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everybody: youβve got to advocate for yourself in medical settings!
medical professionals when a patient advocates for themselves in a medical setting (x100 if that patient is a part of any minority): damn. youβre a hypochondriac crazy bitch who has every mental illness and is seeking every narcotic in existence. thatβs the only reason youβd be disappointed in the care youβre receiving here. in retaliation, we will be even less helpful and less sympathetic. our jobs are hard. people are dying. we donβt have time to deal with anyone who is slightly inconvenient for us.
in abandoning discussion of the nuances of sex in trans discourse, we've ironically let bioessentialist, binaristic thinking fester and rot out our communities
we've stopped actually challenging the binary, we just slapped "amab" and "afab" over "male" and "female," and we treat transition itself like a mere act of dressup. we let blatant transphobia run rampant all the time as long as people call each other "amab" and "afab" instead of misgendering them directly
"afab bodies," "amab energy," "afab only housing," "amab behavior" THIS IS TRANSPHOBIA. YOU ARE MAKING ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT PEOPLE'S BEHAVIORS AND BODIES BASED ON THEIR ASSIGNED SEX. THE WORD FOR THAT IS TRANSPHOBIA
sex does not determine your behaviors. sex is not a binary. sex can be changed, and IS changed by medical transition, INCLUDING hrt
is it even a "trans" community if we don't hold these things to be true? how can a community of trans people who bind each other to their agabs like the rest of the world does be called a trans community? come the fuck on
could someone tell me if they can see my most recent artwork I posted earlier today? Its not showing up for me and I worry tumblr is being fucky with it
iβve been enjoying making pathfinder characters with no intent to actually play them, and this is a party i made recently with the explicit intent to make them a polycule
oh yeah, and if fish lady on the right looks familiar, I fell in love with a character named cherry from Neighborly Help, by Harriet Moulton, and took some pretty direct inspiration here lol
the commercialisation of Drawing Pictures For Fun that rots your brain out . asking permission to use something for reference . "you're copying x's art style" and the whole idea of being Good At Art . people with "do not use as insp" on their watermark it's all so fucking stupid
it's really funny how the entire world basically just blew the fuck up six short years ago and nobody wants to admit that that may have had some lasting consequences lmao
like so much of Everything today is premised on the idea that the earth-shattering catastrophe which happened within living memory of everyone older than a third grader has had no meaningful material or psychological effects on the general public and i don't think that's good, lol.
"(some of) the top-line economic indicators (sorta) recovered (in most places) so everything is fine and we don't need to talk about it" is not a sustainable framework for interfacing with reality
sorry i will never understand cis grief. your daughter is living her best life and going around with friends and feeling like a human being. your son doesnβt feel like he needs to crawl out of his skin anymore and can actually smile. your children are happy and no longer see their existence as the worst thing in the world. why are you grieving this lmao. grow up.
I taught myself to make gifs this year because I was deeply annoyed that a show with a cast dominated by polynesian actors had a tag almost exclusively filled by the two white cast members. Haterism can be an excellent motivator.
Even if you do not have hate in your heart but do want to make gifs of your favorite thing (sports. I'm hoping it's sports), I've made a very basic tutorial under the cut of how I make gifs using exclusively free programs. I am still figuring this out, and things like coloring etc. are not my gift, so I welcome tips, tricks, and tutorials from other people. This is mostly for people coming in at the ground floor like I did as there are heaps of tutorials for how to make your gifs look nice once you've already got the basics.
& a moment for my soapbox for sports giffing specifically: I like to think of gifs as a form of game preservation. we're saving tiny moments that will be forgotten and will disappear otherwise. who cares if you think your gifs aren't as good as others on here? you're saving something maybe no one else is, and people 5+ years from now are gonna be delighted to dig up those moments.
first thing you're gonna need to do is screen record. i use obs studio because it is open source and doesn't put a watermark on videos. there are a bunch of tutorials on how to use it.
Next, create your basic gif. this is where my pal and yours, Canva, comes in. other people I know use ezgif, which is also a great option. I find canva easier for picking the desired length, but ezgif is great for longer gifs, in my experience.
1. create a design by selecting video. unless I'm using an instagram video or similar, I select video (Landscape). you'll be able to crop later.
2. upload the videos you're going to turn into gifs. I've started making game folders so that it's easier to caption gifs later, but they can all go in the video folder.
3. Drag your video of choice into the editing area, then cut the length to the section you want to gif. 3-4 seconds is my sweet spot because of tumblr gif restrictions.
4. double click video and crop. This isn't required as you can crop during editing, but unless you pay for canva, there are size/quality limitations, so cropping in canva can help quality.
5. once it's how you want it, click on share -> download. in the file type, select gif, and download.
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1. once you've opened the gif(s) you want to work on, you are going to select all of the layers (see bottom, right corner). if you need to crop, you can do that now. I nearly always keep my gifs at 16:9 ratio, but you can mess around with that here.
2. Resize your gif. on tumblr, that means a width of 540 pixels. this will make your life infinitely easier for every step after this as the larger the image, the longer it will take to load. image -> image size. you can technically stop here, but the next couple steps make my gifs look a little nicer than what pops out from canva.
3. filter -> sharpen -> smart sharpen. I do this twice. the first time I do between 150% - 180%, 0.5 px, and the second time I do 10%, 10 px. mess around with it. other people have incredibly sharp gifs. these numbers are what I've come up with based on other tutorials for non-sports gifs.
4. image -> adjustment -> curves. this can help with some of the color correction, but be careful. this is also the step where a lot of gif makers whitewash people of color all to hell. do not do that.
5. image -> adjustment -> color balance. I mostly mess with midtones, but in range, you can also play around with highlights and shadows to get the color you want.
6. image -> adjustment -> selective color. I like to push black in my gifs between 5-20%, & I'll sometimes mess around with other colors depending on the team, but this is one of those steps that is not required at all.
7. sizing, resizing, and making it fit for tumblr size restrictions. file -> export as -> gif
often, I end up with a gif that's too big. I can mess around with quality to get it under 10 MB, but if quality starts to get too low, it means I've got to get rid of some layers.
cut layers from the front and back of the gif (you can also do this if you originally have a gif from canva that has extra scenes/layers you don't want). select the layer you want to get rid of and hit the garbage can on the bottom far right. the little eye on the left of the photos will let you go through each layer individually.
once it's done, you can export as gif and upload.
hope this makes sense and that people go out and make a bunch of gifs of their favorite fourth liner or off the bench player or the top player who for some reasons doesn't get love.
The "I put food on the table and a roof over your head what more could you possibly want" type of parents are always so shocked that their kids never come back again once they find anywhere else that they can get food and a roof under better terms and conditions.
they also use that argument to force you to act as they want and are so shocked when you leave the house and stop listening to them. 'you better not get a piercing, or' or what? I no longer live there, what could you possibly do
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