#fuck my learning disability

[benevolenterrancy]

au where Li Yu teaches Prince Jing modern CSL, based on @skygemspeaks's au over here because after seeing how eagerly Li Yu takes to teaching him pinyin in bk4 I think they both deserve it!

[uncanny-tranny]

Hey, if you have speech impediments, you are so amazing.

If you stutter or have a lisp or misspeak easily or you have a flat affect or a limited verbal vocabulary or if your voice is AAC or if you just have a difference in your vocality, you are so incredibly important and amazing.

Just know that your voice is yours. Nobody will ever be able to truly take it away. Your voice is part of you, and you deserve to make it as true to you as you deem fit. I hope you have the space to grow with your voice and whatever about it makes it unique.

[transmasccofee]

im not ok i will never be normal about this guy again happy disability month

[guess-i-do-art]

It’s fun being in a fandom that literally doesn’t exist

If there is anybody out there that enjoys the book series Upside Down Magic by Sarah Mlynowski, Lauren Myracle, and Emily Jenkins, please please make yourself known because I have been alone for too long

Dritten! 💜

[supercasey]

Sonic Movie 3 Moodboard 💖

[alongtidesoflight]

i swear my stepdad is so illogical AND stubborn it hurts

[the-crooked-library]

This might be a silly question, but I'm interested in your opinion about why most people saw Orlok as gross and ridiculous, "not scary at all". They emphasize this contrast: this monster is "just" a corpse with some worms on it, it's not scary at all, and those moustaches are hilarious.

I don't get it. We have for example zombies, they are literal corpses, very very gross, but nobody says they are ridiculous or not scary. And besides, a vampire is dead. A corpse is an accurate depiction.

No I really don't get it, I mean, I know we have been fed this narrative of vampires as very sexy and hot human being, with nothing even remotely gross in their look, but... is it just that? 🤔

Honestly, I think there are a number of reasons for it, but primarily: the majority of the viewers are desensitized to rotting corpses in film, and ascribe to modern beauty standards.

In regards to the first -

Disgust and fear are two very distinct emotions that often go hand in hand, but are in fact separate. The zombie subgenre of horror, which famously uses both, tends to also either be stereotyped as slasher fodder, or lean heavily into the "numbers" types of violence - zombies, in most depictions, are slow, shambling, and easy to avoid. Naturally, they do absolutely spread infection (which Orlok also does); but, years into a pandemic that is now being steadfastly ignored worldwide, I think we all know how the general public feels about disease (they think it won't affect them bc they're special/god protects them/they eat vegetables or whatever the fuck). In the end, to these viewers, Orlok is just one person. They wouldn't go to a desolate castle in the Carpathian mountains. They aren't psychic and wouldn't draw his interest. They wouldn't be working on a ship, or living in a city - oh, wait, hold on. Better ignore that last part. Haha. The point being, a lot of people only find horror "scary" if they can plausibly imagine themselves in the specific situation shown to them onscreen - that's why you see these endless, mindless cycles of "WHY would you go into the BASEMENT??" or "I would check if there's anyone in the back seat", "I wouldn't read this obviously cursed book lol." In the case of a story set in 1838, the historical distance alone renders that immediate projection-fear ineffective; and to these viewers, a walking corpse becomes a harmless curiosity, even if the disgust remains. They've seen all sorts of monsters on a screen.

The second -

Yes, it's the moustache. By and large, they are considered unattractive, antiquated, or funny - in American cultures, specifically, a big moustache tends to be also associated with 70s era bikers, Westerns, and sometimes lumberjacks; essentially, the sort of things nobody tends to take very seriously in the modern age. Even though it fits Orlok, it makes perfect sense historically that he'd have it, a lot of viewers will draw that visual connection in their heads regardless, because they don't actually have a preexisting foundation of "knowledge about medieval/early modern Romanian nobility." I've seen some people argue that they liked Gary Oldman's moustache in the 1992 Dracula, and Orlok's was just "too goofy" - but Oldman's Dracula had the sort of facial hair that isn't too uncommon in the 21st century, not anything even remotely similar to the historical figure he is supposed to be. Beauty is an extremely subjective, constantly shifting standard, and most filmmakers tend to sacrifice historical accuracy for mass appeal. Eggers isn't one of them.

TL;DR some people are incapable of taking a film seriously if it "looks weird" or makes them uncomfortable in some way. Just take a look at the online reactions to The Substance, or the box office earnings of a good number of "cult classics."

[gloriousmonsters]

trying to work up to writing on wrapped in stories in the next few days and found a fragment i'd forgot i'd written of SMS's pov set during the already posted chapters. think I was toying with the idea of writing a SMS-pov fic after the main storyline was done, which means that if I do use it it'll be a whiiiile yet. anyway i don't want to wait that long to wave it around so here it is

Xue Yang, in the other room, is clearly telling a story. A cup clinks. Meng Shi hums through a mouthful of liquid, coughs a little. Su Minshan can't recall the last time he's seen Meng Yao prepare her medicine, or sit with her while she takes it. He's attentive to her in many other ways, but Xue Yang guards the duties he's chosen with jealous zeal, as if it's a privilege to measure out bitter herbs and boiling water. Perhaps it is. Su Minshan is well acquainted with the fulfillment of service. It's just nothing he'd ever imagined Xue Yang taking pleasure in. Xue Yang had always been impatient with wounds, disgusted by weakness, in himself and others. This is utterly unlike him, Su Minshan thinks, and then unbidden an image blooms in his mind; a memory from a vanished time. A young, hollow-eyed man hunched over a Spirit-Trapping Pouch. Daozhang, he croons to it, unaware of Su Minshan's presence, his tender tone a stark contrast to the mocking way he'd spoken of its contents only earlier that day. I'm sorry, look, I can say that, so why can't you forgive me? Everything's still waiting for you—I'm taking care of your body, it's as good as new, and the house is clean for once, even though A-Qing won't do shit to help… Just forget about that shitty day, okay? And Su Minshan, taking back his step forward to bring him out of Xue Yang's line of sight, had thought a few things one after the other. That Xue Yang has gone mad; that in doing so he seems to have finally aged, a man—however young—instead of the cute little brat with no human feeling; that it seems he'd been in love. How, he didn't hazard to guess, or whether Xue Yang would ever use such words. But Su Minshan had understood, finally, how Xue Yang had fallen off the edge of the world for a while. How he'd been content in a ramshackle house with the blinded half-helpless immortal who'd fallen so hard to earth. So, perhaps this life is merely coaxing a cracked and half-frozen bud into full bloom. In Xue Yang's laughing, cruel affection there had existed a faint impulse to care, and in this life where he'd been sheltered and fed and treated as human the impulse had grown to a cornerstone of his character, mostly without Su Minshan's notice. He's vexed at himself for not observing it sooner; Xue Yang seems to have fallen in love with Jiang Yanli half because the girl is ill and politely, nobly suffers about it. If Su Minshan had understood in time, he could have searched the beggars' camps for some pretty youth with a missing leg and a less dangerous pedigree to throw in Xue Yang's path.

[iguessitsjustme]

*takes you by the hand as gently as I can*

You can dislike Maya without turning her into a one dimensional villain that serves no purpose to the story.

You can dislike Maya without disparaging the story and message the show is trying to convey.

You can hate Maya without moralizing your hatred. You can just hate her. It’s okay.

[uncanny-tranny]

"Pro" tip: If you're somebody who doesn't always need things like braces or crutches or anything like that, and so you're thinking to yourself, "I won't need this for today, my pain isn't that bad!"

Don't listen to that, that is the devil speaking. Bring your aids with you just in case, because a good day can quickly end on a sour and painful note. It's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

[vrepit-salt]

Reblog this if you're a high-functioning person with ADHD who has been told "you don't have ADHD" because you're high-functioning.

[puppppppppy]

adhd comix

[an-ruraiocht]

sorry for liveblogging my menstruation woes by the way. just part of the rich variety that is my blog i guess. once i figure out how to not lose the goddamn cup inside me i will work out how to make a joke about the cup of blood that dechtire serves cú chulainn, yes,

[us-the-voices-and-more-voices-2]

well, shit is getting straight up untenable in Australia!

that's why we got a new bio, also because we are sick of the anon's just block us damn.

but no legit, they are fucking up the NDIS and THAT IS BAD, it's literally the only governmental support for all disabled people in Australia by the way it's the "national disability insurance scheme" aka NDIS.

so uh BAD, real bad, extremely bad, uber bad.

there's more, uh so yeah!!!! FUCK MAN.

I do hope people don't die, because this is just going to lead to people seeking help from the gov't dying in the meantime.

or if the gov't says "yeah your not disabled (is disabled) get zero accommodations loser" then well that's BAD.

I already know like tons of people who couldn't get NDIS money and they were straight up disabled, and people who desperately needed those accommodations and couldn't because the government just straight up would not listen and help them.

it's pretty fucking telling that more than half the disabled people I know in Australia literally could not get on the NDIS.

this is just making a already shit situation worse, I haven't been able to go to the dentist, GP, or the eye doctor people in more than 5 Years!!!!

FIVE FUCKING YEARS, I know people who are straight up 2 seconds away from being homeless due to not being able to work and not being able to apply to the NDIS.

like it's fucking bad, if your parents won't boot you off your centrelink you can't get your own centrelink and can't access any accomodations or disability money, if your blak (aka aboriginal) your just extremely fucked already now times that by 4.

like dude, THIS IS SHIT.

and I know disability ally's are mostly American based, but by fuck WHAT THE FUCK, THE ACTUAL FUCK MAN.

the NDIS is not perfect there's shit ton of corruption and scammers-

(I actually know a family who's like legit scamming the NDIS lol no I don't mean like "oh those physically disabled's" I mean like they are using the money on like 3d printers and shit lol they are assholes and racists)

but like, it was barely working for people before. this is going to take the people it was barely working before and fuck them over too.

it's gonna fucking suck man, I am fucking scared for everyone.

[chubby-ghostt]

Had my mental status CE exam for disability today.

The doc was more interested in talking about my transness and suggesting answers for me when i didn’t answer things quick enough for her. She also washed over my anxiety and suicidal ideation and depression by saying things like “you don’t have to listen to your thoughts!” and “here’s a great breathing technique for panic!” *proceeds to explain the most common pop psychology breathing technique*

She also didn’t let my husband into the room because, and i quote “you have to learn that not everyone is out to get you”.

I had panic attacks all night in anticipation for this. Like, i couldn’t stay asleep because i just couldn’t breathe.

Glad to see that fear was well founded.

[chronic-cane]

The fact that I'm taking a graduate level course and have a professor use "mental ret*rdation" in their slides infuriates me to no end.

Like, I mean no end. I'm trying my best to anonymously get it addressed within the department so that way the professor could correct it and make an announcement about its correction.

I'm also looking through the required textbook, and uh...

[Alt Text: picture of a man looking down one on one side with a blurred shadow of him looking scared or shocked on the other side. The photo is described as "image of dissociative identity disorder" end image description]

And a lot of calling mental illness madness, insanity, and even "minds of disturbed people."

It was published in 2021. (Sociology of Mental Disorder by William C. Cockerham if anyone wants to give it a shit review with me)

At this point I want the class to turn into a mad studies course. If you want to have that language so fucking badly then give the mic to the people who try to reclaim it. If you can screw up this badly, then start making it up to the ones you've screwed over.

But yeah a lot of my time about this class is pointing out how bad it is.