Sick as Frick

| Reina | she/her | twenty six | icon by Dymia-Miyabi.tumblr.com

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The Muppets at Walt Disney World (1990)

[thecrumbez]

Happy Pride Month to those two women dancing together in the foreground of the boat scene in Godzilla (1954).

I’m sorry your romantic foibles were overshadowed by a big ass atomic lizard thing.

Edit: this post is blowing up so I’m gonna shamelessly plug my art account. Follow me and I’ll draw the Godzilla lesbians @thenonbinaryfriendnamedcrumb

[weirdtranssexual]

genuinely, from the bottom of my heart:

if you can’t read or write 500-1000 words with relative ease you have a serious problem

[weirdtranssexual]

how are all the teenagers who complain about writing 500 words for homework going to get through college without AI

how are you going to function in society if you can’t read 1000 words at a time

[prof-grace-aspen]

This is a FIXABLE problem, by the way!

Pick a topic you like, and that's what you're going to read about. Set a minimum word count, and read until you get to it. Start small. Smart easy. First try, it might actually be agonizing.

That's it for the day. Just hit the word count.

Next day, read to the word count again. Read something new! It will be easier today.

And easier the next.

And you will naturally find yourself extending how much you read per day.

[weirdtranssexual]

yes! the brain must be exercised like any other part of the body to get stronger! no matter what place you’re at you can do stimulating activities to exercise your brain!

[mageofthemarsh]

The answer to 'how are they going to function' is, and I say this as someone whose mom was a social worker in Appalachia for 20 years: they're going to get scammed. They're going to be victims of fraud, scams, and exploitation, due to their low literacy making them easier targets for others. And then they're going to be unable to read and write well enough to advocate for themselves in a court of law or fight back in any meaningful way.

"I ain't reading that" becomes "I can't read that" which becomes "I didn't read before I signed it because the guy telling me to was convincing and now I don't have anything".

[hyperlexichypatia]

It's not necessarily about the number of words -- reading 1000 words isn't, in and of itself, harder than reading 100 words. A children's picture book might have 1000 words. If people are struggling due to the number of words themselves, it's more likely to be a psychological barrier -- they see what looks like "a wall of text" and decide it's "too complicated."

The bigger barrier I've seen struggling readers encounter is with the structure and complexity of sentences. This is also mostly solvable with practice!

This is what has helped some of the struggling readers I know:

If you're looking at a Big Block Of Text and thinking it looks too complicated, copy and paste it into a blank word document (you'll want to do this on a computer, not a phone).

Press "enter" after each sentence. This lets you look at each sentence on its own.

Read one sentence at a time, all the way to the end. Stop and think about it before you read the next sentence.

Pay special attention to words like "if," "when," "but", "not," "either," and "or." These are words that often trip people up, because they change the meaning of the sentence.

It's okay to look up words you don't know.

Don't let a text intimidate you. Break it down. Ask your friendly local library worker for help.

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[moth-grrrl-mavis]

REMEMBER IF YOU HONK ALLYOU AT ME I WILL HONK HONK IF YOU GET ANY CLOSER U HAVE TO HONK IF IF YOU WILL IF I HONK MYSELF WANT HONK IF YOU HAVE EVER BEEN PERSONALLY VICTIMIZED BY HONK

[truestoriesaboutme]

I can't quite explain it, but Clue (1985), The Princess Bride (1987), Galaxy Quest (1999), and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) are all the same genre

[short-and-angry]

They aren't a spoof (roast) or a love letter (tribute), but a best man's speech; an expression of love with a gentle ribbing on ocassion.

[sasha-on-the-side]

Been talking about this with friends so I present to you, the cursed spectrum of media literacy

[crabs-and-bedbugs]

[crabs-and-bedbugs]

It really is!

[omtai]

Does anyone care if the boulder is happy does anyone imagine the boulder to be happy? Or is everything about that other guy

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[pangur-and-grim]

I'm going down a rabbit hole looking through this Thai cattery that breeds for white back-stripes

[imfullabeans]

[wooyos]

mingi ♡ 230625

[dogpuppy]

I wish I could have heard you sing this… I bet you have a beautiful voice

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[yourfaveisintersex]

what if I just made my profile picture a male calico cat or something. hurm

[icewingassasin]

Could I suggest a picture of Dawntreader Texas Calboy? He is a beautiful male calico cat who is a chimera. He's also somewhat controversial among some cat fancy associations since he is a male cat with female colors, and some people are strangely transphobic towards him, despite him being a cat? There was even a rule implemented to keep him from competing in a cat show. If you look up his name, he made a few news articles.

[yourfaveisintersex]

Oh my god?????

Yeah you're right about beautiful I'm squeezing him until he pops!!!!! I love this guy I think I'm going to make an edit real quickly Calboy I love you I'm so sorry people are calling you a freak??????

[yourfaveisintersex]

:)

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[60sgroove]

AESPA ✰ LEMONADE

[peach-pot]

being anti-amatonormativity in a romance centered world is like watching half the people you know put all their eggs in one basket and then drop the basket and all their eggs break and they’re crying and swearing they’re never gonna do that again and then a month later they have all new eggs in a new basket and they tell you the problem was they didn’t have a strong enough basket or fresh enough eggs and then they drop the fucking basket again.