From The Hand Granade And Into The Death Drawer

Thank you for this!! I will be sure not to include my personal opinion when describing something to a disabled person. Again thanks for this :)

important image description psa

hi! my name is cassie, i’m deaf, and my full-time job primarily involves working in disability access. i’m here with an important message about image and audio descriptions:

when you’re describing things for disabled people, you should not include your personal opinion on the thing you’re describing. even if it’s positive! you shouldn’t describe things as “a beautiful painting”, “a gorgeous photo”, “a wonderful song”, etc. i mean, if you’re sighted, think about how annoying it would be if every. single. picture you saw online was captioned with “this is beautiful and you like this” or “this is ugly and you hate it”, with the expectation that you have to agree with whatever the caption says and your own opinion doesn’t matter. it would be super annoying, right!

not to mention, i’ve seen people do this on pictures of real people, which can get weird—especially if they’re in a marginalized group you’re not in, in which case it can start to feel very fetishizing. 

so, to recap:

good descriptions: “a realistically-rendered oil painting of a tree”, “a selfie of a person with short blue hair”, “a pencil sketch of taako”

bad descriptions: “a gorgeously realistic oil painting of a tree”, “a selfie of an adorable person with short blue hair”, “a fantastic pencil sketch of taako”

(i encourage reblogs on this, because this is a huge issue that i’d love to see people gain awareness of)

Reblog so these lil guys will give you good luck-

“I always remember having this fight with a random dude who claimed that ‘straight white men’ were the only true innovators. His prime example for this was the computer… the computer… THE COMPUTER!!! THE COM-PU-TER!!!

Alan Turing - Gay man and ‘father of computing’ Wren operating Bombe - The code cracking computers of the 2nd world war were entirely run by women Katherine Johnson - African American NASA mathematician and ‘Human computer’ Ada Lovelace - arguably the 1st computer programmer”

- Sacha Coward

Also Margaret Hamilton - NASA computer scientist who put the first man on the moon - an as-yet-unmatched feet of software engineering, here pictured beside the full source of that computer programme. #myhero

Grace Hopper - the woman that coined the term “bug”  

- @robinlayfield

Our people have suffered in the past and have also helped each other through them. We keep repaying these kindnesses generation after generation to remember to never forget what was down for those who came before us. How seeing the hurt and suffering of our fellow man brought out just how human we could be.

post the cockroach with the autotuned scat please. i need it

I love this precious family. Collect water, fish and love each other. I’m so glad Rose Quartz and Pearl saw you and realized you exist. I wish to see more of early humans. Especially these precious babes and the ones Rose Quartz dated. Like and reblog to group hug this precious family.

Cleigh is a female equivalent to Clay

Hey, what name do you think is the most suitable name for a female!Clay? I thought about clayduette, clayette or clayuette. None of these names exist but Since clay is a male name and is not because I something against nameing her after a boy is just that I don’t find it suitable for a girl. And it is kind of hard to find a name who represent the same meaning as clay though.

And you just squeeze the sleeve and- CAN YOU TELL ME HOW TO GET TO SESAME STREET