this is a niche one but instead of "they would not fuckin say that" it's "they would not fucking use American sign language".

ASL is not the only sign language. two british characters in your fanfiction would not be using ASL. England in fact has its own kind of sign language, BSL, that forms a sign family with many other sign languages around the world.

ASL isn't even the original member of its sign family, it comes from french sign language. do you know sign languages aren't related to spoken languages? that's an important one! it's not a direct 1:1 with people speaking English around the world. people in other countries don't learn ASL just in case they run into an usamerican or Canadian (who do often use it)

i know the entire world is the USA or whatever and sign languages do sometimes borrow from ASL for signs they don't have, but please be aware that there are other sign languages and families in the world that are not in fact ASL.

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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What a mood....

Friendships as a teenager: we used to talk 5 hours every night now it’s down to 3… are we still friends 🤔? I wonder if they don’t like me anymore

Friendships as an adult: omg I’ve finally cleared up 20 minutes of my schedule to talk to my friend I haven’t spoken to in 4 months #bffs #we will find eachother in every life

It's hilarious to me when people complain about AO3 and its policies, and what they allow on the site - but it's ESPECIALLY funny when people complain like "Why can't the freaks make their own site and just go there?"

Sweetie... AO3 is the site for that. Y'all invaded our space.

Wattpad and FFN still exist. Go there. They're as shitty and G-rated as you want. You can't have the luxuries that AO3 offers if you're gonna be a little bitch about its policies. Imagine walking into a strip club and complaining about the alcohol and naked ladies when there's a god damn Dennys next door you could have gone to. Christ.

I love unabashed joy like this. They choose this and they are getting to enjoy it to their fullest. But, not gonna lie, it is a blessing to take out my hearing aids and no longer hear the clock ticking!!

my hearing has been aided and holy shit is this how you guys hear all the time

being 20 is about being soso tired

Holy shit fuck!!! We’ve hit over a hundred followers!!!

Y’all are dope as hell! Have some screenshot redraws as a gift. I was gonna wait till I finished the other set but I still wanted to post something to celebrate

deaf pro hero bakugou with assorted hearing aids bc im deaf and i wanted to

hearing aids in order if anyone’s curious: Cochlear Implant, Neptune Sound Processors, BAHA and Ear Mould Cochlears*

*not the official name but it’s what everyone used to call it lol

I.... yeah. I mean yeah. You're right. You should say it. Also never ever touch them without permission. (Unless life or death.)

I was thinking and literally one of the most intimate things for me with my hearing aids is letting someone else handle them.

Like these are thousands of dollar worth of medical equipment, that would take at least a month to replace and that I need in order to function in society. They are ridiculously easy to break because of what they are and how they are made, and to lose because they are small (I know someone whose hearing aids are smaller than the size of the first knuckle of their pinky).

So to let someone else hold them, take them out of ears, to change the batteries, put them into the charging port, etc.?

It Speaks volumes to both how close the two people are as well as how much the deaf person trusts the other.

Anyways I was thinking about this with either deaf!Yamada Hizashi and Aizawa or deaf!Bakugo and someone else.

Imagine the fluff potential. Especially with teen aizawa who is all prickly and doesn’t like anyone but is slowly growing to like and trust Yamada, Kayama, and Shirokumo. Imagine the relationship being solidified when Yamada is busy finishing up a paper when his hearing aids die and he just gives them to Aizawa to go and charge for the night. Imagine Aizawa pulling away and refusing to accept the hearing aids after Shirokumo dies because he has convinced himself that everyone he grows close to will be hurt and die, and the hearing aids are a physical sign of how close they are. Imagine Aizawa slowly accepting the hearing aids again, first just to hold briefly while Yamada fixes his headphones, then to restart them when Yamada’s carrying too much stuff when they start acting up, and slowly accepting them for more and more things. Imagine a villain with a Quirk that fucks with sound waves dropping Yamada who is screaming in painbecause that Quirk hurts like hell when his hearing aids are in, and Aizawa just bolting through the rubble to pull the hearing aids out so that Yamada stops hurting.

Imagine Aizawa starting to go deaf, because that’s what happens in battlefields when humans are constantly exposed to extreme sound, they lose hearing. Imagine him not knowing what to do and struggling to adjust to the hearing aids and Yamada just standing there, a guide and helper to get Aizawa through the transition period.

The sheer intimacy and trust that everything involved requires is just amazing

KiriBaku Month Day 9: Confession

I missed drawing in chibi style..! I thought it would be cute for this prompt :)

"Deaf!Katsuki is planning to make a dinner to confess to Kirishima but Kirishima leaves him stunned and drops his plate for Kirishima when he sees Kirishima use sign language for the first time and confess to Katsuki how much he loves him."

Thank you Wifeygamer! Read the fic that inspired this art here !!!

I mean... I like the idea in theory but this is literally why my stepfather freaks out if I use sign language at all in front of him because it isn't fair to hearing people and what if Deaf people are just talking shit about everyone...

hard of hearing katsuki who talks shit with you in sign when he’s around people he can’t stand

Waaaiiiit wait a minute. Okay. Okay I'm processing. Shit this is a good idea. I just... okay I can't really process it right now but.. maybe I'll remember to come back to it.

Siren Hitoshi making people crash their ships before they can land at his island versus deaf pirate Bakugou, the first person to make it to the shores alive

... oops.

y’all expose yourselves and take this fanfic test i was just forced to by an irl so now i’m making you too

A domestic little future.