Sapling 🌱

at the end of it, you might change nothing. but I think this is worth doing, because sometimes you'll find that the reason you didn't want your character to have a limp, or lose a limb or sense, or have some kind of SFF-appropriate fantasy disability is because of internalised biases. those are worth challenging & i truly believe that creators miss out on richer stories when they view disability either as a fate worse than death or as nothing more than a catalyst for tragedy.

🌟 Merch artist application

The zine celebrates queer history through time and cultures, which we need now more than ever! I'm super grateful to be part of such a beautiful project with so many incredible artists. You can learn more and support the project on Kickstarter right now!

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Sapling ( @sacredsapling ) is bringing us to Al-Andalus during the Islamic Golden Age, with two queer Muslim men wandering the royal grounds to the Alhambra, one of which is Tuareg and visibility disabled. It’ll be painted in watercolor!

Jan Falk ( @thistlearts ) is planning to bring us a European, Rococo-style piece, with some Achillean and gender-nonconforming representation. Expect decorations like silk, taffeta, powdered wigs, and other fashion of the time!

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edit: apparently tum "queerest place on the internet" blr hates disabled people so much that this post got automatically filtered. cool!

Disabled people are not your fucking body horror. Grow up.

Don’t be an asshole. Privately desensitize yourself to seeing scars. Engage with art & media & disabled people’s blogs. Imbed it into your brain that they’re normal. And, for some fucking reason, you don’t feel like doing that, JUST MOVE ON. It’s absurdly childish to point at people like a playground bully and go “EWWW”

At the pestering of Nzuzi (and once he qualifies for disability aid), he eventually attends a school for the blind…which leads to him finally breaking out of his isolation and depression.

Idk, there is so little fiction that celebrates and accepts skin that doesn’t fit beauty standards (even while claiming to be body positive): dark skin, hairy skin, rough skin, couperose skin, skin with acne, moles, discolouration, blemishes, bumps, scars that aren’t just “single white slash from a fantasy sword”, keratosis pilaris, vitiligo, eczema, other skin types and conditions and so on