#please help me!

[theimaginatrix27]

Calling all AO3 users who are visually impaired or blind and have experimented with site skins! And who use Firefox!

This morning, I tried something I had never tried before. I changed the site skin for AO3.

It was something I had been reluctant to do, as I didn't know the effect it would have, but I thought it wouldn't be that big a deal, I could just change it back if I didn't like it, right?

I switched to the Low Vision Default. I didn't like it—I was trying this to see if my screen-reader would detect bold with a non-default skin. In the Low Vision Default, italics disappeared too. So did most of my menu options unless I clicked on "Hi, TheImaginatrix!", at which point they'd open up again, but looked different.

I tried the other two public skins, with no discernible change.

Then I tried switching back to Default.

It didn't work.

I started to freak out, just a little.

I tried refreshing the page. No dice. I tried restarting the browser. Still the same. I logged out (when I had first changed skin, it said it would only apply for that session), but even logged out, I couldn't see italics with my screen-reader!

Now freaking out more than a little, I restarted the computer, then found the AO3 cookies and deleted them. Even with no cookies in my browser, the AO3 pages still looked the same as when I had first switched to the Low Vision Default skin.

I had already sent a frantic feedback/technical issue report to the AO3 team, but I sent an email to the BlindTech list I'm on, and asked for help on a couple Discord servers. By then, though, I'd tried all the advice they had except clearing all my cookies, and I'm not doing that yet because it makes no sense that cookies from another site would be impacting AO3 and AO3 alone. Also, the last time I cleared all my cookies in a moment of desperation, the problem I was trying to solve had nothing to do with me and I had to run around logging back into things, and occasionally having to wait for a verification code to come through so Google or Amazon Prime would let me back in. In short, I was freaking out enough as it was without having to go through all that again with the very real chance I would be disappointed.

So I kept trying things. I noticed the Reader View in the address bar for the first time, and tried it, thinking for a wild fifteen minutes that I'd hit on the solution, because the Low Vision Default skin could have activated a hidden accessibility setting to allow you to listen to a fic being read to you via TTS. Also, when viewed in this mode, the work text had all it's formatting, including bold, visible to NVDA! But alas, this is a default Firefox feature and perfectly normal and has always been there since it was added, whenever that was. I've literally never used it before today.

The most recent thing I tried was going to the Page Styles option in the View submenu in the Menu bar, and switch from "Basic Page Style" to "No Style". This reverted the AO3 page I was on to something resembling Pre-tampering AO3 (all my user options were back, the italics was back, it looked normal again). The problem being, that setting doesn't save across restarts, and in any case, it's set to "basic style" across the board, so that's not necessarily the problem. I can see italics, and bold, on most other sites (the NaNoWriMo site doesn't show them to my screen-reader either, but that's been the case since the 2019 site makeover).

So my current conclusion is, something's gone sideways with AO3's page style specifically, and I'm 85% sure it's on my end, because if it wasn't, it wouldn't happen when I was logged out, and clearing my cookies would have fixed it.

Unless there's a weird glitch going on with AO3 and even without my cookies it recognises my browser, but with the knowledge I currently have, I'm almost sure there's some option in Firefox I have to find and change.

If anyone else has had a similar experience while messing around with site skins using a screen-reader and/or Firefox, please please please help me I don't know what else to try.

#AO3 #AO3 Site Skins #AO3 Skins #Technical Difficulties #Accessibility #Please help me! #I'm at my wit's end!

[striveattemptfail]

wfa #77

so bc i don't wanna do anything productive am procrastinating every single one of responsibilities am a damn freak of a nerd i have spent the last 2.5 hours attempting to identify all of these damn batsuits

while i've seen a few posts/sources identifying some of the suits, i've yet to see anyone break down all of them and, again, bc i am actually insane obscenely obsessive i am taking it upon myself to identify every. single. one.

i think i've actually gotten almost all of them from my own research, but bc i don't wanna make any false claims i've decided to err on the side of caution and ask for help on the following unknown suits:

(all suits are numbered and circled for clarification but if there's any confusion pls feel free to ask me what i'm referring to~!)

again, i think i actually do know most of these, but i figured asking for confirmation wouldn't hurt ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

SO if you know any of these suits pls reply/reblog/dm me and lemme know~! a source would be fantastic, but even a lead on the media it's from (comic, show, film, etc) is greatly appreciated

i make no guarantees i will be 100% correct when i eventually make a post breaking down everything (nor do i guarantee that i'll even make the post at all if i forget to lol) but with enough validation help from y'all i may just be able to do this (•̀ᴗ•́)ง

pls and many thanks friends \o/

#batman: wayne family adventures #wayne family adventures #wfa #batman #bruce wayne #dc comics #batsuit #batfam #batfamily #jercy speaks #PLEASE help me! #i guess technically i could just ask the artists bc some of em are here on tumblr #but where's the fun in that????

[butterpretzelcookie]

C0MMISSIONS OPEN !! (3 slots) I need some cash support for university so I decided on opening comms. reblogs are much appreciated!

payment is up-front via ko-fi (for quick doodles) or via paypal (if you're chilean i can also accept it via cuenta rut or bank transfers), for elaborate pieces i will send wips and progress as i work. pieces cannot be used for comercial purposes without permission, and under no circumstances they can be used for A/I stuff

I won't draw: - NSFW (slightly suggestive ok) - designs too complex, like mechs, armor or elaborate weapons - hateful content - content such as ships or scenarios that might make me or others uncomfortable. a bit too specific so feel free to ask please DM me here or through my twitter @ mudd_loser !

#cookie run #pokemon #touhou #hex maniac #white ghost cookie #banana cookie #lilybell cookie #blue lily cookie #mimikyu #gengar #litwick #banette #tinkaton #youmu konpaku #yuyuko saigyouji #commissions #my art #please help me!

[performativezippers]

#please help me! #make this book dope #please reblob

[lesmisscraper]

🚨

This is urgent!

Since tumblr blocked <#Mother and daighter> tag for their guideline, I need a better tag for describing them. Do you have any ideas?

Edit: I got a new one as #Angel and Lark.

#Les miserables #les mis #My Post #Fantine #Cosette #They never changed the blocked tag. #Please help me! #For better namesake for those mother and daughter! #Angel and Lark #Fandom #Others

[nia1sworld]

Okay hi, now you all might be wondering, why I ship Careen and Barbara and some of you..kinda/not to

Answer

SERIOUSLY, I'M LIKE SOMETHING!

#please help me! #I'VE BEEN WANTING SOMEONE TO MAKE FANART OF BARBARA AND CAREEN! #(I don't even know why I love comparing Ranger and Tenor's relationship) #(I'll be adding that to my ship list) #the ink chronicles #careen jewel #barbara wilton #careen and barbara #careen x barbara #my art #fanart

[thefisherqueen]

Linguistic side of tumblr, what word would a middle class, scientific orientated, British gentleman living at the end of the 19th century use to refer to his own bum? Asking for science, def not for fanfiction purposes

#19th century english #victorian period #linguistics #history #please help me! #I can't decide on the proper word! #it's not even for a smut scene #so many articles on slang but I don't think he would use slang #I want a more formal word

[cococroissant]

When I ask I'm asking for a reason- so, I'm new to anime and I wanna start watching it! Where should I start?

#text post #ive heard that you can't just dive head first into anime #so apparently i need a starter pack? #which i very much need xD #i just wanna watch something cute okay #please help me!

[gifsbymel]

gif pack voting

Hello! I know I'm currently working on a couple of gif packs, but I'm still curious about what you'd like to see later. That's why I created a poll for it. Please take a few seconds and vote for which gif pack you would like. You can mark more than one. Thanks for voting and sharing this post!

Voting result (August 08, 2022):

1. Sevda Erginci in Seni Kalbime Sakladım (5)

2. Özge Gürel in Hayaller ve Hayatlar (3)

2. Elçin Sangu in Kiralık Aşk (3)

2. Elçin Sangu in Iyi Günde Kötü Günde, ep. 3-5. (3)

2. Elçin Afacan in Sen Çal Kapimi (3)

2. İlayda Alişan in Seversin (3)

3. Ayça Ayşin Turan in Ada Masalı (2)

3. Özge Gürel in Bay Yanlış (2)

3. Elçin Afacan in Seni Kalbime Sakladım (2)

3. Pelin Uluksar in No:309 (2)

4. Gülper Özdemir in Gül Masalı (1)

4. Meltem Akçöl in Kirik Hayatlar (1)

4. Zehra Yılmaz in Gül Masalı (1)

5. Hatice Şendil in İyilik (0)

#gif pack voting #maybe future project #please help me! #thank you if you vote or share this post <3 #signal boost #gif pack

[spr0utsies]

#hehe #seal meme #love this animal meme #seal #EDIT: OH FUCK THIS HAS OVER 1K NOTES. thats wild #2k #3k #that one clip of patrick looking under his house yelling WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE #sprout speaks #4k #5k #10k #15k #20k #25k #30k #35k #40k #45k #ok what big blog reblogged this. please god help me #50k

[nouverx]

You gotta excuse his 1920's ass, he's still learning slangs

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel fanart #hazbin alastor #alastor #hazbin rosie #digital art #autodesk sketchbook #hazbin hotel fandom #this joke popped in my head while I was working today and I had to draw it out as soon as I got home #serving c*nt with onions and seasoning please #this is way too funny to me help

[mo-mode]

AU where Mr. D claiming to be Percy’s dad accidentally counts as Claiming according to Greek god law or whatever and now all the other gods legitimacy believe Percy is his son, but if Mr. D corrects it, he has to explain to Zeus why he pretended he was Percy’s dad so now he’s like “YEP ol’ Perry Johansson is MY child wowie just look at the little fry, you have your mother’s eyes. Please stop standing next to water or you will blow my cover”

Meanwhile Poseidon is just standing off to the side like “how on earth did I dodge THAT bullet”

#EVEN BETTER if Mr D tries to keep his cover by actually treating him like a son #Clarisse doesn’t mess with him cuz after the toilet fiasco Mr D is like “I will feed you to my cult young lady!! good job Peter :) #Percy is like “hey dad why can I control water “and Mr D is like …ever heard of that guy that turned it to wine?? #Mr D: PLEASE just help me I can’t keep it a secret for much longer Mr. Brunner: you told him his brother was JESUS??? #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson the lightning thief #dionysus #Mr D

[inkskinned]

because sometimes there are invisible tests and invisible rules and you're just supposed to ... know the rule. someone you thought of as a friend asks you for book recommendations, so you give her a list of like 30 books, each with a brief blurb and why you like it. later, you find out she screenshotted the list and send it out to a group chat with the note: what an absolute freak can you believe this. you saw the responses: emojis where people are rolling over laughing. too much and obsessive and actually kind of creepy in the comments. you thought you'd been doing the right thing. she'd asked, right? an invisible rule: this is what happens when you get too excited.

you aren't supposed to laugh at your own jokes, so you don't, but then you're too serious. you're not supposed to be too loud, but then people say you're too quiet. you aren't supposed to get passionate about things, but then you're shy, boring. you aren't supposed to talk too much, but then people are mad when you're not good at replying.

you fold yourself into a prettier paper crane. since you never know what is "selfish" and what is "charity," you give yourself over, fully. you'd rather be empty and over-generous - you'd rather eat your own boundaries than have even one person believe that you're mean. since you don't know what the thing is that will make them hate you, you simply scrub yourself clean of any form of roughness. if you are perfect and smiling and funny, they can love you. if you are always there for them and never admit what's happening and never mention your past and never make them uncomfortable - you can make up for it. you can earn it.

don't fuck up. they're all testing you, always. they're tolerating you. whatever secret club happened, over a summer somewhere - during some activity you didn't get to attend - everyone else just... figured it out. like they got some kind of award or examination that allowed them to know how-to-be-normal. how to fit. and for the rest of your life, you've been playing catch-up. you've been trying to prove that - haha! you get it! that the joke they're telling, the people they are, the manual they got- yeah, you've totally read it.

if you can just divide yourself in two - the lovable one, and the one that is you - you can do this. you can walk the line. they can laugh and accept you. if you are always-balanced, never burdensome, a delight to have in class, champagne and glittering and never gawky or florescent or god-forbid cringe: you can get away with it.

you stare at your therapist, whom you can make jokes with, and who laughs at your jokes, because you are so fucking good at people-pleasing. you smile at her, and she asks you how you're doing, and you automatically say i'm good, thanks, how are you? while the answer swims somewhere in your little lizard brain:

how long have you been doing this now? mastering the art of your body and mind like you're piloting a puppet. has it worked? what do you mean that all you feel is... just exhausted. pick yourself up, the tightrope has no net. after all, you're cheating, somehow, but nobody seems to know you actually flunked the test. it's working!

aren't you happy yet?

#almost wrote the champagne line as ''effervescent'' but legit could not write it without saying ''effervescent like a snail'' #ah tumblr... #writeblr #warm up #idk . having trouble writing rn #ps i don't like to talk about it . it is my medical information. but before you ask. yes this is about being on the spectrum #i really don't like when ppl make my writing about how im [whatever ID]. i want it to ring true for the people who it rings true for #i don't want it to be like ''awwwww look at this person!!! she's the EXCEPTION!!! :)" ..... #no.... not really..... #idk something gross happens whenever i admit to certain conditions and i turn into like inspiration p*rnography #like yes they actually let us use keyboards these days #furthermore i just... dont feel comfortable talking about this part of me. i had too bad of a childhood. adhd is one thing... #this one im like. still coming to terms with. which is like. my own journey. #idk. just please be kind. some things are more private than others. this one feels private to me. #i do not know how to help others w/this . and i do not know how to help myself. i will talk about it if im ever ready. idk if that will #actually ever happen #ty in advance i love u im kissing you we are kissing somewhere on the spectrum

[blinkpen]

(i Will go back to everlasting haitus if that GFM slows down too much btw, seeing it to its goal ASAP is my primary focus right now)

#i don't want to move the goalposts but i don't want donations to slow to a crawl just bc they are Halfway there #they obviously do still need to get ALL the way there to get the whole family out + get medical care they need #and they need it -quickly- and i -know- we -can- but it requires people besides me! #please help me help them

[theoldkyokodied]

Really quick doodles of a few scenes from the stream yesterday. Including combat flirting taunting, gale’s magnificently distracting shoes and.. whatever you wanna call gale agreeing to give 15 gold to astarion 😐😑😐😑😐 (that’s me blinking)

#bloodweave #astarion x gale #gale x astarion #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #gale dekarios #astarion ancunin #they are so funny god help. thank you to whoever sat Neil next to Tim #my roommate turning to look directly at me whenever they were interacting lik bestie please stop I am trying to be normal. don’t look at me #my roommate also said Neil acting low-key obsessed with gale and I could only say wow he’s just like me fr fr. #if I didn’t still struggle with getting shadowhearts likeness you would get a drawing of her hugging bing bong too but alas … #anyway the stream was so fun #can’t wait til tomorrow hehe

[cateyedfox36]

I need elementary school Black History month projects! I can't do a lot of edu leading up to it, bc i just get them for like an hour for projects.

I'd love to highlight pre colonial Africa, and Caribbean cultures, but while I found so much fun stuff they just don't fit into my limits.

There are some fun good coloring sheets that feature American black historic figures, like Bessie Colman (1900s aviatrix) Jesse Owen's (amazing 1930s track olympiad), Misty Copland (modern balleriana), and if I were brave I'd do Marsha p Johnson (2slgbtqiaa activist and Stobewall rioter), and Malcolm x (black liberation) and frankly I might. I'll also play them Robert Johnson's album.

I'm also thinking of Mardi Gras. Like making masks and beaded necklaces.

#elementary school kids #arts and crafts projects #black history month #misty copeland #robert johnson #bessie coleman #malcolm x #marsha p johnson #west africa #shaka zulu #please help me! #educators