#just not very gifs friendly

[taytei]

she’s been a character living rent free in my head for like 2 years, and i finally named her

#character design #original characters #character animation #2d animation #digital art #shart from the heart #my little shits #i've found i love defaulting to animating her when i don't know what to do #her hair is so poofy it's so fun #she's actually a very sunny and friendly person #i just happen to draw her snarky/spooked more often than not shaklhgsa

[frimoussette88]

Kit & Emilia at Superhero Comic Con (x) - Favorite moments Part 3/?

#emilia clarke #kit harington #jonerys #superhero comic con 2023 #game of thrones #got cast #fanart #gifset #my edit #we're going down the images' quality here #i'm sorry that's the best video I could find #and it's honestly fine #great even #just not very gifs friendly #not with my photoshop skills anyway

[naranjapetrificada]

This is going to be long so the short version is this:

I convinced my therapist to watch the 🌟Gay Pirate Show🌟 and now I have to confront a previously unidentified and terrifyingly deep emotional wound that could be as transformative to heal as it is terrifying to approach.

My therapist and I have a lot of let's say...demographic things in common that have made this the most successful therapeutic relationship I've ever had, but also that just made me think he might like the show. It's no secret that ofmd has been a deeply moving experience for its viewers, and queer, neurodivergent, and/or people of color have written at length about the special ways it touches us (or doesn't). Those are three categories both he and I fit into and it feels relevant to say that for context.

So yes I thought he might like it, but I also wanted to pick his brain about Big Feelings it was giving me that I hadn't experienced with the same intensity with other media/fandoms. Y'all, he gave me a completely unexpected reading on the show (and its story and its fan works) and why it makes us feel So Much that I haven't seen anywhere before.

When I say Big Feelings, I mean like I've literally had to swear off a couple of pretty innocuous categories on AO3 ("Growing Old Together" and "Domestic Fluff") because they would devastate me in ways that I couldn't attribute to anything specific. Growing Old Together comes with the possibility of death separating them, which is heartbreaking, but that didn't feel like it was the thing that was gutting me. Domestic Fluff could probably be called the most innocuous tag ever, but anything that saw our blorbos settling down and watching the Revenge sail off into the distance was fucking me up as well.

There are plenty of reasons why OFMD makes queer people feel so much, but when I say this was fucking me up I mean like, well, remember when people outside of classical music started learning about appoggiatura? Like intellectually knowing why I was crying but at a loss how intense everything felt. And my therapist (who is as good at analyzing a text as he is at being a therapist) was like "oh, it could be all the grief."

The grief.

The audacity of this motherfucker (affectionate).

It's a romcom! It's a romcom that we were explicitly told would have a happy ending! It's a romcom where the characters will get to sail off into the sunset together like they want and like we want for them! Stede and Ed, after four decades of self-hatred and trauma and fear and isolation, somehow find each other. And one of the sweetest things about their story is that it's a late in life love story, because it's incredibly inspiring for someone to get to experience a part of life they thought wasn't for them. The inescapable fact that their time together will be shorter than any of us would like is sad but not unaccountably sad to me, because of how much joy they'll be able to cram into the time they have left. I could be wrong but I don't think that alone is the source of what's been overwhelming me.

Grief is a constant presence in the world-building and the storytelling because grief is a natural response to well, so many things about being alive. Grieving is some of the hardest shit any of us ever have to do, but it's also so universal and so many of the things that make us uniquely human also make grieving well, maybe not easier, but something we can endure and process through ritual, community, and the example of those we've witnessed grieving their own losses. Many kinds of grief come with narratives that you can accept or reject all or parts of, but the narrative exists.

But have you ever heard of disenfranchised loss? Loss that's not easily labeled or classified or given the time or space or understanding it deserves? Have you experienced a loss like that? Can you imagine how much more difficult it makes the grieving process?

Well what my therapist suggested, the thing that knocked me on my ass hard enough that I had to come have Online Feelings about it, is that eventually, we all have to mourn ourselves. Not necessarily in a "mortality is inevitable" way (that happens to everyone) but in ways that are often unique to people like him and me (black, ND, queer). Even if we work on ourselves, if we grow and heal our trauma and feel at home in our identities and our bodies and build beautiful lives, eventually we will be forced to mourn the selves that we never got to be in the societies in which we live and the selves we once had to become to survive this long.

And that mourning is a kind of disenfranchised loss, with no clear path forward. Obviously this conversation happened within the context of everything my therapist knows about me as an individual, but I thought certain things might resonate with other fans as well so I wanted to talk about it. The story of this bizarre little man and his remarkable second act and his lovely little found family and his incredibly beautiful love story (that we've been guaranteed will end happily) is still haunted by the specific kind of grief that comes from learning what's possible, and regretting that you didn't know it was possible sooner.

And does anybody have more delayed milestones, later-in-life discoveries, and/or need to invent places for themselves than those of us on the social fringes? Than those of us in societies unequipped for (or actively hostile to) the ways we exist and the things we need to survive and thrive? Than those of us who have to create our own narratives or be saddled with inaccurate or harmful narratives created by others, or even no narrative at all?

And narrative is so much. Narrative is everything. Narrative is the story we tell ourselves and each other and that literally shapes our reality. So those story beats where we discover something better than what came before are inherently stories with loss and will require mourning, because we mourn loss.

Even when the story has a happy ending. Especially when the story has a happy ending for someone who never thought they would be allowed to have one.

I mean just like, FUCKING HELL. I can't blame anyone for this but myself. I know my therapist. I know how insightful he can be. I did this to myself and now I have to live with it. But my god is it a massive mountain I'm about to have to climb now. My therapist and I have always found it helpful to discuss media that makes me Feel Things (see all the trauma work that came from Life is Strange) but if you had told me that I'd be looking into this new dark cave of unprocessed shit thanks to what I thought was just gonna be a harmless little gay pirate show starring fucking Murray from Flight of the Concords I would probably just have assumed you were in the middle of having a stroke and taken off to get you the medical attention you desperately needed.

#not to be dramatic #but I definitely worry this might still be dramatic #my therapist is great #but the problem with a good therapist #is that sometimes they will fucking read you #and then you get whiplash #don't be afraid to bring up media that speaks to you in therapy #you never know what might come of it #or how much it might shake you #I should also be clear that all this grief in a story with a happy ending isn't a bad thing #it just kind of is #and when you enjoy it #just enjoy it #every moment of joy is a gift #no matter the context #go ahead and grieve yourself #also I couldn't find an elegant way to fit this in #but the storytelling is very neurodivergent #or at least unfolds in a way that is friendly to my neurodivergence #that's why I'm not a big TV watcher anyway #but I was able to sit down and mainline this #it's the first new show I've watched in literal years #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd meta #our flag means death meta #🤯🤯🤯 #😳😳😳 #disenfranchised loss

[cyberspacebear]

just figured out imgflip. i made a gif i hope he is not small

i think he will be small. shit. my 360p king

more of him

tiled aiden

#i just thought this 2 second clip of aiden giving a very friendly and polite jack off gesture was really funny #so i learned how to use a gif maker #the yard #aiden calvin #enjoy <2 #i want to make one of those separators for my pinned post but it's like thirty really small gifs of the yard members doing whatever

[schnaf]

22 days until gaon's 22nd birthday

day 16 - tomboy performance

#xdinary heroes #gaon #kwak jiseok #gaon22 #yEAH i'm kinda obsessed with tomboy #also the gaon moments in the video are very gifset friendly #when i made these gifs i was like 'he's the only one who's allowed to have a mullet' and then i saw his newest look and #i take it back #it's mean because this look here? peak. so close and yet so far #just show his forehead u G H

[skitskatdacat63]

2005 - Pit crews acknowledging the camera(because I think they're really endearing)

#renault crew being super silly and friendly w the camera vs mclaren crew scared of the camera #this is very self indulgent but that first gif is what pushed me over the edge and made me make this post #the others ive had sitting around since january bcs they showed the pit a lot during the french gp but i didnt end up posting them #but then i clipped that 1st one(during the brazil gp) and ngl i think it actually might be my favorite thing ive ever clipped from a race #i almost just wanna post the the full clip just on its own bcs i rly genuinely cant stop rewatching it #ITS SO CUTEEEEEE #the way the guy next to him(before the gif) points out to him that hes on camera #so he looks over and winks and then the other guy shoves his face down LOL #this is why im rly glad i watch races fully bcs then ever once in a while i come across clips like these that own my heart #hugging these gifs squeezing them biting them #watching these old races for my blorbos: the renault pit crew #renault #2005 brazilian gp #2005 french gp #formula 1 #formula one #we do a little bit of f1 #mclaren

[howdy-cowpoke]

Does anyone know anything about that roaming overnight marketplace that pops up now and then? I think someone that works there has been sending me vaguely threatening letters, but I'm not sure.

#. chat ; #[ for new folks: it's like a nighttime “farmer's market” that moves around and sells very SPN-friendly wares ] #[ there's a write-up for it that will be posted eventually but that's the jist ] #[ very clandestine so no need for your character to have knowledge; i'm just throwing this out into the universe ]

[cakeywakeyfakey]

im SO SAD because I wanna draw more wh stuff for you cause I love you. Sm. but. Burnout. And also cause my WH Hyperfixation is nearly over CRIES. UWAHHH.

WAHHAHAHH?!?! I’d LOVE to see more welcome home stuff from you too!?!!?!?!?? Your art tastes like those Frosted Cherry Pop tarts!!!!!! Always wanted to try those when I was younger!!!!!!!! ♥️💗♥️💗♥️ (Only because it was pink though..)

Besides that- you said that you are currently having a burnout! That’s fine! I sincerely don’t mind waiting at all!!! I don’t want you to feel pressured to make one for me.. I just want you to have to fun is all!!!! 💗💗💗

Go as crazy as you want! Just don’t do it because you feel like you have to!! :-(

And, for your welcome home hyper fixation falling out- I don’t blame you at all!!

The welcome home website has recently shut down for renovations, so if you feel you wanna take a break from it- then do it! Explore other things and enjoy it!! <3

Recently I’ve been watching some Showbiz Pizza videos, and it’s very fun to watch them perform and interact with each other!! I can recommend some videos if you’re bored?

Anyhow, you can come back to Welcome Home whenever you feel like it. (It’s fine if you don’t either! I just hope to still see you in the near future) ♥️

And lastly, I just wanna say…

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH TOOOOOAOAO!!!!!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ YOU ARE SO SO SOAKAOQOQ KIND TO ME ITS UNREAL!!!!!! Just know that I will always cherish you in my memories forever!!!!! :-))))))

♥️💗♥️💗♥️💗♥️💗♥️💗♥️💗♥️

MWAH MWAHHAHWQ MWHAHQHQHHQHAAHQ ♥️💗♥️💗♥️💗💗♥️💗

#Wally and Barnaby wishing you a very wonderful vacation from Home!!!!!! 💗♥️💗 #Wally just copying everything Barnaby does at this point #I LOVE YOU!!!-!-!!1!1!1 #I will be very excited to see your next drawing!!!!! #Remember not to rush it though!! :-))) #I very much care about you #with my whole damn heart #so please #treat yourself with care :-) #Cause again #I LOVE YOUAABQHIQAMQ #anyways sorry I don’t sound so energetic as usual :-( #It just took me a while to finish editing the drawing #really made my arm feel sore!!! #Reminder that I care about you!! MMMMWHAHHHAHH ♥️💗♥️ #friendly friends ask <3

[rawliverandgoronspice]

serielle of lanayru, aka "queen who spends 90% of her life on screensaver mode"

her brain at any given time:

an icon

#oot #hylian oc #my art #wip #animatic project #thralls of power #unhallowed vespers #litany of betrayal #descant of greatness #serielle #she's the most insane of the entire cast #by a long mile #(pretty understandably so honestly) #(and that absolutely includes ganondorf who is also insane but... not the same flavor) #I actually really like her I think her brain is super compelling to me and I hope I get a chance to explore it more this time around #tho she's..... the least Zelda-like family friendly character of the bunch.............. also by a long mile. so. #subtext will be!!! very important here!!! for subtlelty but also extremely uhhh practical reasons #I have a scene in mind that would be core to her arc but also so. wrong. even if it's just implied (and it HAS to be) it's A Lot #just... to unpack and to digest and to move past the “what the actual hell is wrong with this chick” stage #tho not sure I'll go this far with this project honestly because it's pretty far down the line #and also..... do I have the guts to go through with it. not sure. #one day I will Stop to put characters with deeply stressful psychosexual issues in my stories u_u and everything will be simpler

[gothprentiss]

I put you in the BAU. I knew how badly you wanted it. Everyone did. You were never exactly shy about letting us know. But there were those who didn't think assigning you to the BAU was a good idea. They thought you were too reckless. I believed in you, however. It's time to pay back the faith I had.

#emily prentiss #paget brewster #criminal minds #erin strauss #criminalmindsedit #cmedit #edits #honestly top 5 blorbo moment of all time #very likely the most kicked my ass has ever been over a character #she just has to KNOW THAT.... and keep going.... i love her............ #when she looks up you can see her entire world and worldview reflected in her eyes i am Fine. i am so good and fine #and don’t even get me STORTED on Too Reckless To Get Promoted Prentiss like can you believe that……….. #like eager machinating jostling offputting and literally running away from her past……. #also yeah the text looks terrible it’s not a gif AND text friendly scene. sue me!

[xeniawarriorprincesa]

I drove a little over an hour to visit my hometown because it has the best comic shop literally in the world and they do a tiny comic convention so i wanted to see it. Im watching the cute cosplay contest category of 14 yrs and under and there is a Charlie Morningstar cosplayer towering right behind me. This girl is like 6 feet tall and shes talking about favorite songs so i jump in and throw in "Loser Baby" as my top song. She keeps talking to a Sven cosplayer and then drops the worst thing i can hear....

"Oh i technically qualify to be on stage for the kids round but i chose not to. Im 12 years old"

My face:

#just some added context #i hate my hometown its very conservative and corrupt #but this comic shop is the shining beacon #of some of the best people ever #like so wholesome and accepting and lgbt friendly #the con was great #the kids were adorable and like 50 percent fanaf #overall great time i just get so stressed when interacting in fandom spaces #i cannot tell the ages of anyone

[lee-kangin]

SOUTH KOREA V HAITI FT 2-1 81' Jang Selgi

#south korea nt #south korea w #south korea women #footballedit #football #jang selgi #MY QUEEN!!!!! the way she got so excited and shy when that went in omg <3 <3 <3 #the entire team celebrating with her there is so much love in this team i swear!!!!!! :') #and look how thrilled the fans are!!!! what a turnout for a friendly!! #i love you taeguk nangja <3 #very shit gifs bc the kfa gives us only potato quality but needed to gif this moment it's also going viral on twt #just bc of how pure selgi's celly is :) #rahul.gif

[rubenesque-as-fuck]

I hope you decide to go, this seems like the kind if thing you'll think about/regret for a while if you don't

I'm going to try to just go about my day normally and see how I feel this evening.

#anon asks #friendly anons #some of the trepidation isn't even the event itself it's all the steps to get there #like gotta pick an outfit and do i wear makeup and then gotta drive there find parking (hopefully near venue but it's a Saturday night so) #then when I get there god i am just so bad at striking up conversations i immediately feel as though my very presence is burdensome #but if i don't try somehow then I'm alone forever so also not great #The Depressies have just been heavy lately despite my efforts and it makes me hyperaware of my lack of connections

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Not a homophobe on twitter complaining about Doctor Who and Torchwood being LGBT+ and complaining about both not being child friendly like they had expected when they and their kids watched both shows.  Yes, they did just be homophobic about Doctor Who and Torchwood. And yes, they did just admit to watching the ADULT spin off, Torchwood, as a family, and acting surprised it wasn’t child friendly. 

#there is just....so much in that tweet #got your typical homophobia that doctor who twitter fandom loves to have going #and then you got also admitting to watching an adult show like torchwood #and being surprised it had no child friendly stuff #like ah yes #torchwood with episodes like day one and countrycide #very great to show to kids

[healingheartdogs]

She got a little boost of energy when we got home and we got to watch her get zoomies, ferret hop around the chew we gave her in excitement, and pounce on it and swat it around like a cat. It was very amusing.

#and then she knocked out for a puppy nap #she is very funny and cute and i love her #im sad my phone was dead so i couldnt get a video #she is very watchful but so far if we just let her watch things and dont really react to them she gets over them really quickly #we were sitting outside and the Too Friendly herd of like 10+ deer ran through the neighbors yard where she could spot them #and she softly grumbled at the first few from a laid down position then quietly watched the rest of them without moving #it was cute #everything she does is cute because shes cute #i cant wait to watch her personality develop shes already so interesting to me

[mythvoiced]

OPEN STARTER | Fujiwara Kazuma

"If I can't do something on my own, I shouldn't do it at all," Kazuma vocalizes, a line spoken as if quoted directly from the Art of War or some equally important, psyche-shaping masterpiece.

It's either perceived as such... or an excuse to not accept help for something he's never done before.

Better translation would be: I hate people helping me because no one does things the way I want them to be done.

But that's not nice... is it?

A side-glance.

"Besides... I didn't know you had a passion for fixing radios."

#;open starter #the example;kazuma #the example;open #haven't written anything for this fella yet ♥ HERE HE IS #link is a google docs ;3 #he's a he/him and 25 and a tanuki and a two-faced bitch but he meets folks always in a friendly manner #sometimes though you can sort of glance through the veil when he's very focused and forgets to adjut his tone #OH BY THE WAY THIS IS OPEN TO EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE ♥ AS IN whatever comes to mind >:3 #just give his about a once-over just in case >;3 #;queue