Spoonie Cutie

Jay, 27 yr old cis femme cripple punk with ADHD, Dyscalculia, Depression, Anxiety, Misophonia, Celiac Disease, Asthma, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Hypothyroidism, Fibromyalgia, Migraines, and Hypermobility.

[c9ska-deactivated20180707]

[codenamecesare]

Image: a tweet from “greg the leg” @sparememe i refuse to git gud. i have the right to suck at playing video games. you cannot take this nonexistent skill set from me

[heatherwitch]

Hello! I'm thinking of learning tarot cards. Do you know which tarot cards are preferable for a beginner? I personally like the Rider-waite tarot deck though. And can I make them at home by simply printing them (a secret witch :/) ? Will they be as effective as the bought one? Also, if you know where I can buy them, do tell me. Thanks! :)

I personally think any cards are okay for beginners, but Rider-Waite has well established resources for card meanings. Let me make some lists of resources for you :)

Playing cards for divination:

Playing card divination

Playing cards divination

Introduction to Cartomancy

Cartomancy masterpost

Using a regular deck of cards for tarot masterpost

Printable tarot cards (all external sites that I verified):

“Average” deck

CBD Tarot (with guidebook)

Court Games and Archetype Dark Tarot

Neko Atsume Major Arcana

Evolutionary Options Tarot Deck

You can also use google images!

Tarot Apps:

Witchy apps for Android users (includes tarot)

More apps for Android users

Labyrinthos Academy, Golden Thread Tarot and Luminous Spirit are all free apps for iPhone and Android users.

This post mentions a $4 tarot app for iPhone users

Where you can buy them:

Online! Bookstore websites, Etsy, site’s specific to the deck, etc.

Metaphysical shops and bookstores (my first deck was $15 from half price books)

[foxy-mulder-deactivated20190929]

Click here to support escaping a transphobic home organised by Alistair Thorne

I am a disabled trans person in a transphobic home who needs to get out as soon as possible. Thanks for your consideration.

edit: fixed the link!!

Hey, I’m a trans guy, disabled, desperately unemployed but jobseeking

last night things escalated when my dad grabbed me by throat like he was trying to choke me, shoved down the hall into my room, called me crazy woman and threatened to call the police to take me away/institutionalize me. 

https://www.gofundme.com/35au4-escaping-an-abusive-home

This all started because one of the dogs was barking and it awoke him at 2 a.m.. and that was my fault, somehow. 

he apologized this morning ‘for last night’ but undid the apology by maintaining to say that I provoked it. but after having hands around my neck like strangling me I can’t stay here. 

Thanks so much for helping me, reblogs and donations alike. thanks for caring

I’m packing today because I need to get out of here asap

[thiefofgenders]

WARNING TO UK SPOONIES

So our shitty ass government decided to put pregablin and gabapentin (Lyrica, Neurontin, etc.) on a controlled drug schedule with very little consultation from us. This starts in April.

What this means is that you can only get a one month supply of this at a time and it can only be prescribed in writing (on a green prescription not a white one that gets sent electronically to your pharmacy). I’ve seen almost no advice or announcements regarding this and worry that people will get caught out. These drugs are generally used for chronic pain, seizures, and migraines but they have other medical uses as well.

Contact your doctor and pharmacist to find out how they’re handling this change. All different GPs and specialists are handling this in different ways. The most important thing is not to panic. These changes don’t go into effect until April 1st.

Please share as much as possible. Getting caught out and suddenly stopping these medications can be dangerous. Best to be prepared.

[chronicillnessmemes]

For all our UK Spoonies!

[qjusttheletter]

A Deathday for Q

It's old news that I'm nebulously dying on an unfixed timeline as mysterious as the Universe. Money from A Deathday for Q will ensure that the cremation after my death is simple and unmysterious.

Procedures after I die are a little costly for my budget. I’m going the route of cremation with a lovely local organization [KORU Cremation], and while they keep fees as low as they sustainably can, it still comes to ~$2,000 depending on the specifics. I’m not close with my parents so my friends will be handling the arrangments, and I don’t particularly fancy hefting that cost on them immediately following my death.

as promised, here’s the link for my cremation crowdfund - pls donate &/or share if you can <3 

[ID for image in the preview: an orange/yellow sign in a parking garage that reads “Dead Slow! SPEED BUMPS Ahead”; q is reaching up to peace sign below it /end ID]

[spooniestrong]

DO NOT EAT GRAPEFRUIT IF YOU TAKE OPIOIDS.

I recently learned that compounds in grapefruit juice called furanocouramins increase the blood concentration of both oxycodone and oxymorphone, and in half the time than without grapefruit juice.

Know what that means? The grapefruit juice increases the potency of your normal dose.

THIS IS LIFE-THREATENING.

Grapefruit already interacts with many medications, but this is dangerous. You could overdose. You could die.

Save a Spoonie.

Please pass this on. 💙

[witchcraftartifact]

Toxic Holiday Plants for Pets

It’s a jolly season, until one of your babies gets their mouth around a plant that won’t treat them well.

Watch out for these plants during the holiday season, no beauty is worth possibly injuring your beloved.

✖️❄️✖️❄️✖️❄️✖️❄️✖️❄️✖️

Poinsettia: contains an irritating sap that causes nausea and vomiting

Holly + Mistletoe: harmful leaves and berries, will cause everything from vomiting, to hallucinations, to death

Cyclamen: a winter bloomer, it’s a common gift that can cause vomiting, convulsions, and paralysis

Amaryllis: poinsettia’s competitor, it has Lycorine and other substances that cause vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and lethargy

Jerusalem Cherry: literally in the nightshade family and will easily kill as it is highly toxic to animals

Lillies + Daffodils: especially harmful to cats, these will cause vomiting, diarrhea, arrhythmias, and convulsions

Fir/Pine/Cedar/etc. Tree: the center of many homes during the holiday season, its oils are irritants, its needles can puncture their insides, and the water bowl is a cesspool of bacteria, mold, and any chemicals used for its creation and preservation. Especially bad if it was covered with a flame retardant.

✖️❄️✖️❄️✖️❄️✖️❄️✖️❄️✖️

So, definitely not saying that you shouldn’t decorate with or gift these items, but you know your pet the best. If they’re a chewer, keep an extra eye on them, but, of course, no pretty plant should be worth more than their lives.

Stay safe this holiday season.

[witchcraftartifact]

Toxic Holiday Plants for Pets

It’s a jolly season, until one of your babies gets their mouth around a plant that won’t treat them well.

Watch out for these plants during the holiday season, no beauty is worth possibly injuring your beloved.

✖️❄️✖️❄️✖️❄️✖️❄️✖️❄️✖️

Poinsettia: contains an irritating sap that causes nausea and vomiting

Holly + Mistletoe: harmful leaves and berries, will cause everything from vomiting, to hallucinations, to death

Cyclamen: a winter bloomer, it’s a common gift that can cause vomiting, convulsions, and paralysis

Amaryllis: poinsettia’s competitor, it has Lycorine and other substances that cause vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and lethargy

Jerusalem Cherry: literally in the nightshade family and will easily kill as it is highly toxic to animals

Lillies + Daffodils: especially harmful to cats, these will cause vomiting, diarrhea, arrhythmias, and convulsions

Fir/Pine/Cedar/etc. Tree: the center of many homes during the holiday season, its oils are irritants, its needles can puncture their insides, and the water bowl is a cesspool of bacteria, mold, and any chemicals used for its creation and preservation. Especially bad if it was covered with a flame retardant.

✖️❄️✖️❄️✖️❄️✖️❄️✖️❄️✖️

So, definitely not saying that you shouldn’t decorate with or gift these items, but you know your pet the best. If they’re a chewer, keep an extra eye on them, but, of course, no pretty plant should be worth more than their lives.

Stay safe this holiday season.

[crippleprophet]

shoutout to the cripple punks who want to dress punk and can’t

to those whose hands shake too much to paint their nails black

to those who can’t wear punk/edgy clothes because of the texture or other sensory reasons

to those who can’t wear punk/edgy clothes because of medical equipment or mobility aids

to those who can’t wear combat boots because they need shoes with better support

to those who have allergies or sensory needs or weakened immune systems or any other reason that prevents them from getting tattoos or piercings

to those who can’t afford to buy the clothes they want to wear

remember that cripple punk has no dress code and you don’t have to fit a certain aesthetic to be badass

[foxy-mulder-deactivated20190929]

trans guy with H-cup needs help to pay for top surgery 🙏please boost

https://www.youcaring.com/julianm-750500

[foxy-mulder-deactivated20190929]

I think this getting so many notes backfired, I’m at the half way point of my goal. But I’m blessed to have had so much support.

Some people in the notes said things along the lines of “get a job”. They seem to be unaware of how hard it is to find one when visibly trans. Mostly interviewers are polite but never call back. Anyway. They’ll be happy to know that after a year of searching I finally found a short term summer job. It should help pay a portion of it. So I reduced my goal a bit. But I’m still scared I won’t make it.

tldr thanks and boosts are immensely appreciated

[outsider-my-ass]

via [x]

[Loni (Literary_zealot) Tweeted: “It’s a privilege to just laugh with your friends and say, ‘There’s always Canada’. Not everyone has that option.”

Coffee Spoonie replies:  Literally, Disabled folx cannot immigrate to Canada. They don’t get that I cannot ‘lol move to Canada!’, bc Canada doesn’t want my crip ass.”]

[crpl-pnk]

a culture fixated on sniffing out “fakers” to protect “real disabled people” inevitably harms every single disabled person within that culture & only maybe a relative handful of “fakers”, who are usually mentally ill or economically disadvantaged to the point of having no alternative. stop saying your skepticism is for my benefit. stop saying my oppression is for my benefit. yes the idea of people with no grasp of my struggle claiming it is infuriating & insulting beyond belief. yes that is also oppressive. but in practice, i’d rather a dozen able bodied people successfully pass themselves off as disabled than one disabled person die in poverty because they couldn’t “prove it” to an abled person’s content

[crpl-pnk]

setting aside the fact that People Die From This, just the impact of faker witchunting on the emotional wellbeing of disabled people is enough to make it inexcusable i’ve heard someone crying, literally sobbing & vomiting from pain frantically promise me that they’re not exaggerating when i never indicated for a moment that i disbelieved them, because they’re so used to the accusation. i’ve heard someone in the aftermath of a seizure quietly mumble as they regained lucidity, “are you sure i’m not faking?” i don’t know a single chronically ill person who hasn’t at one point or another seriously questioned if they were ever really that sick at all because we’ve been so brainwashed to challenge the validity of disability that we begin to doubt the reality of our own definitive lived experiences

[thequantumqueer]

This is the post that made me finally accept myself as being disabled.

I am the second example they used.

R.I.P. Rat King. You really were the best of us.

[ladydrace]

Has anyone else noticed how, when you have a chronic condition of some kind, that there’s always the basic assumption from people around you that you’re not already doing everything you can?

[squidsqueen]

It’s all about the illusion of control. People who are healthy like to believe they can always keep being healthy if they do the right things. They don’t want to think about how good people get struck with terrible circumstances for no reason. So they keep assuming that if they got sick, they could do something to make it better. And if you’re still sick, that must mean you’ve done something wrong or not done enough.

[atalantapendrag]

Nail. Head. The same attitude can be seen in how a lot of people talk about poverty.

[the-daughters-of-eve]

And sexual assault. All they have to do is not go there not drink that not wear that not date them and they’ll be fine, right?

[terror-billie]

The Just World theory - that as long as I do everything right, I’m safe, and everybody who isn’t safe is at fault for not doing everything right - is perhaps the most harmful and widespread mindset today

if you ever see a conservative and wonder just how in the world they have so little compassion?  they are genuinely convinced that most - not all, but most - bad things that happen are the fault of the person affected, because then they don’t have to feel bad

somebody explaining this to me as a young adult was, quite literally, the start of me seeing the world in a new way and moving considerably to the left politically. by letting go of the just world mindset my conception of reality shifted considerably

[chronicillnesstruths]

How to Get On

How to have a great, disabled life.

Wow! This is the most incredible site! If you’re disabled and trying to figure out (in the U.S.) disability, food stamps, section 8, other benefits, accessibility resources (wheelchairs, etc.), affordability of everyday stuff (phones, cars), etc. this is THE site! I wish I’d found this years ago. I hope lots of people get to see this.

[blankie-greenie-anon]

As much as I hate dubs, they shouldn’t be removed completely. I know most people would rather read the subtitles that listen to some American man awkwardly pronounce a Japanese name, but some people might not be able to read the subs.

They could blind or dyslexic, so dubs would be more convenient.

[prismatic-bell]

Blind, dyslexic, or tiny. Don’t forget a lot of dubs are literally designed to reach children.

You can have reading problems that aren’t dyslexia, too, including being a slow reader or having poor reading comprehension.

The problem is not dubs, and they shouldn’t be treated like a grudging, “not as good” last resort for those sad disabled folks who you guess should be able to enjoy anime. There are some amazing dubs out there–Trigun is fabulous, and while I’ve not seen it I’ve heard the Ghost in the Shell dub is really great too, with the new Sailor Moon dub being “not perfect but definitely way up there, especially for relevant localization.” The problem is that most dubbing companies do not care to make good dubs. Japanese names aren’t hard to pronounce if you just have a phonetic guide to them (for fuck’s sake, just play the original seiyuu saying the name half a dozen ways so the VA can get it from a native speaker! Problem solved!). Reasonably accurate translations aren’t hard if you don’t phone it in.

So rather than hating on dubs, let’s push for better dubs that we can all enjoy.

Signed,

A hard-of-hearing fan who prefers subtitles because they’re like built-in closed captions, who’s gonna stand up for other disabled fans, because acting like we’re getting sloppy seconds is just bullshit.

[selfcarevibes]

Sleep

If you’re going through something tough, get extra sleep. Take a nap. Don’t feel bad about going to bed early.

Getting enough sleep is a very important part of self care

[daloy-politsey]

Disabled people deserve a living wage

[daloy-politsey]

This means there shouldn’t be ridiculous limits on how much someone can make while on disability benefits

[ultraviolet-techno-ecology]

I’d like to add that this also means acknowledging that being disabled is often expensive, and thus should actually be given proportionately more to ensure they can afford expenses like wheelchairs, medically prescribed diets, prosthetics, modified vehicles, and accessible housing as needed for their condition.