Tag: interesting

amazighprincex:

deafine:

Captures my feelings pretty well. Captioned for the signing impaired.

And a transcript for anyone who can’t read the captions:

I want to talk about a video that’s getting a lot of attention right now on Facebook, the one about Samsung setting up a video call center for Deaf people in Turkey. The video starts with a Deaf guy out and about with his sister, out doing their regular thing—errands, etc. Throughout the course of the video, people on the street are signing to him—on the street, in a cafe—much to his surprise. By the end we find out a video call center has been set up, and there’s much hugging, embracing, and even a few tears as people see his reaction.

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athenaltena:

ubercream:

mister-smalls:

ubercream:

mister-smalls:

Petition to sit down all the people who make coma theories about Adventure Time and tell them “listen, this fucking show is about the last human living in a post-apocalyptic world where deadly magic has been reawakened following a global thermonuclear war that wiped out the rest of the human species, how much fucking darker do you want it to be”

Even though I thought my first Creative Writing professor was kind of a douche, he made a good point about this. One of our first assignments was to write in this eerie, otherworldly style (we were mimicking a specific author whose name escapes me), so we had to write about eerie otherworldly things happening. It’s no exaggeration to say that more than half the class had a “big reveal” where we find out that the story’s strange events and themes are all in the mind of some person in an insane asylum, or someone having a drug trip.

My professor said something like, “you just successfully wrote a world that feels separate from our own, but got frightened last minute and shoe-horned in normalcy. You showed that you were afraid to commit to something different and interesting.” Though I’m typically a contrarian and a piece of garbage, I am inclined to agree with my professor. I feel like people who write coma theories and the like are afraid to accept that the world of the story is separate from our own. They like everything wrapped up in this crazy little realism box where nothing out of the ordinary happens in fiction.

you win the Best Addition to a Post prize

Thank you 🙂

This pretty well hits the nail on the head as to why I generally hate coma/dream theories and people who think they’re so fucking deep for coming up with it. In my book it’s LAZY, plain and simple.