Hawaii 🌺| He/Him | Character Animator (also recently got my Graphic Design degree!) | This is my personal blog where I rebarf or rant. Enjoy! 🤙🏽
Nino’s shirt was so tight. The fabric stretched thin across his chest and pinched together at Nino’s armpits in a way that bordered on grotesque. Would Nino even be able to reach up to raise his hand? Could he take notes like that?
Adrien wasn’t sure.
He’d have to say something. Maybe Nino would like to borrow his overshirt? It wouldn’t be a perfect fit either, bu—
“Hey dude, what do you think of my Chat Noir shirt?” Nino asked, turning to face Adrien so his chest was fully on display, revealing a warped black paw print decal in the center. “Awesome, right?”
“It’s, um,” Adrien floundered for something positive to say. “Green.”
This commission is for the @miraculers-for-ukraine charity drive, which is raising money to support Ukraine in their efforts against the Russian invasion.
here we go, the official second part to the first post i made :^) now i’ve drawn the whole crew and tbh shark gave me the most trouble out of everyone, cause for some reason i just couldn’t get his head shape down. but thats the reason i didnt draw him as many times as everyone else ;; sorry big guy
aside from that, someone wanted piranha/shark so i doodled a little bit of that n also just some more random stuff including some that will probably not be funny to anyone but me LMAO
This is I guess are the looks that I think are “close” to their Canon fits and this is what I think height would be like if they were to stood next each other.
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Stardew Valley BachelorMasterpost:
And thats it. That was the fashion series!!!! Thanks joining me on this long as journey. Thank you for patiently waiting. Men’s fasion is difficult. But i am pretty proud of this lol.
This means that 1. we are 100% financially dependent on our spouses and 2. since most abled, working age adults in 2022 barely earn enough to support a single person & many don’t offer health care benefits, we must choose between starting a family and having income to pay for rent, clothing, toiletries, transportation, OTC meds etc.
If they cared about us, they have the power to change it overnight.
We have the resources to not condemn disabled folks to a life of poverty, isolation and worsening health. What we lack is political will.
But they haven’t, because under white supremacist capitalism, which upholds ableism as the status quo, disabled people are seem as “useless eaters”. We are black holes of consumption, eating the benevolent government out of house and home:
(We’re really getting away with it aren’t we, having to supplement the entire stipend we hand over on the first of the month as rent).
Many of us are then left dependent on charity: food banks (not accessible, no variety of foods, they are so burdened they often limit clients to one or two food hampers per month). Food banks are not a solution to disability hunger & poverty - they are a reminder that we are worth nothing more than last Thanksgiving’s expired canned goods.
For those of us lucky enough to have family & friends that wish to help, whether in kind (sharing meals, helping us buy necessities we can’t afford like winter shoes and coats) or with direct cash, we must navigate a labyrinth of esoteric rules, all in the name of “fraud protection”.
Get a gift over $600? It will be deducted from your income payment the following month (6-8 weeks later).
Feeling healthy enough to work part time? You get to keep the first $100 you make, increasing your monthly income to $1269.
After that, every dollar earned will be taxed at 50% - a rate that only disabled/ poor folks & the owning class pay. You’re working side by side with your fellow cashier, doing the same work. Only she gets paid $14/hr for it, and you get paid $7/hr (this system exists to disincentive disabled people from working, which serves two purposes for government: it creates artificial scarcity of workers in a region that hasn’t had sufficient living wage jobs since 1989, and it leverages real, living people as political pawns to hold up at election time (“we can lower taxes as long as we kick all the disability fakers off of support”), just because we happen to be disabled.
Once again, and I cannot emphasize this enough: you lose your pittance and government health insurance if you so much as cohabit with another adult. Even a roommate, friend or parent - our government has a history of setting up snitch lines inviting vengeful exes and other busybodies to which people can call in and report a “spouse in the house”.
A single, disabled parent will not be granted adoption. In fact, if we become a stepparent or have a child or our own, we will be scrutinized by OB/GYNs, social workers/child welfare agencies & our child/ren’s teacher, as we are presumed incompetent for parenting just as for work, simply because we are disabled.
To conclude:
If government policy forces disabled people to choose between having our own income or starting our own family,
Where that inadequate income is nevertheless our best chance at avoiding housing/food instability (which in Canada, means risk of exposure and death)
Of course we choose loneliness, isolation and to give up on our dreams of having our own family.
If you can’t start your own family without making a conscious choice to give up shelter and food, it’s not a choice. It’s eugenics.
If this doesn’t make sense to you, it’s likely because you are focusing on and begrudge us “$1169 of free money & government health insurance”. It means that either you’re not disabled or if you are, your disability doesn’t impact your employer’s/potential employers’ confidence in your competence, productivity and value.
And if you’re spending energy on ablesplaining to multiply marginalized disabled people speaking on our lived experience that we are wrong about being targeted for eugenics - when the cost of cohabiting/being married is our life-sustaining social assistance, where most disabled folks have ongoing & complex health care and medication needs, and where eugenics has been employed in recent history to stop disabled people from starting our own families - well, it tells us you value us about as much as our government representatives, employers and the majority population do.
That is to say, worthy of less empathy, protection, investment and support than animals. The Ford government has spent more money on embarrassing “Ontario: Open for Business” signs and on off-track horse race betting, than on disabled people. And if you thought the pandemic might be the catalyst for long-overdue change - think again. In 2020, Ottawa disbursed $12 billion to Ontario as emergency COVID funding, earmarked to support ODSP/social assistance recipients (only people who had earned >$5000 in 2019 were able to access the Canada Emergency Response Benefit). As of December 2021, the Ford government continues to withhold and hoard the money.
I wish i could find this one article written in I believe the 90’s that went under the radar on abortion. The author said that the “life” arguments are basically useless on either side and what actually matters is that humans shouldn’t have a right to use other human bodies as a resource without consent no matter how alive or sentient they are, even if they’re on the brink of death you have the right to deny them access to you. It probably was too radical for pro-choice activists back in those days but like…that’s the most robust arguement lol so we need 2 being that back and dead the pontifications and splitting hairs about “life” in my honest onion
I found it. Actually, it was written in the 70’s. She was way ahead of the curve.
The article is ‘A Defense of Abortion’ by Judith Jarvis Thomson. Essential reading!
Not to be that person but I feel like sometimes Shrek being so memeable prevents people from seeing how truly revolutionary and radical the first two films really were. A children’s fairy tale that argues that no, ugliness does not mean bad and beautiful does not mean good. A fairy tale that argues that everyone deserves love, even those cast out of the margins of society. A fairy tale that dares to have a female protagonist not be conventionally attractive or helpless. A fairy tale that argues that love does not happen at first sight, but is grown through mutual respect and interest. That’s pretty fucking sick if you ask me
