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Deaf people have double the suicide rate that hearing people do. If you're hearing, put that number in your head, really think about how high that is. This is especially true if you're queer and/or surrounded by people who have experienced suicidal ideation. Think about just how appalling that number is. Think about what double that number would be like in your community.

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Some Pokesona sketches!

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Eventually You Gotta Inhale

Transcript and discussion: https://patreon.com/posts/86915703

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my post about deaf children being neglected by hearing parents has like 20 entire people going “this too but about adhd”. adhd is one of the most commonly diagnosed disabilities on earth. most of these people don’t know a single deaf person. if I was talking about adhd I would’ve said so

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i actually don’t care if you feel misgendered by the existence of nonbinary people and intersex people. i actually think the world should be made more inclusive for everyone, not just perisex binary people

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Ouran high school was my favourite anime when I was like 14 which is really funny because thats also the age I basically was in a Haruhi fujioka situation. Not like fully literally but the meat of it was the same

I was the one single middle-class kid in a super high-end rich kid private academy with like pressed uniforms and building wings and everything. I didnt get any sort of scholarship, my dad just got a job as a teacher there and teachers kids got to enroll for free because the tuition was like 30 grand a year and you arent affording that on a teacher salary. So I understand her on a very visceral level and perhaps enjoyed OHSHC so much because she was SOOO me fr. These damn rich people

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saddest thing that can happen is a cat so delicately and cozy putting their small apple head on your leg like a pillow to sleep while fully unaware that in like five minutes you're going to get up to go eat because they don't know human language or how time works

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Nothing in the world feels as unjust as the fate of the Disco Elysium developers.

Imagine you build this in-depth fictional setting over the course of decades with your friends, and then decide to turn it into a game for fun. You end up creating one of the most celebrated and well-written RPGs of all time and become celebrated for reviving a dying genre.

A few months later, you're fired from the company you founded for criticizing the new direction its taking. The company has the copyright not only to the game you made, but literally everything in the world of the game, which spans decades of lore you built for no profit with your group of friends.

Like, this is a nightmare that I didn't even know existed before I ran into it. To have, what is essentially a passion project that branched off from a TTRPG campaign, be pulled from your hands by a corporate entity that only yearns to abuse your creation for maximum profit. I couldn't imagine myself going on creating anything after that.

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According to old finnish folklore, having a wild animal wander into your house is an omen of death. The bigger the animal, the more imminent the death. A small bird, like a sparrow or a finch, is a sign that someone who lives in the house will die within the year. If the animal that has somehow made its way inside the house is a small mammal like a hedgehog, or a larger bird like an owl or raven, would mean that death is coming to visit in the next few months.

Massive megafauna, like a fully-grown moose or a bear, is a sign that someone will probably die within the next 20 minutes.

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If you’re not ready to have a deaf child don’t have children.

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A distinction I think we might want to consider: a lot of people aren’t using “Zionist” as a sub-in for “Jew”, they’re using “Zionist” as a sub-in for “kike”—not that they’d actually use that word per se, but that the feelings associated with that word are the ones they’re trying to invoke when they call Jews they don’t like “Zionists”

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weirdest tabletop experience i ever had

be me in 2022

download a bundle of tabletop games at 3 am

find a giant pdf labeled "act one"

it's a game played by only exactly three people on different levels of reality.

you also play alternate universe versions of your characters on different levels in reality

secrets in the book are written in mirror writing

the whole book is an in-universe preserved text by someone in a different universe

i am so into this game.

best thing i've ever read.

i tell all my friends about it the next day.

"sounds cool, what's it called?"

i can find no evidence of this game.

i can find no evidence that this game ever existed.

i'm not even sure what bundle it was in.

all my friends develop the theory that this game is a dream i had.

they tease me about The Time Bird Dreamed An Entire TTRPG That Could Only Be Read In A Mirror

i find the game three years later

it's about dreams

anyway if you wished Invisible Sun was weirder you may enjoy Disparateum by Rathayibacter

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as far as i can tell, the usage of the term is “game we are marketing or recommending to women”

cozy game means fucking nothing. i saw someone call firewatch a cozy game. the game about child death. i saw someone say dredge was a cozy game thats secretly horror. theres nothing secret about the horror the main plot is about necromancy and the world ends. what the fuck are you talking about. is it bc the art style is nice to look at. oh im gonna watch my favorite chick flick the descent. what are you fucking talking about

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that’s actually one of the reasons i wanted to ask jumblr and frumblr! im very certain my rabbi will say it’s fine and that he doesn’t care, but i wanted to get a wide variety of opinions, especially some from frum jews. it seems like the general consensus so far is:

- reform and masorti jews don’t generally care and often celebrate it

- some orthodox jews celebrate halloween; it seems very community dependent

- of the jews who don’t celebrate halloween, it seems to mostly be at least a few of the following: because it has some kind of non-Jewish religious connection, because it’s a goyische holiday and they don’t celebrate those, or because their community doesn’t and they just don’t see the point [related: several mentions of Purim! honestly i was never a costumes person lol]

tagging @snissel613 and @wenevergotusedtoegypt because you two are higher up in this chain and i want specifically orthodox/frum opinions on this next part, but: what would your reaction be to a jew having halloween decorations up instead of miscellaneous Fall decorations? i haven’t seen anybody say as much, but i wonder if those of you who don’t celebrate halloween would see specifically halloween decor (spooky stuff) as crossing a line/potentially being avodah zarah or a chilul HaShem.

how do the jews in my phone feel about halloween? i know some of this is a question for my rabbi and i will be talking to him, but i want to get some opinions. i’ve always been very enthusiastic about the aesthetic and the decorations; i’ve always been the type to go to halloween parties. now that im converting, im trying to decide how i feel about halloween and whether or not i want to continue to celebrate it. let’s talk about it!

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Terms for sensory abled people to familiarize themselves with:

Audism = Discrimination and prejudice against d/Deaf and hard of hearing people

Vidism = Discrimination and prejudice against blind, low vision, and visually impaired people

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Deaf people have double the suicide rate that hearing people do. If you're hearing, put that number in your head, really think about how high that is. This is especially true if you're queer and/or surrounded by people who have experienced suicidal ideation. Think about just how appalling that number is. Think about what double that number would be like in your community.

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By the way, if you're deaf (any level of hearing loss) and you woke up, got out of bed, and went into the world I am proud of you and I love you. You are valuable and your life is worth living and if the hearing people around you can't see that I'm sorry. You are worth everything and you should continue being alive.