on summer classes and fluency

i'm taking asl this summer and i just finished the learning section of the class, learning all the signs, vocab, grammar of the first semester, and let me just say they packed that 3 weeks full. the next 2 weeks are just tests and projects, but i'm gonna miss that class. i LOVED the teacher, prof. RL was the literal best. we went to this deaf owned cafe and one of the other students brought her unilaterally deaf 2 year old and OMG I WANT TO STEAL HER SHE'S SO CUTE!! everyone has a different reason for wanting to learn sign, but she was the only person with actual deaf people in her life. the deaf community is so small that most deaf people in the city all know each other. it's such a cool community and interacting with them is really just something special, even knowing the littlest of sign can make a difference. fluency is such a hard thing to achieve later in life(i talk like i'm 40 or something), the attempts we're made with spanish and german(half heartedly, albiet, but made none the less), but this is something i really want, to learn sign and use it, even if i don't personally know any deaf people(besides my latened-deaf papa who doesn't know sign) YET!

on ~the lore~

i also forgot, but i read a whole google doc on the petekey lore😭 if i ever get my heart broken by a twink like that i'm clearing the place out and taking myself off the board as well

on today's events

today i went to lunch with my friend ry and had a good time. i also painted a sign for my friend summer's kickball tournament that she was in that just said "KICK ASS!" and she loved it. it was really fun cheering the team on since i was just there as a cheerleader. we went to get ice cream after then when i got home the frat across from my apartment have a live band playing so i went to see them, but since i didn't want to pay or go to a frat party alone i just watched from across the street like a weirdo. the band playing was a local band called tiny house and i'll have to check out there music. i just wish the frat would shut up now but i never get what i want unfortunatly💀

on mixing and mastering

i recorded a cover of anything by adrieanne lenker for my class and we listened to it over the monitors AND IT SOUNDED LIKE SHIT IN COMPARISON!!! like the balance was so off and the vocals were so fucking loud😭 i kept turning them up in the mix cause i couldn't hear them from my headphones and its aLL YOU CAN HEAR OVER THE SPEAKERS. FML💀(it's fine, trust me)

on superman

superman II(1980) is such a butch lesbian. and i'm not just saying that cause he is SO unfairly pretty, i have other reasons...

on music

Lately I've been trying to get more into the old post-hardcore scene, so I started listening to Circa Survive, Chiodos, Saosin, Escape the Fate, The Used, Isles and Glaciers, SeeYouSpaceCoyboy, and Crown the Empire, and I've been learning some CRAZY lore about Jonny Craig and that Swancore is absolute peak music.