#haven't got a fucking queue

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

saw @chez-cinnamon's absolutely BANGER butterfly!Howdy design and couldn't resist! two fluffy flutterbyes <3 solidarity

#still unsure of Why this was the only pose that came to mind but! who am i to deny the brain what it wants #i also have no idea what it is about butterflies and mullets + extra fluff #it just feels Right. #oh also if you haven't checked out chez-cinnamon's Real World au uhhhh Go Do That!!! #its fun! its funky! its fresh! its got a lot of great art! its got a Comic! #emphasis on a Lot Of Great Art! #i will admit im emotionally invested in the plot. its reeled me in. im Fascinated by it #also(x2) i Cannot get over how swagtastic that butterfly howdy design is #like!!! look at it!!! the colors the patterns the WINGS agh the wings <3<3<3 #truly a unique and creative design that im totally not jealous of ahaha what- #kidding im Kidding. or am i... i am i am #scribble garnish #yassified howdy <3 #welcome home #alrighty its officially 2 am i needed to be asleep uhhhhh three hours ago #gonna queue this up and conk out. while lovingly thinking of chez-cinnamon's butterfly howdy my fucking GOD #cant get over how Gorgeous he is #the facial patterns.... the colors.... immaculate #top tier design i am Taking Notes #ok ok sleeping now. Sleeping. snz snork mimi and all that. etc

[coreene]

This is from when Astarion tells the player that he's a vampire

Player: But you've been walking in the sun this whole time. Astarion: And by rights I should be cinders blowing in the wind, but something's protecting me. The same something that's kept us from turning into mind flayers, no doubt. But that's neither here nor there. What matters is everything's out in the open now. Because we trust each other. devnote: He doesn't really believe what he's saying but trying to convince the player

Player: We are a team. We need each other. Astarion: Exactly! I knew I could rely on you. Just like you can rely on me. devnote: Do not rely on Astarion, dear player. He will eat you.

I've seen this being shared before but I wanted to have it on my blog anyway. That last devnote just kills me. And Astarion does, in fact, kill you if you let him. I like that it happens. I think that was one of the moments where it broke that romantic vampire trope. You can't trust vampires - they will eat you!!

I didn't know much about dnd vampires, and having already lived through that vampire loving phase in my teens he wasn't really interesting to me, at first glance. But being a vampire is not really the main focus of his story, is it? It's trauma, slavery and survival. It's how strong he is despite being so goddamned scared.

Which makes him human more than anything else. I think we like him so much because of that.

#I'm really not into the whole let him bite you thing #I still love vampires #but i dont want to be their prey #i want to be a vampire that preys on others #I'm an Anne Rice girlie (gn) #Lestat is really popular but if you guys haven't - I suggest reading the book Merrick #She is so fucking awesome #I love her #Pandora too #anyway i got derailed with my love for Anne Rice again #What im saying is we're curing Astarion post-game in this blog #Astarion #BG3 Astarion #Astarion Ancunin #Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion #Bg3 #Bg3 Spoilers #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 devnotes #queue

[talentforlying]

ello ello ello return to your usual sad scouse bastard programming coming next week <3

#( ooc. ) OUT OF CIGS. #damn i got busy and tumblr changed format. what else is new #anyway sorry for vanishing on everyone!!!! i had a work project that went insane #also my queue broke Yet Again and i've been too swamped to fix it #so i will simply. start posting replies next week bc fuck it bro #also NEW HELLBLAZER next week so i will have inspiration and energy anew #if i haven't replied to your messages yet i will do so starting monday!!! sorry again!!! life has been uhhhhh hell!!

[ghostoffuturespast]

Being a writer is weird.

#it's tough fighting that human visual bias on a platform like this #my queue ran out and i haven't posted any vp because i was trying to crank out that last chapter for my long fic #and like i get it maybe most people aren't interested in reading it #different strokes for different folks #but like the discrepancy between how people interact with photo vs writing posts is wildly disheartening sometimes #and i've been see-sawing back and forth all day about this #riding high and wallowing in the mud #this is literally the creative project that i've been pouring myself into for the past month and a half every spare moment i have #and i've been doing this for the past year and a half #it's weird pouring so much love into something when the vast majority of people won't even give it two seconds #i love writing but it is also a mentally exhausting craft and people don't seem to acknowledge that for some reason #it's why i try to reblog stuff from my writing mutuals when i see it because it's usually the artwork that gets the least amount of love #anyway just felt like getting that off my chest #i'm sure my fellow writers can commiserate too #i'm not mad or anything i just had thoughts and perhaps voicing them is better then stewing on them i suppose #also i feel bad for not reading more stuff from other people but i've got like zero beans to give atm #no need to worry or anything i'm still gonna keep writing and posting my shit #more vp comin in over the weekend #also god the new tumblr ui for desktop is fucking ugly absolutely atrocious #man i really don't want to have to set up shop on another social media outlet it's tiresome #i don't want to keep up i just want to blog in peace

[anipgarden]

Catch me out here making posts on how to collect milkweed seeds because I'm hoping at least SOMEONE out there has good luck

*collapses to the ground* my fuckin swamp milkweeds got Heat Waved and barely even flowered, let alone got pollinated.... I'll have to see if my root stock ones or Swampy even come back next year, but this year definitely isn't the Year of the Ani Swamp Milkweed Success

#out of queue #ani rambles #oh yeah if anyone was wondering I do name my milkweeds sometimes #my three root stock swamp milkweeds are named Ross Lizanne and Alana #then I got Swampy. Swampy lives in the big pot by my window. #then I got Taylor. Taylor's another swamp milkweed she lives with Ross Lizanne and Alana #I also got a big butterfly weed plant and 2 plugs so they're named Albert Brett and Isaac #i think they died kinda early on though. Either that or I just can't fucking find them #what i thought was Albert ended up being my bee balm plant so minus 2 points in my milkweed identification skill #my bestie recently got me 3 swamp milkweeds and one of them had a butterfly weed growing in its pot too #i forgot to water them so i thought they died but they came back so i put them in a pot recently near Swampy #i havent officially named them yet but I have ideas #I might name two of the swamp milkweeds Morgan and Charlotte #and maybe I'll name the little butterfly weed Miles #but I still need a name for the third swamp milkweed....... #or actually. scratch that #third swamp milkweed is Miles and the butterfly weed is gonna be Maddi #anyways long story short #Swampy Ross Lizanne Alana and Taylor MIGHT be dead #I haven't been able to even FIND Albert Brett or Isaac since like July #Morgan Charlotte Miles and Maddi are my newest additions and are currently confirmed FINE #BUT its almost October so if they can't get super situated before the frosts start later this year they may be doomed #granted im in North Florida so frosts won't happen until late December/early January but STILL #and NONE of them flowered #well clarification #Swampy flowered but no other swamp milkweeds were flowering at the same time as her #I think Taylor ALMOST flowered but then heat wave happened #either Morgan Charlotte or Miles WAS flowering when I first got them but then Heatwave Happened #so uh. unless I get a post-heatwave economic miracle. no swamp milkweed seeds for me.

[sysig]

I'm almost finished with this notebook with it's horrible paper, and I just finished the first page of my Big Project

#Oh yeah - it's all coming together #Hgggg I am so sick of this notebook! It's wack as fuck! #It has made editing a Chore for the past eight months >:0 Not fun or meditative At All #Even worse is that the paper feels good to draw on but the cleanup is just! Awful! #I've just been completely ignoring my non-lined homemade notebook because it feels bad to draw on lol #The rest of the doodles for this year - yes that's how far the queue is backlogged rn lol - are still on that paper #But at least I'm like ><this close to being done with it ugh #I've got two blank pages and then like three half-doodled on pages that I'm planning to just knock out #It looks so weird 'cause the pages are all out of order lol - the first page was in March and the last in November #But like the next page after the first is /also/ November lol #Like it's largely in chronological order but it jumps around quite a lot! It was an interesting experiment #I also think it's funny since the first page got some fandom stuff that didn't come back around until now but it Looks chronological lol #I think I'll do it again but with some modifications - if I run out of steam/interest/motivation then I can fill it in however I want #Keeping it on-theme is fun but I find myself pushing ideas when I don't actually have any :P That's no good #It's not Always bad - I like quite a few of my spacefiller ideas! But if anything that just proves that finishing things out to make room- #Well like I said it was fun lol #And! As stated! I finished the first page of my big behind-the-scenes project! >:3c #Man I haven't worked on a comic proper-like in uhhhhh #It's gotta be at least five years lol geez #It's been a weird rhythm to try to fall into lol I'm Way out of practice - but it's nice to see it come together! #Lotta steps to get it into the shape I want - hard to sustain - but slowly and surely I've got this one :) #It'll be good to finally have it Out haha

[blackbutler-readerinsertsandjunk]

just watched the new Haunted Mansion with my mom and listen I know he's a dickbag but DAMN if Alistair Crump didn't give me some Kuro villain vibes

love the look, love the accent, love the backstory, black magic bits almost reminded me of Aleister (which is funny considering the similar names)

but unlike our Aleister, I wanna kick Alistair right down into his grave too

loved your performance mate but BYE BITCH

#mod post #sorry not sorry that one fucking movie is singlehandedly giving me a lil Kuro muse back #my head's been stuck in MHA and still kinda is but DANG how can one movie that isn't even a Kuro movie make me wanna write- #been struggling a lil lately cuz of mood shifts so I haven't gotten much done here #but I'm hoping to get at or under 40 requests tonight!! I've only got 5 in the queue ;-;

[bearseungmin]

idk if anyone feels the same way but I've honestly become a whore for plot-filled fics lately. like super deep into an au, 5k+, might have smut in it or not, makes me wish i was living in this world type shit.

& I'm super over this 1-4k pure smut fics getting 3x the affection, attention, and reblogs as the deep plot fics someone clearly put multiple sittings into writing.

#bearseungmin.txt #I'm high on pain meds rn and kinda pissed off #yes this is a personal opinion but also not every fic needs smut #I'm reaching a breaking point where sometimes i add a smut scene out of sheer fucking fear that the whole fic will flop without smut #because they DO #and it's not just mine either pain #if more of my works don't have long smut scenes or smut scenes at all just know this got to me and I'm >:( #also yes i am reading more and trying to configure a recs list that's more organized and more recs lists with themes #ok I'll shut up #to each their own #i have a bunch of fics drafted rn to queue in a new to read tag and there are some BANGERS i haven't been able to sit down and read yet #another thought: I don't think readers know how damaging it is to witness a smut w no plot do better than a like 10k fic #it's like damn i really spent multiple days crafting this storyline only to lose to a dom chan smut ok fuck #I'm over writing smut drabbles rn and idk if they'll ever come back LMAO #btw when i say lose i mean to yourself as a writer aka when you have a pure smut fic that does better than a full fic #this is in no way a competition between writers

[fvaleraye]

Sleep well, wayward dreamer.

Reblogs are appreciated

#Faye Doodles #DragonFable #Remthalas #DragonFable Spoilers #Queue #ask to tag #... so. finally beat the boss #hwuf. hwuf #just in time for the epilogue; too #so i got hit with that as well #leave it to df to get me emotional after finally beating a boss that kicked my ass for a solid week #had to pull out a class i haven't used in years and everything #just. fuck; man #gonna miss you; remthalas. you were a good villain #maybe even my fav

[gingericywolf]

I just dreamed this whole benji thing. Two times. In the same night. Like I woke up was like "the fuck was that" went back to sleep and dreamed the exact same thing with just slight variations . It was a reincarnation sort of thing where they slowly start getting memories of their past life, in which they had different but similar names and it was them in looks and all so I'm just gonna call them Ben and Kenji. Anyway :

"Ben" was a royal kid and "Kenji" was the servants' kid and so the one appointed to keep Ben company. But like kenji didn't like ben that much at the start but then ben get's him out of a trapdoor/tunnel that kenji had gotten closed in as punishment for something and also shows him how to open it from inside and from there there where a lot of shaeningans of the two like Ben getting extra cookies from the kitchens and sharing them with kenji, getting in and out of troubles together, running in the secret tunnels and passages figuring out every secret of the palace. They grow up together until the King gets sick and there is a bit of a crisis in the kingdom and Ben, scared, tries to hide in the tunnels but kenji finds him in a tunnel[1] that is weirdly light up and sustained by the roots of a tree(it an important detail) and from what ben says, and I quote "there are stories that say the tree that's up here has some power of protection, it grants it to who's just of mind and pure of love" and kenji offhandedly replies with "I hope it helps us too" followed by ben's "I'm sure it will". They go back out and find out the King died and so Ben has to be King now, still young( but slightly older than during camp cretaceous). There is a big ceremony for his coronation and kenji thinks that it's all over and that he will just be one of many servants now, but then Ben goes to him after all the rituals and stuff (with more food he snatched) and and makes Kenji his adviser and together they rebuild the kingdom and things go well for a long while. Also they give each other nicknames here, that are 'Ben' and 'Kenji', impling that their names where similar enought to have their future names as nicks. There a lot more scenes of them growing as king and advisor, some very cheesy and the tension that I could feel even from the dream was strong, li and the discourses like:

Kenji:"ohi we are getting letters from other kingdoms from kings wanting you to marry their daughters, like this princess from I think england and this one from India or this other one.."

Ben:" you say that as if they aren't all actually England. I don't want to get entangled with those, you know how many places fell because of them" (so true ben so true king)

Kenji: * throws all letters into the fire* absolutely right your majesty~ *proceeds to laught because he can't say it with a serious face*

Anyway as I was saying things go well until they are like late 20s early 30s(?) then shit starts going south and it ends up in a riot/war, not really sure how or why, someone wanting to get their hands on the crown, I'm not sure but this segment of dream starts with Kenji frantically writing down a letter(which later modern Ben finds but we will get to that if this post isn't too long because there are at least 2 different versions of how he find it), he has the crown with him and puts it all in a bag before hiding it all inside the wall of a secret room. He then runs out of the library and there's the sound of fights, fire, smoke everywhere and a storm outside is raging. He runs trying to help anyone he can while searching for Ben but he ends up in a fight with an enemy that brings him on an outside terrace(?) and gets thrown on the ground and about to be stabbed by the enemy, but that's when ben comes in, getting the hit and starting the fight again and, having got the enemy by surprise, he manages to defeat him. There is like a second of silence as they help each other out but then you hear big explosion,a loud rumble of stone falling and crushing, and the only thing that is seen was kenji being shoved out the way and the look of terror on his face as he reaches an hand forward just to grab nothing, crawling on his knees, seeing part of the terrace collapsed and ben's not there, (cue cruel parallel shot of ben falling in roaring storming ocean / falling from the monorail). He looks down and there is no sign of him. Just the black waves. As the battle keeps on going, and thunders keep shouting around him, there is just no sound as he looks down the edge, there is nothing but his lost, pained expression, for a moment it feels like his heart stopped too. He slowly gets back up, running through the halls, ignores everything until he gets to the entrance of that first passage, the one ben got him out of when they where kids, he just shouts a "Close behind me!" as he jumps in and keeps running, taking turns he knows like the back of his hand now, until he is out in the open, on the beach, on the rocks, looks at the waves crashing. Until he sees him, there between roots, towered by a tree, he finds Ben lying on the ground, he reaches to him and holds him relieved that he is at least awake albeit quite badly injured. There is a bit of talk until they start to hear sound of the enemies getting closer and Ben says something about protecting kenji. That he has to run away. At which kenji is like no I will protect you this time. I do not remember exactly the line kenji says and it's a shame because it was one of the most beautiful things I heard someone say in a dream, But he had one hand on Ben's cheek, the other on Ben's side, soaked in blood from the sword slash injury, they are close and looking in each other eyes and the message was along the lines of:

"No matter when, where, no matter how much time passes or who we are, if we are of different status or the same one, if we look different or have different names, I'll recognize you when I'll find you and I promise I will be the one to hold and to protect you"

There's Ben faint laugh as he puts both his hands on kenji's face, vision blurrying from tears and... uh incoming death and repeats the same words but ending it with:

"I'll love you still, as much as I do now, always and forever I'll love you"

The scene goes black as kenji is ripped away from ben's grasp, sound of fighting as kenji screams something I suspect was also an "I love you".

Then it's the sunrise the only sounds are wind and waves, and the creaking of wood like a sorrow cry and from behind a tree root we just see their hands, so close, not clear if barely thouching or if just enough not to.

It's not finished here, there is still a lot. Like this all was just the end scene where all the flashbacks got put together, finally all linear and making sense as they are in the spot where their past selves died. Also like all the rest of the crew is there too.

[1] as I said I had the dream two times with slight difference. The tree is one of the differences and is actually the second dream. First dream had a dragon for some reason, in a cave reached by the tunnels, and in that it was the dragon's fire to surround them after they said the same lines to each other, and kenji put himself in front of ben to protect him from an arrow, that 'saved' their promise and gave them the possibility to find each other again in future. As much as I like dragons and as great as it would be considering Ben's pyromaniac tendencies in the show it feels a bit too streched and the tree one is a bit more romantic? so I went eith the tree in the recount here.

Another difference is in Ben exploring the ruins alone, just slightly ahead of the group or if they are all togheter. It is always implied that Ben was the first to start recollecting the past way before, while kenji gets the most of it once they start finding and going around the ruins. I like both ideas, but there is a beautiful scene in the one where they are exploring together that is when they Do find the crown and past kenji's letter where kenji tries to grab it in panic, but chills a bit when no one can read it, until ben gets it, makes a face and then smile and as kenji tries to rip it from his hands he jumps on top of pile of debris trying to keep the paper away from kenji and also reading it aloud. Kenji doesn't even know why he is doing what he is doing yet so it makes it funnier. For if Ben is solo I like it because he is also being chased by monolophosauroses once he gets to the tree. In both cases once they reach the spot of their death the Whole group is subject to the Big memory recap, so they ALL see what I recounted before and when that ends you see Sammy crying, Yaz that's holding her confused but barely containing tears herself, Darius looking like someone who is wondering what the hell was in his breakfast, Brooklyn just bewildered and with the same expression of when they first found Ben still alive back on Nublar and Ben and Kenji finding themselves holding each other as in their last moments until ben starts sobbing and just grips onto kenji's shirt 'cause finally all those weird dreams and images make sense, and kenji hold him tighter, heart racing.

#ben pincus #kenji kon #jwcc benji #jurassic world: camp cretaceous #camp cretaceous #well i guess food is served for the benji shippers I see you all starving #giw dreams #is this fandom even alive still? #can you imagine Kenji calling Ben 'my king' #I'm screaming crying everithing #i need to draw so much of this #do i queue this and hope that when it comes out I do have some art made or do i post it and fuck it? #also adding here that when their past selves talk there is a brief mention of who i assume could be a past version of brooklyn #and that at the end when they are about to kiss they both stop to look at her #and she is still a bit confused and just tells them 'haven't you waited long enough. do you need another century or two?' #and ben grabs kenji's face and kisses him without another esitation #may I add that King Ben is older than Advisor Kenji and modern ben finds it not funny that the roles got switched #Kenji teases him about his habit of falling from high places #oh yeah before the look at brooklyn kenji also put the crown they found on ben's head. a bit ruined and too big for him but adorable #they then put everything back where they found it and sent an anonimous letter to local archaeologist/history guys #to have the place rediscovered and recognized. and offer to anonimously give any information about it that they know #darius bowman #sammy gutierrez #yasmina fadoula #brooklynn #camp cretaceous brooklynn #what i learned from this dream is ben has a bit of hero complex #date of dreams 16.01.2023 #in case it does not get posted right away #i left out so many details. like that ben's kingdom was referred to as 'horned shields'. why things are so long with so much to say still

[maraeffect]

aw shit i logged back in just in time to see that my queue ran out 4 hours ago !!! that's so funny

#i haven't been on bc life got super fucking busy and I'm tired lol. but i want to come back !! #i really haven't been spending much time on social media at all #anyway time to fill my queue back up ! #chatter

[saraptor]

frothing at the mouth thinking of a beefleaf-esque story plot AU for aziraphale and crowley

#saraptor go rambles #crowley and aziraphale's fates are swapped #aziraphale just wants to talk to him. really. he just wants to talk to him. #but honestly Aziraphale's not nearly mean enough to actually COMMIT to the plan like He Xuan does in tgcf #BUT THE ANGST POSSIBILITIES HEAR ME OUT #crowley's fate being swapped with aziraphale's without his consent or knowing #'crowley' the angel only appearing after the Fall #no one in heaven questions it bc how can a demon???? infiltrate heaven??? impossible #and crowley is a real angel. just with odd memory issues. stick him with muriel or someth-ohh the almighty wants him on Eden ok ok cool coo #*queue the perpetrator of this swap sweating fuckign bullets bc crowley was supposed to be LOW RANKING angel NOBODY who drew NO ATTENTION #TO HIMSELF but now he's standing on the wall of eden bold as brass chatting it up with a demon #someone's having a fucking conniption in heaven atm #and wow would you look at that the demon is the angel :) :) :) that swapped his place :) :) this cant go wrong #this angel is cannot believe this shit how is crowley so bad at staying out of TROUBLE #but then the aziraphale-shaped demon disappears and neither crowley or the other angel sees him again #and the demon-shaped person called [insert name here] who looks a bit like that fellow aziraphale appears! and he's one of those angels tha #got knocked on the head REALLY hard during the great war and took a nap for awhile and now he's back for duty #oh what you haven't heard of those angels no really they exist totally (aziraphale gaslight gatekeep girlbosses his way back into heaven) #it's got to be one of the archangels who did it and it's got to one that's greatly respected #bc aziraphale really does need to be upset and betrayed when he finds out #for the DRAMA #however unlike beefleaf these two will get a happy ending. probably #at least crowley will get to keep his head

[jamezvaldes]

i didn’t get noah kahan tickets for dublin so i’m forever going to be bitter

#jess rambles #i have a feeling that ticketmaster and possibly noah's team didn't realise how popular it was going to be #so they didn't have the lobby and queue system ready for the normal ten minutes beforehand situation #like it wouldn't even let me join the lobby for a good few attempts #like kaleo didn't have the lobby and queue system and lbr they aren't that popular despite how much i adore them #i'm just annoyed because its the only set of tickets i haven't gotten that i've tried for lately #i got fuckin fletcher tickets when the the site kept crashing and fucking up

[cookinguptales]

Can I ask you to do a post about Disney & disability please? You mentioned it and I’d love to know more!

Well, my notifications can't get any messier, so why not?

This post got very, very long because I ended up talking about a lot of the accessibility solutions in detail (and... ranting about how accessibility at Universal was so bad that I got physically injured there) so I'm putting it under a cut for you.

To preface this, I have mobility issues (as well as a lot of food intolerances/allergies) and general chronic illness, my sister is Deaf, and I have friends who regularly attend the park with autistic family members with high support needs. These are the disabilities I have experience with, so while I've heard a bit about others (such as portable descriptive devices for visitors with visual impairments) I can't speak as much about those accommodations.

I have also traveled quite a bit, mostly as a disabled adult. I can work from anywhere and my family enjoys traveling, so I've been very lucky in this regard. I also used to live in central Florida, not too far from Disney, and benefited from their FL resident rates.

So I'm coming at this from a person who has a lot of experience traveling while disabled and a fair amount of experience going to WDW, though I haven't been nearly as often since I moved out of Florida.

(Good fucking riddance.)

So know that I am speaking from experience when I say I have never, without exception, been to a single place half as accessible as Walt Disney World. It is literally the reason my family would go there; it was one of the only places we could all safely go together. One of the only places I've been on earth that even approached their level of thoughtful accommodations is Barcelona, which apparently did significant renovations throughout the city in order to prepare for the 1992 Paralympics.

(Hey, if anyone is reading this from Barcelona: I teared up the first time I used one of your curb cuts in my wheelchair, just so you know.)

Going through those parks in a wheelchair is a breeze, though you will probably have to fight a lot of clueless parents with strollers who are hellbent on using resources intended for wheelchair-users and then glaring at you when you try to use them yourself. Level ground, spacious sidewalks, accessible transportation, well-kept gradual ramps, roomy buildings, lots of accessible restrooms, alternate entrances at many rides for wheelchair users, special wheelchair rows in movie theaters that we're loaded into first, accessible queues in most rides designed or renovated in the last fifteen years, special viewing areas for shows/parades/fireworks so you don't end up staring at able-bodied butts for a half hour...

Like, structurally-speaking, the parks are very easy to get around in if you're a wheelchair user. That was built in and you can see a lot of very mindful design choices. As far as the rides go, most of their rides actually have special cars that you can load into while still in a wheelchair. They're pretty neat. I can transfer, but that means often leaving my wheelchair and/or cane with a cast member during the ride. They are always, without fail, waiting for me on the other side of the ride, no matter how far the exit is from the entrance. I have never once had a problem with this. A cast member will be there to put my assistive devices in my hand before I even have to think about getting up. Guaranteed.

Wheelchair users always used to be able to skip the line, but there was unfortunately a problem with able-bodied people pretending to be disabled to skip lines (because god forbid they not have access to a single thing we have to make our lives livable) so now there's a system where if you cannot wait in a line, they'll basically give you a special time to come back that's equivalent to the length of the line. Which feels fair to me as someone who often cannot be in even an accessible line for extended periods. (I have problems with sunlight, heat, and often need emergency food or restroom.)

More important than all this, though, is the fact that cast members are impeccably well-trained in all of this. Any disabled person can tell you that the most accessible design on earth isn't worth shit if the people working there aren't well-trained. (More on this later, when I take a giant shit on Universal Studios.) But Disney trains their employees, many of whom are disabled themselves, incredibly well.

Every employee will know where the accessible entrances are. Every employee will know the procedure for getting a return time. Every employee will know about first-aid centers, and every employee will know where the quiet areas are for people with sensory issues. Every time you make a reservation for a meal, hotel room, transportation, etc. they will ask for all accessibility needs and they'll be ready for you.

Every waiter you have will be incredibly careful and knowledgeable when it comes to special dietary needs, and chefs will often come out to discuss them with you. They often have specific menus for different dietary needs, and they are scrupulous when it comes to allergens. I have a few intolerances that suck and allergies that could kill me and I have always felt very safe in their hands. This ranges from fancy sit-down restaurants to quick service burger places.

And -- honestly, I have just always been treated with respect. I know that sounds like a low bar, but most people do fail to clear it. Disney has their employees very well-trained on how to interact with disabled guests. People speak directly to me, never to the able-bodied people over my head. They never treat me like I'm a child. They never ask invasive questions or make uncomfortable jokes. They never, ever get impatient with my accessibility needs.

The few times I have misjudged things and have injured myself or gotten extremely ill, they were professional and caring as they provided much-needed first-aid. It's kind of embarrassing to be doted on by a costumed character while you wait for a doctor to come help you sit up again, but also kind of endearing, I'll admit.

They also, in addition to captioning all videos in the park, have some of the best sign language interpreters in the world, bar none. They're very personal and professional, they're easy to reserve, they will always be in a visible place during shows, and they're incredible performers as well as being very technically proficient. In addition to the professional interpreters, many cast members, performers, and characters can sign as well.

In addition to that, and this brings me to my next point, you'll meet a lot of disabled employees throughout the park. In front-facing positions. Deaf employees, employees using mobility aids, etc. They're well-known to hire disabled people and treat them well. This is. Fuck, this is incredibly rare, I say as someone who was never able to find a job in Florida with my health conditions. It's the moral thing to do to hire disabled people, but also -- selfishly, there's something so heartening and normalizing about seeing people who look like you working at the park. I'm happy every single time.

I have a little less personal experience when it comes to accessibility for neurodivergence, despite being neurodivergent myself, but I've been told that Disney is very, very accommodating for people on the spectrum. A lot is done to lessen crowding, waiting, sensory overload, etc. for autistic guests. Cast members are usually super good at this; finding designated quiet areas, helping autistic guests avoid more crowded areas, keeping them out of long lines, making sure they have access to any particular experiences that are special to them, etc.

For folks who need help from their group, whether that's an autistic child who needs to be with a parent or a disabled adult who needs someone to push their wheelchair or anything else, Disney has a rider switch-off model. In other words, if you're there with both of your able-bodied parents, for example, and you need one of them to be with you at all times and you don't want to be on the ride yourself, Disney will allow one person to go on the ride while the other waits for them to finish, then will allow the second person to go on without any additional wait. This makes sure that everyone in the family gets equal access without leaving disabled people alone. (Which... can be a very shitty feeling, I assure you.)

I know that Disney has also pioneered a lot of assistive technology. The accessible rides, obviously, which can be ridiculously cool (like Toy Story Midway Mania has an accessible car with alternative "guns" for people with dexterity limitations so they can play the carnival games as well) but also handheld assistive devices for visually impaired guests, etc. Like they are literally inventing new forms of accessibility technology, which is so cool.

And honestly, I'm always learning about new ways they assist disabled guests. I've stayed in Disney's accessible hotel rooms before (they're very nice!) but I don't like to swim so I've never been in the pools. But even just this week, someone told me that Disney has pool lifts for disabled guests, which I had never even considered. That's so cool.

The best part about accessibility at Disney is that in some ways it's very casual. A lot of their design decisions are so intuitive that you never even notice how accessible the parks are until you go somewhere where that's... not the case.

Like -- just so you don't assume that any of these things are industry standard, let me tell you about the two times I went to Universal, a park very close to Disney. I went there once for an event and once with my family.

The first time I went was for an event at the opening of the Harry Potter park. (This was before JKR made her most appalling views public, to be clear.) It... was frustrating. Guests asked if there would be food and drink available for people with special dietary restrictions (such as sugar-free butterbeer) and were pretty much told that no, that was not something they were interested in pursuing. It became very obvious very quickly that the park itself was so narrow that it only barely fulfilled ADA standards -- when empty. We were told that JKR had actually specifically insisted that it feel "cramped". Which is a nice way to say that I couldn't actually get around in any of the stores while people were in them.

It was overall a frustrating experience, but it was like. One night. I figured it was probably a fluke and they were still ironing out all the details. So I ended up going back with my parents later.

Y'all, it was a shit show.

Broken elevators that prevented disabled guests from accessing rides. Performers being up on raised platforms/sidewalks so disabled guests couldn't get to them. Sidewalks being made inaccessible by putting movable signs directly in the middle of them. Stores (even outside of the HP part) that were so damn narrow that I actually ended up getting hurt trying to navigate one of them. And no -- it was not easy to get first aid.

And my god, was the training bad. We went to one of the new HP rides, asked if there was a specific entrance for disabled guests. We were told no. We waited for a very long time in a line that honestly I shouldn't have been waiting in, but I wanted to be a good sport. I was pretty sick by the time we got through it, and the line itself had some very dangerous inclines/turns for wheelchair users. We get to the front of the line -- and the employee asks why we didn't just use the accessible entrance. 🙃

(Side note: several of their rides are also just unrideable if you don't fit within a pretty narrow body type of thin and able-bodied, so... there's that.)

We'd asked repeatedly and gotten incorrect answers, and I'd been put in physical danger as a result. Wild. I started to notice that if you asked different employees, you'd get different answers about almost anything, really. Just exceptionally poor training. Even stuff that should've been a no-brainer, like loading wheelchair users into a stationary movie theater, ended up creating chaos when they did it incorrectly and we had a giant wheelchair pileup.

Like -- let me stress to you that many of the things that happened could have caused actual injury to people. Some of these situations were dangerous. And some of them were just alienating, like when I'd have to wait outside a store while my family could go in.

I never went back after that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ We just kept going to Disney.

One thing that'll probably show how good Disney is at accessibility is the whole Make-A-Wish thing. A lot of people know that it's a popular Make-A-Wish request, and you're likely to see at least a couple kids with Make-A-Wish buttons during your visit if you keep an eye out. One reason for this, is that, y'know, Disney World is fun. Kids want to go there. But more important, I think, is that Disney can accommodate people with at-times severe medical needs. Those kids can safely go anywhere and do anything in those parks that able-bodied kids can, and that's important.

All in all, the parks are just so accessible and you will never, ever be made to feel like you're lesser for needing those accommodations. You will be treated so well and you will not have to worry about accessibility because the cast members are always doing it for you. They'll usher you into the correct entrance as soon as they see a mobility device, and they'll do it with a very warm welcome. It's one of the very few places on earth where I have never felt like a burden.

Again, y'know, I know that Disney does not have a perfect track record on a lot of issues. I would never defend them from rightfully earned criticism. I strongly support labor action against them, and I do think they should be criticized whenever they fuck up. I have been uncomfortable with the sheer amount of power they have both in Florida and in the entertainment world just because no one should have that much power. But I am far more uncomfortable with that power being stripped away for blatantly discriminatory political reasons.

I do have some loyalty to Disney just because there is no other place on earth where I've been able to safely have fun with my friends with so little agony. That's... I mean, it's important, really. To be able to just exist in public without getting grief for it. And I have some loyalty to them because they were a safe space for me as a young, queer kid who was not safe being out in other areas of my life.

(Like, I am talking about actual literal safety. I kept seeing notes on my post saying that Disney didn't care about creating a "safe space for queer people" but as someone who lived in Florida for the entirety of my teenage years? It was the safest goddamn place there.)

I do not have enough loyalty to defend them when they do immoral bullshit, but I do have enough to make sure that people know the good that they do as well.

I want other businesses to follow Disney's model for disability. I will praise them forever for what they've done in that regard because if I don't, there's no reason for other companies to follow suit. I want to praise them for the good things they've done so they have incentive to keep doing it, and other companies have an incentive to do it as well.

Like bro, I just wanna be able to move around and be treated with some dignity, y'know? My bar is so low. lmao

But yeah. That's why you always see so many disabled guests at Disney. It's literally the only place some of us can go to have fun.

#disney #disability #ableism #replies #honestly I used to go to the parks a lot but I wouldn't presently consider myself a superfan of disney or anything #but goddamn it sometimes you just wanna be able to go out and do the same things as everybody else #and disney always let me do that

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teenager Reader who feels insecure about their scars for (yandere) oda ( yandere) ango and (yandere) dazai ( together platonic ofc and I would like for reader to be fem or gender neutral)

TW: Gender neutral reader, swearing, yandere behaivour, implied kidnapping, I feel like Dazai was close to manipulating reader but bbg Ango saved the day.

Oda has been increasingly getting worried about you. Maybe it was just a teenage thing? But Dazai never acted like you were doing so queue worried father figure.

Ango on the other hand could care less are you dying? No? Then it doesn't really matter. He does care though he's too sleep deprived to give any fucks .

Dazai knows exactly whats going on. He knows everything about you and it's absolutely not creepy! He just really likes you to the point of not obsessing over you.

So when they all gather around to figure out what the hell is wrong with you well Oda and Ango try and figure it out Dazai is trying to brainstorm ideas on how to off himself. But he'll occasoinally put in some input.

And after 1 painstaking hour Dazai finally speaks up

"Oh is that what you're trying to figure out? Oh they're self concious cause of their scars." Dazai just smiles like he wasn't messing with them and that he deffintly only figured it out at that moment.

Shock.

Absoulte shock and then aggressive calling of you they were practically screaming for you to come to the Lupin.

You rushed there obviously thinking that something horrible happened but oh? But the trio where all there looking perfectly fine well as fine as they usally are.

"Why didn't you tell us? Do you not trust us?" Ango started giving you a worried mom look what is he talking about.

"I-" You were slightly confused but Ango continued "Is it because of Dazai?" You mean depending on what it was it could be but you decided to just say.

"Why would it be because o-"

"If it's cause of me I'm sorry I didn't mean to make you self concious about your scars Y/Nnnnn..!" Dazai says in an over dramatic tone.

"Be quiet." Finally someones on your side "They're obviously not gonna tell us." You were about to thank Oda but you got bandages chucked at your head. Wait..

"Here. Maybe you can use these? Out of sight out of mind.. Oh that was stupid sorry.." Oda smiled at you awkwardly it was nice of him you guess?

"But thoughtful~" You add on to what he said. "GASP Y/N has bandages are you gonna match with me are you are you are you?" Dazai picked the bandages out of your lap and started to unravel them "Can I put 'em on? I'm an expert y'know?" Dazai grins.

"Well I haven't decided yet..." "C'mon pleeeaasssee.?" "LEAVE THEM ALONE DAZAI" "Pleeeaaassseee Ango?" You tuned out the rest of the conversation but you felt a little more comfortable now with yourself , your friends, your everything. That's great anything to make you feel comfortable in one of their houses unable to leave. For your saftey of course.

#i am like so god damn sick so I decided to write this #yandere #tw yandere #yande.re #male yandere #bsd #bungou stray dogs #yandere bungo stray dogs x reader #yandere bungou stray dogs #yandere dazai #yandere osamu dazai #yandere oda #yandere odasaku sakonosuke #yandere odasaku #yandere ango #yandere sakaguchi ango #yandere ango sakaguchi

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Yall I hate making personal posts like this. Genuinely. I try to keep my personal real life away from social media. But christ I'm struggling here.

I have really severe ADHD. I cannot work or function or do anything without my medication. I physically can't. But right now my medication is completely unaffordable for me.

I've been applying everywhere I can, but I live in a college town so the competition really fucks me over. I mean, which would they rather pick, a competent college student, or an adhd/autistic dropout who never learned how to mask properly?

And recently, I got dropped off my insurance plan. And thanks to me being unable to work decent jobs, I haven't earned enough to file enough taxes to qualify for affordable Healthcare. The only Healthcare I legally qualify for is a Healthcare that's $300 a month when I'm living off pocket change.

I really hate to ask, I do, especially since right now I'm without my medications so I can't get many things done, if at all, but if anyone is willing to help me out, I'm doing $5 doodle commissions. I'll work down the queue as best I can, it'll be slow but I'll do my best.

Link to my Ko-fi for assistance is below. I appreciate the help. Currently I can get a one month prescription of my medications for $45. So I'll be able to get it relatively soon but I need to save up so I can afford it each month.

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