@jollysunflora / jollysunflora.tumblr.com
dating-type app but instead of matching for romance it connects writers/artists+ who don't want to do research with autistic people with the appropriate special interest
the creators get the needed information without needing to filter out filler and translate technical jargon, and the autistic person gets someone who's willing to listen to their infodumps. what is there to lose
Apparently the creators of The Unofficial Homestuck Collection have revealed that they've been working on an online website version of it, making it readable on mobile and available for people who don't have 4 gigs of storage to spare.
The Flash elements are all emulated using Ruffle, and it has mods built into it (that you can add and remove at your leisure).
It was only just released to the public yesterday, so it may have some bugs, but it does currently have (from what I can tell) the entire thing, including the archives of the other MSPA comics like Jailbreak and Problem Sleuth.
Nothing but respect for this mathematician's webpage
Keyblade quotes!
any of these would be great tattoos
what do you think of tone indicators in general?
unfortunately my thoughts on tone indicators are somewhat nuanced. fortunately, this is tumblr not twitter, so I can just write out my full thoughts in one post and be as verbose about it as feels necessary.
speaking as an autistic person (and I know there are other autistic people who don't hold this same view, this is just my perspective), I think as an accessibility tool, the extended set tone indicators in current popular use is fundamentally misguided.
the oldest ones, /s for sarcasm and /j for jokes, make sense. their notation isn't the most intuitive thing ("does /s mean sarcastic or serious?") but it's not too difficult to explain what they mean. I've had to spend my whole life learning by brute force what different tones of voice mean and what they change about how I'm supposed to interpret something, so I already know what "read this in a sarcastic voice" and "read this as a joke" are supposed to mean. my existing skills can be translated into the new form without too much effort.
the same thing applies to emoji and emoticons. I know what facial expressions mean, because I had to learn what they mean. figuring out if :) is sincere or not from context is a skill I've already needed to develop. it doesn't come naturally for me, but it's something I already at least somewhat know how to do.
most of the tone indicators in current use uh. don't work like this.
tone indicators like /ref or /nbh don't correspond to specific tones of voice. I don't have a "I'm making a reference" voice or a "I'm not talking about a person who's here" voice that I can picture the sentence being read in. these do not indicate tones, they're purely disambiguators. they clarify what something means without necessarily changing how it would be read out loud.
and on paper, that's fine, right? like, it's theoretically a good thing to take an otherwise ambiguous statement and add something to it that clarifies what you meant by it. the problem is that these non-tone tone indicators are not even remotely self-explanatory. it's up to me, the person who is being clarified to, to know what all these acronyms are supposed to mean, and how they change the way I'm supposed to interpret what something means.
it's, quite literally, a newly-invented second set of social cues that I'm expected to learn separately from the set that I've already spent my whole life figuring out, and it works completely differently.
sure, these rules are (in principle) less arbitrary than the rules of facial expressions and tones of voice and how long you're supposed to wait before it's your turn to speak, but they're also fully artificial and recently invented, which means they're currently in a constant state of flux. tone indicators go in and out of fashion all the time, and the "comprehensive lists" are never helpful.
in theory, I appreciate the idea of people going out of their way to clarify what they mean by potentially ambiguous things they post online. if it worked, that would be a really nice thing to do.
however, sometimes I imagine what the internet would be like without them. what if instead of using /s, the expectation was that if you're sarcastic online there's no guarantee that strangers reading your post will know what you meant? what if instead of inventing more and more acronyms to cover every possible potentially confusing situation, we just... expected one another to speak less ambiguously in the first place?
so, I on paper like the idea of tone indicators. I think it's good that some people are trying to be considerate by being extra clear about what they mean by things. but if tone indicators didn't exist, and people who wanted to be considerate in this way instead just made a point of phrasing things more clearly to begin with, I think that would be vastly preferable to even the most well-implemented tone indicator system.
also /pos sucks because there's something deeply and profoundly wrong for an abbreviation that means "I don't mean this as an insult, don't worry" to be spelled the same way as an acronym that's an insult
actually you know what that's exactly it i would rather someone add 5 parantheticals after every sentence than use tone indicators it's 1. accomplishing SO much more in terms of clarity 2. extremely funny to look at depending on how they're used
observe:
"is this real? /gen" — i thought /gen meant "general" for ages. i would not be able to understand this on first sight a few years ago and is thus ineffective
"is this real? (genuine question)" — i fully understand this without issue
"is this real? (genuine question) (can't tell) (very realistic) (looks real) (scary) (photoshop?)" — is not only incredibly clear it's also very funny to read all of these thoughts stapled together while also in their own parentheses. it's also the most useful because now i can actually address all parts of what they are asking me with as much specificity as BOTH of us need
reblog if you fully and intentionally are referring to aspec people as well when you use the word queer to refer to the community
my partner once said, "if you have to explain your sexuality to straight people, you're probably queer"
Ok, but this illustrates perfectly how school is designed to teach us how to work.
^^^ yes. Children shouldn’t have to live like this either. It fucking sucks.
For a little more examination of this issue, check this Quartz article and the Wikipedia article on the "factory model school" that takes a run at deconstructing/refuting the premise (not terribly successfully, from where I'm sitting).
For my own part, I strongly suspect that a lot of K-through-12 schools in the US still run their curricula in a way intended to make you sit still, shut up, and do as you're told. Which produces the work situation described above (in which bosses, probably some of them entirely unwitting, do the same things to their employees that were done to them for the first twelve public years of their lives).
wait, schools in the rest of the world aren't like that?
I dreamed that I was playing mariokart and there was a track that took 3 days to complete and when I somehow managed to get 1st place a popup came onscreen that had a pic of koopa troopa and text that read “congratulations!! you’re gonna have so much sex” and I started laughing so hard I woke up
ma’am could you please take a step back. yes—yes ma’am it’s because of your AOE poison attack aura
ma’am please
look at this video of a mouse eating soup and bread and butter
peace and FUCKING love on planet earth
your baby as soon as these come off
Tryna raise an Olympic baby
Why the fuck does it say to fill them with syrup
So the baby can have an energy-raising snack while training up their leg muscles
beauty tips from a 12,000 year old sycamore tree
Telling stories 🌿
The aranaras like stories & zhongli likes to tell stories… so i feel like they would enjoy each other’s company :)
hello beloveds ☺️
made an alternate version for the mutuals ive never spoken to
You are appreciated
I have a Twitter account that I don't use but a friend linked me to an artist who's doing commissions. So I went to DM them, per the instructions on their commission info, and this was the message I got:
[image ID: A notification window with text reading "Get verified to message this user. Only verified users can send Direct Message requests to people that don’t follow them. Sign up for Twitter Blue to continue." Below this are two buttons. The top one reads, "Get verified" and the bottom reads, "No thanks." end ID]
I'm sure as fuck not paying money just to send a DM. So if you know any artists whose only means of getting commissions is through the Decaying Bird Carcass site, please let them know that they might be missing out on a lot of work.
hey, you reblogged a cat donation post from pillars-of-stereos and i just wanna let you know that they're a scammer who's been caught many times. Their previous urls have been hologramconnosseurrs, sleiekkem, ohdelin, michelvv, michevvous, michevvouuz, michevkevv, michelaide, michelainne, seafallsv, bagsofgoldz, stereopillars. You can check the blog kyra45 for more info they've been tracking this scammer for a while now. Even their bio, pfp, header pic are all stolen from tumblr user shanaraharlyah. Very sorry if this ask gets sent multiple times. I'm going through the reblogs on their posts to get the word around as that seems the most effective way to deter this scammer so far. Please do report them to tumblr if you can or warn others about them.
o shit i had no idea thanks for telling me anon
Page: radiates aspect, equips aspect, becomes a source of aspect
Maid: endures aspect, protects aspect, grows aspect
Seer: shows the way to aspect, predicts aspect, sees through aspect
Rogue: (re)distributes aspect, swaps around aspect, moves aspect
Bard: brings chaos to aspect, suppresses aspect, has the last laugh at aspect
Heir: inherits protection of aspect, guided by aspect, changes into aspect
Mage: experiments with aspect, learns aspect as a science, hacks aspect
Sylph: conjures aspect, enhances aspect, invigorates aspect
Knight: wields aspect as tool, hones skills of aspect, exploits rules of aspect
Witch: transforms aspect, casts spells on aspect, rethinks aspect for loopholes
Prince: rends apart aspect, sharpens aspect, nullifies aspect
Thief: steals aspect, stockpiles aspect, controls more aspect than you
not joking I would kind of like to brutally murder whoever thought it was a good idea to take away clicking on a person’s name to see their reblog and make it borderline impossible to get to the original version of a post without spending ten minutes scrolling with ctrl f
Helpful tip:
If you have the post date option turned on you can click the date and it will take it to the original post like before. It's annoying, unintuitive, and harder to click but it should work on mobile or desktop
this is the most ridiculous possible workaround thank you SO much tumblr user suffusionofyellow for sharing
Polls by teens on this godforsaken site be like:
Meanwhile polls by Tumblr OldsTM be like
