I see this a lot, no one has actual names, or any reference for names, that are legit Native American, varying among the tribes, for their characters.
Babynames.com and shit like that will give you names made up by white people.
However, I’ve got your solution.
Native-Languages is a good website to turn to for knowledge on a lot of native things, including native names. If you’re unsure about the names you’ve picked, they even have a list of made up names here!
Please don’t trust names like babynames.com for native names, they’re made up and often quite offensive to the cultures themselves.
This is a fun option if you use, for example, phrases in other languages in your story. I often do, and this is a nice way to give translations without having to scroll to the end of the text, or putting them in the starting notes where people have to keep checking back – or where they spoiler the story!
HOWEVER. The drawback is that the floating boxes only work when a ‘mouse’ is ‘hovered’ over the marked text. They do NOT show up on tablet or phone screens, so you’ll still need to put a list of translations in the notes for readers using those devices.
Let’s have an example.
“Qu’est ce que tu veux?”
Now if you speak French, you might know that means “What do you want?”
But not all of your readers will know that. So, you offer them a translation. And since the boxes don’t appear unless you hover directly above them, I usually add a Beginning Note to the chapter that reads something like this;
‘Hover over italicised foreign language text for translations! (Mobile and tablet users please see the Ending Notes)’
In HTML mode in Ao3, (if you try this in Rich Text mode you will get a horrible mess so don’t) the line with this example would appear as:
<p>“<em>Qu’est ce que tu veux?</em>”</p>
To add the floating box with the translation, you would select the words to be translated (that is, Qu’est ce que tu veux?) and paste in the following HTML.
<span title=“What do you want?”>Qu’est ce que tu veux?</span>
The whole line will now read:
<p>“<em> <span title=“What do you want?”>Qu’est ce que tu veux?</span> </em>”</p>
Review your work, hover over the part that requires translating, and you should see the following:
And you’re done!
I tend to set up a Word doc with all the <span> lines I want to use created in it, and then when the time comes, just copy/paste them into Ao3. Saves lots of time!
Apparently concentrated Kool-Aid can be used as a pretty effective leather dye.
I was making a drink while cutting the snaps off some new straps for my pauldrons and I got curious, so I tried it, thinking, “ok even if this works, it will just wash out.”
Nope.
It took the “dye” (undiluted) in about 3 seconds. After drying for about an hour and a half, it would not wash off in the hottest tap-water. It would not wash out after soaking for 30 minutes. It did not wash out until I BOILED it, and even then, only by a tiny bit and it gave it a weathered look that was kind of cool. Add some waterproofing and I’d wager it would survive even that.
That rich red is only one application too. Plus it smells great, lol.
So there you go, cheap, fruity smelling leather dye in all the colors Kool-Aid has to offer.
WELL THEN!
this may be important to some of my followers *and certainly not just getting reblogged because of my costuming and my boyfriends desire for leather armor*
When I was in middle school we used to use it to dye our hair. Potent stuff.
If you’re dying anything with kool-aid it’s best to use SUGAR-FREE ones otherwise the thing you’re dying might get all sticky
the flavor only packets where you are supposed add sugar are the best. they will dye any natural fiber: leather, wool, cotton, hair, flax, jute, silk and so forth. heat the dye water so it is more potent. let dry then rinse excess out in cold water. there’s a whole system to this.
Oh my god
This will prove very useful for any future cosplays I wanna do.
DUDE
And now I’m like “holy shit can i dye alpaca with this?”
The single best piece of writing advice I ever got was from a professor teaching a playwriting class, who told us that in every scene, especially scenes that were just dialogue, every character should want something. Making every character in a scene have a goal is an easy way to avoid dialogue that’s just exposition, and to make sure your dialogue drives the plot forward and/or reveals characterization.
It doesn’t have to be complicated or super weighty–as long as the characters have a goal, there will be tension in the scene even if the goals are small. Character X wants to borrow a pen, and character Y wants to make a good impression on character X. X wants to insult Y until they go away, and Y wants to annoy X by pretending not to notice the insults. X wants Y to give them the last slice of pizza, and Y is super full but still doesn’t want X to have it. No matter what your character’s goal is, it will reveal something about who that character is to the reader, and the conflict between your characters’ goals will give the scene momentum.
So I was taught a lesson in how to get rid of a migraine in 30 seconds and omfg listen my migraines don’t go away ever but I was shown what part of my body to touch and like???????????????
It’s witchcraft????????? Like I would be burned at the stake if I lived in ye olde days knowing that information?????
What the fuck??????
Spill it! Lol….Hooooowwwww?? Had migraines since age 9….😓😓😓
Its called the T4 push, but I literally can’t find the info online????? I guess I’m not searching good enough? These medical fuckers are holdin out on us lol.
It’s best to have someone do this for you while you stand up and relax your muscles as best you can, but if you’re alone, a tennis ball and a flat surface will probably work. Alternatively you can lie on the edge of a bed at the pressure point. (But no really do try to find someone to do it for you)
Find the area in your spine between either the first, second, third, or fourth vertebrae. It should be sore and uncomfortable to press down on, so look for the one that’s most painful, and press down with as much pressure as you can on that area for 30 seconds.
Realize that 80% of your pain has magically disappeared and keep the info secret if you live in a small puritan town, lest you be tried for witchcraft.
If you don’t have to worry about being burned or hanged, then share the info with your migraine suffering friends.
As someone who wrote a 10k word paper on pressure points for a high belt ranking test in her martial arts class, I can tell you that you just found a pressure point used in acupressure and acupuncture to relieve pain, particularly that in the head. 🙂
Hand to god we discovered this by accident when my husband was rubbing my neck and I nearly collapsed it felt so good
This post was sent by literal angels??? I’ve had a persistent low-level headache for nearly 24hrs and now it’s gone??? In 30 seconds? What gods did you sacrifice to for this information!?!?
Overview; Star photography is an extremely finicky art that kept evading me even a long while after I did a whole bunch of research and finally figured out how to do it. I’m writing this little post here so you can have all that information at your fingertips. I hope you find it useful. The main factors that go into having a stellar milky-way shot is light pollution. All the factors below aim to reduce as much light pollution as possible so your shots come out as crispy and delicious as a freshly glazed donut.
Factors (1) Location; In order to make sure there’s no light pollution around you. It’s important to find a stretch of land that is as far away from civilization enough that no other light bleeds into your shots. You can find a map of all the dark sites in the world HERE . Hopefully there’s one near your home. Make sure to take a flashlight and an axe so you can see at night and also protect yourself from creepers
(2) Timing; The moon surprisingly is another great light pollutant and could mess up your milky-way shots. Contrary to popular belief, The Moon Doesn’t stay on the same revolution pattern as the Sun. Sometimes, the moon rises in the daylight if it wants to, *i know right, It blew my mind when i found that out*. The moon doesn’t stay directly on the opposite side of the sun. It has it’s own complex revolution pattern independent of wherever the sun is or what time it is in the day. —It’s always best to photograph the Stars when the moon is on it’s revolution behind the earth(before it rises) that way all the light pollution doesn’t get into your camera lens. Another trick to combat this is to Wait for the NEWMOON*Which happens to be on Tuesday*. This is when the moon crescent is basically so small that it doesn’t show up in pictures. You can find information about the Moon Path and the Moon Phase by clicking on them. —Also the core of the milkyway is only visible (at least in North America) for a couple of months in the summer. SO plan your dark site trips accordingly.
(3) Camera Settings; There are a couple of sweet spots for Camera settings that have worked for me time and time again. I’ve found that I get the sharpest shots when i have my aperture all the way open. Also for shutter speed I like to go around 25 seconds to avoid light streaks (star trails) instead of sharp stars. If your shutter speed is any longer you’ll have star trails instead of star points (look at the example shots below for a distinction) which is equally as cool but not necessarily my style. For ISO, This really depends on the gear, If you have a SONY A7 the low light capabilities are amazing and you can shoot with really high iso’s without getting much grain (i realize this sounds like a whole bunch of phootgraphy mumbo jumbo) but i usually shoot at around iSO 2500 —Aperture; as low as you can go. I usually shoot at 2.8 —Shutter Speed; approximately 30seconds-20seconds. —ISO; 3000 or less ( to avoid grain and noise)
(4) Focusing; This might be the most difficult thing to do in a dark zone because you can necessarily see what exactly your focusing on. There are three techniques to combat this complexity. —The first is to look at the number on your focusing dial and adjust accordingly. Usually you can just set the focusing distance to right before infinity. This should make the stars bright and in focus. —The second technique is to shinea light on your foreground, (the barn, the tractor or whatever your photographing against the milkyway) and have that in focus. That way the stars look stylistically out of focus in the whole picture. —The last(my favorite) technique. Is to zoom in on the brightest star and try and get it as focused as you can.
(5) Final Pointers; Some stuff that didn’t fall under anything i just said —ALWAYS USE A TRIPOD- it’sliterally impossible to do any star photoghy without it —Practice and practice alot to get the hang of everything. If you’re not succesful the first time you try, then try again.
The Gear I use a Canon 6d a Canont5i a Canon 17-35mm f/2.8 L (has a drop of water in it) a Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM a Canon EF 50mm 1.8 and a Canon EF 100-300mm f/4.5-5.6 the highlighted ones are the what i use for star photography
If you’re thinking of buying some photography gear, this is a reasonably cost effective point to start from a Canon t5i a Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6
I really hope all this information gets you a little close to stars if you love star gazing
ok kids, gather round for another episode of auntie vrabia’s academic advice.
say you’re working on a paper and you badly need this one article. but it’s not in any of the databases your library gives you access to. and you can’t find it on google. or, well, actually you can find it on google, but it directs you to this:
listen. it’s not just you. the mythical affluent academic who sees this and immediately thinks to themselves ‘yeah man time to pony up’ does not exist. no one any of us knows gets their articles this way.
but you still need that article, right? so what do you do? here’s two solutions to this capitalist problem you never asked for:
1. do you just need some definition, argument, specific bit of data or empirical result from that article? find another source you do have access to that cites it and then put this in your paper: ‘smith et al. (as cited in jones, 2015) argue that this business model is bullshit and a grand total of zero money is being made by publishers through this channel’. then in your references include jones (2015) and omit smith et al. i don’t recommend citing smith et al. like you’re pretending you’ve actually read their stuff because you don’t know what else is in there, so just play it safe. citing things this way when you can’t access the original source for whatever reason (including a fucking paywall) is perfectly acceptable and you won’t fail your class or be accused of plagiarism for doing it.
2. is it vitally important that you read the whole article from start to finish? EMAIL THE AUTHOR. after you’ve made super sure it’s really not available anywhere, contact them and ask for a copy. write a nice (short!) email along these lines:
dear [academic title][name],
i am a [student] at [university], currently working on a paper about [topic]. reading your article [title] would really help me develop my argument about [specific thing from their article] unfortunately it’s not available for access through our library services at the moment, so i was wondering if you would be willing to send me a copy for reference purposes. thank you.
best regards, [your name]
there is no guarantee that this will work, or that they’ll even read your email (increase your chances by an estimated 37% by using your university email and putting ‘question about your article [title]’ in the subject line, we read that shit)
BUT. there’s actually a pretty good chance that it will work, and here’s why: if that $40+ article sells one copy on the publisher’s page, the authors don’t see a single solitary dime from it. not from one sale. not from 5,000 sales. we make nothing off our academic publications. so they’re not going to reply to you with ‘sorry kid, go buy my article, i get 20% royalties and it contributes to my livelihood’. plus, most of us really hate the idea of our articles being stuck behind paywalls instead of circulating and getting cited. contact the author. they know their articles’ copyright situation and usually if they give you express permission to cite them, even from stuff like drafts or working papers, you’re safe to do so.
a polite (short!!) email to an academic goes a long way. and even if you think this might not work, it still gives you a better shot at getting what you need than just sitting in the library and understandably crying into your hands.
adding to this second point: Search the author name in academia.edu or researchgate (or if they list an institution, check there). It is increasingly common, and in some cases REQUIRED under funding, to make the article publicly available in some place, usually the institutional or discipline repository. It may not be the nicely laid out and formatted version, but it’s the same content.
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