each doctor has a special power

dc could do the funniest thing for pride month and bring back junior as the hiring manager of jcorp attempting some kind of corporate rainbow capitalism initiative

deformed gay man after randomly slicing you with a pocket knife behind 7/11: VORKOSIGAN SAGA!!! VORKOSIGAN SAGA!!

why does art of people with scoliosis always just look like a conventionally hot woman shifting her shoulders slightly to the side or even who just has her stylized spine line going a little bit off-center without her torso shape being affected when in real life untreated adult scoliosis makes you look like a moon person who was grown in a vat to be sealed into a sexy steel titty exoskeleton

my ancestors watching me make a cross-cultural halushki stirfry abomination in a giant wok: he can put whatever he wants in the kazan, he lives in a paradise where you can grow crops in the winter

the whole “you don’t know you’re beautiful and that’s what makes you beautiful” trope is such a lie, anyone who has been friends with a hot person with severe body dysmorphia will be able to attest that not only is it draining as fuck for the people around them, but the hot person in question probably went through some insane, brain-boiling shit that made them unable to recognize their own face in the mirror and the body dysmorphia is most likely the least of their psychological problems

watching a video essay about lookism and intersectionality and I feel like I have the right to say this as someone with a visible spinal deformity: we can definitely come up with a better academic term than “anti-disfigurement”, right? like, “body normativism” and “body difference prejudice” is right there. “anti-disfigurement” sounds like a selling feature on a steel-toed boot.

secret six is like. on the first read you’re paying attention to the plot, on the second read you’re uncovering the subtext of the characters’ behavior. it’s a very helpful introduction to the concept of text and subtext in that way.