Ji Chang Wook as Ri Eul in The Sound of Magic (2022)
KIROKAZE
wallacepolsom

roma★
Jules of Nature
Peter Solarz
Aqua Utopia|海の底で記憶を紡ぐ

No title available
NASA
Sweet Seals For You, Always
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
we're not kids anymore.

titsay
No title available
occasionally subtle

pixel skylines

Andulka

❣ Chile in a Photography ❣

tannertan36

No title available
styofa doing anything

seen from Spain
seen from Ecuador

seen from Canada

seen from United States
seen from Canada
seen from Tunisia
seen from United States
seen from United States

seen from United States
seen from Germany
seen from United States
seen from United States

seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Canada
seen from United States
seen from United States

seen from United States

seen from United States
seen from United States
@weavingletters
Ji Chang Wook as Ri Eul in The Sound of Magic (2022)
There's an old saying about freckles being angel kisses. After a particularly lovely evening, Crowley gets to find out how true that is. Aziraphale is entirely too delighted about it.
I love the notes on my Danny phantom Laika post because it's all people feeling extremely sad about Laika and it makes me feel like a crab in the crab bucket. You're all in this with me now, you're not getting out!
Does anyone have any bookbinding tips and tricks or even some references or sources they could send my way for a beginner who only started a couple months ago but loves it?
Also with page setup and stuff, what software do you all use? I keep seeing some beautifully set up chapter and title pages and I'm just printing stuff out and hoping it's set right
Looking things up, terms are varied, but these are some terms I've found.
Typesetting is arranging the words and images to look nice on the page. See also typography
French link, Coptic, and Pamphlet are some stitch types.
A signature is a group of folded together pages.
Folio: the printed sheets of paper are folded in half. Four page numbers on each sheet of paper. Refers to books made in that size. (For example an A5 size book printer on A4 paper, or an 8.5"x5.5" book printed on letter size)
Going smaller, you can make quartos (papers are folded in 4), octavos, 16mo, 32mo and even more, depending on how small you want to go.
Headband/endband refers to thread wrapped around a core attached to the spine side of books to protect and hide the folds on the spine.
Mull is a loose weave fabric glued to the spine to help hold the signatures together. Cheesecloth or muslin often work.
DAS Bookbinding on YouTube has a lot of excellent references for the physical act of binding, from spine sewing to endbands, backing, and covering.
Sewing tips and tricks:
A lot of people swear by waxing the thread, I don't. I let dangle the needle freely every once in a while to let the twist reset.
I use binder clips or chip clips to hold the active signatures together while I'm sewing.
Looser is better. Too tight will curl the spine the wrong way.
Curved needle isn't necessary, but is nice for some parts of stitching.
Typesetting:
You can use literally any software that handles text and images. Google Docs, Microsoft Word, InDesign, LaTex, Publisher, Scribus, etc. I use LibreOffice, but you can use whatever you currently have access to.
Generally speaking, with page setup, set your page size to what you want your final book size to be, and use imposition software to get the pages in the right order for printing.
I use this imposer https://momijizukamori.github.io/bookbinder-js/ The default settings are good for folios.
It's still gonna be at least a bit of test print and redesign, purely for the reason that a computer screen cannot emulate paper.
Fonts can be literally anything that looks good to you. Dafont and 1001fonts are good places to source free fonts.
Images can come from anywhere, just check the licensing. Rawpixel and the noun project are ones I see often.
Renegade Publishing is a great group/resource with people who use lots of different software and techniques. You can find them here on tumblr @/renegadepublishing
If you have any more specific questions, my dms are open :)
Thank you! This is all super helpful and thorough. I'll definitely take you up on asking you more questions when I'm not drowning in essays
Does anyone have any bookbinding tips and tricks or even some references or sources they could send my way for a beginner who only started a couple months ago but loves it?
Also with page setup and stuff, what software do you all use? I keep seeing some beautifully set up chapter and title pages and I'm just printing stuff out and hoping it's set right
Does anyone have any bookbinding tips and tricks or even some references or sources they could send my way for a beginner who only started a couple months ago but loves it?
Danny, after learning he can survive in space as a ghost, spends many hours floating up there. Orbiting the earth and staring outwards. He picks out Saturn, vega, Andromeda. He uses the time to de-stress and relax and fulfill his obsession.
On one such trip, after ancients knows how many hours he hears a bark that echoes in his ectoplasm. He thinks at first that it's Cujo, come to fetch him at the request of his sister or his friends. But the dog he sees when he turns around isn't Cujo.
It's Laika. She wants to play.
DP x DC prompt
Danny Phantom and Red Huntress are the only superheroes in the world. Amity Park gets well known worldwide due to its "most haunted town" status and it's heroes.
Something happens and Danny finds himself in the past. It takes him a while to figure out how to get back and he steps on a lot of butterflies along the way.
When Danny emerges back in his own time, the world is populated with superheroes and supervillains. Apparently there are metas now? And aliens?? And what do you mean no-ones heard of Amity Park or Phantom or Huntress? Where are the Fentons????
have decided this is my first day on planet earth !! and it is beautiful!!!!
this is my first day on planet earth!!! the BIRDS 😭😭😭are you guys hearing this!!!!!
first day on planet earth!!!! just WAIT till i tell you guys about LEAVES
fantastic stuff
OH MY GOD GUYS......GUYS HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT PEBBLES?!
PEBBLES!!!!!!!!!!! THEY CLICK!! AND CLACK!!!!! AND CLICK AGAIN!!!!! WHAT A DAY 💖💖💖
first day on planet earth and LOOK WHAT I JUST FOUND
these guys just show up?? all the time??? for FREE???
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY CHANGE COLOURS
absolutely fantastic lads !!!
Hey @soracities, have you heard of sea glass yet?
im.............in the SEA???? she does that???? bless u OP i am going to weep 😭😭😭😭
"Look at that. Why, hello." "Doctor, what are you talking about? We need to get going." "No, no not yet! Don’t you see her? That girl right there, staring back in awe? With the messy hair and loose shirt?" "I.. I don’t see anybody. What are you talking about?" "I see her. And I get the feeling that she is going to be magnificently important."
omg. *blushes*
oh wow, this made me smile
OH MY GOD MY HAIR IS REALLY MESSY AND IM WEARING A LOOST SHIRT W H A T
ME TOO I WHAT IS I WHAT
ME TOO HOLY SHIT MY LIFE IS MADE
She hadn't even got dressed yet. Still in her sleepclothes, she sat hunched over on her computer, bored fingers tapping away at the keyboard and clicking on the mouse. Her face held no expression except for the occasional smile that flickered on her features.The sunlight weakly lit up her room through the closed curtains, the light mainly coming from her lit computer screen. Her dash sometimes repeated posts as many of the people she followed reblogged them from each other. She had been on tumblr for at least an hour now. Maybe longer. She wasn't exactly sure how much time had passed, but she did know she'd have to close the tab soon so she could get started on that science whojamawhatsits. Sighing, she clicked the little 'x' and stood up to stretch and get food. A sound like someone tapping on glass interrupted her nice long stretch. She glanced to the window, illogically thinking someone could tapping it even though her window was too high for anyone to reach. The tapping came again, but this time she could pinpoint where the sound came from. As she turned towards it, a slightly muffled voice accompanied the taps.
"Hello there. What do we have here?" The girl found the source of the noise and gasped, a little unnerved.
"Doctor?" She whispered, more than a little confused. A pop-up had appeared on her computer screen, the Doctor's face filling the window. He was looking straight at her, a thoughtful, frowning expression adorning his features.
"Doctor, come on! We've gotta go." The voice with the Scottish accent came from behind the Doctor and the owner pushed him aside so she could see what he was looking at. The girl stood there, not knowing what to do or think. "What are you even looking at?"
"Nononono. Can't you see her?" He glanced at Amy next to him as she shook her head, staring intently through the screen. "She's standing right there! Messy hair," The girl frowned and brought her hand to her head, a little bit insulted, "loose clothes..." The man on the screen brought up his sonic screwdriver and aimed it at the camera. He did a little bit of what she assumed to be scanning and turned it off "also able to hear us. Oops! Sorry!"
"You'd better be sorry." The girl muttered, heading back to her chair in front of the computer. "My hair ain't that bad." The Doctor chuckled in response and she froze. "You can... hear-"
"What are you talking about? There's nothing there!" Amy cut her off mid sentence and turned to walk away. "You coming or what, Doctor?"
He frowned a little and looked at the girl straight in her eyes. "There definitely is someone there and I have a feeling she's going to be magnificently important someday." He shifted a little and she got a glimpse of Amy and Rory in the background, laughing about something. "What do you think? Do you think you could be important one day?" She hesitated before answering with a shake of her head.
"I couldn't be anything important." She replied quietly. She looked down to her knees, making sure her hair covered her face.
"Wrong." Came the voice on the computer. She looked up, a little surprised. "That's where you'd be wrong. You're going to be incredibly important. Maybe not in the way you want, but in the way you need to be." He smiled encouragingly at her. "You are going to be magnificent. Always believe that." The girl and the Doctor stared at each other for a while. She was just about to open her mouth to respond when a Scottish accent called out.
"Doctor! Come on! We're going to be late!" He turned away from her and she just managed to catch what he said back to Amy as he ran back to her and Rory.
"I've got a time machine! We can't be late."
Then the pop-up closed.
aaah it was nice writing about my characters. I haven't done so in so long. Hope you enjoy it!!
The smog was heavy. It pressed down on the ruins of Gorgothmir. The once glorious city had been tall and beautiful. The elderly, the people who could remember, said that the buildings had been so tall and were so intricately designed that the goddesses themselves would have their weekly dances on the tops of the spires. Many had believed the city to be blessed by Anfarli, the Great Goddess, and had many names for it. The Golden City. The City of Sacred Light.
Here you go nice anon! I loved writing this!! Mainly because I really really love snow and winter so thank you!
I pull the blanket tighter around my body before I'm even fully awake. An errant thought floats through my half awake mind.
HEY!! So a few months ago (or however long ago it was... I can't remember) I had an idea for a Danny Phantom AU in which Danny was put in a coma in the accident. Since then, I've been researching different things to make this story much more believable and have also been working on a picture for it. Although its going terribly. But! I've managed to write the prologue to this thing and have started chapter 1. I decided I'd let you read the prologue though.
(pssst, I haven't come up with a name for it so if you have any ideas please let me know)
Also, thanks to lexiepiper or Alexis or whatever she's known as on here because she's the one who helped me with the things I didn't understand. You're amazing!!!
As I listen the words you've spoken, I find myself in them (even though I'm not really there).
I hear them and even though I know your words are about someone else, I can't help but want them to be about me (but they're not).
I want to believe that I could have that affect on you - that I could make you produce words that form into beautiful sentences (because I'm selfish).
You tell me that they are in the air you breathe, the food you eat. You tell me that they're very self permeates through you (not by your words, but by the way you say them).
You gain enthusiasm the more you speak of them. I can't help but hope you're talking about me, but then you say their name again and the illusion shatters (it soon comes back though).
They are here when you talk. Even miles and miles away, their presence pervades the atmosphere between us. I have never met them, but I know them well. I know their quirks and mannerisms and can hear their laughter (it kinda grates on me).
They do not hear what you say about them. They don't know how you light up when their name is mentioned. Because of that, I can believe for just a few moments that it is me you talk about. That I am the one you think of as your best friend (just for a few moments and no longer).
As I write these words you are talking of them again. Something they did made you laugh and so you explain it to me. I smile as I listen to you through the speakers. You will never read this and think it is for you. I just wish that one day, someone will talk about me like that and I have to tell myself I'm not jealous (but I am).
So yes, I am working on something. would you like a sneak peak??? (btw, its rise of the guardians and is set 2 years after the movie.)
Here is your sneak peak:
Her ghost detector beeped.Val immediately straightened, whatever tiredness she felt was gone. The detector beeped again and she looked at it, trying to determine the ghost's location. It wasn't far away, only a couple of blocks. She ran into the nearest alley, becoming the Red Huntress in a matter of seconds. It took less than a minute to reach the park and even less than that to find the cause of the beeping. There, underneath one of the oldest trees in the park, lay Phantom. At this angle, she could only identify him by his shock of white hair and his monochrome costume. She was as quiet as she could get as she snuck behind him, hoping to catch the ghost boy off guard. Val could practically kick him when she stopped, gun pointing at him. Now she was closer she could see the way his chest rose with each breath he took, the small, content smile on his face, and an arm wrapped around that infernal ghost dog that started it all. "Phantom." She spoke with determination and hate in her voice, thinking that the damn ghost would immediately open his eyes and smirk at her, a witty remark on his tongue. But nothing happened. She tried again. "Phantom." This time the dog opened a lazy eye, wagged his tail slightly, heaved a content sigh, and closed his eye again. Val was bewildered. Could it be that the ghost boy was asleep? But no, ghosts didn't need sleep. It was a fact of their biological make-up. They never got tired, so they never needed sleep. It had to be some sort of trick. As soon as she lowered her guard, Phantom would attack. But... he looked so peaceful. No hint of scheming in his features; just a childish innocence. If it weren't for the slight glow encompassing the pair of ghosts and the shock of white hair, Val would've sworn he was just an ordinary boy around her age. She lowered her gun, her want for revenge fading away at the sight of him asleep. Her visor lifted up so she could look at him better without the red tint and crouched down. She poked his face softly. No response. She tried again, harder. This time he lifted an arm to swat at her. "5 more minutes, mom." The Huntress backed away, startled. "Damnit." She swore softly "Damnit, damnit, damnit." She put her weapon away and jumped on her board, flying away. The boy and his dog slept on, blissfully unaware of their surroundings. It was five minutes later when Val returned, biting her lip nervously and a frown upon her face. She unrolled the blanket she had bought for them and set it down on top of Phantom, tucking it in gently enough to not wake him. She stood up and looked down at her handy work. Satisfied she turned away and sighed. "Sweet dreams, Ghost Boy."
Just a bit of light fluff to help alleviate the pain of all the angst.
I posted this picture before on my normal tumblr, but I cleaned up the edges a bit and stuff and decided to repost it with a short story. And the reason Danny and Cujo are asleep with each other is because they've been playing in the park and Cujo wore Danny out and Danny wore Cujo out and it was all cute and stuff.
So there you have it. Valerie can be nice to Phantom when he's all cute and asleep and stuff.
Okay, this is much longer than I originally thought it was gonna be. Its the longest short story I've written so far, coming in at about 4 pages. I decided set it in Hogwarts, because coming up with a totally new magic school just didn't seem right at the time. Also... did you used to be ask-mericcup? Cos I'm sure I got a request from ask-mericcup, but I can't find it. If not, then whatever.
I don't know if i did it okay, since i've never written fluff before (not really anyway) and its only a very short bit at the end.