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happy Thursday the 20th

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Happy 17th Isengar-iversary!!

According to Know Your Meme, on August 18th, 2005, Erwin Beekveld brought forth this work into the world. HAPPY TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY, THEY’RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD.

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Nothing is more frustrating when drawing other then TRYING to draw when you have the drawing capacity of a cross-eyed 12 year old

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Annoyed by people taking the line about how your brain isn’t fully developed until you’re 25 and using it to justify the most rancid takes that completely disregard teenagers’ and young adults’ autonomy, agency and opinions

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late night fixations,,, made a shrimp zine time to go sleep now

[one of those computer paper zines that's all handwritten with neocaridina shrimp care info]

#shrimp

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Five (5) 🖐🏻Disabled People from History that I wish people knew at a 5-year-old’s level

History is complex, and we need to discuss it with a far more nuanced view than we do.

But Disability History is lacking at even this most basic level, and you have to start somewhere. So:

1) Stephen Farfler

Was a paraplegic watch-maker. In 1655, he made a three-wheeled hand-driven cart for himself, inventing the crank, chain and gear mechanism that is now part of all modern bicycles.

[Image description: a contemporary black and white illustration of Stephen Farfler using the three-wheeled hand cycle he’d invented, demonstrating how the hand crank turns the front wheel. Description ends.]

2) Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman was severely injured when she defended a fellow slave from an overseer, and was hit in the head with a heavy metal object. Although this caused her pain and dizzy spells for the rest of her life, it did not stop her from working becoming a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, nor did it stop her from being the first woman to lead an armed expedition in the American Civil War.

3) Louis Braille

Blind since childhood because of an accident, Louis Braille invented the tactile writing system named for him at the age of 15.

4) Margarete Steiff

Margarete Steiff contracted polio when she was a year and a half old. Her sisters and neighborhood friends helped her get to school by pulling her in a hand cart. When she grew up, she had a dress-making business, and made stuffed animals for children. Her most famous stuffed animal was a bear with jointed limbs that her nephew designed. It was the first Teddy Bear.

5) Justin Dart Jr.

He contracted polio and had to use a wheelchair in 1947, just before going to university. Even though he earned his degrees in history and education, and wanted to become a teacher, the university wouldn’t let him have his teaching certificate, because he was disabled. Many years later, he was appointed vice chair of the National Council on Disability, and led other government councils after that. He toured the USA with his wife twice, visiting each of the 50 states, and meeting with disabled people to learn about their struggles and how they were fighting for their rights. He helped write the language of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which was signed into law in 1990

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There are many more things I wish people knew about, such as the intersection between class and disability, and between race and disability, and how the ADA isn’t strong enough to protect disabled people’s rights in the way they need to be protected.

But these are five reference-points that I figure are child friendly.

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You didn't lose a child to autism. You lost a child because the child you waited for never came into existence. That isn't the fault of the autistic child who does exist, and it shouldn't be our burden. We need and deserve families who can see us and value us for ourselves, not families whose vision of us is obscured by the ghosts of children who never lived. Grieve if you must, for your own lost dreams. But don't mourn for us. We are alive. We are real.

-Jim Sinclair, "Don't Mourn for Us," Our Voice, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1993

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Another one of my favourite characters in this thing I'm writing is a girl who was born blind, and likes to keep people guessing about what she can and can't do. She learned to walk very quietly as a kid because she thought it was funny when people who should have seen her coming are startled when she sneaks up on them and casually joins the conversation, making people go "fuck, how long have you been standing there?"

Extra points for doing it at night - she doesn't need a torch or lantern and walks just as comfortably in pitch black darkness as broad daylight. As far as she's concerned, 'darkness' is just some intangible presence that makes air slightly cooler, and other people skittish and anxious to be in it. The absence of sun or fire.

If she's familiar with a specific room and knows how large it is, she can roughly estimate how many people are in it by the temperature of the air, and how sparsely the people who are speaking are positioned. Depending on the level of background noise, she's sometimes able to notice if there's someone present who doesn't want her to be aware of them, because going "oh shit, if I stay really still, she probably won't notice that I'm here" makes people breathe differently, and she can start puzzling out who it is from other context clues around them.

It's not a superpower, and not being able to see does still limit her quite severely, but by occasionally pretending not to notice things that she absolutely has noticed, and being able to confidently bluff that she was all along perfectly aware of something she only realised two seconds ago, she keeps people guessing where, exactly, the line goes.

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people learning to be plant-literate is literally vital for our survival I think. They are our neighbors we have to learn their names and to identify them it's so important

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obsessed w internet speak but specifically these two recent inventions:

1. statement (directly contradictory statement)

ie: “i’m normal now (lying)” or something like. “doing homework (scrolling tumblr).” it’s like a text version of looking directly at the camera. sarcasm but slightly to the left. amazing

2. wacky thought <- reactionary/self aware comment

it’s like?? the closest thing i can think of is movies where the characters break the fourth wall to pause the show and talk to you about it? like emperors new groove or lion king 1 1/2? self aware ironic kinda talk show-esque. whatever it is it’s brilliant.

love the way we’re bulldozing english keep it up team

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I will say, I don't think everyone has to be religious/spiritual in any way, but there is a deep intellectual and personal humility that comes with getting high in the woods and attempting to commune with to the Astral Bug Parliament.

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Reblog and put in the tags if you allow food in your room

#ofc #where else am o supposed to eat snaks

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it’s actually none of your business or concern if a trans person decides to keep their birth name

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Ableds be like, if I eat this diet/do this exercise/wear or don’t wear these clothes/live this lifestyle I’ll never become disabled!

Buddy have I got some harsh news for you…

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oh to have a vivid imagination