Quoth the Raven

They/Them. Avian/Feathery. Otherkin. Fiendish Raven. I love everything Goth-y. Bats, cats & rats are a few of my favorite things. Casual FFXIV. Lalafell. Multiple Inerests. Ex-Catholic. Pagan. Witch. Baby Daemonolator. Loves Johnny Depp & Takanori Nishikawa. Neurodivergent. Mentally & Physically Disabled. Married with 1 son and 2 cats.

[yamimichi]

I need to take a hiatus for mental health reasons.

[yamimichi]

Just updating. I was in the in the hospital since Saturday. Heart attack, shocked liver and pneumonia. I'm home now.

[yamimichi]

[ionlytalktodogs]

Disabled representation I personally would like to see:

-Ambulatory mobility aid users.

-Characters who’s disability DOES stop them. Characters who struggle with things because they’re disabled. Characters who learn to overcome those obstacles with accessibility, not with magically fixing their disability.

-Sporty disabled characters.

-Outgoing wheelchair users.

-Really cool looking mobility aids.

-Disabled characters who don’t get ‘fixed.’

-Young disabled characters.

-Disabled characters who are just…disabled. Like it’s not a huge plot point, it’s just kind of a side thing. She has to stop the sun from crashing into the earth! (Also she uses forearm crutches)

-Disabled characters who have negative traits. We need more disabled mean girls. I want to see a queen bee who uses a cane.

-Disabled characters who’s stories do have disability as a big plot point. Disability is important to disabled peoples’ lives and there’s nothing wrong with it being an important plot point in stories about us, if it’s written well and accurately!

-Disabled characters having unsupportive parents. I don’t mean evil parents who hate them, I mean flawed parents who push their kid too hard because they think that’s what they should do and they don’t realize that it’s hurting them. Flawed parents who continue to tell their kid that they “can do anything” when there are very real obstacles in their kid’s way due to disability.

-Disabled characters who see their mobility aids as freedom and love their mobility aids!

I just want complex disabled stories about complex disabled characters!

[roseamoungstthethorns]

If you see someone going somewhere in a wheelchair (or any other mobility aid for that matter) YOU should move for them. It is a lot easier for you to move than us. Sometimes even we can't move. Here we get a lot of snow and sometimes the only place I can physically move is the middle of the road. I've also gotten stuck on snowy sidewalks because people have refused to move for me. I'm so close to just running over people in my way, so please just move for us. Thank you

[chronicallycouchbound]

Most wheelchair users are ambulatory.

Meaning, most of us can walk for short distances. We aren’t faking just because we can walk some of the time.

[yamimichi]

THIS SO MUCH!

[nerdygaymormon]

[theladyvampire-deactivated20200]

The Galdrakver is a 17th century Icelandic manuscript, written on animal skin and containing magical staves, sigils, prayers, charms and related texts. It is known to have once been owned by Icelandic Bishop Hannes Finnson who was alive from 1739 until 1796 and known for having a vast library containing many volumes of magic related texts and manuscripts.

[skankhunt44]

[wilwheaton]

“Donald Trump’s mental health and diseased mind are not likely to improve, given the pressures he now faces. And as goes Trump, so goes the Republican Party, the MAGA cult and the larger white right. In total, Donald Trump’s poor mental health and aberrant behavior amount to a political, social and legal crisis for America and the world. He must be defeated at the polls and prosecuted in the courts, but even that will not be enough.”

— Our collective malady: Donald Trump’s mental health crisis is America’s problem

[tikkety-tok]

Forbidden cheese

[direhuman]

potion of donald duck noises

[friendlyfangs]

Tired of watching your pot for the water to boil? Skip the wait with this one weird trick!

[kedreeva]

[kuroshimae]

My favorite nudibranch photos from @kamata_yosuke on ig

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Anxiety Doesn’t Always Look Like This (Part 2)

Neurodiversity Manitoba

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Anxiety Doesn’t Always Look Like This (Part 1)

Neurodiversity Manitoba

[gothish]

in the fog

[memewhore]

[dduane]

PSA: *Beware* AI-generated fungi guidebooks!!

…Not a phrase I imagined myself typing today. But, via @heyMAKWA on Twitter:

“i'm not going to link any of them here, for a variety of reasons, but please be aware of what is probably the deadliest AI scam i've ever heard of:

“plant and fungi foraging guide books. the authors are invented, their credentials are invented, and their species IDs will kill you.”

…So PLEASE be careful if you run across anything of this kind.

(ETA: Corrected egregious typo in the title. Apologies, as I was [a] in bed [b] typing hurriedly and one-handed on the iPad, and [c] I think its native keyboard may need recalibration, but also [d] I was upset about what I was having to post, because seriously, WTF?!!)