roleplaying with an ai can never beat the joy and fluidity and comfort of roleplaying with a real human (especially if that person is your friend) (and knows your fav as well as you do)
Oh yes also, feel free to ask me things, my precious characters of course are always top of the list for things I may answer
But if I don’t answer I may also just chew on it forever…like that one question about coffee, now I know Ish is a Butter coffee girl, but when am I ever gonna mention that
Yay. I'm so happy you did this. Take your time of course. I hope you're feeling better.
So for the gifmakers asks. Let's start with 5 & 7.
Thank you. Rose💜
Hi Rose, thank your for sending me these! 💜💜 I'm actually feeling a lot better tonight than I did the past few days so hopefully I'm over the worst. 🤞
5. how long have you been making gifs?
When I look at my edits tag my first proper gifset here on tumblr was this Alan Wake gifset, so apparently 12 years ago. Back then I used Paint Shop Pro (which didn't have smart sharpen or selective colouring) but that didn't matter anyway because look how tiny these are. 🤣
But even before that I made headers and icons and stuff for private rpgs on livejournal so I already knew how to abuse the channel mixer and drown everything in tiny text and light textures.
7. How has your gifing skill improved since you first started?
I mean, I no longer drown everything in light textures:
But I guess I still like tiny text. This gif is from 2013 and I think by then I was already using Photoshop 7.
Over time I just got more into things like sharpening, grain and gif processing (this is from 2014).
This is from when I first started making BL gifs (and before that I just didn't gif as much in general):
I'm probabbly not a good judge of my own style but I think I stayed pretty consistent throughout the years. It's just that I'm now much better at choosing what I want a gif to look like or which adjustments do what. I'm also much faster now but a lot of that is because I no longer gif with frames (which leads to hilarously big files.... like did you know psds have a maximum file size and then you have to use psbs 🤡)
So I know me and everyone else hyperfixates on a lot of things, right? We bounce around easily and wait for the next new, interesting thing to come out.
But you know what hasn't left me?
Undertale. It's always there. And every time I see art or remember my first time playing, I actually cry.
Undertale opened me back up to art and writing and it gave me a safe place. It's not just the characters, it's the feel of the game. The music, the environments, everything. It's always a good feeling.
And I always, without fail, cry at the end when I play it every year.
I write this to say, to everyone who still loves undertale (and Asriel specficially) as much as I do, thank you for continuing to love the game and making stuff for it.
Sometimes I just need to return to my safe space and it will always be that fandom.
Sometimes I feel really grateful that people who knew me in middle school don't know my name anymore. If they're ever telling an embarrassing ass story about me they'll be naming someone who no longer exists.
I was thinking about when I was in 6th grade and I hand wrote a cringy self-insert labyrinth fanfiction that filled an entire composition notebook front to back with original characters and the works. That's not what's embarrassing. What's embarrassing is that I had the gaul to let one of my teachers READ IT. I don't even remember her name anymore and I'm hoping she's forgotten mine but I doubt it.
maybe I just need to start rambling on this blog again. I miss shooting the shit with mutuals at unpredictable times over literally whatever popped into my brain