Pious

The passage of the seasons - Summer defeating Spring

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.

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.

as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.

disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.

at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.

i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.

i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.

This is Luperioh Gideon, my 30K Luna Wolves / Sons of Horus OC.

His name was deliberately chosen to resemble that of his Primarch. As for his appearance, he’s actually among those who don’t look much like Horus. He has the typical features of a Cthonian（maybe）.

To fight at Captain Gavriel Loken’s side on Isstvan III—the warrior he admired above all others—was the greatest honor of his life.

And when the end finally came, one question still lingered in his mind:

On reddit, I keep seeing "The Emperor was mad at his slow compliance rate but the reason for that was because the Word Bearers were taking time to win planets over with relatively bloodless methods and remaining to ensure a smooth transition" takes, that this is proof he was a good, peaceful and kind man before Chaos.

That's naive. I'm sorry.

Lorgar's already spent 7yrs committing a planetwide forced conversion on Colchis. Lorgar makes it sound relatively mundane when he talks about it (and he seems to avoid talking about it) but that's because he really doesn't want to say "I subjugated an entire populace and mass murdered anyone who refused to convert"

-ADB on Lorgar

Consider what he's actually doing during his Great Crusade era compliances, what it requires, what is involved.

Lorgar is the Spanish Conquistadors; he's invading a planet and forcing a religion on the citizens. He's committing cultural genocide. He's killing anyone who doesn't get with the program; there is absolutely zero room for religious tolerance in the eyes of the Word Bearers. What do you think is happening to the people who don't want to convert? Do you think they're going "Welp to each their own"? No, dude, they're being killed, enslaved or lobotomized, which is then used to scare any other reluctant citizens into converting.

It's textbook colonialism.

And yeah Lorgar and the Word Bearers think they're doing the people a kindness; they're bringing them to the light of the one true god, they're helping them eradicate their Heretical barbarian cultural practices. But that's religious psycho logic. That's Ben Shapiro and the Daily Wire insisting Europeans actually helped the Native Americans by "civilizing them" with Judeo-Christian values. Like yeah sure they murdered millions of indigenous people in the process and brutally enforced European culture/religion on them and viewed them as ignorant savages, but they did it to help them! It was for a good reason, come onnn!

Just because he was killing less people than, say, the Lion and was sticking around to oversee their religious/cultural transition does not mean he was a good guy. He was just a different kind of oppressive, bigoted imperialist.

In some ways he's worse, because some post-compliance planets are allowed to keep some of their cultural heritage, as long as it vibes with basic tenets of the Imperial Truth. "Pay your tithes, run a secular society, don't fuck around with xenos and we'll leave you be" basically. You have some amount of autonomy. When Lorgar and Angron show up at Nuceria in Betrayer, the Nucerians are taken aback because they haven't even really heard from the Imperium since they joined 200 years ago.

The Word Bearers, meanwhile, become an occupying force for YEARS to ensure the eradication of your faith and culture. They stick around. You don't want the Imperium sticking around.

It's basic unreliable narrator shit. Just because a character tells you they're a good guy doesn't mean it's true. Of course they think they're a good guy, they're biased.

For instance, Lorgar insists Monarchia was the "perfect city" but what little we know isn't that great. Cyrene is a teenage sex worker who has to walk around with a knife strapped to her thigh for safety. They're stoning people. They're turning heretics and criminals alike into servitors. Some guy got lynched for selling dog meat as lamb. It's an oppressive theocratic society.

Thank youuu!!!

I must say i do think i mischaracterise him, i often draw him a lot happier than he actualy is, or rather having a great time causing suffering, when realy he tends to be a bit more grim and cruel about it, i fear i may be playing up the Crazy(trademark) aspect of him a bit too much,

Anyhow, here's him happily skinning a man, cropped for gore, full under cut

Motivation...

If you think "children should not be allowed in this space," you HAVE TO reckon with the fact that you are now excluding parents (and very often women specifically) who don't have access to childcare. You are isolating people who are poor, or rural, or single parents, or any number of other factors that might prevent someone from having on-demand childcare. You are cutting them off from being able to exist in public. You are denying parents and children the ability to fully participate in society.

My mom spent several years only leaving the house to buy groceries or take me to school, and even then, people would still come up to her to complain TO HER FACE about how she shouldn't bring a crying toddler to Walmart. Entitled strangers would literally try and demand that my mom leave and come back without the kids.

"Why can't your husband watch them?" Because he was at work, usually working extreme amounts of overtime so we didn't get evicted, because landlords don't like it when you stop paying rent.

"Why can't you send them to daycare?" Because that costs money.

"Why can't your teenager stay home with them and babysit?" Because I also deserved to be able to leave the house for something other than school, and taking me to the grocery store was how my mom taught me to manage a household budget, shop sales, and meal plan.

"Don't bring your kid in public if you can't CONTROL them and make them stop crying!" Kids cry when they're upset, and being dragged around a store is upsetting! Don't be an asshole! Children are human beings who are still learning how the world works, and they don't have a lot of agency. You'd cry, too.

"Spank them until they learn to stop crying!" That's just straight-up child abuse, Jesus Christ.