Realize that you've fallen in love with an idiot. Congratulations!
Step 2
Keep him in your sights at all times. Move in with him if you have to.
(Optional: put a leash on him)
Step 3
Establish dominance over any threat. The list includes, but is not limited to: hissing, growling, kicking, slapping, scratching any and all threats. All. Of. Them. Someone looks at your idiot, growl at them. Someone tries to introduce themselves to him, slap their hand away. Be. Feral.
Step 4
Eliminate the threat.
(Yes , this will probably include murder – you should have known what you're signing up for when falling in love with your idiot.)
Step 5
If he still manages to die after the above steps were followed, sorry, but there is probably no other way to keep him alive other than to rewrite time and space itself.
My friend was wondering how to make a banner, so I thought I'd make a step by step guide that (hopefully!) anyone can follow!
Disclaimer: this is how I PERSONALLY do it for all my fics, but that doesn't mean there aren't other ways to do it!
WHAT YOU NEED:
1) Canva (free!)
2) Pinterest (free!)
Disclaimer: both these sites offer AI features, but you DO NOT need to use any of them to do this!
STEP 1)
Canva.com Home Page
>Select "Custom New Size"
STEP 2)
>Enter these measurements (this is the size of your blank template!)
WIDTH: 3000
HEIGHT: 625
UNITS: PX
>"CREATE NEW DESIGN"
Now you have a blank template!
Let's get some photos! I use Pinterest, so that's what I will show you!
STEP 3)
Pinterest.com
On the Pinterest home page, you can search the character (or whatever!) you want an image of:
CLICK THE ONE YOU LIKE!
STEP 4)
At the top you will see
" . . . "
This is the "MORE ACTIONS" button. Click it and download the image.
STEP 5)
Back to Canva!
CLICK:
>"UPLOADS"
>"UPLOAD FILES"
THIS WILL OPEN YOUR COMPUTER FILES.
CLICK:
>"DOWNLOADS" FOLDER
CLICK:
>THE IMAGE YOU JUST SAVED!
Now you will see your photo in Canva!
ALTERNATIVELY - AND MUCH EASIER!
YOU CAN:
1) OPEN YOUR COMPUTER DOWNLOAD FOLDER
2) DRAG AND DROP THE IMAGE DIRECTLY ONTO THE BLANK TEMPLATE
STEP 6)
Drag the photo into your blank template:
Now you can move it around and make it any size you want! Add as many photos as you want until you're happy :)
STEP 7)
Let's add some text!
CLICK:
> "Text" on the left side bar:
CLICK:
> "Add a text box" :
Canva has placed a text box in your template!
CLICK inside the box and type whatever you'd like! You can drag the box around and resize it however big you want :)
STEP 8)
Let's change the font!
>Highlight the text
> CLICK: "Font" at the top of the tool bar (the first one!) :
Explore the fonts and choose whichever one you like!
STEP 9)
Let's save our image!
CLICK:
> "Share" in the upper right corner
> "Download"
Don't change any settings here. DOWNLOAD!
Now the file is saved in your computer! :D
STEP 10)
Let's put it in our fic! Back to Tumblr! :)
Begin your tumblr post like normal (I always just click "text")
You can place the banner anywhere in the post you want, but I like to put it right under the title.
CLICK HERE:
CLICK
>"Upload Images" :
This will open your computer files! In your "Downloads" folder, click the banner you just made!
CLICK:
> "Open" at the bottom of the box by the file name
life sized jigen cardboard cutout!!! I wonder how many other jigen cardboard cutouts there are out there...
My Process/A Tutorial? for anyone interested in making a life-sized cardboard cutout ↓
Used Materials:
double sided Tape, Duct Tape/Packaging Tape, Glue (liquid and gluestick), a Printer (you can also print your thing at a store or something, if they offer that.), Scissors, Box Cutter, ALOT of cardboard, enough floorspace about twice the size of your character, Pencils (if your printer isnt it).
Time taken: around 5 hours
You might not need everything i ended up using this time.
you also might also want a pillow to sit/kneel on, because if you do this the same way i did, you'll be crawling around on the floor alot.
Find a suitable full-body image of your character that isnt too small. (I'd suggest at LEAST 1000 pixels tall, but the more the better, obviously : )
Go to the website rasterbator.net and upload your image. The human figure preview is 180cm (5'9") as stated on the website, you can use this to size your character to the right height. (You CAN do decimal numbers for better accuracy!)
After you download your pdf, you'll want to print it. As already mentioned, if you don't own a printer, you can get your document printed somewhere that offers that kind of service (but it might cost ya).
Cut out your character. I like doing it like this: I cut off the top & left of the page cleanly, but leave the bottom & right margins (for easier gluing/aligning later!) The character itself is cut out with alot of white space around them. Normally this'll be cleaned up later.
5. Glue the pages together one row at a time. IE the yellow marked pages make one large piece, same with the green, pink, and every other row of pages to follow. Note that I normally leave out small corners (such as Jigens Knuckle) which are easier to glue on way later.
Another Note, if your page-row-piece-thing is small (such as Jigens legs or arm) its also a bit easier to make those be seperate bits. I hope any of this makes sense :praying emoji:
6. Lay out your character on the cardboard, best would be if you have one solid piece but you can attach different pieces together (however make sure you have enough backup cardboard to support where you attached the two, otherwise your character might bend or somthing)
After Lay-outing, I roughly cut out the shape. You can also do this later, depends on how rough/clean you want your edges to be in the end.
7. MORE LAY-OUTING! AND GLUEING!!! You'll wanna be alot more uhh careful? with your lay-outing now, make sure everything is sitting just right. Start by gluing down your very topmost piece in the exact location its supposed to be. Apply glue to your second piece and line it up just right (this is where the margin left over usually helps me.) I keep doing this until every piece is glued down!! Since my glue ran out, I started using double sided tape (which does look nicer in the end, icl) I sadly didnt take any pictures during my gluing process, so i hope the explanation is enough?
8. Since mine was very flimsy i added many extra supports, especially at the "joints" or fragile/bendy bits. (I used wood/cardboard glue since my other liquid glue was kinda ass.) You can skip this step if your cardboard is stronger...
9. now you'd use your box cutter to CAREFULLY (both for your and your characters safety!!!) cut out your character in a way you like. Unfortunately I really couldnt be bothered anymore :pensive emoji: Note that the more cardboard supports you have, the harder it'll be to cut out (which is partly why I didnt bother cutting him out...
10. Level the Bottom. You might not have to do this, but it helps your character stand more stable! And also, if your printer started struggling towards the end, like mine did, color in the lacking parts.
Thats pretty much it. If anyone does this and follows my "tutorial"... i hope it helped!! if there are any questions, feel free to send me an ask/dm/comment/reblog? or something, i'll try helping out!
Hello! I just wanted to tell you that your moon hunting poem has HAUNTED ME for years because it's so good and I just had to excavate it from the depths of my blog bc I wanted to show it to my coworker. I completely thought I could find it on the internet just by typing the title in but it turns out you're not even famous??? That's CRAZY. It rent me limb from limb once again on reread. It's one of my favourite poems.
Oh wow thank you so much for these kind words :") I almost didn't answer this bc I wanted to hold onto it but I didn't want to let it rot in my inbox either so I simply tag it to find it again in times of need.
Yea if I had the forethought to just You Know post the damn thing as a text post or even put the title in the post instead of my caption that does nothing to identify it it probably would be much easier to find but alas I didn't know it was going to blow up so hugely. The curse of Tumblr I suppose...!
Okay, so, if you use Audacity, you are probably aware of this extension to remove mouthclicks, etc. It's pretty great.
BUT, I record and edit in Reaper. I like it! Punch and roll is now a thing I do, and I love knowing that everything is reverseable. Sometimes certain things are trickier, this is true, but also lots of things are easier. It's free to try, and while they (and I) recommend buying a license, it'll just remind you each time you open it, not prevent you from using it.
If you're just starting out with Reaper, this set of tutorials is really great at getting your set-up optimal for podficcing.
HOWEVER, Reaper does not have an extension like that Audacity one. And like, you can try to declick the worst of it by putting a split with a short fade-in/out on it, which can be very helpful but is imperfect and can be pretty obvious in the context of the middle of words. And spectral editing is pretty tricky and also fairly limited in Reaper. If you have unrestricted money, you might get the famous iZotope mouth de-clicker. But I don't.
So this is what I do. And if you are an Audacity user looking to try Reaper, but don't want to spend money or have crazy numbers of mouthclicks, you can try too!
SET-UP PHASE
1.Install Audacity as well as Reaper if necessary. Install the declicker extension if you haven't already done so.
2. In Audacity, play with the declicker settings until you get something that you like. Try to be fairly conservative with it. These are my settings. If you've been using Audacity for a while, you probably have your own already. You can find more info about what the settings mean to help you decide what to use here. Save as a user preset, because this makes life easier.
3. Still in Audacity, open Tools > Macro Manager. Create a new macro that is as follows:
(If you would normally do 2 declicker runs with different settings, you can put them both in the macro one after the other before exporting. This is where using a user preset makes things easier.)
4. Open (Edit or Audacity depending on your computer) > Preferences > Directories, and make sure you know where macro output is going, because that's where the wav files from the macro you just made will go. I recommend creating a new folder for it, by clicking Browse and then creating a folder. If you skip this step or are unable to set this because you're using an older version of Audacity, it's likely to default to My Documents. My settings are below (with my name blacked out).
5. In Reaper, go to File > Project Settings > Media, and where it says "Path to save media files", put "Audio Files/" which will create a lovely subfolder to keep things in.
DECLICKING A PROJECT
1. Record in Reaper & save.
2. Open Audacity.
3. Open Tools > Macro Manager.
4. Select the macro you made in Set-up step 3.
5. Select Files where it says "Apply Macro To..."
6. Open all of the original wav files for the project. If you aren't familiar with Reaper, they'll be in the project folder > Audio Files. Don't worry, this will make a copy and these files are untouched.
7. As it does its thing, it'll come up with a window like this.
8. Go to the file folder for your Reaper project, and duplicate the Audio Files folder. (This will keep your original recording files safe if you need them/want them for security.)
9. Empty the ORIGINAL Audio Files folder (including a .reapeaks file if it's there; those regenerate automatically.
10. Go to the folder you set in Set-up Step 4. There should be the same number of files here as you ran through the macro. None of these files should be particularly large, so declicker is UNLIKELY to have crashed out on you. But if it has, rerun the macro on the files that aren't here until you're set.
11. Copy these files, and move them to the ORIGINAL Audio Files Folder. Everything should have the same name - this is important!
12. Go back to Reaper! Select Item > Media (it's way at the bottom) > Set all Media Offline, followed by Select Item > Media > Set all Media Online.
13. Look at those clicks that aren't there anymore! (If you don't see the spectrogram, Options > Peak Display Mode > Regular Peaks and Spectrogram will bring it up!)
It is FAR from a perfect or easy solution, but it is a FREE solution, so you can have both the ease and non-destructive nature of recording and editing in Reaper, AND the awesome declicker of Audacity.
