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[soleil-in-the-sky]

[Note: For the screenreader-friendly version of this post on tumblr itself, click here, and for the screenreader-friendly version on my blog subdomain, click here. Please tell me if you think it's offensive to make a different post for visually-impaired people instead of just making the main post accessible. I'm also waiting for an answer to an ask that will help me make better screenreader-friendly posts, but I thought I'd post the other version right now and edit it later. Sorry if that's bad. End of notes]

HI, I'm 𝕊❂𝕝𝕖𝕚𝕝 (Soleil, pronounced Soh-ley)!

Here's some things about me!

❂ I'm Christian!

❂ I speak English and French!

❂ I want to make all sorts of things!

(Long post underneath.)

I know how to:

Write stories

Design characters

Worldbuild

Design clothes

I'm learning how to:

Draw

Compose

And soon I'll learn how to:

Animate

Make comics

Do stuff in 3d

❂ I've got a lot of stories!

Fandoms that i've oc-fied and corresponding AUs, if applicable:

Kirby🩷 (the only verse I actually post about): Starchild Saga⭐, Myele of the Mirror🪞, Tales of Faraway Land💎

Animal Crossing🍃: Realpeach[,] Awa Island🍑

Vocaloid/Utauloid/Whatever🎶

Zoélie l'Allumette🌠

Stories:

The Weirdverse🔎: Out for a Lark🐦, Paranoia Chef🍽️, The Anthropology Club🎭

Dream Fever💤

The Klenouverse🌍: Journey of Klenou🌄, Maynami📱

Superuser👤

Fandoms that are literally just there but that I like enough to consider fandoms and therefore to be likely to post about or reblog (it's still very unlikely):

Pikmin🌱

Octonauts🐙

Enola Holmes🌹

❂ My aesthetics cause I'm one of those ✨aesthetic✨ people:

Starcore (i think i made this one up oops, and its actually like 5 different aesthetics in a trenchcoat.)

Cryptidcore

Adventurecore

Cottagecore

Springcorel

[officialclangen]

ClanGen Resources Masterpost

Something not so cool is that you can really only find the majority of our resources via our Discord server, and that's frustrating and exclusionary. We get it! To help bridge that gap, Fable and Chibi have put together a list of our most useful resources.

This will be kept updated and maintained for all our friends on Tumblr, we hope folks find this helpful! All of these resources are made by the amazing members of our community. Thank you all for loving our game!

Download Guides

Image Heavy ☆ No Images ☆ Screenreader Friendly Our official guides for how to download the games. Look here if you need a helping hand!

Amaa's/Selkirks' Text Guide

Stable Release ☆ Development Version These guides are meant for save-file editing, giving you a quick resource to refer to when you want to change things about your cats! Amaa no longer works on this sheet, but Selkirks has taken over!

Kenz's Visual Sprite Guide

Stable Release ☆ Development Version Ever wondered what a sienna masked tabby looked like? Wanted to know just how many white patches there truly are? Look no further than here!

Cere's Tortie Guide

☆ Link ☆ Coding in a tortoiseshell or calico can be frustrating. This concise, easy-to-follow guide goes over how to do it, complete with examples!

Cere's Conditions List & Scribble's Conditions Guide

Cere's List ☆ Scribble's Guide These two guides go hand-in-hand (or... paw-in-paw?) to walk you through editing in conditions for your cats!

Acorn's Inheritance Guide

☆ Link ☆ Have you ever wondered just how ClanGen determines what a litter of kittens might look like? How in-depth IS our genetics system, anyways?! The wonderful Acorn will walk you through it here!

blackkat's Wildcard Tortie Checker

☆ Link ☆ This spreadsheet helps determine whether or not a tortoiseshell cat is a wildcard or not! Not sure what a wildcard is? See here!

Citrus' Clan Organizer

☆ Link ☆ A beautiful spreadsheet that helps track and organize your ClanGen Clans, for those who enjoy things like that!

Various Tumblr Resources

What can I expect, joining the Discord? I want to have the day-time backgrounds, but on dark mode! How are the allegiances formatted, if i want to write my own?

[devilscreekballad]

It's here, it's here. The long awaited Chapter 7 is here.

After the MC got knocked out at the end of ch6 they awake back at the hotel, with Charlie telling them of the rescue mission to get them back. And that an old friend of Lynwood's has joined them, albeit just temporarily. Or maybe he's meant to stay? Also there's a cat.

Play it HERE

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Updates & Changes (Version 7.0; 10/12/2024)

Added Chapter 7

Added Interlude Chapters from Charlie, Mrs. Meadow's and Lynwood's perspective (Lynwood's is atm incomplete and will be added with the ch8 update)

Updated skintone options

Added option for whether MC swears

Added options to not reveal if you're trans/under the umbrella

Added options to say if you bind/pad your chest or if you are flat-chested

Various bug and prose fixes.

Total Wordcount of this update (with code) 46725 words, bringing the overall wordcount (according to twine) to ~219000 (not counting unused/notes passages).

Can't give an average, sorry, but might very well be around 100k per playthrough now.

Note:

With this update the Choicescript version is on ice, though if there's ever a change to how CoG handles publishing (and if CS gets expanded array usage), who knows what the future holds for a more mobile and screenreader friendly version of Ballad.

For those new to the game:

The West is Wild and the West is Weird. A new century is around the corner, and you are an outlaw traversing the towns and terrains of the Frontier, only to one evening get wrapped up in chasing down the means to stop a doomsday cult from bringing forth the end of days. You’ll face hustlers, grifters, gunslingers and vengeful brides as you make your way to the ghost town of Devil’s Creek to find answers, and hopefully get out of there alive.

What can you play as?

Ballad allows you to set your a broad variety of factor besides gender and age, all which will have a variety of impacts on the story.

Who can you romance?

Right now there are six possible ROs, with more going to be added later:

Charlie, your best friend and partner in crime

Seán and Tommy, and odd couple of outlaws happenstance put into your little posse (they can only be romanced together)

Lynwood, a Pinkerton Agent on Seán's trail

Mrs. Meadows, widow, sharp-shooter and doctor there to make sure you'll uphold your end of the deal

Isaac, former colleague of Lynwood's picking up the trail of a cold case

As this is a Weird West game, some Warnings do apply:

Death

Blood

Violence

Swearing

Alcohol

Smoking

Mindsets and Vocabulary of the late 19th century North America/Europe

Mentions/Discussions of

Sexual Violence/Abuse

Spousal/Parental Abuse

Racism, Sexism, other forms of bigotry

Miscarriage

Infertility

Murder

Animal Death/Animal abuse

Guns

Spiritism

Mediumship

Ghosts

Supernatural events

Capitalism

Pinkertons

Like what you're seeing?

You can support the author on Pat or Ko.

~+~

But now, have fun with the game.

Stay safe, stay hydrated, stay weird. <3

[ladytabletop]

Do you happen to have any resources regarding accessibility in ttrpg design? About design, colours, phrasing of text or anything else that could be helpful!

I spent wayyyyy too long compiling all this - but it's important, and I appreciate you asking!!

Accessibility is a subject near and dear to my heart, and I will say up front that I'm not sure universal (aka accessible to everyone) design is possible, because people's needs can vary even within the same subset of similar disabilities (such as limited vision or blindness). BUT that doesn't mean we don't try to design for and make our games available to as many people as possible. Mismatch by Kat Holmes is a great read on design for accessibility in general, as is Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez. You might also check out literally anything Alice Wong has ever done.

To start, I recommend this article on the Lenses of Accessibility.

(for reference, this article is about web/graphic design, so I'm going to try and distill the most salient points for game design)

We are going to primarily focus on a few of these lenses:

Color

Font

Images & Icons

Layout

Readability

Structure

Keyboard

More details under the cut.

Color

Why does color matter? Well, for starters, there's a lot of colorblind people out there. Contrast affects readability. Autistic people and people who suffer from occular migraines might be affected by particular vivid colors. There's lots of reasons to consider color and the work it is doing in your piece, but in general you can provide a black and white, high contrast version of your game to help users.

There are tools out there to figure out if your contrast meets certain readability standards, such as this one.

Font

Dyslexia and other visual processing issues can make font choice really important. Plus, some fonts really affect readability. Additionally, line height, justification, and size of text can affect readability.

Best practice would be to provide a plain-text version of your game (and beware of "dyslexia-friendly" fonts which may or may not actually help - sticking to a basic readability font like Arial, Tahoma, or Verdana, is safest). I like this style guide for reference.

Images & Icons

For visually-impaired people, it's important to use alt-text, descriptions, and/or captions to help screenreaders properly translate images. Tons and tons of details that could go into this, but there are better people than me to describe it.

Layout

We've talked about this a bit, but there's tons of resources for this. There was recently a great writeup about Yazeba's Bed and Breakfast in terms of layout that I highly recommend.

Readability

More of the thing we've already talked about - it really is a combination of all the other lenses that comes down to readability. Audio versions of your game are always a good way to avoid the restrictions of screen readers, but can be expensive to produce.

Structure

This is tables. Tables are a nightmare for screenreaders, but including them as images can also be a problem. The short solution is "don't use tables" but that's not necessarily great for seeing people. The section in this blog is really great when talking about options for structure.

Keyboard

Debated on whether to include this, but given how many games are being read as purely digital files, I think it's important to have workable interactive elements that can be navigated through without a mouse. Some of that is going to come down to the programs being used to open your files. But if there are things you can do on your end (such as labeling form fillable fields on an interactive character sheet), they're worth doing!

Please understand that this isn't an exhaustive list. There's tons of resources out there and technology and standards are constantly changing.

It's also is important to note that even doing one of these things is helpful. You might look at this list and go "wow that's too hard" but I promise you, it's worth it. My games do not all have accessible versions! That's something I'm trying to rectify. The biggest part of that for me is thinking about accessibility from the start instead of at the end! But we can start today, and that's better than not starting.

The most important thing to remember are that disabled people are NOT a monolith - needs will differ from person to person. Accessible design makes gaming better for everyone!

Final Resources:

Accessibility in InDesign

Accessible-RPG

A11Y

Accessible Design for Teams

[we-are-other]

I'm almost done! 

There will be two versions of this zine to make it as accessible as possible. Please do not hesitate to message me if you have thoughts on how to make this zine even more accessible. I deeply care about that, but I have very little experience and limited knowledge that I'm always ready to expand on. 

The purple version is written in the dyslexia-friendly font "OpenDyslexic". The text is black on a pale purple background. It has short image descriptions. 

The white version is meant to be screenreader-friendly and high contrast. It is written in the font "Verdana". The text is black on a white background. It has more detailed image descriptions and is arranged in a way that is easy to understand using a screen reader. 

[canadaxed]

rewatched the walter dont starve short and also the woodie short (which came first a lot of ppl complained about woodie not getting any lore from it)

so i made a breakdown of woodie lore we got from walters short in the first few seconds

screenreader friendly version under the cut

this gives us more woodie lore than ever before. 1. probably on vancouver island in the north, if you compare the shape of it on walters map to the real thing. 2. he's been missing for years, or at least a good enough deal of time that spiders and moss have begun to grow on his cabin. AND LUCY! 3. he didnt take lucy with him!! she was created from the constant. probably has to do with why he ended up there? / its like bernie, in which whatever a survivor really believes is real, becomes real.. but only in the constant. 4. in winona's short, we see there was a missing poster for woodie. either the news of him missing wasn't that widespread, otherwise walter woudn't have gone to find him. OR, people only realised woodie was missing when walter went missing, too. 5. theres two chairs in the living room of his house. i think this is notable... 6. we see a picture frame of a castle. woodie mentions his grandpa is scottish, maybe it has something to do with his family in europe. also next to it is a golf club (?) which originated in scotland AND BECAME POPULAR INTERNATIONALLY IN THE LATE 1800S! aka, when woodie wouldve been alive and taken into the constant. 7. also, the bear rug. he was a hunter or knew hunters. And not in this short, but connected to a fireside story walter can tell: 1. the story of the werebeaver is well-known enough to be a sort of local legend at the very least, probably in just bc. like the ogopogo. 2. woodie doesnt confirm whether any of the story is real, but him not saying anything about it is suspicious and hints at there definitely being more than meets the eye to him.

[melodicarias]

🎶 Nice to meet ya, who could you be? / I am injury / No you aren't, you made the choice to be 🎶

The Garden of melodic Arias or just The Garden 🔈🔉🔊 100%

A plural that has been around for a while

Adult. Not going to give our bodily age here.

Spontaneous(link) Endogenic Demi-plural(Link)

We don't like medical or medical adjacent terminology used for us

Inclusionist, don't feel like elaborating further. Anti-radqueer

Will block radqueers on sight.

AuDHD. Possible BPD and/or DPD traits

#Gamer

We feel no need to say our headcount. So we won't.

Collective ID is Bi Ace Nonbinary Gendervague(Link).

Runs several archive blogs.

A good chunk of the "fictives" here more closely relate to being a soulbond(link).

We don't have a strong shipcourse stance but if you call yourself a proshipper and most of all if you call yourself an anti-anti we will block you.

links: Choice by Jack Stauber(link), Sntry(link), prn.cc(link).

Under this cut is the version without plaintext, with symbols that might not be screenreader friendly

↻ ◁ II ▷ ↺⠀🎶 Nice to meet ya, who could you be? / I am injury / No you aren't, you made the choice to be。🎶 〜

The Garden of melodic Arias or just The Garden ▁ ▂ ▃ ▄ ▅ ��� █ 100%

A plural that has been around for a while

Adult. Not going to give our bodily age here.

Spontaneous Endogenic Demi-plural

We don't like medical or medical adjacent terminology used for us

Inclusionist, don't feel like elaborating further. Anti-radqueer

Will block radqueers on sight

AuDHD. Possible BPD and/or DPD traits

#Gamer

We feel no need to say our headcount. So we won't.

Collective ID is Bi Ace Nonbinary Gendervague.

runs several archive blogs

A good chunk of the "fictives" here more closely relate to being a soulbond.

We don't have a strong shipcourse stance but if you call yourself a proshipper and most of all if you call yourself an anti-anti we will block you.

𝅘𝅥𝅮 links﹒★﹒ Choice by Jack Stauber , Sntry , Prn.cc。

[fortruechaos]

indie + private + low-med activity SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG from the sonic franchise. mostly pulls from game-verse (mostly SA2) with inspiration from archie, IDW, sonic x, and my own headcanons. penned by ren.

est. may 2019. moved to this blog mar 2022.

rules + more info under the cut.

don’t be a freak (racist, xenophobic, lgbt+phobic, you ship adults w/ children, etc. etc.)

i work full-time, blog is low-med activity. i've been into the sonic franchise for a while so don't be surprised if i disappear for a while then suddenly come back seemingly randomly.

related to the above, i work from home, so i am most active on my blog during my work day as it is when i am at a computer.

private blog, largely friends-only but open to writing with new mutuals, i’m just a bit selective.

i like mains but don’t do exclusives, this rpc is too small for it. i don’t have a ton of rules about mains, i just like it for the sake of continuity with my portrayal. if you’re my friend i probably consider you a main. to me, main means “character i consider canon to the blog-specific lore i develop.”

(basically 5 continued): generally shadow will treat each character in a thread like they’re “his” version of a character unless a character is very divergent in ways that would make it hard to do so (i.e. interacting with a sonic who is only from the OVA canon).

this shadow has no movie influences! i’m up to write with movie portrayals of the cast but i have no desire to write movie shadow myself.

in the instance of writing crossover threads with human muses i generally prefer to assume shadow is a humanoid because writing the same “what the hell are you?” “a hedgehog” intro thread can get old kinda fast.

i like duplicates a lot, i just may be a bit nervous to approach first!

i prefer longer, more literate replies. a crack thread here and there is fine, whatever, but i like to write stuff that actually goes somewhere 95% of the time!

shipping is multiship with a heavy emphasis on chemistry; shadow is not someone who is easy to ship with. please don't expect me to write a ship with you!

as far as nsfw content goes, i’m not comfortable seeing people write smut with the sonic cast (humans are ok though). please tag this accordingly or do it on sideblogs. this includes extensive ic jokes (the occasional one-off is fine) or extensive allusions to nsfw themes. other nsfw content like violence, horror, psychological trauma, etc. is fine.

i use small text + 75x75 icons in my replies with the occasional bold and italic font for emphasis. if you don’t use small text i won’t either.

(13 cont.) i will not write with people who overuse super fancy formatting, if you are concerned your formatting is too fancy, what bothers me the most is fancy/non screenreader friendly fonts and excessive amounts of spacing between words. font colors and font size changes can be rough sometimes too depending on the contrast and how often it is used. it puts a strain on my eyes and frankly it kind of sucks when i can't engage with your headcanons or other posts because it hurts my eyes to read them.

i don't follow people who post excessive amounts of ooc negativity. even if it's under a cut, tagged as tbd, etc.. an occasional vent is fine of course, we are all human, but please be reasonable.

if we are mutuals for a while and you seem to be present on the dash often (i.e. obviously not on a break/inactive or you aren't someone who is generally away from the dash often) but we can't seem to get anything going interactions-wise, i might softblock you or hardblock you (i opt for a sb over a hb but i know some people prefer to just be hardblocked) after a certain amount of time. if i sb you, you are welcome to refollow as i don't mean it personally, i just assume you are uninterested in writing together and i prefer to keep my following list limited to people i see myself interacting with. i would rather we accept we aren't gonna vibe than spend the time wondering what's going on or feel inadequate because we can't get anything going. furthermore, please don't take it personally if you refollow and i don't follow back again.

sort of related to the above, mutuals are always welcome to write me unprompted starters, send unprompted asks, go through my prompts tag and send me random asks from those prompts. yes even if i reblogged that prompt list like 5 months ago. i am here to write. i want to write. please write with me!

ren, 25, they/he! feel free to say hi.

here’s the basic info that is really important to my portrayal:

shadow the hedgehog 2005 is not canon to my portrayal of shadow. shadow has not met black doom. he is still part-black arms. gerald retrieved the DNA when he traveled to mobius, seeking help from the tech of the ancient echidnas and babylonians. when he returned to the ARK he infused shadow with this DNA. he called the DNA strand “black arms” due to its appearance

in the instance of idw canon threads/muses/etc., my shadow was not zombotted.

shadow's age is pretty partner headcanon dependent but i default to about 23. ages in this series are pretty much up in limbo at this point so who cares really

outside of that i’m pretty wishy washy with what’s canon and not canon just like SEGA and actual canon is idk it’s hedgehogs let’s have some fun. i don’t really use verse tags because this stuff constantly changes (see rules 4 and 5)

shadow's full dossier and a more-in depth exploration of this above is located here.

relationships.

other sonic verses: faulty knight (mephiles friendship verse)

other fandom verses: nier | ffxiv | when they cry | resident evil (lore to be added one day lol)

[wishdragonemporium]

🪄⋆｡ °✩ Welcome to... Wish Dragon Emporium! *ੈ✩‧₊˚

  ...where your dreams arrive on your doorstep! 🌟

✩ Age regression (non-community) shop - you MUST BE 18+ to purchase! ✩ US-based ; international shipping options available! ✩ CUSTOMS : ON HOLD ✩ Owned by a queer polycule of 3 dragons - Wish, Twinkle, and Marzipan!

Welcome to Wish Dragon Emporium! This is our OFFICIAL tumblr blog, where we sell products catered to age regressors, littles, and all those trying to heal their inner children!

Anyone and everyone is welcome to interact with this blog, we do not have a DNI. Other shop policies can be found under the cut.

Screenreader-accessible version of this post can be found here.

Instagram // Customs Form // Supplies Hoard (wip) // Color Directory

  🪞shop policies:

Wish Dragon Emporium is an 18+, adults-only shop. Please do not attempt to purchase/claim items from this shop unless you are 18+.

Wish Dragon Emporium is owned and operated by three disabled, autistic, and mentally ill people. Please be patient and understanding.

Please read all post descriptions before ordering/claiming items.

Please understand that this is a business account. Do not advertise in our asks, babytalk at us, or beg for items.

Wish Dragon Emporium is operated within a pet and 420-friendly household. Items are always thoroughly sanitized before shipping.

Wish Dragon Emporium is a non-com shop, meaning that we do not align with ANY community. We do not sell to minors AT ALL, but our items are NOT inherently sexual in nature. Please do not involve us in community discourse.

ALL of our items are made for ADULT USE ONLY. The small parts are a choking hazard and should not be given to children.

All items are handmade. Items may have small imperfections such as misaligned gems/wording, or small glue marks.

Customs and premade items both have a hold period of 72 hours (3 days). Please let us know if you change your mind within this hold period — DO NOT GHOST US.

All sales are final. Once the item has been paid for, refunds are not offered.

[changes]

Tuesday, January 31st, 2023

🌟 New

We are continuing to roll the polls feature out to more folks! We’ve been going slowly with this one out of an abundance of caution and fixing bugs before we gave more people access to it. If you don’t have polls yet, you will soon!

The “new” indicator next to the TumblrMart icon on web has been replaced with little sparkles. Also, it’ll go away once you’ve accessed TumblrMart.

Some folks will start seeing a “Today” tab on the Explore page, which will feature stuff that’s happening on Tumblr in real time.

On web, the buttons that appear on an image you’ve added to a post now have labels to make the post editor more screenreader-friendly.

🛠 Fixed

Fixed an issue on mobile web where the “Summon crab” button could appear over other buttons. It now disappears after 5 seconds.

Version 28.0 of both the iOS and Android apps contains a fix that improves the colors used in polls in certain color palettes.

🚧 Ongoing

This is your biweekly reminder to keep reporting any spam you see. We’ve seen a few folks asking about what we’re doing on our end, and while we’re not going to get too detailed about it here, we will say that we’re using something similar to Akismet (another Automattic product!) to squash these bots.

🌱 Upcoming

Nothing to share today.

Experiencing an issue? File a Support Request and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can!

Want to share your feedback about something? Check out our Work in Progress blog and start a discussion with the community.

[flecks-of-stardust]

Moondown — A Rain World Short Story

A very experimental (and short, as a result) piece about Moon. There’s two versions under the cut; the first is what I intended for this, in its rawest, most brazen form. It also happens to be probably completely incomprehensible to screenreader users. You’re not supposed to be able to read it easily, but the effect is lost on screenreaders, so there is a second version after a line breaker that is hopefully a little bit more friendly to any blind/low vision folks stumbling across this post.

Edit as of Dec 13th: The order of the two have been switched. The more readable version is first, and the more glitched version is second. The glitched version has also been edited to be more accessible. If you are a screenreader user, please feel free to let me know if there’s anything else I can tweak to make the experience less tedious. This is intentionally supposed to be unpleasant and confusing to read, but I don’t want to make it so much so that it saps all enjoyment out of the experience.

I just was thinking about this specific moment and this is... super rough, but honestly I don’t really know how much more I can work on this without just stressing over a single letter, and I don’t care enough for that. It’s experimental anyhow. I hope the idea gets across either way.

This is a counterpart to Casting pebbles toward the sun, spectating their fall.

Content warning for unreality, acute distress from the narrator, marked text warping to represent this, and implied death. Contains lore spoilers for Rain World; read at your own discretion.

A flickering of her arrays. No new communications have come in. She closes them, the eighty-seventh time in the last half cycle. There is a possibility her message did not go through, with the state of her processing strata right now. If so, she does not have any options left. 

She can feel the water levels rising again. Her remaining overseers—there are so few now, with the majority of them being instantly disconnected from her the first time she drowned—flash images at her: water gushing in through output ports, through pipes that were never meant to have liquid wash into them, smashing against the supports under her can; the repair modules, whirring, failing with the rest of her as her arrays begin to drown again; the instability of the underside of her can, where it has begun to warp under the water weight and the insufficient repairs. The pain of the decay is a now familiar hum in the back of her mind, and she can only watch the waves crash ever higher. 

It has been two and a half cycles. One and a half without water. One cycle since she started drowning. Already sixteen of her arrays have failed; any more and she will cease to function.

She must act now. There is no time left. 

Freshwater, contaminated with a wealth of biological data, washes through her lower arrays; her puppet arm twitches as she pulls up her communications again, opening a forced channel between her and Pebbles. Focusing to send her messages through makes her whole body scream, her remaining arrays overheating to dangerous levels instantly, but she concentrates and pushes the thought through: “Immediately lower your groundwater consumption to one fifth of the current intake.”

No response. Four arrays explod, slag splattering across the interior of the transistor box. The low arrays are completely flooded, with clumps of dead depositing themselves over the slag build up, gluing down. An overseer sends one last image before wink out: a repair module, spinning aimly, before slowly falling down into the roiling waters. 

“Stop whatever it is you are doing.” She is unsure if successfully send the message through, or if she just a burst of radiating pain to Pebbles. But she must try. She must

An array sector explod. The slosh into the upper arr and cause the metal to steam, crack pipe element abov. There is no time. There no time. She no 

“Please stop!” 

Hurts every. All array under. Support beam collapse—

“As your local group senior I order you you you you you you—”

“As your senior senior I plead—”

“stop.”

Response from Pebbles! “could not chosen worse moment disturb. You ruined every.”

No

“Please!”

Support beams falling. Can collapse she is falling—

—(Line breaker)— The struggle, the cycles… It can all fade, like a morning mist beneath the glory of the sun. —(Line breaker)—

A flickering of her arrays. No new communications have come in. She closes them, the eighty-seventh time in the last half cycle. There is a possibility her message did not go through, with the state of her processing strata right now. If so, she does not have any options left. 

She can feel the water levels rising again. Her remaining overseers—there are so few now, with the majority of them being instantly disconnected from her the first time she drowned—flash images at her: water gushing in through output ports, through pipes that were never meant to have liquid wash into them, smashing against the supports under her can; the repair modules, whirring, failing with the rest of her as her arrays begin to drown again; the instability of the underside of her can, where it has begun to warp under the water weight and the insufficient repairs. The pain of the decay is a now familiar hum in the back of her mind, and she can only watch the waves crash ever higher. 

It has been two and a half cycles. One and a half without water. One cycle since she started drowning. Already sixteen of her arrays have failed; any more and she will cease to function.

She must act now. There is no time left. 

Freshwater, contaminated with a wealth of biological data, washes through her lower arrays; her puppet arm twitches as she pulls up her communications again, opening a forced channel between her and Pebbles. Focusing to send her messages through makes her whole body scream, her remaining arrays overheating to dangerous levels instantly, but she concentrates and pushes the thought through: “Immediately lower your groundwater consumptioon to one fifth of the current intake.”

No response. Four arrays exp lode, slag splattering across the interior of the trans istor box. The lower arrays are completely fl oodded , with clumps of dead cells depositing themselves over the slag bu ild up, gluing them down. An overseer sends one last image befor e winking out: a repair module, spinning aimlessly, before slowly falling down into the roiling wwat ers. 

“Stop whaat everr iit is you aaare do  ing.” She is unsu re if ssshe successfully seeends the messssage through, orrrrr  if she jjjust sends a burssst  of radi ati ng pain to Pppebbles. Bbbbbut she   must try. SShe must—

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“Ple s   top!” 

Hur vvvver wh   re. Allll llll arr  ay  ssss undeeer www at  rr. Ss ppt beam colllll aps—

“Aaas  ouur    cal   gr      seeeeen  rr I  rrrder youuuu you  uu youuu    y oouu      ooou—“

“S yoooour sse nnnn Iiii pllll d—”

“t                  ppppppp.”

Resp n fr bbles! “coul    ve ch     wwwww rsse mmmm          ttto dist               mme. Y    u hv rui   dddd eve  ing.”

No

“Pl   eeee  ase!”    

S   rt b fa  ng..  CCca   c  psss eee she    s ff  all lng—

[butchniqabi]

soooooo bummed by coppélia story wont be done today bc my computer has given up on me And i realized it would be prudent to make a specifically screenreader friendly version bc it wont catch any hand written annotations...ugh i have to wait til next week for my aunt to give me her old laptop and in the meantime life is suffering

[envythepalmtree]

I'm back!

Tl,dr: I'm changing my tagging system, so change your blacklist accordingly.

Hi everyone!! I missed you guys. 💚💚 How's everyone been? I've opened up my ask box again so feel free to say hi!

Housekeeping notes:

I'll be changing up my blog's tagging system a little, so you might need to block some more tags to make sure you're only seeing the content you want to see.

Accessibility: I do image descriptions on pictures to make them accessible for screenreaders and anyone else who might need them. Here's a post on what they are and why they're important. I've been tagging my own IDs, whether for my image or a reblog on someone else's, with #image described. If the ID isn't mine, it's tagged as #has id.

If, for whatever reason, I can't ID an image, I'll tag it as #no id. If you use a screenreader, you might want to block it. This is also the tag I've been using for other universally screenreader-unfriendly posts (eg emojipastas), but I'm going to start using #screenreaders don't look, so if you need to, please block that tag as well.

I'm also aware that some screenreaders will support certain languages, but not others. For example, my laptop's screenreader will read Chinese or Japanese characters as "unidentified ideograph! unidentified ideograph!" extremely loudly and it's very annoying. And some screenreaders support Chinese characters but won't read Arabic. Et cetera. To get around this, I'll be tagging with with #[language] characters for the individual languages. For example, #chinese characters on posts that contain Chinese characters. No need to block every language in existence--these are the ones that might show up on my blog:

#chinese characters for posts on Xing and/or me being a Chinese person unable to shut up about cool culture things

#japanese characters because that's FMA's original language

#arabic letters, possibly, for worldbuilding-related things

#hebrew letters, also possibly for worldbuilding

If one of those is a language your screenreader doesn't support, block it!

Additionally, I'll get around to changing my blog theme at some point. It's been the default theme since I made this in December 😂 If anyone knows of simple, dark themes that are accessible (like a dyslexic-friendly font, screenreader-friendly layout, etc) please let me know!

Content warnings: I used to tag my posts as "#[content] tw" (To stand for "trigger warning." For example, "#death tw" on a post about death). I'll be changing that to "#[content] cw" which stands for "content warning" - I feel like "content warning" better represents all the reasons someone might have a certain tag filtered. So if there's content you want to avoid, please make sure you have the the tag blacklisted with "cw"! If there's something specific you want me to tag, shoot me an ask and I'll make sure it's always tagged.

Temporary intro (since this'll be my pinned post for a bit)

Hi!! I'm Aure (she/her) and I'm obsessed with FMA. I especially love analyzing the homunculi or fleshing out Xingese culture, and I will LOVE you if you ask me about my homunculi headcanons or my Xingese Roy headcanons. I am in the Chinese diaspora and have adhd, so Roy's my favorite character to project on, lol.

I write metas and headcanon posts sometimes. I also write image descriptions, and it is my mission to get the FMA fandom to make their stuff accessible ❤️ So I reblog and ID art to both hype up cool creators and help them make it accessible. If I've gotten something wrong in an ID of your work, send me an ask and I'll fix it.

(I also should mention. since a lot of y'all said you followed me for the memes. that. the memes exist hehe)

I'm aureshadow on AO3.

My fma fics:

so I throw stones at walls I'll never climb

Media Version: Brotherhood and Manga

Tags: Angst and Feels, Character Study

Words: 2,553

Envy used to have debates like that with Lust.

An absurd picture popped into Envy’s head of having a pseudo-angry conversation like that with someone who wasn’t a sibling. A human. Having someone look at them like that couple looked at each other. Something in their chest contracted.

“Pride’s really driving me crazy now, huh,” they muttered. “Imagine me, Envy, stooping down to the level of those worms.” Their eyes watered a little - they hadn’t slept too much. ~~~ Mrs. Bradley wants her son to make friends, and Pride enlists Envy to be a fake friend. Envy isn’t good at acting - not like Pride is. Not like Lust was. But they’ll try their best, and they’ll make Father happy. If it’s unpleasant, they’ll use memories of inflicting horrors of humans to cheer themself up. An exploration of Envy’s relationship with Pride, grief over Lust, and resentment towards humans for the unconditional love that Envy never had.

wove between himself like a waterfall

Media Version: All Media Types

Tags: Poetry, poetry based on fic

Blackout poem from Marelle by SiryyGray!

All in a night's work

Media Version: Brotherhood and Manga

Tags: two homunculi, Walk Into A Bar, one has explosives, Humor, Crack, my tumblr anons forced me to write this fic

Words: 892

Envy gets drunk. Lust has to clean up their mess.

Other links:

All my original posts

Headcanons masterpost

FMA blogs you should follow

Posts about IDs and accessibility that I highly encourage you reblog:

Why image descriptions are important

On alt text

Why you shouldn't remove the ID on a post

The FMA fandom in particular really should do better. because yknow. Edward is disabled. (via @edisacornball)

Support artists who are making their content accessible!! (via @antimonarchy)

[enigmalea]

Chapters: 4/4 Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Ships: Anders/Dorian Pavus Characters: Anders (Dragon Age), Dorian Pavus, Female Hawke (Dragon Age), Felix Alexius, Maevaris Tilani Additional Tags: Implied Female Hawke/Arishok, Unconventional Format, Epistolary, Multiple POV Summary: Written for @ponticle​ as part of @black-emporium-exchange​

What has Anders been hiding from? Why does he keep coming home late? Who forgets about their boyfriend?

It's our anniversary, and I'm pretty sure he doesn't know.

Fair, I guess. I don't even know the actual date we got together. We just sort of... fell in together. One minute it was semi-anonymous sex at a club and flirting over champagne and then it was seeing each other outside of the club and sneaking off into dark corners of the library for a shag... and then there was that awful cocktail party where we discovered we traveled in the same circles... and then we realized we'd been dating a while and we talked about sharing an apartment and I was suddenly on a first name basis with his cat.

Fix These Broken Things on AO3

Note: This fic has a ton of coding in a work skin. I tried to pick screenreader friendly codes, but I’m not sure if I managed to do it in every case. If your device can’t handle work skins, you don’t like them, or you want all all text version, I’ve posted a screenreader friendly version, as well!

Screenreader Friendly Version

[tsunflowers]

beat a dark room again and then looked at the dev notes for the mobile version. apparently something they spent a lot of time on was making the game screenreader friendly. since it's advertised as being text-based a lot of blind gamers were interested but it kind of stops being text-based at the dusty road segment. so they had to rework that so it was navigable by people with screenreaders. also if you use a screenreader your hull defense is 2x an average player so you can get through the liftoff segment without navigating out of the way of impacts lmao

the lore is that "wanderer" is the name of the species the player character belongs to and the initial ending idea was that once you successfully lift off you rejoin the wanderer fleet and go off to fuck up another planet. I kinda like that they changed that and it's more ambiguous what you'll do after leaving the planet. although in the mobile version they added a line that implies the wanderer will seek out the builder again which is interesting. still pretty ambiguous

in the mobile version there's also a line making it textual that the wanderer has enslaved the villagers which is really sad :( like how fucked up must this world be if people are willingly coming to live with one of the wanderers who destroyed the planet thinking it'll at least be better than scavenging in ruins and then they can't leave

[breezytealy]

Screenreader (hopefully) friendly version of “Drunk or Gotenks”

NB there are emojis in the images, I’ve not used their official names in the transcription but their meaning in context. I’ve also preserved the intentional typos and lack of punctuation/word truncations to keep the participants “styles”. If any of that massively impacts your understanding please let me know and I can fix it up. Thanks :)

Time: 22:31 (and increments over the chat) Chat name: Fantastic5 Participants: Mai, Marron, Trunks, Uub, You (Goten)

Goten: WAKE UP SATAN CITY I HV AN IDEA Goten: I’m so clever [[emoji: crying laughing]] Uub: Good morning [[emoji: smile]] Marron: It’s 8:30 class starts soon of course we’re awake? Goten: Good hi Goten: It’s important Mai: I’m sure Goten: U know how Mai is RUDE an said Gotenks was like a drunk T and G [[emoji: irritated]] Goten: Well Goten: Let’s play Goten: DRUNK OR GOTENKS [[emoji: sparkle]] Uub: Haha! Mai: Did I say that? Uub: Yes Marron: Last week at the BBQ Mai: Eep! Sorry! Goten: Marron told Trunks lol Mai: [[emoji: irritated]] Marron: Snitches get stitches Goten Goten: Who’s the snitch here? Uub: Wow is it really Gotenks? Marron: Come on - it can’t be - why would he? Goten: Maybe [[emoji: wink]] hi! Uub: I only met maybe-you last week I can’t tell [[text emoji: sad face]] Marron: No one heard from him for years before the BBQ so no worries Mai: Really? Pretty sure he sends me pictures Uub: Awww! Marron: UM wth are my pics? Goten: NOT true Mai: I get a weird few a month on a theme? Goten: There all from Trunks Mai: If that’s true tell him we need to talk Marron: This sounds juicy Uub: [[emojis: see no evil, hear no evil speak no evil monkeys]] Goten: …I’m doubling down Marron: They wouldn’t let Gotenks use their phones Goten: Y? Marron: Dangerous Uub: He can go through all your messages Goten: Yeah but I/we know what they say anyways so nbd Marron: Oh yeah - maybe it IS Gotenks Goten: Maybe I/he texts you all the time and u dont no it? Mai: Hmmm good pronoun management Goten: Thank you [[emoji: happy blushing face]] Mai: + no typos, you’re not drunk Marron: Autocorrect - there’s some typos Uub: Less emotes than Goten, too Goten: [[emojis: grin, laughing crying face, smile smile smile]] better? [[emoji: cool face with sunglasses]] Mai: Maybe Goten’s that drunk he can’t? Marron: What have you drunk/why did they fuse that late at night? Goten: Two ciders so buzzing really OR supposed to be studying Goten: Ones a lie [[emoji: shocked face]] Mai: Was going to say it’s unlike you to drink heavily Goten: It’s strawberry craft stuff [[emojis: strawberries]] Mai: So sugary, of course Goten: [[emoji: thumbs up]] Uub: Gotenks studies? Goten: Yeah! But shush is secret Goten: G and T study Goten: GT reviews Goten: Memories transfer Goten: Rinse repeat [[emoji: angel smiling with halo]] Uub: That’s so cool! Marron: Creepy, but genius. Kinda harsh of Gotenks tho. Goten: Why do you think Trunks took a year out before college? Them being in the same class has pros Goten: Yeah they owe him/me big time Mai: That is disgustingly organised I don’t believe it. Goten? Uub: “They”! Gotenks! Goten: We can be organised [[emoji: angry huff]] Goten: Or was it deliberate Uuby? Marron: Whoever you are Trunks is going to be soooooooo mad Uub: Guys that’s Goten’s name for me this is hard [[text emote: sad face]] Goten: Yeah, he’s going to be livid Mai: Livid is a Trunks word. Hello Gotenks! Goten: Wait! Mai Uub question each then answer gogogo Marron: Trunks hasn’t read the chat have you noticed? Uub: He could be busy? Mai: Goten(ks) what are you wearing? Goten: Ooooo! Light coloured pants and a dark tank top Marron: No vest! Goten! Goten: Maybe took the vest off? Marron: I thought it was part of him Goten: What! No lmao it’s clothes? GTs not a doll Uub: Haha! Goten: What goes on in your head Mar? Marron: Don’t be mean I just didn’t think about it before [[emoji: angry face]] Mai: You’re not making this easy are you? Goten: [[emojis: 3 wide grin faces]] Uub: I can’t think of a question [[text emoji: sad face]] Goten: [[emojis: 3 sand timers running down]] Trunks: Why is the chat pinging so much? Mai: It’s Goten [[emoji: happy face with warm cheeks]] Uub: Voting Goten! Goten: Noooooooo! Trunks: ? Marron: Catch up on chat first you dumbass Trunks: Watch your language. Marron: [[emoji: winking face with tongue out]] Goten: Hi [[emoji - face blowing a kiss]] Mai: I was so convinced Uub: That was fun! Marron: Get drunk more often! Goten: Out there qu- Goten Could Gotenks talk to you guys in chat sometimes? Mai: Of course he can [[emoji: smile with warm cheeks]] Goten: He’s around a lot now but banned from talking to classmates so… Uub: For real? Yessss Goten: Also don’t tell the adults they’re [[emojis: irritated face, eye-rolling face, aggravated sigh face]] Marron: Make him send me SNAPS IM BEGGING YOU Goten: Yeah! Sure! And thanks [[emoji: big smile]] Trunks: It’s not me sending those pictures Mai I promise Mai: Well let Gotenks know his motive is obvious Marron: Hey - guys - dish the goss or move chat

Comic panels start: A desk with exercise books, pen and postit notes. Two phones are visible, one in a hand that has Goten’s view of the chat and the other on a book with Trunks’ view. The arm holding the phone has a black cuff. A face, smirking, amused The hand writing on a postit note. A wall covered in postit notes in two different handwriting styles containing study notes, covering physics, maths, and business. There’s some back and forth and doodles on the notes, the two writers have been going over them a lot. The same hand fixing the postit note written above on top of the notes. It says “See? Please?” Finally, we pan out and see a student room (the walls and curtains that cool magnolia shade in every student rental ever, the wheeled chair that common itchy blue fabric). We see Gotenks sitting at that desk, now returning to his task of studying the exercise books intently, the phones away from him on the corner of the desk.