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@servant0fthorns / servant0fthorns.tumblr.com

Hi im old and i still write fanfic. http://archiveofourown.org/users/Servant0fthorns
She/Her, cis, 18+
Basically post whatever I find important at the time; can range from serious topics to light-hearted humor. Things you can expect to see: anime, league of legends, pokemon, anything I find important at the time, etc.

Sweet Dreams - Rora Blue

2020.

“Sweet Dreams explores the intricacies of everyday ableism and everyday ableist comments. Some of the comments recount dialogue said to the artist. Other phrases were submitted by other disabled and/or chronically ill individuals as documentation of comments that have been said to them. Through using recognizable objects associated with disability in correlation with playful colors, Sweet Dreams aims to reclaim objects commonly associated with pain and disrupt the narrative on what it means to be disabled.”

[Image descriptions in order: photos of an art installation. All the installations are text-based, and have capital, multi coloured letters spelling out different phrases which are often said to disabled people. The images are:

A photo of stone stairs, with the writing "maybe you aren't trying hard enough" on the sides of the steps.]

[A photo of a mattress with blankets and a pillow on it, the pillow saying "are you better yet?".]

[A photo of the back of a medical wheelchair in a field. The back of the wheelchair says "I could never live like that".]

[A photo of an IV pole, with the line running across the blue background of a wall. The letters are hanging off the line, and they say "youre too young to be sick".]

[A photo of a pillow on a partially folded blue blanket in a field. The pillows says "honey, were all tired". Beside it, is a rainbow medication holder with colourful two-tone pills spilling onto the blanket.]

[A white pillow in a field, propped up against a mirror reflecting the sunset. The pillows says "whats wrong with you?"]

[A closeup photo of a disabled parking space, with the letters "do you really need to park there?" On the ground above the symbol.]

[A pillow on a white mattress which says "if I can do it so can you".]

[A mirror laying in a field, reflecting blue skies with white clouds. There is a sentence painted on the mirror in white paint, which says "are you drinking enough water?"]

[Six pillows piled up in the field. They say "if I can do it so can you", "are you better yet?", "you don't look sick", "honey, were all tired", "its all in your head", "what's wrong with you?"]

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you’re at a low point:

If you were a fictional man right now, there would be *at least* ten people if not a large portion of the fanbase that would call you their wet beast poor little meow meow