…And a bunch of other stuff I won’t bother listing here.
I don’t have a sideblog for art, I kind of just have a tag here. I haven’t decided if I want to make a sideblog for it or not yet, because I wanna see if any actual art gallery sites rise from the ashes first.
The 80s was literally like the most depressing decade after WW2 I hate how obsessed we are with that shit still
What people think the 80s was: synthwave neon legwarmers fun movies D&D Stephen King cute boys with mullets kissing each other under the bleachers
What the 80s actually was: AIDS crisis, neoliberalism, Reagan and Thatcher, unquantifiable levels of homo/transphobia, racist/patriarchal backlash against the radical gains of the 60s and 70s, Satanic Panic, rise of the evangelical right, collapse of socialism, collapse of the union movement, nuclear proliferation, tough on crime bills, mass incarceration, and most movies still sucked ass
i genuinely have no animosity towards ppl who get upset abt not being able to read academic texts + i do think we need to expand the pathways/methods of being exposed to critical concepts so that “sit + read for 2 hours” is not the only option.
however, as someone dx with adhd + incapable of sitting still for even a minute (actually right at this moment i am writing this instead of reading the book sitting open in front of me), i do feel like a lot of ppl do not realize that not all readings are designed to be read like a novel.
as in, it’s ok + normal + good to need to reread a paragraph several times, to only read part of a book, to have to research or reference words or concepts in order to grasp the reading, to skip over large chunks of text which are not relevant to your expertise, to continue reading despite not understanding a concept. this is something ‘neurotypical’ academics do frequently + many of these texts, especially contemporary ones, were designed with this in mind.
there are many ppl with accessibility needs that are not being met by academic texts at this time! many texts (in my humble opinion) are unnecessarily complex in order to show off or hide the fact that they have no idea what they’re talking about.
i still feel like many of the kneejerk reactions on this site are based on the assumption that their experience reading academic texts should be similar to their experiences reading a nyt bestseller, rather than a process of thinking, analyzing, researching, processing, returning. some of u are telling yourself that any challenges u face while reading are a result of some internal fault u have + not an expected + precious part of the experience.
This is the contact support form which is also the giving feedback form. I imagine this is more likely to get listened to than replying to staff posts with incoherent rage so I recommend just telling them the layout change is really bad before they get a chance to commit to it:
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Please be more eloquent than this example. Also to the users with unchecked anger issues that you think makes you cool: no violently threatening the support team please that will help nothing and probably just be counterintuitive Just say the layout is bad and you don’t like it. I believe in my heart that we can perform a #ThisNewLayoutSucksAssSweep
You can tell when someone’s frame of reference for “normal people” is more “people at the church sponsored ice cream social” and less “people on the bus”
the people in the notes saying “people on the bus aren’t normal” are the people this post is talking about.
my mom loves to lie and like she always swears she was NEVER homophobic or anything to me as a child “i even have a gay work friend” but a really funny memory resurfaced recently where i asked if i could use birthday money i had to buy a rainbow flag when i was like ??? 7?? because i LOVED rainbows. and she said no that means something Evil and god will hate you . so what did i do. but ask my grandmom for a rainbow sweater for christmas and proceed to only wear that sweater for three years when it got cold because i didnt like the idea that god hated colors and i wanted to challenge him
normal 7 year old with religious trauma: oh no god can hear my thoughts and punish me
me: either you are wrong about god or god is wrong and i will fight him and i will be the one to find out
me at 7: he would not fucking say that
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im feeling a lot better but that means that flare up lasted 17ish days jeez.
hoping i stay better for a while because that really set me behind on personal work (even if im not doing work-work rn haha…)
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