[Video description: Brennan Lee Mulligan, outside on the concrete, speaking into a microphone, surrounded by people and picket signs. Caption: Brennan Lee Mulligan DMing on the universal picket line.
“-if I told you this was not the first time I’ve played D&D on curb next to a parking lot!
Long you have journeyed through the mythic realms, through forests deep, caverns old, to arrive at the Valley of the Sun! (people laugh) LOL, big LOL. |It is in the dead of night, dawn has not yet come, and from an ancient sarcophagus lines with runes, you see rising from the mist, the vampiric form of John Strahd! (people laugh) CEO of Ravenloft Studios. (people boo)
He arises, (gasps), and you see behind him the vast collected treasures, artifacts, and magical items, all taken from the fine hands of your fellow wizards, bards, artificers. A massive horn like that of an ancient dragon!
He stands, "Ahh, adventurers brave. Defeating you will be a cruel, but necessary evil!” (everyone boos)
I am getting really sick of this, and not for the reason you probably think.
It’s this button. It’s this color combo. I see it everywhere. White (#FFFFFF) text on a light blue (#00B8FF) background. The contrast ratio is an abysmal 2.26:1. And it’s not like it’s even hard to change! By just darkening the blue a little bit to #009DE4, we get a contrast ratio of 3.02:1.
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Do you see how much nicer that looks? How much easier on the eyes? I can only imagine what the original does to anyone with low contrast sensitivity.
WebAIM Contrast Checker is a helpful site to check and find good color contrasts cus yeah this is an important thing
THIS. I’m extremely frustrated that, as much as they thankfully did change it, when wip replied to an ask about the awful contrast of the alt text box, they mentioned something such as “it’s always hard to tell with purple :)” (paraphrasing). I already know they haven’t had a team dedicated to accessibility for a while but this is a Google search away. The lack of consideration is astounding.
Oh my gosh, how did I just now notice that the alt text boxes are black now instead of purple? What a delight.
I do have to agree that “it’s always hard to tell with purple” is a pretty weak argument simply because you shouldn’t be judging whether or not the contrast is good enough by just eyeballing it. The WCAG color contrast standards exist specifically so that you don’t have to do this, and tools like WebAIM Contrast Checker exist so you don’t have to make those calculations yourself.
There are several aspects of accessibility I tend to have a lot of patience with, even when it comes to cooperations (who should absolutely be paying experts to look at it) missing the mark. Color contrast is not one of them. It’s too easy and too simply to test for, there’s no excuse.
a lot of you need to be a lot more chill about cishet passing people and couples still being part of the queer community
its happened to a friend recently and ive seen plenty of people including streamers/youtubers etc have the same thing happen over and over again, where they put the LGBT label on their streams or a pride flag in their bio and then they get people demanding to know every detail of their identity.
if you see a guy online with his girlfriend and he has a pride flag in his bio and your first reaction is to question whether hes even allowed to put that there, log off. the guy could be bi, could be trans, could be nb, could be literally any queer identity at all and it doesnt matter. its none of your fucking business. he could also just be an ally showing support, its none. of your. business.
you are not the queer police and it is not your job to make sure everyone in the queer community has the properly documented justification for being part of it. touch grass. you need to be normal about not knowing everyones labels and identities and about people keeping those private.
cishet passing people have always existed and will always exist within the queer community, they are our family and belong with us.
Next time transphobes call trans healthcare “experimental” you can show them this
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penicillin was first discovered in 1928; vaginoplasty is less experimental
ibuprofen was first discovered in 1961; phalloplasty and HRT are less experimental
Adderall was first applied as an ADHD treatment in 1994; puberty blockers are less experimental
would also like to note that every single one of these procedures and treatments has been through rigorous testing usually both on animal models and humans in order to be approved as safe and effective by the FDA and not a single one is considered experimental. just in case anyone tries to be like “well HPV vaccines and Adderall are also bad”
tshirt that says SOMETIMES WHEN A CHARACTER’S ACTIONS DON’T MATCH THEIR WORDS IT ISN’T BAD WRITING IT’S A NUANCE THE AUDIENCE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR PICKING UP ON
I’m not a classicist, but I suspect one of the reasons so many of the Greek gods are portrayed so unflatteringly was less because they were seen as villains than because they represented their domains. Of course Zeus sometimes misuses his power, that’s what a king does. Of course Artemis’s wrath is wild and painful, that’s what nature can be. Of course Hades snatched away a young girl from her mother’s arms, that’s what death does. This is one of the reasons callout posts for some gods comparing them negatively to ‘nicer’ gods are kind of missing the point.
as someone who is partially a classicist, this is a better analysis of Greek mythology as a whole than 99.95% of the takes I’ve seen on here (and a substantial number of the takes I’ve seen in ~academia~)
it’s so bizarre when animated American films are set in a certain location and then only certain characters have the accents of that place. It makes no damn sense!! like
WHY IS SHE MORE FRENCH THAN THE REST OF THEM???
WHY ARE THESE GUYS MORE SCOTTISH THAN THE KIDS??
(also, aren’t they Vikings or something?)
To be fair, almost everyone in Ratatouille does have a French accent. The real question is why Linguini and also all the rats sound intensely American
If it was just the rats I’d say it’s because the movie can be interpreted to mean that the rats understand but don’t necessarily speak human languages so the rat dialog isn’t literally taking place the way we see it but that doesn’t explain why Linguini has a rat accent
LINGUINI HAS A RAT ACCENT
Do we ever hear like
For sure that Linguini grew up in France tho?
It could be possible he’s just an American immigrant
I mean his name is Alfredo Linguini so I always assumed he was Italian
I’m sorry his first name is Alfredo?
What
ALFREDO???
he’s American you guys his mother was American it was mentioned in the beginning
I’m sorry, I’ve moved on to the fact his mother was going through her cupboard for baby names
Alfredo was a name before it was a sauce let’s go over the movie from the top again
This is Alfredo di Lelio (right) the inventor of fettuccine Alfredo, he’d come out to the table and make it in front of you by hand
The chap on the left is an airport
I think you might have your left and right mixed up, my friend
remember in School of Rock where the black girl was afraid to say she wanted to be a singer because she was fat and didn’t want to get laughed at but Dewey was all “who gives a shit, I’m fat too and so is aretha franklin but we’re still valuable and we rock” and then the girl felt better without having to be told that beauty comes in all sizes or some other bullshit. thats the kind of body positivity I’m looking for. tell these babies that they’re worth a damn without tying it to any other arbitrary ideals
Also like. when she asks him why he isn’t on a diet. and you just know she has heard this dumb “tip” a million times before (“just go on a diet!” “if you really apply yourself you can easily use x amount of weight!” “you just don’t want it enough!”)
there’s nothing wrong! with liking food! and being hungry! you don’t need to starve yourself to fit into some bs aesthetic! eat food!
Also that he cited a fat black woman singer specifically as it was the black girl who asked. gave her a direct representation of someone just like herself instead of citing anyone else
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