Our Oldest Brother Said Trans Rights

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lloyd and pythor coulda been like this but pythor was playin’

ok youtube just said “fuck you if youre deaf or hard of hearing or just want to watch a video in a different language”

https://twitter.com/LiamODellUK/status/1288869766980042752

and you know what the fucking bullshit is  they’re replacing it with a ~6 months free of a subscription to a third party captions provider~ which of course you’d have to pay for after those 6 months are up and you KNOW random youtuber #9039 isn’t going to bother to keep paying for that either because they won’t have the money or they just won’t care. and youtube’s going to act like that’s a perfectly fine alternative that won’t result in the majority of the site suddenly going from “more or less accessible” to “Fuck You If You’re Disabled” 

“citing low usage” are you fucking kidding me nearly every worthwhile video i watch uses community captions. sometimes they’re kind of janky cuz they were made by some 14 year old who thought it’d be funny to put their own irrelevant jokes and commentary in there but that wasn’t a reason to ditch the feature entirely when its so useful and important

i’m not even hard of hearing and i rely on them to watch videos in other languages…this is literally how people have been making english subs for japanese songs and the like for years and it was great because you didn’t have to reupload the videos yourself and take away views from the original creators. many creators don’t allow reprints of their work whatsoever so if they go through with this (which unfortunately they seem pretty deadset on because lololol moneyyyyyy) it’s entirely likely that there just won’t be a way to watch that content with captions

there’s a petition to keep community captions…i don’t know if it’ll really do anything since they’re already going ~oh but we have Paid Alternatives!~ but don’t just let this pass by this should be a huge deal but i’ve barely seen anyone talking about it (not that i expect people to talk about things of any particular importance on tumblr but it’s not even getting attention on twitter beyond that one thread and like 2 other posts)

so like. sign this and shit don’t let youtube just actively get rid of accessibility features without anyone caring (though i’d say probably use twitter if you want to actually get their attention i don’t think they’d look here) http://chng.it/LN9HRNmnkg

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wish i could take my brain out and blow on it like a nintendo ds game card

a 15 year old black girl with ADHD was incarcerated by a judge in michigan because she didn’t complete her homework.

grace was put on probation because of charges of assault and theft for “biting her mother’s finger and pulling her hair” and stealing another student’s mobile phone which she later returned. she expressed remorse at her actions multiple times afterwards and participated in therapy sessions and completely stayed out of trouble, her mother and teacher said that she was doing well at school despite the switch to online classes which caused her to become distracted due to her ADHD. she couldn’t keep up with her homework and her caseworker filed a violation of probabtion against her without bothering to learn about her disabilty or academic performance. the judge ellen brennan called her a “threat to the community”. all because she didn’t complete her fucking homework. she’s been in the juvenile detention centre for over a month now.

There is a petition to free her, please sign it and if anyone can find any other resources to help her please add them here

i came out as trans to my mom last night/this morning and it did… NOT go well. so i might be extra hard to reach for a bit and take a step back from here for my own mental health. i’ve been reduced to having to lock myself in my sister’s room for my own safety and things just… aren’t looking too good

im glad my sister was actually pretty damn great about my trans Coming Out earlier yesterday, but being trapped in a house with a deadbeat transphobic mother that refuses to understand or give a shit + throw violent fits and starts screaming at me for being in emotional distress isn’t something i think i can handle the wound is too fresh. i am hurting. and a lot of shit is unbearable because of it

my room doesn’t have a door. i do not feel safe here when my mother is here, but i have nowhere else to go. i hope yall can understand and i am deeply sorry for taking a while w/commissions. life has just been one hard hit after another.

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I do not have any means of taking more commissions, as my physical health has been rapidly declining due to a number of close calls, emergencies, and handful of trips to the ER, so any donations at all would help out immensely. 

UPDATE: Bills, medication, and groceries have taken up all of my funds and then some, so any bit of donation thrown my way would help immensely !!

I appreciate all the boosts and donations to a binder so very much and was able to get one thankfully before the wave of bills hit ; v ; but now im in a bit of a rough spot. Again donations can be sent [HERE] and the link to the OCs being sold up above has been updated! Soon it will include old fantrolls, which will hopefully sell better

Do you have a true way of fixing mistakes? Like to make it up to someone to the point where they can fully trust you again?

If you hurt someone you shouldn’t expect them to trust you again eventually, people come and go, and you shouldn’t attempt to force them back in your life, even if you want to do it in the kindest of ways

The most you can do is to show improvement and apologize, whether they want to forgive you and trust you again is up to the person, but as long as you did what you could, it’s all good, it’s for your own future and the one of others