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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

[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.

[findingtarshish]

A new warlock is in town, my friends

Meet Harmony Adams, Childe of Katherine, Lhaka of House Carna and Clan Tremere, antiquarian, book conservationist, and devoted follower of Lilith. She's friendly, gentle-hearted, soft spoken, and dedicated to helping others. Will you be her friend?

This post includes her character sheet, her sire, enemy, some pertinent information about her grandsire, her touchstones and convictions, her relationships to various organizations, and four vignettes that will help introduce you to this good and helpful witch:

Character Sheet

As you can see, formatting is my passion (Every character I made has a different formatting scheme yall I'm so proud of my character sheet designs ;-;) More below page break:

Other Characters, Convictions, Touchstones

Organizations (Is this entirely canonical vis a vis the Lilin Witches? Maybe not. Do I care? Also maybe not. Ceridwen can has a little her own sect. As a treat.)

Vignette #1: Potential

Vignette #2: Bite

Vignette #3: Mine

Vignette #4: Ready

If you want a higher resolution version with more readable text/one that can be screenread, dm me and I'll send you a link to the orignal document!

And finally! Stay tuned :) More Harmony (and a special friend) to come!

[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。

[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—

Annn array se ttttor e plod. The wwwa   er sl shes into upper arr  and caus metal to sssteam, cracki p iiiipe eeeeel ments above it. Th eere is no tme. The r no tm. S hs nnnno t

“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

[thought-42]

writing blind characters: some common considerations

Hey if you're gonna write Daredevil fic or any fic about a blind character really please do some basic goddamn research. Here is a helpful list of starting links and considerations! You don't even have to type words into google!!

Note: This isn't aimed at anybody in particular. There are things the comics, the show, or fic, get write and other things they get wrong and they're not all the same so this is just a generalized list of the most common areas where misconceptions seem to happen. This can also be generalized and used for any other blind character in the 2010s in North America.

Phones and computers While someone who is blind might use the voice-to-text feature like Ok google or Siri for convenience sake, the primary way of interacting with a smartphone is by using a screenreader. They come built in to iPhone and Android products and have for like, the last ten years (Android was a little slower on the uptake, whatever). You touch the screen, it reads out what is under your finger. If you double-tap it, it activates it. You type by sliding your finger across the keyboard and lifting it up when you're on the letter you want. All of this is applicable to tablets as well. Windows and Mac computers! also using screenreaders! Mac's in built in, windows has a built in one but it's shitty. There's an expensive option for Windows and a by-donation option, both of which work well. There's even a screenreader for Linux, though it works better on certain distros than others. You do your navigating with the keyboard (and no, you don’t need a special braille one) unless you suspect there's something on the screen that can only be accessed by the mouse, but using the mouse isn't super responsive and it's not intuitive for people who have been using computers for a while. Apparently Macbooks have a track pad that we should all bow down and praise, I have no clue. Note that if you have any goddamn respect for your own privacy and not irritating other people, your phone will not blare out incoming text messages. Call display in Android has been fucking broken for actual years but as far as i know it does work in iPhone.

Here are a couple demo videos, but there's plenty more out there. Talkback for Android https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSWYLZD8EI JAWS for Windows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_ATY9gimOM (this guy has key echo turned on and I don't know how he hasn't thrown his computer out the window yet)

Braille displays and braille printers So the biggest fucking mystery about Daredevil is how he could afford a braille display as a starving lawyer haunted by student debt, but sure ok we'll go with it. There are a variety of braille displays out there! You can hook them up to your phone or computer via bluetooth or usb, and it will display the contents of the screen line by line on the display. Most displays will also let you input text and commands in braille. Note that as of this writing, you need to have a screenreader running on your computer/phone to use a braille display. I'm not sure what display Matt uses in the show, but here's the wikipedia article in case you want to learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refreshable_braille_display

As for braille printing, yet again, I'm just going to tell myself he managed to find one cheap second hand or paid for it with a small business grant or something. And while ymmv in terms of how much hard copy braille material you want to use, chances are it's not going to be a lot. Braille paper is extra thick and braille is bigger than print, so documents that might only be one print page could be two or three braille pages. One of the Harry Potter books was ten volumes. I think my high school biology textbook was twenty volumes. It came in three massive cardboard boxes. I have no idea how big my university textbooks would have been, or if they even exist, because i did all of that with ebooks or scanned versions. So I guess what I'm saying is yes, there can absolutely be times when preference or necessity means somebody's using actual braille printed on an actual braille printer, but chances are pretty low it's going to be all the time or even often.

Mobility! As a friend of mine once said, Matthew stop abandoning your canes everywhere, that's forty bucks down the drain every time and also not really subtle. Not a lot here besides like, the normal term for it is cane. White cane if you need to differentiate it from a walking cane (though fuck it they can be whatever colour you want). Stick if you don't know what you're talking about or your a blind person trying to like... use ironic humour or something i don't know; some people have done it. As for guide dogs? They do not just appear magically from the friendly guide dog fairy. you cannot give them as a gift. They do not know where the shopping mall is or what bus to get on or when to cross the street. Getting a dog is a long, complex, and careful process that requires a big time and effort commitment. There are a variety of different guide dog schools out there, but if they're promising to ship you a fully trained dog if you just send your credit card information kthx you're in for an unfortunate surprise. Finally, a dog is not leveling up from a cane. They are two different mobility aids, both with different pros and cons. You don't graduate from cane to dog. If you want you can switch from one to the other, which can depend on lots of things like the environment you live in, the sorts of things you do, your own health, your family and other pets, etc.

Anyway ok I'm done and if you have questions, fuck it, my ask box is open

[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

[autisticadvocacy]

ASAN Releases Easy Read Toolkit on Getting Through to your Elected Officials

In February, we announced the release of our plain language toolkit, “They Work For Us: A Self-Advocate’s Guide to Getting Through to your Elected Officials.” Now, we’re pleased to share our newly-created Easy Read version of this toolkit.  

The Easy Read Edition uses pictures along with text, and has more white space. It’s written in easy-to-understand language and is screenreader-friendly. This version of the toolkit is divided into 9 parts, including “Who has the power to make laws?”, “How can I talk to my elected officials?”, and “All about voting”. This Easy Read toolkit covers:

Who our elected officials are

How to contact your elected officials

Strategies, scripts, and templates to help you effectively communicate with your elected officials

How to use social media for political advocacy

The basics of voting: why, how, and when

They Work For Us: Easy Read Edition is the latest entry in ASAN’s ongoing series of toolkits covering the basics of civic engagement. These toolkits aim to help people with disabilities become active participants in our democracy. We encourage you to share this toolkit widely so that we can give as many self-advocates as possible the tools we need to tell lawmakers: Nothing about us without us!

[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.

[lailaalysiace15-blog]

The 3 Most Important Web Languages to Learn

I have often been asked which web languages someone with no prior experience in coding, scripting, or programming should learn, and in what order. So I'll start by giving the three most important web languages in use today, and then go on and introduce other languages that would be helpful to know once you have the basics down.

 1. (X)HTML. HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the primary markup language of the web, and is used to build and structure web pages. Everything you see that is not styling or animation is primarily built using HTML. I'm referring here specifically to text, tables, and forms.

 There are several forms HTML can commonly take: HTML 4.01 Strict or Transitional, XHTML 1.0 Strict or Transitional, and HTML 5. XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) is really just the union of HTML and XML, and is very similar in its markup to HTML, but is designed with XML's extensibility (and strictness) in mind. As a small example, while an HTML 4.01 image or break tag would not need a trailing slash, an XHTML image or break tag would need a space and trailing slash before the tag is closed. This is because in XHTML, every tag that is opened must be closed, even if it is an empty tag.Visit https://www.manzoorthetrainer.com/

 The difference between using Transitional or Strict for both HTML and XHTML depends largely on how well you write your code. If it is written using strict rules (and no legacy HTML from the olden days) and validates under this configuration, then it can be Strict, and will be more compliant and standardized. Otherwise, if it's imperfect or contains some legacy HTML, it would be Transitional, so it can still be validated and the browser can know how to handle it.

 At some point in the evolution of these web markup languages, there was a question of what form the future would take: XHTML 2.0 or HTML5. HTML5 was being developed by individuals from Apple, Opera, and Mozilla, while XHTML 2.0 was being developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Somewhere along the way, HTML5 won out on being the next standard for the web. Today, HTML5 is not yet fully compliant (not until about 2014), but it is where the web is heading.

 So with all these choices for HTML, what should you choose to learn first? I would suggest learning either (or both) HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.0 first, and then go on to HTML5 if you want all the exciting new features it has. Be warned, however, that HTML5 is not fully compliant, and older browsers, especially Internet Explorer, don't like it.

 2. CSS. CSS (cascading style sheet) is a style sheet language that gives an HTML document good looks. It defines the presentation of a web page. When we refer to CSS, we're referring to colors, background images, text fonts and sizes, and element positioning and size. Well-written web pages use HTML for structure and content only, and CSS for presentation. It allows different stylesheets to be used on the same web page for different reasons: accessibility (screenreaders), mobile devices, print media, and many other reasons. One web page can look very different depending on which stylesheet is used. Have a look at CSS Zen Garden to see this aspect of CSS in action; the HTML remains the same but the design changes depending on the stylesheet selected.

Learn html5

Like HTML, there are a couple of different forms (called levels) CSS can take: CSS2 (and 2.1) and CSS3. Both are very similar at the core, but CSS3 goes hand-in-hand with HTML5. Thus, though it has some great new features (like rounded corners, gradients, and shadows), some of these features are not fully compliant. Therefore, choosing what to learn in CSS is less about choosing a level and more about choosing rules and properties that are compliant to the browsers of your target audience, and Internet Explorer or older browsers are usually a large part of that audience.

 3. And now we get to #3, where I must ask you why you want to learn these web languages. The third web language to learn depends on whether you want to build dynamic web pages and web applications (and become a web developer) or whether you want to design web sites (and become a web designer). Whichever path you choose, you'll need HTML and CSS. If you wish to be a designer, and put web development on the back burner for now, I would suggest moving on to JavaScript/jQuery. But if you wish to develop dynamic sites, I would suggest going on to PHP and catching up with JavaScript/jQuery later; just know that if you go the PHP route, you will probably want to get around to JavaScript/JQuery at some point. So on to #3.

 3a. JavaScript/jQuery. JavaScript is a client-side scripting language that allows animations and user interaction with the web page. Think gallery slideshows, form validation, annoying popups, tabs, tooltips, etc. You need HTML and CSS for all this, of course, but JavaScript gives it life.

 JQuery, on the other hand, is not a language, but rather a JavaScript library. It's simply a way to simplify client-side scripting. What would take JavaScript lines and lines of code,jQuery does in a few lines of code. Their motto, "Write Less, Do More", is very true. Depending on how much you want to do or how thoroughly you want to understand JavaScript, you could easily learn just jQuery and forget all about JavaScript. There are also many tools and plugins for jQuery that simplifies the process even more, and makes learning a whole new language a less daunting experience.

 3b. PHP/MySQL. When you get into PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, originally stood for Personal Home Page), you're no longer writing client-side code; you are now writing server-side code. PHP is a server-side scripting language that allows a user to no longer just interact with the web page, but now allows him or her to interact with the server. Coupled with MySQL, PHP allows communication with a database, where records can be created, stored, and retrieved. PHP is embedded in documents with a.php extension, but is used within HTML. So even though a file may have a.php extension, it could still work like an HTML page without PHP, or it could be used as an HTML page with embedded PHP.

 Like HTML and CSS, there are different versions of PHP. Which version you choose to use depends mostly on which version the server supports. PHP5 is currently the best version, though some code that was allowed in older versions is not allowed in PHP4 or PHP5, though it's just as well since most of these codes were security weaknesses.

 There are also a couple of different ways of programming PHP: OOP (object-oriented programming) and procedural. OOP programming (introduced in PHP3 and improved in PHP4 and further changed in PHP5) borrows object-oriented methods used by other programming languages (like Java, Perl, and C++) and uses them in PHP, and helps to cut down on the amount of code used (by making code reusable). Procedural programming is mostly old-school since it is less efficient, but it may be a little easier for beginners to understand.

 And what's next? If you took the route of JavaScript/jQuery, the next language to learn would be PHP; and if you took the route of PHP, the next language to learn would be JavaScript/jQuery. After you have all of these languages under your belt, then it would be time to fuse JavaScript/jQuery and PHP with AJAX (Asynchonous JavaScript and XML). AJAX is not a language, but rather a set of technologies or methods that use JavaScript to interact with PHP, allowing a user to interact with a web server without using page reloads. AJAX is used in searching (such as when a list of suggestions appear when you're typing), forms (again, suggestions, or checking with the server if a username is taken, or populating a dropdown list depending on previous user choices), and many other applications. It's simply a really cool way to bring all of these languages together to create a dynamic, user-friendly application.

 So those are my suggestions as to which web languages to learn when starting out, and in which order. It may seem like a lot, and for some people it may seem like too much, but I have found that learning a web language is just like learning a foreign language. Fluency comes with practice and usage, and the more languages you know, the easier it is to learn another one.

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