#crippled writer

[cpunkwitch]

disabled, trans and studying

[disabled, trans and studying]

once again reaching out for help.

more store and commissions are open.

i need a new laptop, phone with a plan, im starting school again(hopefully), and im still struggling to pay for medication and medical visits. insurance only covers so much.

i work a part time job, i want to be able to do /something/ to finally start transitioning or at the very least save up enough on the side to eventually get myself out of here where its safer to do that.

i do digital art, i make bracelets, i write research books as ive talked about on clusterrune and more.

my comissions are here(link), my kofi is here(link), any help is greatly appreciated.

recently had to cancel a wisdom teeth removal apointment because we couldnt pay the 2k for it. even with renewed insurance.

parents are even starting to charge me for rent and taking off what they already owe me from what ive sent them to help pay for stuff.

im more than willing to create things, its actually better than accepting donations as its not exactly legal for me to be taking donations in canada.

please reblog to help me gain some reach /gen

[cy-cyborg]

This is just a not-so friendly reminder to non-disabled people, especially authors, people in fandoms or in media analysis circles: Cripple/crippled is not just a fancy way of faying "badly injured". it's not an adjective you can just throw in to spice up your sentence because you used "injured" or "disabled" too many times in that paragraph, or because you feel like it gives your writing some extra "oomph".

Cripple is a slur.

A slur the physically disabled community has been asking people not to use for DECADES, since at least the 1970's (50 years). It's a slur with centuries of abuse behind it, centuries of being used to justify physically disabled people as less-than, centuries of demonisation, mistreatment, ostracization, and murder.

Some people within the physical disability community are reclaiming it, that's where movements like cripplepunk (also known as crip-punk or C-punk) come from. That's fine, I'm not talking about that. I love the cripplepunk movement and everything it stands for: being unapologetic about our disabilities and not changing ourselves for the comfort or convenience of able-bodied folks. But the people who use it in that context understand the history of the word, they know how it was used to hurt us, and they understand that not everyone in the physically disabled community is comfortable with the use of the word, especially those who were around when someone being labelled as "crippled" was seen as a valid reason to treat them as less than human. They understand the impact of the word.

But If you, as an able bodied person, casually uses "cripple" in your work, at best you are showing your disabled audience that you haven't been listening to us, at worst, you show you don't care about weather we feel safe in the spaces you have created.

And for able-bodied authors specifically, even if your character is physically disabled, I'd still recommend avoiding it unless you're prepared to do a LOT of sensitivity readings from multiple sensitivity readers. I've been physically disabled since I was 1 year old, I learned to walk for the first time in prosthetics and have been using a wheelchair since I was in school, I have no memory of life as an able-bodied person, and even I don't feel comfortable using the word cripple in my work.

It's a loaded word, with a lot of implications and a LOT of very dark, and for some people, very recent history. It's not a sentence enhancer to just throw in willy-nilly. Please.

[violent138]

Here's the premise, certain Batfam members are at a charity gala trying to get fingerprints from a target. Steph plays at waitress and carries away an empty glass, but she gets bumped into and all the glasses shatter despite her best efforts.

"Shit. Well, good thing he drinks like a fish." Steph said over their comms as they eyed the second wine glass.

"It's the fourth one on the tray," Tim declared, watching the glasses, moving through the crowd.

"They're in a circle."

"It's the one with the half milimitre of champagne still left--"

"No, it's not." Bruce said. "It's the one closest to the waiter, the one with the smudge."

"This is ridiculous." Damian announced, "I'm getting his phone."

"He'll notice, don't do that," Bruce muttered, trapped with some obnoxious businessman and moments from spilling something to get out of it. 

"I'll get it back to him in two minutes--"

"I can keep track." Tim argued, trying to move to get it, but Dick grabbed his arm, dragging him along.

"Come here," Dick ordered, walking them both right up to the man. "So nice to see you tonight, have you met my brother yet? Tim Drake Wayne, he's very eager about interning at your company."

Tim played along instantly, shaking the guy's hand. "Is it true you've managed to get around the cost of catalysts for your hydrogen fuel cells?"

"It's still quite new, but if you're serious, we can definitely set something up."

Tim grinned. "You wouldn't happen to have a number I could--"

"Oh absolutely. Here." The man handed over a business card.

"We got it," Dick muttered over comms as Tim carefully put the card away. "Anyone bring the disulfur dinitride?"

"Car," Bruce said, irritated when he realized he was trapped.  

[turtwig387]

Support group for people who hate showering because it feels like a task but like being in the shower once they're there

[majaurukalo]

Many times abled people think that a content about a disability issue or featuring a disabled person isn't meant for them, that they aren't the primary targets, so they don't engage with it.

But I disagree.

Abled people should and are invited to engage with disability content because:

1. They can educate themselves, unlearn ableism and understand how the world as it is cripples disabled people even more, so they can contribute to improve it.

2. Disability can happen to anyone at any point in their life so already knowing stuff can help a lot.

3. They can be good supporters and recognise discrimination and lack of accessibility.

4. It's just fun and interesting. For example, if a disabled person is showing on their SM their outfit adapted to their wheelchair or something it can still be cool and nice to watch even if you aren't in a wheelchair and aren't disabled at all.

I'm sure there are plenty more reasons, these are the first that come to my mind.

[oceanatydes]

hello writer friends do you have any advice on how to get back to writing fics when you feel paralyzed by perfectionism

[pots-plus-pans]

sometimes i want to draw

but i am not the one who controls my hands anymore

sometimes i want to run and dance and play

but my body creaks and my head spins with every movement i force

sometimes i want to sing

but my throat croaks and the tune is lost

sometimes i want to write poetry

but my brain refuses to come up with the words

sometimes i want to tell stories

but my memory fails me and the children laugh

i want to create art

this makes me human

i want to be human

let me be human

[geddy-leesbian]

Can any part of life — be larger than life? Even love must be limited by time. And those who push us down that they might climb —

[nothingenoughao3]

Is there a dream fanfiction project you've always wanted to tackle but haven't had the chance to yet?

Actually, uh, yeah, I do! I even have an esoteric title!

The dream project is called "a wonder and a terror", in reference to Keanu Reeve's answer for how it feels to grow old. I want to go back and revisit most of the worlds I used to visit in fanfic. That would include Final Fantasy 7, Sorcerer Hunters, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Hellsing, Slayers, Gensoumaden Saiyuki, Gundam Wing, Cowboy Bebop, Evangelion, Trigun, Gargoyles, and Generation X--aaaaaaaaall stuff I once obsessed over.

The thing is, I was writing/reading fic for those works when I was a teenager. And most of these works also feature teenagers, or very young adults. In a lot of cases, these shows are literally about child soldiers, or extremely young/inexperienced adults being forced to take on The Good Of The World.

The theme I'd take on in all these fics will be threefold:

What happens to child soldiers when the war ends and they grow up?

What happens to folks who thought they'd die on the battlefield who live long enough to experience aging?

What happens to characters who became powerful/famous under one gender identity who try to transition?

In addition to flipping characters' genders or their cis status, I plan on doing a LOT related to characters having chronic disabilities, physical as well as mental. And there will be a lot of shipping, many of it for ships I never explicitly wrote for in the past. (Specifically, I'm very glad that Barret/Cloud's time has come 'round at last.)

Some fics are already released on my account. "Entering King" is where I introduce the idea of trans man!Sanzo, which ties into some of the stuff I wanted to do for the Gensoumaden Saiyuki fics. My Gen X work is going to take place in the same canon already established here. Not a lot has been completed yet, but I do hold out hope that I'll get there!

[anthurak]

To any Naruto fans out there:

Renorarc/Nora’s Boys is the better version of NaruSasuSaku.

That is all.

[noodle-artist]

Me every time I check in on the Batman comics:

[briarpatch-kids]

Making my own post about this since I didn't want to derail someone else's but please... Quit giving your wheelchair users in fantasy a "not a wheelchair" mobility aid when it's clearly just a stand in for a wheelchair. It's kinda fake diversity and feels really shitty, you're erasing all the stuff that makes it a wheelchair and the character a wheelchair user. I'm talking about like "oh giant spider that can climb walls, oh trained bird that can take stairs and fly, oh flying carpet... Magic wheelchair that never has any issues and doesn't take energy to fly but floats around everywhere." All of the "oh it's a wheelchair but without any of the access issues, it's perfect!!' fuck that shit.

What you're telling people is "I don't believe disabled people could exist in this fantasy world. If they do exist, they're only able to because they can do everything an abled person can" and you're just kind of dragging and dropping a wheelchair into the narrative like it's a Picrew Diversity Accessory instead of like... An entirely different way of living. Except that you're not even dragging and dropping a wheelchair into the narrative, you're dragging and dropping and then taking the wheelchair back out and replacing it with something you find more aesthetic because despite insisting on using one in your novel, you don't even like wheelchairs.

[violent138]

you orphaned your fic ☹️

Very curious how you discovered that, but yes. I've been having a really rough time with writing and liking what I write. That fic was supposed to be a failure to get me over it, but I actually got so frustrated I ended up getting rid of it (without "destroying a book" so to speak, out of the archive).

Also curious as to what you thought of it... now that I know that... somebody read it (nonchalantly).

[turtwig387]

So if paraplegic is affecting two limbs (the legs specifically)

And quadriplegic is affecting four limbs (legs and arms, etc)

Is affecting one limb a uniplegic?

Is affecting three limbs a triplegic?

This is some-what a joke and also somewhat not!

[uwudonoodle]

Reminder to myself to STOP looking at fics in the same fandom/ship as the one I'm currently writing. Everyone else's stories are so amazing, and it makes me feel like garbage in comparison. I'm so scared my story won't be up to the fandom's standards and will be ignored.

[bloodbot-brian]

📌Welcome to my blog :3

This MTA is way out of date but some key information is: names are Jon, Marius, Jeremiah, and the Doctor; I like Rasputina and Reverend Glasseye; I like derry girls, Jekyll and Hyde, Frankenstein, and fear and hunger; and, I most likely do have npd and bpd.

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