BAILEY BASS as CLAUDIA Interview With The Vampire 1.07 "The Thing Lay Still"

because tumblr is the gif website, I feel like everyone here should understand the work that goes into creating a gifset. because I think not everyone does, and it’s a huge part of why people don’t respect gif makers the way that they should.

the simplest gifs you will ever see me post still take the better part of an hour to create. because in order to make a gif, you need the material—for me, that means taking screen captures of videos or finding a download for them, both of which take time. then you have to open photoshop and create your gif, which can take a really long time depending on how quick photoshop is, how long the gif you’re making is, the size, any number of variables. and then I always color my gifs from scratch. if there’s dialogue, I listen over and over to try to make sure it’s correct, sometimes I look up transcripts, and sometimes it takes time to decide how to break up the dialogue. so even if it’s a simple two-gif set of a short scene, it will take the better part of an hour at least. and again, this is for the simplest gifsets I create.

so when I gif a scene, I am spending at least an hour with that tiny little snippet of material. which means that whatever it is that is featured in the gifset, it’s something that I like or tolerate enough to spend at minimum an hour with it. and this is why it DOES NOT MATTER if you are not critiquing the gif itself, gif makers do not want to hear every negative thought you have ever had about an actor, character, scene, or anything else they may have made a gifset for. if you want to complain about something, make your own post.

do not take someone else’s creation as a chance to complain or make nasty comments about anything featured in it. if I am willing to gif something, it means that I am willing to spend my own free time looking at it and working with it and creating something with it. so even if it isn’t my favorite scene or character or actor or whatever, I like it enough to watch the same three second clip over and over again for the better part of an hour. and yes, you’re just one person, but imagine a gifset with 100 notes. say 50 of those are reblogs, and 20 have some sort of complaint in the tags. you only see the tags of people who reblog from you, but OP will see all the tags. which means it’s not just your complaint, it’s all 20 different complaints about the thing they liked enough to make a gifset for.

and look—I understand it’s your blog and you can say whatever you want. I understand that I am creating something to be seen by other people and I don’t get to control what people say or do in the tags. if you read this and think fuck that, I can do what I want, you’re right. the purpose of this post is to remind you that you can do whatever you want, but the consequence may be that the people who are creating content for your fandoms stop posting altogether because they get sick of reading everyone’s negative opinions.

all that said, for the love of god: if you like something, reblog it. send asks and tell people you like their creations. say it in the tags. send things to friends. DO NOT REPOST THINGS. if you want to reap the benefits of other people creating things, make them feel like their work is appreciated.

I love kicking back watching other fandoms make graffiti of their characters in places

like imagine not having a full on shrine to a tumblr sexy man in the downtown of the capital of a country

boop (have you eaten today? have you drank water? are you doing well? i love you. i wish you the best)

anyway i love u "losers" and "boring" people in ur teens and 20s i love you anxious people i love you autists i love you disabled people i love you chronically ill people i love you immunocompromised people i love you people who can't go out and do stereotypical teen/20s activities and i love you people who don't want to. forever!!!

gif request meme

send me a number and a fandom and i will make a gifset!

gif request meme

send me a number and a fandom and i will make a gifset!

GIF REQUEST MEME @jackharkness​ asked: band of brothers + most heartbreaking scene

being mutuals isn’t enough we need to eat breakfast in the garden together

@supervalcsi

So due to lack of time I'll be on hiatus for at least a month. The sets that are my drafts will be posted in the next couple of days, but I won't be able to make more. The queue will still run! I'll check my tag when I have time so pls keep tagging in your beautiful creations ❤️

see ya in a month!

Ok so I got a couple of anons so I'm gonna reblog this again. I'm still on hiatus for a month. So if you sent me a request for a gifset I can't guarantee I will get it done before then. I'm sorry 😭

#2/∞ reason why the camera crew of narcos deserves a fruit basket

i cant find the actual post rn but lets rb this and say someting nice abt the person u rbed it from in the notes

get to know me meme: [7/20] tv shows

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like i know my mutuals don’t look like their icons but also yes they do