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You Are On Native Land collects stories and art donated by some of comics' biggest Indigenous creators such as Jon Proudstar, Maria Wolf, and Steph Littlebird. Tales of Native resistance; family and kinship; love and grief fill this beautiful collection, which includes a special reprint of TRIBAL FORCE #1, credited as the first comic to feature a superhero team made up entirely of Indigenous heroes.

GUYS THIS COMES OUT SEPTEMBER 2026 I NEED EVERYONE TO PULL THIS IT LOOKS SO PEAK

Over 90% of parents of visibly intersex children opt for cosmetic surgery on their infants.

The ones that don't experience medical violence then, likely experience it as a teenager.

I didn't.

I am very rare in that I did not experience medical violence.

Why? Because I learned what intersexuality was as a young age, and I actively fought against what doctors wanted to do to me. All the way down to legal research on what medical care minors can be forced into. I remember walking into that doctor's appointment with the state law written down that proved that if I did not consent they could not do surgery.

how about this: when i was 9 and my stepdad beat me until i passed out and i told my friends at school, my teacher over heard and i was interviewed by cps. they also went to my house when i was at school. when i got home, my step father was waiting on the couch, and told me who visited him that day. he told me if i ever snitched again he would beat me to within an inch of my life.

how about this: my mother locked me out of the house when i was 14 and when i cried so loud the neighbors called the cops, the cop told me i should have been respectful of my mother who was trying to sleep.

how about this. the demon you know is less scary than the demon you don’t.

children in abused households are raised to fear the idea of being taken away. children in abusive households see that help makes things worse.

Hey friends, all my bills are paid but there's nothing left; in fact, I'm about twenty dollars in the hole, and my next payday is the 13th. If you have a little extra, throw it my way? You can also buy my new book and subscribe to my Patreon, thanks.

For my non-Canadian followers, please share this petition and hopefully this will further the reach to other Canadian users on this platform. It is abominable that any company in this country help or in any way facilitate the unconstitutional and dehumanising acts that ICE has done. In my city of Vancouver, we have been protesting and boycotting Hootsuite, a social media platform that has a $2M USD contract with DHS providing them with social media services from 2024 to 2029. Hootsuite claims they don't use tracking or surveillance with their tools, but the mere fact that they have chosen to work with the violent group in whatever social media capacity, despite previously *turning down* a contract with them back in 2020, is egregious.

Jim Pattison Group is a enormous conglomerate also based in Vancouver, owned and run by one man, Jim Pattison. Pattison previously considered selling an industrial building in Virginia to ICE for them to use as another "holding and processing facility," or more accurately, a goddamn concentration camp, but because of backlash he reversed that decision. Thank fucking god for that, but that does not mean he won't reconsider it again in the future. In Ontario, ICE ordered 20 armoured vehicles from a Brampton firm called Roshel to the tune of $7.3M USD. Canada should not be arming a violent group that has shown itself to be nothing more than a racist group of masked kidnappers and power-tripping thugs that has violated the rights of US citizens and violated numerous court orders.

So Mango really went downhill again. I'm kind of not doing great so I will keep this brief and simple as I try to explain best I can.

1. Mango likely has something called avian ganglioneuritis. If I understand correctly, many captive parrots (as many as 1 in 3) has Bornavirus. However, not all of them will become symptomatic and not all of them will progress to ganglioneuritis.

2. I believe she has this based on what I've read, what others more experienced with it have said, and what the vets have said. In fact, this is what she was going to be tested for yesterday, but her being too weak means they couldn't.

3. It makes sense that she would decline again if this is what she has. There is no cure for it, but there is treatment. The goal right now is to get her stable again, get the tests, and get this finalized. The good news is that she JUST TODAY started Celebrex, which is used to treat avian ganglioneuritis. The fact that she has tested negative for so much else also makes this most likely.

4. I am not putting her to sleep yet because she has previously recovered AND if we can get it confirmed that this is what she has, there is a way forward and this regressing so much can stop. She's been too much of a fighter for me to give up yet.

5. The pictures of her here are of her in an oxygen chamber thing at home. She recovered greatly after being in there for a while.

6. I am extremely sorry to be asking for donations again, but the Tufts visit being around $4K definitely cleared me out. I am hoping this is the last time I have to ask, since, as I said, if we can confirm this is what she has, all these expensive appointments can stop.

7. Any donations or dice purchases now will go towards meds, tests, recovery as I may need to bring her in Monday for fluids, and some foods like Harrison's Recovery that are easy for her to digest. I will post pics of the vet bills.

If you are in a place where you can help out, here's how:

PayPal - PayPal.me/pepperandpals

Venmo - amandabl89

You can also buy dice from my shop - cinniharpyscrafts.etsy.com

I am planning some special dice in collaboration with an artist friend to help pay off some remaining vet bills on my CareCredit card.

Friends, readers, and mutuals, lend me your ears: and give me your money? No, that's not how that goes.

I am short of money till Friday the 13th (payday and usually a lucky rather than unlucky day for me). Short as in, my checking account is in the neg and I have bills coming in. If you can spare a few coins, that would be greatly appreciated; if you can signal boost, that is appreciated, too.

This really pissed me off in twitter recently. Disabled people belong in every type of setting. If we aren't there, your worldbuilding sucks.

And it's literally a 'modern wheelchairs are boring, you should have a dwarven forged chair instead'. which let's be honest, riding around in a magitech wheelchair sounds fucking dope.

In a world where lost limbs and permanent disabilities are one wandering priest away from being restored to perfectly whole, and where magical replacements are a viable and sometimes even cheap option? One cannot just linearly transpose our version of society onto it.

Her party could help carry her up the stairs? Someone could use magic to help lift the chair through difficult terrain? Not every dungeon is a crumbling evil wizard tower or a dragon's den?

You can solve ancient riddles and defeat beings with god-like powers... but your party can't figure out how to help their disabled member navigate a space? Folks with mobility problems, especially wheelchair users, ALREADY have to get creative because wheelchair / general accessibility is *not* a guarantee or taken for granted by those of us who need them. Disabled people are already wildly creative in how we navigate the world because we have to be, fantasy settings would not negate this.

Like, what do you think disabled athletes do?

And no, not everyone is an athlete, but not everyone would be an adventurer either! It takes a certain kind of person with a certain kind of drive to do that shit! But they exist! Just because it is harder or not everyone can do it doesn't mean those people don't exist!

Honestly, if you can't figure out how to accommodate a player-character in a wheelchair, you are kind of a shitty GM? If you put so many specific obstacles tailor made to fuck over your wheelchair user then... what the fuck are you even doing? "Sorry I specifically designed a scenario where your character can't participate because I made sure there were no pullies or magic elevators and your half-orc warrior could never carry you up all these stairs.

A wheelchair is horribly suited to an adventure in an untamed fantasy world that would have terrain that is already unfavorable to even normally abled characters.

It's a simple concept: A different world would have different disability aids. I don't know why people don't understand it.

While the specific design of the picture in the post might be a modern design, we had wheelchairs 1000 years prior to medieval times. And the basic principals of the mechanics still apply so there really isn't a reason that smiths couldn't figure out something akin to our modern designs.

Also just because a mobility aid isnt aesthetically fantasy enough for you doesn't make someone a shitty player, like I said players have found ways around far worse obstacles than using a plain wheelchair. Trying to dictate character design for their players still makes for a shitty GM.

And you CAN make things different and cool and fantasy as you want. The problem is people saying it is impossible to have things other than that. The first point was "it is impossible to have disabled people in your fantasy world" and that is where all this push back is even coming from.

A different world CAN have different mobility aids but if a wheelchair user wants to port their own fucking chair into their game so they can feel represented by their character? That is not impossible. That is not stretching credulity.

We aren't talking hypotheticals, you realize this right? OP is a wheelchair user talking about itself and I am talking as someone who also has mobility related disabilities.

We are talking about our preferences and how we deserve to see ourselves in our own damn characters without having to give up or change core aspects of our actual being.

Basically you CAN have any fantasy element you want, but don't tell disabled people their presence is impossible in a medieval fantasy setting.

Which, again, is what this whole discussion started with. Saying disabled people wouldn't even exist.

So sorry if we seem a bit touchy about having to defend our right to even exist in fantasy settings then having to defend what are in the end aesthetic fucking choices of what kind of chair we have a character sit on. Like, what the fuck?

This is not about your cool factor? This is about real and living people being able to see and be themselves within their own fantasy. How dare you tell them their own real lives and the lives of disabled anscestors are unrealistic??? Like yeah! If my partner had magic? They would occasionally use it to levitate their chair over obstacles BUT, they would still need the chair, the angle of the seat back, the foot plate/rest and so many other features they have now, that would be entirely possible in a fantasy setting. (And honestly, knowing them? They would have other, more important to them, uses for magic than just obstacle navigating. And most fantasy systems with magic, there is still a cost to that magic, even if just energy/spell slots/mana/etc. stilllll a finite resource.... Honestly.... Much like the limited financial capacity to create an accessible home and work environment for yourself or family member.)

It's time!

My posts have gotten tagged LGB more and more often lately. Usually accompanied by the worst additions imaginable. People are starting to whittle down and choose who they think of as disposable, so let me say this:

Queer as in trans people

Queer as in asexual people

Queer as in aromantic people

Queer as in nonbinary people

Queer as in bisexual people

Queer as in unlabled people

Queer as in anyone who counts themselves as queer.

Yelena, Tony, Natasha, Wanda, Valkyrie, Steve, Loki, Peter, Rocket, Deadpool, Thor: all have PTSD. Minimum. More do, but these are the people whose PTSD has been a plot point. TBH, I think most superheroes have PTSD.

Nebula, Bucky, Rocket, Rhodey, Tony, Thor: prosthetics or accessibility framework. You could make the argument that Billy has what is functionally a prosthetic body.

But people love to talk as if bc (for example) Bucky has his arm, he's no longer disabled. That is in fact the opposite of how it works.