#I’d and transcript in alt

[notasouleater]

Narrator versus the 1940s

[maibeenot]

I didn’t draw this specifically in response to this post, but it kinda puts into perspective a lot of what I feel.

A lot of the time, I find it extremely difficult to say “I love you” to someone, even close friends and family. I feel as if I’m being disingenuous, that my feelings for them are not nearly as profound or deep as what “Love” is. But at the same time, “Love” does not nearly encompass everything I feel for that person.

And I think this partially comes from the way I’ve been molded to perceive affection and feelings like this. I personally have no idea what is considered romantic or platonic, and have a difficult time drawing a line between the two (if there even is one).

But I know for fact that care about a lot of people, very genuinely. That care just doesn’t translate to be as deep as “Love”. But again, “Love” is still too cheap.

Can we stop acting like two people deeply loving each other has to mean they have something romantic or sexual going on? Can we stop talking as if platonic love just can't be that deep? Because that's not true. Platonic love can be just as deep, and sometimes even deeper, than romantic love. What I'm saying is, we need to stop putting romance on this pedestal and act like every other form of love is less important.

[raining-anonymously]

alright let’s do this.

see here for the pages on trespassing, soul suckers, and the grim reaper (yes, the grim reaper is canon to the beetlejuice cinematic universe).

yes, i know the page is unreadable. the shot lasts maybe two seconds and the words aren’t in focus for any of them. but, eyes be damned, i need the lore, so check the alt text for a transcription.

ugh. that was a pain to try and read.

implications under the cut!

for whatever reason, it is important that the rectangle is completed. they state it twice on these pages. if they’d gone with rule of three i’d be convinced that something terrible happens if the rectangle is incomplete.

“Sandworm” is a proper noun.

betelgeuse surviving the sandworm was not a fluke. sandworms can’t permakill ghosts.

therefore, delores WILL reform.

we see from beej’s and delores’s terrified reactions to the worms that eat them that sandworms are, in fact, feared by ghosts—even by the older ones who should know that they won’t be double-dead. same for the page, which calls the sandworms dangerous and says only to summon them in emergencies. ghosts can be physically harmed, as shown by betelgeuse cutting barbara’s hand and adam hurting betelgeuse’s foot, so it’s reasonable to believe that being eaten hurts a TON.

also, being eaten by sandworms sends ghosts back to the waiting room, which i can’t imagine is a thrilling prospect. it also potentially diminishes power—betelgeuse can’t defend himself against the witch doctor, although he’s possibly just less powerful in the netherworld. sandworms are also said to be soul sucker’s weaknesses, so maybe soul suckers also lose their power? and maybe, just maybe, they also lose the souls they’ve sucked? MAYBE BOB IS OKAY????????? let me dream

the term “fleshbag” is official handbook language, not wolf jackson language.

the language in the book implies that living people have died to sand worms before.

rory formed in the afterlife as a million tiny particles. (deserved.) maybe he can shapeshift like he’s made out of sand, that would be cool. he doesn’t deserve to be that cool.

sandworms are theorized to have sensitive eyes! this isn’t an implication, really—i’m directly paraphrasing the book—but i think it’s neat!

[pioneers-productions]

question, cause i’ve seen this so many times- andrew blaze is trans?? i honestly didn’t know that, that’s really fucking cool (coming from a trans man), did she like say anything about it, post about it or something? i’d like a source (if possible) simply cause i just wanna read about it, that’s actually so awesome sauce

yes

before she died, she preferred to be called Andrew and a girl, she called herself Andrew online and referred to herself as a girl.

unfortunately she had a lot of internalized transphobia and claimed she was NOT trans and that her situation was different, but at the same time she basically defined being trans while explaining her situation

here's a clip of one of her videos (got it from estes.epiphany on tiktok)

there's more of her videos where she talks about her gender and stuff (especially her last few videos) but i don't have them on hand right now

here's things from her journal (click to read, date + transcript in alt text)

some other journal entries that I couldn't fit because of the 30 image limit:

March 20th, 2017

I close my eyes and become who I truly am and have a sinister evil smile on my face; people are dying all around me as I’m the dead girl floating and standing victorious.

March 26th, 2017

I am in fact from a deceased army (community) of Female ghosts.

April 6th, 2017

I’m tired of having a penis. I’m tired of being a boy. (...) I’m tired of having to shave my face, arms, and legs every 3–4 days.

April 24rd, 2017

I’m one girl, I did what I could.

May 13th, 2017

I'm a very impatient girl.....

[lxgentlefolkcomic]

Credits for Interlude 1:

Art by @mayhemchicken-artblog

Story by @thegoatsongs

Edited by @dathen

Image descriptions (alt text) by @dathen, @mayhemchicken-artblog, and @thegoatsongs

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Dialogue transcripts:

Panel 1

Voice (offscreen): I never thought I’d be nostalgic for English tea and scones.

Shop signs: Aerated Bread Co. Bakery Tearoom Est. 1864

Panel 2

Mina: Well, never hesitate to ask for anything from Arthur. He loves treating his guests.

Irene: He’s said so himself; it’s very sweet of him.

Panel 3

Irene (voiceover): Speaking of sweet, I didn’t expect your husband to ask for my autograph.

Mina (voiceover): Oh, yes, Jonathan loves opera!

Panel 4

Mina: So…when you return home, will you take up singing again?

Panel 5

Irene: We have no home to return to.

Panel 6

Irene: We will find a home here, even if we have to fight for it. I am tired of running.

Panel 7

Mina: You have friends here, now. We’ll make sure you find a place here. Jonathan will help find work for Godfrey.

Panel 8

Irene: You are too kind, Mina. Thank you.

[aeonophagic]

I wanted to look at the boothill tag and somehow came across voidhill which has very much piqued my interest 👁👁

Can I pleaaaaaaaaase have an explanation bc this voidhill thing now has me on a chokehold 🙏🙏

Yayyy I’m glad you’re interested in them!!! They mean a lot to me… I’m happy to answer any and all questions

So if this means you don’t know who VA is (apologies if I’m assuming), I’ll say they’re a HI3 character with HSR cameos who’s most likely around there somewhere. I treat them as my OC by this point though so that’s not really all that relevant. They’re a supercomputer in a human body, their purpose is archiving humanity’s knowledge. As an archive, they remember everything they’ve learnt in perfect detail, which aid their powers that allow them to recreate things they’ve learnt the composition of.

To put it shortly: I made it up as a crack ship but I ended up making an entire story for them. Cyborg who surpassed his body’s human limits, Supercomputer who keeps trying to make their human body surpass its human limits. They both have their particular relationships with their humanity, or lack of.

To put it unfiltered, here’s how I put it last month. Some little things I’d change now, but this is a good idea of it still:

(Transcript of the first paragraph is in ALT text. It won’t let me add the others)

It’s kind of about them both conditioning each other to change. Void Archives becomes more interested in relationships and intimacy, more willing to participate in them; Boothill realises he’s really into this freak apparently.

My friend wrote the dialogue for this comic a few months ago that describes how they experience their attraction for each other basically:

I need to reformat this into a vertical comic real bad

Boothill is the first cyborg’ed human they get to meet so personally so they’re particularly interested in him. Their possessiveness doesn’t come from a place of “we’re in a relationship, so you’re mine”—they’re not really in a relationship, it’s complicated—but “I know more than anyone, I remember every nook and cranny, so I am objectively the best qualified one to handle modifying/repairing your body”. Here’s a little doodle I haven’t posted here yet of them doing exactly that

They’re very focused on the task at hand!

This is a basic rundown of their dynamic, I won’t delve too much into their story unless you’re interested in hearing that too. I really appreciate you asking. I usually express myself through my drawings and comics without saying much else about them, so thank you for giving me the chance to ramble a bit about them :)

[nebulations]

[ID: Two excerpts from the Silt Verses transcripts. Copied from alt:

1.

CARPENTER: I…loved that boy like the brother I’d lost.

And he turned on me to save his own skin.

Hesitated for a second before he did. Maybe one second, that was what he gave me.

And the truly shitty thing is that even now I can’t decide, I’ve been turning it over and over, every night, shivering in the rain-

-if I was ever to see him again, whether I’d grip my hands around his fucking neck and watch him gasp his final breaths, or if I’d hold him close and exalt that we were both still alive in spite of everything.

2.

FAULKNER: (Hatefully, from out-of-sight) You killed her, Rane.

She survived so much, she fought so hard.

The whole world to choose from, and yet my sister was the one you landed on.

SIBLING RANE: Uh - who?

FAULKNER: (Roaring, from out-of-sight) YOU KILLED CARPENTER!

Silence. RANE takes a step back.

SIBLING RANE: (Very nervous, and not knowing what to say) No, High Prophet. You killed her. The honour sits with you. It was your achievement.

It’s already written into the Verses. You - I would not take that away from you. End ID]

huge moment for siblings who make cain and abel look normal and well-adjusted

[amazinglyegg]

hopefully this goes through?

would you be willing to provide alt text in the gifs for this post?

https://www.tumblr.com/amazinglyegg/747529102315143168/maximus-proving-that-the-brotherhood-doesnt-have

no worries if you don’t - it’s your blog and your gifs - just thought i’d ask

either way 😁 thanks for making gifs of the scene i thought it was beyond hilarious 😂

Thanks for reminding me, anon! I don't add alt text to my posts because the icon tends to block the images, and in this case the subtitles, but I usually add a transcription for these types of posts and forgot to last night!

I've added a transcription for the dialogue now!

[captainhysunstuff]

Light contrasts with his boyfriend a little. Trying to figure out how I wanna draw L's jacket. Also them being silly~.

It’s got a label but there’s really nothing crazy here. *shrug*

[thedurvin]

I’d heard this before too, although only on Tumblr; at least according to the glossary of alt-right terms on RationalWiki it’s a thing (with no specific reference to Charlie Day) and Steve Sailer does seem to have popularized the term during an appearance on the Charlie Kirk show (transcripts are available but please don’t make me read em)

Jsyk the "noticing patterns" thing in that post you reblogged is often an antisemitic dogwhistle so idk if you really want to keep it up

are you...are you talking about the charlie day media analysis hyperfixation post???

I'll be honest idk what you're referring to there but whatever it is I'm going to respectfully disagree, the phrase "noticing patterns" is Exceptionally common (and is in fact my Job as a research scientist), and in this instance seems so incredibly tailored to the tumblr spectator sport of crazed media analysis that I think you'd have to double over backwards to read anything else into it

(putting more into this, in general I'm also not inclined to just hand phrases off to antisemitists or other bigots just cause some asshole probably used it next to some powerpoint slide of late night tv hosts and salaries or something - in that instance someone using the 'connected 2 dots' meme or like an emoji thinking face rather than the 'noticing patterns' phrase would Also be antisemitic in that context, but it wouldn't necessarily make those images antisemetic themselves ya feel?)

I might be missing some additional context here in which case I apologize but yeah my general knee jerk is to not just give bigots free reign of claiming the english language without any pushback 👌

[galaxyeyedphoton]

With the unfortunate news of Takahashi’s passing today, I thought I would dig up my old draft of an interview from 2016 that I didn’t get around to posting before (although it’s probably already been posted elsewhere since then of course)

Since the images are a little blurry/hard to read with the bright colors, I added a transcript below. I apologize though, I don’t know how to properly add/write alt texts, maybe this is alright enough? But if anyone wishes to add an alt text/image ID feel free to use a copy of this !

Interview transcript:

“Weekly Shonen Jump Interview!

Jump Festa 2016 Interviews: Kazuki Takahashi 

Here’s the latest in our series of Jump Festa 2016 interviews, in which we asked a bunch of manga artists the same set of eight questions. This week, we present Kazuki Takahashi, the creator of Yu-Gi-Oh!

Shonen Jump: In a word of two, what does Shonen Jump mean to you?

Takahashi Sensei: The female readership has increased a lot lately, but at its heart it’s shonen manga. Though I’m not sure what’s going on lately with the Jump staples of “friendship, hard work, victory” because I haven’t been keeping up with recent series, but to me Shonen Jump is all about providing children with dreams.

SJ: What about manga?

Takahashi Sensei: Well, as seen with Yu-Gi-Oh!, it can become the foundation for so many different media. It’s entertainment - it’s about having people read your story. It’s also the simplest form of entertainment. It’s cheap - all you need is a pen and paper and anybody can create a story. That’s what makes it amazing. Even a single person can create an entire new world.

SJ: Is there something that you are really into or excited about recently?

Takahashi Sensei: I want to get into Monster Hunter. I’m doing a collaboration with that popular video game series so I’m trying to get into it. But I’m not there yet. I’m still getting used to the controls. I’m looking forward to getting addicted.

SJ: Is there something you are excited about for 2016?

Takahashi Sensei: It’s gotta be the new movie. A theatrical Yu-Gi-Oh! movie will be released in 2016. It’s the twentieth anniversary since the series began, so I created a story for the move that continues the original manga. I’m really looking forward to that and I hope the fans are as well.

SJ: Which of your characters would you want to hang out with at a New Year’s party?

Takahashi Sensei: Jonouchi would probably be the life of the party and make things fun. I don’t think Kaiba would even show up for a New Year’s party. I really don’t think I’d want him there either. [laughs]

SJ: Have you ever had dreams about your manga characters?

Takahashi Sensei: Dreams about my manga characters...? Hmm... Have I ever had one? I don’t think I have. I’m not sure, but I don’t really dream about my art. So if my characters appeared as real people, I might not know who’s supposed to be who.

SJ: How does it feel when you come to events like Jump Festa and see so many fans?

Takahashi Sensei: I’m just incredibly happy that so many people have come here today. I just had the stage show, and seeing that many fans out there was great. I don’t have that many chances to interact with Yu-Gi-Oh! fans, so it’s a great honor when I do.

SJ: There are a lot of fans out there who read your manga in English. Do you have a message for them?

Takahashi Sensei: I know there are a lot of fans overseas, and I want to thank them from the bottom of my heart. And if they get the chance to see the new movie, I’d be really happy. It continues the story from where the original manga left off, so it should be very exciting.”

[trubblegumm]

hey!!! I'm in love with your separated ay and your 2k animation was 🤌

i was wondering if you'd mind me writing a ficlet/half-shot based off the animatic..? it'd be pretty much just a transcript of my interpretation of it :)

tbf it'd probably never get published anywhere but I could post it and mention you if you wanted (probably on my alt acc) :)

if you don't want me to that's fine as well I just have things swimming in the brain soup at the moment

OHHH MY GOODNESS ID BE HONOURED! I’d love to be able to read it too if you ever do post it— but only if you’re comfortable! Thank you so much for asking :)!!

[jomamaas-decent]

Fuck it I’m elaborating.

DISCLAIMER: I’m not crazy, I know these aren’t real, these are all bits.

WaJo

Essentially waluigi, I speak like waluigi and I pretend to twist my mustache. I usually do this while playing Mario party or kart. Some real muahahaha type shit. His theme is just giornos theme from Jjba

Morton

Morton is an eldritch god, his origins are unknown but he crawls his way out of hell whenever he senses injustice and anyone who grows a little too full of themselves and he smites them. The bit started when I was playing smash with my little cousin, I would usually go a bit easy on him but sometimes he would tick me off so I’d play Morton (bowser juniors alt costume (widely considered one of the worst characters in smash)) and just whoop his ass. I’d usually talk like a high and mighty preacher, discussing how I’d “be rid of your flesh and open your heart to kindness”. And since I’m pretty good at smash I’d 3 stock JV that little shit (ik that sounds like jibber jabber to yall, just google it or something i dont know). He has a few theme songs but here are some stand outs

Misc.

Brit Jo is a prick who speaks with a British accent, bill rodriguez is my substitute for when I need to go on break, and locked in Jo is just me sitting up straight, hands at my sides, arching my back, mewing, for when I need to lock the fuck in. I’m too lazy to choose themes for these, fuck you.

Jomputer

The craziest of my running gags, and my personal favorite. It all started when I was on call with my buddies on discord. I wanted to play the impossible quiz on my family computer and show them but I couldn’t do it on my main, so I decided to make a new account, and when I named it I just wrote computer but in my eyes that was “too boring” so I replaced one letter, and he was born… Then I streamed it and it was epic. Then I wanted to be funny so I decided to text myself from the jomputer account. Here is the transcript.

Jomputer: hey sexy

Jo: get the fuck away from me

Jomputer: Please don’t toxic yaoi me, my tongue goes crazy for you

Jo: I’m going to hurl a brick through your fucking window

Jomputer: ;-;

And I can’t tell you why, but this made me and my friends fucking lose it, like we were laughing for like 20 minutes. And now this joke is still running. I really cannot explain what makes it so funny but sometimes I’ll have jomputer log on and join call and I’ll get into a “fight” with him in chat. And he’s lowkey a freak fr, actually no, not even lowkey, like he will ask to freak on me in me with me and more positions then there are angles on a circle. This is his vibe song https://open.spotify.com/track/67XC51nlZncNpHmZ8rOU9a?si=JwefSQ4JRRmdcE89jNG6jA

And that concludes another episode of “Jo explains jokes that will make everyone look at him like a fucking lunatic”

Dude I have so many running bits where I get into character it’s actually scary, like there’s jomputer, Morton, WaJo, britJo, Bill Rodriguez, locked in Jo, it’s so fucking stupid

[mightyoctopus]

It's a lot less clunky and more helpful to put the image description into alt text if it fits and if you're the one that posted the image.

Personally, I’m visually impaired and a part time screen reader user myself and I find it very helpful if the image description is not in alt text and instead plainly visible.

At least for the type of images frequently posted to Tumblr. If it’s like a news article and it’s just a random stock photo to convey the mood, I think alt text is sufficient. Like “sunset at the beach” or “two women holding hands” is okay as alt text. (For those of you reading this who have websites: icons, buttons and other clickable elements are also completely fine as alt text.) But if it’s longer and more detailed, I think it’s useful to have as plain text.

Especially if it’s a transcript from a tweet or a news article. Having those in plain text, as opposed to alt text, is very useful for people who don’t use screen readers but who rely on larger font. I do that too, sometimes. Images are harder to enlarge, actual text in a Tumblr post is very easy to enlarge without loss of quality.

But even if it’s not a transcript, and instead an art description, or a diagram, or a map, I think it’s useful to have in plain text, because that makes it easier to quickly switch between listening/reading the description and looking at the image to fully comprehend it. Some people use a screen reader in combination to sight, and some people would read the description in larger text and then look at the image.

Also, Tumblr occasionally has glitches where the alt text disappears. And it’s very difficult to notice that, because it’s not plainly visible.

And having image descriptions plainly visible in the post also helps to normalize them and popularize them.

If, despite this, you still think it’s more helpful to put the image description in alt text, feel free to tell me why! I’m open to suggestions, especially if they come from disabled people or other people who use image descriptions

(As a final point, I’d like to mention that image descriptions in alt text are so much better than no image descriptions at all. If you aren’t willing to put an image description in the body of your post, please put one in alt text. Any image description is better than none. This post is just about why I, personally, put my image descriptions in the body of the post.)

[itsbaditsgood]

transcript under the cut and in alt text

i sat by the lake last week and i offered my mother

a slice of my orange, and she said no

and i felt so lonely that i pretended i was two people

so i’d have someone to share with

[maiji]

[images: First three pages of a comic drawn in ink.]

A YYH North Bound story. semarikuru  ("loom") is a 7-page comic. Alt text, full transcript and commentary continue below the cut.

[images: Remaining four pages of comic drawn in ink.]

[page 1] *Hokushin is meditating in seiza/formal seated position with other monks. Text below him reads “semarikuru (loom) - a North Bound story by Maiji”*

[page 2] *Closeup of Hokushin’s face, with eyes closed. The scene shifts to a memory, or perhaps a dream.* ?: Do you think I’m a fool?

[page 3] *A younger Hokushin from the Kamakura era looks up to see Raizen, in a more human disguise, grinning at him. Hokushin’s expression becomes annoyed.* Hokushin: Whyever would you ask me that, my lord? Is it because we find ourselves unceremoniously departing yet another village as a result of your numerous indiscretions? Raizen: Oh, I wasn’t talking about that. (ha ha ha) Hokushin: If you’re asking if you’re stupid about something in particular, you’ll need to be more specific.

[page 4] Raizen: My friends all thought I’d gone mad. *Raizen’s words overlay a flashback of the kudakusushi.* After just one night with her.  And I never even told her my idea. That’s ridiculous, isn’t it? *Hokushin turns his head away from Raizen* Hokushin: If I didn’t believe in your vision, I wouldn’t be here.

[page 5] *He continues walking ahead of Raizen, pushing aside a drooping flowering tree branch.* And you had one night. There are those who have done far more for far less. Some are content to have merely spent time at the other’s side, with no promise of anything. Raizen: I guess that’s true.

[page 6] *Past Hokushin closes his eyes. Scene fades into the petals from the flowering trees back to the present day. Present-day Hokushin opens his eyes and turns his head slightly.*

[page 7] *Hokushin looks out towards the tower where Raizen’s chamber is. The rumbling of Raizen’s stomach fills the air, growing louder. Text reads: “semarikuru (loom) - end”*

My goal here was to try to create a dreamlike mood, moving from reflection/rumination to something brighter than reality that feels inevitable. The knowledge of something looming and casting an invisible shadow over your daily existence, slowly closing that distance in time and space, with nothing you can do about it.

As I mentioned years ago (in the author’s notes of Part 2 of the story Familiar, it’s not clear whether or not Hokushin knew the true cause of Raizen’s abstinence - his life-changing meeting and relationship with the remarkable kudakusushi and subsequent decision to stop eating humans. When Hokushin explains their circumstances to Yusuke, he avoids the details of why Raizen doesn’t eat humans anymore, saying simply that he doesn’t know/understand the king’s reasons. In hindsight, this seems odd considering what a huge deal it is for the fate of their entire kingdom, and knowing Hokushin is Raizen’s right hand. It can be interpreted in a vague, deferring and deflecting way. When I first started North Bound, I wasn’t sure - hadn’t decided - whether or not Hokushin knew. By the time I got to Familiar, I suspected he might. With semarikuru, I decided he does. He just doesn’t see it as his place to be the one to tell Yusuke Raizen’s story, certainly not while Raizen is still alive.

It’s been a while since I did rough messy comics in my sketchbook, so that was fun! The idea for semarikuru came relatively early on in the development of North Bound, but I only started sketching the first few pages this year. Then they sat around for months until this past weekend, when I discovered Yahiro no Kage (sung by Horiuchi Kenyuu, Hokushin’s voice actor), which gave me the MOTIVATION AND POWER I needed to finish this!! Thank you surrogate Hokushin character image song!!!

I’m trying to use up more of my J. Herbin Cacao du Bresil ink (the warm, lavender-pink-brown-grey used throughout the flashback/dream sequence). The dialogue and present-day frames are in a permanent grey ink with Ink Institute’s Cat at Dusk for shading. Cat at Dusk is a very interesting ink; when it’s first laid down, it looks almost greenish grey, then starts to warm up. It too has lavendar-pinky tones to it, but leaning much cooler, and when layered on itself in washes, its edges tend to turn a light aqua. It reminds me of a lighter Diamine Earl Grey.

I was at the end of my sketchbook (started in December 2020!!) so this also ended up turning into an exercise of “can I tighten this script and paneling and transitions to squeeze it into seven pages without messing up the feeling of the pacing too much??” I kept swapping between half-hearted thumbnails and sketching panels right on the page, and turning the page and counting what was left and going oh nooo must compress further… But I managed.

Onto the next North Bound story! And a new sketchbook!