#;Time And Relative Dimensions In Queue

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Striding forward a few steps, Raphael wasn’t bothered at all when Leon scrambled to detach Lil Mikey from himself and herd him near Donnie so he could turn to face Raphael with his hands held in a defensive barrier between his brothers and Raphael. Crouching before the three, Raphael raised a hand in offer, noting Loen eyeing it, then him, warily.

“Hey. Sorry for scaring you. I don’t want to fight anymore, okay?” Raphael apologized simply, keeping his hand out for a handshake. Leon could only look at him suspiciously, blinking at the offered hand, and then squinting suspiciously at Raphael. Was he trying to trick him somehow? When was the last time someone other than his family had apologized to him for scaring him?

While Leon was considering his options, and Raphael’s motivations, Raphael decided to change tactics, carefully raising his hand towards Leon. The kid’s eyes widened for a moment, and he looked about ready to dart. But thankfully he stayed relatively in place. It could have been because Lil Mkey had whispered to him that it was okay, but Raphael liked to think that Leon was taking a leap of faith that Raphael didn’t mean any harm. None of them had meant him harm in the first place, it was just a habit for them to be ready to fight when there was an intruder. But after realizing they were probably dealing with another cross dimension sibling they’d just wanted to get him to sit in one place long enough to talk, while not getting hurt themselves.

As Raphael’s hand got close to him Leon’s eyes snapped shut and he turned his head away with a soft hiss, as though he expected to get smacked. Raphael couldn’t blame him for reacting that way, and instead just motivated to be even more careful than he had already planned. There was a bandage on Leon’s head that hadn’t gone unnoticed, and Raphael was careful to avoid it as he tenderly rested his hand on the kid’s crown, gently rubbing back and forth. “It’s okay kid. I’m not mad,” Raphael assured, giving a rare, soft smile. “And I’m not going to hurt you, or any of your brothers. Okay? You’re safe here. We just want to help.”

He wasn’t sure how many more times they’d have to repeat it before Leon started to believe them, but he just kept gently petting the kid’s head. And when Leon opened his eyes again to peek at him, Raphael just smiled a bit bigger. “There you are. See? All good.”

The comment barely calmed Leon’s nerves, having fully expected to get scolded in some manner. But his shoulders did droop somewhat, and he finally turned more towards Lil Mikey to nuzzle his nose against Lil Mikey’s head in silent comfort. “...What happened? Why are you hurt?” Leon asked quietly, wrapping one arm around Lil Mikey to hold him close once more while the other arm did his best to do the same with Donnie.

“A nasty witch kidnapped you guys from another dimension,” Mikey chimed in, bouncing behind Raphael and causing Leon to flinch. “We went in to rescue them, but they ended up getting hurt while we were there. Don’t worry though. My awesome brother and best friend are patching them up just fine.” Don had to give a mildly embarrassed snicker at the compliment, and Leatherhead could only give Mikey a small smile.

Leon’s expression scrunched in a grimace of confusion and borderline offense at that response. Did Mikey think he was four? “Hurt how? What did you do to take care of it?” Leon persisted, brow furrowing in frustration. What kind of report was that? He didn’t even mention what injuries they had at all. He wasn’t a child that needed everything glossed over in such a vague manner.

“Uhhhhh….,” Mikey faltered, having not expected Leon to ask for details. He wasn’t even sure what all of the details were. 

Luckily Don took that as his queue to step forward and kneel next to Raphael, concern saturating his form but his hands decidedly held back in his lap. “A government agent that we’ve been monitoring to keep her from achieving inter dimensional travel accidentally triggered a reaction that brought you and your family here from your dimension. It also grabbed our Leo, and they sent Raph a message to try and get him to return what we’ve stolen. We broke into her base since there was no way we were going to let her keep any of us, our brother or yours. But your Mikey got caught in the crossfire, and ended up getting shot in the back of his arm,” he explained quickly, partially to be open with their guest but also to see if his inference about Leon was correct.

With the sucked in hiss, and quick, analytical, and repeated visual examination of Lil Mikey’s bandages that Leon did, Don had his answer and gained a small smile. Leon was gathering medical data for his own mental documentation, and Don was happy to provide. “I had Leatherhead surgically remove the bullet, clean the wound, and stitch him back up. Both Leatherhead and I have done the procedure many times before. Right now he’s probably still numb from local anesthesia, but we’ll be sure to get him on painkillers once that starts to wear off. He and Lil Donnie were also both also exposed to an airborne toxin that breaks down cells when inhaled. We’ve dealt with it personally many times before, so we had an antidote ready that we’ve already given them. It’ll just take some time to heal what was already damaged, but there should be no further degradation.”

Leon was mostly quiet as Don, and sometimes Leatherhead, continued to give a detailed explanation that had Raphael raising a brow at him. It was more of an explanation than Raphael was used to getting, other than when Don was rambling in a distracted daze, and he briefly wondered if it was pointless or not. But when he looked at Leon he had to marvel at how the kid seemed to be understanding everything. The kid was even asking questions like what the toxin was, and what antidote was used and how it was given, what antiseptics were being used and if they used any antibiotic salve on Donnie. The responses Don gave earned satisfied nodding for the most part, and Raphael could only grin in amusement as he shifted his weight back to somewhat pull out of the conversation, the others settling around Master Splinter behind him. Looked like Leon was the medic of the other group. It was an interesting difference, and Raphael was wondering what had caused it. But the conversation was way over Raphael’s head, so he ended up tuning them out for a moment. It wasn’t until Raphael heard Don’s words fill with reluctance to be voiced that Raphael started paying attention again.

“...He hasn’t woken up since we left the base. I’m not sure if that’s normal for him, so it has me concerned…” Don was apparently talking about Donnie, who was still unresponsive to external stimuli. Raphael and the others had to agree with the voiced concern since Lil Mikey had been quick to wake up again once they’d landed, but it almost seemed like Donnie was sedated.

“It’s okay. He does that sometimes.” Leon responded easily. “We started calling them reboot naps.”

“...Reboot naps?” Raphael repeated, raising a brow. Why did that sound like something that would be done with a computer and not a person.

“Yeah. You know how sometimes a computer gets overloaded and starts to overheat and stop functioning properly? And the best thing to do is just turn it off so it can stop running programs and cool down?” Leon explained, sounding like it was one that had been used at least once before. After the others gave somewhat confused nods that they understood so far Leon continued. “That’s kind of what it’s like, I guess. His big brain just works overtime all the time and sometimes everything becomes too much, so he takes a huge nap to recover. He’ll wake up eventually.”

“...Hm… I guess that makes sense,” Don responded, voicing the thought all of them had. The analogy made sense, they just hadn’t dealt with anyone that did this before. Not without serious physical injury to go with it. “How long does he usually sleep for?”

“I dunno. Depends on how stressed out he got before. This time will probably be a longer one though,” Leon responded, shrugging.

Raphael had to furrow his brow in confusion at that combination of comments. He knew Donnie had probably been incredibly stressed out from everything, but none of them had mentioned anything to Leon about what had happened other than the injuries. “How do you know that?” Raphael asked, not able to keep his voice from being incredulous.

“I just do,” Leon huffed, shrinking back slightly in a physical show of avoidance. He was quick to change the subject as well, so Raphael knew his reason was something he didn’t want them to know. “Anyway, where’s his battle shell? I’m surprised he’s not wearing it.”

“Uhhh…” Don faltered, glancing at his brothers. He didn’t remember then having a truck with them. So that probably wasn’t what Leon meant. ”...Battle shell?” Don repeated in question. Luckily Little Mikey spoke up for them from where he was sagging into Leon’s lap, mumbling slightly in his increasing sleepiness. “It’s in the other room. Where we were before,” he explained, forcing back a yawn while trying to not completely fall over. “Told them not to take it off. But he insisted he shouldn’t wear it while sleeping. And needed to check his back.”

That was enough to que Don in on what they were talking about, giving a small gasp and dropping a fist lightly into an open palm. “Oh! The device he was wearing on his back. Yes, it’s back in the infirmary. I haven’t done anything with it other than take it off. Augustine’s employees took samples from Donnie’s back too, so I had to make sure those were clean as-”

“They did what?” Leon suddenly hissed, gaze becoming borderline furious as he latched onto only one thing Don said. “Where is it? Where is that base?” he demanded, moving to get to his feet. Don had only mentioned that Donnie had been cut before, not that he’d been some science lab pet.

“Woah, hey, relax kid. There’s nothing left of the base, your brother made sure of it. He set off the self-destruct as we were leaving,” Raphael spoke quickly, raising his hands to halt Leon’s movement without actually grabbing him. “We’re going to make double sure of course, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Augustine herself ended up with brain damage after how hard fearless over there kicked her in the head,” he added, jerking a thumb over at Leo, whose eyes widened slightly in surprise at being called out so suddenly.

“It wasn’t THAT h-... Okay maybe it was- She had a gun pointed at Donnie. What was I supposed to do?” Leo sputtered, gesturing awkwardly.

Don winced at the mention of the gun, and quickly looked over to Leon to see his reaction while Mikey hissed and clamped his hands over Leo’s mouth. He wasn’t surprised to see the lad shift protectively towards Donnie again, a glower shadowing his gaze. “....Show me what happened…” Leon demanded, his tone not leaving any room for debate. “All of it.”

“Show you?” Leatherhead prompted for further clarification. Did Leon really want to see everything that had happened?

“Are you saying you don’t have a database of every video feed from the government agent you’ve been monitoring?” Leon shot back, missing the real reason Leatherhead was questioning him and thinking they were trying to avoid showing it to them.

Don was stunned into silence for a stretch, surprised Leon had made that connection. While they had only found Augustine’s main base recently, downloading all of her data was one of the first things he and Mom April had done. “Huh…” Don voiced, the only hint to his pleasant surprise. Then again, this was just an alternate dimension version of all of them. Donnie probably had similar habits. “Let me get a tablet,” he requested, getting to his feet to hurry to the main computer. “Also Mikey don’t forget you’re cooking,” he reminded on his way passed.

“My stew!” Mikey squawked, jumping to his feet and leaping over the edge of the upper level to run back to the kitchen.

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I rewrote this part so many times, and fussed with the image so much/was so slow on it and it still doesn't feel right. But I'm to the point I don't hate it so it's good enough and I'm gonna throw it out here. =v=;;

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Slowly Faye walked towards her older brother, body trembling slightly as she stared at him with a haunted, tear filled gaze. She had always been strong and cocky, but now she looked broken.

“I was scared if I saw you again it’d just be a hallucination. I kept imagining you. I’d get a break and then you’d leave me and I was back in that room.” She said quietly, voice hoarse from lack of use. The screaming from her nightmares probably didn’t help either.

She looked down, breathing shakily. “I’m sorry.” Faye whispered. “I’m so sorry John I just…I was scared. I was scared that you would hate me, hate what’s happened to me. I know I’m not the sister you remember.”

        ♠ - That was something that John hadn't been expecting. He had honestly expected her to completely ignore him. To just look at him, grab more arrows and continue on with her training. He thought this effort was going to be all for not. Instead, he was wrong. He was glad he was wrong. but it still caught him off guard.

        ♠ - His eyes wen't from slightly annoyed at his sister, to soft and concerned. He remembered how she was like when they found her. She didn't even recognize him, it broke his heart. He wanted to cry seeing his sister like this, but no. It didn't matter what she was holder, if it scratched him or not. He gently, slow enough to not startle her but fast enough to show that it really was just his instinct.

        ♠ - John hugged her, tightly yet gently. It feels like forever to him, but it's only for a few seconds. He isn't too big of a hugger. He softly puts a hand on her head, and smiles as if there wasn't a single problem in world. He was the closest to his sister after, and he just smiled.

        ♣ - "I don't hate you. I hate whoever hurt you. Oh, and don't be ridiculous Faye. No matter what, you're my little sister."

        ♠ - There was a pause, for a moment the kindness in his eyes turned soft. But he played it off, smiling away still. Wanting her to get back to her best self.

        ♣ - "I'm sorry I wasn't there that day."

[gallusrostromegalus]

Mayuri broke out of hell and his sword is his parole officer??? I need elaboration immediately, I have such a morbid fascination with Mayuri he's my horrifying little torture meow meow

So some important things about Hell in AEIWAM:

I haven't read any of Kubo's newer work and I do not have plans to unless someone can vouch that it's really, really cool

They REALLY don't want anyone to stay there, because Hell is functionally Rehab.

See, the function of Hell in AEIWAM is to act as a sort of repair shop for damaged souls- souls that harm others don't produce as much energy when they move from one plane to another, and prevent other souls from completing their cycles and that's bad for The Life Machine, so it's in The Machine's interest that those harmful souls Stop That ASAP. So in hell, a Soul that has say, done a bunch of murder is meticulously taken apart and examined by Demons, who figure out Why He Did That, and then come up with a treatment program to Make Sure He Doesn't Do That Next Time. Sometimes it's therapy, sometimes it's hard labor to undo the spiritual pollution you caused, sometimes they have to uh. vivisect a soul and remove an unhelpful segment of soul. There's no BAD souls or soul fragments, according to the Demons of Hell- what's dangerous egotism in one person is a healthy level of self-esteem in another person and you just gotta... swap the spiritual organs, as it were. The demons really, really want you to get better!

3. They also don't want you to stick around because Hell has a bit of an overpopulation problem.

See, when the Four-to-Five Noble houses dismembered the Soul King and used parts of his body to black off the spirit world according to political preference rather than any kind of functionality, they tried to block off Hell entirely, perhaps to evade the fate that awaited them.

But they fucked up, and now the only part of Hell that's Blocked is THE EXIT, and it's blocked by God's Divine Ass :/. Now, there is, technically, An Exit built in, as it were, but it's very small compared to the original exit, and now there is a Queue To Get Out.

This has created MANY problems for Hell- The Demons have a running Metric for "Does this soul REALLY need to go to rehab?"*, and even with it stripped down to the most generous assumptions of "this was probably more circumstances than your fault" and most limited definitions of "Harm" and "Danger", there's still a steady stream of souls entering Hell, and it's larger than the stream escaping out. So now the majority population of Hell is Perfectly Fine people who completed their Rehab, but can't leave because the airport is closed.

*The reason soul society doesn't attempt to reunite people in the afterlife is that they actually cannot- who goes where after death is the provenance of Hell, and shinigami don't have any input on the process, save to occasionally herd someone back into the afterlife queue via Konsho.

It's getting. Crowded.

It's getting crowded to the point that Hell is actually starting to Burst at the seams- which is a solution and a problem- these crack represent the dimension literally unravelling, but it's also an opportunity for The Ruler Of Hell to stabilize those cracks and make new exits and move a bit more of that Queue along.

It's during one of these stabilization projects that Mayuri makes his escape.

(Continued under the cut)

The thing is. Mayuri wasn't even in that much trouble! He'd been the Medieval Japanese equivalent of a Fry Cook in life and uh. Poisoned a few people trying out new recpies, mostly involving novel culinary mushrooms. His fault, if you had to pick the main one, was an overabundance of curiousity relative to his sense of caution and a minor problem of not being able to imagine the interiority of others. None of those are EVIL. Dangerous, sure! But entirely fixable! and Mayuri had been quite young when he died because he had gotten a little too curious and tried his latest recipe out himself.

So Mayuri had been assigned to Jizo. In Real Life, Jizo is a pretty cool religious figure- he's the Bohdisattva who's whole thing is that absolutely no-one is incapable of becoming a better person, and refused to achieve Nirvana until all the hells are empty. He's the last guy out when the universe ends, and the particular patron of dead children and orphans. He is associated with caterpillar imagery because he wears a long cloak that all the lost souls of children can take shelter under, and when they all trail out behind him, it looks a bit like he's a centaur with a caterpillar body from all the little legs sticking out from under him.

...Which is why Mayuri's Zanpaktou looks like that.

Jizo seems like a WEIRD spirit to be hanging out with Mayuri imho, unless Jizo was originally Mayuri's Guardian/therapist/parole officer, and Mayuri did something shitty.

I think Mayuri HAD been making a lot of progress in terms of "the scientific process is a PROCESS for a reason" and "Other beings have feelings too" and "Harming others is Bad", and he's a clever lad who could be doing a lot of good if pointed in the right direction, so Jizo advocated for Mayuri to be put on one of the Hell-Crack stabilization teams to give him a good outlet for his restless mind.

Unfortunately for Jizo, he miscalculated how much progress mayuri had actually made vs his desire to not go to rehab, and Mayuri pulled some sort of stunt that bound Jizo to a sword like an Asauchi, and absconded with him to the Spirit world through the crack, promptly got arrested for More Science Crimes in spirit world, got sent to the Maggots Nest, and eventually caught the attention of Urahara, who saw the Chemistry Brilliance of Mayuri and exactly NONE of the Red Flags.

As it stands Mayuri is... Sort-of the captain of the 12th division.

Sure, on paper he's The Captain, he gets to wear the Haori and has to go to the meetings, but R&D is only a fraction of what the 12th actually does- rememer, Urahara is the guy that STARTED Research and Development. Before that, I think the 12th division was 100% devoted with being the gotei-13's SUPPLIER- food, uniforms, medicine manufacture, weapons repair, gigai, soul candy, maps, communicators- if you got it for work, it was made in the 12th division.

I think Mayuri is aware of maybe 12% of what his division actually does, because the people who are in charge of manufacture were around before Urahara, took one look at that man and went "...Nah" and started quietly Not Telling Him About Things. When Mayuri took over, they went "Absolutely Not" and have been engaged in a century-long farce to prevent the captain of the 12th from knowing what his division actually does. Fortunately for them, it's extremely easy to lie to Mayuri. He's a suspicious bastard, but he LOVES good news, especially the kind of news that is good because it means he doesn't have to go to another boring-ass meeting. So things are JUST FINE down in manufacture, your latest improvements were TOTALLY IMPLEMENTED and are going GREAT. Everyone remarks on how much better the MREs are since we started adding live beetles to them Sir. Your Genius is Much Praised- Whoops Is That The Time? Gotta Go- the science never stops!

He's going to run into a bit of a stumbling block in Las Noches though. Not Sayzel, though Sayzel doesn't help. He's going to run into the consequences of a Former Experiment that are REAL FUCKIN' MAD AT HIM. No, not Uryuu, though Uryuu is FAR FROM PLEASED. Mayuri is going to have to face the consequences of a much worse experiment- one based on the procedures of disassembling and reassembling souls he learned while he was in Hell. Mayuri will have to face The Wrath Of Kon

[dontbooatme]

dp x bnha au

And if I ever did anything with this it'd be mostly Danny's POV, despite the focus in this post but..

Okay, hear me out:

Maddie Fenton is born into the world of bnha. She has a very rare quirk that's difficult to activate/has very specific requirements to activate: the ability to rip open portals into alternate dimensions. She activates it by accident and ends up lost in the Ghost Zone. She gets separated from the portal she made in some way shape or form, but it stays open. Maybe hostile ghosts show up and she runs, because she's young here. 7-8 probably. So she's lost in the zone--until she finds a natural portal into the dp universe.

And she ends up stuck in a world without quirks.

She grows up there, everything else about her history stays relatively the same. Except she has a new motivation for being obsessed with ghosts and the Ghost Zone and creating portals. Because she's only ever used her quirk once when she was in her world and she grew up the rest of the way without any form of quirk counseling she could have had in her first world.

And of course she's tried to use her quirk again. But it's fickle in the first place, and there are so many other universes than the one she looking for.

But veil between the dp verse and the Ghost Zone is thinner here in a way that's not true for her world. Natural portals open here without the help of a quirk. She's seen that. And the energy traces they leave behind after they close is something that can be studied.

So she turned to learning how to make a portal to the Ghost Zone through science.

But then she meets Jack and they ultimately end up having Jazz and Danny. And she's still desperate to build that portal. But now she has a stake in this world that she didn't have before.

She doesn't know what she's going to do when her and Jack's work is done. Take her family with her? Does she want to uproot their lives and move to a universe she hasn't been in since she was a kid? Has, probably, been pronounced dead in? Where her family won't have any documentation anywhere for any place under the sun? Does she just want the chance to see it before she slinks back to this world like an outcast?

She still ends up married to Jack, and they still have Jazz and Danny and her and Jack still end up successfully building a portal to the Ghost Zone when he's 14.

And Danny still has his accident.

But instead of coming out in the human world, he ends up trapped in the Zone. With an overloaded/exploded, non functional portal left behind in the lab.

Which leaves Maddie and Jack in the position of having to build the portal from scratch. Which takes time. But only after they collect the materials. Which also takes time and some of them aren't easy to get their hands on.

And of course, they first have to realize Danny's missing and why he's missing before they really get to work on rebuilding the portal.

And he happens across the very same portal Maddie created way back when.

Queue Danny, lost in Musutafu, unknowingly in a parallel to his mom's journey. And discovering he has a thing or two in common with this very strange world he's been dropped into. Quirks being one thing, when he figures out he had a quirk even before he had ghost powers. But cultural differences that are specific to the bnha verse and that Maddie brought back with her could be another. He just pops up into this world, maybe hesitant to backtrack into the zone because ghosts and definitely unlivable conditions, and he walks into town as a teenager with no knowledge of quirks and no control of the quirks he has. He.. causes a bit of a disturbance.

And queue a Madeline Fenton who's now more desperate than ever before to burst through the veil and get into the Ghost Zone.

Idk, this idea just hit me. There are definitely kinks to work out. Like where a gaping portal in bnha would have to be located so it isn't easy to find. Or how Danny ends up lost there despite a gaping portal back to the Zone. Maybe the issue is that the Fenton portal is what's not functional. So he has access to the Zone, but that's the cut off point. And he knows better than to trust the reliability of natural portals, due to his mom's research. And how much she stresses how dangerous they are. Unbeknownst to him, because she has personal experience on that front. Or smth idk yet

I think in this au Danny would originally have a regenerative/quick healing type of quirk. To explain why he had a seemingly quicker/easier recovery period than Vlad did after their accidents.

And maybe Jazz has a quirk too. But I think for this au they should both have quirks that are pretty subtle. Something that might make them weird in the dp verse, but something that doesn't set them apart too much. So when everything about the dimension hop/quirks come to light, everything about that revelation is a huge shock

Also the jumpsuits would probably be something Maddie treasures a lot. Something that feels familiar to her with the relation to pro hero costumes. Maybe she even had a parent who was a prohero. And the jumpsuit is the closest recreation she could make of the suit x parent wore. A suit that Danny now wears when he goes ghost.

Maddie got her quirk when she was younger, but she didn't activate it for the first time till she was 7-8 due to how fickle it is

And, obviously, we'd have to bring Kurogiri into this. Because, portals

Ooh, that would probably leave Danny wanting to seek out the league, Kurogiri specifically once he finds out theres someone else who can make portals. Whether or not Kurogiri would even be able to make portals to a different universe? That's a different story

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When you realise that in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship there are The Doctor, Rory, and Amy together with Lestrade, Arthur Weasley, and Filch... and Doctor Who suddenly becomes a Potterwholock crossover

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hey!!! i hope its not too much to ask, but i was wondering how you did the text effect in the first gif of your mandalorian edit? it turned out so lovely !!!!!

hey it’s no problem at all!!!! thank you and i’m always open to sharing how i make my stuff 💖 

basically i use after effects to animate the text! i make and color the gif as usual on photoshop. then, i create a new composition with the same dimension as my gif, then drag the gif into it. for the text, i followed this tutorial beginning from around the 3 minute mark.

here is the final result

a summary under the cut

keep in mind i’m just showing you what i did! if you want a more in depth explanation about AE, there are many great tutorials all over youtube including the one i linked above!

basically you duplicate your main text and nudge it to your preferred position. 

press ‘q’ or select the shape tool (while having the text layer selected) to create a mask over the part of the text you want to show. the overlapping part will disappear. set the feather to 9 for the gradient effect. here’s some screenshot to help visualize it better 

don’t forget to set the character style to no fill and a 1 pt stroke. here’s the final result 

next we want to animate it so the text pops from underneath the main text. select the text you want to animate, go to the 1s mark (or any time at all you want the text to pop), press p, click on the clock icon besides to create a keyframe. then go back to around 10-20 frames before, and move the text until it’s covered by the main text. this will automatically create a new keyframe :)

for the spread out effect, click the little arrow besides animate -> select tracking. move the time indicator to your last position keyframe, then click on the clock icon next to ‘tracking amount’. move the time indicator a couple frames forward, and change the amount to 25, or whatever spacing you need.

this is how my keyframes look

basically i repeated the same steps for the rest of the text! adjust the tracking amount at the topmost text so it spread out more.

yay! to animate the text going back, basically sellect all the key frames, copy them (ctrl +c) move the time indicator to around thee end of your gif (anytime you want the text to move back), paste the key frames (ctrl v), then right click -> keyframe assistant -> time reverse keyframe. move the position keyframes to the right, after the final tracking key frame (because we want the text to contract before moving anywhere).

we want smooth animation! so select all the keyframes, then press f9 (or right click -> easy ease). 

now that all your keyframes are in order, you can adjust the timing to your heart’s desire! just drag the keyframes around and see what looks good :) to see the keyframes easier, select the text layer, and press u on your keyboard. here is how mine look:

since the text is above a gif, i select all the text, go to layers -> blending mode -> exclusion. i change the font color to white so it has a nice black and white exclusion color.

now to export the gif! you have to use adobe media encoder (as far as i know anyways), so go to file -> export -> add to adobe media encoder queue. it’ll open the app, where you can select the file type ‘animated gif’.

and that’s it! i hope this makes sense anon hkjfhakfhak if not, i’m sorry and i’m open to questions if you wanna know more :”) i don’t know how familiar you are with AE and it might be confusing if you don’t know about AE at all. i’m no pro and am also relatively new to AE to be honest 🙂, but there are lots of tutorials online that are so fun to learn and incorporate into your gif creations 💖

[inaccurate-janto-conversations]

Ianto in the TARDIS

The Doctor: Now before we go in you might want to prepare yourself for a bit of a surprise

Ianto: ?

The Doctor: *Opens the door and walks in Ianto following behind him*

Ianto:

The Doctor:

Ianto:

The Doctor: Weeeellllll?

Ianto: ?

The Doctor: What do you think?

Ianto: It's...interesting.

The Doctor: Just interesting!? It's your first time in the TARDIS and you just say it's "intresting." Don't you think it's a bit... oh I dunno, different on the inside?

Ianto: Well of course its different, the interior exists in a different, relative dimension to the exterior. Thus the inside appears to be larger than what the outside leads you to believe.

The Doctor:

Ianto: It's very simple technology.

The Doctor:

Ianto: You should've seen the loos in Torchwood One. Never a single queue.

The Doctor: ... *Calls Jack*

Jack: Hiddy Ho Doc!

The Doctor: Yes hi, I need you to come get your boyfriend, he's clearly broken beyond repair.

[theaspiescribe]

The 21st Night Of September

Do you remember the 21st night of September? Well I most certainly do! A night when I made one of the biggest breakthroughs of my life. In virgo season, obviously.

There was a period of my life when I struggled to leave the house. If I did have to do it, I would incur a great physical toll. Panic attacks, exhaustion, stomach pain and the like. It would take days to feel normal again. It was not fun.  

It’s a curse to feel trapped inside your own home, inside your own mind. You see other people going out like it’s nothing, you remember a period in your own life, when it was nothing. You wonder how this is what has become of your life. You ask yourself why can’t it be different.

My despair was amplified by the fact I couldn’t see a way around this. How are you supposed to overcome a phobia of this sort when the phobia itself prevents you from getting the help you need? 

For so long, I felt helpless and because I couldn’t go out, I couldn’t make friends, so I was alone too. I couldn’t wrap my head around the fact that this was my reality. 

In addition to this I was dealing with a myriad of other issues both mental and physical. Now, when I look back I realise I was fighting hard to survive, that I was a lot stronger than I ever knew.

The turning point was a storm from the east, you may remember that they called it the Beast From The East. A snow storm of epic proportion, and as an admirer of snow, I was marveling at the intensity of it. I was electrified by the prospect of it.

We had another storm called Ophelia a few months before, but there was no snow and it was quite dangerous. This was a lot more exhilarating.  

Snow like this hadn’t been seen for years, since before my biggest issues emerged. It reminded me of a time in my life when things were peaceful and I lived a relatively happy life. 

I had always been mesmerised by how serene everything feels when it’s snowing. Looking up at the sky seeing the little snowflakes falling is always a soothing sight to behold. Everything just looks better with a thick blanket of pure white snow covering it, it looks cleaner, it looks neat. It sounds quieter, and in fact snow can absorb sound because it is so porous. 

That whole week I felt reinvigorated by the beauty of the snow, as if a whole new world was still within reach. 

As Elsa from Frozen once said:

Let it go, let it go Can't hold it back anymore Let it go, let it go Turn away and slam the door I don't care what they're going to say Let the storm rage on The cold never bothered me anyway

In a way, the snow storm was like a dimension between two worlds: An old one where I felt powerless to overcome my fears and a new one where I felt a surge of determination to fight back. No more moping or quitting, I whispered to myself. I knew the extent of the challenges that were ahead of me but I kept reminding myself to take it one day at a time and to just try my best. I will forever remember that storm, a beast in more ways than one. 

Mother’s day was very soon after The Beast and it provided the perfect opportunity to make my first foray into the wild. I wanted to buy her this specific laptop but it could only be bought in Navan. Even though this was truly uncharted territory for me I felt a calm and confidence at the prospect of going to do it. So, on that fateful Friday, my Dad and I embarked on a journey that would mark the beginning of a new chapter in my life. I had many false dawns before, but this time felt different, like there was actual substance behind it. 

Getting the laptop and interacting with the nice computer man was fine even despite his persistence that I buy anti-virus software. Anyway, what a resounding success I thought. Mission accomplished. But much to my chagrin, the drive had taken so long, I now had to use the bathroom. This was certainly not part of the plan because there was nothing more I hated than using public bathrooms, especially being trans. But again, instead of looking at this from the perspective that it’s an issue, I tried to look at it as another chance to make a breakthrough. 

McDonalds was the obvious choice. But the timing was far from ideal. It was a Friday evening, kids had just got out of school and it was busy and noisy. The beginning did not go well, there was this kids outdoor play area and I thought this was the entrance, but it in actual fact was not. In the past, I would have panicked, but I tried so hard to just roll with it. Anyway, thankfully the bathroom wasn’t an issue apart from some disconcerting roaring. Then I queued for food. Fuck I hate queues, absolutely loathe them. There was also a lot of very rowdy kids around excited about getting their food. My mind was in a state of panic by all the noise and movements. But I was struck by how calm on the outside I was, as chaotic as it felt inside, I could keep control on the outside.

On the journey home, as I sipped my ice cold beverage, I realised that I had shown an ice cool temperament to get through this first test. I felt a sense of pride and I told myself that the most difficult part was over now. I had taken the first step. Something to build upon.

In the subsequent months, I did indeed go on more adventures, to supermarkets and other shops. Gradually, it got easier but as with anything there were setbacks. Progress is never linear, I knew that better than anyone.

Then in July, I had stumbled upon an advertisement for Saturday Night Fever in the Bord Gáis Energy theatre. I had seen this musical with my sisters as a child in the Gaiety theatre and I had great memories of visits to the theatre with them. Of all the great things taken away from me, trips to the theatre ranked quite highly on the list. Was I really ready for something as overwhelming as this, I pondered? Probably not, but feeling bolder than usual, I decided to go for it, and got the tickets for my sisters birthday. The date? The 21st night of September. 

As the day approached, I was overcome by trepidation and was not feeling great physically. My migraines were making sleep difficult and I was worried that I wouldn’t feel physically able to do it. On the Friday morning, I felt okay, not great but okay. I’m going to do this, I told myself. 

And so the time came, and I was a bundle of nerves. This was probably the equivalent of a football player before a world cup final, or someone performing on broadway for the first time. My heart was beating so fast, my mind was going through a million different scenarios and I was having a hard time thinking straight. But on the surface, I looked calm and ready. Once again, I was impressed at this capacity to keep everything under control externally despite everything happening internally.

The hard part of course was still to come. As I walked into the theatre, I wondered to myself would I make it out again in one piece. The beginning did not go too badly at all, there was quite a spacious waiting area which I appreciated and the glorious view of the grand canal took my attention away from intrusive thoughts. The calm before the storm, I joked to myself.

And then it was showtime. This was my first time in the Bord Gáis Energy theatre, and my overall impression was a positive one. Thankfully we were seated near the back of the theatre. This was a strategic decision on my part, so I could make a quick getaway if it was necessary. Once the show started, it did indeed get a bit overwhelming, the noise and flashing lights were as jarring as expected, but I was enjoying the music a lot so I could put up with it. The most challenging bit was actually the sitting, I find it almost impossible to sit for extended periods of time and I was getting restless after about 10 minutes. By the end of the show, I had felt like I had aged 50 years but I made it. I came, I saw, I conquered. There was no sense of pride this time, just sheer exhaustion but once I had recovered, I realised what an achievement this was. I never thought I would have had the courage to do something like this again, but from somewhere I found it. What else could I do, I wondered to myself? 

But this is why I will always remember the 21st night of September, my soul truly was singin’ on that unforgettable night. You know it's alright, it's okay, we’ll live to see another day.

[cxlxurbliind]

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They were one of the oldest Vampire families in existence, and they all had a reputation. The Smith family enjoyed the hunt, the rush of capturing their human prey. Faye had been that for a long time.

But then she met Faye and everything changed

She was just returning from the hospital when she walked in, freezing at the sight of one of her older brother’s standing in the doorway. So sure, maybe she’d been risky and more obvious but she didn’t think anyone really paid attention.

“I thought you were asleep. It’s almost dawn.”

        ♠ - Being in one of the oldest Vampire families, usually meant that you had a large family. Of course, the Smith family happened to have two parents. As well as thirteen children. Many different ages physically. This meant that they had to spend years hunting humans for food.

        ♠ - However, seeing Faye once again not doing any hunting caught his attention.

        ♠ - He stood in the doorway, knowing full well that she would be arriving home soon. His arms crossed when he saw her. Slowly, he placed his hand on his waist again. Giving a stern look to his little sister. Shaking his head as he spoke a response to her.

        ♣ - "Well you see, there was one head missing for my nightly headcount. Care to explain yourself?"

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What have you been up to today? Anything interesting? I decided to be a 14 year old again and watched video clips of my OG, ride or die, absolute favorite OTP this morning and I fangirled like it was 2012 lol. I haven’t revisited that ship in around six or seven years so it was surreal to see their scenes all over again and I was beaming all morning hahaha. Other than that, I do have a meeting in an hour but I find that more blah than interesting... WHYYYYY I volunteered for a shitload of extracurricular positions before this quarantine started, I’ll never know. What was the last thing you ate? My sister had found this bread recipe on YouTube last night and I loooooved what she made, so I asked her to make it again this morning. Do you know how to knit? Who taught you? We were taught in Grade 6 by our home economics teacher, but 1) I wasn’t interested and 2) kinesthetic learning has never been my forte, so I wasn’t able to follow from as early as step 1. What state or territory were you born in? Continued the day after, lol oops. I was born in Manila. Are you the type of person to dwell on the past? Only in such a way that I prefer to hold grudges, so on that front I’m technically perpetually dwelling on the past. I can get over other stuff relatively easily.

Are there many traffic incidents in your area? There’s a usual bottleneck spot three minutes away that gets really bad in the evening when everyone is trying to get home, but the traffic becomes a lot more loose when you get to the part of the highway leading to my village. What's your favourite genre of music? I vibe with R&B and some indie rock the best. Have you ever been for a ride in the back of a truck? No, I think that’s mostly illegal here lol. People usually ride the back of pickup trucks when they’re inside gated areas, but it’s a different story once they get to the highway. Are you currently downloading anything? Nope. I haven’t (illegally) downloaded a book since March-ish, and a movie since...2016, maybe. Have you seen any good movies lately? Tell me about them. Nah I prefer shows these days. The last good one I watched was Descendants of the Sun; it really lives up to the hype and is genuinely one of the better Korean dramas out there. It centers on a special forces captain and doctor and how their lives and respective careers intertwine in a war-stricken country. Does your father have any facial hair? He grows it but he shaves it off regularly. What's your favourite thing to eat for breakfast? Ideally it would be Eggs Benedict, but realistically I really like scrambled eggs, bacon, and fried rice. Did your grandparents teach you anything? My maternal grandpa was one of the smartest people I knew and from the second I was born he loved giving me little facts about every topic that could possibly exist, but especially about history and how things work or are made. My maternal grandma is super traditional and taught me more maternal and old-school stuff like how to be more ladylike, the different benefits of vegetables (like how carrot and squash are good for your eyes haha), and random facts about Christianity – basically stuff you’d expect from an Asian grandma lol. Because I didn’t really grow up with my paternal grandparents and since they’re a lot more reserved to begin with, I haven’t gotten the chance to learn a lot from them.

Do you want/have a Bachelor's degree? I want one and I’m on my way to getting it, but because of Covid the road to graduating has been slower than normal. The college has already decided and we’re only going to have an online graduation which really bums me out, and that’s gonna happen by late July. Have you ever written a song for or about somebody? I’ve never written a song, period. What are the longest and shortest romantic relationships you've been in? I’ve only had two stints and they’ve been with the same person. The shorter one lasted eight months, while the longer and ongoing one has been going on for four years. Would you go on one of those galactic space flights if you had the chance? If it was free, for sure. Do you like your license photo? Yes hahaha. The license people had a laugh once my card got printed out because I had a wide-ass smile on my face (the photographer said it was fine to smile, and he didn’t tell me off when I smiled with my teeth), and apparently that’s not normal at all because people would always choose to look stoic in their licenses. The amusement on their faces was funny to me and we ended up laughing together sksksksk. Are you into superheroes? Who's your favourite? I am not. I watched the Wonder Woman movie two years ago and that was really nice, but I’m generally not into superheroes. Spotify, Pandora or something else entirely? Spotify. The only Pandora we have here is the jewelry shop. What colours do you wear the most? I’d say black or mustard yellow. What was the last alcoholic beverage you had? I had a bottle of peach soju last Friday. How many televisions do you have in your house? How big is the biggest? Four. I dunno the dimensions of the biggest one we have but it’s pretty...big lol Have you ever been to Arizona? Did you like it? I have not. I like Arizona tea though :))) Do you have any exercise equipment in your home? Yeah we have a couple of dumbbells and my mom has a rowing machine thing. Are you a gossip-loving sort of person? Yes. Not the best trait of mine I gotta say, but it is a guilty pleasure. What brand of laptop or computer do you own or use most often? Apple. What did you have for dinner last night? We had some sort of Korean beef with vegetables. How old were you when you learned to tie your own shoelaces? The thing is, this was one of our exams in kindergarten, so I had to learn it to ace that test even though I’ve always been bad when it comes to hands-on learning. My grandma painstakingly taught me when I was five and she had to start teaching me weeeeeeks before the exam to accommodate how slow I am when it comes to lessons like that haha. Have you ever felt like you were making a mistake when dating someone? Certainly felt that way in the latter part of my first relationship. ^ Did you continue the relationship or end it when you realised? I continued it only because I’ve just never been the dumper type when it comes to relationships. I waited several months for her to realize so that she can do the breaking-up, but yeah those were several wasted months for me. When was the last time it rained where you live? Yesterday it rained hard all afternoon. Have you ever bought one of those 'As Seen on TV' products? Nope, but I like watching the commercials heheh. What brand are the shoes you last wore? Onitsuka Tiger. Do you think you look similar to your siblings? I do. You know how Snapchat has a filter that’ll show how you’d hypothetically look if you were the opposite sex? I’ve tried that out and my face just turns into my brother’s lmao, we look that similar I guess. My sister and I also look alike but much less - there are only certain angles where we do. Have you started watching any new TV shows recently? Mmm not yet. I have so many Korean dramas up on my queue – Crash Landing On You, Fight For My Way, Who Are You: School 2015, Legend of the Blue Sea, Itaewon Class, and Fated to Love You – but I take forever to start on any new series so idrk when I’m gonna start on one of these. When was the last time you sat in the back seat of a car? Around two weeks ago when my parents brought me to a nearby hospital to have me checked for my week-long fever. Are you good at answering random general knowledge trivia questions? I’m better than the average person, I’ll give myself that. Have you ever been obsessive over calories, exercise etc? No. What is your favourite shape of pasta? Fettuccine. Do you live to eat, or eat to live? Liiiiiive to eat. Have you ever played Cards Against Humanity? Did you like it? Yes, but just briefly and sneakily in my old school because Catholic school wouldn’t have tolerated a game like that haha. I found it funny, but I wouldn’t play it all the time. Are you going to work or school tomorrow? Not these days, chief. When did you wake up today? I was awake by 8:30. What is the time right now? 11:58 AM.

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I have already noted that Greenland was quite different from Iceland in several respects so I will expand on that a little now, based on the topics I used in Svalbard.

I have already said that there was less snow, much bigger icebergs (although fewer glaciers) and that the flora was somewhat enlarged in both variety and dimension – with giant trees almost up to our socks.  The daily routine was largely unchanged and the weather continued to be amazingly warm and sunny. Even when it was cloudy, it was not as cold as I imagined and we had no rain at all on either expedition.  The wildlife was fairly similar but a bit scarcer with a few musk ox being sighted (none up really close), more seals, and no polar bears (although they certainly live there in the winter.

The much larger icebergs were sculptured into the most dazzlingly imaginative shapes and we never ceased to ogle at them as we cruised around and between them.  One glacier high up in the Scoresby Sund is so massive that it calves quite a few tabular bergs, but over time, they all end up the same – as water.  But the process is extraordinary.  It might take years, especially if the berg becomes grounded in shallower areas of the Sound (but not in the 800 metre depths) and differential melting and both internal and external forces and conditions mean that they usually go through many phases, astounding shapes, diverse orientations, shifting and breaking and recombining, shearing and refreezing into unbelievable behemoths, before melting into nothingness, perhaps thousands if kilometres and several years from their birthplace.  All of this appears to happen above the waterline, but we constantly saw the evidence that 90% of the action was happening out of sight, perhaps hundreds of metres below the surface.

Enough of my obsession with icebergs, at least for the moment.

Heather was fine again once we reached Greenland and my reflux was manageable with a few additional meds.  On the other hand, there were more people in our party begging to be throttled.  As usual, most people were fine, but there were a few that exercised the nastiest devices to achieve priority in every queue, the same ones who entirely depleted the prime delicacies at breakfast, that openly conspired to be in the best vantage point on EVERY Zodiac cruise, who photobombed every attempt to get a pic of something in its natural state, who took literally thousands of selfies, demanding that the Zodiac be repositioned time and again to get the precise angle desired, always standing directly in line with whatever anyone else was trying to photograph, who hogged every conversation and boomed absurd stories incessantly in the bar and dining room, who whinged and carped about this and that irrespective of whether others liked it or not – I am sure you know some of those people too.  But it was sometimes so blatant that they should consider themselves lucky not to have been thrown overboard on numerous occasions.

And talking about being thrown overboard, I previously commented on the insanity of people voluntarily deserting a perfectly sound ship to leap into iceberg-laden Svalbard seawater.  Then I found myself doing exactly that in a 1 degree Greenland fjord.  Did I say insanity?

Heather thought it would be a good thing for her to do and guess who got suckered in to accompanying her?  I had slowly been ‘warming’ to the idea and succumbed to some gentle persuasion and we both leapt off together - and can now proudly wear our ‘I survived the Polar Plunge’ tee-shirts.  What one will do for a free slug of Sambucca on reboarding the ship! - to the enthusiastic applause of the 18 other dare-devils and the 30-something wimps who chose not to scare our wonderful Doctor Sophie with droves of imminent heart attacks.  We jumped together- don’t we always do things together? - whereas everyone else did solo leaps.  (I think we may have been the first to ever take the plunge together.)  We have had so many compliments about how romantic we were that I might even consider doing it again in Antarctica next year - if the pain subsides by then.  I understand that the Antarctic Plunge is perhaps harder because they make you run in from the shore and that surely takes at least a couple of extra seconds in which to shrivel up and wimp out.

I think the only other thing that was notably different on the Greenland trip was that because we had 3 full days at sea (and we weren’t seasick either!), there was more time for onboard activities.  All the lectures were repeated, but modified a little to focus more on Greenland, but they were supplemented with a few docos (Attenborough-type things) about ice, the Arctic ecology and climate change – some of which was credible, even if somewhat emotive.

Close Call with Calving

Did I say I was going to give icebergs a rest?  Surely not!

We had seen many glaciers and large icebergs calve, mostly relatively small amounts, with occasional larger shedding further away.  All the ice has a complex range if internal tensions from thousand of years of intense pressure buried under perhaps millions of tonnes of ice and twisted and contorted as the glacier scraped around the mountains.  For glaciers, there is an additional external pressure due to the immense force of the icecap pushing seawards, thereby causing the front to calve.  Once free of the glacier, the resultant icebergs lose that external force, but still have their internal pressures, as well as additional factors such as being released from the rigid ground in favour of the buoyant sea and more ready but differential melting both above and below the surface.  This imbalance in freestanding ice can result in calving as well as even very big bergs completely changing their orientation.  We have seen several examples of Bergy Bits turning turtle right near us as well as major calving to release some of the pressures and establish a new equilibrium.  We have lots of photos showing how numerous readjustments have occurred over time.

Everyone is constantly watching for the calvings, especially hoping for a big one and we nearly got swamped by one yesterday.  We were out Zodiac-cruising and came to a super-spectacular berg with a huge arch and lots of cracks running through it and small pieces falling off. We waited for ages on both sides of the arch hoping to see a massive fall, all the while hearing quite a few cracks in the big apparently-stable berg very close behind us.  We eventually gave up waiting for the crash that never came and nosed our Zodiac through the narrow channel between the two bergs.  Then crash!!!  A massive section of ice fell off the unexpected berg right where we had been a second earlier.  We gunned the Zodiac to avoid being crushed by the ice or swamped by the resultant waves that surged at us from where the sea was filled with floating ice.  Wow!  Did that ever get the adrenaline pounding.  One of the other Zodiacs was also fairly close and they took on a bit of water, but we swung around a slab of ice and avoided most of it.  One thing that scares everyone is the risk of being hit by razor-sharp shards of ice.  One woman took a spear of ice in her forehead last year and died instantly so we were keen to avoid that happening to any of us.

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FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is a measurement-compressed however lossless digital audio format with smaller file measurement than uncompressed lossless codecs like WAV FLAC is presently nicely-supported by many software purposes and hardware assist is rising. The bitrate of the MP3s this program makes is so bad I might quite put 500MB of FLACs on my cellphone than take heed to the horse crap this program spits out. After trying many purposes, we realized that VLC Media Player is able to changing audio and video information, too, which is great information contemplating we already had the software put in and we guess most of you do, too. Usually FLAC files are used by music fanatics, audiophiles, music producers, sound editors, and audio engineers, but there are different uses for them as effectively, virtually at all times related to both recording, modifying, or listening to absolutely the highest high quality audio version of a track or audio monitor. HandBrake has a few benefits over the Lion Automator and iTunes strategies. The primary is that it could possibly convert video files not natively supported by the Mac OS. You'll be able to, for instance, convertavi andmkv information. It also means that you can batch process files. Just select a file you wan to transform and click the Add To Queue button at the prime of the HandBrake window. Then add every other recordsdata you wish to convert, utilizing this same Add To Queue button. Once you're ready, simply click Begin. HandBrake will set about converting all the files within the queue. Run Free FLAC to MP3 Converter firstly, merely click on the "Add Media Recordsdata" button to pick out audio recordsdata out of your onerous drive. You can even add batch audio information by clicking menu "File -> Batch Add Media Recordsdata". Step 1. To free convert FLAC to MP3 using Video Converter Free, download, set up and launch the software program. Make sure that to select the Convert option earlier than utilizing the software program. Add information utilizing the Add Information choice or simply drag and drop the information on the primary interface. FLAC, or Free Lossless Audio Codec, is an audio format that compresses music files without losing any knowledge. However, as is the case with most lossless codecs, the information are often quite giant and may fill your storage space with only a few albums. Additionally, the FLAC format is not broadly supported on cell devices, so you may need to flip your FLAC recordsdata into the extra widely supported MP3 format to be on the secure facet. The easiest option to get this accomplished is through the use of Movavi Video Converter.

Large-scale digital media distributors, resembling Apple and Amazon, use DRM (Digital Rights Administration) encryption for copyright protection and to authenticate the media player you authorize to play the encrypted information. Once you purchase an album or track from iTunes, the DRM-protected file can solely play on an Apple machine that's related together with your Apple ID. If you want to play that music or album on an Android phone or pill, it's good to use a copy of the file that doesn't have DRM encryption. You possibly can tell if a file is encrypted or protected by proper-clicking on it and consulting its properties. Now go right down to Profile drop-down menu at the bottom of the window to reveal the export format record, and then select MP3 - MPEG Layer-three Audio (.mp3) from the Normal Audio checklist. With this simple-to-use converter, you'll be able to simply convert any Spotify music or flac to mp3 online playlist in simply four steps while retaining a hundred% unique high quality and ID3 tags after conversion. After that, you'll be able to freely take pleasure in Spotify music on any machine as you want. Earlier than you moved towards online instruments, we wish to introduce you to the best and probably the most beneficial desktop software for flac to mp3 online to MP3 conversion. It's Wondershare Video Converter Final which has many perks similar to video file format conversions. When put next with any free FLAC to MP3 converter online, you needn't preserve doing the tedious job of loading a web page, as the software program performs any operation swiftly. Your ALAC recordsdata possible stayed relatively small because there wasn't a lot information there for them to encode. If you had began with a lossless source (like a CD or vinyl) and encoded them to ALAC, then converted them to MP3, you'd see the files shrink so much. After I rip a CD to ALAC, it will normally use between 250mb to 750mb for a full album. My relatively small library is getting near 40gb already. Slower converting velocity than desktop FLAC converters particularly when changing a large or a number of recordsdata. WMA: Windows Media Audio is Microsoft's personal proprietary format, much like MP3 or AAC. It doesn't actually offer any benefits over the opposite formats, and it's also not as effectively supported. There's very little reason to rip your CDs into this format. Some audiophiles claim that FLAC provides you with the close to audio CD sound high quality whereas compressing the file measurement to more than 50%, making it the almost perfect" sound compression algorithm out there immediately. For those who hold around people with golden ears, you'll probably stumble into FLAC lots. Supports wide range of audio file formats comparable to AC3, AAC, MP3, FLAC, M4A, MKA, OGG, WAV, APE and so forth. A minimum of it factors out what is very important: good recordings, good original information, good converters, and, to keep away from jitter, a very good clock for the converter. To FLAC Converter can encode the unlimited number of media information and folders. Just add your audio and video for conversion. The application will maintain folders' construction, authentic tags and file names for all output MP3s. You can be supplied with detailed progress of every file's conversion and notified when encoding of all files is finished.It can be MP3, FLAC, OGG, WAV, WMV or any of the supported formats. Hello-fi: Of course, the largest benefit to FLAC recordsdata is that they're ideally suited to listening on a hi-fi machine. Allow you to regulate bitrate, sample value, channel of a audio file in order that you may reduce file dimension whereas holding audio prime quality as excessive as doable. Convert your FLAC recordsdata to MP3 audio. Bypass DVD CSS, Area Code, Multi-angle, Disney X-Challenge DRM and other advanced copy protections. Extract audio from DVD with 1:1 authentic quality preserved and convert the audio to MP3, FLAC, WAV, OGG, AAC and more with simple clicks.

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The Benefits of Online Shopping For Women

For a lot of women, multi-tasking has become a must. The constant demands of job, childcare, running a residence and also many various other dedications on both our energy and time can leave us feeling like there aren't enough hours in the day. It is maybe therefore that online shopping is ending up being a significantly prominent selection for women of every age as they look for to discover a much better balance in their lives, as well as probably even have a little time left over for themselves! Many reasons are shopping online ought to be an attractive proposition for women, right here are just a few of them.

Spoilt For Selection

One of the most effective aspects of shopping online is the unbelievable variety of items readily available. From hair accessories to home devices, you'll discover whatever you're looking for online at the click of a mouse. Whether you're searching for a brand-new bag to complement your favorite shoes or an entire new attire, shopping online can use you a lot more selection as well as variety than any shop you can find on the High Road. You'll find things in every color, style and also size imaginable, and all from the comfort of your own house.

Give Your Feet A Break

Among the less satisfying aspects of shopping are marching rounded loads of buy hrs at a time searching for what you're trying to find. Picture the scene: you have actually walked for miles (possibly in the rainfall), perhaps lugging hefty bags, going from store to shop as well as ultimate fatigue, cravings or exhaustion has got the better of you, and also you have returned residence empty-handed. Is audio familiar? And even worse, the relatively perpetual trip has eventually led you to a product you enjoy, only for you to uncover that it's out of stock in the dimension or color you want. The high-quality news is that there's no requirement to put on your own through that torture! Shopping online methods say goodbye to sore feet or frustrating, unproductive trips. Since reached to be a relief.

Be kind to your handbag

An additional advantage to shopping online is possible to save yourself money. Not just is it fast and easy to contrast rates on the web; you'll also locate that several stores use unique "web only" offers that you would not or else be able to benefit from. You'll conserve yourself loan on fuel as well as vehicle parking prices, and as lots of online retailers currently use complimentary UK distribution, it's very easy to see exactly how shopping online can be an extremely affordable choice.

The rate is of the essence

Shopping online for presents is fast coming to be the preferred choice for both men and women alike. Along with the big choice of items readily available as well as the possibility to order a bargain, the option to acquire a present for a close friend or member of the family as well as have it provided straight to them, gift covered, of course, is one currently being supplied by several online sellers. Finally, keeping in mind a crucial birthday celebration or wedding anniversary at the last minute doesn't need to be a catastrophe! And also with lots of sellers currently providing express (or perhaps following day) distribution, the online shopping choice appears like the noticeable selection. So whether you're in the marketplace for women's fashion accessories or the latest sophisticated device, you'll locate it quickly online.

Shop in your pajamas!

There's no such thing as opening up hrs when it involves internet shopping and no outfit code either! So if you decide that you truly require those brand-new hair straighteners at 2.30 am, that's not an issue!

Jingle bells

The crowds, the queues, the inclement weather condition, the stress: simply a few of the reason why shopping online at Christmas is through far one of the most sensible alternatives. Why not stay warm and also completely dry in the convenience of your very own house? While those fewer know-how shoppers trudge through the snow loaded down with bags, sit by the fire with your hot chocolate. Indulge in the glow of your fairy lights as well as go across off those items on your Xmas shopping list with a click of your mouse.

No worries

Net consumers are now a lot more familiar with the security that features shopping online. Several sellers currently suit PayPal payments for maximum convenience as well as safety and naturally all online purchases covered by distance marketing regulations suggesting that you have peace of mind as you go shopping.

On your marks, ready, accessories

Some of the most popular products bought online are women's fashion accessories. Certainly, the range available on the web outperforms those offered in the High Street as well as with online financial savings to make there's never been a much better time to treat on your own. Best of all, the web not only supplies you accessibility to the heavyweight women's fashion stores, but to 10s of thousands of smaller sized store design online retail electrical outlets that you may otherwise be incapable to accessibility in your location. If you have an eye for women's fashion trimmings and also are seeking something a little bit a lot more distinct and exclusive, then online shopping is a must.