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It's Your Local Bardic entity, Gallus Rostromengalus of Bread Jesus and other Weird Tumblr Story Fame.
Despite my best efforts to mitigate mt Terrible English Dental DNA, today two of my teeth broke.
I don't even have a fun story about this, it's literally terrible genetics and stress-grinding my teeth in my sleep.
I just got back from emergency surgery to get the pieces pulled and the hole in my jaw closed so I don't get an infection, but a second reconstruction surgery to give me a bone graft and dental implants will be needed so I can actually chew and use my mouth for it's intended purposes.
IΒ doΒ notΒ currentlyΒ haveΒ dentalΒ insurance.
I haven't talked about it here much, but my husband was unemployed after getting laid off for almost all of last year. He has a job again, but it pays like 2/3rds of his previous one and the benefits are crap. Like no dental insurance until he's worked there at least a year.
So I'm on the hook for the full cost of Today's emergency surgery, Medication, and the necessary follow-up reconstruction, which my dentist estimates will cost between $5000-$7000. Our dentist has given us every discount she can and we have a payment plan, but losing half our household income has left us with no savings and credit cards at their limits.
Even though I only need to come up with $500 this month to go ahead with the reconstructive surgery, I do not have any money to spare. It will also be VASTLY cheaper overall to pay for everything up front rather than pay interest over the months with the payment plan, but literally anything will help me right now.
Link To My GoFundMe
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ThankΒ youΒ allΒ soΒ much,
Gallus
Pic of Chaleston Chew lounging on his pillows because pics generally help these posts but I do not want to inflict images of Dental Trauma on all of you.
Conventions are relative to the culture they crop up in. When you're at the HOA barbecue with Karen and Daryl whose chief online activities consist of diet blogging and MLM conscription, Captain Gantu (Lilo & Stitch 2002) is not conventionally attractive, he has a fish for a head and that makes it pretty difficult to rate his cheekbone-to-jawline ratio. When you're on tumblr with a bunch of alien fucking gremlins anything upright with a readily discernible face is vanilla.
I do think you lose your right to medical privacy when you decide to become a politician and it is mad fucked up that these people hold our lives in their hands and are allowed to disappear for months on end with no explanation. You need a doctorβs note to miss school for a cold but we have no clue if Mitch McConnell is dead or alive and Tom Kean was allowed to fuck off for 4 months without telling the public why. I donβt give a fuck about your privacy, youβre not protecting my privacy, if youβre leeching tax dollars and partying it up in a rich person rehab resort somewhere while your constituents vote against our access to healthcare, we should be allowed to know. Fuck you. I say this as a disabled person, Iβm always having to explain the nature of my disability and the details of my health but weβre not allowed to know what the fuck is going on with these people.
have to explain the nature of your disability and details of health? no, you don't. that's illegal, protected by HIPAA, and if pursued constitutes as harassment actionable by law.
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it does suck that the government defunded PBS but it's also so fucking funny that now that they don't take uncle sam's slavery dollars they're running videos like "How america's foundation was built on genocide"
It's fun when the robot character in the sci-fi show gets cut in half because nobody working on this type of media knows anything about robotics and you never know what you're going to find inside. Green printed circuit boards? Meat and viscera, but like in a weird colour? Just a shitload of goo?
I especially like it when the robot appears to have realistic musculature which operates via contraction, suggesting some sort of fluid-driven or shape-memory-based actuation, and then it gets dismembered and a bunch of random gears and sprockets go flying everywhere.
I like to think my engineers foresaw the likelihood of my bisection and designed a clean break point with that in mind, leaving a small compartment filled with confetti
About the Disability Pride Flag
(its design & meaning)
Because:
A) I see it around the Internet where the proportions are off, and I think people are copy/pasting from different thumbnail images that come up in search results, and not clicking through to get the original. It's not a big deal, but it causes a hiccup in my brain whenever I see it.
and
B) There's been some discussion in the Disability Community here on Tumblr on what the precise symbolism should be, and it's changed a bit and gotten complicated. So I want to simplify and broaden it, so it can be explained to curious Normate folk -- without going into a 15 minute explanation of social constructs.
So I'm making a fresh post right now to put all that stuff together.
I'm gonna leave the detailed description of the flag design's proportions just in the alt text (so that people with screen readers know what they are, without having to listen to it twice)
The width of each colored stripe is proportional to the overall width of the flag, but I decided to leave the general proportions of the flag flexible (so it's easier for people to make one based on what materials they can find -- just in case there's a need for a protest sign for a pop-up rally).
The Meaning (Short Version -- what to tell someone who asks while you're waiting for the elevator)
6 colors represent how the Disability Community is Global
The 5 colors in the middle represent how diverse that community is
The black is inspired by pirate flags: rage at injustice, fighting back
The stripes are diagonal to represent cutting through barriers.
The in-depth reasons behind the meaning (Long Version -- If you actually want a 15+ minute discussion of social constructs and history)
The flag has all 6 'standard' colors recognized in international flags, to represent how the Disability Community is bound together by their varied, but shared, experiences, rather than geographical or political affiliation (borrowing that symbolism from Olympic Flag, which represents the global community of athletes -- also bound together by their shared experiences and aspirations).
The five colors cutting across the center of the flag represent the diversity of the Disabled Community, both in terms of physical conditions and in terms of the social-political-economic ways by which disability is understood in society. (No longer trying to assign a specific meaning to any of the individual colors)
The stripes begin centered in the top corner because that's where the "canton" of a flag is, and in flag code, that's the place of highest honor; this is where the stars are in the U.S flag, and also the stars in the flag for the People's Republic of China, and the Union Jack in Australia's flag. It cuts all the way to the end that flies in the wind to show our striving for freedom.
The field is black because Pirates!, yes. But it's also in recognition of the Black Triangle Badge (link goes to Wikipedia), which the Nazis used to mark out a wide range of people in their concentration camps, including the Disabled, that they considered "asocial." And it's in solidarity with the UK-based Black Triangle Campaign (link goes to deathbywelfare.org, from 2010), protesting cuts to disability benefits, and reclassifying disabled people "fit for work."
Reblogging the poll for more visibility, and also to reply to these Quoted tags:
#I am of the opinion that *all* disabilities don't get enough recognition as-is
[...]
#I say this as a person who can be fully able-passing (for short amounts of time)
@strangestructures made similar points in (excellent) replies to this post, especially how any disability can be made "invisible" depending on what resources a person has access to, or the context of what they're doing and when.
Back when I was still in the first stages of designing a disability pride flag (when I was still focused on the cursed zigzag design), and I was still thinking of representation in terms of different medical conditions, I only had four stripes, and someone asked me to add a fifth, for invisible disabilities.
At first, I just stuck that stripe (originally a unique purple, which was hard even for me to reproduce consistently) on top of the other stripes. But after changing it to white, and mucking around with the design, I decided to move it to the center of the design, because Invisibility is at the Center of all Disability.
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not to leveragepost in 2025 but I simply must talk about the scene where hardison plays sheherazade, because I learned an arrangement of that third movement recently and I am still so impressed
for context: I started playing violin when I was five years old. Am I great? Nah. Am I able to tell when an actor is phoning it in on violin playing? Absolutely.
aldis hodge actually played that piece. They definitely found a recording to play over him because that's what you do for TV but I rewatched that scene when I was learning that solo and got tips from his fingering. he has vibrato technique. he doesn't just pick a violin up once in a while, he's legitimately a skilled violinist who also does everything else he does
You CAN and SHOULD report these things to the state licensing board for realtors as well as your state's trade regulators. This is fraud and depending on the state, you can receive a small bounty for each listing you report since the agent/real estate firm responsible gets fined and eventually lose licensure over this type of fraud.
Might delete this later as I genuinely hate how this turned out, but I wanted to have a shot at the Swiss cheese tunic. It's so ridiculous and I do think Julian can be convinced to do some ridiculous stuff lol
id: Julian wearing a green tunic that has giant hexagon shaped holes in it. He's saying "you had to have realized, that I could never wear this in a respectable company right?" The drawing is based on the first image which is a excerpt from a book. The text says: Garak indicated a headless mannequin just inside the door. It had on a gaudy green tunic with large and rather revealing holes sewn in the front and sides. It looked like nothing so much as a jigantic green swiss cheese, Bashir thought. "It's perfect for a doctor," Garak said with a smile. "It's so revealing," Bashir said. "All of your patients will see how healthy you are, which in turn will give them greater faith in your medical abilities." "Uh I'll have to t think about it." end id.
not to sound like a crazy sjw but parents putting little girls in frilly dresses/lavish clothes and telling them not to run, climb, play in dirt, etc lest they ruin their outfits or somebody look up their skirts is one of the most direct ways we as a society teach girls that they are only ornamental and cut their childhoods short
I'm a GenX kid. In my household growing up, there were times when we were required to wear fancy clothes, (weddings, picture day, special religious holidays.) on those days, each of us were told not to get our clothes dirty. I have two younger brothers, so that was true regardless of whether it meant my frilly dress or my brothers' nice trousers/button up shirts. It wasn't gender specific.
We also had a box of "dress up" clothes and we were allowed to wear them for any activity. It was mostly oversized items that could be worn over regular clothes, but if we chose to wear them to play in the sandbox mom never gave us any crap.
At one point when there was some home improvement going on, we had a small hill of freshly turned earth, and we wanted to play in it. Mom let us go out there in undershirts and underpants and let us go to town on the dirt pile. (She also took pictures; it's the cutest damn thing you've ever seen: a 5 year old and a 2 year old covered head to toes in Missouri clay-rich mud, with huge smiles.)
We were taught, collectively, that certain clothes were for certain activities. Don't play soccer in your dress shoes, don't climb in your flip flops, and don't wear your play clothes to church. It was the 70s, and my mom is a feminist.
Somewhere along the line, children's experiences started to become gender segregated again. Suddenly "Don't mess up your nice clothes" turned into "All your clothes are inappropriate for certain activities." Action Figures are for boys, dolls are for girls, Lego toys are for boys unless they have a pink/purple box and then they're for girls. (In the 70s, Lego toys were marketed as something for all children to play with, together.)
We really were making progress toward equality and equity. We have been experiencing an enormous, well-orchestrated backlash. "Family Values" my ass.
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