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the english language is truly a wonder
all hail william the werewolf, proto-enby
Diversity win! The werewolf in your village goes by þei

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my predicament
I just want to go to the market or see a local band perform,
are all of you rich river boat owning fucks now????
people don't usually have a private train
the nearest bus stop is 3 miles away as the crow flys, next to a costco and a hospital
The number of people who just can't comprehend the reality of travel in rural America is... kind of staggering.
I grew up in The Woods. There was absolutely no form of public transportation aside from the literal school bus. If you wanted to go anywhere besides school (10 miles from my house), you had to drive a car or ride your bike on unpaved, bumpy dirt roads. The center of town (a 2 mile walk) held the library, some churches, town hall, the village store, and the beach for the local lake. And I must've clocked thousands of biking miles just to go to the library, the village store for a snack, and the beach as a kid. Because I could go literally nowhere else.
The closest City Where Stuff Happens was 15 miles away. It might as well have been on the moon before I got a driver's license and begged to borrow my brother's car.
Trust me: people who live in places like this are aware of every single option for traveling. Car ownership is expensive (and unattainable for some), but it's one of the few escapes from these metaphorical desert islands across rural America.
It doesn't even have to be that rural. I lived in a town 15 miles outside the state capital and had no way to get there until i got a car. It was all highways and we had no intercity public transit.
America is not built for people its built for cars
This isn’t exactly related to the post, but the boats thing isn’t a richness thing. Some places are on the water, which makes boats a viable means of travel. It’s similar to how we use buses. In Istanbul you can use the ferry to travel from city to city.
Things you never see represented in media:
Being disabled and wanting to do things that are nearly outside of your ability. Being drawn to hobbies and skills that are more difficult for you than they are for other people.
Working your ass off to hone the skill. Having days where your dynamic disability takes that skill away. Trying to remind yourself that you DO have that skill just... not today. And maybe not tomorrow.
(This post is about any kind of disability, all disabled people are welcome to interact. What is your hobby or skill? Tag with your disability if you want to.)
Dinosaur cartoon.
Important reminder
This reminds me of the fact that "Ancient Egypt" goes back so many thousands of years, that the most recent "Ancient Egyptians" were already studying (even more) Ancient Egypt.
Not even the most recent ones. It was an Egyptian prince from the 13th century BCE studying and restoring artifacts from the 26th century BCE.
For context, the last Pharaoh, Cleopatra VII, lived in the 1st century BCE. Prince Khaemweset, known as "the first egyptologist", was as ancient to her as the pyramids and tombs he was studying were ancient to him.
I remember having me mind completely blown when I learned that the "New Kingdom" was pre-Bronze Age Collapse.
This has totally be mentioned in another fork of this post, but it reminds me quite a bit of Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum, a museum in Ur, c. 530 BC, which housed mesopotamian artifacts dating back in some cases to the 20th century BC
saw this on pinterest but i think it belongs here too
this will never not be important
The difference between living to avoid shame and living to destroy it.

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like in general making care work dependent on sentimentality is a fucking bad idea lol, to some extent you can't really prevent the fact that people interacting with one another will probably feel some type of way about each other but esp when you are taking on a role where people depend on you for basic bodily care tasks, necessary medications, proper performance of potentially dangerous procedures &c it's not actually about YOU or your feelings at all & the more you make it into that type of ego trip looking for self satisfaction because youre soooooo self sacrificing and empathetic and you love your patients sooooooooo much -- the less you actually see & think about & serve those patients. never confuse personal fondness for evidence you are doing right by that person -- completely irrelevant & not at all protective against or mutually exclusive of abuse. people who are disliked or dislikable also need care! you signed up to provide it to them. if you cannot do bear to do that and do it fucking well then find a different job
my general opinion on what people should be "allowed" to portray and what topics they should be "allowed" to explore in fiction is that you can make whatever art with whatever themes you want but i'm also allowed to think the way you handled it was tasteless and should've been done differently. my negative opinion on your handling of sensitive topics is the price of admission for publicly showcasing your work. this is not a pro-censorship stance because i am not The Government
this is getting really popular so i’d like to add the important caveat that your criticism of a work is no more unassailable than the work itself. just as one is entitled to be critical of something someone else is entitled to disagree with that criticism. i add this because some of you pretend to give a fuck about thoughtful analysis and then when someone points out flaws in your argument you declare that all criticisms are valid. this is untrue. the status of a hater is no more sacred than that of a liker. get off your high horse and engage in the thoughtful discussion you pretend to believe in or perish by my blade
they don’t teach people with EDs how to actually respond to diet talk because to do so would mean cultivating and embracing rage. you can’t do that within a medico-psychiatric industry that mandates compliance at all costs. I would very much like to start a workshop for channeling & expressing rage, including and especially toward carceral institutions and authorities, for ppl with EDs… like I want to teach you how to terrify your doctor
Genuinely being a self advocate is 99% channelling pure rage
#HOW are u supposed to respond???#i get hit w diet talk all the time at work and i hate it i hate it#but im sooooo bad at feeling and channeling rage. how do u self advocate!!
with people who do not have medical/economic/carceral power over you:
walk away/physically remove yourself rather than engage
"i am not interested in your thoughts on my lunch"
"I am not interested in your thoughts on my [or someone else's] body"
"did she gain weight?" "it isn't our business/it isn't relevant to you."
"why are you eating that?" "because i'm hungry."
with doctors:
"i choose to decline my weight" (you can always choose to decline your weight as an outpatient)
"i am requesting a larger blood pressure cuff in order to receive an accurate reading"
"i am here to discuss [x]. my time and yours would be better spent addressing my present concerns, rather than speculating on others."
"i am not interested in discussing my eating habits, because it is not currently a priority to change them."
these scripts are YMMV. people are horrible, doctors are abusive, and not all situations can be escaped. grey rocking, putting up an affective/communicative wall for all but the most basic/removed exchanges, is a technique many people use with abusers until they can safely remove themselves; this can be helpful, too. but these scripts are perhaps a starting point to shut down and redirect harmful diet/weight loss talk & refuse social pressure to surveil other peoples' bodies and your own.
my squire fancies himself a wizard and is always getting into mischief and the like
just have him tend to your ill-tempered destrier & you can get a replacement in no time

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this is for a part-time job as a barista
on an application to work the front desk of a hotel
If minimum wage you'd like to make, This ancient quiz you'll have to take.
Step right up, but be prepared. Those who fail are poverty-snared. Question One! If your labor proves most fruitful, Raking quarters by the bootful, Who should excess profits reap, Me the wolf or you the sheep? Question Two! If, by merit, you're made pope, What will be your fervent hope? Law and order justly paired? Or mercy and the guilty spared?
Question Three! If a train should leave Topeka Driven by a solar squeaker, How then should the cat behave? Give it milk or give it grave? Question Four! Do you have a criminal record?
undiagnosed autistic people will be like "I don't get upset when my routine changes though!!" and it's because they've built a set of if-then loops in their head to pick from one of 6 different strict routines and they do get incredibly upset when they're unable to keep to any of the 6 scripts. I'm john normal
This is called a fault tree. You will always know how to act if your fault tree captures all possible scenarios. In NASA Mission Control during mission critical events like landings there are huge binders with fault tree protocols, kind of like choose your own adventure books except you’re not the one making the choices, the universe is making them for you and you’re just trying to keep up.
The engineers who develop fault trees, I am told, often imagine new ways for their precious spacecraft to die (new branches on the fault trees) either while in the shower or lying awake at 3am, because human
Was just thinking about this the other day. Yeah I have a favorite seat on the bus (middle of the bus, near the back doors, slightly elevated, facing forward), but I don’t get upset if someone is already sitting there, I just pick one of my other favorite spots. Then I realized that most people probably don’t have a favorite bus seat, let alone a series of backup favorites.
Nothing is worse for human solidarity than the insistence that every single human rights talking point has to be separated into micro-factions. It happens in every facet of human rights discourse.
They say that every minority group has to fight for their rights separately, but the thing is our struggles aren’t as separate as many people would have your think.
The only solution is to fight ageism, sexism, racism, and all those kyriarchal isms no matter who it’s against. Yes, that means abandoning the notion that minorities other than those in your own group are undermining your activism and perspective by attempting to apply it to their own situation. Separatism like that does not earn you points from the people who are oppressing you. You’re not helping them. you’re not helping yourself. But you are helping the bigoted elite keep you and others down.

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the model of oppositional sexism and traditional sexism as distinct but related forces is genuinely such a banger when you're trying to bring clarity to gender dynamics that are otherwise hard to think through. thank you Julia Serano
I also find cissexism a much more apt word than transphobia. "The belief that trans people's gender, identities, and bodies are inherently less natural or legitimate than their cis counterparts" is infinitely more useful to me than "the hatred of trans people."
We see it in the language of "biological man/woman" to refer to cis people, which implies trans people are in some way not biological (artificial, fake, unnatural).
Alot of people (especially the "do whatever you want forever" genre of ally) when asked would say they don't hate trans people (that they aren't transphobic), however those same people often simultaneously hold cissexist beliefs which shape the way they perceive and treat us. Cissexism is rampant, it's in everything. Blatant transphobia (the "die troon" kind) is widespread too. However cissexism is such a banger of a word because it allows you to identify forms of discrimination which are not as initially legible.
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