MovingMechanic

INFP-T. 24 Melbourne Australia instagram: stevencharleson I am a geeky, non binary mechanic, feminist, an activist against racism, and an LGBTQPIA+ activist. Bi.

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It all just feels like so much work all the time. I don’t want to deal with this stuff! I have other things to think about!

Related: Trans people aren’t ‘obsessed’ with bathrooms, we don’t care about bathrooms 'too much’. We want to not care about bathrooms at all. You’re the the weird ones obsessed with bathrooms. Don’t put that on us.

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I hope you all like your official animals. I know there isn’t one for everyone. Please feel free to nominate your own.

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My thoughts for 2017 pride. Be safe, everyone!

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Sorry dude, you get the whole package.  You can’t have the Robot without the Hugs.

(note: i don’t actually give out hugs don’t ask for them, this was a metaphor)

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The new greypup is coming around, but certainly has some adorable eye-shyness.

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‘Give pat’ is also a phrase I use with other people.

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Every week I hopefully text my partner ‘how are you feeling? pretty sore this time right?’ and they cheerfully reply 'nah not really!’ because they are terrible.

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This comic came up in my work recently, as I was interviewing Janice about design and disability. She generously gave me permission to quote her in the comic. All the characters in this comic represent feedback I’ve heard as an accessibility professional, both from disabled and able-bodied folks.

It’s always interesting when I’m giving an accessible design 101 workshop how many people come with ideas about disability as a binary thing - they often think of the most extreme form of a disability as the most common kind (ex - a person with a visual disability literally getting no visual input, a person in a wheelchair not being able to move at all), whereas disabilities manifest in lots of different ways, and fluctuate with time and circumstance. This is why there’s not one perfect accessibility solution, and we need flexibility and accommodation in the way we design our environments and systems!

Anyways, mostly remember that you don’t know for sure what’s going on when you look at someone, and in the face of uncertainty, try to default to kindness. That serves me pretty well.

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Newish comic! (link to larger version on my site)

I actually did this one a few months ago for EF, but I thought I’d repost it on my site proper. This was a really difficult comic for me to work out! It’s always a little dicey to use metaphors to discuss identity and experience, but metaphor is also an important tool to bridge communication gaps. There is no perfect metaphor for gender, because, well, there’s nothing like gender but gender. But I think the idea of having new options and possibilities open to you that you never could have thought of before, that’s a very human experience that we can all relate to.

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Hey so can we all just get gender neutral bathrooms already? This kind of situation is shaving years off my life.

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someone: *is completely toxic and not worthy of my time or attention* my damaged ass: hey 💖💕💗💓💞💘

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just wanna lay in silence with somebody who cares about my emotional wellbeing

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“White shouldn’t be the default any more than straight should be the default. There shouldn’t even be a default.”

— Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

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7 Things to Quit

1. Getting your self esteem from others.

2. Constantly attacking and putting yourself down.

3. Thinking that others are better than you.

4. Expecting things to not turn out well.

5. Living in the past.

6. Fearing the future.

7. Being afraid of change.

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Blaming Todd Howard for absolutely everything that goes wrong in Bethesda games has become such a habitual behaviour for me that I feel like it’s gonna bleed into my real life interactions. 

Watch me walk over to receive my degree, trip on the carpet, and just lay there in my graduation cap and gown saying “Why would you do this, Todd?”

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Todd Howard is an alum from my college and he comes to give guest talks sometimes, neither of which I knew my freshman year when I dropped my bag on the way to class, joked “I see we left clipping on, Todd Howard” to my friends, and was met with a very exasperated sigh from behind me and Actual Todd Howard says “Is this what we’re doing now?”