a a a a a e s t h e t i c

Thinks about Elliot Paige a little too much. Est. 1997

[koriofox]

Hi.

Me sell hats. Okay, poke?

Come to old old old haus, poke. Bring coines.

-hat mouse

[willowofthehearth]

Hey, psst.

Folx who wear makeup...

When's the last time you gave all your brushes a good clean?

[fernthewhimsical]

[willowofthehearth]

YUP.

lol.

[aquatixwitch]

😬

[willowofthehearth]

I see you... Go clean your brushes Levi :P

[aquatixwitch]

I gave them a good (brush) shampooing.

To be fair I have so damned many that I thankfully keep them all rotated out pretty good. When I use them.

Which ironically is usually in summer. I dont wear makeup in winter because people usually blast the heat wherever I'm at and it all just melts off. Ewww

[willowofthehearth]

Good for you! :D

[dippody-do-dahh]

OHP I-

😬😬😬

[fangirltothefullest]

You know how it gets annoying when you hear YouTube creators take time to be like hey remember please subscribe!

Well uh....

Literally when I put "Please reblog" on my art posts the number of reblog does statistically go up. Like.... signifficantly. It's weird that I have to remind people to do that but it works???

So I'll never complain about YouTubers doing that ever again because unfortunately they're right.

[erevshelshoshanim]

Growing up fat, you get made fun of for everything you do, even basic shit like eating and laughing and breathing are funny when you do it because youre fat! And its so hard to not carry that with you as you get older, like I’m still embarassed to eat or dance in front of people or smile in pictures and its ridiculous and I hate it and I wish I was treated with more humanity

[erevshelshoshanim]

Thin people can reblog this btw

[neopetsuser-deactivated20210119]

they wont tho lmao

[mloreley]

The thing is, even when you get older, it doesn’t stop. Not only do you carry the baggage from when you were younger and everything you did was a joke, purely because you were fat, but you get out into the world and there are still people stifling laughs behind their hands. You can see that look, the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it panning of the eyes down to your stomach and then back to your face with a raised eyebrow. Or when they get mad at you for existing in THEIR space, in public space. You can see it when you’re at the gym, people getting mad at you being there, or laughing at the silly floppy fat trying to work out. You see it on television, where it doesn’t matter how progressive or diverse the show is, there’s always at least ONE joke implying that being fat is associated with stupidity, slowness, lack of awareness, being obnoxious, being greedy.

And to cap it all off, if you complain, you have people pull the Morally Superior card, saying they’re “just being honest”, ‘just trying to help’, ‘just want you to be healthy’. Or ‘If you don’t like it, just lose the weight’, or ‘maybe it’ll motivate you to get healthy’. Saying, “I’m hurting. I’m crying. I deserve humanity” is replied to with, “But do you, though?”

It’s hard to maintain confidence in a world that reminds you at nearly every turn that you are a joke. So if you have a confident fat friend, someone who manages to do all those things that they’ll inevitably get laughed at for? Please appreciate them.

[argumate]

seems that Chrome has around 60-65% market share, so it’s not totally dominating the market yet but it’s worrying that we’re basically reliant on Apple and Microsoft to hold the line.

[th4nkyoub3n]

Does Firefox not count for anything?

[argumate]

about 10% and falling, but perhaps that can change, I just don’t see how.

[argumate]

Chrome edging towards 70% on desktop, Microsoft has thrown in the towel, Safari obviously rules iOS, Firefox exists only as insurance for Chrome.

[ms-demeanor]

Please, please I’m begging you, use firefox.

PLEASE install firefox as a mobile browser and then run adblock on your mobile browser it’s so good I promise.

Look.

Look.

I know I’m a total grind about open source stuff but browsers are the PERFECT place to learn to love open source software and for so long FireFox was a major part of the browser market and sometimes if you want to see what kind of fuckery google is up to it helps to see the kinds of things they block in firefox and just

There’s an organization that makes free, excellent, safe software that doesn’t collect and market your data but for some reason two thirds of the world uses a google product and most of the leftover population uses apple and just

I promise, firefox is so good - the extensions are incredible look - I can use lightbeam to see what sites I use and how they connect to other sites (bottom right should give you an idea how much time I spend on tumblr)

or I can look at ublock origin and see that it’s blocked over 2 million requests since I installed it or I can run the facebook container extension and stop facebook from tracking me and you know what I bet you can do a lot of that on chrome too but you’re doing that while chrome itself is tracking you and gobbling up your activity for google and

firefox is so fuckin great and it’s such a great ambassador for other open source projects please be a big old fuckin nerd with me and use firefox and run a bunch of funky extensions and customize the fuck out of your web experience.

Wanna be a hacker? Firefox.

Wanna use instagram on desktop? Firefox.

Wanna be a killer researcher? Firefox.

Wanna properly credit artists? Firefox.

Wanna read a whole shitload of books? Firefox.

Wanna make video responses to shitlord youtubers?

Wanna shoot cat lasers at bugs?

Wanna use youtube as a music streaming service?

FIREFOX.

I just love firefox okay.

[dragonageconfessions]

CONFESSION:

I like subverting stereotypes, but sometimes I feel like that’s all DA tries to deliver and, for me, it stops working. Varric is a dwarf who knows nothing about Dwarven culture. Iron Bull is a qunari but nothing like typical Qunari. Sera’s an elf who hates anything elfy and knows nothing about elven culture, city or Dalish. After a while it feels like the writers just don’t want the characters to explain anything. Like it’s easier and funnier for them all to say, “Beats me, boss.”

[glumshoe]

I adore your videos but please could you caption them?

YouTube has an automatic captioning feature. If you go to the video and turn them on, they are almost always accurate for my videos.

[cowboymulder-archive-deactivate]

Look - I'm not the asker but I desperately need hearing people to know that auto captioning still sucks and is not good enough. I get that it's a pain to add an extra step when you make videos but like. Auto captions are seriously NOT as good as you might think they are!

If you care about accessibility caption them! At least the auto caption function makes that easier because it gives you a basic caption you can edit the mistakes out of.

Also YouTube does not always auto caption videos. Often for whatever reason it skips videos, or takes a month to process.

[flippedroundagain]

this is a perfectly valid critique for professionally produced videos or anything where equity of access matters. yes, your school and local govt should caption their videos. so should anything made by entertainment companies! so should creators with huge patreon followings.

but captioning is labor, and expecting ppl to do that for free on their random personal vids is unrealistic imo.

[hashtag-anthems]

wow how terrible why would we ever ask that people put in labor to make things accessible to deaf, hard of hearing, and disabled people. what a thought.

[glumshoe]

#news flash: making content takes labor#making content accessible needs to be a part of making content#caption your fucking videos and transcribe your fucking podcasts#if you can't do either then you aren't ready to make videos or podcasts!#queue will always find me here#note to op and the last reblog and anyone else: if you clown I block you on sight

I’ve removed the video in question, for unrelated reasons, but apparently they’ve changed how captioning works and it’s now impossible to add them to YouTube videos on the app and you have to have a program on a computer. I don’t have the bandwidth for that but I try to speak as clearly as possible so that the automatic captions can accurately pick me up, and it almost always works. 

I don’t make many public videos for these reasons. When I do, they seldom have speech. I agree with you! But at the moment, relying on the autocaptioning feature by trying to annunciate clearly is the best I can do. 

[squeiky]

Person in video: hello and to day we are going to discuss butteryflies and their wingspan!

Auto caption: who wool to dame we are going to disgusts butter fry and their wing and.

Manually captioning: hello and to day we are going to discuss butteryflies and their wingspan!

Have you even seen youtube auto captions? That thing is horrible.

I make yt videos tk, im probably younger than you and i know how to do this shit, and do it already.

Take that as in insult yo, your wack.

[glumshoe]

Would you explain how to add manual captions via the mobile app? This isn’t a case of “I am too old and stupid to use technology” it’s a case of “I have a very feeble internet connection that precludes any kind of editing from home or from a desktop ever since YouTube made it less accessible”.

Again, the autocaptions for my videos are almost always 95-100% correct due to how precisely I strive to speak, which is why I have continued to upload them without custom captions.

[jumpingjacktrash]

guys, please don’t dogpile ship, they’re not being obstructive, it’s just that the technology is a mess. i want captions on everything too, and auto caption is generally a chore to figure out and absolutely RUINS immersion for fiction and humor. but ship’s video is an elementary school level lesson on pond biology, and they DO speak incredibly clearly, and in perfect chicago newscaster american. if we have to occasionally figure out that ‘larder’ was supposed to be ‘larvae’ i think we can manage that.

this looks to me like a case of a cooperative ally getting hollered at because the real offenders are unreachable. it’s so counterproductive! if you wanna yell at someone for being hostile to accessibility, maybe go after people who make how-to videos with thick regional accents and a lot of muttering. :/

[callinaudible]

Calling it "extra work" is so frustrating because, like, it should be PART OF THE WORK. it should be included in the weighing of "do I have time and energy to make this video"? If you don't have time or ability to caption, you don't have time or ability to make a video, just like if you dont have enough money to tip, you don't have enough money to go out to eat.

Everyone going "Oh well I make do with the auto captions" is probably someone who **can hear**, and while it's great that auto captions are enough for you, there are a lot of people who are Deaf (deaf-deaf!!! Stone deaf!!) or so hard-of-hearing that inaccurate captions make the video totally inaccessible. If you were a person who uses a wheelchair but had some leg function, would you turn to a person with quadriplegia complaining about an inaccessible toilet and say, "Well, I can walk those last few steps with a handrail, so I think the narrow door and handrail is fine"? No, you wouldn't ... or I hope you wouldn't, because that would make you an ASSHOLE.

Sometimes "close enough" is good enough, but in cases of accessibility for people who TRULY DO NOT HAVE THAT ABILITY AT ALL, it's honestly not.

[glumshoe]

I’m at a loss here. What do you suggest I do? If I physically cannot add manual captions and 95-100% accuracy in autocaptions isn’t acceptable, the only thing I can think to do is to stop making videos with audio/make existing videos with spoken audio private until it’s safe to enter libraries again. I don’t make any money from my videos and they rarely get more than 2,000 views (so it’s not like they’re part of my livelihood or anything), I only share them as an occasional side thing.

[callinaudible]

I mean, my personal opinion is if I were the person making videos I wouldn't make them if I didn't have time or access to caption them (in fact this is a choice I have had to make in the past!), just like I choose not to go out to eat if I don't have the money to tip my server. It seems like basic decency.

Or at least be honest that, "No, I'm not able to offer captions because of x and y" rather than half-assing this "Well my diction is EXCEPTIONALLY clear so auto-caps are fine". When deaf people have said repeatedly and loudly that NO, they are NOT fine, they're insufficient! And they're actually worse than they used to be because now YouTube censors anything it thinks might be a slur or swearword (badly), contributing to the infantilization of Deaf people by assuming they shouldn't be able to read swears and slurs, while hearing people are able to access the uncensored content.

Maybe this is the first time you've had this conversation, but for most deaf and HOH people it isn't, and it gets exhausting and frustrating to explain again and again to well intentioned but audist hearing people that NO, partial access isn't good enough, and in many cases is as bad as no access. People are sick of being told they're ungrateful for raising their voices to say "HEY this isn't accessible to me and people like me!"

I'm more annoyed with the general tone of conversation and the tags of the person i rb'ed this from and the general thrust of the notes tone policing how deaf and HOH ask for access (especially when the original ask was SO EXTREMELY POLITE and not demanding at all). It just drives home the idea that any request for access gets treated as a demand, and no amount of politeness avoids getting you tone policed. And that people who see captions as an added bonus situation have absolutely no frame of reference for what it is like to actually NEED accurate captions.

[glumshoe]

I mean, I’m not talking about autocaptions in general, but I’m prone to typos and spelling mistakes as well--my own custom captions are not likely to be much more accurate than 95-100%. I’ve gone ahead and removed my videos with speech that don’t have custom closed captioning, including the ones that were 100% accurate, until I have the resources to figure something out. The “because of X and Y” is because I have weak and intermittent rural internet that prevents me from adding my own captions; I speak carefully in the hopes that anyone who listens can understand me, including the algorithm. 

Regarding your tags: #and how clear (read: white american) your accent is doesnt make as much a difference as you think it does and speaking with exaggeratedly precise diction actually has the potnetial to fuck up the algorhythm worse because the machine is trained on natural human speech so you actually could be making things worse for ppl in the future

My speech is unnatural partly because I had a childhood speech impediment (well, sort of--ankyloglossia) and had to enunciate carefully to be understood. It’s become my default “educator’s voice” and I use it whenever I’m doing interp or recording videos. I don’t think it’s that unnatural--it’s a pretty standard mid-Atlantic broadcaster’s accent, and I’d feel really uncomfortable with my mush-mouthed voice being heard publicly. 

[dippody-do-dahh]

small but crucial addition - why are you guys attacking someone when YouTube is literally responsible for making custom closed captions less accessible to add to videos in general? i agree that captions should be on everything - but the reason they’re not on these particular videos is the fact that YouTube has made that inaccessible in certain ways.

can we please hold the actual perpetrator accountable instead of someone who is just trying to make educational content?

[headspace-hotel]

idea: scene with two characters eagerly stripping each other clearly about to bone, but they keep getting interrupted by finding carefully concealed weapons in each other’s clothing, so they keep just unholstering, revealing and unstrapping increasingly ludicrous amounts of hidden guns and knives as the clothes come off, and it’s lowkey killing the mood a little

[sorry-but-we-have-moved]

Alternative idea: it's not killing the mood at all

[headspace-hotel]

You’re right and I’m a fool

[dippody-do-dahh]

i am almost positive this happened in Mr. and Mrs. Smith

[philanthropy-lite]

[feministtalks]

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Straight Parents: We just want to decide when our kids are introduced to the idea of relationships!

Also Straight Parents: (watch a one year old baby boy playing with blocks with a one year old baby girl) HAHAHA he is already such a ladykiller

[spots-of-gold]

[swolerbear]

I am used to people assuming my long haired dmab child is a girl, that is what 99% of people think, no matter what Baby is wearing. Despite the fact that I use gender neutral terms for Baby on tumblr, in real life I do not even attempt to raise them gender neutrally because I don’t trust society. However, I also do not rigidly enforce their gender. most people refer to them as a girl when they meet them, and typically I do not bother to “correct” them because I don’t care. The only time I “correct” them is when it gets weird or the interaction is prolonged.

One time I was at the store when another dmab child started following mine around. The family of that kid thought it was the cutest thing they had ever seen. They laughed, “look, he’s following that little girl around!” I smiled politely and kept shopping

They didn’t go away, however. They kept following us. My child didn’t really understand what was going on, and they kept saying things like, “look, he has a crush on the little girl!” I don’t know how long this went on, but it got really weird. Finally, I turned and said, “actually, he’s a boy.”

They disappeared. Not another word was spoken. I don’t think they even acknowledged what I said beyond a shocked “oh”. Suddenly, it wasn’t cute. Suddenly, it wasn’t Innocent. Suddenly, their boy didn’t have a crush on my boy, like they had insisted before.

It’s fucking toxic and weird

[whitepeopletwitter]

[tinderpodcast]

To all the girls who “Love adventures”

[optimalmongoose3]

A trip to 7-11 at 12:am is most definitely an adventure

[mia-beak]

If y’all don’t know how to treat mundane life experiences with awe and wonder at the world then maybe it’s *you* that’s probably boring that’s all I’m sayin

[harperhug]

Posts that hit different in quarantine.

[miiriya]

[ahsunay]

LET THEM KNOW!!! LET LIL BOYS KNOW.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Two words: Stingray skeletons.

oh my stars and garters

how have we been sleeping on ocean skeletons???

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

We need to awaken the ocean skeleton fandom. I mean what unholy-

Puffer Fish Skeleton

Butterfly Fish Skeleton

Moorish Idol Skeleton (aka the sexy fish from finding nemo)

[captain-doubleday]

Mola Mola skeleton

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

this makes me inexpressibly angry i’m gonna throw a damn chair

[homunculus-argument]

First you go back in time and grab yourself as a small child. Then you re-parent yourself by raising child-you in a more steady and supporting environment, with better help with the needs that you know that you have, so the new you grows up to be a more sane well-balanced individual. Then you go back again and snatch up child-you again, and have the more sane and sensible New You raise that version, because they're now much far better equipped to provide a child with a stable childhood than you were when you started this project.

And then you keep repeating that loop until the time paradoxes all collapse upon themselves and space-time continuum as we know it will cease to exist, because for some fucking reason you'd rather do that than go to therapy.

[fluffygif]

Cute potato

[driftwood-farm]

I’ve actually decided to only be friends with stardew characters. Abigail, Sam, and Sebastian would NEVER betray me like this

[dippody-do-dahh]

this feels very relatable rn