Plural Kink Aftercare post by Artemis

[lb_lee]

 Mac: @hungryghosts linked us this neat post on plural kink aftercare and reality grounding! Seems it'd be of interest.

Rogan: primer alt-text = no. Redo. -_- uuuuuugh. Why LibreOffice alt-text??? Do zero!! Lie feature! WHAT FOR???

Mori: also, lesson learned making Loony-Brain Primer on Linux: the new GIMP has improved a lot, but it's no replacement for Clip Studio Paint. We need to try and figure out how to get it running on Linux, or keep Windows as some vestigial "make CSP go" thing.

EDIT: the alt-text worked! Huzzah! Now we can finally have our zines just one file!

Comments

[hungryghosts]

I've been trying to relocate from Clip Studio to Krita, but it's a slow process. Not sure what their alt-text capability looks like, either...

[lb_lee]

Mori: oh, these days our zines are overwhelmingly done in Libreoffice with a font we kludged together out of our handwriting. It's less brutal than typing up the text-only version 100% like we have to for comics. We don't even bother trying to embed alt-text for those, we just plain-text another file.

[beepbird]

Clip Studio Paint on Linux (through Wine) seems rough from what I can tell- a few versions work, others just don't. Relevant link: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=15102

I did also find this from someone who managed to make 1.11.9 work: https://www.reddit.com/r/winehq/comments/thf5rv/ive_successfully_made_clip_studio_paint_1119/

Otherwise, it depends on your computer (needs a decent chunk of RAM to do this well in my experience; 8GB was bare minimum for me, 16GB is much more comfortable), but you could have a Windows virtual machine for Clip Studio if needed. That way you don't have to have Windows directly on the hardware but can still crack it open in a contained environment. I use virt-manager, but VirtualBox is probably easier to use. Dual-booting has all sorts of fun stories of Windows wrecking Linux partitions from time to time, but it's also an option.

[lb_lee]

Mori: Yeah, we're dual-booting at the moment, but our Windows is so blaggy that switching just to use CSP gives us hives. A virtual machine might definitely be worth it, especially since we still have our Windows install CD. Gonna give that a shot and put it VirtualBox!

[beepbird]

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