#its a deaf thing

[sadisthetic]

BURST💥

#get fucked eardrums #first caption i thought of was 'music's too loud' but like it didnt have the punch. #anyways i keep on doing terrible things to this man youre welcome btw #hi fi rush #chai hi fi rush #hi fi rush chai #my art #this is a side comment but i bet chai could still fight to the music even when deaf (temporary or otherwise) #bc im sure he can like Feel the music through his body even when his ears are out of commission #like not only is that the case for a lot of Deaf people in reality but also #as a headcanon i think his player in his chest would let him feel the beat even better so #so i think if this were a permanent thing hed be super bummed and uncomfortable with the silence at the beginning #feeling weirded out by how he has to navigate the world now #but i think he'll adjust and come to terms with it with only mild difficulty #music is still a part of him (literally) #its just different now #(though language is another matter entirely)

[scltbvrns]

homogenising something that has always been inherently diverse will kill us all one day.

#-> myra text #political critique #that is why hindutva should have not been popularised. hindutva is not decolonisation or reclamation. #it is homogenising and exclusionist. it takes away the diverse history of this country. #but this statement will reach deaf ears. rather than critiquing nobility they will go and bark casteist and islamphobic bs. #did invaders did what invaders do? yes. but this whole property destruction and lives being at risk has been going on for years. #biggest example who are quite popular: ajatshatru (son of bimbisara) & ashoka the great (the massacre at kaling) #i'm all in for criticising nobility i have no respect for any kings despite their religion and community and whatever. #they're all shits who benefited and left the common people to rot. #these people will say that tipu sultan is the devil reborn but will go on praising the marathas #as if the marathas did not cause a bloodshed in bengal karnataka and the punjab regions. not saying tipu is good but i rather #wanted to point out the hypocrisy of people in certain spaces. its a good thing to appreciate history and even better thing to learn from #the mistakes made in past but some of you guys did not understand the whole point. #absolute shit head cunts some of you guys are. come at me brand me whatever slurs you fuckers use i don't give a shit #calling people sex slaves just because they don't subscribe to your viewpoint is not the big own you think it is. #sanghi bs #india #hindutva

[demadogs]

ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE

(2023) Dir. Shawn Levy

#i dont think theres much of fandom for this book/show this is gonna get like 9 notes #as always these look fine on my computer and horrific on my phone so thats super fun #my gifs #all the light we cannot see #shawn levy #louis hofmann #aria mia loberti #tvedit #usergreta #dailyflicks #filmedit #atlwcs #really wish they didnt cut frederick #also its weird that this was all in english #i was expecting a mix of german and french and english but theres like no other languages just accents thats pretty stupid #also this is just the film bitch in me but when he exploded the door and she was deaf for a couple seconds and you didnt hear anything they #really should have also completely unfocused the shot too to replicate her being blind AND deaf in that moment #the fact that they only deafened the audio for the audience kinda makes you forget that shes blind they just focused on the deaf part #and blindness isnt just darkness she can probably see some light (npi) so just a really blurry shot with no audio wouldve been great #thats the only like film specific thing i wish they did tho #i really love the shot werner on the ground and in bed #i also dont hate that they made em kiss... #even tho when i read this in high school i was the only one in my socratic seminar who was glad they didnt lmao #its not like reylo like it works #ok im done #OH AND IM GLAD WERNER DIDNT DIE THAT WAS VERY NICE OF THEM

[sunburstsandmoonshadows]

"she's [viola] the only one in her family with a southern accent!"

ok but to be honest as someone who has a brother who pronounces a bunch of words in a much more southern way than me (rut for route, awnt for aunt, etc) despite us both living in the midwest all our lives i was totally prepared to accept viola is just Like That in-universe

#burrow's end #burrows end #technically a spoiler for dialog #but its so minor #even he doesnt know why he does that #he just does #as the one who went deaf from ear blockage semifrequently in childhood #youd think id be the one whod pronounce things distinctly from everyone around me #but nope #also i love that they point out viola's randomly different accent but not jaysohn being british for no reason

[steveshairychest]

Steve used to hate thunderstorms because they're so loud, so angry.

He was always alone when they crept up on Hawkins. There was no one there to comfort him as a child while the sky unleashed its anger onto his empty house. He used to hide in his mother's walk-in closet during a thunderstorm, used to wrap himself up in one of his father's coats and hide in the dark closet until the rumbling stopped. His nanny would call his name and run around the giant maze of a house looking for him, her shrill voice barely heard over the continuous thunder. When she eventually found him, she'd grab him by the arm and tell him to stop being such a baby, to start acting his age. He was 6.

He doesn't fear them anymore. Lots of people carry their fear of storms from childhood into adulthood, but not Steve. Not because he is brave, not because he worked hard to overcome his fear, but because he can't hear them anymore. His hearing went quickly, and it took his fear of thunderstorms with it. The flashes of lightning and shaking of the house are his only indicators that it's storming. As a child, he used to hide from the angry sky, but now he sits on the front porch of his own home and watches the lightning dance across the sky.

Steve loves thunderstorms now.

#ITS STORMING RN AND ITS REALLY HOT HERE HAVE THIS #stranger things #steve harrington #st4 vol2 #deaf steve harrington #stranger things s4

[rpfisfine]

aleksa petting his flower harp project......

#im legitimately like..my entire body hurts im gonna cry.....HES SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #IT IS SO OVER....💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 #did you guys know he made it using the tools in alex's garage but he didn't know which ones to use so he used the most #unnecessarily loud ones and made himself deaf...... #aleksa vulović #boy boy #he was so proud & excited to show it off and then alex & hasan made fun of him for being a soft boy plus alex overshadowed him #with his stupid sawed off guitar.......there is something like actually happening to my chest its like collapsing on itself #aleksa i love you so much i can hardly stand and bear it sometimes.....i think your flower harp is the coolest thing ive ever seen

[aliferousdreamer]

it really bothers me that lucas got no apology from billy or really any acknowledgement from the show that he was his abuse victim. billy straight up tried to run him over, didn't even want max near him because of his skin colour and tried to beat him up (a CHILD). he put lucas through racial abuse and trauma and it was never referenced again. the fact that billy's actions towards lucas (and max) have been forgotten and whitewashed in s3 and maybe s4 is so frustrating. the fandom and even the damn show itself gives billy 10x more love than lucas and it bothers me so much. lucas deserves better.

#lucas sinclair #stranger things #anti billy hargrove #i don't blame max at all #but it's tone deaf from the writers #they really just ignored billy being racist and abusive towards lucas and tried to make everyone love/forgive him #st season 4 #st season 3 #st s4 #st s3 #st fandom #sorry i really have to vent #its been on my mind for 2 years #the fact that lucas will likely comfort max over billy's death in s4.....

[yonpote]

goddddd the old dnp community captions where ppl just put in commentary and memes and inside jokes.... genuinely my biggest pet peeve like I HAVE AN AUDIO PROCESSING ISSUE........

#also makes it worse for deaf and hoh people! yknow! the ppl who very much need captions!!!! #its not a thing anymore thankfully

[cistematicchaos]

does anyone know anything abt hearing tests? bc i legit feel like i've lost some of my hearing after covid and its really fucking with me. like, is there a way to test or...?

#i know i have like #the autism thing where i have trouble #understanding words? #like they sound like jibberish sometimes #but its gotten worse #and different #to the point i think some of what im struggling with #is hearing loss #but i don't know how to tell #any suggestions? #disability #hearing loss #deaf community? #id appreciate any recs tbh #or just general advice #chaos is speaking #auditory processing is what the autism thing is called #i think? #sorry my brain is so fucked rn

[dersandmannkommt]

*has loved sign language since childhood* *is more or less proficient in american sign language* *has studied and continues to study Deaf culture and its history* *has met and befriended many d/Deaf people*

*asks deaf person to repeat a fingerspelled word more than once*

omg now they hate me and they probably hate me for trying to learn their language and then failing at it so miserably and i should probably just switch majors and gosh they probably think im just another stupid hearing person. please i can do better i swear i didnt mean to disrespect you

every single deaf person that i have ever met: *does not care* *probably didn't even register any mistake i made* *understands that I am learning an entirely new language and am bound to need a bit of help*

#asl #american sign language #sign language #deaf community #this goes for how it feels to learn any language tbh #a previous asl professor of mine was actually spanish #(english was her 3rd language) #and she once said “como estas?” #you know #one of the most well known spanish phrases that you dont even have to take a spanish class to know (“how are you?”) #and i completely blanked #not because I didnt know what it meant #but because i was too nervous to speak spanish with a native spanish speaker #which is actually hilarious #because the whole point of learning more than one language #is to be able to communicate with the people who speak those languages #i think this is more of an american culture thing #the fact that we are often taught to perfect things like pronunciation (if its spoken) and grammar #instead of actual communication #of course sign language grammar is a bit more important to learn than other languages grammar #you say smt wrong in english and a native english speaker will be able to understand you fine #but signed languages are pretty much dependent on the grammar side of things #but my point still stands

[t4twnyclaw]

i wish they kept early lore/world building and just kept it for the later arcs. ofc the clans should all have and keep their individual identities/culture because thatd be SO NEAT but also they should keep the little thing about kit mortality rate low so we dont have a billion background characters and incestual family trees.

#plus the fact that some kits are just born deaf. dappletail made it sound like its a common thing to have deaf/disabled kits #so why is jayfeather the only canonically disabled one born like that #txt #wc

[poisonousquinzel]

sorry but if you actually think Cancel Culture ™ is a thing then you're kinda a dumb fuck. Cancel culture isn't real, holding people accountable for their actions is a thing, but this whole narrative around Canceling that's evolved over the past few years isn't real. It's never been an actual thing. Its just a fear mongering tactic to further vilify the groups who were being harmed in the first place and victimize the person who did something wrong.

Your fav being called out for playing an antisemitic video game that directly gives profits to a hugely influential TERF, who's said openly she sees getting profits / royalty cheques from her franchise as endorsements for her bigotry, is not "cancel culture". It's called the consequences for your actions.

You have every right to do and play whatever the fuck you want, but that goes both ways. If you go out of your way to build up and financially support these people who're openly advocating to take away trans people's rights, then you get to deal with people not trusting you because of it. You get to deal with trans and Jewish folks not feeling safe around you, not wanting to be around you or not wanting to talk to you. Because you have shown that you care more about nostalgia and temporary personal emotional gratification over the wellbeing and safety of those communities in the real world.

People have explained why supporting HL is wrong, people have explained why it's harmful, people have explained in detail the issues with this situation. You. Just. Don't. Care. You don't listen, or read, because in the end, you can't be bothered enough to put in the effort of having 1 moment of critical thinking.

It's not that folks don't have arguments or evidence, it's that it clearly does not matter to you. It's that the value of an antisemitic game full of one horrific thing after another is worth more to you than the real, living breathing people who are going to be, and have been, affected by this.

You come across as a bad person. Not because some person on Twitter determined you must be, but because your actions speak far louder. And they're screaming red flags.

I'm not going to argue with you over your own bad decisions and life choices. You've made your bed and are mad that people are telling you to lie in it.

#not dc #i need to not focus on this but it makes me so annoyed #and like the constant 'well hp has been a comfort thing of mine since childhood!' like bitch do you think Harry Potter was a niche little #thing???? #a fucking lot of us had Harry Potter as something important to us growing up #i remember getting all the legos sets for Christmas in 2011. getting the lego video games and i loved them! #but. that. doesn't. matter. #we're not children anymore and she's not on our side. #JKR made it clear that a large portion of her previous fan base are not welcome around her and that frankly #that she would rather them be dead. #she's a horrendous human being who is causing so much pain and anguish for communities that're just trying to exist #and its built upon the empire she crafted. the one full of stereotypes and offensive imagery and tone-deaf themes. #we aren't kids anymore and it's shameful to gloss over what she is actively doing Right Now because You have fond memories of her world. #a lot of people don't get the luxury of pretending like she's not an awful person because they're the ones she's harming #they're the ones she's spreading hateful rhetoric and stereotypes about. the ones that she's pushing to get their rights taken away. #just put down her shitty fuckhng series and read another book. #i promise you there's hundreds upon hundreds of better ones out there with better plots and better world building. #anti harry potter #anti jkr #anti hogwarts legacy #tw transphobia mention #tw antisemitism mention #figure I'll tw tag just in case ya got it filtered 💖

[voidpacifist]

I know we all love and adore D(d)eaf/hoh steve but I raise you this — D(d)eaf eddie

(little tw for abuse and audism, I really did a deep dive into eddies childhood for this one)

• eddie, who gets really sick really young and loses his hearing, who is raised in a loud environment because his parents are constantly fighting or partying but the universe is on his side because he doesn't have to try so hard to tune it out

• eddie, who stubbornly seeks out ways to listen to music even when his parents get pissed at him for having the radio in his bedroom turned up loud enough to shake the house, who finds his mom's old acoustic guitar and decides it's his favorite instrument, who plays like he knows it even if he probably sounds ridiculous because he doesn't care when his whole body is vibrating with it

• eddie, who is forced to be mainstreamed and struggles so fucking much because a. first graders are mean and b. not a single teacher tries to accomodate his needs as a deaf student, who earns himself the title of 'freak' without really trying because he sounds different from the other kids, who still tries his damnedest to make friends with them because as much as he wants to hate them, he'd much rather not be lonely

• eddie, who at ten years old ends up meeting his uncle after his mom drags him out of the house during a brutal fight with his dad, who learns that wayne has a collection of music he calls 'metal,' who finds a whole new world of sound that finally clicks just right for him

• eddie, who reads voraciously, who hides in the library and finds a book on Sign, who stops talking at home out of defiance because no one listens to him anyway, who gets his hands pressed to a hot stove by his dad for signing instead of speaking, who is forced to return his library book and spends years of his life terrified to try again

• eddie, who struggles but ultimately graduates from the fifth grade, who didn't have an interpreter or more than hesitant acquaintances in class, who racked up hordes of bullies throughout elementary but still powered through every class and every grueling assignment that was never properly explained to him, who graduates because he did that shit by himself and for himself

• eddie, who thinks he's going to go through the motions of elementary school again in middle school, who starts skipping out on certain classes with particularly impatient teachers and peers, who only comes back and stays because scott clarke sought him out to give him tools for during lectures and lets him hide in his classroom during the lunch hour, who is asked one day if they can learn Sign together

• eddie, who really doesn't want to get in trouble at home but can't afford to miss out on what's happening at school, who signs for hours back and forth with mr. clarke after school, who lies to his parents about his extracurriculars

• eddie, who sees his dad do something so horrific that he runs in just his socks all two miles to the police station, who only gets the attention of jim hopper, jim who doesn't know a lick of Sign but still tries to communicate with eddie and explains as best he can to a traumatized fourteen year old that he needs to find a new home, eddie who watches as his dad is taken in a police car to prison whole his mom is taken on a stretcher in a bag

• eddie, who still has living family in illinois but chooses wayne, who holes up in his new room with the music too loud for a public trailer park, who doesn't speak or Sign to wayne for a long time but they still leave little notes to one another — that ham sandwich you like so much is in the fridge, love wayne; don't forget your medicine this morning, eddie

• eddie, who takes wayne to his first parent teacher conference and freezes when mr. clarke brings up Sign, who nearly cries when wayne decides he'd like to learn too, who gets remarks about his focus from his other teachers and watches as wayne face goes through more expressions than he's ever seen on a man, confusion and anger and defiance

• eddie, who starts seeing more and more patience from his teachers, who starts meeting people that actually want to be friends with him because they too have been labeled by high school society as 'freaks,' garrett emerson and other sixth graders start looking up to him, even some seventh graders too like donnie nichols and jeff morgan (yes I made up the last names), who is taught about D&D and in turn, teaches his little crowd of outcasts how to sign so they can have campaigns together

• eddie, who carries his reputation as 'freak' and wears it like a crown with pride, who sticks up for others like him and sticks out without hiding away, who goes through highschool for six years too many, who meets fellow odd duck robin buckley in the final sixth year when he ends up in her graduating class

• eddie, who is on track to graduate because of robin, robin whose fixation on languages allows her to learn Sign in a matter of weeks, eddie who meets nancy wheeler through robin who then meets nancys little brother and his crowd of friends, who then meets the last person he thought he'd ever be friends with, steve harrington

• steve, who has a lot of head trauma and relies on Sign during his bad days when his hearing is rough or his head hurts too much to talk, eddie who starts softening his edges because there's finally someone else in this tiny fucking town who knows a shred of how he himself feels

• steve, who advocates loudly and firmly for eddies right to work at different establishments in town after he graduates, who turns eddie onto the idea of pursuing a career in music even when others in the past have told him that it's counterintuitive to do so, eddie who convinces steve not to overwork himself, who helps him pursue proper medical diagnoses for his learning disabilities

• eddie, who saves up every penny he can to attend college at gallaudet, who gets his bachelor's in teaching despite his qualms with his own education experience, who goes on to teach an all deaf class in a town neighboring his hometown

• eddie, who begins finding people in his own community, who has a place with his people in hawkins and a place with his fellow Deaf, who does everything with being deaf and not in spite of it, who embraces himself fully and is embraced fully by those he's surrounded himself with

• eddie, who visits the party over the holiday season and on a few weekends here and there, who hosts entire D&D campaigns in just Sign for both the party and hellfire, who is surprised to find that steve shows up to each one because the guy does not have to drive the kids anywhere anymore

• eddie, who asks steve why he shows up, steve who signs with shy fingers that it's because he can't chase away the urge to be around eddie

• eddie and steve, who become eddie and steve, steve who is learning and investing himself into Deaf culture, eddie who is bursting at the seams to introduce him to all of his friends

• steve and eddie, who both have a taste for loud, jarring music, who both attend concerts together, who create music together even if it's just to fuck around because it's what they love, who continue to defy the world's expectations of what they can and cannot do and enjoy and be

#eddie munson #eddie munson headcanons #headcanons #stranger things headcanons #deaf eddie munson #idk if thats a tag yet but fuck you im making it one #i cannot stop thinking about this fr #its a brain worm now #steddie #just a little bit of steddie for the soul at the end there if you squint

[isfjmel-phleg]

One more paragraph to go! I realized that I had put into the first paragraph information that made more sense later on, so shifting things around got some thoughts moving and rekindled my desire to fistfight some of these authors of retellings, which I think is where you're supposed to be emotionally as an academic (this is a joke. I am joking.), so...progress. Very slowly.

#random personal stuff #it's the comments that suggest that Burnett didn't know how to write her own story that annoy me #allegedly Mary's 'grief journey' needed to be 'more authentic to what kids for the most part can relate to' #or she 'wasn't grieving enough' because the book was written in 1911 when presumably no one knew what human behavior looked like #or because it was just a children's book and therefore automatically lacking in emotional depth #so THANK GOODNESS for the writers of the 2020s who are fixing what poor clueless Burnett didn't know how to portray \sarcasm #YOU ARE MISSING THE POINT #YOU ARE BRINGING ASSUMPTIONS TO THE TEXT ABOUT WHAT ITS THEMES ARE AND THEN CRITICIZING THE TEXT FOR NOT TREATING THOSE THEMES #AND ACTING LIKE SOME KIND OF HERO FOR REWRITING THE STORY TO SUIT YOUR OWN NEEDS #the 1993 film and the musical have a lot going for them BUT #they have massively set back interpretation of the story because so many people are hung up on the traditional grief thing #ALSO to just gloss over CEN as something that most young readers wouldn't be able to relate to or just plain being unable to see it #comes from a very tone-deaf mindset #(I can't get this snarky in the paper so thank you for humoring an outburst)

[rxttenfish]

also i finally finished Into The Drowning Deep so i never have to look at it again

my review: legitimately one of the worst books i have had the misfortune of reading, made worse by the fact that its all of the tropes that i love and hold dearly. everything feels like a slap in the face to all that i adore. can't even write amphibians, ancient or otherwise, right, and it does poorly on the other scientific facts. you might be drawn to it thinking it'd be a fun found footage with spec evo mermaids. you would be wrong. it has marine biologist david peters who is right (of course she's right), a megalodon believer, and it doesn't get better.

#all the care guide says is 'biomass' #i hhhhhhhhhhhhhate this book so much #it was torture in every single way #the one good thing i can say about it is its the first book that made me want to go on a rant about how awful it is #do not let it trick you into thinking it has lesbians #yes theyre the main characters. yes they have so little CHARACTER to them i had no idea why they were suddenly fucking #it has dogshit deaf representation and it just straight up has a cartoon poacher couple with a ''dragon lady'' trope #it forgets the disaster that was the dolphin house and thinks people can just talk to dolphins #this was written in 2017 and it made me want to pull my hair out and eat it

[mag200]

taylor swift im gonna be real. im not losing you you’re losing me.

#the announcement today was…. so fucking tone deaf #like the ice spice collab after her shitty boyfriend mocked the poor woman #the lana del rey collab and midnights bonus tracks and east rutherford exclusive cd as a distraction #its the ‘you asked for it we listened’ for me like…. so you do see everything thats going on :) #i dont want to be one of those ppl who takes every little thing she does in bad faith but like this is just a baaad look #taylor swift #matty healy