Schlagwort: reference

bychloethemes:

Alternate Tumblr Controls

As some of you may have noticed, tumblr has begun rolling out new tumblr controls. They’re now huge and span the entire width of your blog. 

Tumblr have been extremely careless with implementing this, since they didn’t even account for fixed headers on blog, and have just slapped this right on the top. 

Anyway, this post is here as a compromise. It’s not as good as the old controls, mainly in that you need a new window to follow someone, but it’s the best we can do.

Important notes:

  • The follow button and share button launch popup windows, to be more convenient than opening a new tab, or going to another page in the current tab.
  • You will no long be able to press “edit theme” on your blog. To customise your blog go to http://tumblr.com/customize/YOURURL
  • You will no longer be able to delete posts from permalink pages. Instead, use the mass post editor: http://tumblr.com/mega-editor/YOURURL
  • You will no longer be able to edit posts from the permalink pages. Instead, you will need to go to http://tumblr.com/edit/POSTID The post ID can be identified through the permalink page url. Below is an example with the post ID highlighted in yellow.
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How to install:

Finally:

  • Credit is not required, but if someone asks, please direct them here or to this post.
  • In saying that, theme makers if you use I expect some form of acknowledgement.
  • If you found this helpful please like and reblog.
  • The icons are by Anton Saputro and can be found here.
  • I will help with minor customisation at my discretion.
  • It should also be noted that I cannot predict all the code in every theme, so this may not always look as expected. In this case you can ask for customisation help.
  • If you prefer white tumblr controls / icons add above </style> 
#tumblr-controls{-webkit-filter:invert(100%);filter:invert(100%);}

ladyyatexel:

ao3org:

wrangletangle:

niauve:

i am super duper appreciative of ao3 and the shit they have to put up with for us assholes

but i’d really like to request a function where you can say ‘ok i want this pairing at this rating with this tag bUT I DONT WANNA SEE THIS VERY PARTICULAR TAG AND THIS VERY PARTICULAR TAG MIGHT BE DESTIEL’

This function exists! The links below all describe the same basic task (removing a tag from your search results), based on different goals or comfort levels with AO3. If you know AO3 really well, try the first 3 sets of links. If not so well, try the last 3. (Dizmo’s has pictures so is possibly easiest.)

Good luck, and drop me an ask if you get stuck!

The Search Within Results Field and You, Part 1
The Search Within Results Field and You, Part 2
The Search Within Results Field and You, Round Up

Jan’s 7-Step Tutorial on how to filter out Characters and/or Relationships on AO3

Dizmo’s simplified explanation (with pictures)

Toasty’s shipping helper

Convenient round-up!

(Note that the first link contains some other nifty things you can do with the filters, like showing only one-shots, or works above a certain word count, or only your private bookmarks. o/)

Reblogging this because this super helped me out!  I hadn’t even looked for any kind of fanfic in months because I didn’t think I had the ability to do this~

violaboss:

I’ve seen a lot of curious people wanting to dive into classical music but don’t know where to start, so I have written out a list of pieces to listen to depending on mood. I’ve only put out a few, but please add more if you want to. hope this helps y’all out. 🙂

stereotypical delightful classical music:

if you need to chill:

if you need to sleep:

if you need to wake up:

if you are feeling very proud:

if you feel really excited:

if you are angry and you want to take a baseball bat and start hitting a bush:

if you want to cry for a really long time:

if you want to feel like you’re on an adventure:

if you want chills:

if you want to study:

if you really want to dance:

if you want to start bouncing in your chair:

if you’re about to pass out and you need energy:

if you want to hear suspense within music:

if you want a jazzy/classical feel:

if you want to feel emotional with no explanation:

if you want to sit back and have a nice cup of tea:

pieces that don’t really have a valid explanation:

pieces that just sound really cool:

if you feel like listening to concertos all day (I do not recommend doing that):

and if you really just hate classical music in general:

a lot of these pieces apply in multiple categories, but I sorted them by which I think they match the most. have fun exploring classical music!

also, thank you to viola-ology and iwillsavemyworld for adding on! if you would like to add on your own suggestions, please reblog and add on or message me so I can give you credit for the suggestion!

Tolkien full texts

contemporaryelfinchild:

Because my blog is getting a lot of traffic right now, I feel it’s a good opportunity to link to the online texts of Tolkien’s books for anyone who wants to read or reference them. 

Here is the Hobbit

Here is the Fellowship of the Ring

Here is the Two Towers 

Here if the Return of the King

Here is the Silmarillion 

Here is all 12 volumes of the History of Middle Earth (HoME)

Here is the Children of Húrin

thoughtsfromthewritersdesk:

rage-quitter:

I was getting pretty fed up with links and generators with very general and overused weapons and superpowers and what have you for characters so:

Here is a page for premodern weapons, broken down into a ton of subcategories, with the weapon’s region of origin. 

Here is a page of medieval weapons.

Here is a page of just about every conceived superpower.

Here is a page for legendary creatures and their regions of origin.

Here are some gemstones.

Here is a bunch of Greek legends, including monsters, gods, nymphs, heroes, and so on. 

Here is a website with a ton of (legally attained, don’t worry) information about the black market.

Here is a website with information about forensic science and cases of death. Discretion advised. 

Here is every religion in the world. 

Here is every language in the world.

Here are methods of torture. Discretion advised.

Here are descriptions of the various methods used for the death penalty. Discretion advised.

Here are poisonous plants.

Here are plants in general.

Feel free to add more to this!

I need these.

AO3 Work Search Tips: Archive Warnings

snowgall:

If you’re like me, you use the AO3 Work Search form all the time to help zero in on the fics you want to read. But this form has some weird quirks. Take the “warnings” section for example:

What do I do if I want to search for fics that don’t include Major Character Death? If I just check the MCD tag like so:

Then my search brings up all fics that DO contain MCD!

I can instead choose “No Archive Warnings Apply” of course, but that will also rule out “Violence”, “Non-Con”, and “Underage” and maybe I’m OK with those. All I want to do is to avoid MCD, that’s all.

I can try adding -“major character death” to the search terms, but doing so will also rule out any fics tagged with benign variations like “temporary major character death”.

What I want to do is specifically avoid fics which use the MCD archive warning. So how do I do that?

You need to make use of the specialized search parameter terms that AO3 actually sends to its servers when you use the work search form. For the archive warnings, these are as follows:

  • Chose not to use = warning_ids:14
  • None Apply = warning_ids:16
  • Violence = warning_ids:17
  • MCD = warning_ids:18
  • Rape = warning_ids:19
  • Underage = warning_ids:20

So, if I want to rule out MCD and only MCD, I search for “-warning_ids:18″ (the hyphen before the search term means “not”) by entering that into the “Any Field” search bar:

And voila! All fics except those with MCD warnings!

If you want to avoid violence or non-con or underage instead, simply change the warning_ids number to the one you want to rule out. You can also rule out more than one at a time, like so:

Combine this with your other favorite search terms and happily find the fics you want and avoid those you don’t 🙂

You can use variations on this trick to more accurately search for specific categories and ratings too. If people are interested, I’ll make a separate post about those.