the influx of pornbots is so funny. we’re out in our little paddleboat like “oh the rats are swarming again. auspices for the new year.” and in the background the S.S. Twitter is floating past upside down.
crying and sobbing as i use my oar to push all these beautiful sirens back into the water, for i know that they deceive.
I had always assumed this was some extremist Christian book for kids. Turns out this is actually by a gay comic artist named Howard Cruse who passed away in 2019. This is from a 1980 short story called “Billy Goes Out” which tells the story of a man named Billy who is trying to move on with life after his partner’s untimely passing. It highlights a lot of the struggles of the LGBT community at the time. This particular frame is him remembering how he blamed himself being gay when bad things happened to him as a child.
Remember that every time you use your mobility aid in public, there is very likely another person there who is too apprehensive to use their own mobility aid and feels braver from seeing you use yours.
I actually once helped an older woman finally decide to get one. She saw me looking at them, I talked to her about my favorite types at the time and why, and I think seeing a younger person so unashamed of talking about it helped because she said “well maybe I should get one after all” and started looking more closely at the different colorful ones.
