#LaTeX-template

[tiredeg]

What is LaTeX? I’m working so hard on this like… LAnce/Toto/alEX? LANdo/pierre gasly number TEn/maX?

Oh God nooooo LaTeX is a scientific typesetting software, when I said niche I meant niche 😭😭

This is a Max/Daniel fic that I occasionally add to where they're both in academia... People take LaTeX really seriously, like it's cool when you start using it for stuff and then it's so flexible and nice looking that some people use it for everything, like I've received wedding invitations written using TeX (which was so cute)

You can set templates and most people I know use the same template for most things, like I still use the article template I got from someone my first year of undergrad, and the presentation template a girl from the year above me gave me during my masters etc etc

In my au, Daniel is a postdoc in the lab where Max does his undergrad capstone thesis, so they're working together a lot and they really click, like they immediately get on and really enjoy working together. It's a 10 week thing so they get quite close and Max is very obviously into Daniel and Daniel's not technically his Boss™ but he is senior and has like soft power over Max and it would be bad to date an undergrad no matter how weirdly obsessed he is with Max. BUT by the time Daniel realises all of this, they've been flirting for like 2 months and he's accidentally an asshole about it because he just switches it off and flips a switch and starts acting different around Max and it's disorienting and accidentally gaslighting and unpleasant for Max

Max has to write up a dissertation and at the start of this Daniel had shared his own template with Max, so he uses this even though he feels weird now but it reminds him of when it was better

ANYWAY Max is a really good researcher obviously and applies to a PhD in this lab, let's call it the Horner Lab, and gets funding and is excited to start and get to work with Daniel again and maybe they can get back to where they were and it can be good again and he can ask Daniel out now BUT oh no Daniel has been courted away and accepted a position in another university that seems to have a better grant, lets call it the Renault lab

Max is really disappointed at this but he did like the work too so he tries to put it out of his mind, works hard, and generally excels... He definitely bumps into Daniel at a few conferences and they slip back into their same rapport and Max loves those weeks, always tries to drop hints to Horner to send his work to conferences that might overlap with Daniel's topic... They get drunk and kiss one time in the hotel after the conference dinner but Daniel isn't in a great place, has accepted an assistant prof job in a department that he's really not clicking in and doesn't think they'll keep him on past his current contract even though it's tenure track and his work is good, let's call them, um, McLaren. And Max is doing SO WELL, like his research niche has exploded and he's been right at the cusp of some really cutting edge stuff, it's so impressive, and they only ever see each other at these events and Max is always winning poster prizes and talk awards, and Daniel doesn't feel like he can deal with this right now

Max, of course, is using Daniel's template to make every presentation and to draft every paper, and it makes him feel warm every time he creates a new file by making a new copy of the template file called "from_daniel.tex". He still has the original email Daniel sent him with the template, he emails it to his personal email just in case his institutional email ever gets deactivated. He's a bit sick of Daniel going hot and cold on him but he doesn't know why or how to fix it (Max is perhaps a bit blind to other people's career worries, especially because Daniel is still doing good work so it's not obvious from the outside what's going on). Mainly he thinks that if they got to spend more than two weeks a year together and weren't constantly surrounded by their coworkers, they might have a chance to properly talk.

Fast forward a few years, Max is a postdoc now still at the same university (bro go get some experience elsewhere, I know I know but this is for the narrative!) and Daniel comes BACK! He gets hired to fill in for someone really last minute and takes the role and it's tenure track and he's really excited about it but also really nervous about working around Max again... Especially because his last job went so badly for interpersonal reasons, not competency, so he's scared that he fucked things up with Max who is obviously the one in this lab with the clout, so if he acts cold to Daniel the rest will too. And Max is a bit absent for the first while, he also doesn't know how to act, from his perspective they kissed and Daniel ghosted him and it reminds him of their first time around working together, BUT Max fundamentally just likes Daniel so one time Daniel catches him hiding away somewhere making a presentation, and notices Max is using his template still from all those years ago, and he tries to break the ice by asking about it but Max is so tired he just straight up admits to it. They actually talk and realize that they're on the same page and they're both scared for different reasons but they both want the same thing and then they kiss about it and maybe have sex in the bathroom about it, who knows, they're academics, they're both working late

THEN they co-author a paper together and it's a brilliant piece of work that starts a partnership that they keep up forever and they get tenure track positions together at a different university and they write their wedding invitations in LaTeX using Daniel's template and they live happily ever after

[octuscle]

What are your fav tumblr tf story makers? Ones that do biker tfs, jock tfs etc

Thanks a lot if you answer

Phew, there are a hell of a lot of them…

@mrrharper has an excellent tast in sweaty jocks and bros...

I like @malestransforming for his style of writing.

Nice for leather is @dcigar

@broooooo is hot for latex and leather

Also very kinky with excellent combinations of text and pics offers @wishmaster

For hairy and muscular tfs check @aardvarkia. Doesn't publish very often. But when he does... OMG!

@gkutfdvnn is fantastic for jock tf. Bro, you should write more often!

@fredwkong offers excelent writing with a wide range of contents.

For any kind of stories smelling of sweat and musk contact @coachs-locker-room

This list is certainly not exhaustive. I'm sure I've forgotten geniuses to whom I owe many horny minutes of wanking.

Even if they don't write themselves, I think @bratboy197 and @fredwmain are worthwhile as sources for hot stories by other authors.

But to be completely honest: Besides the authors of wonderful wank templates, I almost love the collectors of pictures even more. They are the inspiration for my own stories.

[astro-studying]

- Wednesday, Aug 28, 2024 -

Already forgot to post days 1 and 2 of the new semester, but here's to day 3!

I'm really looking forward to 3/4 of my classes. The odd one out is math methods of physics. Not because I'm not interested--I'm very interested in learning it. I'm just not so confident that my professor is going to be a good match... but of course, he's the only professor teaching it this semester. I'll make it work somehow! The other three are Modern Physics, which seems like so much fun, Intermediate Experimental Physics, which ALSO seems like it'll be super fun, and Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs), which I'm taking with my Calc 3 professor that I loved!!

-Current assignments-

Modern: N/A

Experimental: Edit a LaTeX template

Math Methods: Read ch 1 of the textbook (self-assigned)

ODEs: N/A

[strixludica]

So... turns out I have accidentally been taking double my ADHD prescription for the past 10 days.

That explains why I've been in a fugue state of working on my homebrew supplement in the scorching heat and doing barely anything else.

So on one hand I learned a fair bit of LaTeX and made several improvements to the Field Guide to Field Guides template.

On the other hand I legit forgot to eat sometimes and didn't look at my friends on the messaging apps for days at a time.

[boyheros]

finally tried to sketch out a little of how i've been imagining. the cloning machine. not too crazy or maybe it is i dont know. the base black membrane is not just a floating window i promise, it's attached to the rest of the thing and is supposed to swing down and lower into the feeder reservoir (crucially, with the part facing us right now facing upwards when it's moved parallel to the floor, as opposed to just closing it face-to-face like a laptop or something) but for some reason i'm struggling to imagine what a mechanism that could do that would look like. even though it's not thaaat complicated.

anyways. the membrane is fed the template DNA (blood is most often used) and once it accepts the sample it is swung down into the body tray and sinks into the feeder reservoir, where all the "raw materials" are i guess. i've been envisioning that the membrane frame has some sort of shutter element that can move the membrane around but i haven't figured out if i could design it to make sense mechanically yet? but the reason i want that is because once the membrane accepts the DNA sample it starts. wiggling around on it's own. and it would kinda be nasty as hell if you could see it pulling the shutters open and closed... cool right.

the reservoir is initially filled with just . raw materials that a human could be made of. fullmetal alchemist style like chemicals i guess. but as the machine gets used it eventually all grows into weird amorphous meat mess in there. it's fine for it to stay that way for a while (esp. bc base black needs to be attached to living material in order not to decay) but if you keep it too long the machine will try to self-replicate and make clones willy-nilly. and it gets more likely to be DNA contaminated. so the whole machine has to be gutted every once in a while.

hazmat suits just because yeah lots of weird human clone goo but also base black is a semi-corporeal substance meant for gluing your soul to your body. if you touch it with your skin, other organic materials like cotton fiber, or with only a thin layer covering you like latex gloves, it WILL attach to you and you WILL contaminate the whole thing. employees are even advised not to enter the room if they have open wounds of any kind cuz. the machine loves the flesh.

[k00318429]

Judith slaying Holofernes - Sculpture recreation

We were asked on Thursday to choose an image from a selection of artworks and respond to it however we wanted. I was in a group with Colleen, Jagoda, Jennifer and Amy and we decided to make a sculptural recreation of the painting ‘Judith slaying Holofernes’ by Artemisia Gentileschi. We were drawn to this image because it is a vision of female courage and revenge. In particular, the story provides the ideal template for the exploration of the power of female virtue, beauty, and power.

We began with a quick mindmap discussing ideas of composition and materials and then started creating our sculpture. The severed head was made from paper and masking tape covered in a layer of liquid latex. We used wire to craft the sword, mannequins as Judith and her accomplice, and fabrics from the textile studio as drapery. I used both fake blood and red dyed latex to cover the head and sheets beneath it like depicted in the painting.

After making each of the components, we assembled the parts and took the sculpture to the photography studio to achieve a black background, accurate lighting and layout. Each of us took our own pictures and edited them to make the colours and shadows as similar to the original artwork as possible. I think everyone enjoyed this short project as it was definitely something different to what we’re used to doing. I also found it fun to work on a life-sized piece!

[yourbestamericangirlmp3]

bruhhh i added some blind text to my latex template and then forgot to remove it when i made my actual assignments so i have literally two classes of handouts that start with "hello, here is some text without meaning" fml

[allineedistostudy]

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I found this on Linkedin somewhere and wanted to share :)

[hoardlikegoldenirises]

(part one >HERE<)

Part TWO of…. three?

aka: the Unstable Molecule Suit

Once more, as always, I say—

closeups under the cut:

—🕸️—

the unstable molecule suit... i posted the blue one already (f4 suits post) but the rest is new.

context: in 2015 (when peter and co are in their late 20s) johnny will design a special fantastic four suit out of unstable molecules (third gen) for peter, but they didn't get around to giving it to him right away cause life stuff, man-spider, other shit... (which reed uses as an opportunity to test some (stealth) features since no one's wearing this one)

(this was my first concept doodle for this before putting it on my shiny new spidey bod template i made recently)

(updated to lesbian reed version)

"Blue" (all the unstable molecule suits have codenames for voice commands lol)

check those milky white lenses... i particularly like that look actually. hard for me to draw but looks good

Peter gets a pop of red on account of being spidey lol (everyone else's soles are black and white) - you can see the blue is smooth and matte but the black is slightly textured.

i decided beside all the white glowing in the dark that they're reflective as well. you know, for safety.

and cause it looks cool

anyway

in 2016 Johnny dies. lol. and it's after that when the family gives peter his suit, after johnny's will and so forth... so peter never wears the blue one in the end (at least not more than once or twice), just the white/black ones... (actually he mostly mains the black version, mourning etc.)

reed designs the FF suits mostly by himself and if johnny weren't dead he would say they're fugly (there's no accounting for taste i guess):

"FF"

Here's the basic white and black version. Chose to go the glossy latex-look route for the blacks cause I think it looks nice, added a honeycomb texture on the white to make it look Cool and Futuristic (lol) This white version is the "off" version, aka, no stealth whatsoever. It's just the basic suit mode to replace their blue suits after Johnny's death.

shoes… split color soles for fun.

and all the white bits on this reflect too, again, for "safety" aka i just think it looks cool and it makes them hard to photograph.

lmao

anyway the black version:

"Stealth"

This is this universe's version of the stealth suit, and if anyone knows me they know two things about me: 1) I hate Dan Slott's writing and 2) I think the Big Time neon suit is sexy. So some of the logo design here is inspired by the logos Ramos designed for the Big Time stealth suit, which I think matches the aesthetic well. In the full version you can see one of the major things i took from the big time suit (aside from lighting up) for both black and white versions of my FF suit is extending the spider's legs to the tops of peter's thighs, as well as parts of the back logo.

feeties again.

Aaaand here it is, me 100% on my bullshit: obviously this is drawing directly from the Big Time suit, in being shiny black and lighting the fuck up, but in my case I adjusted the colors' purposes very slightly. So, when unlit, in its most mild stealth mode, it's just regular old reflective white, and it only moderately cloaks the wearer, mostly just making it a tiny bit easier to sneak. ironic considering it is hi-vis reflective but I love irony i guess.

red (...tbh, orange, really) is audio damping/muting which is basically exactly what it was in slott's comic, though it has mild visual cloaking.

green is the opposite and is mostly visual cloaking/invisibility, but has mild audio damping as well...

and the biggest difference here is the blue-white glow. afaict in the comics that just means it's like... off... lol but in this case i'm assigning it a special function which is as a radar/radio/sonar/etc. scrambler and signal jammer, so... signal cloaking.

three kinds of stealth!

also i didn't draw it but, like the big time suit, peter's mask allows himself to hear and see himself (actually not entirely true, he can't hear anything when it's red 90% of the time, reed's still uh... ironing some kinks out) and the suits use contact mics instead of traditional mouthpieces to help w/ comms in this regard... (not that it works when signal jamming is on)

the others also have goggles like the ones felicia has in the big time arc, that can be... materialized via the magic of unstable molecules lol and those do basically the same thing as peter's lenses.

the difference is mostly just that reed designed it instead of peter (but i'm sure peter is poking around in there anyway, and later on pete will be designing and coding his own suits into the unstable suit without reed's assistance no problem) (he took a programming class in college, you know)

(oh i also made a mod of the black one for the PC version of Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered, which is on the nexus: link

(it glows)

(i modified the chest logo slightly for this mod and i think i actually do like that shape better so i might update my timeline drawing to reflect that)

—🕸️—

SO

red and blue.

obvs the furthest left red and blue is just his standard suit, I put that there for comparison, and included the emergency mask w/ aluminized lenses which is also on the first post with his handmade suits of course

But there's also an updated version Johnny designed that's very very similar to Peter's handmade suits:

"Classic"

This updated version coded into the unstable suit is a slightly sleeker and slightly modified design w/ opaque high-tech lenses (w/ an internal HUD) but otherwise almost identical. One major difference is that it's totally seamless, and also the spiders are slightly different as well.

i just used a halftone brush to slap some texture on there, it's not a specific kind of fabric i had in mind or anything...

slightly different boots too. This design is actually basically just my previous/usual design I've used a lot for Peter, which you can see all over in my miscellaneous spidey fanart, with the arms and the boot shape and stuff, and i figured unstable molecules was a great excuse to bust it out again...

Bonus reflectivity:

And then is Civvies.

This is just regular civilian clothing for the suit to take the shape of when not in use etc. Johnny designs and coordinates the entire outfit down to the socks and underwear, for Peter, around the time he designs the blue suit for Peter. (aka like 6 months before he dies)

The watch serves essentially the same purpose, being a way to disguise the suit very discreetly in a way that lets Peter wear it at work, walking around etc. with any outfit he wants.

It's a Baume & Mercier Clifton Complete Calendar – starburst blue face (10057) – introduced in 2015 at around $5000 which... for a fancy watch is not too bad but is still $4990 more than Peter would ever willingly spend on a watch. Luckily it's low-key enough that it doesn't scream "I'M WORTH FIVE GRAND"

well technically it's a bootleg anyway since it's a techy fantastic four contraption inside, but it LOOKS like that watch and it's a nice match for peter's sense of style.

Now, anyway, wrt to the lining in the leather jacket, you may be thinking, hang on a second that secret spider and color scheme looks familiar—

No biggie it's just the jacket Peter gets gunned down in (you know, to death)

I would say I'm not doing that plot but technically that would be lying.

It's not the SAME but I'm def drawing some inspiration for later in Peter's life from this—but not until he's 49, and right now he's only 28 lol. So until then it's just a snazzy leather jacket his dead best superhero friend gave him posthumously.

Which brings Peter's leather jacket count up to I think... possibly 4 by his late 20s? 3 or 4, I'm not sure. He had the symbiote able to become a leather jacket at 17/18 but iirc he replaces that with a real moto jacket at some point... he has a shearling coat which is a leather of sorts, and he has flash's ESU letter jacket (wool and leather) by this time for sure, which flash gave him because peter's the one that graduated and flash stopped wearing it after dropping out freshman year like ten years before this lol

anyway

I think it's quite handsome. Normally Peter's not this uhhhh Hip and Fashionable, with the acid wash jeans and whatnot (typically wearing like, slacks, khakis and sweaters) but Johnny is much more stylish than him while still getting into Peter's kind of foxy bad boy underlying aesthetic.

Obviously it's fairly low profile externally since it's meant to be worn as real civilian clothing, so it can't have a bunch of spider-man crap on it if peter's going to wear it with his face exposed.

I drew some inspiration from racing-styled jackets since Johnny is the one who designed this outfit in-universe, so that kind of shape and cut made a lot of sense to me. General color scheme and, as mentioned, the spider embroidered onto the lining. is based off of Spidey's last stand though.

Acid-washed jeans, chelsea boots, more Johnny influence on taste here... well partially. I think Peter would like chelsea boots since they are understated, slip-on, and cover his ankles. Less relevant when it's all unstable molecules cause he doesn't have to worry about things like red tights or quick-changing his shoes after this, but, it's one of those things I think becomes ingrained in his style as he grows up.

Also every piece of the civilian outfit can be worn individually, combined with other real clothes etc., it's just convenient to have a whole outfit on standby.

The red briefs are Calvin Klein. just... fyi.

oh i just noticed i forgot to color in his leg scar on this one lol oops

anyway

"Super Slut"

aka...

the latex thong:

and peter's tits

Johnny thinks this is SO FUNNY and then he DIES before he has a chance to actually laugh about it.

even though it's a dumb joke this whole thing just makes peter kind of emotional lol.

Anyway you can also see that Peter has some remnant fuzz on the nape of his neck and part of his back from The Curse of the Man-Spider which is set almost exactly a year before Peter gets the gen 3 Unstable Molecule suit(s).

The happy trail and chest hair was always like that though.

A fun benefit of including this joke outfit is that I got to draw Peter's gnarly burn scar (which i also tossed onto the lineup w/ peter's fire resistant suit).

He ALSO has scars on both sides of his ribcage from Man-Spider btw

from the auto-amputation.

they look kinda like bellybuttons.

anyway that's it for the basic unstable molecule suit-suite :)

part 3 will show peter's later unstable molecule costumes that he codes into the suit himself, which are mostly black...

it's like. two suits. but i haven't drawn it yet. i'll toss a link into the comments when i do.

post three (Peter's suits after his aunt dies) is >HERE<

[iantimony]

tuez

yayyy

listening: release radar: i get it now (sammy rae) (wauuughhhh. emo. i miss my partner) come over (cat's pajamas) stuck (scene queen) nerima (raspberry pie) never me (penelope) beirut (rob blivion) rule #34 (fish in a birdcage) bourgeoisieses (conan grey) milk town/mr carter (nep) doppelganger - lullaby (ethan bortnick) my baby loves to dance (kenya grace) horror night (starcourt) (@delta-orionis, you will like this one)

some from last week that i forgor to note down: tiny human (elohim), some type of skin (aurora), chukotka (otyken), training season (dua lipa, chloe caillet mix), georgian spirit (equbeats), online (twrp), someone else (kenya grace)

aaaand formentera/formentera ii again.

podcasts: wtyp on the francis scott key bridge collapse, and jim gordon must die podcast of all time

reading: i started reading 'bunny' by mona awad because it came up as a recommendation in libby when i was returning mdzs. i am going to be valiant and give it one more chapter but i do not like it. it feels like its trying very hard to emulate a certain type of vibe that i already don't find super appealing in fiction so the trying-vibe of it makes it even more uninteresting to me. the premise is a girl at a mfa program in nebulous New England Private Liberal Arts School(tm) which like, fine, dark academia or whatever; there are four (five?? i literally cannot remember which, lol) other girls in her cohort who are a weird clique and call each other 'bunny' and are rich and sheltered but harboring a Dark Secret Club. sure. the first few chapters ooze 'not like other girls'-ism, the 'bunny' characters themselves feel flat and like caricatures in an unappealing way, main character's other friend ava also is a caricature in a boring way, just very uninspiring. like i said i will give it another chapter or two but if it continues to bore me i will return it.

i finished the scum villain extras! very charming.

watching: keeping up to date with dunmeshi, yay, and also been continuing to watch endeavor with a friend. it's good! i love a mystery show! it is impossible to watch without subtitles though because they are So British. relatedly i am going to terf island for two weeks in june (london and then edinburgh) so if you know any recs for food, places, etc i am all ears!

playing: this weekend was going to be 3 dnd games in a row ... then monday was postponed to next monday ... but my sunday group, which is normally every other week, has decided to play next sunday as well bc we skipped a few weeks ... so Next weekend is the 3 day dnd combo lmfao. i don't mind too bad.

making: pottery!!! some bisque came out and i am soooo chuffed (<- endeaver tv show britishism rubbing off on me) this will be its own post with more images because i want to @ the inspiring artist, jbbartram-illu on tumblr (shop); i am obsessed with the cave painting mugs from a few months ago that immediately sold out so i was like fuck it i wanna make my own. and i am obsessed with my lil fat horses. i put amaco ancient jasper on the inside and just a matte clear on the outside. hopefully it is matte enough. i also put little hands on the handles and now i want to make some more cave painting mugs that are just the hands, i could cut out some templates to sponge underglaze around maybe...

my beautiful cracked-the-code bowls and two maybe teacups, post-trimming:

and also trying a new glaze technique: bisqued underglaze and then liquid latex over top! that way you can slather a background on and just peel it off after without painting around the details. im ngl peeling off the latex was soooo satisfying. background is laguna celadon froth.

i've also glazed my citrus juicer, just a plain warm yellow color, looking forward to that :3

glaze: mother's day gift (planter, it's. fine. idk. she'll like it i hope), and also some fixed stuff! didn't bother taking pics, the black eye bowl from feb 6 tuesdaypost is now food safe on the inside because i sanded down the kiln medium bit that got stuck in there and re-glazed it. i also tried to fix the bowl from march 12 tuesdaypost by just lightly sanding the inside and slapping some laguna celadon froth over it...it looks exactly the same now, just with some sort of float-like blue splotches lol. no pictures of it but eh. might give it away, we'll see.

eating: Spicy Clam Pasta With Bacon, Peas and Basil Recipe (NYT): tasty. idk about 'spicy' but definitely yummy.

misc: definitely in a weird spot brain-wise...the anxiety and tummyache link/feedback loop is very real for me now, so i am going back on an extremely low dose of ssri about it, and even though i have been on this med before in much larger amount i am still experiencing aaa about it. i keep going between "going back on this is a good idea" and "or i could just keep taking ~10mg of cbd every other day bc that felt like it was doing something, even if it was just placebo i had a noticeable difference in mood" so like. bluh. idk. i wish i could just Know what the best course of action is instead of having to fuck around and find out. such is life. i am literally taking the world's babiest dose rn (breaking the starter pill in half) so it will be fine. as long as i dont get bad side effects im willing to do a few weeks on it and see what happens.

[gender-trash]

how did you get into typesetting? are there particular resources/guides you'd recommend?

i am so incredibly sorry, because the answer to your first question is almost certainly useless to you: when i was 9-12 years old i took a bunch of online math classes from the Art of Problem Solving. AoPS classes (at the time; i haven’t followed what they’re doing in years) were formatted as a chat room where the entire lecture was given in text format (vv accessible to me for both adhd and auditory processing reasons), occasionally the teacher would ask questions for you to type in a response to, and a few of the fastest correct answers would be shown to the rest of the class. especially if you used latex math typesetting to make it Look Nice (the chatroom had limited latex support).

i, a small child extremely interested in math and in Proving my Skills to the other faceless usernames in the chatroom, was super into this. with practice i eventually got really good at speed-typesetting math in latex; i also habitually wrote up all my homework in latex because my handwriting was fucking unreadable (probably because of the dyspraxia) and it was honestly simpler *and* faster than writing it on paper and scanning it.

so at that point i was just kind of in the habit of using latex whenever i wanted to make a vaguely technical document Look Nice. math camp qualifying tests. final papers for technical classes in college. personal notes and reference sheets (i’m much more likely to study things if my study materials are visually appealing, i’ve found). i discovered that with practice it *is* possible to take class notes, live, in latex, and that if you send your ~fancy~ latex notes to your friends in the class they will love you forever. plus the extra Challenge made it easier for me to pay attention in class (fuck you, adhd).

thus, when i got into ficbinding my basic approach was “download a random latex book template -> modify to my own tastes -> consult stackoverflow if anything goes wrong” and it works pretty well for me, because i’m an extremely bullheaded programmer with a decade of latex experience. would i necessarily “recommend” it to a beginner? …not really.

anyway i hear you can use ms word or another word processor to typeset fic/danmei? lots of people in the ficbinding discord seem to be pretty successful with it, and @armoredsuperheavy’s introductory ficbinding tutorial goes into some detail (all of which i fully skipped) about typesetting in word. i can’t really provide any help here, though, sorry :(

otoh if you DO want to take the plunge and go latex or go home, i’ve found that overleaf provides some pretty good basic guides to latex syntax; if you want, i can also send you some of my latex source files and talk you through what’s going on with them. you’ll almost certainly want to use the “memoir” documentclass (not “book”), so hit up ctan and download the memoir documentation while you’re at it. personally i don’t use overleaf because i am physically incapable of using any text editor without vim keybindings; you might want to start there because the live preview is super helpful for a beginner, but i have NO idea what font support is like. if you’re not using overleaf, i recommend installing xelatex on your local machine, and if you don’t already have a text editor of choice, sublime text is free* and has some nice latex extensions.

*it will occasionally nag you to buy a license but you can keep clicking “maybe later” indefinitely

(someone recommended ConTeXt to me a while back, but i can’t remember who it was. that might be a friendlier option?)

actually, would anyone be interested in me writing up a more detailed Guide to Typesetting Books in LaTeX for complete beginners/cleaning up and posting my book template? (i am bad at modeling what “a complete beginner” to latex typesetting knows, but i will beta test it on a long-suffering @combat-epistemologist.)

[switchy-transfoxinem]

About Me

I thought it was about time I make an informational post so people can know a little more about me and what I post about on this blog.

I go by Em/M mostly and use She/They. I'm bi, transfeminine (girl-thing), t4t, poly and solidly a switch so trans people are encouraged to interact (see: bite me pls).

My ask box is open so feel free to send questions, suggestions for what to do to my partner or thing you would do to me. DMs are also open to mutuals.

This is the horny side blog for @dice-foxgirl, so most of my post here will be of that nature. 18+ if that wasn't glaringly obvious from my bio. I don't have any strong lean Dom/Sub so post about both.

I use '#doing this to them' for most of my dom posting (specifically so my partner knows what to expect/ask for but also just for fun). I don't have a tag for sub posting yet... perhaps in the future.

Titles I Use:

Dom: Miss M, Master/Mistress

Sub: Kitty/Kitten, Puppy, Pet, Sweetheart

Kinks:

Biting

Breath Play

Bondage

CNC

Drool/Spit

Hypnosis

Intox

Latex

Marking

Mouth Play

Pain Play

Pet Play

Pred/Prey

Scent Play

Sensory Play

Soft Limits (Not opposed but not into):

Fauxcest

Knife Play

Piss

Hard Limits (Active Turnoff):

Age Play

Blood Play

Impact Play (Unfortunately)

Feet

Scat

Sounding

I'll probably update this if anything drastic changes. People are free to use this as a template if they want.

<3 Miss M

[raspberrywriting]

My most toxic academic trait is the more often I write academic texts the more I feel the urge to write a novel in a LaTEX thesis template

[ehud1564]

New neo pronouns: Set formula pronouns! =/∃/∈/∀/↔

Pronounce = as equals, ∃ as Exists, ∈ as belongs (or in), ∀ as for all, pronounce ↔ as Iff (Or if and only if). Plural pronouns (meaning they go with are and not is).

Example:

"It is going to adopt a new puppy soon, as soon as it gets a fence set up around its yard so the puppy can go outside without it having to walk it. Its uncle is going to help set up the fence, since he has a set of power tools he's letting it use, since it lost its."

Turns to:

"= are going to adopt a new puppy soon, as soon as = get a fence set up around ∈ yard so the puppy can go outside without ∃ having to walk it. ∈ uncle is going to help set up the fence, since he has a set of power tools he's letting ∃ use, since = lost ∀."

Example 2:

“They are coming over today! I really like having them over! Last time they were here, they said they wanted to watch that new movie, so I should put the disk in awhile so I don’t forget. I’ll try to find that cheese flavored popcorn too, I know it’s their favorite! I should also figure out where I put that one controller so we can play video games later. They like that one so much, it’s practically theirs! And I’ll get the blankets ready so we can sleep in the living room together, I know they don’t like to sleep by themselves."

Turns to:

“= are coming over today! I really like having ∃ over! Last time = were here, = said = wanted to watch that new movie, so I should put the disk in awhile so I don’t forget. I’ll try to find that cheese flavored popcorn too, I know it’s ∈ favorite! I should also figure out where I put that one controller so we can play video games later. = like that one so much, it’s practically ∀! And I’ll get the blankets ready so we can sleep in the living room together, I know = don’t like to sleep by ↔."

Templates taken from @neopronouns-in-action and @choose-your-own-pronouns.

If you want to use this pronouns through the phone, you can either copy and paste ∃ ∈ ∀ and ↔. Or you can download https://github.com/DenverCoder1/latex-gboard-dictionary and when you type \Exists \in \forall and \leftrightarrow, your phone should suggest the ∃ ∈ ∀ and ↔, or your auto correct might replace them automatically. The / needs to be there, and the capitalization of the E in \Exists is also important.