Hi, I’m Wynter, I’m Deaf and fluent in ASL (American Sign Language). I get a lot of people telling me they want to learn to sign, but not knowing exactly where to start. So, I am here to provide that!
Let’s start off with some basics, though. ASL does NOT follow English grammar (Signed Exact English/SEE does, but it is not ASL), it only uses English words and a lot of the communication with singing is done via facial expression and body language. Basically, it goes in the order of time > topic > comment. For example, “ I am going to pet dogs next week” would be “next week dogs me pet”, but there are quite a few variants and every person who signs will have a different way of doing this. Sort of how people who speak English in different parts of America have an accent and different ways to sign things. The most important thing to note about ASL is that *American* Sign Language is not universal. Most languages have their own form of SL and a lot of the word signs/alphabets are not at all the same. Another note, learning SEE may seem easier at first, but it can actually make the transition to ASL grammar that much more difficult. An example of differing signs is BSL (British Sign Language) vs ASL.
This is the BSL finger alphabet:
And this is the American one:
So while there is a small bit of crossover, it is very, very different! Don’t get me wrong, a lot of times signers will understand each other at least a little bit, but it does need to be noted that signs can differ by language, country, region, and sometimes person.
Alphabet:
ASL Alphabet
ASL ABC’S (NON-CC VIDEO)
The ASL Alphabet
Deaf Culture:
*Note: if you are going to be attending Deaf events, please make sure you familiarise yourself with our culture!
American Deaf Culture
What is Deaf Culture?
The Importance of Deaf Culture
Deaf Culture vs Hearing Culture (NON-CC VIDEO)
Finger spelling:
American Sign Language Finger Spelling
Sign Word List for Finger Spelling
Learn ASL: The Finger Spelling Alphabet for Beginners (CC VIDEO)
ASL Finger Spelling Word Printer (gives you the finger spelling equivalent to what you type)!
Finger Spelling Practice
Sign Language Translator
Grammar:
ASL Grammar
The Basic Structure
Learn ASL Grammar (CC VIDEO)
Learn:
*Note: The best way to learn is through Deaf people/other signers!
Lifeprint
SignLanguage101
The ASL App
100 First Signs (Lifeprint)
Misc:
A Day Through a Deaf Person’s Eyes (CC VIDEO)
Deaftube
What Questions Annoy Deaf People? (CC VIDEO)
Things Not to Say to a Deaf Person (CC VIDEO)
Why I Don’t Sound Deaf (CC VIDEO)
13 Things my Hearing Friends Should Know (CC VIDEO)
National Association of the Deaf
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
“Grief is Weird”
(these are too long for tumblr to not compress the hell out of, so here’s some offsite links)
Here’s some comics I did about dealing with the death of my mom. I drew all of these at the time, and don’t really have any Message, they’re just my feelings.
Sobbing crying screaming over the adorable hair jiggles
Giving a hand?
Well, now I know why this took me so long SJSJ
It's 3:00 AM in my country and in a couple of hours I have exams aaAHHHH But I wanted to finish this idea uwu/
I'm still thinking about Purple redeeming himself, and then came this thought of "Why don't add Victim to the equation?". So I sketched this thing during classes and now I finally brought this to the virtual medium!
I first thought of Purple having problems to...let go of the past? And like, he uses some things to replace or simulate some significant elements in his past, but also he wants to take more steps forward and at that moment he's in a situation where he can make that change, he can take different decisions, maybe small ones, but importante and decisive too. Jsjs I don't know if I'm explaining myself well because English is not my first language, but it's a concept that I wanted to express and share.
I'm going to sleep now, wujuuu
alright let's start off simple:
Damian + colin
Damian giving colin a motorcycle after colin helped Damian in a childrens fighting tournament with zsasz
Damian trying to help colin find his mother on mother's day, eventually settling for giving Colin the flowers he was planning to give to colins mother
Damian + bruce
Damian giving bruce Marthas pearls that he dug out of the sewers, the ones Damian searched for in said sewers for hours
damian travelling to multiple places in the world, finding old memorabilia of martha and thomas wayne to give bruce in a scavenger hunt
Damian + Jon
Damian giving jon an extremely rare console that even clark couldn't find so him n jon can play games together
Damian + Dick
Damian finding an old piece of memorabilia from one of the first villains dick fought, just cause he told him the story of when they fought
there's also too bits with maps that i can't include due to image limit
1. Damian giving maps a batarang after finding out she was a batman fan
2. Damian giving maps a mystery hunt as Robin, letting her find a first edition handbook of serpents and spells (DC version of D&D) and calling maps (who, again, is a known batman fan) his friend in his robin identity to make her happy
straight up homosexual
I was going through the 3rd artbook, and noticed they had even more fruits.
Have you or anyone else translated the food related pages in the book yet?
translations of the Splatoon 3 Ikasu Artbook are compiled in this document
For an english translation of these... well its mostly in english already, but replace "Empera" with "Squidfin"
There's some food-related pages in BancalaWalker, but the book just came out not long ago so no TLs yet
a comic about someone who gets a visit from the reaper a bit sooner than expected, but has someone whos been waiting for them
Hey, do you like my art? Help support me and buy me a coffee! ko-fi.com/zipper ❤️
Quick sketch inspired by @chewchuck ‘s fic cause there’s no way this little shit didnt plan everything for Laios to lose his mind over his twink ass what a freak
would you hold hands with a ghost ?
I still got them on my mind😭😭