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The person I reblogged this from deserves to be happy.

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Reblog this if you like seeing me on your dash

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the person reblogging this from you is rooting for you to have a happy, healthy, and successfull 2022

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i keep trying to find the words to talk about Captain America as a disabled person

because like. the climax of the first act of his movie is his disabled body getting erased, freeing him to do hero things, and we all know about how problematic that is, and if he was a new superhero and not literally made up in the early 40s it would be offensive. (as it is i'm really glad the movie played up a bunch of serious physical impairments instead of going with the halfhearted 'weak and small' take.)

but the thing is Steve remains a disabled man in an abled body.

in the terms Erskine valued him for--not a perfect soldier but a good man, someone who did not lose sight of the value of his own strength, and the value of other people in spite of their not having it--but in other ways, too.

emotional ways. tactical ways--he adapts instantly to being overpowered and outnumbered and works with and around it, in a way Thor and Tony can't because having had educational field trips into helplessness and relative lack of social privilege doesn't teach you not to be shocked by it the way living with it your whole life does.

steve doesn't stop being the man who spent his whole life fighting against being defined by the things he couldn't do. he doesn't stop being someone who expected to die young and wanted more than anything to make the time he did get worthwhile.

he doesn't stop being the person who needed these things because he lived in a world that told him he was worthless.

eugenics was incredibly normalized in America in Steve's day. Americans developed a lot of the theory the Nazis went on to apply. Steve Rogers is someone who grew up hungry, being told he was one of God's mistakes and should die without further polluting the gene pool.

His life did not stop being a fuck you to that ideology the second he got a non-disabled body and stopped being an obvious target.

because that was where the Nazis started, remember? their first mass cullings. they got the disabled concentrated in big hospital institutions, and then started killing them off. because those were the easiest and most obvious targets of their worldview.

steve was already in one of the groups the Nazis wanted to exterminate. this gets much less attention than queer readings, for plenty of reasons including that disability doesn't come with built-in romance plots and that he got made un-disabled by the story, but within canon it was already personal.

he wasn't motivated by self-preservation because lol it's steve, but he wasn't opposed to Nazi Germany as a simple moral ally of its victims, either. he was one of the people fascists wanted to destroy. he knew their kind from the ground. and i think that matters in a way we as a fandom tend to undervalue.

steve doesn't identify as part of a disabled community cuz that wasn't really a thing, and he has a lot of internalized ableism, and neither of those things stop me from relating to him as a disabled protagonist.

at a fundamental level he's always going to be that furious little gremlin showing the world his teeth and demanding it answer for the fact that it contained so much injustice.

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Mods are asleep post forbidden tits

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test test test test test

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testiiiing

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testing testing

i'm just suggesting

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//faceinhands

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so last night I had a dream that everyone in scooby doo went to college or something except for shaggy and scooby and shaggy was morosely trading in the mystery machine for a prius and the last thing I remember before waking up was scooby saying “raggy why” and shaggy goes “we need a car with better gas mileage scoob”

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yeeeeet okay no more ml for me i’m getting cranky

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... @staff why would you blackmail this fine young man

What's your favorite social media platform?

Why, Of Course! It Is Tumblr Dot Com!

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it’s funny how there are just some fandoms where i flat-out do not care about age gaps, but others where two characters have four or five years between them and i just... nope out.

kakashi/sakura? hermione/remus? gabriel/marinette? fast forward 5-10 years post-canon (or use some other method to put them at relatively comparable stages of maturity&power, e.g. time travel) and i’m perfectly comfortable

amu/ikuto? danny/vlad? my mind screams no!! they are smol!!!!!! and does not shut up until i’ve forgotten the ships again, regardless of context (the shippers traumatized me i’m sorry)

and then there are the series’ that manage to portray ships with much larger age gaps as balanced and healthy occurrences (wild magic, emma, dengeki daisy, ouat), and i’ll buy it, hook, line, and sinker

and then there’s the weird-ass conundrum that is the voltron shipping scene, because the fans are so fucking split on what’s ‘healthy’ and what’s ‘not healthy’ that it just... boggles the mind??

for instance, there seem to be several stances on shiro/pidge:

the ‘they are in love’ no-explanation-given guy (uh. okay. works for me?)

the ‘the ages the staff gave us are bullshit, their age gap is much smaller than that so it’s totally unobjectionable’ guy (...she acts 15 and he acts 25 tho...)

the ‘she is 15 and he is 25 and they should be are canonically hooking up right now’ guy (um)

the ‘*ages pidge up until she’s barely 18* perfect’ guy (i...g u e s s?)

the ‘THE VERY CONCEPT OF IT IS P E D O AND THEREFORE I L L E G A L. D I E.’ guy (o hai ther george orwell, so nice to see the government giving rights to fictional constructs /s)

the ‘idk it kinda squicks me but ydy’ guy (i respect YOU.gif)

conversely, there are whole leagues of shippers (some of whom hate shiro/pidge) that are convinced that shiro and keith fell in love/were in a relationship pre-canon... when keith was 16-17 and shiro was both much older than him and his superior officer. the only vocal dissenters to this (that i’ve found) are the people who seem to think that fiction=reality and that writing fanfic is comparable to irl sex trafficking and child exploitation.

at this point i think i’m mostly aboard the allura/lance and shiro/lance ships because they get skipped over in the drama—a/l being too typically christian-kosher and sh/l not being ship-teased enough for either of them to get sucked under.

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busted: *sings ‘i want to fuck my teacher’ in varying levels of explicitness over and over again throughout the song until the end, where it’s implied  that he actually fucked the teacher* some youtube commenter:

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foods that will poison cats:

alcohol 

chocolate

caffeine

dairy products (adults turn lactose intolerant)

fat trimmings, raw meat, eggs, fish

grapes and raisins

onions and garlic

tuna (when not made for cats)

xylitol (artificial sweetener)

if you have a cat please reblog this