having a lot of feelings about this one :') something about him sleeping with his backpack in the first one (zipped up) and in the second one leaving the backpack on the ground (unzipped)
Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.
At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.
Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”
"Every year he forgot. Well, no. He never forgot. He just put the memories away, like old silverware that you didn’t want to tarnish. And every year they came back, sharp and sparkling, and stabbed him in the heart."
GNU Sir Terry, I wouldn't be the man I am today without your influence; from you I learned that evil begins when you treat people like things; that sure it's important that you speak from them as have no voice but that there's also room in there for grasp for them as can't bend, reach for them as can't stretch, wipe for them as can't twist; that saying somone should do something isn't much good unless you follow it up with and that somone will be me; that there aren't really good guys and bad guys, that the enemy wasn't men, or women, or the old, or even the dead. It was just bleedin' stupid people, who came in all varieties. And no one had the right to be stupid; that all things strive, and that every moment of every day we can choose to be the place where the falling angle meets the rising ape
Description Writing Resources - Rebloggable Version
Writing image descriptions can be challenging, but you don’t have to do it alone! Here is a huge compilation of resources, tips, and reading for image descriptions and accessibility. If the number of links is overwhelming, I suggest reading the first link! It compiles a lot of the information and tips from the rest of the resources here. The 2 links after that (Cooper Hewitt Guidelines and Medium’s How to Write an Image Description) are very helpful too!
Writing Image Descriptions
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How to write an image description: a fundamental guide
A comprehensive post on how to write image descriptions (IDs). Many of the resources here are also linked in this post. This was written primarily with Tumblr in mind, but the information applies to any image description.
Cooper Hewitt Guidelines for Image Description
A great resource, mostly for describing art. Also includes good information on the distinction between alt text and long descriptions, giving guidelines for both.
Medium’s How to Write an Image Description
A guide for image descriptions using object, action, and context as a basic format.
Diagram Center Guidelines for Image Description
A great comprehensive understanding of what is important when writing a description and has different sections for help describing all sorts of things like photos, art, comics, diagrams, charts, math, chemistry, and more! A longer read, but it has a lot of specific.
Perkins School for the Blind how to write alt text and image descriptions
Another great resource! Concise and helpful, shorter than Diagram Center’s articles.
SiteImprove’s Alt Text Best Practices
Focuses on Alt text not long image descriptions.
Last Call Media- Accessible Comics
A great guide on describing comics!
How Do I Write Good Image Descriptions by KelperCryptids
A tumblr post with more tips on writing image descriptions.
General Guide for Image Descriptions by can-i-make-image-descriptions and additions by AccessibleAesthetics
More tips, guidelines, and information about image descriptions.
BrownAndTrans’ Guide to Image Descriptions
Information and tips about image descriptions.
Anistarrose’s Online Accessibility Masterpost
Focuses on image descriptions including common questions, guidelines, tips, tools, readings, and other helpful links regarding image descriptions and accessibility.
Tips for describing art
Guidelines to how much detail should be added to descriptions of art.
Tips for describing comics
Some more tips for describing comics.
Image description templates
tailored largely for replies and screenshots from social media.
Description Tools
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Online image to text converter
An image(/PDF) to text converter, helpful for transcribing images with a lot of text.
Online case converter
Good for converting lots of text in all caps for plain text transcriptions.
Meme image descriptions Google Doc
A compilation of image descriptions for common meme templates.
Accessible tumblr blogs list
List of blogs that post with image descriptions, organized based on the content of each blog (fandom, misc art, etc).
Another list of blogs that post visually described content.
Not sorted, but still helpful!
WebAim.org
A whole website about web accessibility! Includes articles, resources, accessibility training, and more.
People’s Accessibility Discord Server
In this server, you can request for someone to write an ID, look over an ID you have written, or answer any questions you may have. If you need help, here’s the right place for it!
If a link is broken or if it contains misinformation/mistakes, please let us know so we can fix it.
Hello! I saw in one of your tags that you compiled a list of Sea Patrol whump 👀 I just started the show and I would love to see your list!
YAY I have been waiting my whole life for this :D
It's quite a long list and riddled with spoilers, so I'll put it under the cut for you (: Also, I'm not super into (most) lady whump so I did leave that off, but there is a little bit of that throughout the show as well if that's your jam!
Also, just for funsies, I am gonna highlight my favorite ones for you <3
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1.04 Chefo stung by jellyfish, severe pain, delirium, CPR
1.06 RO cuts his arm, blood loss, collapse/loss of consciousness, stitches
1.07 Many of the crew are poisoned, and Spider has trouble breathing, wheezing, collapse, seizure, ET held at gunpoint
1.08 Spider caught near explosion of mine
1.11 Swaino taken hostage, near drowning
2.01 Spider choked unconscious, Charge stabbed multiple times with a screwdriver and falls unconscious while in a chase
2.05 RO drugged, collapse scene, memory loss, checked out by Swain, knocked unconscious, bleeding head, out of it, tied up, threatened, had gasoline poured on him
2.06 ET’s leg gets badly pinned, blood loss, woozy, loss of consciousness, near drowning
2.08 Spider and Bomber go overboard, exhaustion, near drowning, and then are kidnapped and Spider is bound, gagged, and beat up
2.09 Spider knocked unconscious, blood from head, seen icing it later
2.10 Honorable mention Spider slips and gets caught on a grenade, great brother moment (and he gets a leg cramp)
2.12 Buff tied up, held at gun point, threatened, hit, forced to dig his own grave, emotional breakdown, Mike shot in leg
2.13 Buff almost gets garroted and knocked around a bit, ET shot in his vest
3.01 Spider and Swain tear gassed, held at gunpoint, threatened, tied up
3.02 2 Dads beat up and knocked unconscious, dragged around, hair pulled, machete to throat, beat up
3.03 2 Dads gets knocked out and Swain gets beat up and a cut on his arm
3.04 Spider and Mike held at gunpoint, forced to carry heavy boxes, Spider collapses and is beaten
3.08 Spider run over by ship, cut on leg, cut gets infected and he's feverish and delirious throughout episode, 2 Dads and Buffer locked in freezer
3.09 Spider and Swain get drugged, Buffer hit, falls, blood from mouth and nose, tied up
3.11 Spider gets a cut hand, seen bandaged, woozy from pain meds, RO gets hit in the head a few times, blood, collapse, held at gunpoint and threatened, cut
3.12 Buff falls into a hole and loses consciousness, is stuck and visibly in pain in some oil, nearly drowns, last minute rescue, punched back to life
3.13 Spider hit on head and knocked out, concussed, woozy, nearly choked to death
4.01 RO gets thrown down some stairs
4.02 2 Dads gets in a bar fight and beat up, later seen with bruises
4.03 Ryan seen beat up, Dutchy gets in fight, falls, seen in infirmary with blood from head wound and on lip, grimacing
4.05 2 Dads stuck in swamp, last minute rescue, gasping and coughing, seen with leech bites, Swaino hit and dazed, RO exposes himself to poison gas to save Bomber, collapses
4.07 RO bit on neck by dog, has nightmares, takes too many sleeping pills and sleep walks into the ocean, coughing and spluttering as he tries to stay awake and not drown, hit with tear gas, mistaken for foreign fisherman and knocked unconscious
4.08 Swain taken hostage, hit,
4.09 Dutchy beat up, cut on forehead, blood from mouth, seen stumbling to boat clutching ribs, mistaken for being drunk, taken to boat infirmary, blood on face and down neck, bruising on chest, knocked out again later and tied up with XO, feeling guilty
4.10 RO had his appendix out, collapses during rescue, gets hit in the face, 2 Dads gets knocked unconscious by Bird, RO hit and knocked out, attacks assailant and gets punched and kneed on his wound
4.11 Dutchy caught in explosion, later knocked unconscious and dragged around
4.12 2 Dads electrocuted and falls overboard, hit in the face, bruise the rest of the episode
4.13 RO maced, 2 Dads beaten, cut on head, bloody nose, busted rib, sprayed with cyanide water
4.15 Dutchy caught up in wreckage, bleeding wound to his side, near drowned, woozy, overworks himself and collapses
4.16 Mike kidnapped, tied up, beaten for info, hair pulled, slapped, face grabbed, defiant whumpee
5.01 2 Dads caught in explosion, briefly presumed dead, unconscious, bleeding from ears, hearing loss
5.02 Dutchy shot on vest, seen with bruise, 2 Dads drink is spiked
5.08 2 Dads trapped in submarine, cut on head, running out of air
5.10 Dutchy, 2 Dads, and RO are kidnapped and hunted for sport, held at gunpoint, Dutchy is shot in the leg with an arrow and tied around his neck,the arrow is moved, later pulled out, Swaino hit in the face
5.12 Ryan missing presumed dead found very pale and unwell having been shot in the leg
I didn't feel great about the Theo storyline anyway, but framing it as Buck feeling left out that all his friends have kids so he goes and gets one of his own????
some years ago, i think three? i talked here about a project in my town i was trying to start. a drop-in for youth, to make them less isolated, give them something to do, a welcoming place to hang out with their friends, and hopefully reduce the amount of teen drug addiction. i put posters on the walls to gather support, connected with the YMCA in my area, it looked like was really gonna get this idea off the ground.
no one signed my petition. i had one meeting with the YMCA and then they never got back to me.
all progress seemed to slow, and nothing ever came of my plan for the rest of the time i was living there. i remember weeping on the stairs because i wanted so badly to leave my town behind with something that would help the kids who are still stuck there, and it fell apart.
this summer, i couldn't find an apartment in my new city in time, so i had to return home for 4 months while college was off. i found out that in my absence, someone with more resources, connections and funding had remembered my project, and she picked up the pieces i'd left behind and tried again.
she succeeded. there is now a drop-in youth program at the local health centre in my hometown.
it finally worked. it really, really worked. thank you, candace. 🌱
I remember that! I'm so glad it worked out, eventually. It's worth it to try even if we fail, and sometimes that failure isn't even permanent. Congratulations on what you inspired!
Ahh that must have felt amazing!! Reminded me of the lyrics of Fixer Upper by Grace Petrie:
"Lace your boots and find the shoots
Still struggling through the rotted roots
The saplings laid by other folks we will turn into mighty oaks
The battle scars, the broken parts, of dreams who outlasted those hearts
Everything you dream is possible, it's waiting to be made
So my comrade, come grab a spade."
Joey Batey signing in Newcastle last night, we did not get Madeleine but instead we got his big sister asking the questions!!! Absolutely adorable. At the start of the audience Q&A she was like "Please make it a question. I realise that I was rambling a lot, I had to keep telling myself the same thing." I have to listen to the audiobook now because apparently he sings the selkat songs!! Also he went full Tolkien and made whole languages and myths that he didn't even use, which surprises me not at all
They did the names on postits thing for the signing, so I had to explain that the reason I didn't want my name is because I'd probably be donating the book to a prison through Borderline later, thankfully he loved that idea.
My friend got the welly boots card I made for her signed, which confused things because I guess when people bring cards they are usually for him, but she was like no! Mine! 😆
unironically i think we need to bring back computer labs because APPARENTLY some people WERENT taught basic computer literacy and internet safety in school
things about computers/the internet i think kids should be formally taught in schools because theyre important to know and the amount of soon to be grown adults i know who know NOTHING about any of these is quite frankly almost all of them (and resources to learn if you dont know these things, because its never to late to get better with computers)
how to troubleshoot by yourself when you have a technical problem
what common file types are
some very basics on how to use ""developer tools"" on your computer (because i cant think of a better way to refer to them) like task manager and command prompt (and their mac equivalents, terminal and activity monitor ofc)
how to read and understand a privacy policy and what your personal data is, as well as what it being collected actually means and steps you can take to keep it private
how to understand terms of service
(hey. if you have trouble with reading legalese and worry about being able to understand these policies anyways, here's a site that gives basic summaries of privacy policies and ToS)
what a cookie actually is
internet privacy and your digital footprint!! seriously i dont know why we stopped teaching people that they shouldnt be putting their entire real identity online in a world where your online actions can ruin you irl
basic safety measures like antivirus software (and why you should use it or if the built in one on windows or mac is enough for you) and backing up your computer (also a mac guide)
common keyboard shortcuts (and on mac)
as an additional note: things i think everyone should know on computers and the internet but schools may bit hesitant to teach about for whatever moral/legal standards schools pretend to operate on
vpns and adblockers! (btw for most of these where you can pay for things im purposefully not recommending any specific software but seriously just use ublock origin for an adblocker)
how to not get a virus while pirating something
what a temporary email is and when to use one
red flags that you shouldn't trust a website (and how to quickly check the security of a site)
what javascript on a website does and how to disable it to get around paywalls
ok one last addition! if you want to take it one level higher, i think learning the very basics of at least one programming language is good for people. it makes computers less scary and it makes you feel very cool, and a lot of people get discouraged about it because it seems overly complicated and hard to learn outside a formal classroom setting, so heres some resources for learning the very basics of python (because i consider it the easiest language to learn and knowing one language will make it easier to learn others)
an online compiler so you dont need to download anything or worry about running code directly on your computer if that makes you nervous
a basic video guide to introduce you to python and walk you through beginner steps
a guide to some syntax and commands you should know (this was literally my lifeline in my first CS class)
some performance tasks to give you things to code to practice and assess yourself
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