Ash Feng

And for those people who have access to mobility devices but might benefit from a second chair they can abuse without risking expensive damage…

Erik Kondo has made a website, Open Source Innovations, that details plans for DIY wheelchairs. These wheelchairs can be made from common materials like wood, plastic, and pvc. They are lightweight and can be custom fit to the user allowing from the same degree of movement you would get from a custom chair. And they are durable and easily repairable. (he has been stress testing his latest design by dropping it down stairs, dropping it out of a car, launching it across a driveway, and throwing it off a deck). Its 12lbs and I think he said its was in the $200 ish range for parts.

I will add it to my original reblog as well.

They don't like our rainbows, they don't like cosplay or costumes, they don't like cultural festivals.

Like... fun for them has very strict rules. Like it can't be too outlandish, it has to be about the country or have religion attached to it somehow, there's an itinerary. Like... the Freedom 250 thing has a baptism pool. The fun has to be a specific way or its out of line.

I'm in a picture with my friends, having fun at a parade in our dance costumes (which no one seems to complain about when they're on a stage) and they're like... "freak show," "lunatics," etc... and its like... yes? And?

Its a parade, youre supposed to provide a spectacle or you end up like the Christmas parade we were too queer to be in. (It was a requirement by the organizers to have the float themed around the birth of christ somehow. It was the saddest parade ever and I dont know why i wanted to be in it so bad.)

I bring my colorful flow props to everything. People spit on me, tell me im going to hell, preach at me while im just vibing. Like they see all the fun im having and have a visceral reaction to it. Like... how dare I make my lifestyle look fun and carefree in front of the impressionable youths? (My lifestyle is fun and carefree! I have a life that I love outside of my sexuality, but I also love being out and queer.)

A comment thats going to stick with me for awhile was 'i don't care if they're gay, but why do they have to be weird?'

And like... i am weird, yeah. For sure! But children's media for most of my young years was about embracing weirdness, so i figured it was okay. Plus, performers are often weird.

Im having fun in a way that doesn't fall into the three acceptable categories of fun: faith, country, or family.

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Her name is Novi Zariya but she prefers to go by Zariya. She arrived at the Oakrune Orphanage 15 years ago.

Orphan

Favorite Food: Pumpkin Pudding

Likes: Nexomon Taming, Reading history books, her friends

Dislikes: thunderstorms, Cooked vegetabled, bullies

She sees Coco as her twin brother since they arrived on the same day

Has a psychic link with Coco

Uses sign language to communicate

Coco is her interpreter

She is aro/ace, adventurous, her fatal flaw is loyalty

Often has nightmares about the night she arrived at Oakrune

Nexomon Partner: Noki she named Droplet

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!! : D

Turns out it’s herding cats. Half of them are on fire, and the other half are narrative choices I don’t remember making.

If you wanna watch it I cannot recommend it enough; I just warn that it covers a LOT.

Shared here today by Matthew Boroson on Facebook. (ETA: Gaining inspiration from other authors is great. Lifting passages and avoiding giving credit isn’t.)

Here’s a link to Night’s Master, the first book in the Flat Earth series.