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older siblings were the first letsplayers

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Recently I went back through my old tumblr and looked at what I was posting almost ten years ago, and after I got past all the fond nostalgia/moments of cringe/laughing at how a lot of my interests really have not changed, I was struck by the realization that the girl who ran that tumblr would be so happy with the life I live now. She perpetually longed for things she never thought she would ever experience or deserved to experience, and without even realizing it, I’ve found myself living exactly the kind of life that she desperately wanted to live!

I wear the clothes I want to wear instead of covering up with things I don’t like, I’m an artist, I still love cartoons and gorgeous food and theme parks, I travel, I have a wonderful girlfriend who’s the same kind of quirky as me and we’re out and proud… I never stopped to think about just how grateful my past self would be to learn that this is how we live in the future. Everything really turned out okay and we’re only just starting out. 🥹🥹🥹 It gets me emotional!!!

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the simpsons + my favorite lgbt+ moments

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how are we supposed to interpret this. what does it mean. who is the target audience

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Add your favorite band(s) to see live in the tags!

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Ableism in Subtitles

Something that really pisses me off is the litany of ableist issues found in subtitles. So, let's talk about 3 huge issues that need to stop.

Subtitles should never ever say [Speaking -language-]

When a hearing person is watching a TV show, or a stream, if someone starts speaking another language, if that hearing person knows that language, they will get to know what the person said, regardless of if the average viewer knows that foreign language.

Deaf and HOH viewers deserve the same opportunity, and to rob them of that opportunity by putting [speaking -language-] in the subtitles is ableist.

Every word spoken in a show or movie, unless given translated subtitles in the uncaptioned version of the show or movie, should have every word captioned exactly as it's spoken. If someone starts speaking Spanish, the words spoken in Spanish should be subtitled in Spanish. If someone starts speaking German, the words spoken in German should be subtitled in German.

When a show or movie is created, if you want a character to speak a foreign language, you get an actor who can speak that language. When you hire someone to transcribe a show into subtitles, your hire someone who can speak the languages spoken in the show, or you have them mark points where a foreign language speaker will need to assist and then have someone who speaks that language add in the parts that the transcriptionist can't.

Subtitles should never be cut short for convenience

This is something I see constantly. Shows and movies will frequently cut out words or even large chunks of a sentence from the subtitles to make the subtitles shorter.

When you remove descriptive words, parts of a sentence, or even whole sentences to cut down on the amount of subtitles in a given segment, you are completely changing the attitude, mood, and expression of those sentences. You can completely ruin all of the implicit feelings in a sentence if you remove words that show feelings or the way a person phrases things.

It is not your moral right, as a company or transcriptionist, to decide that deaf or HOH viewers shouldn't get the original phrasing.

I am not deaf or HOH. I have APD and have to use subtitles to keep up with what's being said, or I won't process it fast enough. Because of that, I get to see all of the ways subtitles deviate from the original wording all the time. This isn't an issue that just happens here and there. It happens in pretty much every episode of every show I've watched. And it's unacceptable.

Even if we ignore the way this impacts the intent of a sentence, this is ableist by its nature. When subtitles are made, they are made to fill the gap in a deaf or HOH person's TV experience. When you don't accurately fill that gap, or fill it partway, or half ass it, you are cutting corners on a disability aid. It's like if you sold someone a wheelchair with the wheels not pumped with enough air, or giving someone a hearing aid with damaged battery capacity.

When deaf or HOH people watch TV or movies and they use subtitles, they are relying on those subtitles to give them the most accurate wording possible. So why are companies directing or allowing their transcriptionists to half ass or cut down their subtitles? Every piece of media should be having its subtitles checked for accuracy before they're approved, and subtitles that cut corners should be amended before a show with subtitles is published or aired.

Subtitles should never censor words that aren't censored in audio

If a show or movie has swearing in it, of any kind, the subtitles should accurately depict what is happening audibly. If the audio has swear words censored, the subtitles should depict the noise - or lack thereof - that is used to censor the word. Subtitles should never be censored when the audio isn't.

Not only does this touch on the same issue from the last section, it's also ableist in another way. Not only are you giving deaf and HOH people a different experience than hearing people, you're also infantilizing them by disallowing them from hearing swear words that hearing viewers can hear.

Deaf and HOH adults are not children. They have just as much right to read the word "fuck" as a hearing person does to hear it. Censoring subtitles is disrespectful, ableist, and infantilizing and it needs to stop.

Make a change

I'm not familiar with the details of the ADA and how it regards subtitles, but if anyone would like to work with me to do something about this, I would really like to fight for subtitles to have more regulation.

If the ADA prohibits inaccurate subtitles, we should be reporting companies like Netflix who constantly provide inaccurate subtitles. If it doesn't, we should be fighting to amend the ADA to include regulations for subtitle accuracy.

Anyone who's researched this before or who knows more about it than I do, please tell me what you know or give me some sources I can look into myself. I would research from scratch but I'm disabled and don't have a lot of spoons for it, which is why I'd like to work together with others.

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This is ridiculous!!! >:O

Crunchyroll still hasn’t provided the necessary accommodations and this post is over a year old! Shoutout to the people who reached out to the FCC in recent months and provided updated information in the reblogs. It looks like as it stands now, Crunchyroll is only legally obligated to provide captions for programs that have aired on American TV. Just because they aren’t bound by the law to provide TV captions doesn’t mean they should discriminate against their deaf and HoH viewers like this!

I’m so furious about this actually. Captions are so easy to provide— it’s literally my job to caption lectures in real time. It’s a disability service students at my school can request and I do it voluntarily. By choosing not to caption their English dubbed anime in the TV app, which is how lots of viewers like to watch, Crunchyroll is making a huge portion of their content completely inaccessible. Dubbed anime often makes a lot of changes to the dialogue to localize it, especially for comedic anime like Osomatsu-San. The Japanese subtitles wouldn’t provide the same experience at all.

That’s rich. This is the banner on their job application page, which naturally does not include a captionist position. I know a lot of platforms today use auto-generated captions instead of people that you have to pay, but I’m actually gonna reach out and see if there is a way to apply as a captionist…? Wouldn’t hurt to try!

Honestly the fact that Crunchyroll intentionally removed all closed captioning options for their tv app should be fucking criminal. You can only get subtitles if you watch the subbed Japanese version. If you watch dubbed anime and you're Deaf or HOH, Crunchyroll intentionally removed all closed captioning support. There is no work around.

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everyone should reblog this with the only personality assessment that matters: your favorite disney princess, favorite color, favorite superhero, and favorite season

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Ghost Miffy

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I only eat sweet treats.

Baroness Von Bon Bon’s debut on The Cuphead Show in “Sweet Temptations”

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i don't want a new little shop of horrors live action movie adaptation, i want them to make a muppets version

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i love you air dried hair i love you no makeup i love you comfortable clothes made out of soft fabrics i love you short nails

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The reason why Micheal Jordan is so stiff and awkward in the movie Space Jam is because this is the first time he’s been around a queer friend group.