so funny to me when white american christians are like “ooh i incorporate my religious trauma into my art and thats why i draw these stained glass gothic church gold multi eyed reneissance sculpture angels agnus dei” like i know your protestant southern california ass didnt have any of that. go make some art about this
ok
Damn way to read the assignment and go above and beyond.
the bleakness and sanitized feel of most American protestant churches really is an underused medium.
I don’t think we talk about platonic yearning as much as we should
I don’t want to meet them irl so we can kiss and go on dates. I want to meet them so we can sit together in our pajamas and dance to lovejoy in our bedroom and so I can give them piggyback rides and let them hold my stuffed animals and snuggle on the couch and go for walks together and maybe go on some dates as a treat. I dont want to meet them because I like them romantically, I want to meet them because I love them platonically.
tumblr being all adults nowadays is so funny because my mutuals are either unemployed chainsmokers or Ezra, Bioengineering PHD Candidate at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
when a marble movie plays a beloved classic rock hit during the climax: 😕🙁☹️🤢😴😴👎🤷♀️🤦♀️🚷🙄🥶
when the sopranos plays a kind of bad pop song that was mildly popular in quebec for 3 weeks in 1995 over a crane shot of james gandolfini eating cereal: 😲🤩🥳🥹👍👍👍👀👩❤️💋👩🔥🔥🧨🎊🎉🏆🏆🏆
“i’m struggling to find gifs” “why can’t i find gifs of this scene or this show” “why are less people taking requests”
you repost to twitter, to pinterest, to instagram, to tiktok and lord knows what else. on twitter, a single gif taken from a gifset that didn’t even receive 1k notes (not 1k likes or even 1k rbs, if that even exists these days) can get 3m views and 30k+ likes. without credit, of course - if you’re like, you get a mispelled: made by x on tumblr, no link of course.
hell, you repost on this very site and you refuse to listen. your set, stolen from someone else and mixed in with quotes, gets 1k notes meanwhile the original sits at less than 500. you do not credit the person who made it.
we ask you to reblog things instead of liking them and you go on rants about how it’s unnecessary and how we should do it for fun. we explain a hundred times that tumblr doesn’t work the way other social media platforms work, but you refuse. you wonder why there are less gifmakers.
gifs don’t take 10 seconds like on ezgif or imgflip or whatever the hell you’re using. it takes hours sometimes to even download footage, but you don’t care. it’s a moving image that we “stole” (?) from the original work but the labour? you don’t care. depending on our process, it can take from half an hour (the downloading and the editing part) to hours upon hours. but who cares.
you credit text posts, fanvids, and you go after those who steal written work (as you should). we cannot even get other gifmakers to care when our stuff is stolen. staff took away our only tool to fight reposters on this site, and we never had any to fight reposting to other sites.
we know what the staff is aiming at with the changes they make and the changes they refuse to make - we explain that why disabling likes would help, they say they will not do it. they cannot slap an @ onto gifs when saved to prevent stealing but boy, look at the shiny new editor that adds an additional least 5 minutes to upload your gifs! again, intention is very clear.
we know you don’t steal gifs under a certain quality and we know you ask us for requests for scenes/parallels that have been done because you do not like the quality of those. we see you stealing quality sets.
there is no point to this i just needed to vent. staff is disregarding the very foundation of this site, gifmakers are given less and less respect and you wonder why scenes aren’t giffed.
i don’t know. add your perspective if you want
all of this! and the fact that some of you writing fics go out of your way to save gifs to then repost them instead of using this handy dandy little button right here to insert a gif while also crediting its creator:
a cool thing about tumblr is that when an absolute dog shit dud of a post shows up in my feed i know it’s not because of some nebulous algorithm, it’s someone’s fault and i can find them immediately