#organize it...make it easier to navigate...etc...

Commencing your transition: as exciting as it is to become female, it's not as easy as it sounds. It's more than just wearing girl's clothing; you also have to live as a girl. This is where you need to create a transition roadmap.

What are some of the most important things you need to make in order to start your transition as female? The first three in no order can be summarized as: presenting as a girl, coming out as transgender, and starting feminizing hormone therapy. Depending where you live, these things are crucial in order to proceed to the next steps, which are gender affirming surgery and/or document changes for name and gender. Each person's transition path looks different, so only take these recommendations with a grain of salt. If you're serious on considering hormones to feminize yourself and if possible, please consult with a real and licensed physician like an endocrinologist to determine which hormones you should take. Otherwise, your only alternative is DIY (Hint: Use this brief guide to read a bit about what hormone therapy does for you. It's a bit outdated, though. Also, check out the Wiki page for HRT.)

Hormone therapy is helpful in making effective results towards feminization of the body and even the mind. Don't be afraid of the last part as it only means mood changes and sexual exploration; it won't actually turn you into a bimbo. However, a transition isn't complete without goals. Ask yourself questions like these: What kind of woman am I expecting to become? How will I achieve those results? What do I need to give up and start now to make my transition effective? Will I become happier if I'm a girl?, etc. Also, allies are very important. You will definitely need them especially now as not all your close ones like family and friends will be supportive. Look for a network of LGBTQ organizations, groups, lifelines, and even online sites. Follow these steps and your new life will become easier to navigate!

- Think about its purpose. What do you plan to use it for? Always, or just sometimes? Is it just created for low tech or is it high tech too? Depending on what it's needed for you might want different words more easily accessible,

- Decide grid size based on the following: What you can see, your motor ability, and your overall processing. If you struggle with vision or tapping, a grid with less buttons might be better. If you don't have those issues, more buttons may be better. (But don't forget to not push it!)

- Design it based what you are already used to. For example, I always have My action buttons green because I am most used to them being green. I also always have My buttons organized alphabetically (when applicable) because otherwise it will confuse Me.

- If you are new to AAC, use a few practice boards for a little bit to see what you like. Many apps for high tech AAC have premade boards and there are lots of options for printable AAC boards for low tech, too! Learn what's best for you and go off that.

- For colours, go based off your vision ability. Bright colours personally hurt My eyes so I need more muted colours. Some people need higher contrasting colours, etc.

- Similar goes for symbols! Not all symbols work for everyone. In My case, I struggle to use a new symbol for a word once I am already used to a different symbol. This likely won't be as important to you if you rely more on text for word finding than symbols, but still good to note.

Sometimes though, it may just be easier to edit a pre-existing board than make a new one altogether. I have done that before and it's totally valid to do!

Most importantly though I will say: It will take time to get used to a board. It will probably feel uncomfortable for a little bit and you might want to start over. Those with even the highest communication abilities it will take a few months to get around it easily using it full-time. Though if you use your AAC board part time, are cognitively impaired/disabled (same), are intellectually disabled, have memory issues (same x2), or have any other condition that may affect navigating AAC, it will take longer, sometimes even years. Don't let that discourage you, though!

welcome welcome! my name is kim and this is my blog! i will only be writing about F1 and i hope you enjoy my works!

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✿﹕WINDBREAKER BOYS : headcanons !! ft. nirei akihiko, hayato suo, haruka sakura, choji tomiyama, ren kaji, mitsuki kiryu and tasuku tsubakino.

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✿﹕notes : inspired by the many hcs i read here and on other platforms! reblogs are appreciated <3

—﹙nirei akihiko﹚: talks to himself

when he isn't present around anyone or if he doesn't want to yap someone's ears off, he tends to talks to himself privately.  either out loud or as an inner monologue.

he finds it easier than talking to a friend since he doesn't get side-tracked with explaining minor events that connect to his idea nor describing people that are unfamiliar to them.

I'll always direct you to the vikjayce codex first (open this on browser so you can see the site tabs/better reading experience) so you can get a hold of their characters pre-arcane.

After that, try the Piltover page and the Zaun page on the league universe website! There are other tabs for champion lores and such. I recommend skimming through every region's summary pitch to get a feel of things and then reading whatever you like.

I recommend these roster champs for a sampler:

Kindred (death) | Brand | Camille | Blitzcrank | Singed | Irelia | Sylas | Bard | Lillia | Nilah | Orianna | Ryze | Riven | Vel'koz | Bel'veth | Zoe

The interactive map of Runeterra can give you a good sense of scale/positioning for things and navigating it will lead to more links. It's a pretty cool experience but browser only.

We also have ALTERNATE UNIVERSES with their own lore and different takes on the champs. Arcane implies they remain all canon simultaneously. Star Guardian is a magical girl universe & Odyssey is a space opera universe with their own pages, though there's far more based on skins. Every timeline every possibility etc you have freerange

There's also a 2021 companion book called Realms of Runeterra, I don't think its particularly game changing but it presents things in an organized way and you can.... find it in places where books are uploaded...

lastly, youtube has a lot of 'lore of runeterra' 'league lore summary of X & Y' videos - some of them pretty good! I'm not going to link any because I havent watched them in a while but it can make things easier for you. JUST KEEP IN MIND pretty often these youtubers will get details wrong and you should be double-checking on any assumption they do before internalizing it as hard canon, like read the short story or bio for yourself etc. A lot of people mischaracterized jayce/viktor for a while bc these guys kept conflating arcane with past canon and arcane changes up the world A LOT, the previous timeline is basically destroyed.

Hello!! I'm guessing by "decorate tumblr" you mean things like custom themes and navigation posts? This is a big topic, so I probably won't go into every little detail. A lot of it comes down to experimenting and figuring out what works for you, but I can provide a few suggestions.

▶ Navigation Posts

If your blog contains different kinds of content, it helps to organize everything with tags.

Using myself as a cc creator as an example, I separate my posts into categories like downloads, simdumps, lookbooks, wips, etc. Then I assign tags to each category, such as: #ts4 cc, #my sims, #ts4 lookbook, #my wips... When I post cc, I use #ts4 cc; when I post wips, I use #my wips, and so on. This makes everything much easier to browse later.

Once you have your categories figured out, you can create a navigation post and insert links to those tags.

Usually, tag links look like:

/tumblr.com/username/tagged/tag-name

If the tag contains spaces, tumblr uses "%20" instead. (There are plenty of guides online explaining this in more detail.)

To make tags easier to access, go to Settings.

Under Featured Tags, remove any tags you don't need and add the ones you use most often. Then they'll appear in your blog's search area, and you can simply click them and copy the resulting URL into your navigation post.

However, if you're using a custom theme, the links may instead use your custom blog URL (starting with your username domain). That's why mine look a little different from the standard Tumblr links.

As for the dividers in my navigation page, I made those myself in photoshop. If you don't want to make your own, you can search "divider" on tumblr and find lots of free ones people share.

At the end of the day, your navigation post is yours. Add whatever categories, links, images, or resources you think visitors should see, then pin it to the top of your blog!

▶ Custom Themes

Still in your blog settings, you'll find an option called Enable custom theme. Once enabled, Tumblr creates a separate blog URL using your username as the domain.

If you open that site and click the palette icon in the upper-right corner, you can:

1. Browse existing themes 2. Customize them 3. Edit the HTML yourself

I noticed you already have a custom theme, so I'd definitely recommend browsing the #tumblr theme tag. Many creators share beautiful themes there, usually through GitHub. Most of the time you'll simply copy the code and paste it into the Edit HTML section.

Personally, my theme is by sadthemes, and I also highly recommend @/glenthemes. They share tons of themes, tools, and incredibly detailed tutorials.

Creating Additional Pages:

Using my downloads page as an example. I create a lot of different types of cc: hair, clothing, makeup, accessories, etc, so I wanted more detailed organization than featured tags alone could provide. So Inside the theme customization menu, I added a separate page.

This lets me create more specific categories and link to more detailed tags. Because of that, when I share cc, I usually include both broader category tags and more specific tags. That way visitors can browse exactly what they're looking for without everything feeling cluttered.

▶ Making Clothing & Makeup

For clothing and makeup, I honestly don't think of myself as "designing" them from scratch. Most of the time I start by finding inspiration on Pinterest. Usually all it takes is searching the right keywords.

For makeup, I primarily use Procreate and Photoshop. My workflow is basically:

1. Import Sims Body Texture Templates 2. Create a new blank layer 3. Paint over the template using the reference image 4. Import everything into Sims 4 Studio

If you've never used Sims 4 Studio before, definitely look it up! There are lots of fantastic tutorials available online.

For clothing, I originally started with frankenmeshing - combining and modifying meshes that already existed in the game. Later I tried Marvelous Designer. And then Marvelous Designer immediately humbled me T-T I personally find it very difficult and I've barely touched it in a very long time, but if you're interested, it's worth trying for yourself.

Even when clothing is made in Marvelous Designer, it usually still needs additional work in Blender afterwards. If you're interested in that workflow, here's a YouTube tutorial. As for textures, I also make those in Photoshop. Honestly, I don't have many advanced tips to offer when it comes to clothing creation because I still feel like I'm winging it half the time.

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[ID: Photographs of the cabinets on either side of my stove; they are doorless, painted green, and stocked with a wide variety of things including ice cube trays, a cake pan, spices and baking supplies, a box of nitrile gloves, a mortar and pestle, muffin tins, a mini rice cooker, and a large box of seasonings.]

This is ADHD organization.

I'm not being facetious -- I'm not saying this is disorganized because I have ADHD. I'm saying this is organized, in the way it is, because I have ADHD. I just reorganized it today with that in mind, something I haven't truly done since I moved in, before my diagnosis. It wasn't a full reorg, really more of a "tweak", but I'm already finding it better to look at and more navigable and it got a bunch of stuff off the counter.

These are mostly things I use a lot, decreasing in priority as they get higher and harder to see or reach. They're stored above the counter because, one, I want to be able to see them (also hence the removed doors), and two, I find it easier to look/reach up to locate something rather than to bend over.

The spices are mostly in that white mesh bin on the lower right, which has a handle so I can take it down and look through them. You can see my culinary scale propped upright next to them, because it's easier to grab it when I can grab an edge. The baking supplies are in a similar place on the other side because I use those often too, but not usually with the seasonings (which are mostly savory). There's a white box full of fixtures for the Kitchenaid on the left, and the white box on the right is full of various sized glass jars (spice jars, food storage, etc). Rice cooker, which I use quite a bit but doesn't need to live on the counter, is below the muffin/tart pans, which I use much more rarely, so they can be stacked. Next to it are seasoning mixes that I use a lot BUT because of that I have several jars of them, so that's storage for when the jars I keep on the kitchen counter run out.

I'd like to move that cake pan, but I need to make a hole somewhere else for it first, and I don't usually want to put anything I use regularly on that shelf anyway. There's an open box of nitrile gloves within easy reach because I cook more and better food when I can keep my hands clean and dry. The ice cube trays come and go -- sometimes I need that space in the freezer for food, and the white one is used exclusively for freezing non-water stuff like cubes of caramelized onion or pesto.

I'd like to have a bigger kitchen someday, one with a china cabinet where I can display my vintage cookware and cool baking pans, but for now this is, if not beautiful, extremely effective. I also managed to fill a box with kitchen stuff to donate, and half a storage bin with kitchen stuff to store, and the bin will be filled up once I run some stuff through the dishwasher.

I think the big difference between the way Izzy "takes care" of Ed (and hence a lot of the racist discussions) and the way Stede does is that Izzy treats/believes Ed cannot do things for himself/do them properly/etc. Izzy quite vocally believes he ✨needs✨ to manage Ed, has to navigate crucial parts of his life for him. Which is why so many people have BIG problems with Ig's behaviour.

Stede, on the other hand, never once doubts or questions Ed's ability to take care of himself. Stede spends a big chunk of the show believing Ed is better off without him. The things he does for Ed - bringing him tea, standing up to the French bullies, taking him on a treasure hunt, organizing a ridiculous fuckery - these are all things Stede does to make Ed happier. He absolutely knows Ed could handle all these things himself. The reason he prevents Ed from handling the French on his own isn't because he thinks Ed can't, it's because Ed is already upset and Stede wants to spare him more mockery. Just that morning he saw how hurt Ed was by racist smarm, and he knows more will be hurled at Ed if he storms back into that party with a gun. He's protecting Ed from taking more hurt, he clearly couldn't give a shit about the harm taken by the French. If he didn't think it would make Ed feel worse to go shoot them all, Stede wouldn't have stopped him.

Doing a dom/sub thing with Ed and Stede doesn’t have to automatically equal infantalizing Ed. Personally, the whole "babygirl" Ed thing is not my cup of tea anyway, the man is a genius pirate king, but I ✨love✨ the idea of him being taken care of - trusting Stede enough to do it, of feeling safe enough to allow it. That is a very healing idea to me, and I love to write/read about it. My impression from reading the discourse over the past couple months is that Stede taking on a bit of a dom role for Ed isn't an inherently a racist landmine, but it requires understanding the characters and ✨why✨ their relationship is so special in the show, why Ed feels safe with Stede. And it's because at their core, they are always, always equals. The only reason Ed would ever feel comfortable letting Stede take the lead on things is because he knows how well Stede regards him, and that he is safe in that esteem. That Stede feels honoured by the privilege of doing so. Izzy constantly steals Ed's agency, Stede ✨never✨ does (okay except that whole leaving him on the dock thing but shh)