#physical format LOL

[filurig]

OK I WENT AND SCANNED THE ZINE I MADE AND... here are most of the pages - so every middle "spread" has one left and right page on the back of it and then a bigger pic once its unfolded, but didnt include every side for every larger spread.

this basically explores a bit of folke and adrian's relationship - adrian, the Creature, ends up finding folke's brother's recently deceased corpse and imitates his appearence, the only real way for a basilisk in their world to learn to shapeshift into something.

So their relationship is a bit complicated. but also, it ends up eventually settling into something that isnt only full of bitterness...

#oc #original character #oc art #long post #comic #sorta?????? #fantasy #illustration #zine #sorta?????? HAHAHA #it was made for a publication course in uni and we were prompted to make zines. i just wanted to make this ok #pareidolia tag #oc: adrian #oc: folke #theres also folkes family in there a bit... u see glimpses of signe and their father #art #shapeshifter #so i didnt really sell most of them at the faire - but im selling the ones i have to ppl online so some ppl can see the whole thing in the #physical format LOL #dont think there's any left now unless any of the ppl who dm'd me changes their mind...

[parasolemn]

Creatures of wet slop. Grins

#disco elysium #sorry about the terrible formatting im trying not to take a thousand miles of screen space rn #thank you for liking my last post btw. I have one follower now !!! #(gonna wait til tomorrow to tag the characters its midnight and i need to sleep) #art dump #you can tell i literally cropped out the stuff i didn't like in most of these lol #parcark art tag #kim kitsuragi #acele berger #neha the dicemaker #lilienne carter #insulindian phasmid #physical instrument #the skills #harry du bois #well it may be nearly 5 weeks since i posted this but i got around to tagging the characters eventually so!

[ceci-seesaw]

This is my impression of the people who make movies/shows talking about their representation of visibly disabled people.

“Since we’re so nice, we’ll give you one (1) disabled character. They will be a manual wheelchair user and conventionally attractive. We do make exceptions for evil characters, who are allowed to have a cane and a limp or maybe are missing an eye. They will probably have a facial scar. If you’re really not feeling the wheelchair user you can also negotiate for a sidekick that uses forearm crutches instead. :) isn’t this great :) aren’t we so fantastic :) also notice how they all have lines ! Don’t question why :)”

#just gonna tag random shows that do some of this stuff. for funsies. kick the hornets nest #barbie #mean girls #Shazam #wheelchair user #disability #physical disability #pjo #(the crutches sidekick) (even tho Grover wasn’t even disabled) #plus pjo had Chiron (wheelchair) (not actually disabled) Ethan (eye) Luke (scar) #barbie movie #ever noticed how they only had manual wheelchair users and literally. zero other visibly disabled ppl. including extras. hmmmmmm #also theres like. more to this. but I’m putting it in a reblog bc I like the format better that way lol #ceci says stuff

[allaganexarch]

forget me not

Stray Gods || Grace/Persephone

She can’t bear to face anyone since she dropped out of college.  She had to talk to her parents, obviously, but it’s been almost a year since they spoke.  She was expecting them to yell at her, tell her she was wasting her life, tell her she’d never get anywhere without a college degree, that she was almost done, so why couldn’t she just wait it out another couple of years and then at least she’d have finished something? But they didn’t yell.  They both just seemed…sad.  Tired.  And that was so much worse. It was like they had given up on her. Grace doesn’t know how to explain.  She still hasn’t quite managed to explain it even to herself.  Would anyone understand?  Freddie never demanded an explanation—she loved Grace no matter what—but Grace was sure she wouldn’t get it.  Freddie was passionate about so many things.  Freddie was the sort of person who would probably go on to get a Master’s and a Doctorate or maybe two or three, because she just couldn’t decide what she loved the most. And Grace? Grace barely even felt like a person in college.  She tried to do all kinds of things, join clubs, meet people, take classes she thought might be interesting.  She tried to distance herself from Freddie, even, and she was not gentle.  She tried to destroy herself over and over again, and make something entirely new.  She tried to forge herself into someone interesting, someone worthwhile. But in the end, the truth always came crashing back to her.  She can’t escape herself.  She can’t escape how utterly unremarkable she is.

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#stray gods #grace x persephone #stray gods grace #stray gods persephone #this is not a sane piece of fiction i wrote it last night until 5 in the morning #should i have been sleeping should i have been studying YES #instead i wrote this #i was also like crying the whole time i wrote it LOL #now today i'm like does this even make sense is this even a story idk im too crazy to know #i am not well physically or mentally at this time LOL #anyway this is largely like a character piece for grace #since i felt if i was going to keep writing this ship (which i am due to being insane) i needed a better grasp on how i wanted grace to be #i think it's all canon compliant but it's also a lot of what i felt would be compelling so take w several grains of salt LOL #anyway hope you enjoy my 5 am meltdown!!!!! #exciting tag for writing things #is tumblr dot website yoing to make this formatting insane PROBABLY

[sysig]

It always seems like such a good idea in the moment (Patreon)

The first four are in reference to a great idea I had of - since I’ve finished my lower-limit page number testing for making books; shorter fics take up less page space, and just increasing the font size isn’t as handsome! - simply making a mini book! All it would take would be to halve the pages again, right? Just cut them right down the middle! Easy peasy!

As I’m sure you can tell by the second, no. Not easy peasy. Difficult painful un-fun >:(

Obviously I still did it tho! What do you take me for, someone who could have the idea of an even tinier book and then not do something about it?? No It’s also the only one so far to have a paper bookmark rather than a ribbon!

All told it’s a bit smaller than your average manga (I love the monochrome covers on these under their dust jackets haha <3) - you can see even with effectively doubling up the pages by halving their size, it was still very small-spined!

A quick shot while it was still being made hehe ♪ It’s Out! Paired here - and the earlier one, just without its dust jacket haha - with my Zarla SC2 collection (ft. Family, Negotiations are Going...Well, and With No Obligation) - I absolutely kicked myself after the fact for not including Out as the run-up to everything, I was really trying to make a full collection in probably-chronological order! Out would’ve been a perfect start! And it only would’ve taken like four pages!!

Ah well, it was still quite a learning experience - I probably wouldn’t make another standalone of under 4k-ish just for formatting reasons but I did get some good ideas of how to do so if I wanted to! Although, my next project is going to be even more of a formatting nightmare........I’ll get there when I get there! Lol

#Doodles #The impulsive thoughts are always the funnest! But then it's all a matter of actually putting them into reality... #Ahh well like I said under the cut it was a learning experience! And I really wanted a physical copy of Out haha ♪ #I don't think I've ever mentioned it - not even in my pre-fic notes :0 - but Out was another one of my inspirations for Drinking Game #I mean - the drinking lol obviously but I hadn't considered what VUX drinking would be like before reading it :) #I wanted to pair it with both physical copies hehe ♫ I'm happy I attempted it! And I have a better foundation to build on in the future! #I ended up using the scrap leftover from making such a small cover as the bookmark haha - and I picked the covers so they'd almost-match :) #They go together! But not quite! Just enough! #The sting of creation has worn off - it's actually been a while since I've made a quick book! - so the itch is starting to come back haha #Well - almost lol - the formatting is still........but I do want to do it! Especially now that I've got a hand-in-hand hobby to go with it #All that later ♪ For now snakes! #And also spiders I am also the same when spiders #I've been escorting a lot of spiders outside lately and pretty much all of them fall under the moniker of ''darling'' to me lol #Still no luck on finding a jumping spider :( But I also haven't got an enclosure set up yet either #There's this one booth that always has such adorable and pretty jumping spider enclosures ahhh I might have to break and get one someday #Same place where I got to hold the snake in fact! :D She was a love <3 Beautiful full-grown female cornsnake if memory serves #She was rather wiggly - she was tired and fussy and didn't feel like being handled by a stranger but she was so polite about it #A real delight to handle <3 And I got to see her babies! So cute and tiny! #The rest is more SCII fic stuff haha ♪ Rereading the Pirate fic was a lot of fun :) Intentionally avoiding Vargas fic(s) does make me a bit #Well I really like Vargas still lol it is candy to my brain so any gesture even remotely in that direction is very exciting haha #I'm perfectly happy with the rest for now tho! I have plenty of things to read and make! >:3c #Heck there's still a SCII fic I haven't read yet that I want to!! I just have to get all my previous SCII thoughts out of my head first haha #I will tho >:3c Always always ♪♫ #SCII

[familyabolisher]

what fiction is everyone reading/enjoying at the minute bc i'm in a fiction deficit

#.txt #this is stupid but i need things i don't own physical copies of bc i need epubs to read on my phone at work #so i have a bunch of fiction in physical format that i could read. but i need a digital book lol

[compacflt]

Dude you should be so so so so so proud, literally one of the best pieces I've ever read. It's the angst and complex characterization of Baldwin's Giovanni's Room meets the research behind The Alienist (the book, obvi- haven't actually seen the show yet). I adore how you maintained the characters' personal values even though I don't like them most of the time, and I now know way too much about the military in general because I would wikipedia something every third sentence. (Also thanks for that because coincidentally I'm working on a research project on how low-level fighter jet training affects marine animal behaviour, and I actually passed my first oral with flying colours because of the random knowledge I have acquired while reading/because of your fic.) That being said, I desperately want a physical copy on my bookshelf- would you ever feel comfortable distributing one or letting us go get it printed professionally? If not, I totally understand and am more than happy with what we have access to now! Seriously, thank you- it's incredible.

thank you thank you thank you for the ask!! just gonna answer by point

1. i am very proud!!! just extremely editorbrained ie have been trying to fix all the flaws for the last two months straight, and now all i see are problems & flaws that i couldn’t fix…. you guys should see my hard copy of this fic every single page is basically black with pencil. just ripped it to shreds. it’s just a writer thing i think, i am my own worst critic :(

2. if by personal values you mean political opinions … I wish it were like socially acceptable to post my extremely in-depth headcanons about random shit like this because i am so deep in it that i literally wrote out ice and mav’s voting records since 1980. Tldr: conservaDems. registered R but consistently vote D. mav would vote libertarian if his husband weren’t standing over him threatening divorce. after 1/6/21 change their registration to D & are basically just neolib shills. only reason they don’t vote obama in 2008 is that mccain was a navy vet.

3. thank you for the compliment but i am literally BEGGING you guys not to take anything i say/claim in this fic about the military to be true. there are certainly elements of the truth but many of the details i literally just made up. or altered to make plot sense (see IRST discussion ch 9, IRST was SUGGESTED by Boeing in 2007/8, not implemented until 2010ish). so much of the plot simply would not happen in real life. i can make a whole post about this sometime if people are interested cause there is actually so much I could say about real life accuracy in this fic/implications of real life shit…

4. no way???? that research project sounds so interesting??? congrats on passing ur oral!! idk what that means but congrats!!!! coincidentally i am also working on a research project—it’s why i have to stop working on this fic at some point. my senior research thesis is a novel about USAF CSAR chopper pilots so ive been doing so much research over the last 5 months… but about the USAF not the USN. my navy research HAS helped though. so maybe it’s a mutually reciprocal relationship :) i would love to hear more about ur project!!!

#re: anyone who wants a physical copy #give me some time to finish the slider one-shot/various other drabbles #& then send me a DM & ill send you my formatted pdf for You To Do With What You Will #but please please don’t advertise it because i really do feel weird/legally gray/morally gray about it #lol my copy has a foreword & an afterword and notes & everything #somehow ive managed to write 220k words & keep my GPA over 3.9 & keep my social life alive this year #most exhausted I’ve ever been in my life #this answer was drafted at the kraken-islanders game #if you guys are watching at home im with the group of kraken-outfitted college kids in the third row #im the asshole waving two kraken flags #west coast best coast #asks #edts notes

[hotsugarbyglassanimals]

ive been genuinely distressed about how bad my adhd has been this past month

#why did it take me 3 hours to make breakfast today. thats so embarrassing #i haev class in less than an hour and its killing me im so frustrated. thats 2 hours where i cant do anything #i am on the verge of just breaking down about it tbh because it never feels like i have enough time or energy #and it bothers me how much stimulation my brain needs constantly to the point where i cannot step away from socials cause my brain 'itches' #and when i do step away from socials my attention is so scattered that i forget what im doing #or it feels like there's zero cohesion to the step by step actions i need to take to finish a task #i hate adhd more than anything!! more than my trauma!! more than my physical issues!! #i normally leave these types of vents on my locked twitter but im feeling the tumblr tag complaints format lately lol #im just. so mad about how a lot of thinigs ive wanted to do in my life have been so so delayed because of my scattering interests - #-or that I really only have 4 hours in my day not occupied by me getting heavily distracted by something #fucking. oc projects from since i was 16 not coming into fruition ever. that is so . frustrating.

[milfbro]

@ your business card collection: how many do you have? Do you have a favorite?

I actually haven't counted? But it's a recent thing so I have like 100 distinct regulation-sized cards and a couple dozen fun ones

my only aesthetic opinion is that people need to stop making business cards too big for wallets.

my friend has a really cute card, a hughlight of the collection!

(it's hard to see in photos but it's all neon and so irl it really stands out)

#best cards are the ones that mirror what the person does aesthetically #so Bateman get better. Your card is too generic. #(that's the point I know lol) #but also. it's sloppy and badly formatted. of couse paul allen is better than you #also business cards are a physical object too so the neon is a great choice. unlike a digital card that doesn't translate neon

[unproduciblesmackdown]

eddie bracken as orville wingait in summer stock (1950)

#don't get it wrong abigail whacking orville upside the head is during their comedy backstage 5 sec to Resolution ending rush #literal last minute conclusion crunch in unsurprising formatting lol; i chose a more peaceful gif to end on. note the prior one's [feet Up] #i hope this illustrates There Is Much Material. more clips than this & truly as good or better a role as any others to choose from here #summer stock #conveniently it's apparently wingait in the movie but via that casting news this (2023) role is wingate #tcm fancam life...we've all been there. akd talking abt meet me in st. louis like maybe i should rewatch lol. have to muddle through someho #anyways there's for sure room to like grab a little thread of plot and enhance it in this story. e.g. orville & abigail could talk Thrice #their B-plot / more idiosyncratic romance there is still >>>>>> the main JUDY & GENE one unsurprisingly even w/o a third convo lol #whoops the main guy is an asshole. judy/jane learns she loves show business so just kinda may as well be in love w/the show guy ig #like girl you don't have to be...but ofc already although her & orville's dynamic is pleasant enough she seems somewhat disinterested #while fascinatingly for our purposes though orville is framed a bit like [this NERD] he can't be too dunked on b/c [romantic B-plot] #meanwhile abigail's Undeserving Of Gene/Joe (she is but she's too good for him) qualities being just that she's been too Indulged so like #in her lack of protestant ethic farm work she's so conceited & sensitive that she wants to rest & not be yelled at??? #smash cut to for real judy/jane on Opening Night like asking tentatively like oh romantic interest you're Not gonna yell at me..?? #but she's been Hard Working so she will tolerate the physical AND emotional demands. but she's also more Talented than abigail #so joe need not be mean to her Anyways like. okay wild maybe we could rework that but congrats abigail for NOT ending up w/him fr #meanwhile orville's arc (joe has none to speak of save realizing he wants to make out w/this other woman now) is as clear as anyone's #extricate himself from otherwise only getting to be an extension of his father who is generally interfering / directing / demeaning him als #another ''well i don't know about that'' element in that when orville Does tell him to cut that out his dad actually just rolls with that #and becomes more amicable lol like well that does work out & it's unsurprisingly like cmon orv you can't LET him treat you like that... #and if you didn't? he'd just be like ''oh haha okay''...like is abigail supposed to be ''right'' abt uhh romance there but yet she's just #too sensitive to handle Tell Don't Ask / No Apologies? maybe; but they both end up getting to Not Stand For It lol. i think that that would #ofc still be fun to develop. whereas w/joe it's like uh maybe make him Not a huge asshole in the end / judy p much in love w/Showbiz.... #abigail & orville out here decidedly Not About Nonsense....but still a bit zany ig such that after the [imagine the foley] hit: it's good #like i'm sure it's ''orville's still enough of a NERD to be chill w/that'' & ''abigail's still DIFFICULT enough to put her foot down'' #['50 gender politics] we all know that couple whose flaws & idiosyncrasies allow them to Apologize & Ask & use their inside voices #and be all upset if someone's trying to demean them. unlike True Romance of the man who won't bully his wife if she earns it :') #joe could instead uhh be a harried director who's actually Wrong for being a dick to his gf (if we even include that) w/the various sources #of pressure to make a show Work but there's all this req'd spontaneity / flexibility anyways & he learns that even if he's clenching throug #it he can Not take it out on other people / Make it succeed by Making ppl do anything. & also jane reminds him of Passion for this.

[crunchycrystals]

having so much fun reading renegades

#crunchyposts #books #reading commentary #ive spent the past few weeks just reading ebooks and i got it physically from the library and its so good to just hold it #i love both formats but the mix of it is so chefs kiss #but yeah having a lot of fun reading it i like the premise nova is deeply relatable to me AND shes also half seasian absolute win for me #but i too. am deeply competitive and need other people to know how good i am lol #i started like maybe one or two days ago im already like 250 pages in im so into it

[lesbianpegbar]

it makes me so viscerally angry that rule of rose is like $800-1000 nothing should ever cost that much especially not something that used to cost like $15-20

#I JUST WANT TO PLAY ITTTTTTTT #i know i could emulate but ive never emulated before and its such a hassle #even if i did have the money it would be hard to justify bc of how ass the combat and gameplay loop are #i just wanna experience the story myself and go at my own pace and explore the world #ive watched a lets play but that just cant capture the same feeling as playing it #ough #i wish i was like. not a small child in 2006 and i couldve bought all of these ps2 survival horror titles for $15-20 #instead of now having to pay $100-1000 per game for a physical copy #the only reason i own sh2 is bc it was a gift #and i wanna collect 1 3 and 4 when i can financially do so #its just such a pain and so unnecessary #i wish studios would do hd re-releases of these games on pc and ps4 or smth #ones that dont suck ass (COUGH SILENT HILL HD COLLECTION COUGH) #bc FUCK the sh2 remake i just want the og in a format that wont cost me $100-200. unrelated lol sorry #anyway. longwinded way of saying liking ps2 survival horror games is a curse and rule of rose is my white whale #mine

[macroglossus]

spent like half an hour deciphering the first-letter letter from johnny's mom in house of leaves before i remembered that the internet exists and i could literally just look it up

#i don't know why but im terrifically bad at stuff like that when the letters aren't spaced out i cannot make sense of em #also it's very late. but eventually i came to my senses. the letter made me pretty sad actually :/ #house of leaves #actually it's making me laugh picturing someone getting my copy if it's donated and they see the shit i scribbled in the margins #there specifically. lots of question marks lots of scribbled out lines BUT i did eventually get it all written out #so if i want to reread i don't have to figure it out/look it up again lol #i'm actually enormously glad i got a physical copy. house of leaves does not work in digital format

[thebraxiatelcollection]

I finished Lore Olympus: Volume Three and now I'm going to have to wait until June until the next one comes out?!

#about me #lol i know i could just read them on line but i like reading them in book formats and since i have the first three in physical books #i'd want to complete the others #but that ending #lore olympus

[keeps-ache]

hey guess who got their just got their post taken down for the first time! me :DD

#just me hi #'affiliate' material or whatever lol #i'm counting this as a milestone though like heck yeah #//rolling out the Fancy Drinking Water to party #first post taken down!! wooo :D #//but man there is no faster way to get me to cut straight to profanity than an email titled- quote- #'regarding your published work' from mdbg #like i was abt to delete the email but nooo #i spent like ten minutes overall going through the specific breach of TOS and lolll #just muttering under my breath abt smth i don't even know what #something about the audacity i think. i Was the Moment in those ten minutes lol #//fun though #anyway. i'm absolutely STRUGGLING to find a way to format this thing i wanna make #i can't start anything until i have a way to physically/visually put it in order #and i just Can't Do That #i don't wanna put the images in a word doc!! i think that would kill my soul #but Man is this hard lol ;-; #__(:'>_/)\__ #gotta figure this out Tonight #why tonight? bc there is nothing like tuesday nov. 15 2022 to get things done am i RIGHT ladies- #wednesday nov. 16 2022 is good too if i feel like suffering lol #//but ye #no more talky t cut my tags okk byE-

[bmpmp3]

in theory im very good at reading but in practice i cant read SHIT unless its in the perfect font with the perfect spacing so buying physical non-comic books is So difficult. why do online listings never put a picture of the page layout. i need to know how bad your paragraph spacing is. can i email my local bookstore and ask if they can take a pic of a page. is that allowed

#comics im mostly fine with (although ive realized i read some things like particularly manga easier than others) #(like if you tell me to read a superhero comic i'll die. mostly because of 'creative' font choices (whatever was going on in batman year 1)) #(but comics with clear simple fonts and generous spacing between the text and the edges of the speech bubbles helps a lot) #(and a lot of translated manga is formatted that way so maybe thats why? just theorizing tho lol) #but with written novels im a MESS #i need large spacing around the text to the edge of the page (1.5-2cm in mass market paperbacks is okay but if a trade paperback doesnt have #at LEAST a inch or an inch and half around the text blocks i'll die irl) #i also need the font to be a good solid medium or smaller size so large print books are out for me #also the spacing between letters needs to be standard but the spacing between words and ESPECIALLY the spacing between paragraph breaks #needs to be a little bigger #USUALLY sans serif fonts are better for me but a good standard ass serif like times new roman works like as long as its clear and blocky #and the printing of the words needs to be CRISP like okay i wanted to read no longer human because of its influence #so i went to the store to check out the translated copies but then i was killed on impact when i saw how fuzzy and fucked up the text was #girl i cant read that. girl help. #AND LIKE the solution is obviously just reading more ebooks BUT I LIKE reading books physically 😔 #easier to remember what books im reading and where i am in them that way jfklskfjdsa #sorry its just i love reading but my reading ability is mysterious and unpredictable HJKFLDSHJDKF #im trying to get a copy of phantom of the opera and im dying. not only are there 1000000 million translations. there is also... #100000 million different printings of the oldest public domain translation JFKLDSHJDKL:Ss #pray for me #luckily 99% of the books i read at least are from the library or borrowed from someone so i can check the font beforehand #but my library doesnt have everything RIP