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@briarpatch-kids

Call me Briar! 30 they/them, nblm and happily married. thembo rights, professional jam clown and wheelchair user
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Hello! I'm Briar and here are the basics! (Last updated August 2023)

  • My blog is kind of a messy space like the rest of my life, so there's a lot here.
  • I mainly post about my garden, fiber arts, sewing, canning, the cat, the ducks, and disability topics.
  • I'm a full time wheelchair user and ventilator user with mitochondrial disease. I have a little less than half the energy I'm supposed to and that causes a lot of issues.
  • My health is super variable because of the above. If I overdo it or get sick Bad Things Happen and I've been told by my doctor I should look at flares in terms of weeks to months rather than day to day.
  • If you want to use any of my photos or video for a stimboard or moodboard, just tag me or send it to me so I can see your art!

BUSINESS STUFF

Commissions are open

Current project: a sleep brace for @disconnectivetissue

Waitlist:

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  • I take sewing, dyework, spinning, and fiber art commissions and I work closely with a crocheter. If you have a design on paper already, or a good idea of what you want, DM me and I can work out a quote for you. The general formula is materials + $15 an hour labor if you want an idea.
  • Turnover for large commissions is usually a month or two, smaller projects depend on when materials arrive.

Moral stuff

  • This is a trans and ace inclusive space. Don't play those games or I'll block you.
  • I have friends here who are intellectually disabled and proud of it. If you're mean to someone for their typing or asking a question that can easily be googled I will call you out on it. Same goes for ableism of any other kind.
  • This is an anti racist and anti facist space. Black Lives Matter.
  • Please don't drag me into fanfiction stuff. I don't read it, I don't really involve myself in fandom, I've never been on Ao3. Just don't be a creep and write nsfw stories about kids or real living people. It's gross okay?
  • I say queer. I won't tag it, I won't stop saying it, it's part of my identity, don't ask unless you want a rant about it.

Communication

  • My anons are on and I really appreciate people letting me know when I say something inappropriate or short sighted. I'm on the autism spectrum and working really hard to grow as a person so feedback is a good thing!
  • I also love it when anons and such tell me fun facts or talk about their day if it was interesting or whatever.
  • I generally try to answer DMs and asks as soon as possible but sometimes they get lost. If I haven't after a few days, please don't assume it's because I don't like you or whatever. It's because I didn't have the social energy and put it off, then my memory sucks so I've forgotten or it didn't go through so you're welcome to send it again.
  • I don't have the energy for group chats, I'm sorry. I want to, but I inevitably burn out my social energy in a week and then ghost and feel bad about it.
  • I've had a pretty variable disability experience because I went from able bodied and capable of running miles to a full time wheelchair user who needs assistance with every day tasks slowly over 7 years. I'm happy to answer most good faith questions about disability, mobility aids, and the like.
  • Anyone is welcome to ask for a plain language explanation of something. I will not be rude or snarky about it if you want an easy to understand answer.
  • I don't reblog funding requests, I'm sorry. I'm disabled and trans and so are most of my friends so I see one every fourth post and it's really rough on my mental health. I have a small budget that I use to donate when I'm able to instead.
#about me#long post
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It's blackberry season in some places and that means all the foraging groups have gone from "are these ramps???" posts to "Identify plz" posts where the photo is VERY obviously a ripe blackberry.

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briarpatch-kids

T_T

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The ramp posts are more fun though because you get to try and figure out what kind of bulb the OP stole from someone yard it was while thinking they might be ramps.

RAMPS? no, that's a tulip.

Ramp? That one's lily of the valley

ID please, I think it's ramps. I'm pretty sure it's death camus.

Ramps???? You live in Oregon and they don't grow here. Those are Iris rhizomes you dug out of someone's flower bed.

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It's blackberry season in some places and that means all the foraging groups have gone from "are these ramps???" posts to "Identify plz" posts where the photo is VERY obviously a ripe blackberry.

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forrestlurker

Just watched a cis woman argue for banning trans men from birthing wards because, and I quote, "some women have been SAed"

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"Excuse me, sir, I know you're in the middle of pushing an entire person from your body but I'm going to have to ask you to leave. This is a Women's Only Safe Space."

#oh boy shes gonna have a lot to learn about transmasc SA rates#pregnancy talk#sexual violence talk#statistically the trans man is more likely to be an SA survivor
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I can't decide if the author of the book is saying "no, but these people think so" in a really diplomatic way or if he's saying "the government says no but I think it's the anti-vax loonies who are right"

Ironically being less autistic would help me in deciphering this. Better go eat some kimchi directly from the jar with fridge door still open about it /snark

Current opinion is this though: the author sure knows a lot about how to rot food in the way you want it to, but he doesn't know shit about autism and should have just left that portion out. Sourdough is tasty but it's not gonna cure anything but a hankering for tangy bread. The author DOES have a section on how fermented food won't cure shit but has helped a few aspects of his HIV, so I don't want to leap to any major conclusions about ableism and crackpottery. (The aspects he says it's helped are all GI related symptoms and said that one of his immune markers improved a little bit since he got into fermentation. Nothing too out there)

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Gritting my teeth and chanting "it's not about you, it's not about you. It's about people who struggle more than you and want to struggle less" when reading a book and seeing a wack ass opinion on autism out of the blue.

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Also, just for the record, pickles and sourdough are tasty but I don't think they'll help someone ""overcome"" autism. It might make make their tummy hurt a little less, though. Also I know a shitload of autistic people who would literally rather die than eat something described as "funky" which is what a lot of fermented foods are.

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Instead of discarding my sourdough when I fed today, I made two starters so not only will I get to have cinnamon rolls when my starter is happy, I'll ALSO get to make crackers again later.

(With sourdough, you "discard" half when you feed it new flour or else it doubles in size every day. My sourdough is about 2 cups, so I'll have 4 cups of sourdough later. I'm going to make cinnamon rolls with 1 cup, then use 2 cups for crackers, and the last cup will be fed and live on my counter until it's time to bake again. It's a fun little cycle)

#including extra info because i like to talk about it and people are enjoying learning about it