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Please, please help me spread the word and help. The situation is getting more difficult for us and we are suffering from very miserable conditions. Despite all this, donations have stopped because my accounts were closed and a group of Zionists reported and closed my accounts. I am in dire need of you and I thank everyone who stood by me and I am indebted to you for that. Please stand with me in these very difficult times.

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The Problem With the Eddsworld Fandom's Depictions of Red Leader/Future Tord, A Disabled Perspective

Disability is a contentious concept for most of society, with most either treating us with disgust, confusion, refusing to treat us as human, or to see our struggles as what they are. Ableism affects all people in many different ways, but as someone who focuses a lot of my energy in fandom spaces, the pervasiveness of ableism with how media and their fans interpet and react to disabled characters is a very personal situation for me. While many may argue that an ignorance to these topics in fiction has little bearing on real life, the prevalance of these tropes have echoed and led to feelings of othering for many disabled people, and oftentimes support the same notions that lead to the day-to-day ableism in our own personal lives.

In recent years, I have experienced this most often with the prevalance of negative disability tropes perpetrated by fanfiction surrounding the character of Tord, also known under the alias of Red Leader in some fanworks. It is a problem not just common in the Eddsworld fandom. A more recent, and much larger fandom in Mouthwashing also shares a common trend of repeated ableism in fan depictions and interpretarions of disabled characters. Most fan creators are unaware of these tropes and the harm that they cause, but as a disabled person, I am unable to ignore it.

Everybody stop what you’re doing RIGHT NOW and celebrate the last Out of Touch Thursday of 2020

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OUTTA TOUCH THURSDAY!

The last Out of Touch Thursday of 2021
The last Out of Touch Thursday of 2022!
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The Final Out Of Touch Thursday 2023!

THE LAST OUT OF TOUCH THURSDAY OF 2024!

“studies have shown”

WHAT STUDIES, WHO CONDUCTED THEM, WHERE ARE THEIR RESULTS, CITE YOUR SOURCES

"scientists say"

WHO ARE THESE SCIENTISTS, ARE THESE CLAIMS PEER-REVIEWED, IS THERE A CONCENSUS IN THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY

and crucially WHO WAS FUNDING THIS RESEARCH

"Scientists say" my plant phylogeny teacher said people from other big university in our country would fistfight him if they heard him pronpunce a term like he did

Readers, make sure you have all your favourite Ao3 fics downloaded.

Writers, make sure you have copies of all the fics you have posted on Ao3.

I don’t want to be alarming, but things could get really bad really fast. OTW shared this today on Twitter, and I'm a bit worried about it 😅

Ao3 is a non-profit organisation. If they have to start paying taxes, I have no idea what will happen.

I'd like to remind everybody that this isn't just about A03 or civil rights organizations. This could be applied to any 501 organization. That includes churches, schools, museums and library support organizations. All sorts of support organizations like soup kitchens or places like goodwill. Those are all non-profit organizations and they all have a 501 status. This is a threat to every civil organization we have that is meant to help the public.

So please contact your representatives. Please look this up on Twitter and click the link so you can call your representatives and voice against this. Because there's a hell of a lot more at stake with a bill like this than just ao3. People's lives could be at risk.

The House will vote THIS WEEK to determine whether the incoming Trump administration will have the power to shut down non-profit organizations with no due process.

Congress has already tried to fast-track this legislation once and failed because of the onslaught of calls to their offices. We can’t let them do this quietly. Congress giving Trump the power to crush dissent and target organizations fighting for justice is a betrayal. Tell your representatives to vote NO on this dangerous bill!

fftf.link/no9495

Update:

The House passed this, but there's still two steps to go - The Senate needs to vote, and Biden does still have the time to veto it.

Not sure who to call in the Senate? Or what to say? 5 calls can help.

And you don't have to call and actually talk to someone. Leaving a voicemail is just fine. Call while you're eating dinner.

!!!SIGNAL BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOST!!!

CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATORS!!!!

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