Imagine this for a second: you’re a kid in a wheelchair.
It’s pretty isolating. You love reading, but every book you read has a hero who can walk. After a while, you start to get the message: only kids without disabilities are allowed to have adventures. Because of your condition, you’ll never be able to have a story worth reading.
Now imagine you discover a book about a kid in a wheelchair.
It’s fantastic. All of a sudden, there’s someone like you who gets to go on awesome adventures. Maybe your story actually is worth telling after all!
But then the hero gets their greatest wish granted: their legs are fixed and they rise from their wheelchair, healthy and strong.
And there you are, the reader, still stuck in your wheelchair.
Your legs will never be fixed.
You will never be granted that magical wish.
And the character who used to just be like you is now something you can never be. The writer has decided that their story is only worth telling if they end up magically abled.
But you will never end up magically abled. So what does this tell you?
Your story will never be worth telling.
Now do you understand?
Disabled people do not need to be “cured” for their stories to be worth telling, they do not need to hate themselves or their disabilities for their stories to be worth telling. DISABLED PEOPLE ARE REAL MULTI-FACETED, MULTI-DIMENSIONAL PEOPLE AND THEIR STORIES ARE WORTH TELLING!!!
Character with psychosomatic paralysis who gets over it just in time to walk down the aisle for her wedding/graduation/etc is a trope that needs to be set on fire.
(what I want: a romance novel with a character who uses a wheelchair sometimes, who gets her dress made specifically for to look amazing in her wheelchair, and who then feels good enough to walk down the aisle
and doesn’t
because she cannot count on the duration of feeling good enough to walk for extended periods of time
her dress was made to accommodate her chair and would look silly standing AND she’d lose the nifty custom train and
the point where it’s an hour before your wedding and you don’t actually NEED another dress but you COULD wear a different dress is not the time to choose a different dress
and maybe her mom is like “I TOLD YOU EVERYTHING WOULD BE OK YOU SHOULD’VE LISTENED” and she is like, “I’m wheeling down the aisle and I changed the cake to the cake I ACTUALLY WANTED without telling you OH LOOK TIME FOR MOTHER OF THE BRIDE TO TAKE HER PLACE”
and her spouse gets on one knee for her wedding kiss and it’s beautiful and perfect and the maid of honor runs interference with mom for the the entire reception because THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE FOR)
Consider this: Gwendoline Christie playing the romantic lead in a Jane Austen adaptation, or indeed any period piece. Nothing else changes. Nobody draws attention to the fact she’s a woman. It’s just two solid hours of Gwendoline Christie on a horse and wearing a suit and sweeping maidens off their feet
I like the idea that Parker occasionally taps him for side missions together where they go and do stuff and Eliot is like “Why did you jack a car and set a small fire on the bridge yesterday?” and Bucky’s like “I dunno, Parker asked, it seemed like fun.” and Parker’s like “I have my reasons, DON’T JUDGE OUR FRIEND DATES.”
So everyone talks about Steve being able to wield Mjolnir and that’s cool and all, but a lot of people forget that Clint, in the comics, is one of the few people who can properly use Steve’s shield.
So…yes. Steve holds his hand out and accidentally catches Mjolnir and meanwhile Clint’s out of arrows and the shield lands near him so he just kind of says “fuck it” and picks up the shield and starts throwing it. And Thor kind of shrugs and just grabs the nearest thing to use as a weapon. Maybe tosses one of the bad guys at the other bad guys. Maybe tosses Tony at the bad guys. Something.
And later they all agree that was pretty fun.
It’s always fun to use Tony as a blunt instrument.
It really is:
i love that because it implies its a legitimate strategic tactic theyve used before SEVERAL TIMES
Tony: NOT THE OLD FASHINED WAY AGAAAaaaaa-aaaªªªªªªªªªªiiiiinnnnnn-
I really need to somehow include using Tony as a blunt instrument in my fic somewhere.
YES PLEASE THAT WOULD BE SO MUCH FUN TO READ OUT LOUD.
concept: there is no more light pollution and you can see every single star in the heavens. all is beautiful and quiet and there is nothing between you and the vast cosmos above
concept continued: the smog was our last line of defense and They Are Coming
continued concept continued: we welcome them with open arms and they give us baked goods from Beyond
i feel like we don’t talk enough about how the discworld has commercial captain carrot action figures (and possibly versions of other watch members too??)
I’m just imagining that there’s a Commander Vimes one somewhere
The Hogswatch after they start being produced, they start showing up around the watchhouse
on the duty desk, in the privies, on the odd doorframe, in the lockers
everyone thinks it’s hilarious but no one’s willing to admit to doing it because Vimes’ll go spare
he keeps demanding they clear them out and they do, but then they reappear
(it’s probably Vetinari)
Vimes keeps trying to buy the whole stock to get rid of them, inadvertently creating a demand
Sybil doesn’t point this out. She just sits back and watches in amusement and makes sure that a box or so end up in the attic, for posterity.
But he doesn’t mind the one Young Sam is currently using to teeth. That one they can keep.
When Young Sam gets older he has all the figurines so that he can play watchman. He has a head for it which both delights and saddens Sam who always hopes his lad’s life will be better then his.
As usual Sybil finds the silver lining and suggests that given Young Sam’s nature, his love for organizing, collecting and his ability to differentiate between several different types of poo at a glance, a promising career in forensics might be on the horizon.
Aunt Cheri Littlebottom gives him his first lead lined jump-over-bench the following year.
I certainly do try, Mr. Vimes has been very supportive of my encouraging the boy. – Sgt. Littlebottom
Falcon and Bucky, nicknamed ‘Cap’s two girlfriends’ on set…
Empire Magazine Captain America: Civil War article (aka. are they even trying anymore)
Kimchi and Justice 