Writer in Hiding

film bro starter pack or something like that

nothing could have prepared me for the song choice

the sheer offensiveness of rereading something you wrote, discovering that, hey, it’s actually pretty good, and then reaching the end, wherein you realize that if you want more you actually have to write it

fuck’s sake 

writers will look at their own WIPs and be like “is anyone gonna finish that” and then close the tab

Able-bodieds, quickly, WITHOUT GOOGLING FIRST, how much do you think manual wheelchairs cost? The ugly, non-customized, uncomfortable, hand-handled ones you see at the ER that suck for constant use but that the poorest of disabled people have to be content with, and only if they don’t need wheelchairs because of fatigue to begin with, since them being manual kind of defeats the purpose in those cases.

Now google it. Then google the prices of motorized ones. Then try to imagine how much the customized ones (for people who’re fatter, for people with particular NEEDS and REQUIREMENTS, etc) must cost.

Then try to not feel a little Something over airlines destroying about 30 mobility aids A DAY and how they don’t even pay back for the damages most of the time, for people who often are already incapable of working and who are on very limited benefits. People who, as we learned recently, can DIE from having their wheelchairs damaged.

Try to not be at least a little uncomfortable with this after all this thought process.

Able-bodied people have no fucking idea how expensive it is to be disabled EVEN IF WE DON’T MAKE USE OF EXPENSIVE MOBILITY AIDS.

Source: https://www.nationaldisabilityinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/extra-costs-living-with-disability-brief.pdf

We have to end up paying more for services (even though we’re so much more likely to be poor than abled people and in a lot of countries we’re paid less if we do work!); services we’re often cheated out of anyway because abled workers know they can get away with taking out their frustrations on disabled customers and that abled leftists will defend them if we complain, down to starting harassment campaigns against disabled customers who complain in any way about being treated like dirt.

Even when we are given our very limited money’s worth, we end up paying for so many more things that even when they’re technically small they end up piling up and becoming huge economic burdens on us when we’re, AGAIN, very likely to be poor, and not even allowed to save our own fucking money if we want to keep our life-saving benefits.

This is without including medical treatments that can get really fucking expensive. I had to quit one of my meds that was helping with my dysautonomia a lot because it was too expensive for my already broke and disabled family.

Do you know how big of a deal both economically and regarding our standard of living it is for us to finally be able to afford mobility aids if we need them? Do you know how many of us who could benefit so much from having access to those aids don’t pursue buying them because we can’t afford them?

And for abled people to handle our critical belongings in such a fucking way… Belongings that, as we saw today, are literally life-saving.

You people are fucking evil.

You’re always going to be young in someone’s eyes and old in someone else’s, talented to one and terrible to the next. The worlds never going to agree on a definition of what you are so you might as well ignore that shit and be whatever the fuck you wanna be for yourself.

Carlotta Cardana The Red Road: Picturing Modern Native American Indigenous Identity    

*signal boost for indigenous solidarity #nodapl  see more details on how to help here

support an Indigenous photographer here, working hard to document the Great Sioux Nation’s protests in North Dakota. 

Photo #2: Ula and Tim Tyler. This Eastern Shoshone couple have been married for 54 years and experienced reservation life before there was electricity or running water.

Photo #4: Ishkoten Dougi. Ishkoten is an artist from the Isleta Pueblo Indian Reservation in New Mexico. He is portrayed in his studio, surrounded by his artwork that represents some of the atrocities inflicted on Native Americans.

Photo #5: Evereta and her Mustang. When Evereta Thinn, 30, entered college as the only Native American in her English 101 class, it was at that moment she realized that she needed to speak up and not be that stereotypical “shy” Indian who keeps to herself. She works as an administrator at the school district on the Navajo Nation and aspires to start a language and cultural immersion school for the Diné (Navajo) people.

Photo #8: Fast Eddie (left), a pow wow dancer, is pictured with social media celebrity, Two Braids.

Photo #10:   Jarrod after the rodeo. Jarrod Ferris, Eastern Shoshone and Arapaho from the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming, has been bull riding since age 6. He hopes to one day win the title as world champion so that he can buy his mom a new house.

*Photo #13: Crisosto Apache, from the Mescalero Apache tribe of New Mexico, is an activist for LGBT rights in the Native community. He explains that there is no word for “gay” in any Native American language, but is referred to as being “two spirited.”

Photo #14: Maka in his classroom. After traveling the world and teaching English in Japan, Maka Clifford, from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, realized his calling was going back to the Reservation to teach his own people and inspire young kids to explore life off the reservation.

Marilyn Monroe by Philippe Halsman for her iconic Life photoshoot, 1952

YES.

YES. Ship Jwe-Hope with me.

jin being a de-pun-dable source of dad jokes for @moonprincejin ♡

A black dragón floating above the clouds

So others need not squint to read “On March 11, 889 CE, 17 year-old Emperor Uda wrote:  ‘On the 6th day of the 2nd Month of the First Year of the Kampo era. Taking a moment of my free time, I wish to express my joy of the cat. It arrived by boat as a gift to the late Emperor, received from the hands of Minamoto no Kuwasahi.  The color of its fur is peerless. None could find the words to describe it, although one said it was reminiscent of the deepest ink. It has an air about it, similar to Kanno. Its length is 5 sun, and its height is 6 sun. I affixed a bow about its neck, but it did not remain for long. In rebellion, it narrows its eyes and extends its needles. It shows its back. When it lies down, it curls in a circle like a coin. you cannot see its feet. It’s as if it were a circular Bi disk. When it stands, its cry expresses profound loneliness, like a black dragon floating above the clouds. By nature, it stalks birds. It lowers its head and works its tail. It can extend its spine to raise its height by at least 2 sun. Its color allows it to disappear at night. I am convinced it is superior to all other cats.’”

“I afixed a bow around its neck, but it did not remain for long.”

Good to know that putting little costumes on cats has been a thing forever

so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what

The full picture is even more heart breaking after you open the uncropped version. Just a heads-up, it's rough

Nah let’s post it. Let’s feel it. Don’t look away.

I notice alot of my followers on here skipping these posts just to mess with my lgbt ones, suspiciously the white popular ones.

Heres a not so friendly reminder, as an lgbt metis person, i dont give a single fuck what your blog is themed or if this is too painful for you to look at. Reblog this post. Reblog this post with the sources of the 751 children who were found.

Your compliance and silence as well as the compliance and silence of your ancestors is what allowed these schools to open and kill first nations children. The children of MY people.

Dont follow me if you cant reblog this post or the one with sources to your political blog or your most popular blog. Add trigger warnings if you must but if your political blog is only focused on the harms you personally face like being lgbt then you need to see some bigger pictures and stop being afraid of angering your racist mutural or actually saying some shit about racism. If you can reblog some antifa graphics or add blm to your bio to be a surface level ally, you can reblog some sources on the genocide first nations people faced and still face today.

They were CHILDREN.

They were murdered in cold blood.

I’d like to add this photo I took last night in Victoria of the statue of Captain Cook. Though I myself am not indigenous, I 100% agree that these murderers, kidnappers and rapists shouldn’t have huge statues and plaques that decorate them and say how “great” they were.

Here’s another photo of the legislative assembly from yesterday. Later on there were more items, candles and signs at the memorial, as well as a big poster with 1505 painted on it but I didn’t get a picture

People need to see this. Not just quickly glance at the photos and keep on scrolling. They need to see this.

Reblog this or just stop following me

I had seen the first picture of the church, but not the second.

I went to a “Cancel Canada Day” event and burst into tears - not because I was surprised to learn of the unmarked graves (survivors told us they were there. Our government pushed it aside, and we let them), but because seeing all the people gathered in mourning drove it home: They. Were. Children.

This is my country’s legacy - and it’s not history. The last schools closed during my lifetime. My Father went to school with students who lived at the local residential school, after it was changed to a boarding house (read: holding centre) for indigenous youth who went to local schools.

They were all children, injured, abused, and killed in my country’s attempt to erase them. I want the world to see this and hold the state accountable to *active* reconciliation> I mean we could at least truly adopt UNDRIP in action instead of words for god’s sake.

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, Lillian Faderman.

this book is really good btw and also goes into detail about how white women basically went to Harlem for sex tourism with black women then after they were done went back to their white spaces

yes! Lillian Faderman recorded how white gay culture has historically appropriated and exploited black culture for entertainment and self expression. it’s good to read a gay history book that holds us accountable

casual reminder the MCU is the work of the devil

How the Pentagon Leaned on Hollywood to Sell the War in Afghanistan

honestly at the end of the day fatphobes want us to jump through this hoop of proving we can be both fat and healthy, & they’re obsessed with the idea that it’s just not possible, but the whole damn argument is irrelevant because it doesn’t MATTER if we’re healthy or not, we STILL need to be treated with basic human dignity. healthy people are not inherently worth more than unhealthy people

im glad people are discussing fatphobia but please don’t throw disabled & chronically ill fat people under the bus while defending metabolically healthy fat people! health is not equivalent to morality or worth & unhealthy fat people’s bodies are no more the business of thin folks than the bodies of metabolically healthy ones.

fatphobia can not be disconnected from ableism. defend and support fat disabled people!!

As a member of an archeological team, your area of expertise isn’t in language, architecture, or anything like that. It’s in convincing the various guardian spirits and protector deities your team awakens not to unleash their wrath in the name of people who have been dead for thousands of years.

Evelyn O'Connell?