#gifset in progress btw

[cmdonovann]

Accomplishments! Quantum Break fansite in progress!

(originally posted June 8th, 2023; crossposted from dreamwidth.)

Well, I removed Tumblr from my phone to prevent me from wasting so much time there, which means I now have nowhere to easily and quickly post my inane thoughts (at least not without feeling like I'm bothering people on Discord or in direct messages, though perhaps that's something I should work on). You know what that means! It means I'm probably going to try posting them here instead. Thing I want to post about: I'm making a Quantum Break fansite! I've been wanting to do this for ages, and actually started putting together a couple of little graphics for it during the "Quantum Break Appreciation Month" event I ran on Tumblr in April, but I hadn't made much progress on the project since then... until the past few days, anyway, when I started brainstorming what I actually want to do with the site, how I want to lay it out, and so on. Yesterday I put together some CSS for the site, and today I did The Hard Part: I set up a git/GitHub repo for the site, and got the "deploy to neocities" script working for it, so I can easily and quickly make updates to the site in VSCode, then push from there to GitHub to neocities all at once, like I do with my personal site. Was this an absolute pain to set up? Yes! Somehow, it took me even longer to do it a second time than it did the first! But I did it myself, with a lot of encouragement and rubber duck-ing from a few very helpful people in the Fandom Coders chat. Can't say I'm not proud of myself for that. I would not have had the skill or confidence a year ago to do something like this, especially not all the mucking about I did in the terminal trying to set up the git repo in the first place. Anyway, I am, to put it mildly, extremely fucking excited to continue working on this site. I've got big plans: first order of business is to get an archive set up of all the Quantum Break fanfic I can get my hands on (and get permission from the authors for). After that, I'm probably going to do the same for fanart and image edits like photosets and gifsets from Tumblr, since the CSS page styling for those will likely be similar (though I expect to run into some attribution problems with older Tumblr posts, what with so many deactivated or moved blogs post-2018). Once that's sorted out, I'm considering looking into the best way to archive fanvids, but honestly that might be put off for a while longer, as video hosting and video players are way out of my skill level currently. Maybe I'll import some of my Quantum Break playlists from my personal site, too? Oh yeah, and at some point down the line, I want to make a searchable wiki with transcripts of all the in-game narrative objects. But "searchable" is probably going to be a stumbling point there, and transcribing takes ages, so this will be last priority, I think. Wow, that's... a lot, actually! Damn! This is gonna take a while. Not that I mind spending a couple of years poking at a project, obviously. *Gestures at my longfic that took four years to finish...* I've been neck deep in this fandom for over seven years, what's another five or ten? XP

btw, since it's fairly easy to post images on tumblr (compared to dreamwidth, anyway), here's a screenshot of the section that's currently in progress: the fic archive index!

(ignore my filler text... i usually use karkalicious as my lorem ipsum, so at least i'm not committing THAT particular crime here.)

i'm still futzing around a little with the styling (negative margin my beloathed) but it's coming along pretty well! i've already got a branch where i've started... you know, actually adding fic to the site, but i won't merge that into the main and add a link to the front page until the style problems have been fixed (or at least, fixed enough to be easily navigable on mobile, which... is not the case right now, lolrip).

[birds-and-friends]

Hi, I love your content - please could I request a lesser spotted woodpecker [dendrocopos minor]? Thank you :)

Hello birdy buddy! YES. I love these mini woodpeckers. smol.

photos by: Pavel Štěpánek / Roman Yaremchuk / Olivier Laporte

[skz-films]

★ #coloringchallenge

side by side comparison of my colorings vs. their original colorings

left: original | right: my colorings

i was tagged in a coloring challenge before but wasn’t that confident in my techniques just yet. months later, i think i’ve been making good progress so here we are. these are from some of the gifsets i’ve posted so far!

colorings: i like to add more contrast and vibrance to my gifs and i’d try to fix those gray and pale tones w popping colors, it could either be w magentas or oranges. i also like to add a lot of blue undertones in my gifs.

sharpening: this is a personal choice but i sharpen all my gifs to add more outline and depth in them. this way, miniscule details are more pronounced and prominent.

i decided to do this for fun and to thank you all for the 300+ followers you've given this blog and for all the interactions and the walls of tags u leave sometimes in them. i'm alr very happy to share these creations w u so i'm just sincerely grateful u love and appreciate them :')

feel free to interact w my main btw, it's @byskzfilms!

[pharawee]

for the gif asks, number 47! btw i absolutely adore your posts, thank you for sharing them with us! 🧡

Thank you so much! That's so kind of you to say 🥺💜

Any advice for novice gif makers/people who want to start making gifs?

Uh, I don't know how useful any of this will be but: Have fun! Because there's always others who will be faster than you and get more notes and have ideas that you wish you'd come up with. There will also be people who come up with the same idea you had, and then you think, nah, I can't gif this anymore. Or you like a show/character but they're not exactly popular and you know your gifset won't be either. Do it anyway if you feel like it. We're on the least competitive social media site anyway lmao So basically:

But other than that, always try to use a good quality source, don't be afraid to experiment and save your progress often because your gif-making app/program of choice can smell your fear 🥲

Questions for gif-makers

[amwritingmeta]

The scenery in the gifset you just reblogged gives me such Lisa and Ben vibes I can't even. Can that be like a weird flashback or something? Dean getting teary remembering of them? Or wishful thinking, is about Cas?

someone in the tags saying that the scene it's just for comic relief and it's gonna be about something stupid like an all you can eat pie shop is sending me

Hello, love!

Am I right in assuming these came from the same sender? :P

Oh, you made me laugh at the Lisa and Ben comment. Oh, dear Lord, imagine... imagine if they brought back Ben and Lisa and... Ben is all growed up now and... Lisa... has just been waiting for Dean to grow up too and oh, happy happy joy joy! 

Sorry, let me be clear that I’m not laughing at you having this vibe, btw!

I’m just giggling at the idea that the narrative would end on that because... Lisa was never, to my mind, meant to be anything more than a pitstop. She was a narrative tool, to put Dean in a new situation that gave us all a highlighter for how his fantasy perfect wholesome mother figure girlfriend really wasn’t, and by all accounts still isn’t, what’s right for him. 

He went to her to keep a promise to Sam. And, sure, went to her because, when he pictured himself happy, it was with her, and the kid, and I will repeat the above and say that I believe he pictured himself happy with them because she represented everything he felt he’d lost out on in life (unconsciously but especially a wholesome mother figure), but then it turned out he wasn’t happy with them, and he wasn’t happy with them for a reason. 

Not because he was out of his head with grief, but because the suburban environment, with Baby under a tarp in the garage, was never his ideal life. 

This has been underlined visually, with Dean remembering Lisa happy to see him at her door only for her reaction to finally land in her being defensive and annoyed at his appearance, about to go on a date.

And it’s been underlined in dialogue in later seasons, with Sam’s comment in S11 about finding someone who gets the life, and Dean repeating that line to Sam when asking Sam about Eileen in 15x08. The family thing, the picket fence, the apple pie life was a pipe dream, and the show has been teaching the boys that this pipe dream only holds merit if they believe it does. 

Ie. their life, as is, only sucks if they believe it does. 

If they accept it for what it is, however, which they have progressively been doing over the seasons, then it’s a pretty good life, a decent one. And finding someone to share it, rather than thinking they need to look outside of it because happiness doesn’t reside within it, will actually bring on that happiness, yeah?

Anyway, I don’t believe Lisa and Ben are even on Dean’s mind at the moment. He just lost his best friend. His best friend who apparently has been in love with him for quite some time. His best friend who’s been in love with him for quite some time and never thought Dean felt the same way and who sacrificed himself to save him. And who is now stuck in “nothing”. Forever.

I kind of can’t even imagine that much else will take up Dean’s focus in the finale, at least when it comes to the love/heart thread of it all. Yah? Yah.

I would actually love for whatever it is that’s making Dean cry to be something comedic or light, or just something random, because having him that overly emotional that he’ll cry at anything would be kind of awesome, yeah? I mean, I don’t think we’ll get him in a ball of grief, nor should we! Been there, done that! 

But for him to have had the floodgates opened on his feelings because of Cas telling him he loves him? Everything is getting to him? He doesn’t quite know what to do with himself? Even if it’s just a gentle undercurrent? Yes, I’d take that any day of the week!

Dean is now walking around processing his impressions and his emotions and the fact that Cas loves him (loved him) and the fact that what he said as a response to this truth was “Don’t do this, Cas”. I mean... there’d better be a stark resolution to this. Even if it’s not scenes upon scenes, there’d better be a resolution. 

Give us Dean missing Cas, please! Give us Dean hoping Cas will come back, please! And if the brothers actively try to find a way -- bring it! I just wonder if that’s what’s in the cards this time around. *pray dean pray*

:P

xx

[redxblueihateloveyou]

Actually I wonder why do they even call the new movie a recap. Like it has so many new scenes, most of them are fillers, but at least they're about original characters. It was so so funny that they just skipped all the Ikuya drama in first few minutes. Btw rinharu scenes were really cool, better than s3.

You think there were many? Idk, I didn’t think so... but it can be because I don’t count the ones I don’t care about lmao I think if the scene don’t include OGs I automatically erase it xD

I just really enjoyed my content: like Haru asking Ryuji to train him, all the montages of the Rinharu... I think there were 3 (aint this some kind of record? lol), Rin with Ikuya of course cause man, did Ikuya and Hiyori looked like idiots lmao, Albert I’m interested in. And of course I laughed the hardest at Hiyori with Kinjou and his “You’ll never win against Nanase-kun.” I somehow after this season feel like poor Haru has 3 kids now LMAO

Yeah, Rinharu was good, mostly cause it was really surprising that all the scenes were very thoughtfully re-made. Like I didn’t think they’d be so precise. Cause when I saw the flashbacks they cut, if I wasn’t a huge fan I’d think they put it randomly, but I immediately yelled “I’VE MADE THIS GIFSET ABOUT THE PROGRESS OF THEIR DREAM! ASDFGFDSA” so yeah, they surprised me with the fact that they went and thought about it, cause s3 seemed like they didn’t (even though I was right about the reason behind Rin’s not calling and stuff which I yelled about again xD), so I’m happy they went there, and just for RH btw. 

And yeah, it’s funny about Ikuya drama cutting. I’ve said it during s3 already. You can basically fit this storyline in 5 minutes, it’s that pointless. It was literally a waste of time and from the recap I can guess that they know it themselves. I also laughed how Kisumi said like three times that Hiyori has some pleasing traits to him, but Sousuke went “Yeah, I don’t see it.” LMAO me af

[moonlightjongin]

Hey! Just wanted to let you know I’m super excited for Rescind (and all your other stories, of course) hehe. I’m not normally into the supernatural au type of stories but Rescind sounds lit. Also, I’m so amazed that you came up with the separate vampire races and the whole backstory for it as well. I’m like mind blown, you’re so amazingly creative.

Btw, you’re doing great, don’t listen to all those pushy ppl demanding for updates. I really admire that you care so much about what you put out into the world and how you wouldn’t share it unless you were happy with it. You also don’t succumb to the pressure from others to churn out stories/chapters like some kind of machine. It takes a lot of courage to share ideas/content you’ve created with others, so thank you for sharing yours with all of us. Your stories are truly amazing and from what I can see, each and every one of them are so different. I truly appreciate you and your work and wanted to let you know that :) p.s. hope you’re staying safe in this pandemic!!

I don’t know if I could thank you enough for sending this, but genuinely, thank you so much. For sending this, for caring, for caring about my stories outside of Exception and I guess for understanding that me being excited about any of my other stories doesn’t mean I’ve given up on Exception. I mean, like... why would a sequel be in development if I had?  

But thank you so much for the Rescind excitement(!!) and for the lovely compliments and for being an all around angel. And all of you that are keeping me sane with the Rescind and WIWY (and even the none pushy Exception) asks because they’ve been helping so much. 

I’ll apologize beforehand for the vent about Exception but I’ll be honest, I’ve gotten to a point where I’m tired. And probably want Exception finished more than anyone else (and I know I’ve said it before but I literally had it finished, in its entirety - and yes it needed a rewrite and a bit of development because the characters weren’t as realized as they are now - and I lost all of those documents because my laptop broke out of nowhere and there was no way of locating the backed up documents I had in case of that. But I didn’t give up on it, even though there were times I wanted to, and as much as I love the story, it’s been such a gruelling process to have to rewrite the entire thing, you know? The entire thing. From start to finish. From memory, basically). So that’s why I ask for patience for it. Because it’s a big story. It’s a very detailed story. The chapters are long, and pretty much every detail counts, especially in the latter chapters.  

At first it was just a coincidence. I’d make a post about any of the other stories I was working on and I’d get asks about Exception updates. Times I’d post about a Rescind development and get an ask and be excited to see what someone else had to add and it be some form of “update Exception” time and time again. Then it’d be every time I’d post a gifset, which is just ridiculous. Yall know I make gifs on this blog too. Any of you can prefer my stories if you wish, cool, but that’s something that’s sticking. 

And I usually don’t mind asks about updates, you know? (and tbh I actually really do get pressured and worried about “not updating enough” it’s kind of what propelled me to start making gifs because I was worried I wasn’t doing “enough”, and it gets to me really easily actually, I just have too much perfectionism with my writing to post something I know isn’t at its best and can work myself into corners to like... force myself to get something done, like stupidly saying I won’t post anything else until Exception 15 is up so I could try focus on it solely and it backfired because progress of every other story just skyrocketed in place of it and now I’m here still stressing over Exception 15, knowing Rescind + WIWY + Ballerina + the Exile series are rearing to go, plus even my shorter stories and some oneshots). And maybe I should’ve just made a post and said I’ll start posting them too but I didn’t want to let anyone waiting for Exception 15 first, down. Because I promised.   

I understand it’s annoying waiting, especially if you’re invested in a story and what happens next, and I love when people are excited about Exception and any of its later chapters. And I wouldn’t ever want to discourage someone for being excited about it but it’s so insulting when people take this blase/pushy kind of tone like... Exception’s so easy to write, like I’m purposely withholding the chapter when I’m constantly saying if one detail is wrong in these later chapters, I’ll have ruined the entire story, when I had to rewrite the entire thing as it is, (when I’ve been forcing myself to write through grief, through relapses, through everything else that’s happened in 2020 and I don’t want to dwell on that, I really don’t but it’s had an impact, you know). But especially this implication like Exception is the only story I’m worth as a writer/creator. Like all the gifsets, all the progress on other stories is suddenly all irrelevant because it’s not Exception. And I love the story, I love the characters, but just... all I’m asking of people is that even if you miss it, even if you’re frustrated, just don’t send the pushy ask, don’t ~joke~ like “omg it’s taking soooooo long ha ha ha” like I don’t know. I know. I’m sorry. It’s not intentional. Hopefully it’s worth it when the story is cohesive and still as you expect it.  

PS; I’m staying as safe as possible and I hope you are too!!! 💞💞💞💞💞

[andhereisthetea]

Just finished Season 3

I have been watching She-Ra for the past seven days non-spot and I just finished season 3 and...

god

dammit

I am just....

UGH.

I want to talk about a lot of things after this, but I know I can’t just sandwich them in this post. I watched all three seasons in less time than I should have, I feel so damn conflicted right now about certain things, even if I spoiled myself about it before.

I spoiled myself about the whole Entrapta and Hordak arc, I watched gifsets and I saw your beautiful fan arts both in tumblr and twitter, but watching it, like... really watching it, it’s a whole different thing and now I feel both sad but also relieved I’m watching this after the show ended because 1) I am sad I didn’t experience things at the same time the fandom and most Entrapdak shippers did BUT 2) this would have made a mess of me, I get affected very easily with things like what I watched.

Ok, I have some things to say about the three seasons:

First... Entrapta.

There are some things I find refreshing and others that I don’t, I am not going to point it out in this post, also I can’t expect a lot from a family show.

The thing is... I feel they should have made up a backstory for Entrapta.

I understand the lore and the plot Crew-Ra focused into, but also I knew the Lore before the creation of this show, I feel there should have been a better way to explore more characters from Masters of the Universe.

Think about the complete mystery she is.

We knows most of the characters’ backstories, at least the most complex and important ones, we knows for example that Mermisa got her ruined kingdom from her father who was killed in the first battle against the Horde. We knows basically all the story of Bow’s family, we knows about Glimmer, about Scorpia, about Perfuma’s kingdom, about even Adora, Catra who was an orphaned, and also about Shadow Weaver.

But Entrapta? she is a complete damn mystery.

She is the Princess of Dryl, she designed the Crypto Castle, a literal labyrinth without sense, she is obsessed with First One’s tech since who knows how long, she isn’t an elemental princess but she can move her hair as if it were extra limbs and evn fight with it as a weapon, something that no other specie in the whole planet of Etheria can do, she has an intelligence even bigger than Tony Stark, nobody even talks about what happened to her parents, NOBODY, like they didn’t even existed and she popped up from nowhere and created her robotic parents herself. And even if her seeking for data and more and more progress and tech can be seen as a clear symptom her Autism (like autistic people focusing so much in something they can’t do anything else, I have that) or the fact she is looking for something else but not even her know what the hell is...

She knows or is implicit that she knows about the language of the First Ones, she understand their technology better than anyone else, also, her kingdom is the most advanced, they are considered to be in the industrial era compared to other kingdoms controlled by the elemental princesses. Where did all that technology knowledge, and also First One’s knowledge, came from? I don't think that in 20 years since she had reason and enough skill to be able to learn by herself Dryl has built all that; Dryl's kingdom had been working that way since before she was even born, so who told her? who taught her?

In addition to the fact that she has access to mining in her kingdom where she has been able to find who knows how much of the first one’s technology... right under her feet. The sole fact they put someone so important for the plot as a princess who has no runestone is just mysterious, she used the Black Garnet even better than Shadow Weaver, I can completely see her or someone before her doing the same with her own Runestone (which I picture as an Amethist btw).

I think they chose to put Entrapta’s possibilities of a backstory aside because, after seeing how the character became increasingly important and popular, they realized that once they had started to create her backstory and origins, they wouldn’t have been able to stop, and the central plot wasn’t about her at all, and is very likely that whatever idea of backstory they had about her would have been focused in the central plot. 

For example (and call me crazy, I don't care) if they had said that she was the granddaughter or daughter of Keldor AKA Skeletor, I would have totally believed it.

The thing with that is... even though they chose for her an Etheria region, which in the original Lore was unimportant, everything to do with Entrapta in She-Ra becomes important immediately, but ultimately it would have distracted them from the central plot with Adora as She-Ra, and Horde Prime, who is the main villain they choose for the show.

For now I just want to imagine what could have been if she had more protagonism and wasn’t only the geek princess, she has so much potential and I haven’t seen a character so refreshing like her in long time.

Okay, I want to talk about the seasons I just watched while the information is still fresh inside my head.

One of the main things that frustrated me about the final season is how Crew-Ra COMPLETELY NAILED IT in making me hate Catra. They didn’t make her sympathetic, she is toxic and most of the time she remembered me people who I had to avoid in my personal life, so the natural reaction to all her actions is to dislike her, that is exactly what Crew-Ra wanted for us to feel.

But in some point it got to the point that if you tell me the character was unpredictable, it lost it a bit in the final episodes, she started to become predictable in her actions because as an impulsive person constantly in denial over her emotions and projecting her problems over everyone else, it was obvious she was going to go through a destructive path wanting for everyone to die together with herself because it wouldn’t have seen less like a suicide.

And as a self-centered character with tunnel vision over her purpose and actions, she was going to completely underestimate Entrapta and wasn’t going to understand why Hordak found her interesting, she would attribute everything to power and fight for positions just like SW taught her, instead of something as pure as friendship, in fact she might have know it, but she didn’t want to admit it, because to know that someone as hateful and intimidating as Lord Hordak suddenly has someone who loves him beyond that is just too much for her, who doesn’t understand and is hurt by the fact that Adora doesn’t love her back, but doesn’t want to change one bit for fear to lost the life that ironically she hates so much without Adora in it.

So of course she was gonna electrocute Entrapta and send her to Beast Island, and her impulsive decision was made out of pure fear over what she did not only to Entrapta, but to Hordak himself and what he might do to her when he finds out what she did, and no matter how much she wants to hide behind a curtain of falsehood, is a matter of time he realizes Entrapta is nowhere in Etheria to be seen.

She is a character who does not measure her actions until the consequences are so horrible that she runs away, because reality is too painful for her to even accept what she has done, also she usually thinks that EVERYONE thinks just like her, every one of her speeches about fake friendship, power and winning is just about how she sees the world work from her perspective, she has zero notions over someone’s else vision of the world.

That's one of the biggest reasons why I liked Adora in the last episode of the third season; Catra made a decision, her desire to win basically led her to condemn Entrapta to death, almost destroy the planet and ultimately kill Angella or worse. I have seen posts about people saying that Catra hasn’t killed anyone directly, but I am sorry, she did this season, and she lied about it to everyone and to herself, but Adora knows better.

Now, Hordak

God how I start with this.

Hordak, opposite to the original Lore of Masters of the Universe, is right now basically an alien version of Lucifer from John Milton’s Paradise Lost but with God being fucking evil.

Just like Lucifer, he wants to replicate his creator’s creation on Etheria, choosing to rule in hell rather than heaven, but unlike Lucifer, he stills has a connection with his creator and just like Catra, wants to satify his wished to conquer Etheria all by himself.

But unlike Horde Prime, he is in fact a good leader, and a logical one. He appreciates when his soldiers thinks by themselves and achieves their goals, unlike Prime, and he in fact doesn’t accept empty adulation, if you are good at something, you have to prove it, not to him, but to yourself.

So I just love how with every season they are adding more complexity to his whole being, and now they have added the emotional factor with Entrapta’s friendship and ultimately “betrayal”, I want to watch how this at first glance stoic character loses the shit out of his stoicism, even if I already knows what is going to happen. The fact he already got affected by Catra’s lies over Entrapta betraying him proves how far he has gone since Entrapta came to his life, if he was just impressed by Entrapta or wanted to use her, that wouldn’t have affected him that much, he already feels something for her, but he struggles to know what it is, and even if he denies it due to what just happened, he is still feeling it.

Which makes the anticipation to the discovery of Catra’s lies so much more painful. 

Also, the fact he believed Catra, just like that, made me feel disappointed, but that is based on the complexity of the character and his self-loathing, he feels he doesn’t deserves friendship nor love; he is a defective clone after all, in his own mind he is imperfect and she is the complete opposite of that, so believing it is easy, but that doesn’t make it less painful, and that is what I am sure Hordak will realize ultimately.

I don’t know how long will took me to watch the season 4, but I know is worth the effort if I want to see Entrapta and Hordak together again, I love them, they are pure brain and incredible refreshing to watch, and the affection they feel for each other is obvious, one of the most bittersweet scenes for me was when Entrapta remembered Hordak due to the trio saying his name, her suddenly quiet behavior and calmed and painful smiled was so unlikely of her that one has to admit something more is going on, also her choice of language, “I had a lab partner”, not “I have”, gives a sense of sadness to the whole scene that broke my damn heart.

I will tag you guys @cruelfeline @ineffablelabpartners @etherian-affairs because I want to know your opinions about this, I never thought Entrapdak was gonna affect me that way, in fact I never expected to ship them at all, but here we are, dying for them and I just can’t escape.

[maryadorable]

It’s a wrap

The Big Bang Theory has come to an end... how lucky we were to be part of this old crowd since 2007 without the social media madness till today with daily updates from backstage to selfies and so on. 

Thanks to every single person who took part in the realization of The Big Bang Theory but I would like to thank all of you, the fandom, every person who spent their time for this community, every artist who write down for fanfiction, every fan arts, every drawing, every taping report, every debate, every gifset... I could safely say the most educate fandom ever!

So, yes I’m sad about this ending but I’m grateful for all of you.

Thanks to everyone who gave us the opportunity to over analyze my beloved Shamy moments from the very beginning, thanks even to Tumblr developers for the mobile app L-O-L 

I don’t know where to begin but I’d like to mention some of you but everyone deserves a special moment.

whoever begin some tags as #eyecoitus, #sincloset, #cinnamonroll, #emilyorcinnamon, #gollum, and so on Thanks

Thanks for everyone who writes fanfiction, long, short, silly, romantic, dramatic even smut about tbbt and especially about Shamy, thanks to without a specific order: 

hazelra7 (just to say Six Sheldons and all your AU Shamy stories, love The Caustic Cohabitation Conundrum with all my heart) xLostInTheSun (I keep laughing reading The Facebook Wall Progression),  Darcyfitz1 (The Science of Love, maybe the longest fanfiction I ever read... love it) Jlove32 (The Paternal Postulations my Shamy future in few words) 

and of course our April in Paris who gave us a completely new series like Coopmelia and Wonder Amy, even better than books you know right?

Here’s on tumblr:

every single word from @nerdforestgirl Thanks!

the huge works made from the beginning by @tbbt-faves

@rgbcn our artist... writing, drawing, creating comics, live drawings, wow! I don't know what else can I say

@platypus-quacks-too giffed for us everything (and btw I’ve some parallels to ask in your inbox that will make me cry) and write every prompts received and give us the most hilarious tag for our shamy

@bigbangenthusiast love every single fanfiction you write!!!

@boys3allc you have a gift for Shamy AU stories... I remained glued to the screen for The Superlative Chemistry

doodles from @vicrocway so cute!!! 

Thanks @cutelittlelumpofwool82 for every update, every bts, Thanks!

and for the fandom, all of you, here on Tumblr, on FF.net, on Instagram, wherever

[whitewolfofwinterfell]

💘choose five of your own favourite edits and do a short commentary on each, write what you absolutely loved about it as well as what you’d do now in order to improve and other comments!💘 tag ten mutuals of yours to provide an opportunity to amazing content creators such as yourself to appreciate their edits and spread love!!

Tagged by @sulietsexual, thank you, my lovely ❤️

Generally, I consider myself as a very modest person, but it was so difficult to narrow this down to five choices. I think it’s because of the time, effort and dedication that goes into making edits and the personal meaning they can hold, it’s like choosing your five favourite photographs from your life. I selected ones based on personal attachment instead of the ones I’m proud of because they’re pretty (not that there’s many of those haha). Anyways here they are in no particular order:

1. ‘Maybe love is like rain’ (Game of Thrones)

I love this little poem because I think it’s a lovely description of what love is and can be, and the metaphor of rain encapsulates it really well. The original place where I saw this poem used is still to this day one of my favourite edits and it was the inspiration for my edit. This is one of those edits that I actually took time to plan out. I carefully selected the characters/relationships I wanted to use for each line and tried to select scenes that I felt best reflected the lines associated with them. Because GOT has so many characters and relationships, it was a huge challenge to try and represent as many of the characters and relationships from the show as possible. It was also hard to be fair and to not let any of my shipper biases get in the way, but I was so pleased with the end result. Hopefully when people see that edit they can understand why I chose each scenes to go with the line they are with.

2. Prue Halliwell character profile (Charmed)

Prue Halliwell owns my heart, anyone and everyone that follows me or has ever looked on my blog for a second will know that. I planned out this gifset about a year ago and spent time over the months taking personality tests (as Prue ofc) and reading various trivia about Prue and personality types to create this gifset. Once I’d chosen the details I wanted to include, I picked out the key words I wanted to use and then the scenes that I felt best fit with each type. I agonised for so long over scene choice and for anybody else that sees it they might not necessarily see that, but each scene was carefully selected. So I guess you could say this gifset is double-y special for me because it’s dedicated to my favourite character but I also put my heart into planning and making this edit. And unlike a lot of the other gifsets I plan out, I was satisfied with the end result. 

3. Gemma and Tara parallels (Sons of Anarchy)

You may see a pattern emerging here, but this is one of my favourite edits I’ve made because of the time and effort that went into planning it. On one of my many SOA rewatches during a scene in season 6 where Tara says “You’ve been my teacher, Gemma, my old lady coach” I was struck with inspiration to make this. I find it so ironic that Tara started out the series loathing Gemma and everything she stands for, yet as the seasons progressed, Tara began to morph into Gemma. The problem I had was actually finding direct scenes that paralleled one another to reflect these similarities they had. It took me a long while to fish out these scenes and I was really happy with the end result because I feel like it accomplished exactly what I wanted to achive by showing those similarities Gemma and Tara shared, and how Tara’s evolution in some ways mirrored Gemma’s, despite them being on different trajectories. 

4. Game of Thrones autumn

Honestly, I’m just so damn proud of the colouring on this gifset. Not to toot my own horn, but I think it’s really pretty and considering I was still so new to colouring my own gifs I’m so impressed with the outcome. Looking back at it now, I’d probably make the colours a bit more consistent if I made it again, but in a way I think the fact that it’s different shades/tones of red, yellow and orange makes it look more authentic and autumn-y. 

5. Daenerys Nikita Gill phoenix poem (Game of Thrones)

This edit has the most notes I’ve ever got on anything ever, but that’s not the reason it’s one of my favourites. I like this edit because, once again, I put a lot of thought and effort into planning and making it. The second I saw the poem Daenerys came to my mind and I knew I needed to make an edit, so I do what I always do when I’m struck by inspiration (I’d be curious to know if anyone else does this btw?) and wrote out the poem in the notes on my phone, then I split it up into different lines for each gif and started to brainstorm scenes that would fit with each line. For other editors, you’ll all know that sometimes when you make edits using poems, quotes or lyrics it can be impossible to find a scene that specifically fits with a certain line, so you just kinda have to pick any random one. But I feel like this is one of my edits where every single scene fits with the line and I love that with just 7 gifs I was able to tell a story and encapsulate Dany’s character and arc. 

I’m tagging @rebeccabunchs @lea-dilallo-rights  It’s late and I’m tired so I can’t think who else to tag, but honestly, all content creators should do this - it’s fun and it’s good to reflect on and appreciate all of the hard work, effort, creativity and skill that goes into making them (particularly since it’s something that seems to be less appreciated by others in recent times)

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I’m still in progress of creating a new gifset of a video my friend has uploaded today and while I’m still doing so, have something that I paused at the right time.

Scout is @fadingverity btw

[nessa007]

Creator Tag Meme

Rules: It’s time to love yourselves! Choose your 5 favorite works you created in the past year (fics, art, edits, etc!) and link them below to reflect on the amazing things you brought into the world in 2018. Tag as many writers/artists/etc as you want (fan or original!) so we can spread the love and link each other to awesome works!

I was tagged by the amazing @amystiago and @chiaratippy to share my 5 favorite works. So, here we go (these aren’t in any order btw):

The Crain Kids (The Haunting of Hill House): I’m so obsessed with this incredible show and love the characters so much and I was just so blown away by the casting of the Crain siblings and how well they matched the adult and kid actors. Both the adult and kid actors are so talented too!

Jake and Amy’s s5 glow up compared to s1: This parallel is just so beautiful okay. 

Steve Rogers + Leslie Jones’ commentary: This Leslie Jones commentary is iconic and literally me and I had to gif Steve with it.

My baby boy, Luke Crain, and his progress to getting clean and sober: I love my son so much and I’m so proud of him. 

Luke and Nell’s “it’s a twin thing”: Have I mentioned how obsessed with this show I am? That’s why the majority of my faves are my Hill House gifsets lol. These darling twin angels own my heart. 

and now i tag: @crain-nell @oryoucouldstay @stark @callitwhatyouwnt @jonahsimms @teardropsonmyguitar 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[devittprinces]

As promised, I was asked about some Finn/Seth thoughts and here I am.

Now, I have a really long piece on Finn’s WWE 24 Special that I’m going to post eventually; however I just want to briefly discuss something that really made me think a lot when I first saw that documentary (that is, btw, extremely beautiful and if you haven’t watched it yet i suggest you to do so...it’s on the network but if you don’t have access to that its...easy to find somewhere else, if you catch my drift 👀).

So in this documentary there’s a whole part where Wrestlemania 33 and Finn’s absence was discussed thoroughly. Finn was visibly upset about the whole ordeal and about the fact that he was cleared to come back but creatives didn’t had a spot for him at the time. There’s footage showing him watching the event and you can see (and hear from his words) how much he was hurt by this.

A really peculiar and interesting note on this part of the documentary is that, aside from Finn himself, the footage is mostly narrated by Seth.

Yep, you heard me right. Seth, in this segment, is the one who explains to us viewers how it felt for Finn to be left out. And you know why? Cause Seth has been there.

Seth too has experienced how it feels like to be excluded from Mania due to an injury. And this is another one of the oh so many similarities that connect these two.

[I quickly redirect you all to this gifset that shows back to back Seth’s segment in his own 24 Special where he talks about Mania, and Finn’s one: http://rollinsdaily.tumblr.com/post/160725658001 ]

See, sometimes, with Finn and Seth, it kinda feels like their entire lives have been mirroring each other (and I swear, a writer couldn’t have put all these coincidences in a book without making them look like “too much”...and yet here comes life, proving that these type of serendipitous moments happen for real).

Anyway, back to the documentary; from Seth’s words, you can clearly see how they probably discussed this topic thoroughly during their 20 days together in rehab (which is where their bond TRULY grew stronger).                 

The segments shows a back and forth between Finn’s interview about it and Seth’s one.

I quote Seth verbatim on here when he goes: “When I was hurt for the Wrestlemania in Dallas, I physically wasn’t able to perform. In Finn’s situation, he was medically cleared before Wrestlemania.” And all throughout this part, we get to see Finn interact with fans during WM’s week and you can see how happy he was to be there but also how he was clearly missing something?

Seth goes on: “No one wants to miss that. And it was the first one on the main roster. And so it was extremely frustrating for him. That can really be a soul crusher.”

If we go by Seth’s words and the tone he uses, we can clearly feel how much he sympathizes with Finn (don’t let me start on the whole sense of guilt Seth will probably feel for the rest of his life no matter how many times Finn tries to say that it wasn’t his fault), and how this was a topic they probably discussed a lot.

Seth is always very careful in the words he uses, especially on WWE products. He’s always one step ahead, crafting everything and having all mapped in his mind (he’s the architect for a reason) however in this specific instance, it feels that all of the usual reasoning has been left behind. The words that he picks are not his usual way of talking. He’s just...literally talking with his heart more than with his head and this is incredibly important (both for a character progression point of view and for how he interacts with Finn in general).

The segment continues showing Finn the day of Mania, looking at the matches and being extremely sad while doing so. Of course, I’m not saying that I know for certain what goes through these guys’ head but once you start paying attention to them for a very long period of time you kinda pick up their mannerisms and speech patterns and it’s not so difficult to imagine what they are going through (albeit superficially).

Here we hear Finn saying: “I’m not on Mania. And to a certain extent that sucks.” (See how he basically confirms Seth’s words), “Hopefully the future holds about 10 more Wrestlemanias, so I can get over the fact that I won’t be on Wrestlemania in Orlando.”

Immediately after Finn’s thoughts, we have Seth chiming in and again, telling what he feels about this: “I hope he was able to take it in stride and understand he’s going to be at the Wrestlemania next year and the year after that and the year after that and the year after that and this is probably going to work out better for him.”

And this is how the segment ends.

Now, aside from my commentary before, two things stand out to me from the whole segment:

This is clearly a very emotional topic for Finn and the fact that is narrated exclusively by him and Seth shows you how close they truly are;

They basically tell the same concepts. You know when you discuss something with a friend and when you retell it to someone else you incorporate the ideas and topics your friend brought up, almost involuntarily? That’s what is happening here. With Finn saying that he wants to be at 10 more Wrestlemanias and Seth telling “and the year after that and the year after that” over and over again, almost matching that specific digit.

To me, this is one of the parts of that documentary that really made me understand just how much trust there is between these guys. How a traumatic event like an injury really managed to turn lemons into lemonade and make them both grow a stronger bond. Stronger than it would’ve probably been WITHOUT the injury (which really makes you think).

I’m sorry this got so long but as I’ve said before, there’s a whole lot to analyze between these two. And I could spend days doing so.

[icameheretowinry]

Wip Tag!

So, I was tagged for this by the wonderfully talented @lonepiper5758 and @thecrazyexfangirl. Thank you both!! (ALSO 3D PRINTING IS SO SO COOL!!!) 

Rules: List all the things you’re currently working on in as much or little detail as you’d like, then tag some friends to see what they’re working on. This can be writing, art, vids, gifsets!

Well, full disclosure, but I’m kind of in between projects right now, so I’ll put what I’m working on AND projects I’m going to start very soon!! 

1. Beneath A Sanguine Sky - This is a fic-in-progress that’s changed names and forms since I wrote it as a one-shot at the beginning of the month. First, it was just going to be a couple of paragraphs, now it’s blown up into a project I expect to be over 100k words (especially since I wrote only 50k total words last year across different projects). The length is kind of scary for me, but I’m going to edit the first chapter, and hopefully have a second (and perhaps a third!) up by the end of the week. Here’s the summary I have on a03 by the way! 

Set during an incredibly brutal winter around a year after the Promised Day, Edward Elric prepares for a journey to Fort Briggs to meet with a professor from Drachma to learn more about their curious form of alchemy. Yet, shortly after a cordial welcome, things begin to take a darker turn. Just who is this mysterious professor? Why does his alchemy seem suspiciously familiar? Of all people, why does General Armstrong seem to be afraid of him?

It’s going to be on the darker side (and angsty, because it’s me), but I’m really looking forward to see how it unfolds! 

2. FMAB amv - I’ve wanted to do an amv since I’ve heard this one particular song over a year ago. I think it fits perfectly with the tone of the show, and I really miss video editing! I feel in love with post-production during a multimedia class I took in my final semester of college, and I think this project will be a good way to keep my skills from getting rusty, especially if I’m putting it as a skill on my resume lol. I’ll keep you guys updated on this one. Maybe I’ll post progress clips if anyone’s interested! 

3. Soul Eater fanart - This show has owned my damn soul almost as much as fma (which is saying something!) since I saw it last October. I’ve recently started reading the manga, and I’ve pulled a really nice panel of Soul and Maka being badass that I really want to redraw! Until my drawing skills get better, references/redraws are bae. Here’s the screen cap btw! 

Goodness I just love them soooo much, and they just slay together it adds years onto my lifespan. I’m probably going to start working on this today! 

Well, that’s it for me right now! I’m excited to see what you guys are up to! I’ll tag @the-heart-alchemist, @teslaswife, @the-flame-and-hawks-eye, @the-musical-alchemist, @queenxolivier if you guys want to do it! 

[cesiousblue]

List all the things you’re currently working on in as much or little you’d like, then tag some friends to see what they’re working on.

This can be writing, art, vids, gifsets - anything at all! [Got tagged by @trumpetsandbookmarks for this one]

Man, i feel like i’m simultaneously working on not enough and too many things.

-I just started up @crow-n-key (crow3key on etsy) and have put together some really cool little potion bottles with dice in them for D&D. I did a Superior Healing Potion and I’ve got some other little bottles in progress that are gonna have mini dice and markers for Fireball, Lightning Bolt or Guiding Bolt inside. They look super cool so far, but I’ve got some finishing to do to make them look extra cool. (I’m also planning on doing some D&D printables and maybe some cool glow jewelry for Crow and Key, but those aren’t really in progress yet)

-I’m also working on a campaign for my D&D group!

-As sort of my own fun project, I’m working on art for the Eighth Doctor Adventure Teas that I put together on Adagio. I’m hoping to do a whole set of portraits with some nice flower/fruit borders. (The tea is all vry yummy btw- I’ve tried all of it and fiddled with it till I was happy)

-I’ve had my button shop Robot Redux for about a year now and I’ve been working on adding new button designs there. 

There’s so much art and writing that I want to be doing, but that kind of gets thrown to the side for this other stuff. Maybe I should work some sketching time into my schedule :3

I tag @avalonauggie, @woodironbone and @platoapproved, if you feel like it!