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I tried makeup for a while in college but I could tell it was actually making my dysphoria *worse* because I'd feel alright about myself but then take it off at the end of the day and I'd see my face without makeup and suddenly be hit by how ugly I felt without it and I was like oh. this doesn't seem healthy. so I swore it off and threw it all out and now my bare face doesn't really bother me anymore. I want to feel good about myself at all hours of the day, actually

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There's a pattern I keep seeing on advice columns (and comment threads for fake reddit stories).

Letter: Person A is doing something weird and upsetting that causes all kinds of problems for me, but I don't know what to say because they clearly have Symptoms Disorder Advice Columnist (reasonable): You should immediately take all precautions to protect yourself from that behavior - just because they have a disorder doesn't mean you also have to suffer. Commenter (unreasonable): The letter writer should immediately take all precautions to protect yourself from that behavior, also Person A is Bad and Wrong for having symptoms and is probably faking it to manipulate you Me: Don't you think that's kind of ableist? Commenter: No! It's not ableist to say that the LW needs to protect themselves! You're actually victim-blaming

Like they don't even notice what they're saying. Like "a disabled person is causing problems" is synonymous with "and therefore their disability is bad and wrong" and they don't understand why you could have a problem with part of this when you don't have a problem with the rest.

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For SciArt September 13: Carmine

Dasymutilla californica. I love velvet ants a lot, and so far have documented five species (including this one) in my region on inaturalist. They're just such fuzzy little things!

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Normalize creeping and crawling. Scuttling, even.

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Felix Friday

Connecting with James over drinks

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Had a random Doctor Who dream. It was one of those stories where the cast is trapped in a setting and thinks they're people from that setting - like in "Human Nature" - but the cast was the Doctor, the Master, and the Rani, no humans. And for whatever reason, they believed they were a nuclear family - the Doctor and the Master were the parents (don't remember if straight or gay), and the Rani was the teenage daughter. Not sure if whatever force was keeping them there made her into a teenager, or if she had just naturally regenerated into a younger body.

Anyway the Rani was this, like, kind of sociopathic kid with violent tendencies, and the Doctor was trying to help her, like, cope with that. I remember that the Doctor was very much not judging her and was sort of trying to protect her from teachers who were like THIS GIRL'S A FREAK. But also she might've been starting to transform into some sort of monster? But the Doctor was also understanding about that.

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fabulous creature?

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stupid idiot bug drawing

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I feel like there's a difference between "I don't dream of labor" and "I shouldn't have to do labor." One can understand the necessity of labor without enjoying or desiring it for its own sake.

When employers say "you should be grateful to have a job," when people justify paying disabled people below-minimum wage because "otherwise they wouldn't be working," when work requirements are attached to benefits, when billionaires flatter themselves as "hard workers" when their work benefits no one, labor is treated as a benefit in and of itself. But it's not; it's a sacrifice. How can we assure that people are properly compensated for this sacrifice if we won't even recognize that that's what it is?

This slogan, by de-centering labor, also has a utility for disabled people who cannot perform labor. Ideologies, both capitalist and communist, which treat labor as the most important thing in any person's life cannot provide anything to disabled people who can't work. At best, this logic ignores us; at worst, it is genocidal.

"I don't dream of labor" is truly the most unbearable and infuriating thing that the online pop leftism sphere has ever produced

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I saw this reddit comment and instantly thought it would do numbers on Tumblr.

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I saw this reddit comment and instantly thought it would do numbers on Tumblr.

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Trilobite Mermaid

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