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Another Short Ask List About Love.

Does your OC believe in love at first sight? Have they ever been proven wrong about this in the past? Or did they once mistake mere sexual attraction for the stirrings of the heart?

Is your OC considered a sex symbol in their society or beyond? If so, then how do they feel about this? If not then would they like to be?

How does your OC feel about public displays of affection? Are they intensely private, with not even a furtive glance between them and their significant other when out in the world? Or would they be entirely unable to keep their hands off their beloved, even with a full audience?

Has your OC ever been separated from someone they love for an extended period? How did this affect their relationship? What (if anything) did they do to keep their connection alive during this time?

Does your OC ever read (or watch) romances? How much has their attitude and approach to relationships been affected by their exposure to romantic literature or other art?

To what extent does your OC need to feel like an equal in a relationship? Would they be content – or even aroused – by a power imbalance in terms of wealth, intellect or beauty?

Has your OC ever broken someone’s heart? Did they realise at the time that they had? Did they care?

If someone wished to seduce your OC then what approach would give them the best chance of success?

Has your OC ever feigned romantic feelings in order to manipulate or exploit another person? What was their motivation?

Would your OC remain in a relationship if sexual contact was no longer part of the equation – perhaps because a partner fell sick or suffered a serious injury?

Has your OC ever been given a token of someone’s love that they keep with them always? Do they wear or display it openly? Or do they keep it hidden from others?

What time of year does your OC consider to be the most romantic? Does it depend on where in the world they are?

Has your OC ever had a serious crush on another person? Did they ever share this with anyone else? Did anything ever come of it?

Does your OC enjoy it when others are obviously attracted to their lover or spouse? Perhaps they take pride in having a beautiful partner – or perhaps they find the situation somewhat exciting? Or are they ferociously jealous and possessive of their beloved at all times?

How would your OC prepare for a romantic evening? Do they have any particular rituals or ablutions that they always perform? Would they dress in a particular way to show themselves off to their best advantage?

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From that post I saw going around. I just wanted to add something

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psd#323 - download link in the source

it will not work on every gif/picture!

you can edit it to fit your gif/picture but

do not reupload psd itselt, do not use to create new colorings and do not claim as your own.

reblog if using. that motivates to share them :)

crediting me if using is nice as well, but not required.

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Agatha Harkness in Maiden Mother Crone (s01e09)

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Cute/Aesthetic pngs I have in my gallery (f2u)

Source: Pintrest

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Which OC will never marry?

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spinning out psds by osvaldrps

please like/reblog if using. click the source link below for the download

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OPC 2025 :: Lesbian

quinn hayes - high school musical: the musical: the series

taglist: @eddysocs @ocappreciationtag @foxesandmagic @wordspin-shares @veetlegeuse @raith-way @oneirataxia-girl @rose-of-oz @praetoravila @hiddenqveendom @nolanhollogay @nikosasaki

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the type of ship i fuck with the most

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i always get questions when i do a split gifset, and it's a deceptively simple process so i thought i'd try to show how i do it! i don't know if these types of gifsets have a more universally recognized name, but that's what i call them so that's what i'm going with.

i'm going to write this assuming you have a solid familiarity with photoshop and making gifs, but please feel free to send me an ask if anything is unclear. i use video timeline/smart objects so will be showing that (here's a great general tutorial on giffing with timeline). i will also be talking A LOT about gif dimensions, so first let's briefly go over the limits and theory a little bit.

a 1 column gifset can accommodate gifs 540 pixels wide

2 columns = 268 pixels each with a 4 pixel gutter between

3 columns = 177, 178, 177 pixels with 4 pixel gutters

i'm mostly going to talk about 2 column split gifs here (what i will refer to as 2x1 from now on - 2 across and 1 high), but the process is the same for 3 column (3x1) and so on (1x2, 2x2, etc).

so, why would you even want to make a gifset like this? i mean, let’s face it, generally, bigger is better for gifs on tumblr, and there are obvious incentives to 540 width gifs over 268 or 177/8 width, especially since the upload limit went to 10MB. but even 10MB isn’t much when you’re talking about high quality footage. gif making is a constant balance between quality (whatever that means to you: frame dimensions, sharpening, coloring, etc) and file size. split gifs are a cheat to that limitation >:)

i personally believe an untapped frontier of tumblr gifmaking is playing with dimensions and time. that sentence makes me sound like an old-timey sci-fi villain, but you get the idea: gifmaking is an art and there are many fun and interesting ways of exploring the medium. you can do a lot with 268 pixels! longer frame loops to gif longer scenes unbroken, bolder coloring on a wide shot you don’t want to pare down. and, a shorter x axis means the y axis’s bang goes a lot further on a buck. also just if you have a 2 column set but only 5 gifs so you need to make one take up 2 slots. there's a lot of reasons but the most important one is it's fun :) here are some examples of other split gifs i've made: x, x, x

this isn't so much a limitation, more of a shift in how you think about gifs, but it's important to remember that each gif should ideally be doing something still. when making split gifs, it’s easy to pick a wide scene without thinking about how it’ll be split down the middle, and then you’re left with a lot of something on one side and a lot of incongruous nothing on the other - or you're left with a person cut in half awkwardly in the middle. so while a split gif can still be a whole scene, you shouldn’t ignore the break and what it means to the bigger picture. now this is personal preference, but i like to play with the break and make it a part of the gifset. mirrored movement, subjects trapped on either side but still talking to each other, a bird flying from one side to the other. fun with frames! it can be another way of drawing attention to specific images/moments/feelings happening within the same shot.

SIMPLE SPLIT GIFS

to more narrowly define what i’m calling “simple split gifs,” it’s one set of frames split down the middle into two separate gifs that are meant to play concurrently, side by side.

first thing's first, crop your gif and uncheck delete cropped pixels if it is not already (very important). i'm cropping it to the 1x1 size, in this case 268x350. if you need to see how the full size will look, you can try it out with 536 first. but this one is pretty easy, this is the exact center of the frame (the left boundary of this crop is the center line) and both their heads fit within their respective 1x1 crop.

then color as you normally would. if your scene is very different one side to the other, it might be easier for you to color on a wider crop and then either crop again or copy paste your coloring to the smaller crop version. i do that with the 2x6s, but it's usually not that big a deal to color the 2x1s with just the small crop on your canvas at the time. this scene is very symmetrical, both in movement and colors, so i'm good.

now the fun part! once you've got one side how you want it, save/export as you normally would. at this point i also like to make a mental note of how many frames there are.

so i have 49 frames and it's still only ~3MB! this is just an example that i picked from my rotk fancy set, otherwise i probably would have made this gif longer.

then onto the other side, so i ctrl + z my way back to my smart object video timeline. to get to theoden i just drag and drop the smart object 268 pixels over. since this one is in the exact center of the image, it even helpfully guides me (this can get annoying if you are NOT giffing the center of the image fyi, but you can always manually go pixel by pixel too if you need to with your <- -> keyboard buttons. just always remember where you started and count accurately). i can never move around my smart object without hiding the adjustment layers on top of it, so you'll see me do that in this screen recording.

see how it corrected me when i dragged it a few pixels down by accident, and with all those pink guidelines? sometimes photoshop is good 😌

then make sure you still like the coloring, adjust whatever needs to be adjusted, but watch out! don't make any major changes because it still has to match the other side. and export again.

what we perceive as 1 series of frames chopped down the middle is just 2 separate gifs with the same frame rate. when tumblr loads the images, it will run concurrently in the post (even though it never does in the draft post 🙄). and that's it!

COMPLEX SPLIT GIFS

again i'm making up terms, but i call anything with more than 2 components a complex split gifset. i've tweaked some things in the process as i went along, but this is generally how i did the lotr series. these sets are basically just many split gifs with transitions. and here's where endurance becomes a factor :) there's a lot of prep done blind. but if set up well, it will be fairly easy to pull together by the end.

first i decide on my dimensions, using my upper bounds to determine how big i'm going to go. since lotr has very nice large file sizes, i can go pretty big without sacrificing much in quality. i decided on 3 rows of 350 pixel height gifs and it's worked well for me. that means my biggest gif will have a total height of 1050 pixels - fun! you could also do 8 rows, with two 2x2s or just a series of 2x1s that transition to 1x1s. there really is no limit to this except your imagination and source material.

i cap everything i'm going to use before i even open photoshop, then do all of them at once. uncheck delete cropped pixels, then i make my gifs! this is where i spend 90% of the time on this set. every gif should be the size of the smallest 1x1 gif (268x350 for me). i make all 10 into a fully colored, separate psd. (and then i usually go back through all of them a few times to get the colors to match better 😅) for the bigger ones (2x1: 536x350 and 2x6: 536x1050), i just crop them as if they were 1x1 but always thinking about how they will look when big. this gets tricky when i do the big one :) my lazy workaround for that is to basically make it twice: one cropped as it will be and one full size for me to color. then i copy and paste all the coloring layers onto the small one and voila, i know that the coloring in the upper right slice will also look good on the bottom left slice 1050 pixels away because i saw it on the full size version.

coloring is probably the biggest thing i'm thinking about with this kind of set. the whole idea is that these gifs are using the same colors, more or less, throughout each phase. even with the 1x1s, they're still part of a larger color concept, and they should (🤞) work with each other.

in a pinch, i like to eyedrop a color from one gif and add it as an accent to another. one of my 1x1s had a much more muted color palette originally, but i wanted it to have deeper blues and yellows to complement the 1x1 that would go next to it, so i added some gradients on lower opacity over it, color picked from other gifs i already colored.

i keep my coloring and the smart object in separate folders to help me in the final step of combining everything, and then i trim everything down to my lowest common denominator of frames. you might think you need to keep frames pretty minimal if you're doing 3 phases with transitions like this, but there's more room to work with on a small gif, in terms of file size. i usually do 30-50 frames for each phase, with the assumption that i'll be adding a transition on each side of each gif that will eat up some frames (i usually do 4-6 frame fade transitions). for the rotk set my final frame count was 129 and i never went over 8MB on a gif, so there's plenty of space play around with things :)

and then, combine! whatever order you start with, you are stuck with (unless you're getting even more complicated, but we won't go into that lol). for these sets i go small 1x1 -> medium 2x1 -> big 2x6. i like to think of it in phases from this point on. small is the first phase, then medium, then big. then i put in the fade transitions, chopping up the first phase gif so the last one will fade into it, restarting the whole cycle seamlessly. i'm just doing a quick and dirty fade here, but here's a tutorial if you want more explanation on transitions.

at this point i save this psd as its position, "top left" or whatever (usually it's a psb by this point too 🥲), just in case i need to go back to it. then i export this first gif and move on to the rest.

it's the same concept as a simple split gif: drag and drop the smart object to the new position, but now there are multiple phases to keep track of. folder organization has been key for me to keep everything straight. i move through the gifs in a backwards S, starting with the top left. but you could go any direction, just gotta stick with it and remember your counts. in my case, i'm always thinking of 268 pixels over and, for the 2x6, 350 up/down. it's a tedious process, but it goes quick (apart from waiting for photoshop to load each time you export).

i did this series as a color concept aesthetic kind of thing, so my theory was by using the same-ish colors throughout, that would save me in the end when it came time to export. there's only 256 colors max to work with on a gif, and that's usually what gets me over the 10MB limit. but as i said, i have never even gotten close to the size limit on this series. it's pretty hard to reach the limit on 268 pixels, but not impossible. (i did run into that on the emma set i did, and that was hell. but also not an impossible fix in the end.)

and that's it! if you try any of this and have trouble, i'm happy to help if i can but mostly this is a "click around and see what works for you" kind of process. and feel free to tag me on your split gifsets :) i love seeing them <3

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i think i tend to forget how good boredom is for creativity because we're all so addicted to numbing ourselves with screens and stimulation. but standing in the shower or going for a walk with no music or just sitting in your bedroom without being allowed to touch any screens & all of a sudden i have multiple new projects to start, a solution to a months-long plot problem & 4 new original characters

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Honey. My arm’s asleep. ━THE WHITE LOTUS 2.01 | “Ciao”

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A lovely anon asked for a coloring tutorial and here’s is it! My photoshop is in spanish so I added a translation in some parts that I felt it was necessary (the other stuff is pretty much in the same place) but if you have questions let me know!! (image heavy!!)

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Lots of OCs Ask Game! 🎨 🖌️

I wasn't going to post this, as I think I make too many of these, but I thought it may be fun for people who create a lot of characters. They can be OCs of any kind, for art, fandom or original writing. Feel free to ask, share to get Q's, or answer on your own if you want. :)

1 Who is your favourite OC you've made? 2 Who is your fave side / minor character you've made? 3 Who is your fave villain / antagonist OC you've made? 4 Who is the hardest OC to write or create for? 5 What are some of your most-used traits when making an OC? 6 What are some of your least favourite traits an OC can have? 7 What are some of your own interests / traits you've given OCs? 8 Do you give your OCs birthdays? What about astrological signs? 9 Who is your most tormented OC? 10 Your funniest OC? 11 Your scariest or darkest OC? 12 Your most unusual / unique OC? 13 Which of your OCs has the saddest story? (Backstory or current) 14 Do you prefer making heroic, villainous or morally grey OCs? 15 What is your favourite type of relationship to put OCs in? 16 What is your fave pairing you've made with OCs? (Of any kind, can include canon characters) 17 Have you ever created an OC to be a joke or meme character? 18 Is there an OC you changed drastically or completely remade later on? 19 Is there an OC you've abandoned or retired? 20 What is an AU you like to use for your OCs? 21 Do you ever use real-life models to design your OCs? (For example, celebrities, fashion images, etc.) 22 What are some of the biggest inspirations behind your OCs? 23 Have you ever based an OC on a dream (or nightmare) you had? 24 If your OCs were the 'seven deadly sins', which would they be? 25 What are some of your fave 'casual' scenarios to put your OCs in? 26 Who is the oldest OC you still create for? Who is the newest? 27 What is a fun fact about one of your OCs you think is interesting? 28 What species are most of your OCs - human, animal, etc.? 29 Have you ever commissioned art or writing of your OCs? 30 Which OC do you think would be / is the most popular?

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Quick tips for writing kisses

⇰ the pause. THE PAUSE. like “are we doing this? oh god we’re doing this.”

⇰ looking at each other’s mouths like it’s a life-or-death decision

⇰ someone whispering “can I?” or “just once” before going for it and RUINING ME EMOTIONALLY

⇰ hands. gripping shirts. cupping faces. hovering like “do I touch?? I WANNA TOUCH”

⇰ breath hitching?? yes. shakiness?? absolutely.

⇰ that stupid moment where one of them pulls back a few inches like “wait are you sure” and the other just goes for it again

⇰ kissing like they’re scared it’ll be the last time

⇰ kissing like they’ve been waiting ten goddamn years

⇰ teeth clashing awkwardly and both laughing about it but STILL FEELING IT

⇰ one of them freezing for a second mid-kiss because the feelings just hit

⇰ the post-kiss moment of “uh. so. yeah.” where neither knows what the hell just happened

⇰ OR the post-kiss forehead touch. destroy me.

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oc pride challenge— day eight: anyone else (a queer oc) ↳  brennan han (law and order: svu)

nick: so you're gay. brennan: didn't say that. nick: so you're not on a date with a man. brennan: didn't say that either.

taglist: @rose-of-oz

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BASE PSD FOR HDR CAPS by @manny-jacinto​

- as per requested by @lady-alicent, this psd is specifically made for HDR muddy caps. this probably won't work for SDR caps - like / reblog if you use - don’t repost or claim as your own *note: this was made on a mac with a retina display so the coloring may be off according to what computer you use

download link | basic coloring tutorial