Happier Than Dignified

Socially Liberal Christian, Ace♠️, Spoonie, Feminist. BLM. (She/Her)

[pinguinwings]

Uhm hi, this piece might be a bit personal, but maybe some of you can relate. If so, then this piece is for you. I made this to illustrate the loneliness you feel when your ace. Not many people get what it’s like, and most people don’t even know what it means. Even if you have a lot of friends, this makes you feel very different from the everyone around you in some way, idk. It just kind of sucks sometimes, even though I’m not ashamed of being who I am, and wouldn’t change myself even if I could. So, if you’re ace like me, I want you to know that you’re not alone, and that there’s a lot of people out there like you. So yeah, most of you probably don’t care, but I just wanted to share this.

[hues-of-purple]

Ace lockscreens 🖤🤍💜

What do you think?

(No reposting! Reblogging is always appreciated though!)

[redbeardace]

There are 10 different train emojis.

There are 29 different clock emojis.

Yet there aren't aro or ace flag emojis.

Let's do something about that.

[anzhelo]

Foraging fashions: more mushroom caps.

From David Arora’s “All That the Rain Promises and More...a Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms”

[neurotypical-karen]

This man is an esteemed mycologist.

[noping-out-deactivated20241117]

This whole obsession with wheelchair users struggling on foot down the aisle at their wedding or across the stage for graduation is 100% powered by ableism.

[noping-out-deactivated20241117]

“The heartwarming story of how one woman worked for 8 months straight so she could escape the horror that is being in wheelchair for a few short minutes to struggle slowly and painfully down the aisle on her special day.”

[feraladoration]

“the horror that is being in a wheelchair” bitch it’s hella better than struggling slowly & painfully down the aisle ffs

[noping-out-deactivated20241117]

“Despite being permanently paralyzed, her one goal since her accident has been to walk across the stage for graduation. The whole crowd gave her a standing ovation and broke into tears when she dragged her paralyzed legs across the stage with the help of leg braces and a walker to collect her diploma, after which she immediately sat back down in her wheelchair, which she will use to move around for the rest of her life.”

How the hell is this an inspirational story? This person needs better goals. And a therapist.

[smoldragonborn]

They’re toxic in an even greater way because as a disabled person, I didn’t realise till I was reading this how much I had internalised that. I genuinely have had feelings of fear and shame about using a chair or a walker if I get married. And why? Because I’m constantly seeing “heartwarming” stories about disabled people who shed their mobility aids for that moment. Why the hell am I afraid of using them to get married? Anyone who marries me or attends the wedding will know I need them and love me regardless.

Bless this post for making me realise I’d internalised that shit.

These types of stories teach people, both abled and disabled, that using mobility aids, especially wheelchairs, is inferior.

[margomoment]

here are some beautiful brides in chairs with dresses they ROCK. I know a lot of disabled ppl with internalized ableism think they “won’t look good” if they use their chair, but here’s some literally gorgeous gals for ur consideration

(that last ones cute as fuck and i teared up at it)

[noping-out-deactivated20241117]

Who needs a bouquet when you can be a bouquet?

[smoldragonborn]

I made my addition to this post in June 2019. Its now January 2020 and I no longer feel guilty about the idea of going down the aisle one day with mobility aids.

God bless the disabled community, y'all saved me from some internalised bullshit

[thegayemu]

This post floated by a few months ago, and I remember something to effect of there’s a difference between recovery and refusal. That is, like, I have a friend that suffered an incomplete spinal cord injury. He can walk again now, and I don’t think I’ve seen him use his chair in a few years. When he walked at his graduation, it was to show off his recovery. That he wasn’t quite ready to go through a full day upright, but he could walk across a stage, unassisted, and soon he would be able to do that every day. There’s also a difference in someone like me choosing to not use a mobility aid. My mobility is intensely fluid, especially seasonally. So, I would plan a summer wedding. And while I love my cane it can also be the biggest pain in my ass, so I’d want to just go unassisted. But that’s normal for me, at least right now. I can walk without an aid during about half of the year. It’s reasonable to assume I can make it through one day without it. All of that is different than someone that is fully and permanently paralyzed, that will never walk again, dragging themselves along because they feel that’s somehow better. Overall though, my biggest takeaway is fuck the media. Because disabled people should be able to make whatever decision they want without the media turning it into this grand inspirational story.

[noping-out-deactivated20241117]

Disabled people should be able to make whatever decision they want without the media turning it into this grand inspirational story.

THIS.

[bifinmediasres]

Couldn’t pass up the opportunity to add my disabled joy to this post. Look at this love!

[aprillikesthings]

Taking the opportunity to add these photos of Jessica Kellgren-Fozard and her wife Claudia, from this twitter post. Jessica also has a youtube channel that’s primarily about disability and chronic illness and LGBT stuff (it’s amazing!) 

[haveyouhadenough]

I would also like to personally share, Annika Victoria who ALSO has a youtube channel. This photo was taken from her instagram - she made her wedding dress dress herself, BY HAND. Her youtube channel is mostly DIY fashion and sewing tutorials. I love her so much, she’s so unapologetically herself and informative

[theinfiniteofthought]

I also wanna add these pictures of Ade Adepitan fucking rocking this badass suit at his wedding! Give my fellow disabled mascs some love too

look how much fun they’re both having! yes!

and also this couple, who are both wheelchair users

this is from their beautifully coordinated wedding!

[ostdrossel]

Ok what is with morning doves and sitting in the food dish? They seem to be the only species you get that does that

They don't like to share and have a big appetite. It is always funny to me when people say they are so peaceful. Because they can be quite nasty when it comes to defending food. I have put up mock camera bowls before because I did not like getting so many MoDo photos and they seemed to just enjoy admiring themselves sitting in a bowl of food lol

[glumshoe]

Visitor: “Who was the US president who was hostile to the Native Americans?”

Me: “The correct answer is ‘all of them’ but the answer you’re looking for is probably ‘Andrew Jackson’.”

[kingsandqueensandkhaleesisohmy]

Minus George Washington. From what I recall, he treated the Natives with much respect.

[glumshoe]

I mean he was called Town Destroyer for a reason

[vampiresister]

trese (2021) // mulan (1998)

[missmariaclara]

Netflix’s Trese + The Onion headlines (1/?)

[manananggal]

Trese Episodes as John Mulaney Quotes:

episode 1:

episode 2:

episode 3:

episode 4:

episode 5:

episode 6:

[pittsiesmeeks]

trese in a nutshell

[missmariaclara]

being the Bossing™ is a thankless job

[toastbutteregg]

[useless-germanyfacts]

good evening to this guy

[headspace-hotel]

This is some kind of supervillain

[tvteller42]

@sleepybitchcity

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

I love seeing bank rules that will never apply to me. My app was just like "you cannot deposit more than $5,000 daily to this account and I was like noted thanks

[opossummypossum]

“Cotton” is a perfect little opossum camouflaging as a perfect little white cloud.

via

[utwo]

Hello 70s

© Caitlin Burke

[spacejockeylookingforahome]

I remember this from National Geographic when I was a kid…

organic house by Javier Senosiain

Video of interior

[petermorwood]

I first saw designs like this in Roger Dean’s 1975 book “Views”.

There’s more information on his website here.

[vr-trakowski]

Modern hobbiting.

[digitaldiscipline]

If Owen and Beru Lars had been doing something more lucrative than moisture harvesting.