#Hopefully that helps!

[aquaticshopkeep]

Ooc ask, how do you do the rainbow text? It looks too smooth to just be individually colored letters.))

i only do it for asks bc it's a bit of a pain to do otherwise BUT! i used this post by gradient-text to figure it out, using the first method! only doable on desktop sadly, but it works!

you don't have to get rid of the ; anymore, tumblr might fuss about it at the bottom of the editor but you can just ignore it

just remember to only copy things inside the <div> </div> and not the dives themselves or it might look a lil strange!

[in-collection]

hi! so i have a standard pdf on my hands right now (yknow one thats one page per "paper" and you scroll through) but i want to print it out and bind it. i was wondering how i would format it or what options i should press on the printer for it to be like a standard a4 print and able to be signatured. or if theyre not options i can simply press: how would i change the layout and format? thank you in advance!!

Hi! I love me some asks. So, just to make sure I understood the situation, you have a page-per-page PDF (single page per single page) you want to print and bind in signatures. And it is not a double spread PDF. (and, because I wondered at first, it is also not a PDF from this here collection (I got scared at first thinking I gave page per page pdfs somewhere lol).) Let's see if I can help you with that.

So as it turns out I don't actually know much about this because I've always worked with my own InDesign files, meaning when I printed signatures I'd just export a double spread PDF, and so I've never had to make signatures from a page per page. But after some research I can give you 3 options:

The booklet function and how to make it your bff

Cannibalize your PDF to make a double spread PDF

Give up (on the signatures, and bind it another way)

1. The booklet function

Most PDF viewer have one. For example I opened one of my PDFs in Adobe Acrobat Reader: the function is there, and it looks like it should work with a page per page PDF to make proper signatures out of it, but since I've never had to use it, I can't tell you precisely what to do with it. I can advise this much: TEST PRINTS!!! Make that thing your best friend by test printing with it a thousand times over until you're sure. You can use a PDF splitter to get just the first 4 pages of your PDF and make those go through the booklet function until you've figured out all the right parameters, etc. There are probably online tutorials, too. Accessorily, you can also split your PDF into the different signatures, it might make it easier as a whole when you make the final print.

2. Cannibalism

Honestly, this solution is for barbarians, but I'm including it because it sure would work and, well, if I was in your position, it's what I would have done (if the PDF was under 100 pages). The big idea here is to turn the page per page PDF into a double spread PDF by opening it in any software that lets you move it around like a jpeg, manually sticking each page next to the right one, and exporting it into a new PDF. And you can even make the signatures manually while you're at it (but you should also probably do that in InDesign, and it has an inbuilt booklet function, so no need for the recipe for disaster that is making the signatures manually). Not recommended unless you're a purist, a maniac, or a masochist. Do not do that. Go back to #1. Help yourself.

3. Give up

...on the signatures. I don't think the booklet function is that hard to master, but just to give you more options, there absolutely are ways to print and bind a page per page PDF without signatures. Here are a few:

Japanese binding: with thread, beautiful, will work no matter how many pages you have, however it does not open flat (at ALL) and if you have text/images close to the inside margin the binding will eat it all up.

Perfect binding: with glue, very common binding. You'll see it on most paperbacks, everywhere. When it's clean, it's really nice, however, while it's easy to make a perfect binding, it's hard to make a clean one yourself. Also can't be done if you have less than? 20? pages, doesn't open flat, eats the inside margin (but way less than a japanese binding).

Whatever this is called: with thread, can be nice… on very specific occasions. Opens flat and looks cool, NOT recommended if you have thin paper and/or a lot of pages.

So many things. Thread. Tape. Side staples. Spirals. Screws and bolts, if you're going for in industrial look. Don't let any loser tell you that staples or spirals or any of those can't be sexy in the right conditions.

[ahprodithe]

your header is so gorgeous! did you make it?

it really is very pretty! i didn't make it myself though, for that you need to give @palesources a look 🩷 if you go to their desktop page and then add /headers it should bring you to their header page (:

[saintlethanavir]

Hey I couldn't find your commission information. IDK if I'm blind or it's a mobile issue, but can you link it or point me in the right direction?

Normally I would have my commissions open through my ko-fi ! Right now I have sketch options available from £30-£45 depending on what you'd like. I will say I'm a bit on the slower side getting them out at the moment, between some mental health issues and the holiday hours I'm working. So just keep that in mind if you're looking to comm me and I super appreciate the interest /genuine!

If you're looking for a way to support me or get cool art but want a shorter turnaround there's also the Etsy I run with my husband and also our patreon !!

[raceweek]

What does teams in procedural breach mean? Some are saying AM are over some are saying they arent?

so aston martin is in procedural breach rather than breach of the cost cap so they didn’t overspend - without knowing the details i would imagine there was some kind of error with their submitted paperwork/documentation or funds were paid into incorrect accounts or something along those lines basically

[and-stir-the-stars]

you know i usually do dadstiel edits with Jack and Cas but I did this one with Claire and Cas instead. do you happen to know any songs that remind you of them? it can be your favorite owl city or anyone else tbh

Hmmm, the only song I really have that reminds me of them is This Isn't the End by Owl City, but that reminds me more about the broken aftermath of her relationship with her dad (Jimmy) than with Cas.

However, after looking through my playlists, here are some songs thay I think could maybe work:

Into the Open Air from the Disney movie Brave

Everglow by Coldplay

I Will Wait by mumford and sons

See you soon by Coldplay

[macdenlover]

it came to my realization that 99% of my fandom related headaches would be cured if everyone understood this

[nocturnal-birb]

https://www.tumblr.com/nocturnal-birb/746542317639434240/how-do-you-super-boop-rdr2-anon?source=share

ehhh spamming doesn't work for me

- red dead anon

Not sure how to explain it but when you get the prompt “you’re about to boop user” like the usual, you can just spam click the boop button before it goes away

[black-quadrant]

on my knees begging you to please look up “squick” if you don’t know it and help bring it back to fandom space by using it. it’s a valuable word we’re missing that through normalizing could solve some of the more prevalent communication issues.

[ashethehedgehog]

Hello Ash. Same anon from before. Totally understand that I would get off anon to more easily receive stuff. I know you are probably not very active on DeviantArt but would you be willing to share as an alternative if I send a private note or is it better on tumblr?

Hi anon!

It's definitely up to you, I will eventually fix up or find a way to share the account, but my job has me sooo busy these days I barely get time to create things, let alone spend time on things NOT writing or drawing, so it miiiight take awhile =w=

I don't log into deviantart much anymore since its a pretty ummm, problematic website these days (to say the least lol), so I would be pretty slow to respond to messages on there (I usually do like maybe once a month of a log in to check on things). I'm ashe-the-hedgehog on DA. Tumblr is probably easier since I check it more often, and Twitter is the best since I usually check it daily, altho I know a lot of folk hate it and don't use it, so tumblr is a good middle ground if you're comfortable with that! (I think I have all my website contacts listed in my pinned post on here too)

Take care!

[aur0raaura]

Yknow what- you're so right...

[bixels]

The Piedra sisters.

Born and raised in a small mining town in New Mexico. Calida and María Molina have stayed behind to support their parents while Rosita and Madelina have gone off to pursue their dreams. Madelina recently obtained her Ph.D. in geology from Las Cruces College. Rosita works as a baking apprentice and entertainer in Ponyville, Nebraska. Madelina is the eldest, Calida the middle child, and Rosita and María Molina (non-identical) twins.

[racingliners]

In a very important home life update: we got a high vis vest for one of our chickens

They apparently have a great unintended use of stopping hens from getting bullied, so we got one to try it out since the above hen gets excessively picked on by the others (we don't really know why).

Shout put to the wonderful @gingervivilou who told me about it!!

[yrsonpurpose]

hey i was wondering where you get the scenes you gif from, do you download them from somewhere? especially more recent things like the belgian gp !! :)

helloo! it depends on what i'm giffing. but i pretty much never download anything, i just screen record. for media interviews, i usually go to f1's website bc they're always hq. and then usually i screen record streams/sky sports website for any race reaction gifs.

[twipsai]

doom morph

(not ship 👍)

[otaku553]

Fire (Part 2)

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(Spade Pirate Sabo AU Masterpost)

And that is!! 18 of 18 pages!! It's this long because I didn't want to break up their fight. I hope you enjoy :)

I had to rewrite their fight like,,, 3 times lmao. I'm not very good at writing fights because I'm Incredibly Passive Aggressive and Very Non Confrontational. Thankfully my partner helped me out a bit with making the escalation feel natural, so hopefully their grievances and motivations read well. In the end, both of them are starving probably-emotionally-stunted teenage boys in a high-stress situation, and Tage is being faced constantly with one of the biggest sources of his trauma that he doesn't even remember-- of course he's going to lash out.

Fun thing I learned this time around, if I struggle with planning a chapter, it can kind of help to write it out in prose like I would a fanfic, and then translate it to comic form. This is how I eventually ended up with 18 pages of comic,,, because I can't really estimate how much I'll need to draw when I'm writing in prose. In turn, this did help a lot with adding more natural behaviors between dialogue, like Tage tapping his finger to fidget while crossing his arm, or all of their pointing and gesturing while they're arguing.