"Look out!" Supervillain cried as they grabbed Villain by the arm and yanked as hard as they could.
"The fuck?" Villain said as they stumbled backwards. "What was that for?" They gestured at the car driving the opposite way of the two villains. "They weren't even near us, Supervillain!" Villain frowned. "We are in a rush to get supplies. What is wrong with you?"
Supervillain stared at their hand. What had they just done? They rarely put hands on Villain. "I'm sorry...I....I just can't bear to see you hurt. Not....not after everything." They couldn't bring themself to say the rest. They hung their head in shame.
Villain put a tender hand on Supervillain's cheek. "Oh, love, it's ok. I'm ok. I'm safe. I'm not there anymore. You saved me. I'm ok."
Supervillain put their hand on top of Villain's. "You are ok. You're here. You're with me. You're safe."
Villain nodded. They took Supervillain's hand in theirs. "Now, can we go pick up some supplies?"
After falling into writers block oblivion with the next part of my series "Killing Me Softly, I decided to follow my lovely mutuals words of encouragement and advice and create something different to rest my brain. I've never done anything like this before, but I really enjoyed putting this together for you all. Here it is, a little video I made over the weekend inspired by the song "What it is" by Doechii, with lyrics that I feel are very fitting to our three favourite Shelby men (make sure you turn up the sound!). I will hopefully be posting part eight to "Killing Me Softly" next week, in the meantime, enjoy!
Brummie xxx
*Thank you again to my lovely mutuals words of encouragement ❤️ @call-sign-shark @shelbydelrey @zablife @peakyltd @cillmequick
Here are 10 examples (that I’ve experienced or witnessed, as a physically disabled person) that have nothing to do with using the “Wrong Words,” or being mean:
In countdown style, but really, no particular order:
10) Strangers asking “innocent” questions, such as: “How do you go to the bathroom?” or “Do you sleep in a bed?” as openers to conversation
9) Caregivers, teachers, therapists, etc. controlling, and limiting, access to someone’s Augmented Assistive Communication technology
8) Not being allowed, as a wheelchair user, to sit next to the fire exit, because you’ll block other people’s escape
7) On a period drama on TV: the entire street has been dressed up to look right, with building facades, and lampposts accurate to the period, but no one has taken the time to disguise the wheelchair access curb cuts.
6) The city’s art museum has a grand staircase for its main entrance; If you use a wheelchair, you have to use a small door with a ramp off the back parking lot. The door is kept locked, and you have to use an intercom to call someone to unlock it, and then wait. The intercom speaker is at the height for a standing person.
5) Wait staff at a restaurant asking the normate person at the table with you what you want to eat.
4) If your wheelchair or other assistive tech breaks down, the only business allowed to fix it is the business you purchased it from. If that establishment has gone out of business, or if you have moved to a different city, you’ll have to call up your insurance company, and negotiate something (good luck!)
3) Medicare and Medicaid only paying for assistive tech if you need it for “daily activities” inside your home. “Daily activities” are limited to: Eating (but not cooking), “Toileting” (bathing and using the toilet), and transferring to and from your bed. Holding down a job outside your home, caring for children, participating in your neighborhood events, escaping your home in case of a fire, are not considered “daily activities,” and thus anything you need for those things is not covered.
2) [This happened to an online friend, years ago, who has since erased themselves from online] Emigrating to Canada for a job promotion, selling your home in the U.S., converting all your savings to Canadian dollars, only to be told you’ll never be granted citizenship, because your daughter has Down Syndrome, and will be too big a burden on their health system (The U.S and many European countries have similar policies)
1) [This was reported to me by my aide, whose other client at the time was a boy with a C.P. attending his local public school] A school policy that said that all students with an Individual Education Plan must ride to school on a segregated bus, even if they don’t need the wheelchair lift, and they enter the school through a separate door, and wait for the first bell in a separate room (but they’re following the ADA, right? ‘Cause they’re teaching the kids in the same school!)
Can’t stand when ppl take Elara and make her cartoonishly evil. To take a character that already falls victim to the misogynistic “evil stepmother” trope and strip away all the things that give her any type of depth whatsoever in an effort to further excuse her son is… questionable to say the least.
“ I was just writing a song anyway, with half an idea that I might be doing this rock ‘n’ roll album in the back of my mind. And I actually wrote that when Lin was still alive. So it was a nice song to sing to her. You are what it is. So that had kind of, you know, sentimental attachments to me on that. That’s really the only story about that song. I wrote it for her.”
1999, promoting Run Devil Run (x)
Lyrics
You are what it is
That makes the world go around for me
You are what I need
You make me feel good about myself
You see, I love you so much
I can never do without your touch
I'm like a busy honeybee
I'm always hungry for it
How could anyone ignore it?
Surely everybody will agree
That you are what it is
That makes the cloud roll around the sky
Oh yeah, you got what it takes
You make me proud to be who I am
You see, I love you so much
I can never be without your touch
I'm like a busy honeybee
I'm always hungry for it
How could anyone ignore it?
Surely everybody must agree
That you are what it is
That makes the world go around for me
Yeah, you are what I need
You make me feel good about myself
Well, you are what it is
That makes the world go around for me
Yeah, you got what I need
You make me feel good to be myself
You know, I love you so much
I can never do without your touch
I'm like a busy honeybee
I'm always hungry for it
How could anyone ignore it
Surely everybody must agree
That you are what it is
That makes the world go around for me
You make the world go around for me
Yeah, you make the world go around, world go around