what becomes of the shepherd when the sheep are cannibals?

"we gotta make a decision: leave tonight or live and die this way." / multifandom (atla, pjo, soc, etc). canon and crackship enjoyer. they/them

[weird-and-contemplative]

what happens to the shepherd when the sheep are cannibals?

☀ they/them, aroace, mid 20s. loves parallels, foils, and religious imagery

☀ writeblr with snippets from my OG novels / sort of an artblr, aka draw every day challenge

☀ multifandom. mostly atla, pjo, six of crows, legend of zelda, star wars (prequels), httyd, & wicked, + spiderverse, ace attorney, and musical theatre in general.

☀ analysis for said fandoms, mostly atla and wicked. i like canon (fiyeraba, kataang, maiko, kanej, anidala, percabeth, gwiles) and non-canon ships (gelphie, zukaang, azulaang, finnrey, obikin). for httyd, i'm platonic/gen bond focused

☀ fave characters: aang, kaz brekker, inej ghafa, (show!)grover underwood, padme amidala, finn, core wicked trio, hiccup&toothless, snotlout

[angelicdust]

[wovi]

[feral-ballad]

Tishani Doshi, from Everything Begins Elsewhere; “Cutting Broccoli”

[girlfictions]

Mary Oliver, from On Meditating, Sort Of

[adaines-furious-fan]

We should use this image whenever we see poor reading comprehension on a post

[heyhanibee]

my fav airbender💨💨

[tadpole-art]

Saw this hairstyle on Pinterest and knew I had to draw Toph with it >_<

[slytherverse]

i say this in all seriousness, a great way to resist the broad cultural shift of devaluing curiosity and critical thinking is to play my favorite game, Hey What Is That Thing

you play it while walking around with friends and if you see something and don't know what it is or wonder why its there, you stop and point and say Hey What Is That Thing. and everyone speculates about it. googling it is allowed but preferably after spending several minutes guessing or asking a passerby about it

weird structures, ambiguous signs, unfamiliar car modifications, anything that you can't immediately understand its function. eight times out of ten, someone in the group actually knows, and now you know!

a few examples from me and my friends the past few weeks: "why is there a piece of plywood sticking out of that pond in a way that looks intentional?" (its a ramp so squirrels that fall in to the pond can climb out) • "my boss keeps insisting i take a vacation of nine days or more, thats so specific" (you work at a bank, banks make employees take vacation in long chunks so if youre stealing or committing fraud, itll be more obvious) • "why does this brick wall have random wooden blocks in it" (theres actually several reasons why this could be but we asked and it was so you could nail stuff to the wall) • "most of these old factories we drive past have tinted windows, was that just for style?" (fun fact the factory owners realized that blue light keeps people awake, much like screen light does now, so they tinted the windows blue to keep workers alert and make them work longer hours)

been playing this game for a long time and ive learned (and taught) a fuckton about zoning laws, local history, utilities (did you know you can just go to your local water treatment plant and ask for a tour and if they have a spare intern theyll just give you a tour!!!) and a whole lot of fun trivia. and now suddenly you're paying more attention when youre walking around, thinking about the reasons behind every design choice in the place you live that used to just be background noise. and it fuckin rules.

[miiilowo]

People talk all the time about autistic people not understanding others but there's also the accursed autistic "saying exactly what you wanna say, straight to the point, very little nuance & then people misinterpret it because they assume there's a hidden nonliteral meaning" phenomenon

[miss-wizard]

jung just appeared before me and told me im actually a new archetype called the Special Princess and that everyone has to be nice to me or he will get his cruel mage jaques lacan to trap you in a mirror

[shore-birds]

screencap redraw while I try to shake off art block

[valencians]

you cannot headcanon your way out of overt thematic structures on which the entire narrative is built

[macabre-muses]

“Movies are dreams! And they work on you subliminally. You can play Leia as capable, independent, sensible, a solder, a fighter, a woman in control—control being, of course, a lesser word than master. But you can portray a woman who’s a master and get through all the female prejudice if you have her travel in time, if you add a magical quality, if you’re dealing in fairy-tale terms. People need these bigger-than-life projections.”

Carrie Fisher to Rolling Stone magazine, 1983

[sodajerk]

[identitty-dickruption]

hello disabled person who is dithering about whether or not to ask for a certain accommodation because you could "technically survive without it". that is the devil talking. you are allowed to demand more than "technically surviving". the world is a shitty ableist place, but if you have the chance to have your needs met in any tiny way you are allowed to take it. and yes, it's still a need even if you can kind of almost technically mostly survive without it

[luulapants]

If we wanted to engage in nuance (lol, lmao) on the "are audiobooks reading" debate, we really do need to bring literacy, and especially blind literacy, into the conversation.

Because, yes, listening to a story and reading a story use mostly the same parts of the brain. Yes, listening to the audiobook counts as "having read" a book. Yes, oral storytelling has a long, glorious tradition and many cultures maintained their histories through oral history or oral + art history, having never developed a true written language, and their oral stories and histories are just as valid and rich as written literature.

We still can't call listening in the absence of reading "literacy."

The term literacy needs to stay restricted to the written word, to the ability to access and engage with written texts, because we need to be able to talk about illiteracy. We need to be able to identify when a society is failing to teach children to read, and if we start saying that listening to stories is literacy, we lose the ability to describe those systemic failures.

Blind folks have been knee-deep in this debate for a long time. Schools struggle to provide resources to teach students Braille and enforcing the teaching of Braille to low-vision and blind children is a constant uphill battle. A school tried to argue that one girl didn't need to learn Braille because she could read 96-point font. Go check what that is. The new prevalence of audiobooks and TTS is a huge threat to Braille literacy because it provides institutions with another excuse to not provide Braille education or Braille texts.

That matters. Braille-literate blind and low-vision people have a 90% employment rate. For those who don't know Braille, it's 30%. Braille literacy is linked to higher academic success in all fields.

Moving outside the world of Braille, literacy of any kind matters. Being able to read text has a massive impact on a person's ability to access information, education, and employment. Being able to talk about the inability to read text matters, because that's how we're able to hold systems accountable.

So, yes, audiobooks should count as reading. But, no, they should not count as literacy.

[naamahdarling]

Finally, a good fucking take.