Yknow if Jax hadn't been traumatized to fear vulnerability...if Ribbit and Ragatha had actually respected his wishes to pretend those conversations never happened and didn't immediately bring them up to try to fix their mistakes...if only they were different people. But they're not. And I'm glad.
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When I write in Japanese I usually also throw it in google translate to double check that I'm not using the wrong kanji by mistake, and two years ago it gave me very dry and literal translations.
I was doing it today and noticed it had a pretty strong voice added to the output
For reference, to give a dry translation I would put:
Lately I'm into in Hanafuda. Nobody seems to know anything about it here, so they probably wouldn't understand my brilliant jokes. I guess you guys will never be able to understand "Mister November and the Scary Cave".
I have a fluent friend who is able to check my work for me and give me tips on hitting the correct tone (I was going for a comically casual feeling), so I'm confident that I'm expressing the feeling I'm intending. While Google is also hitting the same emotion, I really don't like knowing that it's assigning tone in the first place.
To check if it was editorializing based on informal grammatical choices, I formal'd up the writing to be more polite and remove any non-standard vocabulary.
I'm just like... what is anyone who is translating what I'm thinking into their own language going to think when a translation app decides that it knows my intended tone? When online communication is already so complicated and nuanced? I'm a non-native so I'm spending ages agonizing over 117 characters, but when I'm chatting in English I'm not being so deliberate. How likely is it that tools that 'naturalize' are going to make choices that don't reflect reality and lead to insulting misunderstandings?
I spoke with an English learner just yesterday who thought they were being bullied (they were not, the commenter in question was just excitedly infodumping about sociology) because something was lost in translation, and I wonder if it's because of tools making choices like this.
I'm just a luddite I don't trust stuff like this. stinks of ai asking me if it can rerwrite my email in a more quirky style.
PSA FOR PEOPLE LOOKING TO ADD MORE DIVERSITY FOR DISABLED CHARACTERS
hi! Do you have a hyper mobile character? First of all, awesome! If you don’t, get to work!! Now, you may be wondering: what kind of aids do we use? Everyone’s different, and of course we know the standard:
Wheelchair (manual and electric, please more electric wheelchair representation)
Walker (not just for old people)
Forearm crutches/elbow crutches
Canes (again, not just for old people)
Rollators! (requested, also not just for old people)
And those are great!! Add them!! But what about the rest? There’s not one-size-fits-all mobility aid, and we switch out a lot based off of needs. Here are some other things we (may) use:
K-tape (PLEASE PLEASE ADD THIS ITS NOT JUST FOR ATHLETES)
Finger splints
Wrist braces
Thumb splints
Other braces
Heat packs
TENS machines
And these are just a few!! Feel free to research these and add them to your storyline or art because we need representation! The pure joy I feel when I see art that has something I use is unmatched. Happy writing/drawing!
More info under the cut <3
K-tape, or kinesiology tape, is a stretchy fabric tape that is used (in the case of hypermobility) to tape loose joints back into place to easy pain and allow more mobility. It comes in a variety of colors, the most common being black, tan, brown, pink, orange, and blue. Skin does get irritated after peeling, so shave and prep the area beforehand. Look up tutorials for different ways to use it for your characters!
Finger splints, both metal and plastic, are used for hypermobility in your fingers. As someone mentioned in tags, my (and other’s) fingers look like this: ) when bent when they’re supposed to be like this: | This can cause pain when writing for periods of time, gripping things, and occasionally (at least for me) an inability to hold things like pens until properly rested. Also, they look sick as hell! That’s such a cool design feature!
I’m sure you’ve seen a wrist brace before. They provide stability due to overextension and can help with injuries due to that overextension. Thumb splints are just that: a splint for your thumb. For wrist instability or hypermobility, it can thoroughly help with pain in the wrist area. This also can help with instability, as I myself have issues doing simple things like grating cheese or chopping veggies. Very helpful!
Heat packs are great with pain! If you’ve ever had a period cramp before, if you are a person with a uterus, or you’ve just had a cramp in general, you can know how great it can be to have a heat pack. The same thing happens with cold packs, but heat packs are a preference.
TENS machines, granted, are difficult to draw. But we must persevere! TEN, or Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation, is a device that sends electrical currents to the nerves in order to stimulate them. I luckily don’t have to use them, so I’m not the best source. Go ask someone who does or do some research!
Thanks so much for reading! More diversity leads to happier disabled people, or at least one happier disabled person (me!) I remember lighting up when I saw an athlete using k-tape, or seeing a kid in a wheelchair, or someone with a cane, or anything. That joy is hard to come by in a world like this, so art that’s inclusive and kind is amazing! Feel free to ask any questions and happy creating!
cleaning with ADHD is a nightmare. it’s an endless cycle of finding a half-finished chore and stopping the one you were already working on, then remembering that something else needs to be done and getting started on that, then finding half-finished chore and
have you ever seen a junebug get to grips with a window screen? it’s remarkably persistent, but not very focused. all that matters is location.
how to junebug: choose the location you feel you can probably get some shit done on today. be specific. not ‘the bathroom’ but ‘the bathroom sink’. you are not choosing a range, you are choosing a center; you will move around, but your location is where you’ll keep coming back to. mentally stick a pin in it. consider yourself tethered to that spot by a long mental bungee cord.
go to your location. look at stuff. move stuff around. do a thing. get distracted. remember you’re junebugging the bathroom sink and go back there. look at it some more. do a different thing. get distracted. get a sandwich. remember you’re junebugging and go back to the bathroom sink.
nt’s will go crazy watching you, and if they demand to know When You Will Be Done you will probably have to roll them in a carpet and stuff them up the chimney. you’re done when you feel done, or you’re too bored to live, or it’s bedtime, or any number of other markers, you get to pick. but the thing is, by returning repeatedly to that one spot, you harness the ‘hyperactivity’ part instead of wasting all that energy battling with the ‘attention deficit’ part.
not only will the bathroom sink almost certainly be clean, and probably the mirror and soap dish too, you might’ve swapped in a fresh toothbrush, a new soap, you might’ve unclogged the drain – you will probably also have cleaned or fixed up several things in the near vicinity, or in the path between the sink and where you get the fresh toothbrush, or maybe you did your grocery shopping cuz you were out of soap, or maybe you couldn’t find a clean hand towel and ended up doing laundry.
this is good. you got shit done! it wasn’t necessarily Cleaned The Bathroom in the way nt’s think of it, but screw ‘em. things are better than they were.
plus you worked off enough energy to be able to sleep. which is not small potatoes when living the ADHD life. :D
Fucking weird phrasing, but this is a variant on "Describe yourself in three words". They want a sense of who you are and what you're like as a person
Let's say the president came into our store and asked you to grab something off a shelf. Would you help him?
They want to see how professional you are. Tell them you'd help any customer that isn't harming or affecting any other customer, because that's the job and your work ethic
Remember when Hawaii thought they were going to be exploded? SO CRAZY! Walk us through how you'd close up shop in that scenario.
Competency question. They want to know how you react in an emergency, and are testing your thought process by giving you a specific scenario. They don't expect perfection, they just want to see what elements you consider, how thorough you are, etc.
So... how would Willy Wonka get you
Wild phrasing, but they're asking a variant on "What characteristics do you have that you need to work on?" They're doing it in a more fun way to try to put you at ease, but also more importantly to get a sense of your personality. If you're choosing someone to join the team, you generally want to get a vibe of what they're like before you commit to spending 8 hours in an office with them 5 days a week. Do you laugh and treat this question as a fun game? Do you give a single one word answer while staring at them? Do you deliver an in-depth analysis of how the Chocolate Factory's fae-like logic applies to real world human behaviour? This tells them something
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And, of course, it also depends on the job. Some jobs may require you to think on your feet, so they might be looking for a creative, snappy response. Others simply want a sense of what you're like.
When I was a hiring manager at an escape room, I would spell out the interview process for the candidates; I would first tell them the logistics of the job and how it worked, so if it wasn't going to work out they could leave without doing the rest of the interview and save time. Then I would tell them we were moving into the Getting To Know You questions, and we'd have a mix of those, including the "fun" types. And then I would tell them we were moving into the competency section, and that's when we'd ask the skills stuff. It meant everyone had a clue about what the questions were getting at, and knew what to emphasise. Unfortunately, most interviewers these days do not do that, and I do think it disadvantages a lot of neurodiverse folks - or, even just inexperienced folks who haven't done many interviews
In any case. Yeah. That's what they mean, for anyone unsure
Oh hey, do you know what time it is? It is highly specific resource time!
Today we have the Royal School of Needlework Stitch Bank! There are HUNDREDS of stitch types in the RSN Stitch Bank.
And more added regularly, let’s look at a recent addition
I picked the first one in the 25 recently added Elizabethan stitches, the Elizabethan French Stitch
The stitch bank provides written and photo tutorials as well as a video option to learn to do it yourself. There are examples of the stitch in use, resources, references, everything but a needle and thread!
I looked at some of the tutorials last night and holy shit I'm so impressed! They're SO thorough!
Not only do they have written and video instructions, but there are photo and illustration options for each image AND a "flip view" button so that left handed people can see all the images in reverse!
I am going to jump in and add, as you said they are very detailed in their directions, something that takes a lot of time and money.
If anyone who has enjoyed this resource has the means, I encourage you to adopt or sponsor a stitch to help keep this free to access. I know not everyone has the means to (fair, been there) but if you can, check out their sponsor options
RSN Stitch Bank Progress
And one other resource I have shared before, The Lady's Magazine. Embroidery patterns from 1770-1819. In case anyone wants some historic ideas for using all these new embroidery stitches
i am not a psychiatrist but i do find it really weird how autism checklists are so often focused on "outward" signs of autism rather than what is going on internally. i don't know how to explain it but "do you make eye contact with other people" feels like a much less relevant question than "how does it feel when you have to make eye contact with other people?"
while i'm here, the other one that always pisses me off is "do you interpret idioms literally, for example 'bull in a china shop'?"
well, no, obviously. i know what "bull in a china shop" means because that is a popular phrase with a clearly defined meaning. and if i hadn't heard it before, then i would still not interpret it literally, because it has the cadence of an idiom and i would probably be able to work out from context what it meant. what is the point of this question
third and final complaint: "are you good at noticing subtext?"
i feel like the problem with this question is best illustrated by a conversation i had with a friend a while back, where i said something like, "i feel very safe with you because you don't do subtle hints and you are always very straight-up with me about what you are thinking and feeling."
and he laid a hand on my shoulder and was like, look dude i'm gonna be straight up here. i am subtle with you constantly and you simply do not notice <3
Spent about ten minutes yesterday searching through my backpack for the heavy object that was making it heavy but eventually I had to accept that a bag which only contains light objects can be heavy, throuvh the process of addition. It feels unjust to me. I have the same problem with purchases. It feels wrong to me that buying ten cheap things is expensive
"thought crimes aren't real, it's your actions that matter" and "your mindset informs how you treat others, so you should try not to have a shitty one" are another pair of things that are both true btw
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