#anyway i've bad ideas and i'm sorry

[silverwhittlingknife]

OKAY SO i have been rereading dustorange's wonderful post here about Dick in an UtRH-esque scenario where he dies & then comes back to life

AND I HAVE INCOHERENT BRAINSTORMING THOUGHTS:

so first, i think Robin!Dick would be just as hurt by the discovery that Bruce has a new Robin, and brood about it - but i think the shame of having died would stop him from confronting Bruce about it the way Nightwing!Dick does in canon.

and I do NOT think that he would expect Bruce to kill anyone for him (or even be upset that he doesn't? I just don't think this would be a consideration for Dick. he's gonna be fixated on "I failed." so he'll be upset about being replaced but not about the lack of revenge. and if Bruce did take revenge, i think he'd actually feel angry and betrayed about that because it'd feel like the choice was taken away from him, a la how upset he gets when he thinks Bruce has arranged to have Zucco killed - even if he intellectually knows that Bruce wasn't deliberately undermining himbecause he didn't know Dick was gonna come back to life.)

anyway so what WOULD he do??

what comes to mind is something along the lines of "Dick obsessively keeps an eye on Batman & Robin even while telling himself that he's not"

and then - say - if it's Robin!Tim (i feel like this has to be Tim because in the world where Dick dies there is no way that Bruce is voluntarily picking a new Robin), then maybe the moment when Dick steps in is when Bruce is in danger & he's furious / critical of Tim for not protecting Bruce well enough

and i feel like that's how he'd channel the hurt feelings - it'd all be deflected under shame and obligation, and then translated into the anger of "you replaced me & yet you're failing to do the job that you're supposed to do" (which is actually about projection/self-hatred because Dick would actually be mad at himself for having died & not doing that job anymore)

and Dick wouldn't want to see Bruce at all because of the shame over dying & subconscious fear that Bruce doesn't want him back, plus every little thing that Tim does differently would drive him NUTS because it implies that maybe the way Dick did things wasn't good enough for Bruce

i'm actually kind of fascinated by this now. because i am me and i have (1) obsession i am mostly invested in the dick & tim side of it sdfsdfds

so i'm picturing Tim very stung by whatever critical things Dick said to him & tracking this mysterious vigilante down, and then Dick doesn't want to spend ANY time with him BUT he's also subconsciously desperate for news of Bruce!!! so then something something Dick starts sorta training him a la Tim's various contacts with edgy non-batman-aligned vigilantes, and Tim's very defensive about how he IS a good robin so THERE but of course he's also defensive because he's secretly worried he's not good enough.

normally i would have tim Recognize dick since recognizing dick is tim's most basic skill HOWEVER i think it would be much more fun if tim doesn't recognize him so he can give dick a speech about legacy & the first robin: "i do x and such because that's how the first robin did it so it is Objectively Correct." which Dick will find incredibly infuriating but will be unable to counter since he cannot counter with 'the 1st robin was ME'

…hmmm i do think Dick ought to be angry about SOMETHING about batman's methods/attitude just because that's more dynamic? I feel like in order to make the adaptation work, there ought to be SOME kind of argument with Bruce right before he dies that he can still be mad about, a la the garzonas fight for Jason and Bruce. unsure what though?

okay let's see: I feel like Dick's main arguments with Bruce aren't about vigilante issues per se so much as they're about working in a team - so e.g.

1) Bruce being controlling/demanding, and 2) Bruce being secretive and doing stuff behind Dick's back, and 3) Bruce not allowing Dick enough autonomy, 4) just generally a perceived lack of trust.

SO maybe whatever The Frustrating Thing that bruce was doing when dick died is a thing he's STILL doing with this new robin, and dick is getting frustrated all over again sorta on tim's behalf but mostly on his own behalf because he never got to resolve this with bruce

but anyway that way when Bruce finally spots disguised!Dick, then they can have the fight again before Bruce realizes who he is <3

#extremely good ideas / extremely bad ideas #there should be utrh!dick + robin!tim fics. i've decided now #sorry jason fans i love you i don't know where he is in this scenario #maybe uhhh he moved to metropolis. i don't know #anyway i do NOT believe dick would ever ever ever take on the Red Hood identity in a million years though #jason's got a whole 'i confront my worst fear via becoming it' thing going on #but i feel like dick's angst would be more about Me & Bruce rather than directed at the joker or any particular enemy #so no Red Hood #he does need a new costume though so i'm picturing him in the Renegade costume from the mob arc

[abhainnwhump]

Whumpee with a permanent collar around their neck.

Maybe Whumper used magic or simply a drill to seal a collar on their neck. A chain, a leather collar, one of those super cutesy fuzzy ones with a bow, it doesn't matter. Whumpee screams in pain getting it on and it somehow hurts worse once it's secured and dully throbbing.

The collar is too tight and they constantly feel out of breath. It constantly needs to be covered up with scarves or turtlenecks. They'd rather suffer in the heat than let anyone see. The worst part if that it is a permanent reminder of what happened. And they can't do anything about it without causing serious damage.

#I am SO sorry for not posting recently #I've had a giant writer's block when it came to whump #anyways I had this idea to give one of my whumpees a permanent chain collar/necklace and- ugh #I'm having too much fun designs these whumpees #good guys turned bad my beloved #whump #whump prompt #whump writing #whumpblr #whump tropes #noncon body modification #body horror #pet whump #pet whumpee #nonhuman whumpee

[can-of-slorgs]

The other researchers are also here! (magical edition!)

#neopets #neotag #neoart #eyrie #gelert #THE BOYS ARE HEREEE #vin doods #my beautiful magical boyssss #had some time to kill this weekend so might as well finish rendering some stuff i have lying around lmao #its ironic cause my oc stuff is the stuff that gets less views or reacts overall but is the ones im more interested in for the most part #its been a while since i've actually really loved an bunch of ocs and this 4 (technically 5) are going to be the death of me lol #just to be consistent with the other post #eyrie's name is Ozzi or Oz #and gelert's name i'm still unsure of but for now I'm going with Faeran #i'm so emotionally invested in these characters you have no idea LMFAOO #also I did base Faeran's looks in a lot of “long dogs” like borzois and the ears just came naturally to me lol #I'm still working on a doc with all the info for those interested tho buuut if any are reading by this point feel free to ask about them!! #I'll just never shut up lol #the neopia i did put them in is a tad bit more.... “dark”?? i guess?? #its less abstractly magical and i did have to find out how to build a magic system for everything to work lol #and my dnd knowledge did filter a l o t into it so sorry bout that oops:;; #anyway this is too long and hardly anyone really reads this much but hey! finally my babies have faces so i don't feel so bad!!! #it doesnt help that i post this stuff at buttfuck hours LMFAOO

[mentalmeles]

Love for the Isles, love for each other

Reblogs > Likes

#the owl house #wittecouple #wittebro #caleb wittebane #wittewife #wittespouse #clawthorne #clawthorne ancestor #evelyn clawthorne #avalyn clawthorne #my art #artists on tumblr #screenshot redraw #kinda?? #i've been wanting to make a full blown drawing of wittecouple for a hot minute and now i have #i'm just sorry that my mood was so bad for most of the time i was drawing it #oh well #anyway hi yes i love them #even if we may never see their full story told i shall fill in the gaps with my own ideas and imagination #bc it's what they deserve!!!!!

[six-improbable-things]

I've watched 3 episodes of Black Sails tonight, and I had to stop myself from watching a 4th. I blame @transgods for this, but I'm not mad about it, aksjdaskdjas.

Character opinion update: I'm fucking fascinated by Anne. I need to know more about her, and fast. John is a prick, but he's an amusing one, so it works. I still hate Vane, but that's kind of the point. Mr. Guthrie sucks and I would like to stab him. I'm still invested in Flint and Silver and Billy, and love all three of them. Oh and Eleanor. I love Eleanor. She's stubborn as hell, and we all know I love stubborn characters. Especially those who are so stubborn it just might ruin them. And I hope so bad that Max gets to murder people. Yk, as a treat. She deserves the world.

And, of course, this show is providing me with entirely too much information about pirates and sailing, which is a bad thing because it only fuels my daydreaming about Rook's time as a pirate, both past and potential future.

#I haven't gotten there yet not even close but it's this show's fault that Rook might get keelhauled if Wolf gets her hands on him again. #which I must admit now I'm really hoping she does. #I'm so sorry Rook. You don't deserve this. But I'm putting you through it anyways. Well. Maybe. #morrigan.text #morrigan watches #black sails #the fact that Silver tried to pass himself off as a cook but has no idea how to cook and the fact that no one but Flint could tell... #phenomenal. #also Silver thanking Eleanor for un-cuffing him and she immediately cuffs him back to the chair... #I love Eleanor so much. #episode 5 leaves off on such a cliffhanger and I wanted to keep watching SO BAD but my headphones were about to die. #not to mention that I've already watched 3 episodes today... #goddammit. I should have known letting the pirate-obsessed person watch a show about pirates was a bad idea.

[natelia-aldelliz]

Guys... Listen I know I said I'd draw something for valentine's day but I had a bit of a rough week sooooo I'm just going to write it out instead, maybe I'll finish drawing it some day, maybe not. It's behind a show more because it's long.

(also there's talks about having sex but no actual sex, and like, general warnings about Ghost's backstory but it's very vague here).

Soap was hanging around outside, trying to bring himself to do something, anything. But the weather was nice for a February day, and the sun was out, and it was making him feel like a cat basking in the heat.

An arm wrapped itself around his shoulders, a huge body suddenly weighing on him. Ghost.

Soap hummed comfortably. This day was getting better by the minute. Any chill he might have felt from being outside in a tank top out of pure Scottish spite was instantly soothed.

Simon often times saw himself as a cold man, freezing to the touch, hidden behind a layer of ice. A proper little Elsa, Soap almost snorted out loud. The truth was that while yes, his fingers and toes' temperature was sometimes abysmal, especially in bed, the rest of him was the warmest place Johnny had ever been.

"I've got something for you in our room," Ghost whispered against his throat, making Soap shiver.

Simon had begun calling Soap's room theirs a few weeks ago and Johnny couldn't have enough of it. He was so in love it genuinely hurt sometimes to restrain himself from squeezing him to death.

"Is that so?" he purrs, knowing how Ghost likes that. If this day didn't end in sex he'd be very surprised. He'd long learned to recognize when Simon wanted sex and when he didn't, and the way he squeezed his pec in response to his voice was a very easy tell.

But then again Simon was way less subtle than he thought he was.

They made their way back to their room, and there it was, a repurposed shoebox, badly wrapped with cheap wrapping paper. Johnny couldn't be more excited, he had never received any gift from a significant other. To be fair he adored gifting but always felt awkward receiving.

But this was Simon. Something that Simon had chosen to give him.

He sat on the bed, leaving enough space behind him for Ghost to sit there so he could use him as a very comfortable backrest. When he did, he grabbed the gift and began opening it.

He knew that Ghost liked to tear the wrapping paper, liked the sound of it and liked tearing it into the smallest pieces possible after, but he himself loved carefully unwrapping it and folding it flat so he could later maybe do an origami with it or put a piece in his journal. Probably both.

This one was full of tape but he still very much enjoyed himself, considered it a challenge. He enjoyed the chase, wanted to drag it on. Ghost huffed impatiently behind him, a bit tense, probably nervous.

Inside the box was a weird old fashioned clunky thing. It was bright red, looked slightly like binoculars, definitely from the 70's, with a wheel of tiny pictures wedged in the top of it. Memories hit him all at once.

"Oh my god ah remember, my Ma had one of these when ah was a child! My sister and I loved it, it had pretty landscapes in!"

He put it against his eyes, excited to see what this one came with. At his biggest surprise, it was a picture of them. Simon had customised it.

The picture showed the back of himself a bit further away from the camera, pointing at something while in full gear, in a dilapidated town, Ghost's face in the foreground looking at the camera. It looked like Soap was talking to someone, but that person was cut by the framing.

"Wait, ah remember that mission, it's when ah saved Gaz from a landmine just to be shot seconds later," he laughed. "ah spent two fucking weeks in the hospital, ah was miserable. Ye kept joking ah should hiv left Gaz explode while staring at him, he was convinced ye actually wanted him dead!"

Then the next picture was indeed him in his hospital bed, unconscious but the state of his injuries told him he was probably just sleeping at least a few days after his admission, his life no longer in danger. In this one, Ghost was sleeping too, head in his elbow near Soap's head and his other hand holding Soap's hand.

"Who took this one?" Soap asked, moved by the tenderness of Ghost's hold on him in the picture. It would have been right after Johnny had admitted to maybe liking him more than friends, before they were officially dating.

"The hospital one?"

Soap hummed.

"Price did. Said it was for blackmail. Should have seen him, he looked like his child had just married the person of their dreams and had ridden off into a rainbow on a unicorn or some shit. Old man's sentimental as fuck, but I didn't call him on his bullshit, he's already old, that's punishment enough."

Soap giggled in response. The next few pictures were all of them together but each time he was either turning his back or asleep.

"Why the fuck am ah never looking at the camera?" he whined. He wanted some cute couple pictures, dammit!

"Couldn't have you suspecting what I was planning," Simon said, kissing his shoulder soothingly. Only then Soap noticed that he had taken his mask off at some point and turned to ask for a proper kiss, which he immediately got.

"Keep going, there's more pictures," Simon whispered against his lips when he tried to turn around to kiss him some more. His pouting only got him a smirk in response, so he got comfortable again and brought the slide viewer back against his eyes.

He was happy he did. The next picture waiting for him was just Simon in the mirror, almost in full gear, but with one gloveless hand dragging his trousers down so the camera could see the bottom of his stomach, follow along his happy trail and reaching the very top of his pubic hair. The picture cut of his head, but he could see that his mouth was uncovered and he was holding the glove with his teeth.

Soap groaned. "Steaming Jesus, love, you're so hot."

He felt Simon hide his face in the back of his neck, warmer than usual, and chuckled a bit. He loved him so fucking much.

There were four more pictures of Simon, in various suggestive poses and states of undress, some almost showing his cock but never quite committing, making Johnny feel like he was being teased.

He was getting hard though and so ready to be done with the pictures and access the real thing. But Simon was still tense behind him. In fact, he had only gotten tenser and tenser with each click.

Soap was unsure why. They never had a problem with their sexual life, Simon had already changed his mind about having sex after starting and Soap had absolutely no problem with that, was glad to hug him instead and reassure him when he had tried to apologize.

Simon knew that there was no pressure, ever, to have sex. Hell, Johnny would still be happy even if Simon decided that he never wanted to have sex again, and he had made sure to make Simon understand that.

Then he got to the last picture and immediately understood.

It wasn't a picture of either of them, just a little bit of paper, with a few words written in Ghost's awful handwriting.

Just a few words that made Johnny drop the viewer on the covers and turn around to grab Simon's face, worriedly looking in his eyes.

"Are you sure?" he asked, looking for any trace of Simon forcing himself. "Baby, ah'm happy to bottom for the rest of mah life, there's no pressure, okay?"

Simon looked at him with warmth in his eyes and his cheeks completely red, a wrapping bow added on top of his head. "I know," he said simply. "I just want to. I don't want to be haunted by memories anymore. I used to like it, and I want to like it again. With you. Just.... Be gentle, okay?"

Johnny kissed his forehead. "Ah dinnae think ah ken how no tae be gentle with ye, love."

#cod mw2 #simon ghost riley #john soap mactavish #ghostsoap #soapghost #listen i'm sure there are romantic people somewhere who think it's valentine's day everyday so how late can that be #to be fair i am terrible at deadlines i don't know why i keep giving them to myself cause i soon as i do i know i'm never doing the thing #i've also burnt out my drawing capacities for now so probably expect more writing than drawing for a bit while my poor tiny brain recovers #if anyone is wondering yes soap forgot it was valentine's day #not because he forgot about it - he just forgot to track the days and didn't know they were the 14th he had a gift ready tho #he got ghost a chocolate tablet that ghost had once complained about not being able to find anymore that's actually just me complaining irl #that my supermarket doesn't seem to have white chocolate tablets with puffed rice inside like they did when i was a child #i have no idea how that applies to anywhere else lmao maybe other supermarkets have them but i hate going to supermarkets i don't know #anyway lmao sorry my love language is ranting #soap doesn't generally like receiving gifts because he feels like he doesn't deserve them like he didn't have to work for them #and so he feels guilty when he gets one but he hasn't told anyone about that #he was happy there but if ghost gives him ''too many'' gifts he's gonna start feeling bad bc he has just as much issues as everyone else #just hides them better

[rotisseries]

me writing the plateau shrines in the botw byler au incredibly vague: "there's a trial.... mike has to do some things.... the intent is just to make sure that dudes coming out of 100 year comas are working fine.... that's all you need to know....."

#I'm sorry he's not getting the runes. sorry king no ipad magnet for you that is thoroughly ridiculous #means I have to fudge through the plateau trials though. fantastic. have I mentioned this fic was a bad idea I think it's a bad idea #I will give him the remote bombs though. I'll let him have that #“how's he gonna beat the divine beasts though those need the runes” FUDGING IT #anyway let this be a sign to all not to write fusion aus don't do that shit you feel stupid #hey since we're here though I've been contemplating adding extra memories #I just have to figure out if I want those to be more that mike would find #OR. I make those will's pov. while he's stuck in magical evil fighting stasis in the castle or whatever it is #I'm taking opinions on this #loz byler

[girlwiththegreenhat]

who give a shit about tayIor swift

#liz blogs #i saw an instagram post from someone like 'why is everyone who doesnt like taylor swift like mean and boring and sexist' like what . huh #she's just another mid celebrity i literally don't get why she's miles more popular than the next famous blonde_woman.mdl in hollywood #i'm not even being a Hater(tm) i literally . don't get it. i'm sorry. she made like two catchy songs in 2010. is that her whole Thing #'mid' isn't even being a hater it just means like. moderate. neither good nor bad. Middle. #are you guys ok does she have some kind of siren or mind control power #i am immune to whatever she does to people. i don't hate her but i don't really like her either she simply just Exists to me. she is Mid! #i've heard her music! i have no idea what's different about her that nets her this kind of insane rabid fanbase. i am lost #i spelled her first name with an i instead of an L lest her fans act like i just called her a slur and threatened her actual life #instead of just saying i don't get what the big deal is and she's not really any more or less special or talented than the next artist #you'll hear on the radio #anyway this post has been brought to you by 'why tf is she on the explore page'

[manasurge]

Tis' the season where I mentally and physically suffer. Complaining below (feel free to ignore, I'm just venting. I usually do this every year to get most of it out of my system lol):

mmm the fall/winter SAD is indeed in full swing. No warmth + no sun = a bad bad time. I always get so annoyed when ppl assume that I love winter bc I'm a "winter baby", as if that has any sort of divine intervention on instantaneously adapting you to perfectly fit the climate you were born in. NOPE. Silly human superstition. I start to freeze once it hits below 20C. I wish I lived in a warmer climate o|-< The depresso is probably going to make me very whiny and moody until next spring, so an early forewarning bc I'm EXTREMELY annoying about it this time of year bc it's the only way I know how to deal with it. But moreso in addition to the physical stuff is how badly it messes with my mind, making me so depressed to the point of just... sitting in non-moving silence where I become stiff as a board (very painful btw) and I isolate, making the bad depresso brain time even worse where I overthink everything bc of the silence and isolation. It's also always the time of year where everyone goes quiet too, which is understandable, but also makes things 10x worse (I am very alone in my life and where I am, and kind of rely on online friends bc they're all I have. I don't even have a pet. I'm literally just, loner mode. I don't really have much family to speak of, and only one family member I do speak to. I have little to no connections at all. But regardless, this is still the best living situation I've been in my whole life, so that's saying something).

#i hate the cold; I hate ice; cold air hurts my skin and burns my lungs #i hate snow (I'm sorry I just don't think it's pretty. It's gross; erases all colour/everything; blinding; kills everything; claustrophobic #I hate long nights; i hate all the darkness #I take Vitamin D drops every day during winter and they don't really help #I also use those special lights meant to help during the long darkness for the same reason; and they also do not help #nothing works!!!!!! eating and drinking hot things doesn't help me stay warm bc heat dissipates away quickly and doesn't help my extremitie #the cold makes me SO dry and dehydrated; makes my bones hurt; makes outside DANGEROUS AF. ICE IS BAD. BE CAREFUL. #I can't retain heat; my hypothyroidism makes me colder by default and I just don't metabolize good/fast enough to keep myself warm #(my body temp is lower than average; fun fact! same with my blood pressure! both of them are very low) #I think my average from all the times I've had it scanned during covid was 32-36C. No idea how that works; I just remember checking it a lo #my fingers and hands are going to freeze; making it harder to draw/type/etc. #I'm not going to wear gloves inside my home bc that's dumb and they don't help anyways. It will just screw up my ability to use my hands #I get to be in pain for months with increased potential of being sick :/ #also I HATE bundling/layering myself with clothing or blankets; it's suffocating; restricting; sensory hell for me; sweaters are uncomfy :( #also whenever I try to do that all it does is insulate the cold for me; keeping me colder for even longer!!!!! it's so unfair!!!! #I've worn out 2 space heaters already and they don't work properly anymore (I used them both so much I wore out my preferred settings lol) #sobs; i'm a sad plant lizard

[gentlethorns]

hmmm getting in my head a little bit about some issues i'm already seeing in my first draft that ik i'll need to confront in my second draft. but i genuinely just have to be like *sprays my overcritical mind w a spray bottle* no!!!!! let me finish the first draft first!!!!!!

#she bork #idk i think i'm getting ahead of myself bc again. work that is this consistent and like structurally solid is new and scary to me bc like #the greater the potential for a payoff the greater the potential for a fumble. the stakes are higher. while never being able to finish #anything was torturous in its own way it was easy in the sense that i never had to confront the idea of like 'what if i finish it and polish #the fuck out of it to the absolute furthest extent of my experience and ability . .. and it's still not good enough.' it was always just #like 'aw shucks! i've run out of steam once again. if only i could see something through to the end i could write the next great american #novel i just know it :/ ah well. try again next week!' but now nothing is in my way whatsoever so i'm like aw fuck that is so scary like if #nothing comes of this project it will be My Fault. also sorry this is all i have spoken about on here for like a month but i'm STILL not #done yapping about it and you all are my captive audience and WILL be forced to listen to each and every thought i have about this wip. #sorry but too bad #anyway once again offering that if anyone is curious about this wip i am open to questions or discussion. one thing about me (which i'm sure #y'all know by now) is that i LOVE. to yap #novel 2024

[strawberry-cowmilk]

I'm inactive on every platform and that's because winter is absolutely destroying me

#nana talks #anyways sorry about that I do got some useless writing in my drafts and a half finished lucifer drawing #like it gets bad halfway through october and only gets worse until the start of december then I have peace the first week of january #then winter starts beating me up again #why am I like this I have no idea hehe but I heard it's not uncommon for people to experience this during autumn and winter #march hurry up #like I look at how unproductive I've been lately and I'm like ok girl how do you wanna build a career #is this a vent idk I don't intend for it to be one but just in case #cw vent

[spinoff-antithesis]

[@distinguished-turtle-enjoyer ]

i actually have not stopped thinkin bout your bb!edit like,,,, its so good and scratches my brain right

how long have you been doin edits for? do have any tips for someone, who hypothetically, wants to start doin edits too? what programs do you use? how did you do the cool animated bits?

im so sorry for all the qustions 😭😭 i just think youre very talented and inspirational and i hope you have a good day ^_^

hi firstly oh my gosh you're literally so sweet i am gently shaking you i love you so much /p. secondly, i apologize for the long answer! (it's all under the cut. this got away from me. i'm so sorry apparently i have a lot to say.) (also you're so good about the questions i would constantly be asking one of my professors questions during class to the point where she said i didn't have to go "i have a question" every time i approached her)

i've been editing since 2016! around march/april, i think? loved it so much i went into film & video production in college as a major so i could do editing for a living. (i have done more motion graphics for my classmates than i have done edits outside of class assignments, BUT!)

the program i use is after effects - i started learning it when covid first hit the united states because i had nothing better to do with my time (other than music theory but i failed that bc my professor focused more on the history aspects than the actual theory soooo) and my ipad kept giving me the "no more storage" whenever i tried to use videostar lmao. (vs has, apparently, gotten a LOT of good updates, so if you're looking to start editing and have an ios system, i'd look into it! only downside is you have to pay for some of the cool stuff).

also the program i use for masking (i think i explain this later dwdw) is superimpose. i've been using it since 2014 and it's SO nice bc i can use my fingers to erase backgrounds & stuff instead of hoping i can get it to work correctly in ae or photoshop (photoshop my DETESTED i'll use it but i'll complain the entire time).

for people who want to start editing: tutorials on how your program works and how to do specific transitions are gonna be your best friend when you're first figuring things out! i forced a friend to literally walk me through how after effects worked when i was first figuring it out, and when i had swapped to videostar back in 2017/2018(?) i had watched a Lot of tutorials. that and played around a lot and figured things out on my own - which is also always a good way to start!! it's also totally valid to look at other people's edits for inspiration - most editors don't really care, as long as you don't flat-out remake their edit (some people don't like that!). i have a style insp folder on instagram where i save edits that i like so if i need transition ideas or i'm doing a different style, i can look there for inspiration. at the end of the day, as long as you're having fun with it that's all that matters!

also, starting simple is always okay!! my edits for a year were just me slapping gifs & video segments together on a timeline in cute cut pro bc imovie didn't load them lol & it'd crash every time i breathed. ++ it never hurts to ask people for feedback/constructive(!!!) criticism/etc! (also not to sound like everyone else but practice? good. it's so good. if i showed my 14/15y/o self some of the edits i can make now they would've passed out on the spot bc i was still trying to figure out transitions back then. programs can also sometimes make a difference in edits, but usually it's not super noticeable until you start getting to the Complicated Shit.)

a lot of popular programs i've seen are ones like video star (ios only), alight motion (android only), after effects (i recommend 🏴‍☠️ing it tbh, i only use it legally bc i had to use adobe programs for school), capcut, and i think some people still use sony vegas pro & maybe cute cut pro (i've heard it may have actually gotten better since i last used it in 2018)? i have no idea. programs also depend on whatever device you're using to edit on! since i've been using my laptop, i'm able to use after effects (it's computer-only), but when i used my phone/ipad to edit i used ccp & vs.

for the animation - it's a lot of cutting up the image and masking! more complex animations, like the one i had of leo walking down that red 'hallway' have several different layers that have been masked. (i removed the background & filled in the spot where leo originally was in two different apps - superimpose (taking leo out) & photoshop (filling in the bg)) in after effects, the way i've done this was mask out the specific thing i wanted to move (like an eye) and then put that mask on what i've called a "base" (not animated), and then stick a solid behind the base to match the color of the object. (some of my layers are not named appropriately; base 2 is the left arm & the four "SIX_[...]" layers are the mask/bandana tails)

an example of this would be for any of the eye blink animations i did! this (above) is the same shot, with and without the eye - since it's masked out and i have the background solid behind it, it doesn't look too unnatural/have a black outline/mass where his eye should be.

what it looks like without the solid layer behind it ^ (the red lines are from the null layers - ignore that)

this is what my timeline looks like if it's a more simplistic animation - the only five things being animated here are leo & raph's eyes. (there's only this many layers bc it's two characters in one shot & i was also animating their pupils - typically, an eye-blink animation is about 4-6 layers for me (solid, base, mask, & null to animate with, 6 if i'm animating both eyes & 4 if just one))

in after effects, there's this really cool tool called the puppet pin that one of my friends (lovingly) yelled at me for not knowing about - which. yeah fair she wasn't wrong it's SUPER useful in animating, provided you chop up your image first. if you don't it's a mess.

(separated by layer vs i should've really put the mask tails & leo's head on separate layers and didn't bc that was the 2nd to last animation i had to do and i was losing my mind bc i wanted to be done with the edit lmao)

the way people animate depends all on their style (there's two common ways to do blinking animation - having the anchor point at the bottom of the eye, or the middle of it) and the program they use. it's been a while, but i could probably tell you how to do some basic animations on videostar still even though i've been doing them in after effects for about 2-3years now. ALSO the best way to have an animation be noticeable is to over-exaggerate it/make them Big - which, yes, can mean 'breaking bones' and having the limbs be a little wonky at the start. (if you want it to be realistic though go Just to the point where it looks uncomfortable lmao)

uhm. again i am so sorry that this is so long i THINK this is everything? if not: my inbox/dms are always open if you ever want to ask more questions, wanna follow up on something, etc etc!! (also if you ever start editing please send me your edits!!! i'd love to see them <3)

#this got away from me im SO sorry (just put this in google docs out of curiosity. 1255 words. i am so sorry for the essay.) #uhm. ANYWAY YES like i said if you have any other questions feel free to reach out!!! i am always alway willing to help people out #with stuff like this!!! i can talk your ear off though if this wasn't enough proof of that /j #if nothing makes sense it's bc i'm responding to this at like. 5am my time. so. my bad if there's typos i'm so sorry #like i think i saw this ask at 4:40ish am and i'm still making sure i've got everything covered and its like 5:32am LMAO #me when i dont sleep bc i have no routine now #ask box pals #art creds in the screenshots to trubblegumm !! <- tagging to be safe #still in shock at the amount of positive feedback im getting from my bb!leo edit like oh my god you guys are incredible ilysm /p #sorry i discovered in the middle of typing out my tags that you can edit them now after you've hit enter where am i. #also this is offtopic so its down here but i am Not complaining about doing more motion graphics than actual editing. #a bitch has won two awards for their motion graphics at festivals and i've been doing them for a YEAR #(laughs in the first time i ever did a real one i won a student award. idk how. but i DID and i won the pro category this year <3) #it would be nice tho to do more editing for short films tho :( had a professor tell me i was good at it. #i should rly start using my camera and shoot my own stuff and edit it huh. maybe i will eventually i have a few ideas. #anyway. i need to stop rambling abt my experience as a film student and go to bed i apparently need to be up in the morning but idk WHEN

[xxdereksfanficsxx]

Hi!! I have an idea and it's trans reader going to todoko for advice on how to confess to karamatsu, and kara notices because he tries talking to reader alone since he wants to confess to them, but gets the wrong idea about reader and todoko, so he avoids reader for a few days until reader gets tired of it and tells him everything and maybe reader shows kara how much they love him?? 🧐

I LOVE this idea!! The juices are flowing in my head, I hope it's okay if it takes me a little bit to get this posted, I have a lot going on at the moment, but I will gladly sit down and write this!

#i love karamatsu requests ♥️♥️ #& sorry that it might take like a few days or a week #i just moved a month and a half ago and I'm still unpacking and I'm looking for a job and updating my driver's license and shit 🙄🙄 #and I'm having some issues with my bf so i sent him to be with his family for a bit and like idk having emotions but that's NOT what this #blog is about so i will not be going into detail about that or anything lol #and also my birthday is in like five days so also maybe I'm gonna put up a birthday related fic with kara or oso 👀👀? #idk what do we think about that 👀👀 if anyone wants to contribute bday fic ideas 👀👀 #lol but anyway!! love this idea i will be working on this!! #also also sorry last tangent in the tags but sorry I've been MIA yall ik I just explained why but i feel kinda bad about it 👉🏻👈🏻 #i just have lots of shit going on 👉🏻👈🏻👉🏻👈🏻👉🏻👈🏻👉🏻👈🏻

[tardis--dreams]

My god this show went from funny crime show to full blown psychological thriller with occasional crying intermissions

#i had literally no idea what this show was about when i started watching #i just saw one gifset and was like #yeah sounds fun #anyway #I've become unhealthily emotionally attached to ryu soo yeol and i do not want this show to end #(also i need to rewatch after i finish it because i frankly haven't been paying enough attention to understand all the connections anymore #like i could not give a coherent summary of the plot lmao #shut up amy #bad and crazy #I'm sorry i just got a little thrown off by the overall change of tone

[aeide-thea]

unfortunately i am thinking, yet again, about how much people love to look at a shitty thing someone did/said and respond to that with some combination of

(1) framing the act as intrinsically connected to some other aspect of their identity that's marginalized, and therefore easy to activate people's prejudices about: 'karen,' 'narcissistic abuse,' etc.

(2) framing the act as negating some other marginalized aspect of their identity, because they've done something Oppressive so they're no longer entitled to any Victim Points: 'h*rry styles said something stupid and homophobic so obviously we, the Queer Police, were right all along and he's just been presenting gnc for clout...' newsflash, having internalized dumb queerphobic shit doesn't actually rule out yr being at least glancingly in its crosshairs!¹ we're all swimming in deeply toxic waters and sometimes we regurgitate some shit even when it's poisonous to us, too! like: policing the borders of queerness; respectability politics generally.

(3) framing the act as rendering some other marginalized aspect of their identity problematic/suspect: we all understood the concepts of queer time, trans extended/delayed/repeated adolescence, &c, just fine, and (at least nominally) sympathized with those things as being the product of alienation from a queerphobic society and its (cishetero)normative definitions of adulthood, until someone became a pariah who self-described as a 'boy' despite not being a minor—like, whatever you think of the m*rdoll situation, the way people immediately turned around and were like 'wow, this trans person's identity is actually intrinsically an attempt to avoid accountability' really sucked to hear. like, xie was pretty clearly trying to avoid public accountability; we can condemn that without jumping to assert that actually xer expression of gender was (i) intrinsically bound up in that attempt and (ii) fake. plenty of transmasc+ ppl lay claim to 'boy' but not 'man' despite being adults, for a variety of complex reasons, and it's not inherently an attempt to duck out of one's moral responsibilities.²

and (4) a kind of almost-metonymic conflation of the person with the act, such that people condemn them both in a single breath, while effectively letting the systemic conditions off the hook because their viewfinder is too zoomed-in to include them; as a result, once the person's been discarded, so too has the topic. like. i haven't heard a peep out of anyone on here about the evils of complicity with the military-industrial complex since the m*rdoll discourse subsided, even though a few weeks ago it was supposedly unthinkably obscene not to be actively impassioned about that. and it is unthinkably obscene! but it's an unthinkable obscenity that we all seem to be perfectly comfortable resuming our silence on, now that we've cast out our scapegoat. i saw a twitter thread the other day, on the topic of hunter sch*fer's cosigning of transmedicalism, that really struck me because it explicitly concluded by saying, 'addressing this is far more important than cancelling a young trans woman,' and i was really struck by that focus bc it's so real and so fucking rare. like. hunter sch*fer will hopefully learn and grow and stop thinking 'no nb ppl want to transition and that's why transphobia exists.' ana m*rdoll will hopefully get a different job and stop grifting from credulous twitterqueers. and neither of these individuals' personal arcs, whatever course they ultimately take, will have any real impact on the systemic injustices they've respectively supported; and neither will we, because we've stopped talking about them: because we were never really talking about them in the first place.

⸻ ¹ i haven't actually read up on the latest hstyles nonsense but like. sounds like he said something quite stupid that if you press on it even a little starts oozing homophobia; and it's still true that he's been pushing the boundaries of normatively acceptable men's fashion for a long time now and that the history of musicians doing this has yet to render it hegemonically endorsed. like obviously it gets complex bc at some level being a performer is intrinsically kind of femme-coded (a phrase i truly cannot believe i typed but. it's strutting yr stuff in the hope of attracting social and financial validation. what would you call it.) so you can start to construct arguments abt gender non-conformity in male entertainers being, like, a way of rendering themselves more objectifiable and increasing their appeal to audiences; but honestly i kind of think that's brainrot. like. many many straight women are in fact uncomfortable with male queerness, making it a decidedly dubious strategy for winning over the public at large. do we have to link that post again abt how not everyone is from NYC.

² i mean i do also separately think the, like, legalistic minor-adult moral binary where we're like, 'minors are maybe forgivable, adults aren't' is. weird. it's a sliding scale and adults can atone and minors can do deeply fucked up shit they need to be held accountable for. everything is a spectrum and requires a more complex analysis than this whole Good/Bad. Child/Adult. Not Responsible/Not Redeemable. set of reductive binaries we seem to love so much. ultimately i think we probably ought to offer more adults the sort of corrective compassion we aspire to offer children, that's less focused on dead-end condemnation and more on how to do better going forward.

#also none of these strategies are mutually exclusive and you often see them combined #i'm just roughing out a set of lenses for my own analytical toolkit #anyway i've been staring at this too long and it could probs use another editing pass but i wanna let it go so. #as ever‚ open to thoughtful good-faith pushback! #also sorry so much of this is in unreadably tiny footnotes. may reexamine my formatting choices after some sleep. #ok i have no idea what organizational tags i have that are relevant here #theory #possibly also 'useful reframings' but usually that one is abt‚ like‚ undoing yr own cognitive distortions for greater self-esteem #whereas this is more like. uncoupling bad behavior from yr own bigotry for greater justice #or something #anyway i'm definitely too brainclogged to accomplish anything more that's useful here

[fazcinatingblog]

Trent’s Version?

My Wattpad story (Trent's version).

Trent watching his best friend, the guy he's been in love with since November 2020, fall in love with his sister, a Bianco but very much a Biancno in Trent's eyes

Trent getting to hang out with Ginni, but having two girls hanging around them as well, one of which is also in love with Ginni.

Trent navigating life on the fringe of the biggest football club in the year that his mother dies and he volunteers to take her role at the accounting firm she worked at, no idea what he was getting himself into.

Trent watching the boy of his dreams propose to someone else during his favourite Ed Sheeran song and now he can never listen to Ed Sheeran again.

I don't know what else happens, why isn't this interesting to anyone but me, I'm so sorry

#anon #also my wattpad story has pretty much turned into Trent's version anyway #sigh #it's sad #it started out as Ginni and Tracey's love story and now it's just showing Trent doing cool things in an accounting firm #I'm trying to make accountants seem cool and interesting #I've only told good things about my work you guys have no idea about any of the bad shit #you guys don't know i have a Google document titled dragon lady #'that sweet old greek woman getting angry? i don't believe it' you tell me #I'M SORRY