#skatingthinandice

(shrike hunt refers to this fic 🫶)

god thank you sm. this is so timely, i was rereading it for emotional support this week + at the airport (...is this a normal thing to do with your own fic...asking for a friend)

something i really admire about cotbp is how information is used. barbossa and jack both have secrets that can turn the tides and sit on them until the opportune moment (say the line jack!). shrike hunt flips it around so our pov characters are the ones in the know: james and elizabeth have the advantage over the cursed pirates, both because they know about the skelly curse and the pirates don't know THEY know—it's just a matter of untangling the rest of the mystery for them while they're at a physical disadvantage. the thing that reveals gallier as a villain is james' sword, which gallier cannot know he recognizes, and that in particular is so tasty 2 me. the words upon words of fic fodder that sword has granted me...

and then yes this is mirrored in miniature in their internal conflicts (elizabeth knows james gave beckett the heart! and still lets him into her confidence!). they've had years to develop into their own people before meeting again, and develop all their own secrets too. i think it adds a lot more weight to james' characterization if he willingly hides something from her rather than being a paragon of honesty. and elizabeth, too, initially would rather keep him uninvolved than risk someone who knows her getting even closer. things have changed! there's a natural sort of chemistry that arises, to say nothing of intimacy—they're maybe the only two people in the world who know each other's whole deal.

it is such a treat to see them having fun and flirting and scheming with one another while both knowing these secrets exist, and trusting that the other isn't holding onto anything devastating without good reason. going back through the original draft and adding all these little hints and meaningful looks scratched such a particular itch for me ❤️

i think they were both cooked from this moment right at the beginning tbh. like damn. why don't yku fuck nasty right in front of me about it, it'd be less lewd than this

hiiii! thank you!! <3

i've found these overlays on youtube over the years, i don't remember exactly which videos they were, but if you look up "film strip overlay", "kodak overlay", "film grain overlay", etc for the film one, you should find something that you like. same goes for the light streak one: if you search for something like "light streak overlay", you'll get a bunch of nice one. then i download them via a website (i often use y2mate) and make a gif with screencaps from the dowloaded video(s) like i would any other gif.

once you have your overlay(s) ready to go as a smart object, duplicate it onto your gif, on top of everything (or under the typography layers), but definitely on top of coloring and blending, etc. put the overlay layer in a group, and if you have more than one overlay, put each overlay in its own group.

if the overlay is mostly black with some white specs/other colors, set that group's blending mode to screen (or lighten if it looks better). this will make everything that is black in the overlay transparent. and if the overlay is mostly white with some black, you can use the multiply (or darken) blending mode (it will make everything that is white transparent).

the reason why i prefer putting the overlay in a group and change the group's blending mode, instead of the overlay itself, is because it's easier to change its color that way if you wish. to change its color, i use a gradient map layer. the colors should be black to whatever color you want, and this layer should go into the overlay group, and n top of the overlay layer.

for my gifs in this rwrb set, there was also actually an animated grainy overlay below these two overlays. i've uploaded it here as a psd if you want, since it's pretty light. i put that layer in its own group and changed the blending mode to hard light and the opacity to 10%. i only used a gradient map to change the color on the color steak one to make it more of a pastel orange color, the two other overlays are as is without any color correcting layers.

Hi friend!!! This is from in the core of everything / hertan as usual. Somehow against the odds, these two are friends:

Iseult watches the fight drain out of him through narrowed eyes. But then she sighs and her shoulders fall from her own tight line of tension. “You have your life now, you daft man, and you’ll not be driving me away when I’ve given my word to help you.” Thórgestr bows his head and laughs in quiet defeat. “All right. I’m sorry. I shudder to think what my life would be like if I had you for a foe.” “I do make a better friend,” she says loftily, a real grin now curving across her mouth. “But since no one else will tell you when you’re being an idiot, that task falls to me.”

mary crawley + charles blake in downton abbey

you know until i saw that gifset the other day i forgot they were both in calendar girls 😂 seeing them both in costume makes me feel better about the casting too!

​In all honestly it was the casting that finally prompted me to read the books. I'd had the first one kicking around for a while but hadn't actually read it and now I've read the first three. So I've read the books picturing the actors.

I can see why people are upset about some of the roles, to be honest.

Who did you have in mind as the main characters?

Also, yes it's fun that they were in Calendar Girls!

@skatingthinandice @remembertheskittles aww I got twin asks from both of you!! Hahaha 🥰💖💖💖💖

I’ll do top 10 from my on repeat but only the first song on there from any individual artist for variety haha (so it’s not all fall out boy, unlike my blog currently lmao.)

Everybody Wants Somebody - Patrick Stump

All You Had To Do Was Stay (Taylor’s Version) - Taylor Swift

Cry - Carly Rae Jepsen

Bob Dylan - Fall Out Boy

In My Head - Jason DERULOOOO

(Had to skip so much fob/patrick/carly rae at this point lol)

Rose-Colored Boy - Paramore

If You Sing - Anarbor

New Religion - All Time Low

The Interview - AFI

I find/become obsessed with most songs I like via fanvids - if that's the case here I've linked back to the vid. Enjoy! :)

I'd Let You Win by PORTS (Doctor Who)

Born to Run by American Authors (Doctor Who)

Don't Give Up On Me by Andy Grammer & R3HAB

Satellite by Two Door Cinema Club (Good Omens)

Born Bold by Valley of Wolves

Home by Dotan (Doctor Who)

Hey Now by Matt and Kim

I'll Carry You by Tommee Profitt (Our Flag Means Death)

Mary on a Cross by Ghost

Obsession by OK Go