I love that one of the restrictions on name changes in the UK is that your name cannot “promote criminal activities” and fucking hell every name I can think of that violates that is just stellar honestly like fucking hello nice to meet you my name is Commit Arson, I’d like you to meet my daughter Dont Pay Taxes and my son Steal From Work
this is my son, rob
Bank teller: in order to confirm [beaurocratic bullshit] we need to know your full legal name.
The thing about Discworld, you see, is that it’s a very hopeful form of cynicism. It doesn’t just tell you that the world is crap, it says, well, yes, of course the world is crap, but that’s why you should be hopeful, and helpful, and kind, and why you have to be good, because maybe you can make it a little less crap.
this one’s a few days late due to having a lot of doctors appointments sorry it’s just 9 pages, and about some rats… it’s more symbolic than anything really
(it’s completely unrelated to any of my songs that have to do with “puzzleboy”)
some people who are ill and/or disabled CANNOT DO WHATEVER THEY SET THEIR MIND ON! some people are LIMITED by their bodies and their health and they are UNABLE to “"just choose”“ to do something! you can’t STOP being disabled by DECIDING to have a ”“good attitude”“! I am PREVENTED from doing whatever I want because I am D I S A B L E D!!
I would super appreciate it if healthy/abled people reblogged this post, because when people say these things it is so harmful to disabled, chronically ill, and mentally ill people
also! saying “I can’t do this because im disabled” is NOT “negative self-talk” or a “bad attitude”!!
Also it is not your job to “encourage independence” by randomly withholding support because you think that’s all it’ll take to make us able to do the thing. And if we do the thing once under pressure it doesn’t mean “progress” or that we can always do the thing. And the whole attitude behind treating us this way, the fear that helping us will “make us dependent” or make us too lazy to do anything for ourselves ever again? Patronizing, paternalistic, deeply fucking ableist.
I was once so sick (pneumonia complicated by other things) I shat the bed, and nurses at the hospital said to each others that because I had a developmental disability then I couldn’t be allowed to continue doing this or I would never want time use a toilet again. I had actually exhausted myself so badly trying to get to the bedside commode and back that I’d collapsed.
So yeah some people will actually take that prejudice that far. But milder examples are terrible too. Just this whole idea that we need to be pushed because we’d never want to be “independent” otherwise, it’s really condescending and I’ve seen it taken to extremes that reached the point of abuse and neglect.
Natural Black Hair Tutorial! Usually Black hair is excluded in the hair tutorials which I have seen so I have gone through it in depth because it’s really not enough to tell someone simply, “Black hair is really curly, draw it really curly.“
The next part of Black Hair In Depth will feature styles and ideas for designing characters and I will release it around February. If you would like to see certain styles, please shoot me a message!
Being cold is a lot better than being hot. You can layer up as much as you want to stay warm, but if you take enough off to cool down you’re probably going to jail.
DEW DROP ON An anole lizard glistens with hundreds of dewdrops in the morning sun as it clings to a swamp branch in Louisiana. (Photo: Jude Haase / Solent News via the Telegraph)
This is nothing new, either. In the early 1960s, Howard Zinn was fired from his position as head of the history department of Spelman College (improperly, I should add, he had tenure) for refusing to stop the (black, female) students from organizing protests, boycotts, and direct action against segregation in Atlanta, and in fact aiding them in their efforts. At Boston University, the administration, in reaction to his left-wing and anti-war views, tried to pressure him to resign by denying him raises and even teaching assistants (he was an extremely popular professor with classes of hundreds of students, making this an incredibly difficult teaching arrangement for him).
Everytime someone from the U.K. pops off at the mouth about how racism is sooo much better there, all I can think about is the fact that they’re even worse at disproportionately imprisoning Black people than the U.S. The U.S. which is like…the undefeated world champ of locking its citizens up.
Canadians can also shut the fuck up because imprisoning indigenous women is like their favorite pastime.
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 
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