#the disabled god

[purpleweredragon]

"Unity is, of course, a worthwhile goal, but a unity that silences the call of marginized people for justice is not true unity."

The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability, Nancy L. Eiesland

[blessedarethebinarybreakers]

Join me and my friend Laura as we explore biblical and artistic images of God on wheels — from the wheeled throne of Daniel 7 to art of Jesus in a wheelchair.

Drawing from the writings and lived experiences of Rabbi Julia Watts Belser, a teen named Becky Tyler, Professor Nancy Eiesland, and Laura themself, we make a case for why such images matter in the face of stigma, inaccessibility, and unsolicited prayers for "healing."

As Rabbi Watts Belser puts it, in a world where some bodies are assumed to be "incompatible with the sacred," it is vital theology to "name and claim our bodies as close to the Divine."

[blackkatdraws2]

[Toon x Mobster] spellcasting - the lobotomy song

Do you have any ibuprofen 🥺 I got a headache

[Uncensored ver underneath.]

[cheesy-cheddar-sadness]

text could never portray the scream i wish i could let out

[thoradvice]

you don't have to be glad that it's not worse. that goes for everything. disability, trauma, mental illness, grades, finances, whatever. you're /allowed/ to be upset that things are the way they are. you don't have to be grateful for your situation - bad is bad. somebody else's suffering doesn't make yours less painful. it's okay to be angry

[growling]

Hey. I'm saying this very gently in my friendliest tone. Some people (namely mentally, developmentally and intellectually disabled people) are just straight up not able to understand politics, and that's perfectly okay and not a moral issue on their part, so don't treat it like it is.

Some people may need you to explain it to them in a very simplified, easy to understand way so they can maybe get it, some people just won't be able to understand no matter how you word it and I need you to not blow up at them for it and think they're being "willingly obtuse and ignorant of the world they're living in" or whatever. Politics is a very complex and nuanced thing that nearly everybody is gonna explain differently and have wildly different opinions on what some words or stances actually mean or should mean. And some of us just simply can't deal with that and cannot be made to do so with just the right arguments and definitions.

I'm autistic (+ my schizophrenia makes my thinking very disorganized and sometimes incomprehensible which adds to that too) and I have a LOT of difficulty with understanding and learning these kinds of very complex and nuanced discussions, and a lot of the time I'm just not able to. And that's fine and doesn't make me stupid or not putting in enough effort or imply I'm "looking away" from all the problems in society. Can some of yall stop trying to make us feel guilty or even evil for not engaging in things we are not able to grasp well or at all

[anonbeadraws]

Defy the Gods - Lay of the Land I finally get to show off some of the illustrations I made for Defy the Gods, made by @hecticelectron! Each piece was a lovely layering of research in mesopotamian architecture and clothing, I got to learn a few things and try and keep my work as factual as possible! Pre-order your copy here!

[faerynova]

The Long Haul

Day 3: Chronic pain | Forced endurance | “Aren’t you better yet?”

(prompt list/challenge here)

happy 15th anniversary to generator rex i didnt mean for this to be the thing i post to celebrate but its on brand for me

[crabussy]

by the way if you think an endangered species deserves to go extinct because it takes effort to save them/they can’t look after themselves, you need to reevaluate the way you look at the world because that is an extremely flawed, messed up, and sad worldview.

[identitty-dickruption]

denormalise parents making jokes about wanting their kids dead. "blah blah kids are annoying though and being a parent is hard" there is a power dynamic here and it is not in the direction you seem to think it is in. "sometimes I wish I could kill the powerless humans I have full legal control over lmao" it would be scarily easy for you to do exactly that and get away with it and that is not a joke

[stars-etc]

I literally cannot express how much I love Worlds Beyond Number.

[bruhstation]

*Breaks into your house to stare wistfully out the window* Do you ever think that CTHenry is, at least by some perceptions, a corpse being kept alive by gold dust and the whimsy of a goddess whose motives are unknown? I do. *Puffs on bubble pipe* Anyway. I'm still holding out hope for a happy ending for our Miserable Train Gays. Iram gentlemen. Have a good day 💗

out of sight, out of mind

[creekfiend]

Honestly collecting Castro's star seed would be weirdly normal for the CIA in the 1960s. One of the tamer facts about that era was that the security office had to keep issuing warnings because the research department (doing MK Ultra) kept spiking people's food with LSD to do blind studies on its effects (read: get everyone else tripping as many balls as they were, but with unethical scientific justification)

I KNOW THATS WHY I MADE THE JOKE bc ship was telling me about their plan to CREATE AN ARTIFICIAL SEASHELL THAT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL that he would be unable to resist going to pick it up and then it would EXPLODE and also possibly make him GAY

and I was like this is ineffectual sailor moon villain bullshit

[risetherivermoon]

i dont really like it when people dumb down Curly's characterization to just the guy enabling Jimmy. I get that that makes it easier to not like him, so that's why a lot of people do that, because they feel guilty about sympathizing with someone who's done smth fucked up like that, but i really don't think it's giving Curly the justice he deserves.

regardless of if you like him as a person or not, Curly is still a victim and he suffered greatly at Jimmy's hand. Just because he did something fucked up doesn't make him a 'monster' (sorry because i saw someone say that he looks like a monster post-crash and thats sticking with me because why TF are we saying disabled burn victims look like LITERAL MONSTERS- yall use some common sense I BEG)

Dumbing down characters is what fandom does best, but i think it particularly irks me in Mouthwashing because of the nature of the story. Jimmy already thinks of the rest of the crew poorly and doesn't see them for how they really are, we don't need to be doing that too.

I also feel like people don't really recognize the fact Jimmy manipulates and abuses Curly too, even before the crash. What Curly did was fucked up but for the love, don't dumb him down to just this one thing he did.

[cedarspiced]

someone really struggling with something is NOT the same as someone being fully unable to do something, and saying as much is not oppression olympics, it's just a statement of fact.

if that statement feels invalidating to you, please ask yourself why.

just because someone needs more accomodations than you doesn't mean you are any LESS disabled, it just means that different people are going to have different needs, and that's ok!

[glorydioxide]

People who make their vehicles produce the loudest possible noise on purpose are my personal enemy and should be executed on the spot.