Me.

Not the “oh Einstein was probably autistic” or the sanitized Helen Keller story. but this history disabled people have made and has been made for us.

Teach them about Carrie Buck, who was sterilized against her will, sued in 1927, and lost because “Three generations of imbeciles [were] enough.”

Teach them about Judith Heumann and her associates, who in 1977, held the longest sit in a government building for the enactment of 504 protection passed three years earlier.

Teach them about all the Baby Does, newborns in 1980s who were born disabled and who doctors left to die without treatment, who’s deaths lead to the passing of The Baby Doe amendment to the child abuse law in 1984.

Teach them about the deaf students at Gallaudet University, a liberal arts school for the deaf, who in 1988, protested the appointment of yet another hearing president and successfully elected I. King Jordan as their first deaf president.

Teach them about Jim Sinclair, who at the 1993 international Autism Conference stood and said “don’t mourn for us. We are alive. We are real. And we’re here waiting for you.”

Teach about the disability activists who laid down in front of buses for accessible transit in 1978, crawled up the steps of congress in 1990 for the ADA, and fight against police brutality, poverty, restricted access to medical care, and abuse today.

Like, let’s take one trope for example: the old 80′s “career woman is unfulfilled and unhappy until she Finds Love and quits her job for a man.”

I think a lot has been said about this being a sexist trope. But I would argue that on its own, it’s actually… fine? It could even be an important story to someone, depending on execution. Because, well–work isn’t fulfilling for most people! Lots of workers, even in very high earning jobs, get burned out and are sort of encouraged to stay in this unhealthy rat race where all that matters is make line go up.

Of course a relationship can be more fulfilling than a job! Damn!

But. But.

While an individual story about a woman going “work sucks, fuck this, I actually just want to have a torrid romance and leave to have wild sex with a muscley lumberjack in the hills” doesn’t necessarily have to be sexist…. that kind of story being the overwhelming majority is.

One snowflake is harmless. A snowstorm is not.

One story about a woman being better off not working is harmless. Every single story being about it, in a culture that pressures women into having less independence and power, is not. 

(Send me any Inuyasha ship and I’ll write some headcanons)

I feel like Bankotsu and Jakotsu never really become anything official. Not because they don’t love each other, but just because they don’t need it. They don’t need any labels, they’re Bankotsu and Jakotsu and they’ll always be just the two of them. So while they never officially get together, those that know them know they’ve been together for a long time.  

They have some interests that the other doesn’t have, but they both always indulge their partner in their interests. I can see this being more obvious in a modern AU – like Bankotsu willing to let Jakotsu practise make-up on him – but it still happens in the canon.

Jakotsu can get anything he wants if he gives Bankotsu puppy eyes. The others know this, so they know if they want something, they just make Jakotsu want it. Bankotsu is not amused by this.

Bankotsu actually has a horrible sense of fashion that drives Jakotsu insane. It’s so bad, even the others tease him whenever he dresses himself. Luckily, Bankotsu is willing to let Jakotsu choose his outfits for him, so that doesn’t happen too often.

Bankotsu never really gets that jealous of Jakotsu, because he trusts that Jakotsu won’t really have ay emotional attachment to the guys he seems to like. He still will subtly try to sabotage it if Jakotsu seems too excited. Jakotsu, on the other hand, is very loud, and maybe a little violent, about his jealously, but Bankotsu wouldn’t have him any other way.

Inktober day 14: Angua von Uberwald

I found this unfinished comic on my old computer and decided to finish it cause it looked so cool   the song is ‘meet me in the woods ’ you can find it here !!