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@echo-the-human

they/them, has bones (probably)

It's okay to do things slowly.

It's okay if doing the dishes takes you an hour.

It's okay if walking to the store and back takes up your whole morning.

It's okay if it takes you a year to finish a book.

It's okay if you need a moment to think between every step of a task.

It's okay if you need to sit down while getting dressed.

It's okay to eat slowly.

It's okay if you need things explained to you multiple times.

It's okay to be slow in any way whatsoever.

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What Olive looks like when she doesn’t notice the camera:

What Olive looks like once she notices the camera:

im trying to go to sleep but i cannotttttt stop thinking about this and laughing

Listen, we have to keep this thing circulating on the internet for at least another two decades, because I have to believe that one day that little girl will be grown enough to stumble upon it and She Will Explain

We’ve made it 5 years folks

Kid is at least 8 now

it's caturday and i'm going to give money to this website to make everybody look at my cat getting mcfrickin scooped, because LOOK AT HIM

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Sick of flimsy plastic junk that lasts a year. I want the huge heavy dangerous solid metal version of everything, the one that rattles and hisses and might catch on fire if you don't take care of it and keep it clean but will keep working a hundred years after I'm dead as long as anyone else needs it

every dial, button, and switch nowadays feels shit and weak, like a new born child. i feel scared i might destroy an innocent life. I want everything to be built out of the kind of breakers and fat KATHUNK switches, giant dails that make satisfying little clicks, big fuck off glowing round buttons that i can slap with all my might. The kinda shit you see in a power station in the 70's, something that requires the kind of daily strenuous effort that it blasts your DNA right out of your cells.

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HATE THE GENTLE BREAKABLE PLASTIC DIALS >:( >:( >:(

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I want a machine where giving it a whack with the side of my fist actually jostles a physical mechanism into working properly

I too wish I could give the unyielding perfection of the machine a good fisting.

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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.

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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??

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

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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.