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muqiing · 3 years

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Thank you so much for tagging me @lan-xichens, I’ll try my best to explain how I made this set from start to finish hehe ♡ and also a big thank you to @suibianjie @highwarlockkareena @nyx4 @aheartfullofjolllly and you as well Kris for putting this all together! Content creators get a lot less recognition than they deserve for all the time they put into their content, so getting everyone to see the (sometimes excessive) process we all go through to put our content in our blog, I hope it creates a positive change!! 💖

1. Planning

The set in question was actually requested by someone so they could celebrate their friend’s birthday! At first I wasn’t entirely sure if I was going to be able to finish it on time (college is very hectic right now) but I was able to finish it three days before the deadline which was may 1st! ^-^

The first thing I did was decide what characters I wanted to use in the set, I first reached out to the person who requested the set if there were certain characters they wanted me to use but they said they didn’t know enough to really give me any directives outside of the quote. I decided, since the quote is applicable to the entirety of the show, that I would try to put in as many characters as possible.

Thus, of course, came the hunting for scenes. Those of you in the net discord surely know I came into the content help channel a few times to ask for certain scenes here and there, and eventually I had to download an additional 10 episodes to the back then 20 or so episodes I had in my CQL episodes folder.

As you can see I have 30 random episodes of CQL downloaded (slowly but surely getting to the point where I have all 50 episodes downloaded) and I think I ended up using scenes out of at least 20 of those episodes.

I planned out beforehand what characters I would use per gif. I knew obviously I would start out with Wangxian, them being the main characters of the show, and then would work my way down the list. The second gif consists of Nie Huaisang, Nie Mingjue, Jin Zixuan, Jiang Yanli, Wen Qing, and Wen Ning. They’re all family pairings, two being siblings and one being a married couple. The next gifset consists of the Yi City characters, then the fourth gif consists of the juniors, and the final gif has Jin Guangyao, Mianmian, Jiang Cheng, and Lan Xichen in it.

I have to admit though that when I had made the first four gifs I’d forgotten who I would put in the last gif and the when I thought about it the first time around I could only think of Lan Qiren and the very cursed Yaoyang ship 😭 it was only at dinner time that same day that I remembered I hadn’t put Jiang Cheng in my gifset yet and that’s when I thought of the other characters as well.

I had already made my first two gifs when I went to check Hanyi’s blog for layout inspo and eventually I decided I wanted to try a triangle-ish layout, which I doodled below. I eventually ended up changing the layout of the last gif in the final design. It was also the first time I would work with a triangle-ish layout so I was a bit nervous as I was scared it wasn’t going to work out...

2. Creating

I use Avisynth 2.5 and Adobe Photoshop 2021 (the paid version, unfortunately, I need it for school except I didn’t need it this year but I wanted it so I paid for it with my own money ouch) to make my gifsets! I always start out with trimming down all the scenes I’m going to use into three to five second videos and putting them through Avisynth. This time around I did it separately for each gif I made, simply because I needed so many scenes. I would include a screenshot of my “gif vids” and “temp” folders but I’ve already deleted all the videos, which is what I usually do immediately after a set is posted.

I’ll try my best explaining this gif by gif since each one had a different layout!

2.1 Wangxian

I think I had up to five different designs of this gif 😭 it started out with the gif on the left originally being more centered and the quote right smack in the center but somehow it felt a bit too... empty? I changed up the design and pulled the gif over to the right and put the two closeups on the left, the exact opposite of the gif I eventually ended up with. I switched things around one more time and saved the gif as you can see it right now, except I didn’t include the lines yet. It was only as I finished up my fourth gif that I decided this gif needed lines as well so I added them ^-^

2.2 Nie Huaisang, Nie Mingjue, Jin Zixuan, Jiang Yanli, Wen Qing, and Wen Ning

I got the inspiration for the font layout on this gif from this Wenzhou post! I hadn’t tried it before and when I did for this gif I was very happy with the way it turned out :D I wanted to portray that life is a pile of good and bad things, as the quote says, in CQL by mirroring these happy scenes side by side with the sad scenes

2.3 Yi CIty

My first time working with the triangle layout!! Putting in the lines and making sure they would line up with the second gif took me the longest of all actually 😭 I think once I got the line on the left in I just copy pasted it and flipped it horizontally so I didn’t have to fiddle around with angling it anymore :’) my original idea was to get a happy Song Lan scene and a sad A-Qing scene, but when I stumbled upon this A-Qing scene in ep38 I just had to put it in there because her smile is so precious 🥺 Xue Yang and Xiao Xingchen in the center are also supposed to be mirrored, with Xue Yang embodying the “bad things” and Xiao Xingchen the “good things” ! I also think the Yi City characters fit this part of the quote very well!!

2.4 The Juniors

Ah yes, the junior quartet!! :D I had this planned out from the very beginning, that I would include happy versus sad juniors in the “vice versa” part of the quote, and I think it worked out quite well! My first idea was to put the “vice versa” completely in the special font and have it typed out over the gifs like I did with the “vice” but as I typed out the “versa” I realized it had one letter too much to be able to do that 😭😭 it took me a while to come up with how I would position the “but” and “versa” and after some moving around I decided to just place them the way I did in the final gif! For the font, I duplicated the “vice” and added a stroke to the duplicate, then I changed the fill setting to 0% so I could slightly drag the duplicate away from the original layer to create the effect that’s in the gif — also, finding a scene in which Jin Ling smiles is really difficult.... he barely even smiles in the scene I ended up using :(

2.5 Jin Guangyao, Mianmian, Jiang Cheng, and Lan Xichen

The final gif!! I feel like this might come a little across as “I promise I didn’t forget these characters” because they’re a very odd quadruplet to put together, but they were the most important characters left to put in the set! I was thinking of putting Nie Mingjue in here together with Jin Guangyao and Lan Xichen, but I did feel he fit more with his brother up in the second gif. Mei @mylastbraincql cheered me on making this gif for which I was very grateful :D <3 the layout came to be after I googled “how to evenly split a rectangle in four” because I didn’t want a repeat layout in the set (*/∇＼*)

2.6 Coloring

For the coloring I pretty much did all of the tweaking on the first gif and then copy pasted all of it onto the second, third, fourth, and fifth gif. This is usually the way I go about my coloring, I will always edit certain gifs if necessary but I don’t think I had to change the coloring much on any of these gifs? Maybe I added in a curve layer here and there, but nothing major! This is really one of my preferred coloring styles, even though I try to step outside of my comfort zones with other sets ^-^

3. Posting

I will always upload sets into my drafts and edit the caption in there as well, clicking on “preview post” a couple times to check everything looks good on my blog as well, before I post a set. However, this time, since there was a deadline and I finished before the deadline, I put this set in the queue so it would automatically post on the 1st of may! Knowing myself, I would’ve forgotten to do so </3

Whew that was... a lot 😭 did it make any sense? Probably not, but it was fun to ramble （ ´∀｀）

I’ll tag

@blinkplnk with this set !

@wuxien with this set !

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@wanyinxichen with this set !

@yibobibo with this set !

@mylastbraincql with this set !

@sugarbabywenkexing with this set !

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@jiancheng with this set !

Please feel totally free to ignore this if you’ve already been tagged and don’t want to do it again!! <3

#showyourprocess #tag game #this got so long i'm sorry ;-;#very curious to see everyone else's processes!!#thank you for the tag kris <3

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khaotungsfirst · 3 years

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pls talk about your favorite ships 😊

GLADLY!!

ok first up: ever given, my beloved. she a bad b with a phat ass and we love her for it!

jk jk 😂

god this is such an open-ended question idek where to start. i guess i’ll just go down the list of my current ships and gush abt each one 💖

wangxian (the untamed)

still my no. 1 ship atm. god i love them so much!! their story makes me so soft 😭😭 they are literally perfect for each other. no offense but i truly don’t understand ppl who can ship either one of them with anyone else like??? i’m talking abt cql wangxian btw cause i haven’t read the novel but i know there are some more problematic things going on... cql wangxian tho?? litchrally perfection 🙌 they way lwj explained to wwx that the forehead ribbon is sacred and can only be touched by family and significant others and then PUTS IT AROUND WWX’S WRIST IN THE SAME EPISODE?? which is only episode 6 btw like... wOW. and the ending.... i bawled 😭😭 it’s just so nice to have a canon ship that you know is endgame and has always been endgame for each other. like would i have loved a kiss? absolutely!! but even with censorship they manage to invoke so many emotions in me it’s unreal, i will probably never get over them.

xuexiao (the untamed)

look i am allowed to have one toxic ship! and the potential with these two is just astronomical!! there’s so much delicious stuff in this ship. like they’re both already so interesting individually as characters, putting them together makes for a lot of fun and pain (mostly pain tho but that’s why we love it). it’s about the bittersweetness... it’s about the betrayal and the trauma... it’s about the building a home together...

deyi (we best love)

oof these two... they don’t know how to communicate and it’s infuriating but also so much fun to get angry at them for it. shi de being in love with shu yi for 10+ years and when shu yi finds out he’s like “it’s my business”? KING! shu yi realising that he has feelings fo shi de and screaming his love confession from the top of a bridge? KING! the miscommunication? the drama of it all? INCREDIBLE! them being the softest mfs ever? I’M CRYING!

wenzhou (word of honor)

i am LIVING for the scenes we get with this ship like censorship whom?? wkx really is out here proclaiming his love after knowing zzs for two minutes and the way zzs gets softer and softer over time? i’m AAAAAAHHHH! also they already have a son!! and a daughter!! it’s amazing! i’m truly feeling the gay vibes with this one and it’s so much fun. add in the fact that both of them really aren’t good people... mhh love it!

adeo (tatort saarbrücken)

listen, (childhood) friends to lovers is MY JAM!!! add in a tragic/complicated history and i WILL ship it, no questions asked (see also: me having stucky as my otp for like 3 years). it just makes it better now that they’re adults and they still have so many unresolved emotions and tension between them and uuuughhhh the potential for softness is so great!!

we’re going into rpf territory now so if you’re uncomfortable with that, skip this 😊 (and yes, i am able to differentiate between reality and fiction, thank you very much)

yizhan

i mean... yibo being too shy to ask xz for his wechat? yibo auditioning twice for the role of lwj after it was announced that xz got the lead role? all of the bts candy? xz being protected by yibo’s bodyguard?

samyu

i am not immune to fanservice okay? like i know sam has a gf (and i absolutely hate that some fans think it’s okay to bully her online like get a reality check) but ugh they’re just so soft with each other. i just enjoy watching their interactions. also sam is always a crackhead and i live for the way yu gets so flustered/weirded out by it 😂

minsung and chanlix (stray kids)

aaaaaaaahhhhh i thought i left the days of shipping band mates far behind but.... apparently not 🙃 listen han and minho just seem to have this easy connection with each other (also minho asking han if he likes him in that way or in that other way i- 👁👄👁) and chan and felix are literally soulmates (chan said it himself!) i’m just sayin.. stray kids are not straight kids 👀

#ships #rpf #god this is only a small percentage of my ships but it's all i can manage rn #anon

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eliza-lukashenko · 3 years

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I posted 1,264 times in 2021

94 posts created (7%)

1170 posts reblogged (93%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 12.4 posts.

I added 1,661 tags in 2021

#the untamed - 296 posts

#word of honor - 248 posts

#art - 235 posts

#2ha - 229 posts

#heaven official's blessing - 141 posts

#jokes - 122 posts

#wei wuxian - 111 posts

#wangxian - 109 posts

#2ha art - 86 posts

#wenzhou - 84 posts

Longest Tag: 88 characters

#it was just one scene in the book and really you can't tell he's sitting sideways anyway

My Top Posts in 2021

I don’t know how to really express my dream cast for Xie Lian except to say that I want him to have some gremlin energy and not just the pure lotus energy. No I won’t elaborate.

27 notes • Posted 2021-03-16 14:01:00 GMT

Confused priorities: When you're offended that your boyfriend refuses to fight for your best friend's hand in marriage.

"How dare you? Don't you think my best friend is amazing?!"

29 notes • Posted 2021-05-26 12:35:20 GMT

The sad thing about the tgcf live-action being bad is that this show could be a game-changer.

Here are, my two cents. It's a personal opinion so don't overthink it if you end up reading this.

MXTX is a pretty good writer. She has three novels and all three of them became popular for good reason. It's not the same as novels published traditionally or in the west where there's big advertising campaigns. No, these books got famous of their own merits and because they break their genres.

People love to bash MXTX and MDZS but the truth is that 90% of The Untamed's success is thanks to the good source material and the fact that the creators 1) didn't add a female love interest 2) didn't kill either Lan Wangji or Wei Wuxian by the end, saved the show. It's also not as on-the-nose with its subversive tones as svsss. Svsss is heavy on satire and postmodernist techniques so it can be a bit off-putting for casual viewers or it can go over people's heads (as it does all the time!).

Now we come to tgcf. Heaven Official's blessing is a XianXia novel. All you need to do is look at the other xianxia shows out there to understand why tgcf is so special. The genre is a lot of ghosts and gods and demons and hundreds and thousands of years of yearning and romance and so on. Another thing you will notice about xianxia is that people kind of hate them (not me, I love 'em) The general public, the C-ent people, the critics, etc. They all think the stories are :

1)formulaic

2)Cliche

3)Repetitive

4)With bad scripts,

5)weak actors,

6)bad CGI,

7)boring costumes

8)and lots of watered-down episodes for the sake of melodrama and media traction.

People have been waiting for a good, new, and groundbreaking xianxia for a few years now. Otherwise, the genre will die and that's really sad because it's one of the most unique things about cdramaland and it's a real shame if it just went away.

Heaven Official's blessing is the kind of story that can save the genre. It has the gods and ghosts and demons and a yearning that goes on for centuries and it's also not like the other shows because MXTX loves her metafiction commentary and she loves to turn genres on their heads and that's why her works are so popular and amazing and that's why TGCF has the potential to turn xianxia on its head.

It's a breath of fresh air. It challenges the genre and its stereotypes and it's a well-told story. If its live-action were to become a success, then it would revitalize the genre. Good costumes, professional actors, a decent script, interesting cinematography, expensive CGI, and so on... all of these together would help the process. You can't use recycled fabric, and cheap-ass props to make a point about the genre. That will be "Go princess go" all over again and yeah the show did a thing (tm) when it came out but it's honestly unwatchable at this point.

So yeah, the disappointment will be real and devastating if this is a failure.

That's just my feelings about it. Others might argue that cheap shows make waves too and it's true but xianxia shows are already dealing with all of that so I personally think bringing anything less than 180% of their commitment to the project would make it a flop and undermine its effect.

33 notes • Posted 2021-07-26 09:30:59 GMT

This is what I call Wen Ke Xing's "Wait, you're evil too?!" face

38 notes • Posted 2021-04-11 15:16:24 GMT

It's so surprising for me to find out that Word of Honor/Faraway Wonderers was voted most likely to flop because it was my second most anticipated bl adaptation after Immortality.

You see even though I haven’t read the book yet, I saw a few bts photos in summer when they were still filming and the actors looked like they were genuinely having a fun time (also, the leaks were WILD lmao, it all makes sense now in retrospect) so I knew the show was made with love and was so excited for it.

It really doesn’t matter how high the budget is, all you need for good art is love. If people who make it care about it, it’ll be good.

44 notes • Posted 2021-03-14 17:04:46 GMT

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