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Watch your step by Grumpy-Old-Snake, literature

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Watch your step

“All that I’m saying,” Supervisor Selanis insisted, “is that I don’t know what father was thinking.” “Just so we’re being clear,” Ventro said, watching the little creature hop along at his feet and worrying, as he often did, over the possibility that a brief lapse of attention on either of their parts could very well end in his needing to pick squashed scraps of tellurian fur from his dactyli. Everyone else was wise enough to keep their distance, but Selanis seemed determined to stay close to him as a matter of principle. “You will all be completely dependent on life support fields or suits the entire time that we’re on planet, and half-blinded besides. But you’re worried about me.” “We won’t be able to use antigrav on the journey from the landing platform to the research station,” Selanis said. She’d raised this concern before. Ventro sighed and shifted their luggage on his back, preparing for the upcoming security check as they neared the end of the docking tunnel. “We won’t have

Try Again by Grumpy-Old-Snake, literature

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Try Again

FWOOMPH. Oscar squeezed his eyes shut just in time as hot air billowed up into his face. He coughed, heady incense burning in his nose. Saelithel cackled on the bed above him. “You saw that coming,” Oscar accused, gingerly squinting open his eyes. His nose looked strange; he crossed his eyes to get a better look. Yep. It was black with soot. His forearms weren’t much better off. “Maybe.” Saelithel flopped down, arms folded on the edge of the bed as he grinned down at Oscar, who was seated on the floor with the now-extinguished brazier settled in front of him. “My lab partner made the same mistake. You didn’t empower your containment circle before you started the ritual proper.” “Some boyfriend you are,” Oscar huffed, leaning forward to begin sweeping up scattered pieces of charcoal and incense. The ritual’s misfiring seemed to have extinguished everything, at the very least. Oscar was hardly even singed, and the hardwood floor would probably survive the abuse. The bucket of water

Writing Blind and Visually Impaired Characters by Grumpy-Old-Snake, literature

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Writing Blind and Visually Impaired Characters

A while back, someone asked me if I could share some of the resources I use. I figured maybe other people might find it useful as well! ^_^ Due to computer switches I could only trawl through the last ~5 years of research, but it’s still a fair collection. (Obligatory disclaimer: I am not visually impaired! I just try to listen to people who are. The vast majority of these are written by and/or for people with visual impairments.) Copy/pasting from my original tumblr post seems to have resulted in some broken links; I'll fix them at some point, but in the mean time, here's the original with links intact. . Vocab American Printing House key definitions — Wayback machine . Blogs, posts, essays, and speeches by folk with visual impairments General sites: Mimzy Writing Online (masterpost for writing blind characters) — Wayback machine Where’s Your Dog — Wayback machine Albinism Up Close — Wayback machine Specific posts: Why blindfolding yourself is misleading: NFB member John Pere’s

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About Grumpy-Old-Snake

Artist // Hobbyist // Varied

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Welcome! I’m a tired soul with too many ideas on my mind, and sometimes I make them into art or writing. Call me Gossy!

Most of my original work is speculative fiction, be that science fiction, fantasy, or a mix of both. I’m a queer creator who writes queer stories. Disability, accessibility, nontraditional relationships (of all sorts), and speculative biology are also common themes in my work.

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Well, I still have my login info... by Grumpy-Old-Snake, journal

Well, I still have my login info...

Aug 13, 2023

And I'm alive! Deviantart's updating interface has genuinely gotten a bit hostile for me; it makes my eye skip all over the place, feels a bit overwhelming and unpleasant. I've also just been busy! A full-time job, housework, cooking, writing, drawing, IRL socialization, gardening, tumblr, journaling, D&D, written RP, reading... by the end of all that, my life is pretty full. But! I do still really appreciate the longevity and depth of sharing art here. I love the conversations around art and characters that I've had with many of you, even if part of my difficulty with being active on dA is that I don't often have the time and energy to properly dedicate to those conversations anymore. Aside from missing the social aspects, I also have quite the backlog of art to share. So. We'll see! (Side note: I'm writing a book! Like, actually-have-an-outline, am-making-tangible-progress-every-week writing. Still probably gonna take me a few years at the rate I'm going, but I've stuck with it