#three now

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firefighter publisher masterlist coming … i have two asks about them which will be completed

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I CAUGHT. ANOTHER FIGHTING TYPE.

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Obligatory 8 months on HRT progress pic cross-post with bonus Blair Witch for my tumblristas ✌️

Feels fuckin’ good, y’all

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Nearly a week ago I published a gifset I’m really proud of and am happy has resonated with people. I started working on it on New Years Eve, just before going off to my end of year celebrations and worked every day towards that January 12 goal even as life got busy because I felt like this was the most fitting tribute I could give on a birthday that Naya herself sadly never got to see. While putting the pieces together, I thought it’d be interesting to document at least a slice of the process that took so long.

This video you see now is on times 64 speed so you can imagine how long some of these segments took in reality. By my calculation this is little over 4 hours of footage but the actual thing took about 3-4 times as much. It’s hard to say, really, but I will share that I listened to the audiobook of Naya’s autobiography while making this set, and could have probably done so twice or three times. The most important thing isn’t time, of course, I just wanted to share that piece of information, too.

In particular because listening to Naya talk about her life while trying to encapsulate some of it in the form of gifs was strangely yet understandably cathartic. I’ve listened to bits and pieces of the book before, when else if not in 2020 but I wanted to “save” the whole thing for later. Save it for what, people often asked me when I told them. The right time, I suppose. And sometimes, those right times just click, as was the case here. I couldn’t have chosen a better time to immerse myself in the book and Naya’s voice and a whole life being contained in so little. Though that second gif of her early career is not featured in the footage as that was the one I started with, I will say that I knew this was the only way to do this when giffing The Royal Family as she recalled her experience on set. Giffing this particular tribute and listening to the book, these two could only come hand in hand and how fitting it is that they did.

Anyway, the point of this post is really just to share, as a sort of fun fact and also as further catharsis, the behind the scenes of one of my most important sets. When I originally thought of the idea and envisioned the layout of her credits, I thought, nah, too complicated. But a voice in my head said that it was doable, that it deserved to be done and I’m glad I listened because even though you can’t capture the essence of a life, even a tragically short one in a gifset, I’m glad to have created this tribute. I have more thoughts on this set, as well as a first draft version of the very first one I started working on. And thoughts like the TV sets changing to reflect the passing of time or the attention to detail I tried to pay to every role, every small aspect. How the Glee gif especially just clicked. How the second gif background is her first TV interview and the fourth is, in a way, her last. But, I suppose, that’s enough yapping for now and I can always just come back to this later. For now, be safe and be cool.

P.S.: sound on maybe

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Not me looking at Rhaenrya's and Daemon's child like they're my own, and not me feeling so proud of Luce, Jace, Joffrey, Baela and Rhaena of how they're good kiddos <3

I can't say the same about Alicent's, but I will say, someone save Helaena, my poor angel.

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