Whispering Sweet Nothings into the Void

Caeneus wishes for a man’s body– and Poseidon doesn’t sigh and half-ass it, doesn’t break up with him for no longer having a female form, doesn’t even simply carry out Caeneus’s wish to the letter.

No no.

My boy Poseidon decides to give his boyfriend something EVEN BETTER just because.

It’s like he couldn’t contain himself; like he couldn’t even deal with how in love with Caeneus he was.

Idek why this was so funny.

g*psy and g*pped are slurs

smudging is specific to certain native american cultures

as are totems and spirit animals

hoodoo conjure and rootwork are black specific

male and female alignment means nothing

And so some readers (and some of you) will start to write. You’ll write the thing you want to read, because how hard can it be? You can do better than that story you read last night. And that other story you read was okay–except, you know what would have been really good? You know what would have been great? This. This is gonna be great.

We know from Linear B writings that the kings of Mycenae had a thing for ebony furniture. Well, ebony only comes from three places: India, Indonesia, and central Africa. All three of these places are a fair distance from Greece; as in, roughly a quarter of the circumference of the earth. Imagine the sheer levels of human ingenuity and raw effort it would’ve taken for a Late Bronze Age merchant to get their load of lumber from point A to point B.

Like I spent years having to come up with a solution to get therapy dogs into a series of residence halls. Why years? Because we had to decide who got to stay and who got to leave: the people who needed therapy dogs or the people with severe allergies to animals. Who got the alternative housing? 

Things like fidget toys might seem great for some disabled people but having them in the room could be distracting/overstimulating for others. The same goes with stimming. It can’t be helped but neither can the anxiety that another person in the room feels as they watch/hear it. Additionally, something like a weighted blanket might immediately calm one kid down and send the other one into a panic attack due to the claustrophobia it causes. (*Points to myself*)

Every Metro bus in New York City has a series of seats at the front that can be lifted up to accommodate people in wheelchairs but if I’m in one of those spots then someone with a cane/walker has to journey even further to sit down.

The flashing lights of a fire alarm are there to help deaf/hearing impaired but if they’re not properly timed, they can also cause a person to have a seizure.

The worst part about all of these is that there is rarely a concrete solution that makes everyone happy/safe. And I’m not here to offer any because I don’t know them. I’m just here to remind you all that as you’re taking your education/health classes, as you’re reading your textbooks, as you’re preparing to go be an advocate, just remember that there is rarely ever such a thing as a one-size-fits-all solution to advocacy and that something you do that can help one disabled person might actually hinder another.