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they’re so precious to me🥺🫶🏻✨
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Spider:i don't like you.
Deadpool "i know,you love me.
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actually insane bc every troy / britta heavy moment was just used to further cement the fact that abed is troy’s number one priority (and that abed was, despite doing his best to act otherwise, jealous). like when troy and britta have their first date and troy calls abed to check on him bc they were supposed to be hanging out. when troy leaves air conditioning school and hugs abed instead of britta. when troy gets mad at britta for not understanding the first day of school tradition bc its his and abed’s thing. when troy and abed wear a couples costume for halloween and britta is a ham. when britta is setting up a dance, and troy (knowing abed is on two dates) sends abed selfies. when troy gets jealous about tobey stealing abed from him, and leaves britta to go to abed. when troy leaves britta mid conversation at the christmas party to give abed an early and extremely meaningful christmas gift. when troy doesn’t remember his one year anniversary with britta but he DOES remember his third year anniversary of watching freaky friday for the first time with abed (and has planned a celebration – and then bc of the ‘freaky friday switch’ abed (as troy) breaks up with britta for troy. there’s a point where the joke stops and subtext becomes text. like
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post-meltdown self-care
- take slow, deep breaths. tell yourself that it is going to be okay
- hydrate! especially if you cry during meltdowns, but also in general — drink water/tea/something
- again, especially if you cry during meltdowns, have a salt-based snack
- take care of your sensory needs. listen to music, use a stim toy, or put on ear defenders
- don’t feel pressured to go back and communicate with anyone until you’re absolutely ready to — the last thing you want is to go out before you’re ready and end up having another meltdown
- think about a special interest, or engage with a special interest in general
- if soft toys are your jam, go give one a tight squeeze
- it’ll be okay
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an important update:
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1.12 To Kill the King
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1.05 Lancelot
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“Unfinished Painting” — Keith Haring
This painting was left intentionally incomplete. Haring began it when he was dying due to complications from AIDS, and knew he didn’t have much time left. The piece represents the incomplete lives of him and many others, lost to AIDS during the crisis.
“AIDS Memorial Quilt” — Multiple
This quilt is over 50 tons heavy, and one of, if not the, largest pieces of community folk art. Many people who died of AIDS did not receive funerals, due to social stigma and many funeral homes refusing to handle the deceased’s remains, so this was one of the only ways their lives could be celebrated. Each panel was created recognition of someone who died due to AIDS, typically by that person’s loved ones.
“Untitled” — Felix Gonzalez-Torres
This pile of candy weighs the same amount as an average adult man. Visitors are encouraged to take some of the candy. As they do so, the pile of candy weighs less and less. This is a commentary on how AIDS deteriorates the body of those who have it, as Gonzalez-Torres’ partner, Ross Laycock, had died due to AIDS-related complications that same year.
The SF Gay Men's Chorus
This photo was taken in 1993. The men in white are the surviving original members. Every man in black is standing in for an original member who lost their lives to AIDS.
“Electric Fan (Feel it Motherfuckers); Only Unclaimed Item from the Stephen Earabino Estate, 1997” — John Boskovich
After the death of his lover, Stephen Earabino, from AIDS, Boskovich discovered that his family had completely cleared his room, including Boskovich’s own possessions, save for this fan. An entire person, existence and relationship had been erased, just like so many lives during the AIDS crisis. Boskovich encased the fan in Plexiglass, but added cutouts so that its air may be felt by the viewer, almost like an exhalation. In a sense, restoring Earabino’s breath.
“Blue” — Derek Jarman
This was Jarman’s final feature film, released four months before his death from AIDS-related complications. These complications had left him visually impaired, able to only see in shades of blue. This film consists of a single shot of a saturated blue color, as the soundtrack to the film described Jarman’s life through narration, intercut with the adventures of Blue, a humanization of the color blue. The film's final moments consist of a set of repeated names: “John. Daniel. Howard. Graham. Terry. Paul". These are the names of former lovers and friends of Jarman who had died due to AIDS.
“Untitled” (Perfect Lovers) — Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Created by the same man who created the previous untitled piece, this piece was also inspired by his lover’s deterioration and death due to AIDS. This piece consists of two perfectly alike clocks. Over the course of time, one of the clocks will fall out of sync with the other.
In a letter written to his lover about the piece, before his lover’s passing, Gonzalez-Tourres wrote, “Don't be afraid of the clocks, they are our time, the time has been so generous to us. We imprinted time with the sweet taste of victory. We conquered fate by meeting at a certain time in a certain space. We are a product of the time, therefore we give back credit were it is due: time. We are synchronized, now forever. I love you.”
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doctor who is such a wild show because some episodes will be like “humanity endures. for all our flaws we are stubborn enough, optimistic enough, brilliant enough, to keep on surviving. despite all the pain and loss and tragedy, we keep going. across centuries and galaxies, to the very end of the universe.” and some episodes are like “look there’s a giant space whale” and you never know what you’re gonna get
this post gets a lot better when you realise that there is indeed a dr who space whale episode and its message can be boiled down to: humanity endures. for all our flaws we are stubborn enough, optimistic enough, brilliant enough, to keep on surviving. despite all the pain and loss and tragedy, we keep going. across centuries and galaxies, to the very end of the universe.
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caved in and drew them
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Welcome to the age of enthusiasm.
Unironically love this
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📷: mixedricezines on IG
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On 12 March 1990, dozens of disabled people descended on the US Capitol and carried out a protest which became known as the Capitol Crawl. Participants were protesting against the stalling of a proposed law, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which would prohibit discrimination against disabled people. Around 1000 other protesters watched and cheered while dozens of members of ADAPT, a group campaigning for public transit access for disabled people, abandoned their wheelchairs and mobility aids and began crawling up the steps of the building housing Congress. It was a powerful illustration of the difficulties faced by many disabled people faced with a hostile environment which had been constructed without their needs in mind. Michael Winter, one of the participants later reflected: “Some people may have thought it was undignified for people in wheelchairs to crawl in that manner, but I felt that it was necessary to show the country what kinds of things people with disabilities have to face on a day-to-day basis. We had to be willing to fight for what we believed in.” In the wake of the protest, Congress passed the bill and it was signed into law in July 1990. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.1819457841572691/2229212140597257/?type=3
[Image description: a color photo of people participating in the Capital Crawl, focusing on TV camera crews following Jennifer Keelan (a girl with cerebral palsy) climbing up up the steps on her hands and knees. Description ends]
Frankly, I think not getting out of their chairs and making that crawl would have been far more undignified.
BTW, here’s a video of Jennifer Keelan, herself, as an adult, recalling what that day was like (filmed to commemorate the 20th anniversary of ADA’s signing into law), closed captioned and audio described:
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