Yo I figured out why people are always surprised when I tell them my amputation only happened a year and a half ago and you’d never guess but it has to do with societal ableism.
It’s because I’m normal. Like I’m just a random 18 year old who happens to only have one leg. If someone found out that a veteran had recently lost a limb they’d be like “oh yeah because you got injured while you were active duty” They wouldn’t be surprised because that person was in a very dangerous place and situation. So when an average civilian has a missing limb, the comfortable thing to assume is that they were born that way. Because able bodied people don’t want to acknowledge that they could become disabled at the drop of a hat. For a vet the able bodied person is thinking “they were in a war zone, but I’m not so that won’t happen to me” and for someone who was born without a limb they think “that person was born like that, it was predetermined, but I wasn’t born that way so that’ll never be me”
So when I tell people I lost my leg less than two years ago, their response always has this weird shocked tone to it as they quickly process that I’ve had two legs for most of my life and now I just don’t anymore and how fast that can happen scares them
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Meet me on the thematically relevant rooftop bro
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never let being a girl stop you from being a boy
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Vox Machina episode 114 and Bells Hells episode 91.
Vax's death and FCGs death. History repeats itself
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the spirit is not willing and the flesh it is not so into the idea either
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Alright, to ao3's soon to be arriving Wattpad Refugees, a basic guide to general user culture:
1.) Unlike Wattpads vote system that let's you like each chapter, the ao3 equivalent kudos only allows one per work. Everyone is generally quietly annoyed about this. To engage with each chapter, you're heavily encouraged to comment. Trust me, it makes people's day.
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4.) Speaking of warnings, ao3 has very few restrictions on the type of work that's allowed. Whatever your personal thoughts or feelings on that are, thats how the site is. You're likely to run across some dark subject matters and a lot of people are uncomfortable with reading that. You're well within your rights not like these works and have your opinion on whether they should be allowed, but harassing the authors of such works (or any works) is more likely to come back on you than them. Ao3 operates on a strong policy of 'don't like, don't read'. Use the tagging system to your full advantage to only engage with the kind of works you want to see.
We look forward to welcoming you all and seeing the fantastic works you create. Happy writing!
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i had a joke about orpheus and eurydice but looking back it wasn't a good idea
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One day, Essek learns how to make cheesecake, and it blows his fucking mind.
Blows in his face more like :p
I can't imagine Essek "I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth" Thelyss having ever learned to cook in his life. It goes terribly the first time he tries
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Heartbreaking: This person is making great points but they're being a huge fucking asshole about it so you can't reblog any of it
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One more joke hate: You may claim to be a woman but biologically you are a featherless biped and thus a man.
Finally a good argument for why I'm actually a man
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the question is will we be able to adapt to a post-boop world
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every time my bf says “for the time being” i respond with “for the time bean” and then we say “all hail the time bean” and carry on the conversation like nothing happened
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““You’re at the mausoleum, you’re at the KFC, you’re at the combination mausoleum/KFC.””
— DM running Curse of Strahd
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Fuck movie hackers only wearing hoodies I wanna see someone hack the CIA in full drag
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this city fucking sucks
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