I love this guy’s YouTube Channel! He’s a CODA (child of deaf adult) and he talks about ASL and deafness.
And he’s been signing Hazbin Hotel Songs! This one is “Loser, Baby!” (The Husk x Angel Dust Song) and tbh he’s the inspiration for why one of my OCs (Vegas) is Deaf!
MEET JUSTINA MILES, she made history with her ASL performance during Rihanna's Super Bowl Halftime Show. Justina Miles is the first female deaf performer for the Super Bowl halftime show and did an energetic and enthusiast ASL rendition of Rihanna's performance.
This wasn't Miles' only history-making moment of the night. While Sheryl Lee Ralph was singing "Lift Every Voice and Sing," Miles signed the song, making it the first-time ever there was an ASL rendition of it at the Super Bowl.
When your friend brought you home the other night, I didn’t see a coward. Just a man beat up too often and for too long, maybe. You’re not yellow. You’re just blue.
When I was a kid my aunt gave me my sign name in NGT, and I love how she composed it because it's pretty much a pun on both the way my spoken name sounds and who I am as a person. So it looks a little like the words for "sun" ("zon") and "yes" ("ja") put together, evidently based on the similarity to "Sonja". But instead of just combining those two words, or even simply fingerspelling my name which would have roughly given the same effect, she spliced the two. It starts out with a fingerspelled s, then instead of spelling the o, there is a modified sign for sun (facing the viewer, rather than the signer), followed by a fingerspelled n. The closest way I can describe the vibe for hearing people is it looks like this:
s☀️n
This is already objectively great of course, but it gets better. The second syllable starts with the swoop for the finger j. Instead of simply tacking a finger a to the back of it, it then switches into the sign for "yes", but with an additional wiggle, because well, I hardly ever did sit still.