“What? Like, a disabled protagonist? How would that even work? How could someone with a disability be the hero in an action show?” local anime trash boy wonders while sitting next to his box sets of Full Metal Alchemist, showing no hint of irony or self awareness.
but is Ed really disabled? sure I get he lost his arm and leg
but he’s still able to move and do things perfectly
He has prosthetics. Having prosthetic limbs (that more than once break amd need repair) doesnt make him not disabled
It should also be noted that Ed:
-had to undergo very painful and lengthy surgery to get automail
-had to relearn how to write because of his prosthesis (there’s a post going around showing he had to switch hands etc) and his handwriting is likely a lot worse due to that. This means automail isn’t super good for delicate work, unsurprising, considering what it’s made of.
-experiences phantom limb pain and therefore other associated stuff (this was only really shown in the manga)
-cannot go anywhere too cold without changing his automail or he’ll get really bad frost bite and it will stop working
-cannot go anywhere too hot, period, because the metal attached and under his skin will overheat and he will be badly burned
-Reattachment is painful, but needs to be done frequently if he breaks or outgrows his automail
- it’s HEAVY so much so that the strain has the potential to cause stress on his body, enough that it’s even theorized as possibly stunting his growth.
-it requires really frequent maintenance or it will break down, as shown by how when he first moved out he forgot to do that and it…broke down.
-when it does need to be repaired, it takes time to do that, during which Ed uses regular prosthetics (that usually don’t quite fit him).
-costs a lot of money (not a problem for Ed due to high state alchemist salary/having mechanics as surrogate family, but explicitly noted to being the reason why most people in the fmaverse stick to regular prosthetics along with the painful surgery)
So Ed can’t actually do everything perfectly and experiences a lot of extra hassle, problems and pain people without automail don’t have to deal with! And any advantages he does have are more suited to fighting than day to day life (being able to incorporate weapons/fake out people who want to blow up his arm).
Arakawa did her research and thought it through. Automail is by no means a magic cure that solves all problems associated with losing a limb.
Note that this stuff is admired and seen as a source of character development in fiction, but shamed in real life.
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“What? Like, a disabled protagonist? How would that even work? How could someone with a disability be the hero in an action show?” local anime trash boy wonders while sitting next to his box sets of Full Metal Alchemist, showing no hint of irony or self awareness.
but is Ed really disabled? sure I get he lost his arm and leg
but he’s still able to move and do things perfectly
He has prosthetics. Having prosthetic limbs (that more than once break amd need repair) doesnt make him not disabled
It should also be noted that Ed:
-had to undergo very painful and lengthy surgery to get automail
-had to relearn how to write because of his prosthesis (there’s a post going around showing he had to switch hands etc) and his handwriting is likely a lot worse due to that. This means automail isn’t super good for delicate work, unsurprising, considering what it’s made of.
-experiences phantom limb pain and therefore other associated stuff (this was only really shown in the manga)
-cannot go anywhere too cold without changing his automail or he’ll get really bad frost bite and it will stop working
-cannot go anywhere too hot, period, because the metal attached and under his skin will overheat and he will be badly burned
-Reattachment is painful, but needs to be done frequently if he breaks or outgrows his automail
- it’s HEAVY so much so that the strain has the potential to cause stress on his body, enough that it’s even theorized as possibly stunting his growth.
-it requires really frequent maintenance or it will break down, as shown by how when he first moved out he forgot to do that and it…broke down.
-when it does need to be repaired, it takes time to do that, during which Ed uses regular prosthetics (that usually don’t quite fit him).
-costs a lot of money (not a problem for Ed due to high state alchemist salary/having mechanics as surrogate family, but explicitly noted to being the reason why most people in the fmaverse stick to regular prosthetics along with the painful surgery)
So Ed can’t actually do everything perfectly and experiences a lot of extra hassle, problems and pain people without automail don’t have to deal with! And any advantages he does have are more suited to fighting than day to day life (being able to incorporate weapons/fake out people who want to blow up his arm).
Arakawa did her research and thought it through. Automail is by no means a magic cure that solves all problems associated with losing a limb.
Note that this stuff is admired and seen as a source of character development in fiction, but shamed in real life.
great pyrenees are so fucking awesome theyre just big. if i didnt think that owning one was a supremely bad idea for me in particular id get one. i just think itd become my boss or something. im too lazy for a working breed truly
how lame is that in english they only sing “happy birthday to you” repeatedly during the cake bit in birthday parties meanwhile in brasil we sing happy birthday wishing you happiness in this beloved date then another verse wishing god will grant you health and peace and that the angels will hopefully say amen to that then another verse just saying made up words that don’t make sense together like “big big hora hora rá tim bum” and then if you’re a kid we’ll sing an additional song predicting who you’re going to marry and everyone will shout your crush’s name to embarrass you and if you’re in my region of the country there’s two more additional songs where first we all raise our hands over you and wish god bathes you in his blessings and his love and then we finish the whole thing implying everyone in the party is going to fuck you in the ass
no. not all of us. in Venezuela we have at least 12 verses before then doing the basic happy birthday, and a good third of those verses have optional flourishes and riffs that vary between regions and even between families. it’s very similar to what op described about Brazil (although Brazil as always goes the extra mile lmao), including an additional couple of verses after the first part but before the end where you go on a little silly rap joking about whatever current drama is up in the country or just generic dirty jokes even. and then there’s my mom who added a full accapela instrumental intro because she’s extra like that that we have been carrying on as a family tradition
Dont forget how in spanish we also have the complimentary song that wishes our little friend to be happy on their day, for god to bless them, for the peace to reign in their day, and for many more birthdays (so they can get retired)
Oh and the fact that the song has… The Evil Version which Evil kids will sing and feel Evil about and their family will tell them not to say that stuff
From where I’m from we just have the basic happy birthday song normally followed by the Happiness shall find it’s Home in You song, truly boring 😔
I keep thinking about the Matrix as a trans allegory, and this scene from the Animatrix always hauts me. This machine is protesting in the “million machine march” for the right to be treated with dignity and the very recognition of her humanity. In response, she is viciously assaulted and murdered, called a “skinjob” for daring to look like a woman. Her last words as she is being maimed are
“I’m real!”
God this makes me sad and sick. Good job to those animators tho, because I’m feeling so strongly about a series of pictures.
yeah like. gosh every part of this scene just works together to make it horrifying
this is lara, a cisgender butch woman who was hate-crimed by other women for trying to use a “female-only space”. a space, by their logic, she should have been able to use and is apparently meant to be her safe space.
this is the result of terf transphobia. please remember lara and others like her next time terfs claim that they care about butch women or that you can “always tell”.
I’m so sorry this happened to you, lara 💔 🫂
t*rfs have been cropping up in my notes a lot recently yet it’s been 12 hours and they are so far completely silent about this. ironic, that.
according to the t*rfs I’ve talked to about this kind of thing happening? yes, apparently so. she “should accept and expect this” because of how she dresses 🙃
So while most rainbow capitalism is sticking rainbows on things and pretending to be an ally, Budweiser’s UK branch is giving credit to trans activists, and explaining pride flag colors.
Budweiser is an inclusionist 💞💞💞
What a weird and true thing to say! And I almost sounds like a joke but honestly I feel this tweet captures 90% of my feelings
And to actually credit Monica Helms and get the white stripe right? Like, if we are going to have companies at pride this is what I’d like to see. Professional looking marketing, credit to activists, research about the groups its marketing, and spreading further awareness.
Free Palestine. Free Gaza. Free Rafah. Never stop talking about Palestine. Never stop thinking about Palestine. From the river to the sea Palestine will be free.
Friendly reminder that LGBTQ+, Queer, and LGBT+ are the preferred terms for the community (x).
Friendly reminder that Queer is approved by 72.9% of the people, and the groups who don’t prefer it’s use as an umbrella term are straight people, exclusionists, transmeds, truscums, sex-negative people, and sex work critical people (x).
Friendly reminder that aros and aces are excluded only 9.2% /
8.1%
of the time respectively while being included
78.9%
/ 81.2% of the time (x)
Friendly reminder that exclusionists are in the minority and aro/ace people are included in the LGBTQ+ community by the people within the community.
Also, i checked out the survey the second claim sources a while back: this is not OP choosing the words truscum, exclusionist, etc. These are labels that the survey gave people the option to self-identify as. It’s self-proclaimed exclusionists who dont like the word queer, not random accusations
yeah that’s super important.
This one gets reblogged on main. The reclassification of ‘queer’ as an inexcusable slur is a recent development which stems in part from exclusionist rhetoric. We reclaimed it decades ago. Learn our history. You are not immune to TERF propaganda, but you can absolutely choose to educate yourself to spite it.
Be kind. 💜
“friend of Dorothy” was used to say you were gay discreetly for fucking years. Where did it come from?
“You have some queer friends, Dorothy”, and she replies, “The queerness doesn’t matter, so long as they’re friends.”
Like, it was popular enough for it to be a thing in ww2.
And when you reblog peoples posts where they’re self identifying as queer and tag it with cw: q slur, you’re telling us that you see our identities themselves as foul and triggering and you are aligning yourself with the above groups.
i remember in the 80s seeing people chanting “we’re here, we’re queer, get used to it”. didn’t really think i was one at the time, but they seemed to have a good point and i got used to it. ended up marrying one.
“Hm, I’ve already established that this nation in my story has a lot of sunflowers as a background detail, I should take five minutes real quick to see what those can be used for.”
🎶You can eat the stalks! You can eat the leaves! You can eat the petals! You can eat the seeds! You can eat the tubers! Turn ‘em into booze! Go and plant some sunflowers! If you don’t you lose! 🎶
They’re also one of the few plants which can reclaim fallout.
They also scrub radiation and heavy metals from their environment, yeah.
Target audience reached.
The highest calorie plant crop you can grow per soil unit is sunflowers iirc - from the oil
Since food from plants is an unending battle of trying to get calories out of dirt, this is a fascinating fact!
(Edit: I don’t think I’m recalling this in a useful way so let me go dig up the source (ha) before counting on this fact)
I don’t know about the radiation but I have a slight clarification on the heavy metals thing - sunflowers concentrate heavy metals in their tissues. So to use them for clean up, you have to harvest them (including roots, where a lot of the metals are most concentrated) and then dispose of the sunflowers in a safe location away from the contaminated area. Sunflowers don’t just get rid of heavy metals on their own
This is in contrast to things like using mushrooms to clean up soil that is contaminated with oil - oil is made up of carbon so it can actually be broken down and changed into molecules that are less harmful. No mushroom removal needed. But metals are metals, there’s nothing about them that can be broken down into something else
That’s a really good point and I don’t want it to distract me from fact-checking my fact (I’m pretty sure I’m wrong and it’s something like “sunflower is the most fat you can get from plant crops in a permaculture setup (as opposed to controlling industrial levels of farmland)” but I’m super distracted right now) but it bothers me so much when the assumption of remediation is that the plants just delete stuff from existence. They don’t!
this one’s for “stupid” mentally disabled people. people who can’t do basic math. people who are gullible to no fault of their own. people who can’t understand nuance in some situations. people with cognitive issues. intellectually disabled people.
hey, you’re doin’ just fine. doing a great job, even! don’t put yourself down or feel like your worth as a person rests on how smart you are. we’ll be ok
Can I get a sidebar holler for the folks who “used to be smart”, who have lost skills, lost memory, lost independence. You’re still valuable and loveable, and you’re worth more than what you can do
YOU KNOW IT BOSS!!! *has declining cognitive function and memory loss from brain damage*
sometimes i’m like ‘fanfiction can’t shock me anymore i’m numb to it’ then i find this shit
every moment of a cumulative thirteen years of catholic education is simultaneously screaming out in agony at this reply
Tbh the only way an average-looking guy could get 12 hot guys to follow him around and hang off his every word is if he’s the only top
Obviously Christ was a top, the Catholic Church keeps reminding us he’s inside everyone, and the one and only time he got nailed, it took him three days to recover.
So ain’t nobody gonna ask OP what they were doing looking for Jesus/Judas fanfiction?
trying to find jesus/judas fanfiction to read i thought that was obvious
OPs url makes this the funniest thread I’ve ever read in my life
“Sorry I have a boyfriend” is of course a time-tested and reasonably reliable no-fault rejection strategy. But what many tacticians may not realize is it has an even more powerful counterpart, the preemptive boyfriend name-drop. This is when a conversation with a stranger veers into high-alert territory and you make up a guy named Raphael (my boyfriend) who you mention due to his extremely-relevant interest in the current topic of conversation.
Raphael is a powerful tactical piece here due to his simultaneous love or hatred of every single topic ever, due to he’s not real.
me writing a telegram to my hussar husband circa 1917: szia balazs hope you are well stop vienna is nice but there’s no fucking food stop woke up with german officer’s wife realized i’ve never been attracted to men so we’re through stop sorry about that but am sure you understand your unit always struck me as extremely homoerotic stop can we still be friends yours helena
I have a bit of an odd question. So much financial advice out there is all about saving and investing, which is great, except... you're left feeling like spending any money at all except on what you absolutely need is frivolous and something to be ashamed of. I guess my question is how do you maintain a good relationship with money and good financial habits without falling into the trap of feeling guilty for buying things that make you happy, like a croissant on your walk or a dress you've had your eye on for months or on this hobby you adore? Isn't that part of a good relationship with money, knowing when it's OK to spend it aside from on the necessities? Because so many financial advice pages shame that kind of spending and advise cutting it out to save money, which yeah, if you're being irresponsible about it. But if it's within your means and it makes you happy, what's the harm such "silly" purchases now and then?
What you’re describing is financial guilt, or a scarcity mentality. And it’s something we write about a lot. Because OF COURSE you should use your money to brighten the dark hellscape that is daily life in our modern world. That’s what it’s FOR! But some folks don’t know where to draw the line between “frivolous spending” and “an occasional treat to make life bearable.”
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