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World of Warcraft's initial playable race roster was designed to appeal in some way to every known clique in 2003: the preppies, the goths, the jocks, the nerds, the normals, the stoners, the flower children, and the short kings. to which were later added the aliens, the preppies (edgy), the nerds (fintech), the furries, the furries (weeb), and finally, the scalies

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Not to chronic pain complain on main but the worse part about when my back acts up is how much everything immediately sucks. Sitting sucks. Standing sucks. Lying down sucks. Existence becomes a fucking prison and I just have to live in it til it fixes itself or I die for real this time I guess

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My boss, my co workers, plant management; wow you're so fast and good at typing and can do it without looking! How did you get so good at touch typing? What sort of practice do you do?

Me; uh

My AO3 statistics page;

Me, sweating; oh you know

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being a teacher is much like I suppose working in the criminal minds bau where names become untouchable with a 25 000ft pole.

"Oh we were thinking *name ending with -den*" Oh no you can't do that that name belongs to the Cursed

"I mean we also had *name ending with -lan/-len*" Nope don't do that either

"If its a girl we were thinking *variations on Ellie*" fine line I wouldn't risk it

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a sitting platypus

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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.

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A while back my psychopathology class did a basic overview of gender terms because we need to understand it to understand what the statistics we’ were given mean, and all I could think of was that xkcd quartz comic.

A guy said sex was “biological gender,” another guy said that a sex that is neither male nor female is nonbinary, and another guy said that a person who’s gender does not align with their sex is “gay.”

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First Post!

I deleted my old tumblr because... man idk why it was covid-times and the prefrontal cortex was not in the room with us!! Anyways, I was reminded by my lovely friend @repecca that tumblr exists, and that some of my work has been going around on here, so I decided to post some of my work up officially! Starting off with my most notable (?) work to date, here's my LOTR: The Middle Kingdom Project. Now, it's been over a year since I posted this, and at the time I was... really searchingfor myself artistically, and I decided to go all in on something that I'd been ruminating on for a long time.

So, hello, again. I'm Leia. I do visual development/BG design, and I'm also a writer of things. I love fantasy and transformative work. It's nice to meet you.

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im literally not exaggerating when i tell you guys this video saved my life

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LUNE Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 dev. Sandfall Interactive

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Day 2 of migraine.

Need to catch a train into the city in T-minus 17hrs hours to catch a matinee performances of hadestown that my queer mythology-loving musical theatre need ass is Not Missing.

I’ve had regular OTC painkillers and my migraine Oh Shit rescue wafer thing. No change.

Witchcraft is now on the table.

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I was not around for the 2013-2016 les mis golden era but looking at George Blagden and Aaron Tveit it does not surprise me that enjoltaire went triple platinum, it’s like they made those guys in a factory specifically to appeal to tumblrinas of that era

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Lune Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (2025) dev. Sandfall Interactive

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Tomorrow will still come.

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Uh oh its my new hyperfixation !