people need better reasons to hate tom cruise. like taylor swift hatred is refined and well rounded. but everyone just talks about the scientology thing. the actual reason he’s evil is that he’s worth like half a billion dollars and makes ads for the US military. the cult stuff is whatever
commentary from the curator: this is the full plate for the cat costume I featured earlier! there were no labels on this plate, so I'm not going to "formally" label anything in the options, but here are my best guesses for what everything is: left is a cat (possibly Puss in Boots?), center left has to do with bicycling, center right is possibly a reference to the Sun King (Louis XIV) or maybe Versailles or something to do with 18th century France (??), and I'm fairly certain right is Joan of Arc
Third and final edition of the Disability Pride Flag Audio Fiction Calendar. Click for the first, second, and related BINGO. Plus as an amazing bonus, @rainbownestmedia shared another calendar here. Next week: my notes in one neat overview :)
Information (= sometimes spoilers) below
Two Thousand and Late - Harper was disabled by COVID-19
I Am In Eskew - Depression
Sojourners' Trails - Mobility aids & prosthetic
The Way We Haunt Now - Lota is a ghost and wheelchair user
Someone Dies In This Elevator - Hot Weels episode. Shannon uses a manual wheelchair and Waverly uses a powered wheelchair.
Surcease - Mental health treatment/facility is central to the story. Wheelchair user
Ethics Town - Noah Morley is dyslexic
Earth Eclipsed - One of characters becomes blind
Petrified
Forgive Me! - Margaret has kleptomania
Secret of St. Kilda - Character with chronic pain
Camp Here And There - Sydney is autistic and chronically ill, with chronic pain, respiratory/use of an inhaler, experiences psychotic episodes.
We’re Alive - Several disabled characters
Soul Operator - Many disabled characters, including the MC
Within the Wires - (S3) Post-natal depression. (S8) The narrator is physically disabled with limited mobility and chronic pain.
October’s Children - Physically disabled lead
Things Unsaid - A deaf main character and a deaf supporting character.
What Will Be Here? - Kei is disabled
Among the Stacks - Tale 6 has a character with adhd-d
Before I Forget (Again) - Many of the characters are neurodiverse in some way- Cielle and Danny are ADHD, Larry is autistic, and Bea is AuDHD. Without spoiling anything major, one main character will have a chronic illness by the end of season 1.
The Sterling Girl - Etta is autistic (semi-verbal). Sable is autistic and ADHD, and also has a lazy eye which she wears a monocle for. Penny is autistic. Oscar is autistic and ADHD. The narrator is autistic.
Our Fair City - Clear Skies Tim is injured and becomes physically disabled (loss of mobility). Loamy loses an arm and later starts using a supernatural prosthetic.
Human Error - Multiple HoH/Deaf characters. Billie has anxiety. Most of not all of the characters have PTSD
Hi Nay - Mari Datuin has chronic pain
Monstrous Agonies - Some episodes feature disability narratives. Features DID (Note: some systems reject the pathologization of plurality but may still consider it a disability under the social model, outside of DID. Some systems don’t consider it a disability at all, similar to Deafness)
Arden - Pamela Pink has depression, Rosalind Ursula has type 1 bipolar disorder. Dana Hamill (S2) has bipolar.
The Penumbra Podcast - (Juno Steel) Juno Steel loses an eye and learning to navigate this is a long-term story element. Buddy Aurinko has narcissistic personality disorder and is physically disabled from radiation sickness. Vespa Ilkay needs daily medication to prevent severe psychotic episodes with hallucinations. (Second Citadel) Sir Marc is a disabled knight; ableism and institutional barriers are important themes to the setting.
Levian - Tanathea Tellari has a history of psychiatric illness (described with in-world terms)
SCP Research Archives - Betram has an anomalous disability, gets migraines, and they suffer from insomnia.
Midst - Moc Weepe has a (supernatural/in-world) medical condition that requires regular treatment.
Vesta Clinic - The space clinic providing medical care is central to the story. Disability narratives included
"I'm just a smol bean uwu" No sir, what you are is someone who is so habituated to thinking of yourself as innocent that you will continue to do so even when you're guilty.
"You know that thing where the most toxic person you've ever met over-relates to woodland creatures on social media? I call it Vibe Dysphoria. She'll put up a picture of a mouse in a jean jacket with 'It's me.' That is not you. I don't know how you got under the impression that you are a mouse in a jean jacket. You are an eel with a gun.She posts a toad with a basket of mushrooms like 'Me doing my little things.' Oh madam, there is nothing little about your things. You gave me psychosexual issues I'll carry to my watery grave. You are not a toad in the forest...You are a cruel woman who just happens to be small."--Chris Fleming
maybe y'all didn't notice but fat people who don't hate ourselves sure did notice that people were obsessed with shitting on fat people in the late 90s and early 2000s (conservative political time) and now are again (fascist political time), coincidentally while the market for weight loss has become a 90 billion dollar industry due to glp1s.
you are not immune to propaganda. it makes some people a whole hell of a lot of money for you to hate fat people and fear becoming (or staying, I think like 70% or something of the US is fat) one of us.
a lot of the fearmongering over fatness comes from studies directly funded by the weight loss industry...i think people don't really realize or think about the fact that research can absolutely be influenced and skewed by its funding. there is also research that shows that an amount of the negative health outcomes for fat people come from anti-fat bias. if you go to the doctor with concerns and the doctor simply tells you to lose weight, your problem is neglected and you may not even bother going to the doctor with the next problem.
every fat person you know for the most part probably has a story like this, of medical neglect. many of the stories i've heard personally are when the complaint or the doctor wasn't related at all, like being told to lose weight at the ear nose and throat doctor or at the dentist. it's straight up just bias. it's such a thing that in the show Shrill it's portrayed, when Aidy Bryant goes to the gynecologist and her doctor suggests she get gastric bypass.
the studies on health and fatness are simply not that black and white and there is basically no research that shows that more than an incredibly tiny minority of people can lose weight and keep it off for more than like 2 years. bodies have set points that they gravitate towards, it's not a personal failure. this also is how the weight loss industry succeeds so well - repeat customers.
some of the harm associated with fatness is also due to weight cycling, which is very hard on your body and is even worse if you get off a GLP1, which according to a recent study causes weight to be regained at a rate that is 4x faster than without taking a GLP1.
you don't have to hate yourself. you don't have to hate other people for their body type either. it makes me so sad to see the thinspo tag going around again in 2026 a lot like it was back in the day.
A study spanning almost four decades and involving more than 100,000 adults in Denmark found that those with an 'overweight' body mass index
there's so much crazy shit once you go down the rabbit hole. for example, BMI was not invented by anyone with a medical background. it was never meant to measure individual health.
Ngl Senshi genuinely was the first human adjacent character in maybe ever that gave me something akin to body euphoria because I too am short and stout
Like his whole look is so attainable for me and he is beloved and seen as genuinely and extremely attractive by many, even by characters in the show itself so like
He's gotta win this sexyman thing because I think for once maybe the winner should be someone who actually have a marginally attainable and realistic look.
I don't care if you draw your TV man fat. He is NOT fat in canon. Senshi is short, squat, and while also fairly muscular, he has a visible gut and man boobs
Genuinely Senshi sometimes nearly makes me wish I'd kept some breast tissue when I got top surgery because he makes ME feel like I could have kept some and still have been masculine.
me: "have they tried not being fucking ignorant religious bigots?"
article: “I suspect that a bit of the steam has gone out of the LGBT thing,” Backman told the right-wing outlet, staying ahead of the issue. “There may be the odd protester, but if they have got armies of PR people laser-focused on that then I suspect it may be OK.”
The thing that pisses me off the most though is the fact I know so many LGBTQ+ individuals that still go there, and they are surprised when I actually don't. It's literally like that tweet.
the mexican football team has a 17 yrs old player and one of the funniest outcomes of this is that he cannot appear in any ad for gambling or drinking so he only appears in candy and milk advertisements. his first world cup and he's not even legally allowed to drive. his nickname is "morita" (little berry). he's three apples tall.
Politics is actually like…one of the top reasons to cut someone out of your life? Where the fuck did we get this idea it’s an invalid reason to abandon people? It’s literally your statement on how you think society should exist and what rights you think people should have and how. It ain’t fucking “My uncle Craig’s dead to me because he takes his sandwiches with the crust on” it’s “My uncle Craig has consistently stated a hatred of minorities and poor people for longer than I’ve been alive, of course I’m gonna call him a piece of shit”
hey so a bunch of people have taken this post as an opportunity to decry interpreting media sexually/suggestively at all and it’s pissing me off. joining the war on eroticism on the side of eroticism. #ThatCigaretteIsAPenis
The funny part is that Adderall is legal meth, so if you give it to people with ADHD they focus up and if you give it to people without ADHD they get REALLY HIGH ENERGY. So it's possible regardless of if you have ADHD.
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