#@skatingthinandice

[thefrsers]

requested by: @skatingthinandice: 7.02 + 7.08 "don't deserve a second chance" parallel

[eddiediaaz]

hi alie, please could you tell me how you made the lens flare and film grain effect on your recent rwrb fonts gifset? it looks so beautiful! i'm working on my very first gifset with blending and overlays and things, and i'd like to try my hand at learning some more new stuff 💛

hiiii! thank you!! <3

i've found these overlays on youtube over the years, i don't remember exactly which videos they were, but if you look up "film strip overlay", "kodak overlay", "film grain overlay", etc for the film one, you should find something that you like. same goes for the light streak one: if you search for something like "light streak overlay", you'll get a bunch of nice one. then i download them via a website (i often use y2mate) and make a gif with screencaps from the dowloaded video(s) like i would any other gif.

once you have your overlay(s) ready to go as a smart object, duplicate it onto your gif, on top of everything (or under the typography layers), but definitely on top of coloring and blending, etc. put the overlay layer in a group, and if you have more than one overlay, put each overlay in its own group.

if the overlay is mostly black with some white specs/other colors, set that group's blending mode to screen (or lighten if it looks better). this will make everything that is black in the overlay transparent. and if the overlay is mostly white with some black, you can use the multiply (or darken) blending mode (it will make everything that is white transparent).

the reason why i prefer putting the overlay in a group and change the group's blending mode, instead of the overlay itself, is because it's easier to change its color that way if you wish. to change its color, i use a gradient map layer. the colors should be black to whatever color you want, and this layer should go into the overlay group, and n top of the overlay layer.

for my gifs in this rwrb set, there was also actually an animated grainy overlay below these two overlays. i've uploaded it here as a psd if you want, since it's pretty light. i put that layer in its own group and changed the blending mode to hard light and the opacity to 10%. i only used a gradient map to change the color on the color steak one to make it more of a pastel orange color, the two other overlays are as is without any color correcting layers.

i hope that was clear enough :)

[brynnmclean]

oooh 'action', 'palm' or 'dark' for the wip ask 👀

Hey!!! Two for one in this section:

Senua swims into his view, lines of worry carved into her brow, but the sky of her eyes holds sunlight. She breathes his name and her hand moves up, hovering for a heartbeat and then cupping the side of his face. Another memory flashes in his head—her holding his head above a sea of darkness, preventing him from drowning. He wonders what she saw in him that was worth saving. “It is good to see you awake,” Senua says once he has caught his breath, though he leans heavy into the bedding, worn out from even so little an effort. “I thought…” She trails off, moving away, and he reaches almost without thinking to grasp her hand and to rest her palm against the unmarred side of his chest. “Don’t worry,” he says, trying to pull a smile to his face. His voice is stronger, at least, though still threaded with weariness. “It will take much more than a sword cut to send me to Hela.”

[Send me a word, if it’s in my wip document I’ll answer your ask with the sentence that it appears in]

[agrippinaes]

mary crawley + charles blake in downton abbey

requested by @misscrawfords and @skatingthinandice

[thegirl20]

@skatingthinandice replied to your post “We will stand tall (Face it all together) -...”:

you know until i saw that gifset the other day i forgot they were both in calendar girls 😂 seeing them both in costume makes me feel better about the casting too!

​In all honestly it was the casting that finally prompted me to read the books. I'd had the first one kicking around for a while but hadn't actually read it and now I've read the first three. So I've read the books picturing the actors.

I can see why people are upset about some of the roles, to be honest.

Who did you have in mind as the main characters?

Also, yes it's fun that they were in Calendar Girls!

(Gives me younger Joyce/Elizabeth thoughts...)

[judasisgayriot]

@skatingthinandice @remembertheskittles aww I got twin asks from both of you!! Hahaha 🥰💖💖💖💖

I’ll do top 10 from my on repeat but only the first song on there from any individual artist for variety haha (so it’s not all fall out boy, unlike my blog currently lmao.)

Everybody Wants Somebody - Patrick Stump

All You Had To Do Was Stay (Taylor’s Version) - Taylor Swift

Cry - Carly Rae Jepsen

Bob Dylan - Fall Out Boy

In My Head - Jason DERULOOOO

(Had to skip so much fob/patrick/carly rae at this point lol)

Rose-Colored Boy - Paramore

If You Sing - Anarbor

New Religion - All Time Low

The Interview - AFI

The Calendar - Panic! At The Disco

[hammerbacks]

happy birthday sami!!! welcome to the 30 club ✌️ hope you have a fabulous day! 💛

thank you katie! 💛 can’t quite get my head around being 30 yet, but the 30s club must be the best if you’re in it too 🥰

[sirtadcooper]

I was tagged by @skatingthinandice to share 10 songs I'm enjoying at the moment - thank you! :)

I find/become obsessed with most songs I like via fanvids - if that's the case here I've linked back to the vid. Enjoy! :)

I'd Let You Win by PORTS (Doctor Who)

Born to Run by American Authors (Doctor Who)

Don't Give Up On Me by Andy Grammer & R3HAB

Satellite by Two Door Cinema Club (Good Omens)

Born Bold by Valley of Wolves

Home by Dotan (Doctor Who)

Hey Now by Matt and Kim

I'll Carry You by Tommee Profitt (Our Flag Means Death)

Mary on a Cross by Ghost

Obsession by OK Go

I'm tagging some recent mutuals (only if you want to, of course!) - @homerjacksons, @burglarhobbit, @dearemma, @freddiesinnuendo and @crowleybrekkers. <3

[buildarocketboys]

❄️🌪️ for the wip ask game!

Thank you!! :D

❄️Share a snippet from a WIP of your choosing.

Cheeky little excerpt from my angsty Peterick proposal fic:

Pete gets down on one knee and pulls out the ring box. Patrick turns around. If he was dumbstruck before, the expression on his face now is something else. Patrick looks like he's stopped working, like his brain has crashed. "Patrick..." says Pete cautiously. "You OK there?" For a minute he's worried he's actually broken Patrick, but then he reboots, breath catching in his chest as he glares Pete up and down like a malevolent old tomcat. "Pete, what the hell is this?" says Patrick flatly. Not the greatest reaction, but Pete hardly expected a better one. He takes a deep breath. "Patrick Martin Vaughn Stumph," Pete says, using Patrick's full name, his real one, just because he thinks it sounds more official. "Will you marry me?" There's a long, sticky silence. Patrick's expression doesn't move at all, not a flicker.

🌪️Sum up a WIP with a few fic tropes/Ao3 tags.

Some tags for my touch-starved Blaine + Sam fic

#touch starved #angst #cheating #angst and fluff #friendship #hurt/comfort #pre-slash

[ayo-edebiri]

hi, can i ask what font you use for your gif subtitles? i'm learning how to make gifs and i really like yours 💛

Hey :)

Thank you! I use arial rounded mt bold

[dawntainbobbynash]

hi dawn! i don't think i've seen anyone do this, if you would consider giffing the "solid ground" parallels from 6x12 when bobby says it to wendall, and 7x09 during athena and amir's conversation (i can't remember which of them says it sorry) 💕

Ty for this ask bc I knew there was a very important and obvious parallel that I was forgetting to gif and it was this one!

[thefrsers]

hi there! i just wanted to say thank you for your bathena gifsets, they were the first thing i woke up to this morning after being terrified all night about how the episode might go 😅 you soothed my heart immediately 💕

Aww, thank you! You’re so sweet🥹

[dengswei]

hiya, just thought of another question lmao, what sharpening settings do you use? i use 1080px but my gifs tend to look low quality when it's one gif width at 540px 😅 yours look lovely!

heyy thank you 🥹 and omg my sharpening is actually really basic 🤣 , i do my sharpening after i resize the frames to 540px, this is my sharpening setting:

if i notice a lot of noise/grain i'll also add reduce noise with these settings:

if i notice later that i don't like the sizing & need to either make it bigger or smaller to fit whatever i'll either undo the sharpening (if possible & i haven't done too much like colouring or whatever) or i'll reload the frames, resize to the new positioning/sizing i want, and sharpen it again (i notice especially if you decide actually i want to make the frames a bit larger you lose a bit of quality so that's why i do this 😅)

[brynnmclean]

good luck with your writing! here's some more words to pick from: ritual, mood, want 💛

Nothing for "ritual" or "mood" yet, but here's a good section for "want":

The silence that falls between him and Fargrímr becomes unbearable—unfortunately, Fargrímr waits for Thórgestr to break it. “I want…” he finally starts, lifting up his head, but only looking at his empty hands. He’s only been training with a sword, instead of sword and axe like he has been accustomed to wielding, but what if he can’t—what if he doesn’t— “I want to be well. I want to be able to fight again without—” He stops, blows out a breath, clenches his jaw. Fargrímr makes a soft, sympathetic sound. “I saw you on the ground. What happened?” “Nothing,” Thórgestr growls. “Nothing. I’m not even fighting a real enemy, and the pain just—hits back. Until I best it, I am worthless to you all.”

[Send me a word, if it’s in my wip document I’ll answer your ask with the sentence that it appears in]

[thegirl20]

@skatingthinandice replied to your post “@skatingthinandice replied to your post “We will...”:

yeah it's always difficult coming from book to film i think, i don't suppose the characters feel very cinematic so i was largely imagining ordinary people 😂 but i'd definitely say i had stephanie cole in mind as joyce

​OooOoooOooooh. I hadn't seen Stephanie Cole mentioned. I saw some people were hoping for Penelope Wilton or Lesley Manville for Joyce, either of whom would have been great.

Stehanie Cole is an interesting thought. I think I might see her as more of an Elizabeth than a Joyce, but I could be persuaded otherwise 😊

[judasisgayriot]

🌸💕 for being kind and lovely, have a kiss on the forehead! pass it on to 10 people 💕🌸

MWAH thank uuuu 💖💖💖🥰