@funsizearsonist / funsizearsonist.tumblr.com
I know I'm a bit late to saying this but frankly if I found out a secret society of magic-users were just playing nonsense sports and making up slurs for the rest of us instead of helping us out with famines or leukemia I think I'd apply for a job with my local witch hunters
rb to give the person u rb'd this from transgender swag
"they already have it" ok?? give them some more..
goodnight everyone (:
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When I was younger and more abled, I was so fucking on board with the fantasy genre’s subversion of traditional femininity. We weren’t just fainting maidens locked up in towers; we could do anything men could do, be as strong or as physical or as violent. I got into western martial arts and learned to fight with a rapier, fell in love with the longsword.
But since I’ve gotten too disabled to fight anymore, I… find myself coming back to that maiden in a tower. It’s that funny thing, where subverting femininity is powerful for the people who have always been forced into it… but for the people who have always been excluded, the powerful thing can be embracing it.
As I’m disabled, as I say to groups of friends, “I can’t walk that far,” as I’m in too much pain to keep partying, I find myself worrying: I’m boring, too quiet, too stationary, irrelevant. The message sent to the disabled is: You’re out of the narrative, you’re secondary, you’re a burden.
The remarkable thing about the maiden in her tower is not her immobility; it’s common for disabled people to be abandoned, set adrift, waiting at bus stops or watching out the windows, forgotten in institutions or stranded in our houses. The remarkable thing is that she’s like a beacon, turning her tower into a lighthouse; people want to come to her, she’s important, she inspires through her appearance and words and craftwork. In medieval romances she gives gifts, write letters, sends messengers, and summons lovers; she plays chess, commissions ballads, composes music, commands knights. She is her household’s moral centre in a castle under siege. She is a castle unto herself, and the integrity of her body matters.
That can be so revolutionary to those of us stuck in our towers who fall prey to thinking: Nobody would want to visit; nobody would want to listen; nobody would want to stay.
#it’s so so important to remember that representation is not one-size-fits-all#what is empowering to one person might be exhausting and oppressive to someone else#some people need stories about having the strength to save themselves#some people need stories about being considered worthy of being saved#some people need inspiration for their independence while others need validation that they don’t have to be able to do everything themselves#before you lash out against something PLEASE stop to consider:#is this inadequate and/or damaging representation?#or is it just something I don’t personally relate to? [X]
It’s been half a decade and I still haven’t found an articulation of the complexity of “representation” as concisely and precisely mindblowing as @hungrylikethewolfie’s here.
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“Kill them with kindness”
Nah, fuck that, CRICKET BAT 🏏 🏏🏏🏏*SMACK*
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Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
i wish workout tips were less geared toward weight loss and more toward building strength/ flexibility because i couldnt care less about reducing my belly or thigh fat, i just want to be able to go on longer hikes and lift furniture without pulling a muscle or getting winded
Listen Up Columbia! — Portraits from a campus in crisis Photographed by Gabriella Gregor Splaver
I just. The bar is so low, guys. It's so fucking low. "Don't tell violently marginalized people they're wrong about their own experiences of marginalization and violence, and if you do and are called out on it, don't double down and act like you're being victimized".
That's it.
How are we still finding new, exciting ways to miss that bar every second of every day?
man, we really will take any and every chance we possibly can to be as vile to Jews as we possibly can, huh
ASEXUALS WHO ARE SEX REPULSED I LOVE YOU.
ASEXUALS WHO ARE HYPERSEXUAL I LOVE YOU.
ASEXUALS WHO ENJOY SEX AND AREN'T PHYSICALLY ATTRACTED TO YOUR PARTNER I LOVE YOU.
ASEXUALS WHO HAVE SEX FOR THEIR PARTNERS BENEFIT EVEN IF THEY DON'T ENJOY IT I LOVE YOU.
ASEXUALS WHO HAVE SEX AND ENJOY IT (REGARDLESS OF IF YOU ARE ATTRACTED TO YOUR PARTNER OR NOT) I LOVE YOU .
ASEXUALS WHO ONLY HAVE SEX FOR MUTUAL BENEFIT (PHYSICAL OR EMOTIONAL) I LOVE YOU.
ASEXUALS WHO HAVE SEX TO BOND I LOVE YOU.
ASEXUALS WITH COMPLICATED OR NON TRADITIONAL VIEWS ON SEX I LOVE YOU.
ASEXUALS I LOVE YOU.!!!
would you rather be waterboarded by blizzard game ads or disney movie ads
this image is making me realize fandom wikis are so impenetrable and smothered in ads that I have never actually seen any of the attempts at branding that fandom tries to make with its logo or choice of colors or whatever because I literally don’t have the opportunity to do so on their own goddamn website
this seems like a good opportunity to remind everyone that the Indie Wiki Buddy extension exists, and works on both Chrome and Firefox!
it makes it so that whenever you click on a link to a Fandom wiki, it helps you redirect either to an independent wiki (if there is one), or to a site like BreezeWiki that removes ads, suggestions, etc from Fandom pages so you can actually read them without all the clutter!
reblog to save a life
Mobility assistance
being aromantic and into whump is like. shoutout to whump for being a great opportunity to engage with stories about intimacy and vulnerability and powerful emotion and physical interactions with other people and intense relationships that are not presumptively based in romance. what would i do without you.
i truly love seeing both aro and non-aro people reblogging and agreeing with this sentiment. join me, let's appreciate intimacy and vulnerability and powerful emotion and physical interactions with other people and intense relationships that are not presumptively based in romance. i love you whump genre.
i love this old man and his cat (ID in alt)
"kids dress/act so grown up now" because they get bullied for liking 'kid stuff' instead of what a mid 20s influencer is into
You again?
The one time I wrote to a published author about their book, they wrote back to me. It was in the 00s and it was about a book published in the 70s. They must’ve been grandma age.
Anon has such a mind boggling opinion here. I just never thought anyone would think like that before. I wish I could see a series of slumdog millionaire type flashbacks to see how they got there. Maybe it would make more sense then.
"AO3 is not social media", um, like yeah, okay, that's true... but how does this person think fic writers reply to comments? Do they understand "reply" is a feature AO3 chose to include?
They didn't have to... FFN doesn't allow you to reply to reviews. AO3 chose to include that feature, and this person is mad that people use it?!?!
Also, like... sometimes readers ask questions... should fic writers just ignore that???
"Fandom is not a social event" ummmm I think they may be doing fandom wrong, tbh 🤣
Like, what if you go to a fandom event like a con? Are you allowed to socialize then? If someone says something to you, to do respond with "I'm not here to socialize! This is not a party! Talk to your family!! Fandom is for social isolation only!!!"
i love characters who could get the absolute Shit kicked out of them and still be fine but as soon as someone touches/handles them gently it’s like “ah. im going to shatter to pieces now thanks”
grabs your hand. you've had enough plot and exposition and character development lately im taking you to the beach episode
