The good old days

Of all things those Pocahontas cups shot me right back in time. 

Ok but I had the Radcliffe one and my friend's little brother referred to it as "the sad man cup" and I laughed for a good five minutes solid

Who gone love me like this?

Newly released alternative take of the Han/Leia kiss scene STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

Stargate SG-1 “Double Jeopardy”

Two Jack O’Neills with two L’s…

LOL! Love Jack O'Neill squared! 💚💙❤

Fanfiction isn’t written for you, it’s shared with you.

BLESS THIS POST

[words to read and write by]

Everyone needs to remember this - writers as well. It’s okay to just write whatever you actually like and not write what people want you to.

Save All The Fic!

My primary fandom has undergone a lot of changes over the last few years and there is nothing that I mourn more than deleted fic.

A few years ago, I started downloading and archiving a good chunk of the fic that I read so that I could preserve it. I’m up to over 8.5k of fic (which I honestly don’t know whether to be impressed or highly disturbed with myself).  Here’s some tricks that I’ve discovered.

Calibre makes organization such a breeze. You can create virtual libraries, so each of your fandoms are separate, which makes searching easier. I’ve downloaded all of my purchased books from Amazon into Calibre, for example, using a plugin that inserts my DRM into the ebook and therefore makes them portable, and have a separate library for them. Mobi, Amazon, Epub, PDF, HTML are all supported.

Downloading ebooks from AO3 or using Fanficfare will probably save 80-90% fic, but you’ll probably run into fic on unsupported sites, particularly from livejournal or tumblr. Here’s some of my techniques for getting those fic.

Other methods that may or may not work for you.

Other tips:

Other tricks and tips that you have?

This is super useful information. I’m a Calibre user, too. Over the years, I’ve perfected my use of FanFicFare, and I’m on a first names basis with the developer. The Anthology options are useful if you want to download a bunch of stories from a single author. You have the option to download them separately, or have the combined in an anthology (useful for those Advent fics).

There is a “Count Pages” Calibre plug-in that counts pages as well as word. I have this set up so that it automatically runs after the FanFicFare plug in.

For multi-chapter LiveJournal and Tumblr fics, I use good old Google Docs. I use the “Reader View” in Safari to copy and paste into a Google Doc. There is a Download As option in the File Menu that includes Epub and PDF formats. I noticed that with Epubs it’s smart enough to generate a table of contents based upon the chapters.

I don’t think that Squee!book works any more.

Thank you! This is very helpful! Also, maybe I misunderstood your comment about about changing cover art, but to change the cover art of a fic/book in Calibre is very simple. Right click the book, and select Edit metadata individually:

Then, as long as you have the art saved on your computer, you can change the cover art to whatever you want. Click Browse, then locate the art, select it, and click OK. That’s it, you’re done.

Thank you!

You are right that adding cover art to calibre is as easy as you outline above, BUT that doesn’t actually add it to the EPUB (or MOBI or PDF) file itself. 

My current project is downloading all of the Big Bang and Reversebang fics with their artwork. Photobucket has suddenly decided that it’s putting watermarks on all of the linked art, so I’ve had to fix several stories. 

A picture tutorial below the cut:  

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New Girl but it’s just Nick Miller memes

25-35 is such a weird fucking age because you’re 100% a bread-and-butter Standard Edition Millennial but the cool teens are like “ok boomer” because you have a Real Job but the actual Boomers at your job are like “I’m not going to listen to a literal fucking child” as they download 16 self-replicating viruses and meanwhile the Gen Xers are telling you to refinance a mortgage for a house you don’t have and you’re sitting there at the Adults Table with the pretty tasty casserole you cooked because you’ve finally figured out how to do that now but everyone is eating the Boomer’s store-bought macaroni instead and admittedly they do sort of taste similar so it probably wasn’t worth all the trouble of cooking from scratch and you’re trying to comfort the freshly-graduated sobbing 22-year-old next to you because she just woke up here and doesn’t know where she is but you have like maybe 5k dollars in a savings account labelled RETIREMENT that grows approx. twelve cents a year and you keep eating dry macaroni while smiling incomprehensibly and periodically blacking out like ??????????

Tumblr in a nutshell

If my life was a musical, this would be the soundtrack.

endless list of otps: jessica day & nick miller (new girl) “She’s got that giant heart that’s part compass and part flashlight and she’s just the greatest person I have ever met.”

And this is tiktok we need

75% of the time if something is paywalled, fucking around in developer mode looking for a link to the real thing or finding and deleting the content blocker works like a charm

also if ur lazy like me or just straight up cant figure out how to do this without deleting 90% of the page  theres this extention called Poper Blocker which not only.. blocks popups. but also has this thing called “Remove Overlay” when u right click which works a good 99% of the time in my experience in getting rid of paywalls.

I bet in the 20s all the weird German emo girls were thirsting after the Somnambulist

German emo girls be like “ich will 😍🥺”

Don’t hide this magnificent piece of info in the tags.

The bloke (Conrad Veidt) was an outspoken opponent of antisemitism, and when he refused to divorce his wife (who was Jewish), Joseph Goebbels had him blacklisted.

He also donated tons and tons of money to poor children who had been negatively effected by the Blitz in London after he moved to the US, following his becoming a naturalised-British citizen after leaving Germany in the 1930s.

Don’t forget that in 1919, he starred in “Different from the Others”, a German film protesting the anti-homosexuality laws in place. It’s widely regarded as the first pro-gay film. Conrad Veidt was a goddamn hero.

I just feel like this pic is relevant to the discussion

OTP MEME: [2/2] colors RAINBOW