StrixObscuro

the fact that so much of survival as a disabled person is based on luck is fucked. you have to be lucky to find a good doctor who listens to you, who knows to run the right tests, who refers you to specialists who listen to you. you have to be lucky to have been born to parents who will get you the care you need. you have to be lucky to have people around you who will take care of you when you can’t take care of yourself. you have to be lucky to be in the exact kind of circumstances that can be translated into responses on forms so you can get support. wealth and privilege can increase your chances in all of this. but ultimately so much of it is also pure luck

& I’m so deeply aware of how quickly luck can change. if it weren’t for my partner, I would probably still be stuck being looked after by my abusive parents. there are very few options other than to just hope that you’ll find various ways out of various conundrums. as much as I love and trust my partner, one does have to be terrified of what happens if that piece of luck changes. it shouldn’t be like this

Seriously, why the hell did DC decide to give him that series when he sucks at writing female characters?

When politicians say "we gotta appeal to the working class" you have to keep in mind that in their imaginations, the working-class person is basically a form of ogre-like creature whose existence consists of backbreaking manual labor and seething with Every Single Bigotry.

He cheated on her with a fucking horse. And not in an "oh, he stuck his dick in a mare" way, in a "he gave himself a horse vajoozle and let a stallion mount him and then passed an eight-legged foal through his horse vajoozle" way. He committed himself to that infidelity. Is that really "soulmate" behavior?