Some Day Dear Heart

And this is: a bombardment of pictures, thoughts, and words. all mixed up a lot like my life.

[shittycryptids]

headless horseman but with a head

[covete]

i went to the intersection of desire and suffering and everybody knew you

[shynestar]

[tchaikovskaya]

cottagecore is out cloistercore is IN if you need me ill be manually transcribing a document by candlelight like a medieval monk

[ao3commentoftheday]

sometimes I'm amazed that people still quote vines, even though vine died in 2017

but then I remember that my parents still quote funny commercials from the 1960s and 70s

2 guys will still be chillin' in a hot tub 50+ years from now, and that's sort of comforting to think about

[hooved]

lemon is so so so fucking good in sweet food and savory food and spicy food and salty food and drinks. she has it all

[thingsworthsaving]

“As far as words go, ‘crying’ is louder and ‘weeping’ is wetter. When people explain the difference between the two to English-language learners they say that weeping is more formal, can sound archaic in everyday speech. You can hear this in their past tenses—the plainness of ‘cried’, the velvet cloak of ‘wept’. I remember arguing once with a teacher who insisted ‘dreamt’ was incorrect, dreamed the only proper option. She was wrong, of course, in both philological and moral ways, and ever since I’ve felt a peculiar attachment to the t’s of the past: weep, wept, sleep, slept, leave, left. There’s a finality there, a quiet completion, of which ’d’ has never dreamt.”

— Heather Christle, from The Crying Book

[cipheramnesia]

I will never stop thinking about my sociology professor who 15 years ago was like "yeah massive economic collapse is on the way and I'm pretty sure at this point there's no way to get out of capitalism except by violent revolution - not that I'm advocating it, I just honestly can't see anything else that would do it." And then the whole economy collapsed like one year latter and now capitalism is just sort of trudging its way through killing all human life on the planet while shrugging off every peaceful solution or caretaking position and anyway I think about that guy all the time. He really loved basketball.

[benpaddon]

Subtitles and Closed Captions that say things like “[SPEAKS GERMAN]” or “[SPEAKS NATIVE LANGUAGE]” are an accessibility failure and studios should do better.

I don’t care if the characters wouldn’t understand - a viewer who knows German will understand a German character.

[accessibleaesthetics]

Honestly, yeah. The only time captions should be doing this is if it’s a non-specific language (e.g., “alien language”) or a language that is not directly transcribable due to having no written form (e.g., Harsusi, pretty much any sign language, etc.).

You might be able to get away with this when using some fantasy languages too, especially if those languages really don’t have a set vocabulary or grammar (they’re just sounds being used for the sake of the story.) But if it’s a fantasy language that does have vocabulary and grammar, like Klingon or Sindarin, you really ought to be transcribing those word-for-word too.

[zypiris]

Hi, caption writer here. And I want you to understand that IT IS NOT OUR FAULT. This is not a choice that WE make. This is not something that we are even allowed to change.

First of all, the entire caption industry is contractors, just like Uber. And each company has a specific way they want those caption to be written. One of the easiest ways to tell which company had the contract for an episode is to see what punctuation is used for sound effects and speaker tags, which should clue you in that we are judged even on something as stupid as when exactly an ellipsis is allowed.

We are not allowed to transcribe foreign audio, even if we do know it. Because of the rushed timetable we are expected to keep, it’s not like we’d have time to look up words even if we were allowed to. Heck, we aren’t even allowed to *label* the language unless we are absolutely positive and sure 100%. And that file is ours. We are the only ones who see it, because otherwise they’d actually have to pay wages to real employees.

And then we get graded. Not even by actual employees, just by other trusted contractors. If our ratings drop below the threshold, our account is closed and that’s it. Done. Try another company. And here’s the thing.

Captioning is work done by people who can’t get anything else. I’m disabled, I have the stamina to work 10 hours a week, and no one will hire me for that short a time at a real job. I’m not artistic and I can’t write my own words, which left me with transcription and captions. Transcription make 10 cents per minute of audio. Captions make 50 cents per minute of audio.

I use captions as often as I can, I love them. And it breaks my heart every time I see a set where someone decided to get through it as fast as possible and cut every corner they could get away with. But it’s the industry that is broken. The industry that set itself up to move things as fast as possible, take advantage of the community it was serving TWICE, and resist any change that did not directly relate to their profit margin.

Fuck capitalism, not captioners. Fuck America-centered English captions, not the ones who write them. Fuck tightwad companies treating subs as an afterthought and picking only the company with the lowest rates, but that just cycles back around to Fuck Capitalism.

[thingsworthsaving]

“As far as words go, ‘crying’ is louder and ‘weeping’ is wetter. When people explain the difference between the two to English-language learners they say that weeping is more formal, can sound archaic in everyday speech. You can hear this in their past tenses—the plainness of ‘cried’, the velvet cloak of ‘wept’. I remember arguing once with a teacher who insisted ‘dreamt’ was incorrect, dreamed the only proper option. She was wrong, of course, in both philological and moral ways, and ever since I’ve felt a peculiar attachment to the t’s of the past: weep, wept, sleep, slept, leave, left. There’s a finality there, a quiet completion, of which ’d’ has never dreamt.”

— Heather Christle, from The Crying Book

[m3ws-moved-deactivated20240715]

sometimes you just have to. just have to stand in a ray of light and be warm for a minute

[memewhore]

[wizardpotions]

a wizard should not be measured by the size of his hat but by the gayness of his earrings

[g4yr4t]

(consent is important with non-sexual touch too)

[hortensius-deactivated20240909]

i loooove toxic and codependent relationships in fiction. they are so narratively juicy. if they don’t even warp and mangle each other to the point they create a single, fucked up entity then what’s the point.

[everythingstarstuff]

[theworsethingsgettheharderifight]

me in 2025 after my 9th moderna booster

[cowboyjen68]

Three butch friends of mine finishing the basement of my first house around 1996.   They worked for beer, and not even anything fancy. 

[cowboyjen68]

Another set of butch friends (and me) finishing the ceiling in the garage of my house. Once again, they worked for beer. And food, but nothing fancy.