Carlos: so, who’s the clingiest?
Max: [sitting on Charles’ lap with his arms wrapped around his neck and his face buried into his chest]
Max: Charles, clearly.
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✨Gif Coloring✨
Hello everyone! After having a conversation with the lovely @bizarrelittlemew, and being inspired by her immaculate Gif-Coloring Post, I decided to follow suit with some examples of my own. I make this post to stand in solidarity with her, as well as all our fellow gif-makers, and to show that gif-making is in fact a very time-consuming process! It’s not as simple as feeding frames into a program and *poof*, you’re done. There are in fact numerous, numerous, numerous steps that go into beautifying footage for your viewing pleasure!
The “raw” footage is on the left (in quotations because it is still trimmed down, and the frame rate has been edited, but the original lighting/coloring remains), and my edited versions are on the right.
As you can see, quite a bit different lol! My process usually involves picking the scene, shortening said scene in my video editing program to the desired amount of frames, removing frame interpolation, cropping it down to the proper size, removing any fun little frame artifacts, playing around with the desired frame rate, before beginning to manipulate the lighting, levels, contrast, and colors. Then, I will often have to sharpen and blur to my liking, which is a whole process on its own, before fist-fighting Photoshop’s memory issues l m a o.
And even all of that does not account for what others may do, such as overlaying gifs within gifs, creating word art, working with geometric shapes, etc etc!
It’s a process, and it’s a form of art. And just as you wouldn’t re-post someone’s fanfic, someone’s video, or someone’s music, please don’t re-post gifs without credit! Reblog from the source, use the add gif function, or include the artist’s @ if needed be! It’s quick, it’s easy, and it’s appreciated more than you know.
Support your artists, and we’ll be so happy to continue creating for you! <3
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the popular take that mat would just beat joey's ass if he emerged from pandora's box is so ... boring to me, on principle, but it's a good platform for something interesting! like, the acknowledgement that the detective ( this guardian angel, as he's now proclaimed ) is so capable of violence that echoes how he was slaughtered before, that he'd raise fists against another knowing the harm it'll cause ... knowing how flesh will break and bend under blows ... it's a passing down of trauma but also a passing down of that anger and unjust feeling! if he attacked joey after everything it wouldn't be an act of just hatred ; it's an act of despair, of hurt, and it'll be about rosanna but it'll be about everything else too. it's about how he's failed to save a single life, again. it's about how he won't be able to sleep at night, not knowing what happened to everyone exactly, not knowing where the rest of his everlock crew is or the exact noises ro made when she died or if anyone tried to comfort people who never asked for this. for revival, for having to prove yourself again after death. it's about the personal, selfish betrayal of it all! that joey left him like a coward and hid far away in a place where mat couldn't reach him. it's the how could you have left me? after everything? after i put my trust and faith into you again? a failure recognizing failure, a broken body finding its mirror image in another mangled body. and it's about how joey would want to lie there and take this beating so bad because he deserves it and he's tired and mat makes him want to be something more than he is, a martyr, a saint, but it's not enough : he'd still weakly fight back, would still claw and squirm, and the hate for themselves would multiply tenfold. they're survivors and this is what they do. mat hurting joey after he comes back is so much more than resentment ... it's love, for everything and everyone, and it's the death of it, and the sickening promise it'll bloom again anyway because joey being horrible is not new. if mat loved him despite this before, he can always love him again. there's just the price of blood first and the vindictive need for punishment, because the detective's been tired of the good guys losing for a long time, and joey's the perfect scapegoat when there's no bad guys around to punish.
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miss zee have you read any silly little fanfics lately?
EMMM... kinda but not really LMAOOO im in that terrible in between stage where im not really super interested in any particular fandom so ive just been perusing some old fandoms im in like pokemon and fire emblem,,, i also tried reading that one famous dramione fic manacled and uhh,,, it was not my thing,,, i think i just don't like dark romances lol i suppose i have preferences for my flavors of angst
i DO have a particular itch tho for a certain fic trope... i really wanna read a long slow burn romance with lots of slice of life moments and found family which sounds awfully common at first glance but somehow ive been??? really picky and ive yet to find one that suits me ;w; i really want to read something that'll knock the wind out of me but so far nothing has popped up
me: what if i just write it myself
also me: peepeepoopoo......
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Today was customer appreciation day at our bank. It was so nice. So many of our regulars showed up for a free hotdog, chips, and a pop - we even had to-go bags for the drivethru! They were all so happy. I didn't know if any of my family was going to show up, but my mom, sister, and baby niece came for my lunchbreak and ate with me. It was such a nice day.
And! One of my favorite regulars showed up - gave me one of those one-armed half-hugs 😊 - he won our raffle! Everyone was so glad he was the winner. He's been through a lot lately, so I'm glad he came and that he'll win a gas card.
It was just a really nice day. I love my job a lot. It meant a lot to me that my family came.
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