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Heads up: By the time this comic is published I will be on a trip to visit my partner in the US. Asks will stay closed for the time being! I will officially be back on April 28.
I identify with Arabella in the best possible way, because instead of running to the cool barbarian who cut through Avernus, or the heroic Blade of Frontiers who would absolutely show her how to wield a sword, or the flamboyant vampire who would literally let her get away with murder, or the funny magic man who would conjure her a handful of candy from thin air, or the mysterious half-elf who loves animals, or the literal alien who looks like a banana ... she runs to the rotting corpse who speaks in Shakespearean metaphors. Iconic. Love her for that.
If you dare come at me about banning straws, I will throw you into the sun cannon. I’m disabled, I’m crippled, I need disposable plastic straws, and all those pricey ridiculous alternatives aren’t working as well. Plastic straws were invented for the disabled.
Way to shit all over a vital access need because you think straws are worse than corporate greed.
We all care about the turtles, the seals, the oceans, obviously. Notice how the easiest thing to yell about was something that would barely affect anything but appealed heavily to emotional discourse.
The disabled community is huge, and it can be joined by anyone. Most of those As Seen On TV products were invented for us. Society still mocks us and ignores us, and often outright harms us in multiple ways.
Communicate better. Listen better. But stop putting us out in the cold because you are inconvenienced by our simplest needs.