i really wish that ehlers-danlos syndrome wasn't basically just thought of as the "bendy" disorder. firstly, there are more than 13 types of eds, and they all have varying relations to and degrees of hypermobility. secondly, eds are a collection of congenital connective tissue disorders - connective tissue makes up a vast majority of your body and, because of this, eds, hsd, and other congenital connective tissue disorders like loey-dietz, marfans, stickler syndrome, and osteogenesis imperfecta are multi systemic.
having eds or another connective tissue disorder is SO much more than just some flexibility and it's especially frustrated that they're often thought of solely in relation to that one aspect of them because it leads a lot of people down the path of misdiagnosis.
as an advocate and educator regarding ctds and especially eds, i have spoken to SO many people who simply wrote the possibility of them having a ctd like ehlers-danlos off simply because they aren't flexible. it's such a dangerous misconception and really frustrating to see especially given the fact that the muscles of hypermobile people often overcompensate to make up for joint laxity, which can actually lead to a lack of flexibility/high tone/spasticity
so yeah, tl;dr: if you have a bunch of multisystemic symptoms that seem largely unconnected, look into connective tissue disorders. they're much more common than people think, frequently go under the radar, and can really wreck havoc on your body - ESPECIALLY when you aren't aware that you have one
Beware all media creators! Even if you're just doing it to be cool, someone will always have some way to relate to what you're creating. Even if you don't want them to.
*breathing heavily* fervor Fever fervor fervor fervor fever. fervor fever . you ever think very very hard about what it means to relate to media on a personal level ...
cw for: racism, porn and sexualization of minors, transphobia, porn of abusive ships, incest porn
Hey @natsubutart next time you decide to screenshot someone’s art and post it just to complain about characters being dark skin how about you think first before being a pathetic racist.
I wrote a more completed callout on google drive with screenshots too in case she deletes them (so it’s pretty graphic don’t open it if you are easely triggered by these things)
the rest is under cut because it’s really long
RACISM
First I’d like to specify that Natsu is a white italian woman currently living in Japan.
Natsu screenshotted one of my drawing displaying several bnha characters drawn as mixed or having dark skin (this one) and complained about it on her private facebook.
She is Ilaria Ester Macciocca
Caption: the screen of my drawing with her two comments “MALEDIZIONE SONO GIAPPONESI” (translation: DAMN THEY ARE JAPANESE) and “tfw Japan is not a melting pot and maybe we should respect the author’s choice to make them all Japanese” -> insinuating that 1) since Japan isnt a melting pot there is absolutely no kind of diaspora in Japan 2) Mixed japanese people are NOT a thing 3) Japanese people without fair skin don’t exist
In this she makes fun of representation agreeing with her friend there
Simona Santoro: (im directly translating it) I can understand that people do it with MLP that are horses and so you anthropomorphize them however you want, but if the characters are already humans why changing them? Why don’t you create an OC on your own? Then sorry but I find it racist that there is no redhead with fair skin like me eh RACISTS
Ilaria Ester: You are already represented enough!!!! (note: just to be sure this is sarcastic shes not telling her friend...she is actually...represented enough)
In this she replies to a comment asking why i drew even the “white” ones with black features (????)
translation -> because they are not white they are probably biracial.... from the colors I’d say probably asian/black. I totally don’t agree because we are talking about characters with a japanese heritage…… it’s not like in America where you are expecting a racial diversity like int he drawing. In Japan it’s really hard. And most important in Japanese international medias it’s not represented so why come to this? I mean I’m okay with Deku being a fucking japanese and not an italian, but it’s not okay because a japanese it “white”??
I don’t even know how to comment this, i think it talks by itself but let’s underline the important thing. 1) since japanese media doesn’t portray racial diversity we shouldn’t?? 2) you are a white italian why do you think you can disagree on a discussion about racial diversity?
(i have other screenshots if you want)
PORN ANS SEXUALIZATION OF MINORS
Netsu is 26 years old
Netsu drew (and reblogged) several drawing of minors in clear sexual situations, nsfw-ish, and sexualize minors often (bakushima - bakushima - bakushima - the tag of this one - several underage porn of homestuck characters and incest too - otayuri porn - other otayuri porn - you just really need to ckeck her nsfw tag) and even if some of this drawing are old she never apologized for it and they are still on her blog
And even if she shows - very permormative - concern for minors following her blog and commissioning porn (performative because she is clearly more worried about being caught, as an adult, while selling porn to minors) the moment she is in front of a 17 years old following her blog she just tells them “do whatever you want” without even trying to block them
(is this really everything you can do?)
PORN OF ABUSIVE SHIPS AND INCEST PORN
She has an entire tag dedicated to incest porn where she mostly reblogs osomatsu san (x - x - x) and also homestuck incest (x). She also apparently “doesn’t really like incest” but this doesn’t seem to stop her from drawing porn of it.
She also draws lot of (genderbent and non) porn of a very infamous abusive hs ship, vristav (x)
TRANSPHOBIA
I think Natsu is cis but I might be wrong
Back on the topic of gendebend she draws A LOT of it and showed no interest in people telling her why it’s wrong.
On the more cringey less callout worth stuff she believes in cisphobia and think it’s offensive to call people cishet
Let’s be honest here I hate that post that’s like “there are straight people and Straight™ people” or “there are white people or White™ people.” Like no don’t separate people into the “good” and “bad” categories like that it’s going to give people savior complexes and make them excuse their own shitty actions like “well at least I’m better and not a White™ person.”
Don’t give people that satisfaction. EVERY majority needs to work on themselves to better themselves and that mentality only gives people free passes.
