#my 'artists' question is like 10000 longer than anything LOL

[jinjin]

rules: answer 21 questions and tag 21 people you want to know better

tb @cha-eunwoow ty liv!!!! <3

1. nickname: geen, a good amount of friends also call me gross

2. zodiac sign: virgo!

3. height: 5’2 is what i said on my id lmfaoooo im prob actually 5′0 but shhh 

4. hogwarts house: slytherin

5. last thing googled: inspiration

6. favorite artist(s): musicians-- mainly indie, r&b, and pop artists. anderson paak, citizen, borns, galileo galilei, kendrick lamar, mac ayres, nothing but thieves, rihanna, the strokes, tame impala, toro y moi, unknown mortal orchestra, and for korean artists: crush, dean, jooyoung, shinee, exid, bts/exo when i’m in the mood, wonder girls, primary, prep, hyukoh, the black skirts, offonoff/colde, nct, day6, akmu, and obv astro. as for other media i honestly don’t have favorites i just have styles i like i guess?

7. song stuck in my head: howlin’ 404 by dean shez been howlin

8. favorite time(s) of day: to be honest early morning like 5-7 am if i had a good nights sleep before then and don’t feel disgusting ? it NEVER happens but like i really do like how calm it gets

9. favorite color(s): blue ! n green.. any on grayscale and like the brown-offwhite palette too

10. following: 300 smth

11. followers: ummmmmm on this blog i think im almost at 1.4k ? total prob nearing 3k

12. do i get asks: only when i am interesting and active :// which to be fair is like once in a blue moon

13. amount of sleep: like 6-8

14. favorite number(s): 9

15. wearing: domo hoodie & sweats HAHA im on my period ok.

16. dream job: i think like data scientist or someone who kinda does administrative stuff and also research

17. instruments: guitar, i can prob play most woodwind and orchestral instruments lmao but i don’t necessarily anymore. i know a little piano i think

18. language: english, japanese, spanish, ... korean .. kind of in order of proficiency

19. favorite song(s): no idea honestly i can’t like a single song like that

20. random fact: i dyed my hair blue black and it gets EVERYWHERE when its wet rn i was ddrunk and sleeping on my bathtub the other day i guess i had sweat or something i stained the tub LMAO

21. aesthetic: mmmmm my friends just say i am like a cat? and they say im like Slightly ratchet lol i mean yeah i agree? i just do whatever i want tbh and i think. my aesthetic is being fucking crazy with or in front of others and then being unresponsive for 80% of the time i guess i never grew out of my random phase xD

Tagging: im gonna not tag anyone since i basically know all my moots a little dlfjsdfj <33333333333333333333

[taramaclaywasaterf]

hey genuine question; i saw u reblog a post a while ago saying that disabled people need plastic straws. ic ant find it but ive been wondering like. why do they need that?

Hey! Thanks for asking, anon!💕 I’ll speak for myself quickly and link some articles from other disabled people, too!

So, for me, I have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, a connective tissue disorder that essentially makes my joints dislocate very easily. I also have TMJ(D), causing pain in my jaw. The combo of EDS and TMJD make my jaw lock up often, make it difficult and painful to talk, eat, drink, lay down, yawn, smile, and other basic tasks most people don’t even think twice about. My jaw completely unhinges and there’s been multiple times I’ve had to have someone hold my head and help me literally pop my jaw back into place because it was stuck open. Then there’s other times when I can’t open my jaw more than a few centimeters without searing, blinding pain. When my jaw acts up, it causes severe migraines that are so bad I puke, which make it so I can’t get out of bed for up to weeks at a time, unable to do anything but lay in the dark with a puke-bucket next to me.

When my jaw flares up like that, I’m stuck eating (or, well, drinking) only fluids. I can’t open my mouth, so I can’t use a fork or a spoon or anything. There are days I can’t even sit upright, let alone eat something normally. So on those days, I need a flexible, plastic straw. If I’m drinking soup through a straw, biodegradable straws tend to disintegrate in the heat. And if I’m just drinking water, I need the straw to last over the course of the whole day because constantly getting up to get a new one is impossible when I’m in that much pain, and every biodegradable straw I’ve tried has just completely disintegrated after being left in liquid for more than a few hours. When it disintegrates, not only do I have to get a new straw, I also have to get up to dump the old water because it has hunks of paper in it then fill the glass back up again. That may seem like nothing to able bodied people, but, to me, it feels like I’m running a marathon with 10000 pound weights on my feet when I’m having my bad days.

As for reusable straws, they’re honestly impossible for me to use. The metal ones genuinely hurt my mouth. When I have bad migraines and my TMJD acts up, my whole mouth tastes like metal. Like, I don’t know why, but it always feels like I’m chewing on tinfoil, and using metal straws makes it so much worse. But the biggest reason I can’t use metal straws is because they aren’t flexible. I need to be able to drink laying down without lifting my glass while moving my jaw/head as little as possible. I can’t do that with a metal straw. Plastic straws give me so much flexibility.

Plus, another important thing to mention about reusable straws is that you need to wash them. When I’m down for a week+, I’m completely incapable of getting out of bed, much less getting up to wash a straw. I know it might sound trivial, but asking disabled people to consistently wash straws- something we use every single day and literally depend on- is completely unreasonable and downright impossible for many of us. The ability to keep a 200 pack of plastic straws on my nightstand at all times makes my life so so much easier.

When it comes to silicone reusable straws, I’m allergic to silicone. I put on silicone gloves once and my hands swelled like balloons and I broke out into hives up to my elbows. When I got my makeup done for a school dance when I was like 13 or 14, the makeup artist used a silicone based liquid blush on me despite telling her I was allergic, and my whole face swelled to the point that my eyes were swollen shut, I puked, and I had to be rushed to urgent care to get a shot. So silicone straws are obviously not an option for me lol

Basically, plastic straws are genuinely the best thing for me as a disabled and sometimes bedridden woman. It’s honestly not right for people to act like plastic straws are just some frivolous luxury that only spoiled, narcissistic, assholes who don’t care about the environment want. It’s ableist to demand disabled people like me to sacrifice our health, as if we’re merely collateral damage in other people’s activism.

I wholeheartedly support restaurants and coffeeshops and things offering reusable or biodegradable straws for the public, I think it’s really really great that so many people are actively willing to make changes to their lives to benefit the environment! I just think plastic straws need to be offered as well, because people like me need them. Outright banning them is just plain ableist because it’s saying that disabled people don’t matter, that our health our our lives are unimportant, and that we’re a burden. It makes us blatantly overlooked, forgotten, and brushed aside yet again, and it’s just another thing that becomes more and more unaccessible for us, making our worlds even smaller than they already are.

There’s also many other reasons people need plastic straws, too! I decided to look around and found a few articles about people with different disabilities sharing why they need plastic straws, so if you’re still interested, here ya go:

Anyway, I know I rambled on for, like, much longer than I needed to, so if you read my whole novel, I really appreciate it! And thanks again for asking, anon, I genuinely enjoy talking about disability rights and stuff 💕