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The weirdest guy I ever met in a church was this boy who referred to “Buzz Aldrin and his husband” going to the moon. I was completely baffled, and when I asked if he’d misspoken, he got really angry and accused me of being deliberately ignorant of the facts. It turned out that he was somehow comvinced that Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were married. It took five Wikipedia articles to convince him otherwise.

rockshitty

The moon landing was fake: tired, passé, heard it before

The moon landing was an elaborate marriage proposal: fresh! sexy! I’m going to be thinking about this for months!

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Romcom where two dudes in the 1960s fall in love and come up with an elaborate plan to become astronauts to get married in space because gay marriage is illegal everywhere but it can’t be illegal on the moon

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Might make things a little awkward for Mike Collins.

soaringsearingphoenix

He was the officiator

explorerrowan

This is an excellent take. He officiated in orbit, and the landing was their Honey Moon.

cipheramnesia

Oh my god they were moon mates.

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THEY WERE MOON MATES

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ID: A tumblr tag that says, "aaaaaaand this is why I can't leave this blue hellsite." end ID.

#moon mates

I've been resting for a week and yesterday was starting to feel a little better. Thought I'd maybe leave my house today for an hour or so. But today it feels like my heart meds just aren't working. I'm shaky and trembly and feel generally ill. I even took an additional half dose after an hour, which did seem to help a little. So frustrating, another forced rest day I guess.

#disability #me/cfs #journal #chronic illness #disabled

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I drew these emo cats

acyborgkitty

My little emo guy is River

#emo cat #river #cats

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tumblr is great bc its like a diary where I can take other peoples diary entries and glue them into my own diary

#yes exactly how i use it

#cedar snuggles #cedar #cats #journal

Enjoying a cooler day playing outside.

#River #journal #cats

evidently-endless

being offered ai at every turn

bebsi-cola

the way they treat people with poor memory it's really like. extremely shit. people take poor memory to be some kind of flaw or fault with the person. where they believe that evidence of poor memory is done intentionally, and when someone is finally convinced that poor memory is unintentional then the person with memory issues is considered to be without the ability to think, have likes and opinions or have anything good or meaningful to say. people take their ability to talk over someone else as a given, or a as something funny. and instead of helping someone with an issue that can quite often be either very frustrating or very scary, these malakas don't even answer basic questions

#sdam #disability

#cedar snuggles #chronic illness #journal #Cedar #cats

phleb0tomist

i feel isolated n forgotten today in my sickbed in my dark room so i’m reaching out mentally and picturing all the other disabled people stuck in beds and rooms and facilities who are also reaching for someone. we can be that someone for each other. we understand one another. I love you all

phleb0tomist

I feel such friendship and kinship with so many disabled people i’ve never even spoken to, people I haven’t even met online, let alone irl. if you feel friendless because of isolation, there are people out there already loving you from afar. if i’m doing it, there must be other people doing it.

m-e-isannoying

We are not alone. Thank you for this post.

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reblogging from my dark room 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻 All the love in the world to those in rooms just like mine, feeling a bone-deep exhaustion just like me

acyborgkitty

Been in a crash for a while and needed this today. We're alone together.

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#why did this come up while listening to C3 of #naddpod

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almost time

readyset-id

[ID: an edited manga panel from Fullmetal Alchemist. Darius, Heinkel look at Ling Yao, who looks quite sick. He says “it’s Pride.” The background is edited to be the rainbow pride flag with a black and brown stripe at the top.]

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Happy Pride!!

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I need to remember to reblog this in june

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June

Moving Mountains: Writing Nature Through Illness & Disability

Field Notes by Sally Huband

"pain becomes airborne, drifts away with the willow down."

"The awe that I feel, when I contemplate my bodymind, is a constant state of flux between fear and wonder."

"...had already dismissed the symptoms of autoimmune disease to the point that I had begun to lose words."

"Imagine another type of pain as reassuring, the comforting familiarity of a favourite tree. When this pain is present, everything is as it should be."

"In an ableist society this constant rebuilding of shelter is the heavy work of the disabled and chronically ill."

"If we centred the needs of the chronically ill and disabled, we would create contours of flow for everyone."

#reading journal #disability

The Body In Pain by Elaine Scarry

Introduction

[feelings] are "a consistent affirmation of the human being’s capacity to move out beyond the boundaries of his or her own body into the external, sharable world."

**can this relate to Donna Haraway's porousness?

"physical pain—unlike any other state of consciousness—has no referential content. It is not of or for anything. It is precisely because it takes no object that it, more than any other phenomenon, resists objectification in language."

"if pain had a goal, it would be to be felt and known exclusively in its intensity."

Five sources for ways of knowing pain:

Individuals in pain themselves

Doctors attempting to diagnose and treat pain

Public, non-medical contexts of accounts of the pain of others (e.g. Amnesty International documents on torture)

Courtroom documents ("the lawyer, too, becomes an inventor of language, one who speaks on behalf of another person (the plaintiff) and attempts to communicate the reality of that person’s physical pain to people who are not themselves in pain (the jurors).")

Art

"the assumption that the act of verbally expressing pain is a necessary prelude to the collective task of diminishing pain."

"even the artist—whose lifework and everyday habit are to refine and extend the reflexes of speech—ordinarily falls silent before pain."

"the relative ease or difficulty with which any given phenomenon can be verbally represented also influences the ease or difficulty with which that phenomenon comes to be politically represented."

"It is not simply accurate but tautological to observe that given any two phenomena, the one that is more visible will receive more attention."

Part I. Chapter 1 is about torture ("uncovering the perceptual processes that permit this misdescription" of torture as information-gathering). Chapter 2 is about war.

"To have pain is to have certainty; to hear about pain is to have doubt. But we will see that the relation between pain and belief is even more problematic than has so far been suggested."

"The failure to express pain—will always work to allow its appropriation and conflation with debased forms of power;"

"Because the existing vocabulary for pain contains only a small handful of adjectives, one passes through direct descriptions very quickly and (as V. C. Medvei noted in his 1948 treatise on pain11) almost immediately encounters an “as if” structure: it feels as if . . .; it is as though. . . . On the other side of the ellipse there reappear again and again (regardless of whether the immediate context of the vocalization is medical or literary or legal) two and only two metaphors, and they are metaphors whose inner workings are very problematic."

Part II. "The discussion of civilization’s ongoing modifications of “agency”"

"Physical pain—[...] is language-destroying."

"because “the structure of war” and “the structure of unmaking” are not two subjects but one."

"Chapter 3 attends specifically to “mental imagining” (or what was a moment ago called the phase of “making-up”), and Chapters 4 and 5 together examine the action of creating verbal and material artifacts..."

"The vocabulary of “creating,” “inventing,” “making,” “imagining,” is not in the twentieth century a morally resonant one: “imagining,” for example, is usually described as an ethically neutral or amoral phenomenon;"

** the politics of imagining**

"what is quite literally at stake in the body in pain is the making and unmaking of the world."

#reading journal #disablity

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It's my Fearday 🎂

Moving Mountains: Writing Nature Through Illness & Disability

Foreward by Samantha Watson

"In periods of illness or pain, the body's silence would be the greatest release."

"...it is not the world, but the body that is too much with us."

"Producing work that dwells with pain, discomfort, and struggle also demands that readers are willing to go to those places and to confront the reality that we are all only temporarily able-bodied."

"pain... is ... actively destructive to language..."

Introduction by Louise Kenward (?)

"I have since been learning to live in this body anew, grateful to have travelled when I did and more knowledgeable than I ever thought possible about my body and medicine's failings."

"Sometimes viable restoration is not possible. ... I want us to tend the unrestorable places and ecosystems that are ugly, stripped down, full of toxins, rather than considering them unnatural and abandoning them. I want us to respect and embrace the bodies disabled through environmental destruction, age, war, genocide, abysmal working conditions, hunger, poverty, and twists of fate, rather than deeming them abnormal bodies to isolate, fear, hate, and dispose of." (Eli Clare, "Notes on Natural Worlds")

"We cannot poison one [the environment] without also poisoning the other [our bodies]. The two are inextricably entwined, we cannot talk about climate crisis or environmental destruction without talking also of illness and disability."

"...had not even considered the access needs for the Isr*eli energy minister ... a wheelchair user, who was shut out of proceedings because the venue wasn't accessible."

**She should be shut out of proceedings, because of the genocide and illegal occupation of Palestine and how much climate damage the occupation causes.**

"Themes of 'conquering' permeate through illness as well as the natural world, a nod to colonialism and species supremacy."

"...the world around us, like our bodies, cannot be returned to what was, following illness, accident and injury."

"Themes of time through seasonal change and transformation, of mirrors between the 'before' and 'after,' so acutely felt in chornic illness and acquired disability ... along with a very clear sense that we are all a part of something much larger than we can ever know or fully appreciate."

"There is a palpable sense of being more than, and a part of, humanity, when living with illness and disability, that makes tangible our interdependence and connectedness with one another."

** does being disabled, in some way, make one more-than-human? Haraway's cyborg, eg.? Kafer maybe on this

"At a time when the world around us is showing us it is sick and at risk, the voices of people who live similarly with risk and vulnerability are able to offer different narratives and new knowledge to those who do not have to regard or question their own bodies in the same way."

"...it may be that it is precisely because we are livingi n bodies that remind us of our own vulnerabilities, of decay and mutability, that identifying with and experiencing the more-than-human can become all the more significant."

"The rocks that appear entirely stationary above the ground, beneath the earth are able to move and defy gravity. The rocks that are the debris and sediment of the glaciers, similarly known for their slow movement, that had moved across the centre of Canada, which had been ocean before it was prairie, and prior to that, mountains. In time, geological time, the mountains that were created by the movement of tectonic plates blew and washed away."

** can I write something similar about the geological formation of Finland? the glaciers? indigenous knowledge of the land?

** is there a name for the non-fiction technique of going into the definition of a word? this seems to parallel the movement to geological time as a technique.

#reading journal #disability