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august, it / he, 29. i love you

[flipchild]

july the 24 th be with you

[post-troy-stress-disorder]

i need to read everything ever before the end of the summer

[paulkleefishmagic]

Fuck everything else its my BIRTHDAY

[whyenn-reader]

you are not immune to inventing an arbitrary set of rules that only you have to adhere to

[vixvigil]

it’s never a normal temperature anymore it’s always some fucking bullshit

[contourkit-deactivated20160224]

What if everything gets better in 2016

[cheese-sample-official]

[oldshowbiz]

Space Monsters

[pwlanier]

Folk art pickup and trailer. 1960’s

Potter and Potter

[gacougnol]

Otto Piene Kunst in die Luft 1967 Mixed technique on cardboard

[quixoticclown]

Yes, these Muppets have taken Manhattan. The question now is can they HOLD it

[t0ys-t0ys-t0ys]

[gallowhill]

[bartleby-company]

Yoko Ono - Ceiling Painting (Yes Painting), 1966

[389]

Studio Marlon Ilg: VanLeeuwen

[nemfrog]

Koi. Japan, Home of the Sun. 1963. Kikuko Mori, illustrator.

Internet Archive

[tylostoma]

really enjoyed the picturesque drive home with my digicam

[eggsdoodz]

taking each day as it comes…

[purple--starrrs]

By the way it's like. Really fucked how society's thoughts on epilepsy is just "get over it." Seizures can cause permanent brain damage. Seizures can kill people. Seizures hurt like hell. Allow me to reiterate that seizures can kill people. And you're just gonna casually put flashing lights, a common trigger for seizures in your advertisement, in your animation meme, in your edit, on your billboards, without even thinking about putting a simple disclaimer? That's unbelievable. Your little anime edit could deadass cost a life and you're not gonna put a warning because it's "inconvenient" or "people like that shouldn't be on the internet" (ableist) (the problem exists outside the internet also). Or you'll give insufficient ones like putting it in the captions or only giving like one second before the flashing lights appear, meaning that the trigger's already in motion before anyone who needs the warning can read it and save themselves from literal physical danger.

We need to start commenting under other people's posts about how to properly warn for flashing lights and eyestrain. We need to be emailing and calling companies about their possibly triggering advertisements that could induce seizures. We need to stop tolerating ableism and start speaking up for the more vulnerable.

Also, stop putting epilepsy warnings. That's like saying "warning: schizophrenia" on a post including unreality or "warning: dyslexia" on a post with a typing quirk. First off, the disability mentioned isn't the only group of people that this could trigger. Second, it doesn't truly get the message across and instead makes it worse for those with the disability-- scrolling through the epilepsy tag on Tumblr should get you to view the content of other epileptic people, but no, you just get a bunch of flashing lights and eyestrain, even though you could instead tag for, oh I dunno, flashing lights and eyestrain.

Anyways this Disability Pride, and for every month that comes after, think about epileptic people and others who are triggered by flashing lights/eyestrain. Happy pride to those who experience seizures too frequently due to the unaccommodating and ableist societies we live in!