If you wrote me
Would you write me with care?
Would you be gentle in how you sculpted your words?
I hope you know
that every time I write you,
I trace my fingers softly through memories
Plucking carefully the moments I use
I can only write you gently.
If you drew me
Would it show me true?
Would a face appear in the spaces between strokes?
Every time
I try to draw you
I cannot continue to move the pen
to form the face I remember but cannot see
I don’t remember the color of your eyes
I wonder if you think of me how I think of you
I wonder if you think of me
I hope you do
- do you remember, original poem by C
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Today my therapist introduced me to a concept surrounding disability that she called "hLep".
Which is when you - in this case, you are a disabled person - ask someone for help ("I can't drink almond milk so can you get me some whole milk?", or "Please call Donna and ask her to pick up the car for me."), and they say yes, and then they do something that is not what you asked for but is what they think you should have asked for ("I know you said you wanted whole, but I got you skim milk because it's better for you!", "I didn't want to ruin Donna's day by asking her that, so I spent your money on an expensive towing service!") And then if you get annoyed at them for ignoring what you actually asked for - and often it has already happened repeatedly - they get angry because they "were just helping you! You should be grateful!!"
And my therapist pointed out that this is not "help", it's "hLep".
Sure, it looks like help; it kind of sounds like help too; and if it was adjusted just a little bit, it could be help. But it's not help. It's hLep.
At its best, it is patronizing and makes a person feel unvalued and un-listened-to. Always, it reinforces the false idea that disabled people can't be trusted with our own care. And at its worst, it results in disabled people losing our freedom and control over our lives, and also being unable to actually access what we need to survive.
So please, when a disabled person asks you for help on something, don't be a hLeper, be a helper! In other words: they know better than you what they need, and the best way you can honor the trust they've put in you is to believe that!
Also, I want to be very clear that the "getting angry at a disabled person's attempts to point out harmful behavior" part of this makes the whole thing WAY worse. Like it'd be one thing if my roommate bought me some passive-aggressive skim milk, but then they heard what I had to say, and they apologized and did better in the future - our relationship could bounce back from that. But it is very much another thing to have a crying shouting match with someone who is furious at you for saying something they did was ableist. Like, Christ, Jessica, remind me to never ask for your support ever again! You make me feel like if I asked you to call 911, you'd order a pizza because you know I'll feel better once I eat something!!
Edit: crediting my therapist by name with her permission - this term was coined by Nahime Aguirre Mtanous!
Edit again: I made an optional follow-up to this post after seeing the responses. Might help somebody. CW for me frankly talking about how dangerous hLep really is.
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Behold, Draxum's Military Warlords
(Also, Childhood!Enemies Leosagi)
This Usagi (Son of one of Draxum's allies) used to be a bully, because he was an incredibly lonely child and envious of the twin's close relationship.
As they grow up though, their initial animosity slowly transforms into competitive respect as they discover shared values & a common sense of dumbassery
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Danny and (a recently revived) Jason move into an apartment together, they live right next to each other too.
The thing with this, however, is that the both of them?
They goddamn hate each other.
If murder was not illegal, they would genuinely kill each other. But since it is, they settle for the next best thing, just beating each other up on sight.
At least, until the landlord told them to not fight on their property and if they were to do it out of sight, so they don't scare away any more potential clients.
They've already scared away more than 10.
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Fuck you *designs the turtles' kooky other-dimension sister*
Thinking about her and trying to come up with her design just made me think of Arcane's Jinx, so that's definitely her main inspo. As well as Briar, another League champion. I made her the Venus, bc I really want Big Mama's assistant to be a Jennika type- Given their respective stories, with Jenny being from the Foot Clan.
Her markings are also inspired by the concept art of the turtles' 'Ninpo Forms'.
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Rafael, my love...
Yeah, the first time I saw this thicc boi cleaning graves I was smitten.
Have some screenshots of married life :P
He doesn't even take his clothes off to sleep. Dedication. (Side note, please tell me we'll get a bathroom in the house at some point haha)
TOO CUTE
NO, BABE, TELL ME, PRAISE ME
That poor little sad face almost makes me forgive the fact this was moments after he crawled in AT 00:50. RAF WTF
Look, I'm just saying, there's a reason that mom and pops weren't invited to the wedding lol
He says this when I have over 100K coins haha. Bless his cottons.
Perfection.
Absolute perfection.
<3
He likes the quiet life <3
Can we get a crowdfunder to make Rafael real now please?
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