This Is Me

Braylen. California livin☀️. Trans Man🏳️‍⚧️😮‍💨. Alycia💙😘

[elielic-blog]

[1st-1]

[utrippy]

[gauravsksk]

exploring museums, old bookshops and libraries together type of love

[filmgifs]

THE STRANGERS (2008) DIR. BRYAN BERTINO

[restbeyondtheriver]

me @ God: here is the thing *sits on the floor* *cries*

[dissociativedoe]

sending love out tonight to everyone who is progressively losing their abilities, whether that's movement, ability to walk, eyesight, or hearing.

it's hard to come to terms with the fact that you can't do things that you used to be able to do. I'll be honest, it feels like you're losing control of your life. it can feel very isolating and hopeless. its scary and overwhelming, and it's so hard to deal with.

you are not less than just because you can do less. im proud of you for still being here, and i wish you ease with adjusting to new ways of life. please take care of yourself, i love you.

[phluphfy]

gentle addition for the folks who are losing their mental capacity in any way, shape, or form. If you can’t think as clearly as you used to, if you don’t have the executive functioning you once had, if your memory is getting worse, if your sensory processing issues are increasing, if your episodes are becoming more frequent. Your life has inherent value and I hope I can help remind you of that.

[everybody-loves-to-eat]

source

[purr-in-ink]

[ecultured]

my favourite green day photo

[blvkvvolfe-deactivated20230401]

i hope you all get kissed and fucked and loved and cherished the way you very much deserve and that anyone who’s ever hurt or wronged you has the worst day imaginable

[prepxn]

- Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (1977)

[a122200]

[cloudy-ghost]

no offense but you’re lovely and you matter a lot

[devilswalkingstick]

i think more characters should have canes actually. theyre cool. theyre sexy. they can have swords in them. they come in any color u want.

[devilswalkingstick]

alright I’m rbing to add onto this bc it’s getting way more attention than I ever expected and people seem to be more likely to check the rbs than the replies. plus I want people to be able to rb this version.

the point of this post is not swords. it is not how well someone can fight w a cane. the point is I want to see more disabled representation and I want to see characters who use canes and I want them to use them correctly and I want them to be just as fleshed out and interesting as their abled counterparts.

my cane user friend and I were talking abt sword canes just before I made the post so I tossed it in. I collect blades—knives, daggers, swords—and I’m also a disabled cane user who collects fancy canes. so I think combining the two is cool. I don’t even think they’d be good for self defense, I just think they’re a fun thing to show off to friends!

but this post has always, first and foremost, been abt mobility aids. this is abt being a young cane user who doesn’t see rep. I’d love to see highschool dramas where a character uses a cane but it’s not used to make u pity them, it’s just a regular part of their life. I wanna see fantasy cane users where the animal head handle speaks. I wanna see sci-fi cane users and cane users in romances and cane users in main roles.

I know abt canne de combat and bartitsu and the other fighting styles u can use a cane for. that’s never been what this post is abt. I just want to see myself in media.

[borderlinereminders]

Some days you’ll make huge strides, some days baby steps and some days even backwards a bit. And these are all okay! Fluctuation is normal and even going backwards doesn’t erase the progress you’ve made.

[sunlitsuggestions]

when you don't have the options to change your circumstances, endurance is still a triumph. familiarity dulls the edge. when it's all too much i tell myself "i'm learning to live with it" until i believe it. buckle down, just get through it, you have the rest of your life on the other side