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Just a touch of teasy feather fun 🪶 🪶🪶

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I love you so much disabled/chronically ill/immunocompromised snzfuckers!!!!

Your life matters & you matter so much 💖💖💖

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being deaf (with hearing aids) I obviously didn't get the full audio effect, but the VISUALS. My dude, I think I died, that was amazing.

part 3/3

and even messier than the last! relieved to get the fit I was looking for🤩 last few teased me, oh nooooo

volume up so you can hear a little surprise towards the end

+messy video under the cut+

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As a deaf person, THIS THIS THIS! I am so sick and TIRED of seeing time and time again people misuse sign language or force character to just "learn" how to lipread! As someone who was FORCED to lipread (no one, not a SINGLE person in my family knows any ASL) it is ableist and frankly, super harmful and hurtful. Do better.

When in doubt, ASK! I am alway open to questions!

EDIT: If I see one more person write a character like "they so are excellent at lipreading you forget they can't hear/are deaf!" I'm going to crash out so hard. ONLY 70% OF LANGUAGE IS LIP-READABLE and even then, people mumble, have facial hair, move too much when they talk, have a facial difference, an accent. So many reasons that make it so, so hard. So if you chose to make your character lipread, fine, but if it is perfect, and not a single mistake? it is inaccurate and harmful to the Deaf/HoH community.

Okay, I'm getting on here to be a little bit pissy. I'm sorry in advance.

I am so in love with the headcanons regarding Steve's hearing, whether it be that he's hard of hearing, actively in the process of losing his hearing, deaf with a hearing aid, or just completely deaf—every version is fucking fantastic. I'm hard of hearing myself, it's fucking great that this representation is being written or drawn. I love it.

However, I'm going to hold your hand as I say this, stop using language such as "when he learns to lipread" or "eventually learns to lipread." Please stop.

He shouldn't have to learn to lip read. That shouldn't be an eventual skill he learns.

And, gonna give you a little bit of history here, it's historically ableist to require a deaf/hoh person to learn lip reading. From the late 1800s and into the late 1960s, there were literally programs across America that would force deaf children to write, speak, and lipread English—they were punished for signing to others in their schools, in public, in their dorms. And that didn't change until "Total Communication" was brought forth as a possibility, a philosophy that declared children would learn better using their preferred communication—whether it be oralism (the practice of writing, speaking, and lipreading) or via signing. However, oral schools that implemented total communication into their core programs had sign language that was structured with English grammar, this is commonly known as Exact Sign Language, or Exact English Sign Language. It's not American Sign Language.

Also, children who were approved for Coclear Implants in the early 1990s, were sent from residential deaf schools into day schools (public schools) that had a primary focus on oral teaching; pushed into day schools with little to no support, were discouraged from signing with even their parents. This was due to the fact that it was believed that signing at home would slow down their learning.

I am such a fan of deaf Steve or HoH Steve, but you have to be careful the language you're approaching his character with. If he has a sign language interpreter, then he most likely already knows sign language and will, also, most likely rely on an interpreter for communication with hearing people. If he is going deaf (maybe because of head trauma, maybe he gets into a traumatic accident, maybe he gets sick and just loses his hearing, maybe he listens to music too loudly and damages his ears that way), Steve will most likely already have the skills to write and speak in English, but lipreading is a skill that's difficult to garner.

I'll say, too, lipreading is fucking difficult because hearing people are so used to speaking (most of the time. I'm not talking about non-verbal hearing people in this conversation)—hearing people will typically talk fast, which makes lipreading muddy and indecipherable. I've been trying to learn this for years and I'm fucking over it, I can't do it. I speak and write, but I also use ASL, too.

Saying that Steve needs to lipread, that's ableist. Saying that he eventually or finally learns to lipread, that's ableist. Fuck it, I'm gonna say this, too—requiring or not giving Steve the option to decide whether or not he wants a hearing aid or implant device is also inherently ableist. Deaf people are (and should be) allowed to have a choice on having to hear. My own sibling made the decision recently to stop using the cochlear implant they've had their entire life because they weren't even given the choice to get one in the first place (and decided they were done with it), they hated the feedback the cochlear had, and it was just irritating in the sense that it would fall off, the volume control would change all on its own, and they just didn't like it. That's their choice. It's important to give a character that choice.

I let this get away from me, but I despise how people talk about his options for communication sometimes. It just rubs me the wrong way. And I think it's best we all reanalyze how we approach his characterization, especially how we can approach crafting the characterization without alienating a group of people.

*this post has been approved by my deaf sibling (who was born deaf), and obviously by me (somebody who can only hear out of one fucking ear. seriously be careful about volume control on your ear buds. and also wear ear plugs at shows. it hurts like hell to damage your ear drum.)

Here's a whole Wikipedia article about deaf education in the US (just in case you wanted another reason to hate America, but also if you're curious. definitely something everybody should learn).

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Update

Hello! I know I haven't posted in a while, been a bit busy with life. The main thing is, my divorce has been finalized and a gett signed! I am officially a single woman! It is an early birthday present to me, as this weekend, I turn 21 years of age! Thank you for the outpouring of support you all have shown, notably @yochsnz, it has been beyond helpful having a friend in this time. I am wishing you all a happy rest of your week and an early Gut Shabbos and a Gut Yontiff as I am signing off for now to celebrate not only my birthday, but Shavuot, with my friends and community!

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If you haven't checked out my newest attempt at keeping my content available on YouTube, you definitely should! This one is brand new and felt FANTASTIC 🤤🤧

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this made my day ngl

variety pack!

cw: stifles - audible and not, let outs, MESS, a little coughing, some talking, some “I’m gonna sneeze”, oh also I’m st*ned

+MESSY VIDEO UNDER THE CUT+

realized after stopping this, I don’t HAVE any more napkins. blew my nose into a spare pair of work pants instead

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I think I can officially confirm that this is the absolute worse my hayfever has ever been. I woke up like this, I woke up like this! (Beyoncé reference)

I think I was sneezing during the night, literally sneezing while I’m sleeping. I woke up surrounded by tissues. My nose itchhhhhhhhssss like ugh! 😑 this is a recording after a minute of already sneezing. You best believe I was sneezing after I finished recording. In fact, just sneezed twice writing this. And I’ve already taken my strongest meds. And it’s still not perfect. My nose is runny and my eyes are itchy and swollen. I feel miserable. But hey, at least it means I get to post and be fussed over(plz plz fuss over me😖)

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So I've been married for almost 9 months now, and I've thoroughly enjoyed it, had a grand old time. But I am still not pregnant. In my community, once we hit a year of marriage, if I am still not pregnant, that is grounds for a divorce. My husband has made it clear that he will divorce me if I am not pregnant by then. I may step away for a bit, while I figure out how to handle this and cope as we discuss next steps. I love you all so much though, you've all been so wonderful! I maybe pop on occasionally so say hi, check in. But might not post for a bit. I don't know if there is anything anyone can do right now to support me, kind words are always nice if you feel up to it. Have a wonderful night and "Chag Pesach Sameach" or "Ziessen Sameach" in advance to those who will be celebrating.

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for the first line of dialogue thing:

"...oh I know that look. Don't you dare...."

“But I cahhhh… c-can’t h-help it…”

“There are hundreds of people here looking to invest and they’re not going to give us a dime if they get sneezed out of the building, so you keep it together, missy!”

“But it itches…!”

“So rub it! You act like you’ve never had to hold back a sneeze before, and I know good and well you do it all the time, so don’t you…”

“Hhhuhhh…”

“Oh hells you’re already stirring up—“

“HuuuHHHHhhh…”

“Get that under control, people are going to start noticing!”

“HhHHHUUUUUUHHHhhhh…”

“Do you have any idea how loud you are?”

“HhhHHHUUUUUHHH… HUUUHHHH! HUHH! HUHH! …h-help! CaahHHH… can’tstopihhhhhh…”

“Oh hell…!”

They made it to the bathroom, but it was a near thing. Fortunately there was only one guest in the ladies room at the time to get caught in the gale. Fortunately, it had been the woman whose overzealous perfumery had set off the whole affair. Unfortunately, she was obscenely wealthy, and went home immediately after, what with her clothes damp and disheveled as they were. And sure, they had to convince several wary investors that the sudden “explosion” everyone heard mid-gala was not, in fact, their invention. Still, by the standards of her nose… it counted as a win.

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Found out over Shabbos that red wine makes my husband so sneezy! We had a good laugh about it, he knows about the kink and was teasing me about it. I could have turned into a puddle of mush I am so in love with this man!

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#ohmyGOSHHHHH #absolutely gorgeous nose #bless you that sounded rough

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TB4Z4SOF7gSUcX8bhS4zsYYk8ecbcip1/view?usp=drivesdk

this is the messiest thing I’ve ever uploaded.

spring is here, everyone BUT ME is sneezing. so I spent all afternoon lazily inducing stifles, started filming when my nose was about to spill over.

enjoy my desperate inducing because i! want! to! sneeze!

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Hello please reblog this if you’re okay with people sending you random asks to get to know you better

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safe space here as well! I also get pretty freaked out!

Just as a general announcement: I don’t do April Fools, so this blog is safe tomorrow if pranks and that kind of stuff freak you out.

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Had a couple of stuck sneezes I needed to let out.

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as a HoH person YYYEEEEESSSSSSSSS

character who uses sign language still getting their sentences interrupted by having to sneeze because they keep needing to wipe and pinch and rub at their itchy nose

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Big comic of Ornel Suffering with allergies