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No joke???? Pokemon character with a cane with an actually usable grip handle??? Not just a knob handled cane that would kill your wrists after a few hours??

Like don't get me wrong I love these designs but looking at characters like Agatha and Ortega and then looking at AZ's new design and one of them just feels so much more like a real cane to me.

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go to this random coordinates generator and say in the tags how you would fare if you were dropped where it generates without warning. i’ll go first i’d be dropped in the middle of the fucking south atlantic ocean and perish

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my controversial opinion is I don’t think Zuko was confused by “my first girlfriend turned into the moon”

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this website’s easy watch. *dangles a bunch of greek gods like keys*

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accidentally clicked on the sokka/suki ship tag and stumbled upon ur zk fic, a true gem! i love how u write the gaang's dynamic here, honestly how I'd picture their friendship too after all those years 😆

Thank you! Yes, I love their friendship in the show and I need them to keep that up into adulthood lol. And I know it'd probably be hard with them having responsibilities and whatnot, but like, if the Avatar says "hey I need a personal day" who's gonna tell him no lol

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Katara/Zuko (Avatar), Sokka/Suki (Avatar) Characters: Katara (Avatar), Zuko (Avatar), Aang (Avatar), Toph Beifong, Sokka (Avatar), Suki (Avatar), Iroh (Avatar) Additional Tags: Eloping, that's it that's the fic, Fluff, pure fluff, Marriage, The Gaang as Family (Avatar), The Gaang Friendship (Avatar), Adult Gaang (Avatar), Zutara Wedding, zutara fluff Summary:

“Why don’t you guys just elope?” Toph said, taking a sip of her tea.

Everyone looked at her blankly. “What’s that?” Aang asked.

“You know. Eloping.” ~~~ Katara and Zuko, stressed from planning two royal weddings, decide to elope.

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the first law of tragedies: the end is already written and inevitable. the second law of tragedies: your actions are all your own and you can choose to get off this ride whenever you want. the third law of tragedies: we both know that you are never going to do that.

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people who don't wear glasses are so weird like you just wake up and your eyes are pussy fresh??

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YOUR character lives rent free in your head. MINE pays the rent by being my court jester whenever i summon them to entertain me.

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Mistakes are forever on this site, Mr. Eye

*when Sean makes an appearance on tumblr after 4 years*

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My only new year's resolution is to leave more comments on AO3

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not gonna lie, when i saw that a cybertruck had exploded i legit didn't realize it was some sort of premeditated thing, i just thought it was just another extreme flaw in it's design. i had no idea fireworks were involved, i honest to god thought it just did that on its own

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I FOUND A THING

So I love making book covers for fanfic I read, largely so that my shelves on Calibre have some variation to them just at a glance. One of my favorite ways to implement specific art for a fic is by using it in a cover modeled after the Penguin Paperback Classics. However, I never wanted to have the "Penguin Classics" label and the Penguin logo, because...well, because it's not Penguin.

But I still want that look, so what I've done with mine is replace "Penguin Classics" with "Archive Classics" (as in Archive of Our Own), and replaced the Penguin logo with the AO3 logo (which you can download as a PNG or SVG on Wikimedia). All variants that use the Penguin orange somewhere in the design I've replaced with the color on the AO3 logo (HEX #990000, for anyone curious). I've spent many hours manually sizing fonts and graphics and such, comparing one thing to another and having varying amounts of satisfaction with my results from project to project. I'm anal like that, and if it's a millimeter off from where it needs to be, I notice it and it's always the first thing I see later, so I try to get it as exact as possible.

But now, in another one of my link-hopping search journeys, I found the exact dimensions needed! And I'm so excited I have to share it with anyone who might see this, so if you already know about it, hush—this isn't for you.

On Jim Stoddart's website (the art director at Penguin Books), there's a section that shows the design specifications for a bunch of styles that are used with their publishing. The one I want to draw your attention to is the Penguin Classics (the 2019 template redesign).

Not only is there the specifications for all three sides of the design, but also for alternative titling layouts for both the cover and the spine. There's even a basic grid layout without all the example text/graphics, so it's easy to build off of.

I've included the images mentioned below the cut, but if you're interested in more of this kind of thing, you should also check out the pages for the Penguin Modern Classics, Little Black Classics, Penguin 'AL' Paperbacks, Lines, and the Archive. I'm obsessed and amazed I haven't found these before.

Also, if anyone is interested in my version of the template, here's the PNG version of it, which you can place over the top of your chosen art/picture, before adding the title and author on top of that. For the measurements to be accurate, the dimensions of your final cover should come out to be 1524 × 2339 px, so adjust accordingly.

I hope this is of use to someone else too, and if not, I hope y'all can appreciate my excitement for this!

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "Past Tense, Pt. 1"