Tim And Bruce Getting Into An Argument Bcs Tim Demands To Be Independent And NOT Get Involved In The

something i adore about mismag2 is how aabria has repurposed the never stop blowing up system’s potential for insanely high rolls to have a completely different tone. in action hero land, the busted rolls were comedic and unbelievable. they switched on looney tunes laws of physics and made the players laugh at the absurdity. in mismag, with the process of breaking their items to push and succeed, in the intensity of stakes and consequences that aabria is so keyed into, rolling a 100 feels not stupid or ridiculous, but awe-inspiring. it makes you want to stand up and cheer and tear up at the feeling of magic itself. the crazy high DCs at the beginning and a blown up arm set up the weight of the miracles these people are trying to work, so that when we come to episode 10, we understand the sheer command that the characters have come to grasp over their environment. we believe that they can do the impossible, and with a bit of luck, we watch it happen. i love this world and this story so much.

roy harper, thay could never make me hate you <33

If we wanted to engage in nuance (lol, lmao) on the "are audiobooks reading" debate, we really do need to bring literacy, and especially blind literacy, into the conversation.

Because, yes, listening to a story and reading a story use mostly the same parts of the brain. Yes, listening to the audiobook counts as "having read" a book. Yes, oral storytelling has a long, glorious tradition and many cultures maintained their histories through oral history or oral + art history, having never developed a true written language, and their oral stories and histories are just as valid and rich as written literature.

We still can't call listening in the absence of reading "literacy."

The term literacy needs to stay restricted to the written word, to the ability to access and engage with written texts, because we need to be able to talk about illiteracy. We need to be able to identify when a society is failing to teach children to read, and if we start saying that listening to stories is literacy, we lose the ability to describe those systemic failures.

Blind folks have been knee-deep in this debate for a long time. Schools struggle to provide resources to teach students Braille and enforcing the teaching of Braille to low-vision and blind children is a constant uphill battle. A school tried to argue that one girl didn't need to learn Braille because she could read 96-point font. Go check what that is. The new prevalence of audiobooks and TTS is a huge threat to Braille literacy because it provides institutions with another excuse to not provide Braille education or Braille texts.

That matters. Braille-literate blind and low-vision people have a 90% employment rate. For those who don't know Braille, it's 30%. Braille literacy is linked to higher academic success in all fields.

Moving outside the world of Braille, literacy of any kind matters. Being able to read text has a massive impact on a person's ability to access information, education, and employment. Being able to talk about the inability to read text matters, because that's how we're able to hold systems accountable.

So, yes, audiobooks should count as reading. But, no, they should not count as literacy.

~ Leola's last wish ~

Bernard art that was originally vent art because I was feeling icky about my scars and felt like projecting onto my baby. I also made this ages ago and never postednit cuz i didn't know how it would be recieved. But anyway.

I love The Golden Girls.

touch-starvation needs to be written with emphasis on the starving part. you are hungry to be touched. so hungry that even the very taste of it makes you nauseous. it has been long since anything has ever touched you, ever fed you - that your body has grown more used to that gnawing emptiness more than anything else. it's better for you to be held, to eat but it makes you sick to try. you know

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some of you just cannot accept that “i just don’t like it” is a complete reason to not engage with media or a facet of media

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