hi just stopping in to say that i love your blog and your vibe so much and idk if ive ever said that!! the enjolras pic (one of my first big fandoms, such a special place in my heart), the steve rogers username, the hbowar posting...honestly absolutely immaculate!!! and you're just so COOL!!
okay just wanted to stop in i hope you have a great rest of your weekend byeeeee ✨️
💕💕💕💕 this is so sweet omg thank u!!!!!
that 2012-2016ish les mis & mcu run on here was sooo much fun — even though it’s been a minute since i’ve been active in those circles the username and icon are probably here to stay 😅 (and on that note… is your username a reference to THEEE dr. joly himself??)
love seeing you on the dash, you always remind me that we all need to get more serious about morelarkey right now!!!
hope you have a lovely weekend as well and thank you again for such a nice message! 🫶
hello!! i was wondering what software you use for making gifs/your process is, because HOT DIGGITY DAMN i just saw your bull gifset and it is soooooo crisp and clean and clear and gorgeous??? i am in love i am in awe im insane for them, thank you for gifting us with those beauties ❤️❤️
hi friend! thank you so much for your kind words, i really appreciate it!!! and i would love to share my giffing process! i'll put it under the cut bc i went a bit crazy:
before i get into my own process, i would really recommend looking at tutorials. a lot of really wonderful people on this site made detailed, comprehensive, and easy-to-understand tutorials for people to use.
some great gif making tutorials:
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@/usergif is also great resource for various gif tutorials!
SCREENCAPPING
1. i only gif from 1080p video files, which i get from various t*rrent sites. in my experience, a high quality file makes all the difference when making gifs!
one con here is higher quality means bigger file size (my bob file is about ~90GB and each episode is between 7-13GB; my tp file is ~60GB and each episode is between 5-6GB).
2. i use potplayer to screencap —
i used vlc for a long time but it does not have an easy to use continuous frame capture and i finally got tired of manually taking screencaps. potplayer has a good frame capture tool and it's given me very few problems.
3. my gifs are usually between 50-70 frames.
i capture every single frame of the scene i'm screencapping to avoid any choppiness in the gif. i also make sure that there are no duplicate or missing frames.
most gifs over 50 frames tend to be larger than tumblr's 10MB limit, but i'll get into that later.
MAKING GIFS
4. i use photoshop to make my gifs —
if you don't already have ps, i've heard of some universities who provide an adobe subscription to its students or you can obtain it Completely Legally in other ways! (check out @/iniziareold, but please do your own research before making a decision)
5. the first tutorial in the bulleted list goes into various methods of loading frames into ps: loading frames into stack, loading them as dicom files, or video extraction. i personally load all of my frames into stack — it's the way i learned and i've never tried the other methods.
6. i crop my gif with the appropriate tumblr dimensions. here are the dimensions.
7. i use ps actions for tedious tasks such as animating frames. here's a tutorial on actions (that includes helpful actions you can download)!
one thing i want to add here is i always make sure my gif is timed at 0.05 seconds!
8. once the gif is made, sharpening is next. i sharpen before i do any coloring. i do two passes of smart sharpen:
COLORING
9. coloring is a WHOLE other beast. if you (or anyone else reading this) wants a coloring tutorial from me, please let me know and i think i might be able to whip something up! i can't get into it here or else this post would be monstrously long.
here's a really good coloring tutorial!
10. the primary adjustments i add are exposure, levels, color balance, curves (i usually add about two layers of curves)
11. sometimes i'll add selective color and/or hue/saturation adjustments as well.
my number one piece of advice is to PRACTICE. find out what looks good to you and keep working at it!
EXPORTING
12. once i've made my gif, sharpened it, and colored it, then it's time to export it —
i usually keep my gifs at 256 colors, but i've gotten away with 128 colors before. it really just depends on the coloring of the gif/the quality of the source file.
13. these are my export settings:
sometimes i'll use selective color instead of adaptive— it just depends on the coloring.
14. if my gif is larger than 10MB, lossy compression is my best friend!
10-15% lossy usually works for me. i never use more than 20%!
15. if lossy is not working, then it becomes a matter of deleting frames, reducing the amount of colors in the export page, or coloring the gif a different way.
16. once the gif is timed correctly, colored to my liking, and exported, then it's time to post it! (or let it sit in my drafts for months...)
CLOSING
i hope this was helpful! thank you again for your kind words <3 please feel free send me an ask or dm me if you have any more questions!
you know those mutuals where like...they've just? always been there?
like you dont really know them, you've never personally interacted with them, and lord knows you cant remember when you ever started following them or what fandom it was for or any of that
but every so often you see them around, kinda like two dudes in high school who high five when they pass each other in the hallway
and even if you leave tumblr for years you come back and see them on your dash or activity and its just like "oh hey you're still here!! its good to see you!!!"
well for a long while, that has been!! you!!
especially as i swing wildly through hyperfixations, it always is such a joy to see you around and to know that i haven't managed to scare you off yet 😅
but the thing is, i dont think i ever quite realized just how long we've been mutuals, you know?
oh sure i figured it was before i took a bit of a hiatus a few years back, but i really wouldnt have been able to tell you anything more specific than that.
not that it has ever mattered - seeing your username no matter how long i had been away from the hellsite has always brought me great comfort! almost as if a signal that yup, the place you know is still here
but what i didnt know was just how long it HAD been?
anyways, a friend and i were just talking about when we had joined tumblr, and it started me going back through my archive and looking at some of the first posts i ever reblogged
when out of the corner of my eye i saw:
i...
october 3, 2012.
eleven and a half years.
can you believe that? how quickly the time has gone, and yet it also feels like it was a distant lifetime ago?
how tumblr has grown and changed in the last eleven and a half years, how fandoms have grown and changed, how we have changed?
but also, for me, the craziest thing?? is that i joined tumblr on september 30th, 2012.
and barely four days later, and i had already found and followed you.
i just...
i don't know, it struck me, you know? how amazing it is that two strangers could quietly bump into each other on occasion for so long, that it becomes such a part of your life that you don't even realize it. that the things that stay constant, no matter how occasional, can bring such comfort and joy
that you have been here with me for my entire tumblr journey - from my earliest superwholock days until now.
...anyways, i didn't really mean to ramble, i just wanted to say, after eleven and a half years:
hi!
you're great!
im happy that you're here!
and i hope you have an AMAZING DAY!!!
and i cannot WAIT to continue to see you around!!!! ✨✨✨✨✨
with love,
em / whollyjoly / misspizazz / whatever the hell else i've been over the years 🥰
Oh my freakin fuck, it's been that long?!?!
It's been an absolute delight bumping into you throughout this Tumblr journey, and I'm more surprised I haven't scared YOU off, especially after my not-so-brief hiatus from the site then sudden return screaming about... fuckin...? Idk.
HOWEVER! You are also great! I'm happy you're here too!!! It's been a DELIGHT watching your blog evolve over the years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you SO much for this absolutely adorable reminder and sticking with me on this long ass train ride around the internet 😊💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
okay okay so for that bob ask game... 1, 4, 7, and cause i GOTTA know, 17 👀👀👀👀👀
all the love in the world! ✨
EEEEEEEEMMMMMMMM!!!!!!! *PTERODACTYL SCREECH AS I TACKLE HUG YOU*
1. Favorite episode?
CURRAHHEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! Just guys being dudes trying to be paratroopers and being adorable with each other 🥺❤️💖 also crossroads and replacements and day of days and-
4. Which character do you relate to the most?
OOF uuummmmm.... Honestly it might be Luz, just always being able to find something to laugh about, enjoying being friends with everyone, just happy to be here 🥰
7. How did you first find out about the show?
@dontirrigateme recommended we watch it after we watched the X-Men first class movies!!! Best. Decision. EVER.
17. Be honest - what do you think of Sobel?
So like, it's fun to banter about Sobel being an asshole and stuff, but tbh I feel bad for him. I heard he had a hard life both before and after the war, so it was hard for him to relate to others, which had to feel isolating as fuck. Like it doesn't excuse him doing asshole things, but it certainly explains it, y'know?
Thank you so much for the ask Em!!!! You're amazing and I love you!!!! 😍💓💗
shuffle your favorite playlist and post the first five songs that come up. then copy/paste this ask to your favorite mutuals <3
@ronsenthal @sweetxvanixlla @panzershrike-pretz AAAAAAAAAAAA THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH FOR THE ASKS!!! I'm sorry it's taken me so long to do them! 🫠 Ok so since four of y'all sent the ask I'll do 20 songs!! I'll only link four tho (one for each ask 💗) to keep the post short lmao (place your bets now for how many of the songs are by Queen 🤣)
Tura Lu by the Bollox
2. I Want to Break Free by Queen
3. Lola by the Kinks
4. Come Together by the Beatles
5. Wellerman Sea Shanty by Nathan Evans
6. My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up) by Fall Out Boy
7. Choose Your Fighter by Ava Max
8. Mississippi Queen by Mountain
9. Super Max! YoHe, YoHo! by the Pitstop Boys
10. Brain Stew by Green Day
11. I'm Going Slightly Mad by Queen (fun fact! This is the song that inspired my URL!)
12. Tie Your Mother Down by Queen
13. Fight From the Inside by Queen
14. Pompeii by Bastille
15. Famout Last Words by My Chemical Romance
16. Dance, Dance by Fall Out Boy
17. One Last Drink by Enter the Haggis
18. Brighton Rock by Queen
19. One Vision by Queen
20. Every Time We Touch by Cascada
A grand total of 6/20 songs were Queen!!
Thank you lovely humans again for the asks 🥺 I love each of you more than you knowwww!!!!!
oh you said single dad buck kinkley au and i got IMMEDIATELY HOOKED holy SHIT i LOVE THAT SO MUCH ✒️✒️✒️
Yeah!!! Single Dad Buck!!
Buck pulled out his phone, and dialed Pepa, who answered immediately, and he explained carefully that he and the 118 were on a longer call and they might not make it off their shift in time for him to pick Chris up immediately after.
“You are coming home, though,” Pepa said with no room for argument. “I won’t explain to that boy why he’s lost another parent, Evan Buckley. Is that understood?”
“Yes, Pepa,” he agreed. “I’ll come home. I’m just going to be a bit late. Make sure he does his math homework and I’ll be there as soon as I can. We’re still going to see Shannon and Eddie, and everything we planned.”
Send me a ✒️ and a wip title/code name and I’ll write three sentences on that wip and you get the sentences
