#ill just keep the same watermark for all of it lol

[sevichecharred]

This is a part of an animation I made for class! I still can't figure out how to download the animation, when I do I'll post it haha

[bettyweir]

alright so MBAV projects im working on today. Under the cut since its a lot lol.

Worked on the Keep Calm and Get Biten, mid way though the final revision. at the finale scene of this chapter and chapter 3 draft is coming along smoothly

Updating site with a Betty + Veronica appreciation blog post, hopefully including all the gifs ive made of them and a lil essay on stuff I adore from that episode.

Converting the finale French DVD disc, I know ive been sitting on them for a while and im kinda kicking myself over it. The first DVD didnt sinc right so i have to edit the audio and video Every Time I try to harvest a clip + its all in 1 big file not separate episodes + the first 4 times i tried exporting it it fucked up the quality on youtube so i needed a break BADLY

Working on uploading S2 to a good drive, I am unsure if ill be able to upload the whole season since just 5 episode of season 1 takes up 7 GB's but i stored it on a separate account so hopefully it'll work?

Tried uploading my 720p copies on YDP on youtube but youtube compresses them, I think the original uploader of the eps on youtube did the same thing since the watermarks are exact ghjdkfsg. I think ill try uploading all my YDP episodes on a drive after the S2 is finished + when I finish the series since I only have half of it downloaded ATM

[cherryjars]

What are 3 of your favorite pieces of art you’ve done ?

AHHH okay okay so!!! i have a LOT but ill narrow it down in terms of effort and general prettiness

looking back at them and realizing absolutely none of them fit in the same art style dhshdjsjfnd

also ignore how my watermark keeps changing.. ... </3 basically anything watermaked with ashiddic or cherry/cherryjars is mine

warning for blood imagery in the first image and a bit of eye strain in the second !!

this is undeniably one of my favorites due to how much effort it took to make and the detail on it all!! it's insanely cool to me because of the colors and how realistic the bleeding heart looks. bleeding hearts are also my favorite flower so i just had to correlate them to my favorite character !! also the rainbow fade behind will was originally not in the thought process but then i realized it could symbolize will's sexuality so i kept it (and i also thought it was really pretty)

this is another one of my favorites because its of one of my longtime favorite OCs and my friend's OC, arlo and jazz! it's so fun to draw them and this is one of my favorite drawings of them tee bee aetch. i love them lots and i just love angel and demon AUs :)

last but not least, this was an old DSMP oc of mine named Kane!! i love how i rendered this (especially the hair and skin) and occasionally i just love to look back at it and wish my art still looked as cool as this lol. the wings kinda suck but theyre sparkly so who cares

thank you soso much for asking :]]

[twdmusicboxmystery]

Revolution Theme, Part 2: War of 1812

READ PART 1 HERE

Wow! Thanks @wdway! Love all this!

You’re right that that the Crossing of the Delaware painting makes a lot more sense, now. It also made me think of the more recent pilgrim paintings we’ve seen the past few years. I think we can work those in as well. The pilgrims were somewhat revolutionary in their actions. Not so much in a massive war or battle sort of way, but they left England (yes, Britain) to find freedoms their mother country wasn’t willing to give them. Which is revolutionary in its way.

But more to the point, that was the first step that would eventually lead to a war for freedom between Britain and the American colonies. So, you could see them as the precursor to the revolution. So, it makes sense to use that painting for TF and TWD right now, because what’s been happening the last season or 2 is the precursor to the final, big revolution.

When you got into talking about 2 revolutions, that makes tons of sense as well, and I totally agree.

When you talked about the white house and library of congress being burnt in 1812, about six things came to mind, lol.

When Eugene was at the Sanctuary (which I 100% believe foreshadows the final revolution, Beth, and what Eugene’s role will be in it) he played the 1812 Overture when he did the science experiment for Negan’s wives. (Including Amber, who looked like Beth and Tanya, who had a lot of Beth’s dialogue with Eugene). I’ve kind of low-key obsessed over that song and why they used it, but other than foreshadowing a final battle with Eugene as I’ve already said, it was hard to connect anything more specific.

The 1812 Overture was not actually written about the War of 1812. It was written in celebration of Napoleon’s retreat from Russia. Basically, he tried to invade Moscow early in 1812 but failed miserably and eventually had to retreat. Not so much because of being out-fought, but more because of weather, illness, lack of supplies for the army, etc.

Now, that’s not the same thing you mentioned in the British fighting Napoleon before turning their attention to the American colonists, but the link is still there. Napoleon/Russia>1812 Overture>Napolean/Britain>Britain/American Colonies. See what I mean? So, the idea of two wars or a war on two fronts really makes sense.

I’ve been trying to find out if the 1812 Overture has a d.c. al coda in it. I don’t think it does, but I’m having a hard time finding the sheet music online. You can find it, of course, but often it’s blurry or watermarked in such a way that it’s hard to read, and that’s because they want you to buy it to remove the watermark. I’ll keep looking.

But I do know it has a coda. Maybe not a d.c. al coda, but a coda of some kind. In fact, while I’m still not sure until I can clearly see the sheet music, from what I’ve read others saying, the final, super-loud, exuberant part of the song that’s often used in U.S. Independence Day celebrations IS the coda. And it represents Russia winning the war over Napoleon. Coincidence?

So, Napoleon fought many wars on many fronts. There’s that. But as you said, the British first fought Napoleon (perhaps that will be the Commonwealth) and then turned to the American colonists. And given what was said in 5x09 about a rebel group fighting against the “republic” using what amounts to guerilla tactics, that does line up with how the American colonists fought the British during the revolution. So clearly that’s the one that will involve Beth and TF (though of course they will probably be involved, at least to some extent, in the Commonwealth bit as well).

Also, also. You talked about the LIBRARY of congress being burned. I’m not sure how, but suddenly I feel sure all the books and librarian stuff must be connected to this. To the revolution theme. I still remember watching the beginning of 6x16 and thinking it was SO significant, but I had no idea why. It’s where we see Carl lock Enid in the closet to keep her safe, and she’s yelling at him things like, “what if you don’t come back?�� And he tells her, “just survive somehow.”

Meanwhile, that scene is intercut with Negan’s guys chasing the librarian they end up hanging over the bridge with an X spray painted on his chest. And then he gets…burned?

I remember thinking that just FELT like a big war that was coming, but back then, I really didn’t know how to interpret it. Of course, AOW started soon after, but the librarian group wasn’t a big part of that. If we’re honest, they really were just random side characters, which was odd because that sequence FELT so important. So, I’m betting we ought to be connecting them to this as well.

The Native American Symbols

For the record, a couple of things I’ve been trying to look into and haven’t found much (mostly because I haven’t had much time to do so yet) include what role Native American tribes played in the American revolution. Some were loyal to the British, others to colonists. As I said, I need to do more research, but little tidbits like this one are interesting:

“Their biggest contribution was as spies going to Canada and returning with news of the English plans, and attacking English coastal shipping. The Indians played a leading role in preventing an English attack on Machias by sea from being successful. “

(AL’s voice coming out of the radio in 5x09: “At least 68 citizens of the Republic have been killed in four deadly attacks along the main coastal district. The group has continued their campaign of random violence, moving across the countryside unfettered, with the Republic’s military forces in disarray.” Just saying.)

The other thing I’ve looked into is Francis Marion’s (Swamp Fox’s) connection to Native Americans of the time. During the revolution itself, I’m not finding much. But we do know that he learned a lot of his battle prowess from fighting the Cherokee Indians as a young man.

What he learned there is what made him so effective against the British. So, I’m wondering if that will translate with Beth in that she’ll fight the CRM or perhaps even in battles with the Commonwealth early on and that will give her what she needs to triumph much later in bigger battles. Or maybe they’ll connect it even earlier back to early battles with TF and what Daryl taught her. The possibilities are endless. ;D

@wdway:

If you do a search, it's quite fascinating and well worth the time to do two searches. One on the burning of the White House and then the other one on Andrew Jackson and the Battle of New Orleans.

There are things that I just did not go into like the connection with Napoleon that we've seen hints of in the past couple of seasons and didn't know why. The Cherokee Rose, which has been a symbol for so long and I do not think it was their intention in the beginning but what most people do not understand is that the Cherokee Rose has a strong connection to Andrew Jackson.

Andrew Jackson had a singular focus on driving the Native Americans (mostly the Cherokee Nation) to the West. Lightbulb moment here, but maybe that might be same of the meaning of Indian symbolism.

Jackson had a major part in the Trail of Tears, which is basically the story that Daryl tells Carol after walker Sophia was discovered. Jackson was a brilliant military soldier, but he was not known as a compassionate person. His nickname was Old Hickory (a tree reference) because the hickory tree's wood is known for its hardness.

A few years back, tptb did a promotion showing nuts that had a hard outer shell. People didn't understand what that was, but I knew because it was a hickory nut. A very hard outer shell and then inside is the actual nut. Hickory wood was the favored source for making baseball bats back in the day because they would not easily break.

The other interesting fact about Andrew Jackson was his love for his wife, Rachel. It was a legendary love. He might have been an asshole to the entire world, but Rachel was the love of his life. When she died, he did not simply bury her. He entombed her in her own little Mausoleum at his home, The Hermitage, just outside of Nashville.

Jackson fought both in the Revolutionary War and the 1812 war, in the Battle of New Orleans. He apparently had been imprisoned by the British for a time during the Revolutionary War, which fired his hatred for them.

Am I the only one thinking about the connections between him and Negan? I'm thinking of the two wars, the Commonwealth and the war against the CRM. I want to think that the Commonwealth conflict is represented by the War of 1812. The larger, more overall important conflict with a CRM will be the American Revolutionary War, with Rick replacing Washington as the leader.

I was freaking out when you mentioned the Overture of 1812. I don't care if it was written for the war led by Napoleon with Russia. If anything, that makes it even as stronger clue that we're on the right track because of the Russian satellite and Russian dictionary that little Judith got from (wait for it) the library, for Eugene.

One other thing, @twdmusicboxmystery. I thought about this earlier today when I was reading about the 1812 Overture, but I wanted to do a check before I mentioned it to you. 

Two very famous pieces of music came out of the 1812 wars. The 1812 Overture about Napoleon and Russia, and The Star-Spangled Banner, our U.S. national anthem written by Francis Scott Key about The Battle of Fort Henry. Both Fort Henry and The Battle of New Orleans were fought in 1814 but were known as being part of the War of 1812.

Can’t wait to see how it all plays out.

Definitely very interesting! Thanks for all this research @wdway! 

[myouo-archive]

ah yes this isnt allie asking how to make a gif because she forgot what pft what gave you that idea weeb

ok alliethis is just how i do it lmao sorry 2 make others cringe AHAHAHAlook under the cut weeb

so first i look for a ts file and i use this website primarily & i chose this oneonce i have my ts file, I watch the entire thing to get my timestamps, 

and then i drag it into vaporscript/synth (idk lmao) mac & windows download thoand you should get smth like

once you get that press enterand this should pop up

everything in that box in the corner is what you’ll put in the vaporscript thing whatever its calledit looks like: 

what’s underlined in blue is the video trim, i normally keep the # in front of it until im about to render (same thing for line 17) once i trim it & am going to render: 

doNT FORGET TO SWITCH THE HEADER TO Y4M OH gOD i rly dont know why but i just know that all the times i done goofed and forgot it was bad LMAOnow we go into photoshop lolfile>import>video frames to layers, you should get this to pop up: 

dont touch anything just press okay, here you just trim anything else, crop it and add a colouring

so far right now all i have is: 

and while yes technically you can call it done here, i like to have a coloring & my watermark among other things, make sure your gif is under 3MB I also want to get rid of that little banner at the bottomI learned how to do this from @/nakamotens using thisso now we have: 

time 2 add colorings and my watermark, i rly like the whole black and red colorings??? i dont know why, so thats what i normally try and do, i usually use brightness/contrast, vibrance, selective color & gradient map (if u want me to make u a coloring lmk lmao i wing it most of the time, but you can use some photoshop resources to find them) now we have

nd we’re done.sorry im so shit at explaining things HAHAAHHAHA if you need anymore help tell me aiefjhueafjioa ill redo this if i need too