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FYI cis or binary d&d players who play across gender:

Your nonbinary characters:

don’t have to be androgynous. Just like female characters can be butch and male characters can be femme, so can enbies

don’t have to have the same gender presentation all the time

don’t have to use exclusively they/them pronouns

don’t have to be intersex (that’s a wholly different thing)

don’t have to be monsters/aliens/shapeshifters/weird in some way.

don’t have to be flamboyant bards etc

don’t have to have a special gender neutral voice

don’t have to make it a plot point that no one can determine their gender

Like obviously they CAN be those things but they don’t have to be. Don’t box yourself or them in.

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witnessing young girls trying to mature too fast knowing i cant save them all

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Applying for jobs is a hell designed specifically to torment autistic people. Here is a well-paying task which you know in your heart and soul if they just gave you a desk and left you alone and allowed you to do it you would sit there and be more focused and enthusiastic and excellent at it than anyone else in the building. However, before they allow you to perform the task, you must pass through 3-4 opaque social crucibles where you must wear uncomfortable clothes and make eye contact while everyone expects you to lie, but not too much (no one is ever clear exactly how much lying is expected, “over” honesty is however penalized). You are being judged almost entirely on how well you understand these very specific and unclear rules that no one has explained. None of this has anything to do with your ability to perform the desired task.

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We see the aviators Gideon wears as anachronistically modern for this archaic world, and Harrow reacts to them accordingly, but we must not forget that they are an ancient artefact, pre-resurrection. For all we feel like they mess with her Ninth image they must actually strengthen it to the other houses. This Ninth cultist is wearing ten thousand year old glasses to block out the light. I dare you to think of something more Ninth than that.

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Another day, another victory for Iroh as we enter the midway point of Series 1! We now face a true case of the Hydrogen Bomb vs. Coughing Baby, with the fully-realized Fire Lord Zuko joining the fray. Make no mistake, folks; a match between The Dragon of the West and The Blue Spirit is surely to be quite the spectacle.

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^ very true and also silly I omitted this because I am one of said invisibly disabled people.

yes, there are that many really disabled people on the internet actually

When I was less sick I used to think, "It seems like such a large portion of people on the internet are disabled, it can't possibly be that large of a percentage of the population" and then let my ableism demons tell me it was because they were faking (the same ones that told me I was faking, until I made myself really ill.)

But now that I'm sicker and wiser I realize I was logically just wrong because

The internet is disabled people's lifeline. There are more disabled people on the internet because OF COURSE. People who aren't disabled can be less chronically online because they don't have to be. This is textbook selection bias!

But actually also I was almost right, because there are way more disabled people in society than you would think! They're just systematically hidden and excluded from public spaces for abled peoples' convenience! 🙃

Anyway maybe this will help you understand and/or explain to abled friends and family.

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I don't think younger/newer users fully grasp the shit show that ace discourse was around 2014-17

It was so hostile that, to this day, discussions that begin to derail just enough can make me physically nauseous, some specific mockery trigger crying sessions years later. We lost most accounts with any sort of ace positivity. There was no information, no support, and all this damage was done predominantly by other queer people.

All this to say that you, however you identify yourself, should be engaging with aphobic comments the same way you do any hate. We don't sugarcoat or try to be comprehensive with people who are blatantly racist, homophobic or terfs, so why give it a pass just because it's coming from a queer person? I see how this tolerance goes and it's done enough damage as it is.

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A hummingbird thought a man’s orange hat was a flower [x]

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In an interview about gun control with Oklahoma State Senator Nathan Dahm, Jon Stewart argues Dahm's support of anti-drag show laws directly conflicts with the logic he uses for loosening gun restrictions.

Jon Stewart to conservative state senator: ‘you don’t give a flying f**k’ | CNN Business

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HBO84

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the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.

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I’ll never forget the time I was sitting with this guy, nice kid, didn’t know him well, I think we must have had a bottle of wine or some questionable hashish or something, and in response to an awkward silence I just started talking and ended up going on a long meandering rant about how ugly American robins are. I’m talking a full monologue. I had an intro and conclusion. It was pointlessly vehement. I have never been so mean or loquacious about anything in my life.

Consider my horror when this perfectly nice guy wordlessly lifted his shirt to reveal a full-torso prismacolor tattoo of his spiritual soul animal, the American robin.

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E.R. Comics, Ryan Pequin

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Search engine AI helpfully suggesting I journal or pray about being bloated

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Are you chronically ill and exhausted? Have you been a little flare-up-y recently? Do you have things to do today? Well if so, may I interest you in an

Accursed Disability Nap!

faqs about the nap:

will it be comfortable?

no.

how long will it be?

extremely. probably like 4 hours in the middle of the day.

will I wake up several times and have just enough awareness to be able to mentally pummel myself about the fact that I'm not doing anything but not enough awareness to physically move any of my limbs?

haha yeah that's the best part

okay, but will I be rested at the end?

you will not <3