#theme: disabilities

[1980s-slasher-film]

Accommodations are not special, they’re not a leg up, they’re not a benefit. They’re not putting anyone ahead in the race, nor are they taking anything away from others.

They exist to put us on a level playing ground to everyone else, and nothing more.

#ngl this is half directed at the autistics using acess passes at theme parks #specially the ones that don’t actually need it #obviously you can utilize them if you actually need them #but I mean the people that say skipping lines is a ‘benefit of autism’ or whatever #I’m seeing it pop up again #and it’s pissing me offff #disabled #actually disabled #chronic illness #actually chronically ill #autism #actually autistic #adhd #actually adhd #arthritis #pots #pots syndrome #heds #hypermobile ehlers danlos #ehlers danlos syndrome

[aroaceleovaldez]

yknow i was gonna make a post about how happy I was to see the show acknowledge adhd/dyslexia/learning disability stuff and the way they handled and showed Percy's experience with that system, and how it influenced his reactions to things. But i'm honestly glad I didn't because WOW the show completely ditched all of that immediately. There was set-up for a really interesting arc about the demigods = neurodivergence metaphor and "You are singular" (pun off of "half-blood"/"demigod" and a very direct rejection of the "puzzle" metaphor for things like autism) and a very quick acknowledgement in like episode 2 of an off-hand "oh yeah all demigods are like that (adhd/dyslexic)" and then. nothing. absolutely nothing.

heck, they even changed the design of the zoo van (in the books very explicitly a black van with white text, which Percy notes specifically because white-on-black text is more dyslexia-friendly) which is a personal affront to me because That's My Dyslexia-Friendly Van, How Dare You.

i know some people have argued that maybe Annabeth pausing in the store was supposed to be her having a dyslexia moment, but if it was then we would have gotten the Dyslexia Effect™ on the text (and dont tell me they didn't have the budget for it cause HAVE YOU SEEN THEIR BUDGET FOR THE SHOW? They clearly haven't been using all of that). It's almost definitely supposed to show that Annabeth hasn't been in mortal spaces in a very long time and is, yknow, a kid, being indecisive of which snacks to buy.

i have said it before and i'll say it again: the core of PJO is disability. You can never remove that, or else it is no longer PJO. The heart of the series will always be a story made for an ADHD/dyslexic kid to help them learn about and be interested in mythology, and if you stray from that it's going to be very noticeable very fast. Almost every character in PJO has a learning disability. The entire series is framed as a way to introduce kids to mythology in a fun way and emphasize those themes of mythology being important even in modern day with how it still affects our lives, to ask you to look at what lessons we can still learn from these myths and how they apply to modern lives, and that you can be a hero not despite your disability, but alongside it. That is the core of PJO, always and forever. And the show failed that.

#pjo #riordanverse #pjo tv #adhd #dyslexia #pjo tv crit #< the fact that we have a tag for that now. hoo boy. #also all of this + im extra mad that the show intentionally did not include the bianca cameo in the closed captioning #cause like. okay failing to follow through on the disability themes in the series? that's one thing but i was somewhat expecting it #so disappointed but not surprised. *intentionally not providing appropriate closed captioning* though? SHAME ON YOU.

[gayaest]

[ID in alt-text] commission for @/mokuhchi on twitter! 🪐♿️✨

#my art #disabled art #disabled artist #art #wheelchair user #space theme #commissions open #drawing commissions #experimental commissions

[uncanny-tranny]

Death to the trope of rewarding disabled characters with an abled body. Death to the trope that a disabled body is a punishment, a sight, something to shame and be ashamed of.

#disability #ableism #ableism tw #i can appreciate different themes with regards to how we relate to/with disablity and disabling events... #...but i cannot get behind the idea that a disabled body is a punishment or a horrific thing y'know... #...my life is worth living as a disabled person. people with even more disabling things/more disabled experiences have lives worth living.. #...and it's so hard to stomach sometimes knowing that there's a non-insignificant number of people who disagree #i'm just so frustrated with this 'trope' and i've been ranting at my dad for two days now about how much i hate it #thank you to my dad for letting me rant and rave at him :) (lighthearted and genuine)

[this-world-of-beautiful-monsters]

just. like. the fact that the two headed calf poem is about the brevity of life and the cruelty of those who can't find beauty in the freakish and holding on to what moments and wonders you can, but at the same time.

at the same time you've got this little calf seeing twice as many stars in the sky and you've got people making art of him, over and over again, so much of it, so many mediums and styles from so many people who've probably never even met each other, so much of everything, from the passionate and the introspective to the scientific and the shitposty, all these people celebrating him and mourning him and preserving him, protecting him, replicating and resurrecting him however we can.

and you can take a little freak and wrap him in newspaper, but an idea, even one as small and strange as a two headed calf, is so much harder to kill. you can't stop the newspaper, but tonight stretches on, returned to over and over again with every picture, every bit of contemplation, every joke and meme, on and on and on and on.

twice upon twice upon twice upon twice as many stars in the sky. and we can see them all alongside him.

#two headed calf #positivity #i think #tumblr culture #not that it's just tumblr but #poetry #laura gilpin #two headed calf by laura gilpin #twice as many stars #queer #since a lot of people who've done art for this poem are queer and i don't think it's an accident #disability #disabled themes

[betweenblackberrybranches]

Yo wait, has anyone made skyrim dca? As dwemer automations? Hello? That idea has been bouncing around my head for a while... that would be so fun

Gonna try my hand at it actually

They are the fucking DCA Dwemer City Atendant

#like imagine it #you find them in a dwemer ruin full of falmer. they are a city guard #to simulate a day and night cycle the city had not only lights that dimmed in the night time but also enviroments that changed #like the lamps had a sun motive in the say and changes to a moon and stars motive in the night #and so did the guards. they are sun themed in the day cicle and moon themed in the night #most guards have been disabled by the falmer but one is holding on in the inner part of the city. #they keep the lights on there so the light sensetive falmer dont get there #moon has kinda been stuck in attack mode because as soon as its dark the falmer come in #the dragonborn has a lil quest following them throughout the city as the keep changing between sun and moon in the different parts #depending on if the light are on or off #you help them putting all the lights on #and help them fixing moons problem of being stuck in attack mode #they start following you #and boom dca follower

[sanguinebutch]

becoming blind in one eye was, ironically, a real eye opener into how inaccessible the world is to blind or otherwise visually impaired people. the fact that people just straight up refuse to make media accessible to us is shocking and there’s a weird lack of people talking about it.

#i don’t give a shit about how you want to keep your blog ‘aesthetic’!!!!! fuck you!!! #image IDs and flash/eyestrain warnings are more important than your ugly theme will ever be!! #this post isn’t just about the internet though. it’s about EVERYTHING #🪦my posts #🪦disability #disabled #cpunk #cripplepunk #disability #disabled activism #actually blind #blind #visually impaired #cripple punk #ableism #ableism tw

[aftgficrec]

Hi!! I caught it open and I'm so happy. Thank you guys for you work! I've been reading fics via this platform for a year now and love it!! I was wondering if you guys have any new (or old) sick fics. Or andreil caring for each other when they're sick is my guilty pleasure. Preferably over 10k but I'll take anything really😁 Thank you so much!! 🥰

There are some really excellent long sickfics available, just look at the list of our previous recs below.  We seem to have rec’ed most sickfics over 10k already, but there are plenty of good shorter fics as you can see. - S

From previous posts:

‘Pause and Restart my Heart’, ‘The Bones of You’, ‘let them hear me shout (for you)’ (since updated) here

‘Back to the Start’ here

‘you're not next before forever’ here (now complete)

‘Broken’ here

‘just like that day’ here

‘no straighter path than to struggle’ here

‘Speaking In Silences’ (now complete) here

‘Virus’ here

‘Secondhand Lovers’ (now complete) here

‘and in a flash, it’s gone’ here

‘Muscle memory’ (now complete), ‘The Memories I Never Can Escape’ and ‘last piece of gold’ here

Paint me a picture of you by peachycloudsworld [Rated T, 20525 words, complete, 2022]

After spraining his wrist, Neil is off-court for four weeks. It doesn´t take long for him to start spiraling down. Luckily there´s Andrew and his new interest in painting to keep him afloat. Still, nightmares suck and his wrist is a constant reminder that the yakuza can take him out whenever they want.

[Or: Neil has a bad couple of weeks and Andrew does whatever he can to take care of him.]

tw: panic attacks, tw: homophobia, tw: scars, tw: nightmares

The Songs Around Us by doodlingstuff [Rated M, 14484 words, incomplete, last updated June 2022]

The mission was simple: Nathaniel would join Astral Foxes as Neil Josten and make them part of Moriyama Music.

In reality, Neil became real, found a home, and fell in love despite his lies.

When the Moriyamas send the Butcher to remind Neil of his mission and Andrew's life ends on the line, Neil will have to decide how to escape his fate and bring Andrew back.

Sometimes, music is the only answer, and others, as Neil will realize, truth is the only weapon you have to save the ones you love the most.

tw: car accident, tw: torture, tw: implied/referenced child abuse, tw: panic attacks

There Now, Steady Love by jingerhead [Rated G, 7040 words, complete, 2022]

All it had taken was a broken strap, a helmet flying loose, and a rough push. That was all it took for Neil to feel like his entire life was taken away from him. He could barely remember that one of the things Andrew told him after he’d woken up, caught in a panic because he couldn’t see, was that his uncle had pulled through somehow and he didn’t have to worry. That things were taken care of, and they’d figure it out, together. But Neil’s world still came crashing down piece by piece.

He could never play again.

Due to a sudden head injury, Neil ends up blind and can't play the sport he's built his life around. Andrew teaches him how to again.

Palmetto Plague by ace_astronaut [Rated T, 5899 words, complete, 2022]

“I should tell you to stay in bed,” said Andrew, as Neil’s thoughts were interrupted by a fit of coughing.

“But?” Neil managed through coughs.

“But I know it won’t make a difference because, as we have established, you are both sick and stupid.”

“I promised Dan I’d captain the team while she was gone—”

“Save your voice. I’m not interested in your never-ending Exy excuses.”

With Dan out of town, Neil is promoted to acting captain for their upcoming death match. He’s not going to let something as insignificant as the flu stop him from leading his team to victory.

Andrew is Not Pleased. But he knows better than to try and talk sense into his junkie boyfriend.

I Never Said I Loved You by phan_taloon [Rated T, 5281 words, complete, 2022]

Andrew never learned how to love, never quite learned what loving someone or something means or requires, never knew how loving felt like. After so many fucking years with Neil fucking Josten and their not-nothing, he has no idea if he loves him.

This didn't go in the direction I initially planned and might be the softest thing I've written.

Title from Ripple by Moonfall

tw: car accident, tw: blood

As It Was by Exyshmexy [Rated G, 3088 words, complete, 2022]

Neil gets the flu, Andrew comes to the rescue.

One Hundred by TheRainbowElectric [Not Rated, 4553 words, complete, 2021]

The most shocking thing about the sight of Neil is how still he is.

Andrew has seen Neil bloodied and bruised before. But even beaten to a pulp and beyond exhausted, Neil talks and twitches and kicks in his sleep, restless fucker.

Now, Neil’s only signs of life are the shallow rise and fall of his chest and the steady beep of the heart monitor beside his bed. That’s all Andrew has to hold onto as he drags a chair from beside the window to the gap between Neil’s bed and the door and sits down.

Andrew breaks into Neil's hospital room after Baltimore. (Inspired by this artwork by @himawarrior)

tw: implied/referenced torture

Safe with Neil by Autumnalpalmetto [Rated T, 2392 words, complete, Aftg Winter Exchange 2020]

For JostenLovesMinyard on tumblr

prompt: Andreil, sick with the other looking after them, cuddling in front of a fire, snowball fights, and staying at a winter cabin.

Andrew gets sick on their first night in the cabin, and Neil takes it upon himself to nurse Andrew until he's feeling better.

Art

sick Andrew by @paradoxolotl

more sick Andrew by @paradoxolotl 

how to remedy high fevers by @microolli

Let Neil nap by @crowtoeoe

Injured Andreil by @bookaholic5

maybe they invented love by @broship-addict

#fic #Neil Josten/Andrew Minyard #universe: post canon #universe: canon divergent #au: music #theme: fluff #theme: fluff & angst #theme: angst with a happy ending #theme: sickfic #theme: injuries #theme: illness #theme: hospitals #theme: recovery #theme: hurt/comfort #theme: disabilities #theme: blind character #theme: mental health issues #theme: protectiveness #theme: flashbacks #theme: found families #theme: domesticity #aftg exchange #tw: torture #tw: implied/referenced child abuse #tw: panic attacks #tw: car accidents #tw: nightmares #tw: homophobia #tw: blood #tw: scars

[dragonnnfly]

“Loss of limb, (just one if it helps)”

13 years later and I still can’t believe Dreamworks had the balls to just amputate a 15-year old kid and handled it in like the best way possible.

DreamWorks has always had such mature themes now that I think about it, and they introduced them and handled them in a way that seems so natural to children.

Hiccup’s amputation is such a good example.

DreamWorks didn’t gloss over it either, and even they continued, in every show and every movie from then on, to show what it’s like living with a disability like that. There were some things Hiccup had a harder time doing than before, but in no way did it get in the way of his goals and dreams.

I didn’t understand how important that was when I was a child, watching the movie for the first time, but I understand it now.

DreamWorks has guts, and I’m so happy that they do

#one of httyd hidden messages is that disability doesn’t define you #I actually had a conversation with a friend the other day about DreamWorks #it’s my favorite studio #it really feels like every movie is made for kids and adults #think about the messages in their movie that adults relate to and understand #spirit: suppression and a chilling history lesson about Native American #shrek: you are beautiful and perfect just the way you are #croods: sometimes you need to break out of your comfort zone #puss in boots 2: literally a lesson in accepting that nothing lasts forever so you have to cherish it while it lasts #Kung fu panda: believing in yourself is what matters most #and here I’m not including other anazing movies with mature themes such as #el dorado #rise of the guardians #madagascar #sinbad #and so on #yeah I’m obsessed #but that’s okay #it’s something that makes me happy #thank you anon you made me go insane #httyd #how to train your dragon #hiccup #anon #ask #rant #text post #commentary

[aroaceleovaldez]

actually one of the details that frustrates me the most from TSATS, relating to how much the book completely erases or absolutely bastardizes neurodivergence, is how Percy's cameo is characterized.

One of the consistent things aspects of Percy's relationship with the education system throughout the series is that Percy is smart, and he does try in school, but he has a learning disability. The only reason he gets bad grades is because he has a learning disability and the way the modern american education system is built is inherently at odds with that. In the first series we actually have explicit references to Percy doing better in school when he's in environments that actually accommodate for his disabilities! It's not that he's not trying, he's disabled.

So it is so disheartening and horrible to see Percy characterized in TSATS as just being disinterested in school, and his failing grades being made a joke about implying him ditching classes because he just doesn't care. That's the number one ableist thing ADHD/dyslexic students hear! Implying that they "just don't care" and dismissing their disabilities. It is so horrible to see that joke being made in the Percy Jackson series of all franchises. Especially when you add that on to the rest of the quite frankly ableist characterizations in TSATS and how much the book erases Nico and Will's disabilities/neurodivergence.

#pjo #percy jackson #riordanverse #tsats crit #rr crit #tsats #the sun and the star #adhd #yes im back on my BS i was randomly reminded of this #YOU CANNOT DIVORCE PJO FROM DISABILITY/NEURODIVERGENCE. YOU CANNOT. #IF YOU DO IT IS NO LONGER PJO BECAUSE THAT IS THE LITERAL CORE OF THE SERIES #and i dont care how TSATS was labeled. the alleged themes they were ''representing'' were either nonexistent or horribly depicted #this was in the drafts cause i was thinking abt it the other day #but i am sick today and annoyed about disability stuff so into the wild it goes #i was in a complaining mood that day and now my brain has ceased functioning but w/ever #i will queue some cute art for a lil bit after this #cause i do not like to be negative

[gayaest]

Drawing my boy “cheese” is so fun 🍔⭐️🌈🍟

#my art #art #original characters #disabled artist #disabled art #furry #sfw furry #dog furry #disabled furry #forearm crutches #mobility aids #illustration #ilust #anime #character design #character designs #oc #ocs #burger themed #food themed

[softness-and-shattering]

So I put on this netflix show, in their tradition of being extremely obvious with names its called Mech Cadets, and its an alien-mecha human-pilot fight-the-giant-bug-aliens story. My first complaint is that the alien mechas are called Robo's. Wow exciting /sarcasm. Anyway thats totally forgiven because 1 the story actually makes choices and puts the characters through consequences instead of like hinting at oh it something bad gonna happen psych we dont have the guts for that. Its a kid/teen show so its not super dark but it follows through and goes the places it needs to.

2, and maybe most importantly, I gotta talk about the disability rep. There's four teens chosen by the alien mechs to be their drift-compatible pilots (I think im using that correctly? Im not super informed on the genre but I know some), and we see straight away that one of the guys has a prosthetic leg from the thigh down, and uses it as an example to tell the main protagonist, hey none of us are perfect we dont have to be perfect we just need to be human. The next episode the mechas are given human-designed weapons to fight with, and the disabled kid gets these flippy sticks I cant quite work out. One of them gets a staff, the other gets this glove for punching, story moves on. Then a bug-alien-antagonist gets into the teens dorm and while fighting it, the alien dismembers the guys prosthetic. He immediately grabs his crutches and goes to town on it with his crutches, and balancing on them to kick with his one good foot*. Then they disconnect the rest of the prosthetic and use its sharp edge to kill the alien. And then he just moves around on his crutches with no comment and Ill cut myself off there so I dont spoil the whole thing.

Except, a couple episodes later, Im watching him in the mech fighting and moving around, and I realise that his giant fuck-off monster attacking weapons ARE A PAIR OF CRUTCHES. Theyre his fucking WEAPONS. Thats cool as fuck!

#is it mech and not mecha and im making a fool of myself? I just cant quite bear to call them Robos im sorry #Mech Cadets #Theres more nice stuff about the disability rep but I want to leave some surprises for y'all when you watch it #The animation is ok theres one character who's face sometimes looks a bit plastic and moves a bit janky imho but otherwise its alright #I also definitely want more about the robos as people because theyre intelligent but theyre also a bit treated like machines #and not sentient beings #but they clearly are sentient #theres definitely themes happening about how alive they are but its not properly dug into yet. if they get a second season I definitely wan #more on them #like why did they just show up to earth to partner with people and fight the bug aliens? where are they from? whats their motivation? #but in a I want more world building way not in a wow this is shit world building way #anyway #mine #disability rep #disability representation #its got some really fun vibes #*his one foot. he doesnt have a good foot and a bad foot he just has a foot. getting him mixed in my head with Kaz Brekker and his cane

[foursaints]

genuine question why are we not all giving barty a pet ferret in our modern au fic. am i looking in the wrong places. is this a trope already

#ok u guys know how I feel about him so im not necessarily endorsing the ferret thing because #Idk how to square that into my insane version of bcj that exists in my mind as a thematic analysis of like. bodily and narrative agency #he is LITERALLY the hypochondriacal epistemology character. the disability studies minor is going crazy rn. unrelated #BUT IDK. I THINK ITS CUTE! ID GIVE MY THEMES UP FOR THAT!

[necromancy-savant]

When Dulcinea Septimus said "I loved real, ugly, unfinished things. Gracelessly uncompleted things. There's freedom, too, in not ever being completed." I could write at least a few papers about that

#the locked tomb #the unwanted guest #tlt #tlt spoilers #the locked tomb spoilers #like!!! it's about disability it's about relationships it's about art it's about legacy it's about queerness #and that's not even touching on the implications for the series's themes #can we please just start calling The Locked Tomb a tetralogy it's so much easier #speaking of tetralogies unfinished is literally one of the words Richard uses to describe himself in R3 1.1

[saturnniidae]

Cripplepunk Modern Au Hiccup

#he does have a lot of views that line uo with punk ideologies (bc. reminder its not just fashion. its music based and political 🤓) #also for those who dont know cripppunk is a movement made by disabled punk ppl regarding disability rights and the like #(its preferable able bodied ppl just call it 'cpunk') #i feel like hiccup would have s very wide music taste that'd inevitably include some punk stuff #cant fully see him in super 'punk' clothes but he'd put lots of patches and buttons on his stuff both like abt his interests #and environmental/political stuff i think #httyd #hiccup haddock #httyd modern au #cripple punk #hiccup horrendous haddock iii #canon disabled character #moth.txt #he'd be very into diy clothes making n stuff like reminder he canonically sews #It'd be more in his accessories tho jackets n stuff and like i said patches n pins #bc he'd totally wear those ugly ass 'paused my game to be here' graphic tees as well as dragon themed stuff bc hes a loser like that

[autistic-sidestep]

someone remind me to write up my fh disability theory reading meta at some point

#ive got something. it's gonna overlap a bunch with the transhumanism theme and discuss ortegas internalised ableism #alongside the allegories of the enhanced for disability + racism/disability/poverty/queerness (cigs inherent queerness of fh post is inspo) #mostly started with thinking abt the parallels between sura and ortega and how they choose to deal with their disability #some similar and some wildly different #i love that so much of the cast is disabled and in such a variety of ways #owl lost her legs during the nanosurge and ortegas highly experimental mods let them walk again and enhance their agility/strength #+ other things (at Extreme cost.) #chen is multiply disabled with the multiple amputations and the gut issues #argents got the nanovore stuff and chronic pain #sidestep is autistic coded! also the paingate being broken can be an allegory for chronic pain/fatigue. no longer being able to push through #like they used to. #ramblings #fh meta