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I'm 30 and you can call me Leggless.

[kvothes]

a good thread

[phleb0tomist]

he would not fucking say that, but with disability.. he would not fucking be able bodied. sick n tired of characters walking away from multiple life changing injuries without a scratch. let’s get some natural consequences in here.

give that knife/sword fight survivor nerve damage. give the character who was shot in the gut a stoma. give that fire survivor lung damage and an oxygen cannula. give that leg injury survivor a cane. give that starvation survivor gastroparesis. give that spinal injury survivor a manual chair or powerchair.

while we’re at it, give your characters congenital disabilities too, just because. give them intellectual and development disabilities. give them acquired and postviral illnesses. dare to make somebody bedbound. for me.

[legglessdraws]

(@eleplay tags)

YES this collectively drives our party *nuts*

[zrom]

Alejandro Sirio -  1927 

[blushingbloom]

horse bridle made from watsonia leaves by Hannah Thornhill

[patrickbatemanamericanpsycho]

When the group chat arguing and bro starts messaging you privately

[footlongdingledong]

dip shit you are not turning into the joker. you are barely even turning into the penguin or th e ice guy

[anarchistmemedistro]

[coffeecalliope]

A lot of companies that make things have two separate lines: consumer and enterprise. Consumer is for us poors that the company doesn't need to respect. You can buy more expensive, higher tier consumer items but it's just as fragile. You're paying for more bells and whistles. Enterprise grade is stuff that will actually last because it is often sold in a lot as part of a contract and the contract won't be renewed if the items suck. These things are often just not sold to consumers because why would you ever buy consumer-grade garbage if you could buy this?

For something like computers, this looks like how pricey "gAmiNG" laptops look all fancy but fall apart in about the same timeframe as the lower end laptops for students. But if you've ever handled the sort of laptops for banks or businesses, you'd wonder why laptops can't all be like this. People swear by Lenovo Thinkpads for a reason. Dell's Latitude (general productivity) and Precision (has the power of a gaming laptop but far less bs) lines, HP's probooks, all feel really nice and last for-fucking-ever. But you can't buy them in a store even if you wanted one.

So the trick is to buy what big organizations are buying, but you likely gotta get 'em secondhand when the orgs are done with them. For basic clothes, mil surplus might be a good port of call, for technology see an e-waste recycler or sometimes government auction (you just gotta know what to ask for; ThinkPads, Dell Latitude/Precision, HP Probook/Zbook). Otherwise try to thrift old, pre-enshitification items. The blanket I had as a kid is still going strong and has lived to bury multiple sets of newer bedding (which have worn thin and torn). Kitchen items, see if you can shop at a restaurant supplier.

TL;DR: if you need an item, think "which business needs these to function" and see where they 1) buy theirs (suppliers) or 2) sell their old ones (surplus) and buy that. If you can't do that, look at older, pre-enshitification things.

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

Clip of Lucy Dacus on the Las Culturistas podcast.

[daisy-if-u-do]

And this, in one video segment, is why I find heavily policed gendered spaces online deeply abhorrent.

If someone is trying to figure out how they fit in to the big picture, denying them 80% of that picture is cruelty.

[notkatniss]

righttttt right. right yeah

[badassdemonsword]

Heated rivalry shouldve been about 2 ugly old guys that play mahjong then maybe id consider watching it

[krownest]

i don't remember them playing mahjong but they do other old man things like going to the wet market together and drinking soup and taking walks. anyway go watch suk suk / twilight's kiss

[krownest]

"ok but where's the old chinese lesbians" go watch all shall be well. it's by the same director and the old chinese lesbians are also at the market

[flyingcorpseinthesky]

For TV shows, there's What Did You Eat Yesterday? which is about a middle aged gay couple

And when it comes to films, there's actually quite a lot about older queer people! In addition to what was listed above, off the top of my head there are films like Cloudburst, Supernova, Turtles, Salut Victor

[s1ck0]

Juliette Brocal

[satanfemme]

bored of puppyboys and catboys. lets consider the humble fishboy, who you can stick hooks in and also gut with a knife. and he loves it

[medievalsquire]

my knight keeps saying fuck it we ball before charging into battles and it's reallynot inspiring confidence in my heart

[frailgun]

more women should have the body of a snake imo

[frailgun]

more women should have 4 arms

[pineyw00dsshesquatch]

Best I can do is 6 arms and centipede

[frailgun]

"best I can do is going above and beyond the call of duty"

[dogdayafternoon1975]

if you dont have an eye floater be grateful because some of us have a squiggle named jeremy who slides across clear skies and white walls like an air hockey puck and NO he doesnt ask first

[martyreddie]

no! traffic light system will kill the patient! they need under-negotiated kink to live!!!

[dailynarnia]

is jake gyllenhaal gay??

why would you ask us, a narnia blog, this

[helloitsbees]

happy pride month to this post specifically