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Jules of Nature
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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Cosimo Galluzzi
Sweet Seals For You, Always
Mike Driver
pixel skylines
祝日 / Permanent Vacation
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Not today Justin
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Origami Around
Sade Olutola
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@intimationsofimmortality
Simone Biles is a wonder, and I trust & support her to make the best decisions regarding her health. If that means stepping down from competition, then all the more power to her.
She is not a show horse, she is a person who deserves happiness, recovery, and privacy during this time. I am proud of her for putting herself first.
me, rewatching my favourite media for the hundredth time: it’s about the comfort. it’s about the nostalgia. it’s about lacking the necessary emotional bandwidth to take in and process new things in this year of our lord 2021
I’M DEAD
Fun fact: if you know your feline body language, you’ll notice that the lynx is deferring to the housecat. As far as these two are concerned, the housecat is the higher-ranking cat.
OH MY GOSH
It’s because the cat is that lynx’s mom
Nocturnal Rome, 1934, M.C. Escher
Okay y’all time to share what kinds of disabled rep you’d like to see more of! I’ll start:
Disabled characters falling in love
Families not seeing their disabled child as something to apologize for and getting defensive when other people apologize on their behalf
Mobility aids!! (Including service animals)
The character’s disability being more than a personality trait but less than a burden
Character arcs that involve accepting their disabilities rather than finding ways to fix them
Accessible environments and tools to accommodate characters in their everyday life!!!
Disabled characters being able to hold their own
All the characters standing up to the ableists and giving them what they deserve (they can get their foot rolled over by a wheelchair. As a treat)
Cool ways disabilities are incorporated into fantasy/sci-fi genres!!
The other characters asking disabled friend if they want help instead of assuming they need it
Let! Them! Have! Hyperfixations!
Disabled characters facing and overcoming challenges without their disability being undervalued
Disabled characters saving the day
Disabled! Community!!! Instead of there only being One disabled friend in the group.
Disabled people being able to get together and kvetch and share stories and swap tips and work together
Disabled people gathering in communities because they have similar needs (eg. Deaf people wanting to live with people who use Sign)
Characters having disabled role models and mentors who teach them about living with a disability
Fantasy societies having a social role that isn’t just “useless cripple” so people who become disabled can imagine what possibilities are open to them
Also
People with disabilities in happy, loving relationships
People with disabilities who aren’t full of doubt and self-loathing about their attractiveness and lovability, but instead are able to pursue romance with a relative amount of confidence and enjoyment. (The opposite is super valid, but I’d like some variety.)
Fantasy cultures with understandings of mental health, mental illnesses and trauma that aren’t ours, but do make a lot of sense given the context they’re in
An approach to labor in fantasy worldbuilding that doesn’t have a sharp divide between “people who can work” and “people who can’t.” Fantasy UBI. Fantasy moneyless societies. Fantasy “from each according to their ability, to each according to their need.”
Family planning options for characters whose disabilities include fertility issues.
Wanting a cure vs accepting one’s condition not being an either/or thing. In real life it can be more like, “Gee, I sure would like to not intermittently feel like I just got punched in the gut and set on fire, but a cure probably won’t happen in my lifetime, so here’s what i need in lieu of one in order to be semifunctional.”
Sex positions not being treated like personality traits.
Nonverbal safewords.
Disfigured characters who are framed as beautiful.
Some people hate needing help. Disabled characters can have this trait without it being tied to ableism or shame. It can be framed more like ye olde sitcom dad who refuses to ask for directions or hire a plumber.
Marriage scenes where they have the walking aid, wheelchair covered in flowers.
To flip the trope (three different ways):
One: A star athlete (or rock musician, actor, or some such) going in for emergency surgery, and coming out disabled – and that being treated as a happy ending – because they did not die. And showing them continue their career in some way, during the end credits (star athlete becoming a star coach or manager, if need be)
Two: A character starts out disabled, and longs, and works hard, for a cure, and becomes cured – and that being the sad story, because they lost something or someone else along the way, that they now realize was more important.
Three: A disabled character struggles with their disability (pain, fatigue, limitations, etc.), and would like a cure, but still has a relatively happy life, and has other goals they strive for and attain (moving house, writing their masterpiece, coaching their team to the Championship [sea One]).
See also: The 1,001 Problems Test I’ve been working out.
[Talking about Viv and Lisa]
Leah: They're cute
Kim: I'd put them on a boat
Leah: You mean you ship them?
Kim: I do, but I meant that I would put them on a boat and send them away so I wouldn't have to see them staring at each other every five minutes
The Olympics are really coming for Black people this year....
It ain't just She'Carri Richardson
Racists are too fucking scared to stand upon their actual athletic accomplishments so they have to literally fucking cheat.
The whole point of the olympics is it’s supposed to be competition between the world’s best athletes and anyone who wins without these people being in the competition has earned nothing.
my friend @mispronouncing-michaelangelo tagged me to post my lockscreen, the last song I listened to and the last image I saved
thanks for tagging me sweetheart 😊❤
he scream
DAM THIS FOD GOOD
“My sister couldn’t find him for 2 hours”
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Hummingbird nest with rain protection
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cien años de soledad
the best thing about this is that when there’s plenty of resources, domesticated cats will naturally form colonies. in these colonies female cats raise their kittens communally with their kin. so you get situations where moms will raise kittens with their daughters from a previous litter, cats from the same litter will raise kittens together, etc. so not only does this little old kitty see her human as family, she is also excited to help her with her kitten.
Sometimes a grandma is a little creature that lives on the floor
yeah he says he loves you but would he unleash cosmic horrors beyond mankind's comprehension on the world for you
Please don’t be surprised when a homeless person doesn’t want to leave their encampment or spot for a cooling center; this is the type of opportunity cops will take to clear out encampments while the owners of the stuff they’re throwing away are in centers trying to survive.
If you really want to give them some peace of mind, offer to rent them a storage locker for a few days so they can rest easy in cooler, less oppressive temps without losing everything they have left.
Source: I was homeless many times.
I love your blog and your space asks but please pray tell what's the moon boom that jumpingjacktrash mentioned?
have you ever looked up into the night sky and wondered, why the moon is?
well, you're not alone! scientists and learnéd scholars across the ages have been baffled by our celestial neighbor.
WHY, is our Moon so proportionally fucking huge? (it's more than a quarter the size of the Earth! that's COMPLETELY FUCKING INSANE AND BLOWS EVERY OTHER MOON IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM OUT OF THE METAPHORICAL WATER)
WHY, is the Moon made up of much of the same materials as the Earth?
and WHY, is Earth's magnetic field so massively overpowered that it can shield the surface from interstellar and solar radiation, allowing life to develop and paving the way for you to even ask these questions in the first place? (that one might not sound related, but I promise you it is so just bear with me)
well, it all comes down to the Theia Impact Hypothesis, or, OPERATION MOON BOOM.
in this fair solar system we lay our scene, four and a half billion years ago.
here, we focus on the third planet from the sun, which is, surprisingly, NOT Earth.
not yet.
no, this unnamed rocky world is slightly smaller than Venus, and is formed of mostly-molten rock that's still settling into itself as our nascent solar system sorts itself out.
ENTER STAGE LEFT, THEIA.
Theia is a rocky planetoid about the size of Mars, on a wild and unstable orbit around the Sun that regularly brings it within spitting distance of our unnamed third rock! and today, it will get A Bit Too Close.
the two planets slam into each other with wild disregard for road safety, disintegrating their outer layers into a massive debris field that will take hundreds of millions of years to settle and fusing their planetary cores together into a single rough oblong of molten iron! BAM! WHAPPO!
but settle the debris does, as gravity takes a gentle but firm hold of this huge mess and gradually reshapes it into two familiar faces...
ENTER STAGE RIGHT: EARTH AND MOON.
that's right, you're standing on top of the alchemically-fused corpses of, not one, but TWO planets right now! our newly-reborn Earth and its singular orbiting satellite are formed from the same debris field and share a lot of similar material. and because the Moon was Made, and not a domesticated planetoid that wandered too close and got trapped in the orbit of a larger body, it's just ludicrously HUGE compared to its partner.
and getting back to that magnetic field thing, the whole reason Earth Can Have Big Field Pls is because Theia dumped so much extra iron into the Core that it generates a MUCH more powerful field than our neighboring planets, even the ones that are just slightly smaller than Earth!
the only reason that life can exist at all is because Theia took one for the team and reshaped the solar system.
so the next time you look up into the celestial dome and spot our closest neighbor, raise a salute to Theia, gone but not forgotten.
