#banner made with piccollage

[bleach-your-panties]

Intro:

Hello babies!!🖤🐦‍⬛

So, if you know a little bit about me, I am a big fan of horror stories and dark content. (Though I am a scaredy-cat in real life)

This collab idea came to me as I thought about the type of stories I like to read on Tumblr. I also enjoy reading creepy reddit threads like r/Backwoods Creepy and r/creepyencounters. Shoutout to Tallulah ( @antizenin ) for making me get back on Reddit, lol.

So! The theme of this collab is urban legends, myths, fairytales, weird irl encounters; and, fantastical stories (that may or may not be true). Think of Ripley's Believe It or Not and Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction.

How to Join:

🖤Send me a message and tell me a bit about the story that inspires your submission, your chosen fandom(s), and character(s). Joining multiple times is allowed.

🖤Keep in mind that the entire theme of this collab is dark, unsettling, weird, creepy, and horrifying. So 18+ will be required to join.

🖤If you have a real-life experience that inspires you, feel free to use it!

🖤Inspiration may be drawn from existing urban legends and myths (Candyman, Bloody Mary, Creepypasta, etc.) but do not copy them directly! I want to see you make up your own!

🖤Any fandoms are welcome, not just anime.

🖤No submission deadline. Take your time, dearies~

🖤Please tag your posts with appropriate content labels/trigger warnings, and use the 'read more'. Tag me in completed posts and tag #🐦‍⬛fantastic once you're done!

🖤I look forward to reading what you've written!

📜✒️Posts:

🐦‍⬛Haikyuu!!

the abhorrent tale of the scandalous semen six

character(s): seijoh 4 + kuuro tetsurou and kozume kenma

cw: murder, semen in food, kidnapping

told by: bleach-your-panties

🐦‍⬛Jujutsu Kaisen

false prophets

character(s): geto suguru

cw: incubus, religious themes, manipulation, coercion, dub-con

told by: bleach-your-panties

🐦‍⬛Tokyo Revengers

title tbd

character(s): haruchiyo sanzu

cw: tbd

told by: @ranspuppy

never be a wedding plan for the heartless

character(s): kisaki tetta

cw: mental illness, torture, murder, more tbd

told by: @ksakiswh0re-xo

My Hero Academia 🐦‍⬛

hardest to love

character(s): todoroki touya "dabi"

cw: stalking, voyeurism, self-harm, pyromania, f! masturbation, dubcon, coercion, unprotected sex (wrap it up kids!), degradation

told by: @sincerelyzee

🐦‍⬛fantastical myths collab ©bleach-your-panties 2024.

[ilikemesometaetaes]

Where can I learn to make gif banners? Like the one one your ‘Kisses of Graphite’ fic. I really want to learn but I can’t find anything at the moment 🥲

Hey there, anon! Thanks for the ask!

I use this website called Photopea. It’s absolutely free! I’ll write out the instructions on how I made the KOG banner. If you’re using a phone, you can do all of this on an app called PicCollage. I used the app for my profile heading.

1. Select the background photo you want to use and place it in. You can literally Ctrl+C > Ctrl+V (Copy and Paste) it onto the canvas. It will create a layer.

2. Look up your desired gif, but make sure to type it as “transparent (subject).gif” or “transparent (subject) gif. For example, I want confetti, so I’ll type in “transparent confetti.gif”/“transparent confetti gif”. Save this to your computer/laptop after making sure it’s truly transparent. (It should have a gray and white checkered background)

3. Select “File > Open” and then choose the gif file from your computer. It will open it in another page on Photopea, so then all you have to do is copy and paste it onto the background photo you already have. It won’t move yet, but position it as you like. This will make a new layer. You’ll see it on the right-hand side.

4. Use the ‘T’ tool to begin typing what you want. You can then select the text and change its font in the upper left-hand corner. This will make another new layer.

5. Click “File > Export As… > GIF”. Doing this will load a preview of how your GIF will look before you save it. If you want to reposition the gif (I had to do this to make the moving face in KOG fit on the journal page), just press cancel and reposition. When you’re ready to save it, repeat this step and click save.

And that’s it! If you’d like me to, I can post a video of myself making a banner since I know some people learn better from watching it get done than reading steps. There’s also tons of videos on YouTube regarding how to use Photopea.

Happy creating! :)

[mobilunity]

Creating an MVP Cheaper: Firebase Instead of Backend

Firebase is a toolkit and infrastructure which purpose is to help you build better apps and grow a successful business. Firebase was bought by Google and now it is constantly improving in order to make your experience much more convenient and productive. It helps you develop high-quality apps, build a prototype or an MVP (minimum viable product), grow your user base, and earn more money as a result. Each feature works great independently, and they perform even better together. Firebase contains several free modules: Analytics, App Indexing, Authentication, Cloud Messaging, Crash Reporting, Dynamic Links, Invites, Notifications & Remote Config. Firebase also contains several paid modules for extending your possibilities while developing an MVP: Realtime Database, Storage, Hosting and Test Lab. If you want to know more about the paid modules, check the pricing here. You can also check out this page, if you are interested in development of mobile apps.

Build a Prototype Using Firebase Modules

Proceeding to our research, let’s look at the modules which Firebase offers us from a much detailed point:

Analytics. This module is quite similar to Google Analytics. It collects statistical data about the application and offers wide range of filters and parameters. This module helps you to promote your application as well.

Auth. This module was created for user authorization. It supports authorization by email/password, Google account, Facebook, Twitter, github and guest authorization. In admin panel you can see the statistics on who and when signs in to the application. You can also add, delete or disable accounts with the help of this module.

Realtime Database. This tool is more powerful comparing to the others listed. It is a cloud-hosted NoSQL database, which stores data in JSON in a form of a pair: key-value. Nevertheless this module can not substitute SQL database, Realtime database has two major features which are not present in ordinary SQL. The first one is synchronization of the data. It means that  you don’t need to send new requests to the server, when you are working with the data and some changes are being made simultaneously by somebody else. Just add a callback and you will receive all the changes in this callback. The second feature is the possibility to work offline. When the connection will be available, all your changes will be synchronized and other users will be able to see what has changed. Realtime Database has different functions like sorting out and filtering query requests, or creating rules for accessing the data.

Crash Reporting. This module collects the data about application’s crashes. You can see the detailed information about the device where the crash occurs and in which row of code it happened exactly.

Notifications. This module allows your app to send push notifications to the specific group of users or all of them. For sending a notification you need to fill only several fields in the admin panel and press the “send” button. As easy as that.

Remote Config. This module helps you to create parameters in the admin panel and these parameters are synchronized with an application in real time. There is a limit in synchronization per hour, but this limit is quite big. And if you need to create a parameter which will be updated quite frequently, you can use the Database module.

Storage. As you can already guess from its name, this module can be used in order to save files on Google Cloud. The number of functions is the one we are all accustomed to: you can upload, download and delete all the files from the cloud. For example, you can store avatars of users or other images which are uploaded by them.

AdMob. This is the module for monetization of the app. For example, our developers tried to insert a simple advertising banner in one of our applications. It turned out quite simple and took only several rows of code.

Implementing the Firebase is a quick and easy process. With intuitive APIs packaged into a single SDKs for iOS, Android, JavaScript and C++, you can focus on solving your customer’s problems and not waste time on building complex infrastructure.

Create a Mobile App With Firebase: Popular Customer’s Experience

In 2016 some modules were in beta release but many companies had already been using Firebase. Now all modules are officially released. From the list below we can see which company has already chosen Firebase:

PicCollage uses next modules for the app: Analytics, Remote Config, Crash Reporting, Notifications.

“Our product decisions are based on quick experiments, data analysis, and iteration. Firebase makes this process more efficient through its combined Remote Config and Analytics dashboard.” — PicCollage team.

Fabulous uses next features: Analytics, Authentication, Remote Config, Crash Reporting, Notifications, Dynamic Links, Invites.

“We were always playing catch-up to try and integrate all of our separate tools together. Firebase just replaced most of these services, and everything was already streamlined for us.“— Amine Laadhari, CTO/Co-Founder.

Shazam uses next Firebase features: Analytics, Crash Reporting, Dynamic Links.

“Firebase was an obvious solution to our challenges. We were confident that we could rely on Google’s scale to accurately measure both user behavior and critical errors.” — Iordanis Giannakakis, Lead Android Developer.

Skyscanner uses next features: Analytics, Realtime Database, Crash Reporting, Dynamic Links, Invites.

“We trust Firebase to provide a reliable and scalable mobile platform to support our business needs. Firebase was easy to implement, which allowed us to pick up benefits from multiple services in just a few days.” — Bálint Orosz, Head of App Product.

This list doesn’t end on this, and we can surely say, that Firebase is a reliable toolkit with convincing number of modules for you to create a mobile app, make a prototype or build and run a website.

Google constantly improves Firebase, so that every feature corresponds to the latest tech trends and gives you more possibilities. Creating an MVP with the help of Firebase eventually allows you to run the successful business by seeing how the app is used and improving it. You can refuze using backend server if you don’t need to collect huge amounts of data or you don’t have a difficult database structure.

“I’ve been testing this toolkit and can make a conclusion, that for prototypes, MVPs or portfolio projects you can boldly use Firebase without backend server, hence much cheaper, and you will surely be surprised how easy, but productively it can turn out to work with.” – Sergey, Senior Android Developer in Mobilunity

Nowadays many companies and startups are in search of programmers for their piling-up ideas like an MVP development. This is why outstaffing solution is getting more and more popular due to the lack of professionals on the local markets of many countries. Our company has great experience in web and mobile app development and we can surely offer perfect candidates, who can develop unique high-quality products.

We can build a prototype for you using the top-notch techs like Firebase.

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