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Goddess of the waves🌊 Gemini☀️ | Leo🌙 | Libra↑ She/her❤️ ¦Literature ¦ Philosphy¦ Linguistics ¦ Poetry ¦ Bladesmithing ¦ This is a secondary blog so I cannot follow or like :'() Blog is NSFW so don't interact if you're uncomfortable!
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melanielearnslanguages
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accessibleaesthetics

Here is a (non-exhaustive) list of free resources for different sign languages:

Please feel free to add on if you know of others, be it more resource for one of the sign languages above, or resources for learning any of the other 300 plus sign languages.

Edit: I updated the ASL reference to Bill Vicars, but reminder that these are just things I found around, please find Deaf teachers wherever possible! And for ASL, lifeprint.com is another wonderful resource.

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accessibleaesthetics

This post is still actively getting notes every day, so I wanted to share a new resource with you: Lingvano. This app is:

  • Free, for the first few lessons then it’s about $10 per month
  • Offers lessons from D/deaf teachers
  • Extremely self-paced, built to take in small 5 to 20 minute chunks every day.

The app currently only offers courses in three sign languages: American Sign Language (ASL), British Sign Language (BSL) and Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS).

I will add this to the original post momentarily, but I wanted to put this in a reblog too to raise awareness. I found out about this app from a Deaf content creator, so I really do think it's legit.

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dearorpheus

hi hi, here are some free horror readings/resources in pdf form and adjacent horror viewings as seen in the curriculum for the miskatonic institute of horror studies’ course on theorising horror. 

- the american nightmare: horror in the 70s, robin wood ; deathdream, dir. bob clark, 1974 - horror and the monstrous-feminine: an imaginary abjection, barbara creed ; possession, dir. andrzej zulawski, 1981 - when the woman looks, linda williams ; ju-on, dir. takashi shimizu, 2002 - her body, himself: gender in the slasher film, carol j. clover ; hell night, dir. tom desimone, 1981 - bodies of fear: the films of david cronenberg, steven shaviro ; rabid, dir. david cronenberg, 1977 - why horror?, noël carroll ; horror and art-dread, cynthia freeland ; cropsey, dir. barbara brancaccio, 2009

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dearorpheus

POST UPDATE 

the links on this post appear to have fried; i originally copied them directly from the miskatonic institute course page here (x) but i’ve haphazardly compiled them:

- the american nightmare: horror in the 70s, robin wood - horror and the monstrous-feminine: an imaginary abjection, barbara creed - when the woman looks, linda williams - her body, himself: gender in the slasher film, carol j. clover - bodies of fear: the films of david cronenberg, steven shaviro (the link is to shaviro’s full text the cinematic body, this essay in particular is pg. 127) - noël carroll’s philosophy of horror right here on libgen - cynthia freeland’s horror and art-dread was published within a collection of essays; the entire text can also be found and downloaded easily on libgen with freeland’s essay on pg. 189

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You can call dick jokes crude and somehow unsophisticated, but then you’ll be forgetting the origin of Comedy as the genre itself, that originated with κωμος (komos), a festival where men danced and sung around a large phallus.

Classical comedy is just a huge dick joke.

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❝A ROSE, as fair as ever saw the North, Grew in a little garden all alone; A sweeter flower did Nature ne’er put forth, Nor fairer garden yet was never known : The maidens danced about it morn and noon, And learned bards of it their ditties made; The nimble fairies by the pale-faced moon Water’d the root and kiss’d her pretty shade. But well-a-day! —the gardener careless grew; The maids and fairies both were kept away, And in a drought the caterpillars threw Themselves upon the bud and every spray. God shield the stock! If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.❞

━━𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐦 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞, The Rose. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ©𝐀𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐨 𝐆𝐨𝐛𝐲