[gg8473]

hello i'm gg8473 🔞 horrible lesbian maker. bad ends only.

i post nsfw under the blanket CW: creator chose not to use warnings. thanks for understanding!

where i am on the web

site: gg8473.com (RSS included) / portfolio / hndr fansite

shop: itchio / bigcartel

socials: bsky / bsky (fanart) / dreamwidth / instagram

email: gg8473 (at) tutamail (dot) com

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[nadianova]

hey you. yeah you. its time. its time to make some toxic yuri. look over here. its TOXIC YURI VN JAM 2

with this, you are invited to take part in the upcoming wonderful adults only evil game jam run and judged by the brilliant minds behind bangers like THERA, FAITHLESS//FLAGELLANT, WISHBLEED, wormgrubber and snowcorpse necromancy.

this time the panel of judges will pick five entries that receive $1000 each, and on top of that we will pick five personal honorable mentions which will receive $200 each.

bring your friends and sisters because this is a beginner friendly jam. join the community chat and ask for advice and plenty vn nerds will help you to the right direction. its easier than you imagine, the only thing you need is time and perversion which is the exact same thing as passion.

TOXIC YURI VN JAM 2

A game jam from 2026-06-01 to 2026-07-14 hosted by nadia nova, deaddeaddeath, KillJill, thursdayrain & Kyou System. 💉🤕VISUAL NOVELS 😈💔 FOR G

click the link for more in-depth details about the game jam and find the link for the community chat in the description.

be there or be decimated into squares 🔪🔪🩸🩸

[nadianova]

theme reveal tomorrow. starting tomorrow. can you guess what the theme will be?

[gg8473]

:3

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chudlings (♀)

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may update on da blog!!!

[poofmalyakaet]

noooo takumikun stuck in a wall… whatever should eito Do… 😝❤️

[naumin]

How to format, print, and bind a zine

This is a consolidated version of previous posts on zine making, with more detail and screenshots. For a version of this post on gdocs, click here.

This is a step-by-step guide on how to use InDesign (or similar programs) to format and print a zine. This can be used for fanzines, sketchbooks, anything. It’s also only one way to do things - there are as many methods as there are zines under the sun. If you’re interested in other ways, searching for zinemaking on youtube would be a start.

If you are printing your zine, your total page count must be a multiple of 4.

Examples of multiples of 4 ✅

4, 16, 112

Not a multiple of 4 ❌

7, 99, 31

This is because our book will be made of folded A4 sheets (that’s regular printer paper). 1 folded A4 makes 2 A5 pages. Each A5 page has a front and back. Therefore each sheet of paper makes 4 pages.

How to format

Open InDesign. Go to Create New > Print. Choose A5 and tick Facing Pages. Enter your page number (this can be changed later). I’ve put 12. Hit Create.

Locate the Rectangle Frame Tool.

Draw a rectangle over your whole page, or just the part where you want your images to go.

Press Ctrl+D and insert the image you want on that page.

That’s it! Repeat on every page and you’ll have a book. Promise.

Further reading

I need a free alternative to InDesign.

InDesign is free for the savvy but I also recommend Scribus which is free and open source and very lightweight. The method is exactly the same but the Rectangle Frame Tool is called Image Frame and the Ctrl+D shortcut will now be Right click > Get Image instead.

I need help with designing my A5 pages.

For my first sketchbook zines, I arranged several images on an A5 canvas in a program like CSP or Procreate and exported them as a JPG into InDesign or Scribus. You can do this if your images aren’t already A5 size or you don’t want to waste time with InDesign’s formatting tools.

I need to get fancier with it, format text, or export my file as small as possible.

Here are the InDesign tutorials I used and liked:

How to Add Page Numbers

How to keep Page Numbers on Top

How to Create a Table of Contents

What is Overset Text and How to Fix It <- essential for formatting text onto multiple pages

How to Reduce InDesign File Sizes

Formatting best practices

Remember that in addition to your front and back cover you also have an inside front and inside back cover. You can leave these blank or create an endpaper with a pattern or include a short message or something. Look inside any books or zines on your shelf for inspiration. Or don’t listen to me and put your first drawing or poem there. Just be aware printer paper is thin so you might be able to see it through the cover.

Avoid putting anything important in the gutter (inside edge) or outside edges of the page. Also be careful of creating double page spreads that go across the centre of the book. Because of how we will print and fold the pages, each half of your spread might not meet up perfectly. 

How to print it out

Open your completed book’s PDF file in Acrobat Reader (free download: https://get.adobe.com/reader/)

Print with the following settings: Booklet, and Booklet subset: Both sides. 

We can see a preview of our print-out on the window on the right. The pages will look jumbled up, but form the book in order when folded.

Congratulations! Now you’ll have a stack of paper. Once it’s folded it should resemble your (unbound) final book. Use a bulldog clip or similar to keep your pages together neatly.

How to bind (2 methods)

If your book is less than 30 pages, I recommend using a long arm stapler, or a stapler that can open to lay flat. They are cheap.

There are also special book binding staplers or heavy duty staplers, if your book is thicker than 30 pages. Just position your book so the staples are in the middle of the spine (or as close as you can get) and send it. They will be a little wonky… that’s fine.

You can also separate your book into staple-able segments and then join them into 1 big book with tape or thread.

For my 112-page zine, I used thread to bind it.

These instructions are copied from the video ‘How to Print & Bind a Zine’ by LFONinja.

You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKYy6G7lIy8

You will need: Ruler, awl, thread, sewing needle

Make 5 holes in the crease of the pages like so. (½ page, then ½ of that, then ½ of that again)

If the paper is thick, be careful when making the holes. It helps to have a piece of blu tack, putty, or soft eraser underneath the spine of the book as you work for the point of the awl to push into.

I don’t recommend separating the papers into smaller stacks as your measurements will likely vary and the holes won’t align.

Use a needle and thread to go through the holes in the following pattern. At the end, tie a knot with the ends of the thread (1 and 9) in the centre of the book. You’re now done.

About page creep

Because we are using folded pages inserted into each other, they push each other out like so:

From: https://www.greenerprinter.com/ support/page-creep/

You can use a heavy duty or industrial paper cutter/trimmer to remove this edge. This is why we kept any important contents away from the edge of the page during formatting, because we don’t want this process to destroy our book’s contents.

About image edges

Because of how the printer works, the images in the book don’t extend all the way to the very edges of the paper and have a thin white border on all sides. It’s possible to crop these edges from your book with a heavy duty paper cutter. Be careful and start small (3mm or less). Depending on how much your pages move during the printing process, the size of the white edge can be different on different pages. Or you can just leave them in.

To read some of the zines featured in this post, check out naumin.itch.io.

[gg8473]

(extremely late) happy mothers day! you can now read my office bimbomania comic: second shift on my site!! isn't business just like a family but better... <3

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[evil fucking chuuni fire eyes burning as i reach for my badass weapon] let me show you why they tag my posts with #yuri #kink #abuse.

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waiting room

[poofmalyakaet]

KOFI IS OPEN WITH LOTS OF COOL THINGS. CLICKITY CLIK THERE (RIGHT DOWN THERE):

THERE. CLICK. CLICK ME.

[gg8473]

birthday bash / eitaku / creator chose not to use warnings

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happy birthday takumi! <3

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birthday bash / eitaku / creator chose not to use warnings

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happy birthday takumi! <3