♪♫Moonbow♫♪

Kyralih Mostly Sailor Moon Mamoru/Endymion favorites, Miracle Romance focus XD; random emphasis on funny stuff I find, final fanatsy, and the other random anime. Hover over the KE+NQS image for subpages! Completed Multi-Chapter Fanwork: -->Cardinal King<-- "Roles Reversed" AU starring Mamoru as the King of the Cardinal Rose, awakened by unisus Helios and charged with finding Prince Endymion and saving the world from the Dark Kingdom and their Senshi henchmen with help from the other Heavenly Kings. With mysterious Jewel Tiara also on the scene, things can be even more complicated than rational and logical Mamoru anticipates... Arc One: Dark Kingdom Canon callbacks: manga arc 1, 4, 5; 90's anime s1&2 Alphabet One Shots* Scenes from Arc One that aren't from Mamoru's perspective / Mamoru was not present for. Arc Two: Architects of a New Age Canon callbacks: manga arcs 2,3,4; anime s2, black dream hole movie, PGSM shout outs Arc Three: Bright Future Canon callbacks:: manga arc 1,2,4, Parallel Moon; anime s1&2; promise of the rose movie, DIC songs Arc Four: In the works~ FFXIV Blog followbacks: Sinaka Kyralih / Main Khit'li Mewrilah / RP

[soracities]

think it's a deep consolation to know that spiders dream, that monkeys tease predators, that dolphins have accents, that lions can be scared silly by a lone mongoose, that otters hold hands, and ants bury their dead. that there isn't their life and our life. nor your life and my life. that it's just one teetering and endless thread and all of us, all of us, are entangled w it as deep as entanglement goes. v neat i think.

[isyguess]

Fanbinding for absolute beginners - PART 1

There's a fanfic you love so much you'd like to have a physical copy of it? But you don't know how to make it? You've come to the right place! I'm a teacher and I've done this with my pupils (11 year olds), so you can do it, too!

To preface this, obviously this is only one of many methods to bind a book, and it's not perfect, but it's easy enough for my pupils to do it, so I thought I'd share how I do it, to hopefully help people who want to bind fanfics but have never done it before! :) 

Here are some examples of what my books look like when done:  

  Part 1: Preparations on the PC and printing  

  To start off, a book is made up of several signatures, which is just a bunch of pages folded in the middle. I've found the best signatures for this method are made of four A4 (or letter format) sheets of paper, folded, so it makes 16 pages in total. But signatures of 5 or 6 sheets work well too!  

That means you need to prepare your pdf to have a page count that is dividable by 16 (4 sheet signatures), 20 (5 sheet signatures) or 24 (6 sheet signatures). I usually just add blank pages to the front and back of the book until I reach a usable page count. Also check that your chapters start at the page you want (odd pages are on the right, even ones are on the left).  

  If that is done, you can get to printing. I print signature per signature, and use Adobe Acrobat for that. Apparently, the free trial version can do this too, so no need to pay for it if you don't have it!  

  The fanfic I'm printing has 320 pages, so I'm gonna print 20 signature made of 4 sheets (16 pages). I write down which pages make the signature so I can them just type them in: 

Signature 1 consists of pages 1 - 16 

Signature 2: 17 - 32 

Signature 3: 33 - 48 

Signature 4: 49 - 64 

... 

Signature 20: 305 - 320  

  Now, printing works like this: 

In Adobe Acrobat, open your pdf and click on print. In the printing options, you first chose the "Booklet" option and then type in the pages for the signature you want to print (e.g. 1-16). Hit print and you'll have your first signature, which you can then fold in the middle! Repeat this step for all the signatures until you've printed the whole book. Done!  

(This is just a screenshot from the web, so the numbers don't match, but my Adobe Acrobat is completely in German, so it would probably be even less helpful!)

  About the paper: I use normal printing paper in a bit of a yellowish colour (looks better than the sharp white of normal paper). Printing paper has, however, the wrong paper grain, so if you have access to paper with grain in the other direction, take that instead! The results with printing paper are okayish, with maybe a few wrinkles, but nothing too bad (in my opinion, haha). 

If you've got any questions or need clarification an anything, feel free to ask!

The parts of this tutorial:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

[threebigolsausages-deactivated2]

Dude living downstairs has been loudly rapping for like 10 minutes, then suddenly did a high pitched scream, and now its silent down there

[postnuclearophelia]

he got raptured

[queen-elizabeth-the-3st]

[iesika]

“Pratchett went back to older throwaway jokes (like dwarves being apparently unisex) and used them as metaphors to discuss social change, racial assimilation, and other complex issues, while reexamining the species he’d thrown in at the margins of his world simply because they existed at the margins of every other fantasy universe. If goblins and orcs and trolls could think, then why were they always just there to be slaughtered by the heroes? And if the heroes slaughtered sentient beings en masse, how heroic exactly were they? It was a long overdue start on redressing issues long swept under the rug by a parade of Tolkien successors who never thought of anyone green and slimy as anything but a notch on the protagonist’s sword, and much of the urgency in Pratchett’s last few books seemed to be related to them. ‘There’s only one true evil in the world,’ he said through his characters. ‘And that’s treating people like they were things.’ And in the last of his ‘grown-up’ Discworld books, that idea is shouted with the ferocity of those who have only a few words left and want to make them count. Goblins are people. Golems are people. Dwarves are people, and they do not become any less people because they decide to go by the gender they know themselves to be instead of the one society forces on them. Even trains might be people, and you’ll never know one way or the other unless you ask them, because treating someone like they’re a person and not a thing should be your default. And the only people who cling to tradition at the expense of real people are sad, angry dwellers in the darkness who don’t even understand how pathetic they are, clutching and grasping at the things they remember without ever understanding that the world was never that simple to begin with. The future is bright, it is shining, and it belongs to everyone.”

— John Seavey, The Evolution of the Disc (via liquidlightandrunningtrees)

[yellowthirteen]

Sometimes VATS gives you information in unintended ways.

[tennesseewillams]

WHERE HAVE ALL THE DIVAS GONE AND WHERE ARE ALL THE BROADS

[patronsaintofdemons]

[peppermintlarry]

[bells-lettres]

local matchmaker losing it over yet another unrealistic demand from the clientele 🤣🤣

Translation by me. :))

[mikilynnarts]

Turns out, I really like drawing Endymion too.

Doesn’t mean he’s easy to draw though.

[mikilynnarts]

900 year old married couple can’t keep their hands off of each other.

Happy Valentine’s Day guys 🩷💙🩷

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[portfolio-gisele]

Them them them

[kaity--did]

Do you know how hard it is to live with a cat that has the intelligence level of literally like a 3 year old but the pure chaos of a high ranking demon?

He’s learned to open the lazy Susan and won’t stop clawing open the flour and rolling in it like a little chinchilla

[kaity--did]

Criminal charges

[kaity--did]

Hey hey hey HEY

He’s been CRAWLING INTO THE BOTTOM CABINETS to TEAR OPEN THE INSTANT POTATOES and EAT BAGS AND BAGS OF THEM I’m livid but also impressed.

[pigcatapult]

Do you have anything with that kind of texture that he can safely play with? This sounds like an understimulation issue.

[kaity--did]

He’s not playing with it

He’s eating it.

I can tell because the bags are nearly empty except for a few small clumps.

I knew he loves mashed potatoes. I just didn’t know the extent he’d go to to get them.

[kaity--did]

We had him tested and in the course of that vet visit he stole

6 tips

3 of the ear light cover things

Our other cats collar

the ear bud of the vets stethoscope 

several hearts

a plastic glove

the vet techs hair tie

Also yeah he’s fine he just likes to steal

[synebluetoo]

Not guilty by reason of deficiency of other people’s stuff

[kaity--did]

This is his ledge

His ledge is taller then my husband who is 6’2”

I am 5’5”

I have to get the step ladder out once a week and see what Orange Sherbert has taken to his ledge for safe keeping. It’s usually the remote.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Narratively speaking, ending this saga with the reveal that his name is Orange Sherbert was a masterstroke.

[ardentdelirium]

... how many hearts are in the vet office

[cute-catts]

[void0m]

ms paint study from 2021

[diospore]

[magical-awesome-kid]

I’m sorry MS PAINT????

[courteous]

[ratsquinks]

just another one of those memories that haunts me daily