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Whoa you were one of the interpreters for the Crit Role Sydney show? :O

How was the experience if you don't mind me asking? Interpreting an unscripted nine person cast with crosstalk and fantasy terms seems like it would be a challenge

Hey there! Yes, that was me 🤩

As a D&D fan, it was one of the most fun experiences of my career.

Unfortunately I was a bit late to the Critical Role train, and I never joined later on as I found it as a piece of media very large and intimidating, but I've been a D&D player since high school, and a Dimension 20 and Baldur's Gate fan. Please accept my back tattoo as proof of my credentials.

Working to interpret the show was me and two other interpreters who put in a lot of work before and during the show to make sure that our audience of 3 Deaf Critters were able to access the show all night. As the D&D super fan, I had to prepare some common vocab for the different skill checks and classes that exist in the game. Especially for the character classes, they don't exist in Auslan but I took inspiration from other Deaf D&D fans who use ASL and BSL. I recorded a video of that and sent it to my fellow interpreters and to the one Deaf Critter I was aware was coming.

During the show, we chose to have only one interpreter "on" at a time. After watching the London show recording, I noticed that barring a few moments of cross talk, the cast don't really talk over each other much, and give plenty of pauses between lines of dialogue, especially when Matt is narrating during scene setting. Having one interpreter meant that we had to "roleshift" by moving our body to different angles to show which character was speaking.

We worked in 15 minute blocks, so we got to have 30 minute breaks when not actively interpreting, but I was watching my co-interpreters the entire time to help prompt with different terms or signs they may need help with, as they weren't as au fait with all the fantasy terms as me.

The Melbourne show is also being interpreted by a team of 3 interpreters who are all D&D fans, and I've made sure to give them as much of a rundown as I can so they can do the best job they can during that show too. I hope it's a good one and I can't wait to hear how it goes! 🤩

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I know people aren't here for the news, but trans folks, I'm thinking of you tonight and how you deserve better.

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Hi Prideknights!

You're based in Europe, right? Could you help out signal-boosting this European citizens initiative to ban conversion therapy in the EU?

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

I don't think I have to explain the horrors of conversion therapy to you, so let me explain how this initiative works.

For it to get taken seriously by the EU, we need two things:

7 countries need to reach the minimum threshold of signatures for their country. We're currently at 6 out of 7! Slovenia only needs 300 more signatures to become country number 7!

We need a total of 1 million signatures. This might look daunting, but there days ago we were still at 200.000. Yesterday we were at 450.00. We are at 535.000 right now. So we have a long way to go, but we are moving fast!

The deadline is in a few days, on May 17.

Anybody with a European citizenship can add their name to the pile! If we reach the right amount, the official citizen initiative will be put before the EU Commission.

With lgbtq+ rights getting rolled back across the world, including Europe, there is no time to lose to demand stronger protections.

MAY 14, 2025 (VERY RELEVANT) SPREAD. THIS. LIKE. WILDFIRE!!!

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Annabeth has one of the most traumatic journeys to CHB and I don't know why we don't talk about it more.

She left home because she was being attacked by monster spiders and her stepmother refused to believe her and refused to let her call her dad who was away on business at the time. Even before this happened she was already feeling alienated and feeling like she wasn't welcomed in her home anymore. She was seven being attacked nightly by monsters and no one believed her. After days of being attacked she ran away because her choices were to stay and possibly die or to leave. That's an insane position for a seven year old to be in.

After that she spent weeks as a homeless kid fending for herself before Luke and Thalia found her. Annabeth assumes and seems very confident that Athena was guiding her during this time but Luke describes her as skin and bones when he found her so Athena clearly wasn't guiding her to food and resources regularly. She's on such high alert when Luke and Thalia find her that she attacks them with a hammer and almost bashes Luke's face in. And she's not inclined to trust them either. It takes convincing to get her to go with them and she's nervous at first that they're just going to take her back home, the place where she believes no one wants her and the place where no one believed her when she was being attacked. Can you imagine the type of nerves and trauma on a seven year old? And even once she was with Luke and Thalia the monster attacks don't stop, but at least she had two other people looking out for her.

After this she spends weeks on the run with Luke and Thalia, all three homeless, and being hunter by monsters, but at least they have each other. And then Grover tracks them down. But things still aren't perfect. After all of that they still get attacked and terrorized by a Cyclops where Annabeth, still only seven years old had to be the one to save everyone else because Thalia, Grover and Luke were already caught. Not only did she have to be the one to save everyone by outmaneuvering the Cyclops to get to Thalia and free her, but she had to do all of this while the Cyclops terrorized her as she was doing it. And again, she's still only seven years old.

They escape the Cyclops but they're not homefree as yet. After all of this she, along with her new family, are chased as they get close to CHB and she has to watch as Thalia gives her life to save them while Luke holds Annabeth back so she can't help. Thalia is probably the first time Annabeth ever witness someone "die". And unlike Percy/Sally she wasn't immediately told she could go on a quest to save Thalia. As far as she knew Thalia was gone for good. It would be another 6 years before saving Thalia is even a possibility.

There's a lot of traumatic getting to CHB and the start of demigod lives stories, but Annabeth's is up there as one of the absolute worse and most traumatic. And she was seven which is younger than most kids who typically come to camp at 12. I think the only people with backstories just as bad or even worse are Leo and Hazel.

I'll always admire her for surviving all of that at such a young age. And even after everything she still is one of the most forgiving characters. We see that in how she keeps forgiving her father and stepmother and trying to work on their relationship multiple times over before the series started and over the course of the books, in how she continues to try to save Luke as he once save her, and even how she eventually overcomes her trauma with Cyclops to the point that she now considers Tyson part of her family.

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"If tampons should be free, then so should my diabetes meds."

Yes? Yes they should be? Your life-saving medication that you need in order to live for a condition you were born with should be given to you at no cost?

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why does anyone in Gotham even bother doing crime like you KNOW the second you leave the bank with the money you just stole Bruce Wayne is gonna be chilling on a bench on the other side of the street in his bat fursuit like “hey bitch u better not be breaking the law”

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🤡 🤡 🤡

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Kestrel-dad not sure how to dad but he’s trying his best.

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Recently I’ve been working on drawing as many different clone helmets as I can think of, and this is the result! I’ve actually drawn quite a few more clones than these, chances are if you don’t see your favourite copy paste man here I have already drawn him I just had to limit the number to 50 as these are going to be stickers available via gacha at a couple upcoming cons :)

Tumblr is going to break if I try to tag this with every character shown, so I’m just going to use the popular tags (Rex, Cody, etc) and hope it gets to the right people

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Doctor Who Lux

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Doctor Who Lux

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this company is so frustratingly misleading. They did not bring back the direwolf (Aenocyon dirus). They modified a modern grey wolf (Canis lupus) into having some direwolf morphology. There has been no de-extinction. This is pure hype slop. As a friend said "these are dire wolves the same way La Croix is a fruit".

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So, um.

I may be starting to get a weeeee bit annoyed with people on the r/Hermitcraft subreddit.

Like, when I made the meme that is still getting an insane amount of notes (holy crap thank you so much I am super flattered), it was understandable that people didn't know what it was in reference to. I went, "ah, probably should have linked Cleo's vid!" and lived and learned, you know?

But Cleo's video has been out for a week. It's only twenty minutes long, and the moment when they and Grian meet up is five minutes into the video.

And like. Grian seems to really want people to see his friends' videos? Like when Gem's snail arrived, he deliberately left that plot thread dangling to be answered in Gem's video. The guy has made an eight hour video showing off the other Hermits' bases. I also highly suspect that one reason Grian is one of the last people to upload collab videos he's in is because his higher subscriber count means his video will automatically racket up to the top of the recommended page, and he wants his friends' videos to get a head start on him.

So the fact that there's this significant amount of Grian fans who won't even watch five minutes of someone else's video to get an answer that Grian left hanging is ... it's just super disappointing, ngl.

And just. Don't even get me started on that "continuity error" comment. I actually had a pretty long response to that on reddit. TL;DR: it's not a continuity error because there's perfect continuity as long as you watch Cleo's video.

Grian does not have to fill in the gaps, that's not his responsibility, nor should it be. The point of a series like Hermitcraft is that you get multiple perspectives. If you're upset that one perspective doesn't show everything, then you shouldn't be watching SMPs.

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/36313999/chapters/90530155

I'm obsessed with Tim Drake joins the Batfamily early fics, but holy shit I just read one where Tim straight-up gaslighted the Batfamily into thinking he was their kid.

He snuck in, went to breakfast, said to Bruce "Hey, Dad" and complained that Bruce forgot to wake him up after Tim fell asleep in the Batmobile last night. And Tim said so with such confidence that Batman was like, "Did I forget I had another kid???" Freaks out. Does some sleuthing. Tim has planted all this evidence to make it seem like he's been living there a long time.

And they have to go make sure this isn't some time travel or multiuniverse bullshit. Meanwhile, Tim himself internally is going, "Holy shit is this actually working"

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big fan of when youtubers break out the corkboard and string. thats when you know youre in for an insanely pointless breakdown of a media you're only tangentially familiar with.