#it's been a while since i sat down and actually properly made gifsets but i hope to get to it again!!

[softdavidrose]

💘choose five of your own favourite edits and do a short commentary on each, at what you absolutely loved about it as well as what you’d do in it now as 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!!

i was tagged by the lovely sara @amez-santiago thank you!! ♥♥♥

i’m gonna tag some amazing gif makers!! @patrickbrewcr @danslevys @rosesapothecary @oscarspoe @peraltiagos-blog @jakeperalta @wild-aloof-rebel @julieandrws and anyone else who wants to do it!

david rose + the pan flag colors this is probably one of the hardest and most rewarding gifsets i’ve ever made!! each step of making this took a really long time, from finding scenes that fit, either for colors or just moment where david was still (which i might say are very few lmao but same), to the coloring which was also very hard to achieve, especially because only the background has to be in color and sometimes even just one frame can fuck up the whole thing (like for example if the character moves too much you’d either have frames where the character’s skin/clothes/whatever are the bg color or frames where the bg color isn’t there and it’s hard) needless to say it’s a gifset i love a lot because hashtag representation and seeing all the lovely comments in the tags legitimately makes my day 🤧🤧 if i had to change something i might look harder for a different scene to use for the second gif because it doesn’t look as good as the other ones but 🤷 + bonus patrick + the gay flag colors because it took even LONGER than this one but it somehow looks worse lmao

rosa diaz + ha ha ha from my b99 rewatch series, this is a relatively simple gifset but it took me so damn long i honestly don’t know if there is an easier version to achieve that “scrolling” text effect but i really wanted it to look like this and i could not find ANYTHING for it online, so i literally just made like 50, or however many frames there were, text layers and placed each of them so it would look like the text was being “typed” i guess it was HELL but i love it and i think it looks dope

david rose + putting his hands on his face i love this one so much i think it’s so funny and it’s one of my most popular gifsets! i don’t really have a lot to say about it i just love it a lot!! also a part 2 may be coming

david and patrick + height difference i love this so much it’s very tender and i love height differences so i just had to make it LOL i don’t have a lot to add to this except for the fact that im love they

schitt’s creek + c.s. lewis quote oh boy i hope you’re ready for a long ass commentary on this one first of all i would like to blame @the-rosebud-motel for sharing this quote on discord and putting this idea in my head it is literally all her fault!! second of all, this gifset took me a bit because i had initially started with a different idea but it then became what it is now and i while i wish it looked a little different i am happy with the results!! i’m gonna put the commentary under read more because this is getting very long and i have A Lot To Say, if you wanna stay get ready to shed some tears because i did while making this LMAO  hope you decide to read it because i spent a lot thinking about ways to make this perfect, but if you don’t wanna read it all that’s okay, thank you for reading all the way down here!!

okay so first of all, in my head this gifset is divided into three parts, the first one being the first 3 gifs, the second one being the middle one, and the third one being the last 3 gifs. in the next paragraph i’ll explain the Parallels™ and why each scene works for that specific moment or line and you’ll understand why i have this little ~division~ part one: gif #1 is one of the very first scenes of the show. the roses have lost everything and you can see the portrait being taken away in the background, a symbol of their wealth and life being gone. (you can’t change the beginning)

gif #2 is the roses staring at the town sign in 1x03. they’re shocked and weirded out by it and they just got to this town and the sign is a symbol of schitt’s creek being “gross” or “weird” etc

gif #3 is from 1x04, johnny and moira struggle with connecting with their kids and believe they are bad parents (as the title of the episode suggests), and so attempt to play a game of two truths and one lie to try to bond with david and alexis (needless to say, it doesn’t go well)

part two: gif #4 is from happy anniversary, the season 2 finale. the roses dance together as a family, they admit they love each other and have what is arguably the first happy family moment of the series. It’s a turning point for them, it’s their new beginning (but you can start from where you are)

part three: gif #5 is a parallel to gif 3: johnny and moira take their time to get a cake for David and alexis’ big days (they’ve done the best they can!!!!!). this time the effort is real and appreciated!!!

gif #6 is a parallel to gif 2: the roses are staring at another sign, the shining new “rosebud motel”. this time, they’re happy and excited, as the sign symbolises their full commitment to the town, that is now their home, and to stevie who is by now unofficially a rose as well 😭

gif #7 is a parallel to gif 1: the portrait is there and for a while they thought that’s what they wanted, a symbol of their status as wealth, but as moira says in the same episode “it doesn’t fit, and not just physically. we aren’t those people anymore. [...]” . this time when the portrait is left behind, it is not because it’s taken away from them, but because they are the ones to walk away from it: this is where the roses fully decide to leave their old lives behind and accept all the love and happiness that schitt’s creek has given them. the portrait, symbol of their old lives, is not what they need anymore, and actually it’s not what they have needed for a very long time. they walk together back to the motel, laughing at a joke moira made, and fully embracing the gift that has been given to them, a chance to rewrite their own story (and change the ending)

the entire gifset is then tied with the progression of colors, going from an almost black and white to colorful and vibrant. this is of course to symbolize how they went from being desperate and depressed to happy and loving BUT the beginning is not “just” the beginning of the series aka them losing everything, because the sadness and desperation was there before they lost everything even if they didn’t realize at first. so to quote the first episode, schitt’s creek was the roses’ saving grace, except not in the way it was intended in 1x01. sure it was shelter for when they lost all their money, but it was so much more than that, because it made them a family and gave them all they really needed, which isn’t money or wealth but kindness and love.

anyways uhhhhh, thanks for coming to my ted talk

[ours-is-feral-love]

A Love Letter to the Klaroline Fandom

I’m going to do it. I am going to sit down in two hours (well, one, actually; I’m watching that silly one-hour “Remember the Time” thing that will probably be awkward and disjointed) and watch the finale of The Vampire Diaries. It has been probably six or seven years since I have watched an episode live [I gave up on the show after the first season (or maybe mid-way through? I can’t remember)]. Of course, I was pulled back in - partially - when the magnificently evil, dark, and haunted Klaus met the magnificently tough, blond, newbie vampire Caroline. Still, I never sat around on whatever night TVD aired and made it through an episode. The show had, for me, already lost its way. But I loved those two. I still do.

Klaus and Caroline. I am sacrificing my Friday night (the Friday night of my spring break) to watch this final episode of The Vampire Diaries. The adaptation of the only vampire series I ever enjoyed, in which Caroline was awful and Klaus did not exist in the way that he does on screen. In which these two characters never meet (as far as I can remember; it’s been a while). Immediately, though, I found that I didn’t care how they changed Caroline, or how they changed Klaus. Because they caught fire when they were in a scene together. I put up with everything I despised about the show for these characters. I dedicated so much of my time watching YouTube videos and reading FanFiction (I read so many stories! Shoutouts to @thetourguidebarbie and @marvelouskatie and @klarolineepiclove and idiot-wind98 and withfireandblood for always keeping my passion for this couple alive! And to @hellsbellschime @klarolinedrabbles and @jonsnowbitch for being the voices of reason on this site!) and going to the @klarolinemag website, just so I could feel a little bit closer to the OTP of OTPs who rarely shared any screen time. 

I know I’ve not been active in the fandom. I only just got this tumblr. I only wrote my first KC one-shot back in late November of last year. But I swear, I have never been more dedicated to a fandom. Never been so blown away by the awesomeness and bravery and intelligence of the people who take the time to write meta after meta, story after story, response after response. Never have I been so in love with two characters, and never have I so admired the others who join me in my love for these two crazy, dangerous lovebirds. 

And I know it’s been hard. We’ve seen these two deteriorate immensely over the years. Klaus isn’t the same. Caroline, like so many of TVD’s female characters, is most definitely not the same. They are no longer strong warriors. They are shells of who they once were. Caroline was forced to bare children that were not hers. Klaus also somehow managed to knock somebody up. But we still fight for them. We still hold out hope (no pun intended). Because our time is now. Whatever happens tonight, whatever happens on TO (a show I literally have never even seen a clip of), Klaus and Caroline are meant to be. We watched them grow together for too long. We watched Klaus fall for Caroline. Rescue her. Maybe even love her in his own twisted way. And we watched Caroline slowly begin to see a different side to the monster she had been trained to despise. 

“He is your first love. I intend to be your last. However Long It Takes.” This was it for me. This was when I knew, no matter what, Klaus and Caroline would find each other. Whether it was in the afterlife or in NOLA or randomly in Paris - they are going to find each other. And I still cling to this hope for them in canon, but I live for them in fanon. We will forever be creating our own scenarios if Julie Plec and her team erase Klaus’s famous words from existence. 

If this is the last time we see Caroline Forbes on our screens, it will be okay. I will be okay. Because of you, the KC fandom, who help these two live on. 

Thank you. To every single one of you. If you put together a playlist, wrote a full-length chapter fic or a three-hundred word drabble. If you made a video, live-tweeted an episode, or spent your days making millions of gifsets. If you commented on a story or video, or added it to your favourites. If you beta-ed a fic, or made a breathtaking graphic. If all you did was love Klaus and Caroline and refused to join what can sometimes be a toxic environment. THANK YOU! You keep my passion for Klaroline alive. You keep me wanting more. I cannot properly put it into words how happy I am to be a part of this KC world. How honoured I am to have fallen in love with Klaus and Caroline all those years ago. And I know this is freaking long (sorry, I have a lot to say), but really, really, really: THANK YOU. 

This has been one wild ride and though it may not be over yet, I wanted to let you all know how I was feeling on this weirdly melancholy night. 

Long live Klaroline! Long live this beautiful fandom!