"why do men watch porn instead of just having sex with their girlfriends?" is already silly for numerous reasons, but seeing it being used as like. a feminist talking point is so crazy to me because like of the implication that being in a relationship means being available for sex all the time, which you know. doesn't feel great for women i think.
I have autism and ARFID as a result. As a child, I was undiagnosed in both of these, but everyone I knew was aware that if there was something even just a little off or something I didn’t like, I would go hungry until I was given something I was okay with. My pediatrician had told my mother to not feed me until I’d eat what she had given me, rather than try and work with my diet.
This is neuropsych ableism and child abuse. This is an absolutely disgusting way to treat a child, and I am horrified by your pediatrician promoting such things. I need medical professionals to stop being ableist about eating disorders right now, it's so dangerous.
when i was a kid i had moments of being so fucking diabolical because i realized at some point the best way to leverage power over my family was to do shit that would make everybody late
our house was in the middle of nowhere surrounded by woods so when i decided i didnt want to wear dresses anymore if we were going to some event & my parents insisted i had to wear a dress i would just go hide in the woods. was so committed i almost made us miss a flight once bc my mom packed a dress in my suitcase
i only promised to stop doing this if my parents got me formal boys clothes to wear which eventually they did. i don't feel bad about resorting to violence bc i asked politely and they said no. proud of 10 yr old me for evil annoying lesbian behavior
5th grade was the last time I wore a dress for school pictures. When my parents attempted to force the issue for 6th grade, I climbed onto our roof and pulled the ladder up after me. My dad borrowed the neighbors ladder. As soon as it touched the roof I pulled it up too. By the time I had 3 ladders they were willing to negotiate, and 2 hours late for work.
[Image ID: a tumblr tag reading "problems that can be avoided if you simply treat your child as a human being with the right to make decisions on what they wear". End ID]
its probably a normal sign for the economy that all of my adulthood fantasies are like "imagine having your own kitchen living room and bathroom to decorate" "what if i could get on a train" "maybe one day i could purchase a sturdy pair of shoes" "i should save and invest in a single bicycle"
Graffiti seen in central Australia near the Pine Gap US spy base following an anti-war & anti-colonial protest coverage last month, which demanded the facility be shut down and the site returned to it's traditional owners, the indigenous Arrernte people.
Hey artists, C. Spike Trotman, founder of Iron Circus Comics, just posted an invaluable thread on depicting different types of black hair. I’d do the thing where you screencap the whole thread and post it but it’s just too long (which is great because it’s a whole lot of useful information!) Give her a follow while you’re there.
Anyway, go check it out. I just wanted to save it and share it because I didn’t know how much I didn’t know!
This is an amazing resource, not only for artists, but for writers too! I love this!
{ID - tweet from @/Iron_Spike that reads, “Black Hair for Non-Black Artists: a Cheat Sheet Thread. Hi, folks! Just spur-of-the-moment decided to put together some reference for folks who want to draw/model black characters in their work, but arent confident they won’t make simple, obvious mistakes w/r/t black hair. END ID}
Hi! I just wanted to say that I deeply admire your work — not only your art, but specifically the way you write Image Descriptions / Alt Text for your all posts. As someone who always struggled to visualize how purely visual art could be made truly accessible to visually impaired folks, reading your alt text opened my eyes.
Do you have any tips, guidelines, or resources on how to write effective Alt Text for complex illustrations and short comics?
Thank you so much for setting such an incredible example!
Thank you for the kind words! I think illustrations and comics are very different from the borderline infographics I tend to make all my tutorialslop into, mostly in that there's not really an artistic/emotional component so I can focus on just describing things as they appear.
My general thought process on what to include, roughly in that order:
Type of media. Always assume that the reader is someone who has no idea who you are, or what your blog is, or what the context is. Is it a drawing? A meme? A screenshot? A purposefully bad photoshop? Etc. This is especially important if you draw something that would be very concerning if it wasn't a drawing. "ID: a corpse" is fucking crazy, "ID: drawing of my OC lying on the ground with Xs for eyes and a cartoon ghost leaving their body" is cuties.
If there's a specific art style happening, you can include it. Realistic, semi-realistic, anime, cartoon, surrealist, abstract... If it matters to the concept (ex. "tried a different artstyle for this one!") or is something that would be actively noticed by a sighted person (ex. redraw of some very serious subject but it's the damn family guy artstyle) you should include it.
Vague one line about the subject of the drawing to give a general concept of what the person should be imagining. You can add the relevant details later. "ID: a X is doing an Y. End ID." type of deal.
IMO this is what a bare minimum, but very much effective art description should be. This is the stage where you get a "ID: painting of a girl taking a picture of a colorful bird outside her window" type of description. It probably doesn't convey everything, but it gives the person a reasonable idea of what they're dealing with. This amount of alt text is always better than no alt text. I think it's also important to keep in mind that a lot of us that post art post it with objectively nonsense captions, so if someone has the post text of "Everyone look at this Now ❗" but doesn't have anything for the image they're supposed to be looking at, they won't know if it's a blorbo situation or a screenshot of a report of the newest diarrhea outbreak.
Less bare minimum:
Describe the subject! For me it's usually a person so that's what I'll be using. You don't have to describe every feature (and shouldn't), but you can try to include the demographic, some unique feature, how they're dressed; things that a person would visually see. Do not be vague to the point of being confusing. If every sighted person looks at the painting and sees a blonde goth white girl, you can just go with that and not "feminine-presenting individual with pale skin and straight light hair, wearing black clothes". (If something is actually ambiguous then sure, but don't actively deprive someone of a concise description when every sighted person can see what's going on).
What is the subject doing? How are they doing it? Is she taking the picture nervously with a huge camera, or with her phone and an expression like she's collecting evidence on that damn bird?
Any sort of emotions happening. Is the entire scene happy, sad, etc.? I'm autistic and do not recognize emotions by facial expressions (when I draw them I largely just copy without understanding) so I'll write things out literally. "She's excited", "she has a big smile on her face".
After that, include things that you'd actually consider meaningful. What's on the bookshelf probably doesn't matter. The color of the bedsheets doesn't matter, unless it's a colorful bird print that adds some context to the whole picture. The cleanliness of the room doesn't matter, at least not enough to describe it beyond "messy/clean/cluttered".
I really like this part in the Against Access essay about blind accessibility:
" Giving quick reads without getting bogged down in details is an important skill for a spy doing live reconnaissance. But ASL interpreters are at first inhibited by notions of neutrality and objectivity. They start by offering something like “Walking by over there is a tall, thin, light-skinned person with curly dark hair down to here, wearing a white tank top, blue jeans, and brown boots…” They’re pleased that they’ve avoided race and gender.
“No, no, no.” I brush my hands back and forth across their arm in vigorous negation. “That’s not the way to do it. The very same description could be applied to a gorgeous Latina in chic, expensive boots, who oozes money, or to a pasty, rangy white man, hair a mess, boots falling apart, maybe looking angry. Like, they’re the opposite of each other? Yet they share the same sanitized description.”
Because of their fear of bias, I discuss four implicit safety nets to help them feel better about uttering an assessment:
First, we’re not so fragile that saying something wrong will topple us. We know what we are doing. We—not they—are in charge of our missions. Responsibility lies with us, not with them.
[...]
I cannot count the times I’ve stopped reading a video transcript because it started with a dense word picture. Even if a description is short and well done, I often wish there were no description at all. Get to the point, already! How ironic that striving after access can actually create a barrier. When I pointed this out during one of my seminars, a participant made us all laugh by doing a parody: “Mary is wearing a green, blue, and red striped shirt; every fourth stripe also has a purple dot the size of a pea in it, and there are forty-seven stripes—”
“You’re killing me,” I said. “I can’t take any more of that!”
Now serious, she said it was clear to her that none of that stuff about Mary’s clothes mattered, at least if her clothes weren’t the point. What mattered most about the image was that Mary was holding her diploma and smiling. “But,” she wondered, “do I say, Mary has a huge smile on her face as she shows her diploma or Mary has an exuberant smile or showing her teeth in a smile and her eyes are crinkled at the edges?”
It’s simple. Mary has a huge smile on her face is the best one. It’s the don’t-second-guess-yourself option. My thinking around this issue is enriched by the philosopher Brian Massumi’s concept of “esqueness.” He exemplifies it by discussing a kid who plays a tiger:
"One look at a tiger, however fleeting and incomplete, whether it be in the zoo or in a book or in a film or video, and presto! the child is tigerized… The perception itself is a vital gesture. The child immediately sets about, not imitating the tiger’s substantial form as he saw it, but rather giving it life—giving it more life. The child plays the tiger in situations in which the child has never seen a tiger. More than that, it plays the tiger in situations no tiger has ever seen, in which no earthly tiger has ever set paw."
Just as the child and an actual tiger are not one bit alike, the words Mary has a huge smile on her face have nothing in common with the picture of Mary holding her diploma. Yet the tiger announces something to the world, its essence, and a kid can become tiger-ized and be tiger-esque, their every act shouting, I am a tiger. The picture of Mary at her graduation is shouting something, and the words Mary has a huge smile on her face are also shouting something. It is at the level beyond each actuality, in the swirl that each stirs up, that the two meet. "
Don't make it way too long, the same way a sighted person is probably not going to look at it for 5 straight minutes a blind one is not going to listen to a 5 minute long description. Don't describe every detail. The color of the shirt probably doesn't matter. Etc.
To kinda go with that excerpt above, I do cheat with my tutorial things (and probably also would with comics). In the visual reality I use arrows and other nonsense to connect different parts to each other. But I don't think there's a point to describing all that. So I just say something is captioned with XYZ, or is below that, not that it's on the opposite side of the canvas with a long ass arrow because it's devoid of actual information for someone experiencing it in text form.
For pieces that include a lot of text I also have some tips:
No all caps on normal words because they can be confused for acronyms by some screen readers. Use an exclamation mark if it's about loudness, skip if meaningless.
99% of the time it doesn't matter when something is underlined or italicized, or in a different font, or whatever else you can do with text. Mention if it's genuinely important or is part of a joke, etc.
Use PascalCase or camelCase when writing multiple words together, so that screenreaders read them properly.
Rarely you might need to make some changes for readability. For example in my last post I talked about MOPDII. In alt text I went with MOPD 2. Both are accurate and used, but one is ambiguous (ii or 2? It's an acronym, not a year or a sequel afterall) while the other one isn't.
You might do the same for one billion punctuation marks or emojis, if the number is important just say that XYZ is followed by a comical amount of interrobangs or something.
Last thing: if posting the ID in the body of the post, don't do any formatting, weird colors, putting behind the read-more, etc. it all defeats the purpose of accessibility. I see people put the only ID as this tiniest possible font, often italicized, and I'm sorry to say but 1) it just looks ridiculous, 2) not everyone using IDs uses a screenreader.
TLDR there is some 'science' to image descriptions, but it's much more vibes based than people think. You're trying to convey the idea of the drawing, not describe it to someone trying to redraw it without looking.
"Tutorial" on how to draw an OC with dwarfism (well, some of it).
Boring tired disclaimer: Keep in mind that this is an introductory "drawing" "tutorial" and has some generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People. Which happens to be true for everything in general.
You are heavily encouraged to do your own research because this does not contain everything you should know before making a character with any type of dwarfism.
Consider supporting me on ko-fi if you find this to be helpful.
If (when) you repost this on pinterest at least put a link to the original post somewhere..
something i've noticed that has become really annoying in the past 10 years or so is this fad of what i've been calling, for lack of a better word, "structural whataboutism." it's that thing where, when faced with a concrete, resolvable problem in your community, your answer is to blame it on a vast, unsolvable issue of structural inequality and then throw up your hands. "there's trash all over the ground in this corner of the park" becomes "well, that's where MEN OF COLOR congregate after their 12-HOUR GRAVEYARD SHIFTS and i'm not going to support a CARCERAL SOLUTION to a CAPITALISTIC PROBLEM. WE NEED TO ELIMINATE POVERTY AND THE SUBJUGATION OF THE WORKING CLASS" and it's like okay but sis. someone still has to go pick up the trash. we don't need a carceral solution, we need more trash cans. you're not going to eliminate poverty and the subjugation of the working class and even if ya did, there would still be trash on the ground. how any of this passes for radicalism within their peer groups i simply don't understand. it's radical laziness more than anything else
I was on a canoe trip once with a river biologist who worked for the county. After we found and removed a car tire, she started talking about the annual river cleanup her department organized. From a water quality or ecological standpoint, removing shopping carts, car tires, and other macro trash from the river really wasn't that important, she said. The real threat to the river was industrial and agricultural runoff.
"But!" she said:
People who see a clean, trash-free river are more likely support laws to curb more harmful "systemic" forms of pollution. People who participate in river cleanups take pride in their work--their river!--and become evangelists for protecting it.
Immediate action leads to systemic awareness, which leads to systemic change.
Saying "there's no point in doing something small until the big thing is fixed" is literally just the Glorious Revolution Rapture story all over again, and it's not helpful.
you were almost turned into a vampire, but before you could be fully turned, the vampire was staked. This left you with a vampire weakness, while still being human.
Spin the wheel to find out your weakness!
How much does this effect you?
Nothing changes
It's inconvenient but I can deal with jty
It will be hard to adjust but I'll figure it out
I don't know if I'll be able to live like this
Maybe I can find another vampire to finish the turning?
I might just kill myself
Results/other
Remaining time: 3 days 4 hours
thanks @theemmjay for submitting this poll idea!! Seriously it's such a cool concept I love it so much
※ this isn't a full list, obviously! just some that ive found while using picrew.
Please note: Many of these makers sadly have very limited skintone options, and inclusivity options in general. Unfortunately, picrew makers do not always have sufficient representation.
I will warn when they have no skintone options at all (or barely noticeable ones), but luckily it's usually the first option you pick, so you know if it won't be of use to you.
I plan to add more adequate warnings when I have the time, but as a singular mod (and with 50+ makers currently listed), I apologise that it is currently lacking.
If you use any of these makers, be sure to read their individual rules and always credit / link back to the maker!
"Hold Me Close"
"女の子に負けたい男メーカー" | ※ contains suggestive themes, M/F* only
"元気ゴリゴリ🦍"
"おひるねめーかー🔅"
"おにいさんといっしょ" | ※ M/F* only
"推しぴすきすきメーカー" | ※ M/F* only, no skintone options
"２人ジュースの底"
"なさや式CPメーカー" | ※ M/F* only, but enough customisation to work with (if you have a height difference)
"百合メーカー" | ※ F/F* only
"ふたごちゃんメーカー"
"もちもちめーかー"
"ギュっと手をつなぐ" | ※ no skintone options
"自カプの顔がいいからみて" | ※ M/F* only, no skintone options
"Shall we dance?"
"유령메이커"
"おふたりさん！メーカー"
"이제 알겠다"
"Lamb 더블 픽크루"
"Aci's Couple Maker カップルメーカー"
"담요쿵야"
"男女カップルメーカー"
"ハグ"
"Ina's Couple Creator"
"1027happybirthday"
"よしよしで世界を救え" | ※ no skintone options
"곰돌이랑와악"
"キミに キス" | ※ no skintone options
"볼 빨아먹는 픽크루"
"gay frog"
"向き合う二人" | ※ no skintone options
"Couple Kiss Generator (キスメーカー)" | ※ M/F* only
"couple"
"어떻게 메이커"
"HORONG 2Cut Picrew" | ※ blood warning
"과몰입러등장"
"ちゅーするひとたち" | ※ no skintone options
"みにこっぴ"
"二人oc" | ※ no skintone options
"omochi" | ※ no skintone options
"2배로 귀엽다"
"Marry me!"
"ali's mahou buddies maker"
"頬キスメーカー"
"なかよしメイカー" | ※ no skintone options
"キスクリエーター" | ※ M/F* only
"青春はお前が作るんだよ！"
"おれのわたしのめーかー" | ※ no skintone options
"きゅう式抱っこメーカー" | ※ no skintone options
"俺好みCPメーカー" | ※ M/M* only
"밥그릇 커플" | ※ no skintone options
"ゆうとメーカー" | ※ no skintone options
"見つめ愛メーカー" | ※ M/M* only
"エルネアカップルメーカー" | ※ M/F* only
* obviously body type =/= gender so i apologise for the generalisation, but i prefer to warn when makers aren't customisable in that regard! some are easier to work with than others.
also note: there are some "couple picrews" which depict an adult and a child together, so i have left them out of this list for obvious reasons. i have also left out makers that are meant to be specific people/characters.
I hope these keep you guys busy for a while, enjoy! ^^
I'll try my best to update this list if I find more, so feel free to check back later! ♡
My name is Mak, and I am a young aspiring artist and voice actor, Danganronpa fan, and the main writer and possible director for a Danganronpa passion project currently under the name Danganronpa: Fruitless Endeavors.
Growing up, I was always super into creativity and games. When I joined the Danganronpa fandom and saw how many fan games there were out there, I wondered if people would see my creativity and be interested in my characters, designs, and writing. During school, I was always the kind of kid you'd see in the back of the classroom drawing overly-detailed eyes on the blank backsides of a math worksheet. However, instead of eyes, I spent my time drawing random people from my imagination, some of which became Danganronpa OCs. So here we are!
I love the original games, however there are some problems that I want to fix. A few things to expect from the game and team are...
Better representation (queer characters, POC other than East Asian characters, well written women who aren't used for fan service)
Lots of effort and love put into the designs and writing of the story
A team who will happily take suggestions and critique from its audience
...And so much more!
If you would like to be a part of the creation of this game, please DM us with what you'd like to do and your experience in that field.
If you want to keep up with the creation of DGRP:FE, feel free to give us a follow and share.
A flag for Pro-Plurals. When you support all forms of plurality, this includes plural adjacent, disordered plurals, non disordereded plurals, trauma plurals, non trauma plurals, and whatever might be considered "Plural".
You can still be plural critical, endo critical, willo critical and more but the bottom line for this you recognize when someone says they are plural, they are plural. You might just have some issues with the community, history of the community, or own personal experience. Doesnt mean you dont see others as any less plural. Just means you have critical opinions.
people of colour deserve to be able to enjoy fluff and escapism and transformative media and silly fandom stuff the same way that everyone else is allowed to, i think. there’s a lot of unexamined hostility toward anyone who isn’t white; sometimes it’s subtle, and sometimes it’s not. there needs to be far more love and support for poc, and far less defensiveness and tolerance regarding racism in spaces like these.
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