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Re about past forging bonds -
Hubert talks to Alfonse about what being a Hero means in Fodlan, and mentions this about the 10 Dudes :
Correct. Though some families are believed to be descendants of the 10 Elites.
But they are redundant. When peoples from across the ocean tried to invade, did they save FĂłdlan?
My good Sir, when âpeople from across the oceanâ tried to invade, they didnât try to invade Fodlan, but to invade Adrestia.Â
Adrestia =/= Fodlan !
âyeah but when those almyrans did the same the evil lizard lady and all the losers from the land built a locketâ
Because some people asked for help, given how those some people were not able to repel them.
Also, people with relics went on their merry way more than 400 years ago and made their own country, they donât have any obligations nor duties to defend Adrestia?
No. The Empire crushed the enemy. And the Heroes' Relics are as useless as most of their owners.
Please ignore how Nopes retconned Leopold âI am super smartâ von Bergliez to have a MAJOR CREST of Cichol and to use a sacred weapon tied to his crest of Cichol, and how this person managed to defend Fodlan, I mean, Adrestia.
But Cichol isnât a hero/Elite, so I guess itâs alright?
You're right. I find the concept of Heroes odious, and their modern-day progeny to be worse than useless.
Solely by dint of their lineage, corrupt nobles rule over territories without any consideration for their subjects.
Hubert, you know your friend Casparâs dad, and your friend Linhardt can also fall in this category? Even Ferdie and, if she had an Y chromosome, Bernie? They would rule over people because of their lineage?
Furthermore, Lady Edlegard has had to walk a path of suffering due to this foolish worship of Elites and Relics.
Uh... Hubert is talking about Uncleâs experiments? If so, why is this horrifying when Baldo and Waldi walked through the same path but had no ties to heroic legends of old, Elites or Relics?
Oh, I know!
Itâs the double headed eagleâs standard!
#fodlan nonsense#heroes nonsense#Adrestia still misses that time when it ruled over the world#where was the imperial army to protect Fodlan when Sreng raided Faerghus? Or when Nader flexes in the alliance?#'we wanted to be there but those people refuse our help saying they are independant or something'#'we just told them we help them in exchange for the head of their leader and total submission to the Empire and they refused'#'can you believe the nerve of people'#or Hubert thinks the Dudes suck but the people who descend from the evil pointy ears are better?#poor Baldo he led a life of suffering not because he had a crest#but because he was at the wrong place at the wrong time#rip to him#adrestia stuff
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i just think lois lane should put tim drake in her purse like a little dog. a scrunkly little companion who's even better at picking locks than she is, which is saying something. a nosy little freak after her own heart. the rubber duck she uses when talking her thoughts out loud to put clues together. her coffee gofer. her purse ferret.
#rimi talks#lois pulls the ''steal a uniform/badge and pretend i work here'' trick and gestures to tim to follow her lead and tim is DELIGHTED#need him following her around the daily planet offices just chattering constantly at her elbow. like a duckling. that canNOT shut up#as enrichment in his enclosure she directs him to sneak her some coffee without clark noticing#(he never manages to not get noticed bc. superman. but he still tries really hard)#<- now that ive mentioned coffee in the same post as tim drake. everyone be fucking cool ok. be normal about this.#i just know tim manages to charm so many people at the planet bc his annoying baby brother energy is just SO POTENT#tim drake daily planet summer internship au that lives only in my mind. speak to me#lois is out there like. ugh. fucking simone wants to run clickbait again. can you believe? the NERVE of that woman.#and tim nods seriously. fuck simone!#[Lois Lane approves. +10]#tim#lois
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#ts2#the sims 2#ts2 gameplay#owlcreek#babcraft#warlocklovecraft#can you believe people have the nerve to talk to him?
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i don't think this applies to any mutuals but i've been stewing vaguely over tp fans who think link only fell for midna when he saw her true form. like. we did Not play the same game apparently
#libra.txt#i don't even ship midlink that hard but people who make link sooo shallow#and say he could only have fallen for her when he saw her true form just. ugh i can't stand it#like. they have such an interesting dynamic + relationship#starting out from 'begrudging coworkers' to 'maaaybe friends......?' to 'yeah we vibin' to 'Oh.'#and for awhile i didn't really see midlink as a very romantic dynamic#but then. idk. getting to the desert the first time. and midna shares a secret. the way she presses close to link#and not in a flirty way or trying to get on his nerves but as. 'hey. this is really important to me and i'm actually kind of scared but#i Trust you. i believe in you. we can do this together'#/that's/ when i said 'Oh.'#and now i'm almost done with the game. i've beaten zant and i've headed to the castle#(sidenote: love the freaky spider form midna has with the fused shadows. need to do more with that)#and the way link catches her!!!!! the way they smile at each other!!!!!#they care about each other!!!! they're fond!!!!!!#need to actually finish the game but. maybe i like midlink more than i think. hmm!#i'm just sick of people who only use midna as a reason to give link manpain. or make link shallow etc etc#midna is an interesting character on her own!!!!!!! so is link!!!!!!#they just so happen to work well together too!!!!!!!!!!!!#and don't get me started on midzelink okay
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when a usamerican says that people should "simply immigrate" out of countries like russia or israel there is so much i want to say (oh, SIMPLY leave. SIMPLY get citizenship elsewhere. the morally correct response to your dictator committing human rights abuses is to SIMPLY have the means to uproot your life and be accepted by another country) but at the end of the day the only thing i can say is okay. you first
#feltext#spicy i know but it makes me so mad#as soon as a usamerican implies it's easy to immigrate somewhere i'm like oh ok. you know literally nothing about real life#my half sister has been trying to move to the US from israel her entire life and hasn't been able to#she has blood relatives here. her dad lives here. but she can't Simply get citizenship here. if you can believe it.#my half of the family got lucky and the US took us when we were escaping the soviet union. her half didn't and could only get to israel#Simply Immigrate. the fucking nerve. i hate people
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Love being told by people whoâve never been in spitting distance of Fire and Blood that the point of the story is âboth sides equally badâ and ���choose your fave war criminalâ lmao the absolute audacity to be so vocally wrong.
#you missed the point entirely#F&B isnât your nihilistic fantasy to justify having the hots for an antagonist#stop making antagonists innocent meowmeows out of nowhere itâs bizarre#you can like your fave warcriminal without pretending theyâre pure as the driven snow#and while youâre at it maybe acknowledge the -point- has -something- to do with misogyny and your faves are guilty of it#otherwise I canât take this ish seriously#anti team green#because the book is TEAM BLACK hello#stop believing everything green maesters say#F&B was wasted on the fandom tbh so few people are capable of assessing it critically#can you tell a green Stan got on my nerves today???
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What better way to practice new prosthetics then to piss of the bitch that got you to need them in the first place!
In other news, my pirate ocs Gali and Ido (with a third Meridi not present) who are the two sides of the fulmini cult escapees :P
A bit of backstory under the cut since they're the only fuckers I have WITH a backstory! Which btw does detail cult shit so :P big fat warning for that-
The inciting incident on Petropia that introduced it's modern underground population to the surface named the Surface Craze was in all due part because of fulmini interference at the behest of the High Override, who saw what was initially just a planet entirely made of quartz-like crystal the Override Fleet could use as a power source. Having instead found that the planet was not only populated but by a species of the living variant of that same quartz-like material - electrical properties and all - but that additionally they can regenerate their crystalline body so long as they have the energy to pull from.
Seeing this as a solution to the fulmini's energy crisis - a perpetual machine at it's finest - the High Override sought to heh... acquire some petrosapiens for themselves. To their collective benefit, a community of petrosapiens had found their faith and world shattered, previously having been extremely devoted to the Sugi religion (derived from the ancient texts of Thuugi back when their tongues were long enough to be bitten off). Instead of needing to drag away dissenters who fought tooth and nail against the invaders, this community had already shifted their faith onto the false prophet of the High Override, which already had them fall into the Coupled Override head over heels.
The cult has now expanded it's pool of prey, and like the unwilling fulmini who gives the High Override their tithe (their minds, their central colony), the petrosapien cultists pay with their arms.
50 years (or the closest equivalent) into this arrangement, 50 years Petropia spent experiencing the surface for the first time in generations, Ido was born into the cult far away from the planet she should have known as home. Any doctor worth their salt had enough brains and stubbornness to not fall into faith-based trust of the Coupled Override, so between the lack of those and the remainder pseudoscience physicians left to echo chamber themselves, when Ido began developing Excessive Compression Disorder (ECD, a nerve-equivalent disorder that causes tension fractures throughout a petrosapien's crystalline structure) despite the rather obvious visible signed she went undiagnosed and improperly treated. At the age of 200 - a petrosapien's coming of age, and 50 years after Petropia's destruction - it was Ido's time to pay her tithe and begin her offerings to the High Override.
Gali - her sacrifricant - was to sever her arms below the elbow, as was procedure. What wasn't was the near explosive response from external pressure, or the last compressive force needed to completely shatter what had already started to break.
Cutting people's arms off is technically already a violent act however, though the lower arms survived the procedure as expected, the elbow and even upper arm had scattered shards of glass-fragile crystal in a visceral radius and physically severed through the sacrificant's central colony; then Gali was abruptly severed from the High Override after they felt as if a limb began necrotising. Sacrificants nor executioners really need an active memory to do their jobs, so Gali didn't need to have memory for however long their colony was one with the High Override's. Forcefully amputated from the larger system like an infection without any of the memories of being apart of said system however, kind of rewinds a colony back to the people they remember being long before any interference.
While Ido was caught staring wide-eyed, fearful, and newly lacking the limbs she thought she could regenerate easily - her arms try and try but they shatter like glass, crumble like sand, and she violently shudders like gravel grinding into each other - Gali regained access of their long unused senses and found a sea of hostile enemy combatants staring back. With all the training of a military general with none of the present self-awareness to realise they were the cause of the currently very panicky rock's lack of arms, Gali almost like a flick of a switch reverted to the many rules of engagement regardless of the fact that they were sporting exposed central colony that may or may not have been another's with their own collection of memories.
Seeing to rescue someone who had all their rights to fear them, Gali and Ido fled to the stars.
With a few language barriers mixed with someones learning they haven't spoken much longer then anyone thought they did, discovering how planets that were meant to be each other's home have been destroyed and irrecoverable, and learning the before and after to the horror story that is the High Override and their cultist network of external nerves and collective colony, Gali and Ido may or may not have gotten arrested :P
And they probably would have been tried for crimes neither of them could particularly understand not having learnt any of the common universal languages, up until the point the prison ship was raided by a collective of pirates only working together for equal cuts of the profits (the Plumbers used a prison ship to transport the Annihilargh while they still thought it to be a threat, what's to say they wouldn't simultaneaously transport prisoners - aka, the fucking point - with some high sought-after McGuffin). The pair would meet Meridi, a galvan with a penchant for mechanics and especially the kind that deceives an observer like - for instance - an android suit.
Meridi isn't here but gist is, she pilots both her own ship and an android resembling a human, and spies a pretty prize of walking talking taydenite. Instead of scoring a deal, she takes into consideration (perhaps with a cold calculation rather than a warm sympathy) the condition of ECD affected crystals and how much effort it would take to actually refine it and deems turning Ido into pocket change isn't worth it. In fact, further taking note of the explosive volatile footwork of crystallokinesis with the additional muscle of a fulmini veteran, actively helping Ido (and Gali by proxy) would potentially turn out more of a profit.
Gali isn't in dire need for hiding, but Ido uses shadow and a human-mouth jaw mask as tools to conceal what price her skin costs, while Meridi attempts to make prosthetics for a species that doesn't have nerves that also takes into account the unstable electrical currents produced by the compression of crystalline motor functions.
A bit of a tangent in a very long not-even-bothering-to-summarize backstory, I want to talk about petrosapien prosthetics, at least ones that can have 'motors' like Ido's arms (not like Chio's leg). With no external muscles to help strap in and extend the remnant of tendons humans have running through limbs, petrosapien exoskeletons do not offer the same interconnectivity and do not have easy ways to extend what had been cut off. Myoelectric limbs again by human standards also do not fit petrosapien nervous systems either, especially since the only nerves they have are in their equivalent of the central nervous system which also interacts with internal organs, the peripheral nervous system of a petrosapien operates with the highly structured yet individually unique non-standardised crystalline formations and compression. What Meridi does however is take material from Ido's crystal to create the joints in a conductive copper rod prosthetic (insulated in rubber to prevent harm to others), where Ido's compression triggers electricity to run down to remotely compress the crystal joints, which compress under the pressures of electricity and send the signal to be compressed again until motility is achieved.
And that is a lot of context :P woops- I either make no backstory or I make this convoluted piece of moving puzzle pieces, the duality of man I suppose :P
#gali#ido#fulmini#petrosapien#ido is hiding the fact she's a petrosapien in the same way tetrax hides the fact he's a petrosapien :P#oc#ben 10 oc#ben 10#fanart#cult#cult mention#the cult details are under the cut but they are mentioned to be ex-cultists in the caption#so it turns out i did end up using something from that mega collection of images#lowkey (highkey actually) i was inspired to give ido a human-mouth mask from that one cover of thunderstruck#thunderstruck guzheng cover by moyun i believe- i do hope it's not like a facial corrective mask and i'm taking that and using it wrong#but moyun covers her face in all videos so forgive me if i'm completely enamoured with the mask design#gotta be honest with you- i made the concept of ido (pirate petrosapien) based on that mask alone#before i had settled on other half of an ex-cult duo#let alone bringing another older actually a pirate character to create another fucking trio#gali as a fulmini uses plural they/them by default but ido with her fulmus/petropian pidgin accidentally single pronouned gali as she/her#gali doesn't mind it she'll just say it's the plural she/her and they'll nod like it makes sense#(anything can make sense when you're one of two people actively speaking a pidgin language out of necessity)#it's not because gali has 'hair' those are the equivalent of exposed nerves (a fun prank to play on your friend *immense pain*)#but those are parts of other's central colonies with their own memory overriden or not#gali mayy or may not have the fulmini equivalent of a dissociative disorder (more osdd than did if anything)#but the functional equivalent in fulmini biology is quite literally caused by having someone else's brain attached to you#more akin to a male anglerfish than childhood neuroplasticity developing coping mechanisms#and introducing excessive compression disorder! a petrosapien chronic illness! yipippie!!!#i know functionally ecd (or this fictional version if humans have their own ecd acronym taken) isn't a problem real people face#but even in a fictional setting i want to be respectful and hopefully it was?
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for both Reed & Mercy?đ
Reed
âŞÂ Nora
I like you // I love you // Youâre one of my best friends // Youâre like family // You are family // I dislike you // I hate you // Iâd kill you if I got the chance // I want you to like me // Iâm scared of you // I would adopt you // Iâd date you // Iâd sleep with you // Iâd marry you // Iâm worried about you // You confuse me // Youâre annoying // I pity you // I respect you // I trust you // I feel protective of you // Iâd invite you with me to parties // Iâd lend you my money // Iâd borrow your money // Youâre good-looking // Iâm suspicious of you // Iâm hiding something from you // Youâre fun // Youâre boring // Iâm upset with you // Youâre nice // Youâre mean // Iâm envious of you // Youâre smart // Youâre stupid // I look up to you // I think youâre a better person than me // I think Iâm a better person than you // I want to apologize to you // I wish Iâd never met you // I never want to forget you // I want to get to know you better
â Alberta
I like you // I love you // Youâre one of my best friends // Youâre like family // You are family // I dislike you // I hate you // Iâd kill you if I got the chance // I want you to like me // Iâm scared of you // I would adopt you // Iâd date you // Iâd sleep with you // Iâd marry you // Iâm worried about you // You confuse me // Youâre annoying // I pity you // I respect you // I trust you // I feel protective of you // Iâd invite you with me to parties // Iâd lend you my money // Iâd borrow your money // Youâre good-looking // Iâm suspicious of you // Iâm hiding something from you // Youâre fun // Youâre boring // Iâm upset with you // Youâre nice // Youâre mean // Iâm envious of you // Youâre smart // Youâre stupid // I look up to you // I think youâre a better person than me // I think Iâm a better person than you // I want to apologize to you // I wish Iâd never met you // I never want to forget you // I want to get to know you better
Mercy
âŞÂ Nora
I like you // I love you // Youâre one of my best friends // Youâre like family // You are family // I dislike you // I hate you // Iâd kill you if I got the chance // I want you to like me // Iâm scared of you // I would adopt you // Iâd date you // Iâd sleep with you // Iâd marry you // Iâm worried about you // You confuse me // Youâre annoying // I pity you // I respect you // I trust you // I feel protective of you // Iâd invite you with me to parties // Iâd lend you my money // Iâd borrow your money // Youâre good-looking // Iâm suspicious of you // Iâm hiding something from you // Youâre fun // Youâre boring // Iâm upset with you // Youâre nice // Youâre mean // Iâm envious of you // Youâre smart // Youâre stupid // I look up to you // I think youâre a better person than me // I think Iâm a better person than you // I want to apologize to you // I wish Iâd never met you // I never want to forget you // I want to get to know you better
â Alberta
I like you // I love you // Youâre one of my best friends // Youâre like family // You are family // I dislike you // I hate you // Iâd kill you if I got the chance // I want you to like me // Iâm scared of you // I would adopt you // Iâd date you // Iâd sleep with you // Iâd marry you // Iâm worried about you // You confuse me // Youâre annoying // I pity you // I respect you // I trust you // I feel protective of you // Iâd invite you with me to parties // Iâd lend you my money // Iâd borrow your money // Youâre good-looking // Iâm suspicious of you // Iâm hiding something from you // Youâre fun // Youâre boring // Iâm upset with you // Youâre nice // Youâre mean // Iâm envious of you // Youâre smart // Youâre stupid // I look up to you // I think youâre a better person than me // I think Iâm a better person than you // I want to apologize to you // I wish Iâd never met you // I never want to forget you // I want to get to know you better
#Nora would bundle Reed up in a blanket and ask if he needs a snack or a hug#maybe get a lil bossy and commanding if he really needs a kick in the ass to do the right thing#Al and Reed having that âHow dare you be flawed like me... well we're either gonna fight or fuck nowâ relationship#Nora and Mercy is a little hot and cold too#because on the surface she would like Mercy alright but if she finds out about the prewar science stuff? that hits a very specific nerve#but she'd also want to believe that Mercy can and is doing better?#for the most part I think Al would find Mercy boring#but they like old ghouls and Al would enjoy hearing about all the science she knows#would still have an issue with the bits that hurt people but... little more forgiving than Nora#her knowledge might also scare Al a lil -that Mercy could find things out about them or trick them into something#Al would invite her to parties because she seems like the kind of person who would be a fun drinker -have some wild stories#fuzzy.oc#oc: nora sosu#oc: alberta jefferson#friends ocs#fxrehawk.oc#oc: reid#oc: mercy#ship: reid/alberta#ship: reid/nora#ship: mercy/nora#ship: mercy/alberta
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I think a part of their being less fanfics is that a some of people who wrote fanfic left the fandom due to the long gaps between unlocked and Stellarlune, as well as them not liking Stellarlune.
This is shown in the way that there is a lot of AU fics or post-canon fics. While a lot fo people do enjoy writing canon-complimentary fics, itâs not something everyone is interested in, plus canon right now is kind of weird so itâs easier to just ignore it.
Also, it seems that a lot of the fandom is older now, so we are more critical of our work and have less time/motivation to write fanfic, even if we want to. Plus, as people get older, they are more aware of how characters are out of character in our writing and they therefore feel the need to make them all in character.
To add on to that, the hits to likes/kudos to comments ratio is so freaking off itâs not even funny. Thereâs less engagement, which leads people to believe that they are not good at writing, which means that they shouldnât post anything.
I know what I said isnât true for everyone, but that does feel like thatâs what is happening. I am just speaking based off of what I see and experience. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
What are your thoughts on this Quil? Do you agree or disagree? Do you think this will continue or will it be resolved with the next book?
Sincerely, âď¸
(PS I wanted to say that I did read your Kam one shot and while I didnât really fully process what was going on, I did enjoy reading it. You did a good job at nailing their characters. When I have the time, I will properly explain every feeling that I have.)
That's a fair observation--the one thing I'd say to your comments about older fandom members leaving and current older members having less time is that fandom is always in flux. There's always new people joining and others leaving, at least here, but it doesn't seem like as many of the newer people are fic writers. Like there were some popular fanartists who aren't in the fandom anymore, but we still have popular fanartists who have joined since. And my anecdotal observation is that that doesn't seem to be happening with fic writers as much--but again, that's a casual observation not a vetted one so I may be off or just not seeing new writers myself
Though our fandom is in a weird place right now with longer wait times and the story taking an unexpected direction, so I'm sure that also has an impact. I don't think there's any one thing that's responsible, there's an intersection of different things that impact people in different ways. I'm really just focusing on one that we have more control over. We can't control all the other factors, but we can collaboratively make a supportive, encouraging space for writers of all skill levels and interests! And I think it would be neat to do so!
As for the hit/like/kudos ratio, it is disheartening at times. Though I do think we shouldn't be basing our self-worth and opinions of our writing on interaction. If someone feels shitty about their writing/skill level because of low interaction I believe they should reflect and work to disconnect that sense of self from others' opinions, not that we need to interact to make them feel better. That is something for them to work through for themselves
But at the same time, it would be naive to completely ignore how interaction shapes writing and creation in general in fandom spaces. Because it does play a role for many. Fandom spaces are a community, and community is built on interaction and support!
I have no way of knowing what will happen with the next book or what the fandom will look like--like I said, it's always changing, and my time blindness makes it very difficult for me personally to see and understand the cycle of slumps and activity. But I think we, as a fandom, do have the opportunity to take some measure of control over this.
We can choose how to react to what we see and what kind of space we want to create. We could wait for the next book and just kinda see what happens, or we could make an active effort now to interact with writers and their work when we read it, and to separate our sense of worth from the amount of interaction we get.
That doesn't mean everyone has to go out and read tons of fic and leave the longest comments in the world, just that I think many of us (and this 100% includes me too) could put in a small amount of more effort to interact with fics and writers to support fic in fandoms in a variety of ways.
I'll leave it there for now, but there is always more to be said so don't take everything as the entirety of my thoughts. The main point of my post commenting on how I saw less fic was me going "hmm, I can't control everything else happening, but interaction and encouragement is very helpful for writers and something within my control and I want to support writers more than I do currently". I'm not intending to make some grand sweeping statement or push others to do things, it's just what I've reflected on and what I want to do about it :)
#kotlc#kotlc discourse#quil's queries#âď¸ nonsie#also i'm glad you enjoyed that fic. it was a little nerve wracking because people tend to be wary of kam#given how it can be frequently written in a way that isn't true to their characters? i believe is the main critique?#so. i'm glad I got the characters well enough :)#but back to the point. sure interaction isn't the only thing and its not /mandated/#but its nice and something I can do. so I want to do it more#i've thought in the past about opening up my asks telling people to send fic recommendations (including their own)#i just never did because my ask box was /really/ full for a long time#but I've gotten it under control since then#so perhaps I will do that now :)#long post
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also like if I may weigh in as someone who did their third-year anatomy project on a fat cadaver
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it's fine?
like i'm not saying i loved the amount of adipose (i.e. fat) tissue I had to remove to access the chest cavity (especially since it took up a LOT of embalming fluid so it was quite liquid a lot of the time), and it definitely required more work to access than a thinner cadaver might have. But ultimately, the hardest part of that project wasn't "oh no the cadaver is fat", it was "oh no I've never had to remove ribs before and I somehow wasn't prepared for this to involve pliers".
also, honestly, the parts of that cadaver with the most fat (breasts and jaw - I was dissecting for the laryngeal nerve, which is in the neck, so I didn't go below the first two ribs) were actually the easiest parts to remove the adipose tissue from, because you could do it in lumps. The hard parts to deal with are the thinner or visceral fat patches, because those are more delicate work - but you also don't know those are there until you get to them, because they're not visible from the outside and are just as likely to be significant in a skinny person as a fat one. (also they tend to be around the delicate structures you're looking for, whereas the fat which is most affected by being fat is the large areas immediately under the skin, like the belly and breasts and butt, which is on top of the core structures so it's easier to remove without needing to be super delicate.)
meanwhile the other person who had the laryngeal nerve project was working with a cadaver which had almost no body fat at all and she did NOT seem to be finding it significantly easier.
Time-wise, I actually finished my project second out of a class of 12, by the way, and did extra work on it (the chest investigation wasn't in the original plan, I just hit a point where I'd fully dissected and recorded the neck and throat and I still had four lab sessions left). Almost like the weight of a cadaver doesn't correlate directly to how long it takes to dissect. go figure.
The reason fat cadavers are not accepted for medical programmes is that you need to cut through every layer of fat carefully. Which takes time, and lab sessions are inherentely limited in that. It's better for med students to spend that time looking at what organs actually look like in bodies. This isn't fatphobia, it's just .. the way dissecting bodies works? In the same way surgeries on fat people take longer because there's just physically more tissue. The alternative would be to force the med students who get fatter cadavers to do more lab sessions at weird times outside of the usual schedules. Or force them to stay over the holidays. Or not let them get enough time to do the lab work they need to. Which imo would be a bit fucked up especially when med school is already so difficult and time-consuming.
Itâs fatphobia. Fat bodies absolutely need to be studied. To ignore an entire demographic of oppressed individuals in the medical field for the sake of convenience(?!) is violence. Did you even read the article? They called working on fat cadavers âunpleasant.â Itâs fatphobia and itâs unacceptable.
#cw: death#cw: dissection discussion#fatphobia#tell me you've never done anatomical dissection without telling me you've never done anatomical dissection#pal the time-consuming bit is not âremove fatâ the time-consuming bit is stuff like âtrace this structure without snapping itâ#and if you're me it's also âremove skin super neatly even though it takes hours and it doesn't need to be that neatâ#i'm just a perfectionist lol#but adipose tissue is REALLY EASY TO DEAL WITH ACTUALLY! gross but easy.#literally you can either pull it out or scoop it out with your hands and it's unlikely to have too many delicate structures in it#it's a bit gross but tbqh if you can't handle gross then why the fuck are you dissecting a corpse#i can't believe i have to say this but dead bodies are in fact full of gross things#(so are live ones tbf)#fat is not in the top 10 of those gross things#even badly-embalmed fat!#like i should say that the cadaver i had wasn't morbidly obese or anything but it was fatter than i am and i am Not Skinny#the only extra difficulty with a fat cadaver is moving the weight and that's kind of the lab techs' problem tbh?#(it is worth considering but only in a âcurrently doing a risk assessment for the lab techsâ way not a âdesign our study around itâ way)#also i see these sorts of things and i'm always just like. some people really do not understand what cadaver dissection is LIKE.#like the challenges in it are âmassâ and âtoo much stuff to take outâ#nah. the challenges are in the small bits#like how a nerve is almost visually indistinguishable from strings of fascia. or how you can't see the capillaries.#or how sometimes you accidentally cut something you were trying to follow and both ends just SCHLOOP into the surrounding tissue#and you want to scream but it's a professional science environment and swearing and kicking things is frowned upon#i kind of miss doing dissections though :( i didn't get an anatomy job so i haven't done them in seven years.
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Is it ok to wear a pup mask and or other kink gear that isn't graphic out in public?
I have personally worn a collar in public because I wanted to. I've worn cosplay in public because I wanted to. I've worn a safety pinned on fox tail in public because I wanted to.
I think as long as you're following the rules of whatever indecent exposure laws are around you, you can wear whatever you want always.
That said, be ready for snide comments.
When I wore my collar, I got barked at.
When I wore my cosplay (it was Alice in Wonderland to go see, well, Alice in Wonderland in theaters), I got mocking from my peers.
When I wore my fox tail as a teenager, I got mocked and made fun of by a grown ass adult in her 40s.
But I've also had comments made when I wore a matching tank top and shorts outfit (by a man in his 50s when I was 18).
Or when I went out and didn't shave, I was bullied relentlessly by people my age.
People will find any reason to be nasty and ruin your vibes, but if you're having fun and not hurting anyone and just being yourself? Don't let it get to you. You do you because you're being yourself, and some people hate that.
#ask#anon#ecks barks back#this is advice my mom gave me as a kid and it was so hard to believe but in my 30s? i get it#life is fucking short#be who you are and who you want to be and the right people will find you#and its nerve wracking 100%! but you can do it and its always worth it!
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I have said again and again that the United States of America has one of the worst propaganda programs I have ever seen
the worst part is that it works perfectly
#this has nothing to do with the citizens of the country#its just that the government is built on a primarily flawed fondation#its power is built on the idea (or more realistically the promise) of freedom and opportunity#so anything that goes against this idea can be used as propaganda material#and we mean everything#because in a international world you can not have free reign over everything by one country#like all healthy relationships you sometimes have to compromise or support eachother#this sometimes means you will have to give up your resources or make diplomatic decisions that arent always in your favor.#but whenever something that is âunfairâ or âa risk to our nationâ which can range from a balloon to a flipping war#they can just touch on the nerve that is freedom and make people believe or atleast think they believe in them long enough#to justify the countries actions#its such a horrible way of using propaganda and its honestly easily broken down IF the USA wasent a global super power#i dont know why i needed to talk about this but i had too#there are people who justify the Isreal attack on gaza and Palestinians by calling it a defensive response#and the idea is unfathomable#genocide? as a defense response?#are they hearing themselves? is what my immediate reaction was#but its deeper then that#its more then that#its so#so much more then that#its a foundational belief within the nation that some people cant pull themselves out of because how could they?#its like trying to unlearn everything your parents thought you that you later learn is horrible#for some its easy#for most its hard#but for some its impossible#thats the same with systematic life long propaganda like this#patriotic citizens are plentiful in any country but the thing that makes america so distinct is that their patriotism is so deeply rooted#the word of the motherland is golden to some and you cant just reverse that#i wish them well and i wish palestine the best.
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one of the best decisions i've ever made was to stop arguing.
i'd always been an arguer. i was defensive about everything and mindlessly contrary. it wasn't all my fault; i was (and still am) talked down to and patronized a lot, and when you live your life that way, you become kind of a raw nerve and dedicate a lot of energy to trying to prove yourself. someone even told me once, "it's just fun messing with you. you get so upset."
at 23, i was working in an environment where about a half dozen middle aged conservative men were always telling me what to do and explaining things to me. i either argued with them when they said heinous things or stewed about it for hours or even days. and so my new year's resolution one year was simply: no arguing.
it felt a little like defeat at first, like i was no longer standing up for what i believed in, even though no matter how right i was or how much proof i had for my claims, no one had ever been swayed by anything i told them. part of that was because they had no respect for me and didn't take me seriously; the other part was the simple truth that arguments are almost never productive. when someone says something and you immediately reply with, "you're wrong and here's why," a wall goes up and nothing can go over it.
i couldn't just let these men talk at me though, so i started asking questions. not leading questions, not with an intention to prove a point or walk them into a corner. i genuinely wanted to understand how they came to shape the opinions they held. i realized that understanding and agreeing are two different things, and just because i seek to understand doesn't mean i condone.
a truly fascinating thing happened: these men walked into corners all by themselves. it turns out nobody had ever actually tasked them with speaking their opinions aloud to a neutral audience. no one had ever been sincerely curious about them and their views. sure, their loved ones probably asked, "how are you doing?" all the time as a show of affection, but that's much different than, "what do you think?"
knowing what i know now, i think that's true of everyone. how many people ask you for your opinion and listen to what you have to say without speaking their opinion back to you? without judging you? how many people actively and intentionally try to understand you?
it's been over ten years since my resolution and i think i can count the arguments i've gotten into on one hand. one finger, even. it's amazing what happens when someone tries to rile you up, pick a fight with you, and your only response is, "can you elaborate on that?"
you can work someone into a very open and vulnerable state when you ask questions. they eventually run out of their usual talking points and move into the personal. when i do this, it's not like therapy; i'm not trying to help anyone. and it's not like teaching; i'm not trying to educate anyone. i just want to understand how people reach the conclusions they've come to. even after all these years of asking questions and not arguing, it still amazes me how few people in this world feel understood, and how easy it is to get them to open up when you say, "i want to know what you think."
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festered wounds
â when youâve never been the first choice your whole life, itâs hard to accept the possibility that you could be loved.
Š zhongrin | 2023  ⟠ no repostăťtranslationsăťplagiarism of any kindăťai data mining. rebloggers get a free cup of tea âĄ
âź characters â zhongli, al haitham, wriothesley
âź tags â gn!reader, this is more of a vent drabble, hurt with comfort, reader with massive insecurity issues, implied past trauma, slight blood & gore in the portrayal of âhurtâ
âź a/n â thisâŚ. got really personal, haha. i wrote this in a bad headspace, so apologies if it got depressing or if itâs of a low quality. i didn't want to have this in my drafts and i certainly don't want to bring it to 2024 so i'm just posting this now.
á´á´Ę ę°á´ĘĘ á´á´É´á´ (á´á´ęąá´á´ĘĘÉŞęąá´) ⟠á´á´á´Ęá´ĘęąĘÉŞá´ (á´á´É˘ĘÉŞęąá´)
âiâm sorry.â
zhongliâs heart dropped at the words escaping your lips. this was certainly the most unexpected response you could give to his confession, seeing the promising recent developments in your relationship â and so celestia forgive him, he had to pause to gather his thoughts. this made you fidget even more under his gaze, and so you succumbed to your frazzled nerves to continue in a more panicked voice.
âiâm sorry, mr. zhongli, i know youâre not the type to resort to deceit or find joy in toying with peopleâs feelings, but iâm justâ i canâtââ you trailed off, feeling your chest tighten in pain.
âplease, hold your tongue for a moment,â the refined man held out one of his hand to settle onto your shoulder comfortingly. his expression was a mixture of worry and confusion, eyebrows furrowing in a sign of distress. âare you saying that you⌠do not believe my words? you think i have malicious intentions?â
ââŚ.. iâm sorry, iâm just not used to- iâve never-â you stumbled over your words and squeezed your eyes shut, âiâm sorryâŚ.â
zhongli watched you for a moment, observing the smallest ticks and the story behind your body language. you looked so vulnerable, like a scared animal instinctively cowering at some invisible threat. you looked as if someone had stripped away a bandage that had been haphazardly wrapped around a wound left unattended for so long, it had festered into an abomination, eating away at you slowly, even now.
belatedly, he realized that âsomeoneâ was himself.
zhongli inhaled deeply, his palm leaving your shoulder. this time, he took his hands to tenderly grab your fingers, lifting them up to silently plead for your attention. your eyes were troubled and full of storms, the rain and lighting reflecting on your expression as a solemn flutter of your eyelashes and sorrowful downturn of your lips. the slight tremble of your body reflected the silent call for help from a blemished heart that never had the courage to forget.
âmy dearest. i see the pain you have gone through. i have yet to know the tales that had marred your heart, but i want you to know that i am willing to be the pair of ears you tell your grievances to, and you can be rest assured that they will be safe with me. i know my words will not be enough to convince you otherwise at this moment⌠however, you must forgive my impatience, for it stems out of genuine love. i simply must humbly ask once againââ
ââ please, give me a chance to heal you.â
âa-are you sure you want me?â
out of the 18 different responses he anticipated, al haitham did not expect this. however, his surprise merely manifested in the rising of both of his eyebrows and the subtle shift on his legs.
âunlike the consensus the public seemed to have one-sidedly agreed on, i am not foolish enough in the matter of romance as to confess to someone i do not hold deep affection and great care for,â he said in the same tone as the moment he asked if you would consider taking your relationship into the âofficially datingâ phase, âis it not obvious? kaveh claimed i was âlaying it on thickâ and cyno had noted of how i treat you better than how i treat the dendro archon.â
âohâŚ.â
ââŚ.â
ââŚ.â
you thought you had gotten used to al haithamâs stare with how much you both had been hanging out, but right now you couldnât seem to lift your head. the scholar crossed his arms, waiting patiently for your response. you were both gratuitous and dreading his resilience.
âi-i still think you could do better, though. i mean, look at you! youâre so fit, so wouldnât you feel better if your partner is more of the sporty type? and youâre the top graduate of the haravatat darshan, so you would pair better with someone smarterâŚ. a-and someone like me will just drag you down; aesthetically speaking, i⌠uh, leave much to be desired while youâre⌠you knowâŚâ
you spoke of such illogical assumptions and erroneous advices that he couldnât help but roll his eyes. you spoke of belittling yourself as if you were used to riding on the rails of insurmountably low dip of the self-esteem cliff for years. you spoke of these things as if you were repeating words someone told you at least once in your life.
and it angered him.
but he wasnât angry at you. he was angry for you.
funny how empathy wasnât his strong suit, and yet he jumped on the bandwagon as easily as an otter taking off into the waters the moment it came to you and your emotions.
âi care not for such shallow qualifications when it comes to seeking a partner. your presence triggers the relevant hormones that make me feel relaxed and comfortable, and my mind spontaneously seek for your attention. itâs only logical that i seek for an arrangement that would ensure these pleasant things to happen and develop further.â
âyouâre the best choice for a partner, simply because i wish to spend the rest of my life with you; and i think that's enough.â
âi donât think iâm a good choice for youâŚâ
wriothesley looked as if you had pinpointed his weak point in a boxing match and delivered a straight jab right onto it. his lips slacked open and his body froze as he tried to process your words, the meaning behind it, theâ
he inhaled deeply and punched his own fist into his palm, stretching his jaw with a growl before a darker tone took over his voice.
âalright, whoâs been talking shit? let me at them. it wonât be manslaughter if they donât die, right?â
he watched as your nervously fiddling fingers stopped twisting around each other, your eyes widened in shock and alarm at his words. briefly, he praised himself inwardly for being able to switch your mood at the snap of his fingers. now if only he could do that, but instead of surprise-and-horror, it could turn into surprise-and-joy insteadâŚ
âwhat?! wait- no! no one said that, i juââ
âthen is your own head telling you that?â
âitâsââ you gulped, gaze slowly breaking away.
he sensed a secret kept safe under the heaviest chains and locks. pain that had nearly torn up that warm heart of yours, shoved into the furthest part of you in a desperate attempt to save yourself; to silence the damned screams and the river of curses that would have made you self-destruct. he saw the remains of the thousands of needles that had embedded itself deep inside your worn heart a long time ago, and yet still it beat and struggled to not bleed out and drown you in its venomous blood.
he saw a heart as scarred as his skin, and he understood.
â..⌠alright, sweetheart, listen up, and listen close.â
the manâs hands suddenly cradled your cheeks, his icy blue eyes penetrating your clouded gaze. his whole demeanor had shifted into gentle and loving, as if he was holding his entire world in the palms of his hands. he resisted the urge to kiss you when you couldnât help but lean onto his touch, instinctively seeking comfort.
he would do you better. he would give you the kind of love youâve yet to experience. there were so much he wanted to say, but he chose to speak of the reassurance he thought you needed most at this moment.
âi say youâre the perfect choice for me. let me prove it to you.â
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Pairing: Max Verstappen x Reader
Summary: Max grows jealous after your Instagram post attracts unwanted attention, including from an ex.
Authors Note: Do I actually believe Max posts on his own instagram these days... let alone would post with a 'scandalous' caption...no? but this is fiction so it's all good đ
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Max was sitting on the plush leather couch in your shared Monaco apartment, flipping through TV channels with all the enthusiasm of a man waiting for a commercial break. He glanced at the large floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the stunning Mediterranean view, but even that wasnât enough to distract him. It wasnât the usual race strategy or upcoming practice sessions that had him restlessâit was something far more personal.
You.
More specifically the photo you had posted on Instagram earlier that day, a simple mirror selfie, a little scandalous but nothing crazy. You looked radiant, sure, but that was normal for you. You were always beautiful to him. What had caught his eye was the flood of comments, the notifications popping up every few seconds as he scrolled through your post.
He kept scrolling eyes narrowing as the likes kept ticking upwards. Then he saw it.
Your ex.
The guy who clearly hadnât gotten the memo that you were Max Verstappenâs girlfriend, because clearly he didn't see an issue with leaving a flirty comment that set Maxâs nerves on edge.
'Looking gorgeous as always' it read, with an obnoxious little winking emoji at the end.
Maxâs fingers tightened around the remote as the thought of some guyâespecially your exâthinking he had any right to compliment you in that way made his blood boil. You were his. The world knew it, but apparently some people needed reminding.
He didnât say anything when you had walked into the living room earlier, cheerfully oblivious to his growing annoyance. Instead he had kept quiet, but now it was simmering just under the surface. Jealousy wasnât a feeling Max was used to; on the track he was calm, confident, but when it came to you, his cool, collected exterior faltered. Especially when some idiot tried to act like he still had a chance.
You entered the room now wearing a loose sweatshirt and leggings, a casual look that contrasted with the glamorous image you had posted earlier. Max glanced at you his jaw tightening, you could sense something was off.
âMax, is everything okay?â you asked, tilting your head as you grabbed your phone from the counter. You didnât even have to unlock it before he spoke.
âThat picture,â he said abruptly, his Dutch accent thicker than usual, which tended to only happen when his emotions were running high. His fingers tapped on the arm of the couch in an impatient rhythm.
You furrowed your brow. âWhat about it?â
He leaned back, crossing his arms over his chest and you could see the tension in his posture. âYour ex commented on it.â
âOh,â you said, blinking in surprise. You hadnât noticed.âI didnât even see that.â
Max didnât like the idea of you looking at that idiotâs comment again, but you opened the app and scrolled down anyway finding the offending message almost immediately.
You rolled your eyes and let out a light laugh. âSeriously? Heâs such a loser. I havenât talked to him in forever.â
Max didnât seem to find it as amusing as you did. His frown deepened. âYeah, well, he still thinks he can leave comments like that. Like Iâm not here.â
You couldnât help but smirk at his grumpy tone. âWhat, are you jealous?â
His reaction was immediate. âJealous? Me? No...â He paused. âI mean... you know how many people liked that picture?â
You raised an eyebrow, amused by how serious he looked. âMax, itâs just Instagram, I think the point is to like pictures," you laughed, but his expression didn't change,"Max come on itâs not a big deal.â
âNot a big deal?â he repeated, his voice rising slightly, though he still sounded more irritated than actually angry. âEveryoneâs drooling over you in the comments. And then thereâs him.â
You couldn't help chuckling again and slid onto the couch next to him, pressing your hand against his knee. âAre you worried someoneâs going to steal me away?â
He gave you a look, his lips twitching upwards at the edges, betraying the smallest hint of a smile. âYouâre impossible.â
âAnd youâre being ridiculous.â You leaned closer, brushing your lips against his cheek.
Max sighed dramatically throwing his head back against the cushions. âMaybe I should just post a picture with you, remind people who you belong to.â
âOh, who I belong to?â you teased, poking him playfully in the ribs. âThat sounds a little possessive.â
There was a teasing glint in his eye now, but you could still feel the underlying jealousy. âCan you blame me?â
You bit your lip to keep from laughing, enjoying how worked up he was getting over something so trivial. Seeing him this riled up over some stupid comment was kind of⌠adorable. You kind of loved when he got all possessive, even if he wouldnât admit it outright.
âNo, I guess I canât blame you,â you sighed, leaning your head on his shoulder. âBut you know I donât care about those comments, right? Especially not from my ex. I didnât even notice it.â
âMaybe you should block him,â Max muttered back to sounding grumpy.
You laughed again, unable to stop yourself. âMax, itâs fine, if itâll make you feel better of course Iâll block him. But I need you to know I never think about him.â
He softened a little at that, his arm instinctively wrapping around your shoulders. âYou better not.â
You smiled, nuzzling into him the warmth of his body calming. âBesides, none of those guys commenting are Max Verstappen now are they?â
âExactly,â Max said, and there was that cocky smile you loved so much. The mood lightened as his fingers brushed through your hair. âNone of them stand a chance.â
You grinned up at him. âAnd neither does my ex, so you can relax.â
He seemed to settle after that, his hand lazily stroking your arm as the tension eased out of his shoulders. âGood. But stillâŚâ
âStill what?â
âI think I should post a picture with you. Just to make sure everyone knows.â
You snorted. âYou just want an excuse to show off.â
âCan you blame me?â he repeated, his eyes glinting with mischief as he reached for his phone. âCome on, one picture. Let me remind everyone youâre mine.â
You rolled your eyes, but a smile tugged at your lips. âFine. Just one.â
Max scrolled through his phone finding the perfect shot of you two together arms wrapped around each other, he quickly typed out a caption and hit âpost.â Not long after, your phone buzzed with notifications. His fans were quick, already liking and commenting on the post.
You glanced at it over his shoulder, chuckling at the caption: Just a reminderâsheâs mine.
âOh my God Max,â you groaned playfully. âYouâre ridiculous.â
He shrugged, completely unbothered. âWhat? Itâs true.â
You laughed and shook your head, leaning into him once more. âYou really are something.â
âI know,â he said, pressing a kiss to the top of your head. âAnd donât you forget it.â
The rest of the evening passed in a much lighter mood. The TV hummed in the background, but neither of you paid much attention to it. Instead, you spent the time teasing Max about his jealous streak, much to his dismay.
âYou know, I never thought Iâd see the day when Max Verstappen got jealous over a social media comment,â you teased, curling up beside him on the couch.
He rolled his eyes, a playful smirk on his lips. âIâm not jealous. Iâm just⌠protective.â
âSure, thatâs what weâll call it.â
âOkay, fine. Maybe I was a little jealous,â he admitted, pulling you closer. âYouâre kind of amazing.â
You beamed up at him, feeling a rush of warmth at his words. âWell, good thing Iâm all yours, huh?â
âGood thing,â he agreed, leaning down to kiss you, slow and sweet. When he pulled away, he added kiddingly âWhat about, no more selfies without me in them.â
You laughed and nudged him playfully. âWeâll see about that.â
But deep down, you didnât mind the way Max was with you. The way he got protective, a little possessive, and sometimes even a little jealous. Max was known as a fierce competitor on the track, but when it came to you, his heart felt just as fierce. And you wouldnât have it any other way.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again:
If you are disabled and you need to lie to get the accommodations you need or to escape ableist social harassment, then it is not just morally acceptable to lie in that scenario, it is morally GOOD.
I say this with no irony or satire whatsoever (unlike the original post, which is very much meant to be sarcastic).
Abled people are always trying to be the "hero" who finds the "fakers," as though "fakers" are actually a concern for disabled people. - When instead I don't know a single disabled person who hasn't been denied the care they need by being called a faker on multiple occasions. That's what we ACTUALLY live in fear of.
(Also, notably, finding the "faker" is not actually about protecting disabled people for these self-appointed "heroes". It's actually about finding an ego-boosting outlet for personal aggression and frustration. They don't care that the government has the funding to care for all of us and yet refuses. They just want to pretend this isn't about them, and are using other disabled people as a moral shield.)
Besides, every person I've met who is actually LYING about their disability has done so not because they are faking being disabled (for all the AWESOME benefits that DEFINITELY exist - ????), but because their ACTUAL disability is not taken seriously by the gatekeepers who can deny them the help they need.
Lying in this scenario protects a disabled person from stigma, injury, pain, death, and/or social neglect. This is a moral good. Lying to protect people from abuse is good, yourself included.
You shouldn't get a wheelchair, walker, cane, shower chair, or any kind of assistive technology mobility aid because then you might become dependent on them. Just like how you also shouldn't get glasses if you have bad eyesight because then you might become dependent on those.
For instance, if you end up stuck using corrective eyewear, you could actually lose your ability to tell what things are even when they are extremely blurry! You need to get used to having migraines from seeing unclearly because if you wear glasses all the time, you are basically giving up!! You don't need to see things coming at you from far away! You just need to get good at dodging, and if you can't, then you have no one to blame but yourself!!
For example, I read a really heart-worming article recently about a girl who was stuck using glasses - just absolutely, tragically trapped in her eyewear from dawn to dusk, even though she was good and never ever complained; and I heard she trained herself to discern the blurry faces of her loved ones with 60% accuracy! - she was even able to walk down the aisle at her wedding WITHOUT forcing the discomfort of seeing a woman in glasses on all her guests!!
Sure, she had to give her vows with a splitting headache, and she couldn't see her husband's expression when he said "I do," but overall, SO inspi-ration-al!!! So up-lifting!!
(She didn't even have to use a seeing eye cane, which would have been the worst-case scenario, obviously, because she worked hard to make sure she looked LESS disabled, not MORE disabled!!! Everyone knows blind people exist solely to be a cautionary tale to sighted people!!)
Also, did you know some people get glasses when they only need them a little bit?? How selfish of them! Sure, there's not a shortage, and an increase in demand would result in overall increased accessibility to glasses--but emotionally it's like taking glasses away from someone who needs them more! After all, if everyone who needed glasses got them, then...... um...... more people would have glasses! Which is probably bad!!!!
I also had a friend who was trapped in glasses who saved up all her money for laser eye surgery, and I don't know why everyone doesn't just do that! Sure, some doctors say some people don't "qualify" and it "won't help" those people, but that's why you can't give up!! You don't want to be one of those people!
After all, what's the worse thing that could happen with an unnecessary laser surgery to the face that comes with crippling debt??? It's worth the risk to gain your FREEDOM back, and I'm so proud of my friend!!
Tragically, she did die later that year while driving Uber and squinting at street signs, but at least now I know my friend is finally free from the shackles of her terrible eyesight. #ripAshley #rippedAshley #justripit đđđâ¤đđđ
And that's why you shouldn't get used to using a mobility aid!! Because, like glasses, they are inherently embarrassing to be seen with; and - like glasses - it is more noble to silently suffer than to depend on unnatural technologies that force you to rely on them!!! (Besides, everyone else will be SO much more comfortable if you look normal!)
I hope you learned something today. đ
#original#disability#ref#might just make a separate post about this but here you go#autistic meltdowns can cause me serious nerve damage and trauma and if i have enough of them in close enough succession... death#but people don't understand that. they think it is a child's tantrum most of the time.#so i call them seizures. because functionally that's what they are. and as long as i can communicate well enough to make sure#no dumbass tries to shove a wallet in my mouth - which DOES NOT HELP SEIZURES in any case btw - then i say it's a seizure#people are nicer and more helpful and more accommodating all around. saying 'if this happens i can have a meltdown'#involves a huge amount of risk and effort for them to understand. but 'i could have a seizure' - suddenly they DO have accommodation for me#fancy that!!#if your professor is gonna be a judgy ableist bitch about you missing class from a ptsd episode (or if you don't know how they'll react)#then tell them you have the flu. no questions get asked. they don't want the flu. they'll tell YOU to stay home!#and if they are ableist then they won't secretly think you're crazy or being dramatic and weak!#I used to feel really bad about the fact that I would do that. but now I recognize that it was really smart actually and in fact good.#if someone said i can't treat your broken leg unless you also have gastrointestinal distress#then baby you better tell them you got a stomach ache#if you can only walk 20 feet but you are denied a wheelchair if you can walk more than 15 feet... no you can't.#if the fire department won't believe your house is on fire unless you say you can smell the fires of Mount Doom specifically then#by god you are Frodo with the One Ring. whatever it takes not to die in this fire.#and you don't have to feel guilty about it either. you're not the one withholding firefighting services from people with burning houses#they have enough time and money to put out all the fires in the town. they just don't want to. that's not your fault.#if the fire dept told you they'll only put out the fire in your house if it is an electrical fire then don't tell them about the grease fir#like in an ideal world we would all be totally honest all the time but in this world if your disease doesn't have the right code in#Aetna's system then they'll leave you to die idk what to tell you.#protect yourselves. protect each other. break rules. be punk.#cripplepunk#for legal reasons i am clarifying that i have never lied to an insurance company.
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