First Triple Axels in Women's Skating: Part 3
Hana Yoshida (JPN) - 2022 Bavarian Open FS: 3A +2.13 GOE
Ami Nakai (JPN) - 2022 Coupe de Printemps FS: 3A +1.33 GOE
Mao Shimada (JPN) - 2022 JGP Czech Republic FS: 3A +1.37 GOE
Rinka Watanabe (JPN) - 2022 Lombardia Trophy FS: 3A +2.40 GOE
Inga Gurgenidze (GEO) - 2023 Dragon Trophy FS: 3A2T +1.60 GOE
Yujae Kim (KOR) - 2023 Jr World Championships FS: 3A +1.94 GOE
Yuseong Kim (KOR) - 2023 JGP Thailand FS: 3A +1.26 GOE
Amber Glenn (USA) - 2023 Skate America FS: 3A +1.94 GOE
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We're just gonna spend a little time here.
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Look at mingled effort and anguish
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The sadness fading into cold resolution.
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That last look at the point of the dagger as he brings it towards himself, every instinct fighting to do the exact opposite.
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One last hard swallow. Raising the dagger in defiance. Turning his eyes upward, looking up at the target, at the goal. At the reason he's here, now.
He's an ant before a giant. But an ant that's going to win.
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Winning - defeating the Absolute - at the cost of everything he's ever wanted. Everything that was so close, even that morning when he woke up.
This wasn't how he thought the day would end. Wasn't how he thought his life would end. This was not supposed to be the ending to his story.
There's sadness and hurt and mourning on his face as he steels himself and drives the dagger home. The scream of defiance shifting to one of pain and so much anguish.
Pain and anguish being driven off his face momentarily by defiance, mixed with anger this time.
Angry at the Absolute, angry at fate, angry that this is the end...
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Sadness and pain ripping back control, the tears in his eyes as he squeezes them closed. A silent moment of mourning for everything that could have been, all the possible futures he'd dreamed of for himself winking out.
No more Gale Dekarios or Gale of Waterdeep. No more Tara in his lap, his beloved tower. No more bantering around the campfire while he makes dinner for the party. No more you.
The exhausted, despairing relief as the end starts to claim him, as the burning of the orb in his chest starts to spread. We know the orb glowing like this usually means he's in pain... between the dagger and the orb, he's got to be in agony.
But it's almost over.
He has nothing left to do now, all that's left is to wait for it all to be over. It's done. There are just seconds left to him, but the pain makes them feel like eternity.
Last thoughts, last memories. A last image of you flitting through, perhaps a sweet caress or a remembered parting goodbye.
and then...
it's all over.
Just adding that we know what his face looks like from the Act 2 version of the orb detonation scene;
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✨Gif Coloring✨
Hello everyone! After having a conversation with the lovely @bizarrelittlemew, and being inspired by her immaculate Gif-Coloring Post, I decided to follow suit with some examples of my own. I make this post to stand in solidarity with her, as well as all our fellow gif-makers, and to show that gif-making is in fact a very time-consuming process! It’s not as simple as feeding frames into a program and *poof*, you’re done. There are in fact numerous, numerous, numerous steps that go into beautifying footage for your viewing pleasure!
The “raw” footage is on the left (in quotations because it is still trimmed down, and the frame rate has been edited, but the original lighting/coloring remains), and my edited versions are on the right.
As you can see, quite a bit different lol! My process usually involves picking the scene, shortening said scene in my video editing program to the desired amount of frames, removing frame interpolation, cropping it down to the proper size, removing any fun little frame artifacts, playing around with the desired frame rate, before beginning to manipulate the lighting, levels, contrast, and colors. Then, I will often have to sharpen and blur to my liking, which is a whole process on its own, before fist-fighting Photoshop’s memory issues l m a o.
And even all of that does not account for what others may do, such as overlaying gifs within gifs, creating word art, working with geometric shapes, etc etc!
It’s a process, and it’s a form of art. And just as you wouldn’t re-post someone’s fanfic, someone’s video, or someone’s music, please don’t re-post gifs without credit! Reblog from the source, use the add gif function, or include the artist’s @ if needed be! It’s quick, it’s easy, and it’s appreciated more than you know.
Support your artists, and we’ll be so happy to continue creating for you! <3
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