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hi, I'm rain, any pronouns. I love stories and language and writing and words ! send me asks because I have lots of thoughts

[rain-droplet]

welcome to my humble abode

my posts are tagged [#rain rambles] and [#rain rants] usually, if you wanna see

[homunculus-argument]

My boyfriend starts sneezing when it's going to rain (water) because he's allergic to ground mould (earth) that rises into the air. His sister is allergic to direct sunlight (fire) and their little brother has cold intolerance (air).

Only the avatar, who could get their ass beat by all the four elements

[lilkitten11]

your boyfriend can detect when it's going to rain?

[homunculus-argument]

He's correct more often than the weather forecast.

[bestiolin]

maarten inghels

[animate-mush]

@sherbertilluminated there's a line somewhere in Ursula Vernon's Digger that goes something like "it is difficult to be metaphysical around the truly geologically minded"

[crabussy]

Do you have a LEAST favorite bicycle? One that was unkind to you? Is this possible?

all bicycles are born with kind souls but some of them are built for a person with proportions I have yet to see in the big wide world and trying to ride said bike is a lot like a brand new baby horse trying to figure out the whole "six long legs and a proboscis" thing on day 1

[crabussy]

I FORGOT TO CHANGE THE REST OF THE SENTENCE TO BE ABOUT HORSES INSTEAD OF BUTTERFLIES,

[crabussy]

you know what yeah this IS how it feels

[elodieunderglass]

Thank you @chiropteracupola no I get it

[nerves-nebula]

me and this random couple are going to see sinners this friday

[nerves-nebula]

Everyone wish me luck on my date today I’m so nervous what if they don’t like me…

[grimoiremanifest]

i do need to get on with writing that bastard dont i

[tref0il]

The diary of Clive Wearing, an amnesia patient living the first moment of becoming conscious and aware every 10-30 seconds for the past 36 years. He only remembers that he loves the piano, and he loves his wife.

[dadvans]

[free-and-to-none-accountable]

It used to be cold. There used to be all these bugs.

[free-and-to-none-accountable]

Maybe he understood for the first time that to the boy he was himself an alien. A being from a planet that no longer existed. The tales of which were suspect. He could not construct for the child’s pleasure the world he’d lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child has known this better than he.

[dappercyborg]

The grass used to be green in the summer not brown

[middleearthorcseeksspaceorc]

In autumn, puddles would freeze overnight, and give the sharpest, sweetest snap when you stepped on them. All gone by late morning, but reappearing the next day with sharp crinkles and chimes.

[guessillalwaysbethisway]

The discovery of the statue of Antinous in Delphi, Greece in 1894

[fuckblast]

Really obsessed with this one like how old cameras worked making everyone blurry against the statue and just makes you realize how long the statue has been right. There.

[animal-families-tournaments]

Corvidae family, round 4: Black-throated Magpie-Jay vs Pied Crow

Black-throated Magpie-Jay

Pied Crow

Remaining time: 4 days 23 hours

[the-rain-official]

[bebewrites]

genAI companies are now buying up rare and antique books so they can scan them and use them to train their AI. then they're destroying the books afterward.

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almos

AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.

they've had to face settlements against stealing from current authors, so they'll just go for the old books now. they're also doing this so they have the only copies of rare books.

they're taking water, power, natural resources for their data centers. they steal. they're book burning, essentially. i'm just so angry, i'm at a loss right now.

[slowavesloth]

[makesyouevil]

a stop on the road 🚲🌾

[dog-teeth]

normal way to think about making art

[bpd-dylan-hall-deactivated20190]

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again but it is absolutely an example of civilizational inadequacy that only deaf people know ASL

“oh we shouldn’t teach children this language, it will only come in handy if they [checks notes] ever have to talk in a situation where it’s noisy or they need to be quiet”

[raginrayguns]

My mom learned it because she figured she’ll go deaf when she gets old

[manyblinkinglights]

My family went holiday SCUBA diving once, and a couple of Deaf guys were in the group. I was really little and I spent most of the briefing overcome with the realization that while the rest of us were going to have regulators in our mouths and be underwater fairly soon, they were going to be able to do all the same stuff and keep talking.

[tell-the-stars-hello]

The only reason some form of sign language is not a standard skill is ableism, as far as I can tell.

[emoracreations]

For anyone interested in learning, Bill Vicars has full lessons of ASL on youtube that were used in my college level classes. 

https://www.youtube.com/user/billvicars

and here’s the link to the website he puts in his videos:

https://www.lifeprint.com/

[naurielrochnur]

Update: you guys this is an amazing resource for learning asl. Bill Vicars is an incredible teacher. His videos are of him teaching a student in a classroom, using the learned vocabulary to have conversations.

Not only is the conversation format immersive and helpful for learning the grammar, but the students make common mistakes which he corrects, mistakes I wouldn’t have otherwise know I was making.

He also emphasizes learning ASL in the way it’s actually used by the Deaf community and not the rigid structure that some ASL teachers impose in their classrooms

His lesson plans include learning about the Deaf community, which is an important aspect of learning ASL. Knowing how to communicate in ASL without the knowledge of the culture behind it leaves out a lot of nuances and explanations for the way ASL is.

Lastly, his lessons are just a lot of fun to watch. He is patient, entertaining, and funny. This good natured enthusiasm is contagious and learning feels like a privilege and not a chore

And it’s all FREE. Seriously. If you’ve ever wanted to learn ASL

[tedrakitty]

@official-linguistics-post

[yagamimi-aka-mimi-deactivated20]

Ok, the gun cocks correctly no,w,.

[yagamimi-aka-mimi-deactivated20]

I also eventually redid this gif with her current model

[yagamimi-aka-mimi-deactivated20]

40,000 cock gif woo!