#who-needs-words

[cripplecharacters]

I was looking through various Paralympics for inspiration on including a disabled character in a high fantasy story I’m working on and came across disabled archery. Perfect for the story I’m working on!

However most of the resources I’ve found so far relate to disabled archers in modern sport competitions- how the competitions are scored, the requirements for aids in competition and so on. I’ve having trouble translating what I’ve learned about disabled archery in competition to fantasy.

The information I’m looking has to be out there I just haven’t found it. Do you have any resources or ideas? General thoughts on having a disabled archer are also greatly appreciated.

Thank you and I love this blog!

Hi! I'm glad you enjoy the blog :-D

It would be much easier for us to answer if we know what your character's disability is, and what's their body and limb function! If you could send us some additional info about it, we could help more.

Is the main issue visualizing how archery could work for your character specifically because of the setting? The sport hasn't changed that much across history (at least compared to other sports), I think that watching modern Paralympic archers wouldn't be that much different! There's also photos/videos of the first Paralympics-adjacent events like the Stoke Mandeville Games that took place in the 40s, and they used bows that would probably fit in fantasy much better than the modern ones!

For translating competition-para-archery to fighting-para-archery, I think you would be considering the same things as you would in regular archery.

I think that having a disabled archer is great! It's one of the oldest paralympic sports with a lot of history :) also I feel like most disabled characters who fight always have it "counter" their disability in some way, and I always thought that giving a disabled character a bow or a gun would be a much better option that makes a lot more sense as well!

If you have a more specific question, please send another ask! More information about your character's disability will be helpful as well:-)

mod Sasza

#mod sasza #who-needs-words #parasports in media #fantasy setting #more information needed

[thelordofgifs]

Here’s the truth of the obscure blorbo off;

We’re all winners.

It’s called obscure- so if your favorite Tolkien blorbo lost in the first round (like me) then that just proves they’re obscure! The sooner they lose the more obscure! So- we’re all winners in the end.

A very cheering way of looking at it!

#asks #who-needs-words #obscure tolkien blorbo

[ao3-helper]

I’ve got a question regarding ao3 and I’m not sure who to ask so I figured I’d start with you.

Do you know of anyway to sort bookmarks by word count? An extension maybe?

I bookmark any fic i even kinda enjoyed just so I don’t lose them and have everything in one place but I can’t figure out how to sort them by word count if that’s even possible. Any ideas?

The saddest news ever is that AO3 doesn't allow you to search the bookmarks by wordcount because the search system for those is different that the overall search system and would require to change it and well... This is AO3, it's a team of volunteers and things to change have a degree of importance. So yeah, maybe one day, but not today.

So! I looked for other options... And started to make a whole ass post before finding the best one right under my nose...

Best option: right in AO3, script required, ordered from bigger to smaller

The best option I could find is a modified version of the "AO3 Review + Last Chapter Shortcut + Kudos-sortable Bookmarks" script, which was a comment from 2019 and added a sort by word count option. To run the script you will need an extension like Tampermonkey, click on the pastebin link, copy the code, create a new script and paste it.

The original script add two clickable links right beside the title box allowing you to get to the last chapter right away and to download but also, if you go to the filter box, "Kudos" will be added in the dropdown list for "Sort by". The modified script, however, do not have that download button, but, it does add the option "Word Count" after "Kudos" in the "sort by" dropdown menu.

Once you've selected it and sorted by, it will display the work from bigger to smaller only. I unfortunately am not familiar with javascript so I can't modify anything, but I guess it's better than nothing.

I also do have to drop this post that links to a video which explains how to add plugins to firefox nightly on android because like that you can also have that option when you don't have your PC.

Hope this is what you were looking for!

If anyone wants, the other (lesser) options are under the cut.

Option 1: right in AO3, nothing else required, no order

When you bookmark works, you can add tags and notes. When on your bookmarks tab, you can search for those. Which means that you can add tags for a number corresponding to the word count of the fic. (say, 1000-2000, 2000-3000, etc) which means that you can look for the right tag for the word count you want.

This also means that you cannot sort them from bigger to smaller (or the contrary) but will still have an estimated length to help your search.

Option 2: right in AO3, needs a script, no order

Another option would be to use tampermonkey (or other similar extension) and add the "AO3: Estimated reading time" script. This script displays directly on the fic's box the reading time and you can let it display a colour depending on the level (colour that you can change to you wishes).

If you want to dig through the code, you can very easily change your wpm (I think it's set to 250 by default) and how many minutes changes the colour (for me, under 30 minutes will be green, between 30 and 90 will be yellow, above 90 will be red), but less easily add new levels. (but I guess you could modify and test things around to your wish, do remember to create a copy of the script so you can go back to original).

This means that you can browse through your bookmarks and have a visual help to know how long they are. But again, no order.

Option 3: out of AO3, needs an app, ordered

This option is nice if you read fanfictions on other site than just AO3, but it doesn require some works.

I found this tutorial on how to add work on Calibre (a free ebook reader) and add plugins so you can add fanworks and display a word count, that will therefore be ordered.

This is the second best solution, in my opinion, because it also downloads the works you want and like that you can always have them on hand, but I'm pretty sure it's only for pc.

#who-needs-words #ask #how to ao3 #bookmarks #sorting #ao3 scripts #word count #AO3

[fishfingersandscarves]

I don’t know why folks are sending in pet pics but you’re clearly having a rough time so-

hope you feel better!

omg thank you

#fantastic image right here #my asks #fishfingersandscarves #who-needs-words

[bluejayblueskies]

Not to come out of the blue but. I saw these tags;

On the magic amulet post you reblogged and I was wondering if you would tell more about this fic? It sounds amazing.

yeah! it's one of the fics i'm working on for fandom trumps hate, and it's a fun little low fantasy god au where jon is a professor of theology at oxford who takes a sabbatical to scotland after his grandmother dies unexpectedly. he meets martin (a god) there, but he doesn't realize that martin's a god and martin doesn't realize that jon doesn't know that he's a god, and a comedy of errors (and romance) ensues. there's not many scenes that take place at oxford, but the idea of divine amulets just Showing Up places and being a Thing That Causes Problems fits well into the lore (and is also very funny) and i like to think that whoever has the office next to jon studies divine artefacts and has Had Enough.

#i'm not sure when that fic'll be published bc i want to finish the entire fic before i publish it so i can make any changes if needed #it'll definitely be before the end of the year though! #i love building up lore for my stories even if it never actually makes it into the work #the best part about writing fantasy imo #ask #who-needs-words

[yearoftheotpevent]

I literally just found out about this event- will it be held again next year?

no, but the collection will be left open for late fills!

#yotp 2023 #who-needs-words

[duckytree]

big brother part 7

#you know this is an au because the dick in my main series never calls bruce dad lol #but yeah jason’s bio dad was a dick #wait #dick grayson #nightwing #jason todd #red hood #batman #comic #fanart #art #big brother series #duckytree #idk who needs to hear this but don’t actually beat up children #dick isn’t scolding jason cause honestly he’s even more messed up #note: don’t use the g word unless u have ties to it

[panstarry]

my final from last semester that i made into a zine. cooked this one up in a couple hours before the critique (the ink was still wet!), so it's very raw and kind of sloppy but the sentiment is there. i love you trans people of color. we are the backbone of this community 🌟

#pan draws #pan designs #zine #risograph #i'm not gonna lie i don't love how this one turned out OTL and i think the wording is not done but well... a deadline is a deadline #i'll probably touch it up and rewrite it in the future but who's to say.. i need to stew on how to articulate my feelings coherently #anyway my transness is so closely tied to my experience as a person of color. the current political climate is so fucking ass to exist in #but more than anything i am pissed off at white punks & leftists & trans people that refuse to have meaningful solidarity with us. #so yeah anyway. i was stuck on this one forever and only really got anywhere with it after attending 2 punk noise shows in a row where they #actually used their fucking platform to do like. anything. our struggles are connected you need to careeeee YOU HAVE TO CARE........ ok bye #tdov #trans day of visibility #<- i was sitting on uploading this for a while so the stars kind of aligned for it to be today huh.... happy tdov i love you

[egophiliac]

I have SO many thoughts about everything and they are in no kind of order yet, so here's just some quick little bits in the meantime!

I am not normal about any of these characters!

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 part 6 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 part 6 spoilers #me just staring at the ceiling thinking about anime characters #if i start talking about the big stuff now it's going to turn into a huge rambling mess so in the meantime #i did not get sebek (yet) (i need to contemplate my gems...) but i did see his groovy #he is just full-on cinderella-sparkles bibbidi-bobbidi-booing into that armor! magnificent. #and i really don't have enough words for how much i love tiny malleus. he is perfect. he is precious. he is everything to me. #he knows who his dad is no matter what some crusty dead talking ectoplasm blobs say #(man no wonder lilia's got hangups if THAT was the general attitude he was getting) #('eww you got your dirty bat cooties on the prince' go sit in the corner with mrs. rosehearts you absolute garbage) #(...i did kind of love that lilia started to wake up because the senate said one nice thing to him) #(and he immediately was like 'this is not reality') #(sounds about right) #on a lighter note i was just. SO charmed by the little throwaway about ✨dragon lord consort esteemed diplomat revaan✨ #who picks the vegetables out of his food and hides them under the tablecloth #everything i learn about this man makes me like him more. he was SO dumb. #now we know where malleus gets it from i guess #also unrelated but once again the fact that i named my mc tamago has had unintentional consequences #tamago take the tamago and tamago tamagao tamago #frikkin love that when yuu gives the egg back you can just be like 'i love him. this is my baby now.' 100% accurate. #also yuu continually referring to malleus as tsunotarou even to the senate = amazing. yuu really has NO self-preservation or awareness. #they fit right in with everyone else #<- see what did i tell you. huge rambling mess. #and i haven't even BEGUN to talk about MELEANOR -- (is dragged offstage by a hook)

[vriskan8or]

let her go

#homestuck #vriska serket #terezi pyrope #vriska #terezi #vrisrezi #mic_art #screencap redraw of that one utena scene woohoo #vrisrezi and utenanthy dont share many similarities but there are some interesting parallels that can be drawn #like theyre all characters who are devoted to the respective roles they think they have #utena needs to be a prince and vriska needs to be a hero #terezi needs to cast vriska as the villain so that she can be the one to bring her to justice while anthy #is resigned to her role as the rose bride and is cast as a witch by others (and herself in a way...) to justify her suffering #im too tired to put into words all the other shit rattlign around in my brain but something something vriska society violence princes utena #something interesting to note is that in the rgu stabbing scene utena is walking to the left while is hs vriskas walking to the right #which i think is mostly a cultural difference due to english being read left to right while japanese is read right to left #changing which direction is percieved as forward #which could be read further into but could also just be the natural flow of the scene or whateevr #idk i need to peruse ohtori.nu again i looooove reading utena essays

[inkskinned]

you get used to it, but it's tiring, because they need you to understand your own life as a series of goalposts. what college are you going to, what's your major going to be, whatcha gonna do with that, oh where will you settle down, when can i expect grandkids.

for the longest time my goals have been so blurry that they track into each other, their undefined edges slipping quietly back into the soft night. today i want to be a writer; tomorrow i will want to be a doctor, later i will wish i took that law school free ride. how the fuck do people just know what they want to do with their life?

where do you want to be in five years? i want to be alive; which is a huge step for me. ten years ago i would have said i want to be asleep and meant i hope that i'm dead by then.

but i want a yellow kitchen and a stand mixer. i want a garden and a fruit tree (cherry, if i can make that happen) and a big yard for my dogs to play in. i want to come home and read poetry out loud to someone and have them close their eyes to listen. i want a summer watergun fight. i want to make snowmen. i want to be the house to go to for halloween. i want my life to settle around me in a softness, for it to lay down gently. if i am very, very, very lucky, i want to travel; finally go someplace overseas.

of course i don't know what i want to be doing professionally. what i actually want to be doing is curling up beside my dog, settling in to read. i want to be making myself a cup of good coffee.

i can't answer the other questions. whenever people asked me what do you want to be when you grow up, i used to say i hope i'm happy.

i hope i'm still kind, five years from now. i hope i never get jaded and mean. i hope i have stayed in therapy. what do you picture yourself doing? when will you actually be an adult about this? why are you so afraid of being ambitious?

am i not ambitious? the other day i rearranged my furniture which doesn't quite fit into my apartment. i watered my plants. i'm going to try to propagate a cherry seed. my five year goal is to spend more time laughing. to lie down in a patch of sunwarm moss. to relax for a minute. to close my eyes and think oh thank god. this is why i stayed. this is finally it.

#writeblr #warm up #something something something took a lot of words to say #um my goals are really specific quiet things #and they're still valuable #bc i used to literally only have the goal of <3 bad things <3 #i was like ''who needs to picture the future? imma head out before then" #good news!!!!!!!!!!! ur in the future!!!! and u stayed!!! and thank god u did bc u actually fucking made it kid!!

[tennant-davids]

DOCTOR WHO Series 2 / Series 4 / 60th Anniversary

#doctor who #dwedit #doctorwhoedit #tenrose #timepetals #tenth doctor #rose tyler #fourteenth doctor #usereena #arthurpendragonns #timelordgifs #userbbelcher #chewieblog #*laurengifs #ten x rose #dw spoilers #tennant doctors are never going to get there so i'll just be over here crying about that forever 😭 #this isn't about tentoo he's good he can express himself lmao this is about this silly little guy who still chokes on the words #also my god do not look at this colouring i need those upscaled versions asap

[clown-owo]

🤨

bonus:

#good omens spoilers #gos2spoilers #good omens #good omens season 2 #goodomensedit #aziraphale #crowley #og post #gifs #the thesis of this gifset is: #“aziraphale lies BADLY to crowley's FACE repeatedly for no reason and crowley ALWAYS takes him at his word #but crowley's the demon so he's the one who lies. apparently" #i just think its hilarious #and the fact that crowley doesn't notice aziraphale lying despite the fact he knows how he lies (see: Job) because “why would he lie to ME” #i don't think crowley thinks the inverse of aziraphale (“you're an angel. its not what you do”) because he KNOWS he lied to heaven #(again see:Job) #this took so fucking long i'd open photoshop and my computer would shit itself #even worse if i dare opened a longer video to make into several gifs #sacrificed my Firefox window to my computer like a newborn lamb so that photoshop may live but it barely even helped #apparently i do NOT have the needed ram for gifmaking #i mean i did do it. i completed it. but still #though it worked a bit better after i restarted my computer. so. maybe i should do that more frequently lmao #i tried to include “i'm a demon. i lied” but it just did not. fit. quite right

[riickgrimes]

Rick + giving Michonne gifts What are you up to, Grimes? I'm just working with what I got.

bonus:

#the walking dead #twd: the ones who live #the ones who live #richonne #rick grimes #michonne grimes #richonneedit #twdedit #towledit #mine and only mine #it's crazy how happy it makes her every time #oh ym god #he'd give her the world on a platter as long as it made her happy #'you want the moon? just say the word and i'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down' etc #and it's really about the thought #like the fact that in the middle of a damn apocalypse and all the problems they have #he still thinks about her and ways to make her happy #like that's A MAN #A LOVERBOY #need me one of them

[superhell]

house md is wild because house tells wilson that he’ll sacrifice many things but never himself and then he sacrifices himself for wilson. and then he sacrifices himself for wilson. and then he sacrifices himself for wilson. and then he

#also like. this is the guy who said that 'people dont change' for the majority of his life and then when wilson is dying hes like 'i can cha #nge' its that he doesn't talk about his feelings and he cannot bear to show weakness until it seems that he is losing wilson and then #he will literally say anything to keep him its that he is shown repeatedly to be a vicodin addict and that hes destroyed relationships over #his pain and his need for vicodin but he'll give wilson his own pills and go without to make sure wilson has enough meds its that he is #old and cynical and his beliefs about humanity have been written in stone and his walls are topped with turrets and barbed wire but the gate #s fucking open for wilson time and again and wilson is the exception to the rules time and again its. so fucked up #wilson is quite literally his anchor in humanity wilson is his achilles heel wilson is his entire support system the foundations of gregory #house's life have been built around one james evan wilson from the moment he saw that twink throw a bottle into a mirror. am i making sense #here. do these words mean anything #house #wilson #hilson #house md #hatecrimes md #house is a very very carefully constructed facade and wilson is a fucking sledgehammer.

[batty4steddie]

Joe Keery PopBuzz interview.

#joe keery #djo #words of wisdom #gifs by me #happiness #is me making gifs of a man who literally needs no promotion what so ever