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New year, new pinned post:
We are a disabled, chronically ill, queer, neurodiverse household. Three adults, only one of us able to work consistently, and a ten-year-old whose job is to be a ten-year-old. The last two years have kicked us in the teeth repeatedly, and we need help.
What able bodied authors think I, an amputee and a wheelchair user, would want in a scifi setting:
Tech that can regenerate my old meat legs.
Robot legs that work just like meat legs and are functionally just meat legs but robot
Literally anything that would mean I don’t have to use a wheelchair.
If I do need to use a wheelchair, make it fly or able to “walk me” upstairs
What I actually want:
Prosthetic covers that can change colour because I’m too indecisive to pick one colour/pattern for the next 5+ years.
A leg that I can turn off (seriously, my above knee prosthetic has no off switch… just… why?)
A leg that won’t have to get refitted every time I gain or loose weight.
A wheelchair that I can teleport to me and legs I can teleport away when I’m too tierd to keep walking. And vice versa.
In that same vein, legs I can teleport on instead of having to fiddle around with the sockets for half an hour.
Prosthetic feet that don’t require me to wear shoes. F*ck shoes.
Actually accessible architecture, which means when I do want to use my wheelchair, it’s not an issue.
Prosthetic legs with dragon-claw feet instead of boring human feet or just digigrade prosthetics that are just as functional as normal human-shaped ones.
A manual wheelchair with the option to lift my seat up like those scissor-lift things so I’m not eye-level with everyone’s butt on public transport/so I can reach the top shelf by myself.
A prosthetic foot that lights up when it hits the ground like those children’s shoes.
being proactive w cultivating your fandom space is good but also weird because occasionally you’ll see a post that’s like, “we need to address [problem in fandom you have literally never heard of before]” or “I’m tired of fics that [characterization you have literally never encountered]” and you just end up nodding along and trusting that your mutuals have seen horrors you cannot fathom because you have a very extensive blacklist
do you ever sabotage your own free time? like wtf is that about? i want to play this game or read or do something specific but instead i will just stare out the window or scroll mindlessly???
by some miracle of the internet, I have remained almost entirely unspoiled for Fallout New Vegas*. I grabbed it for free off a Prime Gaming deal and have finally actually started it, still in Goodsprings atm. my entire experience thus far is I Do Not Trust The Cowboy Robot Man
*I would like to remain unspoiled please and thank you~
the post-apocalyptic southwest is populated exclusively by liam o'brien
I enjoy Harland. He almost makes dealing with the rest of REPCONN/Jason Bright worth it. Almost.
[you have unlocked the Lord Death perk]
“You gain a damage bonus against everything, because you like killing everything.”
EVERYTHING WAS TRYING TO KILL ME FIRST OKAY
listen I know the game came out a whole decade before the meme was relevant but a community of gun nuts who refuse to engage with the outside world and assume everyone who isn’t one of them is a drooling idiot being called Boomers is deeply, deeply funny to me
the post-apocalyptic southwest is also inhabited by sam riegel, apparently
yes, I know, I get it, you want my robot, shut the fuCK UP
had an issue where veronica’s quest triggers weren’t triggering, the fix for which is apparently to go to where the trigger is supposed to happen, wait a minute, then go somewhere with a chair so you can sit down and stand back up and then she says the line. this game is so fucking stupid, I love it.
I have finally reached This Tall To Unlock Boone’s Tragic Backstory
doES ANYONE ELSE REALIZE THAT WE’RE LIKE, THE FIRST GENERATION ON TUMBLR
GIVE IT 10-15 YEARS AND WE’LL ALL BE GROWN UP AND AN ENTIRE NEW SET OF KIDS WILL BE ON HERE BLOGGING ABOUT COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SHOWS AND BANDS AND MOVIES AND BOOKS
THE ONLY THING THEY’LL STILL BE BLOGGING ABOUT THE SAME AS WE WERE IS DOCTOR WHO
HOPEFULLY
We’ll probably all be blogging about Sherlock season 4.
maybe
7/22/2013
happy decade anniversary to this post
hi I’m the new generation of bloggers. like literally I’m gen alpha
