Part 1 (part 2) (part 3) of my entry to the @mxtxbang with @fleurdeliser!!!
The fic is plant a little happiness (let the roots run deep) and it is SO GOOD Y’ALL. LOVE YOURSELVES. READ IT.
Such beautiful art and the fic is lovely!!!

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cherry valley forever
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸

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Part 1 (part 2) (part 3) of my entry to the @mxtxbang with @fleurdeliser!!!
The fic is plant a little happiness (let the roots run deep) and it is SO GOOD Y’ALL. LOVE YOURSELVES. READ IT.
Such beautiful art and the fic is lovely!!!
Hardsubs and vidding: some ideas
At the intersection of C-drama fandom and vidding fandom is an interesting problem: what do we do with the hardcoded subtitles that are ubiquitous in Chinese media? I just made a vid for The Untamed that made me get creative about it. This post is about the handful of approaches that I found worked really well without taking a ton of effort.
1. Zooming In
The obvious solution!
Before:
After:
This approach is especially good for clips with quick movement because the loss in quality due to the zooming in is less visible.
2. Masking
This one is a little harder to explain, so let’s take a look at my timeline:
See the greyed-out clip on track V6 on top of the clip on track V5, and how there’s a subtitle at the playhead? Here’s what that greyed out clip looks like on its own, if I turn off the V5 track instead:
it’s a teeny tiny crop of the portion of the V5 clip that does not have the hardsub that masks just the frames with the hardsubs. As a result, you get this:
In this particular clip, the masking is entirely invisible because the camera is completely stationary. I used this technique in several other clips where you can actually see it if you squint, like so:
you can see the line and slight change in color. However, because in this clip you’re looking at LWJ’s face and hands, you’re not going to notice this little difference in the color.
Lastly, here’s my favorite example, and oddly enough, the most visible one:
I wanted to use as much of this little paperman as I could. I could’ve avoided the subtitles completely if I cropped out three or four extra frames at the start of the clip, but I wanted him to go across the entire screen. Since the background is almost completely stationary and the eye is drawn to the paperman, this is totally fine to overlay across the bottom of the screen and no one will actually notice it:
Basically, this approach is fantastic when the camera is mostly stationary and there’s other movement in the clip that draws the eye. It’s MUCH better than zooming in because you preserve the quality of the footage.
3. TBD: a combination of masking and rotation via keyframes so that you can mask across movement
I ended up not having to do this (okay, being too lazy to do it), but this is possible in theory. Perhaps I’ll play around with it and write up another post if it works!
Vid: The Untamed | Hurricane
You're the finest thing that I've done. (Lan Wangji, Wei Wuxian, and their son.)
[AO3 link]
Vid: Good Omens | Halo
Baby, I can see your halo.
[AO3 link]
The Untamed | 3 years old Wei Ying
Precious *_*
Thor: Ragnarok (2017) // Men in Black: International (2019)
”Wei WuXian could no longer make another sound. In the darkness, Lan WangJi had already embraced him tightly and covered his mouth.”
Yes, Mo Dao Zu Shi, again. I’m so obsessed.
i finally watched the dragon prince and i can talk abt it a lot. brilliant amazing very nice nngghhh here is some magic man : )
Criminal Minds: 4x02, The Angel Maker
“Snogging Rachel Weisz is like you’ve won the lottery!” - Olivia Colman | The Favourite
Death: Hey, I bought your soul last month and- James Flint: No return. Death: Please, it’s making me sad.
scribbles
Crowley: this is so sad alexa play despacito
Alexa: mama… just killed a man……
this is it, this is the final form of the meme
All memes on tumblr for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Queen references
GOOD OMENS FANDOM RIGHT NOW
COMPLETE RESURRECTION
How long have we been friends? Six thousand years?