ashhawk crowned with eyes

lgbtincomics’ pride month challenge - The Big Two

gideon is a barista at a present-day hipster cafe au.

it was love at first bite!

listen listen, ianthe and gideon both canonically simp over harrow and share an inappropriate sense of humor so in alecto i absolutely NEED a scene of them forming the worlds shakiest alliance to rescue her and cue the grudging allies making terrible puns about alecto and bonding over their pet peeves about harrow.

“And that quote, “The only disability in life is a bad attitude,” the reason that that’s bullshit is because it’s just not true.” - Stella Young

[IDs: Screenshots from the late, great, Stella Young’s TED Talk: I’m Not Your Inspiration, Thank You Very Much. Stella is a wheelchair-user sitting up on the stage in front of a massive crowd. In these screenshots, she’s saying, “No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp. Never. (Laughter. Applause.) Smiling at a television screen isn’t going to make closed captions appear for people. No amount of standing in the middle of a bookshop and radiating a positive attitude is going to turn all those books into braille.]

I use this speech and the underlying theories a lot in my PhD, but Stella Young honestly had one of those voices that needs to be heard by everyone, so I figured I’d post my favorite part of the speech here. If anyone remembers that time I threw myself onto the floor For The Vine, you’ll know that I also hate the quote: “The only disability in life is a bad attitude”. Stella just conveyed the message with less pain.

I’ve been wanting to post this for ages, but there was always something new I wanted to fix.