#react records

[oracleofdiscord]

pulling up these screenshots for no reason whatsoever

[mavigator]

i talked about it a little bit already but i have things to say about it. for context, i was born with amniotic band syndrome. the amniotic band wrapped around my left wrist in utero and stunted the growth of my hand. i was born with about half a palm, four nubs for fingers, and a twisted half of a thumb. i can open and close my thumb and pinkie joint like a claw.

yesterday at work i had a shift in the room with 5-10 year old kids. i had my left hand hidden in my sleeve (a bad habit of mine). a kid asked if he could see my hand, and even though internally i was debating running into traffic, i said “sure you can” and showed him my hands. he stared for a moment, looking disturbed, and then said “i don’t want to look at that anymore”. that hurt to hear, but i understand that kids are new to the world and he probably didn’t mean it out of malice. i put my hand away again, told him that it was okay, and that i was just born that way.

he then went on to talk about how he knows a kid with a similar hand to mine and called it “ugly”. i told him that wasn’t a very kind thing to say and that he wouldn’t feel good if someone said that to him, and he replied that no one would say that to him—because he has “normal hands”, and he’s glad he does because otherwise he’d be “ugly”. i tried to talk with him for a bit about how everybody is born differently, but he just started talking about a girl he knows with a “messed up face” and pulled on his face to make it look droopy. i went on some more about how it wasn’t very kind to talk about people that way, but the conversation moved on to something else.

i’ve told my supervisors about it and they’re going to have a talk with his mom. what i wanted to say is this: i’m genuinely not upset with the kid. kids are young and naturally curious, and he clearly simply hasn’t been taught about disabled people and kind ways to speak to/about others. which is why i am upset with his parent(s). i know he’s encountered visibly deformed/disabled people before (he said so himself!), yet his parent(s) clearly haven’t had any kind of discussion with him about proper language and behavior. i knew from birth that some people were just different than others, but my parents still made a point to assert to be kind to and accepting of others. i wonder if adults in his life are the type of people to hush him and usher him away when he points out someone in a wheelchair. that kind of thing doesn’t teach politeness. it tells children that disabled people are an Other than can’t be acknowledged or spoken about; which, to a child, means disability must be something bad.

i’m lucky enough that this was a relatively mild incident, and that i’m a grownup with thicker skin. i’m worried about the other kids he mentioned to me. has he been talking to them this way? when i was a kid, i had other kids scream, cry, and run away at the sight of my hand. or follow me around pointing at me and laughing at me. or tell me i couldn’t do something because i was ugly or incapable or whatever. one time a girl at an arcade climbed to the top of the skeeball machine, pointed at me, and screamed at me to put my hand away and wouldn’t stop crying until she couldn’t see me anymore. another time, a kid saw my hand, screamed at the top of her lungs, and ran into my friend’s arms, crying hysterically about how i was scaring her. that second incident made me cry so hard i threw up when i got home. i can kind of laugh it off now, but having people react to me that way as a child is something i’m still getting over. why do you think i have a habit of keeping my hand in my sleeve? it just irritates me to see children that have clearly not been taught basic manners and kindness—their parents Clearly missed something pretty important .

[reunitedinterlude]

the cake scene saga

[petr1kov]

here's the scene i've mentioned before where nemesis and melinoë talk about hypnos, for those who wanted to see it!

[hydrus101]

Minor Part 42 Spoilers

I know it’s intended to be a funny little throw away line, but the “Was I this bad?” exchange is so so so so important to me.

John, less than even an hour ago, committed a horrible atrocity against Arthur. It doesn’t matter that the deal was fake, he still intended to go through with it. Fully. He threatened Arthur’s memories, threatened his autonomy, threatened his very well being in a moment of fear and rage and human helplessness and grief. For all intents and purposes, Arthur should still be livid with him, should still bear that affront like a freshly bleeding wound. He should hate John, just a little. But he doesn’t. The second John shows even the slightest hint of self consciousness, that little sliver of weakness, an awareness of his growth and where he began and how far he’s come, a tiny fracture in the armor of his newborn human ego, Arthur immediately goes to reassure him.

“No-” You weren’t that bad. You were fine. You did great. A thousand little unspoken reassurances. Platitudes, maybe, since he was being untruthful kind.

John was that bad. Yorick has no reason to lie or exaggerate, he was this bad at the beginning and Arthur would be well within his rights to affirm that. To put him down. To lash out in some petty little way and get his licks in while the wound still drips, but he doesn’t. Doesn’t even think about it. His first instinct isn’t to dig his thumb into the scar and inflict on John some tiny hurt, but to soothe him, not out of fear that he might make good on his earlier threat, but out of genuine care. Out of friendship, Out of love.

[fluffylord]

"he is the hottest old man I've ever seen in my life"

[yonpote]

tbh i think dnp moving away from gaming content is for the best, as much as i love their gaming vids, cuz i feel like gaming as a hobby for them doesnt always fit with gaming as content. like on the channel they just play whatevers popular and they still have a good time with it but they're never gonna sit down and play games they actually wanna sink hours into, or if they do it's very rare (see: beginning of undertale dan being like "tbh i kinda wanted to just enjoy this game for myself") like we're not gonna see the dan gw2 raids or the phil apex ranked videos lmao cuz that wouldnt make for good content in the format they do things. which makes me sad cuz like. id watch dnp play ffxiv and eldin ring :( but bc those are games they enjoy for themselves but they know that not all of their audience is clamoring for, they dont wanna blend it into the work bucket of games.

[swagturtlethings]

Ena Projectsekai cutest girl ever as always but im having a blast looking at all the nightcord details in her untrained sanrio 4*

First off mizukis pfp has trans flag colors not exactly BUT CLOSE. Colorful palette when i catch u. The one below is ena but i cant for the life of me figure out what her pfp is im assuming its a drawing of hers?

And then the icing on the cake. The emojis. 😡 is obviously ena. Between 😮 and 👊 i have no idea who is kanade and who is mafuyu but both are funny as hell. Like yeah if i was shrimp posture trying to fc a song on master and from the corner of my eye i see my best friend (and/or gay crush depending on ur hcs) snap a shitty pic of me and send it to our discord server with hearts and squiggles on top and our other friends respond with shit like 😮 and 👊 i would also lose it

[liloslittlethings]

apparently liam's initial reaction to being excited by something is to squeeze louis' leg

(via Dan and Maz)

[sentientstump]

log shop meeting

decided to work on this later someday (2 months minimum)... so im leaving it in this blob state with 1 fps, take good care of it!

[tacosaysroar]

You guys.

Dolores sent me some notes from a trade show session she attended so I could use them to write a blog post for our website. The notes were taken by AI, and apparently she forgot to shut it off as soon as the session was over because it transcribed a very personal conversation.

This includes some details about practical jokes played on other groups, some light conversation about drinking, nothing super inappropriate, but then — and I don’t know if it’s her or someone she’s with — a story about how one of the sales people (who they name) took off all their clothes last year in the ice bar in Vegas AND SHE SENT THESE NOTES TO ME WITHOUT REALIZING ANY OF THAT WAS IN THERE.

I’m absolutely DYING, but also I . . . don’t know what to do?

Do I tell her?

Do I pretend I didn’t notice?

[rickybaby]

When I said there’s a clear pattern to Red Bull picking up their ‘Daniel wasn’t performing. Singapore was exactly how Daniel wanted it to go” narrative right before a US race because his name is going to hang so heavy over the weekend that they wouldn’t be able to escape it and here comes Peter Bayer once again … (via AMuS)

[damiel-of-real]

it would be interesting to hear what alphys thinks of the fact that the flower she injected with determination disappeared. unfortunately she was too distracted by the outside pressure & the horror of the amalgamates that she didnt have time to unpack the frankenstein any% speedrun WR that she just did by accident

[qoldenskies]

what would happen if you showed ccdonnie the heat death of the universe (from the safety of a viewing window, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy or doctor who style)

i think he would have an existential meltdown about it and then take a long nap and wake up calmer and normal and genuinely curious about it

[hooked-on-elvis]

Jaw-dropping performance of "Steamroller Blues" (1974)

The audio comes from the March 20, 1974 concert in Memphis, TN, but the footage is what I'm referring to now. It also comes from 1974 (either in May or one of the following months that year, because it was when Elvis introduced us the Blue Swirl suit). Anyway, right at the initial notes, he didn't even sing a damn word, the fans screamed at the way he moved sharply in sync with the beat… my reaction simultaneous, eyes wide and jaw slack. WOW! Just WOW!!!

[funforahermit]

I'll be honest with you, I listened to Steve Wrigley's podcast episode with Rhys just now and I thought it was really great.

I know Steve's not exactly the fandom's favourite person, and in fact I agree with most of the reasons why, I just maybe don't lean into the "therefore he's clearly a toxic person" vibes too much I guess?

There's one thing I want to talk about though, which is why I'm here - In their conversation, they touch on the topic of mocking/making fun of people as part of comedy, and whether or not it's okay to do it, and they kinda land on the conclusion that it shouldn't be taken too seriously. And I get what they mean. However...

I believe it's important to consider that ridicule is also a very effective instrument of oppression. I know because it worked on me, big time. I grew up laughing at so many groups, and individual people too, that the media told me were complete idiots, and I'm only now finding out that their ridiculousness was just made up of half-truths and twisted facts specifically because someone wanted their credibility destroyed to make themselves look better. It's comedy abused as dangerous propaganda, and it fucking works. Once we start laughing at someone, we don't listen to them any more. Just think about the woman who sued McDonalds or whatever it was because "her coffee was hot", for example. I believed it. I laughed. I made my own jokes about it, for years on end. I didn't think twice about why she might have been right to do it. We weren't told the facts, we were just told a comedy version of it, with the good side and the bad side clearly assigned, and we bought it. So this is why I'm extremely wary of it now. And I get really uncomfortable when comedians think they can mock anything and anyone they want, because in the process they could - even accidentally - take away precious credibility from someone who actually needs and deserves it.

I almost want to tell all this to Steve, make him aware of this angle, maybe make him think a little bit more about who he really wants to mock. I think he's big on not taking any sides, but then maybe leave politics alone altogether, it's just too important :/

Anyway, I'm evidently not good at articulating what I mean, let alone in a concise not-rambly way, so I won't.