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“why do i believe this” and “who benefits from me believing it” are the first steps to decolonization and we should all be doing this more

[audhdnight]

“why do i believe this” and “who benefits from me believing it” are the first steps to decolonization and we should all be doing this more

[audhdnight]

“why do i believe this” and “who benefits from me believing it” are the first steps to decolonization and we should all be doing this more

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#yes yes yes thank you #i really needed this addition #the first lot were cool and all #and would be such interesting ideas to explore #but having them all based purely on the fact that they're not adapted got the environment on land made me sad #as someone whose disabilities basically boil down to "brain not wired for modern society" #the first batch was relatable #but only seeing that when it crossed my dash felt like something was missing #and suddenly i was questioning if those mermaids actually counted as disabled in mermaid society #because it was just singling out the ways mermaids may not be adapted to life on land #and so it felt kind of othering #because with it all basically being stuff that would be fine while they're underwater that doesn't translate to life on land #my brain turned it around into a metaphor saying that disabled people are like another species #being forced to live in a world they're not adapted for #sorry for the tag rant op #i know you weren't trying to do that #but my brain went dumb places and made me feel bad #seeing your reblog with the additional disabilities made it better

(Tags from @thatwoodenguineapig)

Yes!! This is part of why I wanted to include more than the original post! When I originally made it, I had just read a book about shifter mermaids, so that’s where my mind went automatically. But I dislike the rhetoric that’s basically like “disabled people are only disabled because the world isn’t built for them” because yes that makes things more difficult, but I’m still disabled even with accommodations. So I wanted to also include mermaids that are just disabled period, whether on land or in water. (And I’m sorry the original post made you sad 🩶)

Petition to add more disabled magical creatures in fantasy

Like picture a mermaid. When they have to be on land their tail turns to legs, but because their body is used to lower gravity their joints tire easily and are chronically in pain.

Also depending on how deep in the ocean they live, it’s likely they have circulation problems because their body is used to the water pressure holding everything where it needs to be and now their blood is always fucking pooling in their legs and they have to wear compression socks everywhere.

Wheelchair user mermaids. Partially/fully blind mermaids because who needs to see when there’s no light at the bottom of the ocean?

Mermaids with sensory issues who have to wear headphones all the time because sound is so much louder up here on land and they are constantly overstimulated. And also the sun is simply Too Bright™.

Mermaids who have POTS because in the water postural changes make no difference and their bodies don’t know how to stabilize with so much gravity.

I’m really fixated on the mermaids rn but PLEASE feel more than welcome to add more!!!! I wanna hear about disabled dragons

#physically disabled #disability things #mermaids #invisible disability

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This post kind of blew up yesterday and it reminding me - I also want to talk about disabled fantasy creatures that are still disabled in their natural environments. Everything I talked about above is still super cool! But those disabilities would pretty much go away if the mermaid went back into the ocean.

I want to see mermaid with limb differences. Imagine how cool it would be to see a mermaid with a prosthetic tail/fins? A motorized swimming aid?

Mermaids with specialized “outer gills” because their bodies struggle to take in enough oxygen from the water without help.

Deep-sea mermaids born without heat sensing abilities, so even though none of them actually have eyes, these mermaids still struggle to hunt or navigate around other creatures the way their fellows can.

Mermaids that can’t control their swim bladders, so they have a system of weights that they use to control how high/low they are in the water.

Mermaids born without scales??? How they’d be so susceptible to injury from basically everything.

Mermaids that have survived attacks by orcas and giant squid, but have nerve damage from it so they have chronic pain.

Mermaids that can’t eat the same things their fellows can, because their bodies don’t produce the anti-toxin that mermaids need in order to be able to digest the poisonous jellyfish/etc they mostly live off of.

Petition to add more disabled magical creatures in fantasy

Like picture a mermaid. When they have to be on land their tail turns to legs, but because their body is used to lower gravity their joints tire easily and are chronically in pain.

Also depending on how deep in the ocean they live, it’s likely they have circulation problems because their body is used to the water pressure holding everything where it needs to be and now their blood is always fucking pooling in their legs and they have to wear compression socks everywhere.

Wheelchair user mermaids. Partially/fully blind mermaids because who needs to see when there’s no light at the bottom of the ocean?

Mermaids with sensory issues who have to wear headphones all the time because sound is so much louder up here on land and they are constantly overstimulated. And also the sun is simply Too Bright™.

Mermaids who have POTS because in the water postural changes make no difference and their bodies don’t know how to stabilize with so much gravity.

I’m really fixated on the mermaids rn but PLEASE feel more than welcome to add more!!!! I wanna hear about disabled dragons

#mermaids #disablity #fantasy prompts #magical creatures #physical disability

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“If you have time to watch Netflix you have time for a side hustle” my side hustle is relaxing so that my body and brain can heal from by this nose-to-the-grindstone bullshit. I refuse to feel guilty for being a human with the need to relax sometimes. my side hustle is no.

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Okay so I’ve been reading The Pocket Change Collective, a series of short books about a lot of really important topics, and I am ABSOLUTELY loving them. I have decided that this Collective is my Bible. As such, here are some of my favorite “verses”. (Maybe you can even use them to respond to Christians that put Bible verses in your comments; I’ve already done this once with very amusing results.)

Adam 2:19 “…for the drama.”

Adam 3:15 “You are loved, and you are welcome here.”

Adam 4:46, 51-53 “The truth is that queer people are never alone because we are part of something greater than ourselves… This sense of loneliness, of being unique in our closeted misery, is nothing but a strategic lie. We feel this sense of isolation because we live outside society’s norms. There are systems in place to keep us apart. Because a united fleet of queer youth without shame has the potential to change everything.

Alok 1:5-7 “This false choice of boy or girl, man or woman, male or female is not natural — it is political. The real crisis is not that gender non-conforming people exist, it’s that we have been taught to believe in only two genders in the first place.”

Alok 1:8 “Gender diversity is an integral part of our existence. It always has been, and it always will be.”

Alok 1:16 “The issue is not that we are failing to be men or women. It’s that the criteria used to evaluate us to begin with is the problem.”

P.S. These quotes/“verses” are from The New Queer Conscience (by Adam Eli) and Beyond the Gender Binary (by Alok Vaid-Menon). Please go read these books!!

#queer books #fuck the Bible I make my own

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reblog if you're aspec and FUCKING VALID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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this is a way better model... you'll still get transphobic & intersexist drs of course but i prefer this to male / female or even having separate questions for gender & sex.

[we can't see the full form, but i'd suggest having a "something else" option and dominant hormone question too.]

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probably shitty worldbuilding idea: fantasy world that keeps going

#something something donut universe theory

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"All autistics have low empathy" - This statement is wrong.

"Autistics having low empathy is a MYTH, we actually have HIGH empathy!" - This statement is ALSO wrong.

Autistics can have low empathy, they can have high empathy, they can have learned empathy. The myth would be that all autistics only experience one end of the empathy spectrum.

In spreading around misinformation that autistics actually have high empathy, you are disregarding the autistics who do have low empathy. And vice versa.

#yeaaaaaah #I didn’t realize for a long time that ‘struggles with empathy’ doesn’t only mean ‘’low empathy’ #it can also mean ‘feels absolutely everything from everyone so much that it often triggers meltdowns or shut downs’ #which is much more my experience #I didn’t know that high empathy can also be just as much of a barrier as low empathy #autism #asd

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#also the fracking

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It baffles me that the white conservative christian community I grew up in is so performatively against “swear words” and not, like, actual slurs? (I say performatively because everyone swears when it’s just them and like one other person around, but they all like to pretend they don’t in front of groups.)

I really do not understand why “swear words” are seen as vulgar? Why can I say “screw you” but if I say “fuck you” my mom will have an aneurism, even though they mean the same thing? Why is “poop” and “crap” okay but “shit” is just too far? If they’re understood to be virtually the same, I don’t get why we have to act like some are inherently worse than others, or somehow dirty.

But when it comes to, again, actual slurs, which have a long history of abuse and which carry very disgusting and harmful connotations, then people will say they’re “just words”.

You know what really fucking Annoys Me about internet censorship is stuff like swear words being heavily censored because that's entirely an American cultural hangup being forced on the rest of us. I don't know a single country where swearing is as taboo as it is in America. In fact most languages have swear words that would have the same effect on an American as giving a Victorian chimney sweep a pepsi max cherry.

#maybe it’s the autism #but I really don’t fucking understand any of this

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So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

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Adults: Following rules is good, not following rules is bad

Little me: Okay :] *follows a rule*

Adults: Oh my god look at this loser. He doesn't know that this rule is Secretly Okay To Not Follow. Dumbass. Let's all laugh at him

#me at my first Real Job #where the manager that trained me told me to report things that fell within certain requirements #only to tell me (the first time I reported something to him) that we don’t actually have to do that #like okay #but then why bother telling me to do it in the first place???

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If you liked HP as a kid and are grieving the nostalgia, I offer you the Septimus Heap series. It has the coziness, the magic, the cool creatures and friendships and whatnot - without the racism and antisemitism and transphobia and all the other shit JKR had written and done. Also, in my opinion, much better writing. Oh and a hell of a lot fewer plot holes and things getting randomly picked up and dropped again with no rhyme or reason. Basically, this series is better in every way and will probably fill that part of you that misses Harry and his world.

#fuck jkr #anti jkr #hp fandom #septimus heap #angie sage