I started crying last night because I was thinking about all the stray kitty cats who are freezing outside in this Massachusetts ice hell
me: twirls hair
me: pops bubble gum
me: tell me about it……………………. stud
u: *.*
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all i really want from my life is a legitimate reason to pin a bunch of photos and newspaper fragments on a huge cork board and connect them with long strings of yarn
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@ everyone who prefers milk chocolate to dark: Who hurt you
Anonymous asked: Ok so I asked my ASL teacher (who is hearing) if Deaf ppl make puns in ASL and she said no "Deaf people are very literal" but I think she might have misunderstood my question as asking if people make English puns in ASL, which is a totally different thing. So I'm asking you. Are there puns in ASL? Cuz as a language it lends itself -so well- to wordplay I really can't imagine there not being tons of it.
oh no that’s not true! there are a lot of puns in ASL! they are not English puns so its different. you have probably heard of the popular ones (or maybe not if your teacher thinkgs there are none) but there is the “pasteurized milk” one which is more englishy it’s where u sign MILK passing your eyes so it’s: past your eyes milk. another popular one is a joke i hear a lot of ASL students learn is where Deaf king kong climbs up the building and kidnaps the lady and tries to say “i want to marry you” and crushes her when he signs MARRY. Or the microwave one where you do a little wave with your pinky finger and it is a “micro wave”, which is also like if you only understand something a little, you can sign UNDERSTAND with pinkie finger instead of pointer finger. another one i recently learned is the sign for the city El Paso, you make a L with dominant hand passing by an O with nondominant so it is “L pass O”. another one is doing sign for CHEAP with a W to mean walmart which i have not seen a lot but still pretty good. you can sign FOREVER with an ILY handshape to mean “I love you forever” I guess that is sort of a pun. name signs can also be puns sometimes for example i have a friend name Brenda who has very long eyelashes and her name sign is a B signed in front of the eye and flutter up and down like eyelashes. something me and my friends do a lot that i guess is like a pun is sign PLAY in front of the eyes to mean “we’ll play it by eyes” instead of “we’ll play it by ears” when deciding on making plans, so that is just a Deaf joke i guess haha
anyway those are the ones i can think of of the top of my head. mainly i guess ASL puns are not like english puns bc they’re 2 different languages so its not the same style. its more like playing around with signs and where they are made and stuff i guess but yes they are there in ASL!
I’ve been wanting to draw Rose Quartz since I started watching Steven Universe some time ago, but didn’t find a moment up til now. I still like Garnet best of all the gems but the pinkness of Rose spoke to me. She also loves plant life which made her extra special to me so yeah, I just had to.
I have no wild speculations to offer when it comes to lion but I’m pretty sure he is a part of or created by Rose. Because, you know, obvious reasons…
The Myth of ‘No Makeup’, Sierra McKenzie, Huffington Post
This is hard for me to post but I feel like it is important.
I remember hating my face and hating my skin and looking at all the girls around me in middle school and on TV and in ads and feeling like I was a monstrosity in comparison. But I remember the first time I realized women plucked their eyebrows. And wore concealer. And foundation. And powder. I felt like I had been lied to about what women look like. After modeling and realizing when photographers asked for no makeup, they really meant the photo on the right. I started realizing that the photo on the right was what was in skincare ads and posted by people claiming in the caption to be wearing no makeup some of the time. The photo on the right is the bare minimum of what we expect women to look like when they wake up in the morning.
Thought this would be of interest to some people, especially since the topic of how women’s faces in video games, comics, etc being depicted as smooth with no lines (even for facial expressions) has come up before. Also, how often women will be drawn with default eyeliner, eyeshadow, lipstick, etc even if there should be no reason for them to wear it because they have been living in the wild, or they’re warrior women who have expressed no interest in it, or etc…
It reminds me of the Nancy Drew comic books, where she specifically said that she doesn’t wear make up and has no clue how to use it, but she’s always drawn with mascara, eyeliner, and lipstick.
It’s part of how what women look like in people’s minds is constructed in our society and by our media; that what is supposed to be something we put on to ‘enhance’ appearance end up being part of the default way women are expected to look. Even if the characters are supposed to be “plain” or “practical” in context, they’ll still be drawn as if they’re wearing some base amount of make up, because that’s how we’re conditioned to see women in our imaginations. And stuff like airbrushing, photoshop, and advertisers using made up faces to represent ‘no make up’ can skew how we perceive what the ‘normal’ or ‘average’ woman is supposed to look like.
that line “I felt like I had been lied to about what women look like” is so true.. growing up and not knowing how you’re supposed to look isn’t something every girl should go through and yet it is
