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Space Witches, Esq.

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21 days

MOOD. ETERNAL MOOD.

Shannon Barber

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@popelizbet It is so unfair. Why can't I just be a free trash panda and feel fine and also maybe be an eldritch god? Shit.

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2 months

Disabled people have always been in fantasy - abled people just don't think of them as disabled! A thread.

🦋The Other Happy Place🦋

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2 months

as a disabled artist making a fantasy story with one of the protagonists having a disability, the "why would there be disabled people in fantasy??" discourse is really depressing.

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wash your hands from "I see a little silhouette of a man" to "spare him his life from this monstrosity."

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I'm just...tired, y'all. I'm tired of mask bikini lady. I'm tired of "non parents have no quarantine struggle" Brooklyn mommy. I'm tired of "we can't police lake of the ozarks" from the state that brought out SWAT in Ferguson. I'm tired.

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While the LOTR movies use wizard staffs as magical tools to fun visual effect, that's not inherent to the text. Wizards are stereotypically old men who walk with staffs - which can be a mobility aid as well as a magical item, or just a mobility aid.

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Who doesn't love a good sword cane? But a sword cane is a functional cane. Can be fashion, can be a mobility aid. But you never hear nerds argue that a sword cane in fantasy is ridiculous.

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Frodo never fully recovers from his Ring-sickness - analogous to, and drawn from, Tolkien's experiences of what we would now call combat PTSD. And despite powerful wizards and immortal elves owing him infinite favors? He never gets his finger back either.

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@buggirl Yes and the stitches are hilarious

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Space Witches, Esq.

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Returning to LOTR - it's not a stretch to argue that by the time it's just him and Sam, Frodo is being disabled by the effects of the Ring, physically and psychologically. And in Mt. Doom, he loses a finger.

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Space Witches, Esq.

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Loss of a finger is disabling. I'm reading in a certain amount here, but I don't think it ever would have occurred to Tolkien to magically fix Frodo's hand - people come back from war missing parts of themselves, sometimes literally, and it would have cheapened the message...

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Space Witches, Esq.

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2 years

People who are not from here and don't know about the Index don't know how serious of a "oh fuck" this is. I don't live in hurricane country and I've only seen Waffle House at code red during the Nashville flood iirc.

Joleenda 🍉🍉🍉

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2 years

HOLY SHIT EVERY WAFFLE HOUSE IS CLOSING BETWEEN TAMPA & ORLANDO 😭😭😭

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My brain is being stubborn but I think it's the animated SWORD IN THE STONE that gave us Merlin in glasses (could have happened before, but that's the mental image I have from childhood.) Glasses are a disability aid so common most people don't even think of them...

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Space Witches, Esq.

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...that is inherent in things like the Scouring of the Shire : you can't go home again, war ruins things, even the idyllic Shire doesn't return to innocence. Giving Frodo his finger back doesn't make sense thematically.

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yall we have got to show up for Wendy Williams like we showed up for Britney even if Wendy is a mess who disrespected Whitney Houston, Wells Fargo - KNOWN SCAMMERS - are sticking a Black woman in a conservatorship for *asking to change banks.*

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...as visual evidence of a disability, and wizards in spectacles are not at all uncommon in fantasy. Merlin didn't do magical LASIK on himself; neither did Dumbledore. But the average abled person doesn't see needing glasses as a sign of disability, even though...

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if memory serves, it's a minor plot point in an HP book that someone (I think Harry) misses something important because he's temporarily unable to see without his glasses.

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"it's too old to be sci-fi" yes when you invent a genre your genre-inventing book will in fact be the oldest thing in it.

Buzzkilled 💀💀💀💀💀

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@PatrickPogue @nberlat Frankenstein is too old to be sci-fi. Sorry, I don't make the rules. Jules Vernes is closer to it.

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Or maybe they enchant his glasses so they don't get fogged up? Or both? It's definitely in there that Harry's eyesight is so bad without glasses that it's disabling.

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Disease is a thing that we find in a ton of fantasy worlds, including both fantasy diseases and things similar to reality. How many fantasy books have you read where there's a plague, currently or in the recent past? Depending on the model of disease the author is envisioning...

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...this is sometimes also a mass disabling event, or at least leaves visible scarring. My brain isn't pulling up specific examples but I know I've read fantasy where the reason for a character's infertility is "since the plague" or someone has facial scarring from "the pox."

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Turning to infertility and pregnancy, these disabilities show up in fantasy all the time, and while sometimes infertility is cured by magic or a child brought to otherwise infertile couples by magical means, plenty of family-tree-heavy fantasies focus on...

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Terry Pratchett's witches spend a lot more time attending births than doing world-shaking magic, and learning midwifery is part of training as a witch - including having to be the person who makes the difficult decisions of who lives and dies if you can't save both.

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...political implications of infertility that apparently can't be cured by the available magic. People dying in childbirth is also routine all the way back to fairy tales, often happening off screen and before the events.

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@UrsulaV But again - abled people often don't think of infertility as a disabling condition or pregnancy as a temporarily or permanently disabling condition, so "how is anyone infertile or dying in childbirth when you have magic??" doesn't occur to them.

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It's more modern fantasy a lot of the time that shows magical intervention preventing someone from either dying in childbirth or from internal damage from a difficult birth.

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3 years

you can't ignore and bully asexual people and then pretend it's our interests you're concerned with when you try to keep kink out of pride when kink was there first. Glory to the leather daddies, say I.

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Space Witches, Esq.

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@UrsulaV I can hardly think of a fantasy world in all my reading it since childhood where there are literally no disabling conditions, with the exception of a few where "this supposed utopia practices eugenics" is a plot point.

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I don't want to spoil relatively new books so I'll say that multiple of @ursulav s books as T. Kingfisher deal brilliantly with fertility, birth control, and/or disabling births in worlds with magic.

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@UrsulaV Reluctantly returning to Harry Potter, there's an entire hospital just for magical illnesses or magic-induced disability, all the way up to a long-term ward for folks so magically disabled that they can't care for themselves, temporarily or permanently.

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Space Witches, Esq.

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There have always been disabled people in fantasy, even disabled heroes. What seems to get up the nose of the ableist people who pick on things like magical wheelchairs as supposedly out of place is having to *think about* disability and the idea of a disabled hero.

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Space Witches, Esq.

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@ksej @jaggies_ "I can't give out that information, can I interest you in a widget?" shuts down and redirects the conversation. If they won't take the hint and escalate, further proof they shouldn't be there.

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Space Witches, Esq.

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You're seriously trying to tell me that you have either a job description of artificer so cool gadgets occasionally can arise or whole fantasy races whose Thing is engineering & tinkering but "what if a chair, but with wheels" is unthinkable? This is a fault of your imagination.

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Space Witches, Esq.

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6 years

@ksej @jaggies_ No, in some cases people are fishing, and that confirms they work there.

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3 years

understand at this moment that abusive parents will install this shit on their children.

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3 years

Otago and UK researchers have developed a world-first weight-loss device to help fight the global obesity epidemic: an intra-oral device that restricts a person to a liquid diet. Read more:

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The "wahh it's ahistorical ow my suspension of disbelief" argument fails on two grounds: one, there are freaking dragons and magic, so you've already suspended your disbelief pretty far, and two, the idea of someone without working legs using a two wheeled device...

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@UrsulaV Sometimes there are even magical diseases or spells intended to disable and eventually kill so that it looks like a natural death - it's a major plot point in the Song of the Lioness books.

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...to get around is 100% not a modern invention. People will make this "but a modern style wheelchair is ahistorical!!!" argument in games like d&d where you've been able to have a blunderbuss since at least 2d edition and whole classes of artificers exist.

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@WhippleMarc yes for many people - keeping track of the scheduled event takes so much RAM they can't multitask in yhe meantime, as it were, or they're afraid they'll hyperfocus right past the start time, or both.

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But here's the thing (leaving aside those eugenics dystopias I mentioned for a moment): a world where magic has absolutely no boundaries, can do anything? Is freaking boring as hell, because it means there are no real stakes to anything.

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2 years

on this holocaust day of remembrance remember that the famous picture of Nazis burning books is them burning years of research regarding trans people, who they also wished to destroy.

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Even in that universe, where child wizards are hand-wavily less likely to get injured than non-magical children and the school sport can be lethally dangerous because the teachers can make you float and the nurse has a pre-made potion for broken bones, some things can't be cured.

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2 years

you can't control Twitter Twitter worships gritty and union cats and three legged kittens struggling to live and dolly Parton we fight for fun.

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And since there *is* magic, just like you have your magic armor and your magic sword and your magic cloak? A chair with wheels that has some magic emchantment to make it able to handle rough terrain shouldn't really break your brain.

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Space Witches, Esq.

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4 years

so, a 35 hour work week, padded with 20 hours of things regular workers don't get to count in their work weeks like doctors appointments and commuting, to make them seem more important and busy than they are.

Zacaubr High-Leggett

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@TheLexTimes it's worth remembering that studies on this show that 45% of CEOs' supposedly-lengthy workweek include things like exercise, commuting, and lunch it's all lies

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Some wheelchair users have absolutely incredible upper body strength from using a manual chair for many years; wheelchair league athletes do things I couldn't do even before my back started giving out on me. Wheelchair doesn't even mean unable to walk in all cases.

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3 years

"and then God said, I sent you the vaccine, Dolly Parton, and the wellerman!"

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3 years

OK. I'm going to talk about what the Twitter ban means from the point of view of a sexual and domestic violence attorney, because Trump is a domestic violence offender and the pattern is the same.

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But certain people because of their ableism insist that a visibly disabled hero just simply can't exist, at least if it's a type of disability they associate with helplessness (wheelchair) as opposed to one they don't (glasses).

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6 years

My brother had kidney failure before he was 30. He tried to make it in life but once you're on dialysis 3x week and sick from it it's a little hard to hold down a job. I suppose he could have given his kidneys a bootstraps lecture?

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wash your hands from "someBODY once told me" to "the years start coming and they don't stop coming"

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@AmandaFoody my dear departed Princess loved nothing else but to walk along precarious edges. One day she tried walking the edge of the clawfoot bathtub while I was in it. my legs still have scars. I miss that awesome cat.

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@IamRageSparkle @birdpoems my tattoo artist had a similar explanation...do one questionable tattoo, six months later you're a Nazi shop and the non-Nazis disappear.

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I want to go to a movie with my mom and go swimming and go eat Mexican food with my bestie and hug my partner and I'm not doing any of it because I have sense and so do they. I'm gonna spend my 40th birthday at home. It sucks. Death, however, is permanent.

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Seanan McGuire predicted all of this right down to the people protesting and causing mini outbreaks, and y'all laughed at her and said girls can't write science horror. Y'all owe @seananmcguire several apologies but this one most immediately.

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white students at MIT, it's time to disrupt ICE when they come to your campus. waste their time. block their path. text ahead so people can flee or hide. they don't have real warrants, but they also don't have the home field advantage-you do. be a hero.

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"I want a lawyer and I invoke my right to remain silent" and then don't say another word that isn't "lawyer." Practice! You will be stressed and confused!

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Still. White girls, you do not have to talk to the police. DO NOT TALK THE POLICE.

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If magic can undo every type of damage, every type of malady, every ill, with minimal or no cost or consequences? Everything your characters do has less meaning, because they're not risking much of anything.

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I think people should consider how horrifying the experience of not having adequate food, shelter, medical care, etc condemning you to slow and painful death while a handful of people hoard obscene wealth so they can do stunts like tour the Titanic in a cigar tube is.

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I think people should consider how horrifying the experience would be to sit in a submarine 10k ft down as it loses power or implodes or whatever happened. At that point is doesn't matter who the people were or are, they're reduced to their raw humanity, terrified beating hearts.

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D&D will literally let you come back from "technically dead" at zero or negative HP - but miss that roll, and say goodbye to your character. There have to be stakes commensurate with risks or it isn't fun.

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@popelizbet

4 years

Manufacturing products with intentional defects to induce planned obsolescence is now a felony which may be prosecuted individually against corporate agents or as conspiracy in the presence of aggravating factors, to include unconsenting "bricking" of electronics.

A Crime a Day

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You get to write one new criminal law effective January 1, 2020. What is it?

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Space Witches, Esq.

@popelizbet

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I'm sure there are some people who would enjoy no-stakes no-death D&D* but for most people the possibility that you might die is part of what makes the RP compelling, *I am not including modified versions for young children learning the game in this argument.

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RP is a kind of group storytelling, and most storytelling needs conflict to be interesting. Risks and rewards. Failure conditions. If magic in your world is both so powerful it can erase every consequence and easily controlled and available, your reader is going to know...

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Please please please let the next Tracy Chapman song these new folks hear be "talkin bout a revolution" algorithm gods hear my prayer

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...in the back of their mind that no matter how intense the action is, nothing is really going to be any different for the characters at the end, because the wizard will fix it all up.

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Stepping out of fantasy for a second to make the point: there is a type of storytelling where you know nothing is going to change much for the characters and everything is going to be mostly fine because of a mysterious man of great power who fixes problems but it's still fun.

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they speak of you in somber tones they don't go near the woods alone they know they're never free of you, Jolene for you control the sun and moon and you always show up too soon to demand your strange form of tithe, Jolene

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@ValarMorDollars the sheer amount of time I waste explaining to white judges thar my Latinx clients don't tend to change their names and yes, I need their double last names in the computer accurately and yes, the children have both last names...

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And I'm an essential worker, lucky enough to work from home most of the time but regularly having to go to court and I'm scared, because what if the people around me are being cavalier and I bring death home to my house? Because you wanted to grill out this weekend.

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This is P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster stories. Jeeves, with his Enormous Brain, is the wizard who will by the end of the story solve all the problems of the hapless Wooster and friends, leaving them either free to remain happy bachelors or engaged to the right girl.

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They really just filed a petition under seal and said "she wants to see what we've been doing with her money and suspects fraud, make her a WARD OF THE BANK." This is a race & gender & disability justice issue.

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I'm so very tired and I don't feel well today and knowing people are out there Masque of the Red Deathening it up pisses me all the way off.

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what is also interesting about this is how bias is hard coded into the things we create. "greatest painter" gives a very European photo realistic effect while "not very good" gives the kinds of things often called "degenerate" art by fascists. No one intended it but...

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I asked #dalle for a painting titled “The Great Ship Fire” by a made-up artist, who I described as “widely regarded as the greatest painter in history.” Then I repeated the query but changed the description of the artist to “honestly not very good.”

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A true and horrible fact: You can't finalize a divorce while you're pregnant.

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Occasional variants occur involving other relatively low-stakes conflicts and misunderstandings, but the reader knows that whatever the problem, Jeeves will find the solution.

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But even the magic of Jeeves and his exceptional brain comes at a cost! Jeeves is Bertie's gentleman's gentleman, and Bertie, a bear of little brain, usually begins the story by having some small conflict with Jeeves, generally over some article of clothing...

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Qualified immunity

Meriel

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Write a horror story using just 2 words....

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@popelizbet

6 years

Quick go tag your local Confederate monument with a Nike swoosh see if they go for it

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preparing to ruin my timelines fun: the Emmanuel the Emu woman is the same racist white woman who tried to blow up doing Good Ally videos as a Karen character a couple years ago.

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one quick editing tip to pull a commonly used ableist idiom from your communications: for almost every metaphorical use of the word "crippling," "crushing" does the same linguistic lifting, everyone will still know what you mean and disabled people won't wince at your phrasing.

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One must pay a price for magic, including the magic of Jeeves and his Enormous Brain, and almost every Wooster story ends with Bertie paying the price - the offending article of clothing is disposed of, and Jeeves, who Knows Best, is satisfied.

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That Bertie finds to be the height of fashion and Jeeves recommends against - a checked suit, a pair of bright purple socks, a pair of spats. Bertie resists Jeeves' advice, and Jeeves, being the employee, relents with a "very well, sir."

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Frodo is one of us. Merlin is one of us. Sam Vimes with his alcoholism? One of us (and one of many disabled Discworld chars). Game of Thrones? Wheelchair user, dwarf, infertile woman, people with the Scale, all us. You can't kick us out of fantasy - we were already here.

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People like Trump, when their victims push back, when there's any kind of consequences, will respond with an "extinction burst" of dramatic acting out. That's not to say we, the public, will get to see it, but I would bet my last dollar it's started already.

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Wooster stories are light comedies of errors and manners - the reader knows things will resolve, and the fun of the story is how Jeeves resolves the problem through creative solutions. But because there have to be stakes, Bertie always has to give up some small thing...

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If there's anyone LESS competent to be someone's conservator it's WELLS FARGO who have been caught on record doing every scam in the world - subprime mortgage fraud, you name it.

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Returning from that digression: this idea that marginalized characters "destroy" fantasy and science fiction has been around a long time, and there's an entire series of [X] Destroy [Science Fiction/Fantasy] collections that turn this idea on its head by showcasing...

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You won't allow wheelchairs in your D&D game? OK, losers with no imagination to speak of, we'll make our own tables, and we'll have more fun because our disabled selves are welcome as we are. You can cry about it, you can whine, but you can't actually stop us.

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collections of sci-fi or fantasy stories in which this or that type of marginalized person is the hero. Including, of course, Disabled People Destroy Fantasy. These are all special issues of @UncannyMagazine , and you can read DPDF here:

Disabled People Destroy Fantasy Fiction Introduction - Uncanny Magazine

Transformation is at the heart of the fantasy genre. Unassuming shire-dwellers become heroes; humans turn into animals, or animals into humans; ordinary elements become the materials for magic, and...

www.uncannymagazine.com

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Same goes for every other marginalization. We're going to keep right on writing people like us having all the adventures we want while you cry into your beer that we're ruining it for you. I hope we do ruin it for you. Assholes and bigots don't deserve nice things.

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And admit that, in matters great and small, Jeeves is correct and disobeying his advice even about that checked suit is unwise.

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4 years

understand that if I get this or carry it to anyone I love and a contact tracer turns up your identity there is no way I'm not fighting you unless death takes me first. there are kids here.

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@popelizbet

2 months

The magic of Jeeves and his endless store of legendary problem solving skills must come at a price, just as the magic of a fantasy story has to have some price or limit. Even these low-stakes conflicts drive the story along to its happy ending.

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@popelizbet

2 months

In conclusion, and as always: Fuck TERFs and bigots. JKR is a Holocaust denier. Dolly Parton is a hero, in this world and in story. Free Palestine and put an end to all genocides. Tip your disabled poet: $popelizbet

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Space Witches, Esq.

@popelizbet

2 months

Disabled people will keep right on existing in this world and in genre fiction, games, and the like. Disabled people are not going to stop making disabled heroes. Those who don't like it and whine about wokeness destroying their precious genre? Don't own the genre.

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Space Witches, Esq.

@popelizbet

3 years

People who survive abuse are often very sensitive to the moods of people around them because it's a survival technique. Keep an eye on things, folks. Watch for more visible signs of the extinction burst.

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Space Witches, Esq.

@popelizbet

2 months

And when we have ruined it for you by continuing to exist and create and dream, and you run back to Tolkien? Frodo still has at least one middle finger to flip you the bird on his way to the West.

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Space Witches, Esq.

@popelizbet

3 years

I think he's going to try to call into the networks. I don't think he can cope, at this stage, with what's happening without trying to make himself heard about the great outrage that has been delivered to his person. I'm a little worried about what happens between now & Monday.

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Space Witches, Esq.

@popelizbet

4 years

wash your hands from "almost heaven, west Virginia" to the first "country roads."

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Space Witches, Esq.

@popelizbet

2 months

We have been here, in stories and in the real world, forever. In the stories we loved we were absent from or ill treated, we'll retell it, in fanfic or retellings. In the stories where we were present? We'll point out what you ignored when you asked "why would you be there?"

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@popelizbet

2 months

But here's the thing about disability specifically...the same person who sent death threats to, say, the creator of the wheelchair specs for D&D? Will probably, if they live long enough, become disabled in some way.

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Space Witches, Esq.

@popelizbet

2 months

I'm not wishing disability on assholes. I'm just stating facts. Very few people live to be old and don't eventually need a cane, a walker, a wheelchair, a medication for a chronic condition.

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