#classist language

[kallistoriae]

i firmly believe classical scholars who insert random sentences in latin and greek with no translation in their papers should kill themselves

[catwouthats]

My favorite thing about the Deadpool and Wolverine movie is that EVERYONE has a distinct voice filled with personality and their history.

Not just Gambit, everyone

Gambits might be the “most obvious” or most talked about, but GOD I LOVE ALL THE DIFFERENT DIALECTS AND SLANG. AND SHIT IN THIS MOVIE

THINK OF HOW BLADE SPEAKS COMPARED TO WADE COMPARED TO LAURA COMPARED TO CASSANDRA AND AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

There are so many different cultures, histories, and personal stories/explanations packed in to everyone’s voices.

[engagemy-others]

I say we rename "The Dirt Under Your Nails" to something less stupidly classist. my vote is for "Mel You Are So Hot I'm So In Love With You" but I'm open to other suggestions

[haruspexism]

personally I think nanowrimo would have been much better off if they'd said "technically we can't stop you from using generative AI" instead of a weird social justice perspective thing that doesn't make sense in the context they used said language in but nano had already lost my respect since last year when they took forever to respond to the reports of that one moderator being a groomer

[systemserendipity]

⚠️Long rant incoming; stg it's relevant to the video lol⚠️

As a child-- born and raised in a poor, rural area of NY State-- I grew up with an Appalachian dialect. Think steretypical "hillbilly talk." That's more than likely how I sounded.

I'll never forget the first time I was actively condemned for it. I was about eight years old, and went to a "big city" without my parents for the first time ever (keep in mind, this place had a population of a lil over 210K).

We went for a weekend youth conference; and that hellhole deserves a few posts unto itself. But the point is this: I had dressed myself up in my fanciest, once-annual formal clothes. I remember feeling so proud of myself for being able to walk in the five-inch stiletto heels I always kept tucked away in my closet.

But, the adult leader of my group *hated me.* For reasons that I wouldn't realize until much later. Compared to all the brand-name outfits, expensive hair products and accessories of my peers, I appeared lesser somehow. Let alone when I *spoke.*

The first time that leader heard my voice, she actually gasped-- and proceeded to berate me on my "lack of manners" and "proper grammar." She specifically hissed at me:

"Do they even teach *English* where you come from??"

For the rest of that conference, I dared not utter a single word.

But, when I got home, I swore myself to-- essentially-- selective mutism. To *only* speak unless I was *absolutely* sure it was "correct." And proceeded to correct not only myself, but everyone around me, until roughly my college years; i.e. once I got to meet more diverse people and unlearn my maladaptive trauma responses.

And, so, ya wanna know *why* this happened?

Because language policing targets *multiple* minorities. It targets the racially diverse, as well as the poor, and so much more.

If you "sound poor," no matter how you look, you will immediately be judged-- no matter your age, gender, etc. Gods forbid you sound like any other minority on top of that.

So, yeah. The next time you feel irritated by-- or wish to reprimand-- someone's "incorrect" way of speaking, think about the *why.*

Because, looking back, I'm sure that group leader was merely trying to help; at least, we hope that they weren't being malevolent towards a small child. However, they let implicit biases command their actions, rather than thinking about the consequences of said actions.

So, think: is the correction I'm about to make because it actually matters, or because it's impacting my impression?

-Griffin🦅(he/they)

[lizardsfromspace]

NaNoWriMo, the competition whose raison d'etre is making people write actual words for a month, declaring that you can do writing with AI is a predictably inane choice. But coaching their statement in social justice language about how banning AI is classist and ableist, now that elevates it to the sublimely dopey

[yanderenightmare]

TW: yandere, classism, degradation, possessiveness, obsessiveness, blackmail

gn reader - feminine clothing (jewelry: earrings, necklace)

Thinking about your rich boyfriend…

Rich boyfriend – who buys you clothes and jewelry every time you have a date, even when you tell him you feel bad receiving them all – that you have nowhere to wear such nice things – that a simple date is really more than enough. 

Rich boyfriend – who ignores you with a smile and shake of his head, asking you how you expect him to stop when you’re just the absolute cutest? Looking at him with those moon-big eyes, humble crinkle between your brows, and your lip tucked nervously between your teeth to keep from gawking. 

Rich boyfriend – who orders for you at all the restaurants he takes you to because he knows you’ve never been anywhere like it. Looking so adorably lost in your seat, flushed when staring at the menu written in a language you can’t read – knowing even if you could, you still wouldn't know what any of it meant. You’re so, so, so precious – eyes peeled like you’re a pet who’s just been allowed at the table for the first time.

Rich boyfriend – who plays four instruments, speaks five languages, went to an Ivy League institution, and will inherit his entire family’s business being the spoiled only child that he is.

Rich boyfriend – who just loves the messy household you grew up in – loves how you and your siblings interact with each other, looking like a bundle of pups all crammed in the same cage at a pet store – how your childhood bedroom is the size of his closet – filled with all sorts of trinkets you’ve kept growing up – stuff that would usually wind up in the trash at his house – polaroids of you as a teenager, past boyfriends in kissing booths, prom pictures, concert tickets, and old rusty friendship lockets. 

It’s all so… He scoffs. The word for it escapes him.

Suppose he doesn’t quite recognize the pricelessness of sentimental value as opposed to something actually sellable – but he finds it cute that you do. 

Though, it bothers him to some degree as well… that you would value an old pair of earrings gifted you by your grandmother instead of the actual antique diamond pair he’d procured for you. After all, one was a real historic piece worth a fortune a Russian duchess had snuck into England during the war, and the other was old junk made by a noname jeweler.

Rich boyfriend – who chokes on his spit when you sit him down and tell him you want to break up – who thinks he’s misheard – that you’re joking, playing some uncultured game he’s never been exposed to, some ill-taste past-time only poor people do to escape their bitter reality. 

But you’re not joking… 

You’re breaking up with him…You.. You… broke trash of worker-class scum… you’re breaking up with him?

You give him back all his gifts in a cardboard box – telling him you’re grateful but that you truly don’t have any use for such things – that you think your worlds are too different to coincide. 

Of course, you refrain from telling him you think he’s a classist snob. You have a feeling it would have gone completely over his head if you’d tried anyway, so there really was no point to it.

Rich ex-boyfriend – who’s never been told no in his entire life…

Rich ex-boyfriend – who buys your street and plans on scrapping it to make brand new mansions in a project he dubs “cleaning up the slums” – evicting and putting you and your entire family out of the home you’d spent your entire life growing up in.

Rich ex-boyfriend – who thinks you’re crawling back to him when you schedule an appointment at his office – who thinks you’re going to come in with bleary wet eyes and grovel like the lowly peasant you are – let him save you from poverty and homelessness, make you his charity case – his pretty diamond in the rough who’s never quite able to wash all the coal off.

Rich ex-boyfriend – who trashes that same office when you leave after having given him the address to the pawnshop you sold the one pearl necklace you’d kept as a token of your relationship – telling him he should feel free to go down there and get it back – that you’re using the money to buy a better house and you just wanted to come and thank him for that. 

Of course, you wanted to slap him too – spit on his tie or maybe just take a piss on his desk – but you left it at that.

Rich ex-boyfriend – whose next move is to buy your family business, who hires a private eye to dig up dirt on you and all your family, burying you in fines from age-old petty crimes, gets you kicked from your scholarship.

Rich ex-boyfriend – who goes to that pawnshop and reports the pearl necklace as a stolen item and has the police arrest you. Spinning a story about how he thought you were this humble sweet thing, only for you to rob him behind his back.

Rich ex-boyfriend – who comes to visit you in the custody suite where you sit cooped up with all the other wretched mutts on the cold concrete floors – scolding you for making him come down to a dirty police precinct, for having him breathe the same air as all the lowlives held up there.

Rich ex-boyfriend – who tells you he’ll make it all go away.

He’ll drop the charges, let your family keep their house – or buy them an even better one, whichever you prefer – he’ll even promote your family business and pay for all your siblings' education – he’ll give you everything. 

Anything you want, it’s yours.

But he owns you.

BNHA – Bakugou, Shoto, Dabi, Hawks, Overhaul

JJK – Sukuna, Gojo, Naoya

HQ – Oikawa, Sakusa, Miya twins

BLLK – Reo, Rin

HxH – Illumi

[botaniqueer]

Also no matter how good things are here, we are still a settler colony and that alone warrants condemnation of the highest degree. I am an American settler and make no excuses for myself and the country that grants me privilege; I have said this a lot on this blog, but there's no ethical way for the US (or similar states like Canada) to exist.

Also it's not like the dismantlement of the US is going to cause me to instantly die or evaporate like the Americans in the notes think. It just means I won't be occupying a ruling caste above the Indigenous people and other people the US colonizes. (Which is a good thing!) If I and people I know can understand this then I expect other US settlers to understand this as well. What a lot of Americans do when they complain about decolonization is imply that it is right and correct that they get to be petty tyrants and that's "just the way the world is".

the US education system isn't even that bad. many countries have objectively worse-funded education systems, but don't display the same belligerent idiocy as them. the fundamental issue is that USAmericans have no real reason to care about the rest of the world, as it will never meaningfully affect their lives unless they decide to go on vacation or take part in an invasion. their lack of intellectual curiosity is because the rest of the world never really registers as a real place.

[nexusrasp]

the second the internet decided "language prescriptivism" was always classist and elitist, then descriptivism became always righteous and good, and any time language changed or evolved one must simply accept it because that is what language does, there is never any need to examine why it changed, what that change means, or who it serves.

[sheyfu]

in sleepless nights, i find solitude in you

FEATURING itoshi sae, itoshi rin, oliver aiku, chigiri hyoma, mikage reo, nagi seishiro, and shoei barou

CW oliver aiku

SYNOPSIS what they like to do on sleepless nights with you

NOTE these are hcs and are not reflective of their characters!

⋆˚✿˖° itoshi sae - hearing you talk about your day

- a mundane, yet intimate moment between you two - he finds it so endearing when you talk about your day and get so passionate about it too - he just loves hearing your voice; the way you speak, the way your voice just sliiightly raises when you’re telling him about some person you abhor (big boy word), and the way you ask him for his thoughts on something you’re yapping about makes him feel like the luckiest guy in the whole world - you both end up not sleeping D: but it’s okay, he’s not complaining because it’s you

⋆˚✿˖° itoshi rin - binge watching horror movies

- you hate him for this. - but at the same time, you love it because he holds you close to him - he knows you’re scared, especially when it’s ass o’clock in the evening (more like morning) and your room’s only source of light is the television. so he holds you tight :D - he has the urge to make fun of you because you’re oh so scared, but he stops himself from doing so because he loves holding you close

⋆˚✿˖° oliver aiku - holding you close to him (in his words, spooning)

- surprisingly, he’s not horny  - i guess bc of practice, he’s tired and he just wants to de-stress and go on about his night without tiring himself out more, you included (LMAO NOT ME SPEAKING LIKE IM GANG W GREEN GALLAGHER) - so he holds you close :D  - and its not like the hold you close and talk about stuff type either - literally the hold you close and sit in silence type with occasional kisses from him :D 

⋆˚✿˖° chigiri hyoma - gossip (okay so some of you probably don't tolerate gossip but gossip culture has been SUUUUCH a big part of my life that i cant help but associate it w chigiri im so sorry you can bitch slap me for this LMAOAOAO ANWYAYS)

- he loves gossiping. he usually has THE ggoat (greatest gossip of all time) - this usually ranges from people he works closely with, or people he knows but that person doesn't know him but for some reason the news reached him LMAOAAOA  - for some reason, he also has visual references??? like if theyre related to texting he has screenshots of their convo???? if irl, he has pictures????? YOU DONT KNOW HOW HE GETS THOSE 😭😭 (based this hc off my friend who has everything for some reason 😭😭) - and most of the time theyre literally so mind-boggling you have to stop him and walk around the room to calm your beating heart down - he also loves using a soundboard while doing so LMOAOAOAO

⋆˚✿˖° mikage reo - slow dancing

- ah yes. the typical rich boy activities. - but like even if he wasnt born in that class (GANG DONT TWIST MY WORDS IM NOT A CLASSIST WLANSISOS), he'd most likely still love doing this (idk theres smth about him that js makes me think he would love dancing) - in the kitchen, dimmed lights, his hands on your waist, yours on his shoulders, herb alpert playing in the background, and his lips on your forehead  - im leaving it at that :))

⋆˚✿˖° nagi seishiro - playing roblox

- typical nagi.  - what roblox games you ask? dress to impress. - he likes playing simple games at night. and those simple games dont include dress to impress :)) - buuuut. he still plays it because the satisfaction he gets from beating 12 year olds outweigh the stress he gets from said 12 year olds - he loves to duo with you - literally caseoh just more nonchalant - he also likes to play those 2 player tycoons :DD

⋆˚✿˖° shoei barou - baking

- his love language is quality time  - and what’s more quality than baking time >:D - hes not someone for consuming sugar at ass o’clock. but he’ll tolerate it bc it makes you happy :DD  - he has those #probakingskillz bc he used to bake TONS of stuff with and for his sisters (HE ALSO BAKES THEIR GIRL SCOUT COOKIES GRAHHHHHHHH) - you also make him wear those silly pink frilly aprons (you have matching aprons but instead of yours being pink and frilly its literally the opposite) 

© sheyfu on tumblr

[hermiones-amortentia]

Does the Weasley bashing stem from their horrible portrayal in movies or there's another reason behind it aka good ol' classism?

Arthur is seen as this aloof, dumb, airhead guy who only talks about rubber ducks. When he is one of the prominent members of the order of the phoenix, exclusively fights death Eaters, is reasonably intelligent and has strong moral compass. Meanwhile Lucius is seen as this badass intelligent suave powerful guy who loses to a couple of 15 yos in the department of mysteries fight.

Molly treats harry as her own son. She risks her life and his family to keep harry safe. She actively fights against deatheaters. She literally never takes a single penny from Harry. But she is seen as this overbearing toxic boy mom who apparently steals from Harry's vault, uses love potion on Harry and Hermione and plots with dumbledore to pimp her daughter. Meanwhile Narcissa the racist, classist, bigoted woman who was gleefully watching an 18 yo girl getting crucioed in her own house by her mad sister is seen as this aristocrat, progressive muggleborn lover wholesome mom who only wants her son to be safe.

Both Narcissa and Molly are housewives. I see numerous people complaining how it's out of character for Molly to kill Bellatrix in a duel when she is an active member of the order for years. While the same people do not give a f that Narcissa lied to the most powerful occlumence in the world. No one says it's out of character.

Don't get me started on Percy and his redemption. Percy came back to his senses, apologized, fought in the battle of Hogwarts. One of the best redemptions after kreacher's. Yet I see no one's salivating over it since people claim to love redemption so much. Yet the fangirling over Regulus Black's futile attempt to get the locket after his slave was harmed by voldemort or Draco Malfoy being the bare minimum king not killing dumbledore face to face are seen as peak redemption.

Also while we are on this topic, Percy got more OWLs than Hermione. He is extremely academic and bright. Why does no one say Percy is Hermione's 'intellectual equal' when so called 'hermione fans' are all about finding her intellectual equal?

Ron. Oh dear ol Ron. Where to start? Boy gets 7 OWLs with mostly Es, is a chess prodigy, can mimic a language that is almost impossible for anyone to copy, is praised by a qualified auror for his combative skills, can conjure slugs with a nonverbal spell in second year, is witty, sarcastic yet he is 'dumb' and 'stupid'. Meanwhile the guy whose father openly says that if his marks don't improve he would have to become a thief or a plunderer and who takes an entire year to fix the vanishing cabinet is seen this smartest wizard in his year. Hermione's true intellectual equal. Ron who gloats about his wife's success and intellect and is her biggest cheerleader is seen as 'he would hold her back and would resent her success' meanwhile the guy who verbally emotionally as well as physically abused her for being a muggleborn, for being smart, is seen as this progressive feminist icon.

Also there's this notion that Ron would want a wife similar to his mother and would prefer a house wife when Ron's one of the biggest insecurities is his mom doesn't love him and he is Expendable. He would keep his wife barefeet pregnant like his mom when his wife became the minister of magic. Meanwhile the progressive feminist icon's wife is a house wife. Not that there's anything wrong in being a house wife. I am just pointing out the irony.

Ginny hate is a combination of both classism and mysogyny. She dated 2 guys before Harry so she is a wh***. Meanwhile Hermione who dated 2 guys before Ron is pure virgin mary.

Bill while not as much bashed as the others is still accused of stealing from Harry's vault, love potioning Fleur and helping dumbles to execute his plan.

Fred George and Charlie get the least amount of hate because

1. They didn't come in the way of people's non canon ships.

2. They are not as relevant as the other Weasleys. So it's easy to ignore them.

The amount of classism and aporophobia Weasleys face is insane.

[i-will-physically-fight-you]

I think something that's fascinating in the AI discussion is how non-creatives perceive AI versus how many creatives perceive AI.

For example, years before AI was a thing--I spoke with someone about my creative writing projects and they expressed to me how they found it unfathomable that I could just make up entire worlds far removed from our reality of existence. To them, it was like magic.

To me, it was the culmination of countless hours spent playing with words until they flowed into semi-coherent lines of thought and emotion. I remember being ten years old and laboring away on my "biggest" novel project ever--it was 5k words full of singular sentence-long paragraphs and garbled heaps of grammar atrocities to the English language.

If I hadn't written it, I wouldn't have come to learn how to create the basic foundations of a story.

But I do get the "it's magic" sentiment a bit--I'm that way with music. Theoretically, I understand the components of a music composition but it feels like magic to see a musician that can listen to a tune for the first time and play it perfectly due to years of honing in their craft.

That's the premise of that quote from Arthur C. Clarke: "Magic's just science we don't understand yet."

When it comes to anything we don't have countless hours of experience with, it feels like magic. It feels like something that's outside of our feeble human capabilities. It's not until we start to put in the time to learn a skill that it becomes more attainable inside our heads.

Generative AI presents a proposition to the non-creative: "What if you could skip past the 'learning process' and immediately create whatever art of your choosing?"

It's instant dopamine. In a world that preys upon our ever-decreasing attention spans and ways of farming short spikes of dopamine, was it ever a surprise that generative ai would be capitalized in this fashion?

So for the non-creative, when they use generative AI and see something resembling their prompt, it feels good. They are "writing" stories, they are "making" art in ways they could never do with their lack of skills.

(It is, in fact, really cool that we have technology that can do this. It's just incredibly shitty that it's exploitative of the human artists whose works were taken without permission as well as its existence threatening their livelihoods.)

What I think is equally concerning as the data scraping of generative ai is the threat that AI imposes on the education of the arts. More and more, you see an idea being pushed that you don't need knowledge/experience in how to create art, all you need to do is feed prompts into generative ai and let it do the "work" for you.

Generative AI pushes the idea that all art should be pristine, sleek and ready for capitalism consumption. There is no room for amateur artists struggling like foals to take their first steps in their creative journeys. We live in a world where time is money and why "waste" time learning when you can have instant success?

It's a dangerous concept because presents a potential loss in true understanding of how art works. It obscures it and makes it seem "impossible" to the average person, when art is one of the freest forms of expressions out there.

It's already happening--Nanowrimo, the writing challenge where the entire point was writing 50k original words in a single month regardless of how pretty it looked--coming out and saying that it is ableist and classist to be opposed to AI is the canary in the coalmine of what's to come.

For the non-creatives who enjoy the generative ai, it feels like a power fantasy come to life. But for creatives concerned about generative ai?

We're living in a horror movie.

[untitledlurkingproject]

S1 Stolas and the Topic of Coercion

Hello! I'm new to Tumblr and just wanted a space to express some feelings I have about Helluva Boss. I've been seeing a lot of discourse/outright anger about "Stolas coercing Blitz," and I wanted to give my two cents. I want to preface by saying that I am a SA survivor, and an adult. Here's my take, and I invite others to share theirs.

The deal between Stolas and Blitz has coercive overtones due to the structure and inherent power imbalance, but it never materializes into actual coercion. We never see Stolas enforce or weaponize the deal.

Blitz is also shown craving the arrangement (especially evident in Truth Seekers and Full Moon), and Blitz does not wear his true emotions on his sleeves (i.e. We see him glaring at Stolas often, but has a soft look in a picture he took of Stolas, while Stolas was asleep.) Blitz constantly says things he doesn't mean, not only to Stolas, but to M&M (calling their relationship "too wholesome for his taste" and "boring af.") His lack of honesty obviously stems from his fear with intimacy, as stated outright in Truth Seekers. He also demonstrates repeatedly that he feels comfortable saying no to sex (Ozzie’s, and lines from Oops). You can't coerce someone into doing something they already want to do and feel comfortable saying no to.

Stolas may hold institutional and magical power, but emotionally and sexually, he hands that power over to Blitz—allowing Blitz to dictate the pace, the tone, and the boundaries of their interactions. ("If that's what you want to play.") That’s where Blitz’s own intentional manipulation comes into play, followed by unintentional ("he can get hurt?") harm.

So, yes, the deal has coercive elements, but Stolas doesn't coerce Blitz. Stolas fundamentally is not a coercive character, and Stolas's good intentions and lack of good communication are why he does away with the deal. Blitz's anger at Ozzie's makes him concerned that Blitz doesn't even like being around him. Stolas's concern becomes, "I thought he liked me for my money and body (and I hoped for more), but if he doesn't like me, then am I just making him have sex with me? That's not fair." He relates that to the only experiences he has, of being stuck in an abusive, arranged marriage. Though Stolas's concerns about Blitz's consent are extremely valid and SO important, the sex obviously wasn't Blitz's issue. Blitz's issue is the belittling and classist comments that make him feel less than and feeds into his insecurities of not being good enough to be with someone like Stolas. It's very obvious that pre-Ozzie's Stolas is not honest about his feelings, and he uses that language since it is normalized in amongst all classes of hell, not just Ars Goetia. (Millie calls Loona "the hellhound" for most of the show. Blitz calls Verosika a "suck-u-bit) He wears that kind of language as he does his expensive regalia, but when he thinks Blitz is taking the relationship to the next step in Ozzie’s, he drops the act. That's why we never see him use those terms like "impish plaything" in Ozzie's or onward. It's clear that he actually does see Blitz as his equal (bowing, "I don't care if you're of lower station," thinking he'll die for Blitz when they exchange places on the chopping block).

Just because a structure has the potential for coercion doesn’t mean coercion is actually taking place.

Those are just my thoughts, and I wanted to hear yours! Do you think my takes are accurate?

[afriendlylittlehobbit]

I used to be such a grammar bitch. And then I grew up.

Is it “grammatically correct” to start a sentence with “and”? Technically, no. Does it make the pacing of my story better? Absolutely. Not to mention all of the racist, classist, and ableist implications that enforcing Standard English entails.

Start your sentences with a conjunction. I don’t care. We made language up. We continue to make language up.

[menlove]

people loooove to douse very conservative and classist ideas in progressive language to make it palatable like. i s2g if I hear One More Person being like "ummmm if you're not financially well off yet you don't deserve to have kids that's abusive and neglectful" I may actually lose my fucking mind. no, growing up poor isn't great! it sucks sometimes! but that's not bc your parents should never have had children, it's bc we live in a shitty classist society like am I losing my mind? when did saying "poor people shouldn't have kids and only rich people should reproduce" become a bog standard leftist take? like think about what you're saying for even Two seconds. what you're saying is that poor people should die out. sit with that. think about the types of people that have money. think about the types of people that don't. rotate in your mind who you're saying shouldn't reproduce. shut the fuck up.

[timkontheunsure]

Blitz's has dyslexia 🙂

Him singing it is just so cute.

He dose know the alphabet as Blitz gets it right right after this. So this is an ordering issue.

(I still have to use the alphabet song to get it right, and worked at a library for a while and used to tutor English).

Dyscalculia is a fairly normal side effect of dyslexia, and is under the same umbrella term.

This can make estimating groups on the fly very difficult.

Blitz struggles to switch language tracks, and doesn't pick up that Loona's making a joke out of he skinning the manly meat with the manly men.

Blitz is normally great at these sorts of dirty jokes, but because it was unintentional he doesn't spot it.

This is because being serious and puns/jokes are sorted in a different 'box'.

Stols - Blitz spell a lot thing as they sound, with a few transportion errors like night to nihgt, and some typos like missing the o in sorry, or missing words out.

As he says Sto-lus, that gets shortened to Stol's when said quickly. It's a cute nickname. 🙂

He also occasionally reverses letters.

(oh look a nice wee pile of evidence).

Transcription - the case files are written by Blitz dictating to Moxxie. This is normal adaptation for working around this disability.

Ok addressing the elephant in the room, cus someone always says it. "But Blitz is just uneducated".

He got in and went to collage. (Dropping out was probably to do with the fire. Blitz is met to have been around 19-20 when that happend).

And Fizz, who he grew up with and worked the same job; has perfect spelling. They would have had the same people teaching them.

Honestly this idea bugs me a lot, because it's equating being poor to a lack of education. And then spelling proficiency as a stand in for intelligence level.

We saw this when people were trying to claim Blitz was too thick to use the word supremacist. 🤦

This ties in to whole host of classist and ableist tropes.

Blitz can with alot of effort Sometimes spell correctly, when it's very important. (For Fizz and Loona).

It takes 4x as much energy for dyslexics to do these tasks. It's common to sometimes get it right, but not others.

Dyslexia is kind of short working memory issue.

Working memory is the time you can hold something like an image, or a string of numbers, in your head before it fades.(Human ram). If it's short it can be extremely difficult to get it into long term memory.

So rote tasks with nonsensical none phonetical rules don't stick well. (Eg Fonetic).

Blitz getting it right some of the time, when trying hard at the hospital tracks. Cus he doesn't want to stress Loona out more.

The 'wiring' of dyslexic brains also makes it difficult, because reading and writing are processed across both hemispheres. Nerotypicals all do that one side, which is quicker as less far for the impulses to travel.

We also don't get the visual overlay trick that alot of Nerotypicals get. The thing were you can see the spelling in your imagination and copy that pattern to spell it right every time. (Anyone able to do this is so cheesy 😛).

And lastly Blitz talks a mile a minute, but only write a few short replies to Stolas' wall of texts. (Which are probably tricky to read as of bad formatting).

Here's hoping Stolas gifts him a better phone with a good spell check, and speech to text at somepoint. Then he gets more than just memes.