whole tutorials just about comparing those settings. The best thing to do though is to try them out and compare for yourself.

(edit: I've discovered that if a gif is slightly too large and I don't want to shorten it or resize it down, I can try to reduce the colors from 256 to 128 to get it under the limit. I'll never go below 128, and sometimes I will go to 200 or 170 to try to eliminate as little color variety as possible, but often there is not a noticeable difference in your finished gif. But always compare, of course, to make sure.)

On the bottom left is where the size of the gif is shown -> tumblr requires gifs 10MB and under, but in my experience, gifs load/play best on tumblr when they're around 6MB. I always leave a little growing room as well, bc it might say 5.8MB in this window, but after it saves, the file will have grown a little bit and will likely be over 6MB at that point. (edit: I now regularly post gifs that are around 9.5MB and tumblr seems to be able to handle it better.)

AND THAT'S ALL!

If you've made it this far...congratulations! haha

I know this is a whole lot of information and you might be feeling overwhelmed! But I hope, if anything, this shows you just how complex gif-making can be, and how it is absolutely an art! No one should be stealing anyone's gifs, as a lot of hard work and love goes into the process.

This doesn't include things like adding text to a gif, or more complex adjustments and corrections like masking or key frames. But I'm happy to do more of these if there are specific questions people have.

Let me know what you're curious about or if something is unclear! And happy gif-making! ❤️

[kangyeosaang]

how to pan gifs

were u ever like gahd these camerapeople again making yet another stage ungiffable. yeah me too.

sooo here in this tutorial i'm gonna try to explain how to pan gifs so ur subject can remain centered or at least not be out of frame, sth like this:

this is a more advanced tutorial, in a sense that i'll assume you know how to make gifs, not in a sense that this is complicated lmao, okay let's gooo:

essentially this is what's happening and what we gonna do:

before we dive into the how tho, it must be said that photoshop's timeline can only do linear movements so no easing. at times it can look unnatural or choppy or... frankly both. (if you want to know more about this look up ease-in-out animation curve, or easing curves)

part 01 · prepping gifs

as i wrote in my gif making process post i usually crop my gifs bigger than they usually will be. e.g. a 268px gif will be cropped to anything between 468-540px. sometimes because i want to have the opportunity to position the gif a bit differently but most of the time because i know 268px is a reeeaaalllyyy tight place and i need to make some movement adjustments especially for weekend music shows where the camerapeople seem to be on crack or just very into experimenting

part 02 · let the keyframe madness begin

whichever way you are making gifs just open up your gif and crop it to the final size, colour it and whatever else you fancy. once you have everything ready just open your video layer on your timeline (if you don't know where you will be able to see it in the video later)

you will see 3 tracks, transform, opacity and style. for this we will use the transform because it contains movements (but also resizing if that's what you fancy).

all we need to do is create keyframes which will define what is the position of the video layer at a certain time. so e.g. here we are moving this box to the right by 50px in 1 second.

to create keyframes click on the timer icon in front of the position label and photoshop will create you one. the active one will always be yellow. if you move on the timeline with your playhead (that thing that is moving) and you resize/move your layer photoshop will create yet another keyframe for you without you needing to click on it, because it will recognise the change. so all you need to figure out is when the movement starts and which position your layer should be, and the same for the end and ps will take care of the rest.

part 03 · some things to consider when panning gifs

now this is the part where it gets subjective and less tutorial like. so all i can provide is some explanation how i go about it and what i pay attention to.

tip #1: match the movement speed to the gif

whenever you are panning a gif it may result in the gif being choppy bc the framerate and your movements are not matching up, so it's either too fast and photoshop needs to move your image by too many pixels frame by frame or it's too slow resulting in basically the same thing but kinda reversed, either way it won't look smooth. this mostly happens when the original footage is moving (there is a quick camera pan/movement) and you are trying to keep it in place, less when the original is kinda still and the subject is moving. this is kind of a trial and error process: try moving your keyframes closer to each other or maybe further, add more/less movement between two keyframes and just see which results in a smoother gif.

tip #2: try moving your gif once in one direction

there are times when your subject might go out of frame multiple times and you have the urge to keyframe the whole gif and keep them in center the whole time. however, as we do not have easing curves in photoshop the switch between moving something from one direction to the other one will be very visible. so try placing your subject in a way that you'll only need to make one movement and it's kinda okay all the way thru or pick the most annoying 'placement' you want to correct. here in this example it mostly bugged me that the gif was not centered at the end, but onda kinda remained in frame.

tip #3: pan your gifs when there is a quick zoom/movement

sometimes whatever i do the gif will look choppy regardless one movement or not. in these moments, and these moments ONLY we can be thankful for the sometimes unnecessary zooming that's happening and reposition our gifs while the zooming is happening. since there is already a drastic movement you can get away with basically anything, as long as you time the beginning and the end where the zoom begins and ends. also i must add that you can pan stage gifs way more and more drastically bc there is a lot of things happening in the background, so adding a bit of movement on top of all the other movements is less noticeable than... moving footage where e.g. the background is static.

✨something extra✨ · panning/moving other things

so what we looked at is moving the whole gif to fit into the frame we have, but with this technique obviously you can move all sorts of stuff, text, texture whatever you fancy. you can apply this process to the layer you wanna move and this is when you get these:

a sidenote: the fade effect is literally the same keyframe business but instead of playing with position keyframes you change the opacity keyframes.

aaand that is all, if you have any questions my askbox is always open so hmu <3

tagging @sanhwalynight bc of requesting reasons hehe

[proxylynn]

https://www.tumblr.com/crybabycomet/718487687239254016/has-anyone-done-one-of-these-yet-so-apparently-i

OP, i wanna see you try this template! 🥺

[Oh hey, it's my buddy Comet's stuff. Um...Sure. Let me just...*opens photoshop* Okay, I think I got this right. I'll try to explain it too.

Like me, BC!Lynn is cursed with being oblivious to when someone is interested in her unless they're blunt and upfront. So she autos to friends and gets stuck there a long time before she herself even recognizes that she has feelings too. Interaction is key, the more time they spend with her the more she becomes aware, which is why her view on Shadowman didn't move the longest because his shyness kept him from speaking to her and she's not one to just start a conversation.

Damon's interest was instant after their meeting and his subsequent breaking into her apartment. He'd stop by more often to get to know her and when she asks to be friends he agrees while still remaining interested, but that was merely a cover. Boy was already head over heels but he didn't want to show it and scare her off. He's taking his time yet it's paying off, he's beginning to notice her signals.

At first, the only interest DG had was messing with her, maybe even killing her. That was dashed when Damon called dibs. As they hung out he grew to like her. She made Damon happy and wasn't a bitch, so he accepted her into his life. Slowly though as she got more comfortable around them, DG couldn't help but feel interested again but this time of a different calling. It was tipped over the edge one night when one of his pranks got her soaked and her power went off, her baggy clothes badly singed hardly hid anything as she stormed off to change. And it was in that moment he knew he wanted to tap that.

Ras from the start didn't like her. He didn't know why. Maybe it was her familiar sweetness that reminded him of his mom and how she isn't here anymore? Who knows. But he gave her hell when she started working with him that first month. He didn't expect on day for her to snap on him after he unloaded on her. Brave bitch pissed him off but he respected her for it. After that though, things chilled. She acted differently around him but it was never bad, and she remained helpful even after his venting. She didn't kiss his ass but she didn't look down on him either. It was nice to have that in his life. Someone who was there and willing to understand. Maybe that's when he started to see her differently. Maybe someone he could be close to.

With Shadowman it's hard to say what happened. One moment he stopped in to a little convenience store to use the ATM and the next thing he knows is he's struck by love's arrow. Overwhelmed, he locks up when even able to gaze upon her. Lord help him if she even looks his way, his heart thunders like a thousand storms and he struggles to recall his own name or speak. She is a goddess in his eyes and a kind one at that. Offering him aid when his mind goes blank. After some time, she even addressed him as a friend. A crushing blow but it made things easier. The jitters of his shyness weren't as strong, he could speak...all be it in a whisper. Sadly though, the interest never faded and it only grew. He could deny it no longer! He was enraptured!]

[beesmygod]

ok you dinks. here’s my thesis in defense of my needlessly picky needs for a product i will eventually have to make myself. you need to understand first that i am completely untethered from reality and have monetary expectations that cannot be met but i will goddamn get it as close as i can to my ideal price. this is about the PRINCIPLE of the thing (in addition to the fact that im not paying full price on a product im not going to be fully happy with)

RULE #1: ULTIMATELY THIS THING IS JUST A NUMPAD/KEYBOARD

there is no way in hell im paying for a stream deck or some shit with LED screens. 30-40 dollars is a reasonable price for something that isn’t a full sized keyboard but is also a specialty product. 50 dollars i start to narrow my eyes and grumble. i will not go past 75

“bea why don’t you just get a keypad then” because i dont want a keypad. i want a product that should exist. i found fucking QUAKE buttons before i found art ones. QUAKE. FUCKING QUAKE.

RULE #2: FINGER-FEEL

this one’s entirely on me lol. listen man, if my left hand is going to be glued to this thing, im going to be touching buttons all the time. and if im touching buttons all the time and i feel sticker edges im going to make myself crazy. this is my needlessly picky demand that i will cop to being a little ridiculous. but i know whats wrong with me so im not going to go through all the time and effort to just create a device that pisses me off.

RULE #3: THEY DON’T HAVE TO BE THE LITERAL ART SYMBOLS BUT THEY DO HAVE TO BE SYMBOLS

listen, i already have numbers and F keys assigned to things in my brain. im running out of room. i need to either have a paint bucket key or like a rain drop or a honeycomb or SOMETHING representative even if it’s really abstract. just something to differentiate the functions enough for me to build the associations i need.

problem 1: individual key caps are expensive

problem 2: doubly so if you try print/make your own. a printer will also take a VERY long time (the keyboard modding scene is in disarray rn bc of supply chain issues and afaik things have never been very good) and making your own necessitates a cricut (for efficiency) which as far as im concerned is destined to be very expensive paperweight someday soon.

problem 3: this product exists. not only does it exist it exists for a reasonable price. cooler master sold photoshop keycaps for 20 bucks. and they’re like fucking perfect

sold. because they’ve been perpetually sold out for years, as far as i can tell, with no plans to restock. they’re still on the website though. taunting me, just out of reach.

RULE #4: IF I HAVE TO BUY RELEGENDABLE CAPS ILL JUST BUY A BLANK NUMPAD AND FUCK IT

im not doing all of that. i have things to do. like play video games or argue with my cat. the time to effort payoff ratio for something i objectively won’t be happy with is too much.

i dont really need people to suggest solutions (though i do appreciate them!) bc i am perfectly willing to die mad about this. im just pissed off this somehow isn’t a mass marketed runaway success idea that’s so obvious no one would think to suggest it. why can i buy counterstrike buttons but not an “undo” one.

grrr growl grr whatever. i’ll survive until more stuff pops up or i think of something else.

[oldmilfenjoyer]

mentally ill over super cool sugar mommy jackie and her extraordinarily weird, lame as hell sugar babies jim and oluwande.  jackies like “babies the credit cards out mommy’s buying you something nice” and ends up dissociating in a pantsuit at the mall bc jim wants hot topic pins and oluwande wants claires earrings. jackies internal meltdown when she takes them shopping for home decor bc oluwande loves tacky marshalls/target/ross live laugh love shit and jim is in the home goods section of spirit halloween.  jackie vs the geriatric cats jim keeps sulk-begging her for (oluwande is also vs the geriatric cats he doesn’t want to deal w their medication routines either).  jackie pays for jims photoshop or w/e subscription so they can make edgy emo edits of Disney characters.

[waynedunlaptheorgandonor]

k i woke up to thirteen unread messages, so let’s just do a fucking blanket text post covering everything so that i can go curl up by the fire with my aus and pussy eating fics in peace, yeah?

spoilers under the cut

hi, yes, hello, i’m still chill and hype

“but diz,” you say into my ask box. “how can you still be hype when kang has clearly demolished everything we’ve worked so hard for?”

because she hasn’t.

“but aren’t you tired of kang doing all this crazy, inconsistent writing? aren’t you sick of her doing everything for the shock value and not being true to the characters?”

sigh.

y’all.

don’t come for my girl like that.

call me delusional if you want, but to me all of this fits perfectly within the same narrative, which has been leading to canon from the day she took the helm. 

i have already done a thousand and one breakdowns as to why carol getting with zeke was caryl-positive, so i’m not gonna go there again, but the leah thing is too.

“but diz--”

shh, i’m still talking. 

picture this: you are a lonely, lonely man who has gone through hell and back, and it took you years to open up to your found family, only for your best friend to explode and the love of your life to go marry a guy who probably worked at medieval times to pay for college, and now you’re all alone in the woods trying to figure out wtf to do with yourself. 

you tell yourself you can keep visiting your niece and her mom now and then, but that kind of sucks bc of the aforementioned best friend exploding, and also you and your niece’s mom had to murder a bunch of small children and that tends to be kind of traumatizing to remember, so it’s not the ideal situation

but at least you still have your girl, even if she is in an indefinite LARP game for the rest of her life. 

but!

then she says, “actually, i can’t come visit you much anymore, what with the whole community, and husband, and child thing,” 

and then you are actually Alone.

and it’s for the first time, because every time before that you at least had your brother, who might have been a piece of shit, but at least he was there. 

so you meet some chick on the road. you’re sad, no longer feel like you have a family (after it took you so long to get one that you actually loved), and you’re more alone than you have ever been, and you meet this chick who is a loner like you, and you’re wary at first. the two of you don’t trust each other, bc you don’t trust easy. but over time you start to build that trust, and she offers you companionship that you are so desperately in need of, and maybe you wouldn’t usually be into it, but given the Literally Everything Else going on, it’s like, why the fuck not? you have N O T H I N G left.

so she gives you an ultimatum--her or what little is left of your family. well, your family is scattered to the wind and being around them only hurts you more, and this person is offering you a chance for something new (and when things get rly bad, hasn’t your go-to move always been to run anyway?) so you say okay. you say you’ll go.

except nvm, she ditched you, lol, you’re all alone again! sucks to suck.

skip ahead, you’re back with your family, and your og girl has dumped the LARPer, and maybe things can be good again, except there’s a bunch of people going full hannibal lecter wearing other people’s faces on their own and murdering everyone, and your og girl is actually insane rn due to years’ worth of unresolved trauma, and you’re suddenly a dad, and you’re being asked to make nice with the guy who literally tortured you, and honestly? it’d be hard enough as is to trust again, but this whole situation is NOT HELPING. 

so by the time the war ends you are tired, and you are hurt, and you are wary, because you keep losing things that matter. and you got back the one person in the world who mattered the most, except she did some super questionable shit, and you’re having a hard time reconciling it, and finally you just Lose It, bc goddamnit, you’ve earned it, mkay? you are entitled to a little blow up. if she gets to literally blow shit up then the least you can do is yell a little, like damn.

but. 

she’s the one person in the world who matters most. a rebound fling over the course of a few months =/= ten years of being soulmates. you’ll forgive her, she’ll forgive you, and the two of you will ride off into the sunset together, almost as if you were suddenly in your own spin-off show. 

what a concept?

/fin/

“alright, but diz--”

OH MY GOD HOW DO YOU STILL HAVE OBJECTIONS?

listen. here is what daryl/leah teaches us:

-daryl is willing and capable of having intimate relationships

-that being said, daryl being in a relationship has been a Big Thing for everyone, regardless of who they ship him with, since s1, so if it was supposed to be The Most Important Relationship Ever to him, the juicy parts would not happen off screen. there’s a reason the sex is only implied. they’re not showing it until it’s the Real Thing

-we now know daryl has had sex in the past ten years, so maybe he’ll actually last more than six seconds when he bones down with carol! very good!

-this also teaches us that hoo buddy, y’all have some mixed morals when it comes to these characters. the “daryl would only be in a relationship if he rly loved them, so how could he possibly love carol still?” thing is like. dude. carol is MARRIED during this, and he doesn’t get to see her much anymore. is he supposed to just walk around jacking it while crying for the rest of his life? the man tried to move on, and the tragic thing is that he got screwed over. i do not think this is out of character at all. i think daryl fell in love with carol, she got married, he was lonely, tried to move on and convince himself he could be happy with this other chick (who might be rly cool, who knows??), and then he got his heart broken again, before it ever really healed to being with. the boy is a giant bleeding heart who is getting stomped on constantly, and y’all better stop yelling at him for trying to feel better or i’ll come for you. this is like carol having rebound sex with zeke. if you want your characters to be realistic then you have to let them do human things, holy shit

this is getting excessive, let’s tie it up.

the main takeaways here are:

-no it’s not out of character

-yes it fits the narrative, kang isn’t just throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks, it all has a purpose, which is why i’m totes fine with it

-leah might not actually die, which thank god, i thought it was douchey of them to kill off another woman for Man Pain. i’m glad i’ve been wrong about her and connie both

-oh yeah, connie...i have no new feelings on connie

-daryl now has sexual stamina, so we can all update our headcanons now

-“i can’t believe they end the episode on such a sore note! their friendship is almost destroyed, how will it ever recover??” ...how are you surprised? that was...that was literally the description of the episode, my dude. that one didn’t exactly come out of left-field. it’ll be okay, they’re gonna make up. hopefully through a bunch of hyperbolically tragic misadventures. it’ll be a good time, calm down

-there is a FUCKING SPIN-OFF coming, how can you think they won’t reconcile?

-actually it’d be super funny if they were just giving each other the silent treatment throughout the entire thing lmfao

-“have you seen that new caryl show?” “yeah, it’s fucking weird. there’s no dialogue??”

-anyway

-does it help if i said i secretly thought they might fuck the whole time, specifically for the reasons stated above, and i’ve been kinda into it since the promo but didn’t say so bc i didn’t want to get hanged? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

-idk y’all, that’s all i got. drink up ig?

i just found out that i’m literally anemic, and y’all are still more exhausting than anything else. it’s okay to just like. enjoy things. i promise.

now if you’ll excuse me, i have aus to dive head-first into. i’m not gonna say a whole bunch else about shit unless it gets rly necessary. i think i will make this blog relentlessly positive out of spite, and will just post fics and shippy gifs. i have a photoshop free trial (thatigottomakeaberniememe), mb i’ll make sappy caryl gifs as practice and bombard you all with them. feel free to come by for cheering up, but i’m not gonna repeat myself six thousand times, either

stay hype, STAN KANG, and get daryl to call carol sweetheart 2k21,

-diz

[kiisaes]

I'd like to know the answers for 1, 11, and 30 from the art ask game!

1: Art programs you have but don't use photoshop ^^' i use it for image editing but literally nothing else; i should probably figure it out since it's industry standard, but i just really don't understand it. i also have firealpaca that i rarely use for drawing nowadays, but it's my go-to for simple animations

11. Do you listen to anything while drawing? If so, what yes ALWAYS!!! it's typically a 50/50 toss-up: either it's a song that i feel fits the vibe of the drawing i'm making (and if i feel like it's a perfect match, i usually link it in the caption when i post), or it's a video where someone is talking a lot so i can sorta tune it out as background noise. usually these videos are commentary videos i've already watched so i don't need to pay attention, or long video essays about basically anything

30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated i have just the worst self-esteem so i don't think any of my pieces are underrated. that being said, probably any piece that i've spent considerable time on ... that isn't from the mha series lol. those tend to get ignored since i'm mostly a mha fan artist at the moment. BUT i also don't really mind bc i don't want people to feel pressured to like a drawing of mine that they genuinely don't care about ^^

thanks for asking! (list of questions here)

[mythiccheroacademia]

“Private villa and the fur chinchilla, When he post me, all the hoes get sicker. Fuckboy killer, I don’t need fillers, Never been a lame so the real bitches feel it.”                          —Saweetie

Word Count: 1.3K Pairing: Dabi X Reader Context: Everything is the same, but the LOV are rich af bc they be scamming the hell out of people. Warnings: explicit language, drug and alcohol use, sexual content (no straight up smut tho), nudity ig but implied bc this takes place at a strip club lol

All characters are 21+

A/N: When I tell you I had way too much fun making this little header...someone needs to take photoshop away from me. Quickly! Also, sorry if your name is Rebecca, MJ, or Rinah. I promise I like you. Anyways, I hope y’all enjoy this as much as I enjoyed writing it <3

Dabi | Tap In

It had been a long week.

After dealing with the authorities and keeping tabs on his sperm donor—as he liked to put it—Dabi needed a way to take the stress away.

And he knew the perfect way to do so.

Dabi took a long inhale of the thick blunt in his hand before puffing out a cloud of smoke that mixed along with the misty air. The multicolored strobe lights shined over the dancers who skillfully spun around the pole. The cheers and chatters within the crowd swirled well into the music and quickly became background noise.

He sunk into the couch, watching the scene with a lazy gaze, and relaxed as the hands of giggling waiters and waitresses smoothed over the expensive material of his coat.

“Feeling good, big boss?” a pretty redhead asked. She’s no stranger to him, but he cant remember if her name started with a C or an R.

Regardless of her name, she was good with her hands. After a minute of staring at a dancer performing an impressive back hook spin, Dabi was quick to groan in relief when she massaged a knot out of his neck.

“Fantastic,” he sighed.

An attractive man, with hair like gelatin, popped up on his other side, stealing his attention with the drink in his hand. The woman glared at him in distaste.

“Would you care for a Martini? I know you like them stirred,” he purred, eyes on the dark-haired man’s crystal embedded watch before they slowly eyed his exposed chest.

Dabi took another puff, thinking about if he was in the mood for it. He was just about to answer when someone else chimed in.

“You had that last week. What about a Whiskey Sour?” This time it was a woman with snake like features. She leaned in, slim tongue hissing dangerously next to his lips. “You can never go wrong with that.”

“Everybody knows Dabi prefers that on Saturday’s,” the first women huffed.

“And everyone knows Dabi prefers a Screwdriver on a night like this,” another person said, their hand gliding along his chest. Dabi shrugged but didn’t pay much attention to them. The waiter sent a challenging smirk to the redhead. “Something you probably wouldn’t know much about, Rebecca.”

Ahh so that’s what her name was. I knew it had an R and a C in it.

“Fuck off, MJ.”

“You’d like that, wouldn’t you?”

“Here we go,” the man with gelatin hair grumbled.

They ignored him and continued their bickering.

“Just say your jealous of me and go!”

“Jealous? Baby, I wouldn’t be jealous of you on your best day. Like, ew.”

The snake-like woman rolled her eyes in irritation. “I can’t stand you bitches,” she muttered under her breathe.

Rebecca’s eyes turned a violent red as she seethed in anger. “Why you dirty little—“

“Am I interrupting something?”

For the first time since he got to the club, Dabi’s eyes found focus. Real focus. His crystal blue eyes lit up against the darkness of room when your voice silenced the petty argument going on.

You stood in front of him, chin high and eyes confident despite the four pairs of unfriendly glares on you. It was always like this. The dark-haired man could walk into any room and be immediately surrounded by people who shamelessly fawned over him. Whether it was for his money, his power, his undeniable looks, or the mysterious aura that followed him, they were on the man the moment he made his presence known. They’d light his cigar, buy him drinks, and flaunt whatever body parts they needed to for a second of his attention.

Sometimes, Dabi would mess around when he had the time. Other times, he’d just enjoy the attention. But all of that went out the window when you came into the picture. And whether they wanted to admit it or not, everybody knew it.

For some reason, he just couldn’t get out of his head no matter how many times he fucked you silly.

Dabi liked the knowing smirk on your lips as his eyes raked over your face and body, committing every feature to memory as if he hadn’t had the pleasure of indulging in it before.

It was something about the way you wore the clothes he bought for you so well. It made his pants uncomfortably tight in the best way.

“Nothing at all, doll-face. Mind keeping me company?” he said.

“Sure thing,” you shrugged.

You squeezed through the small parade he had going on, and plopped yourself right on his lap. Dabi happily attached his grip to the meat of your thigh, enjoying the way your hand raked down his tattooed neck.

“Why don’t you guys give us some privacy?” he off-handedly said. “Oh and Rinah was it? Can you get a Tequila Sunrise for Y/N? Two cherries. Gin tonic for me.”

“You remembered,” you chuckled, sensually dragging your thumb across his bottom lip.

“Of course I did, babe.”

The four internally groaned as Dabi seemed to become enraptured in your gaze. 

“It’s Rebecca,” the woman muttered before going off to get the drink. They all dispersed, leaving the two of you alone.

After your drink was made, you two spent the next half hour talking, laughing, drinking and smoking together. You enjoyed each other’s company. It was easy between you two. Your adventures were wild from leaving the country to spending nights skinny dipping in random pools. It was fun and there wasn’t much commitment on either part, however, despite indulging in your separate endeavors, you always came back to each other. And you would never admit it to one another, but there was comfort to be taken in that.

Before you knew it, your legs were seated on either side of his hips and his hands were feeling on your ass. The curtains surrounding the lounge chair had been closed long ago and it was only a matter of time before you’d take advantage of the privacy.  

“So remind me again why I haven’t heard from you in two weeks?” you questioned, a teasing smile in your voice.

You rolled your head and fluttered your eyes closed as Dabi trailed hot kisses on your chest and shoulders.

“Police were on our ass. Had to move locations. Important shit,” he responded between each kiss.

“More important than lil’ ole me?”

“Can’t finance your shopping addiction if I’m in jail, sweetheart.”

You almost gave up your playfulness when his veiny hand gripped your jaw and his tongue slowly traveled up the length of your neck. If the bulge against your thigh was anything to go by, he was more than excited, but you wanted to have your fun.

A slight grind of your hips had him growling against you. You threaded your hands through the back of his hair to pull his head back. 

“But you promised we’d go to that Italian restaurant downtown. I was really in the mood for some pasta,” you faux pouted.

Your puffed out lips and slow grinding took him over the edge.

“Then I’ll take you to fucking Italy next week to make up for it,” he rumbled before swinging you down so you were on your back. You laughed at his antics but it was short lived as he gave you a kiss that made you see stars.

Once you separated, a silver line of saliva breaking your connection, a devilish smile took over your lips as he hovered above you with one of his own.

“I’ll hold you to it,” you said.

He laughed through his nose and shook his head. You were a pain in the ass, yet here he was ready to devour you at any second.

Dabi licked his lips before lowering himself down your body.

“Now if you don’t mind,” he began. Your stomach erupted in butterflies as his eyes remained on your own. He slowly pulled your pants off you in waves and sent you a smirk that gave you goosebumps.

“I’m in the mood for something a little different.”

[golbrocklovely]

Ok i saw ur posts about the guys' merch and i couldn't not get mad at what people were saying. If u do not like their merch bc it is "mid" Don't buy it or don't go looking for it. I personally find it really good and when it comes to merch, I'm very picky, because i come from a long list of different artists' merchandises and I've seen things. I would say their merch was mid like 3 years ago when they would only come up with xplr merch in camo, black and white. Now, it looks much more professional and i think u can see the hard work throughout the years of coming up with merch. I, on the other hand, would say that Colby's merch is really mid because he mainly keeps it plain, other than the always tired merch where he scored with the white sweatpants and the matching hoodie.

Oh and the quality is amazing, i mean u pay for really amazing and comfortable material (as a side note)

it's fine if you like their designs, and i do agree that they have gotten better over the years. there was a long period of time that it was literally the same design over and over again, just in a new color.

but they're basically repeating that again now, which is frustrating. yeah, sure, the design is professional, but it's not interesting. at least to me and a couple other ppl.

the most recent merch they came out with was literally the merch they made for xplrclub, except without the "authorized personnel" on the front and the barb-wire going thru the X. it was the same design, just slightly tweaked. and that's what a lot of their designs have become after all this time.

my problem isn't fully with snc. obviously they agree to these designs so they definitely play a hand, but i don't expect them to hand create the designs at the end of the day. fanjoy just needs to do better. their designs are lazy and repetitive at this point and xplr either needs a full revamp or just let it go since snc don't even xplr anymore.

now there have been designs in xplr that i've liked, same as for sam's merch and colby's. but personally, i just feel like if you're going to make a simple design, ie the X logo, or just "skin" on a tshirt, you shouldn't be charging full price for it. it's barely a design. and it's sure as hell not worth $25 + tax and shipping. OR CUSTOMS if you don't live in the US.

the skin merch that colby is dropping today is what's pissed me off the most, just bc skin is such an amazing song, and it deserves better merch. like, a simplistic or minimalistic design is fine and i get why they make designs like that. hell, i like and wear designs like that often. but it can't be EVERY design bc it just looks lazy. it looks like you ran out of ideas or forgot you had to release merch, so you did the quickest thing in photoshop and called it a day.

and quality is a hit or miss at best. sure, their sweatshirts are decent. and the pants are fine, as long as you have no ass or thighs. the shirts are the real problem. bc i've gotten some that fit great and are nice, and then some are just like a plain hane's tee that i paid $25 for that barely fit. not to mention but i'm a plus size gal, and i'm a 2x. their 2x 9/10 is form fitted, and the occasional times they do go up to 3x, they sell out before i could even consider getting that. god forbid if i was bigger, i wouldn't be able to buy merch at all.

also plenty of ppl on here and twitter have complained about the design literally crumbling off after one wash. you have to treat fanjoy shirts with so much delicate-ness that it's borderline ridiculous.

if you genuinely like their designs for merch every time, that's great. i hope you can buy every release if that's what you so choose. however, just bc you like it, doesn't mean i can't complain about it. and even tho i'm not buying the merch, i'm still upset about design. especially with colby's skin merch. i love skin. it's literally one of my most listened to songs. but i can't buy that merch. it's boring and i'm not spending money on it. but if you like it, that's great. i'm not saying you shouldn't. i'm just saying why i don't like it.

[whumpbby]

Will Nanny!Jay eventually start to have milk bc of two babies following him around?

Hmm, I am thinking about it now;] 

So, say, Jay recovered somewhat form the worst of the heat - and he did so with 2 babies visiting him constantly, minded by their older (but still baby) brother and their dad staying outside of the room where it’s safe for all of them.

Jay is still muddled and exhausted - this one was a bitch, even though the pups were there from time to time to make it better - he wishes he could go on suppressants full-time, but the good ones are very expensive and he was never bale to afford them. And the cheap ones are a constant trial stage, so he won’t risk his liver, thank you. Thank god Wayne was cashing out on the treatment this time, at least Jay got the good sedatives and qualified people to make sure he stayed hydrated, and privacy when he needed to give into his instincts. They even offered him a ‘heat aid’ all normal and matter of fact and wow, that was embarrassing >> 

But then came a time when he was all good to go (still a bit woozy, but good to go) and that’s when Bruce Wayne decided to make an appearance. And okay, Jay knew the man was handsome - he’d seen his face plastered all over Gotham since he was a kid - but up close he was something else. Stocky and taller than the media made him look, and without a photoshop in the way he had this rugged charm to him. Yeah, and Jay was barely out of heat, worn out and thank god his room had an en-suite so he was at least showered! Nothing could be done about his hair, but at least his teeth were brushed and he had clean clothes. 

Bruce Wayne was pretty much everything a high-class alpha should be Jay wished with all he had that the man was at least an asshole, but no dice, when he started to speak, Bruce was a far cry from the Brucie character Jay had known form the newspapers. 

“First of all, I would like to say that I’m happy you’re back on your feet, Jason.” 

The assumed first name basis should annoy Jay, but the genuine concern dismantled any sort of irritation he could have felt. 

“I hope your stay at the clinic was pleasant.” 

There was nothing pleasant about his ailment, but the clinic was top notch and the staff made sure Jason was as comfortable as possible. As if Wayne didn’t know that. 

“It was fine... I mean, everyone here are very nice...” Jay stammered, his voice still shaky and his instincts demanding he pleased the alpha that provided for them. “It was... very good.” 

Jason was aware that he was fucking bleeding subservience, and was pleasantly surprised when Wayne didn’t pounce on it like alphas in his life tended to do so far (that’s why he was always so cold and rough, that’s why he exercised religiously and dressed like a thug, everything to make himself a less attractive prospect). 

Then Wayne said something that shouldn’t be surprising, but was. 

“Then, before anything else, I would like to thank you for what you did. For protecting my boys.” And the look in his eyes was so... so striking, Jason could only nod and stammer something about doing what anyone would do. It was Batgirl and Robin who saved them, after all. 

Wayne allowed him to make a fool out of himself for a minute, before saying that no, not anyone. Jay took of his patches to protect the pups and Bruce could not thank him enough for that. And he said it in a way as if he understood what was at stake there, the choice Jason was making. 

It was a heavy moment, and didn’t get any better when Wayne started to explain to him what was happening during Jay’s heat - the media storm, the way he won’t be left alone by the press now, and it honestly sounded like a nightmare. Straight up nightmare. The press will dig, he just knew they will, and they will go all the way down to his childhood, to his dad - to his mom. 

“I will do what I can to stop them from prying too deep,” Wayne told him, as if Jay expected that of the man. “If you would like me to.” 

And Jay, what else could he do? What else was there to do if he wanted to return to normal life, than to trust this alpha - in a world where alphas were not to be trusted? 

Wayne had to see it on his face, the lost and helpless expression, because he leaned over the small table they were sitting at and put his hand - not on Jason’s, no. But close. Close enough to be meaningful, but far enough to be harmless. 

“I have a proposition, if you would like to consider it, Jason.” He waited for Jason to nod before continuing. “My boys... I’m sure you’ve noticed they are very fond of you. I’m afraid to say that during your captivity they have imprinted and, well,  their presence seemed to help you during your stay here.”

Jason listened, feeling as if he was slowly drifting into some fairytale land. 

“I love my boys, but I’m a busy man. Due to what happened recently, I don’t think that sending them back to the daycare is the best idea.” 

What was happening? 

“And I think that you aren’t that eager to return to the public eye.” 

Well, no, he wasn’t eager at all. If he could stay at the clinic indefinitely... 

So, Wayne made his offer. And it sounded unrealistically good - lodging, food, indecently good pay. And all for Jason spending a couple hours a day with the man’s kids. There had to be something there he wasn’t saying. 

Jay, being a suspicious omega that manages to survive on his own ont he streets, had no trouble with pointing it out. And it only made Wayne laugh. 

Damn, even his laugh was pleasant - deep and rich, and Jesus. 

“I don’t think you understand how deep I am in your debt, Jason. If anything happened to either to my sons, I... I don’t want to event think of the possibility. That they had someone there to protect and reassure them means the world to me. I could make sure you will never have to pay for anything in your life again and it would barely scratch the dept of my gratitude. The job offer is simply the least I can do without being too pushy. I’ve heard it’s an unattractive alpha trait.”   

Well, it is an unattractive trait, sure. 

And Jason was about to say that, but he didn’t get to - the door to the office opened and two little bugs rolled in, bee-lining it to Jason, the smaller one instantly gunning for his lap with a high-pitched “aison!” 

Jason promised Wayne to think about it, but he had a feeling that he was played.