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Hi, I’m Fi! I’m a bi-ace witch and fanfic writer with ADHD (so if I miss messages, that’s why). 18+ ♐️ Shout out to my beautiful girlfriend @kaitlinmarley for drawing my profile pic and @mindflamer for the adorable bi-ace flag!!!! 💜🥰💜

[mindfulmagics]

I’m tired and I’m angry and I’m gonna say this once:

It is not anyone’s responsibility to share personal medical information with strangers on the internet if they do not want to or feel it is irrelevant

Point blank

If they feel like it wasn’t relative and you want to correct what you feel was misrepresented and make sure they understand where they’re coming from, that’s fine

But after you’ve been given some context, if you continue to insist that they owed you/the Internet private information about themselves that they didn’t share for a reason, you are invading their privacy and disrespecting boundaries

The only people entitled to someone’s medical information are the people to whom that information belongs and any medical professionals that need that information to treat you properly. If the person chooses to share that information, you can have it. But you are not entitled to it and they are not obligated or responsible for sharing it

Other things besides medical information that you are not entitled to are: someone else’s gender, sexuality, SSN, family recipes, car license plate number/registration, childhood traumas, or any other information that they feel is irrelevant or too personal to share with nameless, faceless entities on the internet

[depsidase]

[maswartz]

[status-quo-hater]

I think one of the funniest abortion stances I've heard was from my parents neighbor. He's a like, hard-core libertarian viking larper guy who is very tall and very fat and very bald.

He believes a fetus is human with a soul, but also its "basically attacking the woman's body" so if she wants to get rid of it, that's "basically self-defense". He compared it to shooting a home invader. So he supports abortion not as healthcare, but as killing a baby in self-defense

[loomingspector]

I really like the idea that Damian, raised by Talia ‘sex appeal is my middle name’ Al Ghul.

Does not understand why you can’t be obvious about your attraction towards another person.

You just have to be strong enough to protect it. And Jon being basically invincible, should be just like how Talia knew Bruce would be strong enough to protect himself against the dangers of their world.

So what danger is there? That he can’t protect Jon against, or Jon would be able to protect himself against.

So Damian simply starts copying Talia in her words of love as well.

Damian: beloved, we have been tasked with a mission

Jon:

Jon:

Damian: are you listening to me, beloved?

Jon: oh god I am not dreaming

Damian: why would you be dreaming about getting a mission?

I like imagining that he has now got a rule with himself that he can’t call Jon anything other than his hero name on missions. Because for some reason he seems to be short circuiting every time.

~~~~

pt 2: TimKon and Damian being himself

[passionpeachy]

The way adult fandom people hold indie online creators and cartoons to a much higher standard than their actual local politicians. You could be putting that energy into terrorizing and protesting conservatives at your town hall and actually make a good material impact on the world but instead you're background checking everything the trans woman who made the amazing digital circus has ever said

[passionpeachy]

The point isn't "stop criticizing indie artists" or "defend your favorite show under this post". I don't even watch Digital Circus and no one is above criticism. Literally every indie show is getting torn to shreds on twitter right now and I'm not saying this to defend anyone I don't know. The point is "someone who actually has the power to kill us all and get away with it deserves way more ire and accountability than a cartoonist and I expect grown adults to understand this"

[eightyonekilograms]

afaik the only augmentative suffix in English is -zilla.

[king-of-men]

You are forgetting "2: Electric Boogaloo".

[argumate]

-apalooza, perhaps?

[king-of-men]

-ocalypse, -ocalyptic, -tastic.

[argumate]

fuckzilla, fuck 2: electric boogaloo, and fuckapalooza work, fucktastic definitely works, but fuckocalyptic doesn't sounds right 🤔

[jesin00]

-athon, for duration

[argumate]

training for a half fuckathon

[passionate-yelling]

Its actually -pocalypse, as in fuckpocalypse, but as an irregular augmentative you can shorten it in whatever way works best. I'm not sure fuckalypse hits as hard as fuckpocalypse, though

[argumate]

-itude, like "not with that fuckitude it won't"

[di--es---can-ic-ul-ar--es]

Fuckalyptic works great

[sargassostories]

Lest we forget -gate, e.g. “this post is a linguistic fuckergate.”

[cipheramnesia]

[ao3commentoftheday]

Do you know of any way to include 𝓒𝓸𝓸𝓵 𝓯𝓪𝓷𝓬𝔂 𝓤𝓷𝓲𝓬𝓸𝓭𝓮 𝓽𝓮𝔁𝓽 in a fic in a way that is friendly to screen readers?

I'm gonna be a bit of a Debbie Downer for a second and point out that it's not just people who use screen readers who have difficulty with those fonts. It's also people with dyslexia, lower reading comprehension, lack of familiarity with cursive or fancy fonts, and non-native speakers.

I myself am none of the above, but I still can't read more than one or two words of either strikethrough or Zalgo text before I can feel a strain in my eyes.

For those who are able to visually read the words, I'll explain what the issue is with screen readers. Fancy Unicode Text isn't actually text. It's letters formed by unicode symbols that were created for use in, for example, mathematical equations. Each of those symbols has a name, and a screen reader will read out each "letter"'s name instead of reading the whole word. I'll put an example below, as an image, to save people who are using screen readers to read this post (there's a brief alt text though).

example courtesy of https://givemefonts.com/blog/accessibility-in-unicode

So, now that everyone is up to speed on the question, I have one question and two possible solutions.

The question: What is the purpose of using the fancy unicode text?

First possible solution: If you just want to be able to differentiate the font and/or colour of text within a fic, you can do that with a work skin and leave the text fully readable by screen readers. Here's one that was created for Undertale and has a whole bunch of web safe fonts you can switch between. There's one for Homestuck as well. And a third workskin that does lots of formatting, including fonts and colours.

Second possible solution: If you're going for a specific look that can only be achieved by fancy unicode text, then you might want to include that as an image and set the image's alt text to be the plain text version.

Let's open it up to see if anyone else has ideas, though! I'm certain someone else has run into the conundrum before.

[msbarrows]

I've been using text-to-speech compatible ereader software for over a decade now, since before my eyesight started going bad, so I've experienced these sort of compatibility issues as a) a fully sighted reader, b) a reader with severe cataracts, and now c) a reader with diabetes-related vision loss. Reading by sight is still possible for me, as is editing out the frickin' non-TTS-friendly stuff in Calibre if i want to read it badly enough, it's just very annoying and sometimes eye strain inducing - and generally I have to *REALLY* like your work already to suffer through squinting at annoying fake text in order to replace it with real text.

In most cases cases the snarl of glitch text or long strings of unicode-symbol-names-being-read-aloud is an automatic 'hell no'. Basically either is right up there with overly long ASCII/emoticon dividers in terms of annoyance factor. Also, a lot of the look of unicode-symbols-as-text can be more-or-less replicated by font and style changes such as using bold and italic or a cursive font, which are at least TTS friendly even if not always particularly great for people who sight-read with vision/perception issues. Though I would hope people with those issues are at least using software that ignores document CSS and forces the use of friendly-to-them fonts and formatting (the software I use has such features in addition to TTS, you just have to have enough sight to go through the menus changing things to your particular satisfaction).

So I highly second just using Cool Regular Text instead of unicode text, with maybe an optional skin if you want to be particularly spiffy about it (though note that skins get thrown away when the fic is downloaded, so I and my ereader likely wouldn't even notice any difference... unless the lack of skin causes a bunch of stuff to break in creative ways). So yes, look at the skins linked in the above reply, if you're really ambitious maybe even hit up the W3 Schools site and learn some CSS for ways of affecting text appearance yourself.

Also I will note in relation to the second possible solution offered above that, sadly, there's still a lot of readers out there where alt text on an image is basically ignored. If you're lucky maybe there's a symbol on or near the image to let you know the alt text exists, but if you're sitting there listening via TTS it's just going to skip right past that image and your text may well not be understandable without the missing bits (for example if it's a conversation between two characters, one in regular text and one as images-with-alt-text, you'd only hear the regular text bits read aloud). And yes, I've just double-checked the software I use, and a checkbox for automatically reading alt text doesn't seem to be among its many options... I should drop a request to the dev. I might not need that myself (yet...) but. Stupid aging body.

[allshipsareok]

[zykamiliah-temporal]

i think we should bring this back (with some amendments ofc) if we ever needed an "internet etiquette" for the younger generations, now is the moment to remind them. purity culture kills fandom

as well as the three laws of fandom:

Don't Like, Don't Read (DL;DR), Your Kink is not My Kink And That's OK (YKINMKATO) and Ship and Let Ship

[sorcererofsolitude]

📣 Purity culture kills fandom! 📣

[atlinmerrick]

NO ONE LIVING hasn't been squicked out by something. There's over 7 billion of us, my delights and disgusts aren't universal. So I move on. Don't like the ship? Move on. Don't like____? Move on.

I am not an exception. Neither are you. I don't like it I move on and shut my gob about it because everyone everywhere is squicked out by something and they need to put the thing down and just…motor.

[rewordthis]

This but also:

Frames this entire post and hangs it over the fireplace.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

My favorite joke in Metalocalypse is how as the show goes on it becomes increasingly obvious they’re naming characters with the sole purpose of torturing Mark Hamill.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

It’s been almost two years since I posted this but here’s a list of the official spelling of every character he introduces here:

Dr. Gibbitz

Dr. Amon Skagerakk Fredrickshaven

Dr. Donald Gorthian

Ronald Von Momnaldberg

Dr. Natasha Nesciantskidovich

Vicenzo de Alimamala Corningston III 

Professor Jerry Gustav Mangledink

Horace Marmingblat Wimplestein, Jr.

Dr. Chazz Fazzledopenhoffer

Vater Oorlag

Dr. Milminaman-lanilim-swinwamly

Dr. Gibbitz again (but for some reason it’s spelled “Gibbetz” in the season 2 subtitles)

Melmord Fjordslorn

Dr. Ralphus Galkinsmelter

Dr. Amomolith Chesterfield

Wilmore Unduntingiminen

Dr. Ninmiltrid Fmiltindryden

Dr. Imptnin Pmiltson

Dr. Tormindbind Mickmildididindnin

Dr. Krumpworth Chponglasia IV, Jr.

Dr. Borgermu Barret Swingdworth 

Dr. Richard Reinhold Rnawighiwowpj

Captain Slufgyflaysid

Dr. Bartholomew Grahsrihajul

Dr. Alsajahb Fifborgiltk 

Dr. Fsmilejera Irlelwoll 

Dr. Commander Vernmim Chuntspinkton

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Like I just love how you can pinpoint “Ninmiltrid Fmiltindryden” as the exact moment the joke went from making Mark Hamill say funny but still vaguely name-shaped words to forcing that poor man to pronounce straight up keysmashes out loud.

[dailycatsblog]

[succubusboyfriend]

practicing self care less out of self love and more for the sheer logical reasoning of it’d be kinda stupid of me to expect myself to be able to function without proper maintenance

[succubusboyfriend]

“oh i don’t deserve rest and relaxation, i haven’t done enough, i haven’t earned it” and my car’s breaks don’t deserve break fluid because they aren’t breaking well enough to earn it. that’s what you sound like!!!!!

[reasonsforhope]

If you do not schedule time for maintenance, your equipment will schedule it for you

[godpup]

"DNI: freaks" do you realize how conservative you look

[godpup]

freaks please interact

[godpup]

this is the first time one of my posts has been tagged like this and out of all of them i think id be glad if this one got 100k. because firstly i need to find my fellow freaks but also we need to shame people who are anti-freak because like. why do you hate to live deliciously

[traumatised-mum]

you ever just sit and realise u can’t remember 80% of your childhood? like … what happened? who am i ..?

[anisetheapothecary]

Many people in the comments are saying “trauma”, but this is actually a very normal occurrence. It’s called Childhood Amnesia, and it’s a process which, as the brain reorganizes itself for cognitive thought that is developed in late childhood, it changes the Accessibility of those memories during recall. Many childhood memories are available to the person, but they will not be remembered during regular recall activity, you have to “trick” your brain into remembering with different tactics.

This is because there are two parts to memories - their encoding and their recall. The encoding determines their availability, their recall determines their accessibility. The reason why trauma memory and childhood amnesia are different is in this distinction. Trauma memory is often encoded differently, bypassing to the limbic system where it is stored as intrinsic memory. It can’t be recalled because it was never encoded. Childhood amnesia, however, seems to indicate that the memories are encoded, but we lose access to them as we age. This is most likely due to the development of brain structures that fundamentally change our encoding and recall of memory as we get older.

This is an important distinction, because trauma memory is “stored in the body”, i.e. you get triggers that send your body into a cascade of uncontrollable feelings, sensations and reactions. Whereas childhood memories won’t generally do that, they are just recalled at odd times with odd associations.

[malcolmcooks]

reblogging this because I’ve legit seen people freaking out when they realised they can’t remember some of their childhood, thinking they might have some repressed trauma.

[beardedmrbean]

[heist-family-content]

"Give me your Batman brain."

Bruce, who has been tracking criminals at the batcomputer for hours, stares at Dick. "What?"

Dick, only about twelve years old, is looking up at Bruce with ominous sincerity. He makes grabby hands. "Give me. Your Batman brain. Give it."

Bruce raises a brow, but figures this must be a strange thing children do. Perhaps Dick has brain damage from training, who knows. He hesitantly mimes grabbing his brain from the top of his head and putting it in Dick's hand. Dick sets the pretend-brain off to the side, placing a pretend-glass case over it for later.

Dick seems satisfied. "Okay. I threw a block of legos at my classmate Tarence. He was giving our teacher a panic attack and had to be dealt with."

Bruce raises a brow and opens his mouth to speak, but Dick cuts him off. "Wait wait wait, your Batman brain is over there. Now you only have Dad brain. Gimme Dad."

Bruce, unfortunately, cannot argue with that logic, so he pats Dick's head and asks for a step-by-step reenactment of the event so he knows how to best defend his son at the meeting with the principal.

As with many things Dick randomly invented as a child, the metaphorical exchange of brains stays in the family forever. Bruce will often catch Damian being grumpy and go, "Hey, give me your Robin brain. You've been using it for too long, it's getting overcooked." And Damian, relunctantly, will suction cup his head with his fingers and deposit his Robin brain in Bruce's hands, who will hold it very carefully while Damian, using only his 10-year-old Damian brain, grabs his largest stuffed-animal and squeezes it to self-soothe.

[batsandboba]

learning that 5 minute crafts is a russian mafia operation wasn't on my 2026 bingo card but also doesn't really surprise me

[jabibi-posting]

its what

[batsandboba]

russian mafia operation

[isa-ghost]

Hey what

[batsandboba]

oh. i’m sure its fine and normal that a video investigating the massive bot farm/slop channel shell company connections to the russian mafia and youtube’s own implication by allowing it to continue for profit has mysteriously vanished with no word from op.

[batsandboba]

5 Minute Crafts Has A Cybercrime Problem [ CHUPPL] [4K] : CHUPPL : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Original (now taken down) video of CHUPPL exposing SoulPublishing and 5 Min Crafts networkAn Exposé of the weirdest channel on the internetG

internet archive link

[averagecalamity]

huh wha

[averageicewitch]

For what it’s worth, I saw this reported somewhere years ago— but I definitely wonder, with the rise of AI, how much worse the problem has gotten