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Say it with me! Wheelchairs aren’t sad! Mobility aids aren’t sad! Mobility aids are instruments of freedom!

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by nicole maria winkler for metal magazine issue no. 40, autumn/winter 2018

@RealManje

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IF YOU LOVE FAT WOMEN HIT THAT MF REBLOG

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stupid thing about me is I don’t cut corners but I also have no work ethic. if I do something it WILL be done right. no telling whether I’ll actually fucking do it tho

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today i took diced green peppers, seasoned them with salt and fresh black pepper and baked it at 8000 degrees for 22 hours. i make this whenever i want pile of smoldering ash.

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Hi! Black image description writer here and hoping I can help!

When doing my own image descriptions, I tend to also stick to writing about skin tones, with the exception of when a clear culture or race can be inferred from context in which case I would describe both the persons racial or cultural identity *and* their skin tone, since for example Blackness is a wide spectrum that includes everyone from the very darkest skin colors to people who look white.

This to me is less about erasure and more about ensuring the most accurate description of an image possible. When writing an ID you want to start from the details that would catch your attention first as a sighted person and if I could look at a character’s overall appearance and be almost certain I’m looking at say an Indian woman, it’s important to include that as information.

(There’s an argument I think to be made about Black in the US American sense being an ethnicity and thus still relevant to your descriptions based on how you described doing them. Definitionally, an ethnicity is a shared cultural background or place of origin. But, this is a digression.)

I do want to hear more from other description writers of color since I’m just one person. Opinions on how to write image descriptions in general are as varied as the people who write or use them.

Hello! Thank you for all the work you do on this blog!! I just wanted to ask your thoughts on image descriptions for characters. My personal rule for myself is just to use a character's name if they're from existing media, but to describe them in detail (hair, clothes, etc.) if I designed them. I'd also been including their race, but I came to realize not everyone has a straightforward "label," and race itself can be incredibly arbitrary as a description.

I have a plan to create separate character posts that include their reference sheets and full character descriptions (sort of like a mini Wiki), that I can link to in each art post I make about them. In the art posts themselves, I'll just refer to them by their names.

In these character posts, I plan to describe skin tone instead of race, and include each character's ethnicity/ethnicities. I guess my main concern here is that, for characters I'd previously described as Black, not mentioning their Blackness in these posts may feel like erasure, even though I'll still be mentioning specific hairstyles, their ethnicity, etc. This might just be me overthinking things, but I just wanted to know if there's a better way I can do this. Thank you so much for your time!

I'm not a pro at image descriptions, so I'm going to redirect this one. Image describers, specifically ones of Color- how would you handle this situation?

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you should be writing sonnets at the club

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has anyone noticed that working for a living sucks ass

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Being obsessed with your own ocs is so so good for you i seriously can't recommend it enough

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Blair Imani made an excellent video that I really wanted to share with my white viewers, especially given the current climate. (Though, really, I could say everyone when it comes to antiblackness).

But yeah, we don't host these platforms just to hear ourselves talk 😅 It's not good enough anymore to go "oh, well, I know what's up so I'm Good" while you're passive in a space (fandom and outside), where The Problem is socially acceptable and in fact, encouraged. Especially when you have power in the space. Be willing to get uncomfortable. Be willing to speak up when your favorite creators are racist, or at least unfollow them and stop supporting their work. Have these conversations with your friends when they come up, even when they're going to be hard. Allyship requires action, and it's the- well, y'all know what I was bout to say. 👍🏾

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A 22 yr old in my org got drunk tuesday night and kinda shit on the fact that I'm running a community cleanup for our chapter. Said something along the lines of "i didn't join up to pick trash." Which really bothers me and it took me a while to figure out why. The whole point of the community cleanup is that we're returning to the neighborhoods where we knocked doors for A4 to help clean up their streets and provide material improvement for free in an effort to build inroads with those neighbors.

Like... if your socialism doesn't include picking uo trash, I'm guessing it also doesn't include doing the dishes, babysitting, or anything else that is important but not prestigious. Idk man, fuck off with that shit. You'll pick up trash and you'll like it until you understand why picking up trash isn't anyone's job but your own. I hate that attitude. If helping and doing activism was always fun and visible and impressive, everyone you know would already be doing it.

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I was gonna say something clever, but then I remembered that I’m not a clever person so you get gibberish instead

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For me, I think trying to be positive isn't about being happy all the time. It isn't even about seeing the "bright side" when bad stuff happens. To me, it just means that on the bad days, I know that better days will come again. The dark moods will pass. They aren't forever.

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"Bring back 2012-14"

OK commit then. Start wearing the tie dye beaded fringe shirts again.

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Happy Anniversary of Birth, sonboy!!!

hehe ty <3 call me sonMAN the way i

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SONMAN

There’s no need to feel down

I said SONMAN

You’re a man not a clown

Happy Anniversary of Birth, sonboy!!!

hehe ty <3 call me sonMAN the way i

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In a truck stop bathroom washing my hands today and 2 boys, looked about 5 and 9, came in with their little sister who looked maybe 2. The following whispered conversation made my entire day

"We have to wait, there's a lady in here!"

"That's not a lady, he has a mustache! We can be in here!"

"Some ladies have mustaches! And she has boobs!"

"Well some guys have boobs! Like Uncle Jake!"

"Uncle Jake is fat!"

At this point I could not contain a chuckle and both whirled around with identical looks of panic on their faces. I smiled and said "it's alright for you guys to be in here so your sister has help, don't worry. And I'm both! That's why I have boobs and a mustache. Some folks are just built that way"

(In unison) "Ooooooh!"

(older boy) "So do you use Sir or Ma'am or both?"

"Both, but I prefer Sir"

"Cool! Well thanks Sir! We have to help our sister now!"

This was in a small town country truck stop and both boys had "Murica" type stuff on and neither of them had any issue at all with these concepts. Their mom approached me while I was in line about 10 minutes later and apologized for them bothering me in the bathroom (they had told her about the interaction) and she and I had a lovely little chat too. I got to introduce her to the term "intersex" and her reply was "I think I've heard of that before! I didn't know that was the word for it. Amazing how many different ways God can make people!"

Sometimes the world is good. More often than you might think, if you give it a chance. It's not all bad loves <3