It's been a long while since I've posted original content. Been given a Moog Mavis and a second hand gaming laptop this past week. Totally wanted to toss my remote at a certain show this week. Also, I'm finally donating the mini van a pal sold to me for $500 nearly 7 years ago when I was still part-time recovering from a major life blow-up. It has been dying a slow death and parts are extremely hard to source. That mini van and friend helped me realize I could drive if I needed to. That the stories crappy ex girlfriends and ex-wife told me about how I was some childish neurodivergent fuck up incapable of taking care of myself were untrue. With all that said, maybe I'll get inspired. I do have Corel Draw and enjoy doing logo design and 'zine layouts. One can always ask 😊
If I had a nickel for every time a Scottish actor who supported trans rights played the doctor
I'd have 4 nickels which isn't a lot but I'm glad it happened [whatever the fuck the 4 version of twice is]
Jump...Jump...Jump...🤭😄
Yes to all of these
@Fanfic writers:
My friend send me this link, is a series on a profile on Ao3 (tumblr) that has different tutorials to insert things to fanfics via html code, I thought I would share bc it’s really cool
Lists of tutorials:
This is a tutorial/live example on how to make large images fit on mobile browsers but remain normal size on desktop browsers.
This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic the look of letters, fliers, and stationery (as well as other forms of written media) without using images. For all your epistolary fic needs.
This is a tutorial/live example on how to create a "Choose Your Own Adventure" fic. While this has been explained before (see here), this particular tutorial shows you how to use a work skin to hide the next parts from the reader until they click through to get to them.
This is a live example of how an author can create linked footnotes in their work with only a little bit of HTML and no workskins required. This is best viewed by clicking "Entire Work". While I've included the actual coding in bold and italic once you click "Hide Creator's Style", there's a more detailed explanation here.
This a tutorial/live example on how to have text change or appear once a cursor is hovering over it. Helpful for pop-up spoilers, language translations, quick author's notes, etc.
Anonymous on tumblr: do you have a skin that would mimic the author’s notes and review/kudos buttons section from the end of a fic? the desired effect being that the fic could go on after the “end” of the fic, so after the author’s notes and review/kudos buttons
Here's a tutorial/live example to do just that, with some of the buttons actually functioning. I'll explain more inside!
This is a tutorial/live example on how to align images to the left or right of the screen and have text wrap around them.
This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic email windows on AO3 without the need to use images.
This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic iOS text messages on AO3 without the need to use images. There's also a chapter on how to have emojis displayed on AO3 as well.
Bored with the default page dividers? This is a tutorial/live example on how customize your page dividers with no images needed (though I do show you how you could use images if you wanted to do such a thing).
This is a live example how to make invisible text that can only be seen by highlighting the text. Tutorial is included in text, and you can always leave comments about questions you may have.
MOBILE USERS: Sadly, this probably won't work for you, since highlighting in a mobile browser is different than web. I've tried correcting this, but have yet to find a solution.
Original coding and design is from layouttest. I make no claims for it, just tweaked it so it will work on AO3.
This is a live example of my AO3 skin that allows the author to recreate the look of lined notebook paper in their work. To learn more about it, you can find the tutorial here.
This is a live example of my AO3 skin that allows the author to recreate the look of sticky notes (aka Post-Its) in their fic. To learn more about it, you can find the tutorial here.
This is a live example of my AO3 skin that allows the author to recreate the look of Deadpool's thinking boxes in their fic. To learn more about it, you can find the tutorial here.
This is a live example of my AO3 skin that allows the author to recreate the look of a newspaper article in their work. To learn more about it, you can find the tutorial here.
DELETE THIS POST
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME
*clicks play in morbid curiosity*
*hammers reblog button*
I think I find this post every April Fools Day and I am so happy that I do
I was just having a quiet Thursday evening
Things fanfic is reputed for inserting into the source material:
- Sex
Things fanfic actually inserts into the source material:
- Sex
- Holding hands
- Bizarre misunderstandings
- Meticulous descriptions of food and clothing
- The author’s unaddressed traumas
- Found family
- Plausible explanations for existing plot holes
- Additional plot holes
- Exciting new frontiers in speculative physics, economics, chemistry, biology, zoology, psychology, theology, and/or ontology
- Tax evasion
- Gender
- Very bad puns
And so importantly, in prev tag:
#actual personality for character who was done dirty in canon
Padding across the floor
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- Unsplash - photography, illustration, & art
- Pixabay - same as unsplash
- Pexels - stock photos and videos
- Getty Images - photography & illustration
- Veceezy - vectors and clipart
- Gumroad - photoshop brushes (and more)
- StockSnap.io - stock photos
- Canva - needs login but has lots of templates
- Library of Congress - historical posters and photos
- NASA - you guessed it
- Creative Commons - all kinds of stuff, homie
- Even Adobe has some free images
There are so many ways to make moodboards, bookcovers, and icons without plagiarizing! As artists, authors, and other creatives, we need to be especially careful not to use someone else’s work and pass it off as our own.
Please add on if you know any more resources for free images <3
recently found out about openverse which i think aggregates a bunch of creative commons images from flickr, wikimedia, nasa etc… pretty handy
I’m shocked so many people don’t know about my go to – Morgue File.
It’s full of searchable, rights free images uploaded by photographers.
Have a lovely day <3
I feel like I'll reblog this one every time I come across it. <3
He needs a beer
i'm so glad goncharov happened when it did, right before prolific public use of AI. that was pure honest gaslighting straight from the heart. real human whimsicality and trickery thru blood sweat and tears. we were a family. and we all gonched, together. you cant replicate that with any machine.
Herman Heyenbrock, 1928
Never work without the safety!
i need feminism because when jesus does a magic trick it’s a goddamn miracle but when a woman does a magic trick she gets burned at the stake
fabulous
i mean they did also kill jesus. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you’re coming from here but they very much did kill jesus.