#also the ableist language...

[barzfrommarz]

dead ass just saw a poll on reddit that was like "Who is the bigger physcopath" and it was c!dream and c!wilbur and c!dream was LOSING

[yall-send-help]

[steviewashere]

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).

[fictionkinfessions]

(Please tag as fictive)

Is it bad that I genuinely do believe my source was real, just probably in a parallel universe, or something similar? I don't think it was just fiction, I really think my home is out there somewhere...

Everyone I know just calls me "delusional" and pities me for thinking such a thing. But considering the things I've seen happen back home it wouldn't be too far fetched that it could be a parallel universe... I still pray that maybe one day I'll be able to go back home.

... but everyone's just gonna call me delusional or stupid or whatever other rude name for thinking that, right?

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[seaweedstarshine]

[just after having helped River make a getaway from a heist of an astatine lace shawl — the rarest substance in the universe — without her even needing to ask beyond a simple “hello sweetie” scrawl in the sky] [Eleventh Doctor] “I can see its worth — but Alice is right! What’s so special about a lace shawl?” [River] “Ah, well, lace, you see, is the traditional gift for a thirteenth wedding anniversary…” [Eleventh Doctor] “Wedding anniversary? Whose wedding anniversary?” [River] “Spoilers…!” *winks* [Thirteenth Doctor, reminiscing] “I love River.”

HAPPY THIRTEENTH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY TO THE DOCTOR AND RIVER SONG!

Sources: Diary of River Song: The Furies, Diary of River Song: The Lady in the Lake, The Day of the Moon, Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition #33, The Wedding of River Song, The Big Bang, The Angels Take Manhattan, The Many Lives of Doctor Who: Without a Paddle, The Time of the Doctor, Forest of the Dead, Let's Kill Hitler, Diary of River Song: The Wife of River Song, Eleventh Doctor Year Two: Physician Heal Thyself, A Good Man Goes to War, Eleventh Doctor Chronicles: Broken Hearts, The Husbands of River Song, Doctor Who Confidential: When Time Froze

[until-my-teeth-fell-out]

I used to not understand why "to turn a blind eye" and "to fall on deaf ears" were considered ableist language because they felt like just some phrases. But now that I think about it, if the only instance where people brought up autism in a conversation was something like "to display autistic uninterest" I'd be pissed off too.

[cascigarette]

yall need to learn to be nicer to people online :///

[arsenic-clownip]

:33 < idont care if youre anti or pro endo, if you use "delusional" or "p*ychotic" as an insult towards ANY system, YOU ARE ABELIST. you are singlehandedly showing off youdo NOT care for people with psychosis, youdo NOT care for people on the schizospectrum, and you are ABELIST TOWARDS YOUR OWN COMMUNITY. JUST BECAUSE THEY HAD ALTERS AS A DELUSION OF THEIRS, does NOT GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TO BE ABELIST TO THEM. my god, just leave delusional folks alone if youre gonna be uneducated and reality check them.

[hollysoda]

I haven’t read a warriors book in so long but I can’t stop thinking about Moonpaw. She hasn’t even been seen in a book yet, but there’s already so much missed potential when it comes to where she comes from.

The fact that out of all the parents she could have had the Erin’s chose Bayshine and Thriftear who are literally first cousins is god awful planning. I know that incest isn’t a foreign thing in warrior cats (Dustpelt is Ferncloud’s uncle, for example) but this was during a time where we were only really going to get a couple and books and so a well thought out family tree wasn’t on the table (this doesn’t excuse incest btw, it’s just poor planning on the writers behalf in the early stages of the series). Now, however, the family tree is huge now. It should be relatively easy to see who is closely related and who isn’t so to choose two FIRST COUSINS to be mates is really dumb

Why can’t we have one or if not both of Moonpaw’s parents be either from another Clan or straight up outsiders? I like the idea of her being some strange kit that Thriftear and Bayshine took a liking to and decided to act as parental figures without being mates. Maybe she’s a descendant of Sol? Or maybe they should have gone for the obvious answer of making Nightheart and Sunbeam her parents. Like, come on, their prefix’s are “Night” and “Sun” it was perfect. Anything but refusing to pay attention to the family tree and choosing two random cats that are close family

[castleofravens]

tbh as someone with bpd, the way people talk abt fitz makes me feel physically ill like wdym youre inherently toxic because you idolize certain people wdym youre evil because of mere thought patterns wdym there must be no reason for you to be this way youre just a bad person wdym you’re undeserving of love and literally being alive because you feel emotions really strongly

(the issue is that they take these traits he inherently has and says he’s toxic for stuff he can’t control it’s never his behaviors and if it is they blow it way out of proportion??)

also hi don’t use narcissistic psychopath sociopath etc as descriptors for yes even the villains (this part of the post isn’t meant to be really mean, ik that language is normalized but yeah let’s not use mental health language and/or outdated terms in a stigmatizing manner!)

[confused-canid]

Honestly, people who aren't a therian (or alterhuman or nonhuman in general) need to shut up about how we experience it. Like, I'll see them going "okay, cool, but like, you're not an animal" or saying stuff like how we're delusional or not delusional. SOME OF US EXPERIENCE DELUSIONS THAT CAUSE US TO IDENTIFY THIS WAY. SOME OF US DO BELIEVE WE ARE ACTUALLY ANIMALS. And other alterhumans who say "Oh, we're not delusional" stfu. SOME OF US ARE. YOU ARE DIVIDING THIS COMMUNITY TO APPEAL TO OTHERS. Quite a few of us don't experience delusions, but some of us do. Acting like the people who do are evil and abusive is fucking ableist. Anti kin who call us delusional are fucking ableist. Just stop dictating this part of our identity.

Anyways, that's enough of this jumble of thoughts so bye

[alarrytale]

Larries love to complain that “””””antis”””””” just don’t leave them alone but then a person who’s not involved in your fandom tried to give Louis a cute gift to who she believes is Louis’s kid (because she’s not a larry) and Larries are jumping to attack this person and trying to turn this into something weird. Y’all are so unserious

Hello, anon!

I don't know why you are coming to me with this? I'm the first to say that antis and people who believe F is Louis' kid are gaslighted, confused and are acting out because they're scared we larries are right. I think non-larries should be left alone (and pitied). But the fact is, that you are here in my inbox and not the other way around. You are on my turf. I haven't seen any larrie "attack" this person (or other people planning similar gift givings), but i've seen larries discussing it on their own blogs. Larries are allowed to be upset over this, the attention Louis is giving them, and be angry and sad over the fact that some louies think this is what Louis wants. If they keep to their own blogs and accounts that's totally fine and valid. Just like you are allowed to complain as much as you want over larry bluegreening on your own blog, or H and L feeding us larries, on your own blog.

We'll stay in our lane, and you'll stay in yours. If we both do that, i expect to get no more ask from non-larries (lol, as if they can stay away). I have never been on a non-larrie blog, sent an ask to a non-larrie blog or interacted with a non-larrie (except for when non-larries enters my turf, aka my blog). There is only one side not staying in their lane here, and it's not me, and it's usually not us larries.

Curate your own fandom experience. If you don’t like what you see or read, then mute, unfollow or block. You can’t control larries, but you can control your own fandom experience.

[musashi]

lmao no one is using ur ex account except ur ex. be so frfr delululemon.

a while back, tumblr changed the way anonymous asks work. now, if you send someone anon hate and they hit 'block' in their ask box, it will block the blog associated with the anon hate. this is why tumblr now makes you log in to send asks.

every single time you have sent me an ask from this ip, rumikanon, i have blocked it. and every single time, i have checked her old blog to find that she is blocked. i have done this enough times and studied the correlation to ensure that there is no room for error.

leave me alone, sam. you're a spineless fucking cuck and that's all you'll ever be. you lost.

[rxttenfish]

it Happened Again

i swear at this point i need to just make a post explaining why sign language for deep sea animals just Doesn't Work in their given environment. because i keep seeing people trying to do that for inclusivity and it feels worse than just realizing that its probably not the best place for a spec evo species to focus exclusively on that.

or actually maybe i just need to make a post ranting about why the mermaids from Into The Drowning Deep are so bad and made no goddamn sense despite trying so hard to be hard spec evo

[feral-yhs-fan]

Sometimes I feel like most who make stuff about YHS have never actually watched the whole show.

and sometimes I feel like y’all have no media literacy

and sometimes I feel like y’all would call me evil and 15 slurs for being non conversely disabled

and sometimes I feel like maybe y’all just made some mistakes because the never actually watched the whole show

and sometimes I feel like y’all only watched Taurtis 2 arc

and sometimes I feel like y’all have really don’t have the basics to media compression and analysis skills.

I’m sick of y’all villanising and ignoring canon mental illness/disability’s and being ablests

anyways if anyone wants to debate tables open.

[lilac-nites]

i finished watching a sign of affection and i enjoyed it! i really like seeing the main character grow and love seeing characters use sign language (i hope they add more scenes if there’s a s2). i also really like itsuomi and the contrast of him v. the childhood best friend. also super enjoy shows where you get to see the relationships of other characters develop especially when it comes to ones that are in love with the main male lead who’s in love with the main female lead.