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I can’t believe it’s over. I made a a thing and I completed the thing and of course it’s not perfect but it’s finished and it’s mine and I am simultaneously on cloud nine and heartbroken.

I will miss my children ;____;

Thank you so much for taking this journey with me <3

P.S. Since this is the final update, it would be really awesome if you’d consider reblogging this post. Share a complete, queer, romance/sci-fi webcomic with a friend for pride month :D

my new years resolution is to……*spins wheel*…uh…..*throws dart*

How can you tell the fakes from the real working dogs?

1. If the dog is confined or has restricted body movement due to being in a carrier, stroller or shopping cart, it is unable to physically preform tasks in order to aid their disabled handler.

2. If the dog exhibits poor behavior and the handler isn’t trying to correct it or isn’t removing the dog.

3. If the dog is entirely focused on interacting with its environment, it cannot be focused on aiding it’s handler.

Certification, ID tags and vests don’t make a service dog. A dog is considered a service dog when it is trained to physically do something (performs a task or work) in relation to the handlers disability. The dog must be doing something for you, that you cannot do for yourself.

(The law does NOT recognize ‘emotional support’ or ‘comforting’ to be trained tasks)

Federal ADA law states that a dog need only be task trained to mitigate a handler’s disability, potty trained, and not aggressive. ANYTHING ELSE (including bad manners) does not mean the dog isn’t a service dog in the eyes of the law.

Many dogs can perform tasks while being held or confined (toy diabetic alert dogs can still work while being carried or in a purse, for example). Some tasks actually look like bad manners. Mobility/forward momentum tasks can look like bad walking manners, for example. For that matter, dogs are not robots. You may see a dog that looks like it is completely distracted, when it’s really just having an off moment.

If you don’t know the handler, you likely don’t know the nature of their disability and how the dog has been trained. “Outing” someone who happens to look like a faker (at least based on posts like this) can be hugely triggering. I’m tired of hearing about friends being attacked for this sort of thing, when their dogs actually do fantastic work. You can’t tell just by looking at a SD team what their whole situation is.

To be clear, I don’t condone faking AT ALL. It’s gross behavior. I don’t condone skipping public access training (unless you’re an at-home team), even though it’s not required. Taking a sloppy service dog out in public reflects poorly upon all SD teams. But we don’t need a witch hunt based on posts like this.

Sir Terry Pratchett, 28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015

“DON’T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”  

sex-repulsed asexuals are people who want nothing to do with sex.

sex-neutral asexuals are people who are indifferent about sex.

if you’re gonna preach about whether something is/is not vegan/ethical for the love of all that is holy do your research first.

honey is vegan. honey is ethical. we need beekeepers and we need the honey bees they keep.

bees are dying out and we need them to pollinate not only our own crops but the plants that allow life to thrive on earth. we need more bees! beekeepers give bees a home and the ability to produce so much honey that they don’t even need it. meanwhile the bees are well cared-for and can breed far more easily.

Which I am all for.  Gotta love that almond meal crust key lime pie.  But it isn't saving the world and it is ethically questionable if you care more about ecological balance than variety at the grocery store.

Harper Conservative Government Brags About Punishing First Nations Who Refuse to Comply With Their Colonizing Laws

this is our CURRENT government. and they’re a MAJORITY government!! as in they were popularly elected!! they’re breaking treaties and giving TREATY LAND to oil companies, they’re refusing to launch an inquiry into the 1000+ missing and murdered indigenous women, they’re ignoring the UN’s statements that the human rights situation of canadas first nations is DIRE!! they’re using loopholes in the access of information act (loopholes that THEY wrote in) to withhold information on everything from the military to viagra from the canadian public and then have the nerve to fucking talk about “first nations transparency”?!

hey! do you find shopping an unbearable task? do you find yourself shopping in a binary gender world, but yearning for something a bit more fluid? do you ever feel awkward, uncomfortable or unsafe looking for clothing in mens/boys sections? if you answered yes to any or all of these, and you have some cash to spend, please check out this link and donate. if you can’t make a donation, please share!

Androgyny /= masculinity. Femme & feminine nonbinary people exist too and AMAB people almost certainly have MORE trouble shopping in girl’s/women’s departments given how much less socially accepted trans & nonbinary AMAB people are. :( If your project IS meant to include people who struggle with shopping in women’s departments and who want better access to femme & feminine clothing, please make this clear and please don’t contribute further to the already pervasive issue of “androgyny” being limited to butch & masculine-leaning AFAB people. Nonbinary people are more diverse than that. I would not support this project right now.

ETA: Oh geez, someone else pointed out that there’s a video on the kickstarter page which I somehow completely overlooked and now that I’ve watched it, it’s even MORE blatant that this is a project aimed exclusively at AFAB people and definitely does not fit the much broader definition of “androgynous”. So uncomfortable with this project. This is anything BUT androgynous clothing for the “every person”.

ETA2: More people are checking out this reply so here’s some extra links talking about/celebrating nonbinary diversity! (I don’t know all these intimately so if there’s a problem with any of them please let me know. Some of them may have NSFW pictures!)

http://gyne-andro.tumblr.com/

http://fatandrogyny.tumblr.com/

Juba Kalamka in this interview (via soldadera-del-amor)

"that’s not who riots".

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THANK YOU.  

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THATS NOT WHO RIOTS!! so perfect

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