How Even Do I?

She/her pronouns. Non-religious Jew. Uhm... this blog is pretty low-key with stuff that I like. Most of it is pretty non-sensical.

[fullpraxisnow]

[anexperimentallife]

The director of cybersecurity from the Electronic Freedom Foundation is offering to help women who have been threatened with compromise of their devices.

[littlewitchlingrowan]

I better see EVERYBODY reblogging this

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

not to highlight the uniquely American horror story that is our education system but we were always AMPED when someone found a bomb threat in the bathroom or w/e bc we got to go outside and hang out for two periods while police searched the school. one time a kid wrote one to get out of a test. looking back that’s a lot to unpack.

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

it got so out of hand my senior year they started thinking maybe people were doing it just BECAUSE we all got out of class so they started discussing having “bomb threat assignments” for us to do while we were evacuated so bomb threats would be “less fun.”

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

for the record I don’t think bomb threats are funny I’m just looking back and thinking about how numb students in the US have had to become to threats of violence and terror in order to go about the day in any semblance of normality and it’s looks Bad 

[frottinq]

Do you ever interact with someone and you realize “this person has never had to consider or think about what their place in the world is, and why they believe certain things or act certain ways, this person has never considered society at length” and it’s just terrifying

[ansonmount]

American Horror Story: 1984 | 9x08

[glumshoe]

When I was 3 I fell down the stairs and cracked my head open. I don’t remember much of it except that the Velcro restraints they used at the hospital while they stitched me up were bright blue, and I hated them so much that any time another child said their favorite color was blue, I decided that they were my enemy and could not be trusted. I distinctly remember telling my playmate that she was stupid for liking blue when red exists.

[glumshoe]

Actually this was a simpler way of life and perhaps I would be happier and less burdened by the agonizing complexities of cognition if I returned to my roots.

If you like blue fuck you.

[urparty]

tiny brain: brooklyn nine nine isnt cop propaganda

average brain: brooklyn nine nine IS cop propaganda and that means u cant watch it

giant brain: brooklyn nine nine is absolutely cop propaganda and 1 episode about the treatment of black people by cops in no way fixes that, however i still watch and enjoy it because i am a mature person with critical thinking skills who understands that boycotting every problematic piece of media is a fruitless endeavor. especially because boycotting b99 specifically would mean sacrificing the many other great things it brings to tv, including its humor, its diversity, its strong & well-rounded female characters, its presentation of healthy friendships & relationships, its subversion of harmful stereotypes, and its constant social commentary on political issues such as transphobia, gun control, flaws in the prison system etc which other shows wouldnt DARE touch

[seashellronan]

galaxy brain: BOOOooooOOoooNE!!

[actualmermaid]

Interdimensional Brain: B99 has had plots and subplots about the problems with the police as an institution since it started. The episode that was specifically about racial profiling wasn’t anything new for the show, which has consistently featured “good guys who are cops” as its protagonists instead of a simplistic “cops are the good guys” narrative, making it very much not propaganda. It isn’t “cop propaganda” any more than The Office is “capitalist propaganda” or Parks and Recreation is “state propaganda.” Let’s realize that a workplace comedy being set in an institution you disagree with doesn’t make it propaganda.

[fan-enby-anonymous]

FUCKING THANK YOU

[kelpforestdwellers]

it should be illegal to provide subtitles that don't....... match the fucking dialogue. some shows on netflix (and probably many other places) think it's okay to just leave out a bunch of words.

sometimes it's words they don't consider important for some reason but absolutely do affect the meaning and tone. sometimes it's swear words, which is even more insidious - disabled people don't need censorship wtf.

not only are you actively misrepresenting the dialog people have every right to assume is rendered word for word, it's also incredibly distracting if you can hear or lipread what's actually being said.

[kelpforestdwellers]

i don't wanna call anybody out so i'm not replying to anyone in particular but it has been said in the tags that it's understandable if it's 'filler' words when someone is talking fast or whatever and, no, it's not acceptable.

that's a large proportion of what i was talking about. i'm watching US shameless on netflix rn and whoever subtitled this has decided that about a quarter of what the characters say are 'filler words.' the most recent example i can think of, a character is telling another off for reckless behavior and says they could have ended up '[some gruesome illness or injury i don't remember] and hooked up to an IV.'

the reason i remember the 'and hooked up to an IV' part and not the other part? 'and hooked up to an IV' was omitted from the captions, jarring me out of the story. this happens every few lines, and what's omitted is often colorful details like this or speech quirks or other things that give characters character. doing this to a script is like forcing all color films into sepia. you lose a lot, and it misrepresents the overall work.

so no, it's not okay to omit 'filler' words, because i don't fucking trust these people to decide on my behalf which parts of the script i should get access to and which are only available to abled people.

I don't know the details of how subtitling works mechanically but i have seen a post from someone knowledgeable debunking the idea that it's ever actually necessary in practical terms to cut out 'filler' words. from experience i've seen them use multiple lines and leave the subs up longer.

anyway FUCK NO to abled people getting an opportunity to decide what parts of someone else's media disabled people get access to, no excuses

[trash-slvt]

This, This, This, THIS. 

[strongorcbutch-deactivated20220]

I use subtitles to assist with auditory processing issues and some stuff on Netflix it's so egregious that it's unwatchable.

[closet-keys]

something I’ve noticed lately is the number of shows where a character is using AAVE but the subtitles for their dialogue are in SAE, which is fucked up on multiple levels..

[allbeesarelesbians]

I transcribe audio on a freelance basis sometimes, and to OP’s point about not knowing the mechanics of subtitling, it’s not that hard to leave in filler words. The service I freelance with has two options for transcription projects - standard and verbatim. Standard is for if you want the minutes of a meeting, or maybe if you’re dictating an interview, or if you’re doing anything that really doesn’t rely on tone and you just need information conveyed. 

Verbatim is for everything else. Not many people select the verbatim option, because it is more expensive and it takes a little longer, but when tone is important (like, in my opinion, all of fiction), you NEED verbatim. That’s every word, every um, every like, every stutter transcribed and put on a page. We don’t get a lot of fictional audio like podcasts or TV show audio through my service, but I guarantee, whatever transcribing or captioning service they use, verbatim IS an option. And with a big network’s budget, they should damn well shell out for it.

[omghotmemes]

Jesus X-man Christ

[tracer-isms]

Holy shit

[shadows-and-starlight]

This is definitely blasphemy. *reblogs*

[7elevn]

i feel like i made myself up

[1dietcokeinacan]

You did! You do! Every day! Every minute!

[mariaalenkoshepard]

I had a dream last night that I was at a coffee shop and there was a drink called ‘fistbumping lesbians’ and it was a seven shot caramel latte

[mariaalenkoshepard]

I start work super early tomorrow so guess who’s gonna make herself a fistbumping lesbians at the start of her shift

[mariaalenkoshepard]

Behold the fistbumping lesbians

Jsyk this thing could wake the dead

[mariaalenkoshepard]

4 hours later: I’m fricken ZAZZED you guys

[mariaalenkoshepard]

Me rn

[bramblepatch]

This is… not usually what is meant by “follow your dreams”…

[anglerfishcommonwealth]

I did it and the barista only mildly panicked.

[dsu2014]

imagine owning an independent bookstore with a cafe and bakery with a cat that sleeps on the windowsills and people like to pet her while they browse the shelves

[mariaalenkoshepard]

I had a dream last night that I was at a coffee shop and there was a drink called ‘fistbumping lesbians’ and it was a seven shot caramel latte

[mariaalenkoshepard]

I start work super early tomorrow so guess who’s gonna make herself a fistbumping lesbians at the start of her shift

[mariaalenkoshepard]

Behold the fistbumping lesbians

Jsyk this thing could wake the dead

[mariaalenkoshepard]

4 hours later: I’m fricken ZAZZED you guys

[mariaalenkoshepard]

Me rn

[bramblepatch]

This is… not usually what is meant by “follow your dreams”…

[adhighdefinition]

no one ever talks about the part of adhd where everyone in your class has got their group of friends and you’re just there, mindlessly tagging along with anyone who is willing to put up with you for a few minutes. either you’re too loud or too quiet. if you’re lucky, it won’t affect you much. you’re a loner, so what? but then the moments come around where you find yourself yearning to be like the others. you’re not depressed, why would you be? you’re a child who just happens to be a little different. sure, you’re usually the last choice when it comes to groups and you’re rarely, if ever, invited to birthday parties but… it’s alright. everything is fine. or is it?

[adhighdefinition]

for the people questioning whether this really is part of adhd or not

[thatgirlwithadhd]

In case anyone was wondering, this is Dr. Russell Barkley, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and expert on ADHD. 

This quote comes from his lecture “30 Essential Ideas You Should Know about ADHD,” which you can find on YouTube as a 27-video playlist. This part is specifically in the second video of that playlist (about 8 minutes in).

I highly recommend watching these videos. If you can’t focus that long (I can’t, lol), then open the transcripts and read through them. Lots of info.

[witchaj]

I wasn’t invited to a single birthday party in second grade. I distinctly remember that was the year that I realized no one liked me. If I got in line to play four square or handball, everyone would suddenly decide the game was over as soon as it was my turn to play. They would literally drop the ball and run. It happened too many times to be a coincidence. I learned much later that difficulty with socialization was an adhd thing, but this is the first time I’ve heard this particular statistic. Wow.

To this day I hate being the last person to comment in a conversation, even in text messages, because I get that same feeling of anxiety. Like I somehow killed the conversation by daring to speak.

[metasactreon]

I was lucky to get two best friends halfway through fifth grade that stuck with me through middle school and highschool… but before them this was how my life was like. My only friend was a girl from the Sp. Ed. class and she was usually busy with the other kids from that class. I forced my way into a tag game a couple times, and kids would spread rumors to try and force me into a DNI list, saying they wouldn’t play if I was, even when it wasn’t a socially interactive game. Elementary school was horrible for me, and most of the time I just went and caught bugs because what else was I going to do? The birthday parties I went to were my cousins and kids of my mom’s friends. I guess I’m lucky I have 20+ cousins on my bio-dad’s side…

[blackqueerblog]

[pterick]

i love capitalizing words that do not need to be capitalized At All so that you read them in that Important Voice

[woman-respecter]

its really easy to overlook if you’re a christian but america is a fucking theocracy. seperation of church and state is a lie so much is dictated by christianity

[woman-respecter]

i made this post cause i was salty about my nearest pizza place closing early on sundays.