the space race may be the funniest point in history period and i'll stand by that. the US is like "yes whoever gets into space first will prove once and for all that our economic model is superior and that we are, in general, the superior country of superior and smarter people." then the soviets just went and did it and the US freaked out and needed to cover their ass so were like "WE MEAN THE MOON, WE MEAN THE FIRST TO LAND ON THE MOON."
When I was a freshman in a red-state college, I had a professor who taught Newtonian physics with a super thick Russian accent. The student body was unusually conservative for a state college, so there was a sort of general bemusement about learning physics from a Russian, but even back then the Cold War was far enough in the past that not even the red tribe was inclined to stir up trouble about it.
He was aware enough of this to get off on trolling the class, though. Whenever some force diagram in a homework assignment needed to be weightless, instead of being some generic spacecraft it would be “Mir” specifically. And he’d always use ‘cosmonaut’ instead of ‘astronaut’, that kind of thing.
One day about halfway through the semester, he’s doing this with in-class examples on the board, and one of the students finally gets up the guts to troll back a little. So this kid shouts from the back of the auditorium, “Hey professor, what’s the difference between a cosmonaut and an astronaut?”
And this beautiful man spins around on one heel to face the class, whiteboard marker triumphantly over his head, clearly having been waiting for this moment the entire semester:
“Cosmonaut go to space first! Ha!”
The thing that abled people who advocate for the disabled community don’t get is that there are times when disabilities/accommodations clash. Horribly.
Like I spent years having to come up with a solution to get therapy dogs into a series of residence halls. Why years? Because we had to decide who got to stay and who got to leave: the people who needed therapy dogs or the people with severe allergies to animals. Who got the alternative housing?
Things like fidget toys might seem great for some disabled people but having them in the room could be distracting/overstimulating for others. The same goes with stimming. It can’t be helped but neither can the anxiety that another person in the room feels as they watch/hear it. Additionally, something like a weighted blanket might immediately calm one kid down and send the other one into a panic attack due to the claustrophobia it causes. (*Points to myself*)
Every Metro bus in New York City has a series of seats at the front that can be lifted up to accommodate people in wheelchairs but if I’m in one of those spots then someone with a cane/walker has to journey even further to sit down.
The flashing lights of a fire alarm are there to help deaf/hearing impaired but if they’re not properly timed, they can also cause a person to have a seizure.
The worst part about all of these is that there is rarely a concrete solution that makes everyone happy/safe. And I’m not here to offer any because I don’t know them. I’m just here to remind you all that as you’re taking your education/health classes, as you’re reading your textbooks, as you’re preparing to go be an advocate, just remember that there is rarely ever such a thing as a one-size-fits-all solution to advocacy and that something you do that can help one disabled person might actually hinder another.
I have heard this referred to by some in the disability advocacy profession as “duelling disabilities” and it’s definitely something I wish people would be more mindful of when discussing accessibility.
i just came across the term “access friction” that was coined as an extension of the “competing access needs” to remove the idea of competition, winning and losing
Calling Up Justice is creating a resource on access frictions because there are multiple meanings and applications of the term. Access frict
Running from June 8th - 14th, McKirk Week is a creation event focused on the Kirk/McCoy pairing, across all universes.
HOW IT WORKS:
There are three prompt lists – Trek, Gen, and NSFW. Trek are prompts based on the Star Trek universe, Gen are general prompts and tropes, and NSFW are of course the NSFW prompts. You’re welcome to pick from any prompt list (or even combine a few), and you can fill as many or as few prompts as you fancy. Feel free to take an NSFW prompt and make it SFW, or vice versa - use these prompts in whatever way inspires you.
Your creations can be any form of media: art, fic, edits, meta, videos, web weaves, memes, playlists, fic rec lists, cosplay… the list goes on! As long as you can make it McKirk, it counts.
On that note: this is a McKirk event so McKirk should be the main pairing in your works. Background ships, side pairings, and poly ships are okay as long as Kirk and McCoy are the focus.
*note: treat Gen prompt: Free Day as your free space - anything goes!
NSFW prompts, graphics text, and rules below the cut
PROMPT LIST:
TREK PROMPTS:
Day 1 (8th): Red Alert
Day 2 (9th): Dress Uniforms
Day 3 (10th): Holodeck
Day 4 (11th): Time Travel
Day 5 (12th): Mission Gone Wrong
Day 6 (13th): Replicator Malfunction
Day 7 (14th): Imprisonment
GEN PROMPTS:
Day 1 (8th): Brainwashing
Day 2 (9th): Tattoos
Day 3 (10th): Nightmares
Day 4 (11th): Free Day (aka: free space, anything goes!)
Day 5 (12th): Camping
Day 6 (13th): Meet Ugly
Day 7 (14th): Rainy Weather
NSFW PROMPTS:
Day 1 (8th): Blindfolds
Day 2 (9th): Medical Kink
Day 3 (10th): Sparring
Day 4 (11th): Heated Argument
Day 5 (12th): Aliens Made Them Do It
Day 6 (13th): Bondage
Day 7 (14th): Praise Kink
THE FINER DETAILS:
You’re welcome to start on your piece(s) whenever you’d like, but please refrain from posting them until the relevant day(s).
When posting your works to tumblr, please use the tag # mckirkweek2026 and/or tag the blog @mckirkevents so that we can find your posts to reblog.
A collection for works on AO3 can be found HERE for you to post your works in.
There is no deadline to post your works and the AO3 collection will be open indefinitely. If you’re posting a month or a year after the event, still tag us!
You’re welcome to create whatever you want, but please do tag/warn as appropriate for NSFW and other sensitive content.
For tumblr posts, please add a mature label to explicit imagery, and/or crop and link externally to the full image, in order for us to be able to reblog.
I’m actually going to reblog a thing just because this is really important.
As someone who has epilepsy and used to have several grand mal seizures a day, I’d also like to add that “offer help” can range anywhere from keeping the person calm to explaining to them where they are and what they were doing to even just telling them they should sit and rest for a while longer (lack or coordination is common, and it can be hard to walk straight or see clearly).
It’s okay for them to take up to a half hour to fully regain their bearings and sort out what they were doing prior to the seizure. Just answer any questions calmly and be there for support.
If they come around and you start to panic or shake them or ask them what the heck is wrong with them they are going to freak out and panic too.
I cannot stress it enough that this is bad.
If someone has a seizure and they come out of it, please. please stay calm.
They are likely disoriented and confused, even if it’s only for a minute or two, and you don’t want them panicking on top of that because they can have another seizure as a result.
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You literally cannot find this type of community interaction on twitter or instagram or any other app. Look at the support, the gratitude, the absolutely incomprehensible shared knowledge of this most cursed, most rare gif.
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