look my way~

bonus/proof:

But since I’ve gotten too disabled to fight anymore, I… find myself coming back to that maiden in a tower. It’s that funny thing, where subverting femininity is powerful for the people who have always been forced into it… but for the people who have always been excluded, the powerful thing can be embracing it.

As I’m disabled, as I say to groups of friends, “I can’t walk that far,” as I’m in too much pain to keep partying, I find myself worrying: I’m boring, too quiet, too stationary, irrelevant. The message sent to the disabled is: You’re out of the narrative, you’re secondary, you’re a burden.

The remarkable thing about the maiden in her tower is not her immobility; it’s common for disabled people to be abandoned, set adrift, waiting at bus stops or watching out the windows, forgotten in institutions or stranded in our houses. The remarkable thing is that she’s like a beacon, turning her tower into a lighthouse; people want to come to her, she’s important, she inspires through her appearance and words and craftwork.  In medieval romances she gives gifts, write letters, sends messengers, and summons lovers; she plays chess, commissions ballads, composes music, commands knights. She is her household’s moral centre in a castle under siege. She is a castle unto herself, and the integrity of her body matters.

Pepper: “But there won't be any people. They'd all be dead.” Adam: “Oh, I can make us some new people.” Brian: “Adam, please let us go home. I want my mummy and my daddy.” Adam. “No! I'll make you new mummies and daddies.”

Adam: “We'll get rid of everything stupid and start all over again.”

Brian: “You're going to burn all this away. Why? Because some adults mucked things up? That's a reason to fix it, not destroy it.”

And of course, the entirety of god's bet with Job, that replacing existing humans with "new" ones counts as a win, because individuals never mattered anyway.

In GO3, they literally crowned Adam's POV as the correct one: That scrapping the world as it is to remake it into a new, better one is the solution. That mass murder is OK if that means the new world gets to be structured better.

He tiny and just wants to dine with you