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[humming-fly]

It's dark Arthur, pull out your lighter.

(practically I know john is most easily portrayed as a normal hooded guy with a mask but deep down my heart of hearts still belongs to mergo's wet nurse)

[percontaion-points]

Elizabeth and the Call of Dragons (Fated Alpha #2) chapter 1

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Chapter 1

DEDICATION

To Christina and Brittany 

Without you, my last book would’ve been stuupid [sic]

I’m a little worried about what the book looked like without their help. Especially because there’s a typo on the dedication page. 

The man who murdered my parents sprinted down the airport runway in his wolf form, followed by hundreds of shifter wolves. My own pack was trying to kill me. 

That should have been obvious when he murdered your parents and then started to hunt you down. 

I get that this is technically book two, and there’s always some need to rehash what’s going on. But at the same time… Come on. This is literally five seconds after the end of the first book. 

I felt like a traitor and a coward, running from my father’s killer and away from the man who loved me. 

Is it seriously being cowardly to run from a huge mob of angry werewolves who want to murder you? Live to fight another day. 

“Just know this. I will do anything to make you mine.”

I honestly hate this kind of macho bullshit. This isn’t romantic, it’s fucking creepy. 

What if Liz eventually decides she doesn’t even want to be in a relationship with you? Would you seriously make her unhappy simply to sate your own desire?

Fucking asshole. 

“There are rumors of wolf women who have bore dragon pups. It is possible.”

This is up there with the Donkey/Dragon relationship in Shrek. Although I’m positive that this author is going to make the babies cute.

Side note, but how do I know that there are going to be babies? Because the last book in the series is literally called “Elizabeth and Her Baby Dragon”.

“Oh, those are just rumors. Who knows if they’re true or not. Besides, you guys can’t take that chance. You’re one of the most elite teams, and you must mate with a pureblood dragon. You’re honor bound to it. You gave your oath to the Queen to serve her Kingdom.” 

The blood drained from my face at the horror of what she was saying. 

Is it seriously that weird? It makes perfect sense to me. 

If anything, Liz should be kind of disappointed to learn that she’s going to be unable to have sexytimes with the sexy dragon man/men. 

Everything clicked in my head. This wasn’t going to happen. Me and these guys, it was just a temporary thing. They’d really just come to save me and that was it. I suddenly realized that even though I was still hurting from Aaron, I had hoped that these guys would be a permanent thing in my life.

She’s known them for less than a week at this point. Calm down, babe. The attachment you have is the trauma talking. 

… and the humidity clung to me like a lover. 

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“No!” I felt a strong energy force its way into my head and then everything was dark.

Chapter 1 summary: We pick up immediately where we’d left off at the end of the first book, with the plane with the broken window taking off and leaving Liz’s old pack behind on the runway. There’s a lot of internal angst from Liz as they fly, but it’s all recap from the first book. 

They land and immediately get onto another plane. Liz is too out of it and trapped in her own head to notice when they land again. They’re randomly in Hawaii now, except that she’s too tired to think straight. She falls onto the bed, but wakes up later to Hunter trying to put a blanket over her. He says some stuff about the powers that they have, but I’m not sure that it even matters much. 

He then starts to kiss her, but Liz stops him. She tells him a bit about Aaron, and how she knows that he’s been forced into an engagement with Olivia. That no matter what, she has to go back and at least help free Aaron from his abusive, murderous father. Hunter obviously doesn’t like this, and makes a bunch of super creepy promises that she’ll be his. 

Liz wakes up later, and overhears some fighting. It’s one of the female dragons, briefly mentioned in the first book. Her name is Sophia. Anyway, she’s angry that they’ve exposed themselves for literally one person. The work she had to do in order to keep the weredragon identities hidden was quite high… Regardless of the fact that there’s a dragon who can literally erase memories, so I don’t get why she’s so upset. Anyway, she goes on to remind them that canines and lizards can’t interbreed, so forget about it. She tells them that they all have a duty to mate with female weredragons, and that she’s found some more of said females. 

At this point, Liz simply wants to leave. She goes and puts some clothes on, and contemplates stealing a car. She decides to go on foot because the car would be too loud. As she’s going, she walks past a cemetery, where a super creepy woman “missing half of her breast” sang a really sad song to her. If you have ever seen literally any horror movie in your life, you probably know how this is going to end. 

Anyway, Liz decides to follow her, because she’s too stupid to be alive. Quite literally, in this case. The thing turns out to be some sort of monster that starts attacking her and then tries to eat her. However, as you probably guessed, the dragons show up. Hunter and Sophia chase the monster away while Christian tries to use his powers to help her, but she doesn’t like that. For some unholy reason. 

[grad604katywolf]

Week 8: Anatomy of GRAD604 Critical Review and Exploration

Essay planning:

I decided it would be a good idea for me to start thinking of how I might structure my essay and note down the key information.

Max. 2000 words

Due Tuesday 24th October (Week 13)

Section 1. Title

Good titles (typically 10-12 words long) use descriptive words and phrases that accurately highlight the core content of the paper

Title ideas:

Finding myself in this creative world

Learning to direct myself through my creative world

The creative finding her way in the creative community

Section 2. Introduction (100 words)

The creative: Upbringing/environment that I was brought up in. Being surrounded by creative people.

Purpose of report: Seeing what the connections are between my creative practice

3 C's:

Creative: My work that I have prodcuced

Creation: What I use to create my work

Creative communities: Designers and creatives that inspire the work that I do and what I want to be a part of

Section 3. The Creative — Positioning the Researcher 

This is where you will introduce yourself as a creative maker, thinker and research. Defining in 3-4 points:

The creative (400-500 words):

The key values and ideas that underpin your practice; I want to create work that has a positive impact on the community

The conventions, media and processes that you gravitate towards; I gravitate towards digital illustration as well as drawing. Typography is a significant element too.

The key methods and tools you use to undertake research, locate ideas and context, to find a topic, subject matter and themes; Old school pencil and paper to get initial ideas down. Researching ways people have approached similar projects.

Share your point of view about the role and importance of design. This could be for a specific social or cultural impact, audience or cause, sustainability, gender issues, equality etc;  I find design to be super important in the world. This is because people interpret images way quicker than text so it is important that what your are saying comes across simple yet effective. There are so many aspects of design from painting to branding and campaign work which depends on what you are trying to express.

Section. 4 Contextual Review (Creative Positioning) (600-800 words)

This is where you are explaining the current state of knowledge in the field. What did you uncover, what is best practice and what conceptual/academic thinking did you uncover? 

Here you acknowledge the projects, practices, writings and people who are the most influential on your thinking, ideas and practice. Consider these prompts:

Describe 4 x designers / artists creative practices and specific projects you have researched;

Previously unavailable:

Theme:

Significance + impact on communities + you:

Image: caption it

Quote from them: reference

Emma Rogan:

Theme:

Significance + impact on communities + you:

Image: caption it

Quote from them: reference

Max Miedinger:

Theme:

Significance + impact on communities + you:

Image: caption it

Quote from them: reference

ALT group/Dean Poole:

Theme:

Significance + impact on communities + you:

Image: caption it

Quote from them: reference

Mccarthy studio:

Theme:

Significance + impact on communities + you:

Image: caption it

Quote from them: reference

Refer to the thematic and categorisations you articulated in week 8?

Discuss the key concepts, and contexts (including themes).

For all 4 x case studies talk about the significance of their work and its impact on communities + your thinking/practice.

Can you include a seminal quote from an author who has written about their work? (and accurately reference it)

Can you include and correctly caption images?

Section. 5 Identifying Communities of Interest

In this section you will clarify what you have learnt from investigating into creative + other communities, industry sectors, studios and agencies. Consider these prompts:

What did you discover about the wider creative communities; I discovered how there is some overlapping between the community here in NZ

What entities or specific initiatives did you identify and examine? What drew you to these?

Did you survey or investigate specific organisations or structures, or publishing entities?

What are your aspirations in the next 3+ years? Are you drawn to agencies, in-house design studios, or freelancing activity?: Through researching I have found myself really loving branding. I am drawn to design studios as it is a space for collaboration between likeminded people.

Section. 6 Reflections on the Research Poster

Here you will introduce, analyse and reflect on your poster and you could use these prompts:

Reflect on the graphic system that you used to represent your 20 x elements. Why was this specific system employed?

I have presented my 20 elements in this way as a way of expressing the idea of keeping things structured. The reason for the illustrations was because I feel it is the best way to express myself and my practice.

How is this visual system intrinsic to the nature of the elements / ideas you examined? What have you revealed about your sensibility as a designer?

I appreciate illustration and typography. Keeping things structured and clear to view.

Discuss the success of the artifact and the system you used to write and analyse each element.

I feel that the format is quite successful. It breaks down elements that have influenced me as a creative.

Reflection on 2 x elements that challenged the way you thought about ideas and contexts. Why? 

Badminton? - cultural significance

What categorisations emerged from analysis and reflecting on the elements + writing? List these.

Sport, culture - English/swiss, tactile

Discuss one important new link or connection you discovered and have researched after finishing the poster?

Illustration connection to cultural issues

Name one new idea or influence you gained from reading and viewing a peer's poster.

-The different approaches that people take

Section. 7 Conclusion (200-300 words)

Here we want you to discuss the key findings from research and critical takeaways that will propel your practice into year 3 over the 12-week course.

Consider:

What were the key findings and tools that have shaped the way you approach research and writing;

-That there are alot of non design influences that influence the work I produce.

What were the critical reflections that have shaped your ideas, process, and approach to subject matter and/or media? 

-Themes come into play when analysing

What was challenging about the research and critical writing? What areas did you need to strengthen?

-Learning about myself as a creative was the most challenging as I dont class myself as ad esigner yet.

How has the research into creative communities shaped the way you will approach Design Research IV and the internship course GRAD704 in 2024?

-I will approach the internship with an open mind and to just be myself.

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For starters, you can just write your text here. What follows, is how I've added in all the other bits, and then provided a link for anyone to see, or for you to submit with your work.

In Text Citations

Quoting - Information Prominent

I'm going to throw in a quote here how 'Modern Recording Techniques provides an in-depth read on the art and technologies of music production' (Huber 2017). This quote was information prominent, as I didn't mention the author as the main focus, it was focusing on the information first and foremost. Hence why I put the author and year at the end of the quote.

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A second version of quoting is called author prominent, where I focus on the author. I could therefore say that Huber (2017) mentions that "the ninth edition includes: Updated tips, tricks and insights for getting the best out of your studio". You see here that Huber isn't in brackets, but the year is.

Paraphrasing

My third in-text citation here is where I'll mention how Huber does a brilliant collation of the latest technologies, DAW's, and even a website to go with the Modern Recording Techniques book (2017). That was paraphrasing, the preferred method of citing work. Please aim to do this as much as possible. It is only when you have a really specific statement that you need to quote someone. Paraphrasing shows you understand the work better.

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Finally, you can see in all 3 of the preceding paragraphs, when I want to emphasise something, I put it in italics, which is the only time you should really use italics.

Adding Media

Now that the bulk of the text descriptions are over, how do you add media? Simply hit return, and it opens up the different types of links and other elements you can add.

For example. I've added an image here of the front cover of a book.

Figure 1: Book front cover. Source: Huber DM and Runstein R (2017) Modern Recording Techniques, accessed 22 May 2023, https://www.routledge.com/Modern-Recording-Techniques/Huber-Runstein/p/book/9781138954373

You can see that straight after adding a picture, I have said what it is, and where it has come from. I have also made it a touch smaller and called it a figure, not an image. If we want the correct way to cite an image from the source itself, I will use a quote here to keep it as accurate as possible. 'Images and graphs are often referred to as figures when included as part of a text. If you use images, graphs or tables from other sources, you need to provide information about the source. This is usually done in a caption below the figure. If you create your own image, graph or table, you also need to include a caption.' (Monash University 2022)

Adding online videos

Now, to slip in a video of something ? In this case I've simply chosen one of my YouTube videos. Copy and paste the URL.. Done.

Torrens J (2016) '3. JT’s Pro Tools Tips: Ordering and Grouping' [video], YouTube, accessed 22 May 2023, www.youtube.com, https://youtu.be/b8Rvw008IT0

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Also easy, simply hit return again, and choose the video button, but then upload a video you've made, or sourced. I've chosen a video that shows the instructors at Collarts how to turn on ASR for ECHO360. Meh, not very exciting.

Figure 3: ASR into ECHO360 video. Source: Torrens J (2021) Collarts Staff Resources, accessed 22 May 2023, http://collarts.com/test

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Reference list guide

This is where you should include every single thing you have referenced, in alphabetical order by the first surname of each source. Hard to demonstrate it perfectly in a blog, but you can in your PDF.

What is wrong with this entry below for the first image in this piece? I copied this from MyBib using the correct style of Australian Government Style Guide, which should match the Monash Harvard style we use at Collarts (2023).

Huber DM and Runstein R (2017) Modern Recording Techniques book front cover, https://www.routledge.com/Modern-Recording-Techniques/Huber-Runstein/p/book/9781138954373, accessed 22 May 2023.

The accessed date should be before the URL. So should be like this.

Huber DM and Runstein R (2017) Modern Recording Techniques book front cover, accessed 22 May 2023, https://www.routledge.com/Modern-Recording-Techniques/Huber-Runstein/p/book/9781138954373

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Reference List

Collarts (2023) Referencing at Collarts, Collarts Canvas, accessed 22 May 2023, https://collarts.instructure.com/courses/1360/pages/referencing-at-collarts?wrap=1

Huber DM (2019) Modern recording techniques, 9th edn, New York ; London Routledge Taylor Et Francis Group.

Monash University (2022) Subject guides: Citing and referencing: Images, graphs, tables, data sets, accessed 22 May 2023, guides.lib.monash.edu, https://guides.lib.monash.edu/c.php?g=219786&p=6661616

[airoarts]

Not the anon — But their advice isn’t out of touch with information I’ve heard from people who verifiably need image descriptions, though there’s disagreement about exactly how short descs should be. alt text is not dissimilar from poetry—we have to make decisions about what to describe and when. there are benefits and drawbacks to each approach. one might win in the end, but there will always be room for variation.

i don’t think it should matter whether the anon is visually impaired or not. if we reject reasonable advice just because it didn’t come straight from the mouths of the most affected, we prevent allyship and solidarity. people who need image descriptions are the authorities in this discussion, but given the variety of opinions, it’s also necessary for seeing people to draw their own conclusions, which synthesizes their perspective with others’ perspectives.

A seeing person who dislikes long descriptions will likely agree with the visually impaired people who also dislike them, but that doesn’t nullify the validity of their opinion—it just means we should investigate further.

personally, I have one summarizing sentence at the beginning of my desc and then add subsequent info to paint a more elaborate scene, because screen reader users can exit the desc when they’ve heard enough.

the rising popularity of image description will also create more diversity in style, which will create more disagreement. the discussions that arise from this will help develop the craft. however you decide to write your descriptions, you’re working toward a more accessible internet, and that’s much appreciated. thank you.

I do largely agree with this and like.. this should be very obvious given the fact that i'm a visual artist but I am in fact a seeing person, and i am relatively new to describing images, and am struggling to find the right sort of balance in terms of describing something accurately and not boring people to death with over-detailing, particularly because a TTS thing talking at you will take longer than a seeing person reading a caption. i think the major thing to note here is that this is an art blog, i draw shit by hand, and every detail is intentionally put there, so image descriptions will just... be longer than normal as i try to note anything that might be important to understand the art. you can see that in the sexyman fusion drawing, because there are a lot of details in the design and they all mean something because they are references to the like, 11 characters it's made out of

things i worry about are posts with multiple images with quite a bit of detail, and i do wonder if it would be better to post art individually with image descriptions in mind, because accurately describing multiple pieces of artwork without being long as hell is... very tough

i will continue to try to work better at making image descriptions. much to think about.

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#5

Unfriendly reminder that the image description/alt text option on website builders and social media platforms is there for you to describe images for people that are reliant on screenreaders.

It's not there for you to put in some hidden snarky comment or to use in lieu of a caption or an image credit.

[Image is described in alt text]

208 notes - Posted June 15, 2022

#4

With everything that’s going on at the minute, it’s probably a good time to remember how to spot a scam, because they’re not always obvious and you aren’t necessarily immune to them on account of age or intelligence level.

The following are genuine examples of scams that have been reported by others on the internet. They are not intended to be exclusive or exhaustive and are used for illustrative purposes only.

Seems too good to be true

Like something for nothing or an unusually large discount on something that’s usually hard to come by or very expensive.

Came from out of the blue

Someone claiming to be your internet provider calls up saying there’s an issue with your device or internet connection, even though both have been working fine all morning.

Account details/Access requested

Someone claiming to be from your bank calls up asking to confirm your account details for security purposes, or asks for you to download a program to resolve an issue with your internet banking which will allow them to control your device remotely.

Money or vouchers requested

A relative calls up and asks for money out of the blue, saying that they’re in a foreign country and have been injured and that doctors refuse to treat them until they’ve been paid, and that they need you to sort out payment for them.

Or: Someone from the tax office calls up saying you’re £500 on taxes and you need to send them Amazon vouchers right away.

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Disguised or under Duress

Someone calls up claiming to be from the police, saying that they’re investigating counterfeit currency and need you to withdraw £2500 to hand to a courier. They tell you to tell the clerk it’s for a birthday present for your spouse if they ask you why you need such a large amount of money and not to tell them the real reason why, or else you’ll end up going to jail.

If any of the above fit the bill or sound very similar to what someone is asking you to do, there’s a chance you could get SCAM’D.

And if you do happen to fall for scams, make sure you tell the authorities or your bank right away as they may be able to put a stop to them (no organisation known by an acronym wants anyone impersonating them) and maybe able to recover some or all of your money.

Don’t feel embarrassed about it—scammers can often exploit our “off” days.

227 notes - Posted August 24, 2022

#3

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275 notes - Posted January 12, 2022

#2

It is not enough for me to stretch after a 7 hour shift in work. I need someone to pick me up and wring me like a wet cloth.

356 notes - Posted July 2, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Shout out to the people not doing Inktober, Flufftober, NaNoWriMo, etc. this year (or any year) for whatever reason.

Because they have prior work commitments (retail/service can be hell this time of year).

Because they’re too busy with school work or exam prep.

Because they’re dealing with chronic conditions and illnesses.

Because they have poor mental health and want to prioritise that.

Have other personal priorities and commitments.

Because they have no ideas or are between projects.

Because they don’t have energy.

Because they just don’t bloody well want to thank you very much.

You aren’t any less valid as an artist/writer/creator, and can’t/shouldn’t be pressured into doing anything you don’t want to do or made to feel bad about it.

This list is not intended to be exclusive or exhaustive, additions are welcomed.

P.S Not intended to be hate on anyone who does actually participate or enjoy these monthly challenges.

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[humming-fly]

my good friend @alagaesia-overlord and I were lamenting the lack of arthur-centric body horror in malevolent, so I figured for her birthday I'd make an attempt at lovingly fixing that~

various logistical thoughts under the cut as well!

some potential logistics for the road - john having his own tongue is an option but I liked the puzzle solving of how they could share while still leaving john with a mouth roof for enunciating (gonna have a hard enough time without lips) - plus it's funnier if they're forced to share, one more thing to get in a raging row over~

(and the bonus shitpost ending to the initial comic)

[alexwongcopywriting]

How To Make Money with Airbnb Experiences (Helpful Examples)

Airbnb Experiences are a great way for hosts to make extra money while fitting in time for their passion around other commitments. Read on to find out how to make money with Airbnb experiences, the types of experiences you can offer, and why you should consider hosting an Airbnb experience for enthusiastic travelers.

How To Make Money with Airbnb Experiences

In order to get started with making money with Airbnb experiences, you first need to think of a unique experience idea and create an Airbnb account. Next, create your experience on the Airbnb website and fill in all the details that Airbnb prompts you for. Then, you’ll need to describe your experience and qualifications and describe the experience in detail. Once that’s complete, upload some high-quality photos of your experience in action and submit your application. Once accepted, you can get to work providing your guests with an unforgettable experience! Need help writing a great Airbnb experience description? Get in touch for more information.

Making Money with Airbnb Experiences

Source Research Your Idea Before jumping into creating your Airbnb experience, you’ll need to do your research, and spend some time thinking about what will make your experience different from other experiences in the area. Search for other experiences on Airbnb similar to the one you’re considering, and take a look at the details and the price. This is necessary first to make sure that Airbnb will accept an application like yours, and secondly to make sure your experience is financially viable for you. Create an Airbnb account Once you’ve got a winning idea, you can do ahead and create your account with Airbnb. Create an Experience and Enter the Details Next, create the new experience on your account and enter the details that Airbnb requires. You’ll probably be asked about the location and type of experience, and be asked to choose from a list of activities. Read more about how to create an Airbnb experience. Describe Your Experience and Qualifications After you’ve given Airbnb the basic details of your experience, you’ll need to answer some questions about what makes you an authority on the subject. You’ll be prompted to answer questions like ‘How long have you been doing XYZ?’ and ‘Do you have any formal certificates and awards in XYZ?’. This is necessary so that Airbnb can establish what makes you qualified to offer such an experience. Describe the Airbnb Experience Next, you’ll be prompted to write a description of the Airbnb experience, noting factors like: - What guests will be expected to do during the experience; - What itinerary the guests will be following; and - Specific details of what sets this activity apart from others.

Source This experience description is great because it details exactly who the experience is for, and what guests can expect from the service. The itinerary is clear, and prospective customers are referred to a social media account for even more examples of the photos they can expect. The description even includes the photographer’s top tips, such as bringing an extra pair of shoes to walk around in, and when the crowds are smallest. Upload Photos Then, there’ll be a place to upload seven high-quality images that represent your activity or service. These photos should ideally show people engaging with the activity, and perhaps a location shot of where the activity will be taking place. Natural lighting and candid photos work best with Airbnb. Learn how to write irresistible photo captions. Wait for Your Application Result Now there’s nothing you can do other than wait for Airbnb to get back to you with a result on your application. If your application is denied on the first try, don’t worry! You can tweak bits of your application and try again. Make sure to really focus on your personal expertise and what makes your experience different from all the others available. Get to Work! With a successful application under your belt, your Airbnb experience is now live! You can get to work facilitating wonderful memories for tourists wanting to learn from the locals. Remember, providing a brilliant service or experience and exceeding expectations is the best way to get five-star guest reviews. Read more: secret writing great guest reviews.

What Are Airbnb Experiences?

Source An Airbnb experience is an activity designed and led by a local for tourists. The phrase ‘live like a local’ is often used by Airbnb to describe the ‘experiences’ part of the site, as the idea is to give tourists an authentic and genuine experience, immersed in local culture. Airbnb hosts can share their skills and passions with anyone who wants to learn, regardless of whether they have a place to host them or not.

How Much Money Can I Make with an Airbnb Experience?

The amount of money you can make with an Airbnb experience depends on the type of experience you offer and the value you provide, the number of people booking your experience, and whether you have any expenses or not. You can receive tips from happy travelers, and offer certain promotions and discounts to incentivize large groups to join your tour or activity. Art and Culture In the US, art and cultural experiences vary considerably in price depending on what they are. A photography session may cost anywhere between $40 - $100 per person, while tours may cost more than this, depending on how long the tours typically last for.

Types of ‘Arts and Culture’ experiences in England. Source Food and Drink Food and drink tours typically cost more than $50 per person, and more if they involve a class of some sort. Generally speaking, the more unique the activity, the more an Airbnb host is able to charge for it. The amount charged also depends significantly on experience level. An ex-Michelin Star chef will likely charge more than a local with no professional cooking experience.

Types of ‘Food and Drink’ experiences in Italy. Source Maximizing Income from Airbnb Experiences In order to maximize the income that you receive from your Airbnb experience, you should try different price ranges, testing and measuring the number of bookings vs. the amount of income you make with each price you test. In addition to this, consider setting up an experience with few or no expenses, so that everything you charge you can keep as a profit.

What Are the Most Popular Airbnb Experiences?

Source There are many different types of Airbnb experiences. Airbnb itself tends to categorize experiences into four sections: Art and Culture, Food and Drink, Entertainment, and Sports. Photography Services Did you really go on holiday if you didn’t post 50 photos on Instagram to prove it? In the age of social media, photography services are a massively popular type of Airbnb experience. Whether your photography is related to specific architecture in your city, or whether you specialize in certain aesthetics of photo shoots, the demand for this type of service is big.

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Source Airbnb really values unique experiences, so if you’re planning on offering a photography experience, make sure it will stand out from the rest. Walking Tours Another popular type of Airbnb experience is a walking/sightseeing tour. This is popular with all kinds of different tourists, not just the ones who want to post everything on social media. You could offer a local tour of historical spots, a tour of local restaurants, a tour of street art in your city, or tours to celebrity or historical figure homes in the area. Activities and Classes There are a huge variety of activities and classes available when looking for Airbnb experiences. Whether you’re an experienced surfer, ex-professional chef, roller-skating champion, or just a person with a passion, hosting activities and classes is a great way to make an extra income by doing what you love. Some activities could include: - Sports like football, surfing, archery, tennis, snowboarding or golf - Classes like cooking, yoga, meditation, painting or pottery When deciding what kind of experience to offer, look to the hobbies that you already enjoy and have experience in. Read the Airbnb SEO Cheat Sheet here. Nightlife and Shopping Tours Another popular type of Airbnb experience is entertainment tours, for example, nightlife, bars, and shopping tours. These tours are aimed at a more niche target audience and will depend on your personal expertise and hobbies. You could do a tour of luxury shops, popular clothing stores, local markets, and unique, quirky stores in the area. You could even partner with local businesses in the area to offer exclusive discounts and incentives for recommending to friends or family. Another great place to recommend local attractions is your guidebook. Learn how to create a professional guidebook and manual for guests here.

Are Airbnb Experiences Good?

Hosting Airbnb experiences is a great way to get paid for doing something that you love while meeting new people and working very flexible hours. You set your schedule, meaning that you can work as much or as little as you’d like. Your passion for your tour or activity will show, inspiring your guests and encouraging fantastic new memories. Make money with Airbnb experiences by setting up your account and giving Airbnb all of the details of your expertise and experience. Get paid for your passion and give back to the tourists who visit your local area. Whether it’s a photography session, boxing class, or yoga session on the beach, get creative and craft a magical and unique experience! Check out my Airbnb copywriting services for more information about crafting the perfect Airbnb listing description, Airbnb guidebook, or Airbnb experiences copy. Read the full article

[percontaion-points]

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Chapter 27

Ten-Degree Weather Gives a Whole New Meaning to the Cool Kids’ Table

[Image description: Emma stone with a disgusted look on her face. She has red hair that’s pulled back, and side bangs. She’s wearing a yellow top, and has red lip-stick and red earrings. The image is captioned with “I had to read this and so do you.”]

So yeah, that whole blending-in plan I hatched in San Diego? Officially dead on arrival.

Chapter 27 summary: So yeah. Jaxon and his friends have chosen to sit with Grace. (And by extension, Macy. But she might as well not be there, because Grace/the narration only has eyes for Jaxon.)

So Jaxon asks her what her first period is, and when she tells him, one of Jaxon’s friends says that he has that class first too, so he can take her. And I was fine with the narration introducing one character, but then it started dropping names and descriptions left, right, and center, and it’s like… STOP. I CAN’T KEEP UP. 

Anyway, there’s a lot of pages, but all of it boils down to “dumb high school students being dumb high school students”. It serves no point, and only infuriates me further. They all leave the cafeteria together, and Grace notes that despite the crowded halls, people go out of their way to avoid Jaxon’s clique. 

Chapter 28

Flint studies me, then shakes his head when I look back at him, brows raised in a definite WTF.

It’s not an emotion; Flint’s eyebrows literally formed three letters. 

“I’m not dense, you know. I am aware that something isn’t quite right here, even if I don’t know what it is yet.”

She’s too busy making googoo eyes at Jaxon to sit down for two seconds and actually figure it out. 

“I’ve got to go to my room and grab some warmer clothes. I have art next, and I’ll freeze if I go outside like this.” 

“Wait.” He stops dead. “No one told you about the tunnels?”

“What tunnels?” I eye him suspiciously. “Are you messing with me again?”

“I’m not, I swear. There’s a whole network of tunnels that run under the school and lead to the different outbuildings.”

To be fair, literally nobody told her what classes she was going to be in until about three hours earlier. So yeah. I feel like everybody dropped the ball as far as Grace’s education goes. 

Which is why I shove all the new and bizarre misgivings I’m suddenly having back down where they belong. And walk straight across the threshold.

Chapter 28 summary: At Grace’s first period English class, Jaxon will not leave and keeps flirting with her until she finally tells him to leave. The teacher comes in and I’m surprised that they actually had class. But then again, the author doesn’t seem to understand the concept of time-skips except overnight, so I’m not that surprised. Anyway, they’re doing Hamlet in class, and I don’t fucking care. 

After class, Grace thinks about how she has art next. But the art building is in one of those out-buildings, and Grace thinks that she has to run up to her room to grab her winter gear before going outside. But she runs into Flint, and they talk about Jaxon for too long, despite Flint complaining about why they keep talking about him so much. 

Anyway, Flint asks Grace where she’s going in such a hurry, despite only having 10 minutes to get to class, and the two of them spent at least half of that yapping. Grace says she has art next, and Flint asks if nobody told her about the underground tunnels. So he takes her there, and Grace has a weird foreboding as he opens the door to go in. But she’s going to be late for class, so she follows him in. 

Chapter 29

We’re standing in the middle of a musty, crumbling old tunnel just as the earth begins to shake for real this time.

Chapter 29 summary: On the other side of the door is a literal dungeon. Like complete with prison bars and shackles hanging on the wall. Flint is like “the tunnel is through here. I know it’s creepy, but please! Trust me!” However, Grace goes from “I don’t like this” to “WHAT THE FRESH HELL” when he tries to take her into one of the cells, insisting that the tunnel is hidden through there. 

Which… I’m all for the aesthetic that the author was going for. But like… why did they not simply redecorate when they turned the castle into a private school? I’m scared to ask how many children are hazed down in those tunnels. 

Anyway, Lia shows up, and she’s like “Oh, I have art too!” She and Flint spend some time arguing over if Flint should continue on with the girls or not. In the end, they all have to go the same way, regardless, so they go. As they walk, Grace notices that there are these like… what she hopes are fake bones as decor on the walls. 

And then there is apparently an earthquake… 

[notsoheadless]

Remember Longcat, Jane? I remember Longcat. Fuck the picture on this page, I want to talk about Longcat. Memes were simpler back then, in 2006. They stood for something. And that something was nothing. Memes just were. “Longcat is long.” An undeniably true, self-reflexive statement. Water is wet, fire is hot, Longcat is long. Memes were floating signifiers without signifieds, meaningful in their meaninglessness. Nobody made memes, they just arose through spontaneous generation; Athena being birthed, fully formed, from her own skull.     You could talk about them around the proverbial water cooler, taking comfort in their absurdity. “Hey, Johnston, have you seen the picture of that cat? They call it Longcat because it’s long!” “Ha ha, sounds like good fun, Stevenson! That reminds me, I need to show you this webpage I found the other day; it contains numerous animated dancing hamsters. It’s called — you’ll never believe this — hamsterdance!” And then Johnston and Stevenson went on to have a wonderful friendship based on the comfortable banality of self-evident digitized animals.     But then 2007 came, and along with it came I Can Has, and everything was forever ruined. It was hubris, Jane. We did it to ourselves. The minute we added written language beyond the reflexive, it all went to shit. Suddenly memes had an excess of information to be parsed. It wasn’t just a picture of a cat, perhaps with a simple description appended to it; now the cat spoke to us via a written caption on the picture itself. It referred to an item of food that existed in our world but not in the world of the meme, rupturing the boundary between the two. The cat wanted something. Which forced us to recognize that what it wanted was us, was our attention. WE are the cheezburger, Jane, and we always were. But by the time we realized this, it was too late. We were slaves to the very memes that we had created. We toiled to earn the privilege of being distracted by them. They fiddled while Rome burned, and we threw ourselves into the fire so that we might listen to the music. The memes had us. Or, rather, they could has us.     And it just got worse from there. Soon the cats had invisible bicycles and played keyboards. They gained complex identities, and so we hollowed out our own identities to accommodate them. We prayed to return to the simple days when we would admire a cat for its exceptional length alone, the days when the cat itself was the meme and not merely a vehicle for the complex memetic text. And the fact that this text was so sparse, informal, and broken ironically made it even more demanding. The intentional grammatical and syntactical flaws drew attention to themselves, making the meme even more about the captioning words and less about the pictures. Words, words, words. Wurds werds wordz. Stumbling through a crooked, dead-end hallway of a mangled clause describing a simple feline sentiment was a torture that we inflicted on ourselves daily. Let’s not forget where the word “caption” itself comes from: capio, Latin for both “I understand” and “I capture.” We thought that by captioning the memes, we were understanding them. Instead, our captions allowed them to capture us. The memes that had once been a cure for our cultural ills were now the illness itself.     It goes right back to the Phaedrus, really. Think about it. Back in the innocent days of 2006, we naïvely thought that the grapheme had subjugated the phoneme, that the belief in the primacy of the spoken word was an ancient and backwards folly on par with burning witches or practicing phrenology or thinking that Smash Mouth was good. Fucking Smash Mouth. But we were wrong. About the phoneme, I mean. Theuth came to us again, this time in the guise of a grinning grey cat. The cat hungered, and so did Theuth. He offered us an updated choice, and we greedily took it, oblivious to the consequences. To borrow the parlance of a contemporary meme, he baked us a pharmakon, and we eated it.     Pharmakon, φάρμακον, the Greek word that means both “poison” and “cure,” but, because of the

limitations of the English language, can only be translated one way or the other depending on the context and the translator’s whims. No possible translation can capture the full implications of a Greek text including this word. In the Phaedrus, writing is the pharmakon that the trickster god Theuth offers, the toxin and remedy in one. With writing, man will no longer forget; but he will also no longer think. A double-edged (s)word, if you will. But the new iteration of the pharmakon is the meme. Specifically, the post-I-Can-Has memescape of 2007 onward. And it was the language that did it, Jane. The addition of written language twisted the remedy into a poison, flipped the pharmakon on its invisible axis.     In retrospect, it was in front of our eyes all along. Meme. The noxious word was given to us by who else but those wily ancient Greeks themselves. μίμημα, or mīmēma. Defined as an imitation, a copy. The exact thing Plato warned us against in the Republic. Remember? The simulacrum that is two steps removed from the perfection of the original by the process of — note the root of the word — mimesis. The Platonic ideal of an object is the source: the father, the sun, the ghostly whole. The corporeal manifestation of the object is one step removed from perfection. The image of the object (be it in letters or in pigments) is two steps removed. The author is inferior to the craftsman is inferior to God.     Fuck, out of space. Okay, the illustration on page 46 is fucking useless; I’ll see you there. (21) But we’ll go farther than Plato. Longcat, a photograph, is a textbook example of a second-degree mimesis. (We might promote it to the third degree since the image on the internet is a digital copy of the original photograph of the physical cat which is itself a copy of Platonic ideal of a cat (the Godcat, if you will); but this line of thought doesn’t change anything in the argument.) The text-supplemented meme, on the other hand, the captioned cat, is at an infinite remove from the Godcat, the ultimate mimesis, copying the copy of itself eternally, the written language and the image echoing off each other, until it finally loops back around to the truth by virtue of being so far from it. It becomes its own truth, the fidelity of the eternal copy. It becomes a God.     Writing itself is the archetypical pharmakon and the archetypical copy, if you’ll come back with me to the Phaedrus (if we ever really left it). Speech is the real deal, Socrates says, with a smug little wink to his (written) dialogic buddy. Speech is alive, it can defend itself, it can adapt and change. Writing is its bastard son, the mimic, the dead, rigid simulacrum. Writing is a copy, a mīmēma, of truth in speech. To return to our analogous issue: the image of the cheezburger cat, the copy of the picture-copy-copy, is so much closer to the original Platonic ideal than the written language that accompanies it. (“Pharmakon” can also mean “paint.” Think about it, Jane. Just think about it.) The image is still fake, but it’s the caption on the cat that is the downfall of the republic, the real fakeness, which is both realer and faker than whatever original it is that it represents.    Men and gods abhor the lie, Plato says in sections 382 a and b of the Republic. οὐκ οἶσθα, ἦν δ᾽ ἐγώ, ὅτι τό γε ὡς ἀληθῶς ψεῦδος, εἰ οἷόν τε τοῦτο εἰπεῖν, πάντες θεοί τε καὶ ἄνθρωποι μισοῦσιν; πῶς, ἔφη, λέγεις; οὕτως, ἦν δ᾽ ἐγώ, ὅτι τῷ κυριωτάτῳ που ἑαυτῶν ψεύδεσθαι καὶ περὶ τὰ κυριώτατα οὐδεὶς ἑκὼν ἐθέλει, ἀλλὰ πάντων μάλιστα φοβεῖται ἐκεῖ αὐτὸ κεκτῆσθαι. “Don’t you know,” said I, “that the veritable lie, if the expression is permissible, is a thing that all gods and men abhor?” “What do you     mean?” he said. “This,” said I, “that falsehood in the most vital part of themselves, and about their most vital concerns, is something that no one willingly accepts, but it is there above all that everyone fears it.” Man’s worst fear is that he will hold existential falsehood within himself. And the verbal lies that he tells are a copy of this feared dishonesty in the soul.

Plato goes on to elaborate: “the falsehood in words is a copy of the affection in the soul, an after-rising image of it and not an altogether unmixed falsehood.” A copy of man’s false internal copy of truth. And what word does Plato use for “copy” in this sentence? That’s fucking right, μίμημα. Mīmēma. Mimesis. Meme. The new meme is a lie, manifested in (written) words, that reflects the lack of truth, the emptiness, within the very soul of a human. The meme is now not only an inferior copy, it is a deceptive copy.     But just wait, it gets better. Plato continues in the very next section of the Republic, 382 c. Sometimes, he says, the lie, the meme, is appropriate, even moral. It is not abhorrent to lie to your enemy, or to your friend in order to keep him from harm. “Does it [the lie] not then become useful to avert the evil—as a medicine?” You get one fucking guess for what Greek word is being translated as “medicine” in this passage. Ding ding motherfucking ding, you got it, φάρμακον, pharmakon. The μίμημα is a φάρμακον, the lie is a medicine/poison, the meme is a pharmakon.     But I’m sure that by now you’ve realized the (intentional) mistake in my argument that brought us to this point. I said earlier that the addition of written language to the meme flipped the pharmakon on its axis. But the pharmakon didn’t flip, it doesn’t have an axis. It was always both remedy and poison. The fact that this isn’t obvious to us from the very beginning of the discussion is the fault of, you guessed it, language. The initial lie (writing) clouds our vision and keeps us from realizing how false the second-order lie (the meme) is.     The very structure of the lying meme mirrors the structure of the written word that defines and corrupts it. Once you try to identify an “outside” in order to reveal the lie, the whole framework turns itself inside-out so that you can never escape it. The cat wants the cheezburger that exists outside the meme, but only through the meme do we become aware of the presumed existence of the cheezburger — we can’t point out the absurdity of the world of the meme without also indicting our own world. We can’t talk about language without language, we can’t meme without mimesis. Memes didn’t change between ‘06 and ‘07, it was us who changed. Or rather, our understanding of what we had always been changed. The lie became truth, the remedy became the poison, the outside became the inside. Which is to say that the truth became lie, the pharmakon was always the remedy and the poison, and the inside retreated further inside. It all came full circle. Because here’s the secret, Jane. Language ruined the meme, yes. But language itself had already been ruined. By that initial poisonous, lying copy. Writing.     The First Meme.     Language didn’t attack the meme in 2007 out of spite. It attacked it to get revenge.     Longcat is long. Language is language. Pharmakon is pharmakon. The phoneme topples the grapheme, witches ride through the night, our skulls hide secret messages on their surfaces, Smash Mouth is good after all. Hey now, you’re an all-star. Get your game on.     Go play.

[mysterytickingegos]

Leap of Faith

Pairing: Actor!Mark x Reader

Genre: Action, Humor

Trigger Warning: Heights, Deep Water

Word Count: 1,013

Summary: After yet another heist gone wrong, you have to choose between trusting Mark’s gut instinct, or visiting your friends at happy trails again.

Request from @heehoooo​: Hope you don’t mind my Actor lovin ass poppin in here again but romance & she/her pronouns with the prompt 56 👀 I love your writing sm 🥺

Authors Note: Sorry for the long wait! I’m a little bit rusty, but I hope you like it. Thank you for sticking around <3

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[Image Description: A gif of the actor from A Heist with Markiplier, standing outside of the museum in a beige suit, smiling and talking with his hands but seemingly frustrated as he speaks to the viewer. Captioned “I’m going back to base.” End Description.]

It was a miracle you got out of the museum unscathed. You’d think you’d want to take a break after that. Unfortunately, outside of academics, the box was virtually worthless once it was opened and Mark had to jump right into plan B to keep your new operation going. This time it was something a little more foolproof than a magic box in a haunted museum.

Or at least the small-town bank should’ve been foolproof.

“Go left!” You shouted, trying to find a way to escape on google maps at 80 miles an hour with no real destination in mind. “Mark, I said go left!”

“It’s too late now!”

“Turn around!”

He scoffed at you, keeping his foot firmly on the gas. “You hear those sirens too, right? I can’t. find another way.”

“It’s a dead end, there is no other way!” You snapped back, just before he was forced to hit the brakes where the guardrail turned in on itself. The sirens proceeded to get louder and louder along with your heart as it practically pumped out of your chest.

Mark was the first to get out of the car, running over to the railing and peering over. You’d barely gotten a leg out of the car yourself when he ran back and threw open the trunk to get the bag out of the back. “Let’s go, there’s still a way.”

Once you got the chance to peer over yourself, you shook your head. “Absolutely not, no way.”

"We'll be fine," He started, stepping over the rail onto the small bit of the cliff left looking over the water. "People do this all the time."

"Yeah, in the daylight, when they know how deep the water is!" You ignored the hand he held out, keeping a death grip on the metal in front of you.

"Look, it's not even that far down-" He glanced over your head at the lights in the distance that made it clear the police would be here any minute, and held his hand out again, this time more insistent. "I need you to trust me on this. We can make it."

For just a second there was a small voice in the back of your mind, not belonging to you but the ghost at the museum, but you quickly shook it away. Grabbing Mark's hand, you stepped over the rail yourself. "I swear if this kills me-"

"Oh, don't be dramatic." He said, adjusting the bag on his back. Before you could argue about the hypocrisy, he began to count down. “Three,”

The police would be driving down this street any second.

“Two″

You held onto his hand a little tighter.

“One.”

Taking in one last deep breath, you both jumped off the cliff hand in hand, plunging into the water.

The impact wasn’t pleasant, with ice cold water almost knocking the wind out of you and one of your arms smacking the water way too hard. You lost your grip on Mark’s hand and your clothes were weighing you down as you desperately tried to swim up. After what felt like a lifetime, you felt him grab onto your arm and pull you up. You gasped for air the moment you breached the surface, clinging onto him. “This ‘s so c-cold.”

“Shh.” Mark pointed up to the cliff, which was now glowing bright red and blue, then to the shore just yards away. “We have to swim under to get there, can you do it?”

You nodded, trying to collect yourself and still your shivering body just to make a point. Taking one more breath, you dipped back down into the darkness before the cops could shine their flashlights over you, staying still just long enough to let the light pass over you before you pushed forward. The circumstances made it feel more like moving through sludge than water, but your adrenaline kept you going until your hands dug into sand and you were able to wade onto the beach. Cringing once you were on land, you wiped the sand off on your pants. “Ugh, I’m not cut out for this.”

Mark on the other hand, was beaming. “I told you we could make it.”

“We haven’t made it yet,” You said, kicking off your shoes and tucking them under your arm. “C’mon.”

The two of you sprinted up the beach to the nearest street and kept on running until you found a ray of hope in a ‘for sale’‘ outside of a (thankfully) empty house. After getting in through a sliding door in the back, you used up the last of your energy keeping yourself from collapsing entirely, instead making it to the wall to lean back and toss your shoes away. After catching your breath, Mark was the first to speak up. “Now can I say I told you so?”

His teasing earned an exhausted sigh from you, but you couldn’t help but smile. “You’re right, I never should’ve doubted you.” You both let out tired chuckles, and you pushed yourself off the wall and found your way into his arms, staying that way in a peaceful silence...

Until you felt something on your hand that wasn’t water.

You pulled back to try to see what it was in the moonlight coming through the window. “Oh my god, did you get hurt??”

“No? I feel fine.” He took your hand and held it up to see for himself what had you panicking. “What the...Oh- Oh no, no!” He took a step back and pulled the bag from the bank off his back, tearing it open and holding a stack of twenties up to the window.

And then another....and another.

If it wasn’t bad enough that every single bill was soaked, they all had a fun new dye job ranging from pink to blood red.

You stared at the tainted bag with wide eyes, hands tangled into your hair as the painful realization hit you. Mark slowly zipped up the bag, cleared his throat and looked at you with a sheepish smile. “So um...plan C?”

[imagesbyele]

the theme I don’t know how to describe because it has too many things featured in it and it will take a year or 

aro-ace theme!

note that you are allowed to use the theme for whatever you want, change all colors, images (you want to make it a marvel thing? go for it! It’s personal and you want to use other flag colors? go pick those rainbow colors!), but my inspiration was, well, not having seen aro-ace themes before and wanting to make one. I didn’t upload background images but you have the option. Feel free to edit as you please, just don’t remove the credit or claim it’s yours!

as always in the source you’ll find the link to the post with static preview, code and instructions/extra credits.

theme is contained, responsive, super customizable. It’s free! But as always consider donating to my ko-fi as this was a lot <3  like or reblog if you use! (or just if you like it, if you want to!)

 this post will have: what you can edit from custom page, the widgets/scripts used with credits and some explanations. Asterisks * next to something will indicate that more about it will be said in the linked post. I’d apologize for the length but it’s due to how many things I added to the theme and that you should know about. 

now, what can you edit from your customization page:

-nearly every font and its color and size, so that if a font is by default bigger than others you can easily reduce the size. There is a select menu for the body font with all the fonts present in this blog, so you know what they are and can type the one you want for other eleents. I think I only left a couple to be edited from the editor, like your quotes posts if you reblog them a lot. This includes h2 as it’s what you use as ‘big font’ in your posts and h3 in case you want to personalize it and use it for something on purpose, as it has to be added to the html of the post.

-one of the new things:I used a gradient for the backgrounds of the big container, the sidebar and the posts container, but also of tumblr’s default music player (latter done initially following @octomoosey​‘s tutorial then messed with by me hence no album art).  See static preview posts. You can type the colors straight from the costomization page like this:

if you want one solid color you can just write, for example: black, black as it needs at least two. To bottom/To left/to top/to right change the direction. The only thing you need to edit from the html is if you want to go from linear-gradient (like you see in the sidebar) to radial-gradient (like in the big container which has green in the center and purple on the outside) and vice versa, if you want. 

-you can also upload background images of the sidebar, container and bigcontainer and select the optional blending with the colors, which can be none and you only see the images or something like screen or hard-color and check the results (bigcontainer as an overlay gif on Screen now)  -more typing: you can paste the symbol or the symbol code for the list items and the decorations around the post title, right now both being spades. *

-you can upload up to five background images if you enable the ‘changing background’ function otherwise only the first one counts. They will change when you refresh the page, thanks to @lmthemes​

-you can turn on and off the music box (player3 by @glenthemes​​ ), and if it’s enabled you can add two songs from the customization page (or go to the html editor and up it to four before it can get messy as it shows on hover), typing url, author, url of the album art, and song title. You already have We Are Golden by Mika as an example (takes a second to start due to the recording, watch out not to get scared if there is silence and then the first note)*

-optional searchbar in the sidebar with optional suggestions when you click on it (if you want them though you’ll need to go to the editor to type links and names, but you can turn it off and just keep the searchbar, like I said) also by glenthemes’ tutorials. 

-the separator between text posts image is also optional and if turned on, you can also turn on and off whether the image is the avatair/portrait of the person who made the post, with a link to the original if it’s a reblog, or if you want the image to be one you upload yourself, 50x50px and it should resize to fit in (also with a link, in this case to the post itself so you can open it from the top of the page). One is the toggle button ifshowtinyimage, and the other is ‘tinyimageisthesource’, if you turn that off you upload the image yourself. If you add a source to your posts, it will appear among the permalinks regardless.

more under read more!

-besides all normal colors and borders you can pick the color of the border/glow/shadow (call it as you want) of three different categories, or turn it off: the mainglow for big elements like containers and sidebar and sidebar images, the audios glow for players like spotify, regular one or soundcloud. Finally the images shadow when inside your posts. The latter is set on inherit because it means that if an image is also a link like your tiny-image it will be of the same color of your links and change on hover. That is something you can only change on the editor by searching for color:inherit and change it to what you want, if you don’t want to turn it off. 

-askbox colors have been changed with @eggdesign​‘s tricks! look for ask_form in the editor and try changing the number of filter there to see more effects. Also the askbox never shrink, a fix by @whateverhtml​ -pinned post has a little banner, styled like permalinks. 

-you can pick a color for top-info which are the date and notes. I left it empty because it automatically gets the default links color but you can pick it yourself. 

-turn on and off unnested captions looks for textposts and for all other posts (as people who use xkit to edit previous posts will get blockquotes anyway and may not like the final result) thanks to @annasthms​ code. -blockquotes are of alternating colors, by @bychloethemes​. You can obviously choose the same color if you want them to just have the one. You can also select the type of blockquote, if a solid line or dots or dashes.  -you can choose if your smaller sidebar image, sidebarimg2, is an image you’ll upload or if it’s your avatar/portrait by toggling it on and off. If you don’t want sidebar images and you don’t upload any, there are instructions on top of the html to delete the border so you only see the sidebar bg. (basically just delete their box-shadow) -speaking of which, your title will wrap around the second image like in the preview. If that doesn’t work for you you can try changing sizes and font or by going to the editor and changing the margin-top so it’s out of the sidebar image’s reach and can be a “straight line” again (in case it doesn’t fit and the long title is cut in the wrong place)

-you can turn on and off a copy link of the post button on the far left of your permalinks bar, so people can copy the permalink from dash - also by glenthemes.

-navigation links have two alternating colors, odd links right now are black, even links are white, and their hovers are the opposite of that. You can make them all of the same color, in which case you’ll need to look for .navilink a:hover and change the hover color for both. If you have custom pages and enable the link to show it will be automatically added. To change the cat icons just search for ‘cat’ and replace as pleased. To change the ask icon because maybe you don’t have them enabled look for ‘envelope’ with your ctrl + f. You can type urls and titles of navi links from the custom page, the first two are automatically home and ask, there are three more under the description. All icons from font-awesome have a black border so the white ones don’t disappear on light backgrounds, you can change that looking for .fas 

-you can select post-sizes: 400, 450, 500, 540. Whether the sidebar is next to the container or on top will depend on your post size and the screen width as at some point they may not fit. They always do fit on desktop though, and on screens that are smaller than 800px the sidebar is assumed to be on top and will have a max height of 300px (but you can scroll down). I couldn’t make the bigcontainer get bigger for giant screens as I can’t calculate the right size in which all post-sizes + sidebar will look good.

-lightboxes show images with a glow too. Speaking of which you get lightboxes as always, pxu photoset fix and video resizing fix all by @shythemes​ and with the bychloethemes fix. npf photosets fix by glenthemes. No href.li addition from tumblr when you add a link to a post by @magnusthemes​.

-soundcloud player is minimal and its play button is the same color of your permalinks icons thanks to shythemes tutorial. spotify is also minimal, instructions to change it are there. 

-tumblr controls are small and semi-transparent until you hover, also dark regardless, followed painthemes tutorial.

-chats are styled like imessages by ncrthlanes now deactivated, submit posts have at least the submitter’s url recognizable, reblogged asks also get a background for the answer as well as borders, link posts are styled as much as a link-post can be styled. 

-there are already links and similar things written to be an example in your customization page but in any case you get instructions in the editor and everything is divided in sections as much as possible. Also I’m here for any questions. 

[demi-shoggoth]

2021 Reading Log, pt. 9

41. Royal Witches by Gemma Hollman. Could use fewer royals and more witches. This is a biography of four noblewomen in English court politics in the 15th century, Joan of Navarre, Eleanor Cobham, Jacquetta of Luxembourg and her daughter, Elizabeth Woodville. All four of these women were accused of witchcraft as a political ploy by their enemies, although in the case of the last two it’s more of a footnote than a pivotal event in their lives. The goal of the book is to present a complex view of these women as people, not the saints or villains they’re often depicted as in propaganda. Although it is novel to see a woman dominated history of this period (Richard III is a side character!), and the book does a good job of using marginal data to create a full picture of these nobles as people, it falls short of what I was expecting. Based on the title, and the introduction, I was expecting a history of the perception of witchcraft in England in the late medieval period, before the Burning Times and the Malleus Maleficarum, using these nobles as focal points for attitudes and claims. I suspect the title was a marketing ploy, and it’s one that ended up disappointing me.

42. Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady’s Guide to Sex, Marriage and Manners by Therese Oneill. This is the first of the author’s cheeky surveys of bad Victorian advice, but I read them out of order (I found her book about Victorian childcare, Ungovernable, first). The book takes the format of a time traveler’s pointers to a 21st century woman who has been transported back, about how the fantasy of Victorian life portrayed in media was decidedly sexist, smelly and dangerous. The overall vibe is an etiquette guide written by a malicious genie. That’s fun, but the book really comes into its own as it brings in more of the Victorian era’s own words, as excerpts from mansplaining, moralizing or just plain bizarre books are brought out. They book is filled with many illustrations and photos from vintage sources, captioned in riffing fashion. It’s both very informative and very funny, which is a hard balance to capture sometimes.

43. The Chemistry of Alchemy by Cathy Cobb, Monty L. Fetterolf and Harold D. Goldwhite. I was expecting this book to be a history of how alchemy transmuted itself (hah) into chemistry over the centuries. I was not expecting this book to be filled with alchemical recipes and demonstrations. The authors are working chemists, and the book is filled with demos for how to make brass, perform redox reactions with metals, dissolve and purify salts, and other tricks of the alchemical trade. The demos focus mostly on the quest for gold and the philosopher’s stone, but some discussion of alchemical medicines and a little of alchemical philosophy comes through. These demos require a lot of high heat and commercially available acids—this isn’t kitchen chemistry, and I don’t know how many people reading the book are liable to try them. I know I’m not.

44. Lost Animals by John Whitfield.  Note that this is not the Errol Fuller book of the same name, which I highly recommend. This is a children’s book. It is not being sold as such, but the writing style is clearly at middle-grade level. It is a survey, seemingly at random, of extinct animals, with some discussion of endangered and rediscovered animals in the last 30 pages or so. The one word I would use to describe the book is “lazy”—the images are chosen from whatever was easy for them to get. This means there’s a handful of good paleoart, a lot of photographs of specimens in the Smithsonian collection (as this is a Smithsonian Books imprint) and a lot of terrible 3D models they could publish cheaply. Maybe the availability of images is responsible for what taxa were included. It’s not all bad—it’s nice to see a pop paleontology book that remembers that insects exist—but it’s not very good. I’m glad I was able to get a copy from the library; I would be very disappointed if I spent money on this.

45. The Hanging Tree by V.A.C. Gatrell. Yet again, the last book of a set is an enormous history, but this one read much faster than recent books on magic or the Bible. Gatrell’s topic is the “bloody laws” of the Hanoverian age, wherein in England there were dozens of hanging offenses, and hundreds of hangings, every year. The system failed, the book argued, because of the increasingly apparent absurdity and arbitrariness in which the codes were enforced—who was hanged, who was transported and who was pardoned was largely up to the whims of judges and the King’s council. The book is quietly radical in its insistence that state violence to enforce power is not a thing of the past, and that the modern (ish—the book is from 1994) prison system is as much an institution of violence as the old hanging codes. This is a must-read for people who are interested in British history, the history of crime and punishment and in how governments function. It is not a book for the squeamish or easily triggered—descriptions of crimes and punishments alike are in great detail.