Unknown Blackhole of Disability

I'm Mike. I have fibromyalgia, I'm autistic, and also have an anxiety disorder and a bunch of other health crap. Transmasculine, xe/xyr

[ratbagjasper]

I am not a violent dog, and I will not bite.

Heard this audio from Joshua Tree over on TikTok and couldn't resist.

Some of my favourite stills.

[nerd-elf]

Thoughts?

[tpwrtrmnky]

Like. Look. Listen. I have taught introductory quantum physics at a university level, and I need you all to incorporate this into your trans advocacy: There are situations where you need to make a decision to prioritize being comprehensible to your target audience above being The Most Unassailably Correct.

[peppermintquartz]

You can try to teach a toddler about germ theory or you can get them to wash their hands because "yucky"

[tpwrtrmnky]

Teaching a toddler to wash hands because yucky when the Ethics Understander crashes through the roof. "STOP RIGHT THERE," the Ethics Understander shouts at me. "The disgust response is not a legitimate substitute for a considered value judgment, and in fact, weaponizing disgust instead of grounding those judgments in a more rigorous framework is fundamental to reactionary rhetoric!"

The toddler looks at me. "You are a fascist, auntie. I have seen the light and will now go eat chewing gum from the pavement, unless you can educate me on a rigorous framework on the microbiology of pavement chewing gum this very instant."

[feotakahari]

But I’m not a toddler, and I would never want someone to tell me the “for toddlers” version of their beliefs. If I found out they weren’t telling me their actual beliefs, I’d get mad and stop trusting them. So I don’t want to treat other adults like they’re toddlers.

[self-winding]

Toddlers do generally understand "you could get sick." With very young children who can't understand the reasoning behind why something is forbidden or required, you might have to resort to "because I said so" on occasion, but obviously that doesn't work so well with adults.

Giving people the "for toddlers" version of an ethical position can be effective in the short term but will generally bite you on the ass once they do a bit more digging and realize that you gave them a distorted and simplistic version of the truth, at which point they will tell a bunch of other people, "Hey, X is giving everyone a distorted and simplistic version of the truth" and erode public trust in you.

[queer-folk-abroad]

One simply must not lie.

It’s a simple as that.

We live in the age of the internet, an age simultaneously of great distrust and easy access to all the collective knowledge of mankind. When you lie, it will be found out almost immediately -unless you possess the power to repress the truth of a large government, in which case it will take a lil longer- and the person who was not on your side will call you a liar and dismiss your argument.

“But Trump lies” yes, and when his lies are found out his followers don’t care, the same way when your lies are found out you and your radfem communist circle don’t care- people forgive their own lies or justify them; they don’t do that for the person screaming at them and calling for the destruction of their nation, race, or social class.

Obviously.

So!

Tell the fucking truth.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Cool beans, but the problem there is that the deeper expertise you gain on any given subject the less clear-cut "truth" becomes, until you know deep in your bones that a comprehensive, non-reductive, zero-incorrect-statements delivery of the Truth means spending five hours reciting a whole book at someone who's going to get lost ten minutes in.

That's when you have to realize that "true enough" is extremely valuable.

That's what the post is about.

[daphnis-is-screaming]

When I was in college, I took an epidemiology class where we had the opportunity to design and present a lesson on vaccines and how the immune system works for an audience of 11-13 year olds. (That was very fun BTW. We played IRL Among Us with diseases and I designed a video game inventory screen of the US Vaccine schedule for children and youth.) I also was repeatedly taught in my public health and policy classes how to write policy briefs, which require the ability to quickly explain very dense topics to a layman. This was taught to me as one of the most important things I could take away from my college education.

I work with kids aged 11-14 mostly in my current job and I have worked with kids as young as 5 in previous jobs and as old as 17-18 occasionally in supporting my peers. I do science education, education about the US college system, financial education, arts and writing education, etc. Being able to explain very dense topics to a layman, including elementary and middle school aged children, has in fact been the most important thing I have learned in school.

Adjust your messaging to your audience. Simplify the content of your message and present it in ways that won't cause your audience to tune out after 5 minutes.

[nooblord9001]

if people don’t want to be treated like children, maybe they should stop having the attention span of children

[blighted-elf]

Dragon Age: The Veilguard scenery - The Lighthouse 1/?

[emmg]

Emmrich and Lucanis are the sugar daddies of the most deranged, broke-ass group of idiots in all of Thedas. It’s canon because I said it

Bellara doesn’t even know she’s supposed to be paid for work. Like, genuinely confused by the concept

Neve takes jobs from people who are basically paying her in promises and vibes

Harding lost that sweet Inquisition paycheck ages ago and is just scraping by on pure optimism

Taash probably has money somewhere but would rather set themselves on fire than spend a single coin

Davrin has more holes than socks. Assan eats his pennies

My Rook is a certified Lords of Fortune dumbass with the impulse control of a magpie and a “mild” case of kleptomania. She’s in debt to people she hasn’t even met yet

Meanwhile, Lucanis is out here with two mansions, the bougiest assassin rates in Thedas, and Emmrich has what’s basically tenure at Mourn Watch Trump University, walking around dressed like my house down payment. These two are 100% bankrolling this lineup of freeloader chucklefucks

Manfred needs pocket money? Emmrich’s got him, we all know that. Also slipping a little extra to his girlfriend because she’s, you know, decades younger and strapped for cash

Then the rest of these clowns line up like it’s Thedas’ Saddest Payday, Lucanis included (he’s just there to see how far he can push Emmrich)

Emmrich finally sets up a budget spreadsheet, Lucanis whips out an abacus, and Mondays are officially allowance day with Emmrich and Lucanis alternating who’s dishing out the gold each week

This group of morons has turned adventuring into take your sugar daddy to work day

Emmrich and Lucanis are now writing “Weekly Allowance” as a line item in their budgets

[rook-laidir]

Memez

[loustica-lucia]

Pre-DATV — Emmrich & Lucy

Smol Emm & Lucy the pig based on a banter between Lace Harding and Emmrich Volkarin in the game🥹💜

[lilyblisslys]

Just learned about Bull Press, a tabletop publisher that focuses on games that are prison compliant (no hardcover, no dice, no maps), and their catalogue seems sick as hell. Def gonna pick smth up when I get paid next. They do a lot of donation work with books for prisoners programs!

[mortalityplays]

As mentioned, Bull Press donate playbooks to prisons out of their own pocket. If you know somebody in prison you'd like to refer to receive books, you can email them with requests.

and if you want to support them:

direct donation

patreon

merch (their shirt designs are sick as hell)

[knighthearts]

happy pride month for it/its users, polyamorous people, xenogenders, non-transitioning trans people, and other "weird" identities. btw

[my-dailydreams]

[neves-trouble]

Blessing your dash with a little Lace <3

[jaderavenarts]

Harding calling Lucanis out on his brand of people pleasing after his banter line of pointing out her own people pleasing is so good lol

[neithrain]

[sternentreue]

The Cinnamon Roll Guard

[based on this post]

[karawra]

Emmrich Week 2025: Day 7 - Free Day!

I decided to depict Emmrich's wonder for travel, how he always wanted to get out of Nevarra and see the world but never took the opportunity to do so before now.

[gay-goth-gremlin]

My half of my art trade with @ratbagjasper 💕

[ratbagjasper]

DA Kiss Week Day 4 - Famous Landmark (Redcliffe Castle)

Post-game, Dawes and Harding go to visit Ferelden. I imagined a lookout with a statue of Andraste looking out over the town (yea they're kissing on the statue har har har)