#one last go at it to wrap up the year

[dykealloy]

what do you mean jennifer saunder's shrek 2 cover of Holding Out for a Hero didn't play over the entirety of dressrosa arc

#happy new year. it's been about a decade since dressrosa arc first aired #i thought i was well and truly done with that last edit but this struck me like a bolt of lightning #one last go at it to wrap up the year #also. to be fair to doflamingo: how the fuck do you predict or prepare for this shit #(small aside: dressrosa arc is so badly paced you would not believe how many eps i had to download to pull four minutes together) #one piece #op #CJ's op watch-through #CJ's edits #dressrosa #trafalgar law #donquixote doflamingo #amv #monkey d. luffy #monkey d luffy #lawlu #roronoa zoro #zoro #donquixote rosinante #lulaw

[icewindandboringhorror]

More misc. daily life pictures and such

#image commentary in tags once again since they don't allow captions anymore and I feel weird using the alt text for that -- #1 & 2 - Very bright pretty looking sky ! #2. HUGE icicle that looked like you could kill someone with it or something.. Pulled from near a gutter on the side of a building #3. & 4 & 5 - various images from a silly party I had where I pretended to be some elf king turning like 204 years old lol (also not like #a REAL party. Only my roommates were there really and we're all in the same household bubble. #just to clarify. I would never dare have a large party anyway given #my hermitous nature but on top of that.. didn't want there to be some implication that I'm having a Party while covid is still ongoing lol. #NEVER.. But I do love dressing up as some fantasy character so much.. The only thing that could ever bring a true hermit wizard #to engage with others socially is the prospect of connecting it somehow to fantasy worlds and costumes lol. One must simply dress up #as a silly 200 year old man from time to time and pretend you've never seen a balloon before in your life. etc. #6. bapy boye... feets #7. The main food that I made for the elderly elf man 'party'. which was a Deconstructed Beef Wellington (kind of as ajoke since I watch s #o many silly cooking competition shows and they always make stuff 'deconstructed' at the last minute when under time limits or whatever.) #I've wanted to make beef wellington a few times but Ithink to do it well I'd need like..an actual kitchen and a lot of time and #an oven that fully works to bake things and etc. etc. So I thought this would be an easier method. A thick steak cut round to kind of mimi #c the round tenderloin or whatever it is in a wellington. instead of the puff pastry being wrapped around - I just did star shaped cut outs #of pastry and baked them and put them on top (to go with the star theme). instead of mushroom duxelles being wrapped around in pastry #its in a little circle under the steak. and instead of mustard being brushed onto the meat I made a mustard gravy sauce type of thing #Then of course asparagus on the side.. my favorite... Though I know some wellington #also has a layer of prosciutto I think. or I saw one person use crepes. I didn't feel it was necessary to incorporate that too lol #8. bapy son helping me do a giant puzzle that took me hours and I had no idea it was actually that large of a puzzle #until I started putting it together and for some reason it made me stressed by the end instead of relaxed lol.. puzzle fatigue #photo diary

[todayisafridaynight]

everyday i constantly think of masato's wheelchair and if that's his only one/main one no wonder he's so pissed at everyone

#snap chats #someone pointed this out to me like last year so im stealing it sorry cause I Think Of It Constantly #the handling of masato's disability will forever annoy me esp with how vague it is but esp his chair #one day ill draw masato with an appropriate wheelchair. maybe then he'll be happy for once #in a way i guess it could tie into how restricted or trapped he felt since the type of chair he's shown is more like. a hospital one #and not one youd really use as a regular user- like in that vein it is a bit of storytelling in that he can ONLY go out with help #since hospital chairs are SO much different from home chairs ESPECIALLY in regards to mobility and independence the user has #AND NOT TO MENTION HOW UNCOMFORTABLE THOSE CHAIRS ARE get his ass a proper cushion P L E A S E #like it portrays the idea that its unfathomable for him to go anywhere on his own and so in that vein . Interesting Storytelling #theres a lot of implications going on here if im so honest and again it makes for Really Interesting Story Telling #however i refuse to give rgg credit like that when it comes to disabilities. ... they havent earned that from me yet #see this is why the vagueness of his condition annoys me because he's shown to be independent enough to roll himself to his elevator #and presumably get himself dressed but he cant have a proper chair ? #because ik there are people who have expressed they have conditions where even writing is tiring #so if his condition was in-line with that and it was hard for him to push himself in his chair then i could buy it #obviously the issue lies with his lungs but i just want to know the full extent yk... #to wrap this up tho ive been thinking of character design in rgg and how we dont give credit to it enough #sooooo if i make a second post ten minutes from now thats why cause i keep forgetting to spam my thoughts on here LMAO #ok bye

[that-spider-fan-over-there]

*dusting off this old blog* Well it's been a while, isn't it?

#hello :D so I've been missing since September- scheduled queue aside #Life was stressing me out and I needed to cool off to focus on wrapping up the year else I'd lose it #then Life got worse by Sep-Oct (y'know. horrible real life events + personal stuff + holy shit I need to learn how to Adult) #forgot my password for a while so I was mostly on Twitter and it was Not Fun (and it still isn't) #and I remembered it by the end of January where I was getting most of my shit together and was mostly on Discord with friends #who were the reason I wasn't completely losing it so if you're reading this. thank you and I love you very much <3 #but I missed being on Tumblr and the friends/moots i made. just got nervous to come back here. idk why. brain works in weird ways. #it looks like I'm justifying why I wasn't here and on one hand. yeah it's kind of an update #but it's mostly because I don't like going out and returning like stuff wasn't happening so it's really a me thing so anxiety won't spike #idk if I'm gonna go missing like that again or not but. yeah i'm still alive #(felt good to write that last phrase so maybe *something's* going right in life) #but yeah i think i'm back (not 100% because. Life) and will do a pinned. if you read all of it thank you! :D #okay i'm gonna post this now before my brain decides it's a bad idea-

[afniel]

Killing X with a stick because this goddamn shit ass type of main character is absolutely committed to saying things that explicitly confirm a trilogy that I had no intention of writing and have no real ideas for, but is he listening? No, he's not, he's making big plans and they're my problem.

Free me from this suffering. (impossible challenge)

#Nevi Writes #I really don't know if I'm going to write a third thing #like I will never say never but also I don't want to commit right now #I think I really will need a for real break from it after I wrap this one up #and not my last time 'oh I waited 3 days that's basically a year' bc I had the inertia behind me then #that's been running out which is fine. I don't need to be writing on all cylinders all the time #considering before this I just. didn't write. lol and lmao #also idk if it would be interesting. like is there anything left to say? #big fan of stopping at the end and not beating a dead horse so I'd really need to have Something To Add to keep going

[loverdude]

Head in my FUCKING HANDS oh my god

#💭 #my poor boyfriend's dog. has been acting so INSANE. #for the past week or two he's been like. #insanely anxious... pacing... panting... not listening to commands... #jumping on furniture including the bed... my boyfriend's nightstand... the fucking kitchen table... THE FUCKING TRASH CAN... #and he's NOT A SMALL DOG #he's like a medium-large mutt part pittie... 9 years old #he's crawling under the bed he's getting stuck places he's scratching on the door if we shut him in a room #my boyfriend barely got any sleep bc he kept getting woken up the entire night by his dog like #jumping on stuff getting stuck under stuff knocking everything over scratching and whining #he like broke off part of one of his claws when jumping on the kitchen table at one point #knocked everything off of it including the tablecloth #tried leashing him to a shelf with a weighted blanked on it while we were at the laundromat and barricading off the kitchen #with totes and shelves and stuff #and when we got back he'd knocked over half the fucking barricade and twisted around the shelf he was leashed to #and had somehow gotten the leash wrapped around one of the KITCHEN CHAIRS #so he was STUCK #my boyfriend's stepdad is bringing a kennel tomorrow #which is a last resort but if he's not shut in something he's like #going to get hurt and break all my boyfriend's things and damage his apartment #i talked to the vet she said to try getting him some more exercise to wear him out and if that doesn't work #to get some blood work done and if that's all normal then to put him on some anxiety meds #took him on a really long walk today but he knocked over the shit in the kitchen AFTER that #and his water bowl... #he's eating drinking pooping peeing etc just fine he doesn't feel sick or bloated he's just fucking ANXIOUS #about something but we don't know whatttt #my poor boyfriend is so stressed and frustrated and has gotten like no sleep and i'm so stressed too #i'm sure it'll be okay but my GOD #UGH sorry for the long-ass rant holy shit #i'm just so fucking stressed and frustrated and worried

[brightbluekicks]

god said sadie for december 2023 instead of getting any romantic reciprocation from that guy you've been wishing and hoping and praying for something to happen with for months you're gonna get reruns. and then brought not 1 but 3 women whom i had weird things with in the past back into my life so they could do vaguely romantic confusing things near me

#txt #1 is my slightly older friend who i was SO attracted to when we first met and who is now... sort of hitting on me? i cannot tell if she's #just being friendly but every time we talk she says something complimentary about my appearance and i have no idea whats going on. #number 2 is #🏹 #who idk. seems very sweet and friendly to me these days and for the callbacks for the musical the two of us were sitting and like wrapped #around each other and theyve also been sort of flirty with me recently. i think. idk its hard to tell. #and number 3 is my dear friend di who i think is unbelievably hot and i had a lil crush on her at the end of sophomore year and last night #she was saying that no one likes her back and that she wants to be in a relationship but doesn't know how to do it and i was sitting there #reading tarot cards about romance for her and thinking 'i think i should stop drinking now bc if i have any more vodka i just know im going #to end up telling her that i had feelings for her a while back. and that would be bad' UGH what is happening

[chrimsone]

I fear someone else has beaten me

#spotify #spotify wrapped #mili #I know no one cares about this #but ever since I started using Spotify I wanted to be this bands literal Number One listener #Last year I was 0.5% #a friend said they managed to be like 0.001% on one of their artists #and I've seen a post where it's just straight up 0% #I WANT TO BE THAT #I WANT TO BE THE BEST #I WANT TO BE THE NUMBER ONE #I've been their fan since conception #I swear it's my duty to be their number one fan at this point #thought I did good this year #but it looks like I need to go MORE next year

[reverie-starlight]

I think it's very very very very unfair for your grade in a class to be based on 3 tests only AND to have all three tests weigh the same.

the weight of the midterms should not be equal to the weight of the final exam ESPECIALLY when you don't give us opportunities to raise our grades or actually study the material properly outside of the slides and one million pages of reading you assign. istg I'm gonna drop this class!!!!!

#reverie rambles #my personality midterms are both worth 33% #and my final exam is worth 34% #that's all we're graded on!!! #her slides are not good and most of our midterm content is apparently are “lecture only” content so if you miss even one class you're fucke #she doesn't post recordings either so if you miss something she said you're done #YET SOMEHOW SHE HAS A HIGH RATE MY PROF SCORE #no one I've met in this class likes this prof #it sucks tho cause the content is literally right up my alley #and yes ik it's my responsibility to go to class it's my money wasted if I don't #but I have a 3hr commute and a schedule I made based on the idea I'd be living on campus still #plus I'm on academic warning bc I was too depressed last year to do shit so I'm busy with my other classes this year trying to make all As #and I'm STRESSED #I feel like I don't need to justify myself but like #I also do bc for some reason people still aren't ready to wrap their minds around depression and burnout in university past the jokes #or like the 'aesthetic' of being so overworked you live on energy drinks and tears #as if there's some moral high ground you have over people who struggle the same as you and end up failing while you do fine #it's so shitty that working yourself to the bone to pass is so normalized :')

[nomaishuttle]

prev post well i scrolled once and realized it IS a moshi monster huge win for the moshi monster artstyle recognizers of the world

#verrry exciting. i never actualy got suepr into moshi monsters (didnt know there was an online game until last year) but i had the ds game #the carnival one. n rly loved it #and i hate a katsuma plush who was legit my favorite toy id take him with me everywhere. theres even this frankly very scary book i wrote #and illustrated (bc that used 2 be my favorite thjng t do.. i would staple paper together and judt write things like i had one abt natural #disasters explainjng them bc i loveddd natural disasters basicslly) #but anywyas. i wrote one abt katsuma listing all of katsumas favorite things n stuff. katsumas favorite food was STRAWBERRIES and he loved #hide and seek #speaking od hide and seek one time i was playing hide and seek with him u see. which means i was finding places to hide him #and then pretending to find him. and atp was when we livd in my grans house #so there was a pool table downstairs. andwell. i shoved him into one of the pool table holes #so imagine my shock and horror when i pulled him out and he was absolurely covered in like..black dust. #luckily there was a bathroom in the basement (my grandpa built it it was called the loo #) so i went in there and just. run water over him #and then wrapped him in a towel. and then tried to sneak past my.mom upstairs #bc she was on the couch and inws trying to get to my room. so i wrapped katsuma in a human sized towel and like. quickly ran up the atairs #and past my mom. and she was like. looking at the comically large bundle of towels in my hands. like Everything ok. and i was lke YES. and #ran to my room. idk why i was convinced id be in trouble if she found out i .. #got a toy dirty? n tried to wash it? but it ws very funny. thats my 2 biggest katsuma memories but i loved that guy. i took him 2 the #playgrounds we went to (my mom hd a fun game wed do where we would go to a new playground and then wed rate the playground based on certain #features like what all things it had how much fun we had how long we wanted tonsray etc. so whenever we were like trying to kill time in a #new town or something like rhat wed go and she always had th clipboard on her. so we would do that :]] and i liked to take katsuma and push #katsuma on the swings and down the slides and things of that nature

[oatbugs]

non-zero amount of swans and a non-zero amount of lakes.

#pretty pretty day #red leaves turning yellow the sun is so bright the breeze isnt too cold #i get to walk past all my friends houses on my way to a really cute study cafe . walk past a bubble tea place walk through tree lined #streets . sun against my friends window so i cant see if she could see me. today there was a double rainbow #in the sky from misty rain. so many squirrels and birds and rabbits and deer #i have a deadline soon and im massively behind bc im lucky enough to be able to do too much. need to #write an essay and do maths problem sets. smile + wave at ppl you know. last night i met a rly cute girl #and i dont think its gonna go anywhere but ill think abt her from time to time from now on #there is someone in front of me with bright blue hair. someone with their knuckles wrapped in bandages. two boys holding hands. #today people are dying but it is the 40th day of her death which means it is the 40th day of the revolution which is the 40th day of #not giving up. meanwhile the sun casts halos on a the wings of a magpie + a fresh pomegrante waits in the kitchen. #i have freshly cut watermelons in my fridge. there are so many flowers here. there are swans in the lakes. #my hair is a mess in the wind and forgetting a lot of things. my vision is declining and so i must remember the definition of leaves #before it's too late. one thing determinate from the other. #water reflects red. there are two girls feeding the birds. so many pretty people running into the same building. #youre cut from a different cloth. you especially are cut from silk. #you hate philosophy for its messy discourse and love maths for the clear consesus it produces. i only feel a little guilty #for laughing at that. last year two professors in functional analysis fought on blackboards until it became a team sport. a paper agains #a paper against. a paper against the paper for the against. on the walls for st joseph of cupertino we both pray for some mercy. offer up #some beautiful quantifier and i will drown inside it. break fresh chalk just for you.

[weenhands]

"if i make it to your university we'd be able to read in the library together^___^" No

#three years with one left to go i literally had absolutely no one to bond with or talk too. literally no one #and youre joining me during my last year lol i sound like a dick because i Am being one because im being bitter #over the fact that i had absolutely no one in college #always seeing people talk to eachother and wondering why its ten times harder for me #an idiot mentally social reject person to make friends #like its so passive now that i just. see people hang out and giggle and talk and make the loudest room in the library The loudest room #i had fucking nobody here i was so lonely with just me and my rumination #i dont care if we see eachother for my very last year why cant you see that im just somehow destined to be alone Always #i dont. fucking care #i have a headache and its morning sorry im gonna. Calm #vent #why would that even matter lol im gonna be wrapping it up knowing i wasted my years here due to depression #knowing i had. No one. #i didnt even have you. why should that matter to you.

[mare-bare]

am I the only one who's wrapped thing isn't working???

#I've had a spotify account for over two years and never got one last year either #i don't listen to music #just podcasts #but i saw a bunch of people showing their top podcasts?!?! #nothing comes up in the app and i just updated it today #and going to the website doesn’t do anything either? #idk i haven't seen anyone elses not working 😕 #wrapped 2022

[doctorweebmd]

HELLO

i have emerged from my baldurs gate 3 coma and a week on service to return in glory and bring you that good, good sskk porn

#finally. i have been freed of my bg3 shackles by completing two playthroughs #and i was working for the past 7 days. i really am going to miss the icu next year i think #even though i'll be moonlighting still its different during the daytime with a whole team of people that you can discuss things with #and teach and learn from one another #i'm on service again in about 2 weeks and that's my last week of icu potentially ever. like as a trainee. #anyway. im back to the path to paradise #hopefully i'll have the next chapter up sometime this week #i'm already giggling at the outline written. gosh they are so awkward #and after i wrap it up i gotta start that switch BEAST!AU #i've got so many ideas #now that my research has officially fallen out from under me #and all my efforts to re-kindle it or get involved in a new project have not come to fruition #i'm going to use the last 3 months of fellowship to just enjoy my life. and write.

[hauntswitch]

I've seen a few of these sort of posts going around this year, so here are my personal mandates for 2024

The importance of being earnest

Wear your heart on your sleeve

Make effort in everyday mundanities (don't eat food from the pan, keep the reed diffuser topped up, polish boots, and that sort of thing)

Partake in the act of creation to keep the mental demons at bay

Play instruments until your hands bleed

Read poetry to find beauty despite the horrors

Write poetry to make beauty despite the horrors

Death to tiktok

Remember the value in reflecting upon the good as well as the bad

Satiate the insane hunger to know everything by reading as much as possible

Conscious improvement will beat intentional complacency to death with a bat

Draw things, even if they suck. Art is a sacrament

Run until it hurts, then run until it stops hurting

Succeed through stubbornness

Hope is a knight against misery

And finally, 12th doctor's regeneration speech, naturally.

#the blood instruments one is more of a metaphor - thats my legal disclaimer #anyway i dont really want to tag this as much - im posting this for the same reason i only put my spotify wrapped on here. for ny own #documentation lmao. Anyway - happy new year! heres to hoping for a good one <3333 #i wrote these along with my actual list of resolutions in the time it took to watch an entire movie #i quite like writing resolutions tbh - i make a physical list‚ then fold it up‚ and put it in the little pocket at the back of my journal #i usually go the full mile and light a candle while doing it but my dad didnt let me borrow a lighter lmao #but hey! upon reflection of last year's list - i feel happy about the ones i managed to do! anyway‚ thats all xoxoxoxo

[niennanir]

Listen to your elders

So last week I posted abut the importance of downloading your fic. And then three days later AO3 went down for 24 hours. No one was more weirded out by this than I was. But while y’all were acting like the library at Alexandria was on fire I was reading my download fic and editing chapter eight of Buck, Rogers, and the 21st Century. And also thinking about what I could do to be helpful when the crisis was actually over.

So first off, I’m going to repeat that if you’re going to bookmark a fic, you really need to also download the fic and back it up in a safe place. I just do it automatically now and it’s a good habit to get into.

But let’s talk about some other scenarios. Last October I lost power for over a week after hurricane Ian. Apart from not having internet or A/C I did find plenty to do, I collect books so I had plenty to read, but maybe, unlike me, your favorite comfort reads aren’t sitting on a bookshelf. So let’s do something about that, shall we?

In olden times many long years ago around 1995 we printed off a lot of fic. It was mostly SOP to print a fic you planned to reread and stick it in a three ring binder. And that’s totally valid today too, but you can also make a very nice paperback with a minimum amount of skill and materials.

Let’s start with the download; Go to Ao3 and select your fic, we’ll be working with one of mine. This method works best with one shots, long fic tends to need a more complicated approach. Get yourself an HTML download

Open up the HTML download and select all then copy paste into any word processor. Set the page to landscape and two columns, then change the font to something you find easy to read, this is your book, no judgement. This is all you have to do for layout but I like to play a little bit. I move all the meta, summary, notes to the end and pick out a fun font for the title: 

No time like the present to do a quick proofread. Congratulations, you’ve just created your first typeset. On to the fun part.

Now you’re going to need some materials:  8.5x11in paper ruler one sheet of 12x12 medium card stock (60-80lb) scissors pencil pen or fine tip marker sheet of wax paper white glue two binder clips 2 heavy books or 1 brick butter knife

You’ll also need a printer, if you’re in the US there is almost a 100% chance your local library has a printer you can use if you don’t have your own. None of these materials are expensive and you can literally use cheap copy paper and Elmers glue.

Print your text block, one page per side. Fold the first page in half so that the blank side is inside and the printed side out:

use the butter knife to crease the edge. Repeat on all the sheets. When you’ve finished, stack them up with the raw edge on the left and the folded edge on the right. I used standard copy paper, because you’re only printing on one side there’s no bleed to worry about. Take the text block and line everything up. Use the binder clips to hold the raw edge in place.

Wrap the text block in the wax paper so that the raw edge and binder clips are facing out. I’m going to use my home built book press but you don’t need one, a brick or a couple of books or anything else heavy will work fine.

Once the text block is anchored down, take off he binder clips and get out the glue.

You can use a brush but you don’t need one, smear some glue on that raw edge.

Go make a margarita, watch The Mandalorian, call your mother. Don’t come back for at least an hour

In an hour smear some more glue on there and shift your brick forward so that the whole book is covered. This keeps the paper from warping. While glue part 2 is drying we’ll do the cover. Get out your 12x12 cardstock

Mark the cardstock off at 8.5 inches and cut it. Measure in 5.5 inches from the left and put in a score line with the butter knife (the back edge not the sharp edge)

Carefully fold the score line, this is your front cover. You have some options for the cover title, you can use a cutting machine like a cricut if you have one, you can print out a title on the computer and use carbon paper to transfer the text to the cardstock. I was in a mood so I just freehanded that beoch. Pencil first then in pen.

Take your text block out from under your brick. Line it up against the score mark and mark the second score on the other side of the spine

Fold the score and glue the textblock into the cover at the spine. Once the glue dries up mark the back cover with the pencil and then trim the back cover to fit with your scissors.

Voila:

I’m going to put this baby on the shelf next to the Silmarillion.

The whole process, not counting drying time, took less than an hour.

If you want to make a book of a longer fic, I recommend Renegade Publishing, they have a ton of resources for fan-binders. 

#fanbinding #fanfiction #Nir paperback