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#bw: out of ethos #bw: promo #bw: selfpromo #bw: mungifs #bw: munedits #billiepiperedit #a: billie piper #tv: i hate suzie #tv: secret diary of a call girl #ep: s04e08 a day of reckoning #ep: s01e08 acceptance #tv: penny dreadful #ep: s03e02 predators far and near #themadvigilantist #drbabygirl #nosewitch #tardis500 #egyptroyal #pennybraddock

orteil42

why do closed captions keep pretending english is the only intelligible language? when a character speaks spanish what exactly is forcing your hand to transcribe it as "[speaks foreign language]" rather than "Si"

concerningwolves

This intersection of Anglocentric bias + ableism and audism makes my blood boil.

People commonly defend this practise with "But the audience isn't meant to understand!" or "It's inconsequential!", neither of which actually address a) their assumption that the [ideal Anglo] audience wouldn't understand, or, perhaps most crucially in the context of CCs, b) that this is a failure of accessibility. A hearing person who speaks that "foreign" language will know exactly what's being said. A deaf or HoH person – the people CCs are primarily intended for – who speaks or reads that language should therefore have the exact same opportunity to understand. It very much feels to me like an assumption that we deaf and HoH people couldn't possibly understand any language but English, so there's no point in getting those languages transcribed for us. I hope it goes without saying how profoundly audist that sentiment is.

There is also, I think, a profound misunderstanding or ignorance of Deaf culture at play. Which is to say, CCs in English-language media are written with not only the assumption that the audience will be native English speakers, but that all d/Deaf and HoH people speak English as their first language, so all other languages are as supposedly foreign to them as they are for hearing people. But sign languages are their own distinct language. BSL, ASL, ISL, AusLan, NZSL etc ≠ English (and are indeed different from one another), LIS ≠ Italian, JSL ≠ Japanese, and so on. So, if you follow the captioners' logic to its natural extreme, all non-signed dialogue is "foreign" to many d/Deaf and HoH people and should therefore be labelled [speaks foreign language] / [speaks English] / [speaks own language] / etc. – which is, obviously, a terrible idea that perfectly highlights all the biases implicit in closed captioning.

TL;DR: your accessibility feature fails in its function as soon as you fail to transcribe all spoken languages.

polytropic-liar

Quick reminder that if you live in an EU Member State, those captions are not compliant with the European Accessibility Act and you can report the platform or company! EU folks please do this if you can; forcing multinational companies to comply with the EAA has a very good chance of making them simply standardize compliance, even in counties that don't have a version of this law.

#bw: psa #{yeah can we get someone to transcribe the italian in the five napoleons in jeremy brett's sherlock ep please?}#{and the other languages throughout!!! [speaks unintelligible language] ITS FARSI [sings in indian] JUST TRANSLATE IT!}

giftheplanet

Phina Oruche

The Forsaken (2001)

Dir. J. S. Cardone

#a: phina oruche #film: the forsaken #c: cym

talesfromthecrypts

Phina Oruche as Cym in The Forsaken (2001)

#a: phina oruche #c: cym #film: the forsaken

partywithponies

Most fuckable Classic Who Doctor?

One

Two

Three

Four

The Watcher

Five

Six

Valeyard

Seven

Eight

Shalka

one of the Morbius Doctors

Remaining time: 4 days 19 hours

#{why is shalka so low? like look at him???}#{did no one that watched the little vampire (2000) thought the vampire dad was hot?}#bw: out of ethos

movementnudge

Movement nudge, hand mobility! 🙌

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ruffboi-mags

1) do this even if you're under 40. seriously. I definitely should have been doing something like this for years and I only turned 40 a month and a half ago

2) if you're like me just now trying this going "oh god i've only done 15 and i think my hands are cramping" start lower than 30 and increase by 5 once whatever number you're doing no longer makes your hand cramp up. I can manage about 15 per exercise at the moment.

creations-by-chaosfay

If you're hypermobile, be especially gentle.

#bw: out of ethos #bw: video #bw: reference

katestewartt

Every time I check doctor who tag, there is at least one person being racist about a character of color. I read your "I'm glad Danny Pink died, he was useless", "Mickey was so dumb", "Bill Potts had no actual character", "Fifteen just cried a lot and was one-dimensional" and other bullshit takes and block on the spot.

#bw: out of ethos