with a rhubarb pie

You think this is scattered, you should see the inside of my head. has a worse sleep schedule than tim drake.

[daisychainsandbowties]

super curious today about how people feel toward the names they might have been given. apparently i used to ask my mom about my “boy name” several times a week and get really sad i couldn’t have both my given name and that name. being trans this is hilarious to me now so wondering

do you know what your parents *might* have called you? & how do you feel about it?

i know and i feel indifferent to it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i know and i don’t like it :/

i know and i like it ^_^

i don’t know but i wish i did

don’t know don’t care <3

i don’t know and actually thank fuck for that

my parent(s) never had any alternative name for me uwu

bite me for missing an option

Voting ended onOct 26, 2023

also curious how this intersects with being trans!! i feel like my fixation with it definitely had a lot to do with that, so idk add in tags? if you feel like being trans makes you more/less curious about it

[mchi22]

Today’s the day

[thisistheendtimes]

It’s the day!!

[liightfyre]

Nibbling and attacking their new hideaway

[autumnal-ever]

[iamalivenow]

[our-queer-experience]

sorry the onion has been killing it lately unfollow if you disagree

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

thinking about the northern stargazer ♥

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

how romantic for a creature to bury itself in the sand and gaze forever upwards at the heavens! how sublime that humans, observing this quiet creature staring skyward, should dub them “stargazer,” one who gazes at stars

[atinylittlestrawberry]

*politely* may we see it?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

yes ♥

[transgender-colon-three]

*politely* may we unsee it?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

no ♥

[ailingwriter]

She is beauty she is grace she is both venomous and capable of delivering electric shocks.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

@jellyfishdirigible I love your tags:

#I actually think it is sublime #to encounter such a being and instead of naming them #ugly bitch fish or yo mama or FUCK NO #we call them stargazer #we think yes this creature longs as we do for the beauty of the night sky #and gazes at the stars #and that is the thing we think is important enough to make a name of #fucking hell that’s beautiful

[itsthatgreenone]

She is beauty

she is grace

she will zap you

in the face

[bace-jeleren]

To some people you’re an NPC

To other people, you’re the special, unlockable character that they worked and worked to finally get- and when they do they’re so happy because they got the game just so they could find you.

[bace-jeleren]

The fact y'all are still passing around this post, eight years after I made it. Exquisite. I hope it’s still resonating with people outside of mid-2010’s tumblr.

[theslowesthnery]

ah yes my favourite trope

[frankiensteinsmonster]

People who need or use Image Descriptions (ID), where is the best place to put them?

ID in Alt Text

ID on post beneath image

ID both in Alt Text and on post beneath image

Secret fourth answer that I will put in the tags

I'm able bodied but curious (and will quietly reblog 👀)

Voting ended onSep 26, 2023

People in this demographic, please let me know how to tag to get a hold of you as someone who doesn't need Image Descriptions!!

[iheartvelma]

Alt text! ALWAYS alt text, because in the HTML page structure, it’s PART of the image element’s attributes.

If it’s not, it gets separated and, particularly with the way modern content management systems render text (often as weird separate chunks), can’t be easily found.

Putting “image id” text in front of a description is NOT standard accessibility practice. Using ALT text is supported by all browsers and screen reader software.

DO NOT duplicate alt text and visible text, because then a visually impaired user has to listen to it twice.

If you need visible captions paired with images, use the HTML figure and figcaption elements - you can use different alt text there to add information a visually impaired user needs, and the figcaption to explain the meaning for all audiences.

Also, learn to write helpful image descriptions! And generally, only write alt text for images that are informative, not decorative.

[agayworthfightingfor]

XKit Rewritten (available on firefox and chrome) has a setting to display alt text under images, so if you need or want to see the description, this makes it automatic.

Once you install the extension, open its menu, find and enable AccessKit, then click on it to open the list of accessibility settings. "Move alt text to captions below images" is the setting you're looking for.

[thehumantrampoline]

Okay, new cleaning strategy.

Bad at self-discipline, good at acts of love through service. So I'm gonna clean my house pretending it is the house of someone I love who's been too depressed to clean. She's gonna be so surprised.

[thehumantrampoline]

I cleared the whole counter that hasn't had space to set a plate down in weeks, at least, so it would be easier for her to cook instead of just eating snacks. I put away everything on the sofa that wasn't a blanket or stuffed animal so she could stretch out if she wanted. I SWEPT and everything looks less lighter and less grungy. There were a bunch of sewing pins spilled to one side of the coffee table that I still hadn't picked up because whatever, I'll get to it, nobody ever walks on that side of the table anyway, but I picked them up because I was worried about her feet.

...I should be a good friend to myself more often.

[thehumantrampoline]

Okay since this is going around a bit today and everyone's adding their very sweet nice versions while I am spending my day off once again Cleaning For My Sad Friend, I wanna add to this a little bit.

my usual method has been to invite people over so I Have to clean, but this has... stopped working. mostly because it is KIND OF guilt and shame motivated, for me! I don't want my friends to see my house like this, so I have to clean, but then I just feel gross about it and it saps my energy.

turns out it is imperative that this is 1) not my mess and 2) not for me. Because if it's my mess, I just end up thinking how did I let it get like this, why can't I just keep my house clean, and if it's for me once all the bad feelings bog me down I inevitably go eh, it's good enough, it's better than it was, I can live like this.

If it is someone else's mess, I'm not judging them for a second. I look at it and think damn, they're going through it. This must be rough to live around. And every time I feel like stopping I look at what's left and think nah, this isn't good enough for my friend, they deserve a better head start on their mental health than this.

This probably says concerning things about my self-compassion, but hey! easier to work on that part in a clean house.

[ggots]

MILV (mutual id like to visit)

[jaubaius]

I came across the original video of the seagull meme! What a glorious day! I never realized it was a video, let alone a full throat and hearty evil villain laugh!

[maneth985]

Based on the memes pics I thought it screamed bloody murder, not laugh like a cartoon villain 🤣

[playthatsadtrombone]

The actual punchine to this comic is the phrase “my Pontmercy friend”. From now on I am resolved to use Pontmercy indiscriminately as all parts of speech, adjective, verb, and otherwise

[augustarambles]

Sometimes the rats in my brain come together and start yelling “YEARNING” and in trying to appease them I ask “FOR WHAT” but they are too small so all they can say is “YEARNING” which is a very big word for such a tiny creature, even collectively

[mandyseley]

I loved this visual so much I had to doodle it.

ratratratratrat

[queerlywren]

[neil-gaiman]

greetings sir gaiman

i recently found out about the new season of good omens and figured, what the heck, might as well read the book for the first time. (love the book, by the way.) i haven't read an actual novel in a couple years now, but have started annotating on the pages to make the experience a little more interesting. my mother is... well, definitely not thrilled that i'm marking up your book.

so, what are your thoughts on people annotating novels? for or against?

Your book, your rules. Once you buy the book it's yours and you are allowed to do anything you want to it.

[theravenmuse]

I personally have two copies. The white copy with Crowley on the front upon which Neil is listed as the first author is marked to Hell and back and has been bent and bruised in a way that I prefer to call “well loved.” My black copy with Aziraphale on the cover upon which Terry is listed first went straight from the bookstore shelf to my shelf and has not left there since except on the few occasions I have removed it to take photographs.

It’s also worth noting here that these are not my original two copies of Good Omens. I first read Good Omens in my freshman year of high school when I checked it out from my public library (support libraries) and subsequently went out and bought both copies (the same editions I have now) of the book from the book store with money that may or may not have been acquired in a completely legal way from my parents. Of that set, Neil’s went up in flames in a freak accident and Terry’s was inexplicably lost in my move to college.

The unfortunate result is that my current pair of copies has those awful “soon to be a TV series” and “now a TV series” stickers respectively, even though I purchased them at the same time from the same bookstore. On occasion, it makes me believe I appear to be a fake fan, and I have to remind myself that all Good Omens fans are Good Omens fans, even those that read the books after watching the series and those that have never read the books at all.