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gonna make an entry that will be updated with more tips and stuff on how to adapt ourselves again to blogging like in the old times. i miss photobucket.

photoscape

i've been using this software since 2007. it's easy af to use, free (it never asked me for weird permissions or a premiumship), it allows you to edit single and bulk pictures, including resizing and putting a... "movie" film tint. but for resizing the BIG ASS pictures that our phones take nowadays, its a cool thing

http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/index.php

filegarden

free filehosting service to upload the pictures and then link it to your blog entries 👍

https://filegarden.com/

windows key & .

if you're writing your stuff from a computer and want to add an emoji, ironic or not (we dont judge here), you can pulse on windows key and dot '.' it will open the emoji selector from windows

tumblr & pinterest as places to find icons or decorations

Disclaimer: remember that something from the internet doesnt mean everyone could use it freely! its our etiquette to make the internet a better place.
you can search for 'stamps', 'blinkies', 'icons', sometimes followed by 'aesthetic' or a color you might like

i'll update it later with more tips, hope this is usefull for now!

Current Mood: creative
Current Location: table on the living room
Current Music: Kiss FM Radio Station

okay, right now i feel like i had the bigger brain i ever had. i was lurking around to customize the DW and though 'boy, we can HAVE STAMPS right now???'

so i went to Organize > Customize Journal Style > Text > Custom text (you can also access via this URL: https://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/options?group=text)

on Custom text, you can add HTML code. i wouldnt abuse of that feature but it could help to put some cool stamps? so i added the first stamp using the ol' reliable code:

<p align="center"><img src="url of the picture of the stamp" alt="" /></p>

once you put all you want on your Custom Text, press 'Save Changes'! and now, you can make it visible going to the left tab 'Modules' and search for 'Custom text' module (ctrl + f is ur friend).

it appears at 13 position, you only need to check the box and throw it on the module section you like (mine is on 'Main Module Section')

okay, until here, all i said is pretty usual for anyone from oldschool days on deviantart. well, HERE COMES THE MAGIC

i search for more stamps. like, there was a LOT i liked in tumblr and my brain works better on bulk. but ada, how the *hell* are you gonna put on bulk a lot of URL images, you have to put a prefix and sufix to each one and...

==> Enter: Excel/Calc Sheet editor

1. first cell (normally A1): you put <img src=" (beware the " symbol! copy and paste if necessary!)
2. second cell (normally B1): the URL of the picture or stamp or blinkie you want to add
3. third cell (normaly C1): finish the code with " />

you can, as example, fill first the second column with every picture you would like to add, one per row, and then just complete the other two columns so you can have the same number of particles.
you could copy the three cells or the whole range, but you'll have spaces between the " and the URL and that's not what we want. SO...

we take the... fifth column? to let some air between columns, and add the magic formula:

=CONCAT(A1;B1;C1)

you see that bold dot on the lower right corner of the cell? drag it till you reach the last row filled with your particles and URL's. BANG. you have a whole list of the code you need to insert all your stamps!

this code only would add the images, remember you need to add the HTML tags 'p' for aligning the whole block to the center:

<p align="center">

# HERE WILL BE THE HTML BLOCK CODE # 

</p>

BOOM. you can put all the blinkies, stamps, banners and other nice stuff from the 00s so your journal could look like homer's webpage.

GO AHEAD! GO CRAZY! EXPRESS YOURSELF, I BEG YOU!!

Current Mood: hyper
Current Location: bed, again
Current Music: let go (2022) - avril lavigne

you know, the classic 'no, i dont want an e-reader because i love how the books smell, and their touch!'. it was debunked for me when i went out of my city, with my family, on a summer vacation, and only brought with me one book. i thought it would last the two weeks i would be far from home. clearly, i didn't measure it correctly because i read that book in almost three days. and had the whole collection back home. that was the moment when i thought maybe getting a kindle or an e-reader could be a good option

then, life happened, the biggest SLUMP ever on my life happened too, and i stoped reading. yea. like that.

it wasn't until 2019 that i grabbed a book and FINISHED IT. it was the good old dark academia classic 'The Secret History' from Donna Tartt. also, binge watching A Series of Unfortunate Events series from Netflix helped to enter into the mood of grabbing a goddamn book after all that time. my mother gifted me a kindle paperwhite (10th) with a great joke and a reprise of a terrible prank she made to me when i was a child. holyshit mom, you'll never change (affectionate)

since 2019 i used it... more or less. past year i saw how some booktok people decorate with clear cases, stickers and pop sockets their kindles and decided that could be an interesting option? i weren't on my best mood past year (i'm still a little meh, but recovering) and choose some aesthetic stickers i had laying around. even generic, those were the less... generic. yea. but at the time, they was the best options, lmao.

during this terrible artblock/burnout that is lasting the last weeks, im trying to read more and do other stuff to recharge myself creatively (i shouldnt be writing or drawing to not burn myself even more). i've been reading more thant the last year, and had a burst of inspiration to change the background and use other stickers i had around that... represent myself a little more, heh

good thing that im in spain and people dont have on their english vocabulary the word 'smut' as 'ok you're reading p-' because it would be funny to read on the subway. i wouldn't care, maybe if im reading on the office restroom, but just there.

im still a little affected but it seems that im less lost on what represents me, what defines me, what makes me feel myself.

wish this could heal as soon as possible.

Current Mood: calm
Current Location: the bed
Current Music: 40 hits classic (radio FM)