#how to download free newspaper

[crowdits]

🕷 SPIDER-MAN PERSONAL CARRD 🕷

super specific & simple carrd for personal uses, looks over functionality. FREE , (semi) MOBILE & NON-PRO FRIENDLY. view the demo #here

as requested by @nonstopartist it's a static carrd loosely based around the DAILY BUGLE newspaper! all images and the title are once again drawn by me and linked on the first page, easily accessed through the demo

if you'd like your own custom carrd, you can use the form ! ♥

NOTES;

all the images (except last page header/footer) are drawn by ME, please do not remove credit if you choose to keep them

if you run into any issues, please send me a IM or ask so we can figure it out!

any tip given is highly appreciated, you're funding my premium subscription and give me the opportunity to make more carrds!

HOW TO GET IT;

DOWNLOAD THE TEMPLATE HERE ❤

#spiderman #peter parker #miles morales #carrd template #carrd templates #carrd layouts #carrd resources #downloadable #free resources #not my proudest work design wise ngl but im blaming carrd's limitations on that #kinda wanna do a doc version of this

[phoebejaysims]

Betting Mod

Big thanks to @cheejer for the mod idea!

Make your trips to various town competitions more exciting by placing bets. Sharpen up your sims' gambling skill!

Your sim can make 4 different types of bets at the grocery store. Buy:

Horse Racing Tokens

Star Player Tokens (For Sports Stadium Games)

Bot Competition Tokens

Food Lottery Tickets

Tokens must be used within 5 days after purchase otherwise they will expire.

Who wins:

All sims have a base (5% or 10%) chance of winning.

Chances increase or decrease depending on certain traits or buffs (such as lucky, genius, equestrian, bot-fan, loser, unlucky...).

How to check winnings:

Food lottery tickets will be automatically used after shopping at the supermarket.

Star player tokens can be "redeemed" by watching the sports TV channel on game days after the match has started.

Read the newspaper on weekends (Read/Check Current Events).

Otherwise attend the competitions at the relevant rabbithole.

What's won:

Food lottery winners will receive 10 random ingredients.

Otherwise, the prize is a random amount of money between 100 and 500 simoleons.

Other:

Participating in betting will increase gambling skill if you have the required store content installed. It will also contribute to win and loss statistics.

You can discuss your bets with other sims : Friendly -> Discuss Bets.

If you want to buy tokens from a lotto machine, apply this script: Sims3.Gameplay.Objects.Miscellaneous.PhoebeJaySims.Betting.BettingMachine

Tuning:

Most values can be tuned in the XML including win chances and prize amounts.

Compatibility:

Made on Version 1.67.

Base Game Compatible

Download: Simblr.cc - Betting Mod

Thank you! If anybody would like to donate as thanks, feel free to donate at: ko-fi.com/phoebejaysims.

Please enjoy!!

Phoebe.

#ts3 #phoebejaysims #phoebejaysims betting mod #sims 3 #sims 3 mods #sims 3 modding #simblr #sims 3 mod

[noctsim]

✧ Cassiopeia's Cottage ✧

Happy Simblreen!! 🎃

I'm alive & still building, work has just been a pain.

This is my witch sim Cassiopeia's house built in Nilxis' Hylewood world. Be warned that it's a VERY cluttered house (!!) but mostly maxis match with nothing ridiculously high poly. Play tested and every furniture route work as intended. During gameplay, make sure to set the front door manually, otherwise service sims will just use the back door to drop newspapers and whatnot lol. This house is best for a single sim.

I tried to include all the custom patterns I've used. There's one (1) CAP pattern used in the kitchen walls that must be installed through the launcher unless you know how to properly convert it to package. I've placed this one separately in the folder for an easier find.

I recommend playing this house in Hylewood, it might look weird in other world's terrains!

☆ Lot Size: 20x20 ☆ EP/SP:  World Adventures | Ambitions | Late Night | Pets | Supernatural | Seasons ☆ Download: MEGA | SFS

Thank you all CC creators and converters!! ♡♡♡ Feel free to @ me in your pictures if you want. Also, let me know if you're having trouble with this download. Happy simming! ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و ♡

#s3cc #ts3cc #ts3 residential lot #simblreen

[simmireen]

♥ DAY EIGHT ♥ simmireen goes santareen ♥ it’s not about how much we give, but how much love we put into giving

on DAY EIGHT I give you ...

'spying on you’ 4 sitting on a bench poses with someone sneakily hiding behind this newspaper ♥

DOWNLOAD (SFS) DOWNLOAD (Patreon) (always free!)

♥~♥

The poses work with Teleport any Sim and Andrew’s Pose Player The posepack is as usual provided with previews. These poses are somewhat gender-neutral, but there can be minor clipping or floating because every sim-body is different. I really would like to see if you use my poses! So tag me at tumblr, instagram or twitter (@simmireen) You can find an overview of all my posepacks at Pinterest You can support me on my Ko-Fi page > but never feel obliged to tip! Terms of use Don’t claim as yours or put behind a paywall Don’t re-edit (adjusting hands is always allowed, just don’t change up my pose) Don’t reupload Oh, and let me know if something doesn’t work! @ts4-poses​​​​ @emilyccfinds​​​​ @sssvitlanz​​​​ thank you for reblogging <3

#posepack #simmireen #simmireengoessantareen #ts4cc #thesims4 #sims4poses #ts4poses #poserequest #simsposes #thesims4cc #ts4ccfinds #ts4 poses #sims 4 poses

[kairisu]

heyo!

here's another yearly post from me, though it's mostly just me blabbing below the cut since i'm in the mood today (￣▽￣)

so last year, my kine society project was supposed to be like my no. 1 priority but i wanted to take a break for a bit, so i did other projects in the meantime. one of those was me attempting to make defaults from scratch for the first time

i got so hyperfixated on a freaking newspaper delivery default out of all things... though i guess it's also one of the things i wanted in my game since i was like 14 LOL

i flipped the bag so it's at the position where they grab the newspaper/magazine and i really wanted the newspaper bag's sling to be an actual mesh, so i made that. i'm ngl i'm still proud of it since it's the first mesh i've made from scratch (≧∀≦)ゞ

i was so psyched that i also got the newspapers to pull the textures from whatever newspaper default i had in-game (courtesy to vegan-kaktus, alienpod, and episims defaults as my guide hehe)

for the outfits, they were probably took the longest time to make since i couldn't decide on just one, so i made multiple meshes until i settled with the ones above. j was extracting ts4 meshes, downloading cc, testing them out in-game, and along the way, i ended up playing ts4 instead ヾ(≧▽≦*)o

i then started recreating ts2 sims from both psp and pc, so that's what i've been doing whenever i'm free. i actually took a break from that too but the upcoming ts4 expansion got me really hyped fr. SEA content and multiple households in one lot! but then i also need to keep cleaning and updating the mods too...

also last week, there were a lot of holidays so i got myself back to meshing again that i even learned to convert ts3 glasses to ts4! still not fond of how the mapping works in ts4... it also makes the texture's file sizes way bigger than it should be

there's also some unreleased conversions and mesh edits i made years ago but i still need to test them again and make previews. and i'll try to answer some asks tomorrow

hope y'all have a great weekend ahead! 💗

#non sims #wip

[bunberiii]

𝟶𝟹. 𝚔𝚑𝚊𝚍𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚝 𝚒𝚗𝚟𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚐𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 - google docs oc template

a police investigation board aesthetic google docs oc template for single muses including general information, backstory/biography room, personality, multiple pages for character relationships, an area for extra information/headcanons, and school or occupation information. This document features many images and drawings such as a fully customisable evidence bag, iPhone lock screen, newspaper clipping, id card and receipt made by me! feel free to edit this as much as you wish, but do not remove my credit.

notes/rules

editing and modifications are welcome once you purchase the template.

all drawings in this document are custom and created by me. If you wish to take elements from this document, you MUST credit me as inspiration or the creator of said elements.

this document is massive, so there may be delays in loading images, drawings or text.

I do not recommend changing the text, as it can throw off the entire document.

resizing or moving objects/images can throw off the document, so be careful.

do not remove my watermark/credits

please like or reblog this post if you use my template!  ♡

how to use

download this template by purchasing it here. 

open the note attached, and copy the link into your browser.

go to file  →  make a copy. 

how to edit

in order to most easily put in your own images, go to replace image then choose how you wish to replace it (either uploading a file or via the image's URL)

this document includes drawings. to edit, double-click the drawing/image on the bottom left or top right corner, then click the edit tab. this will take you to a page where you can replace, edit or delete features of the image

some images may require you to move others overlayed on top to easily edit them.

#google docs #google doc #google doc template #google docs template #template #discord template #discord rp #roleplay #oc template #character template #muse template #police investigation #police report #police #police aesthetic #investigation #investigation board #bunberiii #bun: google docs #bun: original #bunberiii google doc #roleplay template

[netherworldpost]

From 2016 through 2018, Evil Supply Co. (hi, it me, we are rebranding) published 21 monster newspapers detailing the lives and tomfooleries of ghosts, witches, mermaids, monsters, dragons, gorgons, wizards, rock creatures, goblins, orcs... etc.

The Complete Evil Supply Co. collection is available for free via PDF by clicking this link here.

Please feel free to share. Please feel free to link to it on your own blog or media or whatevers.

The link will take you to a Google Drive page, so when I say "there is no obligation or sign ups" I mean it. I won't even know that you downloaded it.

You can of course tell me. But you don't have to.

The entire point of making this public is to give you something without asking for something in return.

Every issue. Every in-universe ad. A few extra rambles at the beginning and end discussing the future. It's just over 100 pages and something like 40- 50,000 words. I counted once and it took forever.

I've been making it free for years and have given away several copies because the community of folks who love monsters and Halloween and mermaids has provided me an audience to build an unimaginably fun life.

A company can exist for many reasons. Making the world a better place via a utopian paradise is one of mine.

When I say this project is my life's work, I mean it.

I'm getting far too sappy.

Let's talk about the future a moment.

I have been exploring various printed versions of the book for months. I'm hoping to narrow down a company to work with sometime before the store launches (Autumn 2023). Did you know that books are absurdly heavy?

The printed version will not be free. The link above (and here, we love utility in this crypt) is formatted to print fine on 8.5" x 11" paper. It is again though 100+ pages, so do be aware. The PDF will always be free, even after said printed version launches.

Onwards to next, non-secret things

Remember this? I've signed a contract today to build a microsite on the blog that will house the Dispatch in web format. This is third in priority --

blog (April 2023)

shop (Autumn 2023)

Dispatch microsite (...?)

-- for obvious reasons. The PDF will be available for free for as long as I run this company, this is not a limited time offer. I mentioned that above but I like mentioning things, including "I like mentioning things."

The existence of non-secret things implies... secret... things?

Kinda.

One of the features of the blog that I'm really excited to offer is advice columns and in-character pen pal exchanges. "Hey Strawberry, how does magic work underwater?" and then you'll get a reply if your ask is chosen.

And by reply I mean a published thing online + an actual physical letter in the mail as this company is a non-governmental postal facility after all. A post office, if you will. A Netherworld Post Office, even!

The stories from Evil Supply Co.'s dispatch are serving as a near-final draft of new stories.

Or maybe a solid starter. Anyway, the point being:

All of the plot points and characters (etc) are sticking around (with the exception of Atticus, as a fictional character in the newspaper, I've decided to just be a semi-fictional character in actual real life).

The direction of new stories is "more of everything" and "cleaning up minor plot point holes" and/or "using plot point holes for comedic purposes and strategic hilarity."

There will be a brand new character replacing the Atticus character.

I really liked running the Dispatch. It was one of the things I'm most proud of -- a monster newspaper?! all original content!! I drew it all, I wrote it all!

I want to explore bringing it back in some form.

And.

I recognize I have a lot on my plate at the moment. So the best path forward is, as above, giving away the base + building the microsite.

One of the beautiful things, I have come to realize after surviving my 2020 traffic accident + ensuing as well as not related legal battles to get people to pay me what they owe:

I have a lot of time.

I don't need to rush things.

Whoops!

Wrong link.

Try this one instead.

(That terrible joke was as immensely satisfying to write as you think it was. Doubly so if you get that the link is from Ocarina of Time and I was just talking about time okay I'll see myself to the door this post has gone on way too long.)

Let's wrap this up!

NetherworldPost.com has the email signup.

If you've signed up before, the auto- duplication- resolution- witchcraft- tech- things will take care of it. You won't get a ton of emails.

First email will go out saying "blog is launched" when said blog launches and then rambles thereafter.

(Bugs Bunny and others gifs used in this post do not appear but are included as helping legibility of said this post.)

#peyroux dispatch #monster stories #monster fiction #ghost fiction #halloween stories #monster newspaper #evil supply co #evilsupplyco

[16woodsequ]

Sunday Steve - Day Eleven

Things that would be new or unfamiliar to Steve in the 21st century, either due to the time period he grew up in, or his social-economic status and other such factors.

Day Eleven: Toilet Paper

People used many things as toilet paper before commercial toilet paper was available. As indoor plumbing became more common toilet paper became more necessary because pipes were not designed for almanac pages or newspapers.

In the late 1800s toilet paper was still a luxury but it was being developed. "In 1890, toilet paper started to look a lot more like stuff we’re used to seeing today. It came on a roll in perforated sheets. It was a tough sell though because no one wanted to admit to buying it. In Germany, a company called ‘ Hakle’ overcame the problem with the slogan “ask for a roll of Hakle if you don’t want to say toilet paper.” (Link)

Late 1800s toilet paper. 2500 sheets.

Charmin began marketing its toilet paper around its softness in 1928, as well as selling economy-sized packs of four rolls in 1932 (Link).

There were two types of toilet paper. Soft and hard. "The hard paper was more affordable and was very shiny on one side of it" (Link). Hard paper often had printed text on it (most of the examples I've found are British).

Every source I've found says that toilet paper began to be advertised as "splinter free" in the 1935. Most casual articles don't dig into what this actually means, but I found some ads for the infamous splinter free toilet paper.

Splinters resulted from the manufacturing process, and as you can see in the below images the splinters were usually very small. I haven't been able to find out how genuinely inconvenient this splinters were.

1930s toilet paper ad (Link) (Link)

You can see the various marketing methods for soft toilet paper, treating it like a medical issue and appealing to women.

You can also see 3 rolls being sold for 20-25 cents. I think that is very expensive for toilet paper in the 30s. I've found a source showing 2 rolls of Clifton toilet paper being sold for 9 cents in 1932. (Link) And this link shows 4 rolls of crepe toilet paper being sold for 19 cents in 1930 (Link is behind a pay wall but I managed to download the price list). I'm guessing the rolls in the splinter-free ads are soft toilet paper, and the cheaper examples I found are hard toilet paper.

1930 grocery price list. Toilet paper is the third item, listing four crepe rolls for 19 cents.

In 1940 one roll is being sold for 15 cents (Link), but it's not clear if this is soft or hard toilet paper. I'm guessing soft since it's almost the price of four rolls in 1930.

My guess is Steve paid around 9 cents for 2 (19 cents for 4) rolls of hard toilet paper. I doubt he bought soft toilet paper since it cost about 20-25 cents for 2-3 rolls. But I can't know the prices for sure.

One thing for sure is modern toilet paper is softer than the paper Steve would have bought. Britain didn't even start manufacturing 2-ply toilet paper until 1942. Over the years soft toilet paper become the norm (although institutions like schools often have thinner, harder paper).

Given this information, Steve would probably be used to buying harder, cheaper toilet paper for about 9 cents for 2 rolls/19 cents for 4 rolls. Soft 'expensive' toilet paper would be surprising as the norm, and I think he'd find our massive packs of toilet paper shocking. Although as we'll see, soldiers were provided Waldorf paper, which seems to be a more softer, expensive brand.

Army Toilet Paper

Soldiers were provided toilet paper with K-rations and later with C-rations. A soldier would get one accessory packet a day with either ration and it came with twelve sheets of Waldorf toilet paper.

(Link) Accessory packet with Waldorf toilet paper.

You may have seen the factoid that British soldiers were rationed 3 sheets of toilet paper per day compared to American soldiers having 22 sheets. I believe this is a misinterpretation of this book discussing the resources available to American soldiers on base in Britain (pg. 288). But after further research I think the actual number of sheets British soldiers got a day on the front was 4 sheets. (Link) American soldiers got 12 sheets included in their K-ration. (Link)

If a soldier ran out of toilet paper they most likely had to make do. I've seen stories of pages from books being used, or even paper bills. (Link)

Bonus

First paper towels sold 1931 (Link).

1936 paper towel ad

Facial tissue paper originated from gas mask filters in World War One. Kleenex were marketed as a cold cream and makeup remover in the 20s and began being marketed for colds in the 30s. (Link)

1930 ad for Kleenex for 25 cents.

Personally, I don't think Steve would have spent money on either of these things, but they did exist.

#sunday steve #steve rogers #toilet paper #crepe paper #history #american history #20th century #20th century history #steve rogers meta #meta #kleenex #paper towel #1900s #splinter free toilet paper #1930s #world war two #rations #army rations #early 20th century

[historysims4]

Hello,

As you know by now I love vintage, and reading books and newspaper articles about fashion and the daily life that used to be there is also one of them. I found an interesting article on how the art of bodybuilding was born and transformed over time. (link of the article I found, if you don't "chew" French use the translator) Fascinated by all this, I searched for some photos on the internet and created this outfit! *12 swatches (solids & patterns) *Base game compatible *Teen-elder Find the outfit in the fullbody - costume cas section. Hope you like it!

DOWNLOAD - simsfileshare (always free)

T.O.U.

*Don’t claim as yours 

*Don’t put my cc in paywall site 

*You can recolour but please tag me

#ts4 cc #ts4 vintage #ts4 historical cc #sims 4 historical cc #fullbody cc #fullbody cas #male cas #male cas cc #ts4 sport #ts4 gym #my cc

[iampikachuhearmeroar]

y'know im about to go feral on how EVERYTHING is under subscriptions. want this viddy game to run better??? get *insert viddy company name here or or viddy game title here* plus or extra or up your plan to get access to EXTRAS!!

bc the other day, i was making a list of all the different games i might download on my xbox in the future. fallout 76, which has fallout 1st.... which is a $22.99 per a month or $179 a year subscription, just to get better skins etc in the game. i want to download trivial pursuit for me and my dad. but xbox and ubisoft keep recommending "get ubisoft+" which is ANOTHER subscription service through ubisoft. another like $25 a month. like given it could be worth it for me if i got into assassins creed on a bigger level than casual. get EA play to get exclusive sims content!! for ANOTHER $6.99 a month. get xbox games pass (which i have) for $18.95 a month!!! and to be fair, i get EA play for free through xbox game pass. but still.

for example, the other day i updated my nintendo online sub account to the extras pack or whatever.... all bc i wanted to look at the gameboy advance online thing...... but instead of letting me look at it and play super mario world 2 on it on my NORMAL SUBSCRIPTION (which i already had access to on nintendo online snes/game cube or whatever.... and plus i though the GBA platform would have more games than it did (like 10 games but i thought it'd have like 50 or something) i had to change my subscription to the nintendo online plus extras pack for GBA online. but that subscription, was $41.95 this year bc i bought it on sale,... however, next year it'll be $60. like at least its $60 a year and not a month. but i'm still pissed off. i should've been able to get access to this for the $30 a year i was already paying!!! and for a measly 10 games not the like 50 games on the game cube/snes online game offerings.

just. im so sick and tired of EVERY company demanding customers to pay a monthly or yearly subscription for access or extras or for something to run better. who the fuck is made of enough money to afford fallout 1st??? ubisoft+??? like dgmw, i get it if you're SUPER into any of these games. like it's worth $22.99 a month to access extras across the library of ubisoft+ if you're a hella fan of assassin's creed or their other games (ie trivial pursuit). or $6.99 for EA play for the love of sims or every single sports game ever.

just i guess it's burn out maybe that EVERYONE wants your money. a section of your wallet continuously until you cancel. i have to subscribe to my area's local newspaper for $179 a year. i subscribed to an app by the adf (australian defence force) to do job aptitude tests (im ignoring it tbh lol). i subscribe to the NYTs games app for $2.99 a month. i WAS paying $15 a month (but now it's closer to $20) for scribd, which is now everand, for audiobooks. for better use of my xbox, i subscribe to xbox games pass, as i said earlier, for $18.95 a month. and from next year, i'll pay $60 a year for nintendo online (unless i drop down back to the cheaper option to get rid of GBA online). i subscribe for $100 a year to microsoft for the essential apps of microsoft word/powerpoint etc. i pay $100 a year for norton antivirus on my windows laptop that i barely use now.

there's adhd apps that I keep getting recommended on fb that are like $150 a year or something. astrology app subscriptions (that i'll NEVER buy) that are like $15 a month.... as examples of apps that i won't use, but I get suggested all the time on social media. once i get a job, i'll be constantly asked about what tv streaming apps im subbed to as well (none). WHY does EVERYONE want my fucking money???? i am so sick to death of subscriptions.

#life #about me #shut up ilona

[halfbit]

hey! this is chance & here’s this week’s prompt. what websites or resources do you use while you write or develop a character/story? what do you think of them and would you recommend them?

hiya chance! thanks for the ask! also i went way too detailedwith this one again, sorry adsajfhdks.

i included links to every resource i listed that is either free or freemium, aside from one's that are on most people's computers by default.

i've tried out a lot of different stuff over the years — i don't have wi-fi so i have strong preference for offline programs and tools! so the majority of these are kept on your computer.

my main tool right now is obsidian — prior to that i used quoll writer, joplin, and plain old notepad (yeah...) though, and i haven't finished transferring and reformatting everything yet ^^. i only reopen quoll now though to look at my old notes. i highly recommend obsidian, it's so much fun once you figure it out and highly responsive. quoll is useful too but i had some issues with it, including the occasional lost content, random crash, and just general slowness.

i use obsidian for keeping all of my brainstorming together, backing up my discord rambles, outlining plots, and organizing my worldbuilding and character profiles. i also sometimes write short stories or little one-off scenes in it.

a sample of my obsidian setup for serpent's quest + a different obsidian setup i have for another project that is. a bit too cheesy and embarrassing to share.

i do dabble in conlanging for serpent's quest! originally i kept all my words in a notepad file, but i ended up downloading polyglot to help keep things organized and make it easy to generate new vocabulary offline! i keep formatted notes on my conlangs in libre office (which is also what i use to write my longer stuff). i also use polyglot to generate names and organize their meanings/origins when i'm stuck!

my polyglot system for names specificially!

on occasion i use twine, but usually for specific things like family trees, timelines, or connecting my universe together. however i recently figured out how to do this with obsidian too so i'm probably gonna move that part over to obsidian as well (obsidian is great yall)

a section of one of my family trees done in twine

some adjacent resources i use include:

clip studio + concepts + physical sketchbook for art & visual brainstorming. i also designed the conlang script in clip studio. i find concepts is really useful for getting rough visual ideas out quickly, although it runs a bit slow on my computer. it's a lot less polished than clip studio, but that kind of takes the pressure off and makes it easier to just experiment. it's like using ms paint but with slightly better tools.

some rough ideas i drafted using concepts!

sometimes i also use it for "hand-written" digital notes, which is super helpful for brainstorming ideas

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allusion + pureref for visual references. you could definitely use these to store moodboards too if you wanted to have some inspiration on screen while you write or brainstorm, although i haven't done that myself though. also might be good for reference images of the setting, so you know what the place looks like. pureref lets you keep things on the screen, whereas allusion allows you to create custom tags and folders for your reference images, making it easy to find them and plop them into pureref when you need them.

this is my allusion set up! i mostly got it because i had way too many references for pureref to keep up with, i still need to go through and tag everything properly, but if you're just gonna use it for keeping moodboards or character sheets organized i think it can be super useful (and offline!)

websites i use when developing things or generating inspiration include tvtropes, wikipedia, findmypast (for old newspapers) and ofc youtube and tumblr.

when i'm developing a story or character, i like to go through tv tropes and see the different archetypes and how different works have subverted or played them straight. i almost always walk away with an idea i want to explore or flip on its head.

wikipedia is great to use as a starting point. i usually try to go through the sources and see if i can find more in depth stuff that way, or use the names it mentions to see if i can get more. i also use it to check if my names make sense if i'm pulling them from a real culture. i tend not to worry as much about the meaning being accurate, i'm more concerned with whether it makes sense for a 40 year old to be named dillian. so i usually double check the wikipedia page for a name and look at the notable people with that name, what country they're from, and what years they were born in.

i found findmypast while i was doing research for adigore, but i can see it being immensely useful (and very entertaining) for general research. it has an immense amount of newspapers you can read and search by keywords. you can't access all of them, but you can access enough that it doesn't really matter.

with youtube i love it for more casual idea acquisition! i'll sometimes listen to videos about worldbuilding or writing in the background during work. i definitely prefer it as a well of ideas or worldbuilding zone rather than a "writing advice" corner, all of these things are hugely influenced by one's own opinions, but i think you can still walk away with some cool stuff regardless (or a better idea of what doesn't work for you!)

here's a few specific channels i've been enjoying lately.

the grungeon master - explores and questions fantasy tropes and ideas, usually done in the context of d&d, but i've found the discussions to be highly transferrable to general fantasy as well

kaz rowe - modern and medieval history, culture and historical misconceptions, a gold mine if you're doing any type of writing at all regarding the victorian period as well, and also just entertaining in general. often explores media (especially queer) in a historical and cultural context too!

localscriptman - from the perspective of a screenwriter, i've found the writing advice to be very helpful especially if you sometimes need more bluntly delivered ideas. this won't be for everyone but i feel like if it is for you it'll just work.

and for tumblr well, it's all of yall! sharing cool stuff, and stumbling upon cool blogs and the recommendations they give. a treasure trove of resources and knowledge! thank you.

god why did this get so long. why did i spend so much time on this. i could have just done a bulletpoint list. i am so good at answering simple questions. aaaaaa haha </3

#writeblr #writblr #long post #◤ asks #sorry brevity is my worst enemy #◤ resource

[thenerdysewist]

Making The Bat Hoodie

I made this project back in October because I wanted something that I could wear for Spooky Season. I was also inspired by Rachel Maksy's Victorian Bat Costume Recreation which you can find here.

The concept was simple, make a hoodie with bat wings, so when I opened my arms I looked like a giant spooky bat.

Materials:

I bought two and a half yards of black flannel because flannel is super easy to work with, and nice and cozy. (Plus using stretchy sweatshirt material would have been a pain for many reasons. Not the least of which is that I don't own a serger/overlock machine. That shit is expensive.)

I also used a free hoodie pattern that I downloaded off the Mood Fabrics blog, and drew the wing pattern on a page of a newspaper we had lying around.

Process:

The first step was taping together all the pages of the free pattern, and then cutting out the individual pattern pieces. There were five pieces in total; hoodie front (cut on the fold), hoodie back (cut on the fold), sleeve and hood.

Once that was done, I disassembled the skirt portion of the mock up for my Morgana cosplay (click here to read about that), and used that fabric to make a mock up of the hoodie to see how it fit. I liked the fit, so didn't make any adjustments, but did use it to practice inserting the wing pieces.

I also needed to draft a pattern for a bat wing. To do that, I measured the length of the sleeve and the length of the torso from under the arm, to the bottom edge of the hoodie. That formed two legs of a triangle, and I was able to draw the hypotenuse.

From there, I used a soup bowl, a plastic cup, and two sizes of jar rings to get the curve of the bat wings right.

Originally I had planned to make bat ears to go on the hood, and I used the plush bat above as a reference for the shape of the ear pattern. I used my hand as a reference for the size of the ears.

When I cut out the wing pattern and ear pattern, they looked like this.

I tried inserting the wing pieces two different ways. The first way I tried was by inserting the wing into the seam allowance after the hoodie was already assembled. The plan was to use a french seam to enclose the raw edges, but I quickly realized it wasn't going to work. The other way I tried was ripping open the sleeve seam and the side seam under the arm, inserting the wing, and top stitching everything in place. That worked better.

Then it was time to cut into the flannel. I pinned down all my pieces and cut out the two hood pieces, two sleeves, and the hoodie front and hoodie back. I cut four wing pieces.

I assembled the hoodie without the hood. Then I stitched two wing pieces together and turned them inside out so all the raw edges were inside. I repeated that process for the second wing. Then I inserted those wings into the sleeves and side the same way I did the mock up. Then I stitched and hemmed the hood, and stitched it into the neck-hole. I hemmed the sleeves and bottom edge, and the hoodie was complete!

Reveal:

Bonus Reveal:

I realized that having a hoodie that turned me into a bat meant for Halloween I could do a casual Dimitri Dimension 20 Cosplay. I didn't end up attaching the ears to the hood because I couldn't think of a good way to do it and was worried about messing up the hood, but I found another way to repurpose them. Dimitri wears a hat.

So I ordered a sailor hat off amazon and safety-pinned the ears I made to the hat. When I added a white collared shirt under the hoodie, I had an excellent Dimitri cosplay.

I also had to do Dimitri's pose, I was only missing the coffee cup.

Also when I posted this to my Instagram on Halloween, I tagged Jasmine Bhullar (the woman portraying Dimitri in the above screen cap of Coffin Run) on the off chance she would see it, and she did! She even liked my post and commented on it, and shared it to her story!

Ricky Perry (the set designer for Dimension 20) also saw my post and liked it. So Halloween was extremely cool for me this year.

Final Thoughts:

This project was surprisingly easy. I was able to assemble it all in one day, and even though it was simple, it might be one of my favorite things I've made. The urge to go "bleh!" at people and spread my arms was overwhelming. It was silly, and fun, and brought me so much serotonin. I probably should have found a better way to insert the wings, but I just couldn't wrap my brain around doing it another way and it worked fine.

If I could figure out a better way to insert wings, I would 100% make something like this again.

#dimension 20 #coffin run #d20 coffin run #dimension 20 coffin run #cosplay #sewing #d20 cosplay #cosplayer

[blysse-and-blunder]

first commonplace book of 2023

monday, january 9, 2023 ~ 6:30pm pst

back ‘at home’ (parents’ place) after a lil trip to see family, during which our flight was cancelled (us and the rest of the world) and we consequently got to spend a total of like 48 hours in the car roundtrip. new year’s at the shore was nice though, and so was roadtrip tunes and reading aloud and the very epic puzzle the family completed.

reading i’m juggling a couple of hot library loans right now, trying to finish them before the loan periods expire while also balancing each one’s tone and vibe etc. so it’s the monster baru cormorant (seth dickinson) when i wake up, maybe you should talk to someone (lori gottlieb) during the day, and the last graduate (naomi novik) at bedtime, in what is a really weird stylistic and emotional smorgasbord now that i look at it... insights and observations to come later when i can focus on one specifically. also, big shoutout to the free knidle download of lord peter wimsey mysteries i already had, and to dorothy l. sayers’ way with words and her ridiculous delightful sweet fop of an amateur detective (and no i don’t mean benoit) who collects medieval manuscripts and quotes poetry every so often mid-sentence while periodically having intense wwi ptsd. every generation needs their fruity little detective, it’s a keystone species. reading this aloud to my mom in the car kept us both awake and discussing things like clues and the picture this paints of things like  early 20th century london society’s antisemitism and train system and newspaper/ print culture.

watching just went back to check the previous ilcb and while i did mention this show, i didn’t feature it specifically so: three pines, based on the louise penny novel series of the same name, now streaming on prime. my mom loves the books, and now we’re all loving the show, and alfred molina is absolutely loving this role he gets to play (and it shows). you may feel that the premise of ‘small cute town full of local characters where murders keep happening’ has been done already, and you’d be right, but there’s something about seeing quebec on screen like this-- and the indigenous community’s strong presence from the first scene of the first episode-- that feels different, and important. the music design and landscape are great, the themes are very honest even when details or plot twists (the whodunnit of episodes 1 and 2, and the tragic twist at the end of ep 2) end up feeling a little exaggerated. here are some good articles about the show’s attempts to center indigenous voices, bring topics like residential school violence and indigenous treatment by police to international audiences, and (arguable, but i respect them for the attempt) avoid white saviorism.

also, you may have deduced from the recent glass onion blogging that i did finally get to watch knives out 2 electric boogaloo.  things i liked about this movie: 1) the response to it/analyses of it/art and memes and edits which i can now enjoy having seen it (the one which observes that the movie itself is a fugue, seriously, i love how much everyone else has been loving this and it has made it so much better), 2) the celebrity cameos (yo-yo ma! hugh grant! stephen sondeheim!?) and watching janelle monae, 3) the visual palette and coloring and lighting and design choices, 4) PEG, 5) finding out at the end that it’s a beatles song reference. i think that i had seen just enough on my dash to have....overly high expectations in some regards, though not specific spoilers so i was still Not Expecting That.

listening got to play a bunch of my music in the car on the roadtrip, so here’s to my mom deciding she likes orville peck (more than hozier!? who is apparently too sad) and my dad enjoying basia bulat’s the garden, and here’s to all the audiobooks, and audiobook recommendations i got from friends, which i gathered optimistically pre-trip and still haven’t finished. so far i’m really enjoying t.j. klune’s through the whispering door (read by kirt graves), which feels both like a more mature and creative venture than his first book and which this narrator is doing a delightful job of (i think the sense of whimsy comes through better when mediated by narrator, it infuses depth/warmth/nuance into details that i think on their own might have rubbed me the wrong way).

and today i just finished listening to jeannette mccurdy’s i’m glad my mom died, which is a harrowing memoir but also was so riveting. she reads it herself, and again having her specific voice and delivery of some of the dialogue was so, so necessary and heartbreaking and occasionally hilarious, it really adds to the experience. major trigger warnings on this one for descriptions (detailed, visceral) of disordered eating, various mental health problems, alcohol abuse, child abuse, and painstaking personal growth. big shoutout to @dimir-charmer​ for recommending this one, i was immediately hooked, you were so right.

playing stardew year three, and i’ve bought a bouquet. her art exhibit was so nerdy, i loved it. just waiting for the right time to pop the question ❤️ (probably after my next house upgrade)(is this delaying a sign of cold feet, or just wanting to only offer her the best?? i’ve already got 8 hearts it’s probably fine but ahhhhh) 

i’ve also figured out (kinda) how to run celeste on this laptop! and immediately threw my poor sweet girl onto many, many icy spikes. again. and again. this one is not a keyboard game, friends, i’m trying lots of different key configurations to try and make it one but i think at the end of the day we’re going to need a controller of some kind. beautiful though.

making spent a lot of yesterday selecting and writing new year’s cards while discovering the power of the background seinfeld marathon, alkj;lkjalskdg asd and i have other art and or craft plans afoot since having been presented with a calligraphy pen and some good paper. baked a gazillion molasses cookies before the trip, but have otherwise just been sort of coasting on creative things lately.

working on threw together a haphazard conference proposal as a way to make myself work on chapter four, and after spending all day staring at it finally just sent it off with the same idea i’d had days ago (but which i thought if i tried hard enough i might be able to improve on. alas.) otherwise, still chugging on recommendation letter (ah) and reading friend’s chapters (ahh) and coming up with things to say for that thing in february (AH) and RAship hours. we’re back to the grind, baby.

#in lieu of a commonplace book #ilcb #weekly roundup

[longlistshort]

Poor People’s Art: A (Short) Visual History of Poverty in the United States at USF Contemporary Art Museum in Tampa uses installations and artworks to tell the story of, and expand perspectives on, The Poor People’s Campaign- from its origins in the late 1960s to the present day form, as well as comment on poverty and other social issues. Both educational and engaging, it shows that despite long struggles and some progress, we are still very far from much needed social change, especially in regards to poverty.

The museum also produced a free full color, 48 page workbook that you can pick up there or download as a PDF that can be downloaded from their website.

From the gallery’s website-

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is well known for his “I Have a Dream” speech, yet much less emphasis is placed on his campaign to seek justice for America’s poor, “The Poor People’s Campaign.” This was a multi-cultural, multi-faith, multi-racial movement aimed at uniting poor people and their allies to demand an end to poverty and inequality. Fifty-three years after Dr. King’s death, the Reverend William Barber II launched a contemporary push to fulfill MLK’s ambitious brief — one that calls for a “revolution of values” that unites poor and impacted communities across the country. The exhibition Poor People’s Art: A (Short) Visual History of Poverty in the United States represents a visual response to Dr. King’s “last great dream” as well as Reverend Barber’s recent “National Call for Moral Revival.”

With artworks spanning more than 50 years, the exhibition is divided into two parts: Resurrection (1968-1994) and Revival (1995-2022). Resurrection includes photographs, paintings, prints, videos, sculptures, books, and ephemera made by a radically inclusive company of American artists, from Jill Freedman’s photographs of Resurrection City, the tent enclave that King’s followers erected on the National Mall in 1968, to John Ahearns’ plaster cast sculpture Luis Fuentes, South Bronx (1979). Revival offers contemporary engagement across a range of approaches, materials, and points of view. Conceived in a declared opposition to poverty, racism, militarism, environmental destruction, health inequities, and other interlocking injustices, this exhibition shows how artists in the US have visualized poverty and its myriad knock-on effects since 1968. Participating artists include John Ahearn, Nina Berman, Martha De la Cruz, Jill Freedman, Rico Gatson, Mark Thomas Gibson, Corita Kent, Jason Lazarus, Miguel Luciano, Hiram Maristany, Narsiso Martinez, Adrian Piper, Robert Rauschenberg, Rodrigo Valenzuela, William Villalongo & Shraddha Ramani, and Marie Watt.

From the museum’s wall plaque about the images from the artists above-

A multimedia visual artist whose work explores themes of history, popular culture, and social justice, Miguel Luciano revisits the history of the Young Lords, a revolutionary group of young Puerto Rican activists who organized for social justice in their communities beginning in the late 1960s. Luciano’s first contribution to Poor People’s Art is a vinyl banner from the public art project Mapping Resistance: The Young Lords in El Barrio (2019), a collaboration with artist Hiram Maristany. It features the photograph “Young Lords Member with Pa’lante Newspaper (1970)” by Maristany, who was the official photographer of the Young Lords and a founding member of the New York chapter. This banner, along with nine other enlarged Maristany photographs, were installed throughout East Harlem at the same locations where their history occurred 50 years prior.

Luciano’s second contribution to Poor People’s Art is the sculpture The People’s Pulpit (2022), a repurposed vintage pulpit from the First Spanish Methodist Church in East Harlem. The Young Lords famously took over the church in 1969 and renamed it “The People’s Church”; they hosted free breakfast programs, clothing drives, health screenings, and other community services there. In this exhibition, The People’s Pulpit features an historic recording of Nuyorican poet Pedro Pietri reciting the celebrated poem Puerto Rican Obituary during the Young Lord’s takeover of The People’s Church.

The central sculpture in the second photo-

Afro-Taino artist Martha De la Cruz fashioned her sculptural installation Techo de sin (Roof of Without), 2021, from stolen, scavenged and donated materials found in Southwest Florida. According to the artist, “Florida is home to a large population of Latin American migrants who have ended up in the US largely due to economic pressures, exploitation and veins of power etched by Europe and the US.” Her powerful work deals with the results of this disjunction and the “symptoms thereabouts (e.g. houselessness, fugitiv-ity, government corruption, and income disparity, etc.).” According to De la Cruz, the word “sin” is a common Dominican mispronunciation for the word “zinc.” The sculpture is animated by a single light bulb that turns on for just ten minutes a day.

From the wall plaque about the Lazarus installation (structure in the 3th, 5th and 6th photos)-

Jason Lazarus’s sculptural installation Resurrection City/Poor People’s Campaign: A National call for Moral Revival/A Third Reconstruction (2023) is anchored in the artist’s historical research and several key photographs of Resurrection City. A tent-like shelter inspired by the temporary residences that populated the 1968 mass protest, the interactive sculpture contains simple sleeping quarters and a curated library filled with physical literature and ephemera centered on both the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign and the 2018 Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, co-led by Rev. Dr.William Barber and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis.

The library allows for audiences to trace, listen, and talk about the history of advocating for the poor, from 1865 to the present. Additionally, the artist provides a custom transcription (and a QR hyperlink) to Barber’s 49-minute address on the syndicated radio show “The Breakfast Club” in which he carefully outlines his powerful vision for how we might address poverty going forward.

About Jill Freedman’s photograph above-

In the spring of 1968, the talented young street photographer Jill Freedman quit her day job as a copywriter in New York City to join the Poor People’s March on Washington. Freedman lived in Resurrection City for the entire six weeks of the encampment’s existence, photographing its residents as they rallied, made speeches, protested in front of government buildings, confronted police, built makeshift kitchens, organized clothing swaps, and dealt with flooding, petty crime, and illness. One of the most important postwar documentarians, and one of the few women photographers of the era, Freedman captured it all. Freedman’s 2017 book, Resurrection City, 1968-from which this exhibition draws a dozen powerful images-showcases the photographs that she made as a participant in the original Poor People’s Campaign. In multiple ways, Freedman’s images are the sympathetic perch upon much of which much of the present exhibition loosely hangs.

This exhibition closes 3/4/23.

#usf contemporary art museum #tampa art shows #poor people's campaign #poor people's art #miguel luciano #hiram maristany #martha de la cruz #jill freedman #narsiso martinez #jason lazarus #art installation #social issues #art #art shows #poverty #mark thomas gibson #rico gatson #florida art shows #photography #sculpture #drawing

[magictavern]

my cultural introduction to sailor moon came because I read a weird indie novel when I was like 10 that someone released for free on project Gutenberg (which I had access to bc I read too much and my parents didn't want to pack books on trips, so they got a kindle and showed me how to get free books via Gutenberg and did not monitor what i downloaded in the slightest), about two people in Toronto with weird superpowers who used them to tackle corrupt right wing newspapers and the local police.

anyway in the book, the protags were inspired by sailor moon and had senshi themed rings they got out of a gumball machine and that was how i learned about sailor moon

#also this was the first time I consciously remember reading a sex scenes #but that is neither here nor there #also the main character permanently turns into a bee for a while iirc and the other character had a baby with an alien #IT WAS A WEIRD BOOK #camille.txt

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