#might do some gif icons in the next batch

[witchie-writings]

some DMC shenanigans

aka dante slaying the dance floor while vergil is fighting for his life

oh and have some more gifs

[mwolf0epsilon]

I posted 6,763 times in 2022

That's 638 more posts than 2021!

875 posts created (13%)

5,888 posts reblogged (87%)

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@british-hero

@gaeasun

@lost-on-kamino

@laz-laz-ace-pilot

I tagged 6,295 of my posts in 2022

Only 7% of my posts had no tags

#star wars - 4,023 posts

#the clone wars - 3,057 posts

#captain rex - 514 posts

#funny - 460 posts

#humor - 460 posts

#rex - 455 posts

#clone ocs - 433 posts

#commander cody - 412 posts

#the bad batch - 397 posts

#arc trooper fives - 391 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#but end up causing a massive problem instead because they didn't consider the fact clones name themselves after either animals or concepts?

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

I've seen a lot of people headcanon that Echo would have his iconic handprint tattooed on his chest after joining the Bad Batch, but I personally think if he got a tattoo that's not gonna be visible, it wouldn't be his one link to the 501st. If anything he'd want to display the handprint proudly like he had in the past.

After thinking hard about it, I finally decided on a tattoo that felt in line with Echo's personality specifically. Something personal that mostly stays hidden away but that he knows is there and is comforting to him.

Fives's Rishi Eel design is thusly tattooed on his back, and painted over his spinal cybernetic implants. That way he can, in a way, always have his closest brother watching his back. Even from beyond the grave.

350 notes - Posted April 9, 2022

#4

Saudade: A deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for something or someone that one cares for and/or loves. Moreover, it often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never be had again.

As much as the Coruscant Guard may have become Dogma's found family, a part of him will always long for his 501st brothers. Especially a certain clone with a teardrop tattoo...

Tulpa may not be Tup, but he sure reminds Dogma a lot of his lost twin... The renegade rookie will make sure his ad'ika grows up to be happy and free.

353 notes - Posted February 22, 2022

#3

The other day I was looking at some screenshots from the Umbara Arc because I was trying to get a lay of the land, so to speak, as I wanted to write about Lich's experiences prior to finding his way back to a now fallen Republic and rising Empire... And three specific frames caught my attention due to very small details.

The first one is when Krell threatens Fives with his lightsaber.

Lightsabers are plasma conduits. They can slice and cauterise at the same time. Using them to threaten someone into compliance like this is a promise to use them rather than a bluff.

Even with his armour on, Fives can likely feel the heat of the blade against his neck and shoulder. This is more than enough reason to go from mild apprehension around Krell to full on distrusting him, because the clones know the Jedi only use their lightsabers when they need to. And only against what they perceive as hostiles that are unwilling to negotiate surrender.

Krell using his lightsaber to threaten someone was an immediate red flag, and Fives knew it.

The second screenshot that caught my attention was when Rex was holding Krell at gunpoint to execute him.

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548 notes - Posted May 14, 2022

#2

Commander Fox on his way to get some caf!

A discussion on discord ended with this lovely image that I had to materialise into the digital plane. Sometimes you just gotta shred it on a board while wearing an animal onesie and severely sleep deprived.

729 notes - Posted July 15, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Sometimes I think about how Kix had a near mental breakdown in Umbara due to the stress of trying to keep his brothers alive, only to realise he can't do anything to save them.

I also think about how we saw Rex collapse in near tears after he realises Krell tricked the clones into killing each other, just because he could. How, after Umbara, his next destination was Kadavo...

I think about how Dogma went against his own beliefs due to betrayal, and subsequently went into a state of shock because of the weight of the situation he suddenly found himself in. How Rex nodding at him in approval and respect was likely the last kindness anyone ever extended to him.

I think of Slick acting out violently against both Jedi and clones alike, working into the hands of the Separatists because he didn't feel like there was any other escape against the chains he suddenly saw around his neck and wrists.

I think about how Fives struggled uselessly against circumstances well outside his control when it came to protecting his brothers from certain doom, knowing fully well that he had very likely never gotten over the loss of Echo, and that he'd taken it upon himself to be a protector at the expense of his own relatively short life.

I think of Jesse in the aftermath of Maul's invasive mind probing, of how weak and vulnerable he sounded when talking to Rex because he felt like a failure in that very moment. How he was struggling against the chip when Rex was practically begging him to spare Ahsoka and that maybe, just maybe, had he not been captured by Maul his mental shields would have been strong enough to resist like his captain had...

I think of how Echo who was blown up, tortured, abused, left to look like a shell of his former self that he barely recognises, and who's struggling but pushing forward despite having lost almost everything and everyone he once knew and loved. How it's very likely that he'll eventually die never coming to terms with what happened to himself, and that he'll always feel like less than a man because it's how others treat him.

I think of Wolffe, years after Order 66, struggling with intense fear, guilt, and paranoia, trying to keep his only remaining family safe and accidentally hurting them and others in the process, because he's stuck living in a past that's yet to be explored but that we can assume is crushing him. Wolffe who is, without a doubt, a shadow of the former commander that had served proudly besides his Jedi. Who had always been and always will be a survivor of terrible things.

I think of Gregor who's suffered head injuries at least thrice, got blown up and been left with mental health issues, and who was still very willing to extend his aid and kindness to those around him because he took what he got and accepted it with a smile and a defiant spark to the very end...

I think about all these and more. And it makes me wish the clones had had better than what they ended up with...

1,029 notes - Posted January 23, 2022

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i'd lowkey love to see an example of your spreadsheet like you just showed in the gif! idk if you have something up somewhere on your blog, but i feel like being more organized like this is always a good thing so i'd be curious to see what you do

I went into detial here with explaining as much as I could So aside from walking you through step by step making the whole thing?  You get all the information.  I broke down every section, explained why something is there and overall tried to leave nothing upturned.  If you have questions about organization or something?  I’m totally here to answer more questions.  If this helps you?  Or you like what you see like/reblog. 

Here is a large screenshot of my whole spreadsheet. And then here is an updated gif version of my spreedsheet.  This whole set up took me about 4 hours to do (three more days of constant tweaking).  This whole process was a learning experience so that was why it happened to be so long.  I really had no idea how to do this at all so I had google up and a friend on a call asking questions (they helped where they could).’

Right now,  Danielle only has one project where she is a major part in it and is in episodes where is is above the age of 18 so that is all that I can do when it comes to her and icons.  Now with a different fc?  That has more projects this set up would be different only because they have more.   I tend to only make resources for fcs that I’m currently using or for the fandom that I’m currently writing in when it comes to indie rping.  I’m an indie roleplayer and write mostly canon muses.

So let’s move onto me explaining everything !  This screenshot is a little small so I’ll also be telling you what it says  (I can’t do the whole screenshots of things because some of it is just information but where I can I’ll try).    EPISODE NAME,  AIR DATE,  EPISODE #,  # OF ICONS,  TUMBLR UPLOADED,  MEGA DOWNLOADED EPISODES.

Some of this you might not even need if you weren’t me.  Things could easily be changed as well.  So the episode name and number of the episode might seem like overkill.  One or the other could be fine but I wanted to know the exact name that I was iconing as well.    Number icons is really the biggest thing along with what is next to it which tells me if I’ve uploaded those icons to tumblr yet.  The mega download really has nothing to do with iconing but everything to do with gifing and the fact that I’m slowly trying to get every single episode downloaded to my new external harddrive.

So this is what it looks like.  Here are two examples.  If I type in anything below 100 icons done?  It stays soft red (unless there is 90/99. I’ll show you the coloring for that in a second).  So make my icons via a batch system that is partly styled by @/glitchkingdesign   (who was so kind to like help me find a style that works and was like my friendly cheerleader.  I adore their work and like I will constantly rec them on here because I am a fan).   There is nothing like typing in over 100 in this and watching it go from soft red to soft green.

At the base when I started this every icon spot went straight to 0.  So even if I had some icons made for it,  it would be a solid 0 until the template was finished and I went back in to change things.

So if you see this I have 90 icons there.  This means I should at a later date try and go back to this episode and squeeze out a few more icons.  This likely means doing some aestheticy icons.  So faceless / half face icons are a must.  Now I already know that at least ONE episode of season one is going to likely not make the cut of 100 icons.  Then there is the fact that I know one episode I’m gonna be cutting out half the icons because I don’t want to color correct so I need to figure out how I’m going to mark those on my sheet.

So this piece has nothing to do with iconing but that yes at the end is more for my gifing section.  I love making gif sets but quality wise? The episode file itself is the way to go for the best qaulity  (thanks my fansite source blog helper group for teaching me this one)

Okay so now I have another section color change for anything not in an episode.  So you might be going “She’s not in this episode just the twins. How do I mark that?”  here is how.  I put not in episode.  This changes to a soft yellow/orange color.

When I update an icon page?  the sheet needs to be updated.  I go ahead and go from n/a to updated.  n/a makes it a soft red color while updated makes it a soft green.  With tumblr being a pain it makes me not want to update pages as fast as I make icons.  I’m sure later when I have a lot to do?  I will regret not doing it by icon update but for now I’m fine with what I have going on.

This section was a struggle and had to be adjusted so many times as I had no idea how make it do what I wanted accurately.    (  my one class of technology in school didn’t help me at all ).  I finally figured out the code that would help me get it.  So first thing first was I had to have it say ALL SEASONS first so that way the code wouldn’t mess up.  So the first thing I see total wise is how many icons I have in total on my laptop.  I then have a code for each season’s worth of information icon wise.  This all updates by itself when I change a number in the # of icons section. 

This part is also a thing.  I wanted to keep track of exactly how many episodes I’ve iconed,  how many icon episodes I’ve uploaded to tumblr, and how may in total episode wise there are.  This is because I have friends that go “How many episodes have you done so far.” and I don’t feel like counting each soft green in my # of icons section.

This shows you exactly my settings and what it looks like of how I made things turn to a different color when I type a certain thing in.

So I have this little section because I’d love to be able to point people in direction of credits and things.  My screencaps are either from myself or @glitchkingdesign   (a friend of mine).  The coloring psd is tricky.  I can’t tell you exactly which one it is as the file maker didn’t name their psd folder with a number but I can tell you who made it as in link you to their account so you can scroll through psds.  I also thought it was worth noting the border size and the size of my icons as well here.  I can now tell you without opening up one to check that I made it in 85x85 px for the size and the border is a solid white in 2 px wide.

If you want an in depth look at my organization for my laptop / hardrive?  I can gladly show you! I would actually love to do it because I’m a neat freak and love how I have my system set up as a whole.  I find it easy and just exactly what I need for myself.  So like totally feel free to ask if you are a person that likes organization and set up.  I always love seeing how everyone else does their computers because it shows a lot about them in a way. 

So in the span of writing this tutorial I did one single change and did the thing I’ve been wanting to do since I made this.  I now have pretty colors in the middle of it so that every section has the alternating color.    This whole thing makes my brain happy and makes it easier on me to tell someone information they might need to know.

[pcygoldenchild]

Behind the Lens

📷summary: A crush on a boy who you only get to really admire behind a screen. His cute and funny vlogs letting you see more of him than what you do at work. He calls himself a vlogger. You’d call him captivating.

📷genre: fluff//vlogger!byun//alternate reality//

You arrive to work on time like you always did. The quiet café just coming to life when you arrive. It’s still very early in the morning. The sky a mosaic of orange and dark clouds. The air a little thick and the streets still wet from the rain. You liked being up this early. You weren’t a morning person, but being up to watch the rest of the world slowly come to speed was therapeutic. You opened the café every other day. It was something you personally requested and your coworker thought you were insane but willingly gave you some of her mornings.

It was something about the smell of the first batch of coffee or the way the fresh pastries brightened up the shelves. It was quiet and all put together before the morning rush. The place neatly cleaned and chairs pushed in properly before the fault of human error. The warm light and fall weather making the dark wood floor reflect an amber shade throughout the place. It was calming.

But as usual time moves fast when you want nothing but more time. Your coworker coming in an hour later just before the hoard of business men and women come to get their daily dose of caffeine. Another worker coming in and making it feel like an actual business. The routine orders of 5 coffees to the new intern who is always fumbling with the crumpled piece of paper he scribbled the office orders on. The egg and sausage sandwich to the old gentlemen who sits by the window and reads the paper until half past 12, when he leaves to do whatever the world takes him. The stranglers who show up late to class because an iced americano is way more important than an 8am lecture about cell division. It was a routine but it was your routine. The faces you’d see all the time a warm welcome and maybe a friendly story of how their day went after you saw them last.

All that was just usual to you. An opening to your morning in the slow city and fast paced lives of those who inhabit it.

Around your lunch break is when your day gets to be something you never have a set routine for. Sure, you’d eat lunch and read your book or scroll mindlessly on your phone for too long. But there was always the chance that something could happen but you never know when. The chance that the cute barista would say more than a few words in the break room. Or maybe you’d say something to him that consisted more than a ‘busy day right?’

He worked the same hours you did, closing on days you opened. He started the same time you did too as the new recruits for the location. But working together for 5 months didn’t mean you’d know anything about him. He was quiet and to his work. But he wasn’t rude or snobby. He was just to himself. You understood his mannerisms being an introvert yourself. The friendly smiles and quick laughs if you’d bump into each other behind the busy counter. You knew his name. Byun Baekhyun. He told you it with a bright smile your first day as an attempt to make friends. But that was really the only time he’s said anything to anyone.

But you knew more to him. You knew what he was like outside of work. The funny boy who did any and everything he wanted. He was boisterous and creative. A real character to love with his smiles and jokes. He was the same shy boy but when he was out of work it was different. Just him and his camera.

He was a vlogger with his own youtube channel. You found it randomly when watching one of your friends makeup videos. A video about ‘working out/diet/hello’ was a suggestion. You wouldn’t have watched it if his face wasn’t in the thumbnail. It was a shock to you. Unbeknownst, you watched him be himself with the comfort of talking to a camera. His personality showing with every head tilt or silly dance. His channel was pretty popular. 200,000 subscribers with you included.

You watched all his videos. It was routine for you to come home and see the notification on your laptop of a new video from him every week. The short vlogs filled with him and his adventures. One of him working out which you couldn’t help but watch multiple times because it was just that cute. Another one of him hanging with his friends out in the city at a small restaurant where his laughs and silly faces made you smile unintentionally. Or the one where he went to his parents house and played with his adorable corgi. It was a goldmine of content and still so him. So calm and therapeutic to watch and enjoy.

It was time for your lunch break. You looked around but didn’t see Baekhyun so you figured he was already in the break room like he always was before you. You wanted to say something today. You did your hair all nice in the chance that you’d say something that would make him do more than a 2 second shy glance your way.

You walked into the break room and saw him sitting at the table. His laptop in front of him as he focused on whatever he was doing. You went to the fridge and grabbed two yogurts and granola. It’s a routine too to bring him something to eat since he never really does eat on breaks if you wouldn’t remind him to. He’d be too focused on his laptop from beginning to end. But even then a simple thank you and you’re welcome was all you two would exchange. The simple appreciation present in how he’d smile everytime.

You sat down across from him sitting the yougurt and granola down in the center of the table. His eyes peeking up at you from behind the screen.

“Hey.” you said short and simple taking the yogurt and avoiding the eye contact you two were too shy to share.

“Hi.” he said back looking over his laptop to see his yogurt, granola and spoon waiting for him. He pushed the laptop to the side a bit to grab your offering and whispered a ‘thank you’. The comfort of sitting and eating with each other was strange given you two were almost considered strangers.

“So what do you do on that?” you said suddenly nodding to his laptop. But you knew exactly what he would spend his entire break and anytime after that on.

“I edit videos.” he said after a while of looking between the laptop and his yogurt. His response short but laced with a bit of uncertainty. You never told him you knew he had a channel or that you watched.

“What kind of videos?” you ask. The frail attempt to start a conversation for the first time in 5 months. Frail since you knew so much about him already but not from him in person, rather from behind a lens.

“Youtube videos.” he responded. His eyes traveling everywhere but only on you for a second before venturing somewhere else. You wanted to just accept this as an attempt. It seemed painful to him. It was painful to you. This was socially not something you did. You didn’t do anything socially to be honest.

“Cool.” you said back. You continued eating your yogurt and so did he. The scraping of the plastic spoons against the small bowls and the crunch of the granola being the only tangible thing in the room. After a while you wanted to just disappear. It was awkward and you didn’t want that. You felt like you were holding your breath staring directly into your bowl and never leaving there. The creamy concoction looking less appealing as you continued to eat.

“Ever heard of it?” Baekhyun says. You thought for a second he was on the phone or something. But when you peeked up at him he was staring directly at you.

“Heard of what?” you say slowly. You didn’t know why saying that was so hard. It was a simple and reasonable reponse. But you weren’t sure what was happening.

“My channel.” he said with a small smile that appeared and disappeared. You swallowed the yogurt and granola you didn’t finish chewing at the question. Yea you’ve heard of it. You watched it everyday; watching videos over again because the need to watch something was addictive.

“No.” you lie. You say it short and with a small shake of your head before staring at your ugly yougurt. Only now it’s ugly from the lie you have tainted it with.

“Oh.” he said. His reply hurt your heart a bit. It was so short and sounded like a kid who just didn’t get the toy they wanted.

“Well, I probably would. But I don’t watch much youtube. I mostly read and draw.” you say in an effort to keep the conversation going but moreso to let him know that you’re interested. The sentences were fast and you sat up a bit straighter. A sign you were lying about something but he didn’t know your mannerisms.

“That’s cool. It’s not for everyone.” he said smiling and shrugging.

‘No, Baekhyun but it’s for me’

“Well I’d like to check it out if it’s not too awkward.” you say looking at his bowl. His fingers wrapped around the plastic lightly tapping.

“Why would it be awkward?” he asked.

‘I don’t know. Maybe because I’ve seen all your videos already a million times and can’t help but smile.’

“I don’t know. Maybe showing me your youtube channel would make me see you differently.” you say but it was somewhat not what you meant. Of course you’d see him differently. But it sounded negative. Almost like you’d see him as someone he’s not.

“Well you might but I don’t think you’d hate me or anything. It’s just me outside of work.” he said shrugging and pushing his bowl aside. He grabbed his laptop and tapped some keys fast. The next minute he’s turning the laptop to face you and the home page of his channel greets you. The ever so familiar maroon layout with his adorable picture as his icon. The list of videos you’ve all seen with a video that’s privated. A new video must be ready. You involuntarily smile.

“What?” he asks rather incredulously. Your smile falls instantly as you look at his unsure gaze go from the screen to your face. Unsure of what to do, you just shake your head a little.

“Nothing. It’s just cute.” you say and instantly regret it. The smile that falls on his face at your comment makes him sit up straight and jerk his head to the side.

“Cute.” he says. Your face is as hot as the pastries in the oven. You didn’t mean to say it was cute but there was no other word to say. Familiar. Nothing new. Those would work if you told the truth.

“Yea...I’ll check it out when I get home.” you say getting up from the table grabbing both of your bowls. He nods in affirmation with his lips set in straight line to hide his boyish grin. His boyish grin at you.

“I recommend the vlog where I visit my family and my dog. Everyone thinks it’s the ‘cutest’.” he says turning his laptop back around.

‘It is the cutest.’

“Will do.” you say walking away to trash your bowls and rush back to work 20 minutes before your break is over.

“Text me what you think, yea?” he called to you. You looked back at him staring at you with a small smile and raised eyebrows. This was as much as you’d gotten with him. More than 5 months worth of working with him. And now he wanted talk to you more.

“Yea, definitely.” you smile back.