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@azrantimes

Garf || 18 || He/She/It Edits mostly
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Never introduced myself so:

You can call me Garf or Quack

18

AroAce

He/She/It/Nor

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My biggest special interests are comics and musicals, and a lot of the time they rotate and most of my hyperfixations are comic or musical related

Comic interests:

Shazam, Young Justice, Spoiler, Beast Boy, Impulse

Musical interests:

& Juliet, How To Dance In Ohio, The Lightning Thief musical, Be More Chill, We Are The Tigers

Maisie Peters and Taylor Swift are my other special interests (Although I'm trying to distance myself as much as I can from Taylor)

My other hyperfixation at the moment is Het Huis Anubis

That's it I think? I'm a cosplayer, artist in multiple ways, editor and a writer so I don't have one type of posts I make

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its all 'be gay do crime' until a black person starts making allusions to drugs or sex or god forbid VIOLENCE and then it turns out nobody can handle anything more hardcore than downloading illegal torrents of hamilton

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This post is about racism. This post is about racism and antiblackness. This post is not about how cool YOU are for doing crimes or about how much you hate 'antis' or how bad tesla suck. This post is about how ostensibly progressive white people will clutch pearls and moralize about not listening to rap or engaging with black art or culture because it seemingly condones drugs, or violence, or is overly sexual, while having no issue with those topics in other, non-black contexts. There are conversations to be had about the topics surrounding this but in the meantime the original post is One Sentence and I'm not convinced most of the commenters in the past few days even read it.

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i woke up went to get breakfast and my father immediately went "can you ship songs too? i ship one song glory and michael in the bathroom"

and i said. nothing. i didn't reply for i was completely speechless. he sounded like he's been thinking about this for a while

#WHAT#lowkey iconic tho sorry
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Anonymous asked:

this is me ranting a bit off topic but whatever

I hate the fact that dress up games(like picrew) and games in general don't have much(or at all!) Black options.Like no light brown and zero curly hairstyles is just NOT that.Everyone wants to be able to create themselves or their characters and how is it supposed to be possible when it does not include a whole lot of people?

not talking about ones that have no dark skin options.Fuck those ones especially.

Have a good day.

creatingblackcharacters answered:

Lmao you too!

Yeah I realized it was another one of those "they don't realize just how much is centered around/created for them" moments when people would do those picrew challenges and there'd be maybe up to light brown and zero Black hairstyles. Or there'd be "brown" and "dark greyish Black" as if those were the only brown options, but there are somehow 10 shades of beige. Like ah, so I see, I cannot participate in this "community challenge". I see where I am not considered.

There have been a bunch of awesome picrews made by Black artists that do consider us though! The Spiderverse one is top tier, and then there are Black Centered Picrews (I'll have to find them again), the artist is actually on here! That's where I made my official picrew of my OC. While I hate that racism makes shit so unnecessarily difficult, I actually love when the response is Black artists popping in and popping out with exactly what we want. It usually shows that the bar is on the ground and yet. That we can tell when someone actually cares about and considers people darker than a paper bag.

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You're not immune to being the bully btw. You're not immune to being in the wrong

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"But i'm-" there is no identity or state of being that makes you immune to hurting someone. You can be convinced that you are in the right for doing so. You can be convinced that you're defending someone by doing so. You have always got to examine if you're taking pleasure in hurting someone or if you're actually doing something good.

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[Image text: there's actually no political label or identity that absolves you of doing harm.]

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And if I say I’m cooking up a we are the tigers x Yellowjackets edit….what then…

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PLEASE THAT'D BE AWESOME 🙏🙏🙏

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The thing that abled people who advocate for the disabled community don’t get is that there are times when disabilities/accommodations clash. Horribly.

Like I spent years having to come up with a solution to get therapy dogs into a series of residence halls. Why years? Because we had to decide who got to stay and who got to leave: the people who needed therapy dogs or the people with severe allergies to animals. Who got the alternative housing? 

Things like fidget toys might seem great for some disabled people but having them in the room could be distracting/overstimulating for others. The same goes with stimming. It can’t be helped but neither can the anxiety that another person in the room feels as they watch/hear it. Additionally, something like a weighted blanket might immediately calm one kid down and send the other one into a panic attack due to the claustrophobia it causes. (*Points to myself*)

Every Metro bus in New York City has a series of seats at the front that can be lifted up to accommodate people in wheelchairs but if I’m in one of those spots then someone with a cane/walker has to journey even further to sit down.

The flashing lights of a fire alarm are there to help deaf/hearing impaired but if they’re not properly timed, they can also cause a person to have a seizure.

The worst part about all of these is that there is rarely a concrete solution that makes everyone happy/safe. And I’m not here to offer any because I don’t know them. I’m just here to remind you all that as you’re taking your education/health classes, as you’re reading your textbooks, as you’re preparing to go be an advocate, just remember that there is rarely ever such a thing as a one-size-fits-all solution to advocacy and that something you do that can help one disabled person might actually hinder another.

Food for thought.

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I have heard this referred to by some in the disability advocacy profession as “duelling disabilities” and it’s definitely something I wish people would be more mindful of when discussing accessibility.

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This is something important to keep in mind for the fat advocacy community as well. As I’ve been conducting research for the classroom focusing on the needs of fat people in the libraries, one thing I found is that one of the most common accommodations for larger bodies is chairs without arms. However chairs without arms can make it difficult for people with balance issues or knee issues or other accessibility issues to stand up from a chair. So there’s another example of dueling disabilities. In this specific example the answer is to have a variety of chair styles and sizes and widths and different things. But not all of these situations have a single, easy solution.

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The one thing I can confidently say does not help is when abled people decide to weaponize the actual access conflict so badly that people on one side get presumed to be abled assholes instead of dealing with duelling disabilities.

Actual solutions are harder.

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i have never met an unpsychotic person who knows what it actually means to “not encourage the delusion” …not a single one

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what “don’t encourage the delusion” means:

  • don’t argue with or challenge the delusion—attempting to disprove someone’s delusions is not helpful at all and will result in that person not trusting you
  • assure the delusional person that they are safe; be open and honest at all times
  • encourage them to verbalize their feelings and offer protection to prevent injury to themselves or, possibly, others
  • start building a trusting relationship with them rather than acting on a desire to control their symptoms
  • do not confirm or feed into the delusion by asking questions about it when the person is not experiencing a psychotic episode

what it does not mean:

  • insisting to a psychotic person experiencing psychosis that what they’re experiencing isn’t real
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I don’t mean to trivialize psychosis by making a weird comparison, but this guide also serves as a handy checklist for helping someone through a bad drug trip. In both cases your number one priority is to get the person through whatever they’re dealing with unharmed.

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i don’t think it’s trivializing at all, nor a weird comparison—as a psychotic person who has had psychotic episodes inadvertently triggered by drug use and/or worsened while trying to self-medicate with drugs, i think this is an important addition.

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