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More random tropes that I fucking love: Becoming the mask you wore.

Like oh shit, this character who was sent to spy somewhere under a false identity suddenly realises they've started to genuinely become the person they claimed to be? Someone who's been telling the same lies about who they are for so long that they're actually forgetting that the story isn't true? Finding themselves genuinely doing the things they pretend to do in front of people, when they're alone and nobody's watching? Answering to a name that wasn't supposed to be theirs without thinking?

Ooohh-hoh-hoh, you lost track of yourself in pretending to be someone else? You were only supposed to impersonate somebody, a plausible background and a name you came up with on the spot, and now that the people you were supposed to infiltrate have become your true companions? You lost yourself in the game you played, and no you no longer know who you truly are, and where your true loyalties lie? And both sides would mark you a traitor if you came out with the truth. On a scale of one to ten, how bad did you fuck up.

Fuck that is a good trope. Never seen it done badly. Pour that shit on a table and I'll chop it into lines and snort it.

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This is the last week of Steggy Month at @steggyfanevents! Thanks for participating! We couldn't have done it without you.

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I just always assumed that she was too focused on the conversation and the file she had in her hand because I remember screaming internally, with every fibre in my body, for her to please just LOOK UP

Everyone always comments on how it's so weird that Peggy didn't see Steve through the window (valid but I am willing to suspend my beliefs to enjoy cinema™) but the funniest part to me is that the first time i saw Endgame I was going to assume it was a 1 way mirror, window on Steve's side mirror on Peggy's side, but then they had to add this shot for CINEMATOGRAPHY. IMPLICATIONS.

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HAPPY 5TH ANNIVERSARY, AVENGERS: ENDGAME! April 26th, 2019.

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TWO HOURS AGO: an incredible photo taken by a ut austin student capturing something deeply poetic in my opinion, a line of state troopers eagerly waiting to arrest student protesters standing just behind a sign that reads "what starts here changes the world. its starts with you and what you do each day."

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More random tropes that I fucking love: Becoming the mask you wore.

Like oh shit, this character who was sent to spy somewhere under a false identity suddenly realises they've started to genuinely become the person they claimed to be? Someone who's been telling the same lies about who they are for so long that they're actually forgetting that the story isn't true? Finding themselves genuinely doing the things they pretend to do in front of people, when they're alone and nobody's watching? Answering to a name that wasn't supposed to be theirs without thinking?

Ooohh-hoh-hoh, you lost track of yourself in pretending to be someone else? You were only supposed to impersonate somebody, a plausible background and a name you came up with on the spot, and now that the people you were supposed to infiltrate have become your true companions? You lost yourself in the game you played, and no you no longer know who you truly are, and where your true loyalties lie? And both sides would mark you a traitor if you came out with the truth. On a scale of one to ten, how bad did you fuck up.

Fuck that is a good trope. Never seen it done badly. Pour that shit on a table and I'll chop it into lines and snort it.

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Batgirl, Batgirl and Batgirl

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subtitles from Science Gossip, 1900

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Wong kar-wai posters by me <3

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laurel lance in 3.05

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aurora borealis dragon?

#99- 極光 (jíguāng / aurora) - Generally visible around 15° from the Earth's geomagnetic poles. 🌌🌈⭐

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STEGGY ANNIVERSARY MONTH week four — Endgame 👩🏻‍❤️‍👨🏼

I think we deserve a soft epilogue, my love. We are good people and we've suffered enough – Seventy Years of Sleep #4, Nikka Ursula [x]

5 and also 75 years ago, Steve returned to Peggy. ❤️

HAPPY 5TH ANNIVERSARY, AVENGERS: ENDGAME! april 26th, 2019.

@lgbtqcreators creator bingo 💖 transition

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So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!

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listening to a sleeping at last song be like ohhhh oh i understand something fundamental and profound about the miracle of existence now and in the end i am happy just to have been created at all. okay. and then you have to keep going about your day as normal like you haven't just been changed on a molecular level

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Hi hi! I love your gifs and especially love the typography and was curious if you knew of any good tutorials or had any tips you'd be willing to share for novice gif makers. All I find when I search is typography on stationary images so I'm probably not getting the right words in. Thanks!

hi dear! ❤️ sorry this is a bit late but i hope it'll still be useful!

first of all, speaking of tutorials: i feel like @anya-chalotra has some really great tutorials on fonts, typography and all the neat text effects you see on gifs these days. outlined text, gradient text, blending modes and a lot of great general font guides. diving in there is a) really helpful and b) very inspiring. a lot of the stuff i'm doing with my text, you can probably find there (and better explained than i ever could).

the rest is under a cut because it got a bit longer. so if you’re interested in anti-aliasing, justification of text, putting your text in a circle or a path, combination of fonts and stuff like that, keep on reading.

as for tips (i’m always super willing to share but i also have the memory of a goldfish when doing a general post like this—so, please, if you ever see something you’d like to have me explain, just let me know): i think one of the most important settings, before we even get into style or effects, is anti-aliasing your text:

i usually go with “smooth” but as you can see, there’s not a huge difference between sharp, crisp, strong or smooth. so choosing between those is more a preference or dependent on the font you’re working with.

(there is, however, a big difference when you use “none”—it makes the edges look jagged and not pretty. so, always use anti-alias, kids!)

i play around with my settings a lot, especially the font style, spacing and the usual suspects like bold, italic, capital letters etc. also, if your font comes with glyphs (special versions of a character or an extra combined version of two characters) that’s also fun to play around with. if your font package contains glyphs and you highlight a character there should be suggestions of all possible versions of this highlighted character—but you can also find the available ones under that second “A” in your task bar.

combining fonts is actually the most fun (but also sometimes the most time-consuming) part of gifmaking and what i like to do is just throw some non-serif fonts together with either handwritten, serif or brush fonts and see what sticks—the part of the quote or lyric i want to emphasize usually gets the bigger and flashier font and more effects (like a gradient or colour fill etc.), like so (for this one i added shadows, set the blending mode to “difference” and added a gradient overlay—that’s my usual go-to mode for typography):

there are times when two flashy fonts work well together but i would advise to be careful with it as it can get overwhelming to look at. this is very much a trial and error process. lots and lots of trying, looking for new fonts, remembering the ones i already have and then just seeing what looks good to me.

how to justify your text:

this skips in the middle because my typing seems to be slow as fuck but basically what you do is, you drag your textbox over the image, start typing and then start playing around with your paragraph settings. (you can choose justify right, left or center or full justification—that basically defines how the last line will look like.)

how to put your text into a shape or path:

for this you can either use the shape tool or the pen tool to create a shape/path to your liking. create the shape without a colour fill or outline and then select your text tool—when you hover over the shape you should see your normal text cursor with a little “wave”. click on your shape and then start typing (keep an eye on your text alignment and that everything is legible) et voilà, your text is following the path of your shape. super easy, super fun.

aaaand i think that’s it for now as this is already quite long.

this is honestly just the tip of the iceberg and there’s so much more fun stuff to do with text, typography, all kinds of fonts. i can only just once again stress that it’s absolutely okay (welcome, even!) to ask me about anything—about a specific gif or edit or what have you. my askbox is always open and i do my best to answer as soon as i can! ♥

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Mafia boss: We have your girlfriend.

Bucky: Who?

Mafia boss: Your girlfriend. Natasha.

Bucky: Oh..

Mafia boss: Oh? What do you mean "oh"?

Bucky: You don't have her. She has you. Good luck.