#the fundamentals of caring

[alhabill]

This is an urgent matter, I hope you will give me some of your attention. I am Abdul Rahman, I live in Gaza, and the situation here is well known. Diseases, high prices, lack of medical and food resources, hospitals, hunger and cold are eating away at our bodies.

I am 22 years old and now the burden of my father’s treatment in Egypt is on my shoulders because I am the only son and the eldest and I have 5 sisters. We lost our home a year and a half ago and we lost our universities and my father’s source of livelihood.

My father is currently in need of medication and treatment in Egypt. He needs an urgent heart catheterization. In Gaza, due to the current circumstances, there are no hospitals, medical centers, or anesthetics for operations.

My family also needs clothes, food, water, internet and daily necessities.You can help with a small donation to save and support my family and treat my father as soon as possible.

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I hope for your kindness and generosity and thank you from the bottom of my heart

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[disabledcharacters]

Disabled Characters of the Month: July 2024

TV Christopher Diaz (911) - Cerebral Palsy, Mobility Aid User

TV ANIMATION CJ Casagrande (The Casagrandes) - Down Syndrome

FILM Trevor (The Fundamentals of Caring) - Muscular Dystrophy, Wheelchair User

BOOKS Ariana Ruiz (The Luis Ortega Survival Club) - Autistic

COMICS / MANGA Kasumi (Touch within the Abyss / Kimi No Yoru Ni Fureru) - Blind

VIDEO GAMES Tavie (Animal Jam) - Prosthetic User

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[dailycrippledcharacters]

Trevor (The Fundamentals of Caring)

[Image Description: Trevor, a white teenage boy with short wavy black hair and brown eyes. He is wearing an orange and white horizontal striped T-shirt with a light gray and navy blue hoodie over top. He is sitting at a table in a diner. On the table are several cups with straws, a ketchup bottle, and a mustard bottle. He is looking at somebody offscreen and biting his lip. End ID.]

Trevor has muscular dystrophy.

[fukigen-na-kanojo]

"Are you asking me on a date?" "Yes, I am."

The Fundamentals of Caring

[thestuffedalligator]

So usually when an imaginary friend is a real thing in a story, it’s either a demon or a ghost or some supernatural boogeyman that probably wants to eat the kid they’ve befriended (Mama, a couple of the Paranormal Activity movies), or “imaginary friends” are just treated as a real thing in the setting, and if a child just thinks hard enough they can manifest a friend into existence (Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, Happy).

And somewhere in the middle is an area where the imaginary friend in question is real and they are supernatural, but they aren’t malevolent, and they aren’t entirely honest about what they are. Like maybe they’re a fairy or a god or some kind of boggle from mythology, but they just got caught by a six year old and they don’t have time to get into it, so they just go “…Yes. I’m your imaginary friend. We haven’t met. How do you do.” And then they stick around because they do love this kid, and if you’re a boggle from mythology in the modern day good food is really hard to come by.

And at some level. That’s what I think Hobbes is.

[ruushes]

have to imagine viago isn’t thrilled about the rook de riva/lucanis relationship or at least isn’t in my worldstate primarily because it would be very funny to me but also because 1) he disapproves of everything my rook does on principle 2) proximity to any first talon is dangerous enough generally and specifically he’d put lucanis’s life expectancy as first talon at around five years tops if he’s feeling generous and 3) lucanis threatened to kill him once by “gifting” him a knife of overtly intimidating high quality

[sakurabraches]

everytime you post glinda hate on the internet i come up with a new way to make her suffer even more btw

[knifearo]

ultimately when it comes to shipping and fandom space treatment of aspec characters i just don't accept "aro/ace people can still date/have sex" as an answer from nonaspecs. like yeah. mhm. okay. now i think we both know that you're not saying that out of real interest in the diversity of aspec experiences. so you can turn in your seventeen-page essay on why and how you plan to examine this character's aspec identity within the context of a romantic or sexual relationship complete with evidence from canon and peer reviews from multiple aspec people within the next week or i'm putting you in the pit from the edgar allen poe story

[disabledcharacters]

FILM: Trevor (The Fundamentals of Caring) - Muscular Dystrophy, Wheelchair User

The Fundamentals of Caring is a 2016 American road comedy-drama film written and directed by Rob Burnett, based on the 2012 novel The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison. Starring Paul Rudd, Craig Roberts, and Selena Gomez.

Ben is an out-of-work writer in Seattle, avoiding his estranged wife’s attempts to serve him with divorce papers. He takes a six-week course to become a registered caregiver and is hired by Elsa, a bank office manager from England, to care for her 18-year-old son Trevor, who has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

Ben adjusts to Trevor’s routine and bonds with the sardonic, sexually frustrated teenager. He convinces Elsa to let them take a road trip. He and Trevor embark on a journey to see the world's deepest pit. [wiki]

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[vinelark]

i’ve seen multiple people say something along the lines of “we’re waking up in the same world we lived in yesterday” which is bleak but also true; there was going to be work to do no matter what. this is the much worse and harder version of that work but even if harris won it would not have fixed the fundamental things that need fixing. i mean, fuck, it would’ve been the better outcome, but the work would still be there. many of the things people fear under trump happened and are happening under biden. we’ll just have more battles to fight.

i think about the progressive mobilization and radicalization that happened 2016-2020; it shouldn’t have to happen like this but we deserve better than a two-party system, and one half of that system was never going to save us. we will always have to do what we can for ourselves and each other 💛

[phantom-chirp]

You know, I actually really like the fact that Akechi didn't go through a standard redemption arc that you would first think they might do for him. There are differences in his character during the third semester and actions that he takes that shows he isn't actively against the other characters anymore, but he never had to "become good" for his role in the third semester to make sense. He is still irritable, still resentful, still angry. In fact, he is allowing himself to express his negative emotions more freely then he ever did before, and while I believe the third semester version of himself is still a version of him hidden by a mask, it's a version of himself that seems a lot closer to his natural self then the detective prince mask does

In terms of the story though, despite him not becoming a noticeably nicer person, you are still meant to care about him. The story has the most impact when you care about him enough that the fact he is going to die has an emotional impact, and when the fact that Ren wants him to be alive makes sense. It's comforting, in a roundabout way, to see a character who doesn't have to become more pleasant and kind for the narrative to go "you should care about him" to as strong of a degree as the third semester does

[bumblydumbly]

i think that if kabru saw that “laios meeting falin for the first time” strip he’d be sobbing uncontrollably

[shouyuus]

was thinking about it this morning as i was making tea and i think there's a fundamental gap in the advice we give to writers/creators to "first and foremost create for ourselves", bc yes. in the beginning, i am almost always writing for myself. i write all the time, and im sure that artists doodle and paint all the time too. there are things i've written that will never see the light of day and are truly just for me.

and then there are things that i choose to share, because i want to share them. because i'm proud of a story, and want to put it into the world. the act of sharing it is, above all, an invitation.

its me inviting you into a corner of my mind/heart/soul, opening the window and throwing open the curtains and waving, holding up a sign that says "hi! do you like this too? let's talk about it!"

what im asking for is a connection, a conversation. a shared space. digital or otherwise. and the so-called "harm" of "ghost consumption" is not that artists will stop creating art or that writers will stop writing -- no, that's not quite how creativity works (thankfully, and sometimes unfortunately). we will always create.

we just might not be inspired to share it anymore.

[houseswife]

wilson saying “I need to do this. for you.” is fucking insane actually. in the same episode where house is deciding whether or not he should commit suicide as a result of wilson’s dying. They are each other’s lines between life and death. humans have a biological instinct to preserve their survival at all costs; house has an addiction that governs his life. but they were willing to forgo all of it for one another, because they couldn’t fathom it being any other way. IM SICK

[khruschevshoe]

There's just something very specific about homoerotic character-enveloping friendships from around 2010 where they're semi-aware that gay people exist but queerbaiting isn't quite a thing yet sp their relationship consumes the narrative and changes them both irrevocably forever and they end in tragedy but the ending is JUST open enough for the fic writers to wriggle into that just makes me go fucking FERAL