the world is strange and big and beautiful and a lot of it statistically is bugs

nothing makes me feel more well adjusted than hearing about the problems that straight people in the periphery of my life are always having

my aunt's new guy broke into my ex uncle's garage and filled his bowling balls with caulk

[ID: reply from lakevida to donatart: the way my mom broke this family drama to me was. "did i tell you that mark got his balls caulked". and i laughed so hard that i couldnt stop crying for three minutes /end ID]

Captions shouldn't be censored. If the video says fuck or cum or cunt the captions should say the fucking word.

Unless it's a slur! No one needs to see that.

If they say a slur in the video, the captions should reflect it. The disabled are not little babies who have to have life sanitized for them.

okay but I feel like ur forgetting that slurs don't just apply to the disabled... children don't need to be seeing the n-word or other racial slurs??

but children DO need to be hearing it? are you actually reading the post here?

Here's how it works when subtitles are done properly:

Audio: Let's BEEP go! Subtitle: Let's (censor tone) go!

Audio: Let's fucking go! Subtitle: Let's fucking go!

Removing swears and slurs from the subtitles without removing it from the audio is implying that deaf/HoH people need babying, unlike their hearing friends and family sitting right next to them. Which is frustrating.

The point of subtitles is to give the same experience to everyone watching, regardless of ability—not to be a more palatable version of what's being said.

The purpose of subtitles/captions is to be accurate, that's all.

adding a keysmash to the end of a message like a dog sneezing on purpose to show theyre just playing

This guy (gray catbird) at the open mic night (my front porch) won't stop doing his fucking impressions (american robin, house sparrow, and cardinal)

his impressions are big hits with the crowd (other catbird) though

he tested out some new material (european starling, red-winged blackbird) at the end of his set

Oh that two year gap on my resume was when I was the architect of my own hell

goals

house we need to cure this patient

jesser we need to cook this meth

i dont know any more shows.

roy we need to suck this session

Marvel Syndrome

Josh Whedon disease

so uh. Ursula Vernon is an acclaimed and accomplished writer (also known as T Kingfisher) of multiple genres, including fantasy and horror - lots of horror. she also wrote and illustrated the award-winning webcomic Digger. I knew this screenshot couldn’t be showing us her whole opinion, so I pulled up the actual tweet, and I was right! she goes on to explain that many in her crowd loved it, including her husband, but that it wasn’t for her. even more relevant than her original thread, though, is this response she had to someone who was asking in (apparently) good faith why she found the lack of humour frustrating:

like. yeah. not every movie requires a comedy element. of course not! but I think this post is ripping unfairly on entirely the wrong person. Vernon was clear in her original thread that being humourless did not make it a Bad Movie, and has been exceptionally straightforward about why that lack of humour felt detrimental to the film in her experience.

i didn’t do hourlies but here’s something that happened to me yesterday

Northern lights at the graveyard

Congrats to Rose and Bernard for winning the award for Least Unhinged People On The Island, every single year since 2004.

They also had a few wins during the 1970s, because time got fucked up for a while.

Some unfiltered shots of the northern lights over my house last night

West Michigan 10:30p.m.

Do you know this queer character?

Richie is Gay and uses he/him pronouns!

Do you know this queer character?

Cecil is Gay and uses he/him pronouns!