thelinkbooks:

When your own characters throw a surprise twist in while you’re writing them, and you start to wonder who is writing who.

boofrp:

2012-2013 roleplays? did u mean: the years where u were lucky to see a gay man in your roleplay and even luckier if u saw them in a gay relationship? but u never really did because ya girls thought that they could make them straight. did you mean the years of tragic backstories and triggering content being portrayed incorrectly just for the sake of drama? did you mean the height of asylum/institute rps where the romanticization of mental illness was the only reason they got apps? did you mean the years where no one new the meaning of intersectionality in their roleplays? where the world was run by cis straight males and females? where it wa okay to have all whites and no pocs? where there was NO “other” option in your applications for gender identity? where it was considered cute and OKAY to have selena gomez and zayn malik as siblings? where vanessa hudgens was considered a white woman? when all of ya girls were written as petite curvy short girls with pretty eyes and soft hair? where imperfections in appearance were left just as that - imperfections. where although you say we were great writers - there were only basic white girls being played instead of strong and empowering women? where boys were only interesting if they were dark and mysterious? oh, where the fan-fiction “dark” was popular and drove so many plots where it was chill to have an abusive an dark character because it was “sexy” and it didn’t matter because he still loved her!! where having your female character’s past riddled with abuse was completely okay and actually “quirky” and different AND MADE THEM WHO THEY WERE AS A PERSON? oh and if you did rp a person of colour, they had to be the stereotypical version of their race? cause they were nothing more than black and thats what ran their storyline? where a muslim girl was no where to be seen? where token gay friends were actually a thing?

ya girl, i love reminiscing bout the old times. 

jacksonwhlttemore:

stiles calling jackson “shittemore” at every opportunity just to piss him off (◕‿◕✿)

jackson knowing stiles is just trying to piss him off and not wanting to give him the satisfaction (✿◠‿◠)

jackson finally having enough and shoving stiles against a locker and knowing stiles thinks he’s gonna get punched so he kisses him instead just so he can have the upper hand (but then he likes it) (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

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gifs are not witchcraft

itironman:

The other day I was showing my bff some of the stuff I made with ps and while he was very enthusiastic about it, he also said something that made me think:

“Is this hard to do though? I have no idea how photoshop works, so I don’t know if this takes a lot of time and skills or if it’s something that anyone could do in five minutes.”

I snorted pretty hard at the “five minutes” part, cause I wish, but then it occurred to me that most people are probably like my best friend, and having no idea how we do what we do, take for granted our gifsets (which are indeed not made through witchcraft, though I’m convinced some of us must have sold their soul to the devil).

I’ll forever remember that one person that commented under a colour porn gifset of mine “wow, I didn’t remember this movie was so bright and colourful!”

… That’s cause it wasn’t. I made it that way. Everytime you see a gifset, someone made it that way. Bright, dark, very pink, very red (or in my case very cyan), very colourful.

And it’s not just a matter of choosing all the scenes to gif (and consequently capture all those screencaps, decide where to crop them, resize them and, only after that, beginning the adventure that is colouring).

There’s a huge difference in what a movie/video looks like before we get our hands on it and after, and I think that’s probably one of the things that people who don’t make gifs tend not to realize.

Let me show you!

This is a gif of a scene taken from Iron Man 2. The only thing I did was resize it to 500pixels. This is what the actual movie looks like:

this is the exact same scene after I coloured it and applied my sharpening settings:

Now what you may think is “you just made it bright!” 

It took me 12 layers of careful adjustments to just make it bright (which is not all that I did, btw) while trying not to bring out pixels (impossible with a scene as dark as this one) while at the same time trying my best to keep it under the 2mb limit (over which you can’t upload your gif on tumblr or it won’t move), and trying not to whitewash Rhodey as I lighten everything else. Let me tell you, none of this is particularly easy. It’s not impossible, but it’s not something you learn in five minutes.

Here’s another example:

actual movie:

colour porn:

Now the point of this post is that I’m hoping that people will see and understand that there’s a lot of work and effort on our part to make these gifs, so that everyone can appreciate them. And yet we see that effort easily dismissed every day when our works are stolen and reposted and people have no qualms about rebloging them anyway, cause after all they’re just pretty pictures made with a computer, what’s the fuss. 

It took me two years of almost daily practice to get where I’m at now (and I still have a lot to learn), and that kind of attitude hurts me as a person before it hurts me as a content maker.

Blocking reposters and spreading the word doesn’t help much if things like this keep happening and no one cares.

This website is mostly made of gifsets and graphics (that’s not to undermine the importance of art and fics, I’m just saying that you see more gifs and graphics and photos than those other kind of wonderful content) and it would be a dream come true to see a bit more respect and appreciation for our category. 

Leave nice tags under someone’s gifset you really really liked. Tell them how much you loved how they used that particular song/quote on that particular character. How happy you are they’re making gifs about your favourite ship.

Encourage content makers, you’ll be rewarded with more content.

Be kind. Do not take us for granted, please.

omenbrought:

_{i understand wanting to make a name for yourself in this community. i think we can all relate to wondering whether a new original character will take off, or whether we are doing our canon character justice. that’s normal. it’s to be expected. however, i can promise you that people will respect you more if you take the time to really think about your character. you don’t have to know every little detail about them ( those details sometimes fall into place as you write ), but put some thought into who they are. consider their expression when they realize they’re in love for the first time, or the pain that radiates from their chest when they lose someone important. think about how they look when they first wake up in the morning, and what words spill from their lips when they’ve had too much to drink or are simply high on life at four am. REALLY PUT YOUR MIND TO WORK AND THINK ABOUT THE LITTLE THINGS THAT MAKE UP WHO YOUR CHARACTER IS. don’t steal from someone else. don’t take what they’ve thought up and worked hard to create. people will see what you’ve done and they will lose respect for you. you’re dooming yourself before you even have a chance to see whether that new character of yours can fly. don’t do that to yourself. don’t do that to anyone else, either.}