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the-batcomputer-project · 8 months

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Batfamily (and other) Headcanons that will be canon in my DC timeline:

-Dick is Pansexual. Show me this man in romantic relationships with more than just woman. I also feel like he has potential to be a sex positive icon which I feel is important. Sex portrayed as something that can be fun and casual, not explicitly reserved for romantic partners and situations.

(edited to rephrase and remove offensive language towards the pan community)

-Jason is Asexual. Get some ace representation but also give him some healthy romantic relationships where sex is not the center or a necessity. (I’m partial to Jason/Roy but to each their own)

-Jon Kent is dyslexic. Insert Percy Jackson reference about his brain being wired for kryptonian, but no, the dyslexia comes from Lois.

-Jason was absolutely theater kid before his death who managed to get the lead role almost every time, and somehow maintained a healthy schedule of theater rehearsals, good grades, and patrols.

-building off of the last one, Jason is Bruce’s favorite allowing him to get away with pretty much anything, but no one notices this because Jason is convinced Bruce hates him, and everyone else (understandably) believes Cass is the favorite.

-Cass took up gardening after watching Alfred tend to the rose bushes out front, and is now responsible for the very impressive garden on the Wayne Estate. She loves being to create and nurture life instead of kill, like the was born and raised to. Jason also taught her the language of flowers and she has little flowerbeds for each member of the family. Only Jason knows what they mean (also Alfred but he knows everything)

-Tim isn’t a caffeine addict, but he does have severe insomnia and ADHD. Because of that, caffeine typically has the opposite effect on him, hence why he always seems to be drinking a cup. Either for the placebo effect to stay up and finish a case, or to make him tired enough to fall asleep.

-Damian struggles to connect with people and express gratitude, appreciation, and love. He asked Cass about her garden one day and very intently sat and listened while she taught him about the language of flowers. Each family member woke up the next morning to a drawing of a bouquet of flowers pinned to the door with a knife (Jason has his framed in a safehouse he is fairly sure none of his family knows about)

-The batcave has a secret vault of “bad ideas” which was started by Dick as a child with the original Robin suit Bruce designed (it had pants) along with videos of Dick wearing said costume and falling off of gymnastics bars. (Think of the video explaining why strippers don’t wear clothes with the person falling off the pole over and over)

-Bruce is autistic. He gives off tism vibes (you’re trying to tell me that a man who dresses up as a bat and fights crime as a trauma response to watching his parents be murdered in front of him is neurotypical?) and I also want to see more a positive autism representation in main characters in media.

-Dick’s use of made up words such as “aster” and “whelmed” come from the fact that he spoke very little English when he was first adopted by Bruce, and decided that using obviously made up words made his slip ups less noticeable, or people would assume he did it on purpose. Even after he mastered English, he continued using his made up words because they just made sense (the batcomputer and jl database have a hidden file called the “DICKtionary” unlinking all his words and their meanings)

-Jason can’t drive. He died when he was 15 (you have to be 16 in Jersey to get your permit), was revived in Nanda Parbat so there was no need to drive, and was too embarrassed to mention it by the time he returned to Gotham and the Batfamily. This is his deepest, darkest, secret.

-As a child, Dick was convinced Batman was a vampire (and still isn’t entirely convinced otherwise)

-Tim collects little trinkets. Dick noticed this early on, and made sure to get a little souvenir trinket for Tim every time he went on a trip. Bruce noticed and started doing the same thing, and so did his friends after a while. Tim proudly displays his collection, because to him, each trinket is a reminder that people are thinking about him and care about him. (Most of his possessions in Drake Manor were necessities like clothes, or things he had bought for himself. Barely anything was a gift)

-Jason has OCPD, and needs things to be an exact certain way, and struggles when they aren’t. It’s one of the biggest reasons why he is often so frustrated with Bruce, who tends to do things in a different, certain way.

-Cass is actually the most neurotypical in the family, though because she has learned how to be a person through observing, she has picked up on many neurodivergent traits, specifically stimming.

-Steph’s aesthetic is retro pastel pop, mixed with maximalism. She loves bright colors and loud designs (though purple is still her favorite by far)

-Alfred keeps guns stashed all over the house in case of emergencies. Bruce hates this and has tried to remove them, but has given up as he can never seem to find them all. Alfred also brought up the good point of “I am not a vigilante like you, Master Bruce, and I am not quite as young as I used to be. If there is ever an invasion of the manor, I would quite enjoy the security of being able to protect myself.”

-There is a list of who is banned from the kitchen. Bruce is at the top of the list, Tim isn’t allowed to make anything more complex than instant food, Cass and Damian aren’t very good, but at least make an effort to learn so are therefore allowed with supervision. Dick has a partial ban. He is an absolute disaster in the kitchen, except for soups, and sarma (his mother’s recipe was one of the few things he brought with him from the circus and was obsessed with perfecting it as a kid, leading it to be one of the only things he can actually make) Steph isn’t allowed to cook, but she is a proficient baker. Duke isn’t a horrible cook, but mainly avoids the kitchen, preferring to stay out of Alfred’s way. Jason is the only batfamily member who is not banned from the kitchen under any circumstances. He has a tendency to stress cook, and likes trying new fancy recipes, because on the streets he only ate what he could find. This gives him a sense of control.

-Superman wasn’t a great dad to Connor at first, opting to send him to the farm to stay with Ma and Pa, but after a stern talking to from Bruce, came around started making an effort. Connor is an excellent big brother to Jon.

#dc comics #dc universe #batman #batfamily #headcanon #batfam #batfam headcanons #dick grayson #jason todd #tim drake #damian wayne #duke thomas #stephanie brown #cassandra cain

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tfp-is-my-lifeblood-lol · 9 months

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How would the bots and cons handwriting be like? (Sorry for my bad English lol)

Ahhh! I love this idea! Had WAY too much fun with this.

Bots and Cons Handwriting

Optimus:

-Can write insanely neatly, and in literally ANY font

-Everything he writes looks like it came straight from Google Docs

-He can perfectly recreate Comic Sans, much to the children's amusement

-Handwriting KING

-He's too powerful

Arcee:

-Her handwriting is gorgeous

-She writes very neatly, definitely in cursive

-Everything she writes looks like a diary from the Victorian era

-Majestic✨✨✨✨

Ratchet:

-Cursive, but MESSY cursive

-Like, REALLY messy cursive. What is he even writing? Who knows? It's a mystery.

-You know, cuz, like, that's how a pharmacist's prescriptions look, and he's a medic. Lol

-Ratchet has messy pharmacist handwriting

Bumblebee:

-His handwriting is so cute😭

-Basically Comic Sans

-Not PERFECT Comic Sans like Optimus, but just bubbly and adorable

-Having legible handwriting is something he practices a lot, since his voice box is broken. Writing is a nice way to express himself if need be.

-He has kindergarten teacher handwriting

-My dyslexia would be so happy

Smokescreen:

-Neat enough handwriting, but HE WRITES SO BIG

-All caps, all the time

-He goes through too many notebooks, because he saves NO space

-Poor guy. He just has a big personality

Bulkhead:

-Unreadable

-His hands are just way too big

-Very messy. Only Wheeljack can read it because he and Bulkhead share the same braincells

-Bulkhead and Ratchet get in arguments, because Ratchet's reads Bulk's handwriting, and is like: "Bulkhead, your attempts at penmanship are downright INCOMPREHENSIBLE."

And Bulkhead's like: "You say that like any of us can read yours!"

And Arcee's like: "I second that."

And Bumblebee buzzes in agreement.

Ratchet just rolls his eyes, like "ugh." Because he can't argue. HIS handwriting is gibberish, too.

Ultra Magnus:

-Opposite of Smokescreen...Ultra Magnus's handwriting is TINY!

-Seriously, where is it? You need a microscope.

-Only the humans can read it, because it's so small. And even THEY have to squint

-It's also PERFECT. His handwriting is very neat

and blocky, like a typewriter

-If only we could actually see it

Wheeljack:

-He's like, a graphic design CHAMPION

-He learned handwriting from Miko, so he loves big bubble letters. He decorates them with cool patterns, like flames, and lightning bolts

-Very stylish

Megatron:

-What I can only describe as "spooky cursive"

-Very formal, and kinda gothic

-He'd use some kind of calligraphy pen with very dark, splattery ink, or, like, whatever the Cybertronian version of a quill is.

-He's an elegant guy...well, sort of, except most of what he writes consists of:

"My dearest Starscream,

It is with great regret (note my sarcasm, Starscream.) It is with great PLEASURE that I must inform you...

I have caught you invading my stash of dark energon, once again.

I will be grinding you into scrap metal momentarily.

Yours truly,

Lord Megatron."

Starscream:

-Starscream has the ABILITY to write neatly, and in cursive

-But he writes very scribbly, because he's angry

-If "ranting" was a font, it's the font he writes in

-Also, he probably keeps a rage journal, where he trash talks everyone he knows

-Somebody help him🥲

Soundwave:

-Handwriting? What's that?

-He probably uses his internal computer to make documents, and prints them

-And when he prints things, they probably slide out of his neck. Terrifying. So he prints things to freak Starscream out

-It's beautiful

-If Soundwave was FORCED to handwrite, he'd do it in computer code, or morse code, or something weird like that. Everyone would be baffled trying to understand it.

Airachnid:

-Very splattery

-But that's what happens when you use energon and human blood as ink.

Shockwave:

-Writes in calculator font

-Like, the font a calculator has

-He says it's "the most logical font"

-Starscream constantly judges him for it

Breakdown:

-Definitely not neat, but not Bulkhead levels of messy, either

-He doesn't have the best handwriting, but he can make some pretty good doodles

-If, for some reason, Megatron assigned Breakdown and Knockout a task involving handwriting, Breakdown and Knockout would both doodle instead of being productive

Knockout:

-Ooo! So majestic!

-It's very bold

-His handwriting is suave and announcer-y, just like him

-It'd also be curved slightly to the right, like italics

-Almost like something you'd see in a commercial, or a movie trailer, or a billboard

-Like a NASCAR advertisement (y'know, because race car)

#It would honestly be so funny to watch Cybertronians trying to use a tiny human-sized pencil #having existential crisis over whether Soundwave can be a printer #tfp #transformers prime #tfp headcanons #tfp arcee #tfp optimus prime #tfp bumblebee #tfp ratchet #tfp bulkhead #tfp smokescreen #tfp knockout #tfp starscream #tfp megatron #tfp airachnid #tfp ultra magnus #tfp breakdown #tfp wheeljack #tfp soundwave

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yanderehsr · 5 months

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Hii! How r u? How was ur dai? About the oc thing...Could I prety please with cherry on top get a platonic platonic Furina, Ei, Nahidaand Venti with a reader that is like a elf? Idk, how to explain it, so I am gonna add a picture to how I wiev it:

Her name is Eclipsa and has white hair and pointy ears(ofc since she is an elf). And I dont mean like Santa's elfs, I mean the ones from greek and romanian mytology.

About the bakstory: Lets just say that she is the daughter of The Heavenly Principels(lets just call her THP bc I am lazy) (ik it sounds cringe but hear me out😭) and since THP was not all the lovey dovey tipe and probably VERY bad with children (maybe even hate them idk, I really cant see her motherly) she just decided to throe her to Tyvat into the care of the archons untill she was old enough (16 years old) to come to Celestia (bacically be mature since she doesnt want a cryng baby around). Eclipsa is growing, just like Klee slower (there is a theorh that says that Klee is 80 but is also 8 bc she is growing 10 times slower than normal) and everu 100 it adds 1 year rlto her age. Now, lets say that when she was 10(1000) she overheared somebody say that the archons dont actually like her (like parental figures ofc) and that they probably just cang get rid of her. She actually belivd them like a dumb child that she is and ran away (opened a portal to another world and dissapeared without anybody's knoladge). Now, lets just say for the sake of this au to make it more interesting (maybe more cringe but I am having fun ok?😭) that the disaster from Khaenri'ah happened bc the person occ heared it was a khaenriah'n and THP since finding this out was like "OH HELL NAHH" and this iz the reason they destroyd Khaenria'h. THP gave the archons untill Eclipsa was to turn 16 to find her. Well, now, at 15, she randomply (and awkwardly) came back. (Maybe she finally got into her head the ideea of checking Irmansole to see if the archons truly hated her and surprise surprise, ints not true). Now, imagine the characters meeting Occ in their nation. For Venti- at windrise, for Ei in the city (near the statue), for Nahida just at the spirit tree (maybe one of her little friends passed that message for her) and for Furina(back when she was still an archon) she was told from Neuvillette that he sensed Occ's presence(lets just say that higher ups are aware of Eclipsa's existance, including Furina. Perhaps she has read about Oc in one of the books she read to find a solution to Fontaine's profecy).

Also, I imagine ooc to look like this when she was little(I just love this fanart sm😭):

(One thing to note is that none of theres fanarts are mine, and idk who they are from to credit them. Also te line I made was bc there was some writting on that picture and I didnt want it to be out of the context:>)

About personalit I see her as somebody who is quite the drama queen and loves attention 24/7. She loves pulling pranks all the time and also like annoyng people, but in a joking way. Hoever I see her as somebody who has her moments of understanding and is quite the menance to societity(pretty mhch like how Klee is). About her powers, she is developing since young THP's powers but since she is not even 18, its definetly not as affective.

Anyways, I know it might be a weird request or cringe, and maybe I wrote too much, or gave too little information. Also, I am VERY sorry if you cant undrtstand this request, english is not my first language and I pretty much have dyslexia(not bad one tough, I am still working on correcting mynself :D) and I tried to make sure I made as little mistakes as posible but its hard to spot them when its a big paragraphe, uk? therfor you are always free to ignore thiz request, hopw you have a nice day and good luck writting so many requests. Also, congrats on 1k followrs!! :D

...Did I just read an entire fanfiction XD, I will gladly write this, and thanks for the congrats😆

Hope you'll enjoy😄

Trigger Warning: Yandere, Obsessive behaviour, Possessive behaviour, Kidnapping

Furina: She knows almost nothing about her, Neuvillette doesn't seem to remember anything about her and there are no books about it, hell the only reason she knows about Eclipsa is because Focalors thought of it as important that she knew about The Heavenly Principles daughter if she was going to act as an archon.

Furina's first meeting with Eclipsa is when Neuvillette is showing her around, it was instant love... not the romantic kind, the platonic kind, Eclipsa looked like a doll, so perfect to dress up, so perfect to have around, Furina feels lonely and Eclipsa makes her feel whole again, so she takes what she wants.

Furina dislikes The Heavenly Principles, she would be happy if she was hated by them, her performance is over either way, the profecy is fullfilled, is it really so wrong of her to be selfish... you will see Furina run around Fontaine with Eclipse causing havoc, as long as she is with her she doesn't feel lonely, and now she never will

"Y-you aren't leaving me right, right... ANSWER ME PLEASE... I'm sorry for yelling, I just don't wanna lose a friend so dear, you can understand, right?"

Raiden Ei: The day Eclipsa dissapeared was the day her sister died... not only did she lose her very own sister, she also lost someone she practically viewed as a daughter, she had never felt such horrible pain before, so she shut herself away as to not feel it again.

So many years spent in isolation, all Ei could think about was her sister and Eclipsa, she swore if she could just get them back, she would protect them both with her life, she just wants things to go back to normal, like it used to be.

So many years had passed that Ei nearly didn't recognize Eclipsa, she had so many questions for her, but she didn't say a single one... screw The heavenly Principles, she was going to protect her as best she could, Eclipsa don't even get a chance to talk before she was shut inside the plane of Euthymia.

"So long, you have been away for 500 long years... but that's okay, you're here now, I'll make sure you not come to harm like what happened to Makoto"

Nahida: She doesn't have much knowledge of Eclipsa, she isn't recorded in the Irminsul, all the knowledge Nahida has of her is what her predecessor left for her she didn't forget, she is confused why Eclipsa isn't around... did she dissapear or worse, did she die?

Nahida is confussed when she feels Eclipsa's precence by the Irminsul, it feels familiar but she can't figure out why, of course like the curious 500 year old child she is, she went to figure out what caused such familiarity... Nahida knew who it was the second she laid eyes on her, this is who she is supposed to protect like the Greater Lord she once did.

Nahida asks a lot of questions, why is she here? Why was she gone? Eclipsa is now her favorite subject to learn about, Nahida takes up some kind of little sister role to stay close with her, she needs to know everything, feed her ever-growing curiosity, maybe one day she will introduce Eclipsa to the Wanderer... but that can be later, Nahida wants to be selfish for a bit longer.

"Curious, you being here fills me with a feeling like... like a hole, you fall down it everyday and it just feels so annoying, then suddenly someone has covered it up and I don't feel annoyance anymore... You need to stay with me for a bit longer, I need to figure out why"

Venti: He isn't all that interested in following The Heavenly Principles orders, but he still did as to not occur her wrath... he did not expect to take care of a child, he wasn't the best, he got constantly drunk, never took anything serious, except for protecting Eclipsa from any danger.

It was no surprise that Venti felt such fear and despair when Eclipsa dissapeared, he had lost yet another loved one... why does he still care, it always happens anyways, no relation lasts forever, no matter how much he tries to drown the memory of her in even more alcohol, it doesn't work

That's when Venti notices her precence, after 500 long painful years, is she finally back? Is this his second chance. He meets Eclipsa at windrise, she look just as well as when she dissapeared... He doesn't care what The Heavenly Principles thinks or wants, he will keep Ecilpsa safe and away from her, He will keep that smile on her no matter what.

"It sure has been a while hasn't it, soooo how have you been, hope you missed me for I have missed you"

#yandere #yandere genshin impact #yandere genshin #yandere male #yandere female #yandere furina #yandere furina x reader #yandere raiden ei #yandere raiden ei x reader #yandere nahida #yandere nahida x reader #yandere venti #yandere venti x reader #platonic yandere #oc #oc x canon #oc x character event

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markbannersstuff · 1 year

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Jealous Boy

Summary:Joel begins to notice certain behaviors from his Ex-Soulmate, he certainly isn't disappointed with what he finds.

Words:1259

Notes: English is not my frst language, i'm sorry if some parts don't make sense or there are spelling mistakes, i have dyslexia and that doesn't make it any batter.

I can't balive the first thing i post here is a Boat Boys One-Shot

Ao3 Link

Etho is a jealous man.

It's something Joel learned in the previous death game, his attention always came back one way or another to Bdubs, he's not an idiot, he notice each of Etho's attempts to separate "the perfect couple" that were Impulse and Bdubs, the redstoner's jealous and almost obsessive behavior was obvious to him, Joel didn't really care, not like people, and even Impulse himself, seemed to wait, as long as Etho did his part not to die, for him it's okay.

That doesn't mean he didn't become annoying a few days later, easily familiarizing himself with the feeling of not being wanted, although that seemed to change when he built the ship, Etho put aside Bdubs but not quite, quite understandable actually, both were quite close during the two games leading up to Double Life.

But one thing about Joel didn't expect is that the behavior that was once meant for Bdubs, was now destined for him.

You can't blame him for being shocked to realize what was happening, he started with something he at first thought was just a joke, maybe even a minor claim, "so you're going to make a boat with a new friend 'ey Joel", the death of the cow was just an afterthought, something he did just on the whim of doing it.

While Etho threatened to shoot anything or person valuable or important to Joel, while he stated out loud in front of Jimmy and Tango that they were now enemies, their behavior days later seemed to say otherwise, it took him a while to notice it, but once he did it was impossible to overlook, Etho was basically in his head for months in Double Life, He knows the things that bother him, so it's not hard for him to make him angry.

And if there is something that Joel hates in these games, it is the fishing rods, more specifically he hates when he tries to pull him with the damn thing, Etho himself hates it, he knows it because it is engraved in the minds of both since his red because of the same, so he really do not hesitate to threaten his ex soulmate, he was willing to take his own life if it meant being able to kill Etho.

And Etho seemed to take his threat seriously, a few days passed without further incident, that's when Grian decided it would be a good idea to go AFK, being basically a state of deep sleep, the problems started a short time later, he didn't go into details, his head still hurts just remembering, problems came and went and deaths happened in droves, being he the cause of some.

During that time there really weren't many changes in their interactions, maybe a comment here and there from both of them, things changed when he accidentally call Jimmy Babe in front of Etho, it's supposed to just be a joke okay? You can't blame him,

he usually calls his friends babe, it's a nickname that's stayed around over the years, and he's more than sure that at some point he call Etho the same way.

It was the next day that the changes began, they were small changes like prolonged eye contact, standing closer than necessary when he had the opportunity or even the tone of his voice, which went from being sharp and suspicious to soft and almost affectionate, it was almost as if they were back in DL, he had become so used to those little things that he don't even notice when they happened again.

Attempts to separate him from the Bad Boys occurred a few days later, passive-aggressive comments were directed at the other two men, Etho took it upon himself to point out Grian's affinity for ending the lives of his teammates, he also pointed out how Jimmy was always the first to leave the games, inevitably taking others with him. Pretty low blows if you ask Joel.

He was also in charge of spreading rumors, such as how Grian seemed to put more and more his eyes on Scar, how he heard Scott and Jimmy talk about teaming up again, the idiot is really going for his insecurity of ending up alone, not a lie, he almost accepted when Etho offered a place on the T.I.E.S. team.

But he remembered how a cold night in the nest Grian expressed his refusal to partner with Scar, he remembered how Jimmy said in a very serious way how he did not want to betray or be betrayed, so, although the idea was tempting, he sent Etho and his offer to shit, deciding to keep the songbirds by his side, Etho was clearly not happy with his refusal to be on the same team, he could perfectly see the frustration on his face.

And it seems that Bdubs also noticed, the man tried to make him talk, but Etho did not seem very interested in telling him the cause of his anger, he did not really seem interested in Bdubs at all, his days seemed to be divided between being with his team and trying to get Joel's attention, he on the other hand did not understand.

Not at least until contact began.

Etho doesn't shy away from physical contact, one of the things he caught on in Double Life, is that he actually seems to enjoy it, he never starts it, it's Joel, who after small pushes and tentative hands on his shoulders and arms, which began to be more susceptible to things like resting his weight on each other, Hugs also began to occur and they even walked hand in hand at times.

Double Life was full of physical contact between them, at least when Etho started paying attention to it, Bdubs seemed surprised, although he's sure it was the fact that Etho let Joel be so tactile with him that had him so surprised, the narcissistic little shit.

The thing is, Etho NEVER initiates physical contact, so you'll surely understand his surprise when one day Etho took his hand out of nowhere, he doesn't remember much of what happened before or even after that, only that his brain short-circuited when he again felt the familiar sensation of his ex soulmate's hand. he's pretty sure he had to be dragged out of the mansion by Grian, the only thing etched in his mind is what he was pretty sure was an arrogant smile from Etho as he left.

That and the phantom sensation of fingers intertwined with his own.

It was only moments later that he started going over all his previous interactions, and oh, he felt so, so stupid for not noticing it sooner, Etho was acting so desperately that it was painfully obvious, he wouldn't be surprised even if Scar and Jimmy have noticed it before him, Joel, who was so blinded by the sense of familiarity those actions gave him that he never questioned it.

It was a bit embarrassing that it took Etho to hold his hand on his own to notice everything, it was so embarrassing that I consider not coming back down from the roof, but the vertigo in his chest at the thought of not returning to his soulmate did not let him stay, knowing that the further he moves away from Etho the more is in his mind gave him a twisted feeling of possessiveness.

because if that was what it took for etho to chase after him, then goddammit he’ll run.

#trafficshipping #smalletho #boat boys #ethoslab #smallishbeans #Joelsmallishbeans #traffic series #trafficblr #traffic smp

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epitome-of-an-openbook · 1 year

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op I read your steddie fic where post and specifically the part abt Steve being intelligent got my attention bc (and also youre so right abt the whole thing)

-what about the fics where Steve is visibly (?? idk englishs not my thing) autistic? Cause if you're neurodivergent and can actually follow his thought process along he's super smart (unconventionally smart my beloved) but for neurotypicals I'm told it makes him sound some variation of stupid/oblivious/dumb (when he's def not haha)

-what are your opinions about the fics where Steve is _pretending_ to be stupid? Like, plays into the jock bit, and makes people think he's slow to use it to his advantage? not necessarily in a "bad person" way (and especially if you can tell he's smart from the outside/his own pov)? >>>esp if he doesn't even realize he's doing it?

-how about Steve's concussions/neurodivergency affecting the more "conventionally smart" aspects of his brain? like, his memory is shit and he can't spell properly or he can't do complex math, but he knows everyone's expressions and holds a scary amount of talent in physical activities he's never done before type thing (insp after me who got complimented by the "hardass" coach after trying boxing simply because I watch and calculate and how that's easy for me to switch into my own movements)

-opinions on Steve "looking dumb" because he's simply...not American? Like, his English is plenty good but that's because he's been copying speech patterns for so long now, and the Harringtons are tied to some p important Italian families so he almost never speaks English there either, and I personally like the fics where he's frustrated simply because he can't understand (like the story about the Korean immigrant and the lovely teacher) and also the scene in modern family where Gloria says "I know what I meant to mean! do you know how smart I am in my own language?"

-thoughts on someone lifting their head up from nerd shit and realizing Steve's been making like many smart remarks that nobody listens to cause he doesn't know nerd lingo?

(also unrelated but trans!Steve MTF _or_ FTM is so important to me <3)

I've a whole "trope theory" about different types of intelligence groups tend to have, and simply put it goes

book smarts, street (survival) smarts, emotional smarts, social smarts

and how those mix and match to show through in characters that are disregarded as stupid and I personally believe Steve is very Socially _and_ emotionally smart but because he's arguably in line to be the most toxic masculine people by reputation (not personality but the past -both his and his dads- linger) people don't notice it.

I'd love to chat more both abt my theory and Steve in general <3

Hi anon, of course I want to talk about Steve's intelligence - because I am so so so tired of him being written off as the fool, and I am especially tired of people pretending like he is not the most emotionally intelligent person in the show other than potentially Will or Joyce. Also in advance, I totally go on a BUNCH of tirades and rants so I'm sorry if you lose the thread at all, I just have a lot of thoughts and they all FEEL important to me. So yeah, this is a long one.

-what about the fics where Steve is visibly (?? idk englishs not my thing) autistic? Cause if you're neurodivergent and can actually follow his thought process along he's super smart?

I haven't read many fics where Neurodivergent! Steve's divergence is specifically autism and personally I feel that other divergences fit him better such as OCD (see - his need to keep things tidy, instances of reduced impulse control, repetitive/ritualistic behaviors, hypervigilance, and agitation), ADHD (see - his need to be moving lots of pacing and bouncing, difficulty concentrating on the group discussions, impulsivity), Dyslexia/Dyscalculia (personal/popular headcanon), or something that would affect his audio processing (personal/unpopular headcanon; see- being unable to get past the music on the recording, difficulty following along with the group discussions, immediately losing track of the group in the Upside Down Wheeler's house when he thinks he hears Dustin)- but I definitely read him as someone whose brain works in a way that is non-typical which is something we ABSOLUTELY see in season 3 where he focuses in on the music and it seems like he literally can't focus on the Russian words until he knows what the music is.

But what it comes down to is that so many people read the fact that he didn't get into college (which is more indicative of a lack of testing skills than it is for actual intelligence) and his inability to follow along with group discussions about Upside Down stuff (which could point to issues with concentration or audio processing or just a lack of knowledge regarding the lingo being used) as a way to characterize him entirely as an idiot/fool. This of course isn't helped by the Duffers refusing to deepen his character beyond "he was bad but now he's good because now he's interacting with intelligent™ people". So to answer this question, I'm all for fics that explore Steve's intellect through a lens of "no he's not dumb, he just processes information in an atypical way".

I'm not 100% sure I'm interpreting this question correctly but I have some issues with fics where the character of interest is 'pretending' to be stupid so it entirely depends on what the motivation behind doing so is.

If the motivation is "I play dumb so that I can fit in better and not be bullied for being smart" I don't like it that much - I feel like in a lot of media, and American media especially, there is this perpetuation of Smart=Unpopular/Bullied/Unathletic and Dumb=Popular/Bully/Athletic and I don't like that because in my lived experience that really isn't the case - I have friends that were the Valedictorian's of their high schools by gpa that were also class president and soccer captian and genuinely good people and some of the meanest people I have ever met were stereotypical™ nerds. So if the motivation is that he pretends to be dumb specifically to fit in and not get bullied I don't really like it. HOWEVER, if the motivation is "I downplay my intelligence so that people underestimate me" that's different and I can get behind it to a degree - no one is perfect and Steve was not the best person at first so him having a little manipulation bit like this would make sense.

Also this leads into another thing I feel we don't talk about enough - Steve is a jock with a head for STRATEGY and you cannot tell me otherwise. The ability to strategize is something we like to take away from jocks all across media, but as a former athlete myself I can tell you that a LOT of thought goes into athletic strategy and it translates well to other aspects of life. We also see Steve make quick strategic decisions A LOT but we never mention them - some examples include when he leads the scoops troop through the crowded russian base w/o getting caught - some of this is simply poor writing/tracking and i will admit that but if we suspend our disbelief for a second it's Steve that looks at the set up takes in the information and says "Follow me, stay low and be quick" as they navigate that scene, we also see it in season two when him and Dustin get to the junkyard and he says "oh yeah this will do nicely" and then he proceeds to set the stage for catching Dart with a clearing to trap him, a reinforced fort for protection and surveillance and honestly the only reason this goes wrong is because there was more than one demodog. So yeah being good with strategy lends itself well to Steve using his intelligence as a manipulation for others to underestimate him. I personally would love for there to be a fic where one of the kids challenges Steve to a strategy game like chess or risk or something like that and for him to DECIMATE them because strategy is the thing he's good at.

For one I would like to quickly put out there that Steve almost definitely got a TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) from the Russian Torture - and probably PCS (Post Concussion Syndrome) from the fight with Billy (I would also like to quickly mention that these are different things with different causes and potential future outcomes/side effects, I feel like they get confused a lot in this fandom which is totally fine but just a reminder that a concussion comes specifically from your brain impacting your skull and how he receives his head injuries from Jonathan and the Russians would indicate to me that he probably didn't have a concussion those times but when he crashes the car in season three he could have easily gotten a whiplash concussion which is something we don't talk about but does actually happen a lot and it's less likely to get treated because people don't realize you can get a concussion w/o hitting your head. Also I am so sorry about this head trauma info dump, it's just a subject I have lots of experience with/knowledge about).

ANYWAY, yeah TBIs and PCS can really mess with your head and are often the cause of things like memory loss - as well as vision and hearing impairment. Also TBIs have been studied a lot in American Football players and sometimes they can even cause shifts in personality. (Also @peter-pantomime has some really good discussions and headcanons regarding Steve's head traumas so I highly suggest their content both here and on tiktok.)

And yes, Steve consistently proves to be extremely socially intelligent. You do not get to the top of the high school food chain by simply being attractive or athletic, you have to be capable of understanding and manipulating certain social interactions - walking into a room and knowing who to talk to and who to avoid, popularity is often just a matter of networking and part of the reason Steve loses his popularity is because he abandons the network he built himself up through and switches it out for a group of people much lower on the social ladder. We also can tell he's incredibly emotionally intelligent through his interactions with others - scenes that really show this are Steve cleaning up the theater sign and going to apologize to Jonathan (some might say this is just emotional maturity but i would like to point out that he was emotionally intelligent enough to realize that it was Jonathan that deserved the apology instead of just Nancy) (s1), when Will comes home and we see him empathize with the worry of Joyce & Jonathan (s2), when he can seemingly tell that something happened between Nancy and Jonathan but instead of lashing out he supports her (also s2), when Robin comes out to him and also technically rejects him but he just treats her like normal (s3), like… every scene with him and Max in S4, and also when he tells Eddie that he needs to stop being so hard on himself when he keeps talking about how much of a coward he is (also S4).

I have never seen this done before, but I absolutely adore this concept, if you (or anyone else) has some fic recs with this trope 👀👀👀 please share.

-thoughts on someone lifting their head up from nerd shit and realizing Steve's been making like many smart remarks that nobody listens to cause he doesn't know nerd lingo?

Yes do it, caveat: I think it needs to be Robin, Eddie, or Will - I think everyone else is a little too in their own way of realizing Steve has consistently made good points.

For Robin, as a Queer Platonic Stobin truther, I feel like if anyone were to really get into Steve's brain it would be her.

For Eddie, I feel it comes from that same vein that we see people pointing out that Eddie is the only person who directly answer Steve's questions, so it would make sense for him to be the one to say "wait hey - Steve is actually asking incredibly relevant questions that lead to a point he wants to make."

For Will, I simply think that he's the most emotionally intelligent member of the original Party and also the one with the fewest interactions with Steve so if he were to be with Steve in a time of crisis he wouldn't ignore Steve's thoughts the way that sometimes happens and notice something about how he processes information or something and be like "why did you guys all tell me he was dumb, he's making extremely relevant points right now?"

(also unrelated but trans!Steve MTF _or_ FTM is so important to me <3)

<3 Trans!Steve 🤝 GenderFluid!Steve solidarity

I love fics where Steve explores gender identity or at least his relationship with gender presentation, I'm partial to GenderFluid!Steve but regardless I love this.

#stranger things #steve harrington #steddie #let steve be emotionally intelligent #stranger things headcanons #Steve Harrington headcanons #asks #Steve is intelligent pls discuss #tw head trauma

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(Sorry for bad my grammar i have dyslexia and English isn't my first language)

I wanted to share my experience with gender, if it's possible? Because i really wanted to share it with someone without them been someone i know in irl. I'm agender and i use all pronouns.

So, since I was little i never understand why people dividend humans between male and female that strongly. I tried to understand as i grow up, without knowing much about the queer community, at one point i remember clearly thinking "it's not about genitals because why certain behavior and action that are considered male or female and is has nothing to do with genitals! It's not about behavior because if a human act in a certain way they still get referred as their sex! It isn't about dress pants shirt and skirts... So what is it? What do I want to be?" And i answer my self with "none of those. Both terrible option to me. I just want to be me. I guess people will just see me as a girl, but people are wrong most of the time so whatever!"

Then i discovered slowly how much people see identity in gender, how important it is for a lot of people this. And how both cis and trans are willing to do to have a body that represents what's inside their identity. And it's fair, everyone should do whatever with their body to feel more comfortable. I don't think i relate to all of cis or trans experience but I understand the thought behind their their action and their feeling. It make sance, it's valid! Fucking get it! (The happiness, i hope for you)

I only started to realize that i might be agender years later, like 10 ish years after. And i ask my dear friend to use they/them and it's nice, nicer then she or he, like for a moment i felt very happy. Also i asked not to be called sis but sib, and it became a nickname i love and adore, and a lot of people use it because my friend call me that a lot. I use all pronouns because my first language doesn't have a they/them so it's much better like this way really. (It actually have it but it's not used so it creates confusion)

The thing is i never had body dysphoria. It's not my body at fault for people looking at me and assuming stuff, it's very common behavior, i don't fault them either. I do like my body, it's nice! I kinda need it to eat sleep draw eccetera eccetera... If i could change it i don't think i would, it's not necessary.

So it makes me wonder if using agender is correct, if it's fine? Even without dysphoria? I would love to know if there are people that had a experience similar to mine, maybe just to feel a bit less lonely in this experience? Maybe if you are feeling lonely in all of this, just know that even if perception is different from person to person, you are not alone, and people will love you even if we are different.

Well after all of that... Uuhh, i hope the people that run this page have a nice day and it goes to the people reading this. A big virtual hug to anyone who needs it!

Submitted February 17, 2023

#agender #transgender #trans #enby #nb #nonbinary #non-binary #non binary #questioning

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wonderland-smile-stories · 3 months

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~ Chapter 7. 03 ~

I apologize in advance for any spelling or grammar mistakes and how poorly written this fanfic is. English is not my first language and together with my dyslexia ass things can go wrong I'm sorry.

The taste of metal was the first thing I noticed when I woke up.

Slowly I opened my eyes and saw a dark ceiling above me. Where the hell am I? I try to remember how I got here and that's when I remember what had happened.

"Shit!" I gasp sitting up.

Big mistake.

My arms when to my waist holding it in pain.

"Careful." I looked to my side and saw Ji-su sitting there.

That's when I could take a better look at where I was. I was in the backroom or in other words the jail where they kept Hyun-su.

Where they kept the infected.

I wanted to stand up, but Ji-su gently laid a hand on my arm guiding me back down.

"You're not fully healed yet." I shook my head.

"I'm fine," I mutter out fighting the urge to cry out in pain every time I move.

"That monster did an awful number on you." I shrug my shoulders leaning against the pillar behind me.

"I guess."

I'm surprised she wasn't asking about me being infected.

"You need to heal more before you can go walking around." I let out a scoft looking down at my hands.

"I doubt that they would let me out of here."

They didn't have a problem locking Hyun-su up in here, so I don't see why they wouldn't lock me up in here.

"Mi-na you saved a lot of people. You're not locked up here. It was just that this is the most quiet place we could place you to rest. When you're better you are free to go. The door isn't even locked right now." I looked at the door before looking back at her.

This was the first time I had a chance to take a really good look at her. She seemed more tired than I remember she looked like.

She always seemed to have her emotions under control no matter what. It was hard for me to trust people when I moved here, but I knew I could trust her after I got to know Ji-su.

That's one of the reasons I felt awful for lying to her about me being infected.

"Ji-su, I'm sorry for not telling you that I was infected."

She gave me a warm smile shaking her head.

"That's alright. Eun-hyuk told me that he forbid you to tell anyone, but I need to be honest with you. I already knew."

A frown came to my face.

"What? How?"

She let out a chuckle.

"You have been fainting and getting a bloody nose a week before things went bad. It wasn't hard to figure out."

Right, she knew about those things.

"Why didn't you say anything?"

"I was waiting for you to come to me. I didn't want to push you to tell me things. I wanted you to tell me on your own." I bite the inside of my cheek slowly moving my head.

"I wanted to, but like you said Eun-hyuk. And to be honest I had no idea in the beginning. I only figured things out after we got downstairs." I explained hoping she would believe me that she would be one of the first people I would have told.

"It's okay, I understand."

I let out a sigh of relief, but then it hit me.

Hyun-su.

He knows now that I'm infected too.

This whole time he was locked up here I was free to walk around. He had to do all the dirty work while I could sit back and relax.

I need to find him.

Again I began to stand up, this time by leaning against the pillar.

"Mi-na you can't move too much!" Ji-su protest trying to hold me in place.

I shook my head holding onto her.

"I need to find Hyun-su. He must be angry! I need to find him and tell him I'm sorry or try to explain everything!" I took a step forward, but Ji-su held me in place.

"Mi-na calm down. You won't be able to tell him anything if you pass out again." I stop struggling in her arms taking a deep breath.

"It's late, most people are already asleep, maybe he's already asleep as well. Why don't you rest some more and when you wake up tomorrow I'll either bring you to him or find him myself and bring him here."

I wanted to protest, but I honestly had zero energy to do so I nodded my head letting her take me back to the makeshift bed of blankets.

"Now take some rest. Your body is still healing." She brought the blanket up to my chin before putting a hand on my forehead.

I have seen a lot of fathers or mothers do this to their children on TV, but I have never experienced it myself. It honestly felt great to be cared about.

I just realized that it wasn't the first thing Ji-su had done that could be seen as a caring parent or big sister thing.

In the last couple of months, she has been taking care of me like I was her sister.

"Thank you Ji-su."

"Don't worry about it." I shook my head.

"Not just for this, but for everything you have done for me since I got here. I should have said it earlier, but I'm really grateful for everything you have done for me." She gave me a warm smile again shaking her head.

"You're the one who helped me first remember? You offered me your home even when you didn't know me well. Also, you have helped me in other ways than giving me a roof above my head."

Hae-rang.

Her boyfriend.

She has told me about him in the past. Not all at once, but little by little she had told me about him and what had happened.

"I wish I could have helped you sooner."

This time it was my turn to smile at her.

"How could you? I wasn't even here yet let alone in this part of the world. We both have had a terrible past, but I'm happy that we met when we did."

She let out a little laugh nodding her head.

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mimomycat · 1 month

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Im going to vent, and ask for help here, i dont know anyone in my life that understand and my next mental health apoiment is in like two monts, so...

Well, im autistic and etc. (adhd, dyslexia, dysgraphia, ...)

I discover it by myself, i think the first time i actually started to accept that true was like two years ago (i was 20) after i finished reading unmasking autism, i dont read normally, is very difficult for me, writing and expressing myself, and grammar and all that stuff very hard for me, always.

I did go down in a depresive spiral, it was a really big shock for me, - as i started finding the words and stuff to explain myself what was going on, like my eyes hurt all the time, i get it was from the lights, so i cover them, etc. - i had a really traumatic really fulled with negligence and abuse childhood, a really myself alone in my mental word kind of experience.

I often tell to myself and others that i dont really remember a lot of my childhood, and that was true, and its true sometimes, but other times i remember things, like how i walked backwards (first toes then the rest of my foot) or my special interests, or ideas that i had, etc.

I was mainly non verbal, since 8 months old i was put in a elementary school, of wich my aunt (my primary abuser) was the director, i made my first friend at 6 years old, i was very desinterest in people, and again, rarely speak, but she kinda just go with it.

I am very iq intelligent, i really never struggle academicly, so i never rang any bell, and people often justified my faults because of my intelligence, the adults called me "doctor" because my writing was so horrible but i was smart.

I have a lot of conflicts with my own intelligence. I was forced to learn, to speak, to read, to write, to draw, to color, to eat, to swim, to never express any of my feelings, to be quiet, to be still.

I just accepted those things. I can not grasp the idea that people could be bad. I just thought being forced was just the way things are and disconnected totally from any feelings.

I have to say that im really gratefull for being capable of undertanding things, i was capable of learning english without never hearing it or knowing anyone who speak it, i just got it, and that alowed me to learn more and have a more wide pool of information, although when it comes to express myself, writing and speaking even in my natal lenguage im not really capable of knowing if what im saying or writing is rigth, i also have problems undertanding people when they talk.

My way to express my conflict to others before i could even gasp the idea of neurodivergence was: yes im smart but otherwise im really moron (i use tonta in spanish but it translates to silly and silly is just so silly of a word); i constantlly fell, forget things, had a very very very very very very very VERY bad eye-mind-body coordination (silly anecdote: one time i had a glove on, and i was standing in the front of my class, idk why, someone in my class ask me if something was wrong with my hand, and i looked at my foot very confused. I was 16 at the time)

I graduated from highschool, and casually enter the Nacional University of Colombia, wich has the hardest admission test in my country and is one of the hardest of latin america, to study systems and computer engineering, time passed and i was in 5t semester with a 4.7 of 5 PAPA (like the GPA of my University), and then covid hits, but i like keep going even got a job as a programer.

My life changes, radically, i grew up poor, i always were so afraid of like dying that my only goal on life was to get a job, i have money i buy my first clothes for myself, i buy food when im hungry, etc; the world became accesible for me for the first time; and i started to feel really bad, i was tired, depressed, have 0 energy, i was only capable of keep going thank to my friends, finally my contract ends, and i stand empty.

I got another job, being a teaching assistant on a course i really love, and i did it so good, i enjoy it, but my mental health keep going down, and next semester hits rock bottom.

I have been in a 2y+ process to try to get my diagnosis, it is so hard, every test has like a 5-month wait, and every professional I interact with has no fucking idea of autism besides the name, don't even start with comorbilities, I'm spending my lasts savings, and just regressing more and more.

I don't really hate being autistic, but it is so exhausting, I need help, and I ask for help, but all I have gotten back is just people telling me to wait, to ask for help, to don't say nothing because i will regret , to put more effort, to be grateful for being intelligent, that I have to keep going and maintain my family, asking me why I don't communicate, that if I am mad I will not be given help.

I fantasy a lot with just being able to leave, with just being able to go back to when I didn't know where the pain was and having hope that if I just keep going, everything was going to be fine.

#rant post #vent post #audhd #autistic #adhd #actually autistic #neurodivergent #disability #autistic adult

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Re: the post about bullying people on misspellings and reading comprehension and such.

no real, I’m the person people talk about when they say dyslexia

(I have all the other ones too, dysgraphia, dyscalclia, dyspraxia too)

And so my reading comprehension and also spelling is kinda trash, not in a bad faith way but in a “I genuinely completely missed like a whole paragraph” way.

which just sucks, I’m still extremely new to the whole “writing” thing.

genuinely if you saw something from a couple years ago vs now you’d be flabbergasted at how much we’ve improved.

but I always thought it was extremely rude to bully and or be mean about people who don’t understand or read things right or write things right.

you just genuinely do not know who they are and why they do it, whenever I try to correct someone I say it kindly and give constructive feedback.

Like genuinely it’s not hard to be kind, some people are still learning, sometimes it’s someone’s second language, sometimes they use speech to text and text to speech.

it’s just such a deeply ingrained belief that anyone who misspells or misspeaks or misunderstands is dumb or stupid.

I can’t even count on my fingers how many times I’ve misheard, worded something trash, or misunderstood or misinterpreted something.

but that’s just how I am and I can’t change it, but I can change my reaction and outcome and make friendships even after fucking up.

it’s just a sad feeling that even if you have the best intentions you still fail horribly, subtext and tone are hard to parse through, so much meaning and context gets a bit screwy when you write it down.

and sometimes life is filled with mistakes and failures and there’s nothing wrong with that, I can’t know everything and I probably never will.

I love the quote

“a jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.”

because yeah, I’ll never be a master at English or talking or anything.

but I can be a jack of all trades, I can try to learn and be better.

more skills even though I’m not a master at any, helps so much.

We beat ourselves up and others for things we can’t control rather than lift ourselves and others up.

that’s just my thoughts on it, I just didn’t want to add it on the main post it’s pretty unrelated to the original lol.

-pop

You are so very nice to write all this pop. Sorry I take a bit to respond. The system has been super busy.

The "trouble" that I mentioned in the tags that I got into was when I said I unfollowed someone for being rude about reading comprehension and had a complete stranger come out of nowhere and correct me like I was talking about them when I wasn't and then when I said I wasn't and was frustrated that people apparently do this enough to assume unrelated call outs about it are vagues about them, they acted like I was "rude" and like...

I'm an alter that has slammed doors hard enough to crack walls. I've said such utterly fucked things. I am trying my hardest, my best, to be nice when I'm upset. I have come so far and it hurts. I use all my energy when I do it. Tumblr is almost like a kind of language thinking therapy for me. It's a good place to practice being as polite as I can, because it's safer to fail online as opposed to IRL, where backspace and walk away are not options.

To try as hard as I did and still be called rude is... Ugh. It's just awful. Especially when it was an otherwise cool blog that said that about me. They even said on their blog separately if another alter apologized on my behalf that they'd be friends with them and just avoid me.

And that's actually trauma for me! That kind of thing seriously destabilizes my system. I've had people literally abuse my system by manipulating us like that and talking about me, calling me an asshole like I can't hear. But I get that that's just a mistake too.

It's all mistakes!

I think the world would be a better place if more mistakes were seen as harmless.

Also I vibe with the jack of all trades bit. We definitely as a system feel that.

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thrandilf · 1 year

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I gotta get this outta my system in full or I Will explode so

Re RP and accessibility

It is 2023 and so it’s hard to. Feel like this is necessarily new info but I want to explain to people what makes Artsy text inaccessible and why people who need accessibility feel so rejected/angry about this

Any deviation from plain text is going to make things more difficult to read for somebody out there. Full stop. I had a friend without any kind of disability tell me they couldn’t read the UK edition of LotR because it doesn’t always use full quote marks and it’s jarring. Like if that is enough to make something not readable to someone please imagine paragraphs of prose written with some number of variations such as

Small text

Excessive bold/italics for aesthetic rather than actual emphasis

Sometimes even purposeful emphasis italics and bold are overdone so much that things are hard to read. If it looks like a typical American comic book with half of the words being bolded, it’s hard to process.

Extra spaces between words (especially a thing for screen readers)

Punctuation that’s extra big or small or otherwise nonstandard so it’s difficult to see or draws the eyes to it so much that it acts as a speed bump

Along the same lines, symbols embedded in text.

Bolding all dialogue. Granted- this might make things more accessible to some people and everyone is different, I admit some people might need this.

Differing text sizes within the same post

Writing in no caps is one that personally makes my head ache when it’s paragraphs of prose not because I am a stickler for “proper” English but it’s again hard to process

I’ve never seen someone RP in all caps but as above it would be hard to read if they did. Some fancy fonts do look like all caps

Icons (previously especially on mobile but now it isn’t so bad) are visual speed bumps and while I care more about the text itself and the content they can add to legibility problems/visual noise

More so on Twitter, but use of lots of different fonts even in the same sentence is probably the most difficult to read for anyone

I do not know if there’s more but generally some combination of these makes text inaccessible. It could be physical limitations like vision disabilities, being prone to eye strain, migraines (I personally can get migraines from reading a lot on screens and a lot of small text and the like can trigger them), or other conditions like dyslexia or ADHD/autism from my understanding, or anything else that may interfere with text comprehension

There’s a cultural expectation in some RP circles that people have to decorate their text to be taken seriously. So I get why even well meaning people who do care about accessibility may feel pressured into making things less accessible, or some people may not know

Said expectation, which is frankly pretentious and takes away from the actual content of posts, makes it actively harder for anyone who needs any kind of accommodation to participate in said social activity

It’s also unfair to everyone. Your writing, your content, your characterization should be celebrated and engaged with. I don’t want anyone to feel like your posts must be a certain aesthetic or else it’s not worth reading. That’s a toxic af norm

I want to emphasize that I understand some people are perfectly capable of reading small text and extra bold and fancy fonts and do not see how it’s an issue. I understand that creating said barriers to others may be inadvertent. But if someone says hey x is not legible to them, it is not legible. It’s not really up for debate.

A lot of times it feels like people who express that things are not accessible get debated with or told it isn’t that bad or whatever else to make said person feel like they are actually the problem for trying to raise a concern/be honest that hey. I Cannot read this. Like no lie/exaggeration. If someone says “I just can’t read/process xyz easily or in some cases at all” believe them.

It is not meant to be a culture war or to be shaming self expression or whatever else it comes across as, but when people get overly defensive about aesthetics over accessibility, it turns into something ugly. Which then makes said people who want readable text from their community in a social activity feel unwelcome and then people who do a lot of formatting feel attacked

I just want to clarify though my stance here is strong

It’s not about taste

It’s not about preference

It’s not meant to be a dunk on people’s artistic sides

It’s not pleasant to bring up to anyone

It’s not fun to feel like you’re about to ruin a relationship when you try to tell someone that you want to read their work and either can’t or it’s difficult and you’re used to getting hostility over it

I like bullet journaling. I like typography. I get why making text pretty is appealing. There’s a lot of room for visually stimulating text in hobbies

But when the rp community at large puts aesthetics over other people, and it’s normalized to not care about being accessible, it feels like a massive Fuck You.

It might not be on purpose. Like I sound mad but I get it maybe it isn’t on purpose

But this post is here to say that this is what it comes across as. And it’s hurtful and frustrating and people have left RP over it. It’s frustrating to feel like your ability to do a thing with people if they would just do something that in fact takes less effort on their part to do fo post things clearly rather than to put speed bumps in it is somehow not worth it

And ideally, rather than try and accommodate on a case by case basis remembering who can’t read small text or who can’t process lots of bold or whatever, the norm would change to be accessible from the start. And it feels like there’s just a lot of resistance to that ever happening

#rp #accessibility #tumblr rp #tumblr roleplay #vent #but ok to rb #long post

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luxielovesparkles · 1 year

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I write something !

unquired past prideshipping / violetshipping

Post-canon / post DSOD

please note : english is not my native language, i didn’t write outside of RP since a really long time and never directly in english + i have dyslexia so, it not strange for me to forget how to write stuffs correctly, be indulgent and correct me kindly

Have a good read !

While Seto continue to be a good CEO for Kaibacorp, Jounouchi start his dream to be a pro duelist, that how they start to hang together more frequently, they have the same place to work, the same subject in head, the same event to go.

Their story start out of nowhere, it’s not like they were know to be in good term, always going to find bugs in other hair but time pass like a rocket after their graduation and help to ease the tensions.

Events that speak about duel monster but also money, where you get bored easily wearing your best clothes, start to drink a glass to much and to speak with your old classmate and rival just to realise how much you have in common, how much you love his humor finally and maybe the end of the day what not so bad and it will be the start of something new for both of you.

Jounouchi didn’t believe it will be almost 3 years since he is in couple with Seto and it’s been a hell of a roller coaster, at first because they have to ajust to each others, then because they have obligations and travel a lot, reducing their time together.

He discover multiple faces of his boyfriend during those years but one in particular always worry him when he was so far away, that part of Kaiba that was so obsess about things and paralysis him into the past, it was hard to pass by something, to not think about it.

Kaiba was so obsess about winning to the pharaoh in the past, he didn’t feel like Atem acknowledge him like he wanted, it’s almost make him crazy just to think about it, it make him construct a whole system to go in the after life, he didn’t even remember how he come back in the real world but that was the end, that was when he finally decide to turn the page about him, he understand now that his love was to much for himself and the both of them maybe, since Atem didn’t even look at him this way but something, something when he was alone at night in their house, the one he choose with Jounouchi, he think about it, he think about all the time he had and lost in this story and it make him depressed and lost in his own head.

But Jounouchi always come back with the sun, he know how to keep him outside of his own head, that what he loved the most about him, always bright and ready to bring positivity into his live, after all this time he know he can be loved at the end of the day.

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He just come back from an other travel, get in America to play in championship for two weeks and have Isono to pick him up at the airport, the flight always wash him off but what he wanted to most was to see Kaiba’s face before to take a good shower and sleeping in his arms.

He turn the light on and can see Kaiba’s back on the couch, it was a bad sign to see, surely the loneliness start to eat him up again.

“hey, what happen ?” he say while closing the front door, manifesting his presence, standing in the entry, he can see Kaiba in the livingroom looking at him over his shoulder, even with the low light he can see shiny spots on his cheeks where the tears was not so long ago.

“Kat i just” closing his eyes one second to no break down again “you know, thinking about him” admitted it in a tiny voice before putting down his head

A softly “oh” emanate of him and he took off this shoes, let hi bag lie on the floor, before crossing the entry way to sit next to Kaiba, putting this arm around his shoulders and he lift his head with a soft hand “that ok Seto, we all miss him”

“yeah but” he don’t look Jounouchi in the eyes, too raw, too ashamed to always go back at the same place in his brain “i loved him so much and i hate the fact he still haunt me when i have you” he put his hand over his face in despair, just wanted to stop, stop all of it, stop to think, then strong arms encercle him and he feel the warm of Jounouchi body, listening to his heart make him feel instantly better

“shh ok, you have just a rough time here, time to think about other stuffs” Jounouchi start to play in his hair and they just stay like this for a moment, it could be a minute, a hour, more important is to be together again, far way from his spiraling mind, Jounouchi stop to take his hand and start to kiss his no-so-wet-anymore cheek “and you know, it's not because you loved him back, that you don't love me as much today” he give him is big sunny smile, the one that can melt any ice and Kaiba manage to give him a little smile back, feeling a lot better.

“Let’s stop that “ Kaiba say after some silence

“stop what ?”

“To travel i mean”

“oh yeah” say Jounouchi in a little sigh, “that a good idea, i m tired anyway and want to be home with you” finally he get his welcome home kiss.

#ygo #violetshipping #puppyshipping #take back my little idea and do it better #i'm sure Kaiba is OOC #SFW text #text

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jung-koook · 1 year

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Your English seems well written. I think people need to be more generous towards it. Because the only ones who have something to say about it usually don’t speak more than one. They probably only speak English. Because if they knew more than one they’d be way more generous and politely correct anything without making you feel bad. Because they should know and remember how it feels when THEY were learning. And honestly I was raised with two languages, English being one, since birth and currently learning a 3rd. I STILL mess up. And feeling judged doesn’t help anyone. them being rude/mean about it doesn’t either. So I mean it you write it really well and you seem to be doing a good job learning however you’re learning. And I hope you have patience with yourself too if it ever gets frustrating. Or you can’t think of how to say it/what to say or if it’s even a “simple” word. And remember you’re doing your best. (not being able to think of the word in another language is very common and the word can be as simple as a can, like metal cylinder/tin can/soda can. it can also be complex things/words/sentences)

Until they (those askers specifically) know more than one then I hope theyll be more patient and understanding you’ve said so many times that English isn’t your first. And if not they should be. And if its someone speaks more than one and/or is learning more than one that I just hope they remember how hard it was when they started or how it is. And remember everyone has a different pace or way of learning and how much they’ve learned. No one is on the exact same page and even if they are, they might not be on same sentence. Just like everyone reads at different paces. Same goes for everything else in life. You can’t expect everyone to be where you are, or to be where they are.

wow, thank you so much! to be honest i dont care so much about my english being bad but about the way i express myself. my difficulty is not just because I am not fluent in english but because I have dyslexia. for a long time I didnt even admit that I had dyslexia and sometimes I still have to remind myself that I'm not being lazy or difficult but that its more hard for me to understand and learn some things.

everything you said is so sweet and nice 🥺 I really got emotional reading everything you wrote here. you are a very sweet person to send me all this. thank you so much, really! your words meant a lot to me! I really appreciate it a lot and I will take them to the bottom of my heart ♡

#reply #anonymous

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ariesbilly · 1 year

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If teen fp was failing English bc he has undiagnosed dyslexia and can't read or write very well so he just gave up trying but now if he fails he gets thrown off the football team so he has to pull his grades up but it doesn't feel possible bc he hasn't read any of the books so fred starts meeting him every day and for hours on end will read every one of the required books to him ignoring his own homework and fp can understand and remember better when it's freds voice so he ends up scraping by because fred was willing to patiently sit next to him for days and read to him 🥺

😭😭😭 I always question if Fred was actually studious and doing assigned reading but this has my heart 🥺 even better if Fred WAS a bad student but for fp??? He will do anything 🥰 and thus in turn his own grades go up too lol

#briana answers things

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thefrogwhostealsgenders · 1 year

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The irony of dyslexia

This is just gonna be me talking about my experience with dyslexia. Feel free to not read this.

The beginning and other relative information

Hello, for those who do not know me, or know very little, my name is Azrael (or Alexander, whichever you prefer) and I am dyslexic. I have been diagnosed with dyslexia in fifth class (age 10-11); here in Ireland, you have to learn Irish unless you are a foreign student or have a learning disability. I was meant to stop doing Irish halfway through fifth class but I continued it throughout the year. I stopped learning Irish in sixth class (age 11-12). I didn't continue to learn ever again.

I also have not received any education in foreign languages, except the first year of secondary school (ages 12-13) in my school you had to participate in every subject in the first year. I have not continued to learn any languages. I do know a foreign language but I didn't do a language due to dyslexia.

In Ireland you have higher and ordinary subject levels, in first year you do common for everything and get split in second year, the subjects which get split are English, Irish and maths. I attended Higher level English (from what I remember you do not get to choose the level for English) I should have dropped down to ordinary English for third year but I have not.

The irony

I did not always enjoy reading as I was a slow reader; had to reread many words/sentences/lines/etc; even the simplest words caught me off guard and I had to have other people read them to me, after hearing the word I would usually understand the word but it still iratated me. I have always seen reading as a chore, as it was for some time.

But lately, I have gotten into reading and I am currently reading 'The Diary of a Madman, the Government Inspector and other selected stories.' By Nikolay Gogol. I have read Shakespeare and enjoyed the stories greatly!

I even write as a hobby, and I'm thinking of writing a novel and a play. I have always been bad with spelling, grammar, etc, but I have improved and enjoyed writing, I haven't enjoyed it always as, again, I've seen it as a chore.

#dyslexic #dyslexia #writing #reading #essay #the irony of dyslexia

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thepjoarchivist · 2 years

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Three Old Ladies Knit The Socks Of Death

I was used to the occasional weird experience, but usually they were over quickly. This twenty-four/seven hallucination was more than I could handle.

In chapter two - titled Three Old Ladies Knit The Socks Of Death - we start off with Percy having a bad time. As fun as the chapter titles are, they appear to be lies because Percy is not having fun.

Mrs. Kerr is brought up again. She’s a perky blond woman whom Percy has never seen in his life. The other students are convinced that she’s been their teacher since Christmas. I just want to know who this woman is. Is she actually a math teacher or is she a random woman off the street? Is she a monster? She’s got to have some relevance to Greek mythology because Grover keeps lying about her. I can’t decide if Grover is bad at lying or if Percy is extremely perceptive because of whatever bad thing happened to him.

It kills me that they’re lying to him and he knows the truth. Or at least part of it. This is giving me Rosemary’s Baby vibes. The gaslighting!

Oh no, Percy is having nightmares about Mrs. Dodds. This really scared him. It would have scared me too.

Again, the weather is brought up. This time it seems to be attacking him directly. Since Zeus is the one who’s lightning bolt was stolen and he’s the god of thunder, it’s safe to assume that he’s the one who blew out Percy’s window. In the same paragraph, we find out that there’s record-breaking tornadoes near Percy’s school and sudden squalls that are bringing down small planes in the Atlantic. It sounds like a lot of people are dying because of the unexpected weather.

I started feeling cranky and irritable most of the time. My grades slipped from Ds to Fs. I got into more fights with Nancy Bobofit and her friends. I was sent out into the hallway in almost every class.

Percy is not having a good time. I guess his C- really was the best grade he got so if he’s normally a D student, I really don’t understand how he’s been pushed through to the next grade every time. When Percy says he’s getting into more fights, I wonder what kind of fights he’s referring to. Fist fights? Verbal fights? Is he trying to drown Nancy Bobofit and her friends again?

Their English teacher is named Mr. Nicoll and wow, he’s a jerk for calling Percy lazy and stupid. I had to google what “sot” meant because this term seems to predate 2005 so much that Percy doesn’t even know what it means…but it means he called his teacher an old, stupid drunk. Is Mr. Nicoll secretly Dionysus? When do we get to see the gods?

The headmaster sent my mom a letter the following week, making it official: I would not be invited back next year to Yancy Academy.

Percy is very upset about having not been invited back for seventh grade even though he didn’t seem to like the school much. I think it’s because his mom will look at him with those sad eyes he mentioned in the last chapter. The fact that he immediately moves on from the ban to thinking about how much he wants his mom…Percy is clearly seeking comfort.

Obnoxious stepdad who plays poker? Is he the one who hurts Percy?

I love that the first thing Percy thinks of when he says he’d miss Yancy was the nature; the trees, the Hudson River in the distance. Grover is next, and then Mr. Brunner. Percy, don’t miss them, they’re lying to you.

Aw, Percy just wants someone to believe in him.

Do you think that RR read the Cambridge Guide to Greek Mythology?

Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards.

One thing that I can say with certainty, since I have it, is that this is not how dyslexia works. This is, however, how magic mushrooms work. I double-checked the intended age for the series and RR says that they’re for ages 9-14 so I feel that my protagonist-on-drugs theory may not be correct, despite the evidence for it.

Watching Percy’s anxiety as he struggles to study for this test that he really wants to pass is just making me so sad for him. He’s trying so hard.

I’d never asked a teacher for help before.

Oh my goodness. My heart. Even though he knows that Mr. Brunner is lying to him, Percy still wants to go to him for help and put the effort into passing his class. Percy spent most of chapter one plotting murder but he’s really a sweetheart.

Mr. Brunner, what are you doing alone with Grover in the middle of the night? Why are these teachers spending so much time alone with children? They’re gossiping about Percy. Is this the first time or have they been talking about him before? Based on the conversation, it sounds like Percy is in some trouble and doesn’t know it yet…and also like they’ve talked about this before.

Percy isn’t even there and Mr. Brunner is trying to convince Grover that Percy just imagined Mrs. Dodds. I had to google what a Kindly One was and it turns out to be a Fury. That must be what Mrs. Dodds was. Also, kind of surprised that Mr. Brunner couldn’t see through the Mist. He’s clearly involved somehow.

Grover has duties? What does failing mean?

Mr. Brunner says he’s worried about keeping Percy alive until next fall. It’s weird that he specified a time until which Percy can be dead. I wonder if there’s something happening next fall that he needs to be alive for.

Percy’s book slipped out of his hand, alerting Mr. Brunner and Grover to the presence of a spy, and Percy backs into an empty room. Before he goes into this room, Percy sees the shadow of something big and armed with a bow and arrow. Later, he hears an animal snuffling right outside of the room he’s hiding in and then Mr. Brunner is talking. So Mr. Brunner is a monster but he’s trying to keep Percy alive.

Percy hides in the room for “what feels like forever” and he’s sweating and scared. When he goes back to the dorm room, Grover is there acting like nothing happened. Again. This time with the added bonus of telling Percy that he looks like shit. lol Percy lies to Grover about how he’s feeling, clearly not trusting him anymore. I wouldn’t trust Grover either.

A three hour Latin exam?

If I didn’t know any better, I’d say that Mr. Brunner is trying to embarrass Percy in front of the class by telling him it’s for the best that he leaves the school. What kind of teacher worth their salt openly says that a student doesn’t belong when the whole class can hear? They’re taking a test, so it’s got to be dead silent in that classroom, the kind of silence where you can hear everyone shifting around in their seats. Mr. Brunner is really making Percy almost cry (my eyes stung) in front of the whole class.

I just know that after that whole interaction, Percy went and cried in the bathroom.

Apparently Yancy is a school for rich juvenile delinquents. If Percy needs to get a summer job walking dogs or selling magazine subscriptions, how did his family afford to send him there?

It occurred to me that he’d always acted nervous and fidgety when we left Yancy, as if he expected something bad to happen.

Percy talks about how Grover is nervous when they leave Yancy, however, we didn’t see that at all when they were at the museum. Also how often do the students leave the school? That aside, why would Grover behave nervously now when he was perfectly fine with having a Fury as a math teacher…and with whatever Mr. Brunner is? If my math is correct, Mrs. Dodds was there from December to May and Grover did tell Percy that she’s a monster.

More gaslighting from Grover.

Does Grover have a business card in cursive just to be a dick to Percy? Why does a child have a business card? What is Grover keeping aside from the truth from Percy? Why can’t Percy say Half-Blood Hill?

All year long, I’d gotten into fights, keeping bullies away from him. I’d lost sleep worrying that he’d get beaten up next year without me. And here he was acting like he was the one who defended me.

As Percy said moments before; why would Percy need Grover? It sounds like this is very much a relationship where Percy gives and Grover takes. Percy is a good friend.

Even I recognize the Fates when I see them. I’m not sure why they would be knitting a giant pair of socks. Socks aren’t that uncommon to knit, but a giant pair seems odd. At least the Fates have some taste by using electric-blue yarn.

The middle one cut the yarn, and I swear I could hear that snip across four lanes of traffic.

Once we got going, I started feeling feverish, as if I’d caught the flu.

I’ve never heard of the Fates blatantly showing when someone was about to die, but I can only imagine that this is what RR meant to accomplish by showing it. The way that it seemed to physically affect Percy, makes me think that perhaps it was his lifestring. Does this mean that Percy is now a ghost haunting the narrative?

Grover yet again refuses to talk to Percy about anything and only winds up his own (and Percy’s) anxiety. We once again see something about a ‘last time,’ which I assume means that someone died on Grover’s watch and that’s how he failed. This child being in charge of other people's lives does not sit well with me.

“Grover - that snipping of the yarn. Does that mean somebody is going to die?”

Percy is very perceptive. He didn’t recognize the Fates but he still knows what it means based on how Grover reacts. The way that Grover looks at Percy at the end of this chapter tells me that he’s already decided Percy is a lost cause. Maybe there’s a reason that he failed his duties last time.

#percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo series #riordanverse #pjo #the lightning thief

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