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Parsons Disability Society is here for you!

We all knew the apocalypse was going to be upon us some day, but even still- nobody was prepared for it.

Luckily for us, our great leaders made what was once just a disability community center located in Parsons, West Virginia into a home for survivors. Together, they built this center into a home- a safe(r) place for fellow disabled people to refuge. We are always on the lookout for new survivors to join this society and make it through what used to be Earth. If you find yourself anywhere in this area, come join us! There is always a spot for one more..

https://discord.gg/EnG5hhjPcZ (must be 17+ to join)

Parsons Disability Society (PDS) is a 17+ zombie apocalypse roleplay server focused on disabled characters. We use our own dice system based on character stats, strengths, and weaknesses that can be found easily in our Mechanics google doc.

While our server was created by disabled people for disabled people, well meaning non-disabled roleplayers are welcome as well! All we ask is that you do your research and talk to us about anything you're unsure about!

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gonna post my entire stickman reaction pic collection

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I spy with my little eye... Literally everything

(i've decided that the wallpaper I made deserves to be published as a separate artwork.)

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“Get a rat and put it in a cage and give it two water bottles. One is just water, and one is water laced with either heroin or cocaine. If you do that, the rat will almost always prefer the drugged water and almost always kill itself very quickly, right, within a couple of weeks. So there you go. It’s our theory of addiction. Bruce comes along in the ‘70s and said, “Well, hang on a minute. We’re putting the rat in an empty cage. It’s got nothing to do. Let’s try this a little bit differently.” So Bruce built Rat Park, and Rat Park is like heaven for rats. Everything your rat about town could want, it’s got in Rat Park. It’s got lovely food. It’s got sex. It’s got loads of other rats to be friends with. It’s got loads of colored balls. Everything your rat could want. And they’ve got both the water bottles. They’ve got the drugged water and the normal water. But here’s the fascinating thing. In Rat Park, they don’t like the drugged water. They hardly use any of it. None of them ever overdose. None of them ever use in a way that looks like compulsion or addiction. There’s a really interesting human example I’ll tell you about in a minute, but what Bruce says is that shows that both the right-wing and left-wing theories of addiction are wrong. So the right-wing theory is it’s a moral failing, you’re a hedonist, you party too hard. The left-wing theory is it takes you over, your brain is hijacked. Bruce says it’s not your morality, it’s not your brain; it’s your cage. Addiction is largely an adaptation to your environment. […] We’ve created a society where significant numbers of our fellow citizens cannot bear to be present in their lives without being drugged, right? We’ve created a hyperconsumerist, hyperindividualist, isolated world that is, for a lot of people, much more like that first cage than it is like the bonded, connected cages that we need. The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection. And our whole society, the engine of our society, is geared towards making us connect with things. If you are not a good consumer capitalist citizen, if you’re spending your time bonding with the people around you and not buying stuff—in fact, we are trained from a very young age to focus our hopes and our dreams and our ambitions on things we can buy and consume. And drug addiction is really a subset of that.”

— Johann Hari, Does Capitalism Drive Drug Addiction?

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we could go back to telegraphs instead of social media. send your mutuals unspeakable strings of morse code at 4:30am

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The Archivist has something of a crush <3

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Wanna date? ⚡

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A guide to worship of Hermes - cheat sheets

Hellenic cheat sheets

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i am not a “who,” archivist, i am a “what”

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hi hello I’m being haunted by this fucking podcast

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kiss me with your eyes closed

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alternative bg provided by friend

happy pride month!!

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happy pride month!!

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there’s like. there’s probably more this is just off the top of my head.

there’s transcripts in the alt text if you don’t want to squint :)