#queer disabled

Also not surprising; during it's run I saw Entrapta and Hordaks stories make so many queer disabled fans feel seen, but the larger fandom and even parts of the crew just tried to talk over our real experiences, and even called disabled people having a sexuality gross, pedophilia or apologetics. Including violent harassment by fans. Disabled rep is not seen as groundbreaking because it's assumed to not be needed and already there. And its so weird and wrong that even queer fans find it disgusting.

But it is groundbreaking. I was 22 when I first saw the show. Seeing Entrapta and Hordak bond over being made outcasts by their societies, but also their disabilities being just a small part of them flabbergasted me. Being mad scientists and it was glorious. Entrapta openly crushing not just on Hordak, but Scorpia and Darla too, and refusing to act like a woman is expected to, and Hordak being a man (probably?) but constantly wearing makeup and a dress and being abandoned for choosing his own name and identity.

In all my years of watching and reading sci-fi and queer media, this was the first time I saw someone like me in a mainstream show. Ever. That is how rare disability rep is.

Despite how hard large parts of the fandom tried to harass us out, Entrapdak fandom still exists and I have found real friends and real understanding among them. Because there is finally someone like me.

• ALL aspec people

• Microlabel gender people

• Absolutely no gender at all like zero people and nonpeople

• Transmasc rosboys

• Transfem tomboys

• Trans and queer POC

• Closeted people

• Not sure at all people

• Very sure since childhood people

• Queerplatonic (and queer___ people)

• Mental illness influences your identity people

• Queer disabled people

• Plural queer people

• Queer nonpeople

• Queer religious people

9 stripe pride flag (purple at bottom for aesthetics) disability flag on top and all colors desaturated to be easy on the eyes

Can you guys tell when you’re in pain or not?

Like i won’t be aware im in pain until im in pain pain

Shoutout to butches and mascs who are made to feel useless and like their masculinity or butchness is “less real” or “performative” because they “aren’t productive enough” in the eyes of others or themselves, especially under capitalist society.

Shoutout to butches and mascs who can’t be physically active when they want to be, or work out a lot, or get big and strong and muscular in general.

Shoutout to butches and mascs who can’t help their loved ones by carrying things or performing other acts of physical labor to help others.

Shoutout to butches and mascs who aren’t handy and can’t fix things for themselves or others, due to mental or physical disability.

Shoutout to butches and mascs who wish they were physically capable enough to be ready to stand up and physically defend their queer and otherwise marginalized loved ones and neighbors from in-person physical threats, but know their bodies won’t let them be of much (or any) use in this particular way.

Shoutout to butches and mascs who want to go to political protests and put their bodies and lives on the line for the sake of change, but don’t do it because they feel like they would just get in the way and be a liability to others around them if shit went down.

Shoutout to butches who aren’t tough and put together and relatively stoic or laidback, and are instead seen as “overly sensitive” (physically, sensorily or emotionally) or “hyper emotional” to others due to mental or physical disabilities.

Shoutout to butches who need help with “simple tasks”, who can’t function independently, who need to be taken care of and protected more than they’re able to take care of or protect others.

Shoutout to butches and mascs who feel guilt and shame over any of these things, or feel like it invalidates their identity, or even feel dysphoria over this sort of stuff.