#not disability related
Ask me what day it is.
Check out my Insta for some vids & pics from the Van Gogh Experience. Was like you were experiencing everything he must have been feeling while painting. Like you were *inside* his paintings. Like they were alive & you were one with them. It brought me to tears. https://www.instagram.com/dodger_sister/
Cats enjoying my bed. Pippin & Ripley, my soft sweet boys.
Look what I was watching on TV tonight! It’s new must-see-TV!
(The cat box is from Target, if you want your own - not the cat tho, he’s ours, hands off!).
Pippin has been stretched out on top of me for like a half hour now. When I took the 1st pic, it woke him up & he moved his head a little & then settled back down. I always call him my Snuggly Buggly for a reason.
First he was watching tv with me & then he fell asleep. That’s both my baby doll’s feet and my hand you see him resting against. Now I hafta get up to get some work done and basically I’m a monster for moving & leaving him.
Finally met my new “niece” today! I promised to introduce her to all the things her mama says No to. Cant wait to spoil her by taking her all the places, buying her all the things, letting her stay up too late, eat too much sugar - all the good aunting stuff.
My sister shut them outta the office. She’s a monster!
Brothers! From the same litter, been together since Day 1, been with us since 3 weeks old, just turned 13 years old. Pippin Took & James T Kirk love each other a lot.
Oh hell no, not some kid from middle school trying to argue w me why our 5th grade teacher was so great, when he was an abusive ass who put his hands on a student, encouraged kids to Moo at the fat girl & call the boy who played w Barbies a Sissy…only then to reveal this dude was friends w teacher & his fam. Teacher was fatphobic, ableist, racist, classist, elitist & homophobic (irony, dude praising him is gay & I hate to tell him but Mr S would damn him for it, Mr S was *rabidly* religious). I’m fired up. He ended his comment w “I’m not trying to argue, just adding my view ” which really means he wants to have the last word. Instead I responded, “Duuude, no. Just…no. I’m not gonna argue w you, bc it sounds like you had a personal relationship w him & his family & don’t wanna hear it, but pls don’t diminish the damage he did to me or my brother from having him as a teacher. That guy messed us up back in the day.” I was engaged w a friend about some of our worst teacher experiences & he just felt the need to come to Mr S defense. Read the room. It’s hard to hear that someone you have a good memory of maybe being not as good as you thought, but tell it to someone who wants to hear it & not the person talking about how it fucked them up. So, I probably lost that FB follower, but eh, he doesn’t have kids so wasn’t buying any of my future books anyways ♀️ (what? What do you have FB for if not to sell books? I enjoy some other aspects of it, but is def why I got a FB. That & pics of niblings. Is why I rarely post on politics & never post on religion. I thought Sucky-Teachers was a safe subject, Lol). Someday I should write up the ableism from this teacher. It’s an interesting study on how being over-invested in someone’s disability can actually be ableism.
Addendum… After I responded w “pls don’t diminish the damage my bro & I suffered from this teacher” the dude responded back w passive aggression “thanks for shaming me for stating my opinion and experience. I certainly didn’t do that to you. I’m surprised.” Also apparently I bullied him in 2nd grade which I guess negates my right to complain about bullies? & dude was bullied in middle school too (I remember, he got it p bad) but idk why he was pointing that out unless he thinks it means he has the right to defend a bully bc of it? (The bully in question being a teacher, a grown man in position of power bullying literal children, mind you) Pièce de résistance was his final line tho, “But we make due with what hand we are dealt and make the best of it.” What kinda minimizing shit is that? Yeah, I made do w my hand, buddy. But am also allowed to talk about upsetting shit from my childhood on my own page without having to tolerate people coming to this shit teacher’s defense. Fuck him. I was happy to reconnect w him but if hes gonna talk over my pain, he can fuck off. Think I’ll delete the post, maybe unfriend him, be done w it.
Oh hell no, not some kid from middle school trying to argue w me why our 5th grade teacher was so great, when he was an abusive ass who put his hands on a student, encouraged kids to Moo at the fat girl & call the boy who played w Barbies a Sissy…only then to reveal this dude was friends w teacher & his fam. Teacher was fatphobic, ableist, racist, classist, elitist & homophobic (irony, dude praising him is gay & I hate to tell him but Mr S would damn him for it, Mr S was *rabidly* religious). I’m fired up. He ended his comment w “I’m not trying to argue, just adding my view ” which really means he wants to have the last word. Instead I responded, “Duuude, no. Just…no. I’m not gonna argue w you, bc it sounds like you had a personal relationship w him & his family & don’t wanna hear it, but pls don’t diminish the damage he did to me or my brother from having him as a teacher. That guy messed us up back in the day.” I was engaged w a friend about some of our worst teacher experiences & he just felt the need to come to Mr S defense. Read the room. It’s hard to hear that someone you have a good memory of maybe being not as good as you thought, but tell it to someone who wants to hear it & not the person talking about how it fucked them up. So, I probably lost that FB follower, but eh, he doesn’t have kids so wasn’t buying any of my future books anyways ♀️ (what? What do you have FB for if not to sell books? I enjoy some other aspects of it, but is def why I got a FB. That & pics of niblings. Is why I rarely post on politics & never post on religion. I thought Sucky-Teachers was a safe subject, Lol). Someday I should write up the ableism from this teacher. It’s an interesting study on how being over-invested in someone’s disability can actually be ableism.
BUNNY HEIST
I made a Bunny Heist based off of the TTRPG Honey Heist for my Niblings for this Easter Weekend. Thought I’d post it here if anyone wants to use it. I am using the rules to a Honey Heist variant, literally called “Bunny Heist”. Those rules are here: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/309130
Grow-N-Show Garden Extravaganza!
The Bald Hare is a rabbit so old that he has lost all his fur. He is the head of the Bunny Boys, a gang of bunnies who run/terrorize your burrow community. The Bald Hare has found out he doesn’t have long to live and he will be passing the gang down to his grandson, Peter Rabbit. But before his time is done, he wants to send a group out for one last big score – enough food to hold the biggest retirement banquet one could ever throw. To do that though, he needs a buttload of veggies and nomnoms. The rest of the Bunny Boys are busy dealing with Farmer Maggot and his scarecrow. So The Bald Hare is putting together a ragtag group of criminal rabbits to go on this job.
I Made This!
‘Twas the exact day of Christmas
When all through the day,
Everyone was wearing
Their Christmas PJs.
Happy Holidays to you and you!
Love — Dodger &, of course, Diggle too
Sis took this pic of me asleep this morning. Apparently I had a friend. Pippin!
Not disability related buuut
PICTURE ID: a picture from snapchat taken up close of a digital document. The person who took the photo wrote “If only … there was some kind of … neutral pronoun one could use … instead of he/she.” In the picture itself, it shows a grading rubric. One box reads “He/she (highlighted in pink) presents their (highlighted in green) research well. Also, he/she (highlighted in pink) tries to explain to the audience and has enough eye contact.” The next box reads “he/she (highlighted in pink) presents their (highlighted in green) research well. They (highlighted in green) try to explain to the audience, but it is sometimes unsuccessful. He/she (highlighted in pink) has little unsuccessful eye contact.” Last box reads “From the script, he/she (highlighted in pink) reads little, so does not present their (highlighted in green) research well. He/she (highlighted in pink) does not have much eye contact.” The highlighted portions are to show how the creator of the rubric uses both he/she and the pronoun “they/them” in a way that would suggest that the writer is aware of the neutral pronoun, but also tries not to use it. End ID.
