rainbowbarnacle:

ceruleancynic:

jumpingjacktrash:

mookybear12404:

mookybear12404:

Can we please please normalize subtitles? 

Subtitles are:

1. A necessity for deaf people

2. REALLY helpful for those who are partially deaf, have APD (like me and my sister) or any other hearing problem

3. really helpful for those who can’t focus well, especially for those with ADD/ADHD (like me)

4. Is incredibly helpful for people learning a second language, or for bilingual people who can read better than they can hear 

5. Even if you aren’t into learning the language, there are countless amazing foreign movies and songs you really can’t enjoy without subtitles!

6. Can help people (like my sister) who have reading comprehension 

7. Can help when you’re having a party and you don’t want to pause every time someone wants to make a comment/joke

8. Can help when the characters in the show have a heavy accent (especially in period shows) 

9. Let’s be honest subtitles can really add to the humor of the show! (”sobs mathematically”, “screeches loudly”, “angrily fixes bowtie”)

10. Can let people watch content without headphones, or in areas of loud noises. 

11. Alternatively, If someone has sensitive hearing or is triggered by loud noises, they can turn the volume down low and still be able to enjoy the content

12. The last bit is VERY true for movies where they switch between soft speaking and LOUD BOOMING NOISES (I’m looking at you hunger games)

13. Very good for helping young kids recognize and associate words and learn to read faster!

14. Really good when you’re eating chips/crunchy candy and can’t hear the movie

15. IS A NECESSITY FOR DEAF PEOPLE!!!

I can’t even tell you how many of my friends made fun of me for needing subtitles, to the point of where I just don’t bother with them anymore. Asking for subtitles at an event is the scariest thing I can imagine. People often complain that it “gets in the way” of their movie. Watching shows (especially in loud areas or with people who talk a lot) is incredibly frustrating for me. People often think I’m stupid for not understanding a show or needing to rewind when someone talks. Most Youtube users don’t bother to create subtitles for their videos (and auto-generated subtitles are crap). I just wish people were nicer to people who need subtitles, and that they were more accessible on other platforms. 

i watch with subtitles because i’m autistic. between sensory processing disorder (which means i lose sensory data if there’s too much of it and it’s really easy for there to be too much) and a tendency to go nonverbal under load (which includes not parsing the speech of others, as well as not producing my own), the spoken word is often a pretty steep hill for me.

normalize subtitles. normalize transcripts for podcasts. it just helps so much. thank you.

Normalize subtitles and transcripts because people wanting to experience your content straight up may not have the ability to receive or process audio. Some of us are Deaf/HOH. Some of us have sensory processing issues. Some of us simply are not able to watch videos with the sound on because we live/work in an environment where this is not feasible/possible. Whether the reason is situational or individual, we all benefit from being able to access content in text form. 

Yeeessssss this, all of this. 

wlvampires:

disney is so tiring like give us lesbians u boring capitalists

thejusticethatissocial:

soooooo in some recent terrible news the Canadian province of Quebec has officially banned Muslim women who wear the niqab, burka and other facial coverings from accessing public services like libraries, healthcare facilities, buses….oh also they can’t attend universities or publicly funded schools in general anymore so things kinda suck up here in Canada 

If y’all could send an indignant tweet or two in the Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard’s direction, and also the Quebec Liberal Party, who sponsored the bill, it’d be something non-Canadians can do. If you live in Quebec, just call up your  MNAs and tell them how fucked up this is. 

brunhiddensmusings:

tcfkag:

kentuckymeatshower:

this website is really uniquely terrible in nearly every way but where else am i gonna put my posts about batman being named after bruce springsteen. do i post that on facebook? do i email my mom 

The best explanation of Tumblr’s appeal that I’ve seen

everywhere else you speak TO people, specific people, one at a time or in small groups

here you can scream into the void, and if a passing weirdo likes it they can give you a thumbs up or pass it along to their weirdo friends who might like it too

vorchagirl:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

thatdiabolicalfeminist:

Saying “it’s just a joke!!” about bigotry is so ridiculous. How many of us had schoolyard bullies who thought tormenting us was hilarious? Who made jokes at our expense? Since when does cruelty stop being cruel just because you’re  laughing while you do it?

“It’s just a joke” is literally the most ridiculous way to try and excuse bigoted and hateful things that people…like, yes we know it’s a joke…it’s a joke that treats people like us as a punchline, that makes us feel like shit…it’s a ‘joke’ that is hurtful, insulting and cruel to people who have to put up with bigoted bullshit every day…

@you-mass-effect-my-dragon-age

We were talking about this very thing tonight.