#is the key

[sparklywaistcoat]

Actually, thinking about ableism and the chronic pain essay link I just posted made me think about Rachael Sterling's latest essay about Dame Diana's last days, and about how Diana found it humiliating to need help with a lot of basic stuff.

And I just gotta say: Diana, and all of us, have been so incredibly badly served by our ableist society that treats basic human functions as inherently "dirty" or "gross," and our ableist society that treats needing help with those functions as shameful.

The vast majority of humans who live past a certain age almost certainly will become disabled at some point before they die. This disability may entail the need for help with hygeine and toileting and other bodily functions.

I therefore am here to tell you that

it is not shameful to need help caring for your hair

it is not shameful to need help caring for your teeth

it is not shameful to need help bathing

it is not shameful to need help with toileting

it is not shameful to need help with eating and drinking

your body, in whatever shape it finds itself, is good and right and beautiful and is worthy of being helped and loved and fed and clean

I only wish that Dame Diana had known this; it would have saved her a lot of emotional pain at the most difficult time of her entire life.

And no, I'm not blaming Diana for how she felt, like, at all. She was a victim of an ableist society, one that told her that needing help with these things is humiliating. She was done a grave disservice by her culture. We've all been done that disservice. But we can change things. We can do better.

[myrfing]

imagine if your boyfriend was like I can smell an ant. and started tracking

[puppppppppy]

filipina miku!! my mom helped me with her outfit ^_^

[keikoyume]

Can we normalize this?

Like please please please??

[golyadkin]

you'll get the urge as an artist or a writer to say out loud the things you're worried about "the proportions are off" "kind of out of character" "i'm not good at summaries" "didn't get as much detail as i wanted" "i made a mistake and here's how" and that's the self-conscious part of your brain telling you "it's bad and if you don't tell them you know it's bad then they'll think you're stupid" but you've got to ignore that little voice and pretend you think it's good or else that little voice is going to ruin your life

[oshidorifuufu]

*showing visible symptoms* oh my god i need help desperately

*symptoms go away for one day* what if im just faking it

[hirocimacruiser]

Sakura Suzuki Mighty Boy Kei class pick up

[rochenn]

I think we should write more straight relationships with 2010s TV queerbait tactics. Let that man and that woman's lives be horribly intertwined, let them take bullets for the other, let them be each other's meaning but NO KISSING. They are holding each other platonically. You're crazy for reading anything romantic into it at all tbh

[hanavbara]

retro haikyuu!! 🧡🏐✨

[podcastwizard]

the hot new trend is "guard posting"

[strawberryraviegutz]

FRIENDLY REMINDER THAT TRUMP DID NOT SAVE TIKTOK!! THIS WAS ALL A STUNT TO MAKE HIM LOOK GOOD!!

PAY ATTENTION TO WHATEVER HAPPENS NEXT!!

[jinxarchive]

King and Queen of Zaun 🩷💚

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Source (Arcane Key Art by Aliya Chen)

[carnival-phantasm]

In love with this random guy who had a lock slapped on his storage unit for not paying its rental and not only did he ignore management and took his stuff out without paying, but also chose to steal the lock itself and send it to the LockPickingLawyer along with a confession letter

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By Mark Sabino ig: @marksnotnice