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arcadia - say the word
randomly remembered this arcadia song the other day, and my SO looked aghast, like how dare i forget. sometimes it's hard living with an 80's master champion 😂
-ax
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On the infantalization of disabled adults. Recommended by my friend, activist D'Arcee Neal.
I will drink my hurricane cocktail a with a straw, and I love Shakespeare.
Don't assume or presume the capabilities of disabled people and don't you dare say "handicapable"
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Just a week after Bob Schooley uncovered a draft script of “Dimension Twist”, he also unearthed some “Call Me, Beep Me” memorabillia.
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A Deep Reading of Keefe's Guilt Trip and Kelvin's "Best Dude Friend" Kerfuffle
Upon re-watching Keefe's guilt-trip and Kelvin's tongue-tied attempt to define their relationship in Episode 3.3, it strikes me as highy significant character development.
The setup: for whatever reason, Kelvin does not intend to bring Keefe with him to Cousin Night. Upset, Keefe starts guilting him, basically saying: "I'll make sausage dip for you to enjoy at the big event that I'm not invited to because it's only for family, and you don't think I'm a member of the family, so I'll just stay home and sulk." Keefe was admitted to the family ages ago, so he's invited by default. He's just fishing for validation, and it works: Kelvin invites him.
But that's not enough. Maybe Keefe feels guilty over his extra-curricular activities, but he continues the guilt trip: he can't go because he's not a cousin. Weird way of putting it; he means he's not "their" cousin, a legal or blood relative of the Montgomery boys. Kelvin says "I know you're not a cousin. You're my...."
....boyfriend. The boyfriend of a cousin." But Kelvin can't finish the sentence. He knows what they are, but can't say it.
He says best, starting best friend but can't finish that, either. It would be a denial of their relationship, and upset Keefe. So he tries boy friend again, but substitutes dude and gets dude friend, which actually isn't a relationship term in English. He finishes awkwardly with "of a cousin."
Kelvin is stuck. He refuses to deny the relationship, but can't bring himself to name it.
The Spanish dub is interesting: You're my...best friend...I your cousin, retaining the ungrammatical awkwardness, but not translating the "dude." Boyfriend is novio, so chico amigo wouldn't be similar enough.
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UNKNOWN just made me laugh out loud like how are you gonna be on that nepotism unlimited years contract lmfao
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taylor just unleash us already please i’m ready
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we need Hakim to put his (well deserved) pride aside for once and make him take the paycut to go to Milan it's the only way i can't have him in PisSG i'll cry
COME TO MILAN BABY 😭😭💞💞 PLEASE COME TO MILANNNN WE LOVE U WE LOVE U I NEED YOU HERE WE WANT YOU IN MILAN PLEASEEEE ILL PAY THE TRANSFER FEES PLEASEEEE EVERY PENNY. DIME. NICKEL. PLEASE.
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Everyone says to use "disabled" instead of "special needs." Yes, but why?
Our needs aren't special. We have the same basic needs as abled people: we need to eat, drink, figure out math, do fulfilling things that make us happy. The difference is that disabled people may need some accommodations to put us on an equal playing field for acquiring those things. But our needs are not "special" because they're no different than an abled's needs. It's a euphemism that, frankly, really exists to comfort abled people because they are uncomfortable using the word "disabled." Listen to us when we say that we want you to use that word. Destigmatize it. Disabled is not a dirty word. Disability is not bad. It's a fact of life. I am disabled and proud of it.
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