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sroloc–elbisivni:

gallifreanpotterhead:

brinnanza:

sunfortune:

the gale/prim stunt was so cheap too bc narratively killing prim didn’t do ANYTHING and it was only written so suzanne collins could easily solve the dumbass love triangle She CREATED. so katniss loses her sister, her mom leaves, And her best friend from childhood leaves. and what she has at the end is fucking uhhhh Peeta Parker and some kids she never even wanted ???? like ?? gale was a whole antifa legend for 2.9 books and she ruined All that at the VERY end for some romance?! completely glossing over the fact that katniss did not romantically want to be with either of them!!!! 

the whole reason prim died is because it IS senseless. like that is literally the point. 

suzanne collins and ka applegate are cut from a similar cloth and that cloth is refusing to shy away from depicting how brutal, how senseless, how cruel war is. prim died for no reason and that is the point. it had absolutely nothing to do with resolving a love triangle.

also Y’ALL COME ON the presence of romance in a book does not make the book A Romance; the ‘love triangle’ was literally never ever the point - which is why it’s what the capitol focuses on. 

also katniss’s happy ever after: she fuckin grew up, y’all, come on. listen, I get the knee jerk hate for a baby boomer-style happily ever afters (I will sue jk rowling in court for the epilogue) but the fact that katniss, after everything she went through, felt comfortable enough to settle down with peeta and actually have kids - kids she knew were not going to be thrown into a gladiatorial arena for the entertainment of the super wealthy - is proof that what she did mattered. it cost katniss goddamn near everything she had - her family, her friends, her hearing, her home - but it was still the right thing to do.

the hunger games is about the cost of revolution: it’s so, so high, but in the end, it’s necessary.

Furthering this, Katniss said she didn’t want kids because she didn’t want to bring them into the world she grew up in. The fact that Katniss grows up to have kids is supposed to show the reader that the world has indeed changed for the better. Not wanting kids was conditional, and the conditions changed.

Also, just–
that’s the point, that gale does it. That’s the other point Suzanne Collins likes to make, and if you look at her earlier Gregor the Overlander she makes it even more brutally clear. war lets people do terrible things. war encourages people to do terrible things. some people stop. some people don’t, because they don’t know how, or because they can’t until the war is over, or because they’re just that good at it.

Collins said in an interview that Gale and Peeta were “less as two points in a love triangle, more as two perspectives in the just-war debate” (as in, whether a war is justified) “Katniss isn’t just deciding on a partner; she’s figuring out her own worldview.” And in Katniss’s case, she lost everything to war. She chose to be done with it.

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terrifictazertoastedtatortots:

seelcudoom:

otherwindow:

otherwindow:

otherwindow:

A magical girl series where the girls transform into their DnD characters. 

Imagine being a typical shojo super villain and seeing an anime girl transform into a fucking Orc.

Not even a cute anime Orc, just a realistically drawn Warcraft Orc named Mo’Gar Skullcrush or something. 

None of the girls in the group transform into cute Elves. It’s just Lady Stormbeard the Dwarf ranger. Skeletal Lich Bellinde Bloodless. GrhhuHghh the Goblin cleric. Every villain they meet is fucking terrified.

Villain lieing down defeated “you cant finish me off, thats the weakness of you “good” guys”

Magical girl: “you are right….” transforms into a 6 foot tall beefcake orc “…But Mo’gar is chaotic neutral”

Addition: One person actually does turn into a gorgeous elven sorceress/wizard

It’s the only guy in the group.

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narcissarosier:

imonlyadumpling:

actuallyblind:

plutomeetsgenius:

actuallyblind:

haruhi65:

inner-muse:

carnistprivilege:

actuallyblind:

let-the-spectrum-in:

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drackir:

candidlyautistic:

carnistprivilege:

actuallyblind:

Small tip to help some of your blind friends: do not put 10,000 emojis in the middle of a text or a post if you continue to put text after the emojis because I will tell you that I will Straight give up if I have to listen to “face with tears of joy, face with tears of joy, face with tears of joy,” 23 times just to hear the rest of your text or post.

Oh my god, that’s what screen readers say when they read out emojis?? I didn’t realize.. I will change how I write my posts now… My bad…

This is good to know. Pretend there are twenty three light bulb emojis indicating sudden understanding following this text.

So the clap hands emoji post would be extra annoying since you can’t just speed read it, damn!

YES. That is one of my least favorite emojis because it’s LONG. It also says skin tone on some, and while that’s AWESOME, if you put 30 prayer hands, I have to hear “hands clasped in celebration with medium dark skin tone” 30 times in full. And even if I use a braille display, it still writes it out in full because there’s no real way to represent them any other way yet, so until someone invents a Braille display with like 10 lines that isn’t astronomically expensive, there’s no easy way to skip over them.

Now, at least with some screen readers, punctuation is a little different and if there are multiple of the same thing it’ll say like “17 exclamation points” instead of saying them all individually, and I wish that update would be made to screen readers to speak emojis in multiples that way… That would be a good solution.

Is it okay to use emojis sparingly? I don’t ever use a million like that, the most I’d put in a row is probably two different emojis, lol. But I do feel the need to use either emojis or ASCII faces in order to get emotion across in my writing. Which is better for you, a traditional ASCII face like :-) or a newfangled emoji like ☺️? Can your screen reader “translate” things like :-) into “smiling face” or do you just hear “colon dash right parentheses”?

Oh yeah, of course! If you only use one or two in a row that’s totally fine! Don’t feel like you have to just stop using them. They are fun and lots of people like them.

As for emoji versus traditional typed out faces, it doesn’t really matter. It can’t translate most of those faces except for a general smiley face, but I know what the symbols put together mean, though this may be difficult for somebody who is not very well versed in print reading. Most blind kids get taught to recognize both though.

There’s so much good info on this post! I didn’t know any of this. Thanks for making it!!

Originally posted by everythingstarstuff

But how do screen readers translate GIFS? Does the OP know that the above post is a gif of a shooting star with the words “the more you know” riding it?

Nope. All I know is that that is an image. Screen readers cannot interpret with the pixels on an image mean. The only reason it can tell me an emoji is because the developers of those emojis programmed them in some way that included alt text, though I cannot tell you how because I am not a programmer or a coder.

Thankfully, somebody noticed the irony in that addition and reblogged it with a description.

the reason that emojis have text associated with them is because emojis were designed not to act as pictures but as a language keyboard and since every one is a pictograph there needs to be a closely associated definition.

that’s also why apple, samsung, or any other company can’t copyright “face with tears of joy” just the art that their operating systems use to express thos pictographs. The art of a set of emojis used by a phone company is essentially a font used for a language.

#NowYouKnow

Also, y’all, in iOS 11, I think somebody somehow saw our nice little thread here and fucking fixed the problem of many emojis because I can remember three (3) distinct times in the past few days that I have come across something like “5 face with tears of joy” and at first been like “what the fuck?? What did that say?“ and then used the rotor to navigate by individual word and character to realize what it was and I was like “OMG!!! My desires have been realized!”

So like I think someone at Apple saw this and answered our prayers guys

That’s actually super interesting to know

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dunmertitty:

the tea is SCALDING

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kitfisto:

sandy cheeks would’ve voted trump that evil southern rat ass bitch

Sandy Cheeks is a pro-science feminist who lives in a foreign land that she respects the customs of and she would be offended you would even accuse her of this.

mr krabs would’ve voted trump

Mr Krabs absolutely would’ve voted trump.

Mr. Krabs would not have voted for Trump because Mr. Krabs earned most of his money through hard work (and being a cheapskate and get rich quick schemes but those still require some effort on his part) whereas Trump inherited most of his wealth and thinks a million dollars is a small loan, Mr. Krabs would consider him an insult to richness for which he could not stand.

Plankton would’ve voted Trump.

You think he needs competition taking over the world? Face it folks. No one on Spongebob would vote for Trump. None of them. Face it.

Bubble Bass

Shit. Dammit. Goddammit. Shit. God. Dammit. Fuck.

Squilliam Fancyson would vote for Trump

okay im just gonna put down my things here

- Plankton would not want competition, he would not vote for him

- Krabs would never respect a guy who bankrupted himself four times, he would not vote for him

- Sandy Cheeks is an independent scientist receiving grants from academies to further her research in foreign lands, so she would never vote for him.  Also, she would never respect a man who made such sexist comments since Spongebob did that once (to motivate his pet snail like a traditional sports coach) and she kicked HIS ass over a fucking field.

- Patrick can’t spell so he couldn’t vote for anyone

- Spongebob is too nice and would never vote for anyone who used such inappropriate “bad words” during their campaign.

- Squidward is too lazy and defeatist to even vote because he thinks there would be no point.

- Pearl is a teenager and therefore too young to vote

- Larry Lobster is a trained medic and custodian and would not vote for anyone that crippled such services.

- Bubble Bass WOULD vote for him because Bass is an arrogant self-entitled prick who enjoys deceiving others just for the sake of humiliating them, and would approve of such a person.

- Squilliam Fancyson would also vote for him because he’s a wealthy narcissist.

- Mrs. Puff has a criminal record and is therefore not eligible to vote.

Squidward is a full time minimum wage retail worker who is pro-union and anti-capitalist, and also a firm supporter and member of the fine arts community. He would actively vote against Trump, defeatist or not, and you can’t convince me otherwise.

I enjoyed reading every second of this. 😂

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methfall:

2-shane-s:

Date someone who will date you

Need me a freak like that

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