Levi. He/Him, Gay, Trans Man. Started T 11/14/18. Top surgery 8/29/19. 26 years old, cosplayer, hot mess, dungeon master. I have a dog, five cats, and a mouse and they all share one brain cell.
i don’t know what it is about sign language that makes ppl say the most buckwild most uninformed shit you’ve ever seen in your life. like. i’m hoh and only conversationally fluent. i have access needs, sure, but i’m not qualified to educate anyone about sign language. so i generally stay out of it.
the thing is, there’s only so many times you can see someone confidently say some shit like “why didn’t they just make ONE sign language???” or “actually every country has their own asl” or “wait, i can answer this! i don’t know anything about sign language, but i read a wattpad fic about a Deaf girl in 2015—” before you start chewing on walls
who wants to see my favoritest post ever (too late you’re already here)
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this does not say “i will kill you.” many people were quick to point this out. let’s go on a tour through some of my favorite tags and comments, shall we?
“#not how you say that Imao #assuming this is meant to be asl of course. could be another sl #in asl it says touch-finish-SF-you #which idk what that even means Imao #‘You are done touching San Francisco’ Imao”
“#sf touch will finish you would be somewhat threatening #or ominous #but they opted to be completely incorrect for no reason i guess #ik intermediate level asl so im sitting here staring at the picture bare ass to the fan wondering what the fuck is going on”
“#is this in another languages sign language cause this is sure as shit not ASL or ESL”
“This isn’t ASL, no one in the comments knows what it is. In ASL I think it’s “earth finish San Francisco you”?”
“so the other “signs” are still gibberish? #i knew it!”
it says “have you been to San Francisco.” it literally just says “have you been to san francisco.”
these illustrations are from “American Sign Language: Fact and Fancy.” in this novel, author Harry Marcowicz dispels a number of myths about ASL—such as, for example, the myth that it follows English grammar
There are, however, some speakers of English who assume that ASL must follow the rules of their language in order to be grammatical. To support their claim, sign-for-word translations are used to show that ASL lacks a grammar or that it is ‘broken English.’ Based on these translations, ‘deficiencies’ are pointed out. As an example, consider the sign sentence: TOUCH FINISH SAN FRANCISCO YOU? (An appropriate English translation is, ‘Have you been to San Francisco?’)”
sure enough, people took one look at this sentence out of context and called it all “gibberish”
if you’d like to learn ASL, bill vicars on YouTube will happily teach you the basics. for free. better yet, find a local Deaf teacher! regardless, many d/Deaf and hard of hearing people rely on sign language for access, so it’s important to us. please be respectful
thinking about that kakapo egg that got crushed but the conservation team patched it up and it survived
life will persist against all odds
For those who don’t follow kakapo conservation, they are critically endangered parrots who only breed on years where the rimu tree they rely on meet a certain threshold of fruit production. One breeding season in 4 years can be typical, and about half of all eggs laid by kakapo are infertile (they still aren’t completely certain why, it could be a recent population bottleneck) so each fertile egg is worth its weight in gold.
This was one of only 5 fertile eggs laid on the Whenua Hou island population in the 2014 breeding season and it got crushed by its mother on accident. It was mended with glue and tape and incubated by the rangers until hatching.
At 150 days old kakapo chicks are officially added to the population total and given a unique name, until then they are given their mother’s name and a number for birth order laid in the clutch. This chick was known as Lisa-one before officially being given the name Ruapuke by local indigenous Ngai Tahu people.Here he is grown up:
my friend asked me to pretend to be her boyfriend because her parents are homophobic af but they ended up hating me so much that they were glad when she said she was gay task failed successfully
okay so
be a goth. conservative christian parents don’t approve of goth men. show up to their house wearing all kinds of satanic symbols if you can
know more about religion than the parents. they’ll try to introduce you to christianity because you don’t exactly look like a christian but your dad’s an ex priest and has a phd in theology so *cracks knuckles* you’ll correct them on every little mistake they make
call your fake girlfriend every annoying petname under the sun. i’m talking about babu, shmoopie, snuffleupagus. when you run out of annoying english terms of endearment call her shit like “my liver” or “my little cabbage” (actual greek terms of endearments but the parents won’t know this they’ll just think you’re annoying :3)
to continue this, talk to your fake girlfriend in the most high pitched annoying voice possible but talk in your regular voice to everyone else
stare at her older brother’s ass for just a little too long
have an annoying laugh. think of sybil fawlty but a stereotypical villain playing a church organ in his castle
let them quote bible verses to you. then ask “so when were those two destroyed for sodomy?”. it’s very funny to do this when judas kisses jesus, and it’s even funnier when you’ve just corrected them over a minor mistake in church history
ask WHY abraham was begging for sodom. it doesn’t make sense to you why a good christian man would go and beg for tha-
be over possessive of your fake gf (dont really do this, it’s just an act)
go and fuck her brother in an alleyway. the parents won’t know about this so it’s an optional step
use words no one knows the meaning of. do this without realising because you always talk like that
just be yourself! that’s enough on its own to make them despise you tbh
I was a misogynist as a child because I wanted to be the first woman to do everything. There’s a photo of me crying when Julia Gillard became Prime Minister because I wanted to be the first female PM
My options being exhausted, I chose to transition to male
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