#ray.doc

[mckkachins]

*lies down* last post on this topic i swear but like. i’m still 2 months old blog and baby gifmaker so falksjdlk is there an spn gifmakers discord cos like. pls. after today we need one

#ray.doc #enlighten me comrades #i just typed 1.5k words of explanation on photoshop algorithms and i look up to see my friends getting anon hate for saying gifs complicated #like. g o d. #we educate ourselves on obscure topics via adOBE DOCUMENTATION and some of yall be like. #yeah fuck em that's not complicated at all yall are just narcissists #?!??!?!

[lordlegatron]

I think I might be batkin?? Nice

#batkin #otherkin #ray.doc #thinking of doing that for text posts here?? #not sure what filetype to go with though #ray.txt #it looks nice but txt is used so often and this wouldn't really be a txt file? #I guess this would convert to an rtf best so #ray.rtf #I put way too much thought into this

[mckkachins]

i love each and every one of my followers and i think you can and should engage with content the way you choose. whenever i post something that talks abt how reblogs matter more than likes i hope you all understand that i am saying this for the fraction of ppl who may be used to the social norms of something like instagram or twitter and don’t know how best to support a content creator’s work, NOT for people who simply just don’t want to rb everything they see. i hope you understand that i am not belittling you for the way you use this website. <3 i just want to preface everything with this.

at the same time, however, telling me that gifmaking is sooo easy, that gifmakers getting their work stolen isn’t a big deal, that what we do is somehow less worthy of respect because we’re just “””recoloring footage””” or whatever fundamentally is a form of belittlement. i cannot tell you how sad it makes me to hear stuff like that because people who say such things have no idea what monumental barriers to entry there are to gifmaking. do you know what export settings are best for your computer specs? pattern, diffusion??? what dither and matte color does the gif require? do you want color selection to be done via adaptive or selective or with computer-built-in colors? what about when tumblr ultimately compresses your gifs and down-selects your colors? what settings are best then?? do these settings always hold true or is this only good for the gif you’re currently working on? do you hop on vpn to pirate footage?? do you torrent for hours only to find out it’s in a video format incompatible with your computer so you must also go and find a new video player that can play the footage you downloaded as well as a media encoder to export clips in a format your computer can read without compressing the video quality?? do you have enough space on your laptop for this??? do you need an external drive to support everything you’re doing? is this gif under 10mb?? how are you going to balance the number of frames with the number of colors with the gif dimensions to make it uploadable to tunglr dot com? what aspect of this gif are you sacrificing today to make it even viewable on this hellsite??? if you have a laptop that only lets you export in internal dimensions how will this impact the quality of your gif? do you need to double-quadruple the gif dimensions to keep the same resolution and therefore need to sacrifice even more frames or colors??? do you even HAVE access to photoshop or do you need to also pirate it in some way???!?!

coloring is only one MINISCULE part of a long and tedious process that takes years and months to master and hours to execute. weeks if you want to execute it well. so do not give me that bullshit about how gifmaking is "””just recoloring footage””” bc that is a form of belittlement i will not tolerate. if you follow me for my creations, i love you. you do NOT have to rb every single one of them to show your appreciation. however, please respect my barest minimum wishes that you do not repost them and respect the time and effort i put in to my work, including not belittling me and my friends with claims that what we gifmakers do is some kind of easy peasy hobby and therefore less worthy of respect.

#ray.doc #negativity cw #like listen.... this is not a hill i want to die on lmao #it should be the barest minimum to understand that you shouldn't steal someone else's work #and not belittle the genuinely MONUMENTAL effort they put in #also like re: the likes vs reblogs thing like i get it. obsessing over notes and rbs can be super toxic #however that is an internal discussion one must have with other gifmakers and with oneself #determining where to draw the line between wanting appreciation and toxicity #it is NOT an excuse to lob at people in an effort to belittle their god damn work #txt #it takes 0 cents to not be an asshole about someone else's work and yall are failing at it still

[mckkachins]

challenge: from your creations, choose gifs and do a split of before and after adding your coloring. sorry about the confusing layout of the last gif lmfao. in order of appearance they come from: x, x, x, x, x

tagged by: the incredible incredible @winterfrosted and @holmesemrys. thank u both!!! i had so much fun doing this and also like this is my favorite thing i’ve ever been tagged in. i love showing ppl how much god damn work we put in to our sets.

commentary: i started posting on this url in the middle of high school. i basically posted for like 6 months straight and giffed mostly for yuri on ice the anime. then i left tumblr after the whole algorithm randomly flagging gifsets as p*rn and blocking ppl from seeing them thing, and now i am returning once again. it’s kinda hard to track progress when u have that big of a gap in creationing but i do think i’ve improved tremendously and i’m still doing my best to learn new things!

tagging: @nefeviibata, @sourpatchdean, @alivedean, @bluefirecas, @burnhamandtilly, @klinejack, @ccstiel, @cosmiccas, @deanglrl, @heavengate, @bisexualsam, @forthiswholeworld, @nuntox, @violetgrace, @haloless, @debriefingspn, + anyone who wants to do it!! this is a really cool tag game ;w; i tried to @ ppl who i think haven’t been already tagged/haven’t done this yet but no pressure and sorry if u already did this/already got tagged!!

peer pressure tagging @casjpg, @seraphcastiel, @smiledean, @mishha, i know u whores have alr been tagged but im peer pressuring u 💜💜(but srsly no pressure if u honestly dont wanna do it)

#tag games #idk what to tag this lmao #ray.doc #<333 thank u for thinking of me and i can't wait to see everyone else's. no pressure tho!!! #this was honestly so much fun to think about and put together #ty nomena and alice ;;;;w;;;;

[mckkachins]

spn writers 🤝 got writers

tHemEs ArE foR EiGhTh gRadE bOoK rEpoRtS

#ray.doc #this is the only thing i'll say on this lmao #imagine having a thematically and narratively coherent ending to a long running cultural property am i right lads #guess i will just slink back to like. soc duology for my serotonin and fulfilling character arcs

[mckkachins]

sORRY for being super offline and relying on queue the last couple days! i moved in to a new apartment for job and have been settling in/taking care of new hire onboarding business. will try my best to finish submissions to sabweek and spnwomenweek and also go through my tag too god bless everyone for tagging me in ur beautiful things ;w;

#ray.doc #mckkachins #cowboycoven #IM SO GLAD MY SUMMER APARTMENT HAS GOOD WIFI THANK GOD #i had to set up retirement bank shit lmao..... age 21 and i already am tired of being part of the work force #anyway i hope ppl see this and know im not just ignoring you flkajsdkljasd

[mckkachins]

here’s a thought: if you claim to support poc maybe don’t harass actual poc into revealing details about their exact demographic, their upbringing, or a fucking 23andme.com test result to “prove” they aren’t white

#it's real funny to me that like. most of us here are just photoshop blogs and edit blogs vibing and supporting each other's content #but the moment ANYONE says the most uncontroversial opinion there should be!!! ''hey don't do a racist thing'' #suddenly blogs ik are getting anon hate #suddenly i'm getting accused of doing a reverse racism lol #and suddenly other blogs are getting STALKED by strangers dredging up old selfies and tags like it's a fucking gossip magazine #if u claim u support poc then fucking respect our god. damn. privacy. we don't owe it to anyone to prove we're not white jfc #our lives and upbringing are not ur entertainment or up for speculation #and that's not even getting in to how this is contributing to the already prevalent problem of othering mixed race ppl #racism cw #ray.doc #not to sound too heated abt it or anything—

[mckkachins]

i feel like there’s a long overdue convo in here somewhere abt how fandom spaces (both historically and currently) haven’t been the most friendly towards fans of color particularly fans of color who are also fandom critical but also like. i’m too tired rn

#ray.doc #to be completely honest i have so many mixed feelings on this?? both bc i feel like we can't and shouldn't police who gets to create what #and we definitely shouldn't force people to disclose their demographics or their past traumas in order to 'let' them craft their own stories #but at the same time if ur a white person in a fandom that's historically been super shitty to both its fictional poc and the fans of color? #mayhaps don't appropriate a 15 yr long process of us trying to reclaim a show so centered on otherness yet so hateful towards us #idk if yall remember ur history but back in 2014/2015 i honestly forget what yr bc it was so long ago! #the spn fandom was rlly unfriendly towards poc and some of my friends got hate mail and deactivated for being critical of the show's racism! #someone i knew tweeted a question for an open q&a session on twitter about why they killed off all the poc wrt kevin's death #and genuinely like....got backlash on tumblr for daring to be critical of this during an open q&a #so like. yeah....... #we remember these things lol....... #txt #racism cw

[mckkachins]

flajdjasd i hate it here

#i am kind of stressed and really bitter right now at one of my classes #like this prof straight up assigned a giant project that's due on passover lmao and he only moved it back one day after we complained #like who does that!!! #respect your students religious beliefs just a little pls???? #also he keeps telling us to review the textbook and he assigns problems out of the textbook #but then on the last homework he assigned a problem from a section in the textbook that teaches you how to program computers to do shit for #so naturally ppl who read the textbook and followed along as he instructed also used the computer programs #but then fOUR HOURS. FOUR FUCKING HOURS. before the deadline #he sends out an announcement saying u cannot use the computer and have to do this problem by hand #and ppl like me who did it as the textbook instructed straight up got -20% off our grade no partial credit lmao #i hate it here :) #ray.doc #txt #i just genuinely believe that some profs care more about their research than teaching which is like. ok fine. #but some of them just have an utter disrespect and lack of regard for their students and it drives!! me!! insane!!

[mckkachins]

i’m only on ep 3 and i think so far they’ve done such a good job improving on the og trilogy and tHE SOUNDTRACK SLAPS SO HARD but like. why the casual racism everywhere. whyw hyw hyw hwy WHY

#grisha #ray.doc #txt #i'm ignoring all the COCK posting on my dash tonight to focus on this fkjasdasldjasd #like i get it yall wanna make alina the outsider who has to suffer from being othered. but like. that was already in the books. #she was made fun of for growing up in keramzin flkjalskdjlasjd #why add the unnecessary racism??? #i think it's revealing that white ppl don't know how to write poc suffering injustices without bringing race into it like. #white ppl get bullied simply bc sometimes ppl are cruel or maybe they have bad hair or weird teeth or something??? #but when it comes to poc it's like every insult is like "u have too much melanin' like PLS #the soundtrack is so good tho it gives me CHILLS #genuinely can't think of one netflix property that had a memorable soundtrack so im glad they going out on these osts

[mckkachins]

BRUH not me just realizing baghra is the fucking skin trampoline from doctor who

#eye- #the DARKLING'S MOM IS THE MOISTURIZE ME MEME SKIN???! #grisha #dw #txt #ray.doc

[mckkachins]

“the most humiliating realization for us as full grown gays in stem is the epiphany that we didn’t become obsessed with the ackl*s ass equation bc we liked men’s ass, but bc we liked math” -my friend from middle school who just texted me bc she only now found out about 15x18

#i am going to chew my way through the floorboards and i will not stop until i reach the gates of turbohell #idek if anyone remembers that Thing but wow do i hate middle school me and current me as well #this is insanity 1amposting pls keep scrolling #ray.doc #txt #spn

[mckkachins]

cannot BELIEVE i found out the academy awards were today from a supernatural meme. it’s like putin all over again—

#ray.doc #i hate myself #txt #spn

[mckkachins]

mrna juice my beloved part two!!

#ray.doc #i got my second pfizer dose and now i am anticipation the death hitting me soon #wheeeeeeeeee

[mckkachins]

not to be still on this but like. what gets me the most is how that post could have lead to an actual discussion we should have about accessibility of gifs and gifmaking. how there are such high barriers to entry and how op & co raised valid points about tumblr not optimizing gif display leading to long ass load times and general inaccessibility. white washing in gifs (and by extension how so few shows have good lighting for poc), etc. there were valid points there but instead they just chose to go the route of “gifmakers are useless in fandom and what they do is stupid, their complaints and concerns are stupid, it’s not even a big deal if their shit gets stolen”

#negativity cw #ray.doc #genuinely fuck off lmao #as if this isn't a discussion me and other ppl have been having for a while now

[mckkachins]

gifmakers be like. go insane making 78 gifs for one set and for what

#ray.doc #i'm never doing that ever again #yeah if u were wondering why i haven't posted anything in a week. that's why....