“Okay backup plan time. I’m gonna need 4 liters of knock out gas, a hologram of a stripper, and a jar of pickles, and the pickles are ESSENTIAL.”
-the weird solarian
“I can’t believe the plan worked!”
-envoy
“I know! What the hell am I supposed to do with a jar of pickles and a holo stripper.”
-solarian
a culture fixated on sniffing out “fakers” to protect “real disabled people” inevitably harms every single disabled person within that culture & only maybe a relative handful of “fakers”, who are usually mentally ill or economically disadvantaged to the point of having no alternative. stop saying your skepticism is for my benefit. stop saying my oppression is for my benefit. yes the idea of people with no grasp of my struggle claiming it is infuriating & insulting beyond belief. yes that is also oppressive. but in practice, i’d rather a dozen able bodied people successfully pass themselves off as disabled than one disabled person die in poverty because they couldn’t “prove it” to an abled person’s content
setting aside the fact that People Die From This, just the impact of faker witchunting on the emotional wellbeing of disabled people is enough to make it inexcusable i’ve heard someone crying, literally sobbing & vomiting from pain frantically promise me that they’re not exaggerating when i never indicated for a moment that i disbelieved them, because they’re so used to the accusation. i’ve heard someone in the aftermath of a seizure quietly mumble as they regained lucidity, “are you sure i’m not faking?” i don’t know a single chronically ill person who hasn’t at one point or another seriously questioned if they were ever really that sick at all because we’ve been so brainwashed to challenge the validity of disability that we begin to doubt the reality of our own definitive lived experiences
i remember this time in elementary school i had to write a book report on something and i chose the book Warriors. yes the legendary series with the fucking, cats and shit. the thing is i never read the book, at all, i completely winged the book report but got a super good grade then my teacher said my report made her read the book and she was like hey you uhhh didn’t read it did you and i was caught
alright, i’m getting a lot of replies to an older text post i made in which i said that i love rats, telling me that my beloved pets i’ve kept for most of my life are “diseased” and “nasty”, which are totally necessary additions that i totally asked for. /s
so here’s a post debunking some somehow STILL widespread misconceptions about rats, specifically domesticated pet rats.
people who own pet rats did not reach into the sewers of manhattan and pick up a nice fat boy to take home. pet rats are DOMESTICATED, often referred to as “fancy” rats. comparing sewer rats to fancy rats is like comparing a coyote to a labrador.
wild rats did in fact contract and spread the black plague, through the fault of diseased fleas, not the rats themselves. other flea-carrying creatures were just as capable of spreading the plague, rats were just more numerous.
and like i said above, domesticated rats are NOT wild rats, so what is the plague argument even for. are you kicking fluffy out because a puma mauled a guy once?
rats are, by nature, NOT dirty. they are actually extremely clean creatures, like most rodents. rats clean themselves just like cats.
speaking of cat-like behavior, rats are so smart they can actually be trained to use a litter pan.
they can also be trained to come when called, perform tricks, solve puzzles, and recognize written symbols.
rats are more sweet-tempered than hamsters. unless they were abused or mishandled, a healthy fancy rat who is used to being handled has a friendly personality and enjoys sitting in a human’s sweatshirt pocket or in their lap, receiving head scritches, and generally being gently snuggled. boy rats tend to be more lazy than female rats, who while equally sweet, skew more hyperactive personalities. (and unlike hamsters, which irc often murder each other if kept together, rats are highly social and become lethargic if kept without a friend.)
RAT TAILS ARE NOT SEGMENTED LIKE A WORM, WHAT THE HELL. rat tails have a fine and light colored but very stiff layer of hair on their tails. it’s very soft, but if stroked backwards it can feel prickly. (pls don’t do this, it causes discomfort to the rat.) the way the hair is layered causes it to appear like there are lines. that’s all it is, they do not have segmented worms for tails. i can’t believe i even have to address this.
a well-socialized fancy rat is a gentle, clean, loving pet, whose only downfall is their incredibly short lifespans. no one’s forcing you to not be scared of rodents, but please stop telling me my pets deserve to die because you refuse to learn anything about them.
@kilalabunnies in case people harass you for being a rat owner
*yells incoherently about the founding principles of Christianity vs the evangelical/prosperity gospel/right-wing view of Christianity for a few hours*
Matthew 6:24: “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”
Matthew 19:20-23: Jesus said to [the rich young man], “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.” But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is difficult for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
Capitalist “Christians” Today: I have stuff so Jesus must have blessed me! I’m going to Heaven for sure! By the way fuck the poor, Jesus must not like them or they’d have stuff too, it’s their own fault they’re suffering.
Jesus: I don’t remember saying it was Opposite Day when I stated those teachings, but,
I will never understand how the GOP has gotten the reputation as the party of Christianity when almost every single one of their policies is in direct contravention to Jesus’ teachings.
The fact that Christians and mega-church leaders have been seduced by money and power to convince their parishioners that the only two political issues that are “political” are abortion and “traditional” marriage. It’s like they ripped two pages out of the Old Testament and then used literally the rest of the Bible as toilet paper.
I’m an atheist and still follow the tenents of Christianity better than the majority of the GOP.
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
