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It’s really hard sometimes to get people to understand that using a powerchair can be utterly exhausting.

I get how it can be tempted to look at someone like me strapped into a reclined powerchair and think something along the lines of “if I had a chair like that, I’d basically just be sat there using no energy” but you really need to take into consideration the kinds of disabilities people have that make a fancy powerchair necessary.

They’re the kinds of conditions that make holding a joystick (or using alternative controls like sip and puff) hard work. The kinds of conditions where being shaken when going over pavements is completely exhausting. Where being seated at all is a battle even with extensive postural supports.

People will often see me with my friends who use manual chair and think that I’m basically doing nothing while they’re getting a work out. They don’t see that the next day I’ll need to rest in bed while my manual chair using friend will be at their 9-5 job without too much trouble.

Obviously everyone is different – I have seen at least one popular TikToker say that they use their electric wheelchair on longer days because it “doesn’t take any energy”, and there will of course be many manual chair users who need longer to recover from a day out than my friend does. My point is simply that you cannot tell how much someone is exerting themselves just by looking at whether they’re using a powerchair or a manual chair.

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With severance season 2 around the corner it’s time for me to share the time I accidentally watched 4 minutes of an episode on mute and thought it was a brilliant way to show the sensory deprivation experienced by the innies

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gale is actually the character of all time for swinging wildly between suicidal depression and delusions of godhood. he's ready to die and you give him a crumb of ass and hes like what if i just ruled the universe actually. this should be a huge red flag but then, you only need to ask him to stop once and he's like "ok" and the next day hes like "are you mad at me :("

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Villa Hadrian, Roma, nov 23

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Rogue One (2016) directed by Gareth Edwards

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there's a secret good sequel series that lives only in brain where finn and rey are force-sensitive foils to each other and they still spend movie #2 entirely apart but it's because they're exploring parallel and at time opposite relationships with the force and their place in the universe

and in my secret good version. okay hear me out. the han-leia kid is a hot lady. okay. are we following. and she DOES abandon luke's new jedi, not by falling and murdering people, but by stealing the millennium falcon and running off to escape responsibility and swaggers around with incredible han solo "loser pretending to be cool" energy. and then. she accidentally picks up two force sensitive teens on jakku and she's like. are you KIDDING me

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she's helping

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ACES OF TUMBLR REJOICE

Behold, our new leader, the ace bird

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So I was thinking about Star Wars and The Untamed—as you do—and not to be like, “hot take,” but regardless of who went dark side in canon, Wei Wuxian would actually make a much, much better Jedi than Lan Wangji would.