*dramatic soap opera music*

Challenge #8

In your own space, celebrate a personal win from the past year: it can be a list of fanworks you're especially proud of, a gift of your time to the community, a quality or skill you cultivated in yourself, something you generally feel went well. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Learning how to gif! With extra proud-ness given that I (a) started from basically 0 knowledge of Photoshop save whatever remnants I remember from using GIMP like a decade ago, (b) generally don't consider myself as being any good with colours, and (c) managed to pull off pretty much every moderate-to-very unhinged gif idea I had, including some animations done from scratch.

Probably a whole 90% possibly more of everything I made was Zhou Shen because I'm single-minded like that (full gallery here!), with the rest scattered across various fandoms, starting with a particular SecUnit-favoured show…

( Murderbot, The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon: Gif on Tumblr ) – logo design from Tor

( WOH/SHL and more gifs under the cut! )

All can be found in my gif tag on Tumblr, including some before/after comparisons and effect breakdowns if you're interested in the process.

(Non-fannishly, it'd be cooking! Which was a development I would never have seen coming.)

shenshen saturday!

In which I make full use of my constitutional inability to shut up about Zhou Shen, because why not. He deserves it!

And also because keeping up with everything he's doing is an entire (fun) task in itself these days, which I rarely set aside time for even though he's literally a joy to see onscreen. Plus maybe I'd like to take the chance to blatantly show off my gifs here too, can you blame me for that?

Anyway, here goes…

( Gifset on Tumblr )

( new songs! )

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( gifs! )

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( recs! )

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( and a watchlist )

Feel free to leave your faves in the comments! <3