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This is your daily reminder to not be ashamed of making your life easy for yourself.

Cut your food into small pieces, make the font size 30 on your e book, use straws to drink, get a pen that’s comfortable to hold, take more naps, walk slowly, eat another cookie, buy velcro shoes, re-watch the part you couldn’t understand the first time, write things on your hands so you don’t forget it… whatever you want and/or need

Don’t let anyone tell you how you should be doing things. We don’t need to prove each other anything

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Tips on how to avoid being unintentionally ableist

1. When a disabled person says they cannot do something, and you wish to offer solutions, do not make a solution that involves them powering through pain, or something thats not accessible to the disabled.

Example:

Disabled person: "washing dishes hurts too much and i cannot do it."

Abled person: "what if you did one dish at a time throughout the day?"

This statement is not respecting that this disabled person just said they "can't". Always respect that. No matter how simple the task would be for you.

Disabled person:" i think ill use plastic silverware so i don't make dishes."

Abled person: "plastic is bad for the environment!"

This statement shuts down the most accessible and disabled friendly option that this disabled person can actually do because of the abled persons personal beliefs. This is not helpful, and ableist.

Better yet, instead of offering solutions, ask them directly "is there anything you need that you do not have that would help you do this?" This allows the disabled person to think about what would work, and they will always have a better idea of what would work than you do.

To add on to this, when we say we have no more energy to solve a problem or do a task, or change our lifestyle, we mean it.

2. If you feel discomfort when a disabled person is talking about their health, good and bad, that is ableist. Your discomfort is coming from a place that deams disabled peoples very existence as a bad thing and you need to fix that.

For example:

Disabled person:" this week has been rough pain wise, ive been through a lot, felt like my body was on fire. Lucky i got new meds though and i think they're helping!"

Abled person: "can we talk about something else, this is a bummer."

Disabled people should be able to exist freely without worrying about your personal comfort. Do you really think its appropriate to tell someone in constant pain that their life is making YOU uncomfortable?

3. Do not treat disabled people as tragedies, do not romanticize their old life or put their current one down.

For example:

Disabled person: "yeah my life is pretty difficult sometimes, ive lost a lot but i still have happy moments."

Abled person: "it makes me so sad to see what disabled people go through :(. You used to love rock climbing and running, i would love to see you move around more again."

This statement is putting more value on the disabled persons abled past, and ignoring their life as a whole.

4. Do not avoid speaking to disabled people because it hurts to see your loved one disabled.

For example: my grandmother avoids conversations with me because it hurts her to see me in pain. While she has good intentions it leaves me being unable to be close to her. This is very isolating to the disabled.

5. Do not stop inviting your disabled friend/loved one out even if they are never well enough to attend. Unless we specifically ask you to stop asking if we can go out, good chances are we want to know you still care because again, disability is very isolating.

6. When a disabled person says certain things in their health have gotten better or worse, do not challenge this because you don't see a difference.

For example:

Disabled person: "yeah things are getting a little better"

Abled person sees disabled person using their wheelchair like usual: "i thought you said you were getting better?"

Better and worse are usually small changes only the disabled experience, its not like abled people healing from a broken arm. Better to a disabled person could mean they can stand for 10 more minutes.

7. Do not expect disabled people to ever be abled again, and again, do not put more value on an abled life.

For example:

Disabled person:"I have been using a wheelchair for 2 years."

Abled person: "oh you're young, im sure you'll be walking around in no time!"

This statement invalidates and ignores the disabled persons current life by hoping they get a more abled bodied life. Its fine to hope disabled people get better, but you don't get to decide what better looks like.

Hope this helps, stay punk.

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"kids are getting indoctrinated into transgenderism" did you know that left handedness increased from 3% to 12% when they stopped beating left handed children.

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i lied. i don't actually like sex. put your clothes back on. i'm going to explain the entire plot of the magnus archives.

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HAPPY JONMARTIN DAY EVERYONE

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I actually really want the Fear Categories™ to be different in the Magnus Protocol's world.

Like, yeah different names being the most popular would be cool and all but I mean like. Actually divided different. Not into Smirke's Fourteen. Like people have divided the Fears into a main six or there's like 37.

Or, even better, how many Fears there are isn't universally agreed on.

Some people say there's ten, and they serve the manipulating, knowledgeable one. Some people say there's 50, and they serve the one that drowns, which is different from the choking or buried alive or large ocean ones. Some believe each Power is a spectrum, so the Vast and Buried are one thing, the Dark and the Eye are one, etc. Some people try to force them into preconceived categories, like the Buried is Earth, Air is that part of the Vast, Water is another part of the Vast, Fire is the Desolation, and then try to shove the rest into those divisions too.

Because Smirke's Fourteen is supposed to be kinda arbitrary right? People kinda just adopted it and it became widespread. It doesn't have to be like that. You could have avatars that can create shadows and suffocate you. Avatars that are Hunt, Slaughter, Flesh and Desolation combined. The ability to burn you, and to choke you, but only with smoke. Someone who's specifically serving the fear of electricity. A cult that just has One True God, whose power is creating fear in many forms, serving the Entities as a singular being, the whole colour wheel. The possibilities and combinations are endless!

#the magnus protocol #tmagp #the entities #tmagp theory #the magnus archives #tma #robert smirke #smirke's fourteen

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Y'know what I think would be cool. If one of the one-off statement givers came back. Like if some super minor character had a bigger role in tmagp. Or not even a bigger role they just have a single incident report and that's all.

I just think it would be fun. Like, Nathan Watts saw something Vast happen and reported it. Or Siobhan Dobson, sister of Ashley Dobson who was presumably taken by the Anglerfish. Just a really minor cameo for a really minor character

#or even if theyre in the background of an incident report #the incident reporters coworker or something #the magnus protocol #tmagp #tmagp theory #the magnus archives #tma #nathan watts

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Had another idea for tmagp!Jon and Martin

Ok so for one reason or another, the tmagp peeps get access to enough MAG tapes that they figure out that there are interdimensional shenanigans going on.

And to investigate, they track down the Jon and Martin of their universe, which turns out to be an ordeal because their basic personalities are mostly intact and when approached by a weird government agency their reactions are A. immediate paranoid suspicion (Jon) and B. anxious avoidance and manipulation (Martin).

So whoever has to go knocking on Jon's door gets chased off his property with the equivalent of "come back with a warrant". Meanwhile Martin literally pretends to not be home for, like, a disconcerting number of hours/days. When they finally get him to open the door and talk to them, he pretends to not speak English.

And the crew is like... these are not normal reactions. These people are hiding shit. Except they're not, they're just mental and also made for each other. (They meet in a waiting room at the agency and immediately hit it off because they have a common enemy and that is anyone who wants to question them about anything whatsoever.)

(And bla bla bla then it turns out there's some interdimensional resonance that actually is affecting the both of them and well shit you're recurring characters now. Jon freaks out whenever he's kept waiting and paces a hole in one of their carpets.)

#ok but that would be so fun i love it #even if this doesn't happen i need this plot in at least twenty different fanfics pls

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Inspired by this post by @myiliterallyhavenolifegoals

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obviously got no idea how much 'jon' will be in protocol, but i can't stop thinking about someone who's had to listen to all the tapes with his voice on saying "oh so You're jonathan sims??" and lobbying him with like a million questions.

then there's a pause,

and he just says "jonathan blackwood, actually" in that smug bitch voice of his. you know the one

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Might I just say

This isn't really related to solving the ARG, but the "Modifications and Amendments" section of the OIAR website is So Concerning. Actually the whole Legal page is but. They can change the terms and conditions, at any time, to anything, without telling you, and if you in any way use the website it counts as you agreeing to them. Especially concerning since they can basically have you arrested if you don't comply.

And that along with the "Liability Disclaimers and Indemnity" section... Why do I feel like this is gonna get used for evil lol

#tmagp #the magnus protocol #protocolarg

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i wish there were more stories that used typically romantic tropes in a platonic manner

fake dating, but its just two mates who find it hilarious that everybody thinks they’re into each other

only one bed, and its two emotionally inept people who end up cuddling and get very embarrassed in the morning that they actually have human feelings

soulmates, because YES they can be soulmates without falling in love and getting married, but just be friends or queerplatonic partners instead??

love triangle but its just three aroace ppl pretending to have crushes, and they all end up mates instead

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they should invent sleep that makes you not tired

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every asexual in the tma fandom looked at jonathan jarchivist sims and said “what if his individual experience of asexuality was exactly the same as my individual experience of asexuality” and I for one think that was very asexy of us.

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can you believe all asexual people have the same birthday

[image id: two versions of the same digital drawing of jon sims. he is a british-indian person with long greying hair tied up in a half-up hairstyle, a short beard, and various scars. he wears a long sleeved sweater with text on it that reads, “i don’t need sex life fucks me over every day.” behind him is the ace flag on top of a light purple grid pattern. the first version is of jon in various shades of monochrome purple, and the second is in full color. /end id]

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what if we gouged out our eyes during pride month? 😳👉👈

Happy pride month by the way!