#Accessibility Maturity

[chubbidust]

smollusk grows up

[hinmotion]

13.04.2025 Tle's Tiktok - "My cat"

[bitchesgate3]

Honestly, I feel like people will never fully understand my interpretation of Lae'zel unless they envision her as a 30 something over-achieving perfectionist, rather than an early 20 year old punk with attitude.

[irregodless]

so the continuation of snowgrave is interesting

noelle says the night before kris visited her and kiiiind of but not really? apologized for the snowgrave route. at least we can assume kris is remorseful for that because when we resume control and reassert our dominance over her they fuck up a trash can in a rage

noelle is also excited that kriss old deadpan voice was back. meaning that kris never used to emote and any enthusiasm that we make them exhibit is not their true reaction. even the nice friendly pacifist things though thats not too new information

i didnt talk to catti yet but in a pacifist route she resents kris for becoming friends with susie which. is a pretty extreme reaction. in fact everyone has a pretty extreme reaction to her that doesnt seem. entirely justified. catti also puts a hex on kris (jockington neutralizes kt with the power of SPORTS) and mentions their past of studying the occult together

we also know that kris has like. monster dysphoria. they wanted to be like their adopted momster family even having a horn headband like we see in tennas flashback. its possible since humans couldnt do magic as well as monsters kris studied it with catti to try and find a way to cast magic as a human

i wonder if the human soul we play as isnt like. a demonic possession they conjured. but i also wonder if kris wasnt born without a soul. the idea of a deadpan voice aligns with how we usually depict a "soulless" person

at the same time kris ALWAYS returns the soul to their body which means that kris NEEDS it to some extent. whether thats that they cant survive without a soul for extended periods of time or because they need us the player to do their bidding and play into their plans

maybe kris needs a bustling dark castletown to achieve their goals. maybe this time playing the pacifist is playing into the goals of the villain

[rxttenfish]

Where did abyssal merfolk evolve? Like geographically speaking?

i'm pretty vague about it because i DESPERATELY need to actually make a map of merfolk species (and, specifically, how they spread and speciated as a group from their point of origin in east asia), including making more solid estimates of what time they became coastal and then became more dedicated marine organisms and the ecology of those areas as they did so...

but, regardless, i have always imagined abyssals specifically originating in the western side of the pacific ocean, with a bias towards the southern pacific. they likely came from a much smaller founder population and their spread was pretty restrained throughout their history, not really the dense populations that other species of merfolk were establishing nor the globe-trotting migratory habits of others, but decently stable in their specific niche. certainly less spread into adjacent communities of pacific migratory merfolk, or even pacific reef merfolk, at least compared to the rates that other species at that time would filter out into mixed communities. (ironic, considering the other species in their genus are "grouper" merfolk, with a much wider spread and lower densities, but very commonly in areas with established populations of other species of merfolk.)

i know their capital city was intended to be one of these long-term settlements for abyssals, although the specific group of abyssals which would later found and become the merkingdom didn't originate in that area — it's just gone through so many ship of theseus layers that very little of that origin remains, anymore, and the original group(s) of abyssals who founded and lived within it pre-merkingdom have since gone extinct as a culture...

probably a lot of their settlements from the pre-merkingdom eras are entirely uninhabited in the current day, or are mostly kept as combined archeological sites + castle grounds for some lineages of low royals, or just otherwise get made into singular sites for specific merkingdom uses, not really proper towns or cities, not anymore. at least one or two of them got recouped by that one religion that i need to make a specific name for, who were influenced a lot by advancements in merfolk understanding of deep time and tend to worship sites of major events in that evolution of life itself. some of their other cities are still inhabited, though, usually those more easily accessible by other merfolk.

[rimeiii]

I hate beating up a dead horse (and in fear of incurring the wrath of the fandom once more) but the way WHB handles content warnings is just...

Where are the detailed content warnings? Not just for the angels, but for everything? Because honestly, I think the game would've garnered less backlash for having them - a "this game is made for mature audiences, viewer discretion is advised" screen before logging in would be the bare minimum honestly.

Say what you want about the angel cards including dub/non-con content and the cards themselves veering towards that sort of territory but at least give a fucking warning about it? I've always criticized the devs for not having 18+ rating all across the board when clearly mature games like Limbus Company get the 18+ rating. If WHB is NSFW because of the sex and kinky stuff, Limbus is NSFW because of the immense amount of gore and dark content.

"But they have content warnings-" ONLY FOR SEX. AND PAIRED WITH 16+.

It would be perfectly reasonable to assume that, for people who played this game without following any of the pre-release contents, with this combination THERE WON'T BE ANY DETAILED DUB/NON-CON.

This is in Indonesia's Google Play Store, and if it's different in other regions, then it also begs the question - why the FUCK is it not just rated 18+ across the board?!

Limbus Company, the closest comparison I can think of being with their devs (Project Moon) also being a Korean indie company that created a gacha with mature content that has a staff team the size of a high school class (in fact I wager Limbus has less staff working on the game because around half of their staff works almost exclusively at their merch café), only had warnings for extreme violence and strong language, but at least they had the decency to put more warnings in their earliest trailers and the game website - and it's always common courtesy in the fandom to warn potential players with one particular image I'll show down below, containing a list of the game's content warnings.

Oh, and they're rated 18+ across the board, including a Mature Content Description on Steam.

And sure, you can make the argument of "well you know what you're getting into upon looking at the card art", but therein lies the issue of not warning at the very start of the game - nobody knew for sure what triggers would be in the game upon startup.

Whatever way you slice it, dub/non-con is a genuine trigger for other people despite it also being a kink (I personally don't get it and it's a no-no for me even in fiction, but you do you). Adding clear content warnings would literally harm no one and helps people avoid things they know they don't want to consume. Yes, despite the in-game context clues providing hints, a clear indicator is still preferable.

Take, for example, the Lobelia summer skin controversy in Granblue Fantasy. People already know Lobelia as the twisted Evoker who not only murdered his own parents but recorded their dying screams of pain in his conch shells, doing the same thing to his countless victims afterwards. All of this is mentioned during the Fate Episodes to recruit him. You want to know the problem with his summer skin, Danger Beckons by the Shore, though?

There's a home screen voiceline where he offers one of his conch shells for the player to listen to, wherein you will hear the pained and tortured screams of one of his victims as she's attacked and later on eaten alive by a shark. Keep in mind, this sort of voiceline wasn't even in his base art, and while his Fate Episodes had tortured screams it wasn't even half as bad as this particular voiceline.

It's even given a content warning in the wiki.

For a rather significant amount of players who bought the skin, the inclusion of this voiceline despite the subtle warning in the skin blurb (which, fyi, is only accessible AFTER you bought the skin) hampers their enjoyment of the skin when they put it on their home screens then tap Lobelia - which many people who get character skins do. Mostly because there wasn't any clear indicator of the scream and a lot of people never appreciated the sudden jumpscare scream. The fact that Lobelia is a psychopath and doing this shit is in character for him should also be able to stand together with the fact that including a scream out of nowhere is pretty scummy and not a good time. Especially for non-JP speaking players, who essentially got jumpscared by a scream out of nowhere, as they never understood the fact that Lobelia was offering one of his conch shells.

Back to the rating issue, though. Why not rate WHB as 18+ if you're going to include content that could very much be considered controversial, like non-con? Like, say, Limbus Company (which I hate bringing up again bc fuck kjh)? Which not only has the warnings in the app store but plastered in the earliest trailers (still viewable on Steam and Project Moon's YouTube channel but not on the Google Play Store) and the official game website?

And sure. Some of these trigger warnings sound silly (reference to traffic accidents is more or less Charon driving Mephi like a maniac iirc based on the content we already have in the game). But I did genuinely appreciate the warning because let's talk about the first three Cantos after the prologue, hmm?

Canto 1 already includes cannibalism, war, torture, and body modifications, among other things! Canto 2 has references to alcohol and gambling, as well as mentions of homicide - despite being a lighter Canto overall! And in Canto 3, we experienced discriminatory violence, more body modifications, enforced ideologies and/or actions, and religious torture and violence among other things!

I can stomach gore easier compared to non-con and even I appreciate the warning, particularly with regards to Canto 3. Kromer's fascination with everything pure (i.e. no body modifications), all stemming from seeing...something...in the basement of Sinclair's old mansion, the cult behaviour that led to mass murder and torture by the faction she leads (up to and including brainwashing as detailed by Kleinhammer Heathcliff's Identity story) Kromer's obssession with Sinclair and him standing beside her as an ally...it's all genuinely so unnerving, and are story beats the game handles really well despite how disturbing it all really is when you stop and think about it.

"But you should've known considering the game's aesthetics-"

Maybe, especially considering one of Gregor's launch cards is literally this, and most if not all Uptie II arts are gory at the very least.

However, again, I have to underline the importance of content warnings - this time with an irl example.

I have a friend who was interested in Limbus Company. I've talked extensively about Gregor and how much I love him, and it started because I have a drawing I made of him in the back of my phone case and Liu Gregor's Uptie II art as my phone background at the time. They said they were interested, then I had to explain the sorts of contents she would encounter in my native language, Indonesian.

"Blood and gore, violence, a lot of mental health issues - Gregor has PTSD and his chapter depicted it pretty well, human experimentation, homicide, so Nagel und Hammer is basically the Inquisition and kills people to 'purify' them, oh yeah cannibalism is also a thing-"

"Stop, stop, I'm not playing if that's the content I'm going to see. I don't think I can handle it."

This same friend was also interested in playing If On a Winter's Night, Four Travelers - a free point-and-click adventure game that deals with themes like depression, homophobia, racism, and suicide. She was willing to try that game out because it wasn't as gory as Limbus Company. For context, the Mature Content Description for this game on Steam:

In both cases, I had to personally explain the content warnings in Indonesian since my friend isn't the most fluent in English and she has a far lower limit for dark content compared to me, but I did send that image of content warnings for Limbus Company and urged people to read the Mature Content Descriptions on Steam for anyone who wanted to try any of the two games and is fluent in English. Why?

Because it's basic human decency to try and keep people informed of any potential triggers and content they might not be comfortable seeing.

Either way, main takeaway from this issue:

Dub/non-con might be your kink, but it might not be for others - it might be uncomfortable or downright triggering as all hell for others, in fact. So, clear content warnings (in particular for any and all triggering content) harm nobody, especially as it helps people avoid story beats where their turn-offs and, more importantly, their triggers.

[lupines-slash-recs]

Rec: Lay Down Your Armor (Come Lie Bare with Me) by saintbot

Title: Lay Down Your Armor (Come Lie Bare with Me) Author: saintbot Canon: Willow Pairing: Jade Claymore/Kit Tanthalos Rating: Mature [🍊] Word Count: 9,730 Summary: “See, that’s your problem,” Jade says. “You still never think far enough

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[breakintomyhead]

[t4tozier]

nonverbal richie tozier who uses AAC send tweet

[parlerenfleurs]

Content warnings are usually recommendations to me. I rub my little trash raccoon hands delightfully, and eagerly browse them to see how the story will be exciting.

[agaypersonthing]

Oh calypso they could never make me hate you

[lupines-slash-recs]

Rec: Heliotropic by PunkHazard

Title: Heliotropic Author: PunkHazard Canon: Overwatch Pairing: Lúcio Correia dos Santos/Genji Shimada Rating: Mature [R] Word Count: 68,733 Summary: adjective. 1. growing toward the light.

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[infwctednyacifier]

Finally finished up our SP channels for now so how y'all feel about our SP chat channels

[emotionally-anxious-spybots]

INTRODUCTION I GUESS

THERES FOUR OF US ON THIS BLOG AND WE ALL SHARE A BODY

THE FOUR OF US ARE ARTHUR (IT/HE BUT I PREFER IT/ITS), sisyphus (she/her), YMIR (IT/ITS), AND MASHYA (ANY)

IM SCARED A LOT, BUT IM NOT AFRAID TO DEFEND MYSELF OR MY FAMILY AND FREINDS IF I HAVE TO.

THESE ARE SAID FAMILY AND FRIENDS

@pinniped-medibots (BROTHER!!) @emotionally-mature-mechanic (DAD...?) @emotionally-clumsy-soldier (UNCLE JAMISON!!!) @emotionally-destroyed-soldier (MY FREIND JANE!!) @virtuoso-spybot (MY BEST FREIND!!) @chiptune-maestro (MY OTHER FREIND!!)

THIS UNIT HAS FREINDS TOO!

@emotionally-aware-sniperbot (UNIT KANZI! THIS UNITS BEST FREIND!) @curious-clockwork (UNIT SKYE! ALSO THIS UNITS FREIND!)

ooc info under here!

i, the mun, have several names; you can call me felix, benry, sol or scout. i use it/its or any playing card suit based emojipronouns. or he/him, but only if were freinds

my main is @scoutbot, i also run @mentally-forgetful-medibot and @physically-tortured-spybot

dni: anyone who is part of a group generally agreed to be bigots (terfs, alt-right, etc) or is a fan of a creators generally agreed to be bigots (pewdiepie, vivziepop, dream, etc), map/nomap/nop/any term thats basically code for being a pedo, proship, zionist, """neutral""" on the palestinian genocide, hetalia fans, countryballs/countryhumans fans, attack on titan fans

all members of the spybot system are aroace, so please dont ship them with anybody. if you ship them with robotic-medic, mature-mechanic, or clumsy-soldier i will flay you

please do not reblog my threads if you arent part of them and i dont know you, it makes me uncomfortable

[autistic-katara]

writing from the perspective of a character infinitely more emotionally mature than me reacting to something i’m very desensitised to and they aren’t is such a challenge omfg