#Speech generating device

[nonspeakingkiku]

Lighting not good in here right now but Accent!! Kiku and wifey watching Supernatural.

Kiku needs more stim toys and fiddly things to put on accent but not sure what to put on it. ID: an accent 1000 (a windows based communication device) with a red frame, a transparent keyguard, and lamp vi open on it. En ID

Oh and here's stickers on the back that Kiku made (printed and packing tape, some were gonna go on ipad but wouldn't stick so went on accent).

ID: the back of the accent with seven different stickers on it, from left to right: "Being nonspeaking does not mean I have nothing to say", "Not being able to speal does not mean the same as not having anything to say", a red triangle shaped tactile symbol, a strabby from bugsnax, a multicolor hand print with the words special needs under it, a white tactile symbol, and a rainbow infinity symbol. End ID

[chemos-factories]

don’t remember if ive posted this b4, sorry if i have

[skrankku]

(No primarchs were harmed during the making of this comic)

A short comic based on Discord discussions on the kind of shenanigans Magnus gets up to when he can't keep a stable form.

[lukasspookas]

captain general kitten and magnus my beloveds

[scooter-sys]

Haven't drawn

💖THEM💖

In a while

[shellderbeast]

I’ve been absent for a while and work and depression are mostly to blame for that. But also, finding fresh life in my local Warhammer community has been a blessing 💜

Top two photos are from Iron Cygnet, bottom two are photos a friend took of the models I entered into a comp. Neither won, but I’m damn proud of them.

Magnus - Warp Shenanigans

Kitten - The Machine Spirits Vengeance

Shout out to @alicesuicide , @minkelmyers and The Dark Chronist for reaching out over the last few months despite my periodic radio blackouts. I do love y’all but my brain is a broke potato and the hamster is spinning solely on meds.

Still actively working on the stories when life lets me - there’s too much left to not finish 💜♥️💛

[simon-newman]

I have once again reminded myself of this masterpiece.

[raincross]

My boyfriend has compared Mephiles at the end of the boss fight to Malal.

"I will become canon!"

"I want to exist!"

[atopvisenyashill]

i almost put cassandra clare on that rec list i’d like everyone to applaud my restraint

[not-scooter]

Drawings from the end of last year!

[fitzrove]

I might be wrong cos idk the US context so take this w a grain of salt... but despite scores of posts about it I fail to see the plan to ban tiktok as a bad thing 😅 it's already banned for employees/official devices by governments and international organisations across the world for compromising user data and um, literally being spyware. It's not like it's the Last Bastion of Free Speech either like dude just use a different app...

[learning-to-love-the-novel]

Pinned post v.0.1

Learning to Love (working title) is a gay fantasy novel that I've got like 50k words of notes about and maybe 5k words of actual text for (it's all random scenes from like the middle of the story and I can't fucking post them anywhere but I need to talk about this thing)

Setting: post-apocalyptic. Before the catastrophe it was a high magic society, about as technologically advanced as we are right now, except with magic instead of technology.

Characters: mostly magical academia people (several magical colleges/research institutes stayed fairly intact as social structures throughout the catastrophe). Basically, if you're someone from academia who also likes fantasy and mlm romance, these guys should be up your alley.

Story hook: newly Ph.D. guy comes back home, finds his professor dad a grumpy asshole (moreso than before) who mistreats his live-in maid/Ph.D. student. The student finishes his Ph.D., professor dad seemingly kicks him out, student is bummed, professor's son offers to go on some adventures together with him.

Creation notes (&reasoning behind some tags on this post) and tag list (to be updated) under read more

Learning to Love originally started out as a global AU fanfic for Alfabusa's If the Emperor had a text to speech device video series, itself a fix-it fanfic for Warhammer 40.000. But, as I worked out more and more of the details, I realized that calling it a fanfic is sorta dishonest.

The point of the Warhammer characters I was playing with, their essense, is war. War is their life, their purpose, the source of their tragedies... I didn't want to write about that. And if you keep that out of your wh40k fanfic, is it really a wh40k fanfic? Especially if it's a global AU, set in a world that bears no resemblance to wh40k or any of its versions? Personally, I don't think so.

Thus, Learning to Love is not a fanfic anymore. I changed most of the "inherited" characters to be barely recognizable, kicked out some primarchs from my story, remade others entirely (or maybe rather made up new characters in their place? hard to tell sometimes), put a couple OCs with no wh40k precursors in. But the main pairing started out as Magnus x Captain General Little Kitten (as anyone from that fandom can probably already tell), and their dynamic is still a version of that. (A very optimistic version.)

This is why this post is tagged with If the Emperor had a text to speech device and the several Mittens pairing tags. Don't worry, I'll only tag posts where I talk about Learning to Love's fanfic origins with that, which I can't imagine there's gonna be a lot of.

This change brought a problem: there were suddenly a lot of unnamed characters on the cast, because previously I'd just keep the wh40k names of their prototypes, and now I had to come up with all new names. The main duo is still unnamed as of now. (I might just leave the professor's son's name as Magnus... He's not even one-eyed anymore, I don't think this qualifies as copyright infringement)

Tags:

(I will add on to here as I post)

#Corrinthim lore -- the continent this takes place on is called Corrinthim, so that's just gonna be the lore of the post-apocalyptic fantasy setting

#dramatis personae -- the basic information on my characters will be here.

#story spoilers -- you guessed it, these are posts about what happens later in the story

#backstory -- also guessed it, characters' backstory

#backstory spoilers -- specifically the parts of backstory that are meant to be revealed later in the story

List of character-specific tags: #Alexander Yunt

[libraryshadow]

Medieval Kitten!!

🐱Best Friends🐱

Print available on Etsy: tiffbaxtershop

[novella-november]

Novella November 2024 Announcement Post

Hate AI, but love writing challenges?

Want to take part in a global, fun project to write a Novella in one month?

Grab some friends, and take part in Novella November, by writing 1,000 words a day for the month of November, ending with a 30,000 word Novella to test and stretch your novel-writing skills!

Your goal is not perfection, but merely getting into the habit of writing a litte bit every single day :D

No website, no sign-ups -- Just a community initiative to write using only your own word!

What are the rules? Just Three so far!

#1 - No AI

#2 - No Plagiarizing

#3 - Wordcount for the month should only come from what you write during the month.

What does that mean?

Only words written during November should go towards your Wordcount for the month... but! Feel free to use your 30k words as a continuation of previous writing, or just make it the first 30k words in a longer novel!

Don't think you can write a whole entire 30k word story? Write a series of short stories that total up to 30k!

Not ready to write original works yet? Write a 30k word fanfiction that you can post after the month is over!

Share your writing experience, tips, encouragement, and questions in the #Novella November tag!

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EDIT, from the tags: Want a progress tracker? Track your progress with TrackBear!

https://trackbear.app/

Don't have a word processor? Use LibreOffice , the free and open-source alternative to Microsoft Word!

Want to organize/storyboard your Novel and don't want to pay a subscription? Try 7writer by Simon Haynes!

Want to be able to listen to your story aloud for proofreading using TTS (text to speech)? Try Balabolka!

Or, create some custom progress / Goal Cards in advance you can fill out as you reach word goals! For ideas and templates, search this blog for "goal cards" :D

Want to do a writing challenge in more than just November? Check out my ideas here for year round challenges to keep you writing consistently! Got feedback? Send it in, I'd love to see everyone's ideas!

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EDIT 2: I almost forgot to mention, if you are unable to write/type your story, you can also narrate/dictate your story to your preferred recording device!

If you're doing a Recording only and it doesn't automatically generate a transcript, it would obviously be hard to judge the word count -- but you're also working with a lot of obstacles, so I'd say if you're able to complete your story via voice recording from start to finish, you've definitely achieved the goal!

Edit #3: added the title "Novella November 2024 announcement post" to the top to make it more standard with my Ominous October and Drabble December posts (will be updating Outline October shortly) , added "Official Announcement Post 2024" to the tags so people can easily find the monthly events for 2024, and added a bit of bold to the third bullet point in the original post from September 2nd 2024 for emphasis.

[scooter-sys]

Yo! Haven't really been on in a while and I've got a few things I wanna let y'all know about! First is, I've had art block recently but have a few mostly done spicy drawings and comic in progress(I think they're all Konrad 👀) that I'll probably post censored on @not-scooter and in full on my deviantart if anyone's interested in that!

Other thing, I've had two major ideas for Warhammer fics brewing up for a while and want to actually get started on them soon. First one is mostly Mittens centered, but is my own idea for a TTS-verse continuation. Second is a music industry AU where it'd pretty much be the Horus Heresy but if the universe only cared about music. These would be written fics that I would like to make comics for as well, ideally

Thanks for any input and for all the support you've already given!

[shellderbeast]

Little Kitten has Fallen...

I did it. I finally goddamn did it. I killed the main character that was already killed but I did it myself, hot damn.

Happy Birthday @alicesuicide - I'm sure heartbreak is what everyone wants as a gift! 😭 💜💛❤️