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And brother, thus begins the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice

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treat him like the whiny baby he is

vivian wilson, el*n m*sk’s trans daughter, is actually the funniest fucking person on the planet, I’m obsessed with her

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Infighting only helps our oppressors.

Infighting only helps our oppressors.

Infighting only helps our oppressors.

Infighting only helps our oppressors.

Infighting only helps our oppressors.

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Training my parents to be funnier

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YOU hate JK Rowling!

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the sun takes a rest

twitter/ insta/bluesky/ store

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Synthetic biology

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he is sitting and pondering

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Dandelions

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Any other neurodivergents/theater kids have songs stuck in your head that are really fucking hard to sing but Something in your brain means you keep singing it

High notes and all

in the middle of geometry

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Musical Aesthetics: Hadestown

It's a sad song, it's an old tale...it's a tragedy

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schrödinger's tragedy:

orpheus is both tricked and not tricked until he turns around.

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and this is why we need GOOD education about disability in elementary school- it truly will make a massive impact

and also any people who say its gonna make kids think they have autism or whatever, I present that one post about learning about the queer community not making someone queer like how learning about WWII doesn’t make you want to invade Poland

I love talking to kids about disability bc

1. they often just Get It, and

2. they have 0 concept of disability as a tragedy or something pitiable.

I've watched kids get into an argument with a teacher bc they thought wheelchairs were cool. I told a kid that I can't stand for too long sometimes and they replied, "That's okay, I can't do cartwheels sometimes, but I just do other stuff then. You can sit down with me if you want". Today a girl asked me what the headphones on a classmate's desk were for and I told her that headphones are important for some kids because noises bother them, and she said she wished she had headphones at home, because her baby brothers make a lot of noise and it makes it hard to think. The idea that different people could use tools at different times is intuitive and simple and when accessibility aids are explained neutrally, kids don't see them as bad or unfortunate, they're just things that are useful.

Even mental disability!! In Kindergarten the other day one of the kids asked me why his table partner got stickers when nobody else did. I started off by saying, "Well, when you do your work well, it feels good, right? That's your brain giving you a reward," and the kid just right away went, "Oh, and the stickers are like his reward?" YES! You are 5 and have a better grasp on ADHD than most adults! Kids blow me away every day.

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wait for me and then doubt comes in got me sobbing internally

i was holding back tears listening to act 2 of hadestown on public transport

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ok so you support the disabled, disordered, and mentally ill. but are you normal when someone takes long to respond to you? or if they have a hard time listening to you? when someone has a hard time giving you their attention? or when their manners aren’t perfect? or when someone makes mistakes that may be obvious or simple to you? or when someone talks loudly or “causes a scene?” are you normal when people have to think really hard to explain things? or when they have a hard time putting their thoughts into words?

are you normal when people’s hair is unkempt or oily or visibly unbrushed? or when their face might be full of acne? or when they don’t have deodorant on for one reason or another? how about if their clothes are dirty? 

are you normal about disabled/disordered/mentally ill people when they make you a little uncomfortable?