Rain & Jazz

your monobrow that boys made you feel alien for in school is an heirloom from the first of your foremothers forced into exile.

your slow metabolism and the weight you carry in your hips and belly are traits inherited from those who nearly starved.

your nose in profile is like the rock of gibraltar.

your crooked smile is the reef that nazi u-boats run aground on.

don’t augment your bodies so you might assimilate more easily. be ugly to them if you must. but your being is undeniable and beautiful.

Aye, ofc! and ty very much :3

It’s only earlier this year that I discovered the connection between Deaf history and French Revolution. Apparently, French Revolution is a big moment in Deaf history. It was the first time in history Deaf people were recognised as equal citizens. Signing was accepted as a legitimate language, seen as a natural form of communication. When I first learned about it, I immediately asked a Deaf member at the sign club that I go to every week. He enthusiastically told me lots of stories, mostly about French Deaf people founding Deaf schools during the Revolution (and I soon got lost in all of the finger spelled French names unfortunately). I was fascinated to find so much more to learn, and overjoyed that two of my passionate interests connected.

On Deaf Day back in April, I got the book Signs of Freedom by Paddy Ladd, one of my favourite Deaf authors, and I finally started reading it this month. This is a play he wrote about Deaf history. And here’s French Revolution again:

For the Level 3 exam next spring, I will be making a presentation on Deaf culture or Deaf history. I don’t know what topic I will be assigned yet, but it would be amazing if I can present something related to the French Revolution in sign language!

^“At the bottom of the image is the segment of the flag cut for the St. Patrick’s Cathedral protest. Photograph by Mick Hicks”

"Okay, I got you."

*Removes the B from the BREAD sign*

Oh, Lordy.

i want more people to talk about how much, fucking hell, in the fandom (especially the english-speaking one) Rogue from '97 (and both of these things separately too) is VERY overhated

ever since '24 i keep running into biased criticism of Rogue, which is also filled with misogynistic slurs or arguments, ONLY because in the series she chooses her need (let me remind you that her whole life, before she got to the X-Men, she was reduced to one function where her power was emphasized and exploited, and Mystique herself criticized her desire to learn to control herself, again constantly shifting attention from her need to the impossibility of achieving it) and the wellbeing of the mutants of Genosha, since Erik primarily pressured her with exactly this argument

but it's easier to call a character a whore, of course, than to watch the series and read the comics with your eyes and not your ass

on top of that Remy himself suggested they draw a clear boundary between them and stay friends, because he, unlike the external fandom, fucking understands her position, wow! and even considering that Rogue and Erik's interactions in the series were shown beautifully in terms of giving a push to both characters' development, considering that Rogue later publicly rejected Magneto after reflecting on her feelings and Gambit's words, the fandom STILL pushes new viewers away from the series, saying the narrative focus there is shifted from romy, that 1992 was better because "they are canon"

Rogue as a character has always, throughout her entire existence in mass culture, been subjected to misogynistic criticism, erasure of her specificity and identity (for example the film trilogy), but as soon as she's properly explored in media, shown as a multifaceted character with morally fucking grey morality, the hate from the fandom immediately starts

this also includes the fact that against the backdrop of all this bullshit criticism of episode 5, people simply close their eyes to other important components of the character, even though those are exactly what should be discussed and criticized.

Rogue, by the way, literally killed people out of personal dislike or under someone else's pressure, put people into comas, inflicted other injuries, and this is obviously a very important part of the character but such people ABSOLUTELY DON'T GIVE A SHIT why analyze amoral actions when you can just latch onto one factor and call her a whore?

surely... this is an exaggeration? but then again.................... is it?

( + rambles about ragn and his helmet wearing proclivities below the cut bc this dialogue made me so, so terribly sad.)