Jest to Impress!

People commonly defend this practise with "But the audience isn't meant to understand!" or "It's inconsequential!", neither of which actually address a) their assumption that the [ideal Anglo] audience wouldn't understand, or, perhaps most crucially in the context of CCs, b) that this is a failure of accessibility. A hearing person who speaks that "foreign" language will know exactly what's being said. A deaf or HoH person – the people CCs are primarily intended for – who speaks or reads that language should therefore have the exact same opportunity to understand. It very much feels to me like an assumption that we deaf and HoH people couldn't possibly understand any language but English, so there's no point in getting those languages transcribed for us. I hope it goes without saying how profoundly audist that sentiment is.

There is also, I think, a profound misunderstanding or ignorance of Deaf culture at play. Which is to say, CCs in English-language media are written with not only the assumption that the audience will be native English speakers, but that all d/Deaf and HoH people speak English as their first language, so all other languages are as supposedly foreign to them as they are for hearing people. But sign languages are their own distinct language. BSL, ASL, ISL, AusLan, NZSL etc ≠ English (and are indeed different from one another), LIS ≠ Italian, JSL ≠ Japanese, and so on. So, if you follow the captioners' logic to its natural extreme, all non-signed dialogue is "foreign" to many d/Deaf and HoH people and should therefore be labelled [speaks foreign language] / [speaks English] / [speaks own language] / etc. – which is, obviously, a terrible idea that perfectly highlights all the biases implicit in closed captioning.

Hello everyone how's it going, it's been some days and I want to update my whereabouts and situation.

I did get terribly sick, but I bought a new blanket so I'm warm. I don't know if the storm passed but we have a terrible heatwave here in Florida. It's blazing hot and it's been hard to keep cool. My dog had a seizure and it was terrifying, I don't know if it's from the heat or something else but she's okay now, I had to make sure she is cool.

I was able to buy some food and ate what I could eat. Bought a new shirt and pants, wasn't much but I have clean clothes.

Just right now we just need to get into a hotel since the sun is blazing. I can't be in scorching heat due to my COPD and my dog is sensitive to heat (my last dog died from the heat) so I want us somewhere cooling and I can take a nice shower.

on the other hand...

Only for Kinger to silently point up at the ceiling, prompting them to look up.

And Caine is just scuttling around on the ceiling like an excited giant spider.

(Btw I adore your art and animations so much! They always bring a smile to my face when I see them!)