#i apologize for the quality but i wanted to make a silly little gifset and i couldn't find a better quality

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The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) dir. Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic

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my favorite part of the week when a new prodigal son episode drops: my commentary on the latest gifset i created :)

above are four gifs that i made as either alternative colorings (malcolm and ainsley’s respective gifs) or bonus/extra gifs in case one of the ones i intended to use didn’t fit the “vibe” (martin and jessica’s respective scenes). did not intend that the entire whitly family would be on this gifset pero it’s nice to see the family back together ☺ lemme just say that the extra bonus gifs that i made...the way i didn’t end up using them like they were made because i feared i didn’t like some of the colorings for the gifs and you know how when you upload them to tumblr, the quality changes. so they were a rush job and i didn’t really like how they came out and maybe it’s a blessing in disguise. reason why i didn’t use the alternative colorings for the whitly children is because i thought the one i used for malcolm was way more richer in color whereas ainsley’s had too much warmth.

now i did end up using two different psds for this gifset. no, i didn’t mashup any of them because one of them was more of a brightening psd and though some of these scenes (if not most) have you holding up a flashlight to see what the hell is going on, the brightening was a bit...harsh if it wasn’t a scene that was in the dark. luckily, this brightening psd worked harmoniously with the primary psd and it was super seamless in being a cohesive set. now, i actually only used this brightening psd twice...can you guess which ones i used it on? answer in the tags xx

i would show y’all my notes that i wrote but they are mainly notes for dialogue gifsets that i hope i can create (i’ve been hella out of practice and i know the standard fonts and size has changed). going to check the tag just in case nobody has already made it because i don’t wanna spend a copious amount of time on a set and have it already been done. ANYWAYS! where to begin about this episode...it wasn’t heavy in “aesthetic” shots and like i stated before, the coloring of the scenes was kinda...not very good </3 BUT! there were some interesting shots and if the gifs framing seem the same....apologies but they were literally the only ones that grabbed my attention. the thing i am noticing about prodigal son is how they like to frame two people in a scene and they love to do over the shoulder shots. there is probably like one or two token aesthetic shots and like....boom. also, i do wanna note that i try to avoid the gore-y scenes like the victim’s body and any sort of heavy blood. i don’t want people to be turned off or scared by any of my gifsets when they’re not looking for it so i wanna respect anyone who reblogs and likes my content!!

gonna need the prodigal son team to like....help us content creators OUT because damn!! it really is hard to color without losing the integrity of the scene. you can brighten a scene, you can darken a scene, but you lose a lot of what makes the scene. from a few tags on my gifsets, people like how i recolor a scene, and i am always like thank you !!! 🥰🥺💖 i try really hard to get the best out of psd and the scene <3 however, i fear that my preference for warm tones over cool tones might hinder me. listen, i do experiment with different colorings but my gosh, my brain sees warmth and goes brrr and i want to branch out and do something new but MY GOSH !! WARMTH!! and in a show like prodigal son, it feels a bit like out of the ordinary, and i like that. i really like that i put something that is missing. maybe next time i will try cooler tones but i don’t make any promises :( 

and that does it for me!! i think i wrote everything that i wanted to...WAIT! now, i do have to admit that this gifset was indeed a rush job. i downloaded the episode while watching “big sky” and it was growing late and i hadn’t been online in awhile so i had to catch up on everything when i intended to rewatch the episode that night. anyways, as soon as i ate breakfast, i was watching (a little bit of skimming) this episode and finding scenes to make gifs of. i really wanted to write down the dialogue of the potential gifsets then kinda, turned my brain off a bit for the aesthetic gifset. so then i started making these gifs and photoshop was being SUPER slow so i was like only able to make two to three gifs at a time (i would have to exit off, task manager snipe ps, then take a break bc my ass hurt then go back at it). so when i finished, it was getting closer to six pm which is my maximum cut off so i can do (please don’t laugh or @ me) some “decompression time” that goes from between 5 PM to 10 PM (sometimes, like this past time, starts at 6 PM and sometimes it ends at 9 or even 8:30 depending when i stopped being on the computer) where i don’t go on social media. i am radio silent in a lot of my socials besides twitter (follow me @/castieIsgf that’s an uppercase “i” instead of an “l” :3c). anyways, so i was rushing to get this shipped out and i slapped the gifs into random positions not really paying attention where and...yeah, i should’ve just slowed down!! i’m not mad or upset at the arrangement pero i’m kinda like mmmm!! lemme move swap the placement of these two gifs...but that’s water under the bridge!

also, this might be a little silly pero if you see me with just one tag of commentary on my gifset and it doesn’t have...panache or energy, it’s because i am restraining myself 😭 i want to so DESPERATELY react to my own gifset or react to the episode itself but i am afraid that having a lot of tags, especially if you have a lot of words in them, it overwhelms tumblr?? and makes your post not show up in the tags?? listen, i have seen people have over 30 tags and their post still shows up in their respective places but honestly, i do not wanna push it AT ALLLL so i limit myself to one tag, no exclamation or questions marks, no uppercase letters, no ellipses, NOTHING like it’s SOOO hard i feel like i am being censored 😔 PERO I WILL MAKE DO!!

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@vermilious replied to (x):

same, i love hearing how other people discovered my favorite artists. (it’s funny you mention taylor cause that’s the other favorite artist i was thinking of haha) my other main blog is actually @swiftrecords​ which is basically my taylor only stuff although rn the front page is covered in tp but it’s 4am so i’ll have to fix that tomorrow)

“how ya doin’?” a cappella is still one of the greatest things ever. and same they’re like chamelons. i’m so proud of them. we don’t have a lot of great performers in our generation (especially ones with good live vocals) but they are so good and I always feel so proud to be a fan of theirs.

no i get exactly what you mean. i’ve been a singer since I was 6 years old and one of the most important lessons was to have a build up in the song. you can’t start off on level 8 belching and just stay there - eventually that level 8 will become a level 3 for you because people will get used to it. and Little Mix knows how to do a build up and make it count. not all songs have to be power vocals. it takes more talent to hit a high note quietly than hitting it loud

yeah it’s kinda like if you want your answer to be “10” in a formula every time that’s great but each formula starts with a different number along with the letters and if you have a 2 in one formula but a 5 in another formula you have to find different numbers for those letters to get 10. you can’t just apply the same formula to every artist. especially since the industry changes so much

the themes every week made it hard enough for us, the audience, to get to know each artist (let alone little mix) but then it seemed like they were putting on dated stuff on everyone cause “well that worked 2 years ago” but it’s like “yeah… that was 2 years ago” and you know 2 years in the real world is like 10 years in hollywood

i’m so freaking thankful they won / they were so shocked too it breaks my heart cause you just know they thought they completely lost i mean no groups had ever won before let alone an all girl group. it still makes me cry when i watch the season over. AND watching them talk to each other and hang out before they were even an official group is just so cute i’m glad we have those clips.

dude i’m like the queen of writing essays as responses so you don’t have to apologize to me cause like i get it haha (also i apologize to other people when i do it too cause like idk sorry for making you read so much)

if you wanna read more stories of how people from the fandom got into LM I started thread about it here a while back :) loads of people shared their journey and it’s been awesome! (and yay for taylor! just followed -from my main blog :)

totally agree with hyd acapella still being ICONIC. this video is of the things that got me into the fandom too. whenever they do sth like that in interviews and such you can see how shook ppl are, cause it’s so rare and incredible! I feel ed sheeran has this kind of talent too, wish the girls had as much chance to shine as him cause really they’re insanely talented underrated humans

oh so cool you’re a singer! all I say is purely from a spectator pov, so it’s great to get your take on it. the build up can be so satisfactory, as well as switching notes up live constantly, playing in different areas of their voices and harmonies.

same, so glad and thankful they won! goes to show what people want, and how there was more of them wanted to be heard. themed weeks are so silly imo, especially when the artist doesn’t have the creative freedom to at least make the theme their own.

yess! the clips of their friendship evolving through x factor are so sweet! I’m thinking of doing a gifset of that soon. I’m sure they already exist out there, but having been in the fandom for 2 years, I rarely see old-school content. and idk about you, but for as happy as I am with the incredible amount and quality of edits/gifs/text posts the fandom makes for every new content we get, I also get a bit tired of my dash revolving around the same ‘new’ event on a loop? like I enjoy things better when they’re sprinkled between other stuff, so it doesn’t all mush together and feeling like you’re reblogging the same thing times 10 (btw I totally know everyone wanting to blog about sth new in their own way is normal and completely okay. this is just me being annoyingly picky)