disabled people should be allowed to grieve without being told that they’re just wallowing in self-pity or “letting their illness/condition get the best of them”.
if you’re disabled, you’re allowed to grieve over your body. you’re allowed to grieve over the experiences you never got to have or the life you never got to live. you’re allowed to grieve over the passions you’ve had to give up or the friends you’ve lost. you’re allowed to be angry that you were robbed of a “normal” life. just don’t let your grief consume you; learn to cope with it.
checked my inbox and had approximately a million extremely excellent doodle prompts from you fine people! tonight’s lucky winner is @sounddrive, who requested:
kissing behind a tome that is only partially covering their faces
Perhaps this was intended to be an arcane tome of nerdery, but I saw the opportunity to remove some dignity from hot boi and I took it.
also included the non-tome version, to restore some dignity.
thank you to @mllekurtz for being a sounding board for the truly terrible blurb on the back cover!
I swear to god, y’all really need to learn that you can be upset that your identity isn’t being represented in something, without tearing down the identities that are being represented in something.
Sapphics don’t have “too much representation in modern cartoons” just because there isn’t as much MLM content in cartoons. AFAB enbies don’t have “too much representation” just because there isn’t as much for AMAB enbies. Binary trans people don’t have “too much representation” just because there isn’t as much for nonbinary people. Gay men don’t have “too much representation” in ANY way, shape, or form, considering how much of it is still blatantly homophobic.
It’s almost like we should be directing our anger at the system instead of our fellow marginalized comrades.
“How come they’re getting crumbs?! I want those crumbs! Gimme those crumbs!”
tagged as #velvet goldmine
