The Bird Fandom

it's so funny how differently you experience the world as a disabled person. all the time people who don't like dogs are like "how comes dogs are allowed everywhere? dogs go everywhere like stores and all and restaurants and there's no rules about it! no one cares and we're all just supposed to accept it! you're not allowed to say anything about a dog in a public place even if the dog is behaving badly!"

i was once at a random corner store in chicago waiting in line to buy a gatorade and a woman walked in, saw my service poodle, and started screaming (i do mean screaming) in fear and everyone ran to her and asked what was wrong and she said, "why is there a dog in here! i'm terrified of dogs!" and the cashier and multiple bystanders angrily told me to leave.

i once had a professor email me and ask me if i'd be willing to drop an entire course and re-take it the next semester because another student emailed him the first day and told him they were bitten by a dog as a child and couldn't focus on class if there were a dog nearby.

It’s dangerous to go alone; take this:

little discussed piece of transmasc history is that one of the previous oldest living pair of conjoined twins (who died in 2024) was a trans man! his name was George Schappell & he came out in 2007; unfortunately his family had him deadnamed and misgendered in their obituary, which is part of why he deserves to be talked about more.

happy pride month to everyone who cannot go to pride celebrations.