spooklecrossing:

Here are some links and lists of useful stuff your first few hours playing New Leaf!
(As compiled by someone who has not yet played New Leaf; I’ll edit once that’s changed if necessary. Lots of links here, most open to a new window.)

★Face Guide★

 

★Town Names★
* = indicates that this generator does not limit output to eight characters, so don’t get your heart set on something too long!

• QR Crossing Town Name Generator
• Non-AC Specific Place Name Generator*
• This one if full of real-world place names*
• Elizabethan Place Names*
• Fantasy Place Names*
• This one is a little less pleasant to look at and isn’t a generator, but has tons of four-letter words you can combine to make a town name.

These are the town names I thought of but decided not to go with:

• Wintry: Snowvale/Yuleglow
• Floral: Amaranth/Aster/Larkspur/Lavender/Honeybee
• Gems: Garnet/Opal/Amethyst/Rubyview/Opulence
• Celestial: Moonbeam/Starglow/Lumalee
• And some EverQuestian names because EQ2 will always hold a special place in my heart: Antonica, Qeynos, Mistmoor, Halas, Kelethin

★Town Tunes★

• You can easily compose your own here!
  
• Animal Crossing Community has TONS (23,993 pages and counting, don’t forget about the handy little search bar feller)
  
• Another huge heap! I dunno about the overlap, and there’s no search bar, but you can use ctrl+f!
  

(If anyone musically inclined is doing requests for folks, let me know and I’ll add your url!)

★Upgrading and Unlocking Guide★
Enormous thanks to potato-crossing for providing the community with all of this in one place!

★Great QR Sources★
While these won’t be immediately helpful, you should be able to use them in the next couple of weeks! Also keep in mind this list does not even scratch the surface and I’ll be doing a more complete post dedicated to QR codes probably next month!

• ablesistah
  
• qrcute
  
• bidoofcrossing
  
• New Leaf Men’s Fashion
  
• Codecrossing (lots of paths and interior stuff)
  
• Keep an eye on QRCrossing!
  
  

★Ways To Make Bells★

 

★The New Leaf Boards on Animal Crossing Community★

(ACC also has Grownup Gamers Boards which are useful if you’re looking for friend codes from folks who aren’t kids or teens, and if you ARE looking for kids and teens that’s okay too, as all of their boards are moderated to be family friendly.)

This is everything I’ve got so far! If anyone knows of another resource that belongs with these, feel free to let me know and I’ll add it asap! Thanks for reading and hope this is helpful for some of you!

Cheers,
Catie


Edit: If this is helpful to you, a reblog would be great, because that way I can maybe get word from more folks who know more stuff which can then be added to this post and make it yet more helpful. Thanks in advance!

gloomy-octopus:

marvelous: important cosplay resources

swimmingays:

idk i’ve been struggling finding resources for certain things so i thought i’d pool them in case anyone else needs them too

outfits/clothes
How To Cosplay: Make A Sailor Fuku (School Uniform)! 
How to: Pleated Skirt - YouTube
Simple Tie
Circle Skirt
Ore-Tied Obi
How To Make a Hakama

wigs and wig treatment
Care for a Wig
Wig Styling Walkthrough
Cut Bangs on Wig
Gravity Defying Bangs
Cleaning a Wig
Detangling + Washing
Wash a Wig
Building on a wig - Jessie, Pokemon
Huge Curls
Layering a Wig
Long Hair Under Wig
Straighten a Spikey Wig
Sebastian Michaelis - Kuroshitsuji
Sasuke - Naruto

makeup
How to Apply Eyeliner
How to Apply Blush
How to Apply Liquid Foundation
Flawless Skin With Makeup
Airbrush Makeup
Acne Covering Makeup
Girl / Boy Makeup
6 Secrets I Learned at Makeup Artist School
How to Apply Contour Makeup
Grell Sutcliff Makeup Tutorial
Eyebrow Covering
Bishounen (Pretty Boy) Makeup
Fake Facial Hair

wounds ect
Fake Wounds / Scar
Mello Scar Makeup
Scrapes & Bruises
Lacerations
Gouged Eye Makeup
8 Fake Blood Recipes
No-Cook Edible Fake Blood

tattoos 
Make a Temporary Tattoo
How To Conceal Tattoos
Sebastian Contract Symbol - Black Butler

wow i really hope this helped people like it helped me!

squidcrossing:

radioactive-dik-diks:

Note to self: use this website when New leaf comes out

FRICK ME

japanese-revision:

Textbooks:

• An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese
• A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar
• A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar
• Read Real Japanese Fiction

Dictionaries:

• ALC (I use this everyday)
  →Expression encyclopaedia
• Goo dictionary
• Weblio
• WWWJDIC (with audio clips)
• JWPce (downloadable dictionary for Windows)
• JEDict (downloadable for Mac users)
• Idiomatic Expressions
• Idioms dictionary [Japanese only]
• Counters dictionary
• Hovering dictionaries: 
  →Rikaikun for Chrome
  →Rikaichan for Firefox
  →Floating Dictionary for Mac
• Current Affairs dictionary

For kanji.

• Jisho (I use this for spelling kanji for if I can’t read it)
• Yamasa (I use this for learning to write)
• A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters
• Associative Kanji Learning (stroke orders)
  
  

Online reading:

• Hukumusume Fairytales
• 竹取（Bamboo-Cutting） (vertical writing)
• 吉田秀幸の日記（Hideyuki Yoshida’s Diary） (recipes)
• Chokochoko’s reading texts to help with JLPT
• TED Talks (with Japanese subtitles and transcripts)
• Learning through Films [Japanese subtitles/scripts]

Manga.

• Free online manga
• Vomic (free online manga with voice actors)
• Sound Effects (in manga, etc)

Improving your speaking:

• Japanese pronunciation guide
• Interactive Hiragana Pronounciation table
• Topics for Language Exchanges.
• Bubbly (a Twitter-like app where you can record yourself)
• Audioboo (similar to Bubbly, but also a website)

Listening:

• “Real World” Japanese
• 泣きたいときのクスリ 2007 - ‘08 (radio drama)

Writing practice:

• Lang-8
• www.Japan-Guide.com
• 原稿用紙の使い方 (How to write an essay with Japanese writing paper)
• Shiritori (Japanese word-chain game)

News:

• NewsWeb Easy
• NHK News (audio news with speed controls)
• Mainichi Primary School student Newspaper

Podcasts:

• JOQR (Cultural Broadcasting)
• TBS Radio’s Junk
• TOKYO FM

YouTube:

• Afternoon Hirusagari
• Jet Daisuke
• バイリンガール英会話
• Analog TV Forever (collections of adverts)

Japanese sign language.

• Heartful Power Hideo
• Shuwa Island

TV:

• Japanese subtitles for anime
• KeyHole TV (to stream Japanese TV and radio)
• 風雲LIVE日本語（Feng Yun LIVE Japanese） (to stream TV)
• 映画で学ぶ実践英会話

Tumblr:

• Kanji-a-Day
• Holy crap Japanese
• Nihongo ga Suki
• Jumpstart Japanese
• Nihongolog
• Nadine Nihongo
• That Japan Addict
• ChilliMuffin
• Japanese through Fandom
• F-Yeah Native Japanese
• J-Vocab of the Day
• ぶらりめし [Japanese only]
• Peaceful Chef [Japanese only]

Those studying in Japan.

• Japanicking in Yamanashi (at Yamanashi University)
• Samxuel (at Kyushu Sangyo)
• Katy in Japan Town (at NUFS)
• Chocotastie (at Seinan Gakuin)
• Kim in Sapporo (at Hokkaido University)

Blogging:

• Yaplog

Learning websites:

• JapaneseClass.jp
• The Japanese Page
• Tae Kim’s Guide to Learning Japanese
• Erin’s Challenge (with listening and reading practice)
• Maggie Sensei

Other resources:

• Lots of threads with a variety of resources for Japanese learning
• JLPT Resources

I’ve added more to the list since first creating it. As always, if anyone has anything they would like to add, let me know!

coldforest:

*Pose Maker

*Heads

*Poses

*Hands

*Colour Palettes and Patterns

*Skin Colours

*How To Draw Hands

*How To Draw Cuts And Bruises

*How To Draw Fabric Folds/Creases

*How To Draw Noses

*How To Draw Lips

*How To Draw Hair

*How To Draw Photorealistic Foliage

*How To Draw Light And Shadow

bonnibelbubblegum:

a new leaf 1.0 by bonnibelbubblegum

live preview // get the code

this is an animal crossing theme! though it can be used for other things. i included a lot of animal crossing aspects to it, but you could change them in the html if you really wanted to. this theme is pretty custimizeable, and i’m pretty proud of it.

features:

• solid color or image background
• optional sidebar image (theme looks best when in use)
• 2 customizeable sidebars
• border around sidebar
• home, ask, submit, and about links
• navigation bar with seven optional links
• rounded edges/photos/portraits
• post shadows

note about the navigation/buttons: they can’t be moved from their spot in the theme unless you edit the html itself, so to fix this problem i included an px option so that you can move the sidebar back above it.

if you have any concerns or issues, please contact me!!!

i hope your day is sweet 

emboars:

pastel umbreon backgrounds! [more!]

art-and-sterf:

• All References
  Male Clothing
  Female Clothing
  
  
• Genres
  High Fashion
  Steam Punk
  Goth
  Street
  Fantasy
  
  
• Modern
  Vintage
  Historical
  
  
• Shirts
  Blouses
  Vests
  Jackets
  Coats
  Cloaks
  Hoods
  Corsets
  
  
• Pants
  Leggings
  Skirts
  
  
• Accesories
  Bags
  Jewelry
  Necklaces
  Rings
  Fans
  Parasols
  Tiaras

kurokukisama:

Working Together (Finale : Working Together - Allegro vivace)

Kingdom Hearts Piano Collections

(Source: soramaruu)

syringe:

heroicbrawn:

I found this guy tonight while talking with good ol’ Jux and, well,

we learn now

bless your kind heart and perfect soul this is everything i needed and more to improve my photography

(Source: incredibeard)