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It's so fascinating how small habits can be developed from one easily forgotten interaction.

#like how i keep a thing of deodorant in my bag because ive had two friends forget it and feel real embarrassed before #or how i keep a nail file in the smal bag because i have a friend who does his nails but sometimes they get stabby and are bad sensory #or how i stick a pencil or pen in my ponytail because i knew someone who did it once and thought it was smart #or how i know someone who keeps scented hand sanitizer with her because one of her friends smokes pot sometimes but hates having hands smell #or how i keep a variety of period products in a bag despite only using pads because i have friends that prefer tampons and get caught lackin #just. simple things like that is what makes ghe world go round. #maybe speaking

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Fuck this I'm making a classic lit sideblog

#maybe speaking #the government wont mandate my activity #its just if i have time i can pop on and be like ayo

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It's an old tale

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If I made a classic lit sideblog I might start being active on here again. Someone talk me out of it.

#maybe speaking

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This is how it feels to read a classic that everyone in the world has already read and loves

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(ALT Text used)

Today's the anniversary of the Capitol Crawl - on March 12th, 1990, the disability rights organization, ADAPT, which is still actively fighting for disability rights today (adapt.org) rallied around one thousand disabled people to climb the steps of the, at the time, inaccessible US Capitol Building, to protest the delayed signing of The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). These protests gained a lot of media attention and public support, which directly led to President George H.W. Bush signing the ADA in July, 1990.

Many people may know this story (it has luckily been shared across multiple sources and media formats, including the Netflix documentary, Crip Camp), but what many do not know is that approximately one hundred people were arrested during these protests, five of whom showed up to the Washington DC probation office ... and the probation office was inaccessible. You can't make this stuff up. In fact, here are sources:

A great article on the Capitol Crawl: https://issuu.com/faircountmedia/docs/ada25_complete_book/s/145488

Link to ADAPT's Archive: adaptmuseum.net

Link to this specific newspaper article: https://adaptmuseum.net/gallery/picture.php?/76/categories

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Shout-out to the teachers who make me actually go to school.

#theres one in patricular that i adore. #she lets me lay on the floor for digital art dailyand also in art history if im having a moment and need it #she also lets me putter about doing random tasks like filling her candy bowls and taking down artworks that need to be given back #like she doesnt get pissed when i laugh and joke and fact check things shes not sure of or act as an unoffical TA #and its just. thats why i go ro school most days. solely because i love her classes #maybe speaking

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i’ve not gone crazy just yet

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I definitely believe listening to Dave Malloy's work religiously has changed my outlook on life. It's the "I will try to forgive myself for being absent in public and bored before stars" it's the "this song's not over just yet, stars and moons rise and set and rise again" it's the "oh you fool, you fool, it's all within yourself" it's the "my life will get better than this, my life will get worse than this, but right now is just right now" it's the "I am fragile and ephemeral, so love me while I'm here" it's the "what a wonder to me, such a wonder to me" it's seeing god under the keys of the piano, "god on stage in this little jazz club" and the "true god i see when im sitting at home, eating an apple, wondering what mecca must feel like, and suddenly i remember to taste, right there at home and not so many miles away and empty."

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Finally realizing that other people can't control me and sometimes the consequences don't actually exist

#theatre is even more of a shitshow now but now i sont care and do what i want fuck the director and one of my crew heads #maybe speaking #this is the show where crews are finally revolting #i will elaboratw if anyone asks

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Genderfluid rep YIPPEE!!

(F1nnster came out and uses the label genderfluid :3)

Oh hell yeah!

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Ugh I forgot how eepy making wiki pages makes me

#hyperfocused on niche viddy gane lately and just made oages for alk the instrunent workstations #now i lay in bed and read #maybe speaking

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Happy valentines, Cals!

Happy Valentine's Draco darling!!!!!

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It is inherently fun and sexy to say statements that swap the traditional genders of pronouns and terms mid-statement, such as: "I'm going to make him my wife" "She's my boyfriend" "Who says a guy can't be a pretty princess?" "That girl's the coolest dude I've ever met" "She's a madman who has to be stopped" "It's not his fault he's a material girl" Gender is a set of watercolors and the prettiest shades come from mixing the paints together.

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feeling this one rn