another disabled nico di angelo headcanon:

nico suffers from something similar to narcolepsy due to him almost fading from shadow traveling so much. the way they (the Apollo cabin) accommodate him is this private room in the infirmary that he goes to and bc its in the infirmary he can easily get out of training when needed (no questions asked). if it's during meals, he'll just lean against Will in the dining pavilion, and he's allowed to sleep bc the apollo cabin gets disabilities. Will and him will come back when he's awake again/feeling better and make food in the kitchen together even if it's the middle on the night

the harpies don't bother them bc they've got a doctors note

Me drawing nico with forearm crutches because I can’t afford them at the moment? Obviously.

yknow what i was reminded of this and it’s been sitting in my drafts for awhile:

i feel like Nico is a very unique disabled character particularly for a YA fantasy series because he’s one of the few instances where I’ve see a character who becomes disabled gradually over time rather than having a pre-existing or sudden new disability, and he has an invisible disability, and it’s actually acknowledged and discussed to some degree in-text.

Most of Nico’s disabilities we see through the lens of Nico’s powers, but not exclusively. In the first series, Nico’s powers are extremely dramatic - he’s able to create large rifts in the ground, generate building-sized slabs of black marble, direct armies of skeletons, summon and control large groups of ghosts at once, and accidentally shadow-travel halfway across the world with very little drawback.

But over time, contrary to what we’re told of how demigod abilities work (becoming more powerful over time), Nico’s abilities decrease as the series progresses, particularly after he goes through multiple traumatic experiences and physical injury. In HoO and TOA, we see he never fully recovered from the neglect to his health over time and injuries he’s received.

I feel like it’s really important to acknowledge that Nico is an instance of a disabled character who gradually loses the ability to do things to the same degree he used to before, which is an important disabled experience.

son of the underworld

Nico with mobility aids (real) (canon)

(Image description: art of Nico di angelo. He is sitting in a wheelchair, slightly reclined. In the other he is standing and leaning against a cane. End description)

This Is How I Disappear, Nico di Angelo’s theme song during BOTL

this comic took me (checks watch) 3 months because i drew and inked the pages traditionally! i added the colors and text in procreate but i definitely got some quality time with my steel nib!

nico di angelo from percy jackson and the olympians is transgender and owns a glock! requested by @paddooo.

Disabled Nico di Angelo Headcanons

please stop saying that demigods aren’t actually adhd/dyslexic because their traits have plot reasons. what you’re doing by spreading this narrative is removing canon disability from disabled characters. it’s ableist and harmful whether it’s intended or not.

Hey, who remembers that old thread of people drawing pjo characters in their outfits?

Anyways.

(feel free to add your own)

demigod doodle dump !!!

FRIENDLY REMINDER:

I get that we normally use these terms in this way, but it just presents another form of binary thinking if there is no flexibility to these labels, which is pretty ironic considering these labels were made to be inclusive of nonbinary people.

By limiting the meaning of these labels, we only hurt Trans people. We exclude nonbinary people, multigender people, trans intersex people, trans systems, and so many more.

I want to thank every queer person who’s ever worked a customer service job in a restaurant or in retail, because when I was a kid they were literally the only real proof I had that queer people existed. I saw y’all and sparks would go off in my head and then I’d go home and the fire would go out. Working customer service can suck, but I’ll never take for granted how impactful a visibly queer person can be for a lonely child.

i love being intersex i love intersexuality i love cis intersex people i love trans intersex people i love intergender people i love people questioning and discovering their intersexuality i love people disabled by their variation i love people whose variation isn’t externally noticeable i love us all so much

"no children are being forced to take hrt or have surgeries that change the appearance of their genitals" intersex children are, actually

"everyone was assigned a gender at birth" there are intersex people who were not assigned a gender at birth

"trans women are amab trans people and trans men are afab trans people" there are intersex people who were assigned male at birth and later transitioned medically and socially to male, and intersex people who were assigned female at birth and later transitioned medically and socially to female

"assigned gender at birth is a 1:1 predictor of tma vs tme experience" there are intersex people who were assigned female at birth and experienced violence for being a woman with a penis + testes + secondary sex characteristics like facial hair + having a testosterone-dominant hormone profile, and had to transition medically and socially to be socially and medically recognized as women as adults

"bodies born with sex variations are medically nonbinary" no, they are intersex, and intersex people can be a binary gender if they want to be

"nonbinary people who want non-cisnormative sex variations are mentally ill/diseased for wanting a disordered body" no, bodies with sex variations are not disordered, and it harms intersex people for them to be seen as disordered regardless of if the body in question was born that way or created through surgery

"cis women don't experience transphobic body policing/will never understand how it feels to have your womanhood constantly in question and subject to violence over things you can't change" intersexism overlaps heavily with transphobia and an intersex woman can both identify as cis and have a penis, testes, be testosterone-dominant, etc, and have visible signs of those traits. an intersex woman can also have been amab or be currently legally designated as male by the government and still identify as cis.

stop saying intersexist shit in your trans discourse thanks

Here're gifs of Tequila failing to do bartending tricks from the behind the scenes clips!

GIFs by 미크리pkm

Alternative language for biology of sex without using "hermaphrodite"

So, you're worldbuilding a scifi alien species or a fantasy race that can reproduce as both male and female. Or you're a biologist or science educator. And you want what you're writing/making to be inclusive to intersex people.

The term hermaphrodite in biology refers to species that can reproduce as both male or female. The problem is it's also a slur when used against intersex people (it's also incorrect - we're not hermaphrodites). I recently polled other intersex folks informally and a plurality were fine with the h-word being used with the correct meaning in appropriate contexts. But the qualitative feedback I got was, all things equal, most people who wrote to me said they'd just be happier seeing the term less.

So here is a glossary of words you can use to talk about the biology of sex without invoking the h-word:

Gonochoric species where individuals (typically) reproduce only as either male or female. This means the species produces two types of gametes that have different sizes, and conventionally the larger is female. Gono- for generation/reproduction and -choric for separated/distinct. Note that "non-gonochoric" includes both hermaphroditic species and those that can reproduce asexually (e.g. parthenogenesis).

Gonosyne: species where individuals (typically) can reproduce as both male or female. Gono- for generation/reproduction and syne for together/combined. This is a term I have coined to be an alternative to hermaphrodite.

Types of gonosyny: it's common to categorize different forms of gonosyny based on temporality and how many gonads an individual has.

Grouping by Temporality:

Grouping by Gonads: