the thrill of the {gif} hunt

• THEME 25

theme 5 by beautrisprior; for the theme village’s summer’s end theme fest

aquamarine; [preview | code]

400px posts

all colours customizable (literally every colour can be changed) 

optional background images for the background and sidebar (i recommend only using 1 at a time)

sidebar is 170px width and 100% height (adjusts to browser window)

5 custom links 

tooltips

“There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners from the texture of existence that surrounds you. The great advantage of being a Southern writer is that we don’t have to go anywhere to look for manners; bad or good, we’ve got them in abundance. We in the South live in a society that is rich in contradiction, rich in irony, rich in contrast, and particularly rich in its speech”                                                                                  -Flannery O'Connor

N O V E L S / N O V E L L A S

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Beloved by Toni Morrison

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

God’s Little Acre by Erskine Caldwell

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

Light in August by William Faulkner

Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe

The Neon Bible by John Kennedy Toole

The Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb

The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty

Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote

Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy

Sanctuary by William Faulkner

Sartoris by William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell

The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O’Connor

Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor

S H O R T  S T O R I E S

A Good Man Is Hard to Find By Flannery O’Connor

A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

Barn Burning by William Faulkner

The Flowers by Alice Walker

Kneel to the Rising Sun by Erskine Caldwell

Mountain Victory by William Faulkner

The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain

Why I Live at the P.O. by Eudora Welty

P O E T R Y

Southern Gothic by Rickey Laurentiis

i just stumbled on this and i thought it’s worth sharing.

"Wizarding idioms are expressions that are unique to wizarding culture. However, many of them seem to have analogous Muggle idioms, from which they may have been derived."

"Cat among the pixies" - play on “cat among the pigeons,” which is also the name of a Hercule Poirot novel by Agatha Cristie, meaning to do something to cause a lot of people bother or worry. Specifically, Arabella Figg’s description of Mundungus Fletcher.

"Fell off the back of a broom" - synonymous with “fell off the back of a lorry/truck,” meaning stolen merchandise. Mundungus Fletcher leaves his shift of watching over Harry Potter to see to such items, in 1995.

theme 12- plethora

live preview | code

sidebar is 400px x 800px

4 customizable links

hover post info

500px posts

do not claim as your own or use as a base 

live preview | download

Theme.0022 made by PSPRETTY

five links;500px post; sidebar image 180px; appearence; tooltip

THEME 013: ELECTRIC AVENUE // stonequeenthemes

Live Preview — Code:

Features:

Fifteen Custom Links (5 on right, 10 on left)

Sidebar Image (Width: 220px)

Navigation Image (Width: 220px)

Two Subtitle Options

Rules:

Please do not post an edited version of my code, even with the credit.

Please keep the credit intact. Absolutely do not move the credit at all, not even to a credits page.

Please like/reblog this post if you use. I like to know what my work goes towards.

So, Photoshop has a price and even though there are several torrents going around sometimes they just don’t run in your computer. Well I found how to make amazing gifs without photoshop that will make your life a lot easier.

Things you will need:

A computer

A video (Either a youtube url or a downloaded one, the higher the quality the better)

Instagiffer

Swishyronan’s theme #05

Round & Round

Preview | Code: [1]  [2]

5 links ;

sidebar image width: 190px ;

sidebar image height: auto ;

Just a few applications and websites I’ve found useful. 

FOR THE GENERAL WEB

SESSION MANAGER—this application allows you to save websites, shut down your computer, and then open all your tabs again with the click of a button. Just a warning—when the old tabs reopen, it will shut down any others. Websites can be added and deleted from the list far easier than with bookmarks. 

TOOMANYTABS—For when you have a ton of tabs open, this app helps organize them.

RECENTLY CLOSED TABS—click on the tab for a drop-down list of the fifteen most recently closed tabs.

AWESOME SCREENSHOT—allows you to take a screenshot of the screen and edit it right in the application.

MEASUREIT—you can measure the pixel size of anything on the web. 

STRICT POMODORO—a time management application that blocks you from certain websites and then allows a five minute break. 

CONVERT CASE—website that converts lowercase to uppercase letters and vice versa. 

CLEARLY—if text on a page is difficult to read, simply click the icon to show the page in Clearly, with colors, font size and line heights that you decide. Then click the arrow to return to the page. 

GOOGLE DICTIONARY—Just double click on a word for the definition.

DOWNLOAD MASTER—If there are a bunch of files to download on one page, this app can help download them all at once, or pick and choose which ones you want.

REALPLAYER—a media player that comes with a download extension for the web, useful for downloading videos straight from the page. Also does conversions for you, including video to mp3.

SPEEDDIAL—sets you up with a start page that you can customize to have linked to your most frequently visited websites. easily customizable. 

TIMESTATS—More for fun than anything, this app lets you keep track of how much time you spend on the web and where you spend it. 

EXTENSIONS MANAGER—Can help manage all your nifty new extensions. 

FOR TUMBLR USERS

 STYLISH—lets you set up themes for different websites, including your dashboard.

MISSING E—just get it okay? Allows for one click reblogging, as well as tons of other useful features. 

TUMBLR SAVIOR—you poor soul if you’ve survived without this. Blacklist certain things so you never have to see them on your dash. 

TUMTASTER—download audio posts from tumblr.

TUMBLR EDIT TAGS—edit your tags right from the dashboard.

TUMBLR CUSTOM PHOTOSETS—allows you more options for arranging photosets. 

ASK MANGLER—lets you have paragraphs in asks.

In general:

-Feedback that says “this is good” or “this is bad” without giving a reason why. This doesn’t give any useful information.

-Feedback that vastly misses the point of the story. The exception is when everybody misses the point, in which case you probably need to make your point clearer.

-Feedback from close friends or family members. They are more invested in you than in the story, and that will influence their feedback.

Negative feedback:

-Feedback from somebody who “couldn’t get past more than five pages.” I see reviews like this for books on Amazon all the time and I ignore them because the reviewer hasn’t read enough of the book to form a good opinion. If it doesn’t offer anything useful for me as a reader, it won’t offer anything useful for you as a writer.

-Feedback from somebody you were just in an argument with.

-Feedback attacking you rather than your story.

Positive feedback:

-Feedback obviously more meant to cheer you up than to help you become a better writer.

-Feedback from somebody who only ever gives out positive feedback. Who knows what they really think of your story?

Bad reasons to ignore feedback:

-It’s not worded nicely.

-It criticizes the parts you put the most effort and emotion into writing.