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(updated) pinned post! if you're new here, please read (you have been warned /lh). it also contains our boundaries at the bottom. no real DNI, just don't be an ass
(formerly @absolutechaoscollective)
anyway, enjoy!
Reblogged nexus-nebulae
As an alternative to 'sugar, spice, and everything nice'
I present: 'salt, vinegar, and everything sinister'
no it does not, I am perfectly happy with my obscurity
Reblogged theglassdragoncollective
"In recent years, there has been a rush on the internet to supply image descriptions and to call out those who don’t. This may be an example of community accountability at work, but it’s striking to observe that those doing the most fierce calling out or correcting are sighted people. Such efforts are largely self-defeating. I cannot count the times I’ve stopped reading a video transcript because it started with a dense word picture. Even if a description is short and well done, I often wish there were no description at all. Get to the point, already! How ironic that striving after access can actually create a barrier. When I pointed this out during one of my seminars, a participant made us all laugh by doing a parody: “Mary is wearing a green, blue, and red striped shirt; every fourth stripe also has a purple dot the size of a pea in it, and there are forty-seven stripes—”
“You’re killing me,” I said. “I can’t take any more of that!”
Now serious, she said it was clear to her that none of that stuff about Mary’s clothes mattered, at least if her clothes weren’t the point. What mattered most about the image was that Mary was holding her diploma and smiling. “But,” she wondered, “do I say, Mary has a huge smile on her face as she shows her diploma or Mary has an exuberant smile or showing her teeth in a smile and her eyes are crinkled at the edges?”
It’s simple. Mary has a huge smile on her face is the best one. It’s the don’t-second-guess-yourself option."
--Against Access, by John Lee Clark, a DeafBlind educator
I think this also includes the important idea of imagining the other. Sighted people (like myself) often consider visuals the *most important* part of an experience. This isn't and can't be the case for a blind person. If you don't have sight, then the particulars about the color/expression/etc. aren't necessarily going to be important to you.
Smiling matters because it's an indicator of emotion. The quality of the teeth only matter if it's relevant to the joke. Striped shirt only matters if the text describes it as polka dots and that's the point.
Describe the parts of the image that give context, because a person whose primary mode of interpreting the world is not sight will most likely not want extraneous visual information.
i do think we need to start treating spraying harmless "weeds" in your lawn as utterly absurd princess and the pea level of obsession with needing the world to revolve around your every whim, like.
Okay a flower grew out of the ground outside and you can't cope with it. Do you need to sleep on thirty feather beds as well
Reblogged thefeathercollective
thank your local trans girl for being alive right now
good job soldier. now turn around and thank your local trans boy for being alive right now
tumblr search still broken but also nonbinary people! go thank them too!
I’m so sick of DNA, I’m going to have all mine removed
gladosisalesbian
good news! this is a real thing that can happen to you
perfect, sign me up
gladosisalesbian
ok step one: go here
maaybe I’m just really tired but man doesn’t the elephant’s foot look like a comfy bed with a comforter on it? Just absolutely ready to snuggle down into it and take the longest nap of my life.
it really does