#val’s advice

[soullessseraphim]

Move, Lucio. It's their turn with the fur

Testing things out oouhouhououwowooowhhohw

[fishyartist]

[inkesse]

For the first time ever, I used tarot as a method to try and contact Lord Apollo. I've been anxious about it for a while, but today the sun shone brightly and I saw some beautiful art of him, so I just.. felt compelled to give it a try. It went better than I ever could have expected and I truly do feel cared for, and that what I do in devotion to him is enough.

[harrowscore]

if only i could pull off a convincing harrowhark nonagesimus cosplay for the next lucca comics.....

[august-undergrounds]

i miss him . ... wife what are your tips on getting over someone this shit is getting pathetic and im considering getting into a car crash to get memory loss at this point

imagine him trying to pull the fitted sheet over his mattress and he’s crawled over it struggling like a little bitch and it keeps slipping out of his hands so he’s just pathetically fighting and grasping at this piece of fabric. if that doesn’t work you can also imagine him incorrectly putting the cover on his duvet, like he’s put it in inside out and then put the short ends where the long ends would go, and at some point he got lost in there and it’s taken like twenty minutes and he’s had to take breaks because of how much his arms hurt. should do the trick.

[imjustavenuxwithaboomerang]

hsmtmts + text posts (pt 3)

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[pinkyjulien]

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[judesstfrancis]

see the thing is it's hard to make friends in your 20s but also if u don't do that how are u supposed to like. Find Someone right but then also in your 20s is when people start pairing off For Real so by the time you DO make friends they already have someone or are like making the steps TO have someone but it's also like well if I meet people for the specific purpose to date them I will never feel comfortable enough to actually Like them on a romantic level bc now I feel pressured to feel that way about them bc we entered some sort of weird social contract when we said hey let's see each other for the sole purpose to date instead of just hanging out and seeing what happens. but then like once again if u are just hanging out and seeing what happens then like okay neither of u are connected in any which way except that u like to watch movies on weekends and get dinner with the rest of your friends twice a month and then like okay maybe they find someone that they DO get together with for the express purpose to date bc once again u two are just hanging out so there's no obligation there and u cannot even get mad bc like. yeah you're just pals what are u gonna do say they can't have fun on a date so then you're just like. chilling. by yourself. which is FINE but you'd like to not be by yourself once or twice so like. lather rinse repeat u know. anyway what was I saying

[high-pot-in-noose]

Formal Titles for Noblemen Who Aren't Noblemen YET

In my past post here, where I discussed titles and forms of address of the aristocracy and gentry, I mentioned right off the bat that the term 'heir' (popular pseudo-title in fanfiction) is not a title and also will never be one since there is currently no method of retroactively adding a definition to a lexicon.

In this post here, I suggested a potential alternative to the favored but incorrect 'Heir' that could be used in a historical fantasy setting, but in truth there are already historical titles/terms of address that fulfill this role — they are simple rather archaic.

Childe

The strict definition of this word is 'a nobleman's son who has yet to attain knighthood;' essentially, an aristocratic squire. A young man might be called 'Childe Tristan.' It's a rank within chivalry rather than strictly aristocracy, so the person's forename is used rather than their surname.

However, in recent decades, the term has also been popular in vampire fiction to mean an offspring vampire (while the creating vampire is called a 'sire'). In this case, 'childe' is entirely gender-neutral, albeit not a title nor term of address but just a descriptive noun.

Combining these two definitions, it would be very easy to use 'Childe' within a historical fantasy setting or even an urban fantasy setting where an aristocracy and/or gentry is involved.

Ætheling

This can also be written as aetheling, atheling, or etheling. This word is pre-Norman Conquest. During most of the Anglo-Saxon rule of England, it meant 'a prince of the royal dynasty eligible for the kingship.' However, it should be noted that kingships weren't usually hereditary during that era but dependant on election or competition, so it doesn't quite mean 'prince' in the way we know it now.

It should also be noted that in the earliest years of that era, 'aetheling' originally meant any person of noble birth, royal or otherwise. It was often later used in a poetic sense to mean 'a good and noble (of character) man.'

If the setting you're writing can be argued to be using a language where the word continued to be used as the original Anglo-Saxon rather than evolved the way it did and then died out, I'd say 'aetheling' is a banger alternative to the incorrect 'Heir.'

There's even a Latinized Germanic form — 'Adelin' — which can can suit a modern fantasy setting. (Ignore how it's also the name of a village in Poland lol)

[angelwiththeblue-box]

okay pls if anyone has done animatics before i need help how do you make it look like the camera is moving without the characters moving?

[valentinerose529]

Looking for advice on restorative bookbinding!

I recently learned about fanbinding and custom bookbinding, and I've decided it would be a super neat thing to learn how to do. Since i've never done anything like it before besides like, those little books we'd make in elementary school with folded printer paper and a staple gun, I'm looking for outside advice!

I got a very nice sci-fi book from my dad, but calling it well-loved is an understatement.

It's torn completely in half, but in my (limited) experience it's still salvageable. Like, as a book, it's still usable, i can and do read it i'm just careful with the outermost pages of each chunk.

I'd like to try my hand at rebinding this book, just as a beginner side project, since it's here and I already own it and nobody will read it except me, so who cares if the binding job is sloppy or crooked?

Each half is mostly solid, although the cover pieces and outer pages are only hanging on by threads.

The paper of the spine is pretty cracked, but the two cover pieces are in pretty good condition except for nicks and fraying around the edges.

the second chunk has a hole in the top page, but it only takes out like two words and i'm ninety percent sure i can extrapolate the blanks from the context if/when i patch that page.

It's about 860 pages long not counting the non-story ones like title pages, about the author, etc. I know there's a limit for how many pages certain binding styles can handle.

it's also printed on like, i don't know the name for it but it's that really thin yellowish paper that a ton of those old paperbacks are printed in (is pulp fiction the right word?)

Since it's a paperback, it doesn't have endpapers per se. Whatever cover I made and attached, would I need endpapers to glue to the inner cover? Would it be better to sacrifice the existing first and last pages to be endpapers (which i don't mind doing since the first has a story snippet and the last is blank), or better to glue dedicated endpapers to the text block at the same time I glue the two chunks together?

I don't really have a preference on hardback or paperback cover, I think hardbacks are easier for beginners to make?

I'd like to preserve the cover or at least the design of it somehow, so one of my ideas is to scan the cover and spine and print them out bigger onto a larger piece of paper if I decide to go with a hardback cover.

The second chunk has the paper of the spine on it (also hanging on by a thread). I'm not sure if I should scrape off the leftover spine paper/glue that's on the spines of the text blocks before I glue on a cover, or if it'll be fine to glue a fresh cover on top of it (after separating the graphic paper of the spine).

In terms of materials, I actually own a bottle of acid free archival quality book glue (I bought it ages ago in hopes of patching another book that tore in half from use), I have plenty of scrapbooking paper and cotton fabric left over from other projects, and I think my local makerspace has a dedicated bookbinding press!

It's a neat story, but the physical book itself has no sentimental value to me or my dad, so if I can't fix it I'll just buy a fresh copy and sacrifice this one as material for other paper crafts. I just thought it'd be a fun place to start learning how to bookbind, rather than trying to format and print and shape a fresh text block from scratch.

If you need more info about this project, please ask and I'm happy to share it. Any advice is appreciated, and thank you in advance!

[fossys]

personal system stuff n sh mentions below, but we would like advice so if you are comfortable feel free to read

so ive never gotten to publicly talk about this bcs our irls follow all of our mains but. we have sh scars (on the collective body). we have been clean for almost 6 months (wooho!!) but anon n noire r very on edge about it n i wanna try n help them (i have anons permission to post this even though they disagree with me lmfao).

basically; we hide them and people in our irl besides like 2 select friends do *not* know we ever self harmed. we have some on our arm n some on our thighs so we basically stay fully covered most of the time.

Noire really wants to tell the bodies parents, considering they are all healed, we have been clean for a while, and we know that the bodies dad has dealt with it. Noire is also sick of constantly hiding it because it means we cant dress the body how a lot of us would like to (it also means we havent gone swimming something a lot of us love in a while, because it wasnt until the other day we actually got a swimsuit that could cover all of them.) _ so noire really wants to just sit down with one of the bodys parents and tell them so we can get it over with and stop feeling so bad about it (also bcs it almost got revealed a couple times already).

Anon does not want to do this, since he doesnt trust them or how theyd react to it, and he would rather hide it as long as we possibly can.

see, noire is our primary decision maker n i feel like they should, but it takes anons feelings about it into high priority because they are close, anon fronts a lot of the time and would be affected by how they react, (and the best way i can word this is a lot of them were anons).

so we are kinda stuck in the middle right now. noire would do the talking and actually reveal it, but anon would be affected a lot by how they react. i want to tell them for person benefit, target doesnt seem to care but i think hes nervous about it, glitch couldnt care less, walk thinks we should tell them as well, but ik some of the other fronters that are close with anon arent into the idea of telling them either so. we really dont know what to do right now n need some advice <3

[inkesse]

What do other worshippers of Apollo think/feel about having their altar somewhere that isn't in sunlight? It's probably not a big deal, but part of me feels a little bad and disappointed about it.

My current plans are on a shelf of a bookcase in my room, but it's kinda in a corner so it's always a little dark over there even if my light is on and the window is open with the sun shining through. There's not any other place with enough space for the things I'd like to have for an altar, and I just feel a little bad about the only spot I can put it being kinda dark and gloomy-feeling. Any suggestions, advice or input?

[harrowscore]

i can't write action/fight scenes for shit 😭😭

[rosemariecawkwell]

TBR Review: Spec Fic For Newbies, vol. 1, by Tiffani Angus and Val Nolan

ISBN: 978-1-915556-12-7Price: £16.99https://www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page/spec-fic-for-newbies Description Release Date March 28, 2023.Locus Recommended Reading List 2023BSFA for Best Non-Fiction, Shortlist 2024BFS for Best Non-Fiction, Shortlist 2024 Spec Fic For Newbies: A Beginner's Guide to Writing Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. Tiffani Angus (Ph.D.) and Val…

[kittykatkatelol]

fucking hell i'm losing it :3

(guys i'm fine /srs i think-)