#vomit tw

Actually sometimes when you're disabled, forcing the "healthy" standard solution isn't actually going to improve your quality of life! Like if you have severe sensory processing issues, then forcing yourself to eat food that makes you vomit is unlikely to improve your quality of life. And if you're touch averse to the point of pain, cuddling is very unlikely to improve your mood. And if being social always exhausts you completely, then forcing yourself to go out every weekend is unlikely to actually make your life any happier. So can we please stop acting like universal solutions are a real thing?!

six of crows is about shame. it’s about a son of a merchant ridiculed for his disability and feeling unworthy of his title as an heir. it’s about a fjerdan who grew up in a cult, who was taught so much pent up hatred and fear and disgust of witches only for it all to be unraveled by a charming grisha girl and him ending up dying protecting grisha. it’s about a zemeni boy who was taught to hide his grisha identity as it had killed his mother, and yet in an attempt to conceal it it caused him so much pain and suffering that it pushed him from his father as well. it’s about a ravkan girl who was simultaneously despised and hunted and yet used by the world for her grisha powers, who was jailed and almost killed and yet was also raised as a soldier for being grisha. it’s about a boy raised in kerch who despised even daring to talk about his life or feeling a shred of vulnerability, who couldn’t imagine the feeling of skin-on-skin without bile crawling up his throat. It’s about a suli girl who always moves in the shadows because she was taught from her trauma in a pleasure house that to be seen was a danger, that she needed to keep her senses aware lest she be caught off guard by the kidnappers who took her; a suli girl who went through so much agony that sometimes her skin didn’t feel like hers. six of crows is a story about shame. in this essay I will—