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oh shit its trans day of visibility. make sure to catch a glimpse of my true form while you can from a safe social distance.

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Shifting to here

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MY MOM SAID IF I COULD GET 100,000 NOTES I CAN GET A DAGGER

PLEASE HELP ME

IM NOT ALLOWED TO REBLOG OR SPAM MY OWN POST SO HELP ME OUT GUSY

PLEASE I WANT A DAGGER

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I'm crying

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so i made a thing! take this to find out which finwean you are and put your result in the tags! 

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From a physically disabled, wheelchair user: stop using the word “crippled” to describe your experience with anxiety, depression, etc

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idk if uquizzes are still a thing that anyone cares about, but my love for quizzes will never die, so i’m back with another one! i made a dnd class quiz focused more around personality and mindset and less about what abilities you’d like to have in the game. 

also, if anyone is interested in a subclass quiz for any of the classes, let me know! i’m totally down to make those, i just don’t know which class to start with haha

link to the quiz in reblog

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I think what I like most about king of attolia and part of why it’s my favorite is the way it so completely shuts down any ableist thought towards Eugenides while also acknowledging that he has limitations because of his disability.

“It’s hard to justify attacking someone so helpless” says Teleus, completely ignoring the long and violent history of people who underestimate Eugenides. No, because Eugenides is disabled, he is utterly helpless and completely useless and the Guard hates him just as much for being disabled as they do for being Eddisian. The way he’s described as having tricked poor Irene, that she could never be happy with some cr*ppled goatfoot, brings to mind tropes about ~perverted cr*pples~ and lechers.

But by the end of the book, Gen shows himself as a skilled fighter, a political genius, and compassionate lover because this image they have of him being helpless isn’t based in reality, but in their own perceptions of him based partially on the fact that he’s disabled.

On the other hand, so much of the abuse that his attendants heap on him is based on hatred of his disability and gen IS, in fact, helpless to do anything but rely on them. He can’t button up his shirts one handed, he can’t wear coats that are sized too small because then his cuff sticks out, he can’t cut his own food properly, and most egregiously, he cannot blend in with a crowd anymore than he can strangle someone with one hand.

“He cannot kill the ambassador because he only has one hand” Philologos spits dejectedly, because he’s realized what the others can’t - Gen can’t sneak into the Medean Empire, he can’t strangle another man on his own, for the same reason that he WANTS to do those things. Sejanus all but says out loud that their torment of him is fine bc theyre acting on an impulse to put the cr*pple in his place, but it’s only when Philologos forces them to emphathise with him do they realize that this impulse isn’t valorous, it’s disgusting.

Costis realizes the danger of the attendents being cruel when Gen points out how easily he could be poisoned but the sick feeling Costis gets when he tries to take a ring off with one hand is when he realizes the interpersonal evil of mocking a man with one hand for having one hand. And yet this realization settles right next to his realization that Gen is a skilled swordsman.

Because of Eugenides’ disability, he is limited. Because of Eugenides’ disability, he is limitless. These things are both true and are allowed to be true in the eyes of our narrator, the Guard, and every enemy Eugenides has.

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As a teenager I was pretty unimpressed with adults giving each other tours of their homes and kitchens, but as an adult I now understand this is the equivalent of inviting your friends over to see all your toys and that's chill actually

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Reblog if your d&d character is a dumbass.

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me being raised on 90s internet rules where telling someone online your favorite color was giving out too much personal information watching gen z youtubers give out their real first and last names and telling everyone the exact city and apartment complex where they live

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something to remember when writing characters who use they/them pronouns:

an issue i see a lot in various excerpts when using the singular they pronoun is unintentional pluralization! changing ‘themself’ to ‘themselves’ isn’t grammatically correct when referring to a singular they-using character

instead of saying ‘they took it upon themselves to help’, say ‘they took it upon themself to help’

instead of saying ‘they themselves were well known in the area’, say ‘they themself were well known in the area’

instead of saying ‘they did it by themselves’, say ‘they did it by themself’

thank you for reading! the singular they is not ungrammatical, but the way some authors use it is, and it’s important to use it as correctly as you would any other pronoun

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The Traitor Moash wore black on the day he was to be a little fuck

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This is the Lucky Ace. Reblog to recieve a wad of cash that is oddly specific to your current needs.

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