I was tagged by the lovely @chiara-mastroianni! I’m a bit loss on who is and isn’t a gifmaker rn lol, but feel free to jump in even if I haven’t tagged you. To the rest, no pressure: @archivistsammy @angelfishofthelord @findsilver @lukearnold @nicoleanell @idontwikeit @isbelevans @habibialkaysani @lady-eleanor-vane @ishenwulf @elizabeth-forbes @elloras @lexihoward @ladyculebras @magalimoons
(descriptions and links to the ones that come from an old set under the cut)
1. The Vampire Diaries. Caroline Forbes smiles as Elena puts on a fluffy purple crown on her head. A diagonal line parts the gif from the top left corner to the bottom right one, and the lower left half is edited and enhanced, while the other remains as it was originally. Link to the set.
2. Batman Returns. Catwoman, lying on top of Batman, licks the lower half of his face seductively. The same diagonal line as in the one above parts the gif, with the top right half being the one edited and enhanced.
3. Supernatural. Meg smiles up adoringly at Lucifer while he craddles her face, illuminated by firelight. The image is separated by a circle in the centre, where the gif is edited and enhanced, while the rest remains as it was originally. Link to the set.
4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Buffy sleeps in bed, in the dark, when a hand caresses her face. The camera steps back to show Angelus looming ominously over her bed, and keeps stepping back until they’re both in frame. It includes the same circle effect.
5. The Umbrella Academy. Allison stands in front of a mirror and rumors herself, her eyes going white with the effort. The set is edited so an amost straight line separtes the left and right halfs, with the left one edited and enhanced and the other remaining as it was originally. Link to the set.
6. Black Sails. Max looks back for a moment with her hair in the wind and continues galloping on a horse on the beach in search for Eleanor. It has the reverse effect of the above one: the right half of the gif is the one edited and enhanced.
7. The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Cameron dances ballet in a poorly lit room, wearing sports clothes and a messy bun to the base of her neck. She descends on the floor, kneeling down, with her hands mirroring a dove’s wings. The image is separated by a circle in the centre, where the gif is edited and enhanced, while the rest remains as it was originally.
8. Supernatural. Amara stands on a garden, with colourful flowers, statues and a fountain surrounding her. It includes the same circle effect. Link to the set.
9. Jupiter Ascending. Jupiter dressed in a white wedding dress with blood red diamond details and a huge head set glides on a platform towards the altar. A diagonal line parts the gif from the bottom left corner to the top right one, and the lower right half is edited and enhanced, while the other remains as it was originally.
10. Practical Magic. As kids, Sally and Gillian sit on the stairs, dressed as angels, looking upon her aunts performing a spell with trepidation (Sally) and curiosity (Gillian). The same diagonal line as in the one above parts the gif, with the top left half being the one edited and enhanced. Link to the set.]
do you still write sarah connor chronicles stuff or did you move on? i recently read your john and cameron stories and thought they were great.
Yeah ...
I've basically moved on.
It wasn't that I said everything I needed to say as much as I didn't have a lot of readers at the end - sort of like Downton Abbey right now - and the readers I did have were basically pouching ... and are still pouching the stories and ideas for their own stuff.
The Arrowverse on CW made a fortune stealing and mining those old TSCC stories. Entire concepts and episodes are sometimes full adaptions of stories.
3X13 of "Arrow" with Black Canary vs. Count Vertigo is literally a beat for beat copy of "La Isle Bonita" with John and Cameron Solving a Mystery on a Tropical Resort Island Kingdom.
The Flash stole both "Oracle" the AI computer system that helped Ryan Connor as an assistant. They also took the Paradox Eater for their season 2 finale.
The entire final season of "Stargirl" is lifted from the TSCC stories "The Hanging Tree" and "The Poet and the Muse". Everything from the antagonist being a mad scientist that replaced the mind of the hero, to a great Albino Ape being the killer. To even the villain's origins being tied to an academy award winning actress from the Golden Age of Hollywood. They even took some stuff from the current Downton Abbey stories. Like the flyer of the Albino Ape that becomes Ultra-Humanite. That's lifted straight from the Downton Abbey story "The Folks Who Live on Top the Hill" when George is entering the abandoned ruins of a once Victorian London fair ground.
Not to mention that there was even a DC Showcase animated short done by Bruce Timm himself called "The Phantom Stranger" that took the design of the old Hollywood mansion that Sarah Connor was raised in from the last chapter of "The Poet and the Muse" down to some of the smallest details.
After awhile I just got tired of getting ripped off and my ideas being stolen. Plus nobody really cared for TSCC or what I was writing anymore. So I just moved on and started doing Downton Abbey and Game of Thrones ... which same story different chapter, really.
It's actually been a good few years since I've watched TSCC. I'm not sure how the whole thing will hold up now. But it'll always be in my top 2 favorite shows of all time, even then.
obsessed with the whole "father to his men trope" to begin with, but if it's a bad guy who gives his kiddos headpats, i am hyperfixating on them for the next month.
hardened military CO's are the cherries on top of a cherry filled cake