acquired: ability to read smut with a blank expression
still searching: ability to read fluff without contorting my face into a Picasso painting of feelings.
I was browsing some fic here on tumblr, looking through everyone’s layouts, and thinking to myself, “I don’t know how anyone reads fic without Readability.” It occurred to me then that possibly many of you are reading without it because you don’t know it exists.
Readability is an add-on or bookmarklet for your browser. It’s a javascript that transforms the page you’re on into a customizable format that better suits your vision. It’s extremely useful in places like Tumblr and Livejournal where individual blog layouts can make text too small to see, or the clashing colors make it difficult to read. (Fanfiction.Net and Archive of Our Own have skins/settings for better reading built in already).
Here’s an example of what it does. Say this is what the fic looks like before:
I click on my Readability bookmark right there and it converts the page to become:
And say you’re not a fan of white on black and zoomed for a blind person, which are just my personal settings, all the options are in a column on the left for you to experiment with:
Be sure to give Readability a look and maybe you can save yourself some eyestrain and finally be able to read from sites you thought were lost to you.
For all readers in the world
I hate it when an author suddenly removes a good story and disappears without a trace for no fucking reason or warning and there’s no way to find that story again… =______=

It’s even worse when the entire fandom is bursting with terrible fanfics and that story was one of the VERY few that I liked.
Price stood, face flushed and breathing shallow, and watched as McKinley reached into his underwear to pull out his erect penis.“Fiction.”

[Background — a six piece pie style colour split in three shades of pink. Foreground — the long neck and face of a pink flamingo.
Top text: WAIT … YOU MEAN OTHER PEOPLE
Bottom text: DON’T READ PORN EVERY DAY?]


Submitted by: —lauren

Submitted by: aiska-eien
hahaha… those immature “authors” will never cease to amuse me.


