Will you fight? Or will you perish like a dog? @dorminchu - Tumblr Blog

In the event tumblr does go down:

you can still find me on ao3, the site formerly known as twitter, and discord @ dorminchu. might check out pillowfort if this site collapses entirely, but I'm a bit skittish in general about social media

update: I am now on pillowfort! :)

#musings #personal

chic-a-gigot

L'Art et la mode, no. 4, vol. 36, 27 mars 1915, Paris. Dessins de J. Tantet et Dick. Bibliothèque nationale de France

#cool art!

yellow-cat

do u think i can go for a run today or is that something only normal people are allowed to do

thisisdogs

weird animals run all the time dude

yellow-cat

im going to go for a scamper and scare everyone

pulpsandcomics2

Mort Kunstler

#cool art!

Was tagged a while back by @thisaintmacys, thank you! :) As I recall this is a tag game dealing with fanfiction tropes:

ABO or Soulmates // fake dating or secret dating // fix-it or post-canon // mutual pining or friends-to-lovers // slow burn or angst // smut or romance // Reality TV au or Porn au //Enemies to lovers or Enemies to friends to lovers // Domestic Fluff or Hurt/Comfort // Coffee Shop au or College au // one-shot or multi-chapter // Crossover or canon compliant // mpreg or adoption // online romance or workplace romance // single parent au or sports au // neighbours or roommates // sci-fi au or magic au

tagging: @titan-wolfdog @elenurott @beautifuleverevolvingmonster @neverendingstories00 @enaven and whomever else sees this and thinks it could be fun!

#tagged #tag game

dathen

Still obsessed with Arthur Conan Doyle’s letter to Bram Stoker gushing about how wonderful a book Dracula is, but particularly how it makes such a good template for leaving fic comments, so I’m gonna to a BREAKDOWN:

Just say you loved reading it - “I am sure that you will not think it an impertinence if I write to tell you how very much I have enjoyed reading Dracula.”

Comment on a detail of the craft or structure that impressed you - “It is really wonderful how with so much exciting interest over so long a book there is never an anticlimax.“

Comment on how it emotionally affected you - “It holds you from the very start and grows more and more engrossing until it is quite painfully vivid.”

SHARE YOUR BLORBO FEELINGS - “The old Professor is most excellent and so are the two girls.”

Show appreciation for them as an author - “I congratulate you with all my heart for having written so fine a book.”

Next time you don’t know what to say on a fic you enjoyed, just use the ACD method~

#this is so sweet

tadrat

i do not "add post to queue" i post and reblog 19999973 things at once and flood my mutuals feeds and they are all grateful because they love me and i am the coolest and then i dissappear for another 13.2 hours

#I just use the queue once or twice a day ;)#unless I really like a post or several and just have to share. either/or

chic-a-gigot

L'Art et la mode, no. 12, vol. 37, 18 mars 1916, Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France

#cool art!

ao3commentoftheday

Hi, hello. I do hope you're doing well.

I have a tiny little question. Well, it might be a bit bigger but y'know. I'm currently helping a friend of mine with some coding for ao3 and while most of the things have been going smoothly, I did find one thing I cannot figure out for the life of me.

I've been trying to look into a workskin that would make a "flip page" effect? A part of my friend's fic is written through journals, so we've been looking into something that could make it possible.

I found this workskin through a reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/AO3/comments/1m9kt9b/htmlcss_coding_for_a_flip_book_effect/

However, trying to change the pages + the cover to look a bit more realistic is breaking my code and the amounts of tabs I currently have open in order to find any sort of answer is just about to break my poor laptop.

So, my question is if there's any possibility to perhaps make it a little bit more, ah, nicer? Maybe?

In case it's not possible, that's also totally fine, but I've decided to at least ask. Thank you in advance! I really do love your work and siteskins a lot!

Hi anon! I've spent the few weeks since you sent this in attempting a work skin myself. Unfortunately, I think I have to admit that this is beyond my current capacity with coding.

Perhaps someone who follows this blog would be interested in helping out? Raise your hand (by saying something in the notes) if you're open to anon reaching out. Or just do the think and at me when you post so I can reblog it?

ravensilversea

You can change the look of the pages by adding a background image. This section of code:

#workskin .book .pages > div summary { position: absolute; bottom: 0; right: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; cursor: pointer; text-align: center; color: black !important; background: linear-gradient(to left, #e1ddd8 0%, #fffbf6 100%); box-shadow: inset 0px -1px 2px rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.1), inset -1px 0px 1px rgba(150, 150, 150, 0.2); }

Swap out "background: " (the bolded line) for:

background-image: url(URL of your preferred image);

Essentially what you're doing is giving the summary section of your code a background image to display behind the content. I cannot for the life of me get it to target just one so you could also set a dedicated cover page. But maybe someone else can!

amphibianauthor

Hello! Sorry anon asker if you were also the one who asked me directly a similar question, but I've previously answered something similar

HOWEVER since then, more book emulating things have come out!

-HTML Experiments + F2U workskins by tonightshannon has an animated book

-A Prayer to the Mother of Yoba (Sarah’s Prayer) by jeeksy has an open layout of pages

-Old Book + Letter workskin by red_mallow has more of a book layout

-And while not technically a tutorial, I made a Minecraft book CYOA with hovering text arrows that I could give you the code for if you wish (dm me)

Also if you want to scroll through my ao3 coding references Mega tutorials doc, here is the link to that. I recently redid some sections to make it easier to read.

#ref #reference #references

luna-azzurra

Stages of writing a novel: (1) this is a great idea (2) this is a good idea (3) this is an idea (4) what even is this (5) i have made a terrible mistake (6) okay there's something here (7) this is actually good (8) this is too good, something is wrong (9) wait did i accidentally write something real (10) close laptop. do not think about it for three days. open laptop. start over from stage 4.

pheita

Memo to everybody :

Never be afraid to recycle an idea you had for a WIP you abandoned. Sometimes the idea needs a different set of characters or a different setting.

indecisive-behaviors

An addition:

Never be afraid to recycle an idea you had for a project you already completed. Sometimes ideas really are just that good and deserve to be used more than once.

mytrinketsandknickknacks

Don't be afraid to use the same recipe to make a new cake

Per @spoonstrek

you don’t realize how important lunch is until you’re wandering around thinking about how unloveable and untalented and uniquely cursed you are and then it’s 4pm and you finally eat lunch and you go Oh. oh right.