#agh. complicated! it's complicated!

[sheathandshear]

I guess what bothers me about a lot of disability justice approaches to healthcare -- the "doctors must trust that patients are the experts of own bodies" approach -- is that this is the perspective of people with high health literacy written for audiences of people who also have high health literacy, most of whom I think truly do not grasp just how many people have extremely poor health literacy, especially those from groups who for reasons of race, class, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, and/or often a combination of these factors are less likely to have access to accurate health information and culturally competent, trustworthy healthcare providers. When it comes to health and wellness, quite a number of people in our society don't know jack about shit! Even more hold a number of factually inaccurate folk beliefs that range from unhelpful to dangerous. (Hell, even if you have a high degree of health literacy, you probably hold some unexamined false beliefs too, because that's how culture works!) It's true that people are the experts on symptoms as they feel them, but most people are not experts on what those symptoms mean in a medical sense or what can be done about them.

It's a massive blind spot and a symptom of the larger problem of Disability So Educated -- that the vast majority of disability/chronic illness advocates/activists are heard ARE experts on their bodies, because they've had to become experts, but they were able to do so because they are a) literate in English, b) medically literate, c) information literate, and d) have access to and understanding of how to navigate the internet, whereas your average person, particularly your average disabled person, is not. And if you want to create a radical healthcare system that is truly equitable and just -- as opposed to an oligarchy of the educated, i.e. what we have now -- that proposed system has to account for both EDS/MCAS/POTS patients who come in with a 4" three-ring binder of medical literature AND patients who firmly believe that ivermectin cures COVID, vaccines cause autism, co-sleeping with infants is safe, there's no difference between a rescue inhaler and preventative medication, and having an average blood sugar of 600 is perfectly healthy as long as you feel fine.

[gabelew]

gaddison my beloved...

[broareweabouttoviberightnow]

Dallas 'What is love but something they teach you so you hold still for the gun shot" Winston

Johnny "What is love? Where is it? Can I hold it? Can you hold me?" Cade

Soda "am I giving enough that you can love me now? if I let you hold my heart is it enough? Will you give it back?" Curtis

Steve "a boy laughed at you so I sunk my teeth into him, so I broke my knuckles on his jaw, so I tore out his throat. does that prove it? that I love you?" Randle

Two-Bit "i'll be anything you like. I'll make you laugh. i'll keep your eyes squeezed shut at the joke, can you love me then?" Mathews

Darry "it's not like them, it's never like them. it's not enough. no one ever taught me how to say it. i'm scared to. can you love me? when I don't know how to say it?" Curtis

Ponyboy "i love so much it hurts. it's a pretty poem. it's a sunset. It's not real enough. everyone I love leaves me. everyone I love dies. can I put this love down here? can you promise to stay?" Curtis

[pickled-flowers]

I would like to be allowed to be horny in an asexual way please thank you

[parkercore-69]

here have some sketches i did of adam stanheight because personally i think he’s babygirl

(i might colour this properly at some point)

[mutantmayhems]

RAPH & SLASH | 3.15 CLASH OF THE MUTANIMALS requested by @robins-treasure

[snailmailmp3]

why are all my friends so bad at texting back girl we r making time sensitive plans

[candyskiez]

If you also like Pearlrose or Rose we can talk about the unhealthier aspects of Pearl and Rose's relationship and we can have an absolute blast analyzing them but if you come into my house being extremely bad faith about Rose or trying to tell me Rose is abusive I am going to ignore you. Get off my lawn boy.

[riiviir]

fanart is so hard to draw. stupid characters having stupid details that are out of my stupid comfort zone AAAAAGH

[skitskatdacat63]

Boy King Seb :D

[cubedmango]

「30歳で片思いを拗らせると魔法使いになれるらしい」 1 — english translation

[hopkei]

translating for fanta is all fun and games until you get to sotas parts and it becomes full paragraphs instead of two word answers

[ying-dawdles]

oh yeah, it's all coming together-

EDIT: Here's the finished version! :)

[hollypies]

It's alright if you don't want to answer this- I know I'm late- but I don't mind the rambling. You aren't self-centered for wanting to unload all those weights that must be holding you down.

It's alright, Holly.

Thanks. I only just saw this today afg agg I'm currently having another crisis of wanting to bite myself so ooughhg the circle of life lol.

Uhm. I do really appreciate it!!! Im probably not going to be super stable in the next few days? Probably on and off emotions so apologies in advance :(

! I'm drawing some stanley parable anf then I'm gonna draw Question for a bit prolly! Then back to rainworld and Hollow knight :]

[spiderducks]

i need to make another werewolf au just so i can draw more dogboy spiderduck without feeling like i’m encroaching on my au co-owner’s turf. unfortunately i did waste all my good ideas on the first one, so, rip

[smallblueandloud]

[takes a hammer to my wips folder] WHY IS EVERYTHING HERE SO EMOTIONALLY DELICATE