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Love it when you thread a needle with dark-colored thread and set it down on a light-colored surface and it just fucking vanishes into the shadow dimension the instant you take your eyes off it

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mutuals can always dm me but be warned i talk like your coworker who is trying too hard to get to know you and my response times are akin to the response times you might get if we were communicating by letter

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Bro, my unyielding loyalty towards you is totally normal and healthy, I swear. It's just that it's definitely my duty to rip out your enemies throats with my bare teeth. You are the love of my life and I am your most valuable tool. Each night, I fantasize about dying in your arms, covered in blood, and then I close my eyes one final time, satisfied because I can feel your fingers on my face as I take my last breath. Haha anyways

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saw a couple on the Green Line today holding hands but he had a Dunkin cup in his other hand and she had one from Starbucks...so heartwarming to observe interfaith relationships

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#I call my sister autism sometimes #She's in New Brunswick

Intriguing new evidence has been uncovered. Finally, we're getting somewhere. Apparently that somewhere is New Brunswick.

where’s autism?

I'm not saying anything without my lawyer present.

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Well, it's not like they were the counselor for their own marriages.

It's more relevant to ask about their clients' marriages. Even then, a marriage ending is not inherently less valuable a resolution than a marriage continuing. And I would never want a counselor who prioritizes the marriage over the actual people in the marriage.

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I know what I desperately want to stitch in the new year... but it requires... research

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Found Family Battle (Finals)

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Patagonia, Argentina & Chile

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Found Family Battle (Finals)

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My hottest Star Trek take is that Winn Adami is to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as J. Jonah Jameson is to Spider-Man media, but people are too misogynistic to appreciate it.

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shawn spencer really said 'i'm joining the hostage situation... on the side of the hostage-taker' and i haven't stopped thinking about it since

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Connecticut is absolutely known for their basketball? Why is that weird? Yeah, "basketball capital" is subjective, and the claim is ambitious, but it's hardly coming out of nowhere.

Regardless, we should always be in support of picking fights with New York. It's the principle of the thing.

I drive between Massachusetts and New York with some frequency, and not too long ago Connecticut put up a sign on I-84 south welcoming people to the state, and declaring it the "basketball capital of the world". This seemed a weird statement, as the Boston Celtics have the most championship titles in the NBA, and Springfield MA is the birthplace of basketball and home to the hall of fame, but whatever.

Driving back from New York today I noticed the "pizza capital of the united states" sign, and realized they are picking fights on purpose.

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they should invent a reading position that doesnt get uncomfortable after two minutes

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Someone saying that a person is not really disabled because they could get better if they just [thing they have no feasible way to do] is such a typical ableist comment that I think anon should use the complaints as further evidence for calling that character disabled.

The commenters are the ones being ableist and belittling disabled people, not anon. Any person who has been harassed for using accessibility tools, or been denied necessary support/assistance because they didn't do the right performance of suffering for an authority figure, can tell you that someone who uses "actual" disabled people as a comparison tool is not a disability ally. Especially if they are not even familiar with the basic definition of a disability.

Also, anon applied the label in a fictional context, and even if I thought they were incorrect (which I do not), the people objecting would be doing something worse by invalidating real-life disabled people with their comments implying that temporary or poverty-related disabilities aren't "real" disabilities.

Tagging question! In canon, a character has a magic-induced health problem. Basically, every so often, he has days moving his back in any way causes staggering amounts of pain and he has severe fatigue. He can't get upright under his own power during severe episodes. Painkillers do not work. The frequency of episodes starts off once every few months but by this point in canon has become a once or twice a week problem. It can hit right out of nowhere even if he was fine all day today or he can wake up with it.

Fandom wank being what it is, people keep insisting to me that this is not a disability. I tagged the fic with Disabled Character because since he's the main character of the fic and this... look, I'm not disabled? I could be wrong. But to me this feels like a disability. If I met someone with this IRL with a non-magical cause I would go, "I 100% believe this qualifies as a disability" without question. But oh, wow. The fandom does NOT agree with me on this. I've gotten several annoyed remarks by people informing me that this is belittling the pain actual disabled people have because disabilities, unlike curses, can't be lifted. And I can see that there's a difference. Thing is, he can't canonically afford to pay to have the curse lifted. He's stuck with it.

Because every single person in this conversation is abled, though, I feel like they're not who I should be listening to. OTNF, I know your readership includes disabled people. Do you/they have any suggestions? Does he qualify as disabled, or am I too attached to my headcanon-y idea of him as being a metaphor for disability?

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I don't think that's a metaphor. I think that's a canonically (magically) disabled character.

What say you, readers?

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generally speaking when it comes to mental and physical health, if you're asked "do you struggle with this" and your answer is "no, Because I Have A System," then your answer is actually yes

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