#as always!!

[logically-asexual]

not complaining more about this show, this is so fucking funny we love a socially awkward nerd in this house

[skatinginfinitelywithyourmom]

listening to ai convos at work and I can just hear the water evaporating from the planet

[ceofjohnlennon]

"One day while John was recording, the studio receptionist brought in a litter of kittens. John immediately knew what I was thinking and said, "No, we can't, we're traveling too much." I picked up a black one and put him over my shoulder. When I came back into the recording room with him, John rolled his eyes and said, "Now you've done it! Now you've done it!" I had a moment of wondering what I'd done, when he came over, started petting him, and said, "Well I guess we have to have a cat." At the end of the day when we were leaving the studio, John asked if there were any left. We went back to get the only kitten that remained — a white one that no one wanted because she was so loud. John christened them Major and Minor. He loved those cats. They reminded him of his days with Aunt Mimi (whom he playfully referred to as the "Cat Woman")."

ㅡ May Pang for the book "Instamatic Karma: Photographs of John Lennon."

[kithtaehyung]

I think I’ve been around too long for you to get rid of me 😅. Here until the end of the line pal 😂 💗- 🌷

Ahahahah this is very true. Thank you, flower💕💕

[loupettes]

Oh the gifset is wonderful ❤💛💚💙💜 thank you for creating it.. Now, because I am @curiousnonny , do you have any link to beginner's guide to creating gif? And what's your advice for people who want to try in creating gif?

Thank you so much 💕

Awww, thank you!! ♥️♥️ I didn't have a beginner's guide to creating gifs, but I've made a quick one to outline the basics for you behind the cut!

As for advice, I'd say just do it. Just open up photoshop and add some adjustment layers and keep going for as long as you find it exciting.

Importing images to photoshop

Before I even dive into this, it's important when using Photoshop to be able to see the 'Timeline' window. You can find this by clicking Window > Timeline.

There's two ways to do this: screen caps, and screen recording.

Screencaps

Open up your video on VLC and make a folder for screen caps. There's instructions on how to do that here

1.1. When importing screen caps into photoshop:

Go to File > Scripts > Load Files into Stack. Select all the photos, and click 'Load'.

Once all the screen caps are there for you to see in the Timeline, click the icon with the 4 little lines at the top right of the Timeline bar. You'll then find this menu:

Click 'Reverse Frames' (for some reason, VLC imports screen caps backwards!)

2. Screen recording

Open Quicktime, click File > New Screen Recording. Adjust the frame, and click record, and record the video you want. This can be easier and a little less stress on your laptop, but it means you get every single frame, so you have to play around a bit when importing frames into photoshop to make sure you don't have 1000000 frames (which would equal a big file size and would probably blow up your laptop).

2.1 When importing a screen recording into photoshop

Go to File > Import > Video Frames to Layers.

Select the clip you want, and then you'll have to select the part you want giffed by moving the little indicator at the bottom:

You'll also want to Limit To Every 2/3 Frames, otherwise it will get a bit hectic!

Setting the Frame Delay time

Those 4 lines again? Click on those, and click 'Select All Frames'

Now down to that little down-pointing arrow on any one of the frames - click that, and select 'Other'

Set the frame rate to anywhere between 0.04 and 0.08 - this will depend on how many frames you have, and how fast you want them to transition.

TIP: for some reason, photoshop always messes up how this looks when you play it there and then. I'd go to File > Export > Save for Web (Legacy) and play it there to see whether it's playing back as fast/slow as you want it to.

Convert to Timeline (?)

This really depends on how you work, but I find it a lot easier to work on a timeline than by seeing it all frame by frame. This is for many reasons, one of which being if you ever want to edit, say, the visibility of an adjustment layer, you have to do it for every frame, whereas on Timeline, you just add the one adjustment layer. So for this mini tutorial, I'm gonna work on a Timeline.

So go back to those 4 lil lines and click 'Convert to Timeline'. Once that's done, I'd select all layers

Then click Filter > Convert to Smart Object. It makes it all one single layer, and its super easy to work with.

there it is!

Now all you need to do is colour! And that's the fun bit. Add your brightness, and your selective colours, add your vibrances and sharpen your layers - it's entirely up to you. Maybe one day I'll do a tutorial of my dulled pastelish (??) colouring, who knows!

Exporting the file into a gif

To export, go to File > Export > Save to Web (Legacy), and you'll get a box like this:

I'll be real honest with you here - I don't know what 90% of this means. One thing I'd suggest doing is clicking on the '4-Up' at the top, because this lets you see 4 different gifs depending on 4 different settings you play around with. Then, when you're ready, click 'Save'.

And that's it!

This is... as basic as I can make it, so I'm sorry if it's all over the place - welcome to my brain, it's a right laugh.

[dingoat]

13 to 5: “Tell me I’m wrong.” 8)

Five reclined on a deck chair with a bottle of vintage Corellian Red, watching his squad encourage one another through a series of routine exercises and unarmed drills. Watching most of his squad, to be precise, since Thirteen was beside him nursing his own tall cocktail through a neon green bendy straw, watching him through lazy, half-lidded eyes.

“You’ve gone soft.”

“Excuse me?” The look Five shot Thirteen was anything but, and the lanky Cipher had to grin at the severe expression directed his way.

“Gooey,” Thirteen elaborated, with a poke toward the Watcher’s stomach that was soundly slapped away. “All warm and fuzzy on the inside.” “And exactly what, pray tell, has led you to reach this thrilling conclusion?” Five did an admiral job of sounding bored, but the way he set down his bottle and subtly shifted his attention was telling.

Thirteen tilted his head, observing Five in silence for a time, speaking up only when he thought the other man was about to snap. “You watch him differently than you used to. There’s less…” he gestured vaguely around Five’s face with his free hand. “...blatant disgust? Hostility? Mistrust? Indifference? Tell me if I’m getting warm.”

Five’s lip curled in a sneer. “He’s earned himself a fraction more of my trust than I’d have originally credited him with being capable of, if that’s what you’re talking about. But it’s still largely your merit that earns him his keep.”

Thirteen found himself grinning a little more broadly. “I won’t argue that. But I think there might be something more to it.”

“Do you now.”

“I think that maybe you’ve come to realise that a few cybernetics don’t make someone any less of a man than they used to be,” Thirteen spoke casually, daring to do something he hadn’t in some long time, as he reached across with his glass to tap gently against Five’s gloved hand and acknowledge his Watcher’s replacement limb with the distinct chime of glass against metal.

He wasn’t quite sure why he did it. The fact that Five didn’t immediately lash out but instead thinned his lips and stared at him with the shocked indignance of an offended nexu, however, made him feel bold. “I also think,” Thirteen went on, gazing thoughtfully at the rim of his glass. “That maybe you’ve learned a few other things in the last little while. About taking people for granted. Or maybe about… what you risk, when you push things too hard.”

He flicked a cautious glance back toward Five, and found him caught up in a frightening stare that, perhaps for the first time in his life, made him truly grateful that the Watcher was not blessed with control of the Force. He did not particularly care to be an example of where lightning might strike twice.

Five’s bright, honey-brown gaze had never looked so intense, his breath achingly slow and measured as he silently dared Thirteen to speak further and more plain.

Thirteen stared back, letting himself feel the gravity of Five’s barely bridled rage, his fiercely compelling silence, and then slowly lifted his chin. “Tell me I’m wrong.”

Five’s left eye twitched.

Then he elegantly brought himself to his feet, and made a great show of dusting off his sleeve and fussing over his nails as though the conversation simply no longer mattered. “If that is the sort of drivel that comes out of you after a single strong drink, I daresay I am not the one who’s gone soft.”

Thirteen watched him leave, and once the Watcher was safely back indoors he finally let go of his breath, easing comfortably back into his seat with a private, smug little grin.

Well. Five hadn’t said he was wrong.

[yuriprince]

drawing ferdinand von aegir and going a little insane