The Nollie of Insanity!

Follower of Christ, AuDHDer, lover of stories, and spinner of tales Main fandoms: Wingfeather Saga, Star Wars (mainly Rebels), and Avatar: The Last Airbender

[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.

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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!

[anarchistmemedistro]

we mock this shit as inspiration porn, and rightfully so, but it’s important to remember what it really is: ableism propaganda

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[ultrastimpaks]

wait people sleep with their doors closed????

[ultrastimpaks]

okay now im curious. reblog this with where youre from and if you sleep with your door open or closed

[crigil-blog]

Sometimes it's hard to remember all the good things God has done for us. Problems arise, life throws us curveballs, and our joy diminishes. In those moments, we must remember that God is still good: He hasn't changed. We can wait on Him, we can trust in Him and rejoice in Him, because His goodness and mercy will never abandon us.

[samtf]

reblog to give a strawberry to the person you reblogged this from

[kelseyfun]

Reblog if you say "Y'all"

[greek-orthodox-priest]

went to miami to recover father sotirios. and made some new friends.

these animals... they are wise. I recruited them to avenge my dear brother. I was then escorted out of the sea world.

[a-book-of-creatures]

Better than the 1596 Marseille dolphin exorcism I suppose.

[maxkowski]

[a-book-of-creatures]

In 1596 dolphins were infesting the port of Marseille. Back in those days, y’see, dolphins didn’t have the cuddly image they enjoy today. They were pests and were causing damage.

So the cardinal of Avignon sent the bishop of Cavaillon to do something about them. In front of a huge crowd, the bishop sprinkled some holy water into the waters of the port and told the dolphins to begone. Whereupon the dolphins indeed turned tail in terror and fled, and were never seen again.

Still not as dramatic as Saint Bernard excommunicating the flies though.

[melononthefloor]

What happened to the flies?

[a-book-of-creatures]

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux built a monastery in 1124, but it was plagued by flies. So the good saint promptly excommunicated them. By the next day the flied had died in such quantities that they had to be shoveled out.

Still not as nutty as the Basel rooster trial though.

[fatefulfindings]

*everyone in unison* um what rooster trial?

[a-book-of-creatures]

In 1474, a rooster in Basel did the heinous and unspeakable act of laying an egg. As everyone knows, an egg laid by a rooster will hatch into a basilisk (or cockatrice).

So to avoid the creation of a cockatrice (or basilisk), the rooster was tried, found guilty, and burned at the stake along with its egg. A huge crowd was present.

The “rooster” in this case was likely a hen that had developed male characteristics (it happens).

Still not as properly legal as the Savigny pig trial though.

[bonnettbee]

Ok, clearly you want an excuse to talk about the pig thing, and I now DESPERATELY want to hear about the pig thing, so PLEASE tell us about the Pig Thing.

[a-book-of-creatures]

In 1457 a sow killed Jehan Martin, a five-year-old boy in Savigny. For that crime she was put on trial and judged guilty, and sentenced to be hanged from a tree.

Her piglets, however, were judged to have been innocent of the murder, and so were returned to the owner, with the caveat that he had to surrender them to the law if they were later found to have eaten any of the boy.

Not to be confused with a whole bunch of other, similar porcine trials.

I won’t mention the 1454 excommunication of eels in Lake Geneva then.

[hemipelagicdredger]

OK what did the eels do, and more pressingly why were they in communion with the church in the first place

[a-book-of-creatures]

Animals are expected to be part of the Church by default, that’s why they take excommunication so badly.

Felix Hemmerlin’s treatise on exorcism, cited by e.g. Wagner’s Historia Naturalis Helvetiae (1680), informs us that around 1221-1229, eels once infested Lake Geneva in huge numbers. So Saint William, bishop of Lausanne, excommunicated them and banned them from the lake, forcing them to live in only one part of it.

Plot twist: as far as we know, Saint William was never bishop of Lausanne.

[redheadedhypocrite]

There’s no way you have historical Christianity nonsense more silly than this to share

[a-book-of-creatures]

I’ve been trying to stay on brand and talk about animals only, but sure, few intersections of Christianity and the legal system get sillier than…

… the Cadaver Synod.

Pope Formosus (“Good-looking”) was pope from 891 to 896, and apparently accumulated a few enemies. After his successor Boniface VI enjoyed all of a 15-day papacy, the next pope elected was Stephen VI.

And he hated Formosus.

How much? He had the corpse of Formosus exhumed, dressed up in papal vestments, and put on trial for his failings as a pope.

End result? Formosus was found guilty of papal fail. The corpse was stripped of its clothes, three fingers on its right hand were severed (no blessings for u), and it was tied to weights and dumped in the Tiber.

Needless to say Stephen VI came to a sticky end. An angry mob deposed him, he was strangled in prison, and Formosus’s corpse was fished up and reburied with honors. And the later popes passed edicts ensuring this kind of silliness would not happen again.

Tune in next time when I tell you about how a lawyer defended a city’s entire rat population.

[strawberriandromeda]

Please, the rats, give us the rats, i beg....

[a-book-of-creatures]

The story of the rats of Autun is also the story of Barthelémy de Chasseneuz (or Chassenée, etc.), a highly original and highly talented defense lawyer. That’s him here.

When the town of Autun was infested by rats in the early 1500s, they were accused of eating the province’s barley crop and were duly summoned to be judged in an ecclesiastical court of law. Chasseneuz was the defense attorney.

How do you defend an entire swarm of rats? You don’t, is the answer. You delay. Chasseneuz’s original defense was “my clients live all over the place, one summons won’t be enough”. So he got a court summons to be posted in all the infested parishes.

When the rats didn’t show up after the elapsed time delay, Chasseneuz proceeded to explain at length why. The rats didn’t come to court, he said, because of their enemies the cats, which are everywhere and always vigilant and hungry. “You cannot expect my clients to undertake a journey which would put them in mortal danger”, he argued in complete seriousness. “Thus they have the legal right to turn down a summons that endangers them”.

As far as we know, the rats never did appear in court, and remained unprosecuted.

Chasseneuz went on to have a distinguished career as a lawyer and was allegedly killed by a poisoned bouquet of flowers.

[amnhnyc]

You’ve heard of woolly mammoths, but what about woolly tapirs? 🤔Also known as the mountain tapir (Tapirus pinchaque), this species can be found in the cloud forests of South America’s Andes Mountains. Adults can weigh up to 400 lbs (182 kg), and their thick fur coats help insulate them from the cold temperatures of their habitat. Unfortunately, this endangered species is threatened by human activity including hunting and deforestation. 

Photo: Edwin Múnera Chavarría, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

[headspace-hotel]

If I was an evil ecologist, I would release them into the Appalachian Mountains

[nolliethepyromaniac]

Yes.

I saw that and thought it was a black bear for a couple seconds and was like "does it have it's lip curled up weird?" Seeing one in the Appalachians would be.... very strange

[positiveoatmilkmotel]

People really use term for disability interchangeably with moral failings and shameful things like, and it makes everyone think people with disability are lazy, bad, useless, ugly, ungrateful, untrustworthy, unimportant, selfish, bad, horrible, background noise

“they’re such a moron!” Like haha yeah people started using that word cause it was a medical term for disability. It happened with the word autism too. And disabled. It happened with the r-slur. The only difference between the word moron and

Like. What? Imagine if it was a different population. If there was a term that meant “woman” and everyone started using it interchangeably with “bad” so MUCH that they had to CHANGE the word “woman” into something else entirely— that would be fucked up right??? Sudden you’re calling women “people of potential feminine nature” and then people STILL use THAT term interchangeably with the word “bad”

We’ve been genocidedddd we have limit rightttsss we are killed by the medical system and imprisoned by corrupt cops and uneducated judges. We were given segregated education if we WERE even given an education. We can’t MARRYYY financially, our low status in society has been used to excuse the sterilization and murder of every non-white race. We have been murdered by our government in uninformed human experimentation and testing. The U.S. department of energy murdered us just to see how our death looked.

And the enter English language, everyone we meet, every show we watch, book, songs, speeches, every description of negative personality straights—- it’s ussss!! They’re always referencing us! Even if you don’t think you are, you are!

I’m such a INSANE, Crazy, Lunatic, idiot, psycho, Stupid, LAME, spastic, cripple, special, brain damaged, demented, dumb, hysterical, imbecile, slow fucking thing. Cause god forbid I am.

Ughhh your linguistics have an effect on society!!!!! They do!!! I would know!!!! Growing up, adults in my life had to tip-toe around it, cause what words can you use to describe disability without also calling them LESSER??? I was born into a group defined by their inability to do things! It DEFINES me even more than my gender!!!

If you use a word that means DISABLED or DISORDERED when you ACTUALLY mean “bad”, understand it works both ways! The word that meant disabled now means bad too! And FUCK ME everyone who’s disabled is being called BAD again! So then it’s Time to CHANGE THE FUCKING WORD.

BECAUSE THE HEALTHY GROUP WHO LIVES 15 YEARS MORE ON AVERAGE CANT SHUT??? I WENT TO SPEECH THERAPY FOR YEARRRRS, I GO TO SPEECH THERAPY NOW. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN TALK RIGHT AND YOU STILL DONT SHUT THE FUCK UP

Just stop talking! It’s SO EASY. It’s SO FUCKING EASY GUYS.

ANS MY ARGUMENT, A WORD NEVER FULL LEAVES ANY OF THESE STAGES. I WAS CALLED SPECIAL! People MADE THAT A INSULT now GREATTTT what a surprise! The euphemism treadmill shows general linguistic treads and development of commonly accepted slurs, it doesnt explain how disabled people are a vulnerable population who HAVE TO accept the linguistic concepts take and used on us! We are a very compliant group! And it DOESNT explain that these words are STILL REFERENCING US in polite conversation! When someone says “moron” they still MEAN the ORIGINAL DEFINITION OF THAT WORD

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

imagine living somewhere flat….with like……almost no hills…..what do you guys do for fun get picked off by birds of prey or

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[nolliethepyromaniac]

I finally posted a fic on AO3!

And I managed to do it before the end of the month like I was hoping!

Behold! My Wingfeather Saga/Sons of Yocheved (my original story) crossover/AU! I'm starting it in book 3 of WFS, but most of the book will be set in my story world.

I wanted to post it before the end of the month partly in honor of Disability Pride Month. It features a boy with unilateral hearing loss, chronic migraines, and a couple other maybe-disabilities; a crippled girl who walks with a crutch; a boy I headcanon to have ADHD; and later in the story, an autistic girl.

Without further ado, my fic:

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Tags: implied/referenced child abuse, bullying (in other parts of the fic, not in this chapter)

Summary:

Everything seemed to be going fine for the WIngfeathers in the Green Hollows. But then a set of siblings from another world appear in their house. Which is fine... until all six kids get teleported into the world of the other siblings.

Featuring siblings being siblings, a growing collection of traumatized kids from two different worlds, much confusion about the existence of half-wolf people, run-ins with alligators, an occasional swimming trip (without alligators), protective older siblings who just really want (and need) a break, certain younger siblings occasionally going missing, and possible attempts to overthrow an evil regime.

(unfortunately this first chapter doesn't include the Wingfeathers. They'll show up in the next chapter. Which I will hopefully post in the next week.)

[fruitypieq]

Quick what are you doing RIGHT now (besides scrolling Tumblr)

[shiningshenanigans]

[nightskylonging]

How do people do that headscarf style where the two ends come over the shoulders evenly???

[nolliethepyromaniac]

I can never quite seem to get mine even either. But I can sometimes make it close to even by making the side I use to tie slightly longer. But I only tie it once, not double tie it.

[iamasalmon]

the thing about fiber art that nobody tells you about is that every single kind of fiber art is a gateway drug to other kinds of fiber art.

[viaalterego]

[trishacollins]

Actually, my therapist has told me this is a healthy way of processing things. Because you can get the trauma out of your head And you can write the ending you wish it had. The trusted person rescue, the catharsis of getting to kill the one who hurt you.

It's good for your brain. It's healthier than bottling it up. Fiction is where we go for emotional release. That can be true with trauma too.

[erelierraceala]

so what you're saying is

character: NO

therapist: YES

[vmures]

Adding @dear-massacre's tags because they are so true:

#this is why it's important to remember that fictional characters are fake #they have no agency. they're made up #it hurts no one to make any character go through the horrors #it is healthy and cathartic

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

yeah okay ill reblog that