favorite color is pink actually, I just love Yuni

We need to start commenting under other people's posts about how to properly warn for flashing lights and eyestrain. We need to be emailing and calling companies about their possibly triggering advertisements that could induce seizures. We need to stop tolerating ableism and start speaking up for the more vulnerable.

Also, stop putting epilepsy warnings. That's like saying "warning: schizophrenia" on a post including unreality or "warning: dyslexia" on a post with a typing quirk. First off, the disability mentioned isn't the only group of people that this could trigger. Second, it doesn't truly get the message across and instead makes it worse for those with the disability-- scrolling through the epilepsy tag on Tumblr should get you to view the content of other epileptic people, but no, you just get a bunch of flashing lights and eyestrain, even though you could instead tag for, oh I dunno, flashing lights and eyestrain.

Just to try and help out and spread the word, there are two chrome extensions I've found that might be able to help.

Seizafe: This extension scans youtube videos and warns you if they contain things like flashing lights that could cause a seizure.

CogniShield: This extension (supposedly, it has like no reviews) dims the screen to a safe level if flashing lights are detected; it can also be used to limit volume. It might help.

Photosensitive epilepsy makes up only 3% of cases for those of us with epilepsy, with the rest being a variety of other triggers from dehydration to exhaustion to medication complications. Somehow, people still think "TW: Epilepsy" makes sense when less than a twentieth of us have it. Tagging "#epilepsy" on posts that have flashing prevents us from forming our own community on here, which is necessary considering how misinformation about this condition is so prevalent that we are more likely to die from "first aid" given by people who don't know shit about this condition than we are to from our own seizures.

All this to say, OP is completely correct for saying this and I am extremely thankful for it. I also have some resources for you.

Photosensitive Epilepsy Analysis Tool (PEAT) by the Trace Research Center of the University of Maryland: This source allows you to upload videos or even select elements in your browser to determine if they would pose a risk to those of us with photosensitive epilepsy, and even indicates which parts of the video would be the most dangerous. Additionally, the software is free and has a guide on how to use the software and how to interpret the data output. This is the only free and medically certified tool I know about myself.

Information on Photosensitivity and Seizures by the Epilepsy Foundation and the Epilepsy Society: These sources are an explanation of photosensitive epilepsy and its common triggers, which is useful as a general guide on how to identify potentially dangerous content. If you are suggesting media to a person with photosensitive epilepsy, please do a more thorough confirmation of the safety of the media in question for the person you are recommending it to, and remember that everyone's photosensitivity triggers are different.

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When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".

When the boat is still being built, your say "it".

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").

If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").

If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.

If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

I suppose the words resonated with both it and I somewhat, and that this message is one worth sharing.

…and so is this Charjabug.

Fascinated by this story arc in which it seems Lightning goes into panic mode and regresses into his old selfish, all about winning, only in this for me mindset and Doc is torn between his own self-preservation and wanting to call him out, bring the car who’s become like a son to him back to the light, only for his own lingering distrust as seen in him bringing a weapon to be what fully convinces Lightning that he can’t trust anyone, not even his newfound family, out here and he kills the car who had become like a father to him

sometimes a trans woman wins against a cis woman. sometimes a cis woman wins against another cis woman too. yet only one of them is allowed to win without facing consequences.

i want to highlight this specific addition from the comments