#*please do not derail

[skys-archive]

I want to draw so badly I want to create but I just can't right now

#this post is about physical disability #please do not derail #artists on tumblr #art #disabled artist #disability #chronic pain #fibromyalgia

[sneakygreenbean]

personal observations made by a new cane user:

you do not need to be in constant pain to own a cane.

folding canes have a clasp or band to keep them folded. losing the band is a pain in the ass.

you will get dirty looks

it does not matter what age you are. you will get dirty looks.

you have to hold it in the opposite hand as the disabled leg. this is fortunate, as I am right handed, so i hold it in my left hand to support my right leg.

people will try to steal your cane from you.

when standing still, I hold it in my right hand unless i need to do something right handedly. this does not work as well as i thought it would.

being visibly physically disabled is difficult. having a mobility aid will help with pain and movement, but some people don't get them because visible disability is treated with disgust.

if someone meets you for the first time, and you don't have your cane, then they will like you more, but they will not believe you are actually disabled.

if someone meets you for the first time, and you have your cane, they will not treat you the same.

the majority of other cane and mobility aid users I have met are homeless. I live close to a big city.

People do not want to see you being disabled.

you will not hear of the benefits of using a cane from anyone who does not use a cane.

no one will prepare you for the world of being visibly physically disabled. however bad you think we have it is usually not from the disability at all. I can deal with pain and I can deal with an indisposed left hand.

the hardest part of being disabled is the fact that no one will care until you make them care.

the disabled seats on trains are a suggestion

the disabled seats on buses are a suggestion.

you will have a different experience with using a cane than I have had.

your hand will become tired. you are using it as a leg.

your cane is legally a part of your body. this will not stop some people.

you are not your disability. but it will affect you.

i love you

theres always an invisible someone who has it worse. that person will not be affected or offended by your use of a cane. take the damn ibuprofen. put the folded cane in your bag. ask your friends for help. gd knows they need help sometimes too.

you will have to learn that things will be impossible to you. you may not run as fast anymore. you may not become a skater, like you always wanted to be. you may be left behind when everyone else runs ahead.

you deserve better.

your cane handle gets dirty. wash it.

some days pain is worse. some days you will feel it the moment you wake up.

no one deserves pain. the human condition is not to suffer. we deserve better. we deserve to be loved and not tolerated. we deserve to be seen better than from the corners of eyes. we deserve to be heard better than an afterthought at a meeting.

be quick to care for yourself. I love you.

#disability #if you clown on this i will kill you with my teeth. #personal #disabled #cane user #mobility aid #physical disability #this is about physical disability do not derail. i understand that mental disability is treated badly as well. this post isnt about that. #this post is also not about invisible disabilities because i have a very visible disability. #please be patient with me. i am young and new to the use of canes. most of these revelations are shockingly new.

[crengarrion]

edit: please read my additions at the bottom before reblogging this post. please do not reblog this post without also reblogging the others i've linked!

if you saw my reblog(s) of ahmed's donation posts in which he includes his crypto wallets (and my links to those posts), anyone else's posts explaining how to donate to him using those wallets, or any aid post that mentions his ability to accept cryptocurrency and decided to villianise him and accuse him of being hamas for it... you are repulsive. you are not welcome here.

people are dying. paypal and ko-fi take percentages. paypal has a monthly withdrawal limit. i'm the first to admit i know nothing about cryptocurrencies, but ahmed has said it goes directly to him without a service taking a cut. i assume there are fewer or no withdrawal limits. it is harder to track and less regulated, which, in this case, provides an additional layer of security for people being precision targeted. get over it.

anyway. donate to ahmed's ko-fi. donate to ahmed's paypal. follow ahmed @90-ghost for updates on how to help him, and check his ko-fi and tumblr posts for updates. send him a nice ask. reblog his posts depicting he and his family's life in gaza. read tumblr user neaeach (naoual sahe)'s interview with ahmed. bring hope. listen to palestinians, don't speak over them.

ahmed's reblog of his interview, with a link to it:

direct link to the interview:

edit: i don't need reblogs, but palestinians, muslims, arabs, and other people suffering directly due to zionism and islamophobia do! please reblog their posts!! @el-shab-hussein has also made a post about these accusations against ahmed, which @fairuzfan added onto. and please reblog this post with ahmed's latest ko-fi update and all the ways you can DIRECTLY donate to him! thank you

#[ whispers ] #i swear. people will do anything to derail. people need victims to fit into their perfect little box or else they deserve to suffer. #sickness. repulsive. help or get out. #ahmed is a man. a human being. his family are human. people. they want to live. they deserve to live. #how dire does it have to get for people to just. help. or at least stop trying to prevent help. #reiterating in tags: Please. please reblog ahmed's posts! please reblog palestinians' posts! elevate them directly! their voices and their #words are valuable and must be amplified. i'm just a native guy in new york. i'm just angry and scared and fighting. that is all i am.

[coldbug]

he’s the prettiest linecook in the kitchen and he can prove it with a solid grilled cheese sandwich

^ this is the linecook. btw

#is this anything bc it feels like something to me #This Post Is About Frank Iero Please Do Not Derail #ktb.txt

[sonicattos]

i genuinely believe amy never actually was in love with sonic in that way. not because of a conflicting headcanon or whatever, but i feel like she was is confusing romantic interest with genuine admiration. she sees him as an inspiration to help people and do good and love the world.

there’s bits and pieces we see of her and her fear of abandonment. she doesn’t want to be casted away in the dark, she wants a spot in the light in the same way that sonic does. maybe if she was more helpful, then people would stay?

#she’s only 12 this is so fucked up please give her some cookies and ice cream #DO NOT DERAIL THIS IS MOSTLY HC AND FICTIVE STUFF #saltcat text #sonic hcs #amy rose

[patron-saint-of-lesbeans]

Very interesting (concerning) that while there’s a general consensus of “of course there’s queer Muslims and Jews and Christians we love them!” But that love is conditional. You can be religious but not too religious. You can be spiritual as long as it’s not actually that important to you. You can be observant of your religion’s dogma and traditions as long as you keep it away from everybody else.

But I don’t want to cut myself into smaller pieces. I don’t want to take a part of my life and culture and being and hide it away behind closed doors. It’s just…hypocritical and disappointing when people, who clamor about their love for the contradictory and self-authentic, hate when they’re confronted with it.

#tower of babble #catholic #lgbt #side b #sorry I saw a very good post pointing out the way queer Jews are often cited with the caveat that they’re not observant Jews #and how there are queer observant Jews but I didn’t want to derail so I made my own post #because fuckin hell how often do you see white queers telling queer Muslim women to stop wearing their hibjabi (unless it’s for ~cultural~ #purposes). it’s disgusting and demeaning to assume queer people don’t have deeply meaningful spiritual lives. #side b Christians 🤝 observant queer Jews 🤝 devout queer Muslims #me. happily trans and gay: I’m so happy and blessed to have this body and life - #homo/transphobes: you’re going to hell you’re evil you’re stupid you’re faking it #me: huh. oh. um. well I’m still blessed because I know you are not speaking with Christ in your heart- #a surprising number of self proclaimed radicals: uhhhh please don’t acknowledge that you’re Christian it makes us. uncomfortable. #me: …being uncomfortable and confused about others is the pride of Pride? the queer community thrives on contradiction and self definition? #anyways. prof put my pronouns down as he/she/they on the syllabus and I am popping the biggest gender affirming bottles tonight #(praying a chaplet and eating rice like the grad student peasant I am)

[frogseasons]

something something hunter mullet

#toh #the owl house #hunter #toh hunter #the owl house season 3 #toh spoilers #the owl house spoilers #hunter me boy… sorry #when u just wanted to draw his horrible haircut but got derailed by angst #my art #dont worry tlt ppl i have a harrowbod piece in the works 😈 #also this is my first time doing an ID so please let me know if anything needs to be changed!!! #im not sure exactly what the best practices are #id in alt text

[stillflight]

To every de-assimilating and re-connecting ethnic Jew lurking in Jewish tags:

One day it will all just be part of your life, no second guesses. One day you won't feel so uncomfortable or guilty, even a little bit. One day you will be cleaning your house for Passover and realize it's all just so normal. One day you will be saying the Hanukkah blessings and realize you know them by heart. One day you will offhand mention you're Jewish and not feel that familiar pang of guilt and shame.

You are already "Jewish enough" because you are Jewish. This feeling of not quite belonging does not last forever. You will feel all right someday. I know I do now, even though for a while it felt like I never would.

Welcome home.

#zionists fuck all the way off op is an evil anarchist and hates your ass #converts I support you but please do not derail! this is about de-assimilation #jumblr #jewish tag #why don't I just go ahead and say what I needed to hear five years ago #drafted

[tubularfem]

As we’re a day away from Pride Month, this one goes out all the lesbians who dread this upcoming month. The ones who used to look at June with excitement, only now who feel bitter and disappointed with the lesbian erasure, constant accusations of transphobia and bigtory and can no longer really enjoy Pride like they used to.

You are not a bigot for being a female homosexual. You are not a genital fetishist for only being attracted to other women. You have an unalienable right to exclude whoever the hell you want to from your romantic or even friend life.

You are natural, you are not odd or strange. You have the right to feel proud of the way you are. This year, I’m going to do my best to be Proud, so that positivity can be viewed as an example for lesbians who come after me.

No matter what hate they throw at you, you know who you are. It’s tiring, it’s exhausting, it’s soul-crushing to hear things from people you might have counted on to be on your side. That will never change no matter who’s demanding it to. It cannot be changed, it is a part of you.

You are a lesbian, you will not be silenced on your experiences, and feel proud of yourself and of your sisters, your girlfriends, your wives.

Take care of yourselves this June, you are not wrong for being a lesbian. I wish you all love, celebration and healing this month.

#Lesbian positivity #This post is about lesbians please do not derail

[starbuck]

my relationship with the mountain goats album i've been listening to for three and a half months straight is on a level you could never understand

#this is about Protein Source of the Future...Now! please do not derail #once and awhile i switch it out for a different CD but i can only listen to anything else two times through at most #and then it's back to the good old standard #the songs are just so... comfy???? #and almost every one is massively emotionally satisfying over and over #although the funny thing is that even now i could probably only confidently name around half of them? #75% at best #bc my car's CD player doesn't know how to properly read the CD #so the songs are just listed as numbered tracks #but yeah this album and i have been through some SHIT #it has gotten me through such a stressful period in my life and continues to do so #and i am so so grateful #probably not the typical mountain goats album one would say that about but oh well! #the mountain goats #tmg

[melancholic-pigeon]

I have now three times seen someone on my dash reblog a statement to the tune of "oh of course this terrible person did something terrible; they're the Bad Ethnicity that's inherently backwards and evil" after having previously asserted that judging entire ethnicities based on the shitty actions of shitty individuals is wrong no matter what, no exceptions, period, because doing that is inherently a shitty thing to do to an entire ethnic group.

Unless if they're Irish, apparently. Then the thing that's never okay because it's inherently shitty and cruel is suddenly okay. Because Irish.

#yeah #start a fight with me on this get blocked #it's not a problem I'm okay with derailing other posts about which is why I haven't done so #but I. Is it okay to do this to ethnic groups or isn't it? #I thought we agreed it isn't #and three times pales in comparison to the scapegoating bullshit other people in other groups are getting right now #but it's still frustrating to be part of the ethnic group it's ok to scapegoat even if you think it's wrong to scapegoat based on ethnicity #can we just maybe try not to do this to each other. please. #hurting people because you think their ethnic group is uniquely immoral is actually a shitty thing to do to anyone ever! #I just want consistency in the notion that it's bad to demonize entire ethnic groups. why can't we do this. why is it so hard. #call out shitty people's shitty actions! By all fucking means! #but please stop trying to find the one bad ethnic group you can demonize and hate based on their ethnicity #hate shitty mean antisemites because they're shitty mean and antisemitic not bc they're indigenous to ireland

[xxlovelynovaxx]

[Img ID: post reading "it doesnt matter if we're feminine or masculine or androgynous. they'll want us dead anyway. THIS POST IS ABOUT TRANS MEN AND TRANSMASCULINE PEOPLE. DO NOT DERAIL. MAKE YOUR OWN POST." /end ID]

I think actually we've reached terminal selfishness and self-centeredness when "look basic transphobia. THIS IS ONLY ABOUT SOME TRANS PEOPLE. MAKE YOUR OWN POST" is considered acceptable behavior, like

1 this is the reblogging posts site. if you don't want it "derailed", turn off reblogs

2 it's not "derailing" to talk about experiencing the exact same type of oppression for the exact same reasons. like, this is tagged transandrophobia. y'know, the word coined to talk about oppression UNIQUE TO or MORE TYPICALLY EXPERIENCED by trans men and mascs? Like I know we're all super sensitive to "it's just transphobia" because bad faith actors use it to shut us up about our own oppression, but even if transandrophobia is ANY transphobia experienced by transmascs, this one is SO not unique and SO universal that calling other trans people "derailing" for daring to acknowledge they experience it is honestly transphobic itself

3. Are you being transmisogynistic or exorsexist it both? Do you find it offensive that a group even more erased than transmascs (trans people who are neither transfem nor transmasc) might "take the spotlight" by experiencing the same pain as you? Are you just mad that transfems suffer from hypervisibility (a key factor in transmisogyny, no less) that you're wrongly viewing as some sort of privilege?

Like this is the logical end conclusion of exclusion, separatism, and the idea that it's immoral or even just dickish to talk about SHARED experiences of oppression. Even those who aren't convinced that there's no overlap and oppression fits into neat little boxes based on your actual identity (and that people with multiple identities experience each oppression as discrete separate forms of violence OR a new unique form of oppression that no one else ever does) are like "I have the right to shut people out of a discussion of their own pain and trauma just because *I* experienced it for THIS reason

Like, I draw the line at someone saying anything more exclusionary than "oh I didn't name all groups that experience this because this was a more personal vent post, but please share your experiences because this isn't exclusive to us".

Idk I can't even articulate what's so gross and off-putting about this. But whatever, this intersex transneufemmasc is making their own post so they aren't (implied) transandrophobic by, idk, being transmasc but also other things and experiencing this same thing based on those other identities, or acknowledging that those other identities share these experiences in the absence of transmasculinity.

Also, nontransmasculine/non-trans-men experience transandrophobia, you fucking asshole. Transneutral, abinary/atrinary, neutrois, maverique, and other trans people that are seen as transmasc by bigots experience no material differences in the oppression they face. Their experiences are almost identical to yours - except they have to either be misgendered to be acknowledged or get erased. What functional difference do you think there is between an afab person pursuing what you forcibly label a "masculine" transition facing this exact shit, and you, other than that they respect your gender and you don't return the favor. Or you do, only to shut them out of a conversation that they have less of a voice in than you do.

That's just fucking transphobia. Fuck off.

If you're being so defensive over past trauma you bite people BEFORE you know they're unsafe, maybe you need to get a fucking grip.

#cw discourse #the logical end course of “no ME MINE ONLY MY OPPRESSION NO TOUCHY GO HAVE YOUR OWN CONVO SOMEWHERE ELSE” #is the total destruction of any community #like sorry actually it's impossible to do community building if you're gonna throw a tantrum about SHARED TRAUMA #fuck off #I do not have the energy to extend any good faith rn tbh #I'm so fucking tired of the experience of being multiple things and being shut out of all involved communities for being multiple #only with sometimes 'well you ARE x so you're allowed I GUESS but NEVER TALK ABOUT BEING y' #like x and y aren't inextricably intertwined #I am not transfem. and transmasc. and transneutral. I am transneufemmasc. #I know I sometimes only include some for convenience but like. the truth is I will always be all those things #so I have a right to speak #and I just KNOW they would consider it derailing to even talk about how I experience it as a TRANSneufemMASC #because they don't actually mean it's about trans men and mascs #they mean it's about people who are EXCLUSIVELY trans men and mascs #well actually it's about just them but they can't pretend it's praxis to tell other people it's derailing to join the conversation #if they just say 'this is about me. other people shut up' #funny enough if it just said 'personal vent post. please make a new post if you want to talk about your experiences' #I'd respect that FAR more

[coralcatsea]

Finland offered to fill the role of America's dad and America seemed pretty happy and open to it.

Just look at his face!

Bonus:

EDIT: I don't want to see mentions of any characters you view as a dad unless it's about Finland. Please respect that. If you want to talk about other characters please just make your own post.

#aph #hws #this post is about America and Finland only #please stay on topic and do not derail by talking about other characters #thank you! #hws finland #hws america #aph america #aph finland

[endingboyhansel]

sir that’s my emotional support band made up of a short guy, a traumatised bisexual, The Only Sane One and an explosive gremlin

#pierrot.txt #this is about the who PLEASE DO NOT DERAIL PLEASE

[thefiresontheheight]

Too many YA stories these days have protagonists who are like “wow, I guess I was lashing out at you because growing up I internalized that was the only way to get what I needed from my neglectful parents” and other SUPER in touch with their feelings things and not enough of protagonists selling out entire cities because their leader flirted with their boyfriend a lil bit.

#mortal engines #this is a Hester Shaw appreciation post please do not derail #good GOD I need to write a protagonist as self destructive and vindictive as her

[organised-disaster]

Okay I'm working on snowbird chapter 2

I hope people actually read it considering seven of them voted for me to keep writing it when I asked them

#announcement #i guess #snowbird #snowbird chapter 2 is im uhhere i er well #im like. 49% done #i hope people read it i really do #i establish the protags relationship with her older sister in chapter 2 itll be great #therell be guilt the protags bestie has a fraternal relationship with the protags older sister would you read that please read that im beggi #also just read part of mockingjay that derails my whole plot BUT ITS OKAY the plot holes have saved me #it says that finnick odair was a mentor during the 74th games but that doesnt check out because he won during 65 but annie casta won in 70 #meaning annie casta won the most recently but wasnt a mentor??? but annie is known for not being stable SO #that means that if a mentor is unfit to train new tributes they can be replaced by a more capable one WHICH MEANS #despite the timelines making one of my characters the most recent district 4 victor if she has a psychotic breakdown she wont mentor #so now i have to find a way to traumatise her enough that her progress going back to normal just flies out the window #fortunately the reaping happens in winter the arena was full of snow theres a point where she falls in a frozen lake she lives in district 4 #hmmmmmm and maybe she gets cut. maybe blood on snow reminds her of things that she doesnt want to be reminded of. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmnmnnnm #it happens in winter cause its in the middle of the year. winter is in the middle of the year. catching fire has the reaping midyear (?) #look dont ask me about my timelines just enjoy it okay