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Complete List of File Types Indexable by Google

Discover all File Types Indexable by Google, including PDFs, DOCX, images, videos, and code files. Learn how to optimize non-HTML formats for search visibility and use the filetype: operator effectively. File Types Indexable by Google: A Comprehensive Guide for Webmasters and SEOs When it comes to search engine optimization (SEO), content is king—but so is the format that content comes in.…

[wings-of-ink]

Ask Guidelines

For the sake of streamlining my inbox, please follow the guidelines below when submitting Asks. I appreciate all your questions, but I simply find that I lack enough free time to spend with them. Some weeks are busier than others for my inbox, but I personally feel it's a bit unfair to those of you who may be waiting a long time for a response. Plus, I do need some "me" time now and again, no matter how much I love sailing around on here.

*UPDATED 12/22/24

Reaction/Response-style Asks must remain paired down. These are lots of fun for all of us, but they take up a majority of the time I spend on the inbox. When you submit a request like this, please only specify up to 2 characters (ROs, side characters, etc…) you want to know the answer for (I will throw in some or all of the other characters if I have time and/or can answer quickly). If you do not specify, I will pick for you based on how quickly I can answer.

Please do not submit multiple Asks with the same question for the other characters. This will just eat up my time, and I do not want to delete them, but I will have to.

If your question has been asked before, I will try to find a link to it for you (most of these I have tracked in a document so it doesn't take long). I haven't yet put together an FAQ since I really don't get a ton of repeats for the same questions. One day, I may make a searchable document with them.

*NEW* "Spoiler" Asks. I am trying my hardest to limit spoilers for readers. Some things are going to spill with the nature of a work like this, but I want to keep that to a minimum. This is for the benefit of old readers who still want to experience things in-story and for the new who may have recently started following.

It is still okay to send these questions in – and theories too! I love seeing where your head is at on events and where you think it may be going. I just may not be able to answer certain things and in some cases, I may not be able to post a response. It just really depends on the content.

I will make determinations on these on a question-by-question basis. Sometimes the question itself contains a spoiler (even if it's just a name) that might affect a new reader's experience.

I will make tags to warn when I answer things that may have info others don't want to see.

Comments are still very much welcomed. If you by chance do not want a response posted, please simply let me know if that is what you prefer. I generally like to post at least a little response to these for you, but if that makes you uncomfortable, please let me know in the Ask.

Music suggestions are welcome (for instance if a song makes you think of a particular character).

Art suggestions are welcome (if an art piece makes you think of a character and such).

Story theories are welcome too!

Error Reports are still welcome with some guidelines.

Game-breaking errors of course are super appreciated so I can address these ASAP.

Coding mishaps (you can see code in the text or something is clearly not coded correctly) can go either to the Asks or to the Google Form, but the Google Form is preferred due to frequent repeats to the Inbox. Reports on Tumblr are tagged as "gc whoopsies" so you can check if the issue you found has already been addressed here.

Typos and grammar issues – please send these in using the Google form linked in the game and on the pinned post. It's been handy getting these in my inbox since I can fix them right away in my main Twine file, but there are a lot of errors in GC, and they're going to fill my inbox and I have no control over repeats.

Asks that are long/wordy are still okay, as long as they meet the other Ask criteria. I don't mind reading a lot since I can still do that fairly fast (and I totally understand the need for context or if you have several comments to make). I can be wordy myself, so I get it, sometimes you just want those details in there. You may not get a super long response in return, but I read every word.

Try to space out your Asks in general. I will leave this to your discretion and trust that you to not submit several in a short window of time.

NSFW Asks are totally okay with me. There is not much outside of my comfort zone. If something is too far, in my opinion, for a public response - I will simply delete it and pop a courtesy post out to try and signal to you that it is one I cannot answer.

I was hoping to avoid placing any rules on my inbox, but I never anticipated this many followers or that anyone would have quite so many questions or comments about my work. This is to ensure that I keep myself controlled more so than any of you. I have so much fun chatting with you and answering questions, that the IF writing and planning ends up delayed. Since that's why we're here, I need most of my free time to go to the IF(s) and any extras.

I will make updates to this post as needed. There will be a link to at the very end of the Pinned Post too. If the inbox gets a bit crazy or is too much to juggle during crunch times, I will continue to pause it during those so I can catch up.

Take care, everyone! ^_^

~Lunan

[hairtusk]

It seems like you make a lot of notes when reading. Can you please share what do you usually make notes of?

sure!

this is going to sound incredibly obvious, but i take notes of anything that interests me. when tabbing my fiction, i like to make notes of broad themes that appear in the novels so that i an organise my annotations more easily. for example:

(these look like incredibly basic and broad themes, but that's sort of the point with tabbing).

within these themes, and then more generally in non-fiction, i annotate anything that could be useful to me. exceptionally interesting passages, anecdotes, new words, ideas that i find notable. literally anything that could be useful. some random pages of recent reads, to show the annotations:

and then, slowly but surely, i transcribe the best and most important of these notes into searchable google documents:

why do i do this? initially i started taking notes this intensely for university where i studied english literature, to allow the ultimate ease in writing essays. now, i gather all i can for the days when i have enough time to write essays again, under my own steam - plus, there's nothing in the world as precious as a collection of annotations you yourself have made.

[aenariasbookshelf]

Fic: The Intern (MCU/911 ccrossover)

Finally posting this here because I have apparently lost my goddamn mind and it's all @typhoidmeri's fault.

(Also I have had an absolutely terrible last few months and could use some validation, pretty please.)

Title: The Intern

Summary: “Okay, wait, why the hell is your name popping up in a SHIELD file, of all places?”

All right, so maybe there are still one or two secrets in Buck’s closet. But in his defense, they’re all Darcy Lewis’s fault anyway, so the blame lies solely in her hands.

a/n: I plead temporary insanity, that’s the only explanation for this piece, which is probably only of interest to me and like three other friends. But, given the last few months I’ve had, I figured it was worth it to exorcise some demons and get this piece out before I chicken out.

Timeline wise (which, dear god, trying to figure out timelines for this show gives me a migraine), this takes place very early in S1. Like first couple of episodes early. As for the MCU, we’re going with a kinder, they all lived in the tower sort of a universe, no Civil War, no Thanos, etc. Because that’s how I roll.

More notes after the piece to avoid spoilers.

*

“Okay, wait, why the hell is your name popping up in a SHIELD file, of all places?”

Buck looks over Hen’s shoulder at the tablet in front of her, a page of search results front and center on the screen. Halfway down the page, past a few youtube entries of his spiderman interview, is a link to a searchable database full of files from the massive 2014 document leak that emerged when SHIELD had collapsed in on itself.

Ah, shit.

“Why the hell are you googling me?” is all he asks instead, because this is a story that he really doesn’t want to get into.

Actually, he may not even be able to get into it, considering the approximate 5 billion NDAs he   had to sign before he closed the book on that so-called vacation. None of which were his fault, thank you. He was just an…innocent bystander. Ish. He really just followed his cousin straight into the midst of trouble. So really, it was all her fault.

“Because that’s what we do with the new people around here, probie,” Chimney adds. “So what exactly were you doing in the UK in 2013?”

Buck just gives them a wink instead, because that’s what they’d expect from him. “Well, I’d tell ya, but then I’ll have to kill you.”

I mean, it’s not like people haven’t heard about aliens by now, especially in light of what happened in New York in 2012. Which was another incident that was also his cousin’s fault, though it doesn’t look like Hen and Chimney have found that link yet. So that’s one small mercy, at least.

“Just like a bargain basement James Bond.”

He’s ready to fire back another retort at Hen, but then the alarm bell goes off and it’s time to go to work, all talk about mysterious files forgotten.

(Though, to be fair, before Buck skips down the stairs he makes sure to wipe the history and cookies from Hen’s tablet. Just in case.)

*

It’s well after ten by the time Buck gets back to the frat house, which is still buzzing because his taste in roommates isn’t exactly the greatest (look, he knew at least one of them before he got there from Peru, and the room was cheap enough that it totally didn’t obliterate the meager salary he got as a probationary firefighter) and, well, it was a Thursday. Any excuse for a party, really. He doesn’t bother to hang around, just gives them a wave and heads up to his room.

He tosses his duffel into the corner, and is sure to lock the door behind him, because no one needs to witness the call he’s about to make.

With an exhausted sigh he flops down on the bed, but he can’t sleep. Not yet. Not if he’s going to speak to his cousin and annoy the hell out of her in the process. He pulls up Darcy’s entry in his phone, flips over to the text message thread.

>> hey u up?

Is what he texts, solely because he knows it’s going to annoy the hell out of her.

About ten seconds later his screen lights up with an incoming FaceTime call, followed quickly by Darcy’s familiar face. Brown hair tossed up into a messy bun, glasses, pursed lips, and definite dark circles under her eyes from some inevitable late nights.  He can’t see much of the room behind her, but there’s plenty of glass and steel and sterile white walls, which doesn’t exactly scream astrophysics to Buck, but then again what does he know?

“Hey, fireboy!” she says, far too chipper for the late hour.

“Really? That’s the best you can do?”

“It’s after one in the morning here, cut me some slack. Science and Jane Foster don’t sleep, therefore neither do I.” To emphasize the point, she picks up an iced coffee and slurps loudly on the straw, echoing loud and clear over the call. “So what’s up, cuz? Why are you calling at this stupidly late hour?”

“Did you know that my name is apparently showing up in SHIELD files online?”

“What??”

Buck nods. “Yep. My co-workers were having fun during some downtime today and decided to google everyone’s names. And there in a database of all the files from the 2014 data leak from the Triskelion is a file that mentions me, the UK, and 2013.”

“Goddamnit,” Darcy mutters, wincing and running a hand over her forehead. “What, you mean you’re not showing up as L.A.’s finest Spiderman knockoff anymore?”

“Oh, don’t start. Also, it’s after those entries.”

There’s the telltale clicking of a keyboard coming from Darcy’s side, then a few seconds later Buck sees her grimace again, looking none too pleased. “Yeah, that is definitely your name showing up in the leaked database. Well, shit.”

“Yeah, understatement. Is there anything you can do about this? I don’t exactly want my new coworkers to…know any of this.”

“I mean, the internet is forever, so I don’t know if there’s any putting this back in the bottle, so to speak.” Buck just groans at that, falling back on the pillows and falling out of the frame of the call. He pulls a pillow over his face, because this is just what he wants to hear. Really. So much. “You mean you don’t want everyone you work with to know that you helped defeat an invasion of alien elves from before the dawn of time in London one year?”

“It’s not exactly something easy to explain,” he shoots back, still offscreen and muffled by his new face covering.

“But it’s still a hell of a story.”

“A story that not a lot of people will believe, even now.” Because even though it feels like the world’s gone mad, more than once, these days, what with aliens and superheroes and killer robots, sometimes it’s still hard to believe the stories when they happen to someone they know up close and personal.

(Happens twice, really, but the first time he legitimately was just a bystander. Not the only one, not by far, but just an observer rather than a participant. Unlike the second time. That one they were well into the thick of it, hence the interviews, NDAs, and eventual SHIELD file.)

Buck sighs again, pulling the pillow off his head and sitting up so he can look Darcy straight on through the phone screen. “Are you sure - are you absolutely sure that even with all of your alleged connections that there’s nothing you can do?”

Darcy glances off camera again, followed by a few more keyboard clicks, and she chews at her lips. “I may be able to tweak the optimization so it gets those entries buried a few pages further back, get the L.A. Spiderman entries further up the list to take priority, but there’s not much else I can do.” She sighs heavily, pursing her lips and blowing air through them. “I might - and this is no guarantee at all - be able to ask someone else to help.” This statement is followed by another grimace from Darcy, and a muttered “I am going to owe Nat so much for this.”

“I will owe you so much for this,” Buck insists. “Even more than the fake ID debacle of 2007.”

Darcy smirks and jabs a thumb at herself. “Bucks County’s finest teenage fake ID forger, that’s me.”

Before any more words can be said, there’s what sounds like a small explosion offscreen on Darcy’s side, followed quickly by an “Oh, shit!” and scrabbling feet.

“Everything okay?” Buck asks.

Darcy flips the camera to the other side, revealing a slender brunette woman whacking at a smoking piece of technology with what appears to be a damp towel. “Lab’s on fire. Again. It happens a lot with our homemade equipment.” She flips the camera back to her face, rolling her eyes at the sight in front of her. A loud, strident alarm sound erupts from somewhere on her side, accompanied by rapidly flashing strobe lights in the reflection of Darcy’s glasses. “And there’s an Assemble call. Just fucking ducky. Gotta go, fireboy, we’ll talk soon!”

With that the call ends, the screen going black and silence descending on the bedroom. Buck flops back again, dropping the phone on his chest with a sigh. “That was not helpful.”

(And what the hell did she mean by an Assemble call anyway? Whatever, half the things Darcy says don’t make sense anyway, and he pushes the thought aside.)

Still, the matter of Evan Buckley’s SHIELD file never comes up again at work, so Buck figures that the matter’s over and done with.

Until it isn’t, of course, but that’s a story for another day.

*

a/n part two: So while it may not be entirely obvious here, but this universe has spun out in my head over the last few weeks and has become its own, canon divergent mash-up crossover of an alternate universe beast. This is just a little part of it, to test the waters and see the story come to life a little. A kinder, gentler universe where some characters get treated a little better than in canon (because this is fanfic and I can do what I want). Though there may be one or two hints in here about this alternate universe…

And yes, just picture Thor: The Dark World with a younger Buck in there playing the role of Darcy’s intern, with a lot more personality and a bit more sass. The movie would play out exactly the same way pretty much (except for the kissing bits because ewwww no. They are family, people.)

No constructive criticism please, gentle readers. I’m just here to have fun. Thanks for reading!

[okayto]

A collection of resources for book repair

Various resources I've seen shared among library/archives workers. This is not my area of practice so I do not have personal experience.

Indiana University Libraries: Book Repair Manual, including both "repair treatments" and "enclosure treatments" along with a list of tools and a glossary.

Dartmouth Library: Preservation Services' A Simple Book Repair Manual.

Syracuse University Library's Department of Preservation and Conservation: @SULPreservation Youtube channel how-to videos.

Demco playlists (@DEMCOinc on Youtube) including many for different types of repairs; Demco also sells materials, and has many of their videos listed on their repair supplies section of their website.

KAPCO's Youtube videos (@Kapcokent3420) for repairs; KAPCO also sells materials.

Book Repair Basics for Libraries, PDF from presentation by Peter D. Verheyen and Marianne Hanley of Syracuse University. Includes some links to recommended websites and videos. (Some links are broken and require googling to find their current URL.)

Syracuse University Libraries' Preservation Department LibGuide, including terms, tools, and many, many links to other guides, videos and websites.

Northeast Document Conservation Center's Preservation Leaflet series of searchable preservation topics.

Randy Silverman/The American Institute for Conservation: Small, Not Insignificant: a Specification for a Conservation Pamphlet Binding Structure

DAS Bookbinding on Youtube: Single Section Conservation Pamphlet, using techniques described in Randy Silverman's article.

Alaska State Library's Conservation Book Repair: A Training Manual by Artemis BonaDona, which on page 134 includes a list of things to consider that can help you decide whether to repair and what to repair.

[priea01]

Remember when I asked if people would be interested in a searchable database of Maya/Carina fics? Well, I made it. It's currently a work in progress, but to build it up faster, I created a Google Form, linked in this document, where people can submit fics on their own to get them added faster. Submit your own fics. Submit your favorites. Anything goes, as long as it's Maya/Carina. If you don't see a trope you think should be there, please let me know at the bottom if you're submitting a fic or by dropping me an email or an ask.

[sourdoughservitor]

Yule: The Winter Solstice

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Merry meet and welcome to the first pagan holiday of the Wheel of the Year, and the first installment of my Year of the Wheel series! I will practice witchcraft every day this year, and this blog will serve to document my works as well as share them for others' benefit.

Yule

Yule falls on December 21, 2023, where I live. It is the Winter Solstice here in the Northern Hemisphere; it marks the shortest day of the year, the day with the most darkness, but of course this also means the following days begin to get longer. Thus, Yule is celebrated as the beginning and end of the Wheel of the Year: it is the signpost by which we track our years.

Yule is an excellent time to celebrate the past and the future. Practitioners will often use this day to focus on cleansing; to re-affirm bonds, vows, pacts, and wards; to set goals, affirmations, and aspirations; as well as to reflect on the past year and what they've learned and experienced, and how they've grown.

During this time, I like to cleanse the negativity of the past year, embrace the positivity, and prepare for the upcoming one.

Yule Witchcraft

I will be doing a variety of works to celebrate Yule. Unfortunately I have nobody to share Yule with in my personal life, so there will be no feast in my home. Instead, I am conducting the following workings to prepare myself for the year ahead:

A Year Ahead spread. The simplest very first thing I like to do to celebrate Yule and the coming year is a Year Ahead spread. As simple as it sounds, you draw one card (tarot, oracle, your choice--I draw tarot) for each month. The image below shows last year's spread, with January at the top and the other months following deosil (clockwise). This year, I'm following full moons instead--I'll make a post hopefully soon into the new year about those too!

Creating my grimoire. This one is a little extra, I'll admit. But I just wasn't satisfied with any of the notebooks or journals I could buy, at least not for under $40. So I decided to learn bookbinding and make one. I already have many notes in a digital grimoire for redundancy, portability, and searchability, but I find paper infinitely superior when doing spellwork or rituals. I'll gradually fill it out as I go, and maybe post the finished book / some spreads later.

Creating a tulpa and enchanting a ring. I'll probably (read: definitely. I mean look at my URL) do a post on thought forms in the future but for now Google it if you're unfamiliar. I learned something about myself in therapy recently--about a part of myself that manifests as self-hatred, but truly comes from a place of compassion. I will bind it to a ring I wear daily in order to work with it to serve me instead of hinder me.

Observe the 12 Days of Omen. Just a good tradition to observe following Yule. See tomorrow's post for details!

Cleansing my altar, my space, and myself, as well as re-confirming my wards.

Journalling. About the past year, the next, about my craft and myself. As part of this I may do some trancework and meditation, depending on my mood and time; I would also like to test out the oneiromancy oil and tincture I made (post forthcoming?? oof so many I have planned!).

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to leave a note. My asks are always open, too. Blessed be 🐻💚

see my Year of the Wheel masterpost for more!

[earlgreytea68]

Just some examples of how suboptimal the Kindle self-publishing set-up is:

(1) My author bio got rejected with the error "You have used a prohibited word." I kept reading it over, like, "What word could possibly be triggering this????" Before taking out the link to my Tumblr page. That was the trick, I guess you can't have links in your author bio. But...it feels like Amazon could...tell you that......?????

(2) Likewise, Amazon kept rejecting my manuscript for completely unspecified reasons. Over and over, just rejecting it, without telling me why. I kept following the directions and following the directions, tweaking tiny little things like, "Is this the problem? Is THIS the problem??" Finally I was like, "Is it because it's not a PDF????" It DOES say a PDF gives you the best results but I was on a computer where print-to-PDF wasn't working (don't even ask...) so I thought I'd try with the .doc, which it also claims to accept. When I got to a computer where I could PDF, yes, it accepted the same exact manuscript with zero issues. So......it seems like Amazon doesn't actually accept .docx documents and it shouldn't claims that it does?????

(3) Even though I used the exact Amazon template, downloaded from Amazon, that it told me to use for the paperback manuscript, it still told me that it had uploaded with sizing errors, but don't worry, it would fix it for me. I feel like their exact template should not have sizing errors, but I apparently have high standards.

(4) My book still doesn't show up when you search Amazon. In fact, if you search my title plus author name, you get zero results. I Googled this issue to see if it IS an issue or maybe searching just takes a while to kick in. The suggestions were: (a) Just give people a direct link. Okay, but....maybe people might want to search your book, too...???? A feature Amazon claims to have.....??? (b) Sometimes Amazon assumes people don't actually want to find your book, even when they are searching deliberately for it, because Amazon decides your book isn't good enough for people to actually want to read, and so it just doesn't return it in search results and instead returns other books it thinks people should want to read more. ?????? (c) Put the title of your book in a keyword search box, which I'm going to try, but seems a little silly, but okay. (d) Don't even bother to title your books with a title, just title them with a summary of what's in them, you're not special enough to have a title. (e) Contact Amazon directly to ask them to make your title and author name searchable, sometimes Amazon automatically spellchecks your title and author name and/or otherwise doesn't enter the information correctly and you need to contact them directly to fix the problem.

This is a small selection. When I tell you it took me several days of multi-hour sessions to get the technology to work even a little bit, I'm not lying.

[writingphoenix]

I made a Google sheet to add names for when you are looking for a name ideas. I had a version of this in a now-lost notebook when I was in high school and I found myself wanting it again. The benefit is that this can be searchable.

I made it so anyone can add new names so please add names that you like/are common for your culture! I'm only one person and have limited experience in the world but I would love to have more cultures represented here.

Please let me know if you have any trouble with this link/document.

[my-deer-friend]

Good luck on your source-finding journey friend! I am so interested in the process of tracking down sources and documents, but I've never done it before. Can you explain your process or do you have any tips?

Hi anon! Thanks for the ask. This is not a research guide, just some pointers I've found useful (as someone trained in other forms of academic research who learned how to work with archives).

First things first – forget google. Google scholar is decent for tracking down secondary academic sources (though hardly comprehensive), but with a few notable exceptions, archive databases that hold primary source materials are not indexed on normal search engines. Instead, you need to spend some time finding the repositories where your sought-after documents are likely to be, and then running your searches inside those.

The one thing google is useful for is to see if someone has already gone to the trouble of formally publishing the documents you're looking for. You'll want to search for things like "papers of...", "correspondence of...", or "writings of...". If you get a result, see if you can find that book on google books, archive.org, or at your local library (definitely don't check on libgen, because downloading a free book would be bad and awful and terrible of you 🤫).

These collected editions are not always reliable (especially older ones, since there was a lot of gratuitous editing going on). So, to be rigorous, you still want to see if you can find the actual, original source.

The easiest starting point for tracking those down is to find a secondary source that has already done most of the work for you. A reliable book or academic article will cite its primary sources, which should include which archive or collection the author found the document in.

If you are immeasurably lucky, you will find that respoitory online, and it will have a fully-digitised collection their holdings, and a reliable, searchable index based on keywords and transcripts. In that case, just type in your search term and enjoy.

(Note: the search functionality on these sites is often very wonky. Always try several versions of your search term, and play around with the filters and boolean operators.)

But those sites are rare. If you're less (but still a little bit) lucky, you'll find an academic institution or research archive that has at least published a document called a finding aid. There should be one for each grouping of documents in their holdings (for example for one historical figure's papers, or for a specific bequest) which gives a summary of the contents and is used for on-site tracking of the physical items (these will have call or accession numbers, location of the documents, etc.). Finding aids vary immensely in quality and level of detail ("miscellaneous other papers" my behated).

If you do indeed find a record for something you want to look at (and it hasn't been digitised), you need to figure out the process for requesting the document. This varies hugely depending on the institution (with differing lead times, querying methods, fees, limitations, and ensuing publication/reproduction rights) and is virtually always explained somewhere on their website. Mostly, they'll ask you to complete a form, or to send an email following a template. Don't expect a quick reply, and don't expect digital copies to be free.

Of course, this all presumes that the instituton that holds your materials 1) has a website and 2) has actually put useful things on it. Sometimes, you just need to enquire. I followed up on a footnote I saw in a hundred-year-old book that gave the location of some letters, found the local town library that was mentioned and emailed them about it. (Yes, they had them, and the librarian I corresponded with was simply delightful and very eager to help.)

Be courteous and clear when you email these folks. They will almost always want to know your name, your contact details, a clear description of what you are looking for (the more detail the better), a summary of your research project, and whether you intend to publish the documents you are requesting – so save a few back-and-forth emails by providing that information upfront. They are very happy to answer requests from independent or hobby researchers, so don't let that hold you back.

The least helpful of all, in my experience, are holders of private collections. They simply don't have any incentive to take time out of their day to help you, and usually aren't trained librarians or archivists so they don't know what they have, or where it is, or how to give you access. (I tear up sometimes when I think of all the documents that are lying in some manor house attic, because someone forgot they were there or thought no one would be interested.) Sometimes they will respond (eventually) to an email query; often it's just a black hole.

I hope that helps! In all frankness, much of this is dull, repetitive work that all-too-frequently leads to dead ends (but it's so good when you succeed). Persistence and patience are key.

[rainedragon]

kind of a weird question maybe (hopefully not too weird). I bought my first lolita pieces in 2020 and now I mostly wear it casually to sit in my basement as I work from home. I'm not on any social media other than tumblr, I don't have a local comm, and don't really take outfit photos since I mostly enjoy just wearing the clothes and going about my day. However, I'm getting to the point where I'd like to both A) document my expanding wardrobe a bit better and B) share my love of frills a little bit more openly. But I've been scratching my head about how to make a wardrobe post that works with tumblr's post format when I'm used to basically only seeing wardrobe vids from lolita youtubers. Do you maybe have some advice or examples of formatting for wardrobe posts that work well with tumblr's particular post style? Thanks a bunch

Traditionally, wardrobe posts were made on Live Journal in January due to a monthly post theme event the EGL mods started. Some people started making video posts later on because they were more active on Youtube than blogging platforms.

While I haven't tried to do a wardrobe post on Tumblr (I have a long form blog at rainedragon.com where I post anything longer), I have seen people do wardrobe posts on Tumblr. Typically they will either do one post per piece spread out over a month or so with closeups and such in each post. OR they will group things (book prints, red pieces, everything from a specific brand), and make a post that shows those pieces that meet that specific criteria. That said, one trick we used in the LJ days when we got too close to the post limits was to save multiple dresses as a single image like this...

It looks like 5 pictures, but it's really 1 with white bars in the photo. And you can list out what things are with little numbers, or use a key with numbers in the actual photos...

Angelic Pretty Candy Pop JSL

Angelic Pretty Dot Pony Applique JSK

Angelic Pretty Dot Pony Applique Skirt

Angelic Pretty Polka Dot Pleated Sailor JSK

Angelic Pretty Dream Magic JSK

You can also photoshop photos and text together into a single image to save space, but the text won't be searchable / accessible to people who use screen reader technology.

I personally document my wardrobe in lolibrary's wardrobe feature, though in the past I've used a spreadsheet and a google photo album.

If you wanted to document just your wardrobe on tumblr long term, you might consider doing a side blog for it, and putting one item per post and then sharing it to your main blog or linking to it.

[g0nta-g0kuhara]

hi, i was wondering if you had any thoughts about the majority used danganronpa wiki on Fandom and if there's any quality of life improvements or features you would enjoy if they were added, along with any other opinions you have on this extremely niche topic

Ohhhh you've come to the right place, anon, I have some *thoughts* on the fandom wiki

I frequently use the wiki for looking at trivia, finding character sprites for art references, finding CGs, checking details, and for game tips for making my way through trials and ftes. So basically, I'm there A Lot. There's some things I like and other things that frustrate me.

I like the layout for the walkthrough of the trials. I enjoy the use of character head sprites in the FTE walkthroughs. I appreciate that execution video thumbnails contain a spoiler warning. I think the sprite/cg/art pages are fairly easy to find and navigate.

However FANDOM as a wiki website in general is just not the best. On mobile the page is just swarmed with ads that take up more than half of my screen. Not to mention, aren't there certain character pages that are locked from being edited? This is a big deal because I know Kokichi's page has blatantly false information about DICE that cannot be changed, and it frustrates me because it makes me doubt the veracity of the rest of the info on the wiki. Also, the lack of citations has a similar effect.

I also dislike the sheer length of the biography section on the wiki page. It's basically a summary of the entire game's plot on EVERY PAGE. It takes forever to scroll past, and I just don't understand why its so long. Not to mention, there's a reoccurring issue that google will pull spoilers from the wiki as the opening description:

This is not what it looks like right now- this screenshot is a bit old- but the fact that this happened at all is BAD. And Kaito's page currently appears similar to me on google search. Not sure how much this is a google problem vs a wiki problem, but I thought it was worth bringing up.

Another minor nitpick I have is the order of the sprites in the sprite gallery. Having them appear by order of appearance in game is a bit of a nuts thing to request, but having the obviously late game spoilerly sprites at the end feels like it would be a better idea??? Like, these are Maki's first 6 sprites, why are her crying ones up here???

Another thing that I would find extremely useful, though I don't know how realistic or even legal it would be, would be a complete searchable transcript of the games. Currently theres a quotes section on each of the character's wiki pages (which makes me wonder, who picked those?) but recently I needed to find a quote said by Celeste about Taka, and I knew what it was and who said it and in what chapter, but not WHEN. Being able to command+F search for in a document rather than scrubbing through a commentary free playthrough would be so nice, And it would make citing the wiki easier! I do understand that this is a pretty stupidly hard and tedious task though, so this last thing might just be a dream

If anyone else has any thoughts on the wiki Id love to hear it in the replies!!

[wyldblunt]

no one else google docs????? im alone in the google docs????? that's surprising i thought it would be more of a thing... fwiw i love it my wife and i call our pile of shared roleplay google docs our library of alexandria. if i feel like backreading a bunch of content abt one of our ships i can just search a character's name and pull up every single document they've ever been in and reread at my leisure. it slaps

(i guess discord is searchable too but not so much in a way where everything is divided out into distinct "episodes" like a doc? but on the other hand, if u use a specific email for a lot of other google drive stuff it would probably be a huge pain in the ass to have it cluttered up w rp docs)

[cringepoop]

Todoist vs. TickTick (Free Tier Review)

recently, i decided that i could benefit from using a todo list in my life. after looking through a ton of different options, i ended up with only 2 left, todoist and ticktick. so because why not, i will compare them, and see what one is better. note that this is a desktop focused review, so i won't be trying out the mobile or watch apps. also, because this is a free tier review, of course im not trying the paid plans!

terms

some terms to know now so you won't be confused later, if you're new to to-do list apps

project - basically a folder

section - a subfolder, but on the same page as a section

label - this is really stupid sounding, but imagine tumblr tags, but for your to-do list

interface

left: ticktick, right: todoist

i like how ticktick puts more emphasis on project colors and being compact, however, i think todoist is much more clean and easy to read. it is also much less overwhelming, especially with their recent redesign.

both platforms also have a kanban/trello view, with tasks organized by section

left: ticktick, right: todoist

ticktick shows subtasks while in this view, while todoist only shows a count. i like to keep a lot of subtasks, so i prefer this, however, not everyone will like that.

organization

both platforms have:

projects

sections

tags

priority levels

subtasks

but ticktick has its own special feature: "won't do"

this feature checks off a task, without reaping any of the benefits of checking off a task. instead, it moves it to a dedicated "won't do" page and puts a X instead of a check when viewing completed tasks. this lets you potentially reschedule tasks and whatever.

task creation

todoist is instantly much better at task creation. you can do almost any task action directly from the task creation screen. here's an example:

say i type in

Eat Leftover Pink Sauce from the Grocery Store 5:40p every weekday p2 #Inbox /Cuz @store

this would create a task called "Eat Leftover Pink Sauce from the Grocery Store" that would be due every weekday at 5:40p, have a priority level of 2, be added to the "Cuz" section of the "Inbox", and be placed under the "store" label

ticktick only seems to support date recognition using this method, everything else has to be added manually after the task is created

adding subtasks on todoist feels much more responsive. ticktick just feels janky for some reason. subtasks are also confusing, because there are two types of "subtask":

regular subtasks - a task directly underneath an already existing task. superior in almost every way

checklist - these aren't tasks and don't appear in the task list, nor count towards the task count. you have to view the details of a task to see them. you cannot assign properties to them such as due dates, priority, etc. functionally, they're the same as adding a checklist to a google document, obsidian page, or note in apple notes

reminders

the free tier of neither service support any type of reminders, except for due dates

limits

filters filters are pages that show all unchecked tasks that meet a certain requirement, set by you

todoist - 3 free filters

ticktick - 0 free filters

projects

todoist - 5 active projects at a time + inbox, each project allowing a maximum of 250 unchecked tasks

ticktick - 10 projects total + inbox, each project allowing a maximum of 99 unchecked tasks

projects can be archived on both platforms, making their tasks no longer searchable or appear in upcoming views, without completely deleting the project. the main difference is that on todoist, archived projects don't count toward your project count, while archived projects still count toward your project count on ticktick. this means todoist lets you store an unlimited amount of projects for free, you just cannot use more than 5 at once

final thoughts

todoist is the winner. having a better interface and letting me store more tasks is definitely a win for me. of course, there is much more to each platform than covered in this admittedly awful post, but i think these are the essentials.

[hallohartje]

Anyone interested in the court's decision can view the whole decision here. While it does look very long the text is double-spaced. I'll summarize the document, first beginning with the court determined facts of the publishing industry.

While publishers have seen growth in revenues as result of eBook lending, the same cannot be said of libraries. The plaintiffs in the case offer perpetual licenses to academic libraries but not public libraries. The court found that publishers price licenses higher than suggested retail price of print books and consumer eBooks. Some of these come with short terms (2 years) or a pay-per-use option.

IA partnered with the Open Library of Richmond, a nonprofit, and Better World Books (“BWB”), a for-profit used bookstore, to acquire print books for digitizing and posting on IA’s website. The Open Library of Richmond buys or accepts donations of print books―primarily from BWB. The Open Library of Richmond holds legal title to and maintains physical possession of the print books, which are placed in shipping containers and kept out of circulation after scanning. In other words, the physical copy is taken out of circulation when the digital copy comes into effect.

IA then lends its books out to users who sign up to use its services. It operates on a principle of “Controlled Digital Lending” or “CDL,” which it likens to traditional library lending of print books. With exception of 2020 during the pandemic this practice has remained in effect. IA markets its lending services to libraries as a free alternative to Publishers’ print books and eBook licenses.

Critically, IA and its users lack permission from copyright holders to engage in any of these activities. They do not license these materials from publishers, nor do they otherwise compensate authors in connection with the digitization and distribution of their works.

Now comes the ruling. In the appeal, the court considered whether IA has the right to bypass the rules followed by other libraries who license their books through the publishers, and then loan books out at scale.

There are certain legal arguments to why IA believes that their actions fall under fair use. They've tried arguing that the act of digitizing the books is transformative -- and that they as a non-profit do not benefit monetarily from the loan of their books. However, a one-for-one reproduction of the texts from physical to digital format is not considered transformative, though the court concedes that there is some "change" involved in the conversion.

In its decision, the court finds that the copies made by the IA do not "provide criticism, commentary, or information about the originals. [...] Instead, IA's digital books serve the exact same purpose as the originals: making authors' works available to read." (page 24). The court concludes that construing IA's use of the Works as transformative would "significantly narrow -- if not entirely eviscerate -- copyright owners' exclusive right to prepare (or not prepare) derivative works." (page 26)

It should be noted that because the argument of transformative use does not hold, IA's argument that it can distribute full books under principles of fair use is also unable to stand, something also acknowledged by IA's lawyers (page 42). The court made good reference to prior case law regarding HathiTrust and Google Books, whose copying of books resulted in a transformative, secondary purpose of searchable databases. Such secondary use is not detected in IA's services of controlled lending. Lastly, if the service is not transformative, it is then a derivative service that usurped the market which publishers intend to sell eBooks to.

The court notes that in usurping the market, IA denies both publishers and their authors of rightful compensation and revenue for their published works. Sandra Cisernos, an author who submitted a declaration in support of Publisher's summary judgement, wrote on the effects of IA's infringement of her rights (page 61):

I worked hard to earn the financial security that I now have and which enables me to earn a living from my pen without fear of poverty. And, as my agent reminds me, the royalty revenues I receive from the sales of books I have written are precious and must be closely guarded because this is ultimately going to generate the money that supports me in old age. . . . When I went on the Internet Archive’s website and saw that scans of my books were being distributed to anybody who wanted them for free―without my permission or any payment―I was appalled. I found the experience so viscerally upsetting that I could not stay on the website for long. It was like I had gone to a pawn shop and seen my stolen possessions on sale.

While there is no doubt that IA's mission to spread knowledge would, in a general sense, benefit the public (page 60), the court sides with copyright holders and those licensed to make use of their rights.

I was pleased to see that the court affirmed IA's status as a non-profit entity, and recognizes that the organization must solicit funds to keep the lights on. The judges disagreed with the district court ruling that IA's partnership with BWB renders use commercial. (page 35) It likewise found that donations are not specifically solicited in connection with its lending services and that it "does not profit directly from its exploitation of the Works in suit." (page 38) However, these mitigating factors alone do not support the widespread scale of copying and distribution of copyrighted works without permission or payment. It is not an approach that the court believes is compatible with the Copyright Act (page 64).

What next? Well, the Internet Archive could appeal to the Supreme Court as a matter of last resort. However, more productive lines of lobbying might lie in appealing to publishers that lending licenses should be given on a perpetual rather than term-limited basis. The pricing models there could be more carefully scrutinized. Are there other ways to ensure publishers make works available for low-income or disadvantaged communities? There are existing provisions for disabled people to access copyright works, but these are not widely adopted. Nicholson's paper on fair dealing could be a good primer on this issue. Folks may want to find other methods to ensure accessibility and campaign for greater access.

This is absolutely catastrophic.

[xaltius]

Top 10 Best OCR Models You Need to Know in 2025  

In an increasingly digital world, a surprising amount of critical information remains locked away in physical documents, scanned images, or unstructured digital formats. This is where Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology steps in – converting various types of documents, such as scanned paper documents, PDFs, or images, into editable and searchable data.

But OCR is no longer just about basic text extraction. In 2025, advanced OCR models, powered by sophisticated AI and deep learning, are moving beyond mere character recognition to truly understand document layouts, extract structured data from complex forms, and even decipher diverse handwriting. The right OCR model can be the linchpin for digital transformation, automating workflows, enhancing data accessibility, and unlocking invaluable insights.

Here are the top 10 OCR models and technologies that are making waves and defining the landscape in 2025:

Cloud-Powered & Enterprise Solutions

These offerings typically provide robust, scalable, and often AI-infused solutions with extensive language support and pre-built models for common document types.

Google Cloud Document AI

Strength: More than just OCR, it's a comprehensive document processing platform. It uses specialized parsers trained on specific document types (invoices, receipts, contracts, IDs) to extract structured data, not just raw text. Its underlying OCR is highly accurate, especially for complex layouts and tables.

Why for 2025: Integrated with Google Cloud's broader AI ecosystem, it's ideal for businesses needing deep document understanding and automation across various industries, pushing beyond simple text extraction.

Amazon Textract

Strength: A machine learning service that goes beyond simple OCR to automatically extract text, handwriting, and data from scanned documents. It excels at identifying forms, tables, and key-value pairs, making it powerful for automating data entry from semi-structured documents.

Why for 2025: Part of the AWS ecosystem, Textract is known for its high accuracy and seamless integration into cloud-native applications, perfect for scalable document processing pipelines.

Azure Document Intelligence (formerly Form Recognizer)

Strength: Microsoft's offering provides powerful OCR alongside intelligent document processing. It supports pre-built models for common document types (invoices, receipts, business cards), custom model training for unique layouts, and layout analysis to preserve document structure.

Why for 2025: Its tight integration with Azure services and strong capabilities in understanding both printed and handwritten text, even with complex layouts, make it a top choice for enterprises leveraging Microsoft's cloud.

ABBYY FineReader PDF (and ABBYY Vantage)

Strength: A long-standing leader in OCR, ABBYY offers highly accurate text recognition across a vast number of languages (over 190). FineReader is excellent for converting scanned documents and PDFs into editable formats. ABBYY Vantage extends this to Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) with AI-powered data capture from complex business documents.

Why for 2025: Known for its precision and comprehensive language support, ABBYY remains a go-to for high-fidelity document conversion and advanced IDP needs, especially where accuracy in diverse languages is paramount.

Advanced Open-Source Models & Frameworks

For developers and researchers who need customization, specific integrations, or budget-friendly solutions.

Tesseract OCR (maintained by Google)

Strength: The most widely used open-source OCR engine. While traditionally needing pre-processing, its latest versions (Tesseract 4+ with LSTM-based engine) offer significantly improved accuracy, especially for line-level recognition, and support over 100 languages.

Why for 2025: It's a foundational tool, highly customizable, and perfect for projects where you need a free, powerful OCR engine with extensive language support. Often used as a baseline or integrated into larger systems.

PaddleOCR (Baidu)

Strength: A comprehensive, open-source toolkit for OCR that boasts strong performance across various scenarios, including complex layouts, multi-language support (over 80 languages, including complex Chinese/Japanese characters), and impressive accuracy, often outperforming Tesseract out-of-the-box on certain benchmarks.

Why for 2025: Its ease of use, robust pre-trained models, and strong community support make it an excellent choice for developers looking for a high-performance, flexible open-source solution.

docTR (Mindee)

Strength: An open-source, end-to-end OCR library built on deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow 2 & PyTorch). It focuses on document understanding, offering strong performance in text detection and recognition, particularly for structured documents and various fonts.

Why for 2025: Offers a modern, deep-learning based approach, known for good accuracy on challenging document types like scanned forms and screenshots. It's a strong option for developers building custom document processing workflows.

Emerging & Specialized Models

These models represent newer advancements, often leveraging vision-language models or focusing on specific niches.

Florence-2 (Microsoft)

Strength: A powerful vision-language model that excels at various computer vision tasks, including detailed OCR. Its ability to understand the spatial relationships between text and other visual elements makes it excellent for complex document layouts, scene text, and even visual question answering.

Why for 2025: As a versatile foundation model, Florence-2 pushes the boundaries of multimodal understanding, suggesting a future where OCR is deeply integrated with broader visual intelligence.

Surya

Strength: A Python-based OCR toolkit specifically designed for line-level text detection and recognition across 90+ languages. It's gaining popularity for its efficiency and accuracy, often touted as outperforming Tesseract in speed and recognition for certain tasks.

Why for 2025: For developers who need fast, accurate line-level OCR, especially in a Python environment, Surya offers a compelling lightweight alternative to larger models.

Mistral OCR (Mistral AI)

Strength: Launched recently in 2025, Mistral OCR is quickly gaining recognition for its robust performance on complex documents including PDFs, scanned images, tables, and even equations. It accurately extracts text and visuals, making it useful for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications.

Why for 2025: As a product from a leading AI firm, it represents the cutting edge in highly accurate, context-aware OCR, especially for integrating document intelligence with advanced AI systems.

Key Trends Shaping OCR in 2025

Beyond Text: The focus is shifting from mere text extraction to comprehensive Document Understanding, including layout analysis, table extraction, and key-value pair identification.

AI Integration: OCR is increasingly powered by sophisticated deep learning models and integrated with larger AI pipelines, including Large Language Models (LLMs) for semantic understanding and post-processing.

Handwriting Recognition (ICR): Significant advancements are being made in accurately recognizing diverse handwriting styles.

Cloud-Native & API-Driven: Most leading solutions are offered as scalable cloud services with robust APIs for seamless integration into enterprise applications.

Multimodal OCR: Models are leveraging both visual and textual cues to improve accuracy and contextual understanding.

Choosing Your OCR Model

The "best" OCR model depends entirely on your specific needs:

For high-volume, structured documents (invoices, receipts): Consider cloud services like Google Document AI, Amazon Textract, or Azure Document Intelligence.

For broad language support and customizability (open-source): Tesseract or PaddleOCR are strong contenders.

For complex layouts and modern deep learning approaches: docTR, Florence-2, or Mistral OCR are excellent choices.

For specific tasks like line-level text detection: Surya offers a specialized solution.

The landscape of OCR in 2025 is dynamic and exciting. By understanding these top models and the underlying trends, you can choose the right tools to unlock the vast potential hidden within your documents and drive meaningful automation and insights.