Harrison the Fulgurite

| I am just some random dude with a way too active imagination and enough OCs to populate a small city | He/Him | Aegosexual | Of Adult Age in body, mind still has to catch up | Autistic adult and proud of it | I communicate almost exclusively through reaction images | If you message me, make your purpose for doing so clear, I will stonewall you until you do |

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[orteil42]

why do closed captions keep pretending english is the only intelligible language? when a character speaks spanish what exactly is forcing your hand to transcribe it as "[speaks foreign language]" rather than "Si"

[concerningwolves]

This intersection of Anglocentric bias + ableism and audism makes my blood boil.

People commonly defend this practise with "But the audience isn't meant to understand!" or "It's inconsequential!", neither of which actually address a) their assumption that the [ideal Anglo] audience wouldn't understand, or, perhaps most crucially in the context of CCs, b) that this is a failure of accessibility. A hearing person who speaks that "foreign" language will know exactly what's being said. A deaf or HoH person – the people CCs are primarily intended for – who speaks or reads that language should therefore have the exact same opportunity to understand. It very much feels to me like an assumption that we deaf and HoH people couldn't possibly understand any language but English, so there's no point in getting those languages transcribed for us. I hope it goes without saying how profoundly audist that sentiment is.

There is also, I think, a profound misunderstanding or ignorance of Deaf culture at play. Which is to say, CCs in English-language media are written with not only the assumption that the audience will be native English speakers, but that all d/Deaf and HoH people speak English as their first language, so all other languages are as supposedly foreign to them as they are for hearing people. But sign languages are their own distinct language. BSL, ASL, ISL, AusLan, NZSL etc ≠ English (and are indeed different from one another), LIS ≠ Italian, JSL ≠ Japanese, and so on. So, if you follow the captioners' logic to its natural extreme, all non-signed dialogue is "foreign" to many d/Deaf and HoH people and should therefore be labelled [speaks foreign language] / [speaks English] / [speaks own language] / etc. – which is, obviously, a terrible idea that perfectly highlights all the biases implicit in closed captioning.

TL;DR: your accessibility feature fails in its function as soon as you fail to transcribe all spoken languages.

[seamstriss]

Something to really understand is captions weren't really a *thing* for American TVs until about the 80s. They didn't become completely standard and required until the ADA became official law (early 90s). Another point to make is most deaf communities are so deprived of language that *English is not understood AT ALL*. This is why picture in picture television interpreters are so important. A very important point is made, CC's and subtitles are extremely English centric/focusing. There is an absolute assumption that D/deaf people *cant* learn any forgein language let alone English. We are automatically excluded by [speaks foreign language]. Most of the time I don't get to know *what* foreign language is even being spoken. I can read French, I can read some Spanish, my mom (deaf) can read 6 languages, my dad (deaf) could read 2. Are we ever afforded the *chance* to use those skills? My other hearing friends who speak foreign languages light up when that info becomes useful. I sit there and have to ask "which language are they speaking?". Everyone I see that complains about [forgein language speaking] usually puts it English forward. They want all forgein languages transcribed to ENGLISH and this is extremely different, this isn't equal access. That is English access and English access only. PROPERLY done [foreign language speaking] tags *should* be written out in that corresponding language.

We are still fighting for equal caption access. And we've been fighting for an extremely long time. Captions were made for us- for our access, then why are hearing people dictating what that should look like for us? Why is it when we deaf say we want captions written out in their appropriate languages, that the hearing voices that want English transcriptions that their voices always ring louder than ours? It's audism, and it's always been deeply ingrained into the things deaf/HoH people need for access.

[biblicallyaccuratemoth]

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Webtoons, Tapas, Bluesky, Discord Server.

[penny-anna]

anyway sound off. at what stage do ppl think Han figured out the Force was real. the boring answer is after seeing Obi-wan vanish but i think he could rationalise that away as his eyes playing tricks on him. what do we think.

[my-last-brain-cell-is-socrates]

Let me demonstrate my answer for you:

That's it. That's my answer. Endor.

Please just take a look at Han's face right after witnessing 3po float. The man just had his entire worldview blown to smithereens.

[whetstonefires]

that's so funny. that means he accepted Vader deflecting a blaster bolt with his hand as just something freaky government cyborgs can do, and stuck by Luke for multiple years as he tried to figure this Force stuff out, and just treated it like your friend getting really really into neopaganism to cope with a loss.

like yeah kid good job with the witching. i'm certain it will be more useful against your enemies than your sharpshooting. no i do not think your witchcraft is supplementing your aim but i'm not gonna argue about it.

[penny-anna]

yeah Luke was like 'I heard Ben Kenobi's voice in my head telling me how to blow up the Death Star :)' and Han was like 'kind of an unusual coping mechanism but I'm not gonna argue with him'

[davetheshady]

thanks to carbonite han not only misses learning about luke's training montage on dagobah, he's also half-blind during their whole escape on tatooine. luke's out there force-kicking henchmen with his gucci boots and doing flips and shit and han can't see a goddamn thing. now on endor luke's yeeting threepio with the power of his mind and han's just like 'the last time we hung out i had to stuff him in a tauntaun sleeping bag'.

[bogwitch-extraordinaire]

@softness-and-shattering I hate you I hate you I hate you

[arctasy]

when the character is obsessive and desperate and guilty and scared and ashamed and traumatized and repressed

[demilypyro]

she just like me fr

[demilypyro]

haha meeee

[demilypyro]

I want someone to say my personality sucks (positive) and I'm a sore loser (positive)

[ecto-stone]

Another stories is that ghost from american are demonized more then other region. Caused they dont properly care for their death.

But this lead to an even funnier scenario that the fenton are disgrace in the ghost community precisely caused of this. They are so focus on their theory of ghost being monster from another dimension and ghost are pure evil whiles theyre disrespectful AF toward ghost whoch make ghost turn hostiles and contaminated their data ( a i theorize theyre evil so i mistreated them until they snapped so it prove me right out of ignorgant). Which caused ghost in amity park to be super dangerous. Caused ghost that able to touch you let alone having physical form is already grade A threat . DA FUCK do you mean all the ghost from ur town is like this. Do you have any idea how fucked ur town is .

This also imply that ghost in amity park target people who properly take care of their death less .

[pumpkinhrat]

im back with more stratt doodles

[innerchildabortionclinic]

these people are so annoying omg why are you fantasizing about copyright striking someone

[innerchildabortionclinic]

MY biggest fear as an artist: thunderstorms. thunder loud and scary

[kaijuno]

[shroomlet]

alright then

[yume-fanfare]

evil things:

mandatorily having to download an app to do a government thing

google play store showing sponsored results before the government app

stupid app wont load

its a whole app for 1 single procedure and it wont even do that thing

[kaijuno]

[proxmox-official]

[slayerswallpapers]

I had a false memory of Lina wearing a similar swimsuit in the series, but it turns out that this particular design only appears in the promotional illustrations for Slayers NEXT. In the series, she wears completely different styles of two-piece swimwear.

Finding a real-world equivalent is surprisingly difficult, but I suspect the design may have been inspired by black/white one-piece from the Spring-Summer 1987 Spiegel Catalogt or Paulina Porizkova's in Life magazine (1986).

It makes me wonder if this design might have influenced Faye Valentine’s bikini colors, since both characters are voiced by Megumi Hayashibara. I can’t think of any other examples of such two-tone swimwear design in anime.

[youngerfrankenstein]

To put it very bluntly.

You will always make a better impact helping people who need it than trying to hurt people you think deserve it.