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a neophallus can get erect with an implant (this will either be a bendable rod or a device that inflates with saline at the press of a button, usually in the testicles)
both can feel sexual pleasure and experience orgasm
most neovaginas will be able to tolerate larger insertions with enough dilating/training
the nerves in neophalluses take a while to regrow but it is incredibly rare to experience no sexual nerve growth
both can look and feel "normal" if that's what you want, just take good care of your scars and look at your surgeons' results portfolio (and don't be afraid to be picky! its your genitals, you get to decide!)
in fact it's possible for many people to stealth and for their sexual partners to never know. even for phallo, some people with natal penises have erectile implants too, ED is common. neocaginas are often indistinguishable from natal vaginas
many surgeons are starting to offer preservation options for patients who want a more mixed look/don't want to lose what they have
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.
Four years ago in the middle of June I realized that I only ever talked to people my partner (now ex) introduced me to, none of whom were transfem and many of whom had fallings-out with said ex and left my life in the process. I realized this was going to kill me if I didn't change things, so I started seeking out trans women on Tumblr. This was in the heyday of animalgirlbodypart URLs and Tgirl Tummy Tuesday, and the sense of joy and self-love I picked up from the community very quickly bled into me and filled the gaps in my heart. Many of the girls who I started interacting with back then are still my mutuals, still people I consider friends and am happy to see or think of, and most notably the three girls I reached out to the earliest and most directly are still the three most important people in my life. The breadth of other friends I've made through these three, the sheer variety of new interests I've found and explored thanks to them, the overall impact they've had on my life can't be put into words. I've changed more in these four years than I did for close to a decade before then. So no matter what changes in the broader culture, I'm always going to have that personal fondness for Pride Month as the catalyst for all of this. I AM proud of myself and of all the girls who made it this far.
The intersex inclusive progress flag, but with the original eight stripe pride flag as a base!
So my queer platonic partner and I couldn’t find a version of the intersex inclusive progress pride flag that used the original eight-stripe rainbow flag and as a result we decided to make one because we feel that sex and magic deserve to be explicitly recognized as an important part of the queer experience and we also highly value the explicit inclusion and focusing of marginalized communities by the progress flag
The components of the flag and some information on their histories are below:
The original, eight-striped Rainbow LGBTQ pride flag, designed by Gilbert Baker, in 1978. The Stripes and their meanings are:
Hot Pink (Hot Pink if the color makes it hard to read on your screen): Sex (Removed in 1978 due to unavailability of correctly colored fabric)
Red (Red): Life
Orange (Orange): Healing
Yellow (Yellow): Sunlight
Green (Green): Nature
Turquoise (Turquoise): Magic/Art (Merged with indigo as a blue stripe in 1979 to make the number of colors even)
Indigo (Indigo): Serenity (Merged with turquoise as a blue stripe in 1979 retaining the serenity label from indigo or sometimes re-labeled as harmony/peace)
Violet (Violet): Spirit
The progress pride flag chevrons, implemented atop the six color flag by Daniel Quasar in 2018. Xe added chevrons representing marginalized identities and the left-to-right (or hoist-to-fly on a flag) point represents forward movement and that progress still needs to be made. The stripes and their meanings are:
White (White): Non-binary, agender, intersex, and transitioning trans people (adapted from the trans pride flag designed by Monica Helms in 1999 - defined as “for those who are intersex, transitioning or consider themselves having a neutral or undefined gender.” )
Light Pink (Light Pink): Transfeminine people (The traditional color for baby girls in the Monica Helms 1999 flag)
Light Blue (Light Blue): Transmasculine people (The traditional color for baby boys in the Monica Helms 1999 flag)
Brown (Brown): Marginalized people of color
Black (Black): Marginalized people of color as well as “those living with AIDS, those no longer living, and the stigma surrounding them.” (quoted portion directly borrows Daniel Quasar’s wording from xyr 2018 kickstarter.)
The intersex pride chevron, added to the progress flag design by Valentino Vecchietti in 2021 implementing the design of the intersex pride flag by Morgan Carpenter of Intersex Human Rights Australia in July 2013 as another chevron in the progress motif. The intersex flag uses yellow (yellow) and purple (purple) as long regarded intersex colors and an “unbroken and unornamented” circle to symbolize “wholeness and completeness, and our potentialities.” (Morgan’s wording quoted from his description of the flag)
Also, here's the .svg of the flag if you're the kinda freak who’s into that sort of thing:
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Hyacynthia/62627de22f77b25af11dd88f93f8b3e4/raw/946e94281ac700edc3be34837b291b6840295f4a/8%2520Color%2520Intersex%2520Inclusive%2520Progress%2520Pride%2520Flag
So a few days ago I noticed a fox friend running through my yard. I was able to snap this photo.
I called him Milo.
I thought he was a lone wolf who chose my neighborhood as his domain.
But Milo is not alone.
Milo is a papa.
He and his lady fox have three little foxes!
I went from never having seen a fox to FIVE foxes playing in my backyard.
The three kiddos were wrestling. Their opening move is to do this cat-like superjump and then dive bomb into their sibling. Then they roll around. And then a high speed chase ensues.
One of the little foxes came near the house and I got a few closer photos.
I love the little black socks.
I'm going to need to figure out a lot more fox names.
