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[moonyasnow]

Blank TWST Logos / Character Icons

Individuals + guide tips for how to use them under the cut!

( Please tag (@) me if you use them for a post; I really wanna see what everyone makes ^^ )

Just like with the blank Birthday Boy Card templates I made, I decided I wanted blank ones for these...whatever these icons are called. So I made them!

And again, like before, please tag (@) me if you end up using them!

First of all!

Here's two transparent ones, so you can sandwhich your drawing layer between them without fearing messing up the frame.

I added two because not all drawing programs understand the whole 'transparency' thing with pasted images, and will make any transparent part of an image black, which would kinda ruin it

So with the white you can just remove the color. Or alternatively, since I made the frame with a pixel tool, while it might be time-consuming, you can still remove all the white by hand without messing up the frame at all

I made two for Heartslabyul, so you can either have a Card Soldier one, or just a blank one

With the details on Octavinelle and Pomefiore's, I suggest copying them, placing them to the side and covering up the holes with the background color, so you can place them wherever you'd like once you're done with your own drawing

So you don't have to work around where I placed them 👍

And if you want differently-shaped bubbles, the bubble color is the same grey as in the frame

The Scarabia one is sadly pretty empty :/ but meh, they didn't give me a lot to work with, and I wasn't gonna add something 'just because'

Bright blue one is obviously Ramshackle. I have a feeling people are gonna get a lot of use out of that one haha

And the NRC Staff ones are...a bit of a special case. They're all slightly different, but it seems the general theme is grey background with some sort of beige pattern. I just used the square as a placeholder so you can eye-drop the color

I also added Vargas and Crewel's ones by comparison, kinda like a 'this is what it could look like' thing

And here's a Noble Bell College one, too. Just because I could

If there was any kind of RSA one, or if Fellow Honest had one, I would 100% have added them.

Actually, please let me know if they do somehow have them, and I just missed it!

Anyway bye!! ^^👋

[lunarflux]

People are attracted to villains who are similar to themselves — but only when they are fictional. New research suggests that people are attracted to negative versions of themselves, so long as their self-concept is not under threat. x

Oh.

Fictional stories of villains may provide a safe haven for you to explore a darker side of your personality. This sense of safety may come from the fact that there is a psychological distancing between you and the villain. x

OH.

Sigmund Freud believed that no matter how civilized we are, no matter how much we have developed our conscience, ego and superego, our id is still there, and we have certain wish fulfillment for our undisciplined id to get pleasure and wish for selfish things. (...) For me, that will be impossible because I’m too nice and too much of a pushover, but there’s a part of us that empathizes with the villain because in some sectors of life and of our relationships, we are the villain. x

OHHH??

“Our research suggests that stories and fictional worlds can offer a ‘safe haven’ for comparison to a villainous character that reminds us of ourselves,” said Rebecca Krause, a PhD candidate at Northwestern University and lead author on the paper. “When people feel protected by the veil of fiction, they may show greater interest in learning about dark and sinister characters who resemble them.” x

Oh, good god I am way more messed up psychologically than I thought.

[akkivee]

chiitan replying to the kuukou bday tweet bc they have decided kuukou’s crazy and their crazy makes them twin souls and then posting that vid of them shooting the ocean is so wholesome uwu omg wow wow 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

[floralfractals]

Hi everyone, I wanted to write a quick update to you guys :)

I made this blog in March of 2021. At the time, I followed my first math course on fractals and dynamics, and had just discovered a tool to make my own awesome fractals. This blog started out as a place to share the art I was making as a coping mechanism during covid, but as I quit making them after a few months, this blog died pretty quickly. In 2022, I decided to start posting regularly again (mostly just shitposts though), just so that the effort I put into this blog wouldn't go to waste.

Then, in the beginning of this year, I started writing my thesis. I posted one (1) shitpost about him (my well-known and popular son), and got 10s of thousands of notes. Every morning I would wake up to another crowd of people who loved the graphs, or were baffled by them, and I got showered in asks to elaborate on him.

Truth be told, 2023 has been a very heavy year for me. A lot of things happened in my personal life, and I lost a dear friend to suicide. It became so difficult for me to keep writing on my thesis, and the project that should have been finished in June this year has now been taking 4 months too many. My mental health has suffered greatly, I haven't been able to take any breaks, and life has just been generally difficult. I have spent nights not being able to sleep because I wanted to finish my bachelor's thesis so bad, but my supervisors would keep demanding more work, more edits, and more drafts. At some point, I even considered quitting my studies and finding a job.

The community has helped me to keep going. Mathematicians and non-mathematicians alike who sent me genuinely interested questions, made me laugh in the notes, created fanart (??? I'm still baffled by this but the people who did this are the coolest in the world) and generally made me feel for the first time that mathematics isn't a universally hated subject. On some days, the only reason I was able to keep going and the only thing keeping me from experiencing burn-out was the support I got through this blog.

Today, 10/12/2023, I turned in my thesis. Thank you so much for your support!

[java-dragon]

Covers Bookbinding for beginners by a beginner- The Home Stretch

*drinks half a gallon of coffee*

COVERS!

You've gotten your typeset done for the fic, you've battled the demon that is your printer, folded pages, stitched pages, glued pages, glued end pages, and end bands. Made the cover, covered the cover in potentially homemade book cloth.

Now it's time to design a cover.

It's time to make this thing into a fully functioning book and slide it on your shelf and have a nice bout of "Laying on the Floor while Questioning the Human Condition (TM)".

There are a few options.

It depends on what you want.

I can only take you so far with Cricut/vinyl applications. But I researched enough to maybe, MAYBE give you the run down on at least how to get your cover from Canva to the software to cut out your vinyl. I'll start there since this is what I know the least.

Open up your version of Canva.

Make a document, I've seen some fanbinders make all this in the cricut software but I can only smile and nod along. But for me- this is the best I've figured:

go to the search bar and type in book cover (or use the drop down menu) click on a random template.

Fiddle and fart your way into a design you like. Text and Font Options are available in drop down menus and find some designs that are "Easy to Weed" which I understand as "Getting rid of all the stuff that's not going on the cover".

For Example:

Do you like it? It took me 40 seconds, I'm very proud of it. But this isn't to impress you really I just need to show you how to save your file so you can make the leap from one software application to the next.

Hit "Share", Hit "Download", File Type- Hit the down arrow, Hit "PNG" I missed this for the first few times--- BUT!

Click the "Transparent Background"

If you're doing more than one colour Vinyl you're going to duplicate the page that is located right next to the lock icon above the document. Hit that. Delete the stuff that you want to be different colours. Otherwise it will just cut everything out as one colour and I've seen some vinyl covers that get damn fancy.

You can also build a title cover just measure the spine and height of your spine and rotate your text to horizontal if you please.

Now for how I do mine. I use Printable Iron On Vinyl. Keynote there is a difference, there is stuff for light fabrics, and stuff for dark. Choose for what your primary book cloth will be but the paper itself will be white.

Make your design.

I have 3 different covers for Celestial Navigation by Sabrecmc just because of how LARGE the fic itself is. I had to split the text block up for ease of handling.

I saved as a PNG, and loaded up my fancy printable vinyl into my printer and went through the software for printing, I had to do some fiddling but for my purposes I had to get the whole cover in the right size on the page- it took some fiddling yours might be simpler it might be more complex. But once I got it printed I trimmed off the white and was left with a peel-able rather velvety feeling thing.

Remove the backing. Get the iron on and go low and slow with the provided barrier material to prevent melting and damage to the print you've just done.

I made spines as well and made an 11 x 8.5 (Or brochure template)

And lined up my spines accordingly as to not waste materials. There will be grids that pop up automatically to let you know if things line up.

Print them out on the "highest quality" out put for your photo software.

It peels like a sticker. It may take a bit to get it going.

Line it up as nicely as you can on the cover (double check on the still exposed board).

There is a protective sheet that comes with it USE IT. Set your iron to a low heat and move it around frequently.

If you're in a relatively humid area (I live in a coastal town so the humidity is pretty high all year). Have a heavy book to squish your covers down with to try and get out any bends that may happen post ironing (also why we want low and slow).

Leave to cool.

Now you have a text block and a cover.

For all intents and purposes for my demonstration I'm leaving the spine off and am redoing everything with this fic from the ground up. There are aspects and mistakes that I have made that have irked my brain. So I will be leaving the spines off for this round. This is the learning curve and since a lot have things have clicked into place since beginning this series that have given me the "AH HA! CLARITY!" moment. I have completely reworked EVERYTHING in my text block of Celestial Navigation. Plus I've a perfectionist issue that is a lot milder than what it was.

But these two text blocks will work as my "Ground Zero" and will be the books I compare all potential future binds too.

As a note that I said in the beginning of this endeavor:

THIS IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK DO NOT SELL WORK THAT DOES NOT BELONG TO YOU!!!! YOU HAVE ASKED PERMISSION (I dearly hope) TO DO THIS DO NOT BREAK TRUST WITH THE AUTHOR.

IF You want to offer a copy to the author- GO FOR IT. Close friend that is showing interest in the fic?? Sure ok.

But if you sell it for monetary gain? I hope you stub your toe, and just before it finally heals you stub your toe again and may all your breakfast cereal turn to slugs.

DO NOT BE A DICK. I am writing this whole 'How To' Series as an experiment of Good Faith that you, the potential binder, will do right by the community and not compound an issue that has been cropping up. Etsy sellers, and this horrible Facebook community that will steal other's typesets, and begin selling them.

Like I said- this is a breech in Fair Use.

Now with that lecture, again, out of the way lets settle the rest of this series.

You will need:

Glue

Book Press

glue brush

Wax Paper.

Your Cover.

Your Text block.

Get your textblock and cover lined up with some wax paper in the middle of the decorative pages (if you're doing them other wise the page you glue down to the cover and the rest of the text block.

Fiddle, fart and dry fit until you are satisfied.

Lay down a layer of glue on the page NOT THE COVER ITSELF.

DON'T BE ME. I FUCKED UP HARDCORE AND DID THE COVER WITH THE GLUE. HOOOOO NELLY LET ME TELL YOU HOW BADLY THAT FUCKED SHIT UP.

HOW BAD WAS IT? BAD. VERY BAD. DON'T BE LIKE ME THAT FIRST ROUND, BE LIKE ME ON THE SECOND ROUND AND PUT GLUE ON THE END PAGE.

Line up the textblock for a final time and then apply the paper to the cover open the textblock and smooth what you just glued down. Flip over and repeat.

Then add weight to the text block put it back in your press, or if you're like me and have a reprint in the press just throw books atop the block.

Allow glue to cure over night.

Shiver, shudder, and lay on the floor. Your fic is now a book that you can put on your shelf.

Welcome to the wild wild world of bookbinding.

I've been your host trying their best to explain all the things.

I will likely continue this series with "OK SO I LEARNED SOME SHIT ALL THAT SHIT I WROTE BEFORE FEEL FREE TO LISTEN BUT I'VE GOT BETTER SOLUTIONS NOW" time stuff.

[fisheito]

If you ever feel insecure about your yapping just know that I binged your entire account for the past few hours and I was hooked. Like your account to me is what cocomelon is to toddlers you have no idea how happy you make my overly stressed student heart 😔❤ (Anon because I have anxiety (for now))

??!?!? i have enough stuff on here to entertain you for HOURS??

....huh. guess i've amassed quite a hoard. porntime surely does fly....swim.move fast

[lilacerull0]

title from my favourite arden piece 💗

[bitchapalooza]

Whenever I think of England and Scotland’s relationship it’s always passive aggressive remarks, rare acts of mutual understanding and kindness and brotherly love, but most of all it’s Scotland letting England’s calls go to the machine while he pawns all his shit for the 7th time that month

[sebfreak]

TVアニメ『薫る花は凛と咲く』ファーストPV

[sevicia]

It feels like every idea about the afterlife I've seen is like "there's a good time and a bad time and maybe even an idgaf time if we feel like it" I mean besides my personal stance of You're Just Done what if it's like. There IS an afterlife (like, a permanent state of it) but it's completely unrelated to how you spent your time in life. It's always about retribution and I get that it's for like... a sense of comfort in a way, when you don't consider yourself "bad" enough to go to Hell+/adyacent, because then you get to believe that evil people get what's coming to them with no possible escape, but it's also used to control and scare people into behaving and playing into someone else's ideas of what is right and what is wrong.

Can't say I'm able to imagine it because I do believe my life is one and done (despite wanting to wake up in a different one many a time), and I DO get how someone could say everything I just said to be like "It's all meaningless anyways so you should give up on living (#nihilism #depression #middleschool)" but me personally IDGAF if it's meaningless nor do I, in practice, give a damn whether I'll wake up every day to cute little blonde angels forgiving me for my sins (being born) or if I'll spend all eternity being force-fed donuts Homer style. Due to the fact that I'll die someday. Like it's the one thing everyone is guaranteed to go through, so we're all gonna find out what's next whether we like it or not. I just don't think you should spend your life thinking about its end. Quit wasting your damn time !!! YOU SHOULD BE AT THE CLUB !!!!!!!!!

[solvicrafts]

btw I know I've got some messages and tagged posts to respond to - if you're one of the people who's tagged me in anything recently and I haven't responded yet, don't worry I haven't forgotten you!

I've just been crazy busy lately and my brain doesn't feel like braining very much right now, so I'm saving some stuff for later!

[mashmouths]

wyoming has some fuck off big bugs i'll tell you that much

[abimee]

i dont talk about tock and urianger a lot besides that i think urianger would put himself into a grave for her and she doesnt know why. the fact he lied to her went entirely over her head cause she wasnt all there in shadowbringers so to this day she doesnt know why urianger started cryind all choked up apologizing to her in amaurot but it made her feel bad but not in a bad way but in a scared way. she gets scared when the adults around her are sad because she doesnt know what it means. but shes past it now and doesnt recall what went on while urianger is still beating himself with hammers for doing that to a little girl let alone tock of all people

[songs-of-stones]

New rule: ask the dumb questions so I don't do the stupid thing.

[toestalucia]

samurai trails intro-ch4.3 thumbs up emoji. im not finishing tonite cuz i wanna icon akira and think about promise of wizard

Vyrn: Here, how about a hug? I used to do this all the time back when Captain was little and got too scared to sleep. Lyria: Vyyyrn… You're so sweet… Wrapping her arms around Vyrn like a child clutching a teddy bear, Lyria surveys the area with a pale face.

hundred yrs of life directly to my lifespan. but also whenever vyrn talks about stuff captain did as a kid,,,,,,,<-current gran is slightly embarrassed when this happens

Sato: It's exhausting having to do all the sleuthing alone, know what I mean? I'll take all the help I can get. Choice: Is there a bonus? Sato: Huh? A bonus? Oh, I see what you're getting at. I am technically making a new request, after all… Hm… Can I pay you after I become a big-name ninja? Choice: Nuh-uh. Sato: Grr, c'mon, work with me here! Vyrn: All right, that's enough teasing for one day.

as per usual the bullying option is way longer than the agreeing option LOOOLLL IM SOOOOO happy theres been so much teasing in events lately. like. i know captain does this a lot but. maybe i just react like this everytime. i like it is all. 'nuh-uh' 'thats enough teasing' ajksbdkjabjsd

Jinnai: And you will not face consequence alone, Sato. Your silly skyfarer and pseudo-samurai friends will be treated as equally guilty.

this is such a thing to say to ppl who definitely will continue the investigation regardless. calling skyfarers silly when gran always thought they were cool is alsoooo........anyway sato in this part was great, i like her

Sato: That's why I wanted to continue the investigation alone—to uncover the truth. Choice: We can help you. Vyrn: Yeah! And if things get dicey, we'll stow you on our ship and help you make a quick getaway!

Sato: You guys… I'm warning you, this has the potential to turn into a huge headache. Are you sure you're up for it? Lyria: Trust us, we know what we're getting into! Besides, we're not the kind of skyfarers to quit a job halfway!

sato do u wanna see our resume

[applecherry108]

Oh my god…. I’ve drawn enough this that I could actually do a complete art summary for once… :o