You know what, I'm sick of all this "autism may be interpreted as a disability if you choose to identify that way" like I'm not gonna police what others say about themselves that's not the point here but I am objectively disabled. And that will still be true even if there's a revolution and the world becomes more fitted to people like me. Even if everything wasn't set up with assumptions that you are okay using the phone, I would still have more limited options for communication than most people. Even if public spaces avoided too much noise, there would still be loud noises in the world and they would still affect me more than others. Even if we had universal income and every job was as accessible as possible, I'd still lack the executive functioning skills that make everyday tasks more doable. And none of this means I hate my autism or myself for being autistic, and no I don't want a cure. But my disabled status is not debatable, or a matter of your philosophy or whatever. It's just reality. Denying it is just ableism.

It really is just a more polite extension of "the only disability in life is a bad attitude" like, no, disability is a disability.

Can't believe Peter Griffin really tried it.

Ok but I'd the second dude like...a vampire? Because my straight ass is bewitched.

[Transcript:

(the first person has text over them that says "being fat and wanting a girlfriend")

First person: "See what's behind this door..!"

(Door has text over it that says "fat girls" while The Toccata and Fugue in D minor plays in the background)

First person: "Noo, is there a bett-"

Second person: " Yo it's funny that there's an entire demographic, of petite women who love bigger men. But because you've just ousted yourself, as a cunt, it's never gonna happen for you mate. You're really out here body shaming, all these beautiful shawties, big body Bugatti (kiss noise), exquisite; but you're built like a less cool Bling Bling Boy from Johnny Test. Make it make sense mate. It doesn't- it really doesn't. Could've kept your mouth shut. But you had to say something. And you even went so far as to put it on the internet. And you thought that was a good idea because-? Please, take yourself elsewhere. Sincerely the entire fucking human race."

End transcript.]

The moment that man started speaking -

That transcript up there is great, but it fails to mention that the second person? Has a voice like... warm caramel. Like a blanket on a rainy day. Like the gentle creak of an ancient tree in an even more ancient forest. A voice that's a low, deep -- far deeper than expected -- warm, and has a soothing timbre that, honestly, I could listen to for hours.

This is a question that really should have occurred to me before - how *did* all the late 60′s-70′s hippies physically get to India in the numbers culture has told me they did? Flights were of course an option, but only for a few - the prices pre-1980′s were ruinously expensive, and hippies may have been from more elite backgrounds but they were still a ton of broke college kids all the same. And its not like you would take a boat through the Suez or around the horn as a passenger, and no train lines existed for most of that journey. So what gives?

Well you drove of course!

I somehow never learned about the Hippie Trail, but it was a big thing apparently, a gap in knowledge for me. But I see why I forgot it - its an artifact lost to political revolution. British college students renting a bus and riding through…Iran…and Afghanistan….that stopped being an option by 1980. But under the Shah and Khan these were western-looking states open for business. And until the late 1970′s the price of gas was pretty much irrelevant, neither costs nor borders was a barrier. Chalk up another cultural artifact undergirded by - and undone by - global political and economic realities.

(also note the critical fact of Yugoslavia being communist-but-third-way-unaligned to open up that path)

Like a tenant, she liked the house and then settled down.

This cured my depression

I still can’t believe that in the last 10 years Superman, Green Arrow, Flash and Supergirl all had live-action shows about them with 100-200 episodes, meanwhile Batman literally didn’t have his own show since the 60′s??

Like yeah he’s definitely overexposed on the big screen, but the fact fact that he (nor any of the Batkids) never had their own TV show is crazy to me.

Was anybody going to tell me that Alfred already has his own solo show and it’s currently on it’s 2nd season??

And the Batmobile is apparently is going to have its own show too??

Okay but the fact that Teen Titans Go managed to predict this makes all of this even funnier

Of all things to predict this…

rare vent art from a few months ago

I feel this!!! Also love how you muted the color along the way, I think it makes it that much more impactful!

This is exactly what it’s like,,,,

I don’t get how in fantasy fiction, the women who actually enjoy sewing/embroidering are always painted as the weak, boring, and anti-feminist characters 

Sewing and embroidery take skill, patience, and artistic talent and it was also the ultimate way to ignore the annoying men in your life in past centuries 

If you didn’t feel like talking to a man, you just “took up your sewing” and he’d have to leave you alone, especially if he needed that shirt mended

Women also got together all the time to sew, weave, embroider but also talk, gossip, assist each other’s work, and enjoy each other’s company in peace 

The skill the female character has doesn’t have to be sword-fighting for her to be strong, because there’s strength and power in any skill she has 

Destroy the idea that a woman’s strength is derived from how much she subverts gender norms

Destroy the idea that a woman’s strength is derived from how much she subverts gender norms

This is Bess of Hardwick, she was born into gentile poverty but eventually became the Countess of Shrewsbury and the second wealthiest & powerful woman (after Queen Elizabeth) in late 16th/early 17thc. England .

While her series of marriages was an important component of her rise from obscurity, equally important was her political savvy and shrewd business sense - efficiently managing extensive estates, taking on ambitious building projects, acting as patron to artists and craftspeople, negotiating dynastic alliances, defending her interests in courts of law, etc.

She was, famously, also a skilled and avid needleworker.

Embroidering, making tapestries and the like was a mode of artistic expression for Bess, but it was also a way of creating wealth. As a proof point of their value: items of skilled needlework were often specifically mentioned in wills, and giving such as gifts could be used to curry political favor - for example there are records of Bess gifting Queen Elizabeth finely embroidered sets of sleeves (at this time sleeves were often pinned or tied to the body of a garment vs. being permanently sewn on).

I want to get into the whole Bess of Hardwick/Mary Queen of Scotts needlework and politics connection but that’s a whole essay in its own right and still boils down to: Destroy the idea that a woman’s strength is derived from how much she subverts gender norms

^^^ js if you’re writing historical fiction and you use “women’s” work as shorthand for being weak and useless you’ve got a bad case of ‘historical inaccuracy’ 

D&D is ramping up these multiverse themes, but the fun of a multiverse is seeing weird alternatives and other universal laws.

Do you want to go to the heroic fantasy Renaissance hodgepodge world? The dark heroic fantasy late Medieval/Renaissance hodgepodge world? The heroic fantasy late Medieval/Renaissance hodgepodge world? The heroic fantasy late Medieval/Renaissance hodgepodge world?

The high magic urban sprawl ruled by specialized houses? The high magic ecumenopolis ruled by specialized guilds?

Ancient Greece?

How about a school?

maybe just bc all/most? of these settings are old content and they cant really change much to make it more interesting without breaking what it was

which begs the question of 'why even go this route'

In Washington state there is now a civilian police oversight board and this board can decertify (thats right) any cop for their conduct on or off duty, in the physical or online world.

Cops all over the state are quitting in droves, every department is scrambling to figure out how to do their jobs now that the use of force and use of deadly force policies have also changed.

These uniformed gang members are scared they will lose their jobs. And to that I say, good

“So I hear you want to free Britney, and I just want to tell you, um, welcome to the disability revolution. We are so glad you’re here! Do you think it’s wild that she couldn’t remove her IUD? Well, it is still currently completely legal to sterilize women with disabilities. Under law. Do you think it’s bananas that Britney couldn’t even see her children? Well, it’s not uncommon at all. In fact, mothers with disabilities face removal rates up to 40 to 80 percent. ‘I can’t believe she couldn’t even see her own boyfriend?’ This happens all the time. It is very common for families of people with disabilities to control their relationships for them. That’s why many people with disabilities can’t actually marry. Because they can lose their benefits and their healthcare. It’s also completely legal to electroshock children, um, if they have have a disability. So, yes. Free Britney. But let’s also free everybody else. And let’s follow the lead of the disability rights movement, who has been shouting and fighting against these injustices for decades.”

Louder for the people in the back:

So, yes. Free Britney. But let’s also free everybody else. And let’s follow the lead of the disability rights movement, who has been shouting and fighting against these injustices for decades.

Also: this is your reminder that people can be disabled, and suffer abuse because of it, even if that person “looks normal” to you.

Nothing about us without us!

You weren’t bullied because you liked anime, you were bullied because you were locked in a prison with 1,000 other teens and a combination of institutional frameworks and environmental stressors led to the construction and enforcement of brutal social hierarchies

sometimes i think about how “alpha wolves” are only a thing in captivity, and then i think about public schools

What reality is this video being transmitted from?

[ID: A tweet by @THOTCrime that reads: Btw "systemic racism" doesn't mean "lots of racists in the system". It means that even if there were *zero* "racists" present, the system would still disproportionately harm people of certain races. It's baffling that lots of educated folks don't understand this concept. /End ID]

if tumblr users found out about the simple concept of “different people have different boundaries about media and that’s normal” their brains would explode

things that make you uncomfortable don’t necessarily make other people uncomfortable and vice versa. also things don’t have to be objectively morally wrong to make you uncomfortable and in fact thinking you HAVE to always be morally justified about not liking something is not healthy. 

I POSTED THE GIF AND SOMEBODY SAID IT NEEDS THE KOTH THEME OVER IT AND I'M FUCKING WHEEZING HOLY SHIT