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They/She~20s~Queer~Genderqueer~Belgian

[pluggedintosaverockandroll]

about

about me:

name: kaye / jo / kj

they/she

queer in every sense of the word

what i post:

mainly fall out boy

other random stuff i find interesting/funny

original tags:

original posts: kj post

lyric edits: lyrics.kj

recommendations: kaye recommends

my arts and crafts: art.kj

my photography: kaye photographs

answered asks: kaye replies

my zines: kaye's zines

my poetry/writings: kaye.verse

reading: kj reads

knitting: kaye knits

[marzipanandminutiae]

Every Dracula screenwriter, novelist, comic book writer, playwright is like, "Is anyone going to make this ten times more orientalist and twenty times more misogynistic" and don't wait for an answer

Genuinely. At this point I'm skeptical as to whether there's ever been an actual good adaptation, just because no one can seem to leave well enough alone

[butterflypeaflowertea]

linocut relief print by molly white

[catchymemes]

[kijimha]

just because you havent seen me post about The Character in a while doesn't mean i'm any less insane about them in private

[ovur]

I won't ever get over the removal of headphone jacks, or micro sd slots, or cd drives. I won't. Fuck everyone and everything

[virginshane]

do not come to my notifs with ur fuck ass harry potter username

[maidslime]

Ok like. Imagine life without ads. You wake up, check your messages across a variety of apps, no ads. You get up and put on the tv while you prep your breakfast, no ads. Maybe you drive somewhere and switch on the radio, no ads. Maybe you drive a long distance, yet somehow, not a single billboard on your path. You pick up a newspaper or magazine to pass the time, no advertisements only articles. You turn on your game console, the home screen is just about your games, no ads to buy more. You open a streaming app, you don't pay extra for no ads, there's just no ads ever.

Think about how much of your time is spent looking at ads. "Download ublock" yeah I know, I have. But that doesn't change that the world is covered with endless advertising. Imagine never seeing that again. How much better our lives would be.

[lmaonade]

devil may happy :)

[kluskikosklo]

Wouldn’t it’ve made more sense to to say devil may smile?

[lmaonade]

critique my post ever again and devil may angry

[deadexclamationpoint]

"What did London do to deserve Jack the Ripper" <- newspaper headline from 1888

[sycamorality]

turns out i have a lot of opinions on subtitles

[sycamorality]

theres a youtuber ive watched before he ever hit 1k. hell, before he hit 800. he had subtitles on his first video. manual ones, not auto-generated ones. IF HE CAN DO THAT THEN SO CAN SOME FUCKASS WITH THOUSANDS OR MILLIONS OF SUBSCRIBERS. OR AT LEAST FUCKING PAY SOMEONE TO DO THE SUBTITLES

[sycamorality]

and i hate the autogenerated subtitles so much. if the person swears or says a slur and it isnt censored, DONT CENSOR IT IN THE SUBTITLES. if its censored in speech, then censor it in subtitles. but if someone says a slur outright, no censoring? put it in the damn subtitles, i dont care, subtitles are for telling you what someone says

[sycamorality]

if your guy says "motherfucking bitch" then the subtitles should not say "motherf*cking b*tch", "mother******* b*****" or void forbid "[_] [_]" like youtube's autogenerated subtitles do. your subtitles should be saying "motherfucking bitch", UNLESS the guy's speech was censored like motherf[dolphin noise] b[dolphin noise], then you subtitles say "motherf[dolphin noise] b[dolphin noise]"

[sycamorality]

youtube's autogenerated subtitles are maybe some of the most ableist and infantilising ones ever and i think im gonna kill someone

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

In This Post, I linked to a video about how horse riding can be used as a tool for physical therapy for people with certain disabilities. And the narrator of that video was using technical, clinical, words to describe the effect of the horse's movement on the rider's body.

The video has auto-generated closed captions.

At the 8 minute, 10 second mark, the narrator says that the motion of the horse's back "may decrease tone in spastic muscles" (which is a good thing; clinically speaking, "spastic" means a muscle has way too much tone).

But because YouTube's algorithm has flagged "Spastic" as a slur (with no understanding that words can have different meanings in different contexts), it simply removed the word altogether, and the closed caption was:

"may decrease tone in muscles,"

(not even giving a clue that a word was edited out).

Generally speaking, decreasing tone in (normal) muscles is a bad thing, 'case it means you're making someone weaker.

So not only is the automatic censoring of words infantilizing of disabled people, it also renders what's actually being said to gibberish.

(I once watched a video on the origin of animal / pet words, and when talking about cats, the word "Pussy" was likewise just removed from the captions)

[isuggesteatingtherich]

i have a suggestion

[shejustcalledmeafish]

Why is the fun thing so exhausting. How am I ever going to manage to do the hard thing.

[bettyrightnow]

blogging is too dignified a term for what i’m doing on here

[distractionsfromthefood]

[rabbitrah]

I think it's important to remember that every single religion can be twisted for violence and oppression and abuse and control. Yes, including the one that you think can't be. But quickly, before anti-theists start saying that religion is an inherently evil violence accelerant, remember that this is true for any ideology, including anti-theism. Violence and oppression and abuse and control happens wherever there are people who think that those things will help them get what they want.

[normal-with-adhd-is-a-joke]

Conservative beauty standards are back with a vengeance which means it's especially important to go out this summer with bellies out and bodies unshaved. Also be unapologetically disabled with mobility aids and wearable medical devices and stim toys and ear defenders and all that stuff. You need it. People need to see it. Everyone needs to be reminded that life is unquestioningly more enjoyable when you're not living inside an arbitrary set of rules created by people who are offended by all the wrong things.

[audible-smiles]

the worst part of summer is that people get sooo comfortable expressing their disgust at having to see other people’s bodies. they’re always complaining about wrinkly old men at the nude hot springs or fat women in bikinis at the beach. I hate that shit. if you’re not capable of being normal about bodies you personally don’t find attractive, just turn your head to look at something else! and if you’re not smart enough to do that, then at least do the rest of us the courtesy of suffering in silence, because we don’t wanna hear your weird comments. thanks.