i make my own destiny.

hi, i'm amanda. 26. infj. wheelchair user. grad student. i love singing & music. kelly clarkson & carrie underwood are my heroes. lana parrilla & claire foy are my queens. i'm obsessed with a lot of tv shows & love to read and write. if you ever need to talk to someone, i'm here to listen.

[tony-soprano]

[slytherinnpride]

“No, sir. If you don’t mind, the Crown takes precedence.”

[acquaesale]

“I am aware that I am surrounded by people who feel that they could do the job better. Strong people with powerful characters, more natural leaders, perhaps better-suited to leading from the front, making a mark. But, for better or worse, the Crown has landed on my head.”

Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown S01 (2016)

[thecrownnetflixuk]

The Crown at Christmas

Jared Harris (King George VI), Claire Foy (Queen Elizabeth II, S1&S2), Vanessa Kirby (Princess Margaret, S1&S2), Emma Corrin (Princess Diana, S4), Olivia Colman (Queen Elizabeth II, S3&S4), Helena Bonham Carter (Princess Margaret, S3&S4), Tobias Menzies (Prince Philip, S3&S4) & the Season 4 Royal Family

[tenemos-que-hablar]

As I speak to you today from Cape Town, I am 6,000 miles from the country where I was born. But I am certainly not 6,000 miles from home.

Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth II - Season 4 of The Crown (2020)

[timotay-chalamet]

I think we have enough respect for one another personally to ask ourselves some of the bigger questions, woman to woman. We are the same age, after all. Just six months between us. And who is the senior? I am…ma’am

[thecrownnetflixuk]

‘The Crown’ S3 Royal Family: A summary.

Tag yourself, I’m –

1. Elizabeth

2. Philip

3. Anne ☑️

4. Charles

5. Margaret

6. Tywin Lannis – oops, Louis Mountbatten

[sosoffete]

The Crown, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret. “Alongside that dull, dutiful, reliable, heroic strain runs another. The dazzling, the brilliant, the invidualistic, and… the dangerous. And so, for every Victoria, you get an Edward VII. For every George V, you get a Prince Eddy. For every George VI, you get an Edward VIII. For every Lillibet … you get a Margaret.”

[breathingeyre]

Amy being happy means everything to me 😭💜

[midnightisquiet]

500 PICSPAMS CHALLENGE | #7

The Crown

[purehoneyblossom]

Shout out to all the people who are still social distancing and wearing masks. Thank you for still taking this pandemic seriously and understanding how an illness can spread from person to person. I pray that the universe provides you with an infinite amount of abundance. 

[thepowerwithin]

To whoever reads this… I am currently sending you love. You deserve it. Always.

[matthew-macfadyen-gifs]

Little Dorrit (2008)

There’s a coffee shop!

[missbergmans]

The Crown: Season 02 Episode 10 “Mystery Man”

[catastrophehuman]

continually updated list of resources with things you can do to support black lives

Share AND do what you can through the list. Even if you cant donate, you can do Something.

[mijomii]

July is disability awareness month but a lot of people tend to forget it :/ :/ :/

[mijomii]

It’s all OK if you didn’t know, don’t feel bad about it, it’s a great occasion to listen to disabled people! We might not have pretty flags who will catch your attentions like during pride months, but we’re still here!

[autisticxprowl-deactivated20201]

To clarify, now that I've looked it up, in the US at least July is specifically ADA Awareness Month. A great thing to do this month is look up laws surrounding pwd and our property.

Some examples:

Grabbing a mobility device (wheelchair, cane, walker, etc) without permission is assault.

Pushing someone's wheelchair without permission is kidnapping.

Service dog teams are not required to carry any paperwork or certificates with them.

It's also a good time to look at laws that need to be changed or better enforced:

People on disability income cannot get married without losing their benefits.

People on disability income cannot have more than $2000, including property value (my $300 mattress counts against it), which means they cannot save money if they don't know about ABLE accounts.

Airlines habitually break the law by mistreating passengers' wheelchairs.

Accessible construction is still considered an afterthought rather than a cornerstone of design. And no matter what construction companies say, it's only more expensive to be accessible if you're tearing up existing features to add ramps and such later, rather than doing it from the get-go.

Disabled people are routinely murdered by doctors who determine that they have no "quality of life" and are better off dead.

All these things disproportionately affect disabled people of color. Educate yourself, attend a virtual town hall meeting if you can, and bring these things up. Make things better.

[damesho-deactivated20210114]

part of becoming confident with yourself is just… posting it anyway. writing it anyway. even if you feel like it won’t be recognized, the process is just as important as the results. if you like what you do and who you are that validation will come naturally. shit won’t feel forced either.