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*lies down* last post on this topic i swear but like. i’m still 2 months old blog and baby gifmaker so falksjdlk is there an spn gifmakers discord cos like. pls. after today we need one

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i love each and every one of my followers and i think you can and should engage with content the way you choose. whenever i post something that talks abt how reblogs matter more than likes i hope you all understand that i am saying this for the fraction of ppl who may be used to the social norms of something like instagram or twitter and don’t know how best to support a content creator’s work, NOT for people who simply just don’t want to rb everything they see. i hope you understand that i am not belittling you for the way you use this website. <3 i just want to preface everything with this.

at the same time, however, telling me that gifmaking is sooo easy, that gifmakers getting their work stolen isn’t a big deal, that what we do is somehow less worthy of respect because we’re just “””recoloring footage””” or whatever fundamentally is a form of belittlement. i cannot tell you how sad it makes me to hear stuff like that because people who say such things have no idea what monumental barriers to entry there are to gifmaking. do you know what export settings are best for your computer specs? pattern, diffusion??? what dither and matte color does the gif require? do you want color selection to be done via adaptive or selective or with computer-built-in colors? what about when tumblr ultimately compresses your gifs and down-selects your colors? what settings are best then?? do these settings always hold true or is this only good for the gif you’re currently working on? do you hop on vpn to pirate footage?? do you torrent for hours only to find out it’s in a video format incompatible with your computer so you must also go and find a new video player that can play the footage you downloaded as well as a media encoder to export clips in a format your computer can read without compressing the video quality?? do you have enough space on your laptop for this??? do you need an external drive to support everything you’re doing? is this gif under 10mb?? how are you going to balance the number of frames with the number of colors with the gif dimensions to make it uploadable to tunglr dot com? what aspect of this gif are you sacrificing today to make it even viewable on this hellsite??? if you have a laptop that only lets you export in internal dimensions how will this impact the quality of your gif? do you need to double-quadruple the gif dimensions to keep the same resolution and therefore need to sacrifice even more frames or colors??? do you even HAVE access to photoshop or do you need to also pirate it in some way???!?!

coloring is only one MINISCULE part of a long and tedious process that takes years and months to master and hours to execute. weeks if you want to execute it well. so do not give me that bullshit about how gifmaking is "””just recoloring footage””” bc that is a form of belittlement i will not tolerate. if you follow me for my creations, i love you. you do NOT have to rb every single one of them to show your appreciation. however, please respect my barest minimum wishes that you do not repost them and respect the time and effort i put in to my work, including not belittling me and my friends with claims that what we gifmakers do is some kind of easy peasy hobby and therefore less worthy of respect.

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challenge: from your creations, choose gifs and do a split of before and after adding your coloring. sorry about the confusing layout of the last gif lmfao. in order of appearance they come from: x, x, x, x, x

tagged by: the incredible incredible @winterfrosted and @holmesemrys. thank u both!!! i had so much fun doing this and also like this is my favorite thing i’ve ever been tagged in. i love showing ppl how much god damn work we put in to our sets.

commentary: i started posting on this url in the middle of high school. i basically posted for like 6 months straight and giffed mostly for yuri on ice the anime. then i left tumblr after the whole algorithm randomly flagging gifsets as p*rn and blocking ppl from seeing them thing, and now i am returning once again. it’s kinda hard to track progress when u have that big of a gap in creationing but i do think i’ve improved tremendously and i’m still doing my best to learn new things!

tagging: @nefeviibata, @sourpatchdean, @alivedean, @bluefirecas, @burnhamandtilly, @klinejack, @ccstiel, @cosmiccas, @deanglrl, @heavengate, @bisexualsam, @forthiswholeworld, @nuntox, @violetgrace, @haloless, @debriefingspn, + anyone who wants to do it!! this is a really cool tag game ;w; i tried to @ ppl who i think haven’t been already tagged/haven’t done this yet but no pressure and sorry if u already did this/already got tagged!!

peer pressure tagging @casjpg, @seraphcastiel, @smiledean, @mishha, i know u whores have alr been tagged but im peer pressuring u 💜💜(but srsly no pressure if u honestly dont wanna do it)

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spn writers 🤝 got writers

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sORRY for being super offline and relying on queue the last couple days! i moved in to a new apartment for job and have been settling in/taking care of new hire onboarding business. will try my best to finish submissions to sabweek and spnwomenweek and also go through my tag too god bless everyone for tagging me in ur beautiful things ;w;

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i feel like there’s a long overdue convo in here somewhere abt how fandom spaces (both historically and currently) haven’t been the most friendly towards fans of color particularly fans of color who are also fandom critical but also like. i’m too tired rn

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flajdjasd i hate it here

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i’m only on ep 3 and i think so far they’ve done such a good job improving on the og trilogy and tHE SOUNDTRACK SLAPS SO HARD but like. why the casual racism everywhere. whyw hyw hyw hwy WHY