#look at me saying i'm gonna make a gifset and actually following through on it

[redstringraven]

#someone meta about don and raph and their non verbal communication for me (@isitdonproof, on this post)

i'll take a swing at it from the context of this moment specifically, mostly because 1) i think we can agree that all the boys communicate with each other non-verbally to varying extents AND do it differently depending on the bro-combination, and 2) if i start combing through the series for more examples, this'll devolve into a much longer post. it's already gotten long, so forgive me.

uuh, this'll also be pulling a lot from my previous enneagram discussion, but i'll do my best to be to-the-point, so you can follow along without reading my other nonsense.

i checked the episode just in case and the gifset doesn't show it, but don looks down at raph first. then raph tilts his head back to look up at him. this kiiind of disrupts the immediate concept that came to my head, but i'm gonna follow through with it anyway. disclaimer that their enneagram placements are headcanons of mine because that's of course not officially listed anywhere, feel free to disagree, etcetera.

raph's an 8; 8s are very alert to where the 'power' in the room is, because their own power/autonomy/sense of control is integral to them. they also want the truth and don't appreciate it when information is withheld "for their protection", because if they don't have all the details how can they hope to control the situation?

don is a 5; 5s are very objective and capable of responding to problems rather than reacting to them (whereas the other three tend to be reactive types). they will look at a situation and shoot straight with you whether it hurts your feelings or not.

raph and don are connected on the enneagram web, because an 8's stress number is a 5 and a 5's security number is an 8. i'm not gonna dive into that again here, just know that it means they're capable of sharing behaviors and traits; it's one of the reasons i'm not too fond of the idea that don and raph are "opposites". they're on different wavelengths, yes, but not opposing ones. and as i mentioned in don's enneagram post, i think it's the 5's ability to be objective that makes raph much more receptive to being 'called out' by don rather than leo or mikey; he knows don will be straightforward and not tap-dance around things, which is something an 8 values.

returning to the gifset, this interaction takes place a minute or so before leo's lowest moment in the series. splinter says "for months now, you have been brooding, surly, and stubborn" but it's when leo says "yeah. right." that raph and don actually pause and look up. the following exchanged glance, in my opinion, is don and raph checking with each other.

splinter is trying to get through to leo, and leo is pushing back. but he's not just pushing back, he's being outright disrespectful--he tells splinter that his lesson 'stinks' and his overall tone is aggressive. there's a power shift happening in the room.

up to this point in the season, raph's been growing increasingly hostile toward leo's change in behavior. at first he found it amusing (s4ep1), but in the prior episode, samurai tourist, he said leo was "going mental". in that same episode mikey came to leo's defense and pushed back on that statement; after that it seems raph backs off leo's case a little (through what dialogue we get). don, on the other hand, has been distant and avoidant when it comes to addressing leo and his *vague gesturing* everything.

since this moment comes after mikey's push-back, this feels to me like raph sensing an upcoming explosion from leo, but maybe pausing to think "am i judging him too harshly again by expecting the worst?". so, he looks up at don as though to silently ask "am i being a bonehead and jumping the gun, or is something about to happen?" only to find don is looking back down at him. don's not shaking his head or signalling to raph that he's wrong to have this reaction. instead, he's maybe looking to see if leo's backtalk has warranted something more than a growl or an eye roll from raph--a sign that this is something to be alarmed of.

in that glance: raph's getting from don that his intuition is correct and it's not his frustration with leo triggering again, and don is getting from raph that there's been a power-shift and something beyond an argument is about to happen.

tl;dr: yo i'mma check his vibe... --bAD VIBE--

i hope this made sense HFJKDHSJKG.

#tmnt 2003 #;hannah's meta #;tmnt #;donatello #;raphael #[ i guess i should also link this as an addendum on their respective enneagram posts ] #[ sorry if this is a mess; my birds were screaming for half of it and my brain flew out the window e-e;; ] #[ *crawls back to trying to finish my comic pages before bed* ]

[thebonerpit]

Idk if anyone follows my posts enough to even notice this but you may have seen me talking about a lot of new things I've watched so far this year, both tv and film. I kind of made a mini resolution to do this because I found, especially at the end of 2023, that I was stuck in a rut of either rewatching old things or mindlessly flipping through YouTube videos I had little to no interest in. There's so much media out there I'm interested in and now I feel almost reinvigorated to go through it and I've been having a blast.

Most of the time I'll probably just reblog a gifset or two with thoughts in the tags but I finally watched the Interview with the Vampire tv show and I have FEELINGS (mostly good)! Spoilers for season one and I do talk about book things that eventually happen so beware in case you don't know and want to continue the show completely blind...

So I kinda put off watching this at first because the Vampire Chronicles books are some of my favourites, and while it did have its own issues, the 1994 film holds a special place in my heart. I was like... do we really need anything else? But I'm glad I gave it a chance because the show was able to go so much further in so many aspects and also now we have a chance to actually see even more of the book events take place!

I'm gonna say up front that almost every character felt very different from how they are in the book except for Lestat. Lestat was actual perfection and I cannot BELIEVE someone did a (dare I say) even better job than Tom Cruise who gave the performance of his life in the film. Sam Reid's Lestat is unhinged and dramatic and terrifying and sad and cringe and yet also loveable and it was a masterpiece of acting. For the majority of the other characters I really didn't mind the differences and in some instances I thought they were actually improved. Daniel Molloy, for example, who is basically Anthony Bourdain? Perfection. Louis who is yes kind of pathetic and dramatic like the book, but also is volatile and complicated which Lestat is drawn to right from the beginning instead of only after having his little breakdown caused by his brother's death? Excellent. Armand who is older and looks nothing like the Armand described in the books but I can see without any problem how Marius fell madly deeply insanely in love with him because he's GORGEOUS and has this unsettling serenity about him? Give. Me. MORE.

The only issue I really had was with Claudia. I see people praising her all over the place so I'm sure this is an unpopular opinion but I hated that they aged her up so much. The most compelling thing about Claudia as a character is that she is an adult woman trapped in the body of a literal CHILD. A pre-pubescent child. Not a teenager. It's absolutely horrifying and it should be horrifying. Now, I will say, I saw an article where they talked about part of the reason behind this choice being that they needed the actor to work longer hours and it was impossible for a kid to do that, plus the very intense material, and I fully FULLY support any protections for child actors because the industry is insane. But it does make me sad and I wish there was some way they could have worked around it. I get what they tried to do with teenage Claudia but it just fell flat for me. And also the actress really looks her age (I think she's 20?) so like the few times where people were making fun of her for "playing dress up" or whatever I'm like... she fully looks like an older teen at LEAST what are you talking about lol. Also I thought her accent was kind of bad.

But honestly, that was really the only problem I had with the whole series. I absolutely loved how they went full-on explicit with the Lestat/Louis romance and the chemistry between the two of them was... WOOF. I was actually really interested in the modern portions too, mostly because Anthony Bour-- I mean Daniel Molloy was so entertaining lol. I loved how he pushed and pushed at Louis and their whole back and forth was brilliant. Although putting on my archivist's hat for a second to be outraged at Daniel consenting to wearing the cotton gloves to handle the diaries but then eating a fucking sandwich right beside the book???? Absolutely not lol. It was so much fun to see the Armand reveal (which I was spoiled for somehow but that's ok) especially knowing that Armand eventually turns Daniel and boy oh boy I hope they go long enough to get to that. I loved the continued references to Lestat's love of music which makes me hope they're planting seeds to make rock star Lestat a little more believable lol (god can you even imagine?? And we don't talk about the Queen of the Damned movie ok).

As for S2, I'm so excited for Paris and the Théâtre des Vampires and HELLO Ben Daniels as Santiago!!! Omg so hype for that. And it's going to be so interesting to see the Armand/Louis relationship as well because I mean it's always going to be Lestat/Louis and Armand/Marius for me so Louis being like "he's the love of my life"... girl. (And speaking of Armand/Marius please GOD give us some flashbacks because they are my Vampire Chronicles OTP and I need to see that whole story including my girl Bianca thank youuuuu).

Yeah so overall I'm quite positive about the whole thing and sincerely hope that they get many more seasons because there's so many interesting stories in those books and we've only ever gotten a TINY portion on screen.

#tbptalks #interview with the vampire #in addition to watching new things i'm apparently also reverting to my livejournal days and writing long rambly posts about media lol #i like throwing my opinions into the void ok sometimes i just need to get them out there #and when i have a lot to say i don't like using the tags on someone else's post

[raiderlucy]

3 7 10 14 22 34 50

3: Pick your 5 favourite creations and explain what you love the most about them!

🖤 ok I know I bring this one of Max and Steve to the table every time I'm asked about my fave gifsets but I still just look at it in awe sometimes I love how it came out so much.

💜 this one of Dustin featuring Eddie, when I first got this song on the Spotify requests I didn't know how I was going to make it fit but I think I pulled it off (even if it hurts lol), I loved the effects of the film strip overlay and also how the colours came out on it.

🖤 this one featuring Nancy because the minute I discovered this song I knew it fit her to a tee.

💜 this yellowjackets gifset the song fits perfectly for them, the blending possibly someone of my finest and I love how the black white and red colours compliment each other.

🖤 and finally this Steve set, because who doesn't love a bewildered babygirl?

7: What is something you want to develop in your future creations?

I'd always say colour because it never feels like I get it as good as others sometimes but also maybe transitions and layouts more too.

10: An old creation that will always have a special place in your heart

see that's a tough decision right there because I've got 11, actually wait I think maybe 12 years of gifmaking under my belt and I can barely remember the gifsets I made in the last week lol, erm let's see (*spends forever scrolling through phone because I'm not on my desktop*) ah here we go, the year was 2014 and this chick just discovered how to use the selective colour layer in Photoshop to make her GIFs bright and bold and she had just got into the walking dead, I've come a long way since this gifset lol

14: A fandom you want to create more content for!

At the minute yellowjackets seeing as I'm rewatching it, I feel like me giffing stranger things though always outweighs everything else I try to get into giffing (hence why the other day I asked for requests outside of it lol)

22: A creation that was difficult to make (but worthwhile!)

I'm gonna cheat a little here and say the entirety of my 4k celebration GIFs, because it took me roughly 6 months to complete it, some of them taking up to a week to individually make because Photoshop hated me making these lol

34: Favourite individual gif from a set you’ve created!

I've got 2 faves that currently come to mind both from yellowjackets;

The first is from one of my five faves above, I love how the water ripple effect came out, and second from my latest yellowjackets set I just really love how I managed to blend her face almost perfectly like that

50. Self-loving time: show us a creation you want your followers to see

if you haven't seen it already check out my latest gifset, a Steve parallel depicting just how smart our fave boy really is 😘

Ask me some creator questions 😉✨

#this took me forever to type out on my phone but it was with it lol #asks #ask games #softasawhisper

[chappelroans]

I have a question! If you don’t mind. I love your gifsets, they look amazing. I was wondering if you would be able to provide tips on how to overlay multiple scenes and still keep both scenes looking clear and detailed despite overlapping?

hi! im going to turn this into a tutorial (which is probably more long-winded than you were looking for but oh well). if you're confused about anything just lmk!

(this tutorial is estimated at intermediate level. it is under the assumption that you have basic gif making understanding)

we are going to be working with two gifs of greta (my beloved). try to pick lighter/medium light gifs until you start to feel more confident with coloring

these gifs have no color, speed, or anything added to them, so this is your absolute baseline gif

go ahead and group each gif's layers into one. to do that, go to the toolbar above: select - all layers - group all layers (if you are using a mac you can hit command - shift - G). name them whatever you want, but make sure each gif has a different group name because we are going to be stacking them and it will get confusing if they're both Group 1

once the layers are grouped, we are going to go to the timeline of one gif, click the icon with three horizontal lines, click select all frames. it should highlight all of your frames in blue.

then you are going to click the same icon on the timeline and select 'copy frames'

next you're going to move into the next gif you want to use and follow the same process (timeline icon - select all frames) the only thing different is that you are going to select paste frames instead of copy frames!!!

click on 'paste over selection' and hit OK

your toolbar to the side should look like this, with group 1 and group 2 together. once they are together on the same tab, you can rearrange them however you want.

next, go through your normal editing process. i'm putting what i used below

now we are going to get into the actual blending. this took a little bit for me to learn but i followed tutorials similar to this and now i'm fairly comfortable with my process. everyone does it differently so feel free to workshop it!

go up to your toolbar on the lefthand side and grab your dotted ellipse selection tool (should be around the crop button). draw a circle around your gif (you can do whatever size you want; sometimes i only do a person, sometimes i do the entire gif. doing the entire gif allows you to erase more if you want to)

then head up to the toolbar at the top and hit select - refine edge - and then fiddle with the settings until you like it (it really doesn't matter that much just go with your gut tbh)

after you hit OK, head down to your workspace on the right and at the bottom there is a circle inside of a square. this is a mask and it's super important for blending. click it. now you should see a vector mask on top of one of your groups of choice (mine is on group one)

now it's free time! use your eraser tool to make your masked gif more transparent, or use your paintbrush tool to bring some areas into focus. i use large eraser and paint brushes with low opacity and just click and drag until i like what i have

next, before we go forward, we need to make sure our 2 separate groups are actually 1 group. to do this, you're going to use the same method from earlier (select all layers - group layers or command - shift - G). now it should say 'group 3'. that's perfect.

now, go back to that horizontal icon in your timeline. find 'convert to video timeline' and it will change your individual frames into one long gray bar. we do NOT want it to be gray, so to change that and make it editable we scroll up to the top toolbar, find 'filter', and click 'convert for smart filters'. this will turn your timeline purple. that's perfect! now its editable.

now we want to change the frame rate (otherwise it's gonna be super slow and laggy). go back to that timeline horizontal icon (man i use this a lot more than i think...i need a new name for it) and there should be something that says 'timeline frame rate' or something similar. when you click it, you're going to see a pop-up that asks the fps. change that baddie to 10 (it will probably be at 30 before you change it...that's gross don't keep that)

now we can sharpen! sharpening is SUPER important and its what makes the gifs crisp, even when on top of each other. besides coloring, sharpening is the best thing to do for great quality.

at the top, find 'filter'. scroll down to 'sharpen', hit 'smart sharpen' and my personal settings are on the right there. use them if you want, they're a pretty standard setting that i actually got from other users

now your gif is super crisp!!! the BEST thing to do now is change the image size. this is going to make it a little bit sharper and more defined since we are reducing the size but keeping the sharpened settings. you must always do sharpening before image resizing to get the best gif results.

(as a final touch to keep speed correct, i will save the gif and then reopen it, change the timeline speed to .05, and save again. if that's confusing just lmk)

and voila! you're done! this is the final gif. she's clear, she's crisp, she's beautiful. we love.

#ps tutorial #photoshop tutorial #tutorial #asks #long post

[lolexjpg]

dts s2 e4-6

e4: -sorry seb's "says who?" at the start of episode (in response to ferrari telling him what to do) GAGGED sets the tone for the episode PERFECTLY -mattia talks about monza the way indy drivers talk abt the 500 lmao -the whole "there is no #1 driver" bit makes me think hey r there parallels to be drawn between sebchal here and alonso/hamilton in 2007? just thinkin about it -before i get to far i want to share some thoughts: when i first watched this episode with NO prior knowledge it was rly hard to follow. after i heard about the specifics of the ferrari engine controversy (cheating), for the second watch i remember this episode suddenly clicking for me! this episode would've benefitted so much from a will buxton monologue explaining the juicy details for a newish viewer. i understand that there might have been pressure from ferrari to not include those details but it is such a shame, to have such a core piece of information missing and viewers have to try to piece together the narrative without it :/ -HI LAURA WINTER -very much get the impression that seb is like the family member who notices the generational trauma and going hey maybe we should change things to stop that and gets exiled from the family instead :) those sure are the vibes -HI CHARLOTTE -im sorry the back to back "seb has a lack of confidence with the car. and charles' car is not performing" like theyre the same car but you're gonna frame it like its seb's fault but not charles's? mattia choke -at the part where they're explaining the engine controversy--i still stand by wishing they explained it better and EARLIER because i think its much needed context for the first half of the episode too -at the end of the day all i need to know is that seb clearly thought that what ferrari did was wrong, and thats all i need to know if he says so then i believe it!! -the way netflix is trying to tease like ~oh imagine all the different teams he could go to! who wouldnt want him~ is so cheeky but also i NEED to know what this was like live when yall didnt know where he was going i'm JEALOUS i wish i got to be there for it all to unfold -double ferrari dnf at monza must've been crazy to watch live too lmao -seb zigzagging through all the photographers on his bicycle. love him -seb announcing his new seat the same weekend as ferrari's 1000th is crazy ex girlfriend levels of unhinged (pos). like posting ultrasound pics the same day as your ex's wedding type of shit. no one does it like him -sorry im incapable of watching ferrari episodes without writing an essay. hope you enjoyed

ep5: -the great daniel/cyril divorce -i cant remember who said it or where i saw it but when i first got into f1 properly someone talked about how Different things might've been if there hadn't been covid--since the season was delayed, the contract was signed before reneault could have any races with daniel that year--so daniel could only make that decision based off 2019 races -the jump clearly did not work out for him but alpine also went to shit too. but if cyril hadn't left who knows. i think all of daniel's choices make sense honestly!!!! he just got very unlucky -anyway their dynamic is insane and they deserve soooo many more fic than they have!! -"it's probably a bit like being dumped by a girlfriend, but she hasn't moved out of the house yet." christian did eat with this one. unfortunately -i love cyril but him being the one to actually complain about the pink mercedes feels very..... my wife is divorcing me so i'm gonna sue my neighbors over the property line -"i hate those fucking pink cars" oh i need to gif that. i'll be watching and i'll just KNOW like yeah that needs to be in the next gifset -i cant believe i havent mentioned it yet renault colors are the BEST daniel has ever looked i miss having yellow n black on the grid. maybe thats why alpine went to shit they gave up the best color combo they could have

e7: -pierre redemption episode!!! i think this is one of the best episodes ever tbh. very cathartic movie plotline really ticks all the boxes -HI PATRICK -ok but the fact that dts NEVER covered alex's podiums w red bull after milking the shit out of his missed podiums is a hate crime to me personally -onboards going through eau rouge are scary af. -filled with rage at how christian horner chews up new drivers and spits them up (even though its all so predictable at this point. no one will ever live up to the golden boy) -i remember seeing people complain that the williams family leaving wasn't given focus in dts, if anyone has any fun video essays about that i'd love to watch! -i do take issue with will buxton saying "red bull can't admit they made a mistake (with alex)" i think red bull made a mistake with promoting ANYONE too early and expecting too much from them, but not in a pierre v alex way. neither of them were given enough time or support by red bull to flourish. and they lowkey admitted that recently lmao -but it /is/ cathartic to know that red bull have tried to get alex back since then and he doesn't need his toxic ex in his life anymore no thanks ✌️ -i just know i'll LOVE watching this race in full -they set up the suspense so well for the end of the race -and it really is. if carlos had won this race with mclaren, his first win, how different would the trajectory of his career been -ANYWAY theres something that just always gets me about men holding all their emotions in right until they cross the finish line and they finally allow themselves to feel the emotions. (recent example that made me SOB was theo when he won f2) i also love how much it clearly meant to the alphatauri guys in the garage. last time that happened was with seb for torro rosso yeah? so its clearly so so special

#watching 2 more 2day then i'll be caught up!! #dtsrewatch #she speaks

[gallavichthings]

Artist’s Spotlight: The Unforgiving Minute

Her manips are legendary in this fandom, even though not everyone knows the person behind them, the lovely @theunforgivngminute!

Have you seen this manip? 

Or this one?

So read the interview and get to know more about this (hilarious) artist! 

GT: Where did your username come from?

TUM: My username has pretty much stayed the same since I created my tumblr....and at the time I was reading Kipling and fell in love with the poem IF ("If you can fill the unforgiving minute. With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,. Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it") And I've loved it ever since.

GT: That's lovely. Tell us about your involvement with the show and the fandom. When did you first watch Shameless? What attracted you to Ian and Mickey's relationship?

TUM: I believe I entered the fandom right as season 3 was ending. I didn't know it at the time but I saw a gifset of the 'don't do this' wedding kiss and thought...awww look at these two boys at prom. This is probably a lovely and heartwarming story. Let's find out who Mickey and Ian are. And then they proceeded to destroy me for the next 8 years.I always go back to that original moment when I saw the gifset. Like everyone else has said, you could see the chemistry between Cam and Noel and the rest is history!

GT: Prom, oh my God! I wish! Lovely and heartwarming, oh dear! What a surprise! That remained my favorite kiss until the dock scene happened. They do have remarkable chemistry.

Did you join the fandom right away or did it happen gradually? Do you remember your first impression of it back then?

TUM: Oh no😅 you are gonna make me look through the archives. I would say I dipped my toe into the fandom with mixed success almost right away. I was just learning how to make fanvids at the time and was getting maybe 60 hits a video. (Which was still exciting back then I'm not gonna lie.)Then came the manips, followed by the Nook Series edits. I think it's no coincidence I felt more involved in the fandom after I started doing edits for Fanfics. It was just this wonderful loop of making manips for things that brought me joy, which also brought other people joy. I've never been very vocal in the fandom, but have always found it to be an inviting place that sparked creativity and positivity from day one.

GT: Your Nook Series is just incredible! How did you learn to make manips?

TUM: Why thank you! I have memories of when I was a kid, my Dad would do these 'manips' by cutting out two images and photocopying them together...this makes him sound like a serial killer, but that is the first memory I have of manipulating photos. It ended up being almost like a challenge growing up. Can I make this look real? Can I erase my ex-friend from our graduation trip to Hawaii pixel by pixel using Microsoft Paint? (You can, but it takes a lot of pettiness and spite.) So I was always doing some kind of work with photos, though not always in the most effective ways. Thank god for the discovery of Photoshop!

GT: Not a serial killer! Lol you're too funny. Well, you're really good at it for sure! So much so that I've seen some of your manips being mistaken for actual pictures...

TUM: I can't even begin to count the amount of hours I have spent working on manips at this point. I have planned. I have hunted for the perfect pictures. Spent days getting it right. And without fail the manip I spend an hour on, thrown together for fun, is the one that looks the most legit. Every time!! My most popular manip was done in an hour while watching a documentary to kill time. That's how it goes I guess. So it really is just luck when it comes together. Some manips hold up over time and some....do not. But I always enjoy seeing the progress and the process change over time.

GT: Do you find it funny when people think they're real pictures?

TUM: Oh I love it! I don't think there is any better compliment than to have someone ask 'what episode is this from?' 'How do I not know about this?' Being accused of witchcraft is always a positive in my opinion.

GT: Hahahaha And does it still bother you when you see it reposted somewhere without credit or did you end up getting used to it?

TUM: To be honest it never really bothered me all that much. Seeing my manips on mugs and t-shirts for profit was the only time I ever felt slightly annoyed. For me, it wasn't on the same playing field as a Fic you wrote from scratch or a piece of art you drew by hand. I didn't feel like I had as much 'ownership' of my final products as some other forms of art. If that makes sense? And this fandom was always amazing at getting artist credit and not letting anything slide. That was always lovely to see and very much appreciated.

GT: I'm glad it didn't bother you, because I have to admit it always bothers me lol. And it's very humble of you to say it's not on par, but I know making edits takes time and work too, and it should be appreciated. That's why credit is important, so we can go and thank the artist and appreciate them and their work. But yeah, doing it for profit is another level of wrong.

You don't make many manips for the Gallavich fandom anymore. Was that a conscious choice or do you just not have the time and/or motivation nowadays?

TUM: The simplest explanation is I became a cake decorator that wakes up at 4am. I am a night owl at heart and 90 percent of my work was made between 11pm and 4am. I also, like a lot of other people went through a creative slump after season 5 ended. I remember being half way through a video edit and just trashing it out of frustration after that finale. But mostly I just don't have the time I used to.

GT: A cake decorator! I love that! And I love that what you do for a living is also artistic. Yeah, that ending was just trash. Did you keep on watching after or did you just come back later when Mickey did (like I did)?

TUM: I got through two more episodes and realized all the things that I fell in love with about Shameless (Mickey, Mickey and Ian, the Gallaghers actually being a family unit) were gone. After that jumped on and off the bandwagon whenever Mickey showed up.

GT: Oh, so you watched one more than I did! What's your favorite season?

TUM: Season 4. No question! For the club kiss alone...it has to be my favorite.

GT: Is that your favorite scene of the show?

TUM: It's certainly the one that can still give me butterflies when I see it cross my dashboard. I remember reading a review of the episode back then and they described it as one of the most genuinely romantic moments on Shameless. And I have to agree.

GT: What are some others of your favorite moments?

TUM: Mickey yelling on top of a cop car after beating the shit out of Terry is up there. The entire wedding episode. " Sorry I'm late". Anything that had Mickey, Ian and Cole in the same scene. What I wouldn't give to see the extended cut of the proposal episode.

GT: What did you think of the ending?

TUM: I think as a fandom we had been burned more than once. I think we had two or three moments where we thought 'okay this is the last of ian and mickey' and then 'bam 'bam' oh never mind. So I saw the last two seasons as a bonus, honestly. I never thought we would get a wedding episode or watch them fight over apartments. So I was just along for the ride enjoying every minute of it. They were happy. So I was happy with the ending.

GT: I totally get the feeling. I remember when Noel returned for 9.06 and how surprised I was and how happy too, that at least they'd be endgame, even if we didn't get to see them together, then surprise! How do you imagine their future?

TUM: I see them continuing to expand the armed transport business After some years have passed building their own family. And I don't know if it's allowed but I always kind of wanted them to get out of the Southside. Though I imagine Ian might have to put some serious work in to convince Mickey to move to Florida😄

GT: Well, they did get out of the Southside in the end. I think you mean out of Chicago?

TUM: Let's say Illinois and cover all my bases! But yes, out of Chicago!

GT: I can't really see Ian going very far from his family, but I do wish they would. They do deserve a fresh start. 

Tell us a bit about yourself now, please.

TUM: Let's see...how do I make it sound like I leave the house more than once a month? (I gave up. It's impossible) I am a cake decorator with two dogs. A Husky named Knox and a German Shepherd named Ronan. I was gifted power tools last year and my house now looks like a Pinterest nightmare. Just finished building built-in bookshelves because there can never be enough books! I have a completely normal amount of interest in True Crime. Which has resulted in me and my siblings monthly "Murder Night', where we play hunt a killer games. So, your standard dog lady who likes to read, build furniture and occasionally solve murders.

GT: That's all so interesting I'm forced to ask follow up questions.

TUM: Please do.

GT: First of, what are your dogs names, how old are they, and could you please spare some pictures? 

TUM: Ronan is the German Shepherd. He just turned 3. Knox is the Huskey and he is 4. Puppies still really. They are the worst and I LOVE them so much.

GT: Your dogs are so pretty, but yeah, I can imagine they'd be a bit of troublemakers too. Second, what are some of your favorite books?

TUM: My absolute favorite book is the “Poisonwood Bible'' by Barbara Kingsolver. Her writing style in that book is insane. I'm grateful my Dad handed it to me because I would never have picked it up based on the story alone. I read a lot of Nonfiction, so “Van Gogh the life” by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith. That man was fascinating. He is my all time favorite unpleasant little man. Anything by Bill Bryson starting with “In a Sunburned Country”.

I think you've helped me discover that I gravitate more towards non-fiction than anything else. How odd.

GT: It makes sense though, seeing how artistic you are, that you'd like the biography of an artist. And I didn't know any of those authors, I'll have to google them! Thanks for the recs.

Third... I'm not sure what to even say about the "Murder Night", tbh, I just wanted to acknowledge it. What, pray tell, are "hunt a killer" games?

TUM: Murder Night...you pay a rediculous amount of money to have a box of 'evidence' shipped to your house and then try to solve the murder in 60 minutes. There is food, alcohol and the threat of us never speaking to each other again by the end of it. I highly recommend it.

GT: Ok, so Murder Night sounds awesome and I totally need to find a group of friends to do that with now!

Who are some of your favorite people in this fandom? Artists, writers, "just" fans, anything goes.

TUM: There is no Nook series without Sexual Harassment in the Workplace by @goodkwuestion​. TIPDIG is one of, if not my favorite fic, in any fandom and still a comfort read for me. There isn't a single thing that I haven't loved from goodkwestion and would read their version of the phone book if it ever came to it. This goes for @gallavichy​ as well, who manages to hook you emotionally by the end of the first chapter one NO MATTER THE STORY. I'm counting down the days between each chapter just like everyone else. And last but not least, @steorie​'s art is some of my first memories when I joined the fandom. I had the artwork of Ian and Mickey in the snow as my wallpaper forever back in the day! There are so many talented people in this fandom and i'm so excited that, even with Shameless over, there is still so much quality material being created all the time.

GT: Those three really are god tier, I agree!

Is there anything you'd like to make for this fandom that you haven't got a chance yet? Or are you truly done for now?

TUM: I made a fanvid a long time back that chronicled their relationship from season 1 to season 5. I always wanted to do an updated version now that Shameless is truly over and I have the entire narrative in my head. But otherwise I'll keep making little things whenever I get the chance or inspiration.

GT: What about for other fandoms?

TUM: It takes quite a bit of doing to get me to start a project for any fandom now. Free time is hard to get these days, but I love creating. And when I do get those small pockets of time I hope to keep making things that make me happy. Even if I don't get to do it as much as I used to.

GT: I'm sure any fandom is lucky to have you. ❤️

Can you explain a bit of your process when making edits? Of any kind. 😊

TUM: My edits for Nook covers are usually always based on a specific scene from the fic. In those instances I go hunting for the right pictures to make that scene come together. I don't think there is a Noel or Cam picture before 2018 that I haven't seen at this point. Then I'll click around in photoshop a bunch until I end up with something I don't hate! Which is a horrible way to explain any process but that's the honest truth.

With video edits it's all about the song. Even now, I'll hear a song in the car that is perfect for them and build a video in my head as I'm driving home. Placing a scene based on a specific beat,lyric or swell in the music. I always wanted there to be a clear narrative for each video. The lyrics and scenes always had to compliment each other. I didn't want the song to just be a song in the background while I threw a bunch of my favorite scenes together. And hopefully that comes across when you watch the later ones.

GT: Hahahaha, click around Photoshop a lot. I know the feeling!

Which of your edits would you say you're the proudest of?

TUM: Well, I can't not mention the Ian & Mickey kiss on the cheek edit that still pops up every now and then. 

It is the most legit looking edit I ever made so I'm still proud of it. While I can only see the editing mistakes when I watch it now, I still have a soft spot for my vid 'What You and I Have'. 

It was my first attempt at a relationship timeline and I was proud that I managed to get anyone to sit through a 7 minute video. There's the 'I'll always catch up to you' Mickey edit which was so simple to make but felt really powerful when it was done. And lastly a lesser known video called Final Hour that I could watch over and over because my ego knows no bounds.

GT: Thank you so much for agreeing to doing this. Leave a message to the fandom now. 😊

TUM: Thank YOU so much for dragging me out of my cave for a little while. I apologize for all the unnecessary commas. (I don't know where they go. I refuse to learn. There is a reason I made edits not fics.) It was so much fun to look back at some of my edits and all the beautiful art and fics this fandom has provided over the years. It's hard to believe it's been almost 8 years since my first edit and I'm grateful for every piece of feedback I received along the way. So I'll just be here in my little cave, looking forward to all wonderful edits and fics this fandom still has to offer. Thanks again!

#gallavich #ian x mickey #shameless us #mickey milkovich #ian gallagher #shameless #Artist's spotlight #theunforgivngminute #Youtube

[cuddlybitch]

#ShowYourProcess

From planning to posting, share your process for making creative content!

To continue supporting content makers, this tag game is meant to show the entire process of making creative content: this can be for any creation.

RULES: When your work is tagged, show the process of its creation from planning to posting, then tag 5 people with a specific link to one of their creative works you’d like to see the process of. Use the tag #showyourprocess so we can find yours!

@haeyeongs and @moonlightsdream tagged me and chose my Extraordinary You gifset. Thank you Camille and Layla 💐💖💖

Tagging the following folks if they want to do it:

@savingfaces for this set

@sjoongki for this set

@anya-chalotra for this set

@dramaism for this set

@dead-end-street for this set

@monae for this set

@inejz-ghafa for this set

@komunyoung for this set

(Technically, I was tagged twice so I can tag around 10 people right? 🤪)

PLANNING

The planning for this set started simple enough, as it was made for Day 1 of the #KDRAMAWOMENSWEEK prompts, which was "Doubles/Foils".

I immediately thought of making something for Extraordinary You given the show's premise. My first idea was to make something out of Eun Dan-oh being the actual show's main character, but the "extra" in the comic book their characters live in vs Yeo Joo-da as the "protagonist" of the comic book, but a supporting character in the actual show.

Unfortunately, Na-eun and her kpop group got exposed for bullying one of their bandmates at around that time, so this was scrapped.

I still wanted to work with Extraordinary You, so I pivoted to focusing on Dan-oh's character, juxtaposing her comic book/stage character with her true, off-stage character. With this in mind, I wanted to ensure I display both her "stage" self and her "true" self in the set, so I started looking for and screencapping scenes I can use for the set.

On this note, I also made it my goal for this event to learn how to blend and overlay gifs. I forced myself to only make sets in these styles I've never tried.

I perused @anya-chalotra tutorial on putting multiple gifs into one using shapes for my first scrapped idea, and @inejz-ghafa tutorial on blending gifs, which I ended up relying on the most as I began creating.

CREATING

Let's just say creating was a messy process for me because this was my first time attempting to do a blended gif.

To start, I was just speed-browsing through Extraordinary You episodes, and capping as much scenes I could potentially use as possible. I wanted to focus on how stage!Dan-oh is always portrayed by the writer as weak and sickly, and shadow!Dan-oh is more strong-willed and full of life, and blend those two together.

I think with experience, I will probably learn how to make better screencapping choices, but at this point, I was just in the I WILL MAKE IT WORK AND BLEND IT mode.

Anyway, I coloured the gifs first as I saw fit, before blending. As you can see for this one I had a lot of PSDs saved. Essentially for each gifset, I have the base PSD, the accent PSD (which essentially will be what I blend with the base), and the blended gifset (where I experiment with the blending, and adjust colouring). If there's gonna be text on the gifset, I also save that as a another PSD, so that's around 3-4 PSDs per gif.

The colouring itself just follows my usual process for doing my coloured gifs. The only thing I thing I did differently is to colour the area where I want to blend with a black paint brush, and set that layer to Soft Light, and duplicated the layer, changed the opacity of the layer until I achieve the darkness I need for my blended gif.

I kept the colouring for the accent gif for this one pretty basic...

Because I ended up adding the purple colouring later on after I blended the gifs together.

After I've made my colouring adjustments to the blended gif, I converted everything into 1 smart object, added noise, then converted back to frame animation so I can add text.

The process is the same for pretty much all 3 gif sets, but of course I did experiment A LOT on what scenes to blend with the base gif. I think this is when experience with doing more blended gifs come into play cause I wasn't very smart in choosing the scenes to blend. I just know what idea I want, and the base gif I want to use and tried to hammer it in until it looked passable to me. Maybe the base gif I chose isn't the easiest to use for blending, etc., but I think making those smart choices will hopefully come to me the more experienced I become in making these types of gifs.

POSTING

For posting this one, since it was part of an event, I had it in my drafts until the event started. So I set up the caption, and tags as soon as I finished the gif set, and saved it until I was ready to post.

In general, I do post my gifsets and save it in the drafts as I make the set. It show me the full picture of the gifset I'm creating, and helps me see whether something needs colour adjustments, or the flow of the gifset isn't looking as good as I thought.

For this particular set, I struggled a lot with the second (middle) gif because I was having a tough time finding a scene I want to blend it with, how to style it in general, and even the colouring of it... when I was posting different versions of the second set, nothing was quite working, and in the end I just went with the gif that semi-worked with the flow of the set, even though it's not 100% what I wanted because I've already spent so much time on it and I was already empty creatively.

But yeah, I do like saving the gif set in my drafts as I go along so I can keep my creative vision in check.

When the time rolled along, and the #KDRAMAWOMENSWEEK event started, I just posted it during the day and that's that.

#showyourprocess #show your process #tusercarol #usersara #userava #dramaism #dead end street #userjulieh #userbecca #komunyoung #tag game #this has been sitting in my drafts for over a month now #i kept putting it off #i honestly didn't know how to talk about it cause #it was my first time doing this type of gifs #and my mind back then was just a mix of asdjfhaksdiufasdlkfa #and flipping back and forth through the tutorial i was referring to #but thanks again for the tag camille and layla!!! #and thanks again for the awesome tutorial userbecca lol

[jidai]

now I'm curious who are your favourite graphic makers and why?

long post ahead. 

i’m not the most eloquent individual so i apologize for my descriptions. it’s not a definitive list but:

@nathanprescutt if you look through benn’s portfolio, you can see that he experiments a lot with style, typography, composition, and colors. he doesn’t limit himself to a specific style or “genre” so when you click pg 1 vs pg 6, his edits are quite different from each other. i’m a huge advocate for artists to be experimental and go out of their “box” so i really respect his decision to branch out and try different things. benn also creates some elements/parts of his gfx himself, like creating a burnt photo effect (that looked really realistic btw wow).

@tomura where do i start with fran, hmm. i think i can speak for most when i say that fran’s graphics are so gorgeous and out of this world.  i really don’t think even my words can do her work’s justice. you have people like me to experiments with textures, colors, typography in photoshop and then you have fran just hard flexing on us with illustrator, after effects, and photoshop. fran’s works are extremely clean, official, and experimental. she’s very dedicated to her craft and you see it very well in the number of details in her work, even if they are minimalist. i really look up to her--like, her works are legit and i would pay for them. fran if you see this, please sign my baseball cap. 

@gray​ jei’s work is a pot full of magic, wonders, and talent. one of the most experimental gfx creator i’ve seen. i really appreciate the fact that they actually use the subject as a part of their work (i.e cutting oikawa’s head open and inserting a snake plant into it). have you seen someone cut a character’s body parts up like that and make it into gfx? i also really love that they experiment with various color palettes that i wouldn’t think of and voila it’s mona lisa 2.0. their works are so complex and interpretive. if anything, i truly respect their dedication to details.

@biscuitwalk i like to describe their work as “fun and whimsical” lol. i’m personally a huge fan of using halftones/noise/patterns in my work and biscuit’s works are prime examples of how gorgeous it can be if it’s utilized properly. their works are really colorful and their composition is so refreshing. their portfolio is so impressive, like these are works that i would see in pros or behanced. they take a very bold approach in their work and i respect them a lot for it.

@rokuseis sei’s work is really cute and fun! i really like how she game-ifies... games.... lol she basically takes a pre-existing game and spins them into something fun like turning kingdom hearts into a casino, god bless her soul. her tarot card series is really pretty, too! you really don’t see a lot of content creators doing something like sei so she provides a nice outlet for that.

@klavoir​ you know those 3-in-1 deal you see on ads? if i may be so bold, selma is the embodiment of that. she’s so talented. selma’s really good at keep you on your toes because you seriously don’t know what heck she’s gonna make next. a nice gifset? oh no it’s actually a gfx set with complex typography that uses only primary colors. i have no idea how she can come up with so many good compositions. even the minimalist gfx set is GOOD. she’s very known for her series of edits in a single post and the amount of creativity and effort that it takes to make sure that they all mesh together well is insane but pulls it off effortlessly. selma can beat me up for adobe creative cloud money and i’ll gladly hand it over.

@25th i only followed nonnie very recently so i don’t know her exact history with gfx but looking at her recent works, she’s starting to show her true power lol. i really want to commend her for tackling the monster that is typography. it’s a scary place but i think she’s doing a great job. she’s experimenting with a lot of aspects of designs in her latest works, too. i’ve said this to her a few times before but she has so much potential and i love seeing her improve from one gfx to the next. i’m waiting for her to just one day snap and create a masterpiece.

@noxdivina lin’s typography is no joke, seriously. i’m always blown away at how creative he is while maintaining a specific aesthetic/color palette. truly a master of his art. i also want to note that lin likes astronomy and whenever i look at his works, i always feel like i’m looking at the sky and seeing dots of stars here and there. his works are gorgeous, full of angst (totally my taste). his works triggers these like... solemn and nostalgic feelings and i love it so so much.

#replies #userrecs #i wanted to add more but too long #anon #long post

[lans-rabbit-glade]

thanks so much for the tag @beinggaydoincrime !! 💛 also hey apparently we're (almost) name buddies lol

Rules: Answer 30 questions and tag 20 blogs you are contractually obligated to get to know better.

Name: izzy

Gender: female (she/her)

Star sign: aquarius

Height: also short, 5'2" (about 158 cm i think?)

Time: 8 PM 

Birthday: i'd rather not give the exact date but it's in early february!

Favorite bands: imagine dragons, mumford & sons, simon & garfunkel, of monsters & men, twenty-one pilots, voiceplay, big time rush, florence + the machine, two door cinema club, grateful dead, backstreet boys, abba, coldplay, ajr, fun., bastille etc etc.

Favorite solo artists: (i'm only now realizing how few i really listen to yikes - gonna include a few composers as well) billy joel, rick astley (fight me), mika, john mark nelson, tom rosenthal, gnus cello, yuki hayashi, steve jablonsky, hans zimmer, vince dicola

Last movie: hmm it's been a little while but i think the most recent was this new disaster movie called Greenland, it was pretty good!

Last show: slowly but surely making my way through My Hero Academia with my mom lol

When did I create this bog: oof just about 2 weeks ago actually, Dec 23 2020! i’d been rbing cql content on one of my other blogs for several weeks before that but that was when i finally decided to just make a decicated sideblog

What I post: almost exclusively reblogs lol - fanart, gifsets, shitposts, meta, you name it. i’ve only watched The Untamed so far so it’s mostly that but maybe about 25% is just general mdzs stuff as well

Last thing I googled: “inches to cm” so i could get the conversion for that height question lmAo

Other blogs: my main is @still-gathering-roses and i’ve got 4 other sideblogs besides this one lol - my most active by far is @yourmomwatchesanime but you can find a full list of the rest of em here!

Do I get asks: alas i do not but they’re always open! pls feel free to drop in and say hi or whatever, i’m always so excited to talk to people

Why I chose my url: i just really love the lil bunny garden and cloud recesses is my favorite of the sect territories, but cloud-recesses-rabbit-glade was way too long lol

Following: 503, only been on tumblr for 3 years or so but i’ve amassed quite a few interests since then lol

Followers: on this blog? currently 4 😎 pfghdh like i said this blog is still very much in its infancy but i look forward to meeting new friends!

Average hours of sleep: 7-9 usually but at the dumbest times imaginable, i’m practically nocturnal rn but i’m slowly working my way back to normalcy

Instruments: cello!! i’ve been playing since i was 6 and it’s my favorite instrument (though i’m a lil biased hfgdgh) i also took a piano class for like one semester back in high school so i know just the bare basics of piano but i’d love to learn more someday!

What I am wearing: an old orchestra sweathshirt, sweatpants, and a pair of socks i received as a gag gift for christmas last year that say “less talk, more tacos”

Dream job(s): Lord help me I wish I had any idea pfhghh

Dream Trip: i’m half Cuban so i’d love to visit Cuba to see where my mom was born and hopefully meet some extended family! other dream destinations include Ireland, Spain, France, and Alaska

Favorite food: any kind of pasta tbh I have never met a pasta I didn’t like. same goes for potatoes. i have incredibly low standards for what constitutes good food honestly if there is any kind of starch and/or cheese i’m completely sold

Nationality: american

Favorite song: according to my spotify wrapped 2020 it is currently the Cells At Work anime dub theme song lmAO - but for real it changes every day! probably wuji.mp3 right now lol

Last book I read: oof it has been so long since i’ve read a full physical book but i started rereading the Percy Jackson series and also Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen a few months back! 

Top 3 fictional universes I'd like to live in: hooo boy saved the toughest one for last - ok 1) Pokémon!!! imagine all the fun animal friends 2) Middle Earth, I would kill to be a hobbit tbh 3) Camp Half-Blood probably, my middle school years were dedicated to creating demigod self-insert OCs and imaginary quests with friends and old habits die hard

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ok i’m gonna have to break the rules here bc i straight up do not know 20 people yet to tag but if you wanna answer these, please feel free to say i tagged ya, i’d love to see your responses! hope everyone has a wonderful day and if you’ve read any of this at all ily <33

#long post #tag games

[elizabethrobertajones]

i love jack a lot but i don't get everyone's excitement about dean eventually adopting him. like why would you want to force him into another parental role with a kid with unstable powers JUST when he's escaping his role with sam? i'm not accusing you or anything i'm just really really frustrated at fandom's mentality

Yeah, there’s some good posts around discussing the various metaphorical and direct representations of the bad family dynamics going on here. I think it’s possible to enjoy and dislike the same thing from different angles. I LOVE Jack choosing Cas as his father and setting his personal compass by Cas. It’s perfect. But for Cas’s sake I’m genuinely skeeved out by it because of the way Jack(’s powers) latched onto him from the womb and that it is basically what I figured all along - that Jack himself is an innocent sweetie pie because he has a soul and he is therefore gifted free will and a blank slate to be what he wants and is at the very least not inherently evil… 

But his powers still did something because of his increased awareness and powers in the womb that I don’t like, which is… convincing… Cas to be his guardian. Cas being forced into the dynamic is one of the metaphorical parallels to the brothers’ issues which I’ve enjoyed the meta about, because of course Cas can still love Jack and all and have meant it because I don’t think he wasn’t acting from the heart in 12x23 because have you met Cas, that was a classic example of his heart on display. And I’m actually hoping they do have a sweet dynamic when Cas gets back. But I still don’t like HOW it happened, in the exact same way I really dig sweet moments between Sam and Dean which don’t have the complicated baggage, but I can still be uncomfortable about romanticising other parts of their relationship, and critical of how Dean was forced to parent Sam… 

So yeah. Anyway, I think the thing with Dean and Jack is that it’s the goal - Sam already likes Jack and wants to give him a chance. Cas has his connection to him already and it’s unlikely he’ll hate Jack on his return :P Dean is not wrong to be upset and critical based on the information he has like @k-vichan‘s post I just recently reblogged was explaining (Sam hasn’t even told him on camera that Jack said that Cas is his father which means until we get past the point of disbelief that he hasn’t said it off-camera that’s still something we might find out later from Dean’s POV to affect how he feels about him. Although I’m usually careful not to get over-attached to what hasn’t been said on camera in case the writers start assuming it’s obvious they shared it and leave an emotional gap… But this is such a big thing it might HAVE to be said on screen or else be a gap.)

Like… Obviously the emotional hook for “coming to like Jack” is something that falls on Dean to have while the others are already seeming to be clear on it. He’s the obstacle - the thing standing between Jack and a happy families thing (so it might be a long haul or Dean is just starting to warm up when things go bad either with Cas’s return or something that happens with Jack for what will be a frankly bizarre season if they don’t tease him ~going dark~ to test him at some point). It’s like a will they won’t they on Dean liking Jack :P 

And I think that in this case it’s not forcing anything on Dean when he comes to NATURALLY adopt random youngins and other hapless friends (like Garth, tbh :P) but that he has to want to do it and it is something he does instinctively because he’s a nurturer and has a caring soul. Maybe because of the Sam stuff but it’s not weird when he does it to, like, Krissy or something. It’s one of his softer traits but in this case it has mytharc relevance, since Jack is, WE can tell, really sweet, but Dean is in no position to see him for what he is, which may compromise them looking after him, and even if Jack is sweet and squishy right now, he has cosmic powers and intentionally or not he’s going to be dangerous on a huge level even if it’s just for drawing attention. I think Dean coming to like him will play a big part in reconciling this whole situation just because he’s the one who instinctively doesn’t like Jack already. And that’s something where he’s messed up with grief and hasn’t seen anything to convince him Jack isn’t a problem, so it’s set up to be a bigger struggle for him.

And that probably also plays into Dean as the emotional centre of the show - that Sam is usually dealing with the plot stuff head on, while Dean is the filter we struggle with it through. I think Dean not trusting Jack is another way of drawing out uncertainty and tension about Jack in the narrative. Is Sam wrong to trust him? Is there still something hinky between Jack and Cas? Will Jack turn bad? Even if it’s seeming quite clear that Jack is not as bad as Dean thinks by far, and Sam’s made the right call here, to go with his confidence in leadership and standing up for himself arc, playing the reconciliation to Jack’s presence in their lives through Dean is giving us (or, well, the surface level read of the show, which I pay as much attention to as I can out of curiosity as a writer about stringing appearances and cheap drama out of more complex stories and I watch the episodes from the POV of “what is the show trying to tell us” before “what can I read into this”) a more drawn out exploration of who and what Jack is and the conclusion on what his character can be. 

And I think that means Dean will be challenging Jack too, and always probably be more on the side of checking if he really is what he seems or second-guessing his actions etc. It will give Jack something to grow and fight against, especially since people HATE letting Dean down and Dean is the moral centre of the show when it comes to love, humanity, what is the right thing to do, the free will choice, just generally a beacon of these themes. If Jack has to win Dean’s approval, it’s going to be a complex and satisfying story and a good way of proving we can definitively trust him. Not because Sam makes bad choices or because Jack doesn’t already seem like a good guy, but just because Dean has Standards which are so high you can define and navigate the story by them. Like Cas rebelling in 4x22. Or on the flip side, 6x20.

This is all kinda wishy washy stuff for later in the season that what we already have, though, and I don’t know how thoroughly others have thought it through or if I am missing some really obvious lines of thought here myself, but I don’t think the instinctive reaction that people are wishing Dean adopts Jack is all just forcing a new child on him, or that people think Dean shouldn’t come to that choice himself, and approve of Jack for real reasons. One of the short posts out there about it that I like is a line of spec that Dean will start to like Jack after he does a Benny - does something to save or help Cas that Dean can’t deny Jack is good any more after seeing. That’s not just wishing another child to look after on Dean, that’s a complicated series of Dean recognising Jack’s potential to be good and understanding him better or now having a motivation to reach out to him. 

And I do personally find it kind of creepy to be super gung ho about Jack as any of their children - Cas for the reasons I already said although I like it for Jack and would be open to Cas being cool with it :P But Sam and Dean as well because I think there’s a lot of point scoring going on with who gets to parent Jack like it’s a token or trophy for them, unlocking a whole bunch of parent headcanons and also, and I know it’s weird to say about a 1 day old baby, infantilising Jack. I think he’s already starting to get an idea of the more complex stuff and a lot of his literal born yesterday mannerisms will disappear as he gets older, since he has an adult intellect to deal with the world, so I’m very curious about his character growth. 

I think it’s just a fandom thing to be eager for the main characters you care about to have fun relationships and the idea of just giving them a kid can be appealing to some people, but it kinda weirds me out. I saw a gifset of the father reveal to Sam captioned with “Sam realises he’s an uncle” and I like that a lot more because it emphasises his brother relationship to Cas, and puts Jack in that context to him. I think since Jack said Cas is his father, “parenting” just means “we are responsible for guiding this young soul” not “I will be his father” and Sam and Dean are basically his uncles, not surrogate fathers, and I’m pretty much just gonna treat it that way, personally, since it’s less skeevy to me. That’s a YMMV thing, though, so I’m not saying you can’t enjoy the dad TFW stuff, I just don’t wanna :P 

(The Claire stuff was different since they didn’t have a whole bunch of responsibility over her and the episodes she was in never made it weird, and it was a side storyline… With this it’s all such high tension it sort of feels to me like I need to draw much stronger lines, especially since with all the fatherhood parallels some/all of TFW are going to be examined through being John at some point or another… There is a LOT more going on with Jack that makes it complicated and fraught :P)

So… uh… tl;dr… I have no idea if I’m even answering your original thought any more :P Idk about the wider fandom of crack posts and cracky art, but I think the meta folks I follow are not being too weird about it or will at least entertain all the posts being critical or introspective about these dynamics and I think some crack posts are just made in the spirit of fun, though it doesn’t help NOT give the impression everyone’s gaga for dad TFW and not being very considerate of the deep dark meta stuff and character angst going on… :P 

#Asks #nougat winchester #dean analysis #season 13 speculation #I still kinda hate spec but at least I've got the grounding of knowing how #13x01 #played out... which makes me a bit more confident making a few stabs in the dark :P