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[paintedpigeon1]

I'm in the UK. To renew a blue badge (aka getting a new one, there's no easy renewal form/button) you need the past five years of medical history. It lasts three years.

You can't walk due to a permanent disability? Yeah we need evidence of the past 5yrs of medical history. Yes even though nothing's changed. Yes even though you gave us half of this last time.

It's the same with freedom passes. As if someone who's profoundly deaf is going to magically have gained their hearing back (the pass lasts 5yrs but they ask for evidence you still need it after 2-3yrs).

It's a pisstake, aimed to stop people claiming I'm sure.

the government "checking in" on disabled people to make sure were still disabled is one of the most demeaning and humiliating things out there, how is there no checkbox that says "this persons disability is lifelong and incurable" why do you think people's amputated limbs will grow back, are you on the hunt for the return of jesus christ and your way of catching him is hoping that the blind will see again????

[carouselunique]

They had a bit of a chance encounter on a day where Blueblood was dealing with something that was very difficult and was so caught up in his emotions he didn’t even care that he was in the garden getting grass stans on his coat and Ditzy, with her natural impulse to cheer ponies up, didn’t even notice or care that she was flying into the palace gardens when she saw someone sat in the rain.

At first he was definitely going to call the castle guards to come apprehend this strange filly with the odd eyes who was intruding when this was the last moment he’d want to entertain any desperate debutantes, however she surprised him by not fawning or anything, not even caring about his status, just putting one of her fluffy wings up and asking if he needed somepony to lend an ear.

“Don’t let my eyes fool you, my ears work just fine!”

She was incredibly disarming and while he didn’t reveal everything about why he was upset, he found himself talking about his feelings to her. And she made such cheerful remarks, and was very comforting. In the end, he felt better and she came to check on him the next day, even sharing a blueberry muffin with him. He remarked that he’d never seen her around before, and that he wouldn’t mind terribly seeing her more often.

The rest, as they say, is history.

[foosybit]

gotta remind him who's chieftain around here

[fury161]

i went to france and brought back demonic trinkets... i blacked out in a gift shop in mont st michel and woke up an hour later with these in my hand

[road-hauler]

A very fed up concorde for your eyeballs

[maybe-boys-do-love]

If and when y’all see an epic THK meta about the rejection of the black and white Christian institutional morality represented by Captain Christ (Biblical Good) and Mother Lilith (Biblical Evil) through the experience of love and compassion, someone please send it my way.

[calitsnow]

Just thinking late at night …

[unlikelyapricot-art]

British/Geordie Shinonome siblings spread inspired by @tom-is-online's British Akito post ^^

I saw the post and thought it was funny + one of my friends is both an Akito and Football fan so I thought it'd be fun combine the two skdjansj (close ups and more rambling under the cut)

traffic light Akito is traced/drawn over from a pic i took at the NUFC cup win celebration- looking back at people doing it in the pictures i thought it'd be funny to have nufc supporter Akito climbing a traffic light for a chance to see the team and the cup ^^ in my head Ena is stood next him wondering why she agreed to come along kjsbdjksab

edit of A Big Feast After the Event Akito to change his shirt into a retro NUFC shirt (yes it has too few stripes but shhh askdbask) and putting a pic of the carabao cup win in the picture frame

mirror selfie Ena!! I saw someone in the tags of the original post talking about the implication of british Ena from british Akito so i couldn't leave her out, but lowkey i both didnt know how to give her in character britishisms and kinda figured Ena is online enough that she'd still dress the same jksadjasb just gave her a shopping bag from a shop in the toon and called it a day 👍

i didn't pop a cropped version of it in but the top right is Ena and Akito getting crepes after a match!!! thought it would be cute + fun for them

also not cropped is the lil akito in the bottom left, i drew him first to get a feel for the fit, was on the fence about keeping him in but he filled some space so i figured he could stay :)

[endsofthearth]

so I found out ab Duo Nina gushing over legally distinct Persona 5 yaoi in her voicelines and I immediately had to pull her............

[garaks-sewing-gun]

so I’m about a third of the way into A Stitch In Time and I just have so many thoughts.

this is unexpectedly one of the most fascinating books I have ever read, because the circumstances of its existence (tie-in novel for established tv show, written by the actor, largely taken from his character-dev writing) create a novel that would’ve never existed otherwise.

in any other normal novel, the protagonist with a sad childhood who gets shipped off to train to be a weapon of the state, in a violent, loveless institution, would be… taking a stand against the status quo! that’s what protagonists do, they make unlikely friends and they stand up for what’s right and they change their world etc etc. yahoo. yay !

but as we good and goddamn know: garak’s not a protagonist

these flashback portions follow so many classic sf/f coming of age tropes of a young lad finding himself in a harsh new world, but instead of the main character being guided by a convenient moral compass and growing in defiance of the competitive, cruel environment– garak adapts, learns to outcompete his peers, learns to be crueler.

it’s not so much that you’re reading garak becoming worse (though he is, for sure)

it’s more that garak is drifting from being a mere product of his environment, to a perpetuator of it

[aurantiumred]

as a man who has not only never read or interacted with the dc universe and has only had their partner ramble jason todd lore to them like. once or twice.i should not have the idea of a percy jackson/justice league crossover stuck in my head this hard.

trying to imagine the cabin counselors sitting in on meetings and absolutely causing havoc. falling over in their chairs, giving wonderful ideas like "kill that loser! throw a hairbrush at em!" about literally EVERY villain and trying to organize a capture the flag game with the JL vs CHB and/or CJ is hilarious to me

i would also love a jason todd/grace meet up. because the sillies.

[necra-loid]

waited long enough, here are some of my fav caps from 1999 ^^

[aeolianblues]

the crazy thing about fandom is that a 39 year old man can be baby, a 38 year old, grandpa, and the 53 year old, babygirl. And these are rookie numbers

[soupmanspeaks]

I wonder if in any or all the supernatural experiences Michael went through, he thought back to his special interest favorite show; Immortal and the Restless and reacted with "woahhhhh this [scenario] is just like what happened in the show to my pookie [ Clara ] !!"

[augustheart]

firestorms my friends firestorms. no not those ones

[wormchomper]

I think we should be allowed to hunt STEM Redditors for sport, actually.