it is healing to come onto this blog and see basic respect for diasbility after being in other corners of the fandom and reading the words “snowkit could never be a warrior because he wouldnt know what anything is. he wouldnt even know what a clan is because nobody could explain it to him” said in full seriousness
Im..... That statement is so ableist I cannot even imagine the worldview you'd need to have in order to come up with that.
They really think the only way anyone learns anything is through verbal-speaking-words-noises? No one has ever observed something before? Not even once?
This is beyond touching grass, this person just fell out of the fucking Jurassic Period when all they had was ferns and stegosaurs.
I just...
OH YES. I remember my first day of Society Lessons as a hearing person, where the everything was explained to me. Via Audiobook. FIRST they spoke and said, "you are standing on the ground." It was a life changing revelation, and the world began to spin.
But it did not stop.
THEN they said, "there are fingers on your hands." The sensation of flesh and bone crackling into existence is indescribable, but I did not yet know pain, until they told me, "that hurts." I began screaming immediately.
And yet... it continued.
They explained so much. Chairs. Tables. Walls. The sky. Frogs. Ionizing radiation. Breathing. I was told all of it, in one sitting, and only then did I understand. Only when my ears were bursting with normal hearing knowledges, did they begin... my final test.
A strange wall-chair-finger emerged from the sky-of-the-wall, stood on the ground several times, until it was in front of me. A second one came behind it, this one slimmer. The audiobook gave these things names;
Human. Father. Mother. Door. Walking. It was completely impossible to know what these things were until that very moment.
I watch a human dip a hook into water and produce a fish, and I recall my Society Lessons where they called that "fishing." I am decked in the face by a nefarious hooligan, and I have only the audiobook to thank when I know I have been "punched" by a "bad guy." It was only the magic of verbal-speaking-words-noise that made me understand that there are "other people" and that they "do stuff."
Sometimes, even, in "groups."
Before the Society Lessons Audiobook, I knew nothing. I was pure, innocent, uncorrupted by concepts such as "parents" and "door." I am grateful every day that there is no such concept as "being shown things" or "simple logical reasoning" or "looking."
Blessed be those amongst us who escape the horrors of the Society Lessons Audiobook. I pray that you never learn what anything is. Be free! Free as a bird, which also knows nothing and famously cannot learn. 🤗
DEAF/HOH FOLLOWERS I'm losing my mind do you want me to bump a 'Hearing Disabilities Herb Guide' to the top of my priorities? Something you can use to bludgeon whackadoodles like that. This is ridiculous
Obviously not a MEDICINE guide but like; common causes of hearing disability in clan cats. Accommodations for hearing loss vs congenital deafness. Actual difficulties of not having that sense Clan-by-Clan. Debunking of misconceptions like... not being able to learn APPARENTLY.
game: literally takes us a whooole different, more advanced part of the game world;
a g*mer Warden groupie: tHeRe aReN't EnOuGh ReCoGnIsEaBlE eLeMeNtS tHeRe; It DoEsN't LoOk LiKe DrAgOn AgE;
me looking at distinctively dwarven influenced architecture of the city which has super close ties to dwarves, pride demons, magic mirrors, fucking wolf statues staring me right into the face in (once again) distinctively looking elven ruins: yeah buddy. it really is unrecogniseable.
also i do think all the memes of like comparing neuvi and furina to zhongli and hu tao and like two dragon pee pas suffering is funny, in reality neuvi is very young. dragons live for thousand of years, 500 years is not old for a dragon\immortal. nahida is 500 and she's a literal toddler.
so he's more of a college guy who has to look after adopted teenage sister which i think is actually funnier
actually no im not. country music fucks!!!! you guys are just listening to the wrong kinds!!!! the kinds that aren't even country!!!!! you cant judge a whole genre based on a tiny part of it!!!!!!
"I'm just going to do quick doodles for these," I said. "Some fast pencil scribbles."
*proceeds to spend an hour drawing a single frog.*
Clearly I am full of lies. It is 99% pencil tool though. Using the ink pen brush to do the eyes so they have crisp edges.
Amphibiuary Day 4: Sing. One of my favourite frogs, the spring peeper, Pseudacris crucifer.
My childhood home was very close to a large wetland area. You knew springtime was truly here when the peepers would start living up to their name. The volume level of their booty calls is not commensurate with their tiny size at all. Some ponds in the woods could be almost painful to stand near with how loud it would get.
Echo, intimidated, suddenly appeared in front of everyone from the Music Tower. I'm wondering how from your Music Tower Peppino, Pepperman, Noise, Fake and Vigilante will react to Echo and what will they do with him? I'm really curious. Sorry if I'm asking too much 👉👈