#lexingt0n

[dogesterone]

commission for @lexingt0n

[roebeanstalk]

comm for @lexingt0n ~

[miscling]

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okay, here's one hot off the presses for you, because there's a stray thought about accessibility in the kink/fetish scene that's rattling around its head.

and it's come up because faefae is going to an event next month that seems to be doing everything right in terms of accessibility and being welcoming that's left us wondering what the hell is wrong with other events and organisations, and questioning what makes them so resistant to making accommodations for diversity.

so this event has a community around it, and they're inclined towards accommodating disability and queerness, and while it's not perfect, this thing can see that they're trying to be accepting and open. the peculiarities of the miscellany do still feel like they're peculiar, but not so alien that we don't feel like faefae won't be safe there.

and the culture of the group aside, the fact that this event runs from the afternoon to early evening is a big point in its favour. this thing misses sunday afternoon munches. we find travelling late at night so anxiety inducing, so we can't attend nighttime events without accompaniment. making an event accessibe is more than just slapping a welcome sign on the door, it's about when the event is too.

with most munches and events being held in pubs and clubs also makes them really uncomfortable. you never know who's going to have too much and start making gross comments. even in a private room, there's still a lot of exposure to what feels like an unsafe environment to this thing.

the time, the place, and the people all matter. this thing would love to go to more events, but unless it markets itself as a queer space and a disabled space, and involves both queer and disabled folks in its running, what you end up with is events that are completely unsafe to attend if you're not cishet and abled - which is why this thing gets to so few real life events despite how much it could enjoy them.

new ask game send me a 🌻 and ill just tell you whatever the fuck i want

[noelle-ism]

Happy birthday dear I hope it goes well for ya 🫂💕

thank yoiuuuuu ^-^ hughug!

[fallhound]

Hi fall I love you 🐶🐾❤️

[spicy-snail-girls]

So Vi when are you gonna a get a cage 🤭

I've tried one out before but I didn't really like it tbh. Plus my partner definitely wouldn't be into it lol

[beardedmrbean]

KUNG

POW

Enter the Fist was a great movie

I never actually saw it, but the snippets of it that I've seen on here in videos and gifs and memes of all sorts has led me to believe that it would be a terrible idea to take LSD and watch that one.

Which may not sound like a compliment, but it is.

Looks so weird and off the wall

[theliterarywolf]

Wait what the fudge is the EdTPA? I'm trying to teach here to and I'm so lost

Quoting Google exactly: 

“The edTPA is a performance-based, subject-specific assessment and support system used by teacher preparation programs throughout the United States to emphasize, measure and support the skills and knowledge that all teachers need from Day 1 in the classroom.”

To describe it as I’ve been informed on it so far, basically it’s you presenting yourself, your teaching methods, and your own, personal, backed-by-both-textual-research-and-fieldwork-research theory on education to a committee of educators to see whether or not you should be able to get your teaching-credential.

It’s basically the final hurdle to passing the bar in regards to education. 

The thing that sucks about it is that it costs upwards of $100 and, if you fail or rub someone the wrong way, you have to keep paying that fee every time.

I keep reading that it’s used all over the US, not just California, but I’ve also heard that in states like Illinois you only need a Bachelor’s to start teaching, so...