#tumblr mobile editor is terrible.....

[yokohungry]

Did a IS2 run with 4* (+Honeyberry since I completely forgot about Chestnut 🙃...). Surprised it only took two attempts to beat it.

Felt like sheer luck considering I was on 1hp on floor 2 and had both stages with the Lancers. Boring ramble tips/notes under cut.

None of my ops are max leveled. All are skill7 and most of them have one M3. Cuora is highest in this run.

Phantom broke both of the barriers. Kind of expected that, so I was making sure to take lots of LP items. Bonus +10 LP relic helped a lot. The barriers breaking isn't actually terrible. Idk why it took me so long to realize that its only 6(?) leak, so concentrating on middle Phantom is priority.

Ambriel is still a standout of the 4*snipers. Mine (E2Lvl40+Lvl1mod) can 3-4(i think?) shot the Lancers. Was great in the stage that has the guys who line up on the left side. She prioritizes the Sentinel, then the Lancers- can kill (most of) them before getting to a ground unit. Bonus stuns! Pinball hell loves stuns!

Jaye is still one of my favorites. Outside of being able to solo early bosses, silencing the exploding spiders is a skill I forget about. Also is a medic. He managed to kill most of the trap-circle stage.

Filling up your roster feels slightly more important than promoting. It really screwed me up the first try and almost did me in this second time. Safe house choices are easier, aways aways health!

I probably should have taken a different Squad type? Used "Research Squad" since its my auto go to one, but I needed much less hope than I normally do! Even ended up with the -2 hope to recruit 4* relic. But maybe squad size would have messed me up? 🤷‍♀️ "Gathering Squad" might be a better choice? Hmm.

Lol, I didn't take a single guard? The 4* guards are just..... hmmm...... I don't think they're very good here. Specialist is better to take.

Fun, but so much stress. Will try again when I level Chestnut.

[praysia]

hello!! this isn't a request but rather a question - do you have any tips on making layouts like you do (not in the literal sense, but when it comes to making layouts in general ,,)? i usually struggle to make the coloring look good/fit the theme, and i can't seem to find any good pngs to use ,,,

you're not obligated to answer this, by the way!! and thank you in advance!!

Generally, I'd say to collect a bunch of resources you can use, like PNGs, laces, colouring PSDs, etc. You can find a bunch by browsing related tags here on Tumblr ( ie. [aesthetic] png, rentry png, [colour] png, etc. ) or on Pinterest by searching similar things and things like [aesthetic] frame, [colour] frame, rentry frame, rentry resources, etc etc. You can also look on sites that have a bunch of free use PNGs, vectors, etc ( though I'd highly recommend having an ADblocker and popup blocker ). I have a large collection of random things I use and it helps a lot!

I don't have many tips for making layouts since I honestly just mess around a lot until I get something I like, so I'd say just play around with placement and combining things until you get something you think looks nice! Trust the process and just have fun with it, if something doesn't work out, that's fine too! The important part is just having fun with what you're doing, it's a hobby, not a job you're forced to do.

As far as colouring goes, it's just something you learn as you go, I think. I'm still not terribly good at making colouring PSDs and I've been editing for over a year now. You can always search DeviantArt or Tumblr for colouring PSDs by searching things like 'free psd' or something.

Some sites you may find helpful: da-lace : has TONS of laces, you can navigate via the shapes at the top or by category on mobile I believe. vecteezy : tons of free to use downloadable PNGs, vectors, etc. pngtree : ^ same as above, I'd recommend an adblocker / popup blocker. gif editor : does cool gif effects remove gif bgs : what it says. gif effects : can do fun stuff with it but it adds a background.

More specific sites: barrachiverio : custom error message PNGs. gradient maps : what it says.

I hope this helps you out a bit, happy editing!

[seawing-vibes]

Hiii welcome to The Thing I’ve Been Working On For Far Too Long !!!! This is an edited map of my WoF Headworld!! This map fallows my personal lore / story for what happens post-books! There are far more ideas I have regarding new structures, how the land changes, etc. , but this was just generally for labeling major locations within each territory! My hope was to wrap this up before the Felid Guide drops so I can compare my map to the canon reveal of locations but I didn’t quite get there and there are still a lot of loose ends. Unfortunately I don’t have much time to work on this anymore and will probably chip away at it privately in pieces , but for now I wanted to share this bit publicly!

The info for the labels on the map are all written out below, but I have primarily complied information in a Google Doc for easier viewing and navigation!

Link to the Google Doc !

Under construction !! Im so sorry I’m stuck on mobile and Tumblrs post editor on mobile is actual shit. the formatting is terrible I’m going bonkers in here. Also it’s stuck sideways for some reason like girl pleaseee turn the other way!!! I will rb this again once I’m able to format it properly.

[cyle]

I'm sure it's been asked/suggested before as a feature, so I'm just here to ask about the logistics of implementing a text-align:center option on posts. Inspired by: I saw a post that used spaces to center a message and clearly must have worked on their personal setup but on my mobile device it was hovering menacingly ¾ of the way to the right.

it has been suggested before (internally and from y'all on tumblr), and it wouldn't be terribly difficult to do, but it is a little more complex than you'd think. we'd have to update the NPF spec with some kind of text alignment attribute for text blocks. that's the easy part.

the hard part is updating the native post editors across iOS, Android, and the website, and then updating the post rendering pipeline across all platforms, as well as our super legacy old places. doing that takes careful planning and syncing up releases.

it's certainly possible to do, but in our long, long list of things to do, working on making text center-able is not very high up of a priority.

[vendettavalor]

@ruinouss said: 🔥

⚔️ Munday Unpopular Opinions // ACCEPTING ⚔️

// I don't think the new Tumblr Dashboard layout is that bad. Maybe I've just gotten used to it. Or maybe I'm just slowly going insane, as is par for the course with this website. It's not good by any stretch, But it's not as terrible as it could have been. You have access to all your major links between accounts, the different tabs for messages, inbox, etc, plus space on the side for prompts from addons like XKit or Mass Tag Editor.

// Don't get me wrong, it's still not exactly optimal or efficient. I'm not a web designer but the two giant spaces on the side feel like a very weird choice. Maybe it's meant to draw your attention to the center of the screen where the posts and links are, but even still, it just feels like a shitty attempt at emulating the mobile format. Or X. Because it definitely does follow X's layout to an eerie degree.

// But still, it could be a lot worse. And I think that's a fact that is all too easy to forget on a site like Tumblr.hell.

[manonamora-if]

I love that the itch.io IF game community has grown immensely and has created mobile templates to make development easier. HOWEVER, as a mobile UX designer, I hate the mobile design of almost every single game I've played because the user experience is terrible. Interactive elements are generally too small and difficult to target with a touch screen, features are arranged non-intuitively, icons are not explained in a user friendly way, font sizes are too small, etc etc. So many of the choices I see are artistic ones and have been made for aesthetic purposes. I hate to be the one to rain on a parade, especially because I love the games I've played, but sometimes the experience makes it so difficult to enjoy the story being told. Since I'm not a beta tester, it feels like it's not my place to bring this up to devs since I feel that it is unsolicited criticism. Tl;Dr: IF games are amazing. Please find someone who designs UX for mobile apps/games to make the experience even better. Thanks for letting me confess in your ask box, gl with your writing!

Thank you for confessing Anon,

Since you are someone who designs mobile UX, it's def normal to be more sensitive when it comes to play mobile version of IF. I am sure editors who read IF must cringe a lot reading our unedited stuff, or UI designers for desktop must cry about how our page looks.

Accessibility is tricky. It requires knowledge about what could need accessibility (colours, font, placement of things, etc...) and about how to implement it (code). Having the knowledge of one still need the knowledge of the second for it to work. I think the strive for more accessibility is quite recent in the IF (Tumblr) space, especially with Twine games. With more code/information being shared, though templates and tutorials, it's been a bit easier to think of this and have more people implement it. Still, it involves a lot of learning (on top of learning the IF program), which for a lot of hobbyist creators is not always available, or funds if you want to go the hire a designer route, which same. I think believe, while it could be better, we are slowly getting there.

I guess there is still a collaboration route, but that requires time/communication/willingness to share projects...

And honestly, there isn't as much useful information out there to create good UI, especially mobile version, that would work with IF programs. And, as much as I like to splash around in the puddle (it makes sense in French), I really wish there were more tutorials for mobile creation. Every system/format has their own tweaks, which makes some things incompatible or needing more specific knowledge.

For example: Twine/SugarCube has a built-in UI, which includes a decent-ish mobile UX, but if you want to change things, you need to learn to work around the built-in CSS; a lot of which is not compatible with Twine/Harlowe. So if you find code for Harlowe, it probably won't work for SugarCube.

Even with the templates, you need to know how it works to be able to edit it.

Though... It does seem you would be open to help us creators get better and help readers have nicer experience overall. I guess here are some ways you could do that to avoid ruffling feathers (or rain on the parade) :P

Participating in beta

Reaching out to creators and see if they want pointers (i.e. not just a list of what is wrong, but maybe solutions?)

Creating UX templates that is mobile compatible*

Creating tutorials focusing on UX and what to keep in mind for mobile viewing (like a do/don't do)*

*would probably need to make sure those are compatible with IF programs. but damn those would so useful

Also not every IF have to be mobile compatible. TTTT def can't.

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SEND ME YOUR CONFESSIONS ! RELIEVE YOUR SOUL!

Thank you for the luck :)

[sigmaleph]

decided to give the tumblr app a second chance since i'm paying for ad-free now (and the reason i switched from using the app to using a mobile browser for phone-tumbling was that tumblr ads were getting especially obnoxious and mobile firefox lets me use adblock)

observations so far:

1) their colour palette options don't include cybernetic :( goth rave is almost as good but i miss my fave.

2) i got asked to explicitly show a content labeled post? what the shit. why do i even have the setting on 'show' instead of 'blur' if you're going to ask me anyway. i hope that was just the first time and they are going to cut it out now

3) app is worse for deep dives into my dashboard. web (and mobile browser) lets me use pagination rather than infinite dashboard, and pagination has like. urls. if the browser reloads i still have the specific url i was looking at and so i am within twenty posts of where i was. if the app reloads it's goodbye forever to my place in my dash

4) app post editor is less buggy. this is mostly bc the mobile browser post editor is completely terrible despite fucking text entry being a thoroughly solved problem. very easy to do better than 'not that'.

5) notifications for polls ending are nice. don't know why they aren't integrated into the normal activity view though

6) slightly annoyed by how expanding posts work in the app but eh not a big deal. still baffled that everyone thinks 'collapse the middle but show the end' would be terrible and not the obviously correct way to implement it btw.

7) given that we have filters for activity view such that i can exclude likes and reblogs without comment, would be nice if this also applied to push notifications. i would prefer to have a slightly higher threshold of noteworthiness before being notified

[internetspacegirl]

InternetSpaceGirl - Master Post

Hi, my name's Enid! I'm a Writer/Video Editor and sometimes when I'm feeling up to it I draw some Pixel Art :)

I run a fictional journalism site (Celestial Publishing) under the alias @foxwithakeyboard (which has its own Tumblr Blog).

Here's a list of the Articles:

The New “Nicolet High School”

The “Hunters” Internet Cult

A New Revolutionary Blogging App

I post fanfics to AO3 with the username InternetSpacegirl and here's a list of all my Fics (Top is newest):

Dreaming of a Better Space in Time - She-Ra Breakfast Club AU

Black Vein (written at age 12)

Here's a list of all my pixel art I've done:

The Ferryman - Before Your Eyes

A Rose

Sticks The Badger - Sonic Boom

Windows XP Wallpaper

Future Catra - She-Ra

Toothless - How To Train Your Dragon

Octavia - Helluva Boss

Adora - She-ra

Here's some of my (good) YouTube Videos: - most recent at the top

The Entire 2b2t Timeline (Part One)

Minecraft's Legacy

A Speedrunners Rise To Fame (EazySpeezy)

some weird comments on my channel...

Making Terrible Mobile Game Ads

demotivation. (Short Story)

What's Happened on the FoxDen SMP? (Stream Summary)

My Socials:

FoxWithAKeyboard Tumblr Celestial Publishing Website AO3 Profile YouTube Twitter (ISG) Twitter (Cosmic) Letterboxd Serializd

Whilst I'm here, I'm gonna promote my partners stuff because they're amazing and deserve SO much <3 They're an amazing writer and they're really funny and cool so I'm gonna link their Tumblr

And some of my favourite fics that they've written :>>

say what you mean (i want to be with you) - Six of Crows and fall apart - She-Ra lovefool - Wednesday manta rays (all for you) - She-Ra just leave the party with me (and never go home) - She-Ra

Here are some Google Docs I've written because why not:

Why I Love Declan McKenna

Note: i reblog a bunch of my stuff if people don't see it if im like proud of it so sorry if u see the same piece of fanfiction or pixel art etc multiple times i am sorry 🙏

[apostaterevolutionary]

If the mobile app is being shit, I would recommend using tumblr . com in your mobile browser; way better functionality, and adblock extensions work if you're using firefox mobile! I've been doing it for months and I've never had a single glitch or issue.

Oooh thanks for the tip! I do use the mobile site for some things (largely queue management, it’s got the best controls of all for that by a mile) but maybe I should try it out more. Kinda hate how the tags work there cause the editing tag thing like… yeah okay I wanted that too but the way it was implemented really sucks. The app version I have doesn’t have it (I never update shit lmao) so it ends up being more convenient. But I could always format the post on mobile site, draft it, then tag in the app 🤔

In truth I usually answer asks on desktop, which is also where I’d make any post that isn’t just short and simple text, but my computer was in the shop when I answered the last one, so I was bereft of one of the slightly less crappy ways to deal with modern tumblr and it’s new terrible, unforgivable, zero-redeeming-qualities post editor 😔

[sheliesshattered]

while trying to edit posts in my drafts and add them to my queue, I am somehow getting three different versions of the post editor -- 1. the legacy editor with no option to change it to the beta editor (fine), 2. the legacy editor with an option to change to the beta editor (good), 3. just the beta editor with no way to change back to the legacy editor (awful, terrible, no good, cursed).

by opening up three different posts into the editing frame and then closing them without changes, I have managed to confirm that the same post will always result in the same editor option. but a post made ~20 minutes ago (from someone not me) isn’t the one defaulting to the only-beta-editor mode. oh no, that one gives me option #1, legacy-editor-with-no-switch. so it’s definitely not tied to the newness of the post. there’s no pattern whatsoever that I can see as yet.

why does this matter to me? well besides the awful bubblegum look of the beta editor, scheduling a post has changed from a field I can type freely in, to a collection of calendar clicks and drop-downs to pick the date and time I want to schedule the post for. why does that matter? well those of you who follow me know that I schedule 10 seasonally-appropriate posts every single day, with an extra 10 or so on the night of every full moon. solstices and equinoxes get 48 scheduled posts, and big holidays may have 100 or more scheduled posts relevant to that holiday.

I like scheduling posts. I have a whole system of keeping track of what needs to be scheduled next. I schedule a space post for midnight every single night of the year, so every time I see a space post I want to reblog, if there’s room in my queue I go ahead and schedule it for the next day out on my schedule. as of today, February 13, the next midnight space post I’ll schedule will be for July 13. I schedule a lot and I like doing it. I wouldn’t bother with it if I didn’t. I like seeing the seasonally-appropriate posts on my dash, it helps me keep track of the passage of time, which is a huge help for my mental health.

the beta editor doesn’t make that impossible, but it does make it significantly more fiddly and annoying. I don’t like anything about the beta editor, I would rather stay with the legacy editor forever -- if I wanted to use the Tumblr mobile app I’d just use the Tumblr mobile app, but I use the browser site for a reason.

there’s no conceivable reason why Tumblr should be giving me three separate versions of the editor. just stick with option #2, where I as the end-user have the option to choose which editor I want. stop trying to bully me into your bubblegum nightmare @staff

[glitteringstardust]

3, 4, 5, 18, and 30 from the ask game?

3. what are your favorite stims to include in stimboards? i love to include cake/cookie decorating gifs, glittery things (especially glittery liquids like this or this), crystals, and nature-related stims!

4. what’s your favorite unpopular stim (that you’d really like to see more gifs of 👀)?

hmm i honestly have not really thought about this! i feel like there's such a wide variety of stim content out there nowadays. OH but i guess one thing i can think of is that in one board i made i used this flipbook gif. it's so stimmy and fun to watch but it's like, the only flipbook gif i've ever seen? so, it'd be nice to see more like that.

5. what’s your least favorite stim to include in a board?

off the top of my head, i've never liked reversed gifs or frozen paint. but especially the former because something about them is just strangely unsettling to me. like seeing a cupcake get undecorated or a coloring page get uncolored? no thanks. i'd try to include them, or frozen paint, if asked but they're the opposite of stimmy to me.

18. describe your general process for making stimboards.

oh man i feel like i suck at explaining things but let's see... so, i make all of my boards on my PC--i know some people do it on mobile, but desktop is what's always worked best for me. and when i get to working on a request or an idea that i have in mind, the first thing i do is think about the aesthetic and types of stims that i think might fit. when it's a fictional character (particularly if it's a character i'm really familiar with) i like to try and include aspects of their character in it if i can, for example when i made this malleus draconia board i have the ice cream, the gargoyle, and the tamagotchi in there because those are things malleus himself really likes! i'll have a list on my computer of ideas for what i think i may wanna include, though sometimes i'll also search up boards other people have made to get inspiration, especially if i have a lot of ideas that i'm having trouble narrowing down or if i don't really know the character.

and then as i'm finding gifs i think i might wanna use, i save all the posts with them into my drafts so that i'll be able to link the sources later, and then save the ones i like best into a computer folder and if i've ended up with too many gifs (which is often, because i'm indecisive), i play around with them in the post editor and just swap them out until i'm able to decide which gifs i like the best. then i move them around and adjust the composition of the board until i'm happy with how it looks. i do also make some of the gifs myself sometimes if i've looked on here and can't find something i really want to include, like the gargoyle gif from the malleus stimboard i linked. oh, and i also make sure they're all sized properly and crop some of them if need be, because i personally don't like when the rows in stimboards are uneven sizes! like if some of the gifs i wanna use have long rectangular dimensions i'll need to go into ezgif and crop them to be squares, so that the gifs around them will all stay square and match with everything else. sometimes they still show up uneven on my desktop theme for some reason, but if a board looks right in the editor then i know it'll look right on mobile/on the dashboard. i hope this all makes sense and isn't a terrible explanation lol, feel free to ask if you want more specific details or anything.

30. what’s your favorite method of finding stim gifs?

hmm i honestly just search either my own blog or the tags on tumblr for gifs to use! i try to search for specific terms and then if i'm using tumblr search add "stim" to the end of it. like if i'm looking for gifs of pink slime i'll go on my own blog and search for "pink slime" and look through the posts for a bit, or if i'm using tumblr's search i'll type in "pink slime stim" and scroll through.

(for this ask game)

[blahandwhatever]

So I got offered one of the jobs I did assessments for (God I wish every job did assessments, because those are the ones I most often actually get). I don’t think it’s a lot of work, but it’s better than nothing. Ended up spending far longer amounts of time with printers than anticipated - at the library printing my contract and stuff to sign, because my printer hasn’t been printing right for a while, and at home scanning, where I had to set up my printer/scanner software from scratch for the first time since my hard drive died, connect the printer to my mobile hotspot, and deal with malfunctions.

May do an interview for another job next week, though it pays less than I’d like and may have a rigid schedule, so it might not be worth it - but it depends on my level of desperation. I’ll see if I hear back from anyone else.

I’ve lost my internet service, mostly because it’s bundled with TV in a pricey package I haven’t been able to keep up with (or even change to a cheaper package because they don’t allow you to change it if you have a past due balance?!). I’ve actually been perpetually one payment behind since last year, which I unfortunately didn’t catch up on even when I had money. One payment behind doesn’t affect service, but two does. So I’m relying on mobile hotspot now, which there’s generally a limited allowance for, but apparently there are workarounds like using a VPN, so I’m trying that. Worst-case scenario, I get throttled speeds and maybe go to the library sometimes if necessary.

Still hating the Tumblr editor situation, but for now I just want to keep going and have changed the theme to one where de facto text posts don’t look as jarringly different from the old photo posts. Still hoping for a better solution in the future.

The baby birds have hatched, heard but not yet seen, buried somewhere in a dark hole in a nest that’s too high to see without standing on a chair and I don’t want to disturb too much. Between the lack of visibility and having recently learned about the brutality of sparrows, I’m not sure I feel that excited anymore, but it’s still a little something.

I keep sleeping a lot and thinking a lot about my parents. My father came home last weekend, which I honestly wasn’t sure if he would - he was in such a weird, ‘this might be the last time I see you’ sort of state last time I saw him, I thought he might kill himself. I didn’t exactly want that, but there would undeniably be some resolution and relief when it comes to things with my mother. He noticed she’d been watching YouTube videos on narcissists and told her she was the most narcissistic person he’d ever known. She of course felt terrible. I imagined the nightmares that might lie ahead. Imagined different ways to try and get through to my father. Wanted to get so involved, and wanted to stay the hell away so much. I would feel so much more comfortable being frank with my father with a therapist present, because otherwise, I can just imagine the exhausting mess of invalidation and manipulation and shaming and bullshit that things might devolve into. I don’t know what’s going to happen. I increasingly feel I can’t act normal - or what has been established as normal thus far - with my father anymore. And I’m not sure I’ll be able to be fully happy until I know the situation has resolved.

[thewertsearch]

Asks Compilation 16/6

The best thing about categories like Sburb Titles is that once you have a big enough sample size of Person/Category mappings, you can extrapolate their traits to any character you like. 

Example: I got an ask a while back asking whether I have any Titles for my own OCs, and to be totally honest I can’t stop thinking about it

Oh, that is awesome. I’m bookmarking that for reference, when I’ve finished the comic. Biology is not my strongest suit, but I do find it fascinating, and speculative biology is my jam. 

It’s a balancing act, trying to make a quirk both unique and readable. i thought about a capitalization quirk WHERE i only capitalize common programmINg keywORds, but it looks kind of funky, and I wasn’t sure how to define what keywords to include. 

@capribornio​ submitted: Part 1! Terrible memes to help you cope with what just happened.

Part 2! (Dunno why tumblr wouldn't let me submit you the two images at once, but.)

jettison to the moon drop it on those stupid pawns bye bye kids, you're gonna die now your session's dead and gone

That was made by abysswarlock! Their blog is linked below the main links in my bio.  It’s great, isn’t it? Really makes the Land come to life. 

Man, I’m really mad I missed the Club Penguin craze, because if I’d played it, I would absolutely have answered this ask with penguin designs for each of the kids. 

Classic Tumblr. When you edit you blog description in the appearance editor, it actually scrubs all the HTML you added, and replaces it with plaintext. To update your description properly, you need to do it in the theme editor. 

I fixed the blog description on desktop, but I don’t think it ever worked on mobile, since tags generally don’t work properly on the app. I think it should work if you access the blog through say, Firefox, rather than the app itself? 

So do I!!!

That’s one of my favorite anime tropes, and it’s vary Homestuck-friendly, considering how many characters are bespectacled. I’m glad that my ‘sona is continuing this proud tradition. 

Thank you!  I think a big part of it is just that Homestuck happens to deal with stuff I’m really into. I love time travel and alt-self/identity shenanigans, so I was already looking at the Paradox Clone system from every angle even before the Veil. Once that cursor targeted Nanna, a lot of things immediately clicked into place. 

I didn’t see the paired tubes coming, though. I don’t think I’ll ever forget that moment. 

Maid! That was the first class I chose for myself, because I liked the connotations around ‘organizing’. 

I’m planning on doing a bunch of Title tests over the weekend. The Official Sally Classpect will be an open question for a long time, but I am interested in how much the various tests will agree. 

We’ve already talked a bit about it on the blog, but Homestuck is a kind of meta story on a lot of levels. 

We saw it with the reader suggestions at first, but there are other things too, like Hussie’s narration interacting with WV. Is that ‘canon’, per se? Much to think about...

[ sent on the 12th! - Cat ] 

Happy belated birthday Carcino ‘Cancer’ Geneticist! May this year bless you with Grist, Boondollars and a successfully salvaged Sburb session!

Honestly!!! 

Hussie is very good at turning on the waterworks. It doesn’t happen much in Homestuck, but when it does, it hits hard. 

True, true. But that was just John’s opinion - now Hussie’s narration is saying she sucks!

These guys really have been great recently. It’s like Hussie has spent a while giving them improvised character traits based on reader commands, and now that their personalities are fully established, they’re actually getting full arcs with awesome moments of development. 

I honestly can’t wait to see what the Windswept Questant’s real plan is. She’s abdicated to PM, and seems to be putting a team together. Did she know WV had the Ring all along? What’s up next? 

[dailybayonetta]

What do you use to edits gifs? I really wanna get into this kinda thing but I dunno what program or website people tend to use

I'm old fashioned, so I mostly use Adobe CC 2017 or Adobe CS6 (if i need to do an old effect / function which isn't avaliable in newer versions) There are some online editors, but I do not find them suitable from tumblr format. Like, i’m sure they are fine if you just want make gifs / use gifs for other sites  But for the most part all of the internet moved pasted GIF format cause it’s dated and it’s heavy - which is bad for mobiles and stuff. BUT ANYWAY Also - it's always morally correct to pirate adobe products, just saying

Then there's two options (taken from HERE):

I use the second option because it's easier, the newer version of photoshop always have this feature and because it's great for video games.

You can look at first option, but honestly, unless you're giffing animation / animes / some HD films from BLU-ray, I found the first method to be too much time consuming (in my opinion.)

Here are links to some tutorials that will help and teach u about gif sizes as well (some are with images!):

♥ // ♥ // ♥

I can't explain all of the stuff, but things you need to consider when it comes to quality of GIFs:

a) getting footage; while clips from youtube is an easy way of founding a needed stuff (or if, let's say, a console game you can't capture) - but there's the catch, youtube eats all the quality of video because of compression. even 1080p clips do look bad on BIG gifs - EXAMPLE OF MINE (made during time when bayo1 didn’t had PC port) - and most of the footage either has watermark or SUBTITLES (which are pain in the ass when you want to put subtitles yourself - you cut like 45% of the bottom and it’s not great)  ideally - you want to capture stuff yourself, even more ideally - capture stuff with OBS or bandicam which do not compress your footage and the output image is great, NVIDIA capture feature is an okay option, but it has a bit of compression - but honestly, not the worst option, it’s definetly a more safe option for your hard drive capacity i reached that point, when i started giffing specific scenes of bayo2 - i freaking emulated the game, terribly, but did so cause youtube just doesn’t provided what i wanted  like, you can use capture device, but i ain’t spending money on that unless i’ll be a streamer or idk content creator (but forget about that) 

b) coloring is your bread and butter; for the most part, even not that great of quality gif can be saved by coloring / adjusting brightness / levels and all of that. as an easy example, THIS SET, was taken from basic 1080p footage, but because i softed colors, almost all video compression is gone  cause when you loo at something LIKE THIS SET, man, this was not a great time for coloring it looks bad

or an example like THIS SET, that trailer is DO DATED that there’s just no HD version of it and you can see pixels, it’s bad in original game and looks even worse compressed that even coloring didn’t do much while starting, you can always use PSDs / colorings created by people - I suggest going into searching on tumblr in general or CHECKING THIS (it’s outdated, but some stuff is still avaliable) or even just do basic adjustement it’s fine. but eventually, you’ll just starting creating and doing it yourself, because it’s just simply easier.  c) tumblr compression / limiting; this site changed a lot, not only gifs automatically converts to gifvs (it’s like a video of your gif, again, done for mobile) and unless you have extension that gets rid of that, nothing u can do about it

but currently all you need to know is that: at the moment tumblr limit of giz size is 8MB, if you got past that - the gif is not gonna work. (and it loads badly, it was bad even before, but tumblr is a mess if saying it easy)

Honestly and that’s all I can say. it’s gonna be rough at the start, but eventually and quite quick you get the hand of it, you even might find a more suitable way for you to gif or color stuff or sharpen your gifs (that’s another whole story) If you look back at my old stuff from freaking 2013 from my main blog - enjoy the ride (82 pages!!) - it wasn’t looking great and it took some time for sure to start making progress and be better at that or even just for this blog in particular - half the less pages than on main - but i still chagned a lot in my “style” of editing and colorings

But most importantly - just have with it, it’s not the most enjoyable ride, considering this site history, but I still find it a enjoyable hobby :)

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I was on your Masterlist, but I haven't seen anything from you in awhile. I found you again, and I can't find myself tagged in any category. I adored your Heart of a Hunter story and read until the baby was saved. Did you add anymore to it? I can't find any but the first 4.5 chapters, though I read all of them. I never got a chance to read your other stories. I've only had my Tumblr for about a year, give or take. I'm an older reader and discovered the series 4 episodes before the series final episode. I've watched a lot of the most popular shows, but I love reading FanFiction stories about the brother's relationship with each other, their dad (and mom), their relationship with girls and the inner turmoil they're having to go through in their lives about their past and what the job they're pretty much forced to do. I wanted to know how to get to your newer stories and chapters of Heart of a Hunter. In fact, all of your stories, including how to find each chapter of each story. I don't know how to easily get them, even when you were reminding me since I was on the list. In fact, I have a lot of trouble finding stories about Supernatural and others shows I really loved like Timeless. Is there a way to find these stories, and would you know how to find stories on FANFICTION and AO3, if I remember correctly. I save stories now, but when I first started reading them on all 3 sites, I didn't keep up with them, then changed phones, etc. I have no idea what the names of these stories I loved, but I could give a summary of many of those stories. I read somewhere that there was a way to find stories a reader has forgotten the name of, etc. Would you know about it, or do you know how I can find out about it from somewhere else? Sorry for all if the questions. My youngest kid left for college, and it's hard for me to figure this stuff out. Lol! Thanks for all of your hard work because even though we love it, writing is a pain and very difficult to do correctly. I actually am a TV scriptwriter. I moved back to Texas from LA to marry and raise our 3 kids here. I'm getting back into it since my youngest moved to college. I also work as an editor to several authors. I'd give anything for Jensen and/or Jared to read my pilot script and/or series bible and want to play the leads. It's a Western set in 1867 Texas. I know Jensen and Danneel are leaning toward him playing superhero type roles like Soldier Boy and more Supernatural, but I wish he'd consider another Western after he went through that terrible tragedy in Rust. He was so excited to be in a real Western! Jared is playing a modern day cowboy as Walker, so I don't know if he'd ever what to do a limited series real Western. Although they still both look very young which is amazing, I'm afraid they'd be older than the main characters who are both in their early 30's. There's quite a few flashback scenes showing them at all ages, but the current years of their Ives are from their early 30's to however long it would last. I just wanted you to know that you have the talent to make your living as a writer, but it can be hard to break into it. Most of the authors I help started by writing Kindle books, but some have become NYT and USA TODAY Best Selling Authors. Thanks for Heart of a Hunter! I hope to hear from you. I'm on my phone and couldn't figure out how to make new paragraphs, so sorry its running all together.

Hi nony,

I wasn't trying to ignore you (and your other post, since I assume that was you as well.) My Tumblr just doesn't like to tell me I have a message in my inbox and I need to be better about double-checking it.

Happy to have you here on Tumblr, and as a member of the SpnFamily.

I do have a masterlist that breaks down my series (including Heart of a Hunter) into smaller lists that contain each Act, and then each Act has its own list of chapter. It can be a bit overwhelming, but hopefully, this helps:

Mobile Masterlist: https://muchamusedaboutnothing.tumblr.com/post/173163761461/much-amused-mobile-masterlist

Regular Masterlist (complete with pictures): https://muchamusedaboutnothing.tumblr.com/post/157716599666/much-amused-masterlist

And if you'd like just the Heart of a Hunter Masterlist, you can see that one here: https://muchamusedaboutnothing.tumblr.com/post/166233817716/heart-of-a-hunter-saga-masterlist

That last one breaks down each Act in the Heart of a Hunter Saga, and it sounds like you were reading Act VI from what I can tell, but you should be able to find your spot and finish that Act by visiting that masterlist.

I'm so happy that you're enjoying my writing.

I have been writing for years (finished my first novel at 19) and have been studying screenwriting for several years now. I am currently working as a Reader/Script Analyst, so I think it's amazing that you're writing pilots and have gotten back into things after the kiddos moved out of the house. I can only imagine what a dream it would be to have your show picked up for production, so wishing you the best of luck with that!

I, too, would love to see Jensen in a western role. I read a screenplay recently for a feature that he would be fantastic for, but all I can do is hope he gives it another try someday.

Thanks for getting in touch. I hope you'll stick around, and there is more Heart of a Hunter coming in the near future, so watch for an announcement in regards to that soon.