pondmelody

[pondmelody]

Once upon a time, in the hidden heart of France, a handsome young prince lived in a beautiful castle. Although he had everything his heart desired, the prince was selfish and unkind. He taxed the village to fill his castle with the most beautiful objects, and his parties with the most beautiful people. Then one night, an unexpected intruder arrived at the castle, seeking shelter from the bitter storm. As a gift, she offered the prince a single rose. Repulsed by her haggard appearance, the prince turned the woman away. But she warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within. When he dismissed her again, the old woman’s outward appearance melted away, to reveal a most beautiful enchantress. The prince begged her for forgiveness. But it was too late, for she had seen that there was no love in his heart. As punishment, she transformed him into a hideous beast, and placed a powerful spell on the castle and all who lived there. As days bled into years, the prince and his servants were forgotten by the world, for the enchantress had erased all memory of them from the minds of the people they loved. But the rose she had offered was truly an enchanted rose. If he could learn to love another and earn their love in return by the time the last petal fall, the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he felt into despair and lost all hope. For who could ever learn to love a beast?

#b and b

[pondmelody]

BARBIE (2023) dir. Greta Gerwig

#movies #barbie

[pondmelody]

Barbie (2023) directed by Greta Gerwig

#movies #barbie

[pondmelody]

Avatar performing in Hell and Heaven Open Air - Toluca, México | 04.12.2022 Photo by: @fann_glz_photo

#avatar band #avatar metal

[pondmelody]

“All the clouds were glowing like roses and gold, and in the middle of the pale pink sky the evening star shone bright and beautiful.” — Hans Christian Andersen

#aes

[pondmelody]

In death there are no accidents, no coincidences, no mishaps, and no escapes.

#movies #final destination

[pondmelody]

the next morning was a midsummer’s morning as fair and fresh as could be dreamed: blue sky and never a cloud, and the sun dancing on the water. — j.r.r. tolkien

#misc

[pondmelody]

Barbie (2023) + wardrobe

#barbie

[pondmelody]

"i'm struggling to find gifs" "why can't i find gifs of this scene or this show" "why are less people taking requests"

you repost to twitter, to pinterest, to instagram, to tiktok and lord knows what else. on twitter, a single gif taken from a gifset that didn't even receive 1k notes (not 1k likes or even 1k rbs, if that even exists these days) can get 3m views and 30k+ likes. without credit, of course - if you're like, you get a mispelled: made by x on tumblr, no link of course.

hell, you repost on this very site and you refuse to listen. your set, stolen from someone else and mixed in with quotes, gets 1k notes meanwhile the original sits at less than 500. you do not credit the person who made it.

we ask you to reblog things instead of liking them and you go on rants about how it's unnecessary and how we should do it for fun. we explain a hundred times that tumblr doesn't work the way other social media platforms work, but you refuse. you wonder why there are less gifmakers.

gifs don't take 10 seconds like on ezgif or imgflip or whatever the hell you're using. it takes hours sometimes to even download footage, but you don't care. it's a moving image that we "stole" (?) from the original work but the labour? you don't care. depending on our process, it can take from half an hour (the downloading and the editing part) to hours upon hours. but who cares.

you credit text posts, fanvids, and you go after those who steal written work (as you should). we cannot even get other gifmakers to care when our stuff is stolen. staff took away our only tool to fight reposters on this site, and we never had any to fight reposting to other sites.

we know what the staff is aiming at with the changes they make and the changes they refuse to make - we explain that why disabling likes would help, they say they will not do it. they cannot slap an @ onto gifs when saved to prevent stealing but boy, look at the shiny new editor that adds an additional least 5 minutes to upload your gifs! again, intention is very clear.

we know you don't steal gifs under a certain quality and we know you ask us for requests for scenes/parallels that have been done because you do not like the quality of those. we see you stealing quality sets.

there is no point to this i just needed to vent. staff is disregarding the very foundation of this site, gifmakers are given less and less respect and you wonder why scenes aren't giffed.

i don't know. add your perspective if you want

#tumblr related #:/

[pondmelody]

a-z myths: vakare (lithuanian mythology)

vakare is the goddess and personification of the evening star.

#mythology #lithuanian mythology

[pondmelody]

Chimp Mosh Pit

#avatar metal #avatar band

[pondmelody]

JENNA ORTEGA Wednesday Addams | Inside the Character (2022)

#jenna ortega

[pondmelody]

30 Days Avatar Challenge: Day 01 - Your first song that you heard. ↳ The Eagle Has Landed

#avatar metal #avatar band

[pondmelody]

#musicals #poto

[pondmelody]

“Is it okay if I talk? Even if I’m the drummer?”

#avatar band #avatar metal

[pondmelody]

I know, a bit of a conversation stopper. Awkward, right, Yaz?

DOCTOR WHO The Power of the Doctor

#doctor who #the master #dhawan!master

[pondmelody]

THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVOURITE THINGS:

Before he came down here, it never snowed. And afterward, it did. I don’t think it would be snowing now if he weren’t still up there. Sometimes, you can still catch me dancing in it.

→ Edward Scissorhands (1990) dir. Tim Burton

#movies #edward scissorhands