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I feel confident enough to post these now. A collection of all the existing posters after some edits from the other post that got 13k notes! These are full size/quality. Go nuts.

My cells can regenerate the damage freezing causes, but that doesn’t mean it’s fun. They gave me morphine for it, of course. They’re not monsters. Problem is, morphine doesn’t do jack shit if your blood’s not circulating.

Breathe through it. Breathe through it. It always passes.

“Initiating second stage warming on your mark.” The computer voice sounds impatient, somehow. That’s me projecting. My onboard computer doesn’t even have a proper AI. I flail my clumsy purple-white hand until I feel the console and then mash keys until I hit ‘enter’ by sheer chance. My suit stiffens as lukewarm water replaces antifreeze in the fluid lines. It burns.

The computer doesn’t care that i’m sobbing from the pain. It’s just a machine. It counts down the seconds to each temperature change, unaffected by the noises I make as slush grinds through my veins.

Finally, the morphine kicks in. It’s like a full-body orgasm of relief. I slump in my harness. The rest of the procedure goes on without me; cryo isn’t sleep, and I’m so tired.

I dream of home. There’s a puppy, and some grass. When the computer wakes me, I’m devastated for a moment, before I remind myself home is still there, and I’ll go back someday, and I’ll still have centuries for grass and puppies even after all this time away.

“Making course alterations for orbital positioning. Please acknowlege.”

Now that I’ve slept off the thaw and the morphine, I’m feeling a little less upset with myself about my life choices. “Acknowleged,” I say aloud.

“Please preface voice commands with ‘ship’,” the computer reminds me.

“Who the hell else would I be talking to out here, you vending machine calculator watch?”

“Please preface voice commands with ‘ship’.”

“Ship, remind me to have a word with Houston about getting you a ‘being less stupid’ upgrade.”

“Note recorded. Making course alterations for orbital positioning. Please acknowlege.”

That’s enough talking. I use the console keyboard instead. As the course adjustment begins with little puffs of gas fired off the hull, I unstrap myself. Technically I’m supposed to stay strapped in during adjustment, but honestly, a kitten could kick harder than those jets do. I need to work out the kinks. I’ve been a popsicle for six years, after all. I work on my zero-G yoga routine. I’m a sort of human pretzel when adjustment rotates the ship so that the viewport faces Jupiter.

The crackle of a long-distance transmission from Earth, sent 33 minutes ago, bursts from the console. “Good morning, Commander. Your onboard systems are telling us you’re awake and in position. How’s everything looking?”

Museum of Moss 

In this post, a faerie is asking for ‘your’ name. The way he is wording it, however, and the accompanying beckoning motion, makes it seem as though he is asking for you to physically hand your name over. Which, because of how some faeries operate, he is.

In this instance, saying your name aloud to the fae would be literally giving your name over to him, the exact consequences of which are left up to the imagination–usually, a fae even knowing your name gives it some measure of power over you, but giving something your name would likely let it completely take over your life.

You recognize him instantly. It is the Fæ whose influence your village is under, the one the elders have told you and your friends to be wary about, for the people who have been seen walking away with him have never come back.

You don’t know what he does to them. The villagers have never dared to confront him about it, never dare to address to him at all. He is not evil: he sometimes speaks blessings upon the cattle, talks the horses to calm after a storm, ensures a good harvest for the farmers, makes the flower bloom in spring even when the weather is still too cold. He is, simply, a Fæ, whose ways humans cannot understand.

The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

The God of Arepo (graphic novel 1 / 2 / 3) (ebook)

The Monster of Sentan

The Witch’s Cat

Raise Both Children

Stabby the Roomba (honorable mention)

Cinderella Marries the Prince (comic)

My Arch Nemesis Cynthia

Pirates and Mermaid

Eindred and the Witch

The Demon King

The Cornerwitch

Grandmother Beetroot

Apocalypse Daycare Worker

Grandmother Accidentally Summons a Demon

New Year Saga

A Story About Changelings

Ranger in the King’s Forest

The Difference Between a Hare and a Rabbit

“It’s fine”

“It’s fine”

“It’s fine”

*complete mental breakdown because you can’t do this anymore*

Phage, Faces, and all the other Vidiian episodes: I’m grouping these together because my opinion on them is similarly negative, both in general and from a disability perspective. Making your alien race scary because they’re visibly scarred and disabled and making that be the root of why they’re immoral is, uh… bad.

Meld: Lon Suder is pretty clearly neurodivergent, though given the fact that he’s a murderer, I don’t think this is necessarily a positive thing. Arguably, what happens to Tuvok in the episode is also disability-adjacent. I have mixed feelings on this episode and its portrayal of violence as innate, especially as that connects to depictions of neurodivergence.

Year of Hell: Not particularly disability-themed, but Tuvok is blind in the episode, and I like the way they portrayed that on the whole even if it’s reversed by the end of the episode. I’ve said this before, but I really like the accommodations Tuvok is shown using like the tactile interface for the computer console, and I really wish Geordi in TNG had been shown to require similar accommodations.

Extreme Risk: This episode intentionally portrays B’Elanna as having depression, and overall I think it’s a well-written episode that does a good job of prioritizing B’Elanna’s own perspective rather than other characters’ perspectives. I do wish B’Elanna’s depression was something that Voyager focused on outside of this episode, but I can hardly blame the one episode that actually focuses on it for its lack of focus elsewhere. I really like this episode personally.

Latent Image: There are a couple EMH episodes I considered including, but this one feels the most disability adjacent in terms of the Doctor’s “malfunction” in the episode (arguably analogous to disability/neurodivergence) and in terms of the discussion of personal autonomy in relation to that. I think this episode brings up some interesting issues and my opinion of it is positive overall.

Riddles: In which Tuvok has a brain injury that affects him both physically and mentally. I really enjoy this episode personally, but my feelings on it in relation to disability are more complicated. Obviously, Tuvok gets suddenly cured at the end of the episode which negates a lot of potentially interesting things an episode like this could do, but at the same time I’m not going to argue a show like Voyager could have done things any differently. The discussions of dependence and recovery in relation to disability here are interesting. In general, I like how Tuvok has a fair amount of agency in the story and that he primarily isn’t infantilized. I do wish the episode focused a bit more on Tuvok’s perspective over Neelix’s.

Pathfinder: Barclay is pretty clearly neurodivergent, and I like the concept of his character in theory. In practice, I wish that many episodes he’s in didn’t use his social anxiety to excuse him being an asshole, especially when the same courtesy isn’t extended to female characters and characters of color (for example, B’Elanna Torres). This episode wasn’t as bad (or sexist) as some of the TNG episodes he’s in, but still.

Good Sheppherd: Arguably all three main characters in the episode are coded as neurodivergent. The “every person adds value to the team regardless of how weird they are” message of this episode fell a bit flat for me, and the root issues related to disability/neurodivergence aren’t explored to an extent I found satisfying. I’m not going to call it a bad episode, though – it’s okay.

Fury: This one I am going to call a bad episode. Definitely one of my least favorite episodes of Voyager, but technically older Kes is depicted as disabled. I hate everything about this episode, especially the way it depicts disability as affecting Kes.

Repentance: I also dislike this episode. It has similar (but worse) problems to Meld in terms of treating tendency toward violence as innate and denying that neurodivergent people are capable of having any autonomy/control over their actions.

Many Seven/Borg episodes, particularly The Gift, One, Infinite Regress, The Voyager Conspiracy, and Imperfection: I’ve talked extensively about my disability-related thoughts on Seven and the Borg so I’m not going to list these episodes separately.