The way Nimona said transphobia is the real danger to society by having the main villain literally point a cannon at a crowd of civilians to kill a “monster” who only lashed out because that society couldn’t accept that she only wanted to be loved for who she was in all her many facets.
There’s a mistake I see a lot of people in the mental health community make and in all honesty, it’s one I’ve made myself. But I think we should really work on it. And that’s saying “if this were a physical illness, wouldn’t you care?”
I’ve learned that no actually, people wouldn’t care. Katelyn Weinstein (theADHDprincess on Twitter) is a neurodiversity acceptance activist who really put this in perspective for me. She said that it’s actually more an issue of longevity than physical vs mental health.
If you’re having a bad day people will generally be understanding. But when you’re experiencing chronic depression and you have many bad days people lose sympathy.
In the same respect people may be understanding when you’ve broken a bone that will heal properly or when you have a cold that will go away soon in ways they simply won’t understand when you have chronic pain or need to use a wheelchair. They may send chicken soup for a temporary situation, but when you need consistent accomodations it’s an entirely different story.
I understand that from our perspective it looks like people care more about physical health than mental health, but it’s good to remember that our own perspective is also limiting. Facing ableism doesn’t mean you can’t be ableist. And I know so many people are not ill-intentioned when they say this. I know I wasn’t. But we can’t discount the lived experiences of physically disabled people. If we want true equality we need to be united and we need to listen to those with physical disabilities and illnesses. And those with physical disabilities and illnesses (some of which are also invisible) have said that they are not given proper accomodations either.
So let’s be united and fight for equality and accomodations for everyone, no matter what their illness or disability may be.
I JUST REALIZED NIMONA’S FINAL FORM BEING THE PHOENIX LITERALLY IMPLIED THAT SHE WOULD COME BACK I FORGOT THEIR WHOLE THING IS EXPLODING AND COMING BACK OH MY FUCKING GOD
I know no one asked for this and I haven’t finished the series so I have nowhere to talk because I don’t know the Dungeons and Drag Queens ending but just like
The thought Gertrude and Nyruth being unnaturally immortal and powerful beings running a shop in the underworld together
makes me so fucking *soft*
Gertrude finding a home that won’t run her out
Nyruth having a companion who’s willing to be kind and vulnerable with him
Whether this relationship is romantic or platonic I care not. I am just as deeply madly in love with my headcanon of it either way. Let the old beautiful antlered witch and the old demon jackal be happy together and all their friends still visit often and it’ll be lovely
obsessed with monét making like pop culture references all the time and juju being like look i know we’re on a dnd show but i’m not a fucking nerd who’s green lantern
