#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...

[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)

[darlingsart]

Not art but I did just post a new fic that’s focused on mama Thetis and baby Achilles because I can’t stop thinking about them! 🥺 It's basically a mini fic that follows Thetis as she raises Achilles and all the challenges that come with it but it’s going to be very sweet I promise lol 💕

I'll Keep You Safe

Important Tags: Mature, Character Study, Growing Up, Mentions of Previous Miscarriage.

Description:

Her son is so very human. Yet she can feel it, the faintest trace of her own ichor flowing through him. Ichor mixed with the blood of his father. He is human but not entirely. And while she can sit here and dwell on that, she only feels the urge to hold him close and love him with every fiber of her being for however long the other gods may allow it.

The story of a mother who loves her son beyond his mortality.

[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.

[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

[motherforthefamicom]

been animating today i love animation yayyy <- my hands are in so much pain

[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 :]

[datastate]

to clarify: rio is not a weak character, necessarily. unless he is considered on his own. typically he exists in contrast to other characters: gashu, michiru, or kai (with honorable mention of maple/obstructors). he is much more of a plot device than he is a character, which is why he fits within the main yttd plot quite well. we see him balance out the antagonism expected of asunaro and makes michiru seem more sympathetic in turn. his death displays how cold and meticulous asunaro's researchers are when it comes to experiments such as these. his very existence in the wake of kai's death/banishment from the organization is meant to uphold this shadow of kai alone.

however, with the addition of sei... rio is easily overshadowed by the two of them. sei's existence does add a bit more meaning to the experiment mentioned with rio, as ranger is directly based upon him, but ultimately not enough that couldn't previously have been extrapolated with the implication rio was meant to be a successor/a son. if gashu did not already have kai, then sei's addition would be perfect because it allows us confirmation to fully realize where gashu felt he went wrong in training sei up.

but... kai does exist. and he was the only one that we really needed to get across gashu's sentimentality & connection to his family / desire to have a child who would not fail asunaro - as the punishment for failure is execution, which he himself carries out.

additionally, although we are given proof that kai abhors the idea of killing others (unable to deal the killing blow on sei despite it being second nature drilled into him, disbelief toward the other children killing one another with the hope that this couldn't truly be them, etc.), i do worry if it comes across to others as if the only thing withholding kai was sei's death and the admission of how terrifying death feels when you finally experience it. there is much more resolve kai has before this to not kill, but simply incapacitate, which i wish we could've seen explored how his mindset works here despite being told he is meant to be a tool for killing while being raised in asunaro. was it gashu who unintentionally influenced him? was it a trainer? sei hasn't been here long enough to truly affect kai, so why did he stop himself from killing sei then when given full opportunity to uphold the role he's been born for? it has to have been something beforehand, as strict as gashu tries to be.

inevitably, gashu identifies compassion as the problem and proceeds from there to see if in any scenario his apprentice/s would've succeeded. both the compassion found in himself, though he evidently struggled to refrain from offering brief moments of affection, and in his child - whether they reflected it from his moments of weakness and desire for normalcy or learned from another.

sei's existence in this regard feels redundant. which really hurts me to say, because i do know exactly what nankidai was going for. but rio exists in relation to other characters by virtue of being incomplete, and is now split between kai and sei in this shared relation to gashu. i feel similarly about rio now as i do with mishima being brought back three more times simply to die, if you understand... it's a little overdone than what it had to be with the story already given.

[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