#jey's thoughts

[owlbelly]

so. i understand where the sentiment "listening to an audiobook is the same thing as reading the book" is coming from - i mean, yes, the bottom line is you are taking in the same words in what is possibly a more accessible (or maybe just more enjoyable) format for you! and i'm 100% in agreement that "book snobs" who say "no you didn't really read it" if you listened to the audiobook are full of shit. ofc you should engage with stories in whatever way works for you, there is no moral or intellectual superiority to reading words off a page vs. listening to them

but it also is different? an audiobook is a performance. choices a narrator makes about line readings can drastically influence the meaning of the lines. even just different voices, accents, etc. - there are creative choices being made by the person delivering the words to you, and that affects your experience of the story in a different way than if you were making those choices in your own head. it might even change the way you visualize what's going on!

this isn't a bad thing it's just An Actual Thing & i think it's worth talking about. it rubs me the wrong way when people act like accommodations (and for many people audiobooks are an accommodation) always result in a completely identical experience, or even that they should, & if you suggest that people accessing media in different ways are having different experiences it's somehow ableist

anyway on rare occasions i really enjoy audiobooks but mostly they are much less accessible to me than words on a page (i need to be able to reread, flip back and forth, go at my own pace) & i also just really strongly prefer to encounter a text on my own before hearing someone else's performance of it, if possible! again i don't think it's "better" to read a physical book i just think it is a Distinct form of experiencing a story & acting like the two things are entirely the same is sort of doing a disservice to both

[bluejey]

Big eye small eye ship

[samijey]

When an interaction is so awkward it circles around into being adorable

[vampygomez]

John was trying to do the Lords work lol. And I honestly kept praying he’d pull them lower so we could sneak a peek 👀

(Editor’s name on video,found on TikTok)

[put-a-keep-are-you-foo-dell]

Because every black cat girl

Needs a golden retriever boy

[vanityangel]

Forgive. Forget. Family.

[rollinsland]

[dynamitekansai]

Via Jackie Redmond's Instagram Stories 🔗 Full Reel

[jeysbvck]

this picture of jey😭😭😭😭

[serial-designation-jey]

me when tessa

[samijey]

someone from WWE production really saw Jey acting like this on camera and said yeah this is absolutely fine let's put it on TV

[princen-monkie]

"Ugh... I HATE monkeys..."

[queenielacy]

Somewhere Cathy Kelly is planning Jey Uso’s murder

[romanreignseater]

“there ain’t no day one no more.”

[maineventpapiuso]

"Jimmy really thought Jey was going to let him make it"

[owlbelly]

people keep reblogging that post talking about how audiobooks used be less "acted" & how that (& text-to-speech readers) are so much better for accessibility because they're doing less to influence your reading, & i feel like i'm losing my mind

how is listening to a flat or robotic voice NOT affecting the way you take in the information? you are literally using a different part of your brain when you listen vs. when you read - if you hear someone say something in a flat, emotionless voice, that is absolutely a different thing still than reading it & imagining inflection simultaneously. i can't imagine how difficult it would be to listen to emotionless reading & then try to project emotional tone backwards onto it once your brain has processed the words? obviously folks must be able to do it but like. do you. not have to pause & go back like "oh shit that meant something else"

personally if i were unable to physically read & had to listen to all my stories i would very much prefer to hear someone doing their best interpretation of the kind of emotional tone i would be creating in my head?? yeah it's gonna be different. IT'S ALWAYS GONNA BE DIFFERENT. THERE IS NO WAY TO ESCAPE IT BEING DIFFERENT