one of the funniest things about being gay is when u accidentally become homonormative in your head and assuming everything is gay like ill be listening to a love song and im like “wait… is she singing about a guy?? why would she wanna do that” bc i forgot about the concept of heterosexuals and that being straight is considered the default by most people lol
Also related: automatically saying “that’s gay” when anything cute and romantic happens even if it’s a straight couple
I started to play the new Spider-man game on PS4 and it’s quickly becoming a special interest of mine. I was so pleasantly surprised to see an “accessibility” menu in this game.
A menu that allows you to have bigger subtitles, to put them on a black background so that they’re more readable, to disable QTE if you can’t mash buttons (because if you keep it activated, yeah, you mash buttons pretty hard), a background for the HUD to make it more readable and the possibility to skip puzzles…
I might forgot some stuff, but the point is that they created this game while keeping in mind that disabled people might play it and might need some features to be turned off or displayed differently. And it’s great.
I turned on the subtitles, put them in a bigger size and on a black background and it does wonders for me. I can read them easily, even when I’m playing, and I don’t have to focus so much on what everyone’s saying. It allows me to fully enjoy the game.
It should be normal, honestly. But when we still have video games with no subtitles at all, I think we still have to compliment video games teams that actually make the effort to be inclusive and to simplify their mechanics for disabled people or people with various difficulties.
Listen, 2017 was the best year of my fuckin life, and 2018 is gonna be even better, because I am a goddamn force of nature and I’m too gay to be stopped. Fuck you and fuck your flag and fuck your Immortan-Joe-lookin-ass president I’ll fight anybody
Shout-out to that time I got falling-down drunk on New Year’s Eve and tried to fight all my tumblr followers
As a linguistics nerd, I’d like to formally suggest “Nespring” as a nonbinary equivalent to niece/nephew and “Avaun” as a nonbinary equivalent to aunt/uncle
Nespring: literally meaning “the offspring of my sibling” from the old English roots “offspring” which is just ‘of spring’ and the Latin root “nepos” that both niece and nephew are derived from
Avaun: derived from the roots of both “aunt” and “uncle,” the anglo-French “aunte” and the Latin “avunculus”
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