#just-another-tourist

[nenoname]

looking over the shots of the murder hut/the early mystery shack and noticing details like the unibear being in gift shop from the start and stan rolling out the bill carpet and later putting bill in the mystery shack sign himself

the wires/machinery/door not being changed yet but it seems like the vending machine was there since early on

[bonefall]

it is healing to come onto this blog and see basic respect for diasbility after being in other corners of the fandom and reading the words “snowkit could never be a warrior because he wouldnt know what anything is. he wouldnt even know what a clan is because nobody could explain it to him” said in full seriousness

Im..... That statement is so ableist I cannot even imagine the worldview you'd need to have in order to come up with that.

They really think the only way anyone learns anything is through verbal-speaking-words-noises? No one has ever observed something before? Not even once?

This is beyond touching grass, this person just fell out of the fucking Jurassic Period when all they had was ferns and stegosaurs.

I just...

OH YES. I remember my first day of Society Lessons as a hearing person, where the everything was explained to me. Via Audiobook. FIRST they spoke and said, "you are standing on the ground." It was a life changing revelation, and the world began to spin.

But it did not stop.

THEN they said, "there are fingers on your hands." The sensation of flesh and bone crackling into existence is indescribable, but I did not yet know pain, until they told me, "that hurts." I began screaming immediately.

And yet... it continued.

They explained so much. Chairs. Tables. Walls. The sky. Frogs. Ionizing radiation. Breathing. I was told all of it, in one sitting, and only then did I understand. Only when my ears were bursting with normal hearing knowledges, did they begin... my final test.

A strange wall-chair-finger emerged from the sky-of-the-wall, stood on the ground several times, until it was in front of me. A second one came behind it, this one slimmer. The audiobook gave these things names;

Human. Father. Mother. Door. Walking. It was completely impossible to know what these things were until that very moment.

I watch a human dip a hook into water and produce a fish, and I recall my Society Lessons where they called that "fishing." I am decked in the face by a nefarious hooligan, and I have only the audiobook to thank when I know I have been "punched" by a "bad guy." It was only the magic of verbal-speaking-words-noise that made me understand that there are "other people" and that they "do stuff."

Sometimes, even, in "groups."

Before the Society Lessons Audiobook, I knew nothing. I was pure, innocent, uncorrupted by concepts such as "parents" and "door." I am grateful every day that there is no such concept as "being shown things" or "simple logical reasoning" or "looking."

Blessed be those amongst us who escape the horrors of the Society Lessons Audiobook. I pray that you never learn what anything is. Be free! Free as a bird, which also knows nothing and famously cannot learn. 🤗

DEAF/HOH FOLLOWERS I'm losing my mind do you want me to bump a 'Hearing Disabilities Herb Guide' to the top of my priorities? Something you can use to bludgeon whackadoodles like that. This is ridiculous

Obviously not a MEDICINE guide but like; common causes of hearing disability in clan cats. Accommodations for hearing loss vs congenital deafness. Actual difficulties of not having that sense Clan-by-Clan. Debunking of misconceptions like... not being able to learn APPARENTLY.

[cryoverlife]

It’s time to admit the truth

Conner is the responsible one.

[ur-ghostgirl]

if it wasn't for all the rude tourists i think i could be happy living here

[fumblingmusings]

If you were to put countries on a sliding scale of 'most closely connected and tied to their people living amongst them having friends amongst them and actively seeking ways of engaging with them' versus 'existing purely in the work for government/military as required and the only meaningful relationships they have is with other countries'... where would you put certain nations?

Say France with his casual moving and advise giving ways (radio show or simply having conversations with people on the street), America and Canada with the semi-close but still distant YouTube channels and living in suburban areas or England and Japan with their minders/secretaries that they are close with but otherwise don't venture outside of a small circle and live in the countryside versus Spain who didn't even notice his people were having one of the worst internal conflicts in modern history during his civil war.

[kingwaino]

i have done...an absolute deep dive into blues and folk music tonight. it was 100% one of those blink and three hours have passed type of deals. worth it though.

[bonestrouslingbones]

i now understand the anger people describe when they see other folks just going about their lives entirely unaffected by disasters

[loserboyfriendrjl]

he tells them all about the louvre, since that is where they’re bound to go after paying. he tells them about the notre dame and about the seine and about the history of paris. remus can tell, by the way his tongue curls around the words and by his passionate voice, that it was not the first, and it would not be the last, time he tells someone about his city.

when their order arrives, sirius thanks the waitress, and strikes a small conversation with her; they seem to know each other, by the way she smiles, all plump lips and dark, warm brown eyes. she flicks her curls over her shoulder and puts an arm on sirius’ shoulder, and remus’ breath hitches a little, in the back of his throat.

she sets their drinks and treats on the table and she elegantly leaves; sirius’ eyes trail at her.

sirius gestures to the table, inviting everyone to take their order. lily smiles at remus — although they had met just days before, on the plane, he feels like he’s known her for ages. she’s lighthearted and warm and fierce, and she’s exactly the kind of person remus needs in his life.

“so,” she says, looking at sirius as she took a sip from her coffee, “sirius. have you ever imagined yourself moving out of france? somewhere else, maybe?”

sirius shakes his head. “paris will always be my home.” there’s a tinge of accent to his voice, obviously, that remus finds charming. sirius leans back in his chair, elegantly and with not much thought to it, and puts his arm on the headrest.

“i see,” lily answers. “you know, i can’t blame you, paris really is beautiful.”

“they don’t call it the city of love for nothing.” he grins, because he doesn’t smile. remus has noticed that; he smirks, or grins, and remus would like to see it for the rest of his life, thank you very much.

dorcas nudges remus. “come on, say something. i know you want to talk to him, don’t be a coward.”

but remus had never been known to be exactly brave. so, he sits in silence and smiles as sirius falls into conversations with the other tourists again.

[sysig]

Giving nicknames, testing boundaries (Patreon)

[mishkakagehishka]

Writing a CV really is all about lying

[ambiguousdisorderken]

something tumblr loves to do is recreating the big bad straw man vegan because it's easier than reevaluating your beliefs and god forbid changing your habits, again and again and again and ag

[thathilomgirl]

I've always held back on buying the cute whale shark plushies whenever fly out from home

Not this time, though

[veganhamsalad]

Dismayed to find out hermitblr is Minecrafters and not hermit crabs

[hopecomesbacktolife]

once again begging white authors to stop writing their token POC characters to have blue or green eyes just because they want the ~ aesthetic ~ 🙃🙂‍↔️

[interlagostrack]

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[hideyseek]

what. ? !