Don't you dream impossible things

Katrina/30something/Rep Stan/Evermore Defender/NZ/She/Her

[calicotisane]

Say hello to my little hi

[sunnfl0w3rr]

mutuals if I like your vent post I promise I’m acknowledging your post and sending happy thoughts and hoping your ok bc I don’t know what to say and I promise I’m not happy you’re in pain

[ohmywhatamarvoloustune]

amaze amaze amaze (fist my bump):Project hail mary soundtrack:daniel pemberton

Get hoped!

[ohmywhatamarvoloustune]

What project hail mary score is amaze (amaze amaze)

I love music theory so much and the soundtrack is a new favourite.

[allsortsoffuckedup]

Hey hey, as a librarian, can I just say don’t pace yourself at the library. I get a lot of customers saying “oh I shouldn’t get too many books out at once” but like you should!!!! Max out your card, take everything we have on a subject you’re interested in, make a book fort in your home. We love that shit! It doesn’t matter if you read them or not; just take them for an adventure and bring them back whenever they’re due!

For public libraries, one of the ways we secure funding year to year is lending. Governments don’t want to fund more books if they’re not being used and the way we measure use is by issues. Regardless of whether you read it or not, whether you have it for a day or a month, if you issue it to your library card, we get the stats! It makes the library look good!

Help your local library; get books out even if you know you can’t read them all!

[lonestatus]

can i get paid handsomely for wtiting stupid bullshit no one even cares about

[goldensunset]

*trying to say i enjoyed something* this thing made me feel sick and made me writhe around on the floor

[sandinmybed]

something i find frustrating about Life lately is how people just absolutely refuse to experience any discomfort. and i dont mean this in the boomer "wah kids have it too easy theyre all pushovers and pussies" way, but i mean people will go crazy over anything thats not totally 100% sanitised and comfortable and pure and whatever the fuck. a show has a sex scene and you dont like it? people used to just look away for a second and maybe cringe. now it's a whole thinkpiece. people would rather ghost their friends or let issues fester rather than ever address an issue in their relationship with them. they wont let their friends vent in case it makes them uncomfortable. like can you just buck the fuck up and let things be a bit awkward sometimes? it wont kill you.

[jurassicpeanut]

No bond stronger than a disabled girl and her disabled cat

[accessible-art]

[ID: A 6-panel black and white digital comic titled "Hard to Love: Disability and Cats". The cover is a black and white cat asleep on top of a curve-top cane.

Panel 1: A figure is turned away from the viewer and text around them says "Sometimes, I think I'm hard to love. My body doesn't work like it's supposed to"

Panel 2: Three sections. In the first the figure is looking at a chart confused and upset, labelled "I forget things". In the second they are walking using the cane and looking tired, labelled "I move slow". In the third, they are bending down with back pain to pick up a pencil and it is labelled "It hurts to do things most people do easily".

Panel 3: The cat is looking at the viewer, labelled "My cat's body also doesn't work like it's supposed to"

Panel 4: A similar 3-section layout. The cat is looking away from its food bowl, confused, labelled "He doesn't remember things". The cat then jumps and lands face-first, labelled "He's clumsy". Finally, he is stretching up to a window but can't reach it and it says "He can't do things that other cats can do".

Panel 5: The figure is holding the cat with their foreheads together and a heart above them, labelled "And I love him so much"

Panel 6: The cat is asleep on the figure's lap as they pet him, looking down at him considering and unsure. It is labelled "So maybe it's not too hard to love me".

End ID]

[aroundmeblackbats]

does anyone have any resources for housebound or bedbound disabled people that are written by other disabled people?

do not want shit from doctors, thank you. disabled people, please.

(I can leave my house, sometimes. I can leave my bed, sometimes. I just... mostly don't, and I pay for it so much when I do.)

[queerlypeaceful]

@hillbillyoracle

[hillbillyoracle]

Heyo I got you

Or at least, I've written a lot about this.

Here's a masterpost of resources that I've personally found useful

I'm still in the process of annotating all of it but it is all labeled and grouped by topic.

If that's a little much here's the original post it was based on. There's some overlap, some unique.

Here's a write up the personal care kit I keep by my bed

Here's how I handle my room since environment impacts me a fair bit

Here's how I handle my laundry specifically (no fold)

When I have more energy, here's resources I use to manage my house

I wrote a free minizine called The Bedside Companion that has a quick reference of my favorite ideas and resources that you can keep by your bed (good for when looking at a phone causes headaches).

I also wrote a free minizine called Fuck Goals about how I manage task overwhelm with being disabled and not being able to do anything consistently.

I'm working on zome full length zines on meditation with chronic pain and some other spoonie stuff but Go Date Yourself might be a good one too if you find yourself alone a lot. Also free.

I hope this gives you a place to start or inspires something for you!

[syn4k]

ok note to self i gotta leave the house regularly so that i dont feel like im slowly transforming into an evil fucking shadow clone of myself

[syn4k]

So as it turns out your sense of self doesnt exist in a vacuum. You gotta actually use it and bounce it off of other people like echolocation to see where you are as a person and shit. So if you dont regularly interact with other people the echoes just get weaker and weaker and before you know it your personality is a blurry fucked up fog clone of its former self. which it sucks because this makes it really hard to interact with people again but yknow

[doccyuk]

"Individuals aren't naturally paid-up members of the human race, except biologically. They need to be bounced around by the Brownian motion of society, which is a mechanism by which human beings constantly remind one another that they are...well...human beings."

Terry Pratchett, "Men At Arms"

[elkian]

One thing I've gotten a lot better at due to long and unpleasant experience is Going Outside even when I don't have a Reason for it.

Unemployed stint? Go Outside. Sick? Go Outside. Etc.

Because even 5 minutes Outside helps me remember that there is an Outside. When I don't Go Outside (ideally once per day minimum), my world shrinks to the house, then the areas I actually use, then my bedroom, then my bed, then me.

If you've got clinical depression especially, try to find time to Go Outside. I've got some potted plants out back this year - gotta water em! The porch of the new place is actually pretty nice - morning coffee when the weather isn't abominable counts as Going Outside. I try to go to the library every weekend, take a walk, etc. etc. etc.

If you can Go Outside I highly recommend Going Outside especially when you don't have an external reason to do so. Make a reason - whether it's bird watching or a potted plant or just checking out the neighborhood, you will definitely feel less awful if you can make 5 minutes a day Go Outside Time.

[leftoverluck]

Being mentally ill sucksss like idk why I did that either

[tswiftsedits]

Taylor Swift, Lorde and Florence Welch at The MET Gala: Manus x Machina Fashion in an Age of Technology (May 2, 2016 - Photo credits: David X Prutting/BFA.com)

[vnapologeticapathy]

it sickens me that there are so many men that simply never engage with anything made by women and they don't question it and they aren't questioned about it. they don't listen to music by women or read books written by women or watch movies written and directed by women or stop to look at paintings by women at museums and they're just allowed to go thru life never considering women as artists with no challenge or criticism whatsoever. meanwhile as a woman it's impossible to escape the male artistic point of view

[gabriellelestat]

there’s a cultural obsession with labelling all female authors as unintelligent or otherwise only capable of accidentally stumbling into brief moments of genius in their works that we need to start pushing back against

[space-feminist]

“I was always bothered when people say, ‘I cry to your music, it sounds like a diary, it sounds so personal,’” Mitski says. “Yes, it is personal. But that’s so gendered. There’s no feeling of, ‘Oh, maybe she’s a songwriter and she wrote this as a piece of art.’”

(source)

feel like it's related to the phenomenon mitski's discussing here - if women's art is only seen as unfiltered diaristic emotion then of course it can only ever be accidental genius, never created with intention and thought

[lamine-19]

The kindest thing that literature does is remind you that your little peculiar feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, felt equally bewildered by love, bored by society, tired of pretending, and hungry for meaning.

[brittlepredatordemon]

Actually, no, I don't think that friendships dropping like flies in your late 20s and early 30s because no one has time for that between overwork and family obligations and marriage and kids and partners and the ritual of the time slayer is normal and ok. No I don't think deep conversations and spontaneous adventures being replaced with a tired coffee every six months is a normal part of growing up. I don't think that emotional intimacy and soul bonds disintegrating in the face of practical inconvenience is a fact of life. I think that means something is deeply deeply wrong with our society and I will never forgive it for the friends I've lost