#why do I keep doing this

[evoimations]

Wrong blog again, but I don’t feel like doing anything this time 

Proposing new meanings for the Disability Pride Flag stripes

I love the design of the disability pride flag made by @capricorn-0mnikorn (in consultation with many disabled people!). It’s beautiful, elegant, and distinct. I love the symbolism of the diagonal stripes.

But the more I think about the meanings of the five diagonal stripes, the more uncomfortable I am with them. So I'll explain my discomfort and then give proposed alternative meanings.

For those unfamiliar, these are the meanings that capricorn-0mnikorn gives:

The White Stripe: Invisible and Undiagnosed Disabilities

The Red Stripe: Physical Disabilities

The Gold Stripe: Neurodivergence

The Blue Stripe: Psychiatric Disabilities

The Green Stripe: Sensory Disabilities

With additional and helpful context here! 💙 Like a lot of disabled people my disabilities don't all fit neatly into these boxes, but I recognize some disabled people see themselves in these categories. I do appreciate the symbolism of it being the most common flag colours / internationalism plus the intent of representing diversity amongst the disability community.

Here’s what doesn’t sit well with me:

The yellow was chosen for the neurodiversity stripe because gold = Au = autism (and also as a fuck you to autism speaks, a sentiment I agree with 💯). 

So autism is used to represent all of neurodiversity. Even though the 2018 AutisticsUK campaign to associate gold with autism was explicitly motivated by the idea that neurodiversity is larger than just autism and autistic people should have our own colour/symbol distinct from the rainbow infinity used for general neurodiversity.

One specific disability is effectively being given a whole stripe (autism) while the other four stripes are based on abstract ideas: red is associated with body -> physical disability, blue is associated with the mind (and is “opposite” to red) so -> mental disability. This is reasonable but it’s inconsistent. (And I am very much the kind of autistic who gets bothered by internal inconsistency 😅)

The Deaf community has been using cyan blue for ages (since at least 1999, probably older) and they have been so vital in disability rights history. I feel if any single disability deserves to get an entire stripe to themselves it should be them.

I appreciate the honestly that assigning green to sensory disabilities was because “that was the color that was left over” but it still feels wrong given how vital blind & deaf people have been to disability history. 

Blue for mental/emotional disabilities also misses that the Mad Pride movement has been using purple as their colour since at least 2013. 

If all five stripes were disconnected from actual disability-specific pride flags I think I’d be okay with it. What sets me off is the inconsistency: autism gets the privilege of its own chosen colour but not other disabilities? (Also: autism isn’t the only disability that uses yellow!)

My proposal for new meanings

I propose each stripe represent a different cause of disability, and the associated model(s) of disability that go with that cause:

Red: disability due to injury / the debility model of disability - e.g. injury due to armed conflicts caused by colonialism, injury due to gun violence in a country which fails to regulate gun safety, preventable illness due to sociopolitical neglect 😡🩸

Yellow: disability due to natural differences / affirmative models of disability - e.g. autistic people who lead lives that take advantage of their autistic traits, DSPS folks who are able to work night shifts and take pride in doing so 😄🌟

Blue: situational disabilities / critical models like the social model, social construction model, political/relational model, and radical model - e.g. a Deaf person who feels their only disability is that people don’t speak their signed language and don’t provide captions/etc 🗣️♿️

Green: disability due to illness / biomedical models of disability - e.g. people with conditions like ME/CFS and Long Covid who actually do want to be treated/cured 🤢🦠

White: disability caused by unknown or other factors / other models such as the human rights model - e.g. somebody with a poorly-understood and/or undiagnosed illness who is fighting for access for accommodations and medical care 👀🤍

People may relate to multiple stripes! Whether it’s for the same disability or for having multiple disabilities. Like the old meanings, the intent is to showcase our internal diversity. 🌈

It’s been my experience of disability community that attitudes about disability tend (in general) to be linked more to when/how we were disabled rather than mental/physical/sensory/etc. For example, people like me who were disabled from a young age tend to understand our disabilities differently than people who acquire disability later in life.

Colour choice justifications:

Red as disabilities caused by injury: keeping with capricorn-0mnikorn’s association of red with the body plus the common associations of red with blood, violence, and anger. I want to explicitly include the debility model of disability because a lot of white disabled people tend to forget or gloss over how disability is used as a weapon against racialized & Global South folks.

Yellow is associated with optimism and pleasure as well as enlightenment (such as in the Deaf flag) and so I connect it to the affirmation model of disability (which is the opposite of the charity/tragedy model). From there I associated it to disability due to natural differences, such as congenital neurodivergence. I want yellow to still be something that fellow autistics could still see themselves in the flag for! 💛 And I want intersex people who see their intersex variation as a disability to be able to see themselves here too because being intersex is natural 💛 

Blue as disabilities that are social/situational in nature, like Deafness being a disability in situations where signed languages are unavailable. I wanted Deafness to actually be under blue this time. 💙 

Blue has also been used for disability writ large for a long time now and so this one being the one associated with the Social Model feels most historically connected to me. I’m also including newer critical/postmodern models like the social construction model and radical model which also posit that disability is a social category rather than a deficiency of individuals’ bodyminds.

The social model is generally contrasted with the medical model - viewing disability as a medical problem. A lot of disability activism is focused on de-medicalizing our bodyminds and challenging the idea that we want to be cured. 

But there are chronic illnesses like ME/CFS, long covid, and cancer where the people who are disabled by them do actively (and vocally) want to be cured! And they belong to the disability community too.  Green was picked for illness because green has been used to symbolize sickness (e.g. the 🤮 emoji). And biomedical models like the traditional medical model and the more recent biopsychosocal model are thematically connected to disability being due to illness.

For white, I want people who are undiagnosed and/or who feel the invisibility of their disability as important to again be able to see themselves in this stripe. 🩶White is also the catch-all “other models” because of white being the sum of all colours in an additive colour model. Models like the human rights model I see as being appealing to disabled people who are feeling invisibilized by society.

For each stripe I've included both a cause of disability and a model of disability. The causes are concrete, and easy to understand. The models of disability are more abstract and not everybody will know them (especially ableds). But a flag gives us an opportunity to teach others about us and I think it's a great opportunity to increase awareness of the different views/models of disability. 🖤

Overall, I tried to keep as much of capricorn-0mnikorn’s reasoning/associations alive in my new proposed meanings as I could. 💜 I hope people who see themselves in a given stripe of the original flag will see themselves in this scheme as well. I hope people who didn’t see themselves in the original scheme find these options more inclusive. ☮️

[himbotimbo]

My take on Red Robin

They keep doing him so dirty with the Red Robin suit so I took it upon myself to fix it by 1) aging him up and 2) going back to a domino and not the cowl . Please enjoy

[kakisnowcream]

once again i revised my human takes

[a-man-in-the-crowd]

my hunger games au shit is making me think a LOT about the will-eulalie dynamic and the passion with which eulalie hates montresor (understandable). i think she hates montresor enough for will and her both honestly ☠️

in her eyes, he goes against every single principle of friendship she has and she wants desperately for will to see that (even if in the process it does nothing to help will's core problem of not having opinions/not being able to express opinions of his own). though, worth noting, while she currently feels that her friends left her behind — montresor came back for will.

she says friends care, and montresor, however little and for how much he sucks otherwise, does care. meanwhile, her friends routinely ignore and condescend her despite otherwise being pretty okay — a behaviour she's accidentally mirrorring towards will by refusing to hear him out on why he thinks monty's his friend and making statements on their friendship with no room for argument, which undermines will's ability to make conclusions himself.

by doing this, she also inadvertently reinforces something monty told will which, based on will's expression in that scene and his behaviour in later scenes, he's internalized. fun!

[jenlog]

you can reduce DYSPHORIA by shaving THE STUBBLE YOU HAVEN'T TOUCHED FOR THREE FUCKING DAYS

[soupcarvroomvroom]

yeah so i finished this

[dramatic-dolphin]

everyyy fucking time i explain my bad leg to someone i fall into the same trap of my own making, which is that i say "yeah the muscles here are really weak, so for example if i do this it hurts a lot and starts cramping:" and then i demonstrate the 'this'. you'll never fucking guess what happens next.

[luvmoonie]

went into ‘how to lose a guy in 10 days’ saying “oh i never got the mcconaughey hype” and now here i am on tumblr

[someonechaotic]

UPDATE ON THE ACCIDENTAL COME OUT

I HAVE NOW COME OUT AS GAY ACCISENTLY TO MY BEST FRIEND

IM AROACE

I AM SO FAR INTO NARNIA RN

[artcreature326]

Okay.

[hugenthusiast]

Sadly I do understand ford summoning the demon that has "do not summon" written all over it because I have tags that I decided to hide for myself and yet curiosity still gets the better of me

[lexicorp]

They are yet another flavor of creature- obsessed with religion, loyal to their trine (also later Megatron a decent bit actually. Might depend on flavor), and desperate for a purpose :>

Best parallel in TF lore for them would very much be Sunstorm.

Seri is an Outlier, whose ability nearly killed them the first time it flared up. Their spark didn't account for the cold- constructed frame it was given, but after that scare incident, their mentor got them upgraded plating that can withstand their heat. Now they can dip in lava and be fine, much like Grimlock (don't toss em into the sun or something tho-). They don't exactly have a /radioactive/ spark like Sunstorm, their ability is very magma central. They can exert temperatures that can melt most materials; metal, rock, etc. Their power was controlled in the new frame they were given, and thus the energy is condensed to their servos and peds. Even so, it can empower their jets or firepower as well in short bursts. if they don't keep themselves in control to a certain degree tho, they could get hot enough to damage their own optics or melt themselves a bit. They had troubles when younger with literal meltdowns, but after moving on from their mentor to be with their trine, they still carry what they were taught when it comes to composure (as well as how they actually got their religious fanatics from their mentor lol).

Their trine mates are Codecracker/Soara and Levatair. Despite the tension regarding CC, they do still are quite forgiving of her behavior. The main thing Seri doesn't like is when CC disrespects their Trine Leader, so they do step in occasionally to defuse things.

When it comes to the start of the war, Seri was absolutely appalled at Sentinel betraying the true Primes, and absolutely rooted for Megatron ripping the guy in half as divine retribution. (I will note that ngl I am not sure of one solid continuity, tho that's a clear event when also thinking of another one of my characters I have in mind.) Seriph admired Megatron's strength and sense of justice, and their perspective of that was rather warped from what they wanted to interpret it as. They followed Megatron with all the other seekers, but was unsure about the Optimus Prime factor. Primus had chosen Orion, and given him the matrix; but Seriph believes that OP is misguided and misunderstood the responsibility given to him (ultimately, OP would be basically the only one to be able to convince them to change tho ngl). Instead as they plunge into war, Seriph believes it is the era of the next purge like The Flood in Christian shit. They believe it's their duty to reduce all those who stand against their promised new world to ash and molton slag. Despite the fact that they are a brutal killer, they do feel some level of sympathy for those they feel were misguided, and often will give a short prayer before sending them to the Allspark. although there are some they come across that they only give silence if they believe that person belongs to the Pit. They view death as more of a reset button for those who deserve a second chance in the new world. Under the impression that after the storm has settled, they truly will be able to rebuild it better from the carnage.

Theyre believe of frames being fleeting, and replaceable, definitely stem from their cold-construct background; as well from the fact they they had needed to be rebuilt when they barely survived. (that instance is what instilled their deep seeded belief that Primus allowed them to remain for a /reason/)

Seriph's fighting style is very close combat oriented. They often will catapult themself at the enemy and wrestle their opponents with their fired servos and the mini wings on their arms that are used like the blades Arcee has in TFP. They even more often use their blasters at close range, although they still can use em at a distance. The 6 turrets they have are faced down in flight, so they operate more so like a bomber.

[kekithepancake25]

drew Starlo from memory >:3

[isolarya]

les mis but much ado about nothing

[inferi0rr]

oh well, it wasn't the last one...

mushroom OC is not mine

[oneandonly-triple-b]

ive done it again lads. i love woobifying (FICTIONAL AND ONLY FICTIONAL‼️) serial killers and turning homophobes into queers. and making self inserts. can you tell. no you cant shut up

anyways im thinkin this is the dynamic

i lovehate you patrick bateman you fucking pathetic laughable prick. tbh mostly im just attracted to christian bale i think. i like hot men with so many issues and toxic yaoi