a bug with bad bones

Powerful message that lovingly includes multiple disabilities, united. I love this.

and last but not least her fit slaps too

Do you know if it is just their US/Canada store that's closing or is this eventually also going to impact the international sewdirect online storefront? There doesn't seem to be the same sales on their producgs on sewdirect so I'm not entirely sure... Definitely a steal for those in the US/Canada and if it is the case that they'll eventually close the international store front I might get some patterns, even if they dont go as cheap on the intl clearance, just to archive.

Thank you for this note! I appreciate you putting the time to comment on this! And yeah, this is what I get for not fact checking as much as is necessary re: store closing (I heard a rumor on this hellsite and as someone who's nearly always sewing I Panicked.)

Do you know if it is just their US/Canada store that's closing or is this eventually also going to impact the international sewdirect online storefront? There doesn't seem to be the same sales on their producgs on sewdirect so I'm not entirely sure... Definitely a steal for those in the US/Canada and if it is the case that they'll eventually close the international store front I might get some patterns, even if they dont go as cheap on the intl clearance, just to archive.

Alas I do not know, and I also heard from another source saying that Simplicity is saying they're NOT closing but.... The sales are still very good... And I'm still a little bit suspicious cause corporations can and will lie lmao. We'll see.

Diabetes isnt the 'ate too many sweets disease'. It just fucking is not. It's your body slowly losing an integral function needed to nuture and energize it. Its your pancreas shutting down, its your blood cells rejecting your attempts to feed itself, its not enough insulin to go around. Its you slowly getting colder and weaker, gorging yourself with healthy food and getting next to no benefit, its being so exhausted you cant sleep. Diabetes used to kill, straight-up KILL. So no, I don't think I will be laughing at your diabetes joke.

Really wish I saw more art of deformed characters. More diversity in bodies. I feel like people are scared to draw us because they’re worried they’ll do it wrong or something. But 1. wrong and trying is better than nothing, and 2. you can always ask somebody for input. There are always people who are willing to answer your questions, you just have to find them. My asks are always open and I know a to of other people who are like that, too.

Generally speaking, if something is designed to assist a disabled person, it can also make things even easier for an abled person. You want life to actually improve? Advocate for disabled people. It's reasearch into how to make life easier. That's literally what it is. You gotta unlearn the capitalism that makes you think knowledge and advancement are zero sum. Only money is zero sum, and it's been stolen from all of us by like 20 people.

Also remember that letting people cover their faces in public did not lead to everyone getting robbed

I would very much like to not feel lonely again. It was amazing feeling like I was part of society.

fyi things like insulin, hearing aids, wheelchairs, glasses costing money at all is a form of structural ableism

disabled people should not have to pay to live their lives like everyone else. and in the case of insulin, disabled people should not have to pay to Not Fucking Die