#glow-worm-chronicles

[envysnest]

Hey! I saw your post about the thai food, just wanted to say that I ordered curry from this place one time and got like 5 meals out of it by just ladling out some of it and heating it with some frozen stir fry veggies+a sliced chicken breast. Serve over rice and it's a super filling+nutritious meal and the curry was only 10 dollars :)

ahhhh thank you! saving this for later.

[geekhyena]

Hi there! I'm the one who sent the original ask to Seanan, and I just wanted to say thank you for your response--you and Seanan and others who have responded have been a great help in clarifying the matter. I'm a first-year sociology student and I'm trying my best to learn all that I can. Also I'd like to apologize if my language was at all impolite or seemed willfully ignorant,. Thanks again!

No worries! Everyone starts off somewhere.  You asked nicely, which does help, and you listened to the views of people who can judge appropriative/not.  In my view, it’s not appropriation because there are so many people who can benefit from this - people with anxiety disorder, PTSD, people who run out of spoons quickly in crowds - it makes sense to improve accessibility when we can, and not require people to jump through hoops.  Plus it’s pretty hard to get a diagnosis sometimes - it costs money, and finding a doctor who will listen, and there are well-documented biases in diagnosis (a lot of the current psychiatric criteria are based on how things present in white, middle/upper-class men, which makes getting diagnosed hard if you are female/PoC/don’t have much psychiatric access, etc).  

Personally, what I want to implement at CrossingsCon, if possible, is some sort of green/yellow/red system where someone can change their color based on how they feel at the time (ie, if they’re getting overwhelmed they can take it down to yellow or red but bump it up to green when they feel better).  Then people can set their own comfort levels, and it will be clearly communicated.  

My personal outlook is if it helps you, then it’s good (as long as it doesn’t harm someone else).  And improving accessibility in this case is a net positive.  I hope this helped! 

[costumesofhannibal]

Just wanted to say that you've got a great blog (you might've seen the flood of notifications from me, haha) I've been looking for a good Hannibal-centric one for a while now, so I'm glad to have stumbled over yours :)

haha, thank you so much! Glad I can be of help! Thanks for reaching out!