permanentlygoaty asked:
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permanentlygoaty asked:
hi frank! please tell me everything you know about shrimp
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Nothing to see here, just a street corner in New Orleans…..
This is The Violin Monster and he’s really cool. You should all look him up on Facebook. He’s the most talented violinist I have ever met, and he’s super sweet and friendly. He also teaches violin to kids. His back story is he’s a 400+ year old werewolf from Galway, Ireland who plays violin to quell his hunger for human flesh. I forget the details of how he became a werewolf, but I think it had something to do with a deal he made with a witch.
Story time: so one day I actually had spending money, so for funsies I kept putting money in his jack-o-lantern (that’s what his tip bucket is) requesting Scotch-Irish folk songs, and he didn’t just play every song he PLAYED them like he was in a music battle with the Faery King. I was quite impressed. Later, I ran into him, mask-off, at Café Envie and I told him “That was really cool, but you still didn’t play my favorite song ‘The King of the Faeries,’ do you not know it?” and Violin Monster looked around and over his shoulder, and then leaned over me and said in a hushed tone: “Oh I know it, but it’s bad luck to play that song. They say if you play it three times the Faery King himself will appear. So I don’t play that song anymore.” And then he smiled and walked away.
I don’t think Zach is just one of those performers who never breaks character, I think he’s actually summoned faeries by accident with his amazing music.
The man KNOWS
Oh yeah, disability tests do that sort of phrasing all the time. Like they ask you how well you do things, and so you think they mean on an average day. But really they’re asking you what you’re like at your worst– the very reason why you’re disabled in the first place. On a good day putting socks on is easy enough, a bit of a struggle but I manage. On a bad day? Forget the socks, I’m not even leaving bed.
I think the rule of thumb is evaluate yourself like every day is a terrible day, or else people won’t think you need help at all. Whether it’s a physical disability or you’re nuerodivergent, people will try to get away with not having to pay money for your needs. Better to have things in place because you never know when a bad day will become a bad year.
So this is UK specific but I think can apply everywhere!
A friend of mine works as a disability advocate, and has spent most of her working like battling the DWP and making sure low income and disabled people are able to fucking survive. (She also provides this service for me for free because we’re friends and I can say without a shadow of a doubt I would be D-E-D if not for her)
And because I have trouble understanding questions, we go through any paperwork together.
So one of the questions I tend to trip on is ‘can you walk X distance?’ because… I can! On a good day! Or with my crutches! Or leaning on a wall! Or very very very very VERY slowly.
So she’ll ask the question and I’ll answer and then she’ll ask if I could do it on my worst day, completely unaided. Because the point of the benefits is to get you that aid.
So once you’ve parsed out what the question is really asking you, ask yourself “Could I do this on my absolutely worst day, completely unaided?” And if the answer is no, tell them you can’t do it.
Any time you answer a question with ‘Yes, but-’ in these situations it means the answer is probably no. Because they’re really asking ‘can you do this thing the way everyone else can?’ and if you need a system to handle socks, or crutches to walk X distance, or noise cancelling headphones to get on a bus, or three alarms to make dinner, or anything else to help you do a ‘basic’ task by everyone else’s standards, then you can’t do it the way everyone else can and you answer the question with a no.
…well I’m sitting here in tears
“The Pyramid Guy from the opening credits literally has no significance to the show and never will. He’s just a generic image made to look mythological or spooky like most things in the intro.”
you know how when you go out in the middle of the woods, your phone loses internet service? that is because the trees naturally protect you from the evil dark energy rays generated by influencers and twitter opinions. follow for more information about the beauty of nature
autism is so cool man. i can say something innocuous and completely true at work, like 'mackerel is a top tier fish', and people get giggly and tell me I'm so funny. what's funny about a nice firm fish with a subtle, almost earthy flavor? not sure. but people are offering me other objects and I can tell them if they're top tier or not. very fun.
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