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Got Bones? (Printable)
Hey, I made a printable .PNG version of that “got bones” flyer if anyone wants to make a few copies to hang up in real life and cause some minor chaos around their town. Have fun, feel free to send me pics if you stick it up anywhere
I should specify, for those who are apprehensive:
- The phone number attached to this poster is real, and works.
- It’s not a random stranger’s number, please don’t worry. I set the number up specifically for this piece.
- You will not get a live person on the line, it’s just a pre-recorded message (unless my finger slips and I accidentally answer one of the incoming calls, in which case I will inevitably panic and immediately hang up)
- It does, however, cost me like nine bucks a month to keep this text app phone number running for the sake of the joke. Which isn’t a lot, but I’m honestly pretty broke these days. So if this poster amuses you and you want to chip in to help this thing live on so other people can call the number, you can toss me a dollar or something over on my Ko-Fi page. I’m gonna try to keep it public and live for as long as I feasibly can, however.
This is genuinely the funniest possible result that could have come out of this whole thing, I approve
Id by @/3amsnow
[ID: the first image is a photo of a yellowed and stained poster with the text "got bones? *call 725-705-1666 for more information"
a skull with an open mouth says "- i want them - all of them - i mean it"
below this is a photo of a skeleton with its hand under its chin, with a black backdrop.
text says "(large and underlined:) please
(smaller:) they don't even have to be yours"
the poster is taped to a black street pole.
the second image is the digital version of this poster.
end ID]
[transcription]
miss-these-takes [reblog symbol] kurokishohei
#this is the new number i give out in bars thank you
[end transcription]
Fanfiction with a Crack premisies but it's so well written that you end up beyond "fucking around to find out" and instead dive right into "highly invested" and then a slippery slope into "absolutely obsessed ngl"
This was about an Uncle Iroh x Obi-Wan Kenobi fic btw
It’s not just that the leaves will break down on their own (and enrich the soil while they’re at it!). During the winter, all sorts of insects use leaf litter for shelter, and they’re the first food available to larvae in early spring. Leaves also insulate the plants under them during the winter, which is important if you’re in an area prone to frost heaving.
One of the best thing you can do for native pollinators in your area is Leave the Leaves!
My mom stopped raking her leaves when she found out about this but her neighbor used his leaf blower to clear out her yard the first year she decided to try. So she started posting a Leave the Leaves sign in the yard each year with an explanation about why it’s good and two winters later only one house still rakes their lawn each year.
We’ve seen a dramatic increase in the biodiversity in the neighborhood since. We have birds that we haven’t seen since we moved into the city from living rurally and those birds are starting to nest in the trees and gardens in spring. The swallows and bats are back at night. The single woodpecker we would only occasionally see visits daily and even has a friend that has joined it. We have more squirrels and rabbits and shockingly fewer moles and voles. We heard an owl outside last fall.
Leave the leaves indeed.
[ID: a tweet by Ray (@SirEviscerate) that says, “Hey, man. The leaves. They fell off your tree. They’re incredibly biodegradable, and will be gone by the end of winter. So you better hurry up and rake them into plastic bags.” End ID.]
IDGAF if the women in my fiction are empowering or aspirational, I'm an adult, I don't need role models, I want the women in my fiction to be interesting, and if that involves being pathetic, hypocritical, amoral, or trapped in a delightfully dysfunctional relationship so be it
i think we shouod terraform earth to make it completely flat because itd be fun
i meant completely smooth but flat it actuwlly funnier
new flat earth thearoy: we could do it
[Image ID: Tweet from matt (@/ mattyBTweets69) reading: Using the 'Dutch angle' when filming my sons first birthday to convey his descent into madness /End ID]
Both were filled at the same time with the same water, only one had oysters.
:/ The next time you think it’s okay to be nonbinary, remember the cost. We are killing our planet 😔
Wtf. No, be who you are. This doesn’t define you.
I offer some context
that context was DESPERATELY needed thank you
[ID 1: A photo of two fish tanks filled with water sitting up on a wooden desk outside by a large body of water. One is filled with very cloudy brown water, the other is almost clear. The cleaner one has oysters lying on the bottom of it. End ID.]
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[ID2: A screenshot of a tumblr post, reblogged by marinebiologyshitposts from coachella-sucks… The original post is by unvisitableroom, and reads, “women should only eat female animals and men should only eat male animals .” Frogqie repplies, “What about nonbinary people” Unvisitableroom replies in two separate reblogs, “Fuck I don’t know”, and then, “oysters”. The post has 10,972 notes. No dates are included for the posts. End ID.]
I love how we've lost the plot so thoroughly on what "pov" means as far as a TikTok/reel/whatever and now it's functionally the same as rod serling saying "imagine if you will"
Writing Intellectually Disabled Characters
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Something that very rarely comes up in disability media representation are intellectually disabled characters. There is very little positive representation in media in general (and basically none in media meant specifically for adults or in YA). I hope this post can maybe help someone interested in writing disabled characters understand the topic better and create something nice. This is just a collection of thoughts of only one person with mild ID (me) and I don’t claim to speak for the whole community as its just my view. This post is meant to explain how some parts of ID work and make people aware of what ID is.
This post is absolutely not meant for self diagnosis (I promise you would realize before seeing a Tumblr post about it. it’s a major disorder that gets most people thrown into special education).
Before: What is (and isn’t) intellectual disability?
ID is a single, life-long neurodevelopment condition that affects IQ and causes problems with reasoning, problem‑solving, remembering and planning things, abstract thinking and learning. There is often delay or absence of development milestones like walking (and other kinds of movement), language and self care skills (eating, going to the bathroom, washing, getting dressed etc). Different people will struggle with different things to different degrees. I am, for example, still fully unable to do certain movements and had a lot of delay in self-care, but I had significantly less language-related delay than most of people with ID I know. Usually the more severe a person’s ID is the more delay they will have.
Intellectual disability is one single condition and it doesn’t make sense to call it “intellectual disabilities” (plural) or “an intellectual disability”. It would be like saying “they have a Down Syndrome” or “he has autisms”. The correct way would be “she has intellectual disability” or “ze is intellectually disabled”.
Around 1-3% of people in the world have intellectual disability and most have mild ID (as opposed to moderate, severe, or profound). It can exist on its own without any identifiable condition or it can be a part of syndrome. There is over a thousand (ranging from very common to extremely rare) conditions that can cause ID but the most common are Down Syndrome, Fragile X Syndrome, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Autism, Edwards Syndrome, DiGeorge Syndrome and microcephaly. Not every condition always causes ID and you can have one of the above conditions without having ID as long as it’s not necessary diagnostic criteria to be met. For example around 30% of autistic people have ID, meaning that the rest 70% doesn’t. It just means that it’s comorbid often enough to be counted as a major cause but still, autistic ≠ intellectually disabled most of the time.
A lot of things that cause intellectual disability also come with facial differences, epilepsy, mobility-related disabilities, sensory disabilities, and limb differences. A lot, but not all, intellectually disabled people go to special education schools.
Intellectual disability isn’t the same as brain damage. Brain damage can occur at any point of a person’s life while ID always starts in or before childhood.
“Can My Character Be [Blank]?”
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The difficulty with writing characters with intellectual disability is that unlike some other things you can give your character, ID will very directly impacts how your character thinks and behaves - you can’t make the whole character and then just slap the ID label on them.
Intellectually disabled people are extremely diverse in terms of personality, ability, verbality, mobility… And you need to consider those things early because deciding that your character is nonverbal and unable to use AAC might be an issue if you’re already in the middle of writing a dialogue scene.
For broader context, a person with ID might be fully verbal - though they would still probably struggle with grammar, what some words mean, or with general understanding of spoken/written language to some degree. Or they could also be non-verbal. While some non-verbal ID people use AAC, it’s not something that works for everyone and some people rely on completely language-less communication only. There is also the middle ground of people who are able to speak, but only in short sentences, or in a way that’s not fully understandable to people who don’t know them. Some might speak in second or third person.
Depending on the severity of your character’s disability they will need help with different tasks. For example, I’m mildly affected and only need help with “complex” tasks like shopping or taxes or appointments, but someone who is profoundly affected will probably need 24/7 care. It’s not infantilization to have your character receive the help that they need. Disabled people who get help with bathing or eating aren’t “being treated like children”, they just have higher support needs than me or you. In the same vein, your character isn’t “mentally two years old” or “essentially a toddler”, they are a twenty-, or sixteen-, or fourty five-year old who has intellectual disability. Mental age isn’t real. Intellectually disabled people can drink, have sex, smoke, swear, and a bunch of other things. A thirty year old disabled person is an adult, not a child!
An important thing is that a person with ID has generally bad understanding of cause-and-effect and might not make connections between things that people without ID just instinctively understand. For example, someone could see that their coat is in a different place than they left it, but wouldn’t be able to deduce that then it means that someone else moved it or it wouldn’t even occur to them as a thing that was caused by something. I think every (or at least most) ID person struggles with this to some extent. The more severe someone’s disability is the less they will be able to connect usually (for example someone with profound ID might not be able to understand the connection between the light switch and the light turning off and on).
People with mild intellectual disability have the least severe problems in functioning and some are able to live independently, have a job, have kids, stuff like that.
What Tropes Should You Avoid?
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The comic relief/punching bag;
The predator/stalker;
The “you could change this character into a sick dog and there wouldn’t be much difference”;
…and a lot more but these are the most prevalent in my experience.
Most ID characters are either grossly villainized (more often if they have also physical disabilities or facial differences) or extremely dehumanized or ridiculed, or all of the above. It’s rarely actually *mentioned* for a character to be intellectually disabled, but negative “representation” usually is very clear that this who they’re attempting to portray. The portrayal of a whole group of people as primarily either violent predators, pitiful tragedies or nothing more than a joke is damaging and you probably shouldn’t do that. It’s been done too many times already.
When those tropes aren’t used the ID character is still usually at the very most a side character to the main (usually abled) character. They don’t have hobbies, favorite foods, movies or music they like, love interests, friends or pets of their own and are very lucky if the author bothered to give them a last name. Of course it’s not a requirement to have all of these but when there is *no* characterization in majority of disabled characters, it shows. They also usually die in some tragic way, often sacrificing themselves for the main character or just disappear in some off-the-screen circumstances. Either way, they aren’t really characters, they’re more like cardboard cutouts of what a character should be - the audience has no way to care for them because the author has put no care into making the character interesting or likable at all. Usually their whole and only personality and character trait is that they have intellectual disability and it’s often based on what the author thinks ID is without actually doing any research.
What Terms to Use and Not Use
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Words like: “intellectually disabled” or “with/have intellectual disability” are terms used by people with ID and generally OK to use from how much I know. I believe more people use the latter (person first language) for themselves but i know people who use both. I use the first more often but I don’t mind the second. Some people have strong preference with one over the other and that needs to be respected.
Terms like:
“cursed with intellectual disability”
“mentally [R-slur]”
“moron”
“idiot”
“feeble-minded”
“imbecile”
is considered at least derogatory by most people and I don’t recommend using it in your writing. The last 5 terms directly come from outdated medical terminology specifically regarding ID and aren’t just “rude”, they’re ableist and historically connected to eugenics. To me personally they’re highly offensive and I wouldn’t want to read something that referred to its character with ID with those terms.
(Note: there are, in real life, people with ID that refer to themselves with the above… but this is still just a writing guide. Unless you belong to the group i just mentioned I would advise against writing that, especially if this post is your entire research so far.)
Things I Want to See More of in Characters with Intellectual Disability
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[format borrowed from WWC]
I want to see more characters with intellectual disability that…
aren’t only white boys.
are LGBT+.
are adults.
are allowed to be angry without being demonized, and sad without being infantilized.
are not described as “mentally X years old”.
are respected by others.
aren’t “secretly smart” or “emotionally smart”.
are able to live independently with some help.
aren’t able to live independently at all and aren’t mocked for that.
are in romantic relationships or have crushes (interabled… or not!).
are non-verbal or semi-verbal.
use mobility aids and/or AAC.
have hobbies they enjoy.
have caregivers.
have disabilities related to their ID.
have disabilities completely unrelated to their ID.
have friends and family who like and support them.
go on cool adventures.
are in different genres: fantasy, romComs, action, slice of life… all of them.
have their own storylines.
aren’t treated as disposable.
don’t die or disappear at the first possible opportunity.
…and I want to see stories that have multiple intellectually disabled characters.
I hope that this list will give someone inspiration to go and make their first OC with intellectual disability ! This is just a basic overview to motivate writers to do their own research rather than a “all-knowing post explaining everything regarding ID”. I definitely don’t know everything especially about the parts of ID that I just don’t experience (or not as much as others). This is only meant to be an introduction for people who don’t really know what ID is or where to even start.
Talk to people with intellectual disability (you can send ask here but there are also a lot of other people on Tumblr who have ID and I know at least some have previously answered asks as well if you want someone else’s opinion!), watch/read interviews with people who have ID (to start - link1, link2, both have captions) and try to rethink what you think about intellectual disability. Because it’s really not that rare like a lot of people seem to think. Please listen to us when we speak.
Good luck writing and thank you for reading :-) (smile emoji)
mod Sasza
World Down Syndrome Day (#EndTheStereotypes) is only today, but remember that people with Down Syndrome are a valuable part of the disability and neurodivergence communities and deserve to be respected and included all year long!
when i was 20 i hadn't transitioned yet but i had a dream where i died and saw my own spirit leave my body and my spirit had the form of a silhouette of a young girl in a sundress and even without any context i felt inherently that that was "me" and then i woke up. a very cisgender experience
[ID: screenshot of a Tumblr reply by @/level1cleric. Text reads:
sounds like the writers were getting a little too heavy-handed with their symbolism yknow? /end ID]
Behind the scenes of Godzilla (1998)
man why didn’t they just have this guy fight him off. dude’s huge
i wouldn't fight godzilla if i was this dude's size, for roughly the same reason i wouldn't fight a komodo dragon at the size i currently am
Not even to save New York?
what has new york ever done for me
[Image description: A person standing in a miniature city set. They're partially bent over, putting their head about level with the 8th floor of the building they're looking at. There are tanks in the street that are about the size of the person's foot. /end description]
I get what people mean but you gotta learn to ask yourself at this point and not blame it on our tism. Literally just ask "May I come or is this not for me?, no worries if not." It will help a lot of you not feel so lonely and left out and or just know what the situation is.
for me at least, I often don't realize "hey, we're doing this thing!" is often in itself an invitation, so me going "okay, cool! have fun!" is interpreted as turning an invitation down, when I actually didn't know an invitation was occurring at all. If I'm not invited, I assume they have a reason to not bring someone else along (financial/social/time/energy/etc) and don't usually ask to join as a result, the question just doesn't occur to me at all ! :0
In other words, I think they may be talking more about completely missing social cues and interactions than just being too anxious to ask & blaming it on our autism. but I agree, it's useful for us to learn how to accommodate + ask for things for ourselves :)
If you've been having this problem, the secret thing to know is that (to NTs), it's kind of rude to mention future group plans in front of someone who isn't invited but plausibly could be, with the result that mentioning the plans often constitutes a low-stakes invitation.
This is specifically for plans where the group going is one that you could reasonably be considered part of--and that's the bit that makes it tricky! Sometimes the person speaking will think it's completely obvious whether you are or aren't part of the group, when it really isn't.
For instance, if someone at work says, "We're going to such-and-such for a drink after we get off," that's an invitation! If they say, "My family are doing such-and-such over the weekend," and you are not part of their family, that's small talk.
Phrases like, "we," "some of us," "a few of us," and so on often signal that the plans being discussed are for a loose group that you could almost certainly be part of if you wanted. The key here is the first person plural--we, us, our.
Specific names or descriptions--"My family," "Jane and I," "the gang from accounts payable"--signal a closed group that, if you were being invited to join, they'd probably be more direct about it.
The response, "Cool--have fun!" is taken as a soft no because of the implied subject of the sentence: "you/y'all/you guys have fun!" That separates the speaker (you) from the group that is going.
If you think it's probably an invitation but don't want to just assume, you can say something like, "Is there room for one more?" (The mentioning-future-plans-to-someone-who-is-not-included taboo is strong enough that, if you got it wrong, they will probably be embarrassed and take it as their error, unless they were actually trying to be an asshole.)
This phrasing gives them an easy out if they didn't mean to invite you--they can say something like, "Oh, sorry, the table's pretty full, but maybe next time!" (The second part may or may not be sincere, but if it isn't, they won't mention plans of this type to you again. Conversely, if they want to hang out with you, they might make future plans specifically for the purpose of including you. It could go either way!)
If there aren't any obvious clues, but you would be interested in going if it is an invitation, you can say something like, "Cool," or "That sounds fun," and then if they did mean to invite you, they will probably say something that clarifies the situation, like asking directly if you're going to join in, or providing logistical details--"we usually sit at the big table in the back," or, "We're taking separate cars and meeting at X"--that you would not be of any interest to someone who is not going.
[id: a tweet by Stefania night (@/StefaniaNight) which says:
"Stef why don't you ever hang out with us?"
I'm autistic You didn't specifically invite me like a vampire
Below is a reply which says:
"We're all going to this place"
"Oh that's sick I hope y'all have a great time 😇"
In the top right corner is a watermark which says: via No Nonsense Neurodivergent
To the right of the text is the rainbow infinity symbol.
End id.]
sam reich should be running Squid Games
[ID: a still from an episode of Game Changer. Sam is saying, "Sam says, don't flinch," as a mannequin falls from the ceiling. Vic, Jacob, and Lou are visible flinching with surprised expressions. end ID]
she's 25? she should be in her bed on her phone
the frequency of needing to food shop because you eat food and therefore deplete what you previously bought and need to restock…………being an adult is a nightmare
i bought bananas LAST week and you’re telling me because i ATE them i need to buy bananas again THIS week?????? we live in a hellscape.
did they ever cut that guy's life into pieces like he was requesting
