Fullmetal Idiot

He/e/it. A fiction, linguistics, history, and human enthusiast, major otaku, and aspiring fancomic writer. [Profile ID: The head of the pokemon Gogoat, which is a goat with long horns and a mane of leaves.] [Background ID: A view of the city Prague at sunset, taken over the river with many buildings visible. /End ID]

[roomwithavoid]

shoutouts to people who switch between different mobility aids depending on what they’re doing

[rabbiteclair]

sometimes my thoughts get all recursive and I end up thinking something like "it's cringe to be reading a book that you're currently reading"

[rabbiteclair]

it's like oh, you're reading the book that you're reading right now? how fucking original. you could read anything in the world and you choose the book that you're currently reading, like you're some kind of obsessive weirdo who thinks it's the best thing ever written

[spocktheestallion]

Every year Dracula daily revamps interest in the novel and every year I have to be reminded of the utter buffoonery and misogyny that pervades every modern adaptation that romanticizes Dracula and his predation of women in the name of being “subversive” while completely cutting out or sidelining his predation of men (namely Jonathan) because all of a sudden when he’s assaulting and robbing men of their agency it’s not sexy or sympathetic anymore and we can’t include Jonathan (one of the most interesting and unique and ACTUALLY subversive male characters in gothic literature) because he’s not “manly” enough

[clonerightsagenda]

You'd think seeing a girl trapped in an eternal magic torment nexus would stick in your mind better, but I imagine this is a metaphor for how we slowly accept the world as it is and internalize its unjust norms as we grow older. The clear atrocities and monstrosities become invisible.

[clonerightsagenda]

Utena cuts dozens of cars in half with her sword... we should make her the face of our public transit campaign

[ndnbutch]

but if I were to say that I don’t think vampires inherently and universally represent queerness and that if that’s the only way you engage with any story containing a vampire then a lot of very important messages are going to go straight over your head? i would be killed to death.

[shelterwoodpod]

ESPECIALLY an issue when vampires very explicitly represent fear of outsider immigrant non-white invaders! Dracula can absolutely be read with a queer lens but we cannot let our desire for ~spooky gay stuff~ blind us to the very real xenophobia, antisemitism, and orientalism present in a LOT of the foundational media in vampire history! nor the racism present in modern vampire stories!!!

[jewish-rock]

it should be socially acceptable to wear whatever type of clothes you want anywhere and i am not kidding

[jewish-rock]

dress is an indicator of status that poor people, people of color, disabled people, some religious people, and women consistently fail to meet due to social prejudice or barriers to acquiring the appropriate clothing

[jewish-rock]

obviously there are scenarios where specific clothing is required (like PPE at a job site)

but a person coming to an office job in sweatpants doesn't make them less qualified to do their work, it just means they're more comfortable while doing it

[jewish-rock]

"you're required to wear a face shield, an apron/coat, and closed toed shoes in this lab environment for your safety" awesome perfect, i love safety, and i can wear whatever i want under it.

"you're required to wear a suit to present your lab work" i do not become less intelligent wearing non-formal clothing, and this presentation has now become inaccessible to someone who cannot wear appropriate formal dress

[jewish-rock]

I FORGOT FAT PEOPLE IN MY ORIGINAL REBLOG, DONT REBLOG WITHOUT INCLUDING FAT PEOPLE

[ismisesionnachan]

All this plus Indigenous people worldwide whose traditional clothing/accessories/body art gets excluded from definitions of 'professional attire' as part of the systemic attacks on us expressing our culture in public.

[luna-azzurra]

Something neuroscience-y that helps with prose: attention is selective. A character will not notice everything in a room. They will notice what matters to their goal, fear, desire, training, wound, or obsession. A jealous character notices hands. a hungry character notices food. A soldier notices exits. A lonely character notices pairs. Description becomes character when attention has a bias.

[vampantheon]

on the topic of disabled characters, though, i think a LOT of artists give characters mobility aids that their character wouldn't actually benefit from using.

i'm sort of having a mild brain fog moment rn so i can't fully articulate what i'm on about, but i think a lot of able-bodied artists view things like canes and crutches as interchangeable. and they often don't know enough about the wide range of mobility aids to make an informed decision about what their character might actually use based on their disability

i also think that aids like walkers and rollators are sort of viewed as "cringe" on some level, and many people view them to be "just for old people," so many artists will opt for giving a character who has full-body pain and fatigue a cane (which, in many cases, can potentially WORSEN full-body pain) instead. and a lot of people don't realize that most wheelchair users are able to walk, so they don't consider it an option for characters with chronic pain

[vampantheon]

idk it's kind of frustrating. i've genuinely never, ever seen a character that uses a rollator before. not once. i cannot name a single one. i know of multiple ocs who are described to have full-body pain, dizziness, and fatigue that are drawn as cane users and are never shown with wheelchairs or walkers, though

[vampantheon]

it's also sort of sad? i've been diagnosed since i was twelve years old, and i only heard of rollators LAST YEAR. and that was only because i saw one irl and immediately asked what it was. i wonder how many disabled people out there don't even know it's an option solely because they're completely underrepresented online and in media

[vampantheon]

if you're a creative with a disabled oc, PLEASEEE check out this link. it's a very nice and detailed guide for telling which mobility aids suit someone's needs best. it's incredibly important to make the right choice for your character! mobility aids tell you a LOT about someone's lived experience. picking the right one will communicate to your audience #1 what your character goes through #2 that you UNDERSTAND what your character goes through!

[bogboy420]

fully agree w this post as some1 who only found out abt mobility buggys very recently and getting 1 has been genuinely life changing (in a good way!)

but i do think a big part of the reason that i had never heard of them b4 outside of pediatrics is bc of it being seen as "cringe" or "weird" 4 adults 2 use them, the mobility buggys i could find were all 4 children and teens and im kinda just lucky that im abt the size of an average teen despite being an adult, so i think this also goes into not only representation and awareness of different mobility aids but also what mobility aids r widely made, like even finding a mobility buggy online at all let alone 1 that fit my measurements was a genuinely rly stressful experience that i nearly gave up on

haven't checked the link myself bc i already managed 2 find my perfect mobility aid but i do agree w op that its genuinely a problem that some mobility aids r seen as "cringe" and not talked abt or represented at all and that there's also ppl representing mobility aids w no idea what those r helpful 4 and therefore misinforming ppl abt medical devices

[aroaceenjolras]

To me as a nonbinary asexual person whose asexuality and nonbinarity are integrally connected to each other, all imposed gender implicitly feels like sexualization. To your average cishetalloperisex person who has never interrogated their ideas of gender and probably still thinks teachers live at school, man is the gender that penetrates and woman is the gender that gets penetrated. Man is the gender that initiates sex and woman is the gender that responds to it. Making an assumption about my gender is making an assumption about what I'm like in bed, when what I'm actually like in bed is usually just sleepy.

[memory-of-stargazing]

Just discovered it’s National Schizophrenia Awareness Day!!

I have that!

So! Here’s some awareness from yours truly!!

We are people just like you

We are statistically more likely to be harmed than to do harm

Not all of us are overt, there’s a good chance you have talked to and maybe even been friends with a schizophrenic without knowing!

There’s more schizophrenia spectrum disorders than just schizophrenia, such as schizoaffective disorder or schizotypal personality disorder

“Schizo” is considered an offensive term by many schizophrenics and some even consider it a slur against us, if you aren’t schizospec yourself please try to avoid using it (as well as “psycho” for psychosis!)

Similarly, the recently common “quirky” online phrases “delulu”, “schizoposting”, “I’m so delusional” (without actually having a delusion), etc are also very offensive! We aren’t a joke!

Not all of us hallucinate or have delusions. There’s more symptoms than just those 2 and the schizophrenia diagnostic criteria doesn’t even necessarily require either of them to be present

We can sometimes know we’re having a delusion while still experiencing the delusion, it’s called double bookkeeping

We deserve rights and bodily autonomy (that includes to not be forcefully drugged and locked up without our consent!!!)

We are people just like you

[chameshida]

Out dogged

[annabelle--cane]

was musing the other day that I can't think of a lot of Coward Characters who are women. I can think of female characters who are afraid, anxious, and conflict-averse, but not a lot who are really Cowards. my current hypothesis for why this might be is twofold: 1. if a man runs screaming and crying away from something the automatic response is "what a coward" but if a woman runs screaming and crying away from something the automatic response is "what a girl;" if you want a Coward Narrative about a woman then you have to put in extra legwork to try and make it not come across like she sucks because of her gender. 2. I think "cowardice" is seen as kind of the worst defect for the masculine gender role in a way it isn't for the feminine role. comparable sins against femininity are more about being un-loving and un-beautiful, and there are a lot more Narratives about female characters centered around those. basically what I'm saying is that we need more girlcowards and also probably more boycinderellas.

[prokopetz]

Once you've learned the spot the historical signposts, it's interesting how many "generically medieval" fantasy settings manage to miss the actual medieval period on both ends. They've got the Roman Empire rubbing shoulders with the German Renaissance, skipping directly from the year 500 to the year 1500 with nothing in between!

[prokopetz]

(The one consistent exception is, of course, the obligatory Vikings-with-the-serial-numbers-filed-off culture, who legitimately are medieval, but nobody they interact with is, so you've effectively got Vikings with time-travelling boats raiding both Roman-occupied England and Renaissance Italy.)

[giussepimezzoalto]

This isn't at all a new or novel observation, but. Allyship in a fandom space means nothing if you immediately ditch the ally part in favor of equating antiblack rhetoric that makes its way into your favorite show, character interpretation, writer's rooms etc. as fandom drama. This shouldn't have to be said. But it still doesn't seem to be common sense. I guarantee you Black fans and other fans of color who are rightfully upset about very blatant, very ignorant and disrespectful depictions in the media they consume, from creators who have made very clear their extreme lack of respect for nonwhite fans, are a far cry from typical fandom bad faith discourse. Yet I always, always see the complaint anyway of "never being able to please these people." Hey question. Who's "these people". Answer quickly

[clonerightsagenda]

Everyone keeps saying Utena is wearing the boys' uniform. Show me one boy in this school wearing that outfit

[thefeelofavideogame]

[silelda]

[Image Description: Powerpuff Girls comic, Bubbles is yelling, “I’m not dumb! I just like nice things that make me happy! At least I don’t want to fight and be mean all the time like some people!”]