#Gill Dyslexic

[prettiestgrlinthemorguexo]

could you do steb relationship Hc's (sfw or nsfw its totally up to you!!) :)

Steb relationship headcanons SFW/NSFW

I’m legit clawing at the bars of my enclosure because of final projects but I legit need to make something and I wanna do my little head canons for our favorite fish boy

I don’t proof read shit and I’m dyslexic so if there are typos…ignore it

Note- his partner is a enforcer

Warning: spoilers for all of arcane, Nsfw headcanons, mentions of fish anatomy

⛧☾༺♰༻☽⛧ ⛧☾༺♰༻☽⛧ ⛧☾༺♰༻☽⛧

SFW

𓋹 - I truly think this man is the most slightly more talkative (like 1%) with his partner in private.

𓋹 - Around people he’s still his perfect quiet self.

𓋹 - With him being quiet, his partner had learned to read him well. His little ear flickes when he’s aware.

𓋹 - What his love language? Yes.

𓋹 - It’s all the above

𓋹 - If it be leaving lunches for you, getting you little treats you’ve mentioned you love, tucking your hair away, All the lovely stuff.

𓋹 - Will always keep his partner safe, he know their capable, he never doubts that for a second, but they’re his love how could he not keep you safe.

𓋹 - Loves taking them on dates, he wants them to feel truly loved

𓋹 - He’s not one for PDA but when alone in their private chambers, his touching you in someway

𓋹 - His arms around their waist, his face buried in their neck or hair, playing with their hair. Kisses.

𓋹 - Speaking of kisses..

𓋹 - Loves to leave little kisses all over their face.

𓋹 - Kiss him once, even on the cheek, and he goes red.

𓋹 - Every enforcer ( definitely Maddie, hate her btw) loves to tease him when our blue fish turns red from even just a compliment.

NSFW

𓋹 - a concent KING

𓋹 - When a make out session gets heated or cuddling turns to little looks and hints he’ll always ask before touching anywhere private.

𓋹 - When given the go-ahead he loves to crease every inch of they’re body, their hips, thighs, chest, all of it

𓋹 - I personally think he has sharp teeth (thing like piranhas and sharks) and will leave tiny little bits (he’s not a monster, he knows better)

𓋹 - Loves pulling on their lips his a heated make out session.

𓋹 - Boys a switch (I think mainly top but he’s still both)

𓋹 - I personally think he has gills on his neck and abdomen, and they are SENSITIVE

𓋹 - Glazing fingers against them sent shivers down his spine and his whole body flushes all different shades of red.

𓋹 - Steb might be skinny but he’s far from scrawny. He’s has a muscular build (sleeper build) and he’s tall (he’s taller then Caitlyn and she’s 6 ft)

𓋹 - If he hasn’t already, he really wants to have water sex. Shower sex, bath sex, pool sex, ocean sex, any body of water he loves. Might just be is fish part talking

𓋹 - He might not be a talker but he definitely a moaner. He moans and grunts during sex. It simply can’t be help, he loves the euphoric pleasure of sex with his partner

𓋹 - His cock is something out of this world, him being a fish he’s useally flat down there but when aroused his pelvis oven to reveal his cock, it’s teal and blue with ridges. It curves up a bit, and it’s about 7 1/2 inches not to girthy.

[marbl3-soda]

My MCSM headcanons (Part 5/5 - Last Part)

-Ivor keeps a diary he secretly hides. Sometimes, he would start by saying to people: "back in my day...".

-Harper is a bit sensitive, and always becomes sad when the plants she keeps die.

-Axel gives out pet rocks to people to be generous.

-Petra would punch and kick a vending machine if her snack was stuck.

-Lukas loves to play uno, but always loses.

-Olivia is learning french and loves squirrels.

-Jesse one time ate a poisonous potato by accident.

-Reuben likes to cover his hooves in mud and print them on paper.

-Torquedawg once broke CaptainSparklez's glasses as a joke.

-Captainsparklez is dyslexic.

-Stampy has an intense fear of doctors and dentists.

-Dan bites his nails when he's nervous.

-Lizzie has a mild allergy to almonds.

-Stacy is bad at handling cats.

-Cassie is a great artist.

-Winslow hides inside a trashcan when it's time for a bath.

-Gill constantly sings for no reason and sleeps with a stuffed animal.

-Aiden is a horrible liar, and he doesn't know long division.

-Maya loves to hit the gym. To be rude as always, she places her chewing gum under people's shoes, and sometimes on their hair.

-Whenever people compliment Stella, the first thing she would always say is: "I know right?".

-Xara keeps lava lamps for comfort.

-Romeo doesn't like children. He finds them annoying.

-Isa prefers sweet over spicy.

-Milo is good at tongue twisters.

-Gabriel takes care of stray animals.

-Soren is not a morning person.

-Magnus always gets noise complaints.

-Ellagaard is awkward at trying to comfort people, but does her best.

[jrwienerheadcanons]

Chip and Gill are both dyslexic, but Chips the kind of guy to go "of course I can read that sign, who wouldn't be able to read that sign" and Gill goes "words are all made up, I don't believe in reading"

this is canon i think it’s hilarious :3

[the-guilty-writer]

We Need You That Way

Request from anon: Hey Gill, love your work bestie anyway I have a request for Spence being with BAU reader but she's dyslexic and idk there on a case and she's insecure because some of the cops/agents don't think reader could be an fbi agent yk and Spencer just consoles her super fluff stuff anyway feel free to ignore me 

Spencer Reid x gn!BAU!reader

Summary: Spencer reminds dyslexic reader that they’re a valuable part of the team.

A/N: While doing research on dyslexia I learned a lot about how it can affect more than reading and writing, but that it also presents differently in everyone. I remember reading a Spencer fic a long time ago with a dyslexic reader, but I couldn’t find it. (I will keep searching for it, though anon!)

I DID NOT HAVE A CONSULT on this fic, so if anyone with dyslexia has an issue with it, please let me know how I can improve. I do my research, but there is only so much a search engine can tell me. My messages are always open and I’m always happy to learn about how I can make a fic better when it features a reader with specific traits I’m unfamiliar with.

CW: reader is dyslexic (this shouldn’t be a warning?), the deputy makes a rude comment to reader, small southern town slander (I live in a small southern town and can confirm that the stereotypes are true. Someone save me from this hell please.)

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“Why does every small town we go to have a bunch of roads named after a bunch of people from the same family?” you huffed slightly.

You had just gotten back from visiting a crime scene; something that should have taken about an hour and ended up being far longer. The GPS had died and there was no cell phone service, leaving you to navigate via old-fashioned map, which wasn’t exactly your strongest suit. Mixing up left and right, finding out that you were holding the map upside down, and old road names made the journey less than ideal and exceedingly frustrating.

Most people thought dyslexia only went as far as mixing up words and struggling to read, but it got in the way of other things as well; today’s backroad adventure was just one example. It wasn’t often that you let those things get you down, but today you couldn’t help it.

After seeing you come back to the station so defeated, Spencer took you to grab a much-needed cup of coffee from the small kitchenette. It wasn’t a real break, but it was enough for you to cool off from your frustrations.

“Looking back at the town records, the Baskin family owned about one fourth of the town land for three generations and the Silvan family owned a third of the town for two generations before holding prominent government positions. Given the regional tradition it makes sense that so many roads are named after them,” Spencer sprouted a fact. It made you grin.

“My great grandpappy held onto the land as long as he could,” one of the old deputies said, though you could barely understand through his thick southern-drawl. “Broke his heart when he had to let it go. It’s devastating the first murder occured on the road named in his honor.”

It’s more devastating that someone is… you know… dead, You thought, but kept yourself from speaking. “And which road was that?” you asked politely, opening up your case file, but knowing it would be faster just to ask.

“Harper,” the deputy said. “There’s only one Harper road in this whole town.”

“Are you right?” you looked down at your file again, taking your time as much as you could, but still in a rush.

“What is it?” Spencer asked.

“I thought I just came back from the scene at Harper,” you told him.

“I’m right,” the deputy replied defiantly.

“I wasn’t-” you wanted to explain that sometimes you would reach for a word like “sure” but a word with similar meaning, like “right” would come out instead. Dyslexia didn’t just make you mix up letters and sounds, but words sometimes too, especially since you were distracted by your files.

But the deputy didn’t give you a chance to speak any further. “I know I’m right! What kind of FBI agent can’t keep track of where crime scenes are?”

Spencer interrupted before it could go any further. “Let’s go note the difference on the profile board, okay?”

“Yeah,” you replied to him quietly and the two of you quickly made your way to the other room.

Spencer shut the door behind you and tears threatened to spill from your eyes. People questioned your ability to do things at times, but never so loud and direct; most of it was whispered behind your back. You’d spend time pretending that you didn’t hear the insults, pretending that they didn’t get to you until you were alone and could cry silently to yourself. This time you had no time, no room, to ignore the interaction that occurred. Your vulnerability was on complete display.

You threw your files down on the table and sunk into a chair, feeling crushed. “He’s got a point,” you muttered.

“He doesn’t,” Spencer said, sitting next to you.

“It took me two hours to figure out how to get to the crime scene today, Spencer.” You should have felt bad about using such a bitter tone with him, but you couldn’t help it. “It wouldn’t have taken Morgan that long. Or you, or anyone else on the team.”

“Well when Morgan drives it makes all of us carsick,” Spencer said. “And no one lets me drive.”

“Spencer, you hate driving,” you pointed out. “You get all squirrelly.”

“I did technically fail the offensive driving course at the academy.” Spencer smiled sheepishly. “But that doesn't make me any less important to the team.”

“Of course it doesn't. You're a literal genius. I'm… just me.” Your voice quieted at the end, what was frustration showing as what it really was— insecurity.

“I think just you is great,” Spencer replied. “And you help me slow down when thinking through cases.”

“Wow, I slow you down… thanks, Spence. That makes me feel so much better.” Your voice dripped with sarcasm.

“It’s a good thing,” Spencer said sincerely. “I jump to conclusions sometimes. You make me slow down and catch the things I missed. My consultation profiles have been far more accurate since you joined the team, and when we’re out on cases we have to revise the profile less often.”

“Really?” You tried not to show how baffled you truly were. You knew that occasionally you helped slow down Spencer’s million-mile an hour brain, but you didn’t think it was helpful for anyone but yourself.

“Do you know why Hotch brings you to court the most?” Spencer asked.

You bypassed telling Spencer that his sentence could be taken in two very different connotations. “Because it would be a waste of time to have me review files when I can’t read them?”

“Because you can tell the story of the case as an experience instead of just a list of evidence. It makes it easier for the jury to understand what’s going on and more dangerous people get put away because of it,” Spencer explained.

“And Garcia always asks you to help review initial video footage for a reason. It’s like you can see the crime scene without being there, so when we get there in-person we have a better idea of where to start. Your spacial awareness is better than the rest of ours. We can build the profile faster.”

“Do I really help that much?”

“Yeah, you do.” Spencer looked at you softly.

He reached for you, pulling you into a tight embrace. You let yourself fall into his arms. The comfort and reassurance of his words cradled you, building your confidence back up. “Keep being ‘just you.’ We need you that way.”

[bizlybebo]

jrwi headcannond

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YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY HII ANONNN

this is such an awesome fucking ask to get. ouguohigohoh i’m about to RAMBLE

plspls let me know if the post doesn’t minimize so i can add a “read more” thing i don’t wanna clog peoples dashes

I’ve really only watched PD and Riptide so. take these ^__^ (SPOILERS UP TO RIPTIDE EP109 AND UP TO PD S2 EP19)

Riptide:

- Chip tried to teach Gillion sign language, but he was very confused at first. He didn’t get it because signing “sun” didn’t make a literal sun, etc. He even thought they were magic spells/incantations at one point. Eventually, though, Gill finally understood them— most prominently, the sign for “I love you”. He signed it to Jay during that moment in ep 53, and Chip found the slightest bit of strength during that moment in 109 to curl two fingers in and sign “I love you” to his crew, with what he thought was the last of his strength.

- Mae (May?) Ferin has very curly hair, which was brown but greyed with age. Jay got the vibrant orange hair from her father, but in my brain she has the curls from her mother, and to me that symbolizes how she strikes a balance between being a Ferin and being her own person, following what her mother wants for her (which is just to be happy).

^^^(Ava Ferin had the same hair as her father. She was the spitting image of what a navy captain was meant to be. She was like a mini Jayson growing up.)

- All the Ferins have wings. That’s it. Jayson’s, Jay’s, Ava’s, etc. are white, slightly blue-ish feathers. Drey’s wings are brown and black. His wings are pretty out of shape now, he can’t really fly anymore, but he can still lift them enough to put them over Jay’s, or Ollie’s, or Finn’s shoulders, and it’s like a blanket. He does it to Earl sometimes just because Earl hates it lmao

- Gillion has very long hair and prides himself on all the ways he can braid it into the traditional styles of the Undersea. It’s a slightly different way of braiding than on the oversea, though, so he taught his way of braiding to Jay, who taught her way of braiding to him. They also taught Ollie. who does Drey’s hair for him and occasionally Chip’s if he can be convinced.

- Hair is also a very sacred thing in the Undersea— one only cuts their hair when they have lost a battle, and so long hair is very respectable. When Gill first was exiled to the Oversea, his hip-length hair got cut very short, up to his chin. It grew out gradually over the campaign, but he tried to cut it after the events of 53, only being convinced not to by Jay when she fully understood why he was doing it. Gillion prides himself very much on his hair.

- Jay is dyslexic. In the Feywild, during that one segment, she lost the ability to read because the magic was preying on one of her insecurities, in a sense. Dyslexic Jay the headcanon i truth most.

- Chip has mild apraxia. It’s real to me.

- Also all of albatrio has/had speech impediments cause I said so. Gillion has rhotacism, Jay has a stutter, and Chip had a lisp growing up which still slips out occasionally.

-Joke headcanon that slowly became real to me: Gillion did Chip’s top surgery in ep 15

Prime Defenders:

- MORE SPEECH IMPEDIMENT HEADCANONS CAUSE I LOVE PROJECTING !! Dakota has a lisp/stutter, and Ashe has a general speech disruption. Ashe also has selective mutism ^__^

- To me, Summer and Cantrip had an enemies to lovers sideplot in early to mid season 2. I think Doug probably mentioned how when he was a villain, he worked with this girl Cantrip, who was Ruby’s sister, and Summer got curious and was like “damn. I wonder where she is now” and sought her out to try and talk to her. And literally their early dynamic was Jade going “kys” and Summer being like “i can fix her!!!”

- Xavier and Jade are mlm wlw hostility. Summer and Doug are mlm wlw hostility. Not reaaaally a headcanon but i had to say it.

- William’s family was very religious growing up. He also came from one of those small, Southern hunting towns and so he has the accent and everything (moomin infected my brain with this one <3).

- The PD season 1 finale took place a few days before Halloween, and the four of them had matching costumes planned out together but never did get to wear them.

- Also, to me, the greyscale arc takes place on or very close to Christmas.

- Dakota didn’t really celebrate his birthday nor Christmas for many years because of how lonely those holidays got for him— he didn’t really get a very good birthday/xmas after the events of the Resurgence. However, Tide didn’t know this and got him a birthday gift once, and Dakota ugly cried while hugging him.

- Shockwave was transmasc. He means the world to me. (Also why Tide is such a good hashtag ally)

- Dakota is very scared of spiders for no apparent reason. Whenever they show up he jumps up onto a table or onto Ashe’s back and tries to fight it off with a broom. Ashe is the one who has to take care of it.

- Gender straight up Isn’t Real on Fauna. Vyncent is literally genderless but nobody asked him when he got to Prime so he literally just went along with being he/him’d and didn’t really mind. (this one’s from arachnid lmao)

- Doug and Summer are queerplatonic that’s it that’s the post

- Ashe is a natural blonde, just like Mark, but bleaches their hair. Everyone was fucking shocked to find out about this

- Lightspeed and Wordsmith are also mlm/wlw hostility. real and canon to me

this is literally just the first ones off the top of my head i have so many but i’ve been writing this post for nearly an hour so i think i’ll cut it off here ^__^

[orderofthelosers]

My first post and it's cringy Minecraft: Story Mode headcanons. Give a round of applause for me, folks.

The Ocelots (Minecraft: Story Mode) headcanons.

A lot of these are pre-witherstorm !!

{Lukas}

• Autistic.

• Loves big blankets. Quilts, comforters, etc. If it's not puffy, he doesn't want it.

• Feeds stray animals. He buys extra cat/dog food and saves table scraps to give them.

• He hangs out with Jesse sometimes but he mostly sticks with the ocelots.

• Very extreme speed-walker. He's walks super fast 24/7 for no reason.

• Buys random little contraptions. Like those water toys where you flip it upside down and the droplets slide down the platforms.

• Him and Ivor gossip.

• Loves when people show interest in what he's talking about. He'll sit and explain something for hours upon hours to someone if they ask him too.

• He hand-made the matching jackets.

{Aiden}

• Dyslexic.

• He snores a lot. The volume varies, but he's usually a little hard to sleep next to.

• Perfers black cats over ocelots but will never tell Lukas.

• Acts like he's the coolest person ever but he's actually pretty lame. (affectionate)

• He has like 20 middle names, so it takes him like a solid 5 minutes to write down his full legal name.

• He had a fairly bad childhood and makes jokes about it all the time.

• Despite them being extremely deadly, Aiden unironically loves hostile mobs. He tries to pet spiders all the time, makes attempts to give zombies fists bumps when they have their arms out, hands blocks to enderman, dodges the arrows when he gets shot at by skeletons and pretends their "playing," ect.

• Got very heavily bullied as a kid and he projected that onto Jesse, Axel, and Olivia.

• Has a pet turtle

{Maya}

• Colorblind. (blue and green specifically)

•Absolutely obsessed with horror movies that it's almost concerning.

• She genuinely hates mint so so much. Doesn't matter if it's smell or taste, she is a full-fledged hater of mint.

• She has the opening skills of 3 month old. She can't open baby gates, she can't open child locks, she can't open jars or bottles,,,,,, actually nothing.

• She's a jerk to basically everyone, not just Jesse, Olivia, and Axel. She cools it down a bit when she's with The Ocelots, but they're still a target for insults. They love her, though.

• She pulls all-nighters 24/7. She literally never gets tired but she has massive fucking eyebags.

• She hates all of Jesse's friends but she loves Reuben. She'll never admit it, though.

• Both reread and rewatched Matilda all the time when she was younger. She still does sometimes for nostalgia purposes.

{Gill}

• Has Adhd.

• Very stupid. (affectionate)

• He has a little sister and he used to get in trouble all the time for purposely teaching her curse words.

• His birthday is the same day as Endercon, which is both a blessing and a curse because he gets to celebrate his birthday at Endercon every year, but the witherstorm was also created on his birthday, so he basically got traumatized for life on his birthday.

• He could honestly care less about Jesse, he just makes fun of him because Aiden and Maya do and he picked it up from them.

• Very good listener. Someone could ramble to him for hours and he'd listen and show interest the whole time.

• Collects Beanie Babies.

• He needs noise to sleep. A fan, the TV, anything.

• He's an extremely slow walker and is always struggling to catch up to people.

{More than one}

• Aiden and Maya have a sister/brother relationship despite not being related in the slightest.

• Gill gets worms off the ground after it rains and gives them to Aiden for his turtle.

• Maya tries to make Gill pull all-nighters with her sometimes but he always falls asleep at like 11pm.

• Maya made fun of Aiden for how many middle names he has once and he pushed her off a bridge. Never again did she make fun of his name.

• Gill and Aiden stay over at Lukas’s house all the time to make pillow forts and binge watch cartoons. Maya refuses to participate because she thinks pillow forts and cartoons are cringy and childish. (shame on you, Maya)

I will take absolutely no Maya, Gill, or Aiden hate. They are all my children, my cutie patooties.

Also, if anyone with artistic skill happens to see this lost and draws one of these (very unlikely) pls pls pls tag me in it ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡

[lindsaywesker]

Good morning!  I hope you slept well and feel rested?  Currently sitting at my desk, in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day.  Welcome to the weekend!

Wow!  Here we are again: Friday!  Where did that week go?  No, seriously, where did that week go?

Why are so many people glued to the screen of their mobile phone?  Because that is where their life lives.  Their friends, their news, their entertainment, their drama, their conversations; their whole life exists on that tiny screen.  Pretty sad, really.  I think it’s one of the main reasons that relationships fail; people no longer know how to relate to, converse with and court real, live human beings.  Social media is definitely the reason young people don’t know how to spell and use punctuation and grammar!  And, before you tell me you’re dyslexic, so is The Trouble, and she got her degree, and my son has dyspraxia and he got his degree too!  

I’ve turned my TikTok feed into ‘Ask Lindsay’ and I am now answering random questions on there.  The first person asked, “How many records have you got?”  Actually, not that many!  The record shelves were literally cracking my floorboards, so I swapped them for CDs.  When I was getting rid of the albums, I copied the essential tracks on to recordable CDs.  Some of the albums had nothing worth keeping!  And, 20 or 30 years later, I’m sure you’ve got some albums like that!  Why did we buy them?  Because there was one half-decent tune on there (which has NOT stood the test of time!)

Hope you can join me tomorrow at 1.00 p.m. for ‘The A-Z Of Mi-Soul Music’.  The Letter A (Pt. 3).  Executive Producer: Lucy Gill.

Looking forward to doing a set at UNDR, Ladbroke Grove on Sunday, September 8th.  The Trouble and her crew will be there so, if you fancy a dance challenge, you know where to come!    

And looking forward to the Soul4U weekender at The Aloft Hotel in Birmingham between September 13th-15th.  Superb line-up of DJs and a live set by the Brit Funk Association.    

Have a fabulous & funky Friday!  I love you all.  You’re probably thinking, “You don’t even know me!” but, if people can hate for no reason, why can’t I love?

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[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday 

FONTS FOR DYSLEXIC READERS

This weekend I was introduced to several typefaces that are designed specifically for readers with dyslexia. My personal interest in type design derives partially from my own difficulty with reading. My preference for a reading font is one that is similar to or derived from Hermann Zapf’s Optima. The default font for Tumblr is supposedly ABC Favorit, but it looks a lot more like Helvetica to me, a typeface that is also easy for me to read. Those of you who have followed us for some time will have noticed that some of the features that make our posts distinctive are the use of bolding and typographic hierarchy, as you can see in this post. As the principal style editor for our Tumblr blog, I realize now that this is because it helps me, as an individual with reading difficulties, parse out the essential elements of a blog post.

Several fonts have been developed recently to address dyslexic reading issues. Such fonts manipulate various aspects of letter form and spacing to enhance reading accessibility, including relative body weights, thickness and thinness of line, spacing between letters, adjustments to ascenders and descenders, and adjusting and deforming shapes and slants to help prevent the perception of letters reversing or swapping places. Most, if not all, are san serif. Shown here, from top to bottom, are:

Dyslexie, designed by the Dutch, dyslexic, graphic designer Christian Boer in 2008. Features include heavier line thickness at the bottom of most characters; slight downward slant on the curvature of the letters; elongation or diminishment of stems on some letters such as 'h and 'n'; added space between letters.

Gill Dyslexic, also designed by Boer. It aims to reduce the symmetry between letters, making them easier to distinguish. Like Dyslexie, the base of each letter is heavier than most other fonts, helping to orient the letter correctly.

OpenDyslexic, created by American designer Abelardo Gonzalez and released as a free and open source font in 2011. Shares many of the same design elements as Dyslexie (which has led to some conflict with Boer), such as heavy-weighted bottoms, unique shapes to each letter to prevent reversing and swapping, and wider letter spacing.

Read Regular, designed by Natascha Frensch at the Royal College of Art in London. Each character is designed to stand on its own and work together with its previous or next character. Ascenders and descenders are longer than most fonts to ensure distinction. Spacing within the o, e, a and u is enhanced and the openings in e and g are kept from visually closing in.

Lexia Readable, designed by Keith Bates at K-Type. This font has been called "Comic Sans for adults." Much like the other fonts, Lexia features long ascenders and descenders combined with generous letter spacing and asymmetrical lowercase b and d to help distinguish letters.

Sylexiad, designed by Robert Hillier, a Senior Lecturer at Norwich University College of Arts, and based on his PhD dissertation conducted on the font. Sylexiad features long ascenders and descenders, light weight, uniform strokes, perpendicular design, and generous inter-word spacing.

Despite all the laudable effort spent on these designs, however, no independent research has found that any font significantly improves reading speed or comprehension for dyslexics. This 2013 study, for example, found that Helvetica, Courier, Arial, and Verdana were the best fonts for dyslexics, the same fonts of choice for many efficient readers. Specially-designed typefaces may not really matter. It appears that san serif fonts with generous spacing between letters and words are most efficient, whether you are dyslexic or not.

Still, I do find the fonts shown here to be rather readable.

View more Typography Tuesday posts.

-- MAX, Head, Special Collections

[beetlesanbutterflies]

I’m disappointed by Mattel

I thought when they announced that Frankie was nonbinary this was the door opening for more characters who are widely head cannoned or were supposed to be in the original version to be announced as lgbt, including Clawdeen a character which the creator of monster high said himself is a lesbian. But after watching the MH trailer today it doesn’t seem like thats gonna happen. Never in my wildest nightmares did I ever think that Deuce and Clawdeen were gonna get paired up. Listen I’m a Frankie x Jackson and Holt shipper for life, but with the slim chance that they’re gonna show up in the reboot I was okay with the idea of Frankie and Deuce getting together because it would be great representation of seeing a nonbinary person in a relationship and just being able to explain to kids “hey frankie isn’t deuce’s girlfriend or boyfriend they’re his partner”. BUT CLAWDEEN?? WHY EVERY REBOOT DO THEY TRY TO GIVE CLAWDEEN A USELESS BOY TO FALL IN LOVE WITH. FIRST THAT RATH GUY AND NOW DEUCE. WHAT ABOUT DEUCE WOULD EVER INTEREST CLAWDEEN? CLAWDEEN DOES NOT NEED A MAN! We don’t know the full plot yet and i’m sure more characters will be introduced in the animated series, so I’m really hoping that Frankie isn’t isn’t just our token gay character. 

This feels like a mess of words that don’t make any sense, so sorry. 

In conclusion everyone at monster high is gay. frankie’s nonbinary and ace, Clawdeen is a lesbian, Deuce is pan, Draculaura’s bi, Abby and Heath are t4t, Jackson and Holt are pan, Cleo’s bi, Ghoulia’s a lesbian I could go on. (Gill is homophobic) 

[nicos-oc-hell]

IDENTITY

Full name: Elisen Thundris (Thundris is the god of mountains) Chaeyra 

Nicknames:

Thundris, prefers if you use it when he’s in his male form

Elly by the gang

Chae by Logan

Mischief by her father

Eli (E-lie) by Aris

Date of birth: May 7th 1881

Gender: Bigender (She/her/hers/He/him/his)

Sexuality: Bisexual

Blood status: muggleborn

Ethnicity/Race: Mermaid

Nationality: Atlantean

MAGIC & HOGWARTS

House: Gryffindor

Wand: oak wood, phoenix feather core and 10 ½ inches

Animagus: squirrel 

Quidditch: seeker

Prefect: No 

Clubs: not in any

Extra magical abilities: Shapeshifter (the humans say metamorphmagus), can breathe underwater, is faster underwater, has control over water 

APPEARANCE AND VOICE

Faceclaim: Charlie Cox and Jennifer Lawrence

Height: 5’8

Weight: 138 lbs

Hair color: dark brown (naturally) then whatever color she feels like

Hair style:

Eye color: sea green

Skin tone: tan

Scars: a scar on his forehead because he was running around in the forest surrounding the marketplace

Modifications: everything if he’s in his male form and a tattoo that Haldir and Ayas made him get, they all have matching tattoos of a chameleon. His tattoo is on his left pec

Distinguishing marks: if you’ve happened to see him without a shirt on, you would’ve noticed the gills on his stomach and the scales coming up the side of his body from his leg

Clothing style:

Accessories: a pocket watch and a ring made by an elven-dwarf blacksmith in a minor city outside of Nytranthyr

What’s in their pockets?

Pocket knife

Quill

Candy

Money

What’s in their school bag?

Ink

More quills

Parchment paper

A pack of drinks

Voice claim: Jennifer Lawernce, Charlie Cox

Languages understood: English, Norse, Atlantean, Greek and Ancient Greek

Languages spoken: English, Norse, Atlantean, Greek and Ancient Greek

Speech and/or language disorder: No but she is dyslexic

PERSONALITY

Favorites:

Color: Blue

Food: Pizza

Weather: She loves storms

Books: Murder Mystery books

Hobbies: reading, swimming with Haldir, shapeshifting into random things, collecting stuffed animals of beasts from Eseria

Music: He loves listening to pianos and violins

Dislikes: Pretty much anyone from Malelin, the city in the skies, has a 600 year long beef with the city underwater

RELATIONSHIP

Father: Alun Chaeyra

Mother: Diondra Chaeyra

Little brother: Aris Chaeyra

Pet(s): A little pit bull that found its way into Eseria, Alun put a spell on the dog so it could breathe underwater and age at the same speed as Aris

S/O: tbd

Children: tbd

Friends:

The gang (Johnny, Elyon, Ayas, Haldir and Logan)

(hit me up if you would like your ocs to be friends with her)

Doormates:

This is tbd, as I have very poor planning

FACTS

Unlike the rest of the gang, Elisen is the only one who doesn’t have a human parent. Ayas is ¼ human seeing as one of his grandparents was a human.

While Haldir may also be a mermaid, since he is ½ human he doesn’t have to the full abilities of a mermaid for example; full mermaids can control water, Haldir can’t.

Elisen always has snacks on her, she could go days without leaving her dorm and her snack supply wouldn’t have a dent in it

Probably the sneakiest of out the gang

Will spend her afternoons sitting underwater like the original Percy Jackson she is

Makes a lot of bets and loses 2/3 of the time. That’s how she got her tattoo actually, losing a bet between Haldir and Ayas

Definitely makes bets on how long she can hold her breath underwater with people who don’t already know scheme

[ask-purpled-and-blued]

Vigilante

Not once has Purpled ever called himself a hero.

He wants that on record, wants to say it up front. He’s never had any delusions about what he is and what he’s doing.

He doesn’t have the license for it, doesn’t have the morals for it. He’s not even saving that many people.

He’s just some kid running around in pro hero cosplay with his shoddy homemade support gear.

So riddle him this: why the fuck is his vigilante name trending on Twitter under #Swag_forHeroCon?

(—This one’s got a high-stress moment and the briefest panic attack known to man somewhere in the middle. Mind the post’s tags and reply if it needs more.—)

—

It started about a year ago. It’s sophomore year and he’s looking at his options for next year’s classes.

Of course he’s taking AP Calc and everything he thinks colleges wanna see. That’s a given and a no-brainer and he’s not gonna go into detail about that.

No, what matters is that his junior and senior year let him take career classes.

Hero-related career classes.

Because not only is this a private nerd school that he needs his scholarship to afford. It’s a private nerd school that has a dual-enrollment type thing with a nearby heroics school.

And one with a pretty good support course that is now available to him.

He’s always been interested in math and engineering. Support courses are just using both of those to make cool shit for heroes and make hella money while doing so.

He’s done his research. Support gear can cost anywhere from a couple thousand dollars to an arm and a leg and both your kidneys.

And it’s his dream to make that kinda money.

So he talks to his counselor about it, fills out the applications and waivers, takes the program’s entrance exam. And within a week he’s got his new schedule that’s got an extra two hours slapped onto the end of the day.

It’s gonna be so worth it.

—

And it really was.

The beginning of the year was covering what they should make support gear for, how to take the quirks and ideas of the heroes they’re working for and make them actually work.

But also the design process, how to research stuff, lab safety. How to make something look nice while not compromising its utility, costume design, branding. Different materials and their uses, different materials and how to work with them. How to deal with mistakes and set-backs. Avoiding burnout and getting literally burn.

The class was amazing. But his favorite part came later in the year.

The final project.

They were given a made up hero student’s profile and were told to create a support item for them. The file came with their name, measurements, hero name, quirk description, and several sketches of what the fake person looked like and of them using their quirk.

They were given a few deadlines and some profiles came with design requests, but for the most part they were allowed to go ham.

And go ham he did.

His assignment was a kid whose quirk was being able to float just himself. He got a couple sketches of what the kid’s costume already had and it looked like there was a bee theme going on.

So, naturally, he decided to give this kid a pneumatic nail gun.

...

Alright so maybe that wasn’t as intuitive as he thought it was. But the kid didn’t have any sort of weapon on him in any of the sketches!

And there wasn’t any sort of close combat abilities listed in the biography like some of his classmates’s people had, so the further this kid could be from the action while still packing a punch the better.

Hence the nail gun he was designing to look like a stinger.

He did his research. Looked up where the body’s vital organs are and read up on acupuncture. Looked up the damage that stab wounds can do and how fast a thing had to be going to go right through you.

Printed out some human outlines and wrote up a couple sheets that pointed out the “no-no spots.” And basically wrote a manual on how to use the thing and half an essay on why certain safety features were implemented to keep him and the fake kid from being sued.

And then halfway through actually building the thing he got the idea to add a paralytic substance.

And then he hated himself a little bit because he had to find a substance that would be non-lethal and would have the desired affect. And then he had to go to his teacher during his office hours to sit down and explain that yes he had this idea but he’s not entirely sure if it’s a good one.

And he wrote another almost-essay about what he chose as the paralytic substance and why he chose it and what the max amount the average person could take was so that he wouldn’t be liable if it was used improperly.

And then he recorded himself reading all of his paperwork both for extra credit and because apparently the kid’s bio said he was dyslexic and the teacher wanted them to do this as realistically as possible.

Probably would’ve been easier to just change the font but he’s come this far, might as well go the extra mile.

He paints the thing. Gathers up all his research and his concept sketches and his blueprints and his explanations and his recordings.

And he dumps them on the teacher’s desk and enjoys the lull in the class as the final projects get reviewed and graded.

They get to watch movies and Netflix with the TA while the teacher sits in the other room grading them.

He loved this class.

—

He still loves the class but it loses points for the fucking heart attack it just gave him.

Apparently the hero students they made shit for we’re real hero students. Actual, physical people who applied to the heroics department and got in. And may possibly one day be heroes if they didn’t fail.

And were going to come in and see the shit they made that passed inspections. And would be given said shit to use as part of their hero costumes.

In hindsight it should’ve been obvious, but Purpled cut himself some slack there.

At least his guy was nice. A little too excited at 4pm on a Thursday, but given the fact that Purpled just handed him a gun and said he could shoot people, it was understandable.

Purpled felt really good as he walked this Tubbo guy through the instructions again. Apparently he’d already been sent the paperwork and the audio before this. So all that was left to do was remind him about it the important stuff and then taking five wide steps back and letting him shoot at a practice dummy.

...

Well, Tubbo’s aim wasn’t his problem.

F to any villains and civilians in his way.

—

At this point, there’s probably some confusion.

“Purpled, why did you become a vigilante if your support gear inventing future looked bright?”

He’s getting to that!

He needs to talk about his junior year to give context for his senior year.

Which sucked absolute ass.

—

For one, Purpled’s quirk came in.

Now, normally that would be a pretty good thing. Somewhere around 80% of America’s population had quirks.

Four out of every five people had some sort of ability or abnormality that ranged from being able to detach your ear to having super strength. Getting one that wasn’t detrimental to your health, even at his age, was generally a positive thing.

Except Purpled’s actually sucked. Sucked so fucking bad.

Yeah, he was lucky in that he didn’t suddenly grow gills and need to live underwater for the rest of his life or something. But he honestly wished he could go back to a week ago when he didn’t have this quirk.

When he wasn’t constantly being forgotten by the people in his life because of a quirk he couldn’t turn off.

If it wasn’t for the fact that the quirk counselor’s quirk let them detect the use of quirks, he would’ve thought he’d lost it.

People forgetting his face, his name, his existence over the span of a week was hell. He had to show his mother his birth certificate and social security card and his baby pictures so that she’s remember she had another son. Let alone everyone else in his life that he only saw at school.

Oh god his fucking school.

The lengths he had to go to to keep his fucking scholarship was fucking nuts.

Classes were a nightmare with the teachers forgetting about him by the end of the period.

Things eventually got easier when he realized it was an area of effect thing and that he could shorten it to affect people within a few feet of him.

From that point on he just had to social distance from people like his life depended on it. Because his social and academic lives did depend on it.

He didn’t experiment with his quirk beyond that though. He hated it. He did everything in his power to keep it as tightly controlled as he could.

Until the one time he didn’t.

—

He was out to get another notebook because he’d severely underestimated how many notes he’d need to take for one of his classes. It was just supposed to be a quick stop on his way home.

He’d sat on the bus home with his quirk pulled in tightly around him, the force of it a buzzing weight on his skin that he refused to let go of.

He got off at a stop that wasn’t his but was closer to the dollar store he had in mind. He honestly didn’t expect to take more than ten minutes.

Then a guy walked in and loudly told the cashiers to hand over the money.

Purpled wasn’t that close to the front, but he peeked around the aisle and watched the robbery unfold.

The dude had what looked like leaves for hair and was holding the cashiers at gunpoint. There were two of them at adjacent checkouts, neither of them with any visible mutations. They actually might not have quirks.

Purpled has no idea what to do with this information.

His best bet was to wait for the heroes to arrive and stay quiet-

One of the cashiers was looking right at him. Robber guy noticed.

Turned around and pointed his gun at Purpled. Told him to get out from where he was hiding and to kneel on the ground in the open.

And Purpled was scared. He couldn’t move, he’d frozen.

The guy got loud and mad and he still had the gun pointed at him.

Purpled was panicking. His chest felt too tight and his quirk was freaking out. Buzzing harder than it ever has.

He couldn’t hold it. He let go.

...

For a moment, everything was still and everything was quiet.

Purpled felt light, he felt more at ease than he had in months.

Because his quirk was free and loose and everyone else in the room looked so fucking confused. Like they had no idea what was going on.

Like they just forgot what was going on.

And then the heroes arrived. How they knew to be here was anyone’s guess.

Purpled should probably give his statement.

Purpled was probably in shock though. So he forgave himself for shoplifting and not pulling his quirk back in. For just walking right out of the store and down the street.

Nobody shouted at him or called him back, so he assumed they forgot he was there.

He wished he could forget he was in the store for that moment too.

—

There’s a lot of other little things that lead up to Purpled being a vigilante, but those things don’t matter as much.

He drops out. It’s not hard to make people forget he even went to school.

He regularly breaks back into school to steal tools and materials for his projects and just wipes the people who walk in on him doing that shit.

Makes a costume but scraps it and decides to make several replicas of the top twenty’s costumes.

Because he’s realized that the wider he makes his range the less of an effect his quirk has on all those in range. Vice versa.

So the pro gamer move here is to make people forget what they saw the person in the pro hero costume doing instead of trying to make them forget they saw an unfamiliar figure doing shit.

Memory is reconstructive after all. Easily manipulated even without a quirk like his.

And he’s good at making his costumes and altering his appearance.

He probably won’t always do a good job wiping people’s memories though, so he lets it stick that there’s a vigilante that impersonates pro heroes. One that constantly shifts their appearance.

He even gets bold and makes a name for himself.

Swag_.

...

Listen he didn’t say it was a good name-

—

He doesn’t stop a lot of crime. And the people he does save often think they were saved by someone else.

But there’s always that one moment after he managed to save someone where they look at him. And they see him.

And that’s worth everything.

It’s not a selfless motive. It’s not a heroic motive.

But it’s enough of a motive for Purpled.

—

He doesn’t know how he got a following. Doesn’t know how he never noticed.

But he likes it. After the initial shock of seeing himself trending fades, he lets himself soak up all the positive attention.

And then he gets back to work.

[zoejameswilliams]

#swansong #gilllewis #barringtonstoke 8+. . ABOUT THE BOOK Dylan is struggling and now expelled from school he's forced to move into a tiny Welsh village with his grandad. When Grandad invites him out onto his boat to watch Hooper swans return to their winter feeding ground things begin to change. granddad doesn't judge he lets Dylan be himself with no distractions or pressures. But when tragedy strikes can Dylan keep going when it feels like everything is slipping out of control again? . . ..an emotive and poignant story which brilliantly handles issues of depression and anxiety in young people while exploring topical themes of wildlife protection with a relatable protagonist. Gill gently explores the heavier themes in an approachable and accessible way. . This looks another brilliant book from Gill Lewis suitable for reluctant or / dyslexic readers .. . .#middlegradefiction #nonfiction #middlegradebooks ..#bookstagram #bookstagramfeature #coverkidsbooks #instabook #kidslit #newbook #bookblogger #bookstagram #bookstagramfeature #coverkidsbooks #instabook #kidslit #newbook #newfictions #newfiction #igbookreview #instareview #instabooks #instabooklovers #igbook #gifted https://www.instagram.com/p/CHyV_fpgg2d/?igshid=15yly47bdbqig

[crowgale]

Crystal Killers

Okay, so might as well just sneeze out this goopy mess so I can lighten the load of my brain!!!!

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Sometime after the 22nd century, Humanity dawned upon the concept of Soul Crystals; the physical representations of a living beings soul (Obviously). With this discovery came the revelation of magic and humanity en-masse learned that through the use of these crystals they could manipulate reality itself.

It was found however that magic cannot exist without also altering reality to accomodate it; and soon, creatures and lifeforms came into being that previously only existed in legend (Dragons, Wyverns, Tsuchinoko, Unicorns, Sea Serpents, etc).

Humanity also began changing as a result of its existance. Soon Humans began to be born with altered features (pointed ears, unnatural gair colours, teeth, slitted eyes, some would even have gills, spines or scales depending on regions). Longevity also increased over the generations and soon humanity found itself aggrivating an already fragile balence with nature itself.

Sometime afterward, a war broke out between the United States of America (Literally, both American continents) in reaction to the Republics of Eurasia's desire to decrease the production of mana drives to prevent a disaster; and the Halidom of Africa where Oracles began foretelling of the coming of the 13 astrals, who people began worshiping as gods.

This marked the beginning of World War V. With the USA becoming increasingly militant and aggressive, the creator of the soul crystals and the mana drives, Doctor Tatyana Serova, along with her colleges in the Laputa Research Institute, immediately began working against orders to develop the Gaia Crystal, a representation of the soul of the planet itself and the ultimate magical weapon that could control the climate, geology and plate tectonics of the world.

The plan was to use it to threaten the USA into a ceasefire or a supervolcanic eruption would be triggered... the USA caved and a ceasefire treaty was signed and the Crystal was set for atrophy and destruction.

What the scientists never learned until too late however was that the Crystal was not just the soul of the planet but of all life on the planet... and it had developed consciousness.

In defense, the Crystal increased tectonic plate movement by a factor of 300%, triggered massive earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis, accelerating climate change and melting the polar ice caps, raising the global sea level and flooding the landmasses before the coming of an Ice Age; this resulted in the deaths of billions over a period of 500 years, an Age of Darkness where the Astrals came into being, brought into existance by the Crystal that began propogating coves across the world whre such creatures rested and birthed from.

Soon the Astrals began warring over things mere humans could not understand... soon however, the 14th Astral was summoned.

Coinchenn the Deathstorm. A massive Leviathen that brought forth raging storms in its wake and whose roar could create tornadoes that decimated entire islands. It's scales like venomous barbs that brought agony to all, it's breath like a volcano as hot as a white sun.

The War of the Astrals, and the Apocalypse, ended... and the survivors would come to know that the Earth was no more and what replaced it was Aquarius.

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2000 years later Humanity has restored themselves to a stable but wary existance. Former mountain ranges had become archipelagos, volcanic islands from long ago became safe havens for all, artifical island facilities developed and grew into nations that desperately clinged to the concept of civilisation in a world now ruled by Gods and Monsters.

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The story begins in 4302, on the salvage vessel Lancaster. Drake Redgrave, a navigator, fire mage and freediver, is in the middle of a turbulent arguement with the ships captain over the decision to enter the Coinchenn's wake along the coast of Central America in search of lost Russian Artifacts under the false pretense his partner, Dimitri Ivanovich Beckinov, could interpret the old world tech despite being both dyslexic and unable to read Russian. Naturally the mighty storm attracted a Thunderbird and the resultant panic caused a breach in the hull.

As the ship was capsizing however the captain, in either stubborness or denial, threatened Drake and Beck to stay aboard and finish the job, but was silenced by a thrown hatchet spliting his skull open.

The thrower was a Valkyrie of Skellige, a Warrior Priestess trained to kill monsters and repulse the Astrals using devastating magic and awesome weaponry. She had renounced her name until the day she or another slays Coinchenn and destroys the Gaia Crystal... until then she is known only as Bańdearg.

Slaying the Thunderbird, Bańdearg is thrown unconcious from the ship and is swam to a tropical Atoll by Drake, where Beck has managed to find shelter in an old fisherman's cabin and recover a supply of signel-flares.

Three days pass before a nearby Migrant Fleet recover the trio, but not before boredom sets in and Beck discovers an audio recording revealing the fisherman was once a Magicologist who escaped Laputa before the apocalypse. He laments at his role in the Gaia Project, despairs at the idea the Astrals were born as retribution for meddling in forces they didn't understand and wonders if any of his comrades survived; hinting at the existance of a testing site in Australia (in book, the original spelling is lost and Australia is known as Ostralia).

Bańdearg, discovering the new development, decides to travel to Ostralia... but as Drake tells, Ostralia rests in the eye of the stormbelt in the Sea of Monsters... Bańdearg however couldn't give a fuck.

Being a desendant of Ostralyens, Drake offers his services to Bańdearg who reluctantly accepts. In turn, Beck also offers his service, because Drake is a dumbass but he's his dumbass.

The trio leave for Libertis, a trading city built around a floating solar farm in the Italian islands essentially ruled by what remains of the Vatican.

Whille searching for a ship for hire. Bańdearg is stalked by Vatican agents and the resultant confrontation leds

Odesa

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Gill Dread

Gill is vocalist and guitarist in Bruxa Maria, a heavy punk/ noise band from London who released their debut album Human Condition in May 2016 and recently played Raw Power Festival. Gill has a background in visual art and also does tour driving for bands.

Check them out here:- https://bruxamaria.bandcamp.com/album/human-condition

Photo credit Jose Ramon Caamaño, copyright 2017.

Does ritual play a part in your creative life?

Routine is a big help to me as I suffer from ADD, so to have a routine that your muscle memory kinda does without thinking, means I have less to remember and less to be constantly mindful of, without fucking shit up. It does become important for both comfort and practical reasons, so in a way can become ritualistic I guess. Making lists are also a big help to me. Ritualistic list making… hehe.

What barriers have you faced (both internal and external) to participating in music? This might be any number of intersecting issues, e.g. race, gender, sexuality, geography, family responsibilities, finance, confidence, etc.

I think the biggest barrier to all Art really, particularly in the UK, is money!! So many other European countries are going through the same or worse economic troubles as the UK, but still see the importance of funding Art and culture. The UK has a particularly brutal form of capitalism where the value of all things, including time spent, is measured purely in a monetary way. When people struggle to put a monetary price on something, it is quickly ridiculed and rejected. The media also loves to pick up on the most conceptual toss examples of Art, in order to ridicule all Art as a whole -- such as the tradition of the Turner prize always having a conceptual-wank entry, which people are offended by. Or the X-Factor effect where people think you are waste of space if you say you are a musician, but are not aiming and succeeding at bringing in a big pop market. It’s literally to the point here in the UK, that if you say you are a musician or an Artist, people roll their eyes back in their head and basically mark you down as dole blagging scum with delusions of grandeur, and no knowledge of what hard work really is. It really can become quite soul destroying.

It is particularly ridiculous coming from the UK as we are a country that has produced many amazing and massively influential sub cultures through music, that have reached out and really touched people, helped people, saved people even. From our more political brand of Punk, to the massive revolution in music through rave culture. Both were quickly shut down here in the UK. The ‘Sex Pistol’s tune ‘God Save the Queen’ was banned from being number One in the charts and John Lydon pretty much threatened and run out of the country; to the criminal justice bill stopping gatherings and raves….  If something amazing or creative occurs, the UK wants to shut it down. Yet other countries get funding and the means to take these sub cultures and explore much further, question why it has occurred and actually embrace such phenomena. Add to this the fact that so many visitors and tourists to the UK are here because of our musical history and subcultures. The UK constantly shoots itself in the foot. It is horrific and yes, quite soul destroying. Life is also about living, congregating, enjoying, dancing, singing… without this, what is the point? Without this, people forget why they live, community is lost, the society as a whole gets sick, and begins to fail in quite a horrific manner.

How has your involvement in music affected other parts of your life? Have you had to sacrifice anything creatively because of other commitments, or in your everyday life because of your music?

Work wise, there are many people who are happy pursuing a money-making career that vaguely involves music or Art, and don’t mind about the commerciality of what they are working on. This is still a competitive area to get into and requires a lot of hours of your life to get anywhere. But for some, this kind of involvement can ruin their enjoyment or passion for Art, as for many it is the freedom and creativity that people are inspired by and enjoy. For the latter there are a lot of tough decisions and sacrifices people have to make, unless they have the good fortune of accessing a whole lot of money. I could see very early in life that I was going to do pretty basic jobs to live and fund my Art. I struggled at school, and was later diagnosed as dyslexic and ADD, so I took what I was good at – Art – and took it as far as I could educationally, studying Art to degree level. I was lucky to live in a time where further education was free. Unfortunately, the goalposts of what you need to survive in this country have been massively messed with. I grew up in a time where you could keep things simple, no frills, have a basic income and spend some time and money on your artistic passion. Now it seems that you HAVE to be going hell-for-leather for a money-making, time consuming career or you will suffer for it.

So yes, many musicians I know have chosen work that can fit alongside their work as a musician and often results in low pay. A lot go into teaching as they at least they have the school holidays to work on their Art or go on tour. Care work is also popular. I think for a lot of people, if their job isn’t their passion, they need to feel that they are at least doing something positive and good for their community or they quickly lose the plot. That was definitely the case for me. I have done work at after school clubs, care work, and have mostly worked as a van driver, so I now drive bands on tour.

If all barriers (both internal and external) were removed, what would you love to create?

Architecture, screen plays, books, paintings, installations, sooo many more records… I would love to release records in 12inch singles and make the most of each tune in that 90s dance music/hip hop/RnB way where you have a tune, an acapella version, an instrumental version and a dance re mix (but a good one not a shit one)…  I love turntable culture…where each record is almost like an instrument in itself, that you can experiment with and take further by mixing it with other things. I would love to have the money to offer people my music in that format where it can be taken further by other creative minds. Plus there would be so much more art work to do on each cover…. Yessss!!!

How do you recover from creative failures?

Get over yourself. Being a perfectionist is counter-intuitive to true creativity and can be quite egotistical too. Like you can only show the world complete perfection coming from you…? Yeah get your head out your arse!!! People learn from mistakes…  if you don’t make mistakes you probably are not learning or improving.

Some of my favourite music and art has been the rough recordings, or the sketch book work rather than the final piece. Share it all, warts n’ all, so we can all learn, share and progress. Something you see as a failure can be really inspiring to others, even if it’s just the approachability it gives. So yeah basically you just tell yourself not to be so precious, get over yourself, don’t be so controlling, live, work, learn and improve.

Tell us about three women who inspire you.

It’s a weird one for me, as I have personally never needed to be specifically inspired by someone of the same gender as me. To me it is as relevant as needing to be inspired by someone with the same hair colour. My Mum (RIP) brought me up very well and was a lovely human being which I am very thankful for.

Vocally, I started to look closer at PJ Harvey and Siouxsie Sioux to reference how someone with a female vocal range and physical build, can still hold gravitas and heaviness vocally. I am quite small and when competing with very loud, heavy music, often what cuts through can sound quite screechy and child-like if I’m not careful. This isn’t such a problem live, but in recording it really didn’t cut it for me. I listened to both PJ and Siouxsie and noticed they sing quite deeply at points. So, I started to layer up vocals, some deep, some shouting, some singing or softly spoken and really got into it.

I particularly love Arab and Spanish flamenco style vocals, male and female. It seriously brings tears to my eyes. Maybe one day I’ll run away with some gypsies and learn to sing like this…. As long as I can also have a herd of cats… Mad Cat Lady is my retirement plan...I look forward to it!  I find the female flamenco style Spanish look very influential. I love how they look both feminine and strong.

I like a lot of the female characters in the comic books ‘Love and Rockets’ as well (it’s a Mexican rather than Spanish influence.) The Hernandez brothers were all brought up by a strong Mother figure and you can really see that in their female characters. It is almost an assumption that the community is pulled together and held up by the women in those comics.

[rechief]

Tanner Lionheart (Leo) Character Questionaire

1. What color is your character’s hair?

Grey, but he had brown hair earlier in life.

2. What color are your character’s eyes?

Brown.

3. What color is your character’s skin?

White, but with a distinctive farmer’s tan.

4. What special aesthetic characteristics does your character have?

Tanner has scars all over his body from tough scrapes with vicious animals.

5. Does your character have any piercings? Tattoos?

Tanner is a veteran of the U.S. Army, and has the beginning and end dates of his tour of duty tattooed on his right bicep.

6. What’s the sexiest physical characteristic of your character?

Tanner has a very well-defined jawline.

7. What’s the ugliest physical characteristic of your character?

Tanner’s teeth are yellowed from a lifetime of smoking cigars, chewing tobacco, and drinking whisky. Impressively, though, he still has all of his teeth.

BONUS: What element of their appearance is your character most insecure about?

Tanner is pretty happy with his appearance.

8. What does your character wear?

Many of Tanner’s typical day-wear items are made from animal hide -- a cow-leather duster, snakeskin boots, a gator-skin belt, and so on. All of the materials are from animals he killed himself.

9. When your character smiles, what does their smile look like?

Tanner smiles broadly and always shows his teeth.

10. What does your character’s laugh sound like?

Tanner’s laugh is big and booming.

BONUS: What sort of things would make your character laugh?

Tanner is a big fan of those atrocious redneck comedy tours that sometimes get televised.

11. What is your character’s normal style of speech?

Tanner has a tendency of speaking very loudly irrespective of setting and situation.

BONUS: What are some memorable things your character has said that showcase their unique voice?

“Well, here I am walkin’ on top’a this here shark tank -- awh, shoot, looks like I fell right in and punched that shark in the gills -- ohhhh, nooo, it’s dead.”

12. How does your character express/handle anger?

Loudly and immediately.

13. Does your character cry?

Very rarely.

BONUS: What sorts of things would make them cry?

His granddaughter’s death.

14. How easy is it for other people to read your character’s emotions?

While Tanner presents as the sort of person who’s easy to read, he’s actually pretty good at concealing secrets from others.

15. Is your character religious?

Tanner is a born-again Christian who rarely attends church.

16. How does your character view those of other faiths?

Tanner is surprisingly tolerant of other faiths. Serving in the Gulf War led him to have a lot of sympathy for Muslims in particular, a sentiment not shared by many of his friends and colleagues.

17. What are your character’s core values?

Tanner is a strong believer in freedom for its own sake -- the idea that no one should be restricted from doing what they love unless it’s harmful to another human being.

18. How willing is your character to fight for those values?

Tanner has literally fought in a war in support of his beliefs.

19. What is your character’s favorite food?

Steak, medium rare.

20. What is your character’s favorite color?

The color of his granddaughter’s eyes.

21. What are your character’s sleeping preferences?

Stalking prey for days or even weeks at a time has taught Tanner to be able to fall asleep at a moment’s notice, in any situation.

BONUS: What position does your character typically sleep in?

When he has the option to sleep however he likes, Tanner prefers to sleep on his back with his arms crossed behind his head.

22. What is your character’s sexual identity?

Tanner’s is cisgendered.

23. What are your character’s sexual preferences?

Tanner is straight (and divorced).

BONUS: What sexual experiences or choices does your character feel especially good or bad about?

Tanner feels pretty good about contributing to the Lionheart gene pool in such a way that his granddaughter was eventually born.

24. What type of music does your character like?

A lifetime of international travel has made Tanner’s taste in music pretty eclectic.

BONUS: Does your character have a song that is “their song”?

No.

25. What is your character’s birthday?

August 19th.

BONUS: Does their astrological sign seem to fit them?

Appropriately, Tanner “Leo” Lionheart is, in fact, a Leo.

26. What family structure did your character have growing up?

Tanner is one of a half-dozen children born to his parents. While he grew up in an upper-middle-class home, he made enormous contributions to the infamous Lionheart fortune by hunting exotic animals and then selling their pelts and tusks.

27. How well did your character get along with their family?

While Tanner never got along especially well with his son, he’s been a doting grandfather from the moment Patricia was born.

28. What is the worst thing your character has ever done?

Tanner, disguised as Zero, organized a Nonary Game and put the lives of several strangers in jeopardy.

29. What is the best thing your character has ever done?

Tanner helped create a reality in which the American Tragedy never happened.

30. What is the most significant romantic encounter of your character’s past?

Tanner married his high school sweetheart, and then divorced her while their child was still young. He’s lived most of his life as a bachelor/divorcee.

31. Has your character ever been in love?

Yes.

32. Has your character ever been in lust?

Yes.

33. What is your character’s level of sexual experience?

Leo has helped make a baby.

34. What is your character’s most embarrassing moment?

Realizing that his attempt at saving his granddaughter’s life had been upended by Despair.

35. What is your character’s biggest goal in life?

To ensure that Patricia grows up happy, healthy, and alive.

36. What does your character believe is their greatest virtue?

When he isn’t organizing a Nonary Game, kidnapping people, and deliberately deceiving others, Tanner considers himself an honest and forthright person.

37. What does your character believe is their greatest vice?

Tanner is very stubborn.

38. What motivates your character most?

Patricia’s happiness, and the thrill of the hunt -- in that order.

39. Is your character objective-oriented?

While Tanner hasn’t really deliberately planned out his life, his time spent in the army makes him more organized and objective-oriented than one might expect.

40. Would your character rather be a great person or a good person?

Tanner wants to be known as a great hunter, and a good grandfather.

41. Would your character rather be hated for being who they are or loved for pretending to be someone else?

Tanner would absolutely rather be hated for being who he is.

42. Is your character an introvert, extrovert, or ambivert?

Tanner is an ambivert. He’s perfectly capable of yukking it up at parties and get-togethers, but he can also spend weeks, months, or even years at a time in the deep wilderness with no human contact.

43. Is your character creatively expressive?

Not especially. His taste in decorating is, in particular, atrocious -- lots of animal heads mounted on walls, fur rugs, taxidermy, etc. He is the sort of person who’s owned a half-dozen hunting dogs throughout his life, and, when they died, had them all stuffed and mounted in his den.

44. What’s your character’s disorder?

Tanner is dyslexic.

45. What is your character’s standard emotional state?

Tanner mostly fluctuates between generally cheerful and righteously angry depending on the situation he’s in. After Patricia died, a deep, immense sadness was added to that dichotomy.

46. Is your character materialistic?

Tanner is a man who appreciates luxury: leather furniture, Cuban cigars, Irish whisky, Cadillacs.

BONUS: What are some of your character’s prized possessions?

See above.

47. What is your character’s major learning style?

Visual.

48. What question isn’t on this questionnaire that your character is just burning to answer?

Nothing is coming to mind right now. Maybe I’ll answer this one later!

49. I am a _________. How would your character complete that sentence?

“I am a hunter.”

50. Life is an act of _________ing. What verb would your character use to complete that sentence?

“Life is an act of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.”