It’s time for music headcanons with the batfam, bc if I don’t get this out of my head and onto page, I’m going to implode.
Fave first, Dick is definitely a indie pop/indie rock kinda boy. Not just because I identify with that, but also bc he gives me those overly energetic, bubbly vibes, that I feel like only come from Grouplove, Vampire Weekend, and Adam Melchor. I also feel like he’s a Mitski and Boygenius kinda bitch, bc ough, boY, he has angst. Said angst can only be expressed through sad girl music, bc he will die before he ever expresses his feelings about anything to anyone.
NEXT we have Jason, I think he’s an emo ass boy, ngl, but specifically like folk punk. He listened to twin sized mattress one time, broke down crying, and hasn’t looked back. Also things like The Mountain Goats, PUP, or Modern Baseball. Ugh, I could make a whole ass playlist for this boy. If he’s with other ppl, I think he’d play something more mainstream of the emo genres, like Arctic Monkeys or The Strokes.
DAMIAN, I THINK, IS COMPLICATED. So, for one thing, he grew up in a weirdo environment, where they probably never listened to music, and if they did, it was “”tasteful”” music, for rich ppl. That, or it was culturally significant. So, I think I’m his exposure to music after moving in with Bruce, he started just absorbing absolutely all the music he could. Like, he’s an everything enjoyer. His spotify liked songs are a minefield, bc one second it’ll be playing Chet Baker, next it’s Viagra Boys, then some country shit, then Chopin, and then it’s Lil Nas X.
BABS, I think, would be a folk music/sad girl music enthusiast. She really likes Ryan Adams, Phoebe Bridgers, Hoizer, Mitski, etc. It’s something that she and Dick bonded over when they first started dating. I think with her, she appreciates the calm/slightly sad music bc she lives in a rlly crazy world, and she just wants to meditate a little when she’s sitting at that desk all day, trying to keep her family and friends alive.
Timmyyyyyy is a Kpop enjoyer. Sorry, I don’t make the rules. Specifically, he probably likes SEVENTEEN or ATEEZ a lot. He actively tries, every day of his life, to not stan any of the members, but it’s rlly hard when he’s had two hours of sleep in the past week, and Yoon was just really cute in that last interview. I also think he’s really into trap and pop. He knows all the lyrics to every recent song on the top 100 list.
Duke, I think is really into R&B. I think he’s amenable to pop/rock/rap, etc., but he really just wants something to belt out. Common occurrences are finding him in the kitchen, making an omelette, singing Amy Winehouse at the top of his lungs. If u catch him doing it tho, he gets rlly shy. His guilty pleasure is theatre music. He has to bribe his family to go see Little Shop of Horrors with him.
Stephanie has a 2000s-2010s pop addiction. Anything that makes her feel like Hannah Montana is her SHIT. She’s out here blasting Bubblegum Bitch and early Taylor Swift. You also can and will find her crying to sad One Direction songs. When she’s moody, she will unironically play My Chemical Romance. She understands pop punk a lil bit, but the lyrics tend to get male-manipulator-y, so she sticks with the bands she already knows.
Alfred likes 50s/60s jazz/pop. Frank Sinatra, Chet Baker, etc. It reminds him of home, and of his family. He also really likes old French music, like Joe Dassin. I’m ngl, I don’t know old music enough to add more to this one, but u get the idea 😭
BRUCE. Ugh. He’s definitely the kind of dad who never moved past the music of his childhood. He firmly believes that the Beatles is the best band of all time, and no one can convince him otherwise. I think he tends to gravitate towards the rock/goth end of 70s/80s music, so things like the Cure, New Order, maybe a lil bit of Siouxsie and the Banshees. His goth phase was INTENSE, Alfred can attest to this.
Edit: HOLY SHIT I CANT BELIEVE I FORGOT CASS 😭😭😭
Ok, Cass is defo a similar situation to Damian, grew up with literally silence, so music is a super new thing to her. But I think she really enjoys all kinds of genres. I think that especially instrumentals get her, bc it’s just noises that she can focus on, no lyrics to distract her from the sound. I think she also likes to “sing” along to said instrumentals, but mostly it’s just making noises to the same beat and sound, but it’s very off-key.
Hi! I was wondering how you get such high quality gifs? Do you have Topaz or maybe sharpen in Premiere/After Effects? I’m new to making gifs; I’ve been exporting 1080p clips from Final Cut and recoloring + turning into gifs in Photoshop at the 540p width for tumblr. The results are passable but nowhere near the quality you’re producing. Even exporting 1080p gifs for Reddit, while lovely, don’t compare. Yours must be 4k or even 8k. If you don’t mind sharing, I’d love to know your process!
Hi! Gosh, really, thank you for the kind words ♡ That means a lot!
I don't do anything special with mine, I just use the same files that are in 1080p. I do have an upscaler but that can only upscale any photo to x4 the size. I think I can probably upscale gifs, but I'd have to manually upscale every frame and then make the gif in Photoshop, but ngl.... I'm a lazy gifmaker hahahaha.
My sharpening process is very simple. I only use Photoshop in making gifs. I've pretty much used this process in all types of media/fandoms (Anime, dramas, tv shows, kpop, etc.) Feel free to experiment on your style as it varies with everyone else. You can find the full tutorial under the cut.
Edit: Maybe I shouldn't have used such a dark gif as an example hahahaha oops
I use the timeline method in Photoshop to make my gifs. Here is a tutorial that's a bit similar to how I make gifs. For Arcane, the frame speed I use is either 0.04 or 0.05.
I've based my sharpening process on a tumblr tutorial years ago by another blogger but I can't seem to find their blog post :(((( if anyone knows it, please let me know!
My sharpening process are as follows:
First, I duplicate the base gif in photoshop
So now, I have 2 copies of the gif. Then, I'll be sharpening the duplicate layer, so go to Filter -> Sharpen -> Smart Sharpen
Here are the settings I use to sharpen gifs:
Click okay, then you will see this under your layers
Some people stop there and then color their gifs, but I prefer to add another layer of Gaussian Blur to make the gif less noisy.
Here are my gaussian blue settings:
Click okay, then your duplicated layer will look like this:
Next, make your layer opacity to 80%.
Then, double click the right adjust icon on the gaussian blur settings
Set the opacity to 20%, but you can adjust as needed.
And you're done sharpening the gif! You can color and add PSDs to it right after. As always, dark scenes are going to be difficult to sharpen and color, so try to experiment and tinker around.
Hope this helps! If you have any questions, feel free to send an ask/message!
Ask 2: What’s your verdict on Vibe bpp? Im not very knowledgable but it sounded like what i heard in radios back in the 2000s, i saw people say that its not very kpop, do you agree? I wasnt into it until jimin came in dunno if I was just biased lol.. I’m was very surprised at the level of participation Jimin had in this song.. Turns out he even wrote some of the lyrics enough to get credit.. and i feel like he got half of the verses And spotlight in the MV too! Maybe cuz its his first official collab but I was surprised at him advertising it in his ig lol he’s never done that before.. it looks like theyre planning on doing music shows too!!! Curious to see how this collab will do in the charts too.
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Ask 3: So. What did you think of it? Doesn’t Jimin look absolutely gorgeous? My heart.
#Vibe #ParkJimin #KillMe #WhatImDeadAlready
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Ask 4: WILL HE BE PERFORMING AT A SHOW?!?! LIVE?!?!?!
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Ask 5: heyyy bpp!! with the bigbangtan collab turning out to not be a hoax a lot of people are now hoping for a blacktan collab someday. do u think its possible? imho it might be a possibility but tbh i just cant see there styles and philosophies meshing well at all at least not until bp comes out with music that is very diff from what theyve done so far and i just cant see that happening any time soon bec even their solos so far arent that good imo. what do u think?
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Hi Anon(s)!
VIBE is very much giving me 80s groove mixes, stripped back. Only thing missing is a Kenny G saxophone solo.
My favourite parts/timestamps:
1:55 - I love how they stripped back the instrumentals in Jimin's chorus so we really **hear** him. God, his voice. It's almost acapella and I'm glad Teddy had the sense to not bury that magic under useless synths.
2:17 - What is it with Jimin and bridges? He understands the assignment. Every single time.
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Because I was aware of my bias going into it, I gave this song a few more listens than I typically do before forming an opinion. And like I suspected, the only reason I like this song is because of Jimin.
Taeyang gave me nothing to work with I'm sorry. The D'Angelo aesthetic failed to land, the only person who brought sauce to this joint is Park Jimin. I think even Taeyang, Teddy and co recognize that too, because though it's Taeyang's song and technically a feature, it feels like Jimin's song with Taeyang featuring. (The lines split is also smart from a business POV because it will get ARMYs and Jimin solo stans to buy/stream it more). Jimin has writing credits [*] so I can only assume he wrote his verses because the difference between his verse and Taeyang's is like night and day, and in Jimin's verse, the lack of gendered pronouns is something I can't help but notice.
In terms of jikook/ML collabs so far, I actually prefer this to Left & Right and Dreamers, but I like Bad Decisions more. So I'm giving this song a solid 6.8/10. It's a decent track and the hook is fun to sing. And thankfully, the song is short enough.
Frankly, if this single was supposed to whet people's appetites for Taeyang's album, it does the opposite for me, but it does do that for me with Jimin with PJM1. I **need** to hear more Jimin.
Anon in Ask 4, Taeyang has said there's a live performance so it's possible we get to see Jimin perform it live with him. (Jimin is blonde right now, in case anyone forgot)
Anon in Ask 5, you might not have heard, but ARMYs have a running joke that the tannies collab with people unlikeable to the fandom. I think a collab between Blackpink and BTS/any of the members is certainly possible (everything is possible in Chapter 2), but it will be a character building exercise for everyone involved.
And y'all know all I really do in those sorts of situations is laugh.
My favourite shot:
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It's a bit unfair to Taeyang to have him dance beside Jimin, honestly. But he managed to hold his own for the most part. The live will be fun to watch.
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(Jimin's dance lines are perfection)
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[*] EDIT: Updating this to correct that Jimin has composing credits on Vibe, not writing credits. Only Taeyang and Vince have writing credits. So for Jimin’s verse I can assume Vince did the writing, and if Taeyang did then even more kudos to him honestly (though it begs the question… you know what, I’ll drop it lol). And again, the lack of gendered pronouns for Jimin’s verse sticks out (which is probably true for any queer listener tbh).
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wanted to know if it was a safe space to be an anti did u see her lyric ab wanting to be born in the 1830s “without the racists”……….
i learned that i blog i follow that writes anime fics had been actively fueled by her music to write one of my fav fic series and idk how to feel ab it
i have sm reasons to not like her sometimes im just a little scared telling ppl cuz idk how they’ll react cuz so many swifties behave like deranged delulu kpop stans 😭
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OH I SEEN THAT 😭😭😭😭😭 my question is just.. why was that the best and most appropriate line she could come up with 😭 i’m not gonna call her racist or anything but i’m just wondering, was she in the studio writing that like “oh this one’s a bangerrrr” no shade but the lyrics that i’ve seen come from this album are just soooooo ????? i saw this one about “touch me while your bros play gta” or smth HSJDKSHDK I HAD TO STOP FOR A SECOND.. once again no shade but from what i know swifties praise her lyricism a lot and this is not really making me go “okayyy lyrical genius”.. i wanna ask why else you don’t like her but i’m not trying to get the both of us attacked here.. she got fans on here too..
i honestly dgaf about her but imagine my surprise when i figured that like 80% of dreamzens are swifties hsjdkshdk every birthday edit being a ts song.. i just have to sigh like the chokehold she has on dreamzens is kinda crazy 😭😭😭 i’m more of an RnB lover which is probably why her music just doesn’t do it for me ever.. i’ve tried i swear but i just can’t lmaoooo DONT WORRY this is a safe space for this info 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽
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Tumblr keeps eating every draft of this post that I write, argh!
Last Song I Listened To
When I started writing this, I was being lazy and letting the YouTube algorithm pick songs for me and I was listening to this song, Unfucktheworld by Angel Olsen. I've been exchanging song recommendations with a friend for a while now and I guess she has gotten to know me pretty well because this is way up my alley.
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But then another song came on--We Ride by Brave Girls (a.k.a. BB Girls)--and that became the new last song I listened to. It's another song that a friend recommended to me. This time it was a friend I've been emailing with back and forth about East Asian pop music. He's a big fan of City Pop, a genre that came out of Japan in the 80s, and he sent me a list of some recent kpop songs that are influenced by/reminiscent of City Pop, including this one. I took to it right away, and it was a big hit with my daughter.
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Currently Watching
I Told Sunset About You - I’m just one episode in to this one and I can already tell it’s going to hit me where it hurts. I took a break due to family visits and related stuff but I’m fixing to dive back in.
Moonlight Chicken - I got stalled out on this one just as it was getting good, thanks to some life stuff. I need to pick it back up!
Star Trek: Discovery - I’m a big Star Trek fan and recently rewatched everything from TNG through Voyager, but I hadn’t kept up with any of the newest series in years. I’m so glad I decided to start Discovery because it is shaping up to be one of my favorite Star Trek series. There are a lot of reasons for this. Really great LGBT+ representation is a factor. This is also is the first Star Trek series that has inspired more actor crushes in me than DS9. Michelle Yeoh in a corset! Tig Notaro as a cranky engineer! I’m dying over here.
Minato's Laundromat season 2 - I was looking forward to this as soon as it was announced, but with the usual anxiety that comes with a second season of a BL. I wasn’t 100% sure about the direction of the season at first, but now it’s settling in with some really interesting themes.
Reservation Dogs - I wasn’t entirely sure about this show when I first started watching during the first season. But not only did it grow on me, it has also been getting better and better. The latest episode, which focused in part on an abusive government-sponsored boarding school (of the sort designed to rob Indigenous kids of their culture), was one of the best of the series so far.
Edited to add: I forgot about Kamen Rider Geats! My family has been catching up on it and we're almost caught up just in time for the finale. I'm liking it a lot more than I thought I would when I watched the first few episodes, but not as much as my partner (who said he thinks it's one of his favorite Kamen Rider series he's seen). I'm really impressed with the cast, though. I'd especially like to see the actors who play Keiwa and Buffa in more things in the future.
Currently Reading
I’ve been listening to the audiobook version of The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler for a while now, but I’m having an annoying situation where it keeps getting returned to the library even though I’ve renewed it. I could just start another book, but I don’t want to! This one is really interesting.
The vast majority of people spend a significant amount of their time watching (non-documentary) movies and TV series, which involves watching actors engage in this specific art form. And we have opinions about what constitutes good or bad acting. Yet most of us know so little about how acting is done, what kinds of theories underpin acting practice, how actors prepare for roles and scenes. I wanted to not only find out more about that, but also dig a little deeper into the differences between approaches and how they’ve branched off and clashed and so forth.
So far I’ve gotten a lot of good background and plenty to think about, even though I’m just getting to the point where the Method/System/whateveryoucallit is starting to take on in the US. I’m guessing it’s going to get even more relevant from there.
Current Obsession
I’m always obsessing about lots of things so I’m probably never going to be able to identify just one. Some currents ones are:
waiting for Utsukushii Kare: Eternal to be available with English subtitles somewhere, somehow
foraging blackberries, making jelly out of them, and baking biscuits to go with the jelly
waiting for it to be fall already because I hate sweating and I love wearing layers
finding my Animal Crossing character some decent glasses
thinking about possible BL/Jane Austen parallels for tumblr posts
finishing a post about psychological aspects of Utsukushii Kare that I’ve been writing off and on for months and that has gotten so long it will probably have to be split up into 3-4 posts
Serge Lutens Jeux de Peau perfume (my beloved)
I didn't tag anyone. It makes me anxious and I think pretty much everyone I know on here has been tagged! Except @porridgefeast, who's welcome to do it if she feels like it but (of course) no pressure.
and also i’d like to know your top 3 concepts that day6 have done
thank you for the questions! 💗
top 3 kpop groups i like besides day6
xdinary heroes
ateez
tomorrow x together (txt)
top 3 concepts day6 have done
remember us part 2 / days gone by - a funky 80s retro concept. when i think of day6 concepts this is the first one that comes to mind
tbou: entropy / sweet chaos - it looks classic and i like the styling
even of day’s (eod) right through me - including this cause eod is part of day6. it’s like a 90s vintage concept (i can’t remember the specific influences)
I wasnt tagged. Well... Only shadowtagged. I followed the general invitation. I also didn't check if we are mutuals @herbertvvest but I think we might be. Anyway I'm doing this: 10 songs from shuffle vs 5 songs I’m actually listening to!
10 shuffle songs:
(shuffling my liked songs on spotify)
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hunty proide monf everypony
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its for girlbosses who slay tremendously
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Rezept:
- Birne
- Pfeffi
- Zimt
- Stimmt!
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leoniecore is... the most kitschy german 80s pop but i listen to it unironically. this one is tough to listen to unironically ill admit that much
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this ones been sitting in those liked songs for longer than some of youve been alive on this earth for sure
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songs to bügel your eisen to
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oh my god.............
niall wasnt at the recording studio that day i assume btw #letniallsing
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damn...... this is having been a german teen in the 10s core...... i tried to listen to his newest album but i litchrally could not be fucked. hes lost his jenesaisquoi as well as most of his hair
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WHY IS THIS IN MY LIKES
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SLAY CEE GURLZ.... ITS GOING DOWN
5 songs im actually listening to:
without the audio link
1. hold on tight - aespa
they invented tetris they really did they also directed and starred in and produced the movie
2. overdose - natori
Jpop slay
3. swim - chase atlantic
uuughhhh i knooowww but something about it got me hooked..... let me in your öéücean swim
4. karma - blackswan
if nobody got the foreigners only kpop group i know i got the foreigners only kpop group
5. poppy - stayc
SLAY CEE GURLZ ITS GOING DOWN
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Would you believe me if I said that this is literally the second time I’ve written for Yunho?
Anyway
Another one that you could easily just remove the ‘headcanon’ bit from the title
Yunho is a cuddly boi
Big, big golden retriever bf energy
Loves just resting his head on yours when he hugs you
Or he buries his head in your shoulder and this living beanpole becomes tiny
Very much enjoys poking his head over your shoulder to see what you’re doing
Pulls you into his lap when he wants to cuddle and doesn’t want to interrupt you too much
What a sweet boyfriend ^-^
Oh yeah—
Everyone loves Yunho
Really. Everyone
Your friends loved him the moment he introduced himself
He fit in so quickly omg, they adopt him as a new bff almost immediately
It’s so cute fr
You have so many videos of Yunho goofing off with your best friend (read, twerking bc ofc) while you’re wheezing behind the camera
He somehow gets you to join in and it becomes a new core memory for the both of you
They do joke that you’re sharing Yun with Mingi, but honestly? Sometimes you agree lol
But date nights!!! Ahhh the date nights are so fucking romantic I’m literally jealous of you both
Takes you to Lotte World for the day and you go home in the evening with bags of new soft toys (he won like, 80% of them), headbands and a shit-ton of new pictures and videos in your camera roll
Or those late-night drives where you play some music, head to the beach and have a picnic under the moonlight
Please marry this man
Also another one to have an entire photo album dedicated to you
He makes one of those collage edits and makes it his home screen
Brags about you to everyone in a 5-mile radius
When he finds you sleeping in the living room after coming late from practice
Whatever loud conversation he was having is shushed with haste
Whispers to whoever is on the other line and hands up
Immediately turns around from putting his coat away when he hears you stir
“Yun..?”
“Shh, baby you can sleep~ were you waiting for me?”
When you nod with that sleepy grin of yours, Yunho fr has to restrain the urge to squeeze you in his arms
So he allows himself a kiss to your forehead and a quick cuddle before you shoo him off to shower
He returns twenty minutes later and shows you the choreography he’d been working on with Wooyoung and he basks in the adoration you hold in your eyes
Bashful giggles when you praise him for working hard and ruffle his hair
Let’s just say that dating Yunho is your ticket to heaven~