Please!
What are you paying for? If it’s for an item that is physically being shipped to you, then by all means continue!
But if it is for digital art, please reconsider!
This means that paypal is expecting me to ship a physical item to you!
And the more times that I receive money for goods, and do not ship through them, the more it counts against me.
Too many and paypal can elect to hold my funds for thirty days every time I receive them, until it reevaluates my account.
Which means while the customer has their deserved art, I do not technically have money yet.So PLEASE always send payment for digital art via SERVICES and not GOODS!
(you can get a refund if need be just as easily by selecting services as you can goods!)
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People have written a lot of touchy-feely pieces on this subject but I thought I’d get right to the heart of the matter
Michael Brown was an 18 year old that was killed by a Ferguson Police Officer on Saturday, August 9th. His family is now seeking justice for Michael’s death. Their pursuit for justice will be lengthy and hard but with the support of the community they will get justice. If you are willing to support Michael’s family please donate to Michael Brown’s Memorial Fund. These funds will assist his family with costs that they will acquire as they seek justice on Michael’s behalf. All funds will be given to the Michael Brown family. We appreciate your support.This is a legitimate fundraiser confirmed by the family’s lawyer’s official twitter account and multiple news sources. This family has suffered so much, please help relieve one small worry from their life.
No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
(Dead Poets Society, 1989)
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Wouldn’t it be awesome if there was a pro-Neurodiversity, pro-Autism documentary starring actual autistic advocates?
Wouldn’t it be amazing if this educational film exposed the controversy of Autism Speaks, while at the same time covering topics like the Judge Rotenberg Center and the horrifying society-sanctioned pattern of disabled people being murdered by their caregivers?
Wouldn’t the icing on the cake be an exploration of the Autism Acceptance/Neurodiversity movement through the eyes of autistic people, featuring interviews with Ari Ne’eman of The Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Landon Bryce of thAutcast, artist/author Robyn Steward and autism activist Zoe Gross?
This film exists! The documentary is Citizen Autistic, Produced by William Davenport, and it needs help. William Davenport is currently trying to raise enough money to be able to do a screening tour and bring this incredibly important film to people all over the US. They have an indiegogo campaign here, and their goal is to raise $5000.
This is a big opportunity for the a/Autistic community to spread a message of truth. As William Davenport said, “After screening the film, people have remarked to me, ‘I didn’t even know that adults have autism’.” Right now the loudest voices are the voices coming from Autism Speaks and other pro-cure and anti-acceptance organizations led and directed by non-autistics. But films like Citizen Autistic can be a part of changing that!
Please check out their indiegogo campaign here and consider donating, and please help spread the word! Citizen Autistic also has a facebook page here. To see more excerpts from the film you can see William Davenport’s vimeo page here.
Even though my funds are very limited, I just donated $25 to this because the $25 perk is a DVD copy, and as an Australian, it’s likely that this is my only legit way of getting to see this film. So if you’re an international autist who wants to see Citizen Autistic and can afford it, donating is a great way of not only helping out, but allows you to experience the film, too.
(Source: http://neurowonderful.tumblr.com/)
Would you mind expanding a bit on your Howard Stark hulk rage feels? :)
I’m gonna keep this to the MCU because thinking about 616 Howard Stark (who is a drunk, unpredictable, abusive asshole who belittles Tony and fucking threatens him with violence what the fuck) makes me foam at the mouth in rage.
Let’s pick this one quote from IM2:
“He was cold, he was calculating. He never told me he loved me, he never told me he liked me so it’s a little tough for me to digest when you’re telling me he said the whole future was riding on me and he’s passing it down. I don’t get that. We’re talking about a guy whose happiest day was when he shipped me off to boarding school.”
This meta hits all the right notes for me. And I’d like to add that when Steve is on the table, about to undergo a procedure that will likely kill him, Howard doesn’t even say a single word to him, just looks him up and down with this cold, removed stare like Steve is just another component in a machine. And all props to Dominic Cooper for that look, too, because I find that moment the most chilling of all.
I always wonder who came up with the whole “person-first” thing with disability, because it feels like it would have been a non-disabled person. I hate the implication that my disability has to be removed from me, and separated from my identity, to make me okay.
Actually, it was people with intellectual and developmental disabilities who started it. Here is the history as given by The Arc:
On January 8, 1974, the People First movement began in Salem, Oregon, with the purpose of organizing a convention where people with developmental disabilities could speak for themselves and share ideas, friendship and information. In the course of planning the convention, the small group of planners decided they needed a name for themselves. A number of suggestions had been made when someone said, “I’m tired of being called retarded – we are people first.”
many self-advocacy groups of people with ID/DD are still built around a “people first” ideology, and that language is a conscious effort among them to resist dehumanization. of course, non-disabled people are given to using person-first language in dehumanizing ways — what else is new. they can pretty much figure out how to make ANY language dehumanizing.
but it’s important in cross-disability efforts to remember that person-first language is the product of people who were fed up with not being treated like people. and it’s still very important to many self-advocates with ID/DD.
of course, the Blind, Deaf and Autistic communities (for three) are staunchly opposed to person-first language because of the way nondisabled people have used it against us. (i don’t mean to say that everyone in these communities agrees, only that it’s the official position of the NFB, ASAN, the NAD, etc.)
so we all need to remember that different people prefer different language because non-disabled society has chosen a variety of ways to linguistically scorn us. either person first or ‘identity-first’ language can be used in a bad way. and either can be used in a good way. it really depends.
When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. ‘My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.’
It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions?
Sandi Toksvig (via womanbythesea, learninglog) (via finger-print) (via nakedbearhugs) (via jeremy-ruiner) (via selenay936)
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Superman, black would be the coolest dude in the world. Imagine Sam Jackson in a cape. Running around. That would be a good movie.
I think what a lot of people don’t get is, these people aren’t real. If you cast a black dude as John F Kennedy, that’s wrong. If you cast a white dude as Martin Luther King, that’s wrong. These people aren’t real. The suits aren’t real. There aren’t really superheroes in the world.
At some point in time, you have to steep yourself in reality and say, ‘hey, it’s not about what they look like, it’s about casting a good actor in the role. If you’re sitting at home and you can’t see a black guy as Nick Fury, maybe there’s something wrong with you.
imagine if there was an LGBT awareness day
and it was sponsored by an organization that treats non-hetero sexualities and non-cis gender identities as a disease, and that has paid for the legal defenses of parents who murder their gay children, and that promotes researching a cure that will fix us all and make us cis and straight
and most of the posts in the LGBT tag are “I am a mother/father/brother/sister of an LGBT person, and I want you to know that they’re human despite their disease.”
(posts by actual gay, bisexual, and trans* people are fewer, because there are fewer of us.)
and half of them are also about ‘the struggles of growing up with an LGBT family member’ and how ‘dealing with an LGBT child can put a strain on your marriage’
and some of them are links to ‘encouraging’ news about how scientists are close to finding the genes for gayness so you can abort your child in the womb if they test positive for gayness
when LGBT people speak up about this they are told they should be glad that people are raising awareness for them and that they aren’t, in any event, the ‘type of gay people’ the others are talking about
and now you know how I feel about Autism Awareness Day
As a queer girl who is also autistic, this is a really relevant metaphor to me.
knitting in the dark 