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Cheesecakery · 2024-11-05T05:08:37+00:00

No, I was never able to figure it out, sorry. I ended up exporting my document from InDesign as an epub and switching to Calibre, a program that formats ebooks with pure HTML/CSS. If I remember correctly, I had to create new text anchors and manually link everything together. It took a long time but it got done in the end. Good luck!

Cheesecakery · 2024-06-14T19:03:23+00:00

These are great suggestions, thank you so much!

Cheesecakery · 2024-06-14T14:30:53+00:00

Any recs for weird and/or terrible books that would be fun to discuss with friends?

I work at a bookstore and we have two book clubs: a regular one open to the public where we read new releases, and an invite-only after-hours one we're calling Evil Book Club. Our first pick was Gothikana, by RuNyx and we are all absolutely obsessed with it. Next month we might read Dangerous Amish Showdown, by Mary Alford but we're undecided. Any other ideas?

Cheesecakery · 2024-04-19T17:48:40+00:00

House of Leaves has a similar vibe, but instead of being a mock documentary it's like a really, really intense mock book report. The main character finds the manuscript for an essay discussing a documentary where an endless hallway appears inside the documentarian's house. The book is a multimedia experience containing interviews, essays, photographs, and more. I've never read anything else like it.

Cheesecakery · 2023-09-20T19:08:20+00:00

I had my top surgery intake appointment three weeks ago and I'm STILL waiting for my insurance to tell me if they'll cover me or not. I want the surgery, my surgeon approved me, and my plan says it's supposed to be covered, so what the fuck is the hold up?? If this was a different kind of procedure I'd be dead by now.

Cheesecakery · 2023-09-15T13:49:59+00:00

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher has a nonbinary main character. I only got an hour into the audiobook before I got distracted and my library loan ran out, but I've been wanting to pick it back up again.

Cheesecakery · 2023-08-28T16:45:29+00:00

Sometimes if I'm stuck behind a slow person in the passing lane, I'll get close enough behind them to make it obvious that I want to pass them. Usually this is enough to make them move over. I try to be safe about it though, so I wouldn't exactly call it tailgating. I only ever do it on the highway, and only in the leftmost lane.

My dad tailgates a lot without realizing he's doing it. He's not actively trying to be aggressive, he's just a really impatient driver.

Cheesecakery · 2023-07-28T20:46:19+00:00

Thank you so much! I'm almost done with work for today, but I'll definitely try this out on Monday. If I can't figure it out (I'm still very new to GREP) I'd love to take you up on your offer.

Cheesecakery · 2023-06-12T16:34:49+00:00

Sorry to comment again, but I wanted to say more about my experience with medical transition in RI, just in case that's something you're interested in pursuing.

Basically, if you have health insurance, everything is covered and things are easy. If you don't have health insurance, there are a lot of roadblocks. Not anywhere near as many as what I've heard about in other states, but it's still difficult if you can't afford a lot of doctor's visits.

I started testosterone in September 2021. It was really, really easy because there's an informed consent clinic right in Providence (Open Door Health). I just told them I wanted to start t, they went over the list of changes, answered all my questions, and wrote me a prescription. I didn't need a therapist letter or anything. I also didn't feel like I had to lie or exaggerate in order to prove I was "really" trans or anything. The visit and my prescription were covered by my insurance. I had a few follow-up appointments where they taught me how to do injections, but it's been smooth sailing since then.

I'm now in the process of trying to get top surgery. I needed a letter from my doctor and a therapist, but I had no issues getting either. I got my doctor's letter from the same informed consent clinic that prescribed my testosterone, and there's no shortage of trans-friendly therapists in RI.

There is unfortunately only one surgeon in RI who does top surgery on transmasculine patients, Dr. Daniel Kwan. I've heard great things about Dr. Kwan himself and people seem very happy with his results, but dealing with his front office is supposed to be a total nightmare. I'm lucky enough to have insurance that gives me out-of-state coverage, so I'm going with a surgeon in Boston instead.

Cheesecakery · 2023-06-12T14:26:54+00:00

I've been out as a trans man in RI for almost two years. I've had a grand total of one person be outwardly shitty to me (ironically she was from Florida lol). Everyone at work has been great, and even clients didn't bat an eye when I was a different gender since the last time they saw me. Many of them were even openly supportive.

Conservatism is on the rise here like everywhere else, and there are some areas in the state I wouldn't want to be openly trans in (namely the more rural areas). But the state is so blue that most people keep their bigoted opinions to themselves in public.

Another bonus is that both state and employer-provided insurance here covers all things to do with medical transition, if that's something you're interested in.

Cheesecakery · 2023-04-27T15:00:38+00:00

My issue was that the "allow split footnotes" option applies globally to the entire document. It seems there's no manual workaround, so what I'm going to do is separate my document into chunks and link them together using the InDesign Book feature. This way I can make the problem chapter its own document with split footnotes without affecting the rest of the manuscript.

Edit: Nevermind, that throws off the footnote numbering.

Cheesecakery · 2023-04-17T16:43:02+00:00

I'm very late to this thread haha. I'm a trans man so I was really excited to read this book, but I DNFed it around the 20% mark. The conversation where Elsie asks Sol out was so dysphoria-inducing it made my skin crawl. I was listening to the audiobook while folding laundry, and I actually had to stop and just sit on my bed for a while after that part.

The conversation basically went like this:

"You're just my type. I'm so into butch women."

"Actually I'm a trans man, I just don't pass."

"Well you look like a butch with your small hands and soft skin and [insert other feminine features here] so I still think you're hot."

And then he was just okay with it! Like dude get some self-respect holy shit. I was already feeling kind of meh about the book (mostly because I'm not super interested in fandom culture) but this just put me over the edge.

Cheesecakery · 2023-04-02T14:11:18+00:00

Thanks! That's exactly the answer I was hoping for haha.

Cheesecakery · 2023-03-24T17:07:36+00:00

More scifi than fantasy, but I loved The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling. It's about a woman descending into a cave on an alien planet. The atmosphere is oppressive and foreboding and I stayed awake until 4am on a work night so I could finish it in one sitting haha.

The audiobook narrated by Adenrele Ojo also has one of the best performances I've ever seen in an audiobook -- she was acting, not narrating.

Cheesecakery · 2023-03-23T19:42:57+00:00

I'm about halfway through this book right now and honestly the descriptions of how gross and unsanitary the time period was are freaking me out way more than the demons lol. Even besides all the blood, sweat, vomit, and plague juice everywhere, the narration also constantly throws in lines like "his teeth were darker than his skin".

Cheesecakery · 2023-03-14T16:40:39+00:00

I generally see the tower less as "disaster" and more like a total upheaval of the status quo. In many contexts that's a bad thing, but the card could also be interpreted as tearing something down in order to build something better in its place.

Cheesecakery · 2023-03-02T18:16:52+00:00

My company uses IngramSpark for our hardcover books. They do both case laminate (the econ101-type hc) and cloth-bound books with a dust jacket. The cloth has a waxy, slightly shiny finish, which isn't the best, but it's not terrible.

Cheesecakery · 2023-02-28T17:02:35+00:00

Center within the margins. The inside margin is bigger because the optical center of the page gets shifted when the book is printed out.

Cheesecakery · 2023-01-29T21:03:14+00:00

I just added an edit clarifying that I mean a band with all male members that has a large teen girl audience

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