COLORS CHAT #14

[magaru]

Sorry for the lateness!



It's time to sit back, relax, and pour yourself and ice cold glass of... milk. All these games are so great and fun but everyone needs a chance to just unwind and talk. So welcome to Colors Chat!

Here, you will get a topic and you can talk about it all you want. Just listen to your heart and write what you feel like. For your six sentences, you'll get 5 cards. And you should always go around and talk to people, see if you can make new friends or old friends with new light on them or you know, just talk with everyone! It is a chat after all.

Today's topic:
Your favorite gifs and reaction images, show them to everyone. Where did you get them from? What's the context, is it as funny as the image itself? Are you familiar with the source material for your favorite gif? Be warned that this post can get image heavy!

To encourage disussions between players, there's a bonus - for every conversation that is at least 5 comments long
all participants will receive two random cards. This is not limited, so talk to as many people as you wish!

Please keep all comments civil and polite. You might disagree with someone, but please do not start a flame war. THANK YOU and enjoy your weeks!

This round closes on Tuesday, May 20th! I'll post the next round on time

Comments

[blinkingrune]

I don't carry around .gifs, I think that's weird. So I'll talk about plurk emotes instead.



This is [concerned_hamtaro]. I'm kind of well-known for him in my circle of friends because he's a great, multi-use reaction image. Are you doing something weird? He's judging you! Did you get hurt? He's worried! Am I trying to make a decision? Better use this emote! ... Mostly he's judging you, though, in a kind of passive-aggressive way. Oh, [concerned_hamtaro], I love you.



[go_away_pikachu], [dog], [panda_yay], and [annie_pepperspray] are also great, too. The ideal plurk emote (which is really just an uploaded reaction .gif) should be funny and strange, I think...! It's funny if you know the context, but it shouldn't be necessary.

[zettaimuri]

I feel like Plurk emotes are a resource I do not take advantage of enough... At all actually. I'd like to start using them more but I'm not really sure where to collect them or what the etiquette is concerning them.

Everyone has really cute and funny ones though! Yours too, that Hamtaro one is really cute and now that you mention it it does seem really versatile. I guess those ones are the best since they take up less space instead of needing like five different ones.

[emberwishes]

Mmmmmm I see ones along the way that make me happy ^_^

Liiiiiike Natsu/Gray How can you not want them together


And more Fairy Tail


Aaaaaand tenimyu (mostly because of the multiple "wtf is going on there..."s)
examples:




Aaaaaaand of course Princess Princess...


Mostly the ones I like are from anime I already love, and they make me laugh. E.g. the Princess Princess one represents my favourite moment in the whole series, when Tooru and Yuujirou are trying to keep a straight face and just burst out laughing at Mikoto. It just never stops being funny :O And the gif reminds me of that.

[emberwishes]

I found this as well, that I wasn't using any and that actually loads of them are super super adorable :O For example, that Pikachu one :D I laughed for wayyyyyy too long at that xD Decided to start using them more, and I named that one 'Throw-pika' but it's nowhere near as creative as 'Go away pikachu' xD

[rocketpunch]

Sorry, RP journal, but I'm the person up there.

As for etiquette, it's pretty much about grabbing them. I've never seen anyone get upset over using one of their plurk emotes. They're kind of communal--you just add one from someone, and when you stop using it, you delete it and add a new one. If you spam them all the time you might bother someone, but for collecting them? Just find one you like, hover over it, and add it.

Also now I want to change my Colors username to [concerned_hamtaro]...

[zettaimuri]

Aah! I see. I was wondering if it was one of those things were you had to get permission or give credit in some way but if it's a free for all then there's nothing to worry about.

Maybe I'll try using them from now on.

[advancing]

Beyond anime and manga, I'm a huge Super Sentai fan. My favorite series is Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger and I have quite a bit of gifs from there. A lot of them are super versatile, like...



Are you just not wanting to give a single fuck today? Even though a squad of Zangyack just attacked you? Then this gif is for you!

And then do you just not want to do something today? Or are you just so done with something that you're roasted? Then this one is for you.


Jan is a perfect creature and Gekiranger needs more love.

Beyond that, though, I do have a sizable collection of plurk emotes since I'm on the site a lot. It's just easier to link them (those ones I made.)

[lochvaan]

This GIF is only really funny in a "people are still advertising their browser games this way?" sense, but it's the most relevant GIF I could find for what I'm about to talk about.



Viewing GIFS is an adventure for me because I have hearing-motion synesthesia. What this means is, a lot of GIFs will make me involuntarily "hear" things when I view them. In the case of this GIF, I hear three "sounds" - a film trailer-esque "boom" when the text is cut away, something that sounds like creaking floorboards at the breast movement and a heartbeat sound at the pulsing "PLAY NOW". If I cover one of these elements with my hand, I will not hear the associated sound.

Now, imagine browsing through a day's worth of posts on a Tumblr Dashboard with this condition.

[moes]

This is one of my favorite scenes in the Kokoro Connect series, and to be honest, and I have a lot of feelings towards this series, honestly.



Another Kokoro Connect one, though this is one is pretty much Inaba not taking your shit and I love that she's using that huge-ass fan. I know there's a proper name for it, but I can't seem to remember what it is off the top of my head.

I also have plenty of plurk emotes that I tend to use quite often.



This one, from Aikatsu! is pretty much my "OH NO YOU DIDN'T" emote, actually.



And I tend to use this one a lot to sigh, especially when I'm in an upset mood. There's also:



And to wrap things up, I'll end with my giddy gif.

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[fall]

The only gifs I use are ones that I look up on the fly. I mostly use them for RP accounts--things like ic inboxes or occasionally navigation posts in order to add a little flavor to them. I used to have a huge collection, but since I moved it to my external hard drive I've more or less lost interest in digging them back up.

I do use a lot of custom emotes on plurk, however! I mostly use Pusheen or other cat related gifs, with the occasional fandom emote thrown in for flavor and to fill the gaps. They're cute and fun to look at. They can be a nice way to cheer someone up as well; sometimes, getting a cute gif of kittens rolling around with each other or something to that effect can make a person smile when they're having a bad day. It's the same logic that would apply to youtube videos and memes.

I'm not sure that I could choose any favorites, but I have my collection of Pusheen plurk emotes here! I think they're all really cute.

[skybuns]

I don't usually use .gifs for reaction images or anything Hell I don't even use reaction images I'm a loser Yeah, basically I'm one of those people who fail to remember to use reaction gifs where appropriate.... OTL;;

Also I hope you realize that you have unleashed hell upon yourself when kazu discovers the topic of today's colors chat

[preternatural]

Okay, first let me link my actual favorite reaction gif:



It's not anime/manga, but Troy walking in with pizza to see everything on fire cracks me up every time I see it.

ALL RIGHT BACK ON TOPIC



Jirachi is actually me a lot of the time lately. 'Bluh wha -- OW'. I need to figure out how to make this plurk emote-size, honestly.



Misato Katsuragi: the most mature adult in existence. Yep. Totally.

[vivillion]

Okay, that is an absolutely hilarious gif.
The boobs... they inflate. It's like they're balloons! OR THE BOOBS ARE BREATHING
I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND

[lochvaan]

I don't understand it either, and this is supposed to make people want to play their game! (Then I hear the creaking floorboards and I start laughing again. XD)

Back on topic, I'm going to hijack the response to paste another gif give another example of what I "hear":


The most common sound I "hear" from gifs if they trigger a reaction in me is a "woosh". That's exactly what I hear with this one. XD

[vivillion]

okay I LOVE reaction images. i'm not that much of a reaction gif guy (i prefer static images), but i do have a few really good ones laying about.


like this one - there are some good "time to stop posting" pics out there, but this one i think works best. (also, its pretty ridiculous, which is always a plus for me.)


however, because this is an anime tcg, i think this one is also warranted. kyoko, my child, you are a terrible and lovely dancer for those moments you want to dance like a dork.

to wrap this post up, here's a hilariously confusing and NSFW gif (female nudity) that i have no context for in the slightest. not a reaction, but related to gifs.

[beezebeora]

I honestly just like FPoBA reaction gifs and images usually, but because I tend to use them on a lot of my English speaking friends. I dont really have or use many reaction gifs though, I'm not that original...

but seriously, idk i just don't use them. I dont like uploading images up on my site either just to link them hahaha so if I do have one, I usually use a quick gyazo screenshot, so I don't usually use gifs (that and they wont work on alot of places i would use said images, such as facebook, twitter, and my phone.)

[minteaprince]

what was that

heard you were talkin' shit about me-

[skybuns]

AND HERE SHE COMES

THE LORD OF TERROR AND THE HIGH PRIEST OF THE ORDER OF KAZU HERSELF

[minteaprince]

...well then.
ahahaaaa this is going to be so bad since I'm sure that no one besides myself wants me to massively pagestretch this with 200 gifs of Rinrin

alrighty then let's see. My collection of gifs and reaction images...is rather vast. Very wide. A lot. Yeah- I'm sure those who are familiar with me can attest to that yun i will never be sorry

my inventory mostly just consists of really stupid looking gifs of animals though
like this

and this


but then I also have a tendency to collect things that show the perfect reactions for everything, but in a way that makes no sense and makes people wonder why in the world do I have that, no seriously, why do you have that

this one's my 'watching my favourite character get massacred' or my 'seeing fanart/fanfic for one of my obscure as hell pairings/series'. The two are not necessarily independent events-

this is probably used in the aftermath of the events mentioned prior-

this one here is my 'walking outside after finishing my finals' gif


This is still by far one of my favourite ones to use for any occasion-

If we're talking something more normal: every time, I get lost in sassy Mouri's beautiful murderous catwalk-

bless you, okra sunshine queen
other than that, there are many things we don't talk about, and #1 rule is don't talk to me about [K] Project

don't talk to me about [k] project

and then there's the ones that just simply can't be explained


Ah, screw it- I'm going to rinrin it up anyways ahAHahahhAHAHHAAAAA-





aaaaand I'll leave this at a classic,

later y'all, kazu out-

[minteaprince]

that gif is an absolute beauty
oh my god
i like how you can even see the clipping issues when the breasts uhm. Pulse.
ahAHAHhaHAHAHAHAAAAAA
like who even sat down
and just thought
'You know what'd make people play our game?
rhythmically throbbing bosoms

[hanakoanime]

May I just say that the Tenimyu ones are funny? And that I actually recognized the first one, which makes it even funnier for me. (Probably was the only part of Tenimyu I watched. Well, both the first and second cast.) Though I would love to know where the second one is from. And I love you for including tenimyu in this.

[hanakoanime]

I don't use reaction gifs. I don't use reaction images. (Anyone who's ever had a comment spam thingy with me can attest to that.) It really comes down to, "I'm too lazy to find images that suit what I'm talking about." Instead of that, I tend to use emoticons, and even that is rare unless I'm doing quick chats (like the gmail one or Skype.)

I'm so sorry I'm this lame.

[emberwishes]

The best gifs are always tenimyu xD I mean, look at them. They really define.. just... everything tenipuri related haha =^.^= I don't know were the second one is from, both of these were kind of passed onto me through friends that know me far too well. Glad you like though! :D ♥

[minteaprince]

I have kindred feelings with you on the Troy gif-
it's perfect for almost any situation
also
that episode was hilarious ahahaaa...."OTZ

[minteaprince]

i've arrived-
thank you for the introduction
you'd make a great announcer, sky
you should consider that as a full-time career