Stuff I like

copycat little sister…

little sister who looks up to it and wants to be just like it

puts a little halo on its head

actually shout out to every developmentally disabled person who, in a moment of meltdown, ended up damaging their mobility aids or using those aids to harm themselves. that intersection between physical and non physical disability doesn't make your mobility aids less important to you or any way less necessary

i don't want this to come across as condescending. but when i talk about the never ending crisis after crisis that disabled people face it is strange when people just link it to burnout. like yeah regularly overdoing it will lead to burnout. but it also leads to disability. ableds in permacrisis regularly become disabled as a result. disabled people regularly become more disabled as a result. being in a state of relentless deficit can and will burn you out. and it can make your health permanently worse. a lot of disabled people are disabled because their health got worse and just never recovered. and, as disabled people, we are painfully aware that there's only so far we can be pushed before the consequences become severe. not just burning out. not just having your health deteriorate again. serious health scares, losing large swaths of our abilities, shortening our life expectancy, mental health going to ruin, dying, becoming homeless... I'm not saying burnout is easy but I am asking people to consider that there is n bottom line. if we fall too far and slip through the net then we're done for, and disabled people who are barely managing and working in an unsustainable environment are painfully aware of this possibility

I hate you Ozempic craze I hate you 'heroin chic' I hate you weight loss ads on public radio I hate Burn Fat Fast ads every thirty seconds I hate you I hate you I hate you

I grew up before the term 'thigh gap' was invented I grew up before 'hip dip' was invented I was born before 'muffin top' was a thing before 'clean girl look' was a thing before 'glass skin' was a thing before razoring off peach fuzz was a thing and I'm so so so fucking tired of us inventing new concepts purely for the purpose of convincing people to hate their own bodies enough to buy products

Last time Tuberculosis ran through the USA a small number of people got it on purpose to look skinny and waifish and delicate and used makeup to look flushed and bony and when the Victorians figured out tapeworms people would infect themselves on purpose to starve themselves smaller and women and now in the year of our lord 2026 there is a noticeable fraction of the USAmerican population genuinely thrilled about a treatment-resistant microbial parasite that makes you shit and vomit your brains out for a month because side effects include weight loss and STILL we talk about being skinny like it's the natural default setting for all healthy people as if it's a self-sustaining standard and not an imaginary goal that we are constantly constantly constantly beating ourselves with a whip to acheive