Art Yuletide

For artyuletide, which survived despite my tumblr deletion!* <3 <3 <3

To: igoss

From: potofsoup

Fandom: Doctor Who / Torchwood

I doodled this idea directly after the episode with King James and the witch-hunters. <3

(obviously what happens next is that the Doctor tries to """borrow""" Jack’s vortex manipulator because she left her TARDIS on a planet of bugs or some such. Jack gets distracted hitting on Ryan)

Crossposted: https://artyuletide.dreamwidth.org/4714.html


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* Literally the way I discovered that my account had been deleted was that I was like "oh I should go remind people to submit their art yuletide forms!" and then ... not being able to log in. This was followed by a panicked email to my artyuletide peeps from last year, and people signed up! Despite there being NOTHING except a sketchy email from me. So this year's artyuletide is near and dear to my heart. <3 <3 <3

Snowflake Challenge Day 1

Day 1

In your own space, talk about your Happy Place—the things that give you joy, calms you or keeps you sane.

All right, let's do this. My happy place is a boba shop where they are playing crappy c-pop. Every Saturday and Sunday, when we get babysitting and finally (!!!) have a few hours to ourselves, that's where we go. We pack our laptops or drawing tablets or whatever, walk the 5 blocks to a boba shop, and instantly I feel more relaxed. It functions in much the same way that being on a train would: there's enough people and stuff around that I can be by myself without being alone. I get my best grading and planning done in a boba shop. Plus the walk is a time when I get to have nice conversations with Hoosband. We talk best when we're walking.

Why a boba shop? I can't drink coffee, and I love the salty snack options in a boba shop. There's a certain degree of sketchiness that I love, too. In fact, I picked our house in part because it's within walking distance to a boba shop. We drink boba so much that I got us reuseable cups and these great glass boba straws, so now our recycling isn't clogged up with boba cups! :D!!

reblog: Everyone writes someone's unforgivable

cluegirl wrote:

I don’t care what you write -- the fluffiest of Curtainfics, High School YA pastiches, or a string of First Kiss Coffeeshop AU’s, there is someone out there on the internet who hates it, despises you for writing it, and thinks it should be scrubbed from the Internet, and its creator banned and/or jailed forever.

YOU write someone’s “unforgivable content”.

Full post at: https://cluegirl.dreamwidth.org/1517805.html

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bluewinged_songbird made a post with some helpful html for fancy image alignment! :D

DW for tumblrites part 2.9: Scheduling Posts

[DW for tumblrites masterpost]

I recently found myself really wishing that there was a scheduled posting feature on DW -- for artyuletide, everything needed to post on Jan 1, and I wanted it to be spaced out. What I ended up doing was having the community be moderated, and queue up a bunch of posts in the moderation queue, and then occasionally release a few into the wild using the mod approval system. However, that still meant checking in every so often.

BUT, there actually is another way. bluewinged_songbird mentioned using post-by-email as a way to schedule things. I just checked, and it's pretty easy to set up.

To set up post-by-email, you go to Mobile Post settings: https://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/emailpost (or Organize -> Manage Account -> Mobile).

Here, you first enter the email that you will be posting from. Then you pick a "PIN". Given that it accepts letters and numbers and can be anything 4 or more characters long, it's more like a password than a pin. Anyway, after you select your pin, you're all set up to post via email!

You open up your email, and in the to: field, type in your username+PIN@post.dreamwidth.org . (Make sure to save it to your contacts, so that you don't have to remember it in the future. If, for some reason, you don't want your PIN in there, you can also just send to username@post.dreamwidth.org, and put +PIN in your email subject or body text)

Here is a sample email, assuming that my PIN is the wonderfully brilliant "1234":

from: [redacted]@gmail.com
to: potofsoup+1234@post.dreamwidth.org

subject: This is my post title

post-security: private
post-tags: dw how-to
post-mood: fiddling with DW

Well, this is a test post from email! :D

A few things about posting by email:
- It accepts HTML
- Any image you attach gets automatically uploaded and slapped onto the end of your post in a simple image tag with no resizing, so... take it as you will
- add: there's a linebreak every 70-80 characters, because they take the text-only version of your email, which is automatically sent with those line breaks. :/
- You can set stuff like post security and tags and other stuff by putting it at the top of your email:
( here are the options )

Cool. So how does Post By Email help with scheduling posts?

Because there's a variety of email add-on options that let you schedule your emails. For example, Right Inbox lets you schedule 10 emails per month for free. So you can create an email post, and schedule it to post at the date and time of your choice. :D!!