Things To Think About And Ponder

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just had a realization. if you're heavily distressed every day. i think... i think that's called living in crisis. that's not normal. that's not healthy. that's an urgent health concern. you deserve better...

Now THIS is allyship.

And sometimes we just don’t know how to answer that because we don’t really know what happened. One day we were okay and over some period of time things just kept getting worse and we woke up one day and realized, “Fuck, is this what disability feels like?” And we still struggle to admit we’re disabled. Or maybe someone was born this way and nothing “happened.” Either way, we aren’t obligated to tell you anything. And that’s just how it is.

One thing abled people need to realize, is that when you ask a disabled person "what happened", not only are you inquiring about a person's medical history, which is personal information, but also you are potentially asking them to relive what might have been the most traumatic time of their life.

An accident that left them unable to walk again. An illness that wrecked their life. A natural or man made disaster that took their loved ones.

Your curiosity simply is not worth digging up someone else's pain.

Things the Fellowship has argued about

What name to call Aragorn

What name to call Gandalf

What to call their meals. Boromir thinks, if it is eaten at dinnertime, regardless of whether it is the first meal of the day or not, then it is dinner. Sam thinks it isn't proper to call the first meal of the day dinner. Aragorn suggests they combine the two words but now everyone is fighting over whether it should be called breakfast-dinnner or dinner-breakfast. The fight nearly becomes physical

Whether Legolas or Gimli is winning their daily argument with eachother

If hobbits are regular sized and everyone else is really big, or if everyone else is regular sized and hobbits are small

The same as above except with horses and ponies

If Gimli's beard is real or not. This one started as a joke between Merry and Pippin but then Legolas saw how mad it made Gimli and so continues to bring it up

Inter-hobbit fighting about whether it is called pot-ae-toes, pot-ah-toes, or taters

"Can Legolas really talk to trees, or is he just fucking with us?" Aragorn and Gandalf refuse to weigh in on this

Whether the Ent-draught caused Merry and Pippin to grow or if they just did that on their own. This fight is Pippin vs. Everyone Else

Whether the non-hobbits of the Fellowship would be Tooks, Brandybucks, or Bagginses. This argument is unintelligible to most of them, although Gandalf has the knowledge to be offended when Pippin suggests he would be a Took.

"What would happen if someone ate the ring?"

Fights over whether the elves, the dwarves, or the hobbits tell the story of the reclaiming of Erebor most accurately. Even though Gandalf was there, he just shrugs when anyone asks him

Which variety of pipeweed is the best kind. Merry threatened Gimli to a duel over this one

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And just like that, two of the children are off to school. It’s been a struggle getting the one into a physical school but we finally got it figured out. He’s annoyed he has to take music and art appreciation, along with English. But it means he has a full day and will graduate this year!

Now to get the 20-somethings off their asses and participating in life instead of spending the day watching YouTube and sleeping. And yes, we call them the 20-somethings to their faces.

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