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PSA: Regarding Multiple Spacing Aesthetics

This                                                            is                                                            how                                                           trying                                                           to                                                            read                                                            unnecessarily                                                           spaced                                                            words                                                           can                                                           be                                                            frustrating                                                            to                                                           people                                                            with                                                            vision                                                            impairments,                                                           attention                              disorders,                                                            dyslexia,                                                            migraines,                                                            etc.

Please don’t do that. (And yes, there is the exact same spacing between every word. It’s just the dash/theme/device you’re viewing it makes it even more distorted, and that’s why people ask you not to do this! This example is overly excessive in hope of getting the point across. Even double spacing can be too much when conditions below are factored in. Just because it might not affect you doesn’t mean it doesn’t affect many others.)

Now, imagine if every bit of text you ever needed to read was written like that. Signage, legal papers, rental agreements, job applications, text books, emails, novels, fan fiction, etc.

It’d get stressful really quick, wouldn’t it?

Also, doing this ‘for the aesthetic’ may look cute to you, but it is a major accessibility issue for those people with vision impairments, attention disorders, dyslexia, migraines, and more.

Screen magnifiers - a common tool used by the visually impaired - will make those spaces you add even larger, thus making it even more difficult just to find the next word in your reply.

Screen reading software varies drastically between developers, and are often expensive for high quality ones that might be able to ignore the spacing. Others, though? They will take each space as a break between words, and will pause for each and every space, which ranges from two to ten or more spaces between every word. It would be like trying to stream an audiobook with it buffering between every word.

Attention disorders and dyslexia both may experience where they get distracted by the “rivers” of space that is created as a result of the spacing, further increasing difficulties with comprehension and retention of what they just read, when they may already be struggling with such without the spacing.

Also, the human eye perceives images on a screen different to that of printed media so what can work in print - such as justified text, which also increases spacing between words in a less uniformed manner - can not necessarily work on a computer screen. 

You may not be aware but the image on a screen is not static, in fact it’s updated and refreshed many times a second. Reading on a computer screen is much harder on the eyes than reading from printed media, which is why you should always take breaks and look away from the screen several times throughout your time at one to reduce the risk of eye strain and injury.

Not to mention that not all blog themes are created equal. While your post might be readable to you on your own blog, on someone else’s blog, it may not be readable at all.

And you might be thinking “well, that’s on their blog, so why should I care?”

Because with how tumblr likes to hide posts from the tags and such, finding new people to interact with is growing increasingly difficult for many roleplayers. But say someone finds your thread on their friend’s blog, and while they can read their friend’s reply just fine, they get to yours, and they struggle to move from word to word in trying to read your writing.

What kind of impression do you think that leaves on them? Not likely a good one, right? Sure, some of them might click through to your blog, or the dashview, but chances are most people are just going to opt out and bypass you completely as a potential rp partner.

So, maybe rethink your aesthetic?

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to the casual observer it may look like i'm trying to summon a demon but anyone who knows me will realize that i am simply calling my wife

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The wife and the demon are the same person

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The fact that these replies would mean wildly different thing had they been said on a different platform, such as Facebook, is absolutely hilarious

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me before getting to the end of this post

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HENRY CAVILL Henry Cavill Explains Everything You Need To Know About The Witcher’s Sword

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RPers, reblog this is if it's ok for your writing partners to message you to make sure you've seen a reply.

With tumblr's notifications and threadtracker both on the fritz lately, this user is accepting IMs to help keep track of a thread!

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ALTERED  REALITY  SENTENCE  STARTERS  PT I

send one in for a starter based on it. ( source: x )

any target 

churches in texas 

abandoned 7/11’s

your bedroom at 5 am 

hospitals at midnight 

warehouses that smell like dust 

lighthouses with lights that don’t work anymore 

empty parking lots 

ponds and lakes in suburban neighborhoods

rooftops in the early morning 

inside a dark cabinet

playgrounds at night

rest stops on highways

deep in the mountains

early in the morning wherever it’s just snowed

trails by the highway just out of earshot of traffic

schools during breaks

those little beaches right next to ferry docks

bowling alleys

unfamiliar McDonalds’s on long road trips

your friends living room once everybody but you is asleep

laundromats at midnight

galeries in art museums that are empty except for you 

the lighting section of home depot

stairwells

hospital waiting rooms 

airports from midnight to 7am 

bathrooms in small concert venues

cemeteries 

abandoned penitentiaries 

hilltops at night in full moonlight 

most of Japan 

empty barns 

marshes 

really anywhere quiet at midnight, the air vibrates 

old stones and henge 

the ocean when it’s still quiet with fog over it

train tracks that go through the middle of the woods

bridges

part ii  /  part iii

True/False game. Make an assumption about me in my ask and I’ll tell you if its true or false. Go.

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i just want to do cool teenager stuff, like going to parties and arson 

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A Second Chance || Craig & Allie

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Following his gaze, she looked down at her reddened hand. She probably should run that under cold water for a while – she had enough experience with burns and scalds to know what to do. And really, she should take the tip and at least clean her hands. The chocolate and sugar in her hot beverage would at least make her hands sticky until she cleaned them off.

But making this (very kind) man buy her coffee when she hadn’t been focusing? That wasn’t on.

“No, honestly, you don’t have to buy me a new one. It was just a mocha, but it wasn’t expensive or anything.” At the back of her mind, she could hear a little voice whining about the fiver currently spilled all over the man’s shirt, her hand, and the floor.

“Really, I should be paying you back for ruining your shirt. Have I ruined it? Oh God, you don’t even have a spare on you, do you?”

Craig looked back down at the coffee-covered shirt. It was nothing special, just a plain grey top, but the stain would definitely need a few washes to get out. He shrugged dismissively. 

“I’m sure it’ll come out, it’s only a t-shirt,” he said calmly, “and I think I do actually have a spare in my car, so it’s all good.” He smiled, internally cheering his decision to keep his gym clothes in the car, as he was intending to drop in for an hour or so before his afternoon shift - after a good coffee first, of course. 

“I’m getting myself something anyway, it’s really no problem.” 

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Holy shit i found a himbo checklist this will be very helpful

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A Second Chance || Craig & Allie

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If anyone asked her, Allie would’ve told them she was looking forward to that mocha. After all, it was her first proper coffee of the day, and she was pretty sure the kids had been trying hard to drive her nuts that morning. She needed that coffee if she was going to make it to the end of the day.

“No, no, it’s my fault,” Allie apologised quickly, shaking the hot coffee off her hands. That was probably going to leave a burn. The coffee had been freshly made, and very hot. “I should’ve been looking where I was going. Ah, gosh…”

She quickly looked around, before grabbing a couple of clean paper napkins and instinctively trying to wipe the coffee off his front. “Gosh, I got fresh coffee all over you, I’m so sorry. Does that need dry cleaning? I’ll pay for the dry cleaning if you need. Just, ah…”

Craig pinched the front of his shirt, pulling the heat-drenched fabric away from his chest before it could burn him. “Really, don’t worry about it. It happens to everyone, and I wasn’t exactly paying attention myself! Are you okay? That must’ve hurt.” 

He looked down at her hands, noticing the slight scalding, and frowned. “Seriously, what did you order? I can get you a new one while you rinse your hands off if you like? It’s the least I can do, and you don’t want to let a burn settle.”

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plots i’ve been dying to do

MODERN GREEK MYTHOLOGY AU

HADES & PERSEPHONE: so many possibilities with this?? modern day high school hades and persephone where he is the dark and broody loner and she’s the sunshine-y good girl. where he’s the outcast because he acts differently than most and everyone is intimidated by him. where she’s the one everyone loves and she’s always so friendly to everyone and then they get partnered up for a biology project and start to spend more time together. not everyone is happy with their budding romance, especially sephie’s mother. or even modern day adult hades and persephone where he runs a massive crime empire and persephone is his loving wife who is as deadly as her husband is. 

APHRODITE & HEPHAESTUS: give me aphrodite; a model who has affair after affair with various people and hephaestus, her husband who owns a company that creates various weapons and tools.  who gets sick and tired of his wife’s affairs. who reminds aphrodite about the sanctity of marriage and that despite their own marriage being arranged, doesn’t mean that she shouldn’t respect him. give me hephaestus and aphrodite going to marriage counselling and trying to work things out

APOLLO & ARTEMIS: give me modern day apollo who is a musician, an artist, a poet and is also interested in medicine. who is overprotective of his younger twin artemis, who is an activist and feminist. give me the two of them eventually realizing their feelings for one another and trying to hide it from the rest of the gods. give me the sneaking around and the playful and gentle kisses under the moon light. give me apollo writing songs and poetry and creating art for artemis. gimme this please

HADES & HESTIA: give me a modern day hades and hestia, where they’re the children of one of the most rich and powerful couples in the country. where he’s with persephone, the sweetest socialite, but all he could think of is his sister, hestia. hestia with fire in her eyes and hope in her heart, who is the only one who understands why hades is the way he is. give me the two of them sneaking around at parties hosted by their family and making love to each other under the moonlight. give me hades who is soft yet at the same time, deadly and protective around hestia. give me hestia who is kind and soft-spoken yet would do anything to see hades happy.

EXES PLOTS

gimme exes that dated back when they were in high school that had a horrible breakup and haven’t spoken in years nor have they seen each other since the breakup. where muse a is getting married only to find out that their fiance’s childhood friend ( and future best man/maid of honour) is none other than muse b, their ex. their fiance has no clue that the two used to date and so there’s tension between muse a and muse b. neither one of them would admit out loud that they still have feelings for one another. there’s the angst of not knowing how the other feels about them, but they keep having these moments where they almost kiss until they finally do and it leads to them sleeping together. cue the sneaking around behind muse a’s fiance’s back and the angst when muse a is reluctant to leave their fiance for muse b.

give me exes that were best friends before they even got together. muse a breaks up with muse b because they can no longer find the ‘spark’ between them and asks if they can remain friends. muse b agrees, as they are still in love with muse a, but they quickly realize just how hard it is to be friends with the ex you’re still in love with, especially one who constantly asks you for advice about the new person they’re seeing

just… exes with a lot of angst would be great thx

UNREQUITED LOVE PLOTS

i need a plot where muse a, muse b and muse c are all best friends and have been for years. where muse a is in love with muse b, but muse b is oblivious to their feelings and only ever sees muse a as a friend. muse a is heartbroken over muse b constantly, especially whenever muse b gets a new partner. muse c on the other hand, has been in love with muse a for years but has kept their feelings quiet because they know that muse a is in love with muse b. there’s a lot of ways to go with this?? like muse a and muse b eventually get together and muse c is stuck watching the person they love be with someone else. or muse a is moving on from muse b and muse c is about to tell muse a of their feelings but something stops them every time ( ie; muse a getting a new partner, muse a just breaking up with their partner or for more angst; muse a getting engaged to their partner ).

i also need a plot where muse a and muse b are best friends, with muse a being in love with muse b and has been for ages. it’s pretty obvious to everyone but muse b that muse a is in love with them. when muse b gets engaged to their partner, muse a is heartbroken but tries to be happy for them regardless. they obviously get invited to the wedding and they go for muse b, but find that it’s too hard to watch the person they love get married to someone else. so, muse a leaves halfway through the ceremony and leaves the city/country to try to get away from muse b and their obviously unrequited feelings. a year later, muse a comes back and runs into muse b, who is not at all happy to see them after leaving so suddenly and not contacting them within the year they were gone.

or even this plot where muse a is muse b’s best friend’s ex. muse a and the best friend dated in the past but broke up when they met muse b’s cousin ( muse a didn’t know the connection between the two at the time ). muse a is still in love with their ex and despite their ex being engaged to their partner, agrees to be the wedding planner for the wedding. now muse a and muse b had never gotten along. or rather, muse b always found ways to annoy muse a and muse a could never put up with their antics and thinks that muse b doesn’t think them good enough for their best friend, when in reality it was the opposite. muse b had seen muse a before their best friend had and harboured a crush on muse a even when they were with their best friend. though it had hurt muse b to see muse a with their best friend, they kept quiet about their feelings because they saw how happy muse a was so they tried to move on, but failed. as more and more wedding planning occurred, muse a and muse b are forced to spend a lot of time together and slowly begin to get closer. they get drunk one night and have sex, only for muse a to moan out their ex’s name during sex, which hurts muse b and realizes that muse a will only ever have eyes for their ex. the next day, muse b begins to act distant towards muse a, who is confused as they begin to have feelings for muse b.

there’s more i’d love to do but just message me if you’re interested. bc unrequited love shit is my jam yo.

DARK PLOTS (warning: highly triggering and nsfw heavy)

aight but a plot where muse a and muse b are step/siblings and muse a has always been very overprotective/possessive over muse b? and at first, muse b just brushes it off as them being their sibling and whatnot, until one day, muse b has someone they’re interested in over at their place and muse a loses it when they see muse b and the person getting intimate. muse a kills the person muse b was with and muse b was shocked, but was turned on by the sight of muse a covered in blood. muse a then proceeds to admit to muse b about their feelings for them and the two have sex before muse b helps muse a dispose of the body. they both feel a rush of adrenaline from killing the person and they can’t stop. they go on the run and keep killing other people while continuing their relationship

i’ve also been dying for a plot where muse a and muse b are siblings. muse b was the older sibling, but their parents gave them up for adoption because they weren’t ready for a child yet. a couple of years later, they had muse a and kept muse a and never told them of their older sibling. muse a had a lovely childhood and was loved by their parents. muse b on the other hand, had a terrible childhood. they grew up in foster care and bounced around from home to home. they were curious about their birth parents and why they gave up their child. as muse b grew older, they found out more about their birth parents as well as the younger sibling they never knew they had; muse a. they grow obsessed with muse a and very possessive as well, to the point where they kidnap muse a to convince them that because muse a is their sibling, then muse a belongs to them. muse a tries to resist but muse b forces themselves on muse a. muse b keeps doing that until muse a eventually breaks and begins to see muse b in a different light. 

another plot i’ve been dying to do with a supernatural twist ( that can eventually turn fluffy actually ): muse a is a modern day witch and muse b is a centuries-old vampire. muse a is the doppelganger of muse b’s former lover. when muse b sees muse a, they can only think of their former lover and how muse a must be their former lover reincarnated, and so they kidnap muse a. it was only after muse a comes to and tries to resist that muse b realizes muse a isn’t a reincarnation of their former lover but rather a doppelganger. regardless, muse b is desperate to have someone by their side, so they keep muse a with them. the two butt heads at first, but as time passed, they grow a lot closer. though originally only keeping muse a because they look like muse b’s former lover, muse b eventually develops for muse a and vice versa.

**NOTE: i didn’t create all of these plots. many of them are inspired by other plots in my wishlist.**

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When your own characters throw a surprise twist in while you’re writing them, and you start to wonder who is writing who.

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📂 - for Sofia!!!

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Sofia is possibly the only lactose intolerant person who actively avoids eating the thing she’s intolerant towards. 

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📂 - for Connor!!!

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Connor lost a tooth (his left canine) after getting hit in the face by a hockey puck. He has a fake one that he wears when he’s off the rink, but takes it out before playing so he doesn’t break that one too. 

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📂 - for Josie!!!

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Josie once looked Anna dead in the eyes while pouring half a bottle of soy sauce into a bowl of cereal and eating it. It was disgusting, but she will never admit that.