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There’s a Terry Pratchett quote that has really stuck with me for some reason, even though I don’t see it discussed often, or indeed at all. It’s from Thud!, one of my favourite books, and occurs while Watch Commander Vimes is trying to get information out of Brick, a rather pathetic drug-addled troll who has been taken under the wing of the top troll officer, Sergeant Detritus.

“Brick waved a pair of scarred, knobbly arms in a gesture that said, far more than he could, that there was a whole universe on one side and Brick on the other, and what could anyone do against odds like that?

And so he’d been handed over to Detritus, Vimes thought. That evened the odds somewhat.”

For me I think that became an idea of what I could do, an aim for me to have. To become someone who, if you are at the bottom and the universe is against you, can even the odds somewhat.

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20 year old beginner: one year of learning flute and butterfly knife skillz :)

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Fun fact: Adults actually learn those “You need to practice!” skills better than children do. 

Kids tend to want to do literally anything aside from learning this skill my parent is forcing me to learn. 

Adults actually can sit down and practice things for hours on end. Adults WANT to practice to get their skills better. Adults deliberately set aside time every day to practice. Even if it’s just 20 minutes, it’s productive growth and not wiggling in your chair mournfully watching birds out the window. 

Anything from Drawing to Weaving to Violin to fuckin flipping bufferfly knives like a pro - choose a skill and LEARN, dammit! None of that ‘Children’s brains are more malleable’ bullshit. Brain squish is not the end-all of learning! 

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I’m so  happy for her….!!!!!!!!!

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Anonymous asked:

I'm hard of hearing but i was raised mainstreamed. I dont know ASL but I cant speak well (I have a stammer and people who dont know me well csnt understand my voice easily). I dont fit in with the hearing community and I don't fit in with the deaf community. I feel totally lost. I'm not hearing enough or deaf enough. What do I do

Hello,

I am sending you hugs. This is a common problem for lot of HoH peeps - they don’t really fit into either of two worlds. I wish I could offer you a simple solution, but there is none. Some people prefer to abandon the deaf community completely, concentrating on their speech. Some learn ASL and become part of deaf community (tbh, majority of deaf people aren’t 100% deaf anyway). Some are part of both worlds or none. And there is also hoh community, full of people like you!

Deaflepuff did a masterpost of all deafies and hoh peeps on tumblr, check it out: http://deaflepuff.tumblr.com/post/114521246126/deafhoh-blogs

(some of these might not have blogs anymore, what with the weird updates tumblr is pulling, but some should still work) 

Also, have you considered attending ASL classes? Its never late to learn ASL!

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smithsonianmag.com

For the First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter the Public Domain

A beloved Robert Frost poem is among the many creations that are (finally) losing their protections in 2019
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“‘The public domain has been frozen in time for 20 years, and we’re reaching the 20-year thaw,’ says Jennifer Jenkins, director of Duke Law School’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain. The release is unprecedented, and its impact on culture and creativity could be huge. We have never seen such a mass entry into the public domain in the digital age. The last one—in 1998, when 1922 slipped its copyright bond—predated Google. “We have shortchanged a generation,” said Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive. ‘The 20th century is largely missing from the internet.’”

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“We can blame Mickey Mouse for the long wait. In 1998, Disney was one of the loudest in a choir of corporate voices advocating for longer copyright protections. At the time, all works published before January 1, 1978, were entitled to copyright protection for 75 years; all author’s works published on or after that date were under copyright for the lifetime of the creator, plus 50 years. Steamboat Willie, featuring Mickey Mouse’s first appearance on screen, in 1928, was set to enter the public domain in 2004. At the urging of Disney and others, Congress passed the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, named for the late singer, songwriter and California representative, adding 20 years to the copyright term. Mickey would be protected until 2024—and no copyrighted work would enter the public domain again until 2019, creating a bizarre 20-year hiatus between the release of works from 1922 and those from 1923.”