This is just something silly that I decided to do for fun.


So, you're sitting at home, watching something and you decide "I MUST MAKE A CAPSUMMARY OF THIS!" Well, never fear! I shall show you the proper method.




FIRST: You must download the fansubs of a certain anime. This will take no more than five minutes. THEN you must track down the raws. This may take several hours.
Never fear, though! Wading through broken links and dead torrents are LOADS of fun!



NEXT: You must watch the fansubs, in order to understand what the hell is going on, but also to see if you can steal find a good joke in there somewhere.
(Screen is black because print screen doesn't work for taking media player screen captures, for some reason.)



NOW: You must keep all your caps organized. Go into your trusty External HD, (because your computer will never have enough space for all these screencaptures you know it to be true,) and make a new folder for the new caps.
Everything must be in its proper folder, after all.



AFTER THAT: Open up your raws and watch them, pausing to take screen captures every time you see something interesting. Attempt to come up with more jokes during this time to lessen the amount of time you'll have to think about it during the write-up phase.
This can take anywhere from 45 minutes to hours or even days, depending on how ADD you are. You've seen this episode several times by now anyway.



THEN: After 45 minutes or several days, finish up and make sure all your pictures are in order and properly labeled. Get annoyed at the computer for how it formats the pictures, yet do nothing because its too much work to reformat them.



ONCE THAT'S DONE: Go to your trusty paid for (because bandwidth is a bitch) photobucket account and upload. Get annoyed that the bulk uploader doesn't upload .jpgs right and that you have to do it the MANUAL way.



NOW DO THIS: Get ready with your LJ, spend a few minutes picking out of the four FMA icons you own, and find something witty to say in your first sentence. Then open up your itunes and pick some rocking music that will get you in the mood.



THEN YOU MUST: Start writing the capsummary. Spend time staring at the white space trying to think of something funny to say for those pictures you couldn't figure out a joke for in advance. (Usually around 80% of your pictures).



IT IS ADVISED: Use copious amounts of sparkletext.



WHEN YOU'RE THROUGH WITH THAT: Get bored of staring at white space and head over and read the manga of the episode, trying to come up with a joke. Get annoyed that Ed and Al switched places in this scene in the anime for no particular reason.



THIS LEADS TO: Waste time looking up things on Wikipedia that have absolutely no relevance to what you're working on.



AFTER YOU FINISH THAT: Go back and force yourself to finish the capsummary. Go look at it in rich text to make sure everything is properly formatted and no one's F-list will be raped.
Because f-list rapage is NOT courteous to your other LJ members.



FINALLY: Yay, you're done! Just a quick whiz through the entry and your journal to make sure that LJ-cut didn't be a bitch and screw up again, and you're done! Post on the interwebs and bask in the glory that your fellow internet members give you.



Now that you have learned how to make a PROPER capsummary, you realize it takes WORK and DEDICATION to become an accomplished capsummerer. However, with time, you too can dazzle the internet with your hastily taken screencaps and lame jokes.