#the edits blog has a queue set up through may i think

[hawkinslibrary]

so many gifs. so. many.

[dreamingofmuses]

New Year's Resolutions: RP Edition

Howdy all, Ash here. I've been having a think while with family this week, and I've decided I'm going to implement some new 'resolutions' to try and help make writing in 2024 be way more successful than in 2023. This will include things from the running of blogs to jobs I really want to get finished. I'm putting them under a read-more to keep the dash nice and clean.

I will say, this has taken me an hour to write up, and I'd recommend you doing likewise if you think there's little ways you want to improve.

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Overall Running of Blogs

I'm going to experiment a new approach to running the blogs. For this, I'm going to put all active blogs to low-medium activity. In other words, even if I am personally lurking on mobile, I won't be constantly writing things if I'm not able to. (Work is just about to get super busy and I'm anticipating chaos)

A queue/schedule function will be used for all blogs. I intend to dedicate one weekday evening to working without interruption on replies. Taking commutes to the city and family visits into account, this is looking to be a Thursday, which is the only day I am neither travelling to the city nor have a guaranteed family visit. Of course, this may fluctuate, but that's what I'm hoping to work with, assuming those things stay as they are.

However! What all this means is that I am going to tentatively take skullandbowties off hiatus. With that blog being quiet, it should be possible to juggle it better now. Plus, it's officially off-season so the demand for him from new blogs ought to be low. I'm very smart :D

I also plan to update all pinned posts. I am aware some of them are marking a vacation from months ago.

Individual Blog Maintenance

Create "New Here?" posts to add to the pinned posts/info tags. This is going to be a very quick crash course on what to expect from the blog, especially where some characters might diverge from fanon expectations.

FINISH. WILF'S. BIO. It's not actually relevant to anything being written on the blog itself at present, but I really want to flesh out his character and show that he was stuck in stories for years, decades even! The doc has the word count to 4,888 at this precise moment. This is a mix of summary and brainstorm. Since it's getting a 'little' out of hand, I intend to have a 'tldr' at the start that people can read, and then longer versions if they're curious to get the full story. Maybe even have it that they can jump to particular parts but... I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.

Likewise, Noah's version of Space needs to be finished. This one is going to be a summary, but it's a case of making sure the pieces are in place sufficiently to have parts match canon Space, but also make it clear that there is a lot of differences between canon and what he went through, with his plot entirely spiralling away for 'Part 2'. This is at 5,794 words, and the ending has yet to be ironed out...

(I am going to stop creating needlessly long-winded projects for myself that realistically add nothing of value to my blogs. These two projects are exhausting...)

Theauthorlives is returning to a very small multimuse. Any muses that aren't ones I genuinely enjoy writing are being fully archived, unless they are muses that get no traction but I want to keep the possibility open. Details of that will be shared when I do this.

Redo some muse icons (not all of them!). Though the selection I have for particular sets is a lot, I still feel like I'm missing some expressions or poses. I would like to remake one batch of icons for three characters, and finish iconning a third. Replies seem to be shifting toward iconless, but I like them for asks or IC commentaries.

OOC/Mun Related stuff

Following matters that have happened both online and IRL, I've decided to take a step back from actively engaging with people. My focus will be people that I have been in good communication with for the last twelve months (as well as people I don't talk to frequently but am on friendly terms with) rather than people I feel I have to 'chase' after. Saying that, I'm going to try and not let past experiences meddle with anything in with new writing partners - whether these are brand new to the community or people I've not had the chance to properly interact with prior to this. Just be aware that I might not be super outgoing at first. (This is where setting limits and boundaries is good practice, everyone! Don't sell yourself short, and don't spread yourself out too thinly!)

Which is where I now say I want to send even more asks! Not just memes or sentence starters, but general questions about headcanons or muse opinions. I want to get people thinking more.

My stance on Discord still stands, in that it's solely for OOC stuff, but I'm not giving it out to everyone. However, I have been in two group servers that have little-to-no connection with writing rp threads in them. I would hope that I can fully regain my sense of comfort using Discord as a whole.

Art related

Despite socially stepping back, I still want to keep some semblance of 'community' where my blogs are active so people don't feel isolated. For instance, I want to do something that encourages invasions of ask boxes. That was good fun to watch as the chaos began to spread, and when people are good-humoured to go along with my silly ideas.

I want to have one huge art-related event at some point this year. I'm not entirely what or how to do it, but I think it would be a great excuse to practice something. Portraits, comics, something like that. I'll have a think. (For those who remember, the water gun event was supposed to have an art conclusion but plans for that fell through.)

I want to try and upload drawn responses to heythereneighbor once a week if I can. Obviously, this is depending on how busy it is.

I'd also like to try doodling more on other blogs? But I'm not sure if this is even something people want to see anymore. People might prefer I focus on writing if I have free time instead of doodles or little comics.

... the writing blog. I need to do stuff with that in general. Whoops.

Finally, I want to do what I can to the best of my abilities on a particular day. I've always told people over the years that real life comes before rp, and I still stand by that. Whether I'm around or not every day isn't the end of the world. The communities I write in are a lot slower paced than they were when I started, which is great! I need to remind myself that I don't need to be writing just because I have a bit of free time.

[bi-widower-dads]

F. A. Q.

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What is Barduil Month?

Barduil month is a month-long celebration of the relationship between Bard the Bowman and Thranduil Oropherion from JRR Tolkien and Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit! This will be our second year running this event, originally inspired by the 30 Days of Barduil promptlist from several years back.

When is Barduil Month?

Barduil Month will take place between 1 and 30 April 2024.

How do I participate?

Simply create a fanwork of any kind for Barduil, add it to our AO3 collection, tag us here on Tumblr! This can include art, fic, gifs, edits, playlists, cosplay, crafts - you name it! This year we are running four themed weeks, each with a set of prompts to spark creativity, but you are welcome to submit any fanwork with Barduil as a focus. Be sure to use the tag #barduilmonth2024, and feel free to @ our blog, @bi-widower-dads​ so we can see it and add it to our queue for reblogging.

Do I have to participate every day/week?

Nope! Only participate as much as you are comfortable with. If that means one prompt, some or all of them, any and all participation is very welcome, as are late submissions!

Can I combine prompts?

Absolutely! You can create one work per prompt, one work that hits several prompts, one work that hits all of them...it’s up to you!

What if I don’t like the prompts?

While we’ve provided a set of prompts for each week, these are more guidelines than strict rules! If something else inspires you to create fanwork for Barduil, we still would be thrilled to see it!

Can my fanworks feature other ships?

Barduil should be the focus of your work, but if other ships make an appearance, that's absolutely fine.

Can my fanworks feature OCs?

As with ships, the focus of the work should be Barduil! However, the presence of OCs is perfectly acceptable.

Do my fanworks have to be canon-compliant?

Nope! Canon-'verse or any kind of canon divergence, alternate universe, or other change of setting are all very welcome.

Can I contribute a work in progress (WIP)?

Absolutely! Just use the tag #barduilmonth2024 or tag @bi-widower-dads​, and/or post to the AO3 collection.

What if I don’t finish my fanwork in time for the event?

You can submit it as a WIP before the event ends, or else you can continue to use the tags after April 30th! However, the mods may be slower at reblogging once April is over. The AO3 collection will also remain open after the end of April.

How do we view other entries?

We will be reblogging all entries to this blog throughout the event! You can browse by fanwork type (e.g., fic, art) by looking through our tags. We will update this tags list as new ones are found, but for the moment: #art #fic #edit #gif

Why haven’t you reblogged my post?

Posts will be added to the queue once a mod sees them! If your post has a like from any of the mods (@scary-grace, @piyo-13 or @nocompromise-noregrets) it's in our queue. Please allow for up to a few days for it to be reblogged. If you think we might not have seen your post, however, please do drop us an ask or message!

Is there an AO3 collection?

Sure is! Here is a link. If you post fic, art, or other fanwork to AO3, please feel free to add it to the collection! (here is the link to the collection for our two events in 2023!)

Are there any other rules?

Yes.

No bigotry of any kind (racism, homophobia, transphobia, aphobia, ableism, etc.) will be tolerated.

No ship bashing of any kind will be tolerated.

Do not repost content by other creators without their explicit permission. This includes using fanart in graphics without credit and consent from the original artist.

Violation of these rules will result in you being blocked.

I have another question!

Feel free to send an ask to this blog! We mods (@scary-grace, @nocompromise-noregrets​, and @piyo-13​) will do our best to answer questions promptly.

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Thank you to arofili’s Tips for Hosting Fandom Events for giving us an idea of how to create this FAQ!

[searchingmyfeelings]

If You're New To Tumblr & Have No Idea How To Use This Place

(created specifically for phone users)

(and find yourself tumbling around-- aight aight I'll excuse myself--)

When I rejoined Tumblr, I was so confused and scared on how to use this site properly. I was afraid I'd be doing something offensive, or breaking the norm or not respecting the culture here or doing what I'm not supposed to be doing and so on. (I think I'm also breaking the norm by making this guideline fjsjc but please forgive me)

Anyway. Here are some stuff you need to know.

We'll start off with the buttons, then move on to the other feature exclusively available on Tumblr (filtering posts) and then etiquettes (for posting and reblogging etc.)

Buttons

You see that blue pencil button? That's the button for when you wanna make a post. The buttons available once you click on that are pretty intuitive so feel free to explore them by yourself.

Next, the house button. Pretty obvious? Yeah. That's the dashboard button. Posts are usually chronologically shown to you -- but some posts might not appear. We'll get down to that in the etiquettes section.

And then the magnifying glass. That's the 'search' or 'explore' button. There's also a similar tab on your dashboard at the top but you can explore them yourself to get used to them.

Then we have the chat bubble with a smiley. That is the equivalent of DMs here. We don't really call that our inbox here because that is specifically for the ask box. But eh each users could differ. Some users may turn off the chat feature so you might find yourself unable to 'Send A Message' to a user.

And lastly is the person icon. That is your page. You can also access your settings there. You can drag from top to bottom to refresh (works on both dashboard and your page). You'll find these at the top of your page.

If you notice the triangle pointing downwards, that's the option for you to create a side blog. But beware, you are not creating multiple accounts with that feature. Instead, you are just creating another pseudonym and using the place under that pseudonym. When you wanna send an ask or a comment, you will be automatically using your main. (Main is the URL or username, that you chose when you signed up and set up stuff).

The magnifying glass is for users to look up specific posts (either through tags or through keywords) available on your blog page (whether you originally posted it or you reblogged from others).

The icon of three dots connected by two lines is the share button. Press on it if you wanna share or grab the link to your blog page.

And beside it looking like a gear is the settings button. You can optimize stuff yeah. From here on, we shall move to the next 'chapter'.

Other Feature: Tumblr Specialty

There are quite some features that only Tumblr has (which is why I love this place so much tbh). We'll go through them one-by-one.

I will only explain about drafts, queue and inbox.

See, sometimes on Tumblr, you can end up scrolling & reblogging so many things that it may end up spamming our followers/friends on their dashboard. Below are how you can access the three features. Either you press on the three dots or press on the blue button long enough it'll show up as the icons as appeared on the right side.

To avoid spamming others' dash (if it bothers you care about them), you can opt to saving the posts to the Drafts. In there, you can edit the post to add tags or comments that you feel suitable or add-ons or simply to go back to (to read and stuff).

In Queue, you can set up the saved posts (or readily queue them from the dashboard) to a specific frequency and a specific time period. (Or just use Schedule feature if you have a very specific time you want it posted.) Using this will let the post be out there during the set times. Also very useful to make it seem like you never left.

As for inbox, I've nothing much to say. Just that, inbox on Tumblr does not mean instant messages for instant chats etc. It's for asks and submissions (you can liberally enable or disable both). Asks are where people send you stuff and you can respond to it by answering them, either privately or publicly. Heads up though, if you answer it privately you'll never see the ask ever again. (I regret it till this day... Sobs.) Submissions are posts sent to you that when you post it, it becomes a post on its own.

Ay, we move on to my favourite feature now. The tags and filtering.

Scrolling up a little bit upwards, you'll notice I put in a red arrow pointing to 'Content you see'.

The tagging itself will be explained more in the last 'chapter'. Just lemme share how to use this and how useful it is for you so that you curate your online experience on here to the best you can.

Click on the 'Content you see' button. You'll be directed to these two below.

Filtered Tags and Filtered Post Content.

Say for example, like me, you try to avoid 18+ content because you might open this app in public and you don't want to weird out the people around you irl with the sudden passing of sexual pictures as you scroll.

Simple! You can put in the keyword '18+' on BOTH of the options.

You see, filtered tags is to filter out the posts tagged as such and such. Whereas filtered post content is to filter out posts containing the keywords in the post (not placed in the tags).

Don't be afraid of using this. If for example, a user makes you upset and you dont want to see whatever it is they post, you can just put their URL in both sections. You can use this feature for as many keywords as you wish. There's a whole other explanation for Trigger Warnings and stuff, but I'm not good at that so I'll leave it out of this post. (Anyone else seeing this feel free to add on).

Now... that's done and over with. We'll be moving on to the last 'chapter'.

Etiquettes

Fhshcjs okay for real I didn't expect to write this much. I was expecting to give up writing this halfway. But welp. Okay so first things first.

1. Enjoy a post? Content? Artworks? Fanfics? GIFsets? Headcanons? Meta analysis? Stuff in general?

REBLOG. Liking works more as a bookmark and doesn't help with exposure nor algorithm whatsoever. So please. Reblog that content (unless the op, original poster, specifically says not to reblog - sometimes they put it in the tags so check the tags) and help get that post be spread around. This is very helpful for creators to get more exposure!

While reblogging, you can choose to save it into the drafts, quick reblog it or reblog with comments/reactions/add-ons.

Now. When you reblog and you wanna say something, you have two options. Either you add to the thread or you add in the tags. USUALLY, people would leave reactions either in the comments or in the tags as they reblog.

(More of this will be explained in the 'Tagging' part.)

"Wait. So reblogging is better, why's there a like button then?" you may wonder, as I once did.

As I've mentioned, likes can be like bookmarks (you can access posts you've liked in the 'liked' tab on your page). But. In some cases, for eg, when someone you follow is venting or just posting random stuff,...you can op to just liking it. Not every posts are suitable to reblog sometimes. Or like, when you post something and someone dear to you reblogged it, you can like that post to show that, "I see you reblogging my post, I really appreciate it fam". Honestly, this is something you will learn as you use the app more and more often. It's part of the fun Tumblr experience.

2. Donations post Vs Commissions/Tips etc.

There are a lot of donation posts here, but PLEASE be careful. Some of these might be scams. They will show pictures and stuff for evidence but they could be reused photos and so on. It's your money, so it's ultimately up to you what to do with it. But seriously, if you reblog such posts, don't be wary of someone coming into your DMs or askbox telling you the person is possibly a scammer. It is simply for your own safety. They are looking out for you. Basically, I guess you'll have to judge it yourself.

HOWEVER. In contrast to that, you will also see creators posting links to their KoFi, Patreon etc. Reblogging such posts would be very, very much welcomed. As a creator myself, I got some of my first commissions from someone that saw my post being reblogged by other people outside of my following circle. The only thing you should be wary of is if the links are safe, or if the creator doesn't plagiarize and claim what they have as theirs and so on.

3. Tagging

There are a couple of posts out there regarding this feature alone. If anyone makes an add-on, feel free to reblog this with them links.

Anyway.

I've already mentioned part of it in the previous chapter, under the part where I explained about filtering keywords.

It's very, very important that you do NOT censor the words. Don't sugarcoat it. For eg., s3x, rac1sm etc. Because we already have the filtering system! Just use the exact words without the symbols or numbers or whatever way of sugarcoating it.

Hard reminder: DON'T CENSOR THE WORDS.

If you censor it as we the example if gave up there, the post would not appear as filtered for other users. That might become triggering for them or give them an unpleasant experience. Even if you don't care about other users, if you don't want it to happen to you then don't do it upon others.

Wish upon others what you wish upon yourself.

Now. As for general tagging as reactionary tags: Please. You are allowed to be as incoherent as your mind truly is in the tags. You can scream, you can squeal, you can ,,,, yknowwww, just say stuff!!! I'll demonstrate with the tags on this post if you're still not sure. :) ...or just observer how others use it. However, please refrain from being mean in the tags or saying really nasty stuff. Be mindful of the person you're reblogging from or the op who might be triggered by it.

4. Fandom

I am not gonna go too deep into the anti Vs proship topic. Just. Just gonna re-emphasize basic internet etiquettes in this section. Along with a mention of red flags you should be wary of.

- those who tale-tell on others' behaviours whether in asks or DMs, especially as anons. This in turn causes a rift and potentially invokes call-out posts or cancel culture etc. (Not gonna discuss that here)

- they are very lenient with throwing out violent threats or words that sound violent. Or verbal violence. As funny as that sounds... It's not funny and it can be triggering to read. Or cause discomfort to those who read it. There's a distinction between advocating something and threatening others to oblige to whatever they advocate for. Imagine it in real life. Would you follow someone who says they'll do violent things to uphold what's right or would you follow someone who is patient and proactive with their words and actions to uphold what's right?

- suicidebaiters. Just no. People come here on Tumblr as escapism in general. Please don't tolerate this behaviour. Even if it's for the 'greater good', if someone does end up off-ing themselves, that will be on these baiters. Block them on sight if you must. How to block? Oh yeah crap I forgot to show how to block fhsjx

Go to that person's page and press on the 'person icon' and these options will appear.

Bear in mind the block button may not be your best friend, but it is definitely your very good reliable ally. (This doesn't make sense sorry I just really wanted to make a sentence with the phrase fhdj)

And lastly,

- cult-like circles. If they seem controlling, or you feel like you have to screen everything according to their moral compass, leave them. If they monitor everything you do, whom you reblogged from, whom you follow, whose posts you commented on or with whom you've interacted with etc. etc., be wary and be smart: leave them. You don't deserve to feel like you're stepping on eggshells while being here. If one's got a problem with something, they can filter the keyword using the features available on this site.

I believe that is all that I can share. Anyone else feel free to add-on.

Just one final message from me to you guys:

This is a pocket world. Yes, what goes on in here is significant. But you are not obliged to be as serious here as in real life. Be mindful of people and be mindful of your words.

Lastly, welcome to Tumblr. Hope you have a good time while on this hellsite and please don't make it hard for others already on here.

Take care!

[bucksblr]

#showyourprocess

From planning to posting, share your process for making creative content!

To continue supporting content makers, this tag game is meant to show the entire process of making creative content: this can be for any creation.

RULES — When your work is tagged, show the process of its creation from planning to posting, then tag 5 people with a specific link to one of their creative works you��d like to see the process of. Use the tag #showyourprocess so we can find yours!

Thank you so much for tagging me @lan-xichens​, I’ll try my best to explain how I made this set from start to finish hehe ♡ and also a big thank you to @suibianjie​ @highwarlockkareena​ @nyx4​ @aheartfullofjolllly​ and you as well Kris for putting this all together! Content creators get a lot less recognition than they deserve for all the time they put into their content, so getting everyone to see the (sometimes excessive) process we all go through to put our content in our blog, I hope it creates a positive change!! 💖

1. Planning

The set in question was actually requested by someone so they could celebrate their friend’s birthday! At first I wasn’t entirely sure if I was going to be able to finish it on time (college is very hectic right now) but I was able to finish it three days before the deadline which was may 1st! ^-^

The first thing I did was decide what characters I wanted to use in the set, I first reached out to the person who requested the set if there were certain characters they wanted me to use but they said they didn’t know enough to really give me any directives outside of the quote. I decided, since the quote is applicable to the entirety of the show, that I would try to put in as many characters as possible.

Thus, of course, came the hunting for scenes. Those of you in the net discord surely know I came into the content help channel a few times to ask for certain scenes here and there, and eventually I had to download an additional 10 episodes to the back then 20 or so episodes I had in my CQL episodes folder.

As you can see I have 30 random episodes of CQL downloaded (slowly but surely getting to the point where I have all 50 episodes downloaded) and I think I ended up using scenes out of at least 20 of those episodes.

I planned out beforehand what characters I would use per gif. I knew obviously I would start out with Wangxian, them being the main characters of the show, and then would work my way down the list. The second gif consists of Nie Huaisang, Nie Mingjue, Jin Zixuan, Jiang Yanli, Wen Qing, and Wen Ning. They’re all family pairings, two being siblings and one being a married couple. The next gifset consists of the Yi City characters, then the fourth gif consists of the juniors, and the final gif has Jin Guangyao, Mianmian, Jiang Cheng, and Lan Xichen in it.

I have to admit though that when I had made the first four gifs I’d forgotten who I would put in the last gif and the when I thought about it the first time around I could only think of Lan Qiren and the very cursed Yaoyang ship 😭 it was only at dinner time that same day that I remembered I hadn’t put Jiang Cheng in my gifset yet and that’s when I thought of the other characters as well.

I had already made my first two gifs when I went to check Hanyi’s blog for layout inspo and eventually I decided I wanted to try a triangle-ish layout, which I doodled below. I eventually ended up changing the layout of the last gif in the final design. It was also the first time I would work with a triangle-ish layout so I was a bit nervous as I was scared it wasn’t going to work out...

2. Creating

I use Avisynth 2.5 and Adobe Photoshop 2021 (the paid version, unfortunately, I need it for school except I didn’t need it this year but I wanted it so I paid for it with my own money ouch) to make my gifsets! I always start out with trimming down all the scenes I’m going to use into three to five second videos and putting them through Avisynth. This time around I did it separately for each gif I made, simply because I needed so many scenes. I would include a screenshot of my “gif vids” and “temp” folders but I’ve already deleted all the videos, which is what I usually do immediately after a set is posted.

I’ll try my best explaining this gif by gif since each one had a different layout!

2.1 Wangxian

I think I had up to five different designs of this gif 😭 it started out with the gif on the left originally being more centered and the quote right smack in the center but somehow it felt a bit too... empty? I changed up the design and pulled the gif over to the right and put the two closeups on the left, the exact opposite of the gif I eventually ended up with. I switched things around one more time and saved the gif as you can see it right now, except I didn’t include the lines yet. It was only as I finished up my fourth gif that I decided this gif needed lines as well so I added them ^-^

2.2 Nie Huaisang, Nie Mingjue, Jin Zixuan, Jiang Yanli, Wen Qing, and Wen Ning

I got the inspiration for the font layout on this gif from this Wenzhou post! I hadn’t tried it before and when I did for this gif I was very happy with the way it turned out :D I wanted to portray that life is a pile of good and bad things, as the quote says, in CQL by mirroring these happy scenes side by side with the sad scenes

2.3 Yi CIty

My first time working with the triangle layout!! Putting in the lines and making sure they would line up with the second gif took me the longest of all actually  😭 I think once I got the line on the left in I just copy pasted it and flipped it horizontally so I didn’t have to fiddle around with angling it anymore :’) my original idea was to get a happy Song Lan scene and a sad A-Qing scene, but when I stumbled upon this A-Qing scene in ep38 I just had to put it in there because her smile is so precious 🥺 Xue Yang and Xiao Xingchen in the center are also supposed to be mirrored, with Xue Yang embodying the “bad things” and Xiao Xingchen the “good things” ! I also think the Yi City characters fit this part of the quote very well!!

2.4 The Juniors

Ah yes, the junior quartet!! :D I had this planned out from the very beginning, that I would include happy versus sad juniors in the “vice versa” part of the quote, and I think it worked out quite well! My first idea was to put the “vice versa” completely in the special font and have it typed out over the gifs like I did with the “vice” but as I typed out the “versa” I realized it had one letter too much to be able to do that 😭😭 it took me a while to come up with how I would position the “but” and “versa” and after some moving around I decided to just place them the way I did in the final gif! For the font, I duplicated the “vice” and added a stroke to the duplicate, then I changed the fill setting to 0% so I could slightly drag the duplicate away from the original layer to create the effect that’s in the gif — also, finding a scene in which Jin Ling smiles is really difficult.... he barely even smiles in the scene I ended up using :(

2.5 Jin Guangyao, Mianmian, Jiang Cheng, and Lan Xichen

The final gif!! I feel like this might come a little across as “I promise I didn’t forget these characters” because they’re a very odd quadruplet to put together, but they were the most important characters left to put in the set! I was thinking of putting Nie Mingjue in here together with Jin Guangyao and Lan Xichen, but I did feel he fit more with his brother up in the second gif. Mei @mylastbraincql​ cheered me on making this gif for which I was very grateful :D <3 the layout came to be after I googled “how to evenly split a rectangle in four” because I didn’t want a repeat layout in the set  (*/∇＼*)

2.6 Coloring

For the coloring I pretty much did all of the tweaking on the first gif and then copy pasted all of it onto the second, third, fourth, and fifth gif. This is usually the way I go about my coloring, I will always edit certain gifs if necessary but I don’t think I had to change the coloring much on any of these gifs? Maybe I added in a curve layer here and there, but nothing major! This is really one of my preferred coloring styles, even though I try to step outside of my comfort zones with other sets ^-^

3. Posting

I will always upload sets into my drafts and edit the caption in there as well, clicking on “preview post” a couple times to check everything looks good on my blog as well, before I post a set. However, this time, since there was a deadline and I finished before the deadline, I put this set in the queue so it would automatically post on the 1st of may! Knowing myself, I would’ve forgotten to do so </3

Whew that was... a lot 😭 did it make any sense? Probably not, but it was fun to ramble （ ´∀｀）

I’ll tag

@blinkplnk​ with this set !

@wuxien​ with this set !

@wendashanren​ with this set !

@wanyinxichen​ with this set !

@yibobibo​ with this set !

@mylastbraincql​ with this set !

@sugarbabywenkexing​ with this set !

@yiling-recesses​ with this set !

@jiancheng​ with this set !

Please feel totally free to ignore this if you’ve already been tagged and don’t want to do it again!! <3

[blouisparadise]

lol i don’t know if this makes sense but have you guys ever considered doing like a vlog/daily doing the blp duties ?? not necessarily showing your faces or anything, but like screen time or how you guys do what you do?? or maybe just a blog post?? i’m just so curious as to what you guys do and your jobs for the blog and how everything is so organized and fic finding and i’m SO curious. totally get if you guys don’t want to though, it’s just me being so fucking invested in how you guys are so amazing and how flawless this blog runs!!

Unfortunately, we don’t have time for that because running this blog and running the BLFF (for the admins) takes up a lot of our time, but we can give you a quick rundown of how things work!

As of right now, BLP has two admins and six members, all of which can be found on our member's page. One admin does the categorized fic rec lists, sets up the queue, helps answer the asks, finds content for the blog, and runs the Twitter account. The other admin answers the asks, does the monthly roundup fic recs, and helps find content for the blog. The members all help find content for the blog, help find lost fics that the admins don’t recognize, and occasionally contribute fics to rec lists. All of the Tumblr members are in a WhatsApp group chat together so we can consult each other when needed.

BLP runs on a queue that posts 14 regular posts per day. Throughout the week, all the members and admins add content to the drafts, and usually during the weekend, the admin who does the queue will go through that content and put it into the queue. The goal of the queue is to have a good variety of older posts and newer posts, photos, gifs, edits, fan art, fic recs, and anything else that we feel is relevant to the blog, so that’s what the admin keeps in mind when setting it up with the content everyone has found.

We also schedule 4-6 asks to go up during the day, usually two at a time so we can avoid spamming the blog with asks. Because we schedule asks rather than posting them immediately and because it sometimes takes us time to find a fic or an answer for someone, it can take up to a week for us to post an answer. Asks are also scheduled during the weekend when the queue is set up.

When it comes to fic recs, with the category lists, we have a schedule that has been set ahead of time (and can be found here). Since there are so many of those rec lists (3-6 a month, generally), the admin responsible tries to do them as much in advance as possible and will update them right before they go up with any newly added fics, but that doesn’t always work out, so sometimes the rec lists are done a day or two before they go up. Generally, we use our fic rec lists and AO3 tags to complete a rec list, and if that isn’t sufficient to find a good number of fics from a variety of authors, we will consult other members to see if they can think of any other fics to add to that specific list.

With the monthly roundup lists, just before the end of the month, the admin responsible goes through the bottom Louis and omega Louis tag on AO3 to find the BL fics that were posted that month. We also consult the WhatsApp group chat to see if our members know of any fics that we may have missed, particularly any they know of that weren’t tagged as BL since it can be harder to track those down and add them to the list.

For the most part, that’s how the blog is run! We hope that answers some of your questions, but feel free to let us know if you have any others.

- BLP 🍑

[hula-zombie]

→ Incoming Story!

Sometimes I think I have to tell myself, you don’t want to do this, then to want to do something... because, that’s how it goes. Once again, I’m flip flopping.

I had initially miscounted days, and had the option to queue up another day of Stevie or... something else. I ended up rolling with the something else. It’s almost like this is a fully functional blog again. SO, my Berry Pastel Rainbowcy is beginning tomorrow and will run through the weekend. Right now, I’m thinking that this will alternate with Bea’s story- so more story heavy, dialogue driven content on the weekends and then gameplay during the week.

[more feelings and such below the cut!]

If you’re been here long enough, you may remember this story and these characters. They are very near and dear to my heart, and characters that still live very much in my mind. Their story has never really ended, I’ve just mostly let them occupy my mind and thoughts now for years (yes, years i’m still askfasfas)... and sometimes, they manage to make their way out.

I’ve been rewriting their story, rebuilding characters that I didn’t quite give the love or time to before- and what’s come from it is a nearly new story. The names are the same BUT the story is different. 

And so, I’m going to be opening back up their chapter. Finally. The first generation is plotted. It’s almost entirely written- it’s just the building, posing, editing, etc. that will take the time, so I’m hoping that this can be slow and steady, and setting it up for bi-weekly on the weekends feels right, at least for now.

This isn’t going to be a linear story, so it will jump around. There may be some adult themes, so tags will be used for triggers and content warnings will be shared when able. 

I’ll be starting with some characters moodboard as an intro. If you wanna get a sneak peek:

Story Page | Lore & Family | Soundtrack | Pinterest

Something new this time around is theming for each generation. Honestly, this is just a broad vibe/feeling/mood for what the story will be. If you’ve read this far, I’ll leave one more spoiler although you can find more if you take a look around.

Gen 1: Halcyon Gen 2: Tempest Gen 3: Serenity Gen 4: Melancholia 

More about these themes later~ 💜

[punk-rapunzel]

What is Punk Rapunzel dot Tumblr dot com?

About

Hi, welcome to my little chunk of Hell <3 You can call me AVA. I've been on tumblr since at least 2013, and have been privy to its terrible ups and downs. I saw the Mishapocalypse, DashCon, the Skeleton Wars, the great Oncelering, and even was witness to the rise, and shameful fall, of John Green. Somehow, this has yet to kill me.

In tumblr's most recent eras, we've been seeing a new dawn of internet historians setting up their shops here, such as @heritageposts, @bad1dimagines, and many more dutiful, long suffering folks archiving the horrible history of our favorite internet cesspool. Recently, a YouTuber called izzzyzzz uploaded a video called "The Rise and Fall Of 'Common White Girl" (which I highly recommend) about a time period around 2010-2012, when being 'basic' was as much of an identity as being alternative.

In it, she featured images of infamous Rapunzel edits. I think there's something weirdly, grimly fantastic about this former phenomenon. Almost gruesome. I'd like to take the time to archive the absolute slew of these, oftentimes highly pixelated, poorly edited photos, give them proper names, and address the environment that bore them.

FAQ

Q: What is the purpose of this blog?

A: I think this is a really fascinating era of internet history. It took the internet by storm on websites dominated by tweens, typically from the ages of 11-15 (at the oldest), here included. It is, first of all, a huge creative undertaking these fans were taking on, churning out not just countless works of art of varying skill levels, but also fic, headcanons, video edits, and using these platforms and shared interest in punk/modern/hipster edits of Rapunzel (and other 3D cartoon characters) to build entire communities and lasting friendships. I want to dissect the culture of both this movement, and the surrounding world that created it, and find out why it existed. I want to represent it fully, but also fairly, and am hoping to find former fans to interview!

Q: Why do you think this happened?

A: My current theory, which was initially proposed by izzzyzzz, and supported by friend of the blog @the-shark-is-a-mammal is that 'rebel disney' has a lot to do with young teens worrying their interests are too immature, and feeling that by edgy-fying it, it will make their peers, parents, or maybe even themselves embrace it as more 'adultlike.' Also, if you're young, maybe making your favorite Disney characters feel alternative is a safe way to express rebellion or fashion choices you don't feel comfortable enough to preform. I additionally believe that there is some kind of insecurity wrapped up in all this. Maybe not for everyone, but it is why I'm choosing to showcase the 'hybrids' on this blog, as it seems that using conventionally attractive princesses to live vicariously through may be a form of coping.

Q: The waht

A: Hybrids. It's when you take the face of a cartoon character, and photoshop it onto a human's body. I hope that helps :)

Q: This is clearly deeper than just 'punk Rapunzels.' What else is in store?

I'd like to cover the Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragon craze. I do think this is when rebel disney became something else entirely. I hope to reflect this transformation on my blog, and it is kind of reflected in my queue. Though initially teens were just making Disney characters edgier, and projecting on them, which eventually led to the hybrids, something changed between 2010 and 2012. At this point Tangled (2010), Brave (2012), How to Train Your Dragon (2010), and Rise of the Guardians (2012) were all out, and the now high school age fans who watched Tangled and HTTYD initially and now loved the two new editions, wanted these characters they'd fallen in love with to all hang out.

The nature of the fandom went from edits to hypotheticals, and also took on different tones. Punk Rapunzel wasn't just a cool image anymore, she was basically your cool wattpad OC you could ship with Emo Jack Frost, or Nerd Hiccup, or Jock Merida. These characters took on a life of their own, as a sort of friend group you could insert yourself in, and it changed a lot of what became of these communities, and made them grow exponentially.

Q: Is this long-ass post going to be pinned forever?

A: Nope! As I make this blog presentable, each section of this will be put into a mobile accessible separate tab! So don't worry, this monstrosity is only temporary.

Schedule

Everyday, you will be getting two edited photos. Typically, Rapunzel is the main focus, as she is the most plentiful princess to find edits of, but certain days I will try feature more obscure materials. Currently, Saturdays will showcase Frozen and Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragon content, Mondays showcase classic Disney characters like Snow White/Cinderella/Sleeping Beauty/Ariel, though I am still trying to work out orders and maximum efficiency, as a new blog.

I am just now beginning to roll out the hybrids.

I will soon be eagerly discussing the history of this trend, as well as running hypothesis on how and why this happened.

In the near future, I will be covering linked events, such as the aforementioned Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons, Elsa Frost, the various AUs and theories, and more after I gather some sources!

[steveramsdale]

10.11 MyLastEverBlog(?)Blog?

Think back to November or December in 2015. You’d never heard of Tashkent and your Saturday mornings were your own. If you had heard of Tashkent, you probably knew little about it and could not imagine what daily life there might be like. Those things were about to change. I was about to find out about daily like in Tashkent and, through me, so were you. I think I’ve said before, I didn’t expect to be writing a blog every week. I didn’t think anyone would be interested in reading such a document. But here we are. It is not ending how I expected, this year has not turned out in a way anyone expected. This will be, almost certainly (!!!) my last Saturday as a economic migrant in Uzbekistan. So, find a comfortable seat. Grab your favourite Saturday morning beverage. Settle for the final edition of the blog no-one needed! Therefore, this is (almost certainly) the last blog from Teaching on the Naughty Steppe. By the way, that blog title is made of the five best words I have ever written, probably the only good, clever, interesting words over the four and a half years. Anyway, you will be getting back your Saturday mornings, so start planning for what that freedom could mean to you.

On Saturday, I went out for tea, back with Wendy, Malek and Maya, and it was hot. Just as I arrived back at NBU, the theme of the week emerged - The Ticket Crisis. I received at text message telling me that my flight on 1st July had been cancelled. It advised that I could change the ticket. This was in the context of news that Turkish Airlines had not been given permission to resume operations to and from Tashkent. There was also news of additional repatriation flights operated by Uzbekistan Airways to various locations, including Istanbul. I tried using my phone to re-book the ticket. I tried using a laptop at Wendy’s house. I kept getting an error message at the same stage. I downloaded the Turkish app. It worked. I was able to rebook for the 2nd July and was able to relax and enjoy the evening (for a while). Various colleagues said ‘hi’ as they left the compound and when a group of three returned, they came into the garden. They came to let us know that they had just been to the main office of Uzbekistan Airways as they had been told that the last 5 tickets out of the city were available. They had bought them for a flight the next day. They had all sorts of rumours available to share. There would be a few more flights but commercial flights were shut down until August. The whole of Central Asia was shutting down until October (because a Kazakh government minister contracted the virus). There were, however, more tickets on the flight than the five they had told me about. It was a wild ride. I had my tickets. There were three more days of school. I had things I needed to do. I was sceptical about the stories. That was not the end, however.

On Sunday, I had my last Russian lesson(?). I had managed to ‘sell’ most of my spare Uzbek currency via UK bank transfers, which was good. Then I realized I owed for one Russian lesson and had this last one so I didn’t now have enough money - maybe. I can use a Visa card if I really have to.

On Sunday morning, I got another text message about the flight. At first I thought it was another cancellation and thought: ‘Is this going to keep happening for the rest of my life?’. It was, in fact, just a change -10 minutes earlier. By about 10:30am on Sunday, I was organised to such an extent that I could have been out of the flat, on my way to an airport, in m 15 minutes. This was my intended state of readiness for the next 11 days or so.

I made my last ever bus journey. Early Monday I walked to school - or I set off walking. I saw a couple of almost empty buses go past and decided I should take one last ride. Early adopters of the blog will remember our fun getting on different buses when we first came to Tashkent. It was the 24, fittingly.

By the end of Monday afternoon, the classroom was almost packed up. I would go in again on Wednesday for a final check - but it was almost the end. On Monday I also received another text message about the flight - again just a ten minute change to the the departure - the second flight this time.

Tuesday morning saw no changes to my ticket. Unusual times. Discussions were still ongoing in the message group. I was, once more, working from home. Between lessons, I decided to go and get some different drinks, via the bin to Ben’s little shop. I went downstairs and got to the corner, only to realise I had forgotten a face mask. I went back and got one. When I got back to the exact same point, I noticed something strange in the rubbish bag. It was a kitchen knife. I stopped and thought about going back again. I could not bear the thought of that. I put the knife in my little bag and went down to the bins. As I headed towards the shop, I thought about the fact that they sometimes check bags. I did not want to try to explain why I was carrying a knife, so I went home!

Wednesday morning saw the arrival of an email saying that Turkish Airlines resumption of flights had not, in fact, yet received official Uzbek government approval. So, the date of 2nd July was still ‘up in the air’. I genuinely apologise for that phrase. Would I be flying on the following Thursday?

All of this uncertainly (keep reading) may mean, there may need to be at least one more blog to resolve this part of the story. I cannot tell you that I will definitely not be here next Saturday. I think you might want to know how (and even if) this ends! Anyway, if I’m going to suffer, you can, too.

Here’s a strange little story to change the mood for a moment. As I was drifting off to sleep on Tuesday evening, I thought about someone and decided I would ask Mairi, the next day, if she had heard from this person. I was awake in the middle of the night and knew that I would not be getting straight back to sleep. So, I got up and checked my messages and there was a message from this person. I know that is a coincidence, but still slightly cool and spooky.

Wednesday was our last day. I saw one of my students in person as she came to return her iPad and collect her belongings. That was really nice. She was the only one I saw. It was a very strange end to then year but I think it was ‘easier’ for me that a proper end would have been.

A few staff arranged to have a get-together on Wednesday evening and I decided to go. It was not too far from me so I walked round and it was very pleasant. I made this note - ‘The girl selling tissues who took the money but didn’t give the tissues.’ It was Mark who was persuaded to buy them. I think she just forgot to hand them over, but it was funny. I then saw her again later as I walked home . She was walking along counting her money.

On Thursday I had my flat inspection, a ‘hospital appointment’ my telephone with my consultant and an interview with a supply agency.

Friday was also an unexpectedly busy/exciting day. The next flight chaos arrived. A message saying my flight from Tashkent to Istanbul had been cancelled. It was time to see if the Uzbek repatriation flights were on. As I set off, Dave got in touch and I told him to join me. It was quite early, but there was already quite a gathering outside the office. I won’t say queue because this is Tashkent. I stood at the back of the scrum. A man asked me if I needed help. I said I was here for a ticket to England. He said I could go straight in. I was unsure, but others waved me forward. I was allowed in and soon after, Dave arrived. Within about 20 minutes, we both had tickets to Istanbul and a reasonable price. Now to check the UK leg.

When I got home, I called Turkish airlines. The app was not letting me do anything. I explained the situation and said that I now had an alternative flight to Istanbul. I wanted to know if I could still use the Manchester ticket. He said I could not. After some back and forth, he told me I could cancel the whole ticket and book a new flight. He told me about the one at 13:40, I pointed out that I knew about that flight as I HAD A TICKET FOR IT. We cancelled and re-booked. He also told me I could only arrange a refund via email. I sent the email. I also filled in a claim on the website. A little while later, a call came to my phone from an Uzbek number. It was a woman ringing to give me a number to call to claim my refund. I wrote the number down and then called it. I got in to a hold queue and decided not to wait. When I looked at the number of the incoming call it was the same as the one the woman had given me. So she called to give me the number she was calling from for me to call to get the refund! A little while later, someone else called and they sorted the refund. The outstanding one from Emirates is still outstanding. But, I (hopefully) have a route home with only 24 hours at Istanbul airport.

My final activity on Friday was to meet two wonderful people at Ecorn. We made a video call to Mairi, too, so she was ‘there’ as well.

The government here is trying to encourage people to continue to be vigilant and sensible. They have sent out police and national guards to check hygiene methods are being observed at shops and markets. Also, the cars making announcements are back out.

And that is my last week (probably). It has been quite a ride. By next Saturday, I should be home home! I will let you know either way! Good Bye.

[manjuhitorie]

Hitorie’s unreleased concert recordings, are coming out on wowaka’s birthday

https://www.hitorie.jp/Loveless_IKI/

Hitorie’s full length DVDs of 2 concerts: The Loveless tour final and the IKI tour final in their full glory! It's region free and the release date is November, NOVEMBER, 4th. wowaka’s birthday.

The cover art has been unveiled, and the details of the bonus items have been divulged! 

The standard edition cover feautures wowaka in ai/SOlate T-shirt twanging his guitar! 

It comes with both concerts and an envelope with a lottery ticket for a chance to win a framed photo. It's cheaper and only comes with the 2 DVDs, the perfect piece! Regular edition DVD: via cdjapan

The limited edition cover features all members basked in laser lights! 

The complete special package comes with both concerts, a new special photobook of unreleased photos by cameraman Nishimaki Taichi, sticker replicas of the staff passes used for both tours, and an envelope with a lottery ticket for a chance to win a framed photo.  It’s also separated into Blu-ray and DVD, so make sure you buy the right one for your gear! DVD limited complete edition: via cdjapan   Blu-ray limited complete edition: via cdjapan Bonus pre-order items!!!

If you preorder from select stores you’ll receive a A2 size poster of the wowaka photo (Tower Records and CDJapan are sure to have it)!

Amazon preorders will include a 5 piece set of concert photo post cards! (Amazon hasn’t prepared a page yet though, I'll link it ASAP).

And preorders from the concert venue booths will nab you a Hitorie-chan themed ticket case. 

The track list is as follows

From Hitorie’s UNKNOWN-TOUR 2018 "Loveless" at EX THEATER ROPPONGI March 25th 2018 01. NAI. 02. Shinya 0-ji 03. Inperfection 04. One Me Two Hearts 05. Nichijou to Chikyuu no Gakubuchi 06. Bathtub and Sleepwalk 07. Eve Stepper 08. Loveless 09. Monocolor 10. Glare 11. Senseless Wonder 12. Unhappy Refrain 13. Social Clock 14. Namid[A]me 15. Talkie Dance 16. Unknown Mother Goose 17. Absolute Encore 1. Dancing Mannequin, Singing Fool Encore 2. Little Cry Baby

AND

From Hitorie’s National Solo Tour 2017 "IKI" at STUDIO COAST May 7th 2017 01. Heart Breath 02. One Me Two Hearts 03. Inperfection 04. Daydreamer(s) 05. Eve Stepper 06. Rularula 07. doppel 08. Lights in the Polar Night 09. Saihate 10. KOTONOHA 11. Hagure no Color 12. 5 Count Hello 13. Dancing Mannequin, Singing Fool 14. Shutter Doll 15. Little Cry Baby 16. Glare Encore 1. Kara no Waremono Encore 2. Senseless Wonder Encore 3. SisterJudy Encore 4. Montage Girl

"The full crowd bouncing around today was the best, I wish I could've shown everybody how crazy you guys looked. Please stick with us through future endeavors to come." After the IKI show in the DVD, ygarshy had said this.

And now.... that chance to see that day's craziness and follow their future is upon us, please do consider purchasing and dancing!!! And thank you for looking... 

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

⚠️~~~⚠️~~~⚠️The rest of this post is unnecessary bonus manju material⚠️~~~⚠️~~~⚠️

I had report on the Loveless final compiled together from way back on March 28th 2019, so I’ll post it here again to give a small taste....!

●The stage lighting for Namid[A]me was apparently breathtaking, they made it look like it was actually raining, ●Yumao used a real gong for Social Clock. ●During Senseless Wonder yg went all the way over to snd’s side of the stage, stuck his body against his, and they played it out together. Then came the encore MC break.

●Yu started cheering himself on, while making flamboyant poses: "Yumaooooo!!  Oooh~!  WOooooOOah *rough voice* !!💪( ＞ω ＜💪)” Crowd: “You’re so cool~!” Yu: “Thank goo~ *Goes to a cutesy voice*” “You’re so cute~!” “Thank goo. Thank you!” SND: “Hey dude, they’re all callin’ ya cute and cool y’know.” Yu: “…(short pause) Thank goooo~~~”

wowaka: (laughing) We’re done, that's all we need for MC ahahaa.

●Leaving members stuck on what to ramble about, they’ve already talked so much throughout the whole tour, what’s left? So wo suggested that they do a re-cap on all those fun boring discussions they’ve had. Omnibus time. 

●Back when the Japan was collectively swept off their feet by the Olympic ice skater Yuzuru Hanyu-kun and his performance, wo had also praised him during MC.  Yet just thinking about him puts pressure on Yumao, it inspired Yumao to do his best. And as the next song on Rie’s set list was the inspirational Memai, he concentrated so hard, poured himself in and played super neatly, “Oh shit oh no oh shit, Hanyu-kun makes me nervous.” Yumao explained. 

●During the span of the tour SND fell off the stage way more then once... SND: “The skin on my back peeled off once too.” Yu “Eeeh?!” SND “Saying it peeeled all the way off is an overstatement but..” ”Well then the scab ripped off.” “Seriously?!” “But it healed nicely.” “Ahh” “After that, in Niigata, when I went to brandish my guitar up with a “pwooosh” towards the roof, it went bonking into my forehead.” ●SND’s middle finger had also stopped moving, (nerve palsy maybe??) During Talkie Dance there’s the “piropiropiro” where a “pero, pero” bit comes in between (Queue SND and Yuma singing the riff together), which is very straining. He has to press his fingers against the strings one by one to play it, he was scared but nonetheless. So Yuma watched him at the piropero part wondering “Oh no oh no is it gonna move? Is it moving today??””

When it came down to it his middle finger moved for him so thank goodness... (Manju comment: SND is this karma for all the times you gave the crowd the middle finger when they cheered your name,,, or flipped off girls who waved at you, or giving wo the middle finger a lot? God I love you)

●Yumao “Also ygarshy laughed ONCE!” “There was the one time I was talking nonstop (queue SND and Yumao making “blaghblergh” noises together to imitate him). When yga let out a chuckle, which made me super proud in front of everyone… I went Wahooo!!! but turns out it wasn��t because my story was funny or anything.  It was because yga was off on his own! Testing how many candies he could eat before we would shut up!” SND: “Did you chuckle because you finished the third candy?” yg: “Uhhh” SND: “Well tell us about it.” wowaka: “Is this the first time he’s talking?” yga: “See, I always think our encore MCs are… long. So I feel like having some candy. I was originally worried I wouldn’t be able to finish eating one in time, the song would start and turn into a problem, but.... it turned out that day’s had become the longest MC yet. I lost my inner bet, damn it, I thought. You guys really can talk. Three whole candies worth of talk! So I laughed, and Yumao thought I was laughing at hims story”

Yu: “Yeah yeah!! Honestly the story I had been telling didn’t have a punchline, so I just used your laugh as an escape.”

SND “Foolish” Yu “Yep” wowaka “Well that day the most” Crowd “laughing” Yumao “...Thank goo~ (laughing)” (Yumao you never have a punchline I swear to God I love you too)

●wowaka talked about the story from back when he used to be so so scared of standing in front of people. In middle school his teacher chose him to represent his class in the English speaking competition, yet he was so afraid that he just, went out to the podium crying hysterically. “I can’t talk English in front of everyone waghhh....”

But now he’s able to do >this<. He’s become such an adult. 

SND “I bet there wasn’t even as many people at the competition as there is people here today, haha and you’re able to even talk naturally here, eh, look at you.”

Yu: “Ahh even SND’s such a big boy now~.” SND: “Well we all have.” ●They announced the next nexUs tour at the Loveless tour final. “We just love doing shows” 

●Also Pre- Little Cry Baby emotional speech from wowaka.   “In living we find cool things and sparkling things, yet there’s moments when we betray those things, we worry if ahhh was I wrong with that, there’s so much of this, in actuality that’s all I do, yet still we’re made out of things we can’t throw away, that’s what I think, what is it! Like those sorta texture that have a paint dried over them, like things that are just superficial just… Those are things that I have NO FUCKING  interest in! Like it’s that, c’mON, with music, people are just humans!! trying to be, they’re trying to do what they can do! I have interest in things that only humans can do, some things that can even surpass human, and that’s what fuels me to do music. As long as you follow me, I feel like ,, I could go anywhere!!!!! thank you always, thank you for making me!! Thank you for being here!!!”

This was also the showing they used during the Memorial Service on June 1st… STAFF WE ARE GOING TO CRY “Thank you we were Hitorie, let’s definitely! *through deep breaths* definitely! Meet again!”

Also some from IKI

●wowaka’s mother came to this show.... As divulged in this interview. THE ORAL CIGARETTES had sent Rie flowers in celebration of the event, which were on display at the venue.... Shiohigari SND’s good friend went, also the Synth player of the band “the telephones” who took the picture that’s featured on this blog) went also! ●Before Shutter Doll Yumao did his signature, Yumao! Yumao! Yumao! cheer on rhythm with the familiar intro, but with “Final! Final! instead. Along with We’re ●Hagure no Color had snazzy band introductions molded in between it. ●wowaka had actually cried during Little Cry Baby..... It really is a song that’s so important to him.... I’m anxious to see the video... ●MC: One was wowaka talking about how thankful he is for everyone and everything about this IKI tour. wowaka “I don’t want it to to enddd!” SND “We’re been on this tour for 4 months, it’s been a long time though, it’s amazing, it’s a new record for us.” wowaka “Now what am I going to do with myself tomorrow.“ SND “Go back to our dark dark life...” wo “Why”

SND “You guys had been waiting outside all this time, how was it, was it cold, are you okay? Further crowd: “We were okay-! Closer crowed “(less voices) We were okay.” SND “So you guys were okay and you were cold, okay (laughing). Well if you were cold, then see this sweatshirt Leader is wearing.. please wear one too That thing is perf.  Crowd: “Woooah!!” SND: “Why the fuck ‘Woah.’ Even if you said you’re okay then still go buy one alright. Thanks..”

[duelcafe]

Are aesthetics important to you? If they are, why?

THE BE HONEST MEME.  ACCEPTING!

Yes and no!  Aesthetics aren’t a necessity to me and it’s not something I look for on other role-play blogs.  Whether someone uses aesthetics is not some secret criteria I hold in order for me to follow them.  There’s lots of good reasons for why people decide not to use that type of character content too, after all.  I think both choices are valid, whatever someone’s reasons may be to use or not use them.

For my blogs personally, though, I do actively use / reblog aesthetics!  You know how people create Pinterest boards?  I sort of  do the same, only on a Tumblr sideblog, and each one of my characters gets their own individual aesthetic account ( giving my attention to more than one website just isn’t ideal for me and I don’t really feel inclined to learn how to use Pinterest honestly. )  In part of why though, I use it for writing inspiration!  It has a hand in generating ideas, helps me visualize aspects of my characters ( such as their wardrobe / prompt me to find inspiration for outfits that are specific to an event, places of interest or importance, foods they like or can make, etc ), and more.

Plus having a sideblog for it is great for keeping my likes neat and tidy, because I can’t stand having anything but questions I send others, things I support posted by my mutuals, or other similarly related items in my likes.  It’s also great to pull from when I need to schedule posts because I can search through it easily, since being hardcore active everyday isn’t a realistic possibility for me.  It makes me feel better about not being able to be online for a day or more because I can always rely on my queue to fill in the void, and as I always have it filled for two weeks or more, I never have to worry about setting it up on a day I am low on spoons.  It’s definitely a comfort thing when it comes to that, though I always try to not let it overtake the majority of my content since I’d rather my writing be what’s seen most.  Otherwise, I just think it’s a way to flesh out a character more — in a visual way!

This also goes for people’s tags, graphics, themes, formatting, etc.  I personally love playing with PhotoShop and coding because it helps my anxiety to focus on creating stuff or editing a theme / page, but is anything of the sort needed or something people have to do?  Not at all. 

[saeitoshi]

update post

hello! this has been long overdue i think. or not. idk. maybe everyone’s left this broken website by now LOL but to those who still stick around with my mess of a blog, thank you 🤧 ❤️

1. Am I still on Tumblr?

the obvious answer is yes. i still queue and reblog posts daily, that hasn’t changed a bit

to my long-time followers, you may (or may not lolol) have noticed that i don’t make any more random text posts. that’s because i’m screaming on twitter nowadays to avoid flooding people’s dash. feel free to follow me there if you have an account! @ mutuals here i’ll also follow back on twitter, just let me know if i end up not doing so because i easily lose track of notifs psdhfjkwlerf

i’m so sorry if i’ve been missing notifs here, it’s been difficult trying to keep up with them on tumblr for some reason. in fact, i think you can say that i’m more active on twitter than here. but again, still reblogging daily at the very least here and that won’t change any time soon

2. Where have I been?

a lot has happened, life has essentially spiraled downwards and my family have no source of income anymore. my dad lost his job, and he was the only one who had a stable income in our household. so now we’re in the process of moving to a new, smaller house after 20 years of my life spent here (i’m 22, so it hurts a lot to be doing this), and we genuinely have no idea what will happen to us. i’ve made a lot of sacrifices, and the people who know me just know how bad it’s been. i’m still hanging in there though

i have a ko-fi set up if anyone is able to donate, i’d be forever grateful :’) if not, even reblogging this post to spread the word is heavily appreciated ;u; to those who have already donated/reblogged, thank you so much for everything. it means the world to me, truly ❤️

3. Will I still be editing?

short answer: yes. but very reluctantly. the main reason is that many of those who donate have found me through here, and to stop editing entirely feels such a disservice to their kindness

obviously i don’t have much time to edit, but i will try to at the very least if any free time arises. ironically, the time factor isn’t the major issue of me wanting to edit or not, it’s the reposters. you know, the ones who use my edits without permission. you know, when it CLEARLY STATES in the disclaimer of my edits page to always ask for permission. yeah that

at one point, i got told that i shouldn’t be credited for a gif because it was just a scene from an anime, and that they could just ask another person to create the “exact same gif.” cool cool cool good luck trying to recreate the original PS coloring i spent hours on (they won’t be able to, i guarantee it). and if you were capable of getting a gif from another person with their permission, why didn’t you just do that in the first place? #logic

but again, i’ll keep on editing for those who deserve it. just knowing that even one person enjoys my edits means that i made someone’s day ever so slightly better, and that’s all i could ever ask for

-

to those who follow me, old and new, thank you. thank you for being there. i’ve literally never had a single problem with any of you. even as i become more active on twitter, you all stay here and have only ever been kind and supportive and it means a lot

i truly sound like a broken record, but even every like/reblog brings a smile to my face. every interaction here brings me joy, and i’m super honored when people tag me in stuff or send chain mail because my thought process is, “omg people still remember me!!” which is amazing in itself haha

i’ve been on this blog in particular for over 6 years now, and it’s always been a comfortable safe space. it really has been. and it was only possible because of you all. thank you for being you ❤️

[sapphicseekingsapphic]

Updated the FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

1. HOW DO I GET MY PIC TO APPEAR HERE? http://GirlsLookingForGirls.tumblr.com/submit

2. WHY HAVEN’T YOU POSTED MY PIC?

If it’s been less than a week, it might still be in the queue

You did not state your age

You are under 16

You pressed the ‘submit’ button more than once. This meant I was spammed and you may now be blocked.

There was nudity, partial nudity or suggestion of nudity (it needs to be super obvious that you are wearing clothes)

You identify as male, or stated that you and a male partner were both looking for someone

You were looking for a purely sexual arrangement (eg.threesome, nudes)

There was a technical difficulty

Read the rules again and try submitting again :)

3. DID YOU GET MY PIC? I don’t read and memorise the url of each submission, I just check that it has followed the rules and either press delete or queue. I go through submissions from oldest to newest, so by the time I get your message, I have no idea if I got a submission from you.If you are super worried, submit again in a few hours.

4. HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO GET POSTED? 3-6 days on average. If your picture doesn’t appear within 10 days, it either didn’t follow the rules or there was a technical problem.

5. DO YOU KNOW OF ANY OTHER SITES LIKE THIS ONE? Yep. Check out the links

6. CAN YOU DELETE MY PIC NOW? I’m happy to do this for you but I need the link to your post. The link looks something like this: www.girlslookingforgirls.tumblr.com/post/1234567890 Please do not ask me to delete your post without providing this. I’m not asking for your url, I need the direct link to your actual post. If you send it via ask, it says that you cannot send a link. All I really need is the part after /post/ so if your link is http://girlslookingforgirls.tumblr.com/post/1234567890 please just send /post/1234567890.

7. I’M TURNING 18 SOON. IS IT OK IF I SELECT BOTH “16to17” AND “18to24” TAG? No. Select only the CORRECT tag.

8. I FORGOT SOMETHING IN MY SUBMISSION, CAN YOU CHANGE IT FOR ME? No, I don’t make changes to submissions or posts. You can resubmit if you want to. But wait a few hours first. Otherwise it will come up right after your first post and I will assume it is spam. I work my way from the oldest to newest posts so even if you send a message, I will only see it after I have already deleted or queued your submission. .

9. I CHANGED MY MIND & DON’T WANT MY SUBMISSION POSTED. CAN YOU DELETE IT FOR ME? No, I only delete posts once they have been posted. I have wasted far too long searching for submissions that had already been deleted for not following the rules. It is up to you to consider whether or not you want to submit. If your submission is posted, you will need to send me the direct link to have it deleted (see question 6).

10. HOW WILL I KNOW IF MY SUBMISSION GETS POSTED? By checking the page. I think there might be email notifications if your settings allow for it.

11. WILL YOU LET ME KNOW IF YOU DON’T ACCEPT MY SUBMISSION? No. I will just delete it.

12. WHY DO I NEED TO TELL YOU MY AGE? To promote safety for younger users. All you need to do is say how old you are.

13. CAN I SUBMIT A PIC IN MY BRA? No. I do not accept even partial nudes or “suggested” nudity (where I can’t tell if you’re wearing anything eg. a low top that cannot be seen in the photo). Post whatever you like on your own page but please wear clothing in submissions. Read the rules for further clarification.

14. WHO CAN SUBMIT? 16+ Queer females/feminine aligned (trans, asexual and nonbinary inclusive).

Men (and those who identify predominately as men/masculine) are not allowed. TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists), other transphobes, MAPs (minor attracted persons) and MAP sympathisers are NOT welcome.

15. CAN MY PARTNER AND I SUBMIT? Yes, if both of you fit the criteria above. If one of you identifies as male, then no. This blog doesn’t allow men at all. If you are looking for a threesome, go somewhere else - this blog is not for sexual arrangements.

16. CAN I SUBMIT EVEN IF I HAVE A MALE PARTNER? It depends. If you are looking for a girl to join in sex, go someplace else. If you are a queer female looking for friends OR you are polygamous and only looking for a romantic partner for yourself (NOT including your male partner/s) then you are welcome.

17. WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY A SEXUAL ARRANGEMENT? I’m referring to people requesting threesomes/additional sex partners or exchanging nude photos. If you are looking for an actual, romantic/meaningful relationship that may lead to sex, that is fine.

18. HOW DO I SUBMIT MORE THAN I PICTURE? You need to be using the app.

19. WHY DID YOU DELETE SOME OF MY PICTURES? Editing a submission turns it into a text post. All images are changed to full size and posted one after the other and are a nightmare for people to scroll through on their dash. So any submissions that require editing have all but the first image deleted. This includes all 16-17 year-old submissions because these require editing to add the warning label. If you add the label yourself, and your submission does not require editing, all of your pictures will be kept. Submissions require editing if they:

are missing contact info, and require the URL to be added by admin

the tags have not been edited and require the admin to delete the extra location and age group tags that do not apply

People aged 16-17 if they have not added the warning banner

[prixmiumcontent]

Doctor Who Introduction Post

Hello #Doctor Who! My “name” is Prix, and I am about to embark on a re-watch of Doctor Who during which I will be writing reviews and other such commentary on this new meta blog. Please see the links and pages around the blog for more information if you are interested. Before I get started, I wanted to take a few moments to articulate why I am writing about Doctor Who, how I feel about it, and why I decided to start with it here even though I plan to write about it and many other fandoms.

The Present

At the time of writing this, I am 27 years old. I am a school teacher, but I am currently without a full-time position. Given that I have a little bit of time on my hands, I really wanted to work on my sustained writing-for-pleasure skills, and this blog seemed like a good way to do it. I have a personal blog, which I will follow from if I follow you back, but this is a fresh start for a more disciplined approach to running an actual-blog rather than a big mess of blogging, reblogging, and flailing. Doctor Who continues to be one of those things that always draws me back in. However, over the past couple of years, I have not been quite as on top of it as I once was. Letting go of Clara Oswald has proved to be very difficult for me, so while I like Bill - and the other companions I have seen - I have not seen all of S10. As a result, I haven’t even started on S11. However, I hope to very soon! While I am embarking on a full re-watch of Doctor Who (2005), I won’t necessarily prevent myself from catching up on everything I’m missing before I finish this up.

The Past

I was an avid internet user from the time I was about twelve years old. I was home-schooled for a time, and so much of my interaction with the outside world came through meeting people to talk to through AIM (may she rest in peace.) One of those people that I befriended (and have since unbefriended) was a young man five years my senior with a lot of chronic health problems. Given our mutual circumstances, for the good years of our relationship, we were able to find time to talk to each other despite a five-hour time difference. He lived in England, and I was so young that the concept of world geography was something well beyond my grasp as an American. Nevertheless, I had an adolescence very colored by a sort of cultural exchange with this friend of mine whom I much respected and wanted to please. I dimly remember his first mentions of Doctor Who being revived and his confusing explanations of what it was registering as a simple footnote in our conversations. It was something he watched on Saturdays. For a while, that was that.

Fast forward to the end of 2006. Due to various circumstances including my grandmother’s having a stroke and my parents’ mutual concern that as math and science courses became more difficult that a home-schooling curriculum wouldn’t cut it from them, I returned to public school. I was fifteen, and I was tagging along behind my peers who had been new students to high school the previous year. This new-to-everything, fish-out-of-water experience left me vulnerable to a certain individual whom I wish I had never met but who has shaped much of who I am today. I was in a relationship with him for a couple of months, during which I was emotionally abused and coerced in ways that I won’t go into detail about. The only part that is relevant is that this relationship really shook my ability to trust in people to the core. I was a different person from August to December and one who felt hollowed-out at that.

It was a relief to finally be on Winter Break, if only to get away from the presence of my then-ex who continued to follow and harass me while I was at school. However, the experiences of the past couple of months had taken the joy out of most of what I had been doing. I had been loosely into online fandom since about 2003, but I had never really learned the tools of the trade, and it was just a matter of happening upon people with similar interests through word-of-mouth and a few fanfiction.net-made contacts. I was still talking to my English friend online when I could.

Then, one day, I was feeling very depressed and lethargic. I took a break from vacuuming the house, and I turned on the television. I dully watched the scrolling TV Guide Channel, and I noticed that the SciFi Channel (it wasn’t SyFy at this point) was running a marathon of Doctor Who. Curiously, I changed the channel.

I watched “The Idiot’s Lantern,” an episode from Series 2, with no context whatsoever. I was confused and mildly intrigued. More than anything, I wanted to tell my English friend that I had finally seen an episode. He did his best to explain the show to me a bit better, and later that day I found myself tempted to tune back in.

In the days that intervened between that day and Christmas Day, the channel played at least several hours of Doctor Who episodes per day. They were marathoning Series 2, and on Christmas Day itself, they were going to play “The Christmas Invasion” - the Christmas Special spanning the gap between Series 1 and Series 2. I was supposed to go to my grandmother’s, but I made  a point to note what times they were showing it. I was invested already, and soon I had seen “Doomsday” and knew that my heart was going to break no matter what but that I wanted to know more and more about this show.

I remember going to my room after returning from my grandmother’s that day. I know that I had been showing signs of my depression and lethargy, and while my parents didn’t know the full extent of the damage my brief foray into trying to be “in a relationship” as a high school student had gone, they were most certainly concerned about me.

My mom and dad were in the living room visiting with someone - it was Christmas - and I remember feeling a sudden rush of energy and resolve come over me that I had not felt in a long time. My relationship with fandom may not be the healthiest that has ever been, but I don’t think that it is a bad thing either. I have always been one to fixate, to have maladaptive daydreams about those things I love, and to feel a rush of endorphins when I find something new to add to my collection of beloved stories. I fall in love with my fandoms, and they’re my friends.

That hadn’t been true for months at that point, though, and Doctor Who breathed new life into my teenage bones when I was - justified or not - dangling by a thread. The particular scene that burned itself into my consciousness was Ten’s speech to the Sycorax - “It is defended.” I’m not even sure why, but it kind of gave me a little bit of a kick in the butt to get back up, to try, and to feel something again.

I often tell people that Doctor Who saved my life, and that’s how. It gave me a friend when I felt like I had none. It gave me energy, purpose, and a reminder that even when things are difficult and it feels like there is no reward for the things one tries to do because they feel like the right thing, there still is a point to it. I consumed Series 2 in order as quickly as I could; I was a poor teenager and wanted to make sure that I got the series i had fallen in love with before deciding on more. Then, I manage to get Series 1 and watched them back to back. At the time, it was nowhere near as popular in the US as it became later, so I paid $60-70 per season at the time. I never did get past Series 2 on DVD as a result. Maybe one day I’ll buy a huge boxed set, but for now I make do with streaming on Amazon Prime for the most part.

I hope that this personal glimpse into my past will give you some kind of connection to me as a writer and that you will understand how much Doctor Who means to me as a show.

The Future

I plan to watch an episode or two most days for the foreseeable future and to write a post and create at least one edit per episode that I watch. I hope to queue them after the first couple so I can have a consistently active blog. Please feel free to interact with me! I follow back from my personal blog (currently polyroci), but I am very interested in interacting with people about this and other fandoms that are dear to my heart.

[kamcava101-2]

CAVA103 Digital and Online Week 1

Platform ideas https://www.artstation.com/ https://www.flickr.com/ https://www.instagram.com/karen.anita.monique/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqAepbf2Easw7N2qFUXr5mQ?view_as=subscriber

Research Video Art

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/v/video-art

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/pipilotti-rist-5465

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sanja-ivekovic-7504

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/nam-june-paik-6380

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/gillian-wearing-cbe-2648

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/mona-hatoum-2365

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/john-smith-12243

Artist research  - focus of this workshop is not on the art itself but on building an online presence/audience - will come back to this

Discussion with Travis

Peer examples of Video Post:

Bubbles time lapse drawing - Zyner Creative - Andrew Bell (clip studio) - look at Andrew's description - link back to other sites

Beach Bloom - CACS103 Digital Drawing - 21 miles - Maddy (?) (building an aesthetic with music, etc)

Free Stock Music freestockmusic.com

Soundcloud Royalty Free

My Videos - can do as downloadable:

Envato video - short

Shutterstock

How I can edit Video: Premier, After Effects

Road Video - Examples to look at:

Drive 4K - Pacific Coast Highway - USA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whXnYIgT4P0

Train Driver's View: Winter is finally here! (Bergen - AI) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE5DAisHbe8

Could I use ambient noise for video?

Maybe do a rain video? It will be raining on Friday - I can test

Researching sites for photographers:

https://expertphotography.com/social-media-sites-for-photographers/

From the Studio Supplement:

View/read/explore:

Naval Ravikant: The Internet Has Massively Broadened Career Possibilities (2019) [https://nav.al/possible-careers]

Naval Ravikant: Product and Media are New Leverage (2019) [https://nav.al/product-media]

Kevin Kelly: Better Than Free (2007) [https://www.edge.org/conversation/kevin_kelly-better-than-free]

Axel Bruns: Produsage: A Working Definition (2007) [http://produsage.org/node/9]

Affinity Designer [https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/]

SketchBook [https://www.sketchbook.com/education

]Krita [https://krita.org/en/]

Clip Studio [https://www.clipstudio.net/en]Inkscape [https://inkscape.org/]

Photomosh [https://photomosh.com]

GIPHY Creator [https://giphy.com/create/gifmaker]

Creative Commons Content Search [https://search.creativecommons.org/]

Looking at getting image sizes right for instagram https://later.com/blog/instagram-image-size/

Working on Projects:

Canberra Night

Video taken from apartment in Canberra 14SEP19

Didn't take my tripod so had to balance my camera on a toaster and some plastic chopping boards. Tried several sequences, slightly adjusting the viewpoint. 

Looked at Adobe After Effects - not what I'm looking for for this video

Going to use Adobe Premium Rush - was thinking about cropping but happy to leave, as I like how it gives context to how the video was shot, ie through a window

Downloaded sound via Envato (Audio Jungle) - 'Sound inside the Car' - purchased a multi use version as I may use again in my road videos.

Having problems with the Audio - back ground noise still playing and can't hear sound audio - will need to do further research.

Found problem - I had muted the audio on one of the video sections but not the other, I had selected mute on the sound audio in error.

Tried to find a way to loop the sound audio - wasn't able to work out. I duplicated the audio instead. There is a slight gap between files - need to work out how to fix this.

Couldn't find a way to do this.. Only references to gaps in Premier Pro - opened exported file in Pro. No gap in audio but there is a dip in sound, this be the 'gap' I am hearing - thinking I may be able to trim this out in rush? No.... didn't work - will need further help.. hoping is possible? I might try to do from scratch in Pro. Doing project in Pro - found this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnwelex3F_U - got the audio to work

Had some problems working in the Panels in Pro so watched some tutorials from here https://helpx.adobe.com/au/premiere-pro/how-to/work-explore-panels.html

Looked at https://helpx.adobe.com/au/premiere-pro/how-to/export-video-share-social-media.html for best export format. NB Select program before exporting.. I exported media file from the Source window on the first try. I also need to investigate further the publish features in export - I am experimenting with the You Tube function... also need to research the best way to publish to You Tube using description, tags, etc. Taking a lot longer with publish to You Tube - I had walked away and have come back... upload time sitting at over 24 minutes - it may have taken as long to upload on to You Tube anyway? It worked 🙂 I had to log out and log back into You Tube to see (or could have been a time thing?) https://youtu.be/aCb1fIv9AWw

Downloaded video from drop box onto my phone .... 

Had a couple of teething problems using cut story - not enough space on my phone...

Posted 1st 1 minute video on instagram - linked instagram to tumblr and twitter accounts

Researching Tags on You Tube

Drive 4K - Pacific Coast Highway - USA

Train Driver's View: Winter is finally here! (Bergen - AI)

Updating advanced settings

Look at peer YouTube Channel Zyner Creative (Andrew Bell) for Description inspiration

My updated settings:

Reviewing/Researching Hashtags for Instagram

Hashtags I have used for video

Added the following tags to YouTube video

Research # on Instagram posts: #video 59,448,124 #videography 5,509,108 #videoart 1,041,608 #videogram 2,128535 #canberra #digitalart 40,687,723 #night 131,352,521 #nightscape 1,344,255 #nightsky 4,121,597 #uow 62,598 #uowcreative 266 (wow...) #wollongongartist 3,384 #australianartist 782,995

Reflection - is it good to use a # where there are a lot of posts so hopefully more reach? But also a lot of competition.. Or is a smaller niche better? But would there be less reach...

https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/nightscape/

Top post on #nightscape are about stars/night sky but cityscapes are amongst the mix

#nightsky is mostly... about the night sky but there is some city shots

#canberra is a mixed bag.. but there is a lot of focus on Floriade/flowers (?)

Linked my twitter account (some teething problems with account/password - I'm sure I created account already but had to do again - may have to do with my phone number being linked to another account??) and Tumblr.

Not a very exciting post on Twitter... no image (?)

Better on Tumblr...

Not a lot of interest on You Tube or Instagram.... queue existential crisis.. deep breath... my work is not shit....

Instagram

YouTube

Recorded some rain video and slow shutter images Added another Canberra Nightscape to Instagram (2) - added a black and white filter and less hashtags to experiment with engagement Researched songs on Audio Jungle - looking a Country, rock & rain for my various videos... saved as favourites for later in the week. Something different to post - I took this image on 23SEP19 for Concept & Process

Posted on my iMac via the Flume app

Added post manually to Twitter

And Tumblr

Tried to update Tumblr avatar... unsuccessfully, firstly had problems with the orientation, now the size/crop? I give up for now..

[imaginingcriminalminds]

FAQ page for app users

If these links do not work it is the fault of the app; apologies.

Frequently Asked Questions and Guidelines for ICM.

Please read through these to make sure you have read the FAQ before asking a question. If your answer can be found via the FAQ page it will not get a response.

Is ICM accepting requests? YES. Unless the Submit and Ask pages no longer exist, there is a notation in the banner, and the feature/sticky post says closed, we’re open for requests. Requests are queued, they are not filled by ICM.

Why are most of the postings reblogged items? ICM is purely submission-based. That means that the followers provide the materials that the blog posts. There is little ol’ Rad over here behind the scenes and I cannot magically come up with ideas to support the blog. For a long while now there have been very few new ideas coming in from followers. I have no idea why this is; probably life.

You didn’t post my idea that I submitted. :( *Unhappy person noises* - New ideas are extremely slow coming in. There are times that I, Rad, have the queue set up for a few days because I know I’m going to be busy. Please allow 48 hours to go by before asking if ICM received your idea. [Please click on “The ICM Inbox link” below.] - If you submitted anything that was song inspiration you must include a rating for the lyrics. If you did not include a rating your idea will not be posted and you will not be contacted. - Did you fulfill all requirements? IE: Song inspiration must have a rating for the lyrics, rape/sexual assault is not allowed, did you fill out all the REQUIRED fields correctly for a drabble submission? (Did you double-check the Guidelines page?)

How to maneuver the blog and How to find a post on the blog.

How do I submit an imagine, drabble submission, or drabble request? – How to use the tags – How to submit anonymously – Song inspiration

What is an imagine, a drabble submission, or a drabble request?

The life of an imagine, drabble submission, and a drabble request – When will my drabble request be filled?

The Ratings

Are there any requirements for drabble submissions? - They must be your own original writing, no plagiarizing (stealing). - An author does not need to sign up for anything, nor are you forced to take requests or write for certain requests. - All drabble submissions must adhere to the Submission Guidelines and the Ratings (see below). - The header form on the Submit page MUST be properly filled out each time you submit (including email submissions). - Length: As long or short as you’re inspired. Recommended low is ~500 words. - Author name: Whatever you want, preferably child-friendly. Recommended using the same name each time you submit. This allows readers to read more by you. (Or let admins know if you change. Ex: “I was ABC, now XYZ.”) - That’s it! You write as you’re inspired! -  Will I be notified when my drabble is posted? —- If you used the Submit page and you either A) were logged in or B) you were not logged in and you gave Tumblr a valid email then will will be notified when ICM publishes your post.

About ICM – Blog information (follower count) – Admin profiles –  Variation on the blog? – Queue questions / information – Rad’s gifs / The “Rad come back to” tag – Gif questions / information – Using ICM’s content – Finding more content from ICM’s contributers

The ICM Inbox – What it should be used for – Will and Won’t Accept – Did ICM receive my idea?

Authors Accepting Requests and Available Editors – How it works – How to be added / removed – Where to post?

Submission Guidelines - Accept / Reject - Graylist & Blacklist - Deadlines - Fanart - Repeat, similar, not based on an imagine or drabble request - Continuing Rad’s drabbles

Asked questions that don’t have a category or haven’t yet been edited into a category.

What does ___ mean? (Mostly ICM-specific)

— Miscellaneous:

Follower comfort drabble requests Follower encouragement posts Writer encouragement [There is some crossover with the above; it’s being worked on.]

Are there any spoiler warnings for the posts; I haven’t seen all the episodes… Unfortunately there are not very few. The tag to be wary of would be the “episode mention” tag but there’s no little mention of season, episode, situation, etc. At least as far as I recall…. *Scratches head* Pretty much everything on the blog assumes you’re pretty much caught up. However I think there’s very little on the blog that actually deals with the content of the episodes? A few of the authors mentioned them in their drabbles. The handful of times that S10 came up it has a “spoiler” note and tag. Starting with S11 in September 2015 I’ll try to tag anything coming in with spoilers. ** Morgan arc spoilers: S11E15-18, tag is “Morgan arc spoilers.” As of 5/7/16 all are minor. ** Reid arc spoilers (S12) tag is “Reid arc spoilers.” AS of 8/4/17 all are minor and drabble requests.

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Zugzwang support group

Where to watch CM as recommended by the followers

Writing advice

Blog advertisement (and the incorrect spelling tag “blog advertisment.” That’ll be fixed some day.)

I can’t find… (something CM-related on the blog or on the Web) [If you’re looking for something on the Web, the question will be put to the followers; the ICM admins may not have an answer.] Please conduct your own research before asking ICM; the CM Wikipedia is highly recommended.

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