shoes and ships and sealing wax

If you're comfortable accusing anyone of faking disability, you're not a real ally to disabled people

+1. This is absolutely true, the temporarily ableds do this constantly. Disabled folk generally have the grace to apologise. Temporarily ableds act like you aren't even there most of the time.

I've been on medication that sucks just as bad but differently. But none that actually suck worse.

I was on a medication that had one particular side effect that was so awful, if you got that side effect you had to take *another* medication just to combat that side effect (looking at you, Abilify. you broke my heart)

Lamictal gave me hand tremors.

@halfbaked00q there is a HUGE difference just between north and south Italy, imaging between UK and Italy! 🤣🤣 Q will be constantly soaked in SPF and wearing an hay hat (??? Unsure of the term), growing his own vegetable garden at first following a manual, then, after a stern dress down by a local neighbor (all in incomprehensible Italian dialect), following his direction.

Oh and OBVIOUSLY all the lot will be bullied to help the family ritual or doing the salsa. Liters and liters of tomato sauce to can for the winter ahead.

And canning tomato sauce (or jam, or anything else) is sweaty, hot work. Boiling jars, boiling pots of sauce, boiling ring lids, boiling everything. Everyone in the kitchen is sweating. Instructions are given, likely by old grandmothers who have done this before you were born.

@phinniastuff Bond will not be trusted with anything but maybe (maybe) closing the lids. Or moving the crates full of upside down jars. Q on the other hand will be deemed too scrawny for that thus forced feed with steaming glasses of hot sauce, that will make him even more sweaty, and close to faint.

@l219tj-or-elle They'd let Bond test the sauce, that would be allowed, I think, but they'd have Opinions about whether it would be Right. His opinions, of course, are different from theirs, they are the Wrong opinions, according to the Grandmother Posse and therefore Irrelevant. They shake their head at him and feed Q more sauce. He's far too thin and needs to eat more.

@halfbaked00q there is a HUGE difference just between north and south Italy, imaging between UK and Italy! 🤣🤣 Q will be constantly soaked in SPF and wearing an hay hat (??? Unsure of the term), growing his own vegetable garden at first following a manual, then, after a stern dress down by a local neighbor (all in incomprehensible Italian dialect), following his direction.

Oh and OBVIOUSLY all the lot will be bullied to help the family ritual or doing the salsa. Liters and liters of tomato sauce to can for the winter ahead.

And canning tomato sauce (or jam, or anything else) is sweaty, hot work. Boiling jars, boiling pots of sauce, boiling ring lids, boiling everything. Everyone in the kitchen is sweating. Instructions are given, likely by old grandmothers who have done this before you were born.

Water is wet. the world is round, and the orange one violates another law.

This might be of interest to @elodieunderglass, given that it is a horrible thing and it does have legs.

Say it with me! Wheelchairs aren’t sad! Mobility aids aren’t sad! Mobility aids are instruments of freedom!

I've reblogged this post before but this is the first time I've seen it on my dash since I started using a walking stick and rollator myself. They've made such a difference.

Louder for the people in the back!

drink water

Maybe do these in reverse order

Don't listen to them! Transgender BDSM now!!!!

Get your thyroid checked.

Vitamin B12.

Like two years ago I ran into a salamander biologist in the woods who complimented my ability to 'walk quietly in the forest while causing minimal disturbance to the leaf litter.' Still goes to my head.

I had to get my kidneys imaged a few years ago and the urologist somewhat breathlessly told me "you have absolutely beautiful kidneys." and tbh I've never felt hotter.

I was once told I had a beautiful appendix. A doctor saw it on a scope.