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In case anyone finds it helpful because mobility aids are horrifically expensive and inaccessible…

And for those people who have access to mobility devices but might benefit from a second chair they can abuse without risking expensive damage…

Erik Kondo has made a website, Open Source Innovations, that details plans for DIY wheelchairs. These wheelchairs can be made from common materials like wood, plastic, and pvc. They are lightweight and can be custom fit to the user allowing from the same degree of movement you would get from a custom chair. And they are durable and easily repairable. (he has been stress testing his latest design by dropping it down stairs, dropping it out of a car, launching it across a driveway, and throwing it off a deck). Its 12lbs and I think he said its was in the $200 ish range for parts.

He also is working on cheap, open source, accessible designs for beach chairs, off road chairs, motorized attachments (think smart drive), and so on. Plus he skateboards in his wheelchair. Cool dude, helpful info, pass it on.

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10 things for 10 people you'd like to know better!

tagged by @lesbiansayaishii (thank you so so much you are an Epic Mutual to me lol)

last song: hurricane by halsey ! listening to oc playlists to try to find the motivation to write more

last book: I think it was gender queer by maia kobabe ! either that or i fell in love with hope by lancali (that book made me cry so many times but I love it so so much.)

last movie: this one is difficult I tend to watch series more often than movies (and it tends to be the same 3 or 4 over and over again) and I can't remember the last movie I watched 😭

last tv show: last show i finished was house md and I am currently on my fourth or fifth (?) rewatch of bones !

favorite color: this is also difficult! I like essentially all colors but especially green and purple!

sweet/savory/spicy: sweet or spicy (or both!!)

relationship status: single

current obsession: honestly so many but jumping spiders (i cried while watching a video about Neonella camillae the other day because they're sooo small and tiny and adorable) and making art dolls!

looking forward to: vending my first big art market in april (!) and volunteering to help with the big migration night for amphibians in my area! it sounds so silly goofy but sometime this month I am (hopefully) literally going to be helping frogs and salamanders cross the street!

just realized I never added last thing I googled: Craigslist lol. looking for jumping spider enclosures !

no pressure tags: @crime-wives @shrrpteeth @galwithalibrarycard @t3mperanc3 @mechbones @androgynousexhale @shadowspussy @bisexualmenace @daaedoodles @romiwithani

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the only thing you wanna do is…

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Hi! Do you think you could draw Elphie and Glinda swapping costumes with Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard? (Six the musical) I just think it would be funny lol! Have a great day/night!

~Anon

Hope you have a great day/night too! :D

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Give Me A Sign, Chapter 12 “Better Safe, Then Sorry” has been posted!

Synopsis : Elizabeth and Floyd are forced to work together to save a mother and her twin babies. Floyd’s judgement is tested when complications arise.

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happy wenclairtober everyone! here is the official prompt list for wenclairtober 2024, an event organized by a few wenclairs and myself on twitter! please post any fics on ao3 or art under the tag #wenclairtober2024. ALT TEXT INCLUDED.

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needed to draw enid with her new hair and scars immediately

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mia being so good at judging peoples characters is making me wonder how the hell she got into that mess with veronica?? she basically told her she’d do anything to get more resources for her department but her intuition is so good, veronica would give her bad vibes off the bat. though, i also think she can also sense that there’s more to veronica than the cold and manipulative personality shw portrays

i’ve spent a lot of time thinking about veronica’s character and i think that she has a strong sense of duty and it drives her. she was specifically hired by the board to cut costs for the hospital and increase revenue and she’s gonna do that, no matter what it takes. she is extremely logical and has a “i can’t change the world but i’ll try to help the people i can and the rest isn’t my problem” mentality which we see very clearly when she tells lauren they’re not here to solve the social ills of the world.

when the resistance was busted she could have fired all of them and reported them to the medical board, but she didn’t. she said that elizabeth’s surgeries generated a lot of money for the hospital and elizabeth leaving would get in the way of veronica’s job/goal of increasing revenue and telling the medical board like she threatened would also have the same effect. her reasons for demoting iggy were completely valid and i’m half surprised she didn’t fire him because he really wasn’t doing his job. she said she would have let mia go if she wasn’t the only doctor in her department, except she easily could have fired her and found a replacement, but she didn’t. the only reason she let lauren go was because she already handed in a resignation and therefore by firing her she would scare the others into not doing anymore illegal and dangerous surgeries or things behind her back, which as she said, risked the accreditation of the hospital. her anger towards the resistance was justified and i think veronica’s bark is worse than her bite.

i feel as though veronica understands the resistance and that’s also apart of why she doesn’t go to the medical board about any of them as in her backstory in the episode with floyd, she used to be a bright eyed, stubborn doctor who was willing to do anything for her patients to help, even if it was dangerous, like they are now. i think she was more trying to teach them a lesson like she was taught, but also on some level i think she respects them as doctors who just need discipline and to learn how to follow the rules, because she learnt that if you don’t, people get hurt. she learnt her limits and knows to stick to them instead of trying to do more even though there’s a possibility it will have a better outcome because the odds are it will be worse.

when max tried to get her medical license revoked and played dirty, veronica seemed genuinely offended that he stooped so low, which makes me think that being fair is something that’s very important to her. she only got karen removed from the board after that happened in order to secure her job/livelihood because it was clearly at risk.

veronica is smart and she knows how to get what she wants, pushing just far enough to intimidate and manipulate the people around her without actually hurting them. none of what she did was ever actually malicious. she was trying to do her job, she’s not evil.

the worst thing veronica did was try to extort lauren, but i think that her rationality behind that was that firing lauren wouldn’t do the hospital any good but by blackmailing her, she would be able to get more donations/funds for the hospital which was what she was brought in to do. that money would be used to help their patients/the hospital so in that sense, i think she’s very much a morally gray person who does bad things for good reasons.

in addition, when mia quotes dostoevsky, veronica recognizes it. mia is surprised and tells her “most people think i’m quoting deepak chopra” to which veronica responds, “not me, that’s why i hired you.” implying that veronica didn’t only hire mia as a cash grab, but also because she believes in what she does. dostoevsky’s works explore the human condition and morality in the face of difficulty, always including philosophical and spiritual themes. veronica reading his works, and being enough of a fan that she recognizes the quote even when it’s not said in full, makes me think she’s a highly intelligent and reflective person who understands herself and others and why they do what they do.

side note, i think it’s kind of cool there’s a parallel between the book the quote was chosen from (crime and punishment, “low ceilings and tiny rooms cramp the soul” ) as in both situations the characters are faced with situations where they feel forced to do immoral things to get what they want/need — rodion is faced with the hopelessness of his situation and resorts to murder to escape poverty and veronica blackmails, fires and threatens members of the resistance resistance to keep the hospital, her job and the patients safe.

she clearly has an understanding of people and psychology and uses it to manipulate to get what she wants, while mia uses her own knowledge of people to try and help others.

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deformity is NOT an evil word coming out of the mouth of a deformed person. faggot is NOT an evil word coming out of a gay man’s mouth. transsexual is NOT an evil word coming out of the mouth of a transsexual . the world is a big place with lots of people on it who are different from you and this is okay

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the worst part of my Ehlers Danlos flares (besides the pain, duh) is the brain fog. Like wdym I can’t even do a puzzle because my brain says “no can do buggo, we bein dum dum today”

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so mia coded

— Fiona Apple

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STOP TELLING DISABLED PEOPLE TO EAT ORGANIC TO FIX THEIR DISABILITIES.

STOP TELLING DISABLED PEOPLE THEY'RE JUST "UNFIT" AND WORKING OUT WILL FIX THEIR DISABILITIES.

STOP TELLING DISABLED PEOPLE THAT THEY'RE JUST MENTALLY ILL AND GETTING THERAPY WILL FIX THEIR DISABILITIES.

STOP TELLING DISABLED PEOPLE MODERN MEDICINE IS MAKING THEM DISABLED.

STOP BLAMING DISABILITIES ON VACCINES.

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Being neurodivergent and chronically ill is crazy because you already have issues with executive functions and then your body hinders you even more. AND your sensory issues are heightened by the pain you feel.

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I never truly knew the meaning of friendship until I became chronically ill and disabled. When my health declined I had people leaving left and right because I couldn’t keep up with other teenagers. I stopped having people check on me, I stopped getting invited to stuff, stopped being included, until I just got left behind. Now as an adult I found friends who check up on me, make sure whatever we do is accessible to me, always making me feel included, they are my support system.

Check up on your chronically ill and disabled friends, keep including them in stuff even if they have to end up canceling it. Being excluded for something you have no control over is horrible and no one should go through that.

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one thing i wish ableds would remember is that, unfortunately disability doesn't magically pause for holidays, special events, or celebrations. just because it happens only once a year or you saved up for it doesn't mean that people are not disabled. the fact that a member of your group is disabled should have been included in the planning in the very first place because we can't just wing it or push through.

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Even if you were a difficult child, you didn't deserve to be hurt.