#wallau

[torstenmolter]

Romotop Esquina 3G mit #holzregal im #ofenhausmainspitze #kaminofen #holzofen #ofen #kamin #wohnzimmer #einrichtung #architektur #mainz #wiesbaden #frankfurt #rüsselsheim #grossgerau #hochheim #hofheim #wallau #rüdesheim #eltville #ingelheim #oppenheim #stromberg #ginsheim #kostheim #kastel #rheinmain #rheingau #rheinhessen https://www.ofenhaus-mainspitze.de (hier: Ginsheim-Gustavsburg) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqJDN3SMJ5l/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[soulhavens]

only to be hit in the face with feelings by the dream ):<

THE LOADING SCREEN FOR REST BY THE FIRE IS SO BEAUTIFUL

[ostrichmonkey-games]

Ostrichmonkey Hack: Layout Behind the Scenes

Been procrastinating on this enough! So here is a look at some of the process and decisions that went into doing the layout for the Ostrichmonkey Hack.

Let's start with the goals I had in mind:

Keep it simple.

Keep it easy to make.

With those goals set, next step is gathering materials and resources (not all of this was done as cleanly as I'm making it out to be, but this is the gist).

Materials used:

Classic Explorer Template

Affinity Publisher and Photo

Fonts

Art

The text itself

The Classic Explorer Template was critical in getting this layout done efficiently, since it does a lot of the work for you. It's not a replacement for having a rough idea on how to do layout, but it can serve as a nice tutorial/explainer on different elements of layout and typesetting, and honestly, is worth its (digital) weight in gold. There's a free version available if you want to check out what it offers.

I use the Affinity Suite for my layout work. It's a nice set of programs with a manageable learning curve, but there are plenty of other alternatives so go with whatever works for you (one of my favorite elements of using multiple Affinity programs is that within Publisher, you can access both Designer (vector illustration) and Photo (photo editing, illustration etc) functions, which is just a nice workflow).

Here's what my setup looks like, with all the guidelines/base grid stuff turned on;

Normally I start with some style tests and “sketches” to get a feel for what I want the layout to look like, but the Classic Explorer’s does a lot of that heavy lifting for me already so I get to skip this step for this project. Speed and efficiency is one of the main reasons I wanted to use the template - this was envisioned as a “I just need to get something done” kind of project.

So next up on getting it done, fonts!

There are lots of great places to get fonts from, just make sure you're getting them from legitimate sources. Do your homework and make sure that "free" font is actually free to use in commercial projects.

I pulled three fonts from the depths of my collection.

One for the title and main headers (Wallau Deutsch)

One for the second header (Rakkas)

One for the body text (PT Serif)

Technically a secret fourth font for some "bullet points" (1651 Alchemy)

I picked these fonts out because they work together well and are readable. The title/main header fonts are comparatively less readable, but you can get away with that since headers are Big and used less frequently. The second header (Rakkas) is a nice middle ground between a full on blackletter font like the main header, and the classic-y serif of the body text. It creates a transition between the two fonts.

I used PT Serif since it was already in the template, but it also had the bold/italics versions I knew I would need, is readable at a variety of sizes, and had all the special glyphs I would need (it actually did not, but whoops, we'll get to that later).

Normally when I start layout, I do a quick "sketch page" where I try out different fonts and style tests that can look something like this;

But that wasn't necessary for this project (another advantage of the using the template).

Now, let's get to some choices in formatting the text itself.

Each time a key term came up, it was highlighted by bolding and italicizing it. Any time after that, it was just normal text. I went back and forth on highlighting it every single time, but the current format just looked cleaner so it won out.

Additionally, in several places in the text, rather than introducing a third header (which just broke up the page too much, disrupting the flow and clean look), I instead put what would have been the new third header (HP or WOUNDS in the above example) in all caps and behind a colon. This ended up not disrupting the text too much, and was only necessary a handful of times. But when it was necessary, I made sure to stay consistent. Consistent and organized formatting is one of the key ways to make your layout look nice and clean.

Aside from changing some font choices, one of the other ways I tweaked the template was with some spacing (between "sections", like in the above text, introducing an extra line break between the Attributes and Staying Alive sections) and the "bullet points".

The large bullet points that accompany the second headers are actually a glyph pulled from a different font. I picked that one out specifically because its just a little irregular and handwritten looking (1651 Alchemy is a handwritten styled font), and it also helped pull you to the start of new sections, further enhancing the second header. It helps make each section discrete and more "modular".

Back to extra spacing for a second now. So each "chapter" of the text uses the main header to designate it as a full "chapter".

"Characters" up top there is one of those chapter headers. It's nice and big and special, and also takes up a good chunk of space. One a full spread, this also means that the second page of text begins higher up than the text on the first page (compare where Attributes starts vs where Dying starts).

I played around with the format of spreads that did not have a main chapter header on them, starting the first page text up toward the top to have it line up with the second page. Which, probably would have been totally fine, but I preferred the look when each spread had the same kind of spacing. But repeating the main header on each spread was too clunky. So the solution;

Bam! A line!

Blank empty space looked too empty, but slapping a quick line there took up just enough visual space for it to work. Then, I carried that line-design-language to other places (to separate footnotes from the body text, within the tables, and sort of on the cover). This then made the line choice feel even more cohesive and purposeful.

And speaking of footnotes, that was another extra tweak/flourish I added not present in the template (the sidebars are part of the template, but sidebars rule so they would have happened regardless). The footnotes served as a way to share specific references as an informal "works cited". A lot of NSR/OSR design is super iterative, so I thought it would be cool to shout out some of the more direct inspirations and references I used when making my game.

But the footnotes were also kind of not really my downfall. Turns out PT Serif didn't seem to have all the necessary footnote glyphs, nor did it want to make proper superscripts of integers past 3. So, rather than trying to find a new body font (or deal with the headache of using a font solely for superscript notation), I just fudged the formatting some and stuck to asterisks, and restarting "numbering" on each spread. Oh well.

Let's now briefly touch on laying out tables.

It sucks.

My advice is find an example of a really nice looking table and then try and figure out what makes it look nice, and then doing that forever. Luckily, the template saves me again by including multiple examples of tables, ripe for tweaking. Which ended up looking like this;

Nice and clean! Hooray!

Okay, there's a lot of small decisions that goes into making text properly formatted and look nice, but I skipped some of those decisions and didn't go ham on typesetting, but whatever. That all about covers the important parts regarding the text. Now let's talk about art.

Public domain art is your best friend.

I went and trawled through a bunch of art I've saved from the Met's Open Access collection (there's plenty of great open access collections out there, just happened to have some from the Met handy), and settled on this piece;

Which I then dropped into Affinity Photo and played around until I ended up with this;

Nothing too wild, but it Felt Right, so it's done.

I then immediately dropped that onto the cover page, slapped the title on, added a quick border (and also spent some time trying to fix some weird issues that ended up being solved by just rasterizing it, whoops) and bam;

And that's the only art piece used throughout the zine! But I made the most out of it. Between each chapter, I had a single splash page and dropped in different zoomed/cropped versions of the art. Like so (and even on the back cover!);

The original image was high resolution, so zooming in worked, plus the effects/distortions I created hid any imperfections.

So that's the art sorted and the zine finished!

Now, this is getting pretty long, so if there's anything anyone reading this is interested that I didn't touch on, shout in the notes!

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Greg Owen at LGBTQ Nation:

Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), has blamed transgender inclusion for America’s declining schools. Ahead of the Ohio senator’s highly anticipated debate with Democratic VP nominee Tim Walz on Tuesday, Vance test-drove his trans line of attack on Saturday on stage with Lance Wallau, a notorious anti-LGBTQ+ hate pastor currently on a stealth Trump campaign revival tour. “Creeping socialism” and “87 different genders” are “poisoning in the minds of our kids,” Vance claimed in a trademark ramble in answer to a question from Wallnau, a Christian nationalist conspiracy theorist. “First of all,” Vance said, “the American education system used to be the envy of the world, rich or poor alike. We believe in this country that every person deserves a quality education.” “Well, now we’ve got American children who can’t add five plus five, but they can tell you that there are 87 different genders,” the one-time venture capitalist claimed. “And I think both of those things are related.”

According to Vance, American schools funded by taxpayer dollars are now akin to Communist reeducation camps brainwashing our children with “radical ideas.” This picture paints teachers like Walz, a former coach and social studies teacher in Minnesota public schools, as radical purveyors of Godless socialist ideology and a threat to America’s Christian heritage. “Because we’re teaching kids radical ideas,” Vance continued, “we’re not teaching them the basics. We’re not teaching them reading, writing, arithmetic, the things that every child needs in order to live a good life. “And that is to your point,” Vance told Wallnau, “this creeping socialism in our schools. We’ve got to get it out of there, and I think we cut off the money. Stop spending your tax dollars on radical organizations that are poisoning the minds of our kids.”

JD Vance = transphobic clown.

[letterlibrary]

Wallau #woodtype 14 cicero

[cosmoshungers-sge-specials]

Not my best work but BRINGING THIS BACK FOR SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE DAY

WELSH TEDROS HEADCANONS

He spoke Welsh with both his parents and Merlin but no-one (bar the palace staff) spoke Welsh with him after Arthur's death so his Welsh is abysmal

Like on a conversational level it's fine but grammatically. god.

Merlin has to give him Welsh lessons in the run up to his coronation because he speaks in fluent Wenglish

Tedros cannot get the hang of mutations and he spends every waking moment complaining about them. He actually seriously looks into banning them as his first act as king

Agatha also starts learning Welsh as part of her preparation to be Queen. She's better at the grammar than Tedros is but she can't roll her "r" so Tedros gets to keep some of his pride

Part of her education consists of mythology nights in the Celestium with Merlin and Tedros. They cover most of the Mabinogi and some of Arthur's earlier history

Not Blodeuwedd though. Tedros very pointedly avoids Blodeuwedd. I WONDER WHY

50% of mythology night is Merlin and Tedros arguing over minor details in the myths. They are both from different areas and they are both convinced that their regional version of each myth is the correct one.

When Tedros reunited with Gwen during TLEA she would try and speak to him in Welsh and he would reply in English.

He started speaking Welsh with her once they started to reconcile and he remembered Lancelot could only understand half of what they were saying when they spoke Welsh

Lancelot is Breton by the way. This is not relevant but I thought you should know

Sophie had a terrible time staying with Gwen and Lance because Gwen cooks like a true Welshwoman. (Mountains of butter and cheese. Mountains)

Agatha loved it

Anglesey eggs have become her go-to stress eating food. Gwen sends it directly to the palace via Merlin because the Camelot chefs have never touched a carbohydrate in their lives.

Tedros only misses a few mutations in his coronation speech AND he manages to channel his grammar-induced rage into pulling Excalibur so it’s a win all round!

[vasilsblog]

Wallau Nordenstadt

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[sibyllelienhard]

Warten am Ortsrand, eigentlich langweilig und nichts zu sehen, aber eigentlich doch nicht, kann man auch zeichnen: die Autobahnschilder und das Rauschen der Autobahn, eine rote Hüpfinsel irgendwie im Gewerbegebiet, kleinmotorige Flugzeuge ✈️ im Tiefflug, der Acker leuchtet, dunkle Erde und der Geruch vom Abend im Herbst… das letzte Leuchten am Himmel. Das Baugebiet von 1980 ca? wäre eine eigene Zeichnung wert gewesen. Die verschiedenen Nutzungen von Erkern (Fernsehzimmer, Fitnesszimmer, Abstellkammer…) und die vielen Garagentore. #uskrheinmain #urbansketching #urbansketch #landscapesketch #sketchwhilewaiting #feldrand #ortsrand #autobahninsicht #vorort #wallau #hofheimwallau @maiengruen.de @uskrheinmain #grüneracker (hier: Gewerbegebiet Wallau-Hofheim) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkmDBhirtB5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[torstenmolter]

Nunnauuni #specksteinofen #speicherofen mit #backofen #backen #backenmachtglücklich #holzbackofen #kamin #warm #villa #haus #gemütlich #autark #mainz #wiesbaden #frankfurt #darmstadt #hanau #nordenstadt #wallau #stromberg #rheingau #ofenhausmainspitze #speckstein #warm #winter #ferienhaus https://www.ofenhaus-mainspitze.de (hier: Ginsheim-Gustavsburg) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp9-IuuMAFh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[simba-raunheim]

Die #Piratenbraut Anja beim KIDS ESCAPE in #Wallau 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ Wir bauen den mobilen #Escaperoom bei euch auf 🤗🤗🤗 #mobilerescaperoom #kidsescape #kidsescaperoom #roomescape #Rheinmain #taunus #hessen #mainz #wiesbaden #frankfurt #kindergeburtstag #pirat #geocachingmitkindern #roomescape #exit #exitgame #escapetheroom #escaperoomfürkinder #darmstadt #hanau (at Wallau, Hessen, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeLkQG_IGDn/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[thonydesign]

Sunset #frankfurt #ThonyDesign #sunset #afterwork #wbn #wiesbaden #wallau #photography #picoftheday #bestoftheday #urban #artwork #creative #graphic #graphics #artoftheday #instaart #instagood (hier: Wallau, Hessen, Germany)

[skyearts]

° ° ° #retro #hujicam #kujicam #huji #kujicamera #kujifilter #hujicamera #hujifilter #hujicam📸 #hujiphoto #hujiapp #kujiapp #kujiphoto #hujiphotography #kujiphotography #retrofilter #retrophotography #retrophoto #wallau #hessen #katzi https://www.instagram.com/p/B2CYAaDoGRk/?igshid=1kbm7813jmzzj

[stockmarket3334]

Unfall Rastede heute 03.08.22 | Rastede unfall Bahnübergang

Unfall Rastede heute 03.08.22 | Rastede unfall Bahnübergang

Unfall Rastede heute Was ist heute in Rastede passiert? Alles, was Sie interessiert, finden Sie in unserem Artikel. Nachrichten vom Unfallort, Aussagen der Behörden und alle anderen Details. Lesen Sie unseren Artikel bis zum Ende. Unfall Rastede Bahnübergang heute Verkehrsunfall in Rastede im Moment: Was ist heute passiert? Die Polizeiinspektion Ingelheim informiert über die heutigen…

[valparaisomexico]

25. Wallau, de G.A. Chaves de venta en @libreriasgandhi 

Desde rehacer “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” y mezclar alusiones a Dylan Thomas y Robert Hass, hasta una apropiación de Miguel Bosé, Wallau es un libro donde se consigna lo contemporáneo y lo atemporal: una elegía, una despedida al padre, pero también un encuentro con las raíces, los recuerdos y un hoy dibujado a partir de lugares y memorias.

Andrea Rivas

Entre lo elegíaco y lo festivo, a gusto por igual en el vero libre y el formal, los poemas de G.A. Chaves hablan de un modo profundamente moderno sobre asuntos eternamente humanos: la amistad, el dolor, lo que significa crear. Estos poemas resonarán en el oído y el corazón de los lectores mucho después de que hayan cerrado el libro.

Jennifer Minniti-Shippey (Jefa de edición, Poetry International)

Este libro es la crónica de un álbum ancestral, una búsqueda de identidad entre los patios donde ayer florecieron los nísperos, a través del exteriorismo nostálgico de un joven poeta que congeló el tiempo para que las cosas nunca acaben de irse.

Osvaldo Sauma

foto de portada de @rayini