Anders Was Right

i spent the entirety of october playing dragon age 

[ko-fi]

from the Lavender and Red Union, a group of communists who wrote this in 1975.

push in your chairs when you get up from tables.

when people don't push in their chairs, people with bulky aids like wheelchairs and rollators can't get through. also a lot of people who use canes have wider gaits than able bodied people, and having a chair in the middle of their walking path is a real obstruction. while some of us are able to push chairs out of our way, a lot of us are not, and wind up boxed in/out because somebody didn't push in their chair.

The kid was picked up by an ambulance 30 minutes later.

Now as an adult working in security I get SO MANY folks- upper-middle aged mostly- coming to me to 'rat out' people they think are faking it.

I was once sent into a bathroom because a client demanded that the "fucker won't get out, so go drag them out"- I was NEVER going to do that, so I did a wellness check instead. You know who it was? A person recently released from the hospital after a car accident. They had a hole in their skull and major hearing loss. They couldn't answer the owner because they couldn't HEAR the owner.

Another time about a homeless man who got around town by kicking the ground from his wheelchair. "You know he doesn't actually need that thing, his legs work fine, it's just for pity points"- Oh, so he's not paralyzed, his wheelchair is performative? Funny story Dale, I actually know that guy, he was backed over by a truck and has chronic pain from his shattered pelvis. But sure, let's make him stand up and walk everywhere so nobody feels too bad for him and tries to help him or something.

"She doesn't need that scooter, I've seen her get out of it."

"Look how fat he is, because he just rides around and refuses to get up."

"She doesn't really need that cane- she comes here without it all the time"

Sundance - Antonia Tyz Peeples

American , b. 1957 -

we know that the dalish believe that humans—or at least the first humans—came from par vollen in the north. there’s no information on if they originated in par vollen (which is an island chain. that’s crazy. for some reason i totally thought it was just the edge of a northern continent) or if they came from anywhere before that. we’re told par vollen was home to an ancient human civilisation before the qunari ever arrived there, people who built pyramids and “vast cities”. the humans of par vollen are so disregarded now by the andrastian world that it’s interesting to think of them as probably the first defining human culture that the elves and dwarves of thedas glimpsed across the sea

i’m inclined to take the dalish elves’ word for it that the first human settlers in thedas were from there, as starting from the north does seem to geographically make sense, since the first humans settled in the tevinter region, along the coast of the nocen sea. these were a particular tribe called the “neromenians”