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#♫⁺⊹ through a stranger's eyes #♫⁺⊹ by a stranger's hands #♫⁺⊹ malachi's song #♫⁺⊹ don't be a stranger #♫⁺⊹ heard through another #♫⁺⊹ words i say

not amazing image quality but these guys are cute

#♫⁺⊹ through a stranger's eyes #red panda #my photos #photography

creatingblackcharacters

I just wanted to come by and say happy disability pride month! especially for those who are Black, as I know resources can be very difficult to find. To stand with those who are disabled is to stand with all, no matter race, ethnicity, or gender! We're all in this together, dear friends <3

A wonderful article I thought I'd share is "12 Black Disabled Activists and Advocates You Need to be Following" by Charlotte Stasio from the website "World Institute on Disability" (link down below!)

wid.org/12-black-disabled-activists-and-advocates-you-need-to-be-following-this-black-history-month/

Again, happy disability pride month! And dear runner of this blog, I wish you much love and happiness, as I know running this must be very stressful with all the racist comments that come your way. Take breaks when you can! much love <3

By Charlotte Stasio Centering the stories of Black disabled people is essential to achieving our vision of a world in which people with disa

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i think i posted these somewhere already but ehhhh

#♫⁺⊹ through a stranger's eyes #my photos #photography #aesthetic #roses #vampire aesthetic #goth aesthetic

ooppo

As someone who semi regularly loses their mind (diagnosed bipolar) I can really confidentially say that nothing makes me feel more insane than talking to certain neruodivergent people. A lot of them and I mean a LOT are insanely abelist towards people with psychotic disorders. I have never felt more in enemy territory than with someone who covers their water bottles and car in "neurospicy" stickers, then has the nerve to treat me like an other.

#♫⁺⊹ heard through another #im not psychotic but people tend to assume i am #and like yeah this post is so real #sorry im making you uncomfortable i am literally just talking to myself and not making a lot of sense

for the first time there are actually things in the queue!! yippee!!

#♫⁺⊹ malachi's song

chilewithcarnage

we're not ever gonna make this website a safe space for black people or have a substantial black user base anymore unless y'all (non blacks obv) come to grips with the fact that y'all hold internal biases whether some of y'all be blatantly racist and hide behind your disabilities/mental illnesses queerness/transness or it's something as simple as if you see a black face on your dash you immediately swipe up

#♫⁺⊹ heard through another

trying to figure out which photos i have posted vs which ones i havent is a nightmare

#♫⁺⊹ malachi's song #hopefully ill be getting some new pictures cause im doing my yearly road trip to houston next week

dog

#♫⁺⊹ through a stranger's eyes #is my dog she is very cute

thatonedeadboy

watching

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pgwodewose

My stance is that before you embark upon writing your own mythology retelling, you should actually read the source literature you're basing your retelling on as opposed to simply relying on other retellings.

pgwodewose

So, places online you can go to look regarding sources:

Here on Tumblr, @arthurianpreservationproject has a wealth of Arthurian PDFs

Internet Archive

Project Gutenberg

Standard Ebooks for public domain literature

Mary Jones for Celtic literature

Theoi and Perseus Digital Library for Greek and classical texts

Poetry in Translation has translations of Greek, Roman and Medieval texts, as well as texts from other periods

Middle English Text Series is somewhat self-explanatory, and naturally the texts are in Middle English though they do come with notes

Folktexts which is a compilation of folktales and fairytales by D.L. Ashliman

Old Norse Sagas has translations of the some of the legendary sagas/fornaldarsögur

This website has translations of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi and this website has a translation of Culhwch and Olwen

Any additional suggestions and recommendations are highly welcome!

#♫⁺⊹ heard through another #also good just for people who wanna read the stories !!#(and my pagan ass who's struggling to find good translations)

wishful-seeker

I would like to see more people talk about how jobs treat disabled employees.

I used to prep, wash dishes, and cook at mellow mushroom. I had chronic pain that wasn't NEARLY as bad as it is today, but it was still very debilitating. I told my employer "i cannot stand more than 4 to 6 hours. I CANNOT do shifts longer than this due to my illness." And even though i made my boundaries VERY clear, everyday i worked it was 8 hours at the least and 10 or 12 at the most. I would go up to my manager and say "look i really need to leave, my shift is over, my chronic pain is killing me." And he'd say "we really need to here, you HAVE to push through." And so i did, and after one, ONE month of that job my crps got incredibly worse to the point where i could no longer walk my dog around the block which was .5 miles. I quit, and that was FOUR years ago, and ever since that day I HAVE BEEN BEDRIDDEN AND HAVE TO USE A WHEELCHAIR. It is my biggest regret in life.

My best friend who has seen my whole journey has recently developed undiagnosed chronic pain, and she is in the EXACT same scenario i was 4 years ago. Busting her ass at a pizza place with extreme pain that hurts her so much she tells me "im in so much pain i don't even feel like a person." She doesn't feel LUCID. And her manager and coworkers are saying the same thing "if you don't help us you will let us down, we'll be in the shit."

That job thats hurting you isn't fucking worth it. I promise you no money is worth losing all your physical abilities and never getting them back. Your coworkers and boss do not give a shit about you, so don't you dare suffer for them. They will never understand your struggle and they will never try. They truly think being understaffed is worse than whatever pain you experience. They would rather you permanently damage yourself than inconvenience them. FUCK THEM. DON'T FUCKING DO IT!

anarchistmemedistro

isuggestrevolution

i have a suggestion

isuggesteatingtherich

me too

whereserpentswalk

Disability rights are inherently incompatible with capitalism. Capitalism seeks to draw a hard line between "I can't" meaning "its physically impossible" and "I can't" meaning "it'll hurt me" because capitalism is 100% fine with forcing people to do things that hurt them.

oakenroots

Please, I beg you all, build yourself a backbone from all those moments of pain and tell them in no uncertain terms: You can accomodate my disability, or you will lose me all together due to the disability. You must let me sit down, or I will lose the ability to stand.

I let myself collapse to the floor in front of my boss once, mostly to prove the point. When she tried to drag me to my feet, I screamed in pain. She was spooked, not by my disability, but by the faces of the customers looking at her with unbridled disgust. By the idea of a disability rights violation lawsuit coming to her.

I shouldnt have ever had to do that, and I directly risked my job to do it, but I do not regret it. The job market is hell, and I don't recommend anyone do that in this current political atmosphere, but hiding the impact of their discrimination from them, holding on and waiting to collapse until you get home, which feels like you're protecting yourself, only protects them.

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snapcracklepop-myjoints

happy disability pride month to mean cripples, nasty addicts, people with down syndrome who arent nice and talk constant shit, wheelchair users that WILL run you over, autists that dont care and arent about to pretend to, people who lie to their psychiatrists, people that sit on the floor in public places with no benches, amputees that lie profusely about "what happened", ; to the "noncompliant", the "drug seeking", the "mean", the "difficult" and the "undeserving", and so on and so forth, i love us all and we deserve the world actually mwah mwah

snapcracklepop-myjoints

to people that hide contraband in their assistive devices. to people that do party tricks they arent supposed to and people who will spit on you if you ask them to do party tricks. to people that weaponise the infantalisation of disabled people for their own purposes (theft et. al.). to the people who "misuse" their medication and people who dont take it at all. to my mother, who takes out her hearing aids when she doesnt want to hear shit anymore but will still pretend to be listening so you dont catch on. to people who sleep all the time and to people with "abnormal" circadian rhythms who are unwilling to alter their sleep/wake cycle to best appeal to societal (and moral) expectations. to people that complain loudly about inaccessibility and refuse to try and "make it work". to people that charge money for invasive questions and people that pretend not to understand the question at all.

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green-is-gay

i dont WANT pride months to be over,

on the other hand...

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creatingblackcharacters

happy disability pride month to all Black disabled people! ❤️♿🫶🏿🫶🏾🫶🏽🫶🏼🫶🏻

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creatingblackcharacters

I must admit, I do get extremely irritated at how strong people will defend white racists of their actions on here (usually shielding behind other marginalization) and throw out words like "harassment" and "digital lynching" and will try to gaslight users of color into thinking that we just... Didn't see what happened. That we don't understand racism when we experience it.

Especially when I see myself and other more vocal users of color get harassed daily, and have to always be on guard with their social media, and no one cares because everyone prioritizes white voices here and spend no time with the rest of us via an actual, unspoken segregation of this app. But somehow we don't know what racism and harassment looks like.

So when you say "hey, this person's opinion was not an okay thing to say/their actions were not okay due to racism and I am not coddling that", you get hit with a bunch of people who believe that having "More White Voices must mean True and that Your People Did Not Experience what y'all did... Because the white people around me said it went this way! You're just Mean!!!"

Like ofc that's the perspective you heard, those are the only people you're ever around on here, and it doesn't benefit you to understand what racism actually looks like in action. So. Just irritating af.

creatingblackcharacters

Bc ain't no way I've experienced the range of directed racism on here, damn near every two days this year on this app, and I gotta sit here and listen to how someone being racist is actually the True Victim. That people who spend all their time la di da happy and unbothered and surrounded by fellow racists and/or complicit yet ignorant bystanders... Experienced having thet racism called out and suddenly THEY are "harassed".

How thin is your skin, that we gotta do this every day and swallow the pain, but you scream in agony the moment someone points out the truth. Okay. To quote my parents, I can give you something to cry about.

creatingblackcharacters

This post is not about the damn circus people, btw. This post is about every situation the shoe fits, because it's really that common.

#♫⁺⊹ heard through another #ik this isnt the main point of the post but the phrase 'digital lynching' is like... so disturbing to me #like you are comparing being yelled at on the internet to the mob murder of black people and other poc #a thing that killed a shit ton of people #like holy hell yall have some tact at least #especially when you're trying to defend someone racist #like i wonder why you're so willing to defend racism... maybe you should think about that for a minute

zmpl

before we start posting that july is gay wrath month let’s consider that july is disability pride month first and foremost. the “be gay do crimes” memes can wait

zmpl

before this post breaches containment and people start going “why not both hehehe” i want you to seriously consider the very long history of disabled people’s existence being pushed aside and/or seen as secondary. i promise you it’s not going to hurt to hold onto the memes and give disabled people space for visibility and celebration.

i say this as a disabled trans person whose trans identity is made front-and-center to the (mainly cis) people who know i’m trans but my identity as a disabled person is brushed off by the very same people.

#♫⁺⊹ heard through another #ill be honest i like a good 'gay wrath month' joke #but disabled people are still so invisible to so many people #anyway i think july should be disability wrath month

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