Son of the Moon 🧙‍♂️🌙

Aeri :) 25, it/they, queer, near London. Formerly known as desdemonasarahmckenzie. My AO3 is also aerialworms and my art blog is @aerialworms-art. I tag nsfw posts as #suggestive, so if you're a minor please block that tag or don't follow me at all. If you'd like me to tag anything else or just wanna chat, feel free to shoot me a message! Navigation on desktop is the blue j by the bottom circle.

[aerialworms-art]

Trying out a new digital art style with a self-portrait (I heard a rumour tumblr is gonna allow gif pfps and went a little crazy 😅)

ID under cut!

[ID: A shoulder-up portrait of the artist. They're a white nonbinary person with short brown hair, dark blue glasses, and a white-and-green striped t-shirt. They're standing in front of a dark blue background with rainbow stars.

There's a speech bubble coming from their mouth. Inside cycles several doodles: A trans flag, a rainbow flag, Castiel from Supernatural, a black fluffy cat, the USS Enterprise from Star Trek, a sewing needle with blue thread, the gold dragon Pendragon crest from BBC Merlin, and the AO3 logo.

The artist's signature, '@aerialworms' is written on the right side of the image in blue. /End ID]

[aerialworms]

✨links✨

🎨 My art blog (Mostly Star Trek and Supernatural at the mo!)

🏳‍🌈 My AO3 (Ditto the above :3 Although I have a couple of Merlin fics up too!)

✍ My writing tag (Ficlets and oneshots I post to tumblr + posts promoting my longer fics)

🌈 Fic masterlist (Reblog this and I’ll love you forever!)

[bob-belcher]

Bob’s Burgers, Turkey in a Can (S04E05)

[yourfaveneedsakiss]

Leonard "Bones" McCoy from Star Trek (The Original Series) needs a kiss! 💋

Requested by @ozzyzoid-42

[flavoredfaeman]

y'all look at my doctor, I'm gonna die!!

[rna-world]

....?

[unyieldingsilence]

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[thefaultinourchickennuggets]

the bad thing about having unhealthy habits due to mental illness, is when you DO do something healthy style you can't brag about about it because then people will then know you've been doing it yucky style all along. Like you can't brag you changed your sheets or brushed your teeth because then ppl will be like oh did you not brush your teeth regularly before? Thats yucky disgusting! So you just gotta keep it to yourself. And be proud alone, I suppose.

[balkansoul-deactivated20220924]

love how tumblr staff has time to censor words like “paint mixing” and “my face” and yet they can’t get rid of ssexsophie8127 thats been liking my posts from 2017

[ssexsophie8127]

fuck you

[ssexsophie8127]

i won

[softwaring]

moon and rainbow at sunrise by mark ham

[dragon-in-a-fez]

[lunglizards]

tvh spoones

[patheticbard]

Trying to nail him in my art style... I'll get there evetually.

Also! Friendly reminder that my commissions are open: ko-fi.com/bilberryfolk

Prices from £2!

C's Commissions

Commissions Open! Click to see C's commission menu.

[rabbitindisguise]

Dyslexia writing tips:

Rather than trying to spell things correctly one letter at a time, focusing on correct vowels/consonants in the first three letters of a word and correct consonants in the rest of the word when possible is the most useful for autocorrect

If you can't spell a word and autocorrect isn't helping you, rather than struggling with it you can leave the misspelling as it is and put [simple definition] in brackets next to it to fix it later

Many words look similar but sound different so listening to someone read your work out loud can be helpful to spot those tricky words

While handwriting, instead of stopping to cross out a letter mid word it can help to ignore the incorrect letter and continue to write the word and cross the wrong letter out after you're done (or lift your pen and start over and cross out the previous attempt when you finish the new attempt at the word)

Dyslexics will often have habits that are unique to them when writing by hand or typing. Common ones are flipping or mirroring similar letters like dpgb, writing a letter like a backwards, shuffling vowels in words like "because," or adding letters from surrounding words. Something I tend to do is add "e" to everything for no reason when a word ends in "n" while writing by hand and putting Ls at the start or end of a word when it belongs in the middle. Identifying your habits can make understanding what you've written later easier.

Sometimes you can get "stuck" on a word that feels like it should be easy to spell because you use it all the time. Taking a break, or even just a deep breath, and coming back to it when you can try again more slowly can help minimize the frustration.

If a word is particularly hard to spell, coming up with a unique shorthand (especially for character names, places, organizations) to ctrl + f and replace later will save a lot of headache compared to misspelling it 16 different ways you need to find and correct later

Learning a bit about linguists and etymology can help you identify the logic of a word a bit easier, like by spotting prefixes to help memorize those "first three letters" that helps autocorrect hook on the right word you're searching for

When learning a word it can be helpful to split up "what it looks like at a glance" and "the literal letters" and "how it sounds" into distinct concepts. If you know what it looks like and memorize how it's spelled, you can use the visual cue to see if you've spelled it right even if it doesn't "look" how it's supposed to [example: decent and descend look like decent and decsand to me, but I know descend has an e so that's enough to get autocorrect to fix it by moving the S]

Neat penmanship isn't particularly important when the letters aren't super correct to begin with imo. It's more important to have space between words, large letters, and high contrast writing. Similarly, the font size and spacing is more important in text documents than it being typed in a dyslexia friendly font. It's not reading, it's writing. Comfort is a higher priority.

You can ask for help even if you don't strictly need it. There's a lot of people who know the struggle of finding the right word who you can ask in writing communities on discord or even just on Tumblr (where answering questions about book recs and other things is super common)

It doesn't matter how slow you go now, you'll get faster over time (and you can surpass peers who don't even have dyslexia) (that doesn't have to be the goal I'm just saying writing speed isn't fixed just because someone has dyslexia)

There's a lot of creative freedom while writing fiction, so you don't have to use words you don't like writing and you can make up words for things that are easy to write

Resting your eyes is super important to eye health, especially with dyslexia which can cause squinting and eyestrain. There are a lot of different eye exercises but a timer every twenty minutes where you take a three minute break to stare out a window and close your eyes for thirty seconds is an easy one to remember

There's no need to spell check the first draft

I hope this helps folks who are having a hard time navigating writing :3

[peachnix]

new product for angels who want to lose their wings

[sabertoothwalrus]

fixed it

[rumaskift]

always sunny sticker doodles for my friends birthday - gave her an extra Dee instead of frank lol

[angelverine]

we really do have destiel forever

[oneterabyteofkilobyteage]

original url http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Palms/2901/

archived on 2009-04-27 17:43:50

[sunflowersosa]

Nigerian Pride 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇬

I meant to have this out yesterday. Happy belated pride. :)

[sunflowersosa]

I'm glad you all like the Nigeria Pride post!

Originally, I went in worried the opposite would happen. Growing up, I've been taught that Nigeria, the country, is homophobic. (I was born in America.) But over time, I learned that there's tons of other queer Nigerians; some are out, and some are in the closet 😭.

I'm also not used to this much attention, lol

Thank you all!

[meangirlnurse]