Inside the Tree Trunk

Captions cover the spot on the screen you put the information I need

The dialogue is captioned but not the song you have playing that the dialogue is responding to

You only captioned the person on the screen, not the person off screen who is also talking

No captioning of critical sound effects (alarms, bells, dogs barking, etc)

Speakers are not labelled at moments where it is not clear on the screen who is talking.

Captions cover the spot on the screen that you put the information I need!

Other d/Deaf people welcome to add.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

anyway i wanted a memento of my first pride, you know, and this one vendor was selling keyrings, and i liked it, so i bought one. do you remember those italian charm bracelets that were all the rage like 10-15 years ago? it was a keychain like that, and it had a rainbow rooster, a rainbow cat, and then just a rainbow, and so I bought it.

i run into my mom a couple of vendors over and she goes oh you bought something? what’d you get? so i showed her, and i was like, “I’m not sure why it’s a rooster and a cat. Seems kind of random. But I liked the rainbows.”

and my mom, who was some form of minister’s wife for most of my childhood and teenagerhood, stares at me like she thinks i’m joking.

“What?” i say.

June 5: Dr. Seward and his patient's peculiar current fascination with flies

Drawing of Dr. John "Jack" Seward from Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Jack is drawn with small, rectangular glasses, a close-trimmed beard, and slicked back hair.

The drawing is from his shoulders up. He is also holding up a clipboard high enough that the board and his hands are visible with his shoulders and head. He is taking notes on the paper implied to be attached to the clipboard. Five flies zip around Jack's head and a small sweat droplet is on his cheek. He has a very neutral expression on his face and his eyes are not visible behind his glasses.

You can't do that. Absolutely not. Anakin is unqualified for that and a university would not do it in any case. A university would literally hire a junior or senior undergraduate workstudy student to do as much of that work as possible first. They would do NOTHING other than do that and make the prof do all his own grading.

Screenshot from what appears to be a Reddit post sharing screenshots of AO3 comments.

The Reddit post has the flair "Comment Commentary" and the title "rude comment about a slow updates tag?"

The first screenshotted AO3 comment is by a reader. Their username is censored. It was posted at 12:21AM EST on Fri 20 Feb 2026:

Hi author [upside-down smilie emoji] I've noticed you forgot to feed us this week, despite not a single "slow updates" tag in sight. Let's play a game...

The next screenshotted AO3 comment is by the work's author. Their username is also censored. Their response to the above comment was posted 22min later, at 12:43AM EST:

Respectfully, don't come and comment on my work to talk about slow updates when I am providing this for free. Authors have a life outside of ao3. There is no necessity for me to make a "slow updates" tag because the majority of authors and readers on here understand that updates will come as and when the author sees fit. As much as I appreciate you reading my work, I don't appreciate the passive aggressive comment. If the slow updates bother you, drop my fic.

A pun post crossed my dash, and I reblogged it with an equally bad pun in return. A couple of my followers find it funny, it's a good day for everyone.

That was on July 7th.

Virality on Reddit was entirely algorithmic. You could garner a couple crossposts, but the success of a post was entirely dependent on whether or not it hit r/all--the main page of Reddit. If your post does that, it's immediately exposed to 10x the number of people and immediately gets upvoted.

On my pun post, I get a couple reblogs. And those reblogs get a couple reblogs--nobody really adds any content to the post, it just gets a couple reblogs here and there.

There's a specific chain of reblogs that I'd like to focus on. The most popular post on this chain has about 25 reblogs on it. Half the posts have three reblogs or fewer. Five posts in this chain have just one reblog total.

But the reblog chain keeps going. And going. It breaches containment many times over. And finally, after a chain THIRTY SIX posts long, at 9:30 AM, July 22nd this morning, it hits a popular account.

99% percent of the people who have seen the post--virtually unchanged from how it left my dash--have seen it because it was curated by 36 different people. That's insane to me.

None of those 36 people know that they're part of this chain. They saw a post, reblogged it, and moved on. If any one of these people had not reblogged, the post would have a fraction of the impact it has.

And yet, after two weeks, the post has effectively hit the main page of tumblr. It was picked up, only because people liked it enough to show it to their followers. There were no algorithms necessary.

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

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