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specifically, both the gnome and the real life Drew Davenport that our favorite gnome is named after

like. i desperately wanna know what he thinks about Davenport. like. put yourself into his situation. the boys he's been following for a WHILE are starting a new podcast. they play DND with their dad. they name NPCs after people on Twitter who talk about their podcasts. you get an NPC named after you, and it's an assistant to the boss of the PC party, who can only say his own name and just kinda became a comic relief.

then Stolen Century fucking drops and OOPS THIS GUY IS NOW IMPORTANT HE'S A FUCKING CAPTAIN OF A INTERPLANAR SPACESHIP HE'S AN ACE PILOT AND THE REASON HE COULD ONLY SAY HIS OWN NAME AND NOTHING ELSE IS NOW VERY TRAGIC AND TRAUMATIZING.

So are

colostomy bags

Diapers

insulin pumps

Oxygen systems

rollators

hearing aids

compression garments

prosthetics

FREEDOM AIDS

To conjure the image of this child self, that hurt little girl, and hear her voice - it's easier than you might think now. I can take her tiny hands in our own, our other parts, older siblings to guide her and protect her and wipe away her tears. We can make her smile and show her she's loved. She never has to grow up, because we can do that for her; all she needs to do is be herself, to be a kid.

finally completed my outfit for Alias Chicane! thought I'd better give it a test run before heatwave 3.0 hits us... a dapper chap from the 1920s! please disregard my extremely not period appropriate stove

bonus: foxes gots to wash them soxes

cause like. becoming disabled is horrific. BEING disabled is not inherently horrific, but the sudden jarring change where you no longer even know your own limits, or the slow frustration as you gradually lose a skill you previously had; that can definitely be wildly upsetting and traumatizing to go through. not to mention the horror of navigating the world as a disabled person, being treated as lesser and like you can't/shouldn't even advocate for yourself. And don't get me wrong, a disabled life does not have to be constantly awful, but i think we all have awful moments where we hate it.

i understand the frustration with abled people ONLY ever creating art about disabled people to coo at how sad and horrible it is, in much the same way that it sucks when every gay character dies. but it's in tension with the very real horror and despair that disabled people often experience. in this way, playing with body horror as a discussion about disability can be very powerful (look at Metamorphosis).

pregnancy.

lots of people think pregnancy is inherently horrific! and it sure can be, for a lot of different reasons. exploring the body-horror aspect of pregnancy is like. a Trope, and not a bad one.

I have been pregnant - happily, intentionally, zero-regrets-ly - and I can recognize it can still be body horror, even if it doesn't horrify me personally.