is jumping up and down a form of stimming? i recently realized that i have adhd (predominantly inattentive) and when i'm alone and i see something that excites me or makes me happy, i get up from my chair (very often) and just start jumping and shaking my hands. i don't really do the jumping thing in front of other people, because they might think it's weird to see an older teenager jumping when excited. but if i could, i would jump all day in front of everyone because it makes me feel better :)
Sent 22nd June~
Yes, that’s absolutely a way of stimming! And I know what you mean about feeling self conscious about it, but I’m glad it makes you feel better! ❤️
PAT???? YOU STARTED T??????? DUDE THAT'S SO FUCKING AWESOME I'M SO FUCKING HAPPY FOR YOU IM LITERALLY HAPPY STIMMING FOR YOU RN AAAHHHH <3
YESSS I DID!!!! My t date is January 12th, 2022 and I'm so happy and excited. I already have some peach fuzz growing and I've got tummy hair growing,,, and my hairdresser yesterday told me that there was a lot more hair on my neck this time!!! Which is exciting!!!! I just took my third shot today and then I take my fourth next wednesday. Then the week after that I start the gel!!! I'm so fucking happy and excited!!!
If you're wondering why I'm changing to the gel it's because my dad has to do my shots for me and he's busy often, so it's kind of a hassle. So I switched to the gel. Just gotta wait 2 more weeks and then I can start it fully. I already have it but I wanna finish my shots first you know? Anyways I'm rambling hJHRFNJRNF I'll stop now but if you wanna know more you can ask!
hiii i love the gifs you make!!!! i was wondering if you could explain how you made them? links to tutorials work too!! :D
hey yes ofc!! i’ve included some general info & links first then there’s a step by step process with screenshots of how i make gifs! ~~ this is just a basic gif tutorial, i didn’t go into colouring or adding text etc because it was already so long but if you wanted to know any of that stuff just lmk!
general info:
for drag race gifs i’ll usually screen record from wowpresentsplus but this site is great if you want to actually download the eps (they have untucked, all stars etc too)
for youtube videos the 4k video downloader is my go to
i’d highly recommend downloading vlc media player! especially if you’re making gifs from downloaded videos
i use photoshop cc 2018, but if you don’t have photoshop yet here’s a masterlist (i tried so many before finding one that worked for my laptop so don’t worry if it doesn’t work first time ^.^)
gif making:
1. if you’ve only got a short video you can skip this step! but to start off with i’ll use vlc media player to cut the video into smaller clips (this makes it easier when you’re using photoshop later but its also helpful for planning gifsets!)
- for this make sure you have advanced controls on: ‘view’ --> ‘advanced controls’
- open your video then find the scene you want, click the red record button to start recording and stop once you’ve got your clip (i recommend recording about 10 seconds before the clip you want starts as it takes a second to start recording sometimes)
photoshop time! i have a small laptop so my layout might look different to yours and if this is your first time using ps you’ll need to select all of these from ‘window’
2. click ‘file’ --> ‘import’ --> ‘video frames to layers’, open your video clip and you can either use the whole clip (select ‘from beginning to end’) or fine tune it more with the trim controls! (doesn’t have to be exact as you can delete frames later), once you’re ready click OK!
3. play the gif through then delete any frames you don’t want from the timeline. around this time i’ll also go to layers, select all the layers and group them together with the folder button. then i’ll select all the frames and adjust the speed (the little arrow at the bottom of the frames); i have 61 frames in this gif so i changed it to 0.06
4. cropping and resizing! select the crop button from the tool bar on the left, then change the ratio at the top to whatever your heart desires (i want this gif to be wide so i didn’t crop it much!) once i’ve cropped i’ll play it through to double check im happy then select all the frames and click ‘convert to video timeline’. now go to the top bar and click ‘image’ --> ‘image size’ --> and make sure its set to ‘pixels’!!!!
i changed the width to 540 as its only 1 gif but for a row of 2 gifs i tend to do 300 each and for 3 i do 178
5. sharpening! make sure the group 1 folder is selected then go to ‘filter’ --> ‘convert for smart filters’, then back to filter --> ‘sharpen’ --> ‘smart sharpen’ . these are my usual settings but i’ll adjust the radius to 0.3 for some gifs if it looks too much.
[side note: you can also change the speed through the timeline menu after converting to video timeline if you prefer]
6. saving the gif! go to ‘file’ --> ‘export’ --> ‘save for web’. i keep it on ‘4up’ so i can easily compare the gif quality to other options. most of the time i’ll end up using ‘diffusion’ with dither at 100%, but sometimes i’ll swap to pattern.. its a gif by gif basis really! sometimes if the gif is close to 10mb i’ll save it with pattern as that tends to be lower ^^ also make sure looping is set to forever! otherwise the gif will play once then stop :p
7. thats the basic gif done!! now i’d save it to my drafts to check the speed is alright before reopening it on photoshop and colouring it!
(dammit i wish gang rhymed with pan and man) (well in my boring american accent it doesn't but you have an english accent i'm assuming and so it almost rhymes??)
AYO PAN MAN GANG 💖💛💙
(and yes it definitely rhymes i got slightly confused when u said it didn’t lol) (well in my accent at least)
I can't tell if this is a joke song made by a queer man or if it's a genuine hate song but either way I love it and I will be adding it to my playlist.
Thank you for sharing, honey. This certainly gave me a much needed laugh.
