#iOS theme ideas

[steviexdarling]

So I wanted to share my ios theme that I just set up. I haven’t done any ios themes since when ios 16 first came out with the feature. Then I got tired of each app opening shortcuts every time. Luckily it’s been updated so I sat down and took the couple hours it took to do this and it looks nice af. I still plan to do a few more to cycle through like a green one since it’s my favorite color, a cinnamoroll one since that’s one of my special interests, a manga aesthetic one, maybe a Pokémon one if I can make it look aesthetically pleasing since Pokémon is my #1 special interest and has been for years, a witchy/pagan one since I’m a pagan witch ofc, maybe a StrayKids one since they’re my number one favorite K-pop group of all time (I’ve been with them since pre-debut when Hellevator came out), And maybe a couple others I’m not sure yet. So my next post will be the first and current ios theme I made and have set on my phone.

[houseofwolves-v1]

so i had a dream last night that frank was releasing a new solo album (that may or may not be a christmas album) and he showed me the album cover and it was the most unhinged insane thing i have ever seen that i had to spend 3 hours piecing it together in photoshop and i think all of you need to see it

he was completely serious about it and i was fighting back laughter to try not to tell him how cursed it was

[appiconstudio]

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[feralbogqueen]

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[writeblrcafe]

A Comprehensive Guide for Writing Advice

Sometimes, despite enjoying writing so much, something is not working for you. Maybe your well of ideas has run dry. Or your WIP has hit a corner and you can't find your way out to the end of the story. Or you need to go back to your finished draft and see if there are any kinks to clear up.

Fortunately, everyone at Writeblrcafé has experienced such, and to help you out, we have a bunch of links to helpful posts by fellow writers to help you along on your writing journey as well as some helpful links to other websites, resources and software.

General:

WHY IS WRITING IS SO FUCKING HARD? (@writers-hq)

Writer Block First Aid Kit (@isabellestone)

Websites for writers (masterpost @2soulscollide)

Writing advice (masterpost @theliteraryarchitect)

Writing resources (masterpost @stinastar)

One look thesaurus (a reverse dictionary where you can enter words or concepts)

Coming Up with Ideas:

97 Character Motivations (@theplottery)

Character Flaws (@fantasyfillsmysoul)

Character Profile (@mistblossomdesigns)

Characters Unflawed (@emptymanuscript)

Why Theme is More Important than Plot (@theplottery)

Weekly writing prompts on Reedsy

Drafting:

3 of the worst story beginnings (and how to fix them) (@theplottery)

Cheat Sheet for Writing Emotion (@myhoniahaka)

Creative Writing for Writers (@writerscreed)

Describing Physical Things (@wordsnstuff)

How to Craft a Natural Plot (@theplottery)

How to Write a Story? (masterpost @creativepromptsforwriting)

How to write: ethnicity & skin colour (@youneedsomeprompts)

What the F is Show Not Tell (@theplottery)

Writing advice from my uni teachers (@thewritingumbrellas)

First Draft: story outlining template meant to help with planning your next big writing project (@fauxriot)

The wonder/ discovery arc (@evelynmlewis)

How to structure a chapter (@theplottery)

How to pace your storytelling (@charlesoberonn)

How to write and research mental illness (@hayatheauthor)

Seven Blogs You Need To Read As An Author (@hayatheauthor)

Editing/Revising:

Eight steps in making the editing process of your book easier (@joaneunknown)

Kill Your Darlings (@tibodine)

Self editing tips (first pass) (@projecttreehouse)

Publishing:

Chill Subs: biggest database for literary magazines and small presses; track your submissions and get your writing published!

5 steps to get your novel ready to self-publish (by @nanowrimo)

Resources for finishing and publishing your novel (masterpost by @nanowrimo)

For self-publishing: this page gives you the exact pixel count of a book spine based on its page count, and/or a template you can use for the correct width/height ratio.

Software:

Scrivener: one time payment of $60 or 70€ (macOS/windows), $24 (iOS; no Euro listed for iOS); used by professionals, many tools to write and organize your novel

Bibisco: free and "pay what you want" version; multilingual, world building, character profiles, writing goals, story timeline, mind maps, notes and more templates to write a novel.

Manuskript: free open source-tool; outliner, novel assistant, distraction-free mode

Ghostwriter: a free and open alternative which has a decent interface with some interesting features, like Hemingway Mode, which disables one's backspace and delete keys, emulating a typewriter.

NaNoWriMo: an international contest to encourage writers to finish writing their novel with many events, groups for exchange with fellow writers, helpful writing advice and help for self-publishing and publishing traditionally.

Campfire Writing: website, desktop app, and mobile app, with tools built in to help manage characters, magic systems, research, etc. It has a great free option, plus monthly, annual, and lifetime purchase options. It also has built-in NaNoWriMo compatibility and a catalogue of tutorials and writing advice videos (suggestion by @harfblarf)

Websites And Writing Apps Every Author Needs In 2023 (@hayatheauthor)

Let us know in the comments if there are any links we could add to it! Reblog this post to help a fellow writer.

Support our work by buying a cup of coffee on KoFi.

[creationsbyast0ner]

hey!! posting this at an odd time for me (it’s 11:30pm here) but i hope u like this! i tried my best to figure out the icons but here’s what i came up with!! let me know what u think:) love u all<3

oh !! @bazcenter the icons and everything u need for this will be on my pinterest!! i have a link in my tumblr bio that takes u right to my pinterest!!

hii! i really like the stuff you make, they’re super cute for inspo. do you think you could try a red and blue comic spiderman theme? thank you!

yes!! ofc!! give me a day or a few days:)

[a-ikuoliver]

────────⌕ SEARCH: IO/WRITING-COMMISSIONS

⚠︎ > STATUS: [OPEN]

hihihihi i'm struggling to find a job after having to move interstate and so i'm opening commissions as an option for some income!

⚠︎ HOW TO:

send me a message on tumblr or let me know if you want to talk through discord instead, we can discuss themes/ideas/tropes to include and which to avoid as and the eventual word count this is the time where we'll discuss if this is something viable for us both (mostly if i'm not confident i can do the best for your idea)

⚠︎ RULES:

i have a more detailed list on my rules page here but the generals are listed in the graphic above; please refer to the rules page for more details + a list of characters i do/don't write

⚠︎ WAITS:

i am unemployed at the moment, however, with external circumstances, my partner and i do a lot of travelling back and forth at the moment so with that in mind, a smaller piece would take me around 2 weeks, but a longer one may take longer i'll give updates periodically (every thousand words typically) and whenever requested

⚠︎ PAYMENTS:

all payments will be through kofi in AUD (australian dollar) 50% of the payment will be required beforehand and then the remaining 50% upon completion before sending the comm in a PDF file (if you don't wish me to post the completed fic either i won't, or vice versa if you want the fic posted as well)

⚠︎ LINKS:

⚠︎ masterlist ⚠︎ archive of our own ⚠︎ my kofi ⚠︎

[arcielee]

Interview With a Writer

It is that blessed time when the wonderful and talented Miss Maggie, @inthedayswhenlandswerefew, gives us some behind-the-scenes insight to her latest brilliant narration. [Feel free to check out the Spotify playlist of all the songs mentioned and let me know if I forgot one!]

Here is masterlist to my Interview With a Writer series and the other talented individuals who allow me to continue this self-indulgent series! 💜 Picture(s) source.

Name: inthedayswhenlandswerefew

Story: 1968

Paring: modern Aemond Targaryen x female!reader, modern Aegon Targaryen x female!reader

Warnings: 18+ mature themes. Be mindful of chapter warnings.

Where did the idea for 1968 come from?

I am a high school social studies teacher by trade, and my absolute favorite class to teach is American History. The 1960s and 70s were actually one of my weak spots when I got my first teaching job back in 2020, so I ended up researching a lot about that period of time and got absolutely obsessed with it. In my American History class, I spend a whole lesson on JUST 1968, because so many important events happened in that year that are emblematic of broader trends and tensions.

One day I was re-reading one of my favorite books, The Other Mrs. Kennedy by Jerry Oppenheimer, which is specifically about Bobby Kennedy’s wife Ethel, but also gives a lot of insight into the Kennedy family generally and what it was like to live through that era. The idea of using this setting as a fic AU occurred to me, and I ruminated on it for a few weeks while finishing up Napoleonville.

Eventually, I had a revelation of the ending of 1968 (true to my usual pattern), and then knew I’d have to write the fic! I was actually really worried about all the political and historical details being too boring and/or confusing (especially for non-U.S. readers), so I was relieved that so many people gave it a chance. 🥰

Honestly, it was brilliant with the similarities to the Kennedys and Targaryens in the story. Were there any historical cameos in 1968 that you enjoyed channeling? Or perhaps struggled with?

I find LBJ super fascinating, and I feel that because of the Vietnam War he really doesn’t get a fair assessment when people look back on his presidency. His work for civil rights and the Great Society (SNAP, Medicaid, Head Start, Job Corps, PBS, etc.) was truly revolutionary, and as someone who grew up in poverty and benefitted from a lot of those programs, I don’t think LBJ’s contributions get the recognition and praise they deserve. I perceive him as a haunted sort of figure, and I really enjoyed his cameos. (To be clear, he was also super problematic and bizarre personally, and I don’t mean to excuse any of that 😂).

As for someone who was difficult to write about…honestly, the George Wallace research I did was super depressing, so while he was necessary to include, I didn’t really enjoy working on those parts!

Was there anything in specific that inspired your Reader portrayal?

Io is a bit of a composite sketch. Ethel Kennedy was known as doggedly committed to her husband’s career above all else (despite eventually being the mother of 11 children!!), and I think that inspired Io’s single-minded determination to help Aemond win the election in the first few chapters. Ethel was traditional in the sense that her husband was the center of her world and made all the important decisions, as was expected of women of her social class in that time period. But Io is also a manifestation of the counterculture of the late-60s. She is young, educated, genuinely progressive politically, and likes to party. She tries to reconcile the expectations of her family/time period and her actual personality by intentionally choosing a husband with whom she can have an equal partnership making the world a better place. And…we all know how that worked out.

[Photo Ethel and Bobby Kennedy, m. 1950]

Can you explain your interpretation of Aegon? How does he compare and contrast to Aemond? What drives them? Why are they the way that they are?

In 1968, Aegon is 40 years old, and so his role in the Targaryen political dynasty is very well-established: once his family realized he couldn’t be weaponized for their purposes, he was largely disposed of, and lives this aimless, uninspired, self-loathing sort of existence. He does have some genuine love for his family—missing Daeron and feeling guilt over him being sent to Vietnam, a vague sort of fondness for Mimi and the kids, distress when Aemond is shot in Palm Beach, an apology of sorts to Alicent by performing “Mama Tried” at her birthday party—but Aegon exists on the periphery, and he knows this, and while he doesn’t want to be a politician the rejection still stings.

At first, he perceives Io as yet another person who makes him feel inadequate and unloved; and in fairness, she is cruel to him, in fact more so than Aegon is to Io in return. It is noteworthy that in Chapter 1, she viciously criticizes Aegon in front of everyone in the waiting room (“if someone had to get killed tonight it should have been you”), but he doesn’t return fire until they are alone (the infamous cow comment), and even then he seems to regret it immediately.

Aegon, fundamentally, is more sad than mean. When in Chapters 2 and 3 Io abruptly reveals herself to be someone who is vulnerable, wounded, abandoned, and kind of a hippie lowkey, Aegon begins to perceive her differently, and she becomes an opportunity for him to be truly understood, protected, and loved for the first time in his life.

I think we would all describe Aemond as ambitious and ruthless, determined to prove that he is the best to compensate for deep, lifelong insecurities. He is a progressive politically because he sees a path to build a winning coalition, and perhaps in small part because of the whole Greeks-being-despised immigrants thing. But in 1968 there is a sense that you never fully understand who he is as a person. This is intentional! 1968 is Io’s story, and she never gets to see the whole Aemond. She sees parts of the picture, but never the full image. As awful as he is to Io, there is also a side of Aemond that truly (even if in an…unorthodox way 😂) loves Alys and their child, and there are clues that Alys understands him like no one else can (that Ouija board message… 👀). He’s by no means a good guy, but he is multifaceted. I think the stress of the presidency, and his long separation from Alys, ends up softening Aemond a bit, hence him defending Io’s reputation and ultimately letting her go.

Did anything inspire your other OCs? Specifically "The Ones Who Married In" club?

I didn’t sit down and plan what sorts of characters would be in the “The Ones Who Married In” club. I was possessed by these random visions of them: a perpetually drunk Mimi, a perhaps not too bright but very sweet Fosco, and Malibu Barbie but make her Polish Ludwika, and I was thinking: “These people are ridiculous, this will never work!” But then when I thought about it more, I realized that Mimi, Fosco, Ludwika, and Io all serve strategic roles to help advance Aemond’s career, and so it would make sense that Otto and Aemond cobbled them together and shoved them into the family portraits. I ended up really loving them, but they weren’t a big part of my original outline for 1968. 🙂

How would Io rate them based on her friendship with each of them?

Fosco is definitely #1; they connect on an emotional level that is deep but also largely unspoken. Ludwika is a close #2; she’s Io’s shopping buddy but also witty, supportive, and very feminist in her own way. And then Mimi is a distant #3. Io pities Mimi and feels loyalty to her as a fellow Targaryen, and goes out of her way to try to protect Mimi from her own self-destructive tendencies. But Io, as a collected and self-reliant person, also has difficulty understanding and dealing with someone as messy as Mimi. And of course, once Io realizes she is super into Aegon, that creates some one-sided resentment of Mimi!

Do you have a feeling of what happened after chapter 12? What is the ending you vaguely see with Aegon and Io? What about Aemond and Alys?

Where I end a fic is really the last clear image I see of the characters, so I sadly don’t have a lot of specifics to offer. What I do feel is that Io and Aegon have children of their own (like, several children, maybe even 5+ children) and Aegon is present for their early years in a way he wasn’t able to be for his kids with Mimi. Io is a stepmom to Aegon’s OG kids and has a good relationship with them, but she’s only really close with Cosmo.

I also sense that Aemond has basically no contact with Io or Aegon, which makes sense considering his abuse of Io and the lifelong fury Aegon would therefore have towards him. Aemond is happy with Alys and their son (as happy as someone like him is capable of being); he does the ex-president thing and settles into a largely ceremonial role and advises Democratic politicians, although he is not very friendly with President Reagan.

And then my wild theory is that a Daeron/John McCain ticket ends up winning the 2000 election and the War On Terror plays out completely differently!

And finally... 1968 seemed to pour from you like a fever dream. Does this mean something else might be coming to continue the Maggie's Suffering Sunday tradition?

1968 did seem to fly by, despite it being a longer fic at 12 chapters! I do have something planned for this Sunday... 😉 All I can say for now is that it is very weird, totally unexpected, and tonally a mashup of Comet Donati and When The World Is Crashing Down.

Does that seem impossible?? Think again 😏 I will be reblogging hints until Sunday! I hope you enjoy this new journey 🥰🐍

[damensource]

We are thrilled to announce we are hosting DAMEN LOVE FEST 2023, a week-long celebration dedicated to Damianos of Akielos, set to take place during the first week of DECEMBER 2023.

If you'd like to participate, please use the hashtag #damenlovefest2023 so we can find and share your work. From art to edits, gifs, moodboards, fic, web weavings, meta, and more, all forms of content are warmly welcomed and appreciated. Additionally, we kindly ask that you reblog this post to help signal boost the event!

Each day of the event will feature a unique prompt along with suggestions to inspire and motivate creators. Here's a preview of the daily themes:

Day 1: Family

Familial relationships

Favorite dynamics

Men and women in Damen’s life

Damen craving family

Damen and “his” son

Day 2: Akielos

Ancestral family tree / previous monarchs

His household: Lykaios, his childhood trainer Haemon, his unnamed guards, squires and slaves

What Akielos means to Damen

Boyhood and adolescence

Friends and allies

Longing for home

Clothes, outfits and costumes

Cultural customs and norms

Day 3: Politics

Damen as a leader

His idea of realm and rulership

Damen and his people

Justice and law

Decisions and actions

Intelligence and skills

Abolitionism

Social and political changes

Validation of marginalized people

Cultural and linguistic amalgamation

Wants and needs vs duty and sacrifices

Day 4: Personality

Damen as a lover

Sexuality

Underrated qualities and skills

Importance to the narrative

Intelligence

Humor

Compassion, kindness and tenderness

Bravest moments

Liberator, protector, hero, abolitionist, and savior

Versatility as a prince, military commander, captain, merchant's assistant, slave/servant/squire, commoner, and king

Humanity, unity and peace

Embodiment of hope

Legacy

Day 5: Relationships

Lovers

Love interests

Friendships

Rarepairs

Underrated relationships and dynamics

(To keep the focus centered on Damen during his week of celebration, we kindly ask that you prioritize 1:1 Damen pairings)

Day 6: Slavery, Trauma and Abuse

Damen as a slave

Damen as a survivor

Childhood trauma

Trauma in Ios

Trauma in Arles

How Laurent’s abuse affected him

Coping mechanisms

From prince to slave to king

Trials and challenges

Resilience and inner strength

Dealing with xenophobia

Adaptability

Overcoming cultural differences

Narrative of displacement

Day 7: Foils and Parallels

Antagonists

Parallels

Foils

Mythological or historical parallels

We can't wait to see your contributions and celebrate Damen's incredible character together! ♡

[vangold]

Another prompt of the ‘Oh dear, how the hell do I make this Lovecraft-themed?’ brand! XD We searched around haphazardly for quite a while until Subway to Sally's ‘SOS’ spontaneously gave me the idea of playing out the ‘being trapped’ aspect alla The Thing. So ‘I am stuck somewhere in an ice hell with a scary monster". The right creature was quickly found. Rlim Shaikorth - The White Worm. You could assume that it is related to the sandworms from Arakis - except that this monster crawls through the eternal ice. At this point, the horror becomes even more beautiful for me when we leave it open whether Rlim crawls towards the transmitter station to devour it, or whether he stays there, doesn't care about the station at all and just slowly but surely freezes it with his icy, snowstorm-like breath....

Creeptober-Promptlist by @creep-tober

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[buckybarnesisdaddy]

Summer Lovin’

The email you got looked like spam; there was no way you were chosen. The letter sent to your mailbox could have been from anyone, a joke from one of the friends who signed you up in the first place. But the production assistant on your doorstep with a welcome packet and all the information for your flight is as good as real, and there is no denying it anymore. You are headed to the Island. A summer full of flirting, dates, sex, break-ups, make-up, steamy secrets, and more drama than one woman can handle awaits you, and it’s all for the chance to find Love. Can you make it through this summer unscathed, or will this love game show be the thing that finally makes you break down your walls and give love a chance once more?

Part 1 Part 2

A/N: This story is based on the UK and US game show and the IOS game Love Island. But it’s with my little twist. I’ve never seen the show; I’ve just played the game, so don’t sue me if it isn’t 100% correct. This will have mature elements and themes and smut, so 18+ Minors DNI. You are responsible for what you consume.

Dividers by: @firefly-graphics

Where the idea came from: pt1 & pt2

[esotheria-sims]

My Projects Folder excavation continues, and in this week’s edition, our theme is cute medium-length half-updos! ^^ I have two new pook'd hairs for your downloading pleasure, three if we consider the alpha-edit as its own thing.

Entropy-sims 4t2 Anto Lilly retextured 

A clean, simple, and versatile hairdo with a cute lil’ bow in the back!

INFO: Entropy-sims' 4t2 conversion of Anto's "Lilly" hair retextured with Io’s edit of Pooklet’s textures and in both of their natural color palettes + 5 optional custom greys + my "Rose" blend. Child-elder, non-existent toddler stage removed from all hairs. Elders go gray. Files are binned, tooltipped, properly named, familied, and compressorized. Mesh included, but has been renamed to fit my personal organization scheme - please watch for duplicates!

POLYCOUNT: 30k 15k if you get Platinumaspiration's edited mesh!

Swatch | Turnaround

CREDITS: Anto, Entropy-sims, Pooklet, Io, Aweeshie, Hat, CatOfEvilGenius.

DOWNLOAD: Simfileshare | Box | Mediafire

Honeymoon-cc2/Eric.C Leahlillith Narcissa retexture + alpha-edit

Dudes, I can’t stress enough how much I LOVE how the highlights on this hair came out! I loved them so much, in fact, that I decided to also make an alpha-edited version without bangs. Two for the price of one!

There are several 4t2 conversions of LL’s Narcissa hair available out there, but I chose this mesh because smoooooth bone assignment and it’s animated! No two-tone retextures at this time, I’m afraid (making double the amount of retextures for the og and alpha was time-consuming enough), but I’m totes saving the idea for another time!

INFO: Honeymoon-cc2/Eric.C's 4t2 conversion of Leahlillith's "Narcissa" hair retextured with Io’s edit of Pooklet’s textures and in both of their natural hair palettes. Comes in two versions: original (with bangs), and alpha-edited (without bangs). Child-Elder, non-existent toddler stage removed from all colors. Elders go gray, 5 optional custom greys included. The files are binned, tooltipped, properly named, familied, and compressorized. Mesh included, but has been renamed to fit my personal organization scheme - please watch for duplicates!

POLYCOUNT: 23k

Swatch | Turnaround (original) | Turnaround (alpha-edit)

CREDITS: Leahlillith, Eric C., Pooklet, Io, Aweeshie, Hat, CatOfEvilGenius.

DOWNLOAD: Simfileshare | Box | Mediafire

[appiconstudio]

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[susililys]

Legitimately can’t believe I spent an entire week, hours on end making this ShikaTema iPhone iOS theme. ☠️ Seriously every time I update, which is like once a year or two, I know I’m in for 30+ hours of work (this one must’ve taken me something like 60+).

My main idea was to have each page represent and highlight one of their iconic moments from Naruto up till Boruto. The split color screen caused most of my headaches, although finding high quality screen caps, editing them, deciding what looked best and coming up with ideas was not fair behind. 🙃 I tried to make the icons look like clouds, they sort of do? Also the “smile quote” lives rent free in my brain so I had to add it. 😗

[beannary]

I’ve been trying to make a rottmnt theme ios layout and god I’m so indecisive

I made this genius built logo thing for my Apple Watch which I’m obsessed with

And then I’m thinking of doing something like this for my app widgets but idkkkk

Idk if anyone has any ideas or suggestions because o fully have no idea what I want the end result to look like Asdfghjkl

[southconfessionpark]

These confessions are often boring and repetitive but I live for the edits you guys make 😂

thank u so much!! we love all our fans <3 as for the repetitiveness, we are definitely being a lot stricter now. we might mess up a little and get some similar stuff, but there are over 450 confessions on this account, its hard to keep everything new!!

i won't ask for people to scroll through every single confession, but keep in mind that if yours doesn't end up posted, that may be why

More for the mods but I have to say some of your edits for these asks are really entertaining. I don't know why but that random crying Randy with the superheroes made me laugh so hard. XD

thank you!! mod towelie really appreciates it :) i speak for us all when i say we have a lot of fun making the edits (i have a stock photo obsession, and mod leslie's art is so cute)

( this isn't part of the ask but whenever I click the rules, it doesn't show for me :[ idk if it's a me problem so that's why I'm saying it here but it might be a me problem)

it's not just a you problem... we're not sure why this happens!! we've tested it and it only breaks on specifically the android tumblr app, the browser version of tumblr is fine, as well as pc and ios. i'm not an expert on html or tumblr themes in the slightest, so if anyone has any ideas on how to fix it i'm all ears 😭

thank you for the confessions! i hope you're all having a great july ^_^