#to answer your question becc

[greensaplinggrace]

GIF MAKER APPRECIATION TAG

rules: answer the first half of the questions with gifsets of your own, then answer the second half by tagging gif makers you love

thank so much @peraltastarkov​ for tagging me!

LINK A GIFSET...

link a gifset where you tried something new: This Darkling gifset was my first (and only as of now) attempt at blending. But I’m also new to giffing in general, so all of my stuff right now is of new techniques I’m trying out.

link a gifset that features your favorite character or celebrity: This one, which features Ada Wong from Resident Evil, one of my all time favorite characters.

link a gifset that you want more people to see: This V for Vendetta gifset! I love it so much. It was one of my first gifsets and the one that really made me start to love giffing, because I just adored how it turned out.

link a gifset that you had fun making: This set of my favorite SaB ships holding hands and this set of Darklina mimicking each other because they’re all adorable and I would die for them.

link a gifset that you created as part of a meme, challenge, or series: This Darkling gifset for the Make Me Choose Meme.

link a gifset of yours that makes you smile: This one of Mal and the Darkling. It’s adorable and I was smiling the entire time I made it. 

link a gifset that you made for someone else: Well I do a lot of gif prompt fills, but this one with the Darkling and Malina in SaB I made for @vita-s-west because I thought they’d like it and their tags on my post inspired me.

TAG SOMEONE WHO...

tag someone who inspired you to start making gifs: @zoya-nazyalenskys​ singlehandedly got me into gifmaking. When I say I wouldn’t be here without their help (which was all through anon lol) and their inspiring gifsets, I’m not exaggerating in the slightest. Literally just seeing their stuff was what made me want to start doing this.

tag someone who makes great vibrant gifs: @inejz-ghafa is one of them most talented gifmakers I’ve ever seen and their gifs are super vibrant and colorful and gorgeous. I could stare at their stuff literally all day. @starkozova is an absolute master at vibrant gifs too! Plus the amazing @aleksalinas and @cherylblossom!

tag someone who makes great pale/pastel gifs: I don’t know many, but @tophbefong is spectacular at pale gifs! I especially love their use of whites and reds. @ballroomofmymindp also has some very lovely pale gifs, and the attention to detail in their sets as well as the use of pastels is magnificent.

tag someone who gifs for a fandom you love: @burningblake @saint-aleksander @malyen0retsev @genyazafin and @alinaoretscv all gif for Shadow and Bone and I adore their stuff. I always get to so excited to see them all on my dash.

tag someone who uses text/typography really well in their gifsets: @starlless!! Plus @poppykru and @peraltastarkov @taylorjoy-anya and @aleksandr-morozova 💕

tag someone who motivates you to step up your game: @peraltastarkov!! Her gifs are amazing and constantly inspire me to do better. @strawberrieswing, because their stuff is so creative and amazing and full of talent. @mal-zoya for just making sets that are truly inspired and full of emotion, I always feel so much passion for gifmaking when I see your creations. Also @elenawinchstr, whose gifs always make me immediately want to jump into photoshop and start creating.

tag gif makers who you admire and appreciate: @smilecapsules @zari-tomahz @starmarvel @eivor-basim @safin @benj-barnes @ajmichalka @alinastarkhov  @hunterschafer @inhejghafa @freddycarterz @elena-gilbert @time-turner @maloretsov @wanhedars @beccs @docmcfly and honestly legitimately everybody in the SaB fandom. It’s so full of talented people. The stuff I see on the daily is mindblowing.

tagging: all of the above tagged, plus anybody else who wants to join!

[aliciavikander]

Gif Maker Appreciation Tag

rules: answer the first half of the questions with gifsets of your own, then answer the second half by tagging gif makers you love! (psst check out dia’s celebration here)

tagged by @julielukes thank you so much!!

LINK A GIFSET...

Link a gifset you’re really proud of:

not saying this is my best work, but i remember being really proud of how this came out when i posted it :)

Link a gifset where you tried something new:

well maybe this mando set. it was experimental in the way the gifs were arranged and it was absolute AGONY as well to collect all the scenes lmao

Link a gifset that features your favorite character or celebrity:

here’s a gifset of my long time crush lara croft <3 i don’t really make gifs of video games so this was something new as well!

Link a gifset that you want more people to see:

ooof, this is a hard one. i can’t really chose one tbh so here’s milo the fluffy goat if you need something to cheer you up!

Link a gifset that you had fun making:

this jaskier gifset. idk jaskier in general is just fun to gif <3

Link a gifset that you created as part of a meme, challenge, or series:

this sam wilson set where i went a bit overboard with yellow/golden color lmao

Link a gifset of yours that makes you smile:

this is not really a gifset, more like a meme lmao including my gif but i still think this is funny af

Link a gifset that you made for someone else:

i haven’t really made gifs for others other than requests tbh here’s one that was made for a show called blood & treasure 

TAG SOMEONE WHO...

Tag someone who inspired you to start making gifs:

can’t remember the first person but i do remember seeing @imdefs’ gifs and going “omg i want to make gifs like her!!” back in the days. this was at the time when i started really getting into gif making

Tag someone who makes great vibrant gifs:

@wildwrlds just look at her pinned, besties <3

Tag someone who makes great pale/pastel gifs:

not super into pale edits anymore (i used to, though!) but i know @wherepoetsdie has some nice ones!!

Tag someone who gifs for a fandom you love:

@daniellbruhl even for fandoms that are not that big, gotta admire that <3

Tag someone who uses text/typography really well in their gifsets:

@fredy-carter that font effect on that kaz edit?? HELLO???

Tag someone who motivates you to step up your game:

@anyataylorjoy girl spare some talent ma’am?

Tag someone who you have taken inspiration from:

so many of you!!! but @userjen is an absolute fave!!

Tag gif makers who you admire and appreciate! (Put as many people here as you want!):

obviously, everyone who was mentioned above!!

@villainelle @captain-james @tennant @billy-crudup @anakinskywalkers @luke-patterson @buckysbarnes @buckybarncs @tylerposey @chloexdecker @ferrisbuellers @abigailshobbs @brad-pitt @samaraweaving @buckybarne @bongjoonsho @henricavyll @stars-bean @jenniferwalterz @bladesrunner @gwen-stacy @dylobriens @userlina @makkarisersi @fulcrms @laurens-german @beccs @carricfisher  (pls i’m so sorry i probably forgot a lot of you, but i could literally go on and list all the people i follow lmao anyway i love y’all <3)

[dramatical]

Gif Maker Appreciation Tag

rules: answer the first half of the questions with gifsets of your own, then answer the second half by tagging gif makers you love! (psst check out dia’s celebration here)

tagged by @miriammaisel thank you jess <3

LINK A GIFSET...

Link a gifset you’re really proud of:

oh defo this of flynn’s rap in i got the music i made for @jatpwomen :)

Link a gifset where you tried something new:

this one i did for @jatpsource 3k celebration, i learned how to do the rotation of text just for this edit lol

Link a gifset that features your favorite character or celebrity:

this one of the loml anya taylor joy giving some good life advice

Link a gifset that you want more people to see:

this one of my favorite luke quote, i’m not saying it flopped or anything but it took time and i really want people to see it

Link a gifset that you had fun making:

it’s a tie between this luke favorite scenes & this jatp+reductress headlines one

Link a gifset that you created as part of a meme, challenge, or series:

this of my favorite jatp songs for the jatp gif meme

Link a gifset of yours that makes you smile:

this atj being a cutie

Link a gifset that you made for someone else:

i’m sad to find i haven’t made a set dedicated to anyone, gotta fix that. i however filled in requests for anons, which could be considered making it for someone else right? i like this one an anon requested of one of pearlcaddy’s fics 

TAG SOMEONE WHO...

Tag someone who inspired you to start making gifs:

hard to remember tbh, i’ve been making gifs for the good part of 7-ish years now (thats a lot!) gotta thank the 1d fandom i guess? i needed the zayn content no one was making for me lmao

Tag someone who makes great vibrant gifs:

oh @kamalaskhans i love her stuff so much everything she makes is goals

Tag someone who makes great pale/pastel gifs:

i don’t like pale/pastel gifs so idk people who do them

Tag someone who gifs for a fandom you love:

@rockyblue she makes such pretty jatp gifs!

Tag someone who uses text/typography really well in their gifsets:

gotta agree with jess on this, definitely engy @alina-mal / @juliesmolinas

Tag someone who motivates you to step up your game:

katie @dani-clayton girl spare some talent pls

Tag someone who you have taken inspiration from:

engy again @juliesmolinas / @alina-mal

Tag gif makers who you admire and appreciate! (Put as many people here as you want!):

@stars-bean @stydixa @flynncarter @alinastarksov @madeline-kahn @malikjavaddzayn @alexander-vlahos @gillespiecharlie @charliegillespi @kellyabbott @ferrisbuellers @timothyolyphant @juliesdahlia @oretsevmal @snyderzack @andstitch @kurtsrussell @kamalaskhans @pixelfives @ewan-mcgregor @sallysimpsons @iridescentides @beccs @andysambrg @debickis @tennant

[softdavidrose]

5, 6, 7 !!

already answered 5 here!

6. What is your least favorite movie/TV show to gif

off thetop of my head i wanna say crazy ex girlfriend, i haven’t done a ton of cxg gifsets but i have a couple in my drafts that i need to remake because it was so hard to color??? also i just find it difficult to gif in general for some reason, but i love the show so much i wish i was better at giffing it skdjfd

7. Who are your top 3 gif makers

i honestly don’t think i could just pick *three* so i’m just gonna mention some people whose gifs (and edits in general) i really like and appreciate (OTHER THAN YOURS ELLE!!!) @roseapothecary @oscarspoe @meliorn (coloring queen tbh) @benjiwyatt @benslie @riley-blue @amandaseyfried @torisvega @poppetmurrays @davidbrewer @trueloveistreacherous @abednadir @beccs @michaelcorderoes and honestly just every single gifmaker ever let me give u a kiss

questions for gif-makers

[danieljradcliffe]

Rules: answer the questions and then tag 10+ other creators to answer the questions!

thank you to @danslevy, @neve-campbells, @loveswitch, @rhodee, @bicarols for tagging me!

first creation and most recent creation of 2020: first and most recent

one of your favorite creations from 2020: this one i made for @qilliananderson​

a creation you’re really proud of:  this one i made for @maxbegone

a new style you tried this year and a gifset that uses it: I started doing blending and clipping masks! both seen in this set i made for @draconisxmalfoy who literally taUGHT me clipping masks so tysm leah <3

your favorite coloring: this one because the webisode is so YELLOW so i had fun making it actually look good and bringing out the blues and greens!

a creation that took you forever: the A-Z of Patrick and David

your creation from 2020 that received the most notes: this alexis one but that’s only because of @lulabo‘s tags that @imlorelai added!

a creation you think deserved more notes: this twylexis set

a creation with a favorite scene/quote: this set that quotes dan levy 

a new fandom you joined and a creation you made for it: normal people! and i made this set of the brilliant paul mescal

a creation you made that breaks your heart: this jamie/claire setttt

a ‘simple’ creation that you really love: this outlander set

a creation that was inspired by another one (add both your creation and the one that inspired it!): this annie murphy set which was inspired by this catherine o’hara set by @blairwitchz

a favorite creation created by someone else: this one by @amandaseyfried; this one by @draconisxmalfoy; and this one by @swearphil

some of your favorite content creators from the year: @draconisxmalfoy @beccs @chonis @nessa007 @timothyolyphant @danlevys @high-seas-swan @fishyspots @jemscorner @ratchet @maxbegone @qilliananderson @amandaseyfried @loveswitch @natromanoffe, @steviebuds, @lolamartinez, @danslevy

a for good measure, another a couple more creations of yours that you love: 1 2 3 4 5 6 and although my icon game has come v far, im still pretty proud of the first ones i made!

okaay tagging everyone mentioned in this post :) thanks @danslevy for making this 

[shangschis]

15, 16 for the ask game!

Since these two questions are quite similar, i’ll split my favorite creators into two just to avoid redundancy 😅 so grab some popcorn because this is gonna take a while haha

15: Talk about some of your favourite creators: what do you love most about their creations?

@seance; whom i’ve already mentioned in this answer, has some insane gif blending skills! I’m always a sucker for well-blended gifs and the colors she uses are so pretty and vibrant.

@rafaelsilva; jill always manages to find the perfect quotes/pieces of poetry that fit so well with the characters and ships that they edit, and her sets are always so stunning.

@diegohargreves; maggie’s edits are always so crisp and she uses such gorgeous colors and color palettes, which make her gifs eye-catching.

Of course, my Hamfam: @jackmanhugh @yusuf-kaysani @frozen2s @alex-krycek @shanealexandermadej​; who, even though we’re in different fandoms apart from Hamilton, all manage to make top-notch, creative gif ideas + the work they put into their creations for every single on of their fandoms is so inspiring.

16: List some creators that always inspire you with their creations and talent! 

Other talented creators who never disappoint with their edits: @diazalex @marwankenzari @beccs @maisknives @wandaviz @lucifersmorningstars @marwankensari @nickysjoe @buckeybarns @marwankenzri @theoldguardians @marinellli @orpheusmyth @nicoloyusuf @letitialewis @luca-marinellis @evanschris @downey-robert @joeandnicky @jane-kyrie 

creators ask game ♡

[noahreids]

Thank you for all the gifs you make of schitts creek and the cast! Are there other gif makers in the fandom who post similar stuff?

Thank YOU! for enjoying them and popping by! And to answer your question: ABSOLUTELY! We are a lucky fandom with a ton of truly amazing gif makers. Just to name a few and not nearly all; 

@holmesapothecary | @danlevys | @brewerrosesource | @danieljradcliffe | @wlwbaudelaire |  @fishyspots | @wild-aloof-rebel | @lilbitalexis | @patrickbrewsky | @rosevilles | @upschittcreek | @oscarspoe | @beccs

Have a lovely day!! xx

[barbex]

Get to know the author meme

Tagged by @pikapeppa, thank you!

It’s been a while since I did one of these. I’m tagging @saltlordofold, @gremlinquisitor, @briarfox13, @nightmarestudio606, @lauraemoriarty, @hollyand-writes, @bexterrr, @alyssalenko

Rules: answer questions and tag a few followers you want to know better.

Author Name/Nicknames: barbex. I’m barbex everywhere. But I also want to establish [Barbara Becc] [as my name for original fiction]. One day... 

There’s also the writelr: the960writers

When I Created This Account: Funny, I created this tumblr in 2008, probably to reserve the name? I don’t remember. But I didn’t do anything with it, I only uploaded one picture of my “build a DVR in an IKEA table” project with [MythTV] with my little son in his onesie. [Adorable]. 

Nothing happened for a few years and then March 30 2013, I started to use this thing. 

Why I Created This Account: Well, you kids were all here... I discovered fandom and I wanted to see all the great art. 

Fandoms You Write For: Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Mass Effect Trilogy, and I wrote one smutty oneshot for Avengers Marvel MCU

Where You Post: [AO3] and sometimes here on [Tumblr].

Statistics over all years, AO3, by Kudos:

Most Popular One-Shot: funny, a shavik fic. [Cultured Memories], Mass Effect, Shepard x Javik. It’s from 2014, back when the fandom was thriving and that may skew the numbers. 

Most Popular Multi-Chapter Story: because of its age, it is [Solid Fluidity], Mass Effect shakarian. But if we ignore that for its age, we get [In Service to the Inquisitor] (DA:I, Dom/sub, subby!Cullen), proving once again that we love our smut!  

Favorite Story You Wrote: of the recently finished fics, I love [Echo Between These Walls] (Mass Effect, Shepard/Garrus/Victus) the most. 

Story You Were Nervous to Post: I’m always nervous. But I was a bit more nervous with [A Hawke Investigates] because it’s a murder mystery and I’ve never written anything like that before.

How Do You Choose Your Titles: by wailing, swearing, and gnashing my teeth. 

Do You Outline: No. Yes. I try. I want to because I tend to run out of steam somewhere in the middle but -- gaaahh -- I hate outlining. 

Complete: 

In-Progress:

I’m skipping these cause it’s just too many.

Coming Soon: More [Lost Templar in Skyhold] with Inquisitor Carver Hawke and special advisor Merrill. Also probably another fenhawke fic, a prequel to Lost Templar. 

Do You Accept Prompts: Yes sure but I can’t promise I will ever actually write them.

Upcoming Story You Are Most Excited to Write: Currently [Lost Templar in Skyhold] has my heart.

BONUS: ma face

[rex101111]

17, 23, 34, and 50 for the write ask!

17. In your opinion, what’s your most overrated fic?

oof. Right. The answer to this question might just change every time I’m asked, but right now I feel that some of earlier Eriizuocha shorts, cute as they are, kinda get too much attention for how low effort it was to write them. I still like them! And I’m glad I wrote them! But sometimes it feels like they kinda overshadow everything else I write, especially on AO3

23. What’s the nicest review you’ve ever gotten?

Again, pretty much anything @sevi007 said on any given GG fic of mine, though a comment @broken-clover left on “Sword and Fan” where she said I made her care about a character she was lukewarm on (Anji) is a close second :D

34. Was there any fic that you wrote that really surprised you in the fandom reaction? Was it just by the numbers or did they take it an entirely different way?

Not really? I mean it’s always a pleasant surprise when a lot of people like your stuff, and I like to think most people kinda get what I go for, more or less, when I write stuff down. Generally speaking.

50. Has writing fanfic had a significant impact on your life? Would you say it’s entirely positive?

I’d say so yeah, on both counts. Writing is pretty much the one thing I do I’m genuinely proud of, the one time I feel like I’m giving my all and really accomplishing something, cheesy as it sounds, is when I finally finish a really long fic that’s been dogging me for ages.

I seem to have mostly dodged the less....savory side of writing fic and being in fandoms, so so far I think fanfic writing has helped me, helped me improve my writing, try out new genres I never thought to touch, and, of course, meeting awesome people and fic writers like you Becc :D 

[username-trademark]

A Hot Summer Day

Authors Note: So its been awhile since i put some writing on here, life has been weird for me and I've been uninspired. so this story is probably trash, but it was a fun practice round, so i hope you guys enjoy it. hope to be posting more stories now. Also if you catch a typo or bad grammar, feel free to say something. ill fix it.

The sun was bearing down hard that day, making even the pool hard to be out in. I was no stranger to heat waves, i lived in San Antonio for a large portion of my 20 years, but something about today felt like a miniature hell. But there was one benefit of all this, my girlfriends reaction. She was a gorgeous redhead from Vegas, with gorgeous brown eyes and soft, tan skin. Depending on the heat, she tended to take her clothes off to help, but today, as we hung out near my pool, she was totally naked.

She has some small but perky tits, a big bubble butt that i just wanted to squeeze like clay, and her pussy was deliciously puffy. I layed back in the pool, trying to relax but i couldn't keep my eyes off her which wasn’t helping me. A lustful heat was rolling over me, making me feel even hotter and really thirsty. She tipped her sunglasses down to look at me gave her usual crooked grin. “How hard ya? Like a steel beam, or like a really thick branch?” I couldn't help but twitch as she mentioned it, a reminder of my need.

“Why don't you come over here and find out?” She scoffed and sat back on her chair under a umbrella. “Hell no, your country ass might be able to take it, but as soon as the air starts working im going back inside.” I sighed. I had always been a country kid, i even had the general look. Big, lots of muscle from hard work, strong rough hands, the tan, the whole works. Add my hay colored hair and my dark eyes, not even i could argue it. But i still hated this heat, being from the country didn't fix that.

“Oh come on. Saying i like the heat because im from the country is like saying you like stripping because you lived right next to a strip club.” She laughed at that. “Hell no! You had to deal with heat even if you do hate it, even when i was 12 i ogled those sluts and loved it.” I sighed. “Come on babe, if your gonna be all naked and teasing at least help me out.” I couldn't help but plead. She looked at me curiously, a sorta sly look on her face. “Maybe… i might. Come closer to me, now.” I obeyed and got closer to the edge, closer to her and her amazing body.

She put her foot in my face. “Do you like the color?” Her nails were a soft red, and i nodded. I ran my lips along the top of her foot, and began to kiss and lick her soft feet. “Good boy. Knowing what i want, when i want it.” I began sucking on one of her toes wich made her moan a little. Normally i wasn't into this kinda thing, it did more for her then me, but i just felt so needy that even this was arousing me even more. “Damn, has your brain melted from the heat or is my good boy just that desperate to get off?” I answered with a lick and a harder suck, she simply giggled.

“This please you Rebecca?” She nodded. She hated it when people shortened her name, she claimed her full name was one for a queen. “Mmmm god your tongue is talented. Your ma teach you how to please women?” I glared at her, the obvious ‘Redneck = incest’ not too appreciated. “Your mother teach you how to be a slut?” she growled at my cheeky grin.

“Please, im a sex goddess and you know it.” I rolled my eyes but kept licking and sucking on her soft toes. “.... Hey Dillian?” I looked up at her, seeing how red her cheeks were getting. “Yes?” a cat like smile came over her lips, though her blush made it look a little sheepish. “I know we've talked about this, but does it all bother you that i'm… you know…?” i answered by moving up and giving her a hickey on her thigh, wich makes her moan and her pussy glisten.

“That your such a pervert, a bonafide slut?” She laughed. “I know you don't mind that, since you love taking advantage of it so muCH!” i gave her another hickey, this time on the other thigh, wich made her back arch and her pussy drool. “That you love it when i bite you? I definitely don't mind that.” I bit down a little harder, getting closer to her heated crotch. “Come on Re-becc-a. Say it.” She loves it when i put the extra emphasis on her name.

“Fuck, Dillian, your distracting me sto- OH G-GOD!” I was ever so lightly nibbling on her clit now, rubbing her thick thighs the entire time. She was drooling from both her gorgeous pussy and her pretty mouth. I began to lap and suck and more nibbles, making her writhe in pleasure. “D-d-dillia-n, oh f-fck your drving me razy! MWORE!”

I chuckled “Not till you say it. What should bother me babe?” I know i'm torturing Rebecca but i can't help it, her moans and twitches were so gorgeous and fun to watch. “Y-you fucking DICK! Y-you yo-you fucking slut!” I began to lick too, giving her a full body trembles. “F-uck...i… need to KNoW if… you like how… if you hate how… i tease other… guys…THERE I FUCKING SAID IT!” She was trying not to completely break, it was rather cute. But she was serious, so id better answer her.

I get up on the chair and lift her up and put her down near my lap, near my cock. “Just relax babe. Ill answer your question, but let me give your reward.” she growled. “When did you get all dominant?” Instead of answering her, i plunged her down on my extremely hard and erect cock. Her face bulged out a little in a very sexy way, as if her mind had just exploded and she couldn't perceive how horny it made her.

And one of the most adorable things she does when i'm dominant, wich admitally is not often, when she just kinda utters softly in disbelief. “Feels… so… brain no… of… fuuuck!” i couldn't help but chuckle as i forced her up and down my cock like a toy, a super hot, tight, trembling, drooling toy that was responding my every action.

“Feel good princess?” She clenched hard at me calling her ‘princess’ and she moaned out loud. “FUCK ME MOOOOOOOORE! PLEASSSS!” i think it just hit it her how hard i was fucking her. I began to slam her down harder and harder, and i felt myself throb in her. It feels incredible to do this to her, to just pleasure her like this, to drive her beyond crazy.

“You want more huh?” My fingers began to twist her nipples the way she liked and i suckled collar bone, all causing her to break into a ear destroying screech and her eyes to roll back. She quickly came over me, right as i exploded myself, not being able to handle how wonderful her clenching pussy felt.

I pulled her into my body, us both panting and sweating, no longer caring about the heat. I let my hands slowly go over her body, feeling each tremble along her skin. “Damn princess, i made you lose your mind for a second there.” She gasped, feeling my finger trace her pussy slowly. “Fuck… god i love it when your riled up. You fuck me so good.” She responded, smiling happily.

“Hey babe?” She looked up at me, snuggling against my chest. “Don't worry about the whole teasing thing. I know your mine, and mine alone. I trust you.” She blushed but smiled. “Only yours… speaking of, fuck me again?” I give her a cheeky smile.

[dramatical]

content creator tag

Rules: answer the questions and then tag 10+ other creators to answer the questions! i’m finally getting around doing this after being tagged by so many wonderful creators such as @juliesmolina @stormbreaker @bicarols @miriammaisel & @damnthedark sorry it took me so long i kept forgetting the tags in my likes lol

first creation and most recent creation of 2020: first was this shrek 2 gifset i made for chewbacca and last as of the making of this post was this soul gifset i made for movie-gifs

one of your favorite creations from 2020: this julie + butterflies gifset

a creation you’re really proud of: this finally free gifset for jatp week!

a new style you tried this year and a gifset that uses it: oh! blending gifs and playing with typography! this julie/flynn gifset for jatp week has it and i’m really happy with how it turned out

your favorite coloring: this pacrim set i made for movie-gifs

a creation that took you forever: this julie/luke set for jatp week it took me ages and i wasn’t even happy with how it ended lol

your creation from 2020 that received the most notes: overall this lilo and stitch set i made for disneyfilms and in my own blog this robots set

a creation you think deserved more notes: it’s hard to get anything over 500 notes these days so i guess this julie/luke set i made recently just bc i really like it and i don’t wanna see it flop so bad lol

a creation with a favorite scene/quote: this queen’s gambit one

a new fandom you joined and a creation you made for it: i joined jatp fandom and i made lots of things for it lol but here is a random one

a creation you made that breaks your heart: this julie/flynn deleted scene one bc i was a wreck making it

a ‘simple’ creation that you really love: this emma one just bc of anya taylor-joy’s gorgeous face

a creation that was inspired by another one (add both your creation and the one that inspired it!): this julie/luke set i said a few questions up, it was inspired mostly by @juliesmolinas style so i can’t link a specific post so i’m just mentioning her bc she’s queen and i took inspo of her whole work basically lol

a favorite creation created by someone else: i have too much love for content creators so this is going to be a bit long haha okay first: this julie/luke set by @oswiins bc i lost my entire mind when i saw it // this grand budapest hotel set by @kamalaskhans bc her big gifs are always to die for // this jatp set by @seance bc hello gorgeous typography??? // this perfect harmony references from @alexsmercer bc it’s gorgeous and i so well thought out *-* // this reggie + colors set from @miriammaisel pls lend me some of your talent // this jatp + christmas colors from @milesgmorales for @jatpsource bc honestly? rajan went off with that one // this jatp set from @steviebuds it just looks amazing, the blending, the colors, everything ♥-♥ // this tangled set from @ourteeth so so beautiful // this ghibli + colors from @nyssalance bc it’s perfect and so so good // this toph vs the earth rumble 6 fighters set from @ahssoka bc the comic style way in which it’s done lives in my mind rent free // this jatp +  beautiful ghosts lyrics from @madeline-kahn the legend herself // this hargreeves siblings set from @steviebuds bc i’m still in awe of it like queen spare some talent perhaps? // this pacrim set from @dindjvrins bc she didn’t have to go that hard with her coloring skills // this luke + food places reviews from @lilshitwayne bc it’s hilarious as fuck and so amazingly done // this alex + the signature okay™ from @stewart-booboo bc i just love the way she played with the typographies // this jatp alphabet set from @nora-reid bc it’s amazing and i laughed so much at it and i just really love it

some of your favorite content creators from the year: to name a few: @stars-bean @madeline-kahn @juliesmolina @juliesmolinas @chris-evans @timothyolyphant @miriammaisel @steviebuds @stewart-booboo @molinasjulies @merceralexs @hiraismomo @kieumyvus @goinesjennifer @ferrisbuellers @beccs @nora-reid @dindjvrins @ewan-mcgregor @thegretagerwig @rockyblue @jackmans @lucamarinnelli @iridescentides @coulter @bladesrunner @danslevy @montygreen @tennant @kamalaskhans @hollywoods

a for good measure, another a couple more creations of yours that you love: this julie/luke set, this jisoo gif bc angel™, this jatp +  reductress headlines bc it was funny as fuck to make and i have to make a part 2 soon, this julie/luke set where they mention each other, this beth harmon set i made for chewbacca bc i’m obsessed with anya taylor-joy’s face, this lisa set bc i love her and she’s so cute

tagging everyone i mentioned on the replies to the questions (ignore if you did it already tho!!) 

[natterghast]

 ✵ (Geid)

《 @wherecanigetsome 》

(ignoring the attraction question for. Obvious reasons)

Send ✵ and my muse will answer the following. 

● their first impression of your muse :  geid scratches at the back of his head, his hand running through his facsimile of hair. “right. saw one what needs help, all scared an’ tired. don’t know why anyone’d do that ― make a wean so scared, run all this way.” ● current impression :  they smile, lips curving over their many teeth. “good kid.” ● something they find frightening about your muse :  a look of consternation crosses their face. with their hands on their knees geid leans back in their chair. “what now ?  this some wisecrack ? ” ● something they find adorable about your muse :  “all sunbeams, not a wicked bone in her.” his smile returns. “tried taking to speaking like me, I think. caught honey murmuring sweet ones to the wood. right cute.” ● would my muse sacrifice themselves for yours ? :  “all a given. mine to see to, said I would.” he says simply and with great certitude. ● would my muse go on a date with yours ?  platonic/romantic :  platonic, if geid knew what the word  date  meant. they puzzle over it, figuring it’s not referential to the year but otherwise feeling clueless. “date ? ” ● one word my muse would use to describe yours:  “becc.” the old word rolls off his tongue in a rare show of teasing. ● would my muse slap yours if they could ? :  geid is taken aback by this question. “nay ? ” ● would my muse hug/kiss yours ? :  they shift in their seat and look abashed. “not what most would like. know i’m a bit much. but would, she let.”

[theconservativebrief]

What would it take to really tackle climate change? No delays, no gimmicks, no loopholes, no shirking of responsibility — the real thing. What would it look like?

To answer that question, it helps to understand the upper threshold of climate ambition. The target agreed upon by the world’s nations in Paris in 2015 is global warming of “well below” 2 degrees Celsius, with good-faith efforts to hold temperature rise to 1.5 degrees.

Countries are not moving anywhere near fast enough to hit those targets, so we are currently on track for somewhere around 3 degrees. It is generally agreed that hitting 2 degrees would be quite ambitious, while hitting 1.5 would be nothing short of miraculous. Yet the scientists at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in their latest report, are pleading with the world to go for it, because at this point, every fraction of a degree of warming matters.

While there is nothing like a real-world plan in place for hitting those targets yet, climate modelers have come up with many scenarios for how we might do so. However, as I wrote recently, most of those scenarios rely heavily on “negative emissions” — ways of pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. If negative emissions technologies can be scaled up later in the century, the reasoning goes, it gives us room to emit more earlier in the century.

And that’s what most current 2- or 1.5-degree scenarios show: Global carbon emissions rise in the short term, then plunge rapidly to become net negative around 2060, with gigatons of carbon subsequently captured and buried over the remainder of the century. The oil giant Shell released a scenario along those lines a few weeks ago.

Shell’s use of negative emissions, compared to other scenarios. Glen Peters

The primary instrument of negative emissions is expected to be BECCS: bioenergy (burning plants to generate electricity) with carbon capture and sequestration. The idea is that plants absorb carbon as they grow; when we burn them, we can capture and bury that carbon. The result is electricity generated as carbon is removed from the cycle — net-negative carbon electricity.

Most current scenarios bank on a lot of BECCS later in the century to make up for the carbon sins of the near past and near future.

BECCS. Sanchez 2015

One small complication in all this: There is currently no commercial BECCS industry. Neither the BE nor the CCS part has been demonstrated at any serious scale, much less at the scale necessary. (The land area needed to grow all that biomass for BECCS in these models is estimated to be around one to three times the size of India.)

Maybe we could pull off a massive BECCS industry quickly. But banking on negative emissions later in the century is, at the very least, an enormous, fateful gamble. It bets the lives and welfare of millions of future people on an industry that, for all intents and purposes, doesn’t yet exist.

Plenty of people reasonably conclude that’s a bad idea, but alternatives have been difficult to come by. There hasn’t been much scenario-building around truly ambitious goals: to zero out carbon as fast as possible, to hold temperature rise as close to 1.5 degrees as possible, and, most significantly, to do so while minimizing the need for negative emissions. That is the upper end of what’s possible.

In May, I looked at three publications that help fill that gap:

“Global Energy Transformation: A Roadmap to 2050,” by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), is a plan that targets a 66 percent chance of staying below 2 degrees, primarily through renewable energy.

The analysts at Ecofys recently released a scenario for zeroing out global emissions by 2050, thus limiting temperature to 1.5 degrees and eliminating (most of) the need for negative emissions.

A group of scholars led by Detlef van Vuuren of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency published a paper in Nature Climate Change investigating how to hit the 1.5 degree target while minimizing the need for negative emissions.

This graph will be very meaningful once you read the paper. Nature Climate Change

Here’s how this post (first published in May) is going to go: First, we’ll have a quick look at why targeting 1.5 degrees is so urgent; second, we’ll look at a few things these scenarios have in common, the baseline for serious ambition; third, we’ll look more closely at the third paper, as it offers some interesting alternatives (like, oh, mass vegetarianism) to typical carbon thinking; and finally, I’ll conclude.

Americans can’t make much sense out of Celsius temperatures, and half a degree of temperature doesn’t sound like much regardless. But the difference between 1.5 and 2 degrees of global warming is a very big deal. (Read the IPCC’s new science review here.)

Another recent paper in Nature Climate Change makes the point vividly: Bumping ambition up from 2 to 1.5 degrees would prevent 150 million premature deaths through 2100, 90 million through reduced exposure to particulates, 60 million due to reduced ozone.

“More than a million premature deaths would be prevented in many metropolitan areas in Asia and Africa,” the researchers write, “and [more than] 200,000 in individual urban areas on every inhabited continent except Australia.”

That’s not nothing! And of course, the difference between 1.5 and 2 degrees could mean the difference between life and death for low-lying islands.

The Marshall Islands, for now. Shutterstock

There’s no time to waste. In fact, there may be, uh, negative time. Limiting temperature rise to 1.5 degrees is possible, even in theory, only if the “carbon budget” for that target is at the high end of current estimates.

Again: 1.5 is only possible if we get started, with boosters on, immediately, and we get lucky. Time is not running out — it’s out.

The three scenarios I mentioned are different in a number of ways. The first two project through 2050, but the Nature Climate Change paper goes out to 2100. They target different things and use different tools. But they share a few big action items — features that any ambitious climate plan will inevitably involve.

1) Radically increase energy efficiency.

Just how much energy will be needed through 2050? That depends on population and economic growth, obviously, but it also depends on the energy intensity of the world’s economies — how much primary energy they require to produce a unit of GDP.

Increasing energy efficiency (which, all else being equal, reduces emissions) is in a race with population and economic growth (which, all else being equal, increases them). To radically decarbonize with minimal negative emissions, efficiency will need to outrun growth. (Notably, Shell’s scenario shows much higher global energy demand in coming decades; growth outruns efficiency.)

IRENA’s scenario reduces global energy-related emissions 90 percent by 2050. Of that 90 percent, 40 comes from energy efficiency.

IRENA

To do this, IRENA says, the energy intensity of the global economy must fall two-thirds by 2050. Improvements in energy intensity will have to accelerate from an average of 1.8 percent a year from 2010 to 2015 to an average of 2.8 percent a year through 2050.

In the Ecofys scenario, energy efficiency is so amped up that total global energy demand is lower in 2050 than today, despite a much larger population and a global economy three times larger than today’s.

The Nature Climate Change paper summarizes the necessary approach to efficiency this way: “Rapid application of the best available technologies for energy and material efficiency in all relevant sectors in all regions.”

“All relevant sectors in all regions” means electricity, transportation, buildings, and industry, all bumped up to the most efficient available materials and technologies, everywhere in the world, starting immediately. Cool, cool, cool.

2) Radically increase renewable energy.

All the scenarios envision renewables (primarily wind and solar) rapidly coming to dominate electricity. In the IRENA scenario, renewables grow sixfold faster than they are currently, supplying 85 percent of global electricity by 2050.

Ecofys has them supplying 100 percent of global electricity — with that sector completely decarbonized — by 2040, even as global demand for electricity triples.

Ecofys

The Nature Climate Change paper notes that the vision of rapid renewables dominance all these scenarios have in common involves “optimistic assumptions on the integration of variable renewables and on costs of transmission, distribution and storage,” which, yeah.

3) Electrify everything!

Notably, all three scenarios heavily involve electrification of sectors and applications that currently run on fossil fuels. In the IRENA case, electricity rises from 21 percent of total global energy consumption today to 40 percent by 2050.

In the Ecofys scenario, it rises to a whopping 70 percent. In the Nature Climate Change study, it rises to 46 percent (compared to 31 percent in the reference case).

I have made the case for electrification before, and it’s not complicated. We know how to radically increase the supply of zero-carbon electricity; increasing the supply of zero-carbon liquid fuels is much more difficult. So it makes sense to move as much energy use as possible over to electricity, particularly vehicles, home heating and cooling, and lower-temperature industrial applications.

The Ecofys scenario makes it particularly clear: If renewable energy and energy efficiency are to be your primary decarbonization tools (more on that in a second), full decarbonization requires going all out on electrification.

The rising yellow wedge at the bottom left — that’s electricity. IRENA

4) And still maybe do a little negative emissions.

Even though the intentions, of the Ecofys and Nature researchers particularly, was to minimize the need for negative emissions, neither was able to completely eliminate it.

“Regardless of the rapid decarbonisation” in the scenario, Ecofys researchers write, “the 1.5°C carbon budget is most likely still exceeded.” The only way to hold at 1.5 is to mop up that excess carbon with negative emissions. Ecofys thinks CCS applications will mostly be confined to industry and the rest can be taken care of by “afforestation, reforestation, and soil carbon sequestration,” i.e., non-CCS methods of negative emissions. And, it notes, this remaining excess carbon “is significantly less than most other low carbon scenarios.”

In the Nature Climate Change study, the need for BECCS can be completely eliminated only if every single one of the other strategies is maximized (see the next section).

Here’s what those researchers conclude about negative emissions:

[W]hile this study shows that alternative options can greatly reduce the volume of CDR [carbon dioxide removal] to achieve the 1.5°C goal, nearly all scenarios still rely on BECCS and/or reforestation (even the hypothetical combination of all alternative options still captured 400 GtCO2 by reforestation). Therefore, investment in the development of CDR options remains an important strategy if the international community intends to implement the Paris target.

They advise policymakers (wisely, it seems to me) to pursue negative emissions strategies but to think of alternative scenarios as insurance against the possibility that those strategies run up against unanticipated social or economic barriers.

The Kemper Project, meant to capture carbon from coal emissions, died a painful death. Wikipedia

The IRENA and Ecofys scenarios, like most rapid decarbonization scenarios, rely overwhelmingly on renewable energy and energy efficiency. But as environmentalist Paul Hawken reminds us with his Drawdown Project, there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in most climate policy. (For instance, we’re going to talk about fake meat here in a minute.)

Like most climate-economic modelers, the Nature Climate Change researchers use integrated assessment models (IAMs) to generate their scenarios. They tested their decarbonization strategies against the second of five shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs), which are the modeling community’s set of different visions for the future — different mixes of population, economic growth, oil prices, technology development, etc. SSP2 contains roughly median predictions. (If you’re curious about SSPs, here’s an explainer.)

But they also challenge some of the limitations in how IAMs have typically been used:

As IAMs select technologies on the basis of relative costs, they normally concentrate on reduction measures for which reasonable estimates of future performance and costs can be made. This implies that some possible response strategies receive less attention, as their future performance is more speculative or their introduction would be based on drivers other than cost, such as lifestyle change or more rapid electrification.

The Nature Climate Change paper attempts to model some of these more ambitious, uncertain, or non-cost-driven strategies, assembling a whole suite of decarbonization scenarios in different combinations.

Several of them are familiar: There’s a “uniform carbon tax in all regions and sectors,” along with maximized energy efficiency and renewable energy. But others are more novel in these modeling contexts.

Agricultural intensification: “High agricultural yields and application of intensified animal husbandry globally.”

Low non-CO2: “Implementation of the best available technologies for reducing non-CO2 emissions and full adoption of cultured meat in 2050.” (Non-CO2 greenhouse gases include methane, nitrous oxide, black carbon, fluorocarbons, aerosols, and tropospheric ozone. Cattle are a big source of methane, thus the cultured meat.)

Lifestyle change: “Consumers change their habits towards a lifestyle that leads to lower GHG emissions. This includes a less meat-intensive diet (conforming to health recommendations), less CO2-intensive transport modes (following the current modal split in Japan), less intensive use of heating and cooling (change of 1°C in heating and cooling reference levels) and a reduction in the use of several domestic appliances.” Though they don’t call it out specifically, this would very much involve less flying, one of the most carbon-intensive habits of the affluent.

Low population: “Scenario based on SSP1, projecting low population growth.” Population growth can be curbed most effectively through access to family planning and education of girls (which, notably, have many other benefits as well).

Good climate policy. (Drawdown)

You can decide for yourself how likely you find any of these changes. The researchers say they are modeling “ambitious, but not unrealistic implementation.”

Reducing non-CO2 GHGs and widespread lifestyle changes have the most short-term impact on emissions. However, “by 2100,” they write, “the strongest reductions are found in the renewable electrification and low population scenarios.” This echoes what the Drawdown Project found, which is that educating girls and making family planning widely available (thus reducing population growth) is the most potent long-term climate policy.

Needless to say, accomplishing any one of these goals — a global carbon tax, maximized efficiency, an explosion of renewable energy, a wholesale revolution in agriculture, rapid reduction of non-CO2 GHGs, a rapid shift in global lifestyle choices, and successful measures to curb population growth — would be an enormous achievement.

To completely avoid BECCS while still hitting the 1.5 degree target, we would have to accomplish all of them.

That is highly unlikely. Still, the important point of the Nature Climate Change research remains: “alternative pathways exist allowing for more moderate use and postponement of BECCS.” Given the substantial and uncharted difficulties facing BECCS, policymakers owe those alternative pathways a look.

Obviously these strategies face all kinds of social and economic barriers. (I’m trying to envision what it would take to rapidly shift Americans from beef to cultured meat … trying and failing.) But they also come with co-benefits. Reducing fossil fuels reduces local air pollution and its health impacts. Energy efficiency reduces energy bills. Eating less meat and driving less are healthy.

Overall, a radical energy transition would mean a net boost in global GDP (relative to the reference case) in every year through 2050.

IRENA

An energy transition would also create millions of net jobs. But that doesn’t mean it will be easy.

Engineering any of these shifts, the Nature Climate Change researchers write with some understatement, “requires not only insights from IAMs, but also in-depth knowledge of social transitions.” They suggest (and I heartily endorse) that subsequent research focus on social and political barriers and strategies.

In the end, perhaps the most important conclusion in the Nature Climate Change paper is the simplest and the one that we already knew: “a rapid transformation in energy consumption and land use is needed in all scenarios.”

At this point, whether it’s possible to hit various targets is almost beside the point. All the science and modeling are saying the same thing, which is that humanity faces serious danger and needs to reduce carbon emissions to zero as quickly as possible.

The chances of us getting our collective shit together and accomplishing what these scenarios describe are … slim. There are so many vested interests and so much public aversion to rapid change, so many governments to be coordinated, so many economic and technology trends that must fall just the right way. It’s daunting.

Conversely, the chances of us overdoing it — trying too hard, spending too much money, reducing emissions too much or too fast — are effectively nil.

So the only rule of climate policy that really matters is: go as hard and fast as possible, forever and ever, amen.

Original Source -> What genuine, no-bullshit ambition on climate change would look like

via The Conservative Brief

[rex101111]

2 for "The Good Times (and the bad times too)" and 4 and 10 for Made You Look

2. Which scene was your favorite to write in [title of fic]?

Ah! A series wide question! Honestly most of the early parts of the series were spawned from answers I posted to asks, so they were light and breezy to write overall. But I think the one I enjoyed writing most was the one where Eri mumbles like Izuku and the whole class loses their shit.

4. If you could change anything in [title], what would it be?

I think if I had known MyL was gonna be this whole long....thing I would have probably dug my head into the ground and screamed until I MEAN plan out more shit ahead of time and maybe make that first scene where Izuku grabs Eri a bit more coherent, also maybe my writing for Overhaul early on was a bit...flat.

10. What are some facts readers may not know about [title]?

Me and @chapelseed more or less have the whole thing planed out, including an epilogue. Also little known fact for people who only know it from my ao3 account, I had no plan what so ever to make MyL into my first long fic. It was an answer to an ask (as most of my writing is aw geez) shortly after the whole Eri arc started gaining steam, and I thought a small “oh hey look at that Deku grabbed Eri and everything is cool beans now!” would suffice.

Chapel disagreed, as it turned out, and now we’re nearly 50k deep and only barely half way through XD  

Thanks becc!