sugary-sheep:

sugary-sheep:

sugary-sheep:

sugary-sheep:

you ever see someone so coked-up on adulthood that they’ve replaced every shred of interiority with a regurgitation of normative power structures

every dream, every shred of empathy, every unique desire, all rotted away and replaced by what is needed for power and control. Someone who will, no matter how well you get to know them, never show anything beyond goldfish level thoughts behind those eyes, because there is nothing left. there is a history, there. you can learn what used to be, but for the rest of their life they will never seek anything beyond the most bog-standard socially-normative popularly-affirmed idle pleasures between working, eating, and rest. the death of childhood is the death of a human being.

you can’t fix someone when they get like this, either. you try and break them out of their shell and they just give you this sad, hollow, patronizing look. a look that says “you haven’t grown up yet, haven’t you? you haven’t finished becoming a real human being, like me.” I think it’s a fate worse than death, to be like that.

it’s not about “NPCs”!!!! it’s about adults who, in seeking to distance themselves from children and the youth, whom they wish to wield violent superiority over (as encouraged by the society which regards children as non-sentient legal property of the family), crush their own non-normative aspirations that might be seen as immature!!!!! it’s about people who are so attached to the power and stability of Being Mature that there isn’t room for anything else!!!!! Stop misinterpreting my post!!!!! Hits everyone in the notes who’s interpreting me wrong!!!!!

privatejoker:

privatejoker:

if you have OCD that moralistic post it not about you. keep scrolling. i love you

yeah even the one that gave you that sinking terror and has you planning your penance behavior and going through your whole life trying to identify when you did whatever it said about prejudice or abuse or whatever. it’s not about you they don’t know you and they certainly don’t care about you

unpretty:

cipheramnesia:

ms-demeanor:

unpretty:

ALT

someone put this screenshot in my notes and i wasn’t gonna put the op on blast but i cannot stop thinking about it. this is up there as one of the funniest doubling downs i’ve ever seen. “it’s called craft. it’s called storytelling.” is going to enter my meme vernacular and no one is going to have any idea what i’m talking about. the count of monte cristo shows a clear lack of craft in its wordcount. if only ernest hemingway’s editor had killed more of his darlings while he wrote for whom the bell tolls. readers and editors alike are always complaining about how fucking long to kill a mockingbird is.

Valid Jane Austen Novels:

• Northanger Abbey
• Persuasion

Kindling:

• Sense & Sensibility
• Pride & Prejudice
• Mansfield Park
• Emma

Really starting to take this whole austerity shit too far huh.

a theory from @solitarelee in the groupchat last night:

ALT

tuttle-did-it:

tuttle-did-it:

howstrangethemusicsoundstome:

People are trying to bring back 1880s-era anti-ASL sentiment. Worst timeline.

You’d be surprised how often I’m told there is no interpreter at an event, there are no captions at an event, and they act like I’m asking for something absurd.

This isn’t a performative dance routine interpreting what is going on.

But hey, deafies, we’re woke now because we require interpreters.

This is all absolutely true. Also, to add, many deaf people receive a much worse education because the schools are unwilling/unable to invest in proper education for deaf people. So there are deaf people out there who struggle to read English because the structure of English is completely different than the structure of Sign Languages.

Also, Sign Language is NOT international. Signing in London is different that Ireland, or Paris, Toronto, Mexico, New Zealand, India– some of the signing may be similar or even related but they are all different languages. So if you see several interpreters at an event or a news broadcast or en EU summit, and they are doing different signs, this is why.

And for the idiots who still don’t comprehend that for many people English is a second language, even signers who were born in an English speaking country– and still argue ‘you get captions what’s the problem’ - Have you ever watched the auto-craptions on the news or a live event, or even a film on Amazon that they couldn’t bother to get a human to properly provide subs? Yeah. A good percentage of the time, it’s just word salad that means absolutely nothing. You’re likely to just get a pile of words that may or may not have to do with anything going on in what you are trying to watch.

Some time, put on the news with no captions or sound. Put on a film or show you have never seen before, and try to lipread what is being said. Try to figure out what the plot or context is from just the actor’s faces. Just try to engage when the only queues you have are facial expressions and movement on the screen– if you can even see them talk at all, a lot of films and shows are shot over a shoulder with the back of someone’s head.

Wear ear-plugs when you are out having a coffee with a friend and try to figure out what your friend is even saying. No music, no nothing– just earplugs and trying to figure it out.

Do all of this for a week and then tell me that craptions are enough. Then tell me we don’t need interpreters. After two days, you’re going to be angry and frustrated because you don’t know what the fuck is going on.

Interpreters do more than just tell you the exact words. They INTERPRET English language and put it into sign. They aren’t just randomly throwing around their hands and looking silly. And they do it on the fly, live, as something is going. A good majority of the times, Interpreters have no idea what is going to be said. In those moments they are hearing something in English (or French, Spanish, what have you), figuring out what the best way to sign these words back to a sign-user base, and they have to do it all in seconds. It’s a LOT of work.

So if you are at an event or you see two or even more signers who keep switching off after half an hour or an hour, know that the money is NOT being wasted having multiple interpreters there. They are not being lazy. They are doing a whole helluva lot, and their brains and hands and faces occasionally need a break.

So if you are hiring interpreters for an event, don’t be surprised if they say you’ll need to pay more to have several interpreters there. The interpreters are incredibly skilled, and they work bloody hard. If they tell you they need more than one, don’t have a fit at them and try to talk them into just having one interpreter, thinking you can pay less. Understand that they work their arses off, and it’s a very intense job that requires a lot of brain power and body power. So please, PLEASE be kind to interpreters.

And for chrissake, STOP DOING THIS. STOP DOING THIS. STOP FUCKING DOING THIS.

thedaddycomplex:

Holy shit.

The cause of SIDS has been discovered.

THE CAUSE OF SIDS HAS BEEN DISCOVERED!

The findings were explained in a study from The Children’s Hospital Westmead in Sydney. From the article…

They found the activity of the enzyme butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) was significantly lower in babies who died of SIDS compared to living infants and other non-SIDS infant deaths. BChE plays a major role in the brain’s arousal pathway, explaining why SIDS typically occurs during sleep.

This is amazing fucking news. The next step is obviously finding a way to screen for it, then a way treat it. But, for now, holy shit. Holy shit!

And for anyone who’s suffered the loss of a child to SIDS, the study’s lead researcher, Dr. Carmel Harrington, said, “These families can now live with the knowledge that this was not their fault.”

wonderstruck:

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

spidermimi:

ruffboijuliaburnsides:

misanthropiczombie:

misanthropiczombie:

spidermimi:

spidermimi:

So I’m halfway through Gideon the Ninth and how come nobody has told me about Dulcinea?? She’s so good, you’d think people would go bonkers over her

Ah.

Ngl ive had Gideon the ninth in my to read pile on my kindle app for months and this post is what inspired me to finally open it now

Ah, I see.

……well now I’m curious.

c3rvida3:

c3rvida3:

c3rvida3:

Walking around my neighborhood wearing my sick as fuck custom T-shirt that says “I STEAL EVERY FRIENDLY CAT I MEET WITH NO REMORSE I DO IT ALL THE TIME DON’T CALL IT A COMEBACK I BEEN HERE FOR YEARS KEEP THAT BEAST ENCLOSED LEST YE FACE MY LIGHTNING CAT GRASP” and smiling politely while my neighbors’ indoor-outdoor cats gently trot down the sidewalk towards me as the neighbors themselves read my shirt with a growing sense of panic.

Unfollow me for cat theft all you want. You’ll never catch me and you’ll never stop me. Those things are this season’s must-have lipgloss in an understaffed Sephora, and baby? I’m a middle-class teenage girl who’s not getting enough attention at home…

People in the notes keep saying, “This is just another reason you should keep your cats inside,” and I know they just mean the fact that someone in general could steal them, but I like to think they all mean that you gotta watch out for me specifically. Because you do. I’m everywhere. And I’m fast.

marithlizard:

shamebats:

What do you mean unhinged, these are great suggestions. Ordering my plush duck now.