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My first born for a Caboose drawing💐💐💐🙌🙌🙌💙💙

Of course twin here you go! Caboose working on a warthog with generic tool number 1, 2 and 3

#rvb fanart #rvb caboose #michael j caboose #caboose #rvb #red vs blue

So uhh trains amirite

Close ups below cut:

#starlight express #stex #stex fanart #greaseball the diesel #cb the red caboose #electra the electric engine #cheater boys #greaseball #electra #caboose #my art

im sure that this has already been made but i dont care

#remember how wash had a hard time differentiating between his and epsilon?????#remember how he had all the memories of church???#remember??!???!??!!!???#in agony about him always #rvb #agent washington #rvb wash #red vs blue #caboose #rvb caboose #michael j caboose

gay little monkey that i miss

#cb the red caboose #caboose #red caboose #starlight express #stex #stex posting #sb's art #digital art

Little sketch dump for my RVB and Transformers enjoyers🐁

#fanart #my art #halo #art #rvb #red vs blue #halo ce #transformers #maccadam #mtmte #cygate #grimlock #caboose

It’s the skittle squad

Should I do more…. 👀

tiny cowboy hat doodle as i write

#rvb #rvb epsilon #rvb caboose #church #caboose #churboose #chimera art

kind of the opposite of the last thing i reblogged, but i’ve noticed a tendency among well meaning rvb fans who don’t want to write caboose ableistly, who do recognize the faults of the show and of the fandom and want to make up for them, to kind of… overableize him? if that’s a word that makes sense?

the show writes caboose as “stupid”. he is treated with incredible amounts of ableism in the show, both from the other characters and from the writers themselves. many fans imitate and even expand on this treatment. there is no respect for caboose as a disabled person, because he is not being written as a person at all. @positiveoatmilkmotel wrote these tags that articulate something i’ve been trying to for a while:

caboose is not written as a man with cognitive disabilities, he’s written as a ball of ableist stereotypes to be mocked.

and so well meaning fans will combat this by going no, no, caboose isnt “stupid”, he’s “smart!” and, of course, caboose does have intelligence and capabilities that are overlooked and undervalued by the show and by the fandom. but often this refrain is used to deny and erase that caboose has any difficulties at all. sure, maybe he’s autistic and has brain damage, but it doesn’t actually disable him, it just makes him a little odd!

but the problem is not that the show depicts a man with social and cognitive disabilities. when you say that the show is wrong for it’s depiction of caboose as having mental disability, and then erase this disability in your “fixed” version of him, the implication there is that a caboose who is mentally disabled deserves that ableist treatment. when you attempt to oppose the shows messaging that caboose deserves to be treated poorly because he’s “stupid” by saying that he’s “smart”, it reinforces the idea that “stupid” is something that exists and deserves poor treatment. as opposed to rejecting this framework of intelligence and its connection to worth all together. the reality is that there are people with different levels of cognitive and physical ability, and some people have less ability than others and there should be no moral or value judgement placed on them because of that.