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"Everyone's chronically ill nowadays.. surely this means everyone is faking"
Are you forgetting that COVID was a mass disabling event? That COVID never "ended"? That COVID severely impacted millions?
It's like.. you're so close. You're so close to the point. Please just think a little bit more instead of throwing logic out of the closest window and making ableist assumptions
When is it okay to use AI text to speech (TTS)? For this poll, any samples the TTS voice uses are from a voice actor who was paid fairly, and knew how their voice samples would be used.
Its never ok to use AI TTS, but its always ok for anyone to use non-ai TTS.
Its only ok to use AI TTS for a disability, but non-ai TTS is ok for anyone to use
Its only okay to use TTS for a disability, otherwise its never ok to use
Its never okay to use TTS
Other/show results
Hi anonymous! I will write this poll for you, but just a heads up - I'm expecting you might get people being offended considering that TTS is a crucial accessibility tool for many disabled people. It's the equivalent of asking "should a disabled person use a cane if that cane has been made by a machine and not handmade by a human?" I don't think you've asked this question with malice though, so I am approving it, but also adding an additional option for those of us (like me) who think both AI TTS and non-AI TTS is okay for anyone to use regardless of if they are disabled or fully able bodied :-)
When is it okay to use AI text to speech (TTS)?
It's never ok to use AI TTS, but it's always ok for anyone to use non-AI TTS
It's only ok to use AI TTS if disabled, but non-ai TTS is ok for anyone to use
It's only okay to use any TTS for a disability, otherwise it's never ok to use
It's always okay for anyone to use AI and non-AI TTS regardless of disability
It's never okay to use any TTS at all
Other opinion (comment)
Anonymous' explanation: For this poll, any samples the TTS voice uses are from a voice actor who was paid fairly, and knew how their voice samples would be used.
I know I'm not really in the Jayvik side of Jayce x Viktor shipping (VikJayce shipper here) and I really don't want to step on anyone's toes but I've been seeing a startling number of Jayvik next gen art pop up on my timeline. And almost every post I see has Viktor as the birthing parent. And I have to say that it makes me a lil uncomfy how like almost EVERY post has Viktor as the birthing parent.
Now, I have nothing against trans pregnancy or mpreg (I've written a lot of ABO and mpreg in life, shush).
No, my problem is that Viktor's the birther!
I'm not saying you can't be pregnant while sick or disabled, that's simply not true. I'm just saying that so many people making Viktor the pregnant party concerns me.
See, I'm a caretaker for my disabled sister. She is chronically ill, has chronic pain, and has terrible depression. Specifically, shi has pain in hir back, hip, and leg. She has been like this for over a decade now. There are days her significant other can't even do more than hold her hand or pet her arm when they're in bed because the pain's so fucking bad.
and I cannot tell you how many times shi has straight up told me shi never wants to be pregnant for so many fucking reasons. She talks about how the extra weight would make the pain unbearable. Tells me that if she were ever pregnant she'd probably be constantly in a wheelchair instead of being able to use her cane to get around. Plus, there's a very real chance shi couldn't take hir meds while pregnant so that would be a torment on hir mental health. I think about these conversations constantly whenever I see art of Viktor with babies. But again, I am not saying never give Jayvik kids. I'm just saying...
Please, for the love of God, knock up Jayce some of the time, people!
I love museums. Especially when I can bring my hyper fixation knowledge to help better understand the artifacts. Anyway here are my pocs from a recent trip to an air and space museum!
Pics and a tiny accessibility thought below!
The one thing from Sonic 3 that irks me is the erasure of Maria's disability as it's a big part of her story in the games. It could have been a good talking point with kids and their parents irl about illnesses, like how her death (she still gets violently mirked by GUN, just in a slightly different way) could be. I haven't even played the games, the movies being my main introduction to the franchise, but I did find out about Maria as well as Shadow's backstory in general through fandom exposure since the first two movies.
Sure, the writer's excuse could be "it isn't relevant to the plot" or "it's not supposed to be exactly like Sonic Adventure 2". But it still wierds me out that they included Maria but not her illness (that appears to be debilitating and would lead to death), which good or bad is a whole thing in her very short involvement in the game's story. It feels like taking away Tails' extra tail or Sonic's personality. Not to mention ableist.
So screw it Sonic 3 AU where pretty much everything is the same except Maria has her illness/disability.
Let's say there's a flashback where Shadow and Maria are playing as usual when she suddenly coughs and/or faints. Shadow tries to shake her awake (could be another foil later on when Sonic tries to wake Tom up after Shadow hurts him) when Gerald and the other scientists reach them.
Next shot or flashback for Shadow is him standing outside Maria's hospital room in the bases' infirmary (do military research bases have these? Idk. Let's say so for this AU) seeing her passed out in bed hooked up to machines and ivs. Gerald comes up to him and explains Maria's illness and that he brought her to the base because he thinks that the research they're doing with Shadow could stabilize or even cure her. Shadow agrees to do whatever testing is needed to help his friend/sister.
And the research actually helps ease Maria's symptoms and improve her quality of life where her and Shadow can play more often. But there are whispers between Gerald and some GUN agents that this is at the cost of the initial weapons research on the edgehog-to-be (please let me know if this wasn't what they were collecting his power for) and it turns into a verbal argument that both children can hear. Gerald notices and storms off to shoo them away or tuck them into bed or something.
Maybe on that infamous night Gerald was planning to leave the base for good, taking Maria, Shadow, and all the research related to him, with him all because GUN was shutting down the research that would benefit Maria to focus more on the initial goal of Project Shadow. Maybe they were shutting it all down due to a lack of results for the project's initial goal and not giving a crap about the side project for Maria.
Or maybe that night Gerald knew that GUN wanted more projects from him (cough cough, the giant nuclear space lazer station in the final act, cough cough) and he refused to give it to them for whatever reason (maybe hubris, I like to think that he had a lot of that in the movie before Maria's death and that this was a fatal flaw that indirectly resulted in it). So he tried to leave, taking just Shadow and Maria with him.
Maybe Maria's side project is why some of the GUN agents were willing to shoot her. Or maybe they were just heartless assholes, idk.
Maybe in the events after the movie in this AU, Stone meets up with Shadow and helps him continue "Project Maria" to help other children with the same illness in her memory.
Please let me know if I got anything wrong, I only saw the movie once so far and don't want to get anything wrong about the initial game's plot, as well as the movie's plot, or come off as ableist myself.
It is supremely annoying to know I have a legit learning disability but am also somehow “too smart” in the eyes of my past and present schools to actually receive the accommodations needed despite the fact that courses are rigged against my goddamn dopamine deficient brain. And of course. As a result, I end up scoring lower than I probably could if I were NORMAL.
“Just do the practice problems on your own time” ah yes those bitches that make me suffer for no dopamine reward BECAUSE THE TEACHER DOESNT GRADE THEM??? The things that feel pointless because my brain isn’t wired in a way that works for independent (non-special interest, non-graded) study??? Riddle me this; if so important, why brain forget when done? Why no focus? Why task feel not important???? Why taught in primary school homework=good because grade??????? Because shiny A+ sticker is good and sparkly???
I’M LITERALLY ASKING FOR A GRADE TO TRICK MY BRAIN INTO WORKING AND SOME OF PROFESSORS WON’T EVEN DO THAT!!!
GIVE ME GRADED HOMEWORKKKKKKK!!!!!
GIVE ME AN INCENTIVE FOR THE TASK LIKE AN ANIMAL BECAUSE MY BRAIN DOESNT FUNCTION LIKE A NORMAL HUMAN’S JESUSJGJIDNFJ
BABY NEED A FUCKING TREAT THAT ONLY YOU CAN GIVE BECAUSE I’M FERAL AND WILL JUST REWARD MYSELF WITH DOPAMINE IF I HAVE ACCESS TO IT BECAUSE MY BRAIN CHEMISTRY IS BROKEN, PEOPLE
I hate having ADHD because somehow it is simultaneously treated as a serious disability and also something a lot of people have and “it’s really not that impactful”, like babygirl. No. It can’t be both. You just want to make me feel as though I’m lesser and lazy when I’m neither because you know if I was normal I would whoop your ass in all subjects, don’t test me.
So we all know how if home alone followed real life physics, Marv and harry would be dead as hell-- at the VERY VERY LEAST, brutally injured--
Now let's say they simply end up brutally injured-- well, that means these fuckos have major brain damage and just body damage in general-- it gave me an idea a bit ago to try drawing Marv and harry with permanent injuries they suffered from the traps!
I'm still trying to do as much research as I can about physical disabilities and such, but I do have a basic idea in mind! Cause I kinda wanna write a fic about it at one point fjdndnd.
For one thing, Marv got electrocuted-- like, really badly (lethal levels, he SHOULD be dead but again, let's say they're somehow more durable than most humans) electrocution usually results in nerve issues, brain damage and amputation is the most common thing to happen, so I had an idea of Marv with an amputated hand and his other with some amputated fingers, and of course a tremor in his hands, as well as muscle pain and phantom pain--
Harry I don't think got anything that serious, Marv kinda got the worst of the traps-- him and Marv definitely have some back problems tho no doubt about it, and harry specifically has issues using his hand that got fuckin' branded-- that was a third degree burn, I'm surprised he still has feeling in that hand--
Harry def has brain damage as well, he got hit a good enough times, not as much as Marv but the injuries he and Marv faced in the first film explain their more aggressive and dumb behavior in the second film (even tho I doubt it was intended)
But yeah anyways, Marv and harry with disabilities bc I said so!~ (and cause how tf did they not acquire some, cause they SHOULD have been dead due to all that-- ESPECIALLY in the second film-- how tf are they alive..)
I still don't feel fully comfortable writing a fic discussing these things just yet, I wanna know more so I don't end up writing something that may either be offensive or inaccurate.
