Quoth the Raven

-Ambulatory mobility aid users.

-Characters who’s disability DOES stop them. Characters who struggle with things because they’re disabled. Characters who learn to overcome those obstacles with accessibility, not with magically fixing their disability.

-Sporty disabled characters.

-Outgoing wheelchair users.

-Really cool looking mobility aids.

-Disabled characters who don’t get ‘fixed.’

-Young disabled characters.

-Disabled characters who are just…disabled. Like it’s not a huge plot point, it’s just kind of a side thing. She has to stop the sun from crashing into the earth! (Also she uses forearm crutches)

-Disabled characters who have negative traits. We need more disabled mean girls. I want to see a queen bee who uses a cane.

-Disabled characters who’s stories do have disability as a big plot point. Disability is important to disabled peoples’ lives and there’s nothing wrong with it being an important plot point in stories about us, if it’s written well and accurately!

-Disabled characters having unsupportive parents. I don’t mean evil parents who hate them, I mean flawed parents who push their kid too hard because they think that’s what they should do and they don’t realize that it’s hurting them. Flawed parents who continue to tell their kid that they “can do anything” when there are very real obstacles in their kid’s way due to disability.

-Disabled characters who see their mobility aids as freedom and love their mobility aids!

…Not a phrase I imagined myself typing today. But, via @heyMAKWA on Twitter:

“i'm not going to link any of them here, for a variety of reasons, but please be aware of what is probably the deadliest AI scam i've ever heard of:

“plant and fungi foraging guide books. the authors are invented, their credentials are invented, and their species IDs will kill you.”

…So PLEASE be careful if you run across anything of this kind.