#edit: wtf is tumblr doing to the saturation

[zazrichor]

my contributions for the lovely @shlzine 🌼

[murfeelee]

Get to know you - Sims Style

Thanks @descendantdragfi here and @obscurus-noctem here for tagging me! ❤️

What’s your favorite Sims death? Every death is hilarious--fire and drowning are iconic, ofc. My fave sims GHOST, however, is the Haunted one from SN, and the Hologram one from ITF.

Alpha CC or Maxis Match? Alpha CC. I don't mind Maxis Match in TS3, but EFF NO in TS4--get that clayfied crap out of my face, alpha all the waaaaaay~!

Do you cheat your sims weight? YES, I use a weight gain mod.

Do you move objects? MOOOOOOOO! 🐄🐮

Favorite Mod? I juuuuust made a whole post drooling over my faves.

First Expansion/Game Pack/Stuff Pack? TS1 Makin Magic. Iconic.

Do you pronounce live mode like aLIVE or LIVing? aLIVE.

Who’s your favorite sim that you’ve made? My avatar sim, Sakura Rain, the time-traveling Japanese cherry-tree faery of the Unseelie Court. (She's inspired by all my fave pink-haired anime characters.)

Have you made a simself? Yes, but only when I play The Sims with my family members, and we take turns making each other and our home. It's so much fun.

Which is your favorite EA hair color? White. Especially after TS4 came out with no CASt or color wheel and I couldn't even recreate my main sims like wtf. I have a type, EA!

Favorite EA hair? PFFT! 🙄 I can't stand most of the hairs EA makes in general, especially not the ones for male sims, as most of mine have very long hair.

Favorite life stage? Young adult, by default. But as more mods have been made for kids (No Stretch, Child Magic, Toddler Interactions) I have been enjoying child sims FAR more than I used to.

Are you a builder or are you in it for the gameplay? I'm a builder--that's how I got into TS1 way back in the day. I like decorating interiors--my exteriors are usually sad, I suck at using CFE--and just cluttering up my lots. As a fandom-inspired storyteller, I rely on in-game interactions to give my sims the poses/scenes I need, so having deep and immersive gameplay that allows me to recreate whatever fandoms I want is key.

Are you a CC creator? Unfortunately.

Do you have any Simblr friends or a Sim Squad? A "sim squad"???

Do you have any sims merch? No, but I want one of those plumbbob headbands so I can dress up as a sim on Halloween. XD

Do you have a  Youtube for sims? Technically no. I got into making TS3 machinimas inspired by my favorite music a few years ago, and would upload them to Youtube cuz that's what everyone did, but omfg all the recent changes in copyright and music policies has made it SUCH a headache uploading ANYWHERE--including Tumblr!

Like, my most recent IWTV insp. machinima on Tumblr has that stupid Copyright Guidelines thumbnail on it, even though Tumblr ACCEPTED the video and let it go through--it plays! It's not removed, so wtf??? No matter how many times I tried reuploading it I got the same problem--this BS is more trouble than it's worth, tbh.

How has your “Sims style” changed throughout your years of playing? My gameplay will always look a bit pudding, but I think/hope I'm getting better at recreating different fandoms, and getting the level of detail down just right.

Who’s your favorite CC creator? It takes a village. There is no ONE creator--especially since all my OG faves retired a long time ago: Luna, @qingshuangtongzi, Hekate999, etc. And new simmers pop up everyday that blow my mind, so yeah, it's just the community at large, really. 💚💚💚

How long have you had Simblr? 2013--this July will make it a full decade. Tumblr's trash but it's also the absolute best, LOL.

How do you edit your pictures? I suck at editing--in GIMP I just tweak the "Curves" brightness & saturation when the in-game lighting is hot garbage, then call it a win.

What expansion/ gamepack is your favorite? (TS1) Makin Magic, (TS2) Apartment Life & Night Life are tied for witches & vampires, (TS3) Supernatural, (TS4) Vampires. Like, Supernatural changed my life, I seriously doubt I'd've kept playing TS3 as long as I have without SN. I also love World Adventures and Into the Future of course, but Supernatural gave us Witches, Faeries, Werewolves, (I'm not even gonna talk about TS3's busted Vampires like how the EFF were they "updated" or "fixed" when we STILL didn't get a functional coffin, like what frikkin vampire would sleep on a frikkin altar exposed to the sunlight like a effing BUFFOON, EA?!) and all kinds of fanciful content that I just can't live without. Hands down. 🧙🪄🧙‍♀️✨

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Y'all know me--if y'all want to do this, too, just say I tagged you! <3

[meandmyechoes]

ahhh thank you @acciokenobi for tagging me. I love the opportunity to examine my own work to unbearable lengths (^^)v

rules: to show appreciation of gifmakers and how much they grow and what they do, post one of your first gifs and one of your most recent gifs, then tag some gifmakers to see how much they’ve grown and improved.

[the gifs as a upcycled set because i'm dramatic like that, also lol, what improvment]

Past:

Should I dig out those horribly fast and grainy novice gifs? (tcw meme) Or just put something I'm still proud of? (trust) It's hard to just pick one because they need to be seen as a set. Limiting to tcw, though truthfully was a Lyoko giffer for roughly a year before that so. (oh my my CLE gifs are absolute trash) Adding all that up I only have 3 years + 3 months of experience? Basically my early days include what is cropping what is FPS wtf are Levels

Since my revival I've done several remakes of my old gifsets already (touch, padawan, nails). Back when I was starting I did a lot of close-up sets for Ahsoka, you know, simple scenes, minimal colouring. What I improved most is definitely typesetting. I finally settled on a font I think is 'pro' enough and, while the response is lukewarm, I still enjoy slapping quotes/lyics on them gifs and toying with typography.

Present:

I've had so many ideas since season seven and inspiration from tumblr I've been experimenting a lot more with colouring, such as (low saturation) for skyguy and snips, or (murder rainbow). Colouring fairy kissed me on the forehead when I use indigo/purple, haha (deck, 0612, faceless, arms crossed). Lately I've been doing more lettering work and explore into technicality like with (transition).

+ Future:

Taking out the almost a hundred of prompts. For gifs, I need to work on proportions. I just want to play around to see what happens. It's also a progress of time because we now have raised gif limit. It became the new convention to present gifs in single-row squares as opposed to one would in 2014 in neat grids. I do have certain nostalgia over those particular formats, but the new possibility also gave us some amazing pt/ot/film edits that went all out with cropping scenes and palettes. In other news, I'm also really interested in learning to graphic.

Judging from my dash, l think pretty much everyone in the TCW giffer circle is tagged already? If you're a giffer and I don't know you yet, please consider doing this and tagging me to know you!

[fleecie-blog1]

Hello! 😊 I hope you feeling well. First i really really love your tumblr. I dont checkt all cause i found yours just now. But WTF your Screenshots are so gorgeous!! 😍 What is your secret? Could you please tell me how you do it? Lovley Regards ❤

Hello & thank you dear!! ♥ I hope you’re feeling well yourself :)

I’m currently using whiisker’s prismatic reshade preset and I always make sure to toggle the DOF - it makes the background a bit more saturated as well and gives it a beautiful red tone. 

I bring up my screenshots in photoshop cc & crop them to my liking (different for each photo sometimes)! First I’ll use smubuh’s bright days action followed by cowplant-pizza’s yogi bear action (everything minus the smart sharpening). 

I use my own personalized settings of Topaz Clean which are as follows; 

And then after I’ll go back and use the smart sharpening settings from the yogi bear action which are linked on the original post ♥

Last but not least, sometimes I use smubuh’s light leaks ! If I do use them, odds are I use the one in the bottom left corner (the pink one) or the top left one to show that it’s sunny out lol ♥ I may be changing up my editing style a little bit soonish, but that’s how I’ve been doing it up until now ^3^ 

[tigreost]

85 Question Tag Game! 💫

Tagged by the cute and wonderful @satur-nya!

Drink: coke and sometimes tea never

Phone call: never, just for quick calls

Text message: friends and my bf

Song you listened to: a lot of things 😂 but last was Nightcore - Solo [lyrics] (the one with dabi on the thumb. Yeah, judge me)

Time you cried: two days ago, due to anxiety and depression

Dated someone twice: yeah, they were rlly persistent

Kissed someone and regretted it: yeah :/

Been cheated on: idk? I hope not lol

Lost someone special: yep

Been depressed: everyday, all the time

Gotten drunk and thrown up: I don���t drink

Favorite colors: oh gosh.. black, gray, red, blue, anything that I find beautiful at the time rlly, like pastels

Made new friends: yeah! I’m so happy for them, they’re already precious to me, my first online friends :3

Fallen out of love: yup

Laughed until you cried: today, watching Mark’s new Try Not To Laugh video

Found out someone was talking about you: have no ideia, I’m too stupid to notice that (but usually my mom)

Met someone who changed you: yup, some

Found out who your friends are: yup, i guess?

Kissed someone on your facebook friends list: my bf 😂 and ex

How many of your facebook friends do you know irl: a lot of them, all from the same school (again, I almost don’t have friend online.. or irl for that matter)

Do you have any pets: yup, a fish-beta (it’s my mother’s but yeah)

Do you want to change your name: just my middle name, since I don’t use it

What did you do for your last birthday: I don’t rlly remember, but I spented it with my bf and eated some burritos

What time did you wake up today: 7:10 am

What were you doing at midnight last night: watching some videos (Mark and Pewds)

What is something you can’t wait for: have my own house, my own art style (and ppl liking it) and earn money (judge me, I know it’s a lot)

What are you listening to right now: music, Nightcore - Now I Don’t Care (judge me again)

Have you ever talked to a person named tom: wtf? Uh unfortunetly (he was very rude), “tom” is not rlly comum here so what with this question?

Something that gets on your nerves: myself, my anxiety, ppl being rude or calling my full name

Most visited website: I have no idea, but it’s between tumblr, twitter and tumblr

Hair color: dark chocolate brown

Long or short hair: shoulder’s lenght (wanna cut it)

Do you have a crush on someone: my bf

What do you like about yourself: my tattoos

Want any piercings?: yeah! I’d love to

Blood type: AB- I think?

Nicknames: irl? Bi or Bia

Relationship status: boyfriendo

Zodiac: Virgo

Pronouns: she/her

Fave tv shows: I have 0 ideas since I don’t watch tv, BUT I guess Scorpion, Castle, Bones and TBBT (judge me and whoever let the tv on)

Tattoos: two! A half-moon on my right wrist and a rose on my left forearm (but I want more)

Right or left handed: right handed

Ever had surgery: kinda? When I had a bicycle accident years ago they kinda had to cut some skin and muscle (not much muscle just the wasted part) bc it burned thanks to the iron, so I guess a plastic surgery (bc it got burned ?)

Piercings: none, but I wanna

Sport: volleyball and basketball, but I’m rlly lazy and sedentary

Vacation: Canada! But rlly anywhere pretty and interesting

Trainers: what?

Eating: soon pizza, but now a Brazilian candy called “doce de leite” (I guess it’s condensed milk, but idk), the crunchy type

Drinking: water

I’m about to watch: videos (yeah, Mark/Pewds/Jack again), if there’s nothing new, bnha -edit, changed my mind, I’ll watch @queenofliz4rds art stream

Waiting for: finish writing this to come back drawing lmao

Want: sleep, draw and my pizza

Get married: I don’t really mind to these things, but meh, whatever

Career: animator (pls hire me)

Hugs or kisses: both

Lips or eyes: both

Shorter or taller: I don’t rlly care, but usually taller (bc I’m tall)

Older or younger: I don’t care about it, my bf is a year younger (I usually liked older, but I don’t caaare)

Nice arms or stomach: both, but I’m weak for nice arms (big arms)

Hookup or relationship: relationship

Troublemaker or hesitant: both

Kissed a stranger: never

Drunk hard liquor: I don’t drink

Lost glasses: Sometimes, especially if they fall, I’m too tall, I don’t see them! But usually bc they fall from where I put them

Turned someone down: in which way? Relationship? yeah. Mood? all the time

Sex on first date: never did, but don’t I judge who does

Broken someone’s heart: yeah..

Had your heart broken: yup.. (not only on relationships)

Been arrested: never lol

Cried when someone died: yep

Fallen for a friend: yup

Yourself: I am a mess and weird/awkward, idk how ppl endure me, pleasure

Miracles: idk, don’t rlly believe in it, but if it happened I’m the type of person that don’t notice it

Love at first sight: idk, never happened with me (both sides of it)

Santa Claus: he’s red

Kiss on a first date: yeah, my bf, but it was planned. Before that, nop

Angels: of death?

Best friend’s name: hm, I don’t rlly have close friends, but I guess Kai (and maybe Stef/Luiza— but then again, idk if they agree with me, so)

Eye color: dark brown, almost black

Favortie Movie: I love a bunch of movies (come talk to me, gimme movies to watch)

Favorite actors: I’m bad with names, so I’ll say Kermit

My first tag! Nice

I will tag @kaijuchrys and @mr--socks. Only two ppl bc idk much ppl (come talk to me).

[dfenestrate]

hello all! here’s a quick reflection post on this blog in 2018 and more! 

STATS

max milestone reached for followers: 500

max milestone reached for notes: 9000

MY TOP 5 POSTS

1. x 9452 notes; lol i definitely cracked myself up a lot while making this. also this post is a rare example of moments when i know how to caption

2. x 4012 notes; another one that cracked me up a lot. i just love him, man. and it’s hard not to notice such strange parallels when you’re watching all his shows on constant repeat for “self care” 

3. x 3541 notes; so i see a trend with posts that make me laugh a lot. these three are pure idiots and that’s all i can say 

4. x 2710 notes; the COLORS in this one. hoooo boy im in lOVE (although my eyes at night aren’t) 

5. x 2534 notes; this one was my first bold text/type of set like this. really REALLy liked making it haha

MY TOP 5 POSTS I LOVED THE MOST 

1. x 246 notes THIS ONE! THIS ONE IS ART! IM SO SURPRISED I MADE THIS! there was a LOT OF layering and collaging and OH MY!

2. x 4 notes (dudes wtf?) THIS ONE????? I LOVE THE WHOLE OLD PIC THEME BC IT’S MY CHILDREN THE GUARDIANS AND THAT’S THEIR BRAND AND THEY WERE TREATED IN A WAY THEY DIDNT DESERVE IN IN FINITY WAR AND NOW IM EMOTIONAL AGAIN

3. x 71 notes this one was v funny and it was the first time i played with saturation and one prominent color. idk kinda wished it got around more

4. x 69 notes guys? this one is REALLY pretty

5.  x 32 notes i worked VERY VERY hard to fix THE COLORS of this damn MOVIE and i understand it was made that way for a certain reason but still it was a NIGHTMARE and this came out VERY NICELY plz give it more LOVE

POSTS THAT DESERVED BETTER; or, in other words, posts that didn’t get the traction that i had wished that they would get 

1. literally all of the ones mentioned in the “posts that i loved” section

2. x x x x x literally all of my 5sos posts :( although, i do understand that at the time i was posting them, i was p new in the new face of the 5sos tumblr fandom lol rip. hopefully next year i’ll be able to interact more with my fellow 5sosfam (rip ill cringe that was v 2013) 

3. x x x x x literally all of my gotg posts :( this i do not understand :( although i am felling a little of an exaggeration of what i should fell but lol gotg are my ultimates so fight me

4. x x the few pvris posts :( again, same thing with the 5sos fandom, only i think the pvris fandom is quite small on tumblr? so that kinda made it hard to find people to tag for the gifs :( 

4a. x this gifset was of a collab pvris did with tonight alive and it was v pretty :(

5. x x x my few fantastic beasts gifs lol rip i think i just giffed them too late in relation to the waves of gifs created from the trailer for fantastic beasts 2

CONCLUSION

overall, i think it was a fairly good year. at least, it was a fairly good first half in terms of productivity and whatnot with a vacant second half of the year. i’m terribly sorry for that. college and mental health were my priorities and unfortunately tumblr fell short of being integrating in my routine. i’m working on it now, and hopefully we’ll see some results soon! 

in terms of gifs/edits, i improved A LOT given the fact that i started end of last year. as you saw above, i had a lot of good ones i’m proud of. with that come gifs that i’m not too happy with, mainly because of the amount of time i spent on them (too much) ( x x x x x ) and their end result. i have a PLETHORA of gif ideas (even some from last year) that i have to get to. some of them are certain time commitments, and that has definitely waned my enthusiasm to make them. 

never fear however, for 2019 is a new year! i hope to come back with a bang with better gifs, MUCH BETTER CAPTIONS, and hopefully a lot more interacting with y’all. thank you for an amazing first “official” year of making gifs (i’ve been on this site with this blog for over 4 years and have just started contributing to this mess)

once again, happy new year!