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idk i would personally rather give up access to certain products seasonally or locally than have people enslaved to give me the ability to have any product any place any time. i think i can go without tomatoes in january.

i truly do think that most people if confronted with it and pressed on it would agree. but it's comfortable to gain privileges from someone else's suffering, especially if you don't have to see that suffering directly.

Reblog this to ease the back pain of the person you reblogged it from

i don't actually give a fuck whether fatness is an indicator of health because health shouldn't indicate a moral high ground. being healthy isn't some pinnacle of human achievement, it's not morally superior. and being unhealthy isn't a moral failing and shouldn't mean you're less worthy of kindness, justice, and a good life. signed, a chronically ill person who will never be "healthy" at any weight.

health is also largely out of your control. your stress levels, socioeconomic status, societal oppression if you experience it - all these and more impact your health much more than any choices you make. by all means strive to eat well, however that looks to you, move your body if possible, and look after yourself in general. but know that no amount of effort can guarantee health, and illness is not caused by insufficient efforts at 'wellness.'

just gonna reblog this forever because i love fat people and we deserve fuckin basic human dignity and respect regardless of our weight

before my egg cracked, i had noticed that trans people were often pro-accessibility and up-to-date on the needs of disabled people, but i hadn’t seen any inherent connection between the two (other than the obvious minority-looking-out-for-other-minority thing). but now that i’m trans and medically transitioning, and i have to constantly repeat myself while talking to doctors and nurses, and explain things about my own anatomy to medical staff who should already know this, and having every single problem i might have blamed on my “condition” so nothing i say is taken seriously, all of the sudden i have a little sneak peak into the life of someone who has to deal with this all the time. like shit bro, being disabled probably sucks ass, someone should do something about this

happy disability pride month, we all deserve autonomy and respect and access to medication

Also, speaking as someone with Chronic Pain, Functional Neurological Disorder, and other disabilities, it's pretty understandable to want to build a character that can defeat the circumstances they constantly finds themselves in. D&D is escapism and sometimes the thing we're trying to escape from is helplessness, loss of control, pain, and that feeling of being trapped by circumstance. You got to remember that these guys aren't performing a scripted fiction; they're TTRPG Lets Players. We're watching a group of nerdy-ass voice-actors PLAY Dungeons & Dragons. Play. It's a game. Some people play to explore a theme. Some people play to win. Some play to be as useful and cool as possible. Whatever the playstyle, it's a game and it's how they choose to play. If it was a problem, there's a table full of friends to say so.

Don't apologize, I'll add onto this. I've seen so many people complain about Molly, that Molly wasn't useful in fights, that he didn't do enough, and I have to combat that with the knowledge of how absolutely useless the bloodhunter class was when Taliesin was playtesting it in real time. He couldn't use half of his cool abilities because he had to hurt himself to do so, and at early levels, that kind of health wasn't available. Sure, the bloodhunter is revamped to be more useful early on, but it took Molly killing himself with an ability to do so. Even so, at the time Molly died, he had something like 27 of the How Do You Want to Do This?, which was the most of anyone up to that point. Not so "useless", then. And then people complain that Taliesin takes too long to figure out what he's going to do when he's playing Caduceus. Well, so does Laura, so maybe that's a cleric thing, but people miss the point of Caduceus. By the time he gets to make his big plays half the time, the battlefield has changed so much that whatever his initial plan was is out the window and he's figuring it out as he goes. And Taliesin plays Caduceus to be what the party needs. Healer. Buffer. Debuffer. Inflicting pain where necessary. Guardian. Savior. Exactly what he needs to be so the party doesn't lose someone like they lost Molly. Of course he takes a while to figure it out. If, at the top of the round, nobody is hurt, Taliesin might think, "Oh, Spirit Guardians is a good choice, or Bane, something offensive." And then Caleb and Yasha and Fjord take 50 points of force damage from one attack and suddenly Spirit Guardians and Bane don't suit the needs of the battle. So maybe it's a Healing Word or a Cure Wounds. But which of those is more useful in this moment? Or would it be better not to heal until someone goes down, when he can give them the full effect of the spell without having to roll for points? But what if three people go down at once and he can't get to them all to cast a spell before death saving throws happen? What if what happens to Molly happens to them and they take two immediately failed death saves because an enemy attacks in melee while they're unconscious? Taliesin is so open about his nerves and anxiety and how he can have trouble articulating his plans, so things come out different than what he meant them to be, but anyone saying that he's not a good player, that he gets too angry, that he takes too long is really feeding into the ableism, because there's reasons for all of it.