break ups suck but have you ever found out that someone you love has secretly been maintaining a list of everything you do that's been bothering them for years
today, april 11th, is the anniversary of Mel Baggs' death. Mel Baggs was one of the early founders of the neurodiversity movement and believed that no one was too disabled for human rights, something that modern nd movements fail to understand to this day. sie was so instrumental to my understanding of literally everything. sie died from medical ableism and neglect during the beginning of the pandemic. we would be nowhere fucking near where we are now without hir. i've decided to make a masterlist of some of my favorite posts of hirs, organized into different categories.
(some of these are listed in more than one category because they overlap so much)
here are some of the "essentials" (what you might have already read by hir/should read first):
hir memorial site hosted by ASAN:
In My Language
There is ableism at the heart of your oppression, no matter what your oppression might be
Getting The Truth Out (many pages, parody of bad autism awareness campaign called "getting the word out")
the meaning of self-advocacy
what makes institutions bad
aspie supremacy can kill
here are some of hir beautiful writings on perceiving/communicating with hir environment as an autistic person, and on communication in general:
up in the clouds and down in the valley: my richness and yours
distance underthought
the naked mechanisms of echolalia
empty mirrors and redwoods
the fireworks are interesting
hir tumblr tag #sensing (@withasmoothroundstone)
on personhood and who has the authority to take it away:
being an unperson
what it means to be real
empty mirrors and redwoods
And understand that this is confusing. Β So when I write about decisions I am making, donβt take them as judgements on people who donβt or ca
on institutions and the I/DD service system:
caregiver abuse takes many forms
"i don't know that person's program"
what my home means to me
dd service system tag
god help the critic of the dawn: glamour and its fallout
what makes institutions bad
post on the JRC
outposts in our heads
on online social justice communities/their inaccessibility:
Your politics have a problem when they contradict the real-life experiences of the people they're supposed to be about.
[If this post is too long for you, try this other post, which summarizes it, but doesn't have quite as much information.]
First off, quickl
Iβm autistic. Β Not everyone autistic sucks at pronouns, but enough autistic people suck at pronouns thatΒ itβs been remarked upon since the v
politics, ethics and mental widgets
hir tumblr tags #outside the wall and #little packages (@withasmoothroundstone)
misc:
The Bones My Family Gave Me
Please violate only one stereotype at a time
My sort of people, just as real as theirs.
Reviving the concept of cousins
gender tag
this is hir poems and creative works:
Poetry and creative writing
this is hir writing on autistics.org:
Personal non-site and FAQ by an autistic
woman who used to have a more extensive website, and where to find her
current writing on autism
Sucks when you like lose your teeth in a dream and youβre like βFuck I cannot believe this is happening in real life and not in a dream. My teeth are really gone now, no takebacks.β
hate how all these apocalyptic films show society breaking down the hot minute the grid goes down, with all the survivors banding off into tiny violent gangs that prey on each other.
bitch you are a member of one of the most social species in existence! it is actually insane the extent to which humans have evolved to use cooperation as our main survival tool. humans have been building and then rebuilding societies for as long as disasters have been bringing them down. an apocalypse would be fucking awful, but the survivors would end up building communities and networks and pooling resources and knowledge, because thatβs what humans do. thatβs what they DO!!!
This reminds me of a really great video by Sarah Zedig where the second half is her going off on apocalyptic, grimdark shows such as The Walking Dead as a βlibertarian power fantasy where their dogshit ideology is never wrongβ and Iβve never forgotten it.
At its core, the edgelord trope that society would βbreak downβ into violence the instant the cops stop answering the phones is a myth built on cynical belief that humans are - at their core - violent, selfish, cruel animals that are only kept in line with the violent enforcement of βlaw and order.β
Hell, itβs a myth built atop another myth that the police - the legitimate purveyors of state violence - are even competent at all!
Considering their abysmal track record for actually solving crimes and observed reluctance to put themselves in harmβs way, thereβs hardly a case to be made that they are actively keeping society from descending into chaos. And if you think thatβs woke anti-police nonsense, bear in mind that once, when the cops in New York did a work βslowdownβ, crime went down.
Because see, thereβs a second half to the apocalyptic βbreakdown of societyβ myth, the one that appeals to a certain group of people. Itβs the part where, now that society has become the State of Nature, the truly strong, independent, well-armed men of action have carte blanche to βrestore orderβ with brutal, justified violence.
Apocalyptic movies are a popular genre because it takes the standard Hollywood power fantasy and gives it an adrenaline shot of compatible politics: libertarian, every man for himself, Γbermensch crap. As it depicts the end of the world, with all the pornographic spectacle of chaos and human cruelty, it tells its audience that you wonβt succumb when the rest those dumb, weak masses perish. Whether itβs zombies, plague, climate disaster, or solar flares making our cellphones stop working, you specifically (yes you, Kyle!) will rise above it.
And when it does, the strong and rugged will survive and start over. Make things how they βused to be.β Presumably a nice, pure, uncomplicated world suspiciously absent of all those βweakβ folks that had been muddying the waters and getting in the way, before. The ones that had prevented the naturally strong men from reaching their true potential in the Old World.
To the people that truly buy into this garbage power fantasy, the inevitable apocalyptic collapse isnβt something to be feared, but prepared for.
No, Super Santa Level 2 wasnβt introduced until the King Grinch arc. He mostly relied on the Holiday Spirit technique when fighting Krampus:
(The Holiday Spirit technique was later retired due to the toll it took on his body, though it makes a brief reappearance during his battle with the Tooth Fairy in the 1997 OAV.)
Iβve always wondered whether his Cosmic Form is REALLY all white or if thatβs just because the mangaβs black & white. Sure, thereβs the cover of volume 17 that shows it as white, but it also shows Mrs. Clausβs ceremonial Christmas Eve gown as pure white when we KNOW thatβs not true:
And the elves get a white variation of their uniform on that cover too? So I donβt think we can count the cover as strictly canon. I keep hoping we get an OVA remake of the Jack Frost arc that actually follows the manga so we can see Cosmic Form in action. Maybe if the fighting game sells well and shows thereβs still an audience for classic manga?
Study shows half of Americans use swimming pools as a communal bathtub as the alternative to taking a bath or shower during the summer. A wave of comments on the study agreeing with the research soon followed, and the people in the comments agreed stating that βChlorineβ can clean toilets, so it was enough.
The tumblr version of russian roulette is when you find a good post and realize theres like 50 unnecessary comments under it so you go to reblog it from the person before the first unnecessary comment and hope to god theyβre not a freak
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