#psychical disablity

[anonymouslydisabled]

Things disabled people wish you knew about mobility aids!

I am more mobile with my mobility aid than without.

Stop asking me when I'll get better.

When I don't have a mobility aid and am using a shopping cart, do not take it, I am leaning on it so I can be on my feet longer.

Stop asking me why I need a mobility aid when we're strangers.

I decorate my cane, it feels like a part of me, please give me space to feel sad when I have to replace it.

People will walk into me or gotten very close, please don't stare at your phone while you walk.

Mobility aids are not depressing.

Mobility aids help us to live fuller and more independent lives with less symptoms.

I love my mobility aids! I don't want the focus of my treatment to be getting rid of them, I want it to be improving my symptoms.

Mobility aids don't have to be boring and plain. A mobility aid being decorated doesn't mean I don't need it!

I don't need help unless I ask for it.

Disability isn't taboo, let your kids be curious and ask questions.

Stop moving my mobility aid(s) without asking me. My mobility aid(s) are an extension of my body.

I don't just use my mobility aid for shits and giggles, I need it. It is not for show it is not for attention and implying it is is incredibly ableist.

People use mobility aids differently, some people use their mobility aids all the time and some people don't. I don't need my mobility aid 24/7.

I switch sides with my cane and constantly have to worry about being fake claimed when in reality I just need it for both of my legs.

I'm still disabled even though I'm fat and have invisible disabilities.

I'm still disabled and in pain even when I'm not using any mobility aids.

I'm not a baby, I'm not just fat, I'm not just weak. I am disabled and I like to think I'm stronger than most non-disabled people.

It's really weird to make comments or gestures when I'm in my wheelchair. If you wouldn't say it to someone who doesn't have a wheelchair don't say it to me.

Don't bend down to talk to me it's hella weird. Just talk to me like you would talk to anybody shorter than you.

Just because I'm not using my mobility aid doesn't mean I'm suddenly better!

I'm just as disabled when I'm not using my mobility aid.

Going a few days without my mobility aid doesn't mean I'm no longer disabled.

Just because I don't always need my mobility aid does not make it a toy.

Mobility aids can be incredibly helpful and we shouldn't have to be embarrassed to use them.

If I'm in my electric wheelchair and I'm in front of an aisle you need to get to just let me know, don't reach over my lap like I'm not a person.

If you don't step out of my way as a wheelchair user I am going to hit you, that's not a threat, it just will happen. You have a lot more maneuverability than I do.

If I'm using my mobility aid, you can be respectful and accomodate me without making it a thing. I know my limits and capabilities. Using a cane does not make me weak or helpless.

It's really funny seeing you guys jump to get out of the way when I use my cane, the space is appreciated, but it's still really funny to see the look on your face.

Please stop praying for my "recovery" there is none!

My rollator gives me freedom! I can go more places without having to worry about a lack of seating. I can actually walk faster with it than without it.

My mobility aid shouldn't be a horrifying last resort, it helps me so much, even when I'm not at my absolute worst!

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Thank you so much to everybody who participated! Happy disability pride month everyone!

[femboywizard]

A reminder that Glinda having either dyslexia/dysgraphia or a learning disability is canon in the Movieverse.

This is the same paper that we see her get back in this scene, in which we can see this was a large essay too.

There's nothing rushed to her handwriting, this was not an essay done at the last minute, and still, it shows several signs of a learning disability and/or dysgraphia.

Misspells her name in the second line

Wrong and inconsistent pronoun usage

Her margin spacing is consistent with someone who can't do proper syllable division

Immature transcription (see: writes her "um"s)

Limited vocabulary

Shows signs of: difficulty expressing ideas in writing, having a limited vocabulary, mispronouncing words or using a wrong word that sounds similar, and having trouble organizing what she wants to say. Those are all symptoms of a learning disability.

Less of a checklist sign, but her handwriting is very round and careful, while still not being consistently sized (see unfashionable). This and the margin sizes are very common in kids with bad dysgraphia who are made to take rigorous calligraphy courses to "fix the problem". Courses that work on the visual without remedying its underlying issues and causes. Form over content if you will.

Looking at this very blatant sign that she has a learning disability and immediately defaulting to calling her names (yes calling her stupid and saying Elphaba is a moronsexual for this counts), asking how she got into Shiz, or defending Dillamond in doing the very first thing teachers are told NOT to do with disabled students (re: calling attention to it in front of the entire class) is ableist!

[cmdonovann]

BEING HORNY ON MAIN IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH, i shout, tears in my eyes, trying desperately not to cringe at myself for the mortifying ordeal of my friends knowing exactly what type of fictional man i want to fuck,

[lemonwarrior]

i started reading his quantum leap book i got like a good couple of years ago and i swear to God this is like content made for specifically me and only me and mind.

they get into sam's relationship with the new body he leapt into, they never shy away from sam and al meaning everything to each other, PROJECT QUANTUM LEAP CONTENT!?!?, everything is going wrong literally because Tina disappeared, i thought there was she/he/it ziggy content but she hates it/its pronouns </3 they kept going back and forth between he/him and it/its within like the back to back paragraphs with each other like wowie, THE BEGINNING PUNCHES ME STRAIGHT IN THE GUT THEY PULLED NO PUNCHES he doesn't remember what home was but every bone in his body wants to go home?? him pleading asking the entity taking him to each leap if he's going home this time??? fuuuck dude (also interesting the entity looking at him like a bug under a microscope i fw that),

"At some level he needed Al, at once just his best friend, more than breath or vision or gravity,"

HELLO HELLO HELLO?!?, also there's a scene with al and this little kid which im always a sucker for it was so cute.

JUST LIKE FUUUCK MAN, if no one got me Ashley McConnell got me in 1992

[mekanikaltrifle]

So I did end up drawing some superhero freaks, as the results of the poll requested-- but I couldn't decide which one and there were no specifics, so... have a mix!

at the top we have Felicitas and his alt-universe villain duplicate Fidelitas facing off against a mutual threat :o

and at the bottom we have the Cardiff vigilante team of Air, Auspex and Torrent (left to right) having a much more cheerful time of it all :D

Hope youse enjoy, and if there's anything else you want to see do not hesitate to drop me a line :D

[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."

[corvidcall]

i spent so long as a lotr hater* that sometimes i forget that i read the books last year and fucking loved them. I'll be like "UGH lord of the rings 🙄 .... WAIT I LOVE LORD OF THE RINGS"

[soullessjack]

oh my god like. the stark contrast between mob’s inner self — saying that everyone around him held him back, everyone was afraid of him, everyone treated him differently, everyone only saw him as something to use and that he was never accepted by anyone at any point; that he would never be accepted for who he really internally feels he is — vs all of mob’s friends and family repeatedly saying “we aren’t scared of you because we know you and we love you, this is just a part of you that we can live with and accept,”— not to mention reigen fully admitting that he was using mob and apologizing for it, as well as telling mob that the only person who really needs to accept mob is himself..? It’s just. It’s so good man

[the-quiet-fire-of-defiance]

Can I remind u all that having a physically disabled character is not inherently "body horror" and please stop tagging it as such

Yeah, a lot of body horror does become disability

But I saw a fic that was tagged as body horror purely because one of the characters was an amputee that every other character pitied and I am begging you not to do that shit

[spacebugarts]

New character idea: multiclass bard that everyone else thinks is just a really good actor/jack of all trades type character but they're actually a system and each of their different classes is one of their alters :) could also be fun as a changeling so their appearance changes to reflect who's fronting!

[1tbls]

feeling this way about hdb rn:

[allthesunlightwecansee]

Vent about “Psychic” Interaction

I’m mostly posting this because I want to see if anyone else has had the same experience. I went to a somewhat local metaphysical store yesterday and had a pretty frustrating experience with someone claiming to be a psychic. Full disclaimer, I fully believe some people have advanced psychic and medium abilities to where they are able to read people, but this woman clearly did not. To start with, I didn’t ask for a reading, I just wanted to know if the shop had a specific stone I was looking for and then she just started reading me before I fully knew what was going on. She had some general advice that was helpful, but was really off base with a lot of what she was “reading,” and I answered no to a lot of her questions and assumptions because they were not true. She kept coming back to animals for some reason, even though I kept saying that I had no strong reaction to what she was asking, before finally telling me that she saw me in a past life as someone who was skinning and preparing animal hides, not for commercial sale but to eat and make clothing out of, which would have been normal at the time she was describing.

That was weird, but whatever, but then she got to the shitty part. I had mentioned at one point that I have a connective tissue disorder because I was looking for a stone for my healing altar, and she proceeds to tell me that my disability is a PUNISHMENT for what she saw me doing in a past life. I wish I could’ve told her off instead of just leaving, because there is so much wrong with that. Even if that is something you truly believe for whatever reason, you DO NOT tell someone that a medical condition beyond their control (mine is genetic, everyone in my immediate family has it too) is a punishment for being a bad person. That sucks so fucking badly to be told that something like that is your fault. I know that none of what she “read” is true, but damn did that make me feel awful. Like I said, I don’t actually believe she has enough psychic ability to read people, but hearing that really sucked and you should not say shit like that to another person.

[scleracentipede]

some liquid ocelot but make it actually supernatural coz let’s be real that was more fun

[defectivegembrain]

There's a lot to criticise about special ed but it can be an experience of an actual disabled community that's hard to find as an adult and hard to keep together after you've left especially if the lot of you have a complex mix of communication issues and some just. didn't survive that long. Some you have no idea about.

[radicalitch]

not me coming up with another idea for a novel that will, in all likelihood, never get written

[whoareyoueventhough]

I thought tumblr was a place for all fandom why can't I find a single Gil Hamilton post... I've searched "Gil Hamilton" "Gil the arm Hamilton" "Gil Hamiltons long arm" "the long arm of Gil Hamilton" and nothings coming up :/ like I knew there would be some Hamilton stuff but I thought the stuff I was actually looking for would float to the top? Now I see why people hate the tumblr search function ig