sometimes there’s videos that make me happy to exist on this planet
i’d reblog this even if it was a still image
I know it’s a sesame street clip but seriously, who is the target audience for this?
Parents watching it with their kids, I guess?
literally everyone
Everyone. No, really… everyone.
For adults, the appeal is Sir Patrick Stewart doing a kid’s educational bit in full Shakespearean dress and style; there’s a delightful cognitive dissonance between the very serious presentation and the very simple content.
For very small children, it’s educational: this is the letter “B”; here’s how it’s shaped; here’s some words you know that start with it. Oh, and here’s a word you may not be familiar with that starts with it, so you can recognize that it’s the sound that matters, and not whatever other connection you made between the other two words.
For older kids: you’ve probably heard that “to be or not to be?” speech, or at least part of it, so you can enjoy some of the parody the adults are watching. Also, here’s how to describe how a letter is made - how to teach young siblings who don’t read yet, how to explain both the shape and the sound.
For kids with dyslexia: here’s how you differentiate a “B” from a P or D or E. You may have to go slowly and look carefully at the exact shapes that make up the whole, but there are differences and you can learn to recognize them.
For teens or young college students: In addition to whichever parts of those are relevant to you, here’s what Shakespearean acting sounds like. Here’s how to enunciate clearly and slowly, so your audience can understand terms they may not recognize and still follow the gist of what you’re saying. If you’re reading Shakespeare in school, try sounding it out like this and see if that helps it make sense.
For new RenFaire workers: Here’s how to pronounce “zounds.”
One of the most glorious things in the world is Shakespearean actors doing stuff like this.
He’s taking this performance as seriously as he does when he’s doing actual Shakespeare 🥺
This is how I learned to pronounce “zounds”
People, especially employers, need to understand that ADHD is sometimes fucking debilitating
They present us as being lazy or just choosing to act a certain way and don’t want to accommodate for a literal medical diagnosis, but rather get on our cases for not having consistent arrival times
When sometimes we are at war with our own fucking brains to MOVE.
I am working fucking miracles for you, moron. The entire reason you send me on your HARDEST jobs is because no one else can figure them out. You gotta freaking work with me, man. This is an actual disability. Should I walk around with fucking crutches so my disability is something you can SEE???
“Well maybe we’ll just send you on easier jobs”
What so I can have trouble showing up AND not be able to activate my brain? So that I feel like a fucking zombie robot slave NPC useless piece of dogshit warm body that you could replace at any moment?
I fucking ASKED for the hardest jobs for a reason too, jackass! I need my brain to be stimulated for it to WORK
Like seriously yall are lucky you even HAVE problems that are hard enough for me to need to figure out!
Don’t mind me, this is just Shit That I Can’t Say To My Boss
