It's noisy here

i understand that this is the "disabled people know our own limitations" website, but ime, if you are the kind of disabled where everyone around you knows about it and has known you as a weak, incompetent, subhuman creature your entire life: it is important to learn how to make the distinction between "i can't" and "i'm not allowed to."

"i can't hold fragile things without breaking them" vs "my housemates won't let me do dishes anymore."

"i can't manage my own finances" vs "my family won't let me make my own financial decisions"

"i can't ever learn how to drive" vs "the state has decided that people with my disability cannot be allowed to drive."

also "what would need to happen for it to be possible for me to be able to do dishes?" or "what would i need if i were to ever move out?" or "what kinds of supports would i need if i did try volunteering?"

even if the answer to these you come away with is "i actually cannot do the thing, no matter what supports or accommodations i'm given" that's fine! they're still useful questions to ask!

Boy did I ever have to learn the difference between "I often struggle with normative social cues and subtext" and "I am bad at socializing and will embarrass the people I'm with every time I open my mouth"

"i can't socialize" vs "people wont let me speak/advocate for myself/share my opinions"

Shout out to the ten primate species, four bat species, elephant shrews, and the Cairo spiny mouse. Nobody else gets it

here you are sweetie

there’s a joke to be made about pronouns and the wizards of thay

someone trying to reveal to edgin that sofina is a red wizard: she thay

edgin: what do pronouns have to do with this

wait wait i have another one

edgin: and you know she’s a wizard of whatever

simon: thay

edgin: my bad, THEY are a wizard of whatever

the uncommon allergy haver to anticapitalist pipeline

in January 2023, companies became required to label sesame on all products it was present in, and undergo rigorous cleaning procedures to prevent sesame contamination, after it was declared the 9th "major" food allergen in the United States.

so, instead of considering this a mandate to give a single shit about people with sesame allergies, almost all American companies decided to just add sesame flour to all their relevant products. because apparently that was cheaper.

it's almost impossible for me to find hot dog and hamburger buns without sesame now. and I am one of the lucky ones. I'm someone who just so happened to notice the label updates, not get caught unawares and have a severe allergic reaction. I'm someone lucky enough to be surrounded by multiple choices of supermarkets, and someone with the incredible privilege to have parents who'll help me search the shelves, and cover those costs that my allergies rack up. not everyone with allergies/other intolerances has all or any of those privileges to begin with.

most food allergies will never be prevalent enough that under capitalism, it will be profitable to give them the level of accommodation that they deserve. I speak from experience with a wide portfolio of hypersensitivity quirks when I say that the rarer the food allergy, the worse it gets.

and here's the thing: I can live without hamburger buns, with only superficial decreases in my quality of life. but sesame isn't my only rare allergy, and ever since this legislation hit, I've been lying awake at night, afraid of what I might lose access to next.

I've been lying awake at night wondering what I'll have to do to live, to obtain enough safe food to survive, if any of my other allergies get this same treatment. and I reiterate. I am one of the privlidged ones.

what these companies have done is completely legal. what these companies did has also cut off up to over a million people from what were previously safe, affordable staples of their diets. a system that has any incentive not to accommodate the dietary needs of any population is not a system that can be allowed to exist. this is the uncommon allergy haver to angry, fuming anticapitalist pipeline.

Today I had @screaming-towards-apotheosis ‘s Tolkien elf sex post mis-attributed to me and I don’t know whether to be flattered or concerned that my friends could misremember such a gem. Anyway, great post you should all give it a read sometime. Love me a chaotic Tolkien reading

Its not mine either XD

some claudes again

also still not over this one

A Lady and her Knight

Fanart for The Mandalorian

he’s not ugly he’s handsome

distinguished

rugged 

This motherfucker survives a lightning strike and you have the gull to call them ugly?? If mother nature cant kill them what chance do you have when this mofo comes after you?!

Reblog Lightning Bison for protection from lightning.

When you reblog Lightning Bison, Lightning Bison gets 200 metres closer to the journalist who called him ugly

oh fuck I thought the intro to today's Money Stuff was going to be a metaphor for some crypto bullshit but no an actual metals futures market was backed by actual bags of rocks.

Ea Nasir Bullshit

THEY LITERALLY VAGUE EA-NASIR IN THE ARTICLE ITSELF ASDFGGHKGJKLSH

“do my undereye circles and unwashed hair turn you on?”

You don’t have to reblog this, please don’t feel anxious when these sorts of posts appear on your dash.

I’m posting it because extra luck towards a certain piece of good news is something I will take any way I can get.

Reposting the magical golden potato. Bring me good news, oh beloved potato.

march 11, 2023 | fudge!

angry cat alert