#i promise you'll like fandom more if you focus on the happy parts of it and not the parts you hate

[torchickentacos]

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#the 'they would not fucking do that' meme is starting to feel like yall just wanna make fun of people's headcanons #but tumblr is not ready for that conversation lmao #'they wouldn't start a family' okay maybe that's just not your trope. i get it. not mine either usually #but like. maybe they WOULD in that person's fic! maybe we can learn to like that trope more!!! #idk man my creative philosophy has always been 'have fun and let everyone else have fun too' #like. i get so sad when people make a point to disagree with headcanons #maybe it's a specific sore spot for me after Situations and Circumstances #but just. we can all coexist. we don't need to prop one thing up as ULTIMATE 'HE WOULD DO THAT AND NOTHING ELSE' #it comes back to how canon is more important to some people than others #but we all have to coexist in the fandom spaces anyways and find ways to get along #we can have different ideas all meshing and coexisting!!! i do it with my friends every single day!!!!! #like!!! palletshipping and oakshipping are holding hands and skipping off into the sunset in my friend group #same with contest and respect. vibing #we make it work. we vibe with other people and have fun #i promise you'll like fandom more if you focus on the happy parts of it and not the parts you hate

[tilions]

hi emily, your star wars edits are amazing! I especially love the mandalorian one you posted yesterday. I was wondering if there's a tutorial for similar edits. I used to make edits in my fandom a bunch of years ago, but I'm totally out of the loop now. I would like to create stuff again though. any help would be greatly appreciated! thanks!

Hello! Thank you so much for your kind words 🌸 I'm glad you liked the Mando edit, I'm very happy with how it turned out too!

Unfortunately I have no idea whether there are tutorials on this kind of edits out there because I have kind of taught myself how to do them? It was a lot of try and error and figuring out stuff by messing around with different settings in different apps until I managed it. I've answered in this ask what kind of apps I use if you're interested in that!

As for my process it's very loose but it basically goes: having vague idea → looking for pictures that would work as a silhouette → cut out picture (aka transparent background) → make the cutout dark → look for colour palettes that would fit and select the colours → make a nice (gradient) background → mess around with composition of different elements → filter magic

More detailed attempt at an explanation under the cut!

As for how I do things this is the best thing I can offer:

The most difficult part here is to find an Image that also resembles the person in mono colour too (Hoods and capes can look nice but mostly just make the person shapeless).

I use PhotoRoom for this entire process of cutting out the picture because it's free and I don't want to pay a hundred bucks a year to do it on Canva

Just select a picture and let the program do its work then select the transparent background option

To reduce the lightness you have to select adjust, then tap on brightness and drag the bar to - 100 (you can try +100 if you want a white version but that doesn't always work)

An example in form of Ahsoka:

If the picture doesn't turn out the way you want it to you can edit the cutout in the app too!

Once done you'll have to remove the watermark PhotoRoom puts on the bottom right of the cutout but that's not the most difficult part

After this I go over to Canva and select the kind of edit I wanna make (there's offers like Poster or Story which I most commonly go with) and put the cutout image in there.

I then go to adjust → blur and drag the bar as far into negative as needed to make the image look sharper

The (gradient) background and composition I do on Canva as well and it may look difficult because there's so much in this app that is premium content but I promise I only use the free version and while I often have to get creative to realise my idea it's simply part of the process.

You'll have to do some digging until you find what you want, the search bar us your best friend. I can't really give you any better advice here because that's the real creative process and everyone does it differently.

It definitely helps to focus on the elements section (especially shapes and whatever else it can offer you in terms of graphics). Tip: Chose the ones where you can change the colours! Especially when you're working with a colour palette (something I definitely recommend looking for!)

Once I have assembled the picture in a way I like and it has the right colours and everything I go over to either PicsArt or InCollage for some filter magic (this is completely optional tho!)

I have no idea how helpful this was but I hope you could make sense of it somehow :) and good luck getting back into editing! It can be frustrating sometimes but also a lot of fun!

#asks #anon #i tried to make it as understandable as possible #dunno how well that worked

[lazy-sixteen]

Hiii it's me again, the one who asked about your HDM au, i just wanna ask a few questions. first ever since i read your AU, i immediately fell in love with the concept of DCST characters having Daemons, and was also the sole reason i gave the HBO series a watch (season 1 was great! Season 2 was pretty good) and is now a fan of the show, thanks to you!

Second, because i love the concept so much, I can't help but make my own version of it! But one problem, i have never ever wrote a fic before, im thinking of doing a simple oneshot first, but like i said, i have never wrote a story (at least in English) besides for school work. So where do i start? What should be my priorities? Will people really read this? Does it even HAVE to be a fic? First POV or Character POV? Or third party POV?

I have an idea in mind, where the setting is, the characters that are gonna interact, etc, I'm just really clueless on starting it. Can you help? Like maybe showing the thought process you went through writing the AU? Sorry if I ask to much, first time asking advice on something i normally don't do hehe

Hello again!!

I'm so glad you got into the whole his Dark Materials Universe (i still haven't seen the HBO series bc I promised someone I'd watch with them and we still havent gotten around to it, rip)!!

Second (and I'll preface this by saying, i write as a hobby, I'm def not an authority in the field), I think it's an awesome idea to try writing a fic and/or creating your own au!!

For me, the easiest way to start creating is to focus on what part I like the most. So like for the DCST au, it was thinking about what characters got what daemons and how the universe would change if crossed over with HDM. Or it's a fic with a plot, what scene came to me first. I feel like the hardest part of writing is starting, so it's best to just start with whatever idea is most vivid.

I have a bit of a weird writing process, in that I spend a lot of time just kinda daydreaming about my AUs, then I'll usually write down some very rough notes on them (like for this au, what daemons people had and how the culture would change, or for a fic with an original plot some scenes I want to include), and then I jump straight into writing a rough-draft that's pretty close to the final version.

I know a lot of people like writing kinda of a bullet point list of what scenes and plots they like -> rough draft -> edits -> final version.

Also, I think the priority when creating fan content is just do what makes you happy! Like fandoms have trends, so a fic might get more hits/kudos if it's the fandoms's OTP instead of a rarepair and most people like 3rd person POV best, etc but I always get the most enjoyment from people interacting with the fics that I enjoyed writing the most, even if they aren't as popular (aka all my DCST fics, lol).

So I'd say write whatever type of fic you want! Or don't, and just do some world-building of who has what daemons! Whether your content gets super popular or just a few people read it is kinda just luck of the draw, so don't stress about it.

Also just wanted to add that your English reads as really natural and fluent to me! (sorry I don't have any advice for writing in a second language, I'm a mere monolingual)

Thanks so much for asking, and hope I was able to help some! I for one really look forward to seeing anything you'll create (feel free to drop a link my inbox to whatever you make if you want)!

#long post #i don't know how much this helps the only writing advice i've ever given is helping my bro with his school essays #but i wish you the best of luck!!