#accomdations

[demigods-posts]

percy doing better than annabeth in college is one my favorite developments in the rrverse. if we reflect on percy and annabeth's academic upbringing. annabeth living at camp allowed her to receive accommodations for her adhd and dyslexia and surround herself with like-minded campers who had the same limitations. whereas percy was ridiculed, belittled, and routinely humiliated because of his adhd and dyslexia. even more so, percy's friends and family leave him out of the loop on so many important issue (no chb orientation film, no information about the great prophecy) which perpetuates his subpar confidence and self-esteem in his skills as a student and a demigod. but going to college at NRU changes his mindset because he receives the accommodations he should have gotten years ago and fucking thrives to the point of getting higher grades than annabeth — a person he deems way smarter and more prepared than him in every way. the most important thing percy is learning now is that a supportive environment makes all the difference, and he is more capable than he initially thought.

[trans-axolotl]

some of Eli Clare's writing about diagnosis feels very relevant to discussions on tumblr right now:

"It’s impossible to grapple with cure without encountering white Western medical diagnosis—ink on paper in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and the International Classification of Diseases, a process in the hands of doctors, a system of categorization. I want to read diagnosis as a source of knowledge, sometimes trustworthy and other times suspect. As a tool and a weapon shaped by particular belief systems, useful and dangerous by turns. As a furious storm, exerting pressure in many directions.

Simply put, diagnosis wields immense power. It can provide us access to vital medical technology or shame us, reveal a path toward less pain or get us locked up. It opens doors and slams them shut.

Diagnosis names the conditions in our body-minds, charts the connections between them. It holds knowledge. It organizes visceral realities. It draws borders and boundaries, separating fluid in the lungs from high blood pressure, ulcers from kidney stones, declaring anxiety attacks distinct from heart attacks, post-traumatic stress disconnected from depression. It legitimizes some pain as real; it identifies other pain as psychosomatic or malingering. It reveals little about the power of these borders and boundaries. Through its technology—x-rays, MRIs, blood draws, EKGs, CAT scans—diagnosis transforms our three-dimensional body-minds into two-dimensional graphs and charts, images on light boards, symptoms in databases, words on paper. It holds history and creates baselines. It predicts the future and shapes all sorts of decisions. It unleashes political and cultural forces. At its best, diagnosis affirms our distress, orients us to what’s happening in our body-minds, helps make meaning out of chaotic visceral experiences.

But diagnosis rarely stays at its best. It can also disorient us or de- value what we know about ourselves. It can leave us with doubts, questions, shame. It can catapult us out of our body-minds. All too often diagnosis is poorly conceived or flagrantly oppressive. It is brandished as authority, our body-minds bent to match diagnostic criteria rather than vice versa. Diagnosis can become a cover for what health care providers don’t understand; become more important than our messy visceral selves; become the totality of who we are.

...

It is impossible to name all the ways in which diagnosis is useful.

It propels eradication and affirms what we know about our own body-minds. It extends the reach of genocide and makes meaning of the pain that keeps us up night after night. It allows for violence in the name of care and creates access to medical technology, human services, and essential care. It sets in motion social control and guides treatment that provides comfort. It takes away self-determination and saves lives. It disregards what we know about our own body-minds and leads to cure.

Diagnosis is useful, but for whom and to what ends?"

-Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection pg 41-42, 48.

[punkrock-bottom]

my 6'5 ass is so used to my feet dangling off the end of the bed that when i slept on a really long bed at a hotel once i was super uncomfortable with my feet not doing so haha

6’5 ass you say…. 👉👈

[starheirxero]

Why did Centclipse (what I call him) give himself that kind of body?

MAN, OKAY SO LIKE. THIS ASK REMINDED ME THAT ACTUALLY MY ORIGINAL IDEA WAS NOT "LORD ECLIPSE IS A CENTIPEDE" IT WAS "LORD ECLIPSE CAN USE THE STAR TO SHAPESHIFT".

I used to be super into UTMV (undertale multiverse) and my favorite thing ever was that Nightmare, from Dreamtale, was able to use the corruption to shift his form into grotesque mimicries of something humanoid and use it to instill fear into people that he can then feed off of. (Example: (body horror cw) this post by mcnotok that I think about a LOAHT.)

Lord Eclipse's treatment of Sun seems very centered around making him suffer in whatever way possible, yea? Sun seems to basically just be a punching bag to him, so, one of my ideas was that Lord Eclipse would shapeshift to specifically scare Sun into submission. To ensure that his fear would keep him rooted under his command.

Sun is afraid of bugs. We know this from several gameplay episodes.

So, what better form to inhabit than one of the most crawly kind of bug there is? :)

[veilvaulting]

Someone NEEDS to stop me from having backstory thoughts for a character for a video game that isn't even out yet

[hand-development-affairs]

Why do you-

Look like a wide radio-?

(@ask-toonie-cogsworth )

Oh- Toonie, it's a pleasure to have you tune in once more!!! I... can't blame you for not knowing, but I've always looked like this... at least... in terms of the shape of my head. I was always built to be a radio- a WORKING radio, by the way- but... make no mistake, I won't deny that before my modifications, I looked more... ... I- disregard that earlier statement. The modifications to my shell had to be done. I may have my opinions, but the company did what was necessary to defend us from those... fuzzy freaks.

...Really? Trying to compare me and Mx. Byrd? O- Over something as pointless as who's "cuter"-? Cuteness doesn't have ANYTHING to do with either of our skillsets or capabilities, so fuck off.

[vengeful4ever]

pulling an all nighter not out of choice but out of necessity

[harrytheehottie]

harry’s unwavering support of newly pregnant/working mothers in his circle like that’s the future we need 😁😁😁😁

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[katabasiss]

oh no I need a proper job so I can start saving up for these events & festivals 😔🙏

[trans-axolotl]

i have so mcuh shit i was going to try to write tonight (the book chapter, the intersex art peice, sw guide) but when i sit down to try to read aynything my brains starts sliding around and cannot focus. when my body is exhausted like right now my dsylexia becomes like. impossible to cope with. tried switching to diffefrent fonts tried reading upside down instead of right side up and everything is just oozing. going to take a break and try again tomorrow

[dxsole]

account team: okay, so the client approved the flat mockup of the site--we’re good to start working on this website...

me: cool! great! I’m on it! :D

account team: ...also if you could please finish the whole site this week because the budget only covers this year...

account team: ...also also you’ll be workin next week, right? The time we as a company all decided to take collective time off? You’ll be working then?

me:

[minecraftdog]

guys, I think the fear is getting better of me and I can't make myself write my thesis today.. and it's due Saturday...

[humaneskelton]

they should make a bikini top that fits honestly

[muttslife]

started union training today yippee! but 2nd day of migrane unfortunately </3 have successfully eaten, tidied a bit, unloaded the dishwasher AND refilled my meds since coming home despite the head achey (and eyes hurty + everything bright + everything loud) ive been going thru

ALSO I HAVE A TOOTH ACHE >:(