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Tonks probably: Lupin isn't back from mowing the lawn Three days later Tonks: Wait, we don't have lawn Tonks: Wait.... we live on the 10th floor

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[cantcultcamp]

Jason: I got fucking dirt in my eye

Jasper: and you gotta go home for that?

Jason: No, i’m going home cause you’re a fucking bitch.

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Tutorial: GIFs to RP Icons (GIMP)

Everyone’s wondered it at some point: How do I turn animated GIFs into RP icons? Maybe you have a border you want to put on it that you’re not sure how to. Maybe you have a particular color scheme you edit onto your icons that’s harder to do with animations. Either way, this tutorial will show you how to do it!

Keep in mind, this is for GIMP. GIMP is free to download, but make sure your computer has the room for it!

Prep:

First, open up the GIF you want. Click the Rectangular Select Tool, make sure Fixed Aspect Ratio is checked, and have the ratio be 1:1

Make the selection you’d like, then go to Image>Crop to Selection

Before you resize the icon, go to Image>Mode and select RGB instead of Indexed. The reason for this is that Indexed layers get pixelated when scaled, and we don’t want this yet.

Once your image is RGB, go to Image>Scale and scale it to whatever size you use for your icons. I use 120, but the most common one is 100. The Interpolation can be whatever you’d like, but that’s the thing that prevents the icon from getting pixelated.

Border:

Once scaled, make sure all the frames are hidden except the first one. This would be a good time to open up your border.

Paste your boarder in and move it just above the first frame. For best results, make sure your border’s pixels are all either 100% opaque or 0% opaque. No 50%, 25%, 75%, it doesn’t work out. Go to the Select by Color tool, make sure Select transparent areas is checked, and turn the threshold to 0

Click in an area that’s 0% opaque on the boarder layer. This will select all 0% opaque pixels in the boarder. Go to Select>Invert and flip these pixels over.

Once you’ve done this, Right Click the boarder layer and select Merge Down. Make sure you still have your selection up!

One by one, re-show the layers above the first frame. As you’re going up, press the Delete key on your keyboard once for each layer except for the bottom. This will delete the pixels in these frames that would go overtop of and hide the boarder.

Color:

If you have a particular color scheme you use on your icons, this is a great time to do it. Go to Image>Mode and select Indexed

Select Use custom palette and select a palette. Make the Dithering whatever you’d like, but I do not suggest allowing dithering of transparency.

You can make custom palettes that follow the colors you use for your icons, but that’s a whole different tutorial. The easiest way is to take an image with the colors scheme you want, convert it to Indexed, choose Generate optimum palette, and save that in the palette dialogue as whatever name will help you remember. For the basics, this is a good webpage.

Save:

Once your gif uses the palette you want, you should be free and clear! Go to File>Export and export to a .gif file

In the popup dialogue, check As Animation, change the Disposal to Cumulative/Combine, and check Use disposal entered above for all frames. Interlace, GIF Comment, and Delay can be whatever you like, it doesn’t effect the border or colors

And you’re done!

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[world-by-word]

marie-theresa-and-lumieres replied to your post: mindowe replied to your post ...

If I don’t know where to put right accents in conversation (and it turns into random), will I sound ridiculous then?

I’m sorry to say this, but yes. Or rather than funny, it can become incomprehensible – there are words in Lithuanian that have different meaning based on how you pronounce them. 

Easiest way of learning what to stress without actually memorizing infinity rules is listen-and-repeat exercises, and listening in general. There are words that are always stressed the same way (the same syllable no matter the case; there are not many words that fall into this category), and there are words that are stressed differently depending on case, so it’s probably best to keep that in mind when learning vocab! All words belong to kirčiuotės (like cases, but for stresses) - we have 4 of them. So depending on what kirčiuotė they belong to, words will be stressed in specific manner. To find out the kirčiuotė of a specific word you will have to check the dictionary, I’m afraid. Unless you have great intuition :D Jokes aside, kirčiuotės are determined by how pl. dat. and pl. acc. are stressed, so if that’s easier for you to remember it like that - go for it! 

This helpful graph (that I made with ms paint; sorry it’s kinda bad) shows when the stress “jumps” to the beginning or the ending of the word – you can remember what type of words are like those shown here (they are categorized) and that way it should be easier to remember how to say what word. It looks like letter ‘M’ so that’s easy to remember!

[substitutekurosaki]

I REMEMBER THIS LITTLE BASTARD OH FUCK