formerly grill-waham

[gothsbian]

microwave popcorn is such a beautiful technology. captures the full range of sensory and emotional experiences. there's even a part where it gets loud and scary. the 1812 overture of cheap snacks

[gin-juice-tonic]

Any time you talk to other people you run the risk of being misinterpreted or not understood, but the frequency with which the things I try to say don't seem to actually connect with what people hear makes me feel like a genuine alien sometimes. Do you guys know something about the english language that I'm just not grasping

[salty--zebra]

I know I'm like super late to the party but this has been bugging me.

Specifically its stuff about Rebecca Yarros and Fourth Wing. Now, this isn't about her as a person or an author. This is not an open debate about her beliefs. I don't align myself with that AT ALL so please don't bring that into this.

It's specifically about able bodied people trashing the Ehlers-Danlos representation in the book.

I have EDS myself (a rarer type) and I find the representation pretty accurate. But either way, it's a diverse disability and honestly if you do not have it then you really cannot be commenting on it. Leave that discussion for those who actually have it. Thank you.

[stephengogolev]

this is what the inside out emotions inside my head look like

[alternativeulster]

tbh i dont think the finale was as complicated as everyone makes it out to be. sutekh is a viewer, just like us. hes obsessed with the "mystery". ruby's mum isn't the reason it snows, or the reason that christmas eve 2004 is "raw and open" and keeps changing. its sutekhs obsession. he gave that night its importance by building it up and obsessing over the answer to the one question he couldnt find, in the same way that we did. we gave rubys abandonment its huge significance with all our theories and our desperate need to understand. in a way, we are sutekh. voyeurs of a deeply personal moment that we never had any right to. building ruby into a mystery when shes really just a person. shes special because we believe she is. time is memory.

[salty--zebra]

Fun fact I just discovered upon a post doctor who Google rabbit hole. Guy that voiced sutekh also voiced the beast in the impossible planet. So everyone saying they get the vibes of the beast, that's why!

No idea yet whether this is intentional and we now know the beast was sutekh or whether its just a continuation of the BBC only having 12 actors.

[emergency-temporal-shift-deacti]

did anyone else think that that ending kinda had The Impossible Planet cliffhanger vibes with the whole "I have many names. Some may call me [various versions of satan]. I have been imprisoned for eternity, but no more."

[plants-and-poetry-and-punching]

love that the memes about the Meep’s pronouns weren’t lying. the Doctor really went

[tomorrowillbeyou]

the bass guitar was one of the most sexual, sublime, and heavenly inventions by mankind

[luulapants]

My dad and I once had a disagreement over him using the adage "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

I said, "That's just not true. Sometimes what doesn't kill you leaves you brittle and injured or traumatized."

He stopped and thought about that for a while. He came back later, and said, "It's like wood glue."

He pointed to my bookshelf, which he helped me salvage a while ago. He said, "Do you remember how I explained that, once we used the wood glue on them, the shelves would actually be stronger than they were before they broke?"

I did.

"But before we used the wood glue, those shelves were broken. They couldn't hold up shit. If you had put books on them, they would have collapsed. And that wood glue had to set awhile. If we put anything on them too early, they would have collapsed just the same as if we'd never fixed them at all. You've got to give these things time to set."

It sounded like a pretty good metaphor to me, but one thing I did pick up on was that whatever broke those shelves, that's not the thing that made them stronger. That just broke them. It was being fixed that made them stronger. It was the glue.

So my dad and I agreed, what doesn't kill you doesn't actually make you stronger, but healing does. And if you feel like healing hasn't made you stronger than you were before, you're probably not done healing. You've got to give these things time to set.

[marzipanandminutiae]

the brightly coloured skinny jeans that Teens wore in the late '00s and early '10s were meant to denote where you stood in gang hierarchy. salmon was the highest rank and meant you had killed someone.

I think the funniest part of this is that, if you'd floated this idea at the time, at least some parents would have believed you.

[muaddibbler]

[un-monstre]

Disability will have you thinking shit like “I’m not even that disabled. I can manage as long as I limit myself to very specific careers, never go shopping for more than an hour or two at a time, keep my plans open so I can cancel and stay in if need be, and only go out a few nights per week at the most”

[madhatter1496]

[trickstertime]

I'm so tired I though they were talking about boats and artillery. "you built two boats with no cannons on board and then made them fuck???? Like the two trucks??? "

[warlordenfilade]

This post has reached the Transformers fandom. We will absolutely make two boats fuck, with AND without their cannons.

[mioxenoblade]

Captions shouldn't be censored. If the video says fuck or cum or cunt the captions should say the fucking word.

[dancing-jestress]

Unless it's a slur! No one needs to see that.

[mioxenoblade]

If they say a slur in the video, the captions should reflect it. The disabled are not little babies who have to have life sanitized for them.

[sunbummonkey]

okay but I feel like ur forgetting that slurs don't just apply to the disabled... children don't need to be seeing the n-word or other racial slurs??

[mioxenoblade]

but children DO need to be hearing it? are you actually reading the post here?

[pixelartpeach]

Here's how it works when subtitles are done properly:

Audio: Let's BEEP go! Subtitle: Let's (censor tone) go!

Audio: Let's fucking go! Subtitle: Let's fucking go!

Removing swears and slurs from the subtitles without removing it from the audio is implying that deaf/HoH people need babying, unlike their hearing friends and family sitting right next to them. Which is frustrating.

The point of subtitles is to give the same experience to everyone watching, regardless of ability—not to be a more palatable version of what's being said.

[fandomsandfeminism]

The purpose of subtitles/captions is to be accurate, that's all.

[cripple-culture-is]

cripple culture is not taking accessible options when they’re available because you feel bad for using them, and then realizing halfway through that “oh, maybe I’m the person these are meant for”

I relate to this so badly. As a child, I felt like an imposter for using accessible parking spots even though I have documentation. I feel bad using the disabled stall in bathrooms even though I'm physically disabled and sometimes using the smaller stalls is more difficult (especially now that I use a cane).

But you are just as deserving of using those accommodations as other disabled people are. There is no such thing as not being "disabled enough" to use those accommodations <3

[peoplegettingkindamadatfood]

[synthient]