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i’ve spent so long posting about why outdoor cats are a bad idea + answering questions that i wrote an article to sum everything up in an easy to read format! :) so anyway. if you want to know why i hate people having outdoor cats, this is why

https://link.medium.com/CbH8qUYrC4

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I just realized I can put my YouTube videos on here. I made a tutorial! Check out my channel too cause there's edge decoration tutorials on there as well :)

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one of my favorite parts about running this blog is seeing how much you all love spyro. this post is a bit random, but what are some of your favorite spyro levels? reply/reblog with/add tags of your favorite levels if you want!

I have so many favs that it's hard to choose, but my top favs are: haunted towers, cliff town, alpine ridge, mystic marsh, and crystal islands. honorable mentions to: gnorc cove, cloud temples, zephyr, charmed ridge, and dino mines.

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Did someone say Automatic Bookbindery Stats Calculator?!🧮

✨Ever wanted an organized place that after inputting data about the books you've bound, it easily calculates stats such as number of books you've bound per year and total number of books you've bound over the years, or total number of fanfics you've bound? Then look no further, this google sheet is set up to do this for you! Feel free to make a copy and try it out! ✨

🧮 Some stats automatically calculated include🧮:

Number of books made per each year

List of fandoms you've bound for

List of ships you've bound for

List of different books sizes you've bound

Total # of books

Total # of unique books

Total # of copies

Total # of fanfics bound

Total # of words bound

Total # gifted

And many more!

Okay, used cars sales person schtick aside, I personally had already begun this as an easier way to track what I've bound since I find this sort of stuff interesting, and I was already listing the fanfics I had bound in a google sheets to keep track of them... so then why wouldn't I just already start to calculate stats? Except originally it was p broken since I half-assed it, but a little while ago I finally found some time to hammer out all the issues (probably), so I believe now it's all set and ready to go. If you do use it and notice an issue do let me know, and also I do want to note it's been solely set up (so far) to take in already finished bookbinding projects.

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there’s this extremely kind soul of a woman on instagram that makes accessible recipes that don’t require standing, chopping, or a stove and she might just have a permanent place in my heart

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a while ago i compiled all stargate novels into one big spreadsheet including publication info and tried to put it into one coherent timeline

also on a completely unrelated note

this is definitely not a google drive folder with all stargate novels as ebooks and pdf

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Social experiment: if you know what this is don’t say anything just reblog

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Just curious - when I see this phrase thrown around, how much money would it take to change YOUR life?

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You can actually add your own images into it if you want to compare more dynamic characters or use alternate poses. And I’ll show you how owo

1. You go on the site:

2. Left click the image and scroll down to inspect:

3. You see those two links down there? Those are the image links for the sillouhettes, just add your own image (must be a url, i personally like imgur):

4. And bingo bango! You got your own custom images to compare heights with! I hope this was helpful owo

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So does anyone have any good companies that sell patterns that are *actually* plus size?

I had my heart set on making a skirt or a dress from this INCREDIBLE fabric:

and now that's shot to hell. Just a simple circle skirt pattern is all I ask for!

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Just to make a point, every time I finished a panel of this I would export it as a PNG on the perceptual setting and use it as a color reference for the next panel

IT'S BAD

PLEASE CHECK YOUR COLOR SETTINGS

EDIT: If you're still having problems, it might help to switch from "Save/Save as" to "Export (as a) Single Layer". Just. Make SURE the box labeled "Expression Color" is set to RGB. I've been messing with this all day, and it looks like this combination of settings will allow exported PNGs to maintain their colors perfectly. To you. So far both Discord and Toyhouse still only display desaturated images and I cannot for the life of me figure out why

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"Fat folks have unique needs when it comes to body care and we often aren’t ever taught what those needs are. Because we have been taught to be ashamed of our bodies and view them as a punishment because we look the way that we do, we are often even discouraged from learning the proper techniques required to care for ourselves.

This guide is here to help fix that! It’s here to walk you through some of the starting steps I -- writer Sarah Biette --- took for myself that revolutionized the way I cared for my fat body, especially my skin. I’ll also talk about some of the stereotypes and judgements I had to work through while going on this journey. While I discuss my own experiences a bit in this article, I hope that you can see it as a jumping-off point to start your own relationship⁠ with caring for your body. The list of tips and tricks I have below is not at all exhaustive, and I would love to hear what methods have worked for you over the years!"

Check it out the rest of this amazing new piece here!

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Okay I JUST realized I never posted these on here—- BUT BASICALLY, about a year and a half ago I started doing these experimental black hairstyle posts that were threads long on Twitter, to give artists a source of inspo for their black ocs whose hair they wanted to try something new with! There’s more to black hair than just the selected styles portrayed in media, and I thought it would be fun to show people how much texture, shape, fades, length, and style can be combined when drawing black hair—-cause it’s a kind of manipulation our hair can do irl! The OG posts were lost with the hacking of my original Twitter account (@/bagels_donuts) but I’ve since reuploaded the whole thread to my new Twitter (@/ItsDonutsFR)! I hope artists on tumblr find these useful, sorry it took me so long to post them here😭🙏🏾 I’ll upload them all in parts!

Part 1: Long masc hairstyles + playing with fades

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"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

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So it seems like some of you might be interested in learning more about Dreamwidth.

Listen, here's the thing: Dreamwidth is not slick. It is not fancy. Its base code was originally put together some two decades ago or more, and it looks like it. It can't do much with images and definitely not with video—like, I think there's some way to embed video, but I have no idea how to do it, and hosting it on Dreamwidth is, uh...

The point is! Dreamwidth is a lot different from Tumblr. It's closer to Tumblr than it is to Facebook or Instagram, but it's a lot more old-school internet than Tumblr is. And that means that, for anyone who wasn't on the internet some ten, fifteen years ago, there's probably going to be a steep learning curve. It can take more effort to post things there, and more effort to find your people, its image hosting capacity can charitably be described as both "limited" and "poorly organized", and overall it may still never be the kind of website where you, personally, will want to spend a lot of time or do a lot of things. Dreamwidth does not and will never have an app, for pretty much the same reasons as AO3.

But there is one thing I can guarantee, and that is that Dreamwidth is willing to fight for us and our rights. They're already doing so.

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