#if this is ableist im sorry

[royallygray]

guys I dont-

why is ASL a language on ao3

how do you write in ASL

deaf people can still see...?

like ASL is great. it's amazing. how is it a language on AO3...??

[androdragynous]

I know i complained about the stardew valley penny and George cutscene at length but the it really is fucking. bizarre the lengths people will go to defend it because "the game lets you pick to side with him" (please do literally any reading about wheelchair use and realize why it's a problem that the game rewards you for moving someone without their consent.) or variants of that sentiment but then it's like. the rest of the cutscene is also So Weird

Like. Penny moves an old man in a wheelchair without asking him. He gets upset, she asks if you saw what happened The game prompts you to select from;

"I was. You did a kind thing there, Penny." (+50 friendship with Penny)

"I was. You should've asked instead of assuming George wanted help." (-50 friendship with Penny)

"I'm just taking a walk, minding my own business." (No effect on friendship.)

And these are the REVISED options. Before 1.4, the second option wasn't"you should have asked", it was "You should've left him alone. Now he's grumpy."

So already it's kind of shit. The person she's upset - who's entire existence in the game is experiencing inaccessibility, let's be real - because he was shoved without permission just for being in a wheelchair doesn't have his friendship level affected at all.

Regardless of which answer you pick, George apologizes (Penny does not apologize in every choice! But the guy she shoved does!) and says she was kind.

Once he's gone, she talks about how hard it must be to be old. It's worth noting, for what it's worth, that George has been using a wheelchair since a mining accident caused his immobility; it's not a result of age, and you learn about this whole he struggles with a bookshelf in his own home, where presumably he has been living with a wheelchair for at least two decades (given how he talks about his grandson), which is a whole different can of worms because why is this never addressed in a fictional community with multiple craftspeople who frequently do projects for each other?

Anyways. So Penny's like, damn, sucks that he's old. And the options the game gives you - all neutral in terms of friendship points - are:

"I'd rather not think about it."

"It's just a different part of life."

"That's why we should respect our elders."

"I'd rather die young..."

Like are you kidding me? You have a cutscene that's about being disabled - it's not about aging, because his disability was not caused by aging, it is explicitly and directly about the fact that he is in a wheelchair. And the game assumes your opinions will be "Not my problem,", "That's an old people thing,", and "I'D RATHER BE DEAD"? And this is something people just... don't remark on? Even in conversations ABOUT this cutscene? Like, George's mentions of being disabled are already Constantly Miserable -able-bodied writer standard quality - but the game is just like. Yeah you can say you'd rather be dead rather than express any positive sentiment about this guy surviving a traumatic mining accident. You can't say it's great that he's able to still be a part of the community in his chair, or renovate his house to make it accessible the way you can build ENTIRE HOMES for other characters. The community center you rebuild in the Good Ending for the community is only accessible by stairs. The path out of his home is dirt. It's the little things, y'know, like... obviously he wasn't thought about as his own character. The game's writing sees him as a source of conflict for others, and down to the very tiles of the terrain, he's irrelevant.

AND THEN THE TOWN DOCTOR DOES A HIPAA VIOLATION AND GETS SAD IF YOU SAY GEORGE SHOULD HAVE AGENCY OVER HIS OWN BODY. WHAT ARE WE FUCKING DOING HERE

[ask-mephone4]

Former post.

[batboopp]

i like ghostmaker and batman as narrative foils not in the “ghostmaker is incapable of forming relationships with or feeling empathy for others, therefore batman is better” way but in the fact that ghostmaker IS better. literally. more stronger mentally, emotionally, physically. stronger in the way he carries himself and how he sees himself and how he treats others (depending on your definition of strong) and yet, he’s still so so miserable. he can lie to himself all he wants, or ignore everything but blatant fact, but it still doesn’t change the fact that even though he follows batman’s “I work alone” rule better than the actual batman ever could, he still loses to bruce in some way. bruce was willing to shoot someone for khoa, willing to follow and stay, and khoa straight up couldn’t handle it. therefore, he is worse in the one thing that makes batman, batman. that nothing will ever tie him down, no matter what. not Bruce or his city or his rouges.

except, that’s not entirely true anymore, is it? because this time, he does stay. he meets Bruce’s kids and indulges bruce in banter and playfighting and even fake ‘dates’. he stays, and leads, batman inc. and he does it considerably better than batman. of course, he still kills people. he can barely stand batmans kids and the feeling is entirely mutual. he still treats others as expendable next to his mission. but, he stays. he stays with bruce, with someone, in some way this time. he’s learning, he’s willing to learn.

[d1sc01nf3rn0]

I'm seeing a lot of people with neurodivergency, specially under the autism spectrum say that "Laios is annoying, never shuts up, is insensitive, and I can't stand him"; and the irony is not lost on me lmao.

[newspecies]

thing that kind of pisses me off about the mouthwashing discussion ive been seeing here on tumblr is how everyone's trying to push the blame around between curly, jimmy, and pony express when the whole point of the game imo is that everyone and everything around her failed anya somehow. just because one of them did something wrong doesnt negate the actions of the others. YES pony express probably didnt train curly for this situation but that doesnt excuse him not doing fucking ANYTHING!!!!!!!! i dont think curly needed training to treat jimmy like the piece of shit he is and yet! hes still all buddy buddy with him. hes still letting jimmy's sexual comments to anya slide. im TIRED of this arguing about whether curly is "actually in the wrong" or whatever just because you all want him to be a perfect golden retriever boyfriend. curly failed anya and im tired of people trying to make him seem less guilty of that.

[angel-archivist]

If you think that’s what a trans woman looks like you are transphobic and also an asshole. I don’t like you. I don’t like what you stand for.

Listen guys I know they didn’t make all longlegs fans surrender their critical thinking skills when they walked into the theater so whats with this behavior on tumblr.

Im saying longlegs reminds me of the history of transphobic horror that has played a huge role in the villainizing of trans people and how its effects are still found today in modern horror whether its implicit of explicit. But im glad you believe and trust the cis actor who used a derogatory word for intersex people when describing the character and the cis writer who based the movie heavily on silence of the lambs over other trans people. Personally I usually like to hold off on parasocial relationships with men in positions of power but you do you!

[internally-weird]

Since all anti arguements are founded in propaganda and eerily close to what an abuser of mine would say, they often trigger/bring out the worst in me.

I've had episodes where I had felt so unsafe because of them I have thrown up and become a angry terrible nasty person.

Though if they gave a shit about anyone's mental health but their own then we wouldn't have antis

im sorry that thats happened to you anon :[ i have a feeling most antis dont even notice how ableist most of their arguments and points are.

they claim to support victims untill the victims are weird to them. they send proshippers death threats and ominous comments that could easily trigger someone to an episode under the guise that they want to 'protect victims', but the truth is they dont care.

its like the people who claim to care about mental health untill someone has a 'weird' or 'bad' disorder. you have to fit in their box of 'normal' and if you dont, then youre not actually a victim coping, youre an evil cp enjoyer who likes little kids and incest irl.

[thehealingsystem]

holy shit I'm just gonna cry. I hate this I hate this. I can't fucking breathe for once in my life. my mom berates me calling my attraction a sin, says god condemns us after I lose the most important person in my life, have to hide my relationships and hide my grief after they fail, get sexually harassed by boys looking to get with me solely because I'm a lesbian, get bullied and later stalked, and then be constantly yelled at on the internet by people for YEARS because I dare to be both a boy and a girl. I've never been treated more like shit for being lesbian than I have anything else and if I even dare defend myself I'm treated as violent and aggressive. called fucking slurs. and it's not even like it's because I'm more confrontational, even when I just ignored people I would still get yelled at and told to kill myself just the same. god I hate you people so much. you are all so deeply lesbophobic

[butchhansolo]

in-universe "logistics" aside, i think it's good that echo has the permanent scomp arm instead of a hand for like. real-world representation reasons.

in star wars sure they have fully articulated replacement prosthetics but we very much don't have that in real life, and i feel like echo with the scomp is good rep for that. he's one of the most competent characters and i think it's good to show that he can do All That as he is, especially with how irl people with only one hand usually are very capable, even more if they've been living with it for a long time, and very rarely do we see that in media.

like, mark hamill once said he talked to a kid for a make a wish thing who was about to have his arm amputated, and the kid said that he wasn't worried because luke did it too. i think that's important

[iinryer]

actually i need everyone to start using “bigoted [character]” as a tag when you’ve decided to make previously mild characters raging bigots so i know not to read it thanks <3

[windydrawallday]

Long-PSA-short of sorts that's more a vent: I was always aware my behavior and way of expressing myself online can surprise many people, especially if they are not used to someone who uses the writing medium as a playful form to tell emotions in a very descriptive way as I do. I'm quite affectionate with words, yes. And I always beg people I hang with personally to let me know if some of that bothers them, curtly of course. So far there have been few instances of individuals confusing those signals with ulterior means, things I assure you there's nothing more than me being friendly and supportive.

Imagine idk an excited dog seeing its owner haha

Until the past week, I found myself being tackled by something that made me almost knock everything aside because it made me realize that probably I'm a walking trigger/squick inducer with even the way I wield words like "love" and "friendship".

Almost...

I'm pretty tolerant of whatever way people conduct themselves in this life, the only moment I flinch is when an individual assumes from my default behavior and presentation that I want to impose my way of life... And nopes.

This is simply how and who I am. Nothing more, nothing less. I don't search for conflict but for understanding. My language for expressing marvel and reflections is like this, never to make the other feel awkward or attacked.

So, it upset me knowing that by wielding this forever welcoming and lovable disposition, I can be something to fear and even despite... to some people.

But, you know? That means that my "love" and "friendship" lifestyle are not made for you, no reason to come back to me and point at it. Just keep walking if you have only rage and rejection to give as a reply to my point of view. Because by wielding rage and rejection, what you only do is burn bridges. To create conflict and assume imaginary antagonistic scenarios where there's nothing of that at all.

You can't create the world you wish to live in by burning bridges.

It took me a lot too to forge who I am right now. I even keep learning and chiseling through traumas and mistakes—kindness and patience taught me more than rage and rejection. And "love" and "friendship" are the bricks I chose to build those bridges. I know everyone else uses different concepts but in the end, we all build bridges. By creating bridges and inviting others to do the same, I expand not only my world, but the other's too!

Isn't that better than demanding to be this or that through a black/white flag of rage and rejection? I think so. And I understand perfectly we sometimes need to be blunt when marking our boundaries. Still, never justifies treating the other bad.

And if some of you find "fake" or distasteful the way I wear this flag of "love" and "friendship" I'm sorry: this place will never be safe for you then. The exit door is always open. Go ahead.

I hope you find your place and flags out there too, but don't forget that to do that you need to build bridges. If you don't want to call it "friendship" call it "glue" or whatever makes you comfortable, but don't kick people like me who fought with claws and teeth to reclaim those words and feelings.

Fight your fight by being a good example, not a bad experience that makes someone never want to deal with something like this again in their life.

"Any color you like, (in the end) they're all blue."

[feelingthedisaster]

I HATE GROUPS PROJECTS I HATE GROUPS PROJECTS I HATE GROUP PROJECTS

[hobgobbin]

"Ai art isn't actually bad it's capitalism that's bad and an economic model that's based on working the most possible so you think ai is just taking away your money"

This isn't abt artists mad abt losing a few commissions on the internet this is about large numbers of artists getting their art stolen so people can make something out of THEIR stuff, that they worked for years to create, without permision. AND corporations using free software to steal instead of paying artists properly. You would think with the amount of artists that are like 'hey this is bad and harming me', as well as the whole ass Hollywood-wide strike that happened with AI usage being one of the key talking points you would understand that it's bad and should at the very least have rules put around it.

But actually artists should stop focusing on something they can try to curtail before it gets too wildly out of control and instead focus on uhhhhh dismantling the economy if they're so mad their stuff is being stolen

[hpdfag]

Hi! I would just like to ask why it is that Kamukura fictives are in your DNI? I don't wish to overstep any boundaries, however it just confuses me a little and comes off a little ableist to me. I am an introject myself, and I did not *choose* this identity, and neither do any other introjects. Furthermore, introjects aren't their source, and treating them as such to this extent, or even at all, is very dehumanizing. It kind of just comes off as you being upset that their trauma forced that part of their brain to take that form. I don't mean to be rude, I'm only asking! /gen

hi. i am psychotic. i have vivid memories of being komaeda, and kamukura repeatedly raping me and abusing me physically during the despair war. i know you didnt choose your source, but i also didnt choose my memories of being beaten half to fucking death. it's a matter of conflicting accessibility needs. you need to be respected for your identity, and i need to be in a place where im not repeatedly reminded of my own trauma. thank you. have a nice day.

[linabirb]

hi so it turns out that it's possible that some of my relatives (i haven't seen them since i was like what. 14. maybe even younger) (i don't even remember what they look like) (i don't know how old they are atp) will visit us this weekend and they will also spend the night here. one of those relatives is my grandma's sister who is 1) according to my grandma will definitely ask me if i have a bf yet and 2) is extremely religious and mom said that she's not a relative i should mention my sexuality around. anyway i should go and hide my robin body pillow