make a small wooden bridge using Chinese sunmao榫卯 craftsmanship by amuyeye阿木爷爷

Ginger-juice milk curd 姜汁撞奶 or Ginger Milk Pudding，a popular popular desserts in Cantonese cuisine

fandom so niche yours is the only fic on ao3

Making small rouge paper that people use for makeup in the past by 许潇潇xu xiaoxiao

Please, if you are a self-publishing author an indie author, learn the basics of book formatting.

Please.

The standards are in place for a reason. Margins are the size they are so that your thumb can rest comfortably on the sides of the book without blocking any text, and so you can read the text along the middle without tilting the book back and forth to see around the bend. Bleeds are so your margins don't get cut down too much when the text block is trimmed, you need them even if you don't have images in your book. Spaces between paragraphs are an internet convention and do not belong in books unless you are indicating a scene break.

Please. These rules aren't there to be mean. They are there for FUNCTIONALITY.

@the-gentle-art-to-going-insane

Wanted to pull this out for a longer response, with some examples.

So, there's a couple different types of line spacing to discuss here. First, we have regular old line spacing, which is the amount of space between each line of text, and it is even throughout the document. That's this spacing:

The key here is that it's EVEN. When formatting a book, this can be whatever you want, but the more you have the more paper your book is going to need and the more expensive is going to be to print.

Now, here is that same exact text, but an extra line break between each paragraph. See how the spacing is twice as big between the paragraphs as compared to between the individual lines? This is useful for digital publishing as a lot of sites don't have indents at the start of paragraphs, so a line break makes up for that by using a line break as the visual indicator of a new paragraph, rather than an indent.

However, in traditionally formatted books, there ARE indents to indicate new paragraphs. Line breaks thus serve a different function, specifically to indicate scene changes.

So, the problem arises in that people who primarily read traditionally formatted books are used to line breaks indicating a scene change, a pause. So when you have a book with a ton of line breaks between every paragraph instead of every scene it feels...jittery, almost? At least for me, it feels a lot like code switching. I have to FORCE my brain to see it as one solid scene, and it ruins the flow of the book for me. Personally, I go so far as to download long fanfics and reformat them before I read because it bothers me so much.

Now, as to whether or not it's BAD, that's going to depend on you and what you're trying to do with your work. If you are trying to submit a manuscript to an agent, for example, yeah, it'll be a bad idea to format with line breaks between your paragraphs. It makes it look like you don't know what you're doing (to them, anyway) and don't understand the industry enough to be worth working with. (Not saying I agree, it just is what it is.) So, format it however you want/need as you write, but when you send it off you'll have to reformat it.

If you're just self publishing, that's a question you're going to have to answer for yourself. This is something you need as an adaptive measure, but that's not going to be true of your entire audience. So what do you want to do to bridge that gap? It's up to you to decide.

Southern Adirondack Library System

Henceforth, I will only be receiving missives written in the cat font.

Breakaway | Glacy

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I had a blast participating once again in @pilesofnonsense's Rusty Quill Big Bang event as a bookbinder/artist! This year, I collaborated with Glacy on AO3 and bound their TMA fic Breakaway. It's an ice hockey AU with underlying spooks and horrors, and I had a lot of fun reading it and working with it! Definitely go check out their fic!!

An additional shout-out to @shadow0haven who designed my new bindery logo! You can see it on the back of the title page in the fifth picture, and I love how it looks in my books <3

More information about the bind and my process can be found beneath the cut:

If you have the time and flexibility, you can also try out libreoffice.

Just did this on November 14th, 2024, so this is very current!

クロスステッチで基板を作ったのは私だけかもしれません

It's fucking

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AO3 Anniversary Trivia Game and Prompt Challenge

Day 1 (14 Nov 2024)

Trivia Question: How many members does AO3 have (as of 14 Nov 2024)?

Prompt Challenge: Learning a Language together

Have Fun!!

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It is 14 Nov 2024.

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Bookbinding (author copy) of Sin Eater by @xzombiexkittenx. Sept&Oct 2024.

YAY the author copy turned out so nice and neat! I love when the author gift copy looks better than my personal copy, it feels like I've learned something and get to give the improvement as a gift. The main difference in construction here, aside from slightly different cover colors, is that the endbands are not stitched, because I was impatient lol and because my sewn endbands are still hit and miss. These are the pics I took before mailing it to the author :D Once again I used one of the fabrics I went and found specifically for binding my favorite Fantastic Beasts fanfics because the ink-drop-in-water look reminds me of the obscurus's abstract appearance.

Want to learn how to make books like this one? Join us at the Renegade Bookbinding Guild!

Materials: Covers are bookboard with purple Batik-style dyed cotton backed on archival drawing paper, archival PVA glue, and lighter purple rayon bookcloth spine piece. Spine decoration is machine-cut metallic heat-transfer vinyl. End papers are scrap glittery cardstock from yuumei's fish lantern kits and peacock marbled paper by PeacockPaperUK on Etsy. Page setup aka typesetting by Kulapti, laser printed on archival paper and stitched with cotton thread and beeswax. Binding reinforced with cotton scrap "tapes" and archival PVA glue.

well, that’s a depressingly apropos combination of dog-chew damage and book title

i dropped by my favourite secondhand bookstore and found what is possibly the most incredible knitting book iver ever seen. that teaches you how to knit little gardens and sew them into a massive quilt 3d. the photos i took are atrocious and do NOT do this book justice

thats a PRIORY GARDEN WITH MONKS

IT EVEN TEACHES YOU HOW TO MAKE ALL THE TOOLS ABD BASKETS AND POTS AND PLANTS

LOOK AT THE SOME OF THE FOLIAGE

i have never been more upset to not have $30 ready to buy this. its incredible. i have to find it online somewhere. i knew the moment i saw this i had to share it with EVERYONE

how do people make papers for traditional painting and calligraphy in the past by chinese artist 山白shan bai