thistledown-moved - Tumblr blog

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we have finally set up our new blog, and are moving to the ✨ new and (maybe) improved ✨ @thistle--down blog. feel free to head over in your own time if you're at all interested.

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This blog is no longer active - because we have moved! check out @thistle--down over on @redirecting-your-call to see our new stuff.

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They should invent a me that goes to bed at a reasonable time

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Also. I am once again begging you to consider what information you're making public, particularly via things like userboxes + microlabels/xenogenders and so on. People don't need to know you're in an unstable situation at home, the general public does not need to know and should not have access to the specific kinds of trauma you have experienced. Please remember that not everyone is going to use that information for good and you need to keep yourself safe.

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To every physically disabled person who's tired and in pain this evening, you did excellently at whatever you did today, no matter what or how much it was. I'm proud of you! You deserve all of the rest you need.

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Having chronic illness is wild because you'll be like "oh God I feel terrible today, I'm so shaky and sweaty and I'm getting so tired from going up the stairs, my joints are killing me and I can't talk without losing my breath" and your friends are like "oh no!!! is there any way I can help??" and you gotta look back at them like "no there's actually nothing we can do it just does this sometimes"

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By the way - it's ok if your disability affects your transition. It's ok if it shapes your transition goals or makes treatment inaccessible. It's okay if it makes presenting the way you want to difficult it impossible. It's okay if going through with your transition goals would make your disability worse and it just isn't worth that. It can suck, it can feel really fucking awful, but it's okay, and it doesn't make you a bad trans person or any less trans.

[able bodied people do not clown on this post, thank u]

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Really fucking sick of "if you can do X, you can do Y" arguements. Have you considered that if I could do Y, I would? But maybe Y involves different skills, different actions, maybe Y is more energy intensive. Maybe doing Y would have longer term consequences. Maybe X also had to be done and I ran out of energy before I got to Y. Maybe I just don't want to do Y right now! Maybe X is just easier or more enjoyable for me!

Ultimately, I've chosen to do X over Y, for one reason it another, and that should be enough.

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This is such a random peeve, but I'm so tired of seeing posts about animals with intersex conditions being called "nonbinary."

No, that chimera butterfly, or cat, or bird, or whatever tbe hell it is this time, is not "naturally nonbinary."

It's intersex. And as an intersex human, I'm tired of the two being equated.

Because they're not the same thing.

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Mobility aids are freedom.

Mobility aids are not to be pitied or embarrassed about.

Mobility aids are good things.

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So funny when people make posts like "if you REALLY had [disability here] you wouldn't be ABLE to have a social media account" like god forbid disabled people do anything that isn't lament in total isolation until they are Fixed or until they die.

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I really thought Tumblr was past the age of the weird slimming/diet ads but apparently fucking not. People shouldn't have to pay money not to see this shit. They should at least be able to report these ads - but all you get is a little button saying ✨ go ad free ✨

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Idk who needs to hear this but you're allowed to have a wide music taste as an alter in a system. You don't have to limit yourself to just one artist or genre. You're a person, not a character. People are complex. It doesn't invalidate your system if you all have similar or overlapping music taste. It doesn't make you a faker if you like a lot of the same music as the host. People are complex and like a lot of different things, that includes a lot of different music. You don't have to limit yourself with hard lines like "I'm the alter that listens to Lil Nas." like no you can listen to other shit too.

Endos this isnt about you. DNI.

-Reese

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Stop trying to clearly distance yourself from abusers by calling them narcissists or sociopaths or psychos. It's time to face the facts and swallow the harsh truth that literally everyone has the potential to do harm - not just a specific subset of mentally ill people.

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the sun mourns in vain for the white-throated rail: a comic about disability and the unwanted able-bodied grief for past selves.

[IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Page 1: The sun holds a white-throated rail, a bird with a red head, a gray body, and a white throat, in its hands. The sun speaks in a tone represented as sorrowful pity through a drippy speech bubble.

Sun: Looking at you makes me sad!

Rail: What?

Page 2:

Sun: Looking at you makes me sad!

The sun stands with a hand clutching its face.

Sun: How miserable it must be to be flightless! Don’t you yearn for the skies? Don’t you wake up grieving you’re still on land?

Page 3: The white-throated rail looks down in frustration in the hand of the sun.

Sun: (speaking off screen) I’d simply perish if I were you!

The rail speaks, looking down. Pink flowers bloom towards the bottom of the page, petals and pollen blowing in the wind.

Rail: Why do you put your words in my beak and your grief in my feathers? Am I not beautiful?

Page 4: The bone of a white-throated rail is positioned against a colorful galaxy dotted with flecks of stars.

Rail: Am I not adaptability in action? Am I not evolution in motion? Do you mourn the days you weren’t a star? Do you mourn when the sky was cold, how unbearably hot you must burn to keep embracing it every day?

Page 5: The sun looks at the viewer.

Sun: Why would I? That was then, this is now. I am content to be in this state.

Page 6: The rail looks up at the sun off-screen.

Rail: Well…So am I.

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some people are so so so unwilling to acknowledge that - even if they are disabled in some way - there are disabled people who cannot do whatever they think most people can do. some disabled people can't leave the house. some disabled people will need support to run a blog like this. some disabled people are spending all their energy on managing their health to do whatever else you think is more important. if a disabled person says "i can't do x" there is never a time where it's appropriate to say "i did it and i'm disabled" because all you've said is that you're less impacted by that disability than the other person

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[id: a flag with 7 stripes in different shades of purple, in the middle of the flag is a bunch of purple flowers. /end id]

> purple cripple solidarity flag

- for the physically disabled by the physically disabled.

- solidarity between the physically disabled.

- cripple punk.

- fighting ableism.

> stripe meanings;

[id: a flag with 7 stripes in different shades of purple with a bunch of flowers in the middle of the flag. stripe meaning from top to bottom: 1. “physical disability”, 2. “cripple punk” 3. “community”, 4. “accessibility”. an arrow is pointed towards the flowers with text below reading: “different physical disabilities”. /end id]

[this flag is not for the able bodied.]