#this gifset makes me so happy and I enjoyed finding clips so much

[capricornsicle]

The "Wolf" of Teen Wolf 3x02 "Visionary" ﹢ 3x15 "Galvanize" ﹢ 4x12 "Smoke and Mirrors" ﹢ 5x02 "Parasomnia"

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[whenfatecollides]

Thank you for the svt recs! I've heard a lot of them, but I'm excited to have a better playlist and place to start with them ❤️

and re: dc notes feeling different (not my ask btw!), I feel the same way! I think you put it into words really well. I've sorta seen the same thing happen with the other group I follow behind the scenes stuff for, where at a certain point in their careers (and definitely during the pandemic), things became a lot more "catered" to fandom rather than a group of people hanging out and sharing a really unique and interesting experience together.

Things kinda feel more.. celebrity (?) now? Like, it's much more apparent to me in some notes and stuff that yup, they're celebrities (which.. kinda made maison a sore spot for me in a few ways, but that's a different story!). Which, duh, but it felt easier to find moments of just silliness and human connection in a lot of the older stuff, and I feel like that's sorta a thing that just happens at a certain success point, where maybe people have less of a desire to share every part of themselves on camera than earlier days. Which is fine! I'm all for more privacy for them, but I agree that I'd be happy with shorter notes with some moments where they're having fun and being together than curating messages or whatever to the fandom. I'm a fan because I love their music and performances, and I watch behind the scenes stuff because I care about /them/ and enjoy /them/ and enjoy /them having fun together/, not because I want to feel recognized as a fan lol

which is also probably why twitter isn't the place for me either, I go on occasionally but have to dodge/block a lot of the weirdo fighting and possessiveness. I wasn't on twitter until idk, a year ago maybe to keep up with content better and ehh lol I imagine it's a lot more sore to have been part of the active fandom pre-2019 and then to see those spaces you were in (and building) change so fast.

That being said! Gosh! You have really done so much, and I use that masterpost of content probably weekly just to find stuff I enjoy, it's such a huge help! Your gifs are always god-tier, and I enjoy reading your thoughts about dc stuff. If i think of any gifsets, I'll send an idea your way <3 I haven't gotten to see a lot of concert content recently, so I'm excited to go watch some stuff (I heard the Mexico concert was really really lovely in terms of fan energy and what not). I hope you have a lovely day!

I hope you enjoy it! 😊

and yeah exactly, I think in a way the dc notes just started following more of a vlog format which is understandable with everything that went on at the time. I do agree with the celebrity thing to an extent, in vlives and concerts they still feel the exact same, the levels of chaos have remained unchangeable so far asdkjh I do agree that they’ve been passing off that image more on the dc notes tho. but like I said I do think they’re slowly getting back to the old format in the sense that in the group ones at least we’re starting to get more of those small moments again. tbh I haven’t seen the solo dc notes of the special clips or the practices bc it’s all very similar... I think dcc could’ve done better with the release of the special clips themselves, I feel like at this point the momentum has completely died out for the special clips 💀 I get that they wanted to space it out to make the most of the content but idk I think they could’ve done it a bit better. I was really looking forward to the solo clips back in the beginning of the cb but that was in march/april? and it’s now july and not all of the special clips are out yet........ I think they dragged it out a bit too much specially considering that the first one was released two months ago already :/

but yeah tbh abt twitter I’ve never been that active there, it’s always been a platform that has never really resonated with me much but even then the change has been really felt, but oh well. I’ve come to make peace that if some content is truly important it will reach me one way or another asdkjh

and I’m glad the masterpost is helpful! I’ve been meaning to update it but the motivation for it has been a bit lost on me :’) still thank you for your kind words <3 I really appreciate that some of you take the time to read the things I put on here sometimes 💕

[gimbapchefs]

hi this will be a sappy post but bear with me...today (5/16) marks 7 years i've had this blog (lucky 7 wowow) and i just want to take this day to appreciate all of y'all who have found my blog and sent me love 💖

i started this sideblog when i was 13 because i had just started getting into kpop and didn't want to clog up my main blog with a bunch of snsd and exo posts. in 2015 i found bts and since then my blog and tumblr has become a safe spot that i can come to when i need happiness and warmth. ngl i was one of those lurkers that would see so many posts but didn't reblog or like for whatever reason so i apologize on behalf of 14-16 y/o me 😬. i never thought that i'd still have this blog 7 years later and be so active.

i didn't start posting gifs until the end of last year because i remembered i got ps with my dummy high college tuition (at least something was included for "free"😂) and it really was this post that blew up one night that made me want to keep making gifs. at that time i felt so much love seeing your reactions through your reblog tags, and i still do. i read every set of tags y'all write in your reblogs and will continue to because they bring me so much joy. i know my gifsets aren't the most amazing out there (some of you on this platform have the most pristine quality and coloring and i admire you so much 😣), but i'm still happy that i am making some of y'all's days even just a smidge bit brighter.

thank you to every single one of you whether you just leave likes or you reblog and leave me a boatload of tags to enjoy (no rly keep writing paragraphs in your tags i love it). thank you to those who leave me little messages in my ask box, my heart actually leaps when i read them 💓💗. thank you to all my amazing mutuals that i've made mainly over the last few months - i haven't gotten to talk to you all individually (my messages are open tho 👀), but you all are a reason why i keep coming to tumblr at every hour of the day 🌼❤️.

i'm so so so happy i've found a community where i can have a mental breakdown about bts and y'all will join me at any point of the day...but seriously y'all are great and i look forward to making more memories with you and more gifsets for you this year 🤗🥰.

i'll end this post by linking some of my favorite gifsets i've made (i really do still like mostly all of the gifsets i've made so this was hard why did i do this to myself...)

🌹jin just being jin /🐥jikook's lifetime long argument /🧈butter's promo 2 years early /🥺this one just melts me /🍌jin losing his bananas /🙈BABY

with much much much love and the fullest heart,

💜nat :)

ok i lied i'm not done 🤩as a bonus here's my favorite video of jimin because it has made me smile when i was in the darkest of times and also you deserve it if you made it to the bottom of this mess 😉

(under the cut is me sapping over my mutuals if you want to read that lol)

ok i was done but i lied again i want to shoutout a few-maybe-more-than-a-few of my mutuals who have meant the most to me :) (this was hard to breakdown to a short-ish list and i really do i appreciate every single one of you)

🌼@userjiminie rafa, my jikook buddy, we've only just started talking but i love our conversations, especially the ones in all caps and i also really look up to you as a creator :)

🌼@rosebowl sHARIKA omg you're like the sweetest person ever?? i love how we've become friends these past few weeks and cherish it (and i will fight off anyone who hurts u)

🌼@yoongisbengaliwife t!! you were one of the first mutuals i actually talked to and you were so kind and warm to me (and still are!!) our talks range from finding sweaty bts clips to career goals and i love that variety

🌼@taemaknae nic if angels were real i think you'd be one, you have the brightest and sweetest energy and i'm happy to call you my foodie soulmate hehehe

🌼@kithtaehyung ryennn/maybe my soulmate haha we've just started chatting but i can tell we will become friends hehe you deserve all the compliments so pls take them :3

🌼@taechnological saeee thank u for tagging me in the most thirst/heart palpitating posts i truly love screaming with you and will continue to scream with you

+ all my other mutuals that i cherish 💖🥺many of you have left asks in my inbox and it makes my heart so warm when you do so thank u for being sparks in my life 🤩💗

@jimindelune @gukreum @taegiseok @knjspjm @lovetrivia @btsaudge @jinjagi @yoongistics @duckjinnie @intokook @r-m @bibillyhillsbaby @blondesuga @bangtanger @kimtaehyunq @bisexualhobi @cherryjk @solivoire @taehyungq @floraljimin @artsyjoons @yoobijin @lilacjin @taemeout @suga-ssi @rookiehobi @hazeltae @mintvae @hobeah @candynamu @yoonglet @ggukminii @jinbestboy @pinkjjoon @blueandtaes @calicooky

OK i think this is all my mutuals??? i could very much be missing someone and i am sososososo sorry if i am pls let me know. i already said this but i'll say it again, i love every single one of you and joining this community was the best decision i ever made so thank u soso much and here i go on my 8th year with this blog :) 💜

[suckishima]

ー CREATOR TAG MEME:

Rules: It’s time to love yourselves! Choose your 5 favorite works you created in the past year (fics, art, edits, etc.) and link them below to reflect on the amazing things you brought into the world in 2020. Tag as many writers/artists/etc. as you want (fan or original) so we can spread the love and link each other to awesome works!

tagged by @p-irozhki thanks for tagging me Rissa!! Sorry I took so long to get to it lolll. I know it’s already like a week into 2021, but everything on the list will be from last year lol

The Kissing Journals: I was in a real writing slump at the beginning of the year and I spent a loooong time just slowly working on this and enjoying taking my time with it. I really enjoyed just writing it all at once and then posting the chapters weekly and already feeling at peace with it before I even posted it and it turned out to be one of my favorite things I worked on all year. Now if only the other tsukkiyama ideas I have would come as easily loll

The “connect” coloring/edit (chp 402): First of all, I completely sobbed when I read this page in the manga and I think it’s probably the single page that affected me the most of the entire series. I was still pretty new to coloring manga panels when I made this, and while I would do a few things differently if I did it again, I spent a longgg time working on this one to do it the best I could at the time and I’m still really happy with the way it turned out.

Tsukki’s character development gifset: While not one of the more technically challenging gifsets I made this year by far, it’s probably one of the ones I had the most fun with. Using that quote he says during the Shiratorizawa match and finding correlating scenes for each line of the quote was SO fun. I put a ton of thought into why each clip fit with each line n stuff and not to toot my own horn or w/e, I think I did a good job lol. And since we don’t hear Tsukki talk about himself much, it was really really cool to go through whats been animated so far and find instances where his actions have backed up how his development could be narrowed down to that single quote.

hq!! the last supper coloring (chp 369): lmao the name is kind of a joke, but it is the last meal we see them having almost all together, and this is when I think I started to really feel comfortable with coloring and I started to nail down a lot of the techniques I’d been trying. I also had a lot fun playing around with the steam effects and trying to just subtly make the gif aspect of it noticeable.

Hinata’s receive desktop wallpaper: The most recent coloring I’ve done, and probably the best one skill wise. I spent FOREVER editing out all the screentones from his jersey and I’m happy I did. My understanding of shading has gotten a lot better and actually taking the time to get rid of the screentones let me practice some shading even more (definitely still not perfect, but an improvement). Plus, I just love the simplicity of this one and how bright I got it without it hurting your eyes - it’s still my own wallpaper right now and I love it.

tagging (and no pressure of course if you don’t want to!): @crocowl, @kanbayashis, @suugawarakoushi and @memitims!

[beautifulpaxiel]

I posted 572 times in 2021

7 posts created (1%)

565 posts reblogged (99%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 80.7 posts.

I added 683 tags in 2021

#thg - 146 posts

#everlark - 140 posts

#fan art - 92 posts

#gifsets - 78 posts

#cf - 70 posts

#beautiful things - 45 posts

#peeta mellark - 38 posts

#coarse language tw - 27 posts

#self care - 26 posts

#beach scene - 21 posts

Longest Tag: 85 characters

#i spent ages reading through all this so i'm doing the decent thing and reblogging it

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

I’m so tired of...

...seeing those posts that try to tell you that if you don’t reblog, you are a bad person. No. You are not a bad person.

Please don’t ever feel like you have to reblog a post because someone tells you to. It’s wrong, it’s guilt-trippy and it’s incredibly manipulative.

4 notes • Posted 2021-01-25 07:11:13 GMT

#4

Feel free to keep scrolling if you see this, but I just wanted to make this post because I want this blogger to see it.

*fistbumps @rosegardeninwinter*

Thank you for appreciating my work, Cate. :-)

5 notes • Posted 2021-09-08 06:01:03 GMT

#3

I'm taking a break.

To all my beautiful followers both on this blog and my book blog, @beautifulpaxielreads (I'll be reblogging this there too):

Some of you may have noticed that I have been posting much less frequently on Tumblr of late.

Much of my reasoning for this is personal and I'd rather not share it, but the gist of it is: I'm just not having fun anymore, and it's not good for my mental health.

With that in mind, I have made the decision to cut down on my Tumblr usage, starting from tomorrow (Thursday, June 3 Australian time). I should stress that I WILL NOT be deleting my accounts, just I will be less active for a little while - don't ask me when I'll come back at full strength, I'm honestly not sure yet. Feel free to continue reblogging and liking as usual, but don't tag me in your posts and send me messages as I will not respond.

To have to cut down my usage is slightly upsetting to me as I have had some incredible experiences since I first signed up to Tumblr way back in 2012 (!) and discovered the joy that came with being a part of the Hunger Games (and more specifically, Everlark) fandom during the euphoria of the film franchise years, fangirling over the actors, analysing trailers and clips, and later on after the hype train died down, rewatching the movies and rereading the books. I also had some incredible conversations as part of that fandom, which I will treasure always.

For my book bloggers over at @beautifulpaxielreads, I will still be posting my monthly wrap-ups and will probably still occasionally post the odd photograph for prompts, but this will be very infrequent. I haven't been on Book!Tumblr as long as I have been on Hunger Games!Tumblr, but I want you all to know I am truly appreciative of you, and would like to express my continued amazement that so many of you have thought my humble book blog one worth following. Special thanks also to those who I've had chats with online - I enjoyed making those connections. I will still be available on StoryGraph if you want to follow me there - my username is beautifulpaxielreads, same as here.

Stay safe and well in these challenging times, and for my bookish followers, happy reading!

Goodbye for now, not forever. See you soon. :)

20 notes • Posted 2021-06-02 06:49:09 GMT

#2

I'm back...

Kinda.

It's partly COVID's fault, and partly because I find it difficult to stay away. I know, I know...🙄

I'm still going to limit my use of Tumblr though - to keep my mental health in check - and to that end, I will only use it in desktop mode and not on mobile, so I won't be checking my dashboard obsessively. Feel free to include me in tags and messages again, just know I may take longer to respond.

Fair warning - I will be a bit ruthless in curating the content I see (again, mental health), so if I do unfollow you, please don't take it too personally.

Thanks to all those who wished me well, and I look forward to interacting with you all again.

29 notes • Posted 2021-07-01 07:06:11 GMT

#1

I know this might be an unpopular opinion on Aussie Tumblr...

...but as an Australian, I am tired of the sniping and bitching going on between the states. Not only among state premiers, but among the population too. I get we're in a horrible and often frustrating situation and it feels good to vent, but this behaviour helps nobody.

If you must blame anyone for this, blame the Feds - I do. I firmly believe that if it wasn't for their utter incompetence in managing the vaccine rollout, we wouldn't be in this situation in the first place.

I'm sorry for the rant, but I am just frustrated beyond belief.

33 notes • Posted 2021-07-16 06:46:09 GMT

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[spockandawe]

I just found out about Word of Honor, and I enjoy watching it. Glad found your blog...I see that you already finished the novel, can I ask about the characterization of wen kexing, zhou zishu and scorpion king (my 3 fav characters) between the novel and drama? I know there must be a bit of change (for adaptaions), but is it the change really big between book and drama? Which one that you prefer?

So! This is a really interesting question. I just finished gluing together a bunch of books, so forgive me if I’m really loopy, but this whole thing fascinates me right now and I was thinking about it all while I was playing with glue, so let me answer it and queue it up for a reasonable hour.

The easy one is the scorpion king. He is completely different between novel and show, as in that he’s a whole nother character. In the book, there’s no xie’er, just some mercenary dude. I do definitely favor the show here, because I’m a sucker for a beautiful alarmingly murder-happy boy who is being exploited via his emotional needs, and like, that boy is gorgeous. In the book, that character does not exist. What we have as the scorpion king is some dude with a hell of a voyeurism kink and a gambling addiction. He leads a group of mercenaries and gets involved in similar aspects of the plot, but there’s no emotional entanglement between him and the rest of the story. 

Now, I don’t dislike him, Zhou Zishu (and Wen Kexing) show up to crash his place, looking for information, and he’s like cool cool cool, so, let’s make this interesting, why don’t we gamble on it? If you win, you get info, and if I win, you two put on a sexy show for me (wen kexing is like oh no we could never but i mean if you INSIST--), and then the contest is to see who can... eat more needles. But he’s ultimately a much flatter character than Xie’er is, and he doesn’t come packaged with piles of daddy issues, so I’m way more into the show version.

Zhou Zishu and Wen Kexing... I want to say that characterization is very consistent between the show and the book, and the main differences stem from the different constraints of the two mediums. Like, the easy one is that in the show, they have to hold back on the gay romance. In the book, Wen Kexing is very up front about his sexual/romantic interest from the start, and Zhou Zishu knows it. There’s also no shixiong/shidi dynamic. In both stories, Zhou Zishu is used to keeping people at arm’s length and has a thin face, and gradually softens up with Wen Kexing as the story progresses. In the show, you get a sharp boost to intimacy when the shixiong/shidi reveal happens, but in the book, he unfurls more slowly over time. 

There’s a while where he basically allows Wen Kexing to take liberties, without either pushing him away or reciprocating, and I’m not all the way through the show yet, but I don’t think there’s a stiff, awkward, uncertain period like that in there (and it’s resolved when he asks Wen Kexing how sincere he is about Wanting him, and they almost have sex before weird scorpion man interrupts them, so I have no idea if the show will even try to adapt that scene)

And like happened when I first watched The Untamed, I’m frequently awed by how much a good actor can add to a story through body language and microexpressions that a book just can’t capture, and it’s an especially lovely story element for a plot where so much revolves around that central relationship. I can’t necessarily differentiate between book characterization and show characterization when it comes to this, because they’ve just fused into a seamless whole in my head, but I really am a huge proponent of consuming both forms of media for this exact reason. They don’t clash, and each enhances the other.

OH, the other thing I made note of while I was working. I can’t confirm, because i’m still mid-show, but I’m almost positive that the nature of Wen Kexing’s damage is a notable point of difference (to me, at least?) between the two plots. In both, he had parents, who (I assume) died horribly, with him finding their bodies very directly, leaving him traumatized and alone at a young age. In the book, he was just alone until he took in Gu Xiang (when they were both terribly young)

“I was a child too, and stumbled many times over the course of raising her. I burnt her mouth the first time I fed her congee— For Ah-Xiang to survive until now, it wasn’t easy on me, but in truth... it wasn’t easy on her too.”

Now, I’m not super sure how the show will do this exactly, but no matter how his parents die, even if he finds them like he did in the book (very gruesome, so i kinda doubt the show will go there too explicitly), he still had a shifu and a shixiong somewhere out there, and the gifsets I’ve seen tell me that he cherishes that memory, even if he thinks that he’s stained/corrupted/etc and would only be a disappointment to them. I’m pretty positive I’m in fanon territory here, unless the show gives me some conversations I’m not really expecting, but I think it is a notable change to go from ‘everyone in the world who ever loved me is dead’ to ‘my parents are dead, and even if my shifu and shixiong would hate me now, they loved me once.’ It informs... the nature of how he becomes emotionally dependent on Zhou Zishu and vice versa. Adding that relationship changes a lot of subtle things about how they relate to the world and each other, and I’m not mad about it, it’s just Different (and i narrowly prefer the book).

So! For the scorpion king, the character has been remade entirely, and the novel one is fun enough, but the show version is an incomparable DELIGHT. Zhou Zishu and Wen Kexing have pretty consistent characterization, I think, but the different plots mean that slightly different parts of their personalities are revealed. I think both the actors put a ton of work into trying to be faithful to the original characters while they were acting, and it shows. I narrowly prefer the book, but that’s more about plot than the characters themselves. My recommended way to read the book is with at least some clips/gifs of the major characters in action, which is what I did for both mdzs and tyk, and it’s working out for me REAL well so far. So I definitely recommend it! It was a book I enjoyed a whole lot.

[witter-potter]

Content creator appreciation!! list five favourite sets you've made and send this ask to five other content creators! ❤

ahh thank you so much for sending this to me, georgette! <3 i honestly can't even remember a lot of the sets that i've posted, but i'll link five that come to mind that i really enjoy!

this paceyjoey set, this set took me absolutely forever to make, i think in total i made almost 60 gifs that then got condensed to make the final product. it took me so long but i was really proud of the result!

my pinned joey potter set, another gifset that took me so long to make, i spent two days collecting all the clips and doing the math to make the gifs the right size, and obviously making the gif, but i was really really pleased with the final product

this paceyjoey in every episode set, if you haven't caught on yet, i'm really proud of the gifsets that take me a really long time to make but this one was actually super fun to make if i was super proud of it

this spooky dawson's creek set, the set isn't super cohesive but it's one of the only sets i have where i really played around with the colors and i was really happy with how each of the individual gifs came out

this paceyjoey set, it was so much fun finding a song from each taylor album and using the different fonts, this set was just super fun to make

[cowboyshit]

Hi there, my name's Libby! I'm a new writer over at Wrestle Inn and I was wondering if you would be able help me with an article? Your gif set of Adam and his shirts is absolute gold! I was wondering if you'd be able to share the dates and episodes of the gif's you made? I would love to chat more with you about it, and of course, credit you for any of your help!

well hello there libby!!! I’d be happy to help 🥰 hopefully I’m not replying to you too late, but here’s the information I have on Adam’s pearl snaps to date - not just those I included in the gifset. If you need me to specify which is which, just let me know! Also, I was going to privately reply to this but I tend to enjoy making gifsets of Adam in his peal snaps, so I’m going to publish this list for myself and if anyone else is curious as well! anyways, feel free to come at me with any questions you may have!!! always happy to talk anything and everything hangman over here 🥰🥰🥰

multi-color flower pearl snap (the first pearl snap he wore) - January 1, 2020 episode of Dynamite; also wore it on September 2, 2020 episode of Dynamite and on Episode 185 of Being the Elite, as well as when the AEW stars went to the New York Toy Fair which I believe was February 28, 2020.

purple with white roses (technically just a button-up and not a pearl snap, but I include it just because I like it so much) - January 29, 2020 episode of Dynamite, I believe he’s also worn it for an interview with WrestleINC on September 18, 2020

white with pink roses & purple longhorn pearl snap - February 26, 2020, episode of Dynamite (he also wore it when he read his children’s book on IG live on April 17, 2020)

black with white flowers pearl snap - March 4, 2020 episode of Dynamite, he’s also worn it on the August 27, 2020 episode of Dynamite as well as the episode that aired on January 13, 2021 and on BTE Episode 194, and for Highspots Virtual Gimmick Table on August 6, 2020.

pink & white checkered pearl snap (this is actually a red checker pearl snap with cream/off-white shoulders but lighting/coloring makes it look pink) - June 10, 2020 episode of Dynamite, he’s also worn it on BTE Episode 209, and during a promo package with Kenny on June 24, 2020 episode of Dynamite

light blue with small white print design - July 15, 2020 episode of Dynamite and episode 213 of BTE

dark blue with a very faint design (might be a button-up over a pearl snap, he only wore it once when FTR signed their contracts on Dynamite) - July 29, 2020 episode of Dynamite

horses white & blue pearl snap - wore it on August 12, 2020 episode of Dynamite (I feel like he’s worn this a second time, but I can’t recall and don’t have it written down anywhere)

black with boots/saddle/cactus pearl snap - August 19, 2020 episode of Dynamite

soft blue with white, floral pattern trim button up - September 9, 2020 episode of Dynamite and episode 221 of Being the Elite.

dark blue with white tassels pearl snap - wore on September 30, 2020 episode of Dynamite and Episode 224 of BTE, also the little social media clip where the talent was trying to sing-along to Judas (I thought it was on the Road to Jericho 30 episode but couldn’t find it there) and also for a few quick seconds on The History of A Revolution: An All Elite Wrestling and Director X Collaboration (November 18, 2020) where he was riding that pretty leopard appaloosa.

black with red/green flower pearl snap - November 4, 2020, episode of Dynamite both for a behind-the-scenes interview and when he came out to the ring at the end of the episode

bucking bull at sunset pearl snap - December 9, 2020, episode of Dynamite as well as BTE Episode 234

purple and white pearl snap - post-revolution media scrum on March 7, 2021

maroon/purple pearl snap - March 10, 2021 episode of dynamite

(also I didn’t include a couple of his flannel button-ups he’s worn or the black with the white print button up he wore on the Dynamite episode prior to the Stadium Stampede (when he ran up the football field) or the bucking bull pearl snap he only wore on BTE episode 232)

[starryevermore]

creator tag game

rules: it’s time to love yourselves! choose your 5 (ish) favourite works you created in the past year (fics, art, edits, etc.) and link them below to reflect on the amazing things you brought into the world in 2020. tag as many writers/artists/etc. as you want (fan or original) so we can spread the love and link each other to awesome works!

thank you for the tag @annab-nana​ and @reddesertcolbs​!! 💜

I make a lot of different things so I’m gonna do 5 writings, 5 gifs, and 5 moodboards, and 5 miscellaneous 👀

FICS

when I was your man series

I really enjoyed this series, because it had a lot of angst but it also had a happy ending (even though it wasn’t the one people may have wanted).

the ghost of suite 613

This was so fun to write!! I loved Suite Life of Zack and Cody growing up, and this episode scared me so much when I was little. Finding a way to incorporate all of the different people in the friend group was so interesting, and I think I did pretty well since it was a last-minute decision to write it for Halloween 😂

the ethics of influencing

Not exactly a creative work, but I really enjoyed the finished product here. There’s a lot of influencers who don’t use their influence well, and I think this is quite evident over the course of the pandemic and the many obstacles we’ve encountered. 

cultish behavior

This fic didn’t get a lot of love, but it’s one of my favorites. It was really fun trying to capture Jake’s personality and incorporate the prompt into the story, and I think it turned out really well in the end!

i hope 

Another fic I decided to do last minute and I was really in my emotions when I did it 😂 In case you haven't noticed, I’m a slut for some good ole angst and this really scratched an itch I had. I’m not really a fan of fics where someone cheats but is forgiven + taken back, so I wanted to write something where the reader actually gave Colby a piece of her mind and I think it turned out good!

honorable mention: lots of cool shit coming in October 2021. I haven’t written them yet, but my favorite is Day 3 or Day 23!

GIFS

who the hell knows?

Oh this was so fun to make! I loved this scene in Eclipse, and I was on a serious Twilight kick at the time so I just had to make this into a gifset! It was difficult trying to figure out where to place the text and all that, but I’m really proud of what I made!

the saliva swap is an essential part of the ritual

Another difficult one to make, but seeing the finished product was so rewarding!  It was hard to figure out to divide up each clip into a single gif, and captioning everything was a *fun time* lmao, but it still managed to be really fun to do!

HARRY WORKING OUT IN “SIDEMEN 80,000 CALORIES BATTLE”

I don’t know if y’all have noticed, but I’ve been on Harry kick recently so I really enjoyed this video and picking out which scenes to gif 🥵

the phone will ring and there will be no one there

Spongebob references + the Trap House? Nothing better 🥰

wah wah wah (ft. everlyte)

Ahh this was so fun!! It’s really simple, but it was one of my first attempts at adding a lil *spice* to my gifs!

honorable mention: the gifset coming Christmas Eve? y’all gonna be *in love*

MOODBOARDS

💙 HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATRINA!! 💙

I miss blue-haired Katrina so much, so this b-day moodboard was a bit of appreciating her old hair. 

Amber Scholl as Morticia Addams 💀🖤🥀

I saw someone say that Amber looked like Morticia Addams when she dressed like this, so I had to make a moodboard for it and I really enjoyed trying to capture both Morticia’s and Amber’s aesthetics!

Colby Brock as Fred Jones 🕵🏻‍♂️

Honestly, all of the Scooby Doo moodboards were great but this is probably my favorite! It was fun to make, and I really enjoyed how in Paradise Island, they joked that Colby was Fred, so it made me feel really good about making Colby Fred (I bounced between Colby being Velma and Sam being Fred, but ultimately did it the other way around.)

mentally I’m here

I was in the middle of binging the Halloweentown movies when I made this moodboard. It’s relatively simple, but the vibes are *chef’s kiss*

red is sus 🔪

I made this on a whim after seeing the photos but holy shit I love it so much!! 

honorable mention: the Hogwarts series coming in January? holy shit you’ll love it, it’s amazing

MISCELLANEOUS

Love for Hire, featured on the cover of Rolling Stone

This was so great to make! It was actually supposed to be more of a cherry red color, but when I uploaded it, it was turned more vintage-y which I liked even more!

soul full of sunshine ☀️

Ahh this was so fun! Soft!Colby is my kryptonite 🥺

love for hire lockscreens

I tried to make these sooo many times but PicsArt kept crashing and I lost my progress every time, so when I finally got them done, I was so happy! And it helped that the final product was better than the first attempt lmao

dream on, little dreamer

Another Soft!Colby edit lmaoo. I really enjoyed the pics I used, and I think everything worked together really well!

The Ultimate Sam and Colby Word Search 

Another thing I made on a whim lmao. I was in the middle of procrastinating homework when I did this, and it took ages to get everything where I wanted it to be 😂

idk who’s done this already, but if you haven’t and want to, feel free to say that I tagged you!

[donggu-ya]

2020 Creator Wrap

Favourite Works

Rules: It’s time to love yourselves! Choose your 5 (or so) favorite works you created in the past year (fics, art, edits, etc.) and link them below to reflect on the amazing things you brought into the world in 2020. Tag as many writers/artists/etc. as you want (fan or original) so we can spread the love and link each other to awesome works.

This is crazy late, but I've finally gotten time to give it a think. Thanks for tagging me @applepiips!

The subject matter on this blog is pretty limited haha, but here are my fave works of 2020:

1. My reviews of Psychopath Diary and Train

I forget how much I love to write just for the sake of writing. These were so much fun to do, especially since they weren't necessarily planned. These were things I was thinking about and I finally decided to do a brain dump. I hope I'm able to do a lot more writing this year!

2. The Yoon Si Yoon Global website launch

I said it in the post, but this was such a labour of love and I'm so glad we were able to pull it off. It's nice to know that there is another place I can write for 😊.

3. My YSY throwback series

This has been so much fun! I've only done 2 of his works so far, High Kick and Kim Tak Gu, but even with these, it's been nice find the pics and clips that I wanted to use. I will definitely be continuing (and completing) the throwback series this year.

Posts: 1, 2, 3, 4

4. This Train gifset

I've been making gifs for a little while now, but I still have so, so much to learn. I have trouble with clarity and colour, but this is one of the first times I felt pretty happy with how it turned out. The rest of the sets became easier after this. I definitely still have a lot of improving to do, but I definitely really enjoy doing them.

These aren't necessarily the most creative, but I had a lot of fun making all of them.

Since I'm so late, I'm sure everyone has already done theirs, so instead of tagging, I'll open it to anyone who wants to take part 😊.

[dreamaze]

✨💌 self promo time: reply with five of your favorite creations and pass this on to some of your favorite creators! Thank you for making such lovely things 💌

Avaaa, thank you so much for sending me this! I’ve really enjoyed seeing what you and other content creators so far have shared. ♡♡♡

Hope no one minds that I am going to split this between both of my blogs! Truthfully, I am most proud of the work that goes into my BU-focused main blog, but I want to give some love to creations from both. :’) And please excuse me for inevitably rambling too much...

❀ @becomewings ❀

Creation 1 : Part 1 of Timelines : 22 May Year 22. The Timelines series has been one of the most time intensive to prepare, and not just because it spans April 11-August 30 (each posted on the corresponding date in the Notes). Each post took days or more from planning to completion. This is my favorite gifset of the series. With the two-column format and juxtaposed shots/captions, I feel that I was able to clearly accomplish my goal of portraying a major event altered in the BU timeline.

Creation 2 : Inspired by the section titles from Notes 1, this is probably the most “aesthetic” gifset on my blog to date. I’m happy with the shots I selected to represent each title and, as someone who doesn’t usually do significant coloring on this blog, am pretty pleased with the resulting color palette. Excited to eventually do a version for Notes 2!

Creation 3 : I struggled a bit to pick which of the Water elemental series was my favorite but finally landed on this one. I find the set quite visually cohesive despite the lack of color alterations. And while the accompanying commentary may not be long, I think this is the first time I really poured a bit of my soul into it and it laid the foundation for later thoughts in the Water series. Also, JiMin and TaeHyung are two of my favorite BU characters… so my bias(es) may be showing a little. :’)

❀ @ourownwings ❀

Creation 4 : This Stay Gold / Fake Love parallels set. I feel like there is an invisible pressure to produce content as soon as possible when something new releases, one that I’m trying not to let get the better of me. But I was excited when this idea came to me and did my best to reproduce it quickly. It’s personally meaningful, as I really enjoy the cinematic parallels throughout BTS’s work, and I hope that it might illuminate connections that some viewers had not noticed before.

Creation 5 : This We are Bulletproof: the Eternal set contains my first experiments with overlaying clips, and again I tried to call attention to some more possible subtle references to other MVs. I think this set is still the most unique of the edits I have made on this blog.

+ definitely cheating but adding this little Dynamite duo as well because I spent hours manually editing the masks frame by frame. It was my first (and maybe last, hah!) time trying something like this and the results are far from perfect, but I am proud of myself for not giving up on it. Notes aren’t everything, but I wish it had received just a little more love.

Thank you again for allowing me to share this! ♡

[kihno]

content creator year in review (2020) °•`☆°.•

tagged by @soft-pentagon & @starryallnight (THANK U 💞 + sorry this is late ajsdljf)

all under the cut bc i can’t shut up <3

first creation and most recent creation of 2020

my first one this year was kino doing the jacket shooting for casper radio (and the mistake i made in the text still bugs me whenever i see it rip) and the most recent was from the vcr during the we l:ve concert !! can’t wait to get back into more regular gifmaking this year~

one of your favourite creations from 2020

i think maybe the liev highlights?? mainly bc i had so much fun watching the live and i wrote down the timestamps as i watched it, so it was rly easy to gather all the right clips and i laughed A LOT while making it hehe

a creation you’re really proud of

the mv set for basquiat !! it’s quite simple but it still feels impactful, so i think it does the video justice

a new style you tried this year and a gifset that uses it

i definitely tried making a few gifx this year, just as i was struggling to come up with bday set ideas and one that i’m happy with was kino’s bday set ^^ i experimented with brush tools, text + colour effects and it turned out okay luckily!!

a creation that took you forever

jinho’s.... enlistment set..... took me days ;-; changgu Does Not talk abt his feelings towards the other members so after trawling through all ptg archives i could find, finding that simple quote felt..... indescribable ahsjkd

your creation from 2020 that received the most notes

much like other ppl’s, it was the spring snow + shine stage for jinho :((( i genuinely was making it through tears

a creation you think deserved more notes

probably this yuto set just bc he looks incredible and yuto always deserves more notes tbh

a new fandom you joined and a creation you made for it

tbh i rarely stan new groups??? i’m a solid unizen and i r a r e l y make gifs for nct (in fact i only made one set for them this year and it was this whoops) so i only make content for ptg as i enjoy it more + i love interacting w/ other unis more!!

a creation you made that breaks your heart

jinho’s.... enlistment set..... asdhkf but i wasn’t joking when i said i made it through tears. it is the product of a mental breakdown, you’re welcome <3 also i guess ptg getting a win on rtk?? just bc u can see how much it meant to them and it rly makes u wish they’d got it sooner :((

a ‘simple’ creation that you really love

ptg’s 4th anniversary!! it’s literally one gif but i rly played around with ps brush tools to give it more texture and as happiness being the last ot9 mv, it felt fitting

a creation that was inspired by another one

i don’t rly have one in particular this year that was direcly inspired by someone else’s, so the closest one i have is the expectations vs reality meme of daisy - blindfolded ver ~

a favourite creation by someone else

the only set in my ‘fav’ tag for this year is alex @soft-pentagon‘s eternal flame set just bc it means so much to unis and ptg and alex did such a good job on it :(( also this set of them getting their first win by @iyeolie, it’s so pretty ;;

some of your favourite content creators from this year

literally any content creator on unitumblr, i know unitwt is more popular so i rly appreciate anyone who creates content on here :((

and for good measure, another a couple more creations of yours that you love

hehe hehehehe

tagging: i won’t be tagging anyone bc i’m super late to this party (2021 late to be precise) but if u haven’t done it and haven’t been tagged, pls do it and tag me!! i want to read them ^^

[onlyhereforangst]

OH GREAT 💗❤💜💗💜❤ 1, 10, 14, 18 (lmao), 34 (I think I know this one), 38, 47 🥰🥰🥰 love you Gracee

Love YOU Sofia 💕💕

1. What are your top 3 favorite sets you’ve made

ooooh this will be hard, let’s see.

(in no particular order)

this one has to be in there because I am a SUCKER for parallels, literally looking thru all these gifsets, it’s like i gif parallels & songs and that’s it 😅

and then this one definitely. I was *pumped* to finally gif this- it had been in my head (the song, the story the clips tell, all of it) for weeeeeks & then I finally got my laptop/PS and when I finally made it, the weight lifted off my shoulders was so freeing & I felt so happy (even if it kind of flopped but whatever not feeling bitter at all, it’s fine)

mmmm & picking a third one AH. I’m gonna cheat & call it a tie between this one (because Art x Annie absolutely slay me) and this one (because I love the message behind hurt!Nick in this one that fits the song perfectly). but honestly probably the Art x Annie if I *had* to pick 😬

10. What was the first gif you ever posted

Gah! This took my forever to find because I posted it on the other blog 🤦🏻‍♀️ also found out I’m shocked at how many notes it eventually got despite the crap quality (back when I didn’t have PS & used a website to gif 😬) here it isss

14. How long does it usually take you to make a set

Mmm depends on how much I’ve thought it out beforehand. Probably average ~1hr? But easily longer if it’s a lot in a set or from a bunch of different eps.

18. For the aesthetic, for the laughs, or for the feels what your preference

FOR

THE

FEELS

lololol is there any other appropriate answer???

34. A set that took you a long time/was really hard but you’re really proud of how it came out

😂😂😂 yes you know this one. this one was a pain in the *** and it’s still not what I want it to be (because I had to cut out clips I desperately wanted in since tumblr size limit is dumb)

38. What are you really excited to gif that isn’t out yet

eeeeeeeek you know this, my wedding AU 💕 likely coming to you this summer hiatus 😘

47. Any advice for novice gif makers/people who want to start making gifs

Don’t care about the notes!!!! It’s so hard to get caught up in comparing note count between someone who’s been doing it for forever (looking at you Sofia 😉 with your 2k count) & someone just starting out (I’ve never even hit 500) - but do it for yourself and the therapeutic nature of creating a piece of artwork for YOU that others can enjoy if they’d like to (or not- who cares regardless 🤷🏻‍♀️)

[five-wow]

10.01 thoughts (or basically a rambly recap, very spoilery, with a lot of caps lock abuse) under the cut!!! :D

JERRY’S BEEN SHOT. that’s not actually a surprise at this point in any way, but oh gosh, poor guy. “it hurts more than i thought it would.” oh no. :c

i’m confused though - grover’s there calling an ambulance, jerry is bleeding, steve is keeping pressure on the wound, but where’s danny? clutching his heart out of frame? OH WAIT he could be arresting ezra hassan, i suppose?

on screen: 2 weeks later. jfdkfjdk they resolved that cliffhanger in like, under thirty seconds.

love jerry’s longer curly hair! REALLY LOVE that jerry and junior are playing battleship, omg.

jerry thought about HIS DND BUDDIES WHEN HE GOT SHOT. i love him. (i’m also both worried about his mental health and glad they’re showing him actually feeling some repercussions from getting shot, aside from the flesh wound.)

tani and junior!!! are going to the opera!!! wonderful, i’m into it.

AH. here we have steve on his date, omfg. it all looks so pretty - the background, the restaurant, the date, steve. REALLY AWKWARD conversation though, fjdkfd. steve’s been hanging with danny too much - as soon as someone asks “what are you thinking” he just opens up his heart.

“it’s just crazy, you know. things that happen at work.” FDJKFDJF i’m glad he’s seeing that AFTER NINE YEARS.

DANNY CALLS. i’ve seen the clips that were drifting around tumblr, so i knew it was going to happen, but still. DANNY CALLS. IN THE MIDDLE OF STEVE’S DATE.

“i think it’s best,” steve says, about taking a phone call from danny while he’s in the middle of a first date with a really pretty woman who seems very kind about his total awkwardness, oh BOY

the WAY danny says “hi” just already has me in stitches. i die. and then steve’s “dude! i don’t know.” he sounds so frustrated! poor guy.

“words are kinda just, they’re falling out of my mouth, i don’t know why.” OH STEVE. also: that’s 80% of all fic in which steve finally confesses his feelings to danny ever. thank you, canon, for giving us a steve who is canonically prone to this.

“do you have any game at all?” danny asks, of steve, WHO HE IS CALLING IN THE MIDDLE OF A DATE. the co-dependency here is HIGH and it’s probably unhealthy but i’m enjoying it a lot, truly.

okay so, steve says “you’ve called twice, we haven’t even ordered!” and then DANNY SAYS “if you answered my texts, i wouldn’t have to call” and that’s just ALL SO BAD. they are TERRIBLE together and that woman should probably run far away.

danny! way to build up steve’s confidence on this date by telling him his thing is awkward and messing things up, holy shit.

I’M SCREAMING. “that was danny. who i love. very much.” I AM YELLING. YES. GOOD. PREMIUM CONTENT.

just. i love “i love you”s, okay. i love them. we got one (1) in s9 at the end of 9.01, but we’re off to a good start now in 10.01, with steve telling his frigging date that he loves danny, oh my.

IT GOT WORSE. i paused like, in the middle of steve’s sentence, and then as soon as i hit play the date said “sounds like my ex” and steve says “you know, it’s funny that you say that, because it’s kind of like a marriage” and uh, hello steve, i made a gifset about that the day before yesterday, thank you for giving me an update, but also just. wtf. wtf holy shit

i. i just. this is supposedly steve on a date with a woman being all heterosexual, but it’s really an extremely mcdanno scene, like ten times more than i was prepared for, wow.

real talk though, i’m almost certain this relationship isn’t going anywhere, but this woman seems really cool!!! i love her so far.

tani is actually enjoying the opera and junior seems to be paying more attention to her than the stage and i have no idea if this is actually an officially official date between them or if they’re still “just friends”, but it’s all so cute. and then, of course, some anonymous guy shows up with a sketchy briefcase that’s inevitably going to contain weapons, but oh well, it was nice for how long it lasted.

a slightly updated intro!!! katrina law is already in it (which i like) and the new group shot is kind of crowded but really nice, but fjdkfdjkdf they chose a really awkward moment where adam is supposedly typing something on the tech table but he’s REALLY OBVIOUSLY just randomly tapping his fingers on it. that’s going to haunt me. oh dear show runners, why.

danny... says steve was blowing his date, as they arrive on the crime scene that junior and tani found, and steve says he has a second date and danny goes “you got a second date?” incredulously and almost dismayed and that just really sounds like he WANTED steve to blow it. what is this, danny, setting steve up with a pretty woman from steve’s school to test him? see if he’ll say no and fall in your arms instead, and when he doesn’t, you’re disappointed?

even the lighting in this random stairwell gun fight chase scene is kind of pretty! the blue and red? i like it.

oh NO, steve, you’re not even ten minutes into a new season and you’re chasing some suicidally parcouring bad guy across roof tops and into a jump that’s REALLY going to give danny a heart attack, jesus.

fdjkfd danny telling steve that ten years ago he would’ve made that jump? telling him he’s forty? i’m not sure if that’s kind of mean or really good, but it might be both.

plot stuff happens, but i keep getting distracted by all the grey in steve’s beard and his new, longer hair. it’s good.

i like quinn’s introduction!!! i really do, more than i’d expected. and honestly, that déjà vu thing lenkov was talking about is very faint to me, to the point where it’s mostly just there because danny says it out loud in the text and then forcibly makes it so. they’re not in steve’s garage, it’s the wrong car they’re standing next to, there are three people instead of two and there’s no “one, two, three” and showing badges, but steve yeets his badge over the windshield of the car in quinn’s direction. the similarity isn’t that strong.

danny going “i gotta follow him” about steve and “i don’t know [shrugs]” about where they’re going is beautiful.

i’m about halfway through the episode now and steve and danny have spent SO MUCH time together and it’s really good but also has me slightly worried that they’re pushing all the steve&danny content for the entire season in one episode, omg. it’s good, though. i’m happy for now.

adam is still doing yakuza stuff. i get it, because it’s the one big thing they’ve given his character, but i do get kind of tired of it. he’s supposedly out, but every time they need it for plot reasons, he still has connections somewhere that are willing to help him for whatever reason.

and then quinn shows up and pulls a gun on adam, fjdkfd. listen, i know i said i was getting tired of him doing the yakuza thing over and over, but shooting him would be a little drastic.

danny: “this is good, we’re chasing a monster truck. that’s totally normal, right?” how is it that NOW they’re both suddenly realizing their lives are kind of crazy? they weren’t crazy before, guys? guys??

HAH, the guy in the truck drives over a dozen cars. that’s ridiculous, but a lot of fun, omg.

danny, when he finds tani and quinn in the same room at hq: “oh good, you two have met.” YES. MY SENTIMENTS. except i’m perhaps a little more exuberant about it. TWO MAIN FEMALE CHARACTERS IN ONE SCENE YES GOOD I LIKE THIS. we haven’t had this since... season 4, maybe? when catherine was briefly part of the team?

oh SHIT. danny: “are you sure you’re not related to steve in any way?” okay SO. we’re all assuming quinn is steve’s new love interest, but quinn being steve’s secret half sister somehow? also nonsense, but nonsense i’d like. and i mean, they need to keep the mcgarrett family drama alive somehow, so this could be fun.

quinn: “can’t this thing go any faster? [steve looks at her weird] what?” steve: “nothing. just never had that complaint before.” that is a LIE. i know for a fact that that’s a lie, because i have a stupid amount of knowledge of h50 of the top of my head and one of the things i know is that in 8.01 tani pops up between steve and danny while she’s in the backseat of the camaro and ALSO asks if it doesn’t go any faster. i know what they’re going for here, setting quinn and steve up as equals, and i like what they’re trying to tell us about quinn as a character in theory but come on, if you’re trying to convince us steve is all impressed by this woman that you might be setting him up with romantically, at least do some continuity fact checking on your own show, guys.

anyway! i do like that it’s canon that all women in five-0 think the camaro isn’t fast enough. get wrecked, steve and danny, HA.

when steve said to the bad guy “my friend lou here is going to put some handcuffs on you” i thought at first that he said “liu”, as in quinn’s last name, and oh man, first they had tani and junior’s last names as rey and reigns, which was close enough, but now they have lou and liu, gosh.

!!! this talk between steve and quinn in front of kamekona’s?? i LIKE IT. A LOT. we get to know a little more about quinn and steve genuinely does treat her as an equal and a capable colleague and there’s nothing especially romantic about this, which is good this early on even if they’re doing that later because i do feel like it could possibly work but right now it would just be really weird and very forced and i’m just really relieved that’s the dynamic they’re going for. this, this is good.

OH BOY. “we’re breaking up with you, danny” steve says. i... wow.

FAIR THOUGH. it’s probably a REALLY GOOD idea of steve to maybe involve danny a little less in his dating life if he wants to, well, actually have one that’s viable for life, but oh GOSH. danny going “you can’t cut me out” when steve tells him this? danny is just. so interested in steve’s romantic life, damn.

tani: “mom and dad are fighting again.” fdjkfdjk YES. this time it’s not even junior saying this to eddie behind steve and danny’s back, it’s just tani saying it out loud to the entire group and nobody says anything about it so uhhh that’s accepted fact then, within the team. GOOD.

ohhhh jerry is leaving. also not a real surprise and it’s probably kind of good that the team doesn’t endlessly keep growing if quinn joins this season, but ahh, i’m sad, anyway.

GROUP HUG. i love EVERY SINGLE THING ABOUT THIS.

oh gooood, somebody put a bomb in the champ box in steve’s garage. that’s harsh.

final thoughts: i LIKED THIS. very much!!! i’m relieved about that, tbh, because at least i’m happy about the start of the season, which seems like a good sign, haha. i love quinn so far, there was REALLY GREAT mcdanno stuff in this, i love that steve is dating again, tani and junior seem to be dating, jerry is fairly healthy and happy - all around lots of good stuff.

i do kind of think that cliffhanger from last season got extremely little attention (we didn’t even see ezra hassan get arrested, and what happened to her kid? where was danny? idk it was weirdly short and quick), but it’s still possible they’re coming back to that in a later episode, idk.

[nohshinwoos]

would u ever do a gif tutorial?? i love your gifs !! 💓

first of all, thank you 💖💖 and sorry this took a while to answer/make, i have had a lot going on and found it hard to make myself focus on this! but here it is now :D

i did make a tutorial earlier this year, but since i feel like that’s slightly outdated now (because i’ve changed the way i make my gifs quite a lot during this year), here’s a new one :’)

in this tutorial i included how i:

download

cut out the part i want to gif

import to photoshop

how to use actions (because i’ve started using that a lot and will in this tutorial)

crop (action)

put the text on (action)

sharpen (action)

colour (psd)

save

‘delay’ the gif so it’s a (in my opinion) good speed (again with an action)

i use photoshop cc 2018, but i think as long as you can open video clips in it and it has the ‘timeline’ you should be fine no matter what ps you have. (don’t hold me to it, though, that’s just my own speculation.)

i’ve included some things too:

an ‘action pack’ including: crop, sharpening, text and ‘delay’.

3 colouring psds (2 from the last tutorial+the one used for this tutorial)

i’ll be showing how i made this 540x300px type of gif:

from this gifset.

(tutorial under the cut! warning for a long post, with a lot of text and pictures. sorry if this is very in depth i just can’t stop talking sometimes. some things might be small details, but it’s things i wish i learned sooner myself. anyway lets get into it! also i’m not an expert, just speaking from my own experience.)

downloading the video

the first thing i do is download the video i want from clipconverter.cc. paste the link in the field, press continue, choose mp4 and highest possible quality (preferably high definition (hd) 1080p or 720p) and then press start. it takes a while to process the video, but once that’s done just press download and wait for the video to download, which takes another while.

if you know which part you want, and don’t wanna download a full video, you can just put in what part you wanna download like this at the bottom:

cutting out the part i want to gif

i use quicktime player (download link) to open the video and then i cut out the part i want to gif using the ‘trim‘ tool, found under edit -> trim… i always leave more than i need when trimming, just to be sure i get all of what i want to gif, then trim it a bit more later in ps.

trim by pulling the yellow things until you’re happy, then hit the button to the right.

when you feel like you have the part you want, just click file -> save… and name it and save it where you want.

importing the clip to photoshop

i simply import a clip by pulling it from the folder into ps, like this:

this will open up your clip like this:

i always work in the video timeline like this, because i find it easier to move stuff around in it - especially text. and because you can listen to the video clip as you do the text part of the gif, so i don’t need to have it open on the side.

how to use actions

using actions may sound hard, but it’s honestly the best discovery i’ve done in ps this year! now i tend to use it more often than not, because it makes gifmaking simpler (in my opinion). basically, the action does the things for you instead of you having to click a lot of buttons

depending on how you’ve set up your ps, the ‘actions’ panel is on the right. if it’s not, open it by clicking window -> actions.

to import an action to photoshop, you click the little lines at the top right corner of the ‘actions’ window. then click load actions…

find the action (.atn) you wanna use and click it to add it to ps.

then you just click the action you wanna use in the actions window on the right, and hit the little play button (see pic below) and let ps do the rest.

click the action (red circle), then play (blue circle)!

nothing more, nothing less!

crop (action)

following the steps above we’re now gonna crop the video.

my ‘big’/one line gifs are usually 540x300px because i find that to be a good size for those.

click the ‘crop 540x300px’ action and ‘play’. done!

and before we move on, this is usually when i trim the gif from the excess i left when trimming it in quicktime player.

place the marker (red circle) where you want to cut the clip, use the scissor (blue circle) to cut it. click the clip you don’t want anymore and delete it.

text (action)

when i make gifs with text, i find it best to do the text right after the cropping. if the gif doesn’t have text, i just go straight to ‘sharpening’.

first close the video group by clicking the little arrow next to it, then click the video group:

add the ‘text’ to the gif using the action. the text layer won’t go all the way out, or it might be too long depending on the clip’s length, so just pull it so it fits the size of the whole clip:

this something to remember to check once we get to colouring as well.

then what i do is that i play (the button marked in blue below) the clip in ps, listen for what i want to be in that particular gif and then pause where i want to cut it, and simply cut it with the scissor. make sure the text layer is selected before cutting it.

you can either keep the layers like this, or you pull down the top one to the same line in the ‘timeline’. i always want them all in the same row because i find that simpler.

i keep cutting the text where i want the gifs to end. you could say that each section of text is a gif in the gifset, because that’s how i think when i gif like this.

then it’s just to put the text you want for each part of the gif.

click the section of text you want to write in, click the ‘type tool’ and then the text on the gif to start writing.

i always make my text boxes higher than i need to, because i never know how many lines the text will be. then i just hit enter to jump down as many lines as i need in order for the text to be at the bottom of the gif.

sharpening (action)

when you’re gonna sharpen the clip, you’ll need to open the video group that you previously closed again.

click the ‘video’ layer and apply the ‘sharpening’ action just like with the other actions. 

now that we’ve sharpened it, when saved the gif will look something like this:

colouring

i most often colour every gifset by itself nowadays, because i love experimenting with colours and try to find something that works for every gif/gifset. it can be challenging, but i personally enjoy that kind of challenge!

for the tutorial i made earlier this year i included some psds that you can find here. you can find the colouring i made for this tutorial there as well! if you just wanna apply the psd and not colour from scratch, i explained how you do that here!

the layers i use are:

‘levels’ (to lighten/darken)

‘vibrance’ (to make the colours ‘pop’)

at least one ‘selective layer’, but usually a few more (to experiment with colours and change/desaturate colours completely)

sometimes a ‘curves’ layer as well (if the gif is very dark or just need some more light other than what the ‘levels’ layer can do)

sometimes i use ‘hue/saturation’ as well (if i wanna change a specific colour to another or saturate it completely)

all adjustments layers i use can be find at the bottom of the ‘layers’ tab, the button is called ‘create new fill or adjustment layer’:

since my colourings differ from gifset to gifset, this is just generally what i do when colouring. it also varies depending on if it’s more colourful gifs (like this or this, or like the phil one i’m gonna show now), or just one more subtle coloured (like this, this or this).

if there’s requests for more colour tutorials i can make more :’)

but now back to this gifset!

i always start with adding a ‘levels’ layer. my settings for this gifset was:

the first value is shadows, second is midtones and third is highlights. i usually keep my shadows value at 10-20, midtones 1,20-1,50 or 1,60-1,70 if i need to, and leave highlights as it is. (i don’t use the output levels at all.)

after ‘levels’:

second layer i add is usually ‘vibrance’. (sometimes i add ‘selective layer’(s) before ‘vibrance’, but i find it easier to do ‘selective layer’(s) last.) my settings for ‘vibrance’ is usually:

so i basically always turn ‘vibrance’ up to +100, sometimes i’ve used ‘saturation’ too and put it at like +10 or +20 but i find that to be a bit too much most times.

after ‘vibrance’:

‘selective layer’ is for me the most frustrating part, but also the most fun because you can get such cool colours with it - or even just enhance the already existing colours just a bit.

‘selective layer’ have many different options and depending on what my ‘goal’ for the gifset is, i use these differently. something i always try to have in mind, though, is that the colours ‘disappear’ a bit when i upload the gifs to tumblr and it’s okay if it’s a bit too ‘much’ in ps.

my biggest tip is probably to explore it on your own and play around with it a lot. that’s how you learn what works and doesn’t work and also what you personally like or don’t like. if it doesn’t look good, just delete the ‘selective layers’ and start from scratch again.

my first layer is always in the reds and often in the black one as well. for the phil gifset my settings were:

in the reds i enhance his skin colour and in the blacks i make everything black a bit darker. if it’s a colourful gifset i always make the reds a bit ‘stronger’ than i need to, because a lot of the skin colour disappears when i keep adding layers and changing the colours in those.

after this layer the gif looks like this:

in the second layer i played around with the blues and magentas, to try and change the blue and magenta colours in the gif - in this case phil’s sheets, his sweater and his eyes.

my settings ended up being like this:

and then the gif looks like this:

layer 3 in this gif is just magentas, in which i kind of saturated the magenta and blue colours a bit.

then it looks like this:

i wasn’t really happy with the green (the pillows) in the gif, so i added another layer in which i changed yellows and greens, and put it beneath the rest of the ‘selective layers’.

in this layer i played with the yellows and greens, because green always contains yellow and green. putting the cyan to -100 in the yellows layer will make it more reddish and the yellow at +100 will make it more yellow. changing the greens and putting the cyan on -100 made it more reddish too, the magenta at +20 gave it a kind of orange-ish tone and yellow at +100 made it a bit more yellow.

and this is how the gif looks now:

all in all, i find that to get good or interesting colourings you just have to play around with the different layers. and add more ‘selective layers’, to change the colours even more. as i said before - if it doesn’t work or looks weird, simply delete the ‘selective layers’ and start over :’)

saving

one of the final steps in gifmaking is saving. i save my gifs in two steps, and this is the first one.

to save the first gif, just place the markers like this:

so it matches with the ‘text’ layer.

click file -> export -> save for web… for my laptop it takes a little while to process it, but soon this window will pop up:

in the bottom left corner of the window you can see the gif size.

it needs to be under 3mb for it to work in a tumblr post. if it’s over that, you can either exit the window now and shorten the gif a bit more - or you can save it now and remove frames in the ‘delay’ step further down. i personally most often do the latter because i find that easier.

on the right of the gif are all the settings, mine are:

i mostly focus on the top half i find ‘selective’ and ‘pattern’ to be the best settings, but that’s a matter of taste really. you can always play around with it until you find what you think is best for your gifs.

and make sure the looping options at the bottom is set to ‘forever’, so the gif doesn’t suddenly stop.

when you’re done, click save… and save your gif where you want.

move the markers (red circles) to match with the next text layer to and repeat the steps to save the next gif.

‘delay’ (action)

once the gif is saved i always open it again to change the ‘frame delay time’ and sometimes (like for the gif used in this example) i add another ‘vibrance’ layer if i find that the gif lacks some colours. you can of course do this during colouring, but for me this works as well.

find your gif, open it in ps. choose the action called ‘delay 0,05’, then hit play. this will make the gif a bit slower than it is when you first save it in ps.

if you want to add another ‘vibrance’ layer, you can do so now. in the ‘layers’ tab, scroll all the way up and click the first layer and then add another ‘vibrance’ layer and set it to the value you want.

(i usually go for +50 or +100.)

if you know your gif is too big (over 3mb) from saving it earlier, you can now delete frames in order to make it smaller. what i do is delete one or two frames at a time until it’s under 3mb.

to delete frames, click the one frame, hold ‘shift’ and click as many frames back as you wanna delete. click the tarsh bin (blue circle) to delete them.

once you’re done, click file -> export -> save for web… again to save your gif. i usually save over the one i saved before, because i see no use having two gifs that’s almost the same. i only confuse myself so i don’t know which one is which without having to open ps again.

now you’re finally done and can post your gif(s) to tumblr :D

the final result!

before all effects:

after all effects:

if you found this helpful, please like or reblog! thank you for reading :’) 💖

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lyndsey’s first ever gif tutorial!!!

hello world, it’s me, lynds! by request, I’m gonna walk you through how I make my gifs! I’m going to just show a basic gif tutorial (like the one below). This tutorial will walk through the steps of getting the footage, creating the gif, editing it with some minimal coloring, and then exporting! :) let me know if you have any questions, I hope you enjoy!

I use the following programs:

Photoshop CS6 (mac download tutorial) 

QuickTime Player

let’s get started!!!

step one: find what you want to gif

For me, my first stop is almost always netflix. I make supernatural gifs, and I am lucky enough to have 13 seasons right at my fingertips. But Lyndsey, how do you get netflix video onto your laptop?! Well, that’s where QuickTime Player comes into play. For purposes of this tutorial, I’m going to gif a nice little family hug from episode 12x22. So first step, find the part you want to gif and pause the video about 10 seconds before you would want your gif to start, and make it full screen . Like so:

It’s important to start the recording before the actual first gif frame because you want all the extra things to go away (the play button, the rating that pops up in the right corner, etc) before you get to the actual moment you want to gif.

step two: begin recording

Open up QuickTime Player. On mac, it should pop up in your toolbar. A quick trick I use is to do a spotlight search (Command + Spacebar) and search for Quicktime Player. This will begin to run the program. Two finger click on the icon, and a small menu will pop up. It should look like this

Select New Screen Recording. A box should pop up on your screen that looks like this:

Click the red record button. Another box will appear that looks like this:

Click anywhere on your screen and boom! Your laptop is recording your entire screen! Now you can swipe over to your browser tab and it will continue recording your show as you watch! Make sure you move your mouse so all those annoying menus and things go away and it’s just the show on your screen.

Once you have finished recording the whole part you want to gif (make sure it’s short!!), swipe back over and open the menu again. It will have changed slightly to look like this:

Click on Stop Screen Recording. A box will appear where you can play the video you just recorded. Now, click the red x to exit the window that just appeared (trust me on this one) and it will bring up a new box like so:

Title your clip whatever you like and save it wherever! Now you have your clip! Hoorah for you, you’re doing great!!!

step three: getting it into photoshop

Now we’re ready to make our actual gif! Yay! Open up photoshop and then click on File -> Import -> Video Frames to Layers like so:

A new window will pop up where you can browse through your files. Go find the video clip you just recorded and select it. Now, your screen should look like this:

I always select the “Limit to Every 2 Frames” option to fit more content into my gif. I also toggle until I find only the part I want to gif (since we had to record a little extra to get to rid of the menu bars and such. Do this by dragging the small, dark pieces below the gray line until the image you’re looking for pops up on the little mini screen. Make sure to do both sides! Then, press okay!

step four: finding duplicate frames

No technology is perfect, but photoshop is far from it. Often, there are duplicate frames in gifs, which makes them look choppy and sad :( So, after completing step three your screen should look like this:

All the little boxes at the bottom are frames, while the list on the side are the layers. We’ll worry about the layers later. For now, click through each individual frame one by one, and if you find a duplicate, delete it (click the little trashcan below all the frames)! 

tip: I’m not sure if this is universal, but in my program, every fifth frame is a duplicate. idk why. but, I can go through and delete frames until one of the duplicates are on a multiple of 5 (i.e, frame 15 and 16 are the same) and then I select all the ‘5′ frames (Hit command and click frame 15, then frame 20, then frame 25 and so on and so forth). It minimizes the constant clicking. But, this might be confusing to some, so if it doesn’t make sense, just click through and delete the duplicates!

step five: cropping

Now that all those pesky frames are gone, it’s time to crop! Select the crop tool from the side toolbar (it’s selected in the next frame) and drag until you’re satisfied with what you have! 

tip: for individual gifs, it doesn’t matter too much, but if you’re doing gifsets, they need to all be the same size. I recommend using one of the preset ratios, which you can find if you click on “unconstrained” in the top left hand corner 

Now, it looks like this! Double click and it will crop the image to the selected size!

step six: coloring

Now comes the fun part! Coloring/Adjustments! For me, I usually up the brightness, lower the contrast and lower the saturation. I will post the settings I used below:

Make sure these layers are above all your other ones (you can drag them up to change the order). This is totally up to you! Click the buttons and mess around, see what they all do! You can always delete the layer you created and your gif will go back to normal :) 

step seven: frames per second

The final step before export for me is to change the frames per second. By default, mine go to .02 seconds, which is much too fast. The frame rate is shown at the bottom of the frames. I usually set my gifs to .07 seconds. The easiest way to that is to select all frames, by clicking on the small menu on your timeline (the little three lines with the arrow in the top right corner)

And then select “select all frames” from the menu. This will highlight all your frames! Next, click on one of the arrows (next to the timestamp) on any of your frames. A window will appear like so:

Click on “other...” and type in “.07″

Now we’re ready for export! Woo hoo!!

step eight: export

This is the most tedious, and my least favorite part of gifing. Sigh. Anyways, first you will go back to file and open the menu, then select “Save for Web”

The next page it will bring you to is very important:

The most important part of this window is the GIF size, shown here:

Tumblr has a gif size of 3M, so obviously this gif is way too big. Never fear! It’s time to change the image size. If you just change the width, it will keep your gif in proportion and minimize the size. I changed my width to 475px, and now we are at 2.763M, which means we’re good to go for tumblr!

Now, it’s time to save! it will automatically save as a .gif file, and you’re golden! time to upload your beautiful creation to tumblr!

I hope you found this helpful, please like it or reblog it if it helped, mainly so I don’t feel like I did all this for nothing haha. Happy gifing everyone!!! -lynds