That’s Enough Emotions For A Whole Year. Ciao

hey man it's okay don't cry i'm sorry i managed to escape all your traps but i thought they were really cool and scary honestly... and like, they were literally so challenging and well constructed, i barely made it out alive you did a really good job... look, i can go back and do it again and get caught and killed in one this time if it'll make you feel better. i just don't want you to be upset about it..

Roommate AU

Disabled Representation Has Come Farther Than You Think

You’ve Just Been Conditioned Not to See It.

I recently got into a huge fight with an abled friend about disabled representation, in which he was completely convinced that the stance he held was that of an ally. He’s a long time friend of mine and I know he really did think he was fighting for us and coming from a place of trying to help us.

And it really got me thinking about the way abled people perceive disabled people. And how that message is internalised and reinforced in so many ways.

My friend was trying to say that characters like Cyborg, Misty knight, Daredevil, Toph, Edward Elric, Bucky, Nebula, etc were not good representation. And he at first refused to listen to me (an actual disabled person) when I was like; no, we like that. we love that. we LOVE seeing badass and competent and sexy disabled people. It’s validating and empowering.

His argument was that it didn’t really count because nobody saw them as disabled and that it would be the same thing as saying Gamora is black representation.

While I understand where he was coming from, both of us also being black, it was hard to get him to understand how it wasn’t the same thing.

Gamora is a black actress painted green to portray a green-skinned alien. She has black features, yes, but within the narrative she very much is not a black woman. She’s an alien.

But a disabled character is always still a disabled character. Regardless of how high tech or SciFi or magical or fantastical the world or universe is; an amputee with a prosthesis is still an amputee. They are still disabled. Yes, even if their prosthesis shoots lasers.

And other characters, like Toph and Daredevil, who are both blind, have superpowers/superhuman abilities that allow them to overcome their disability. That does not make them less disabled.

Their blindness still impacts their everyday lives. They can’t read. They can’t draw. They don’t know what things or people look like, or what color things are. They can’t read someone’s facial expressions during a conversation. They can’t follow a map without assistance.

When I asked my friend for examples of what he considered good disabled representation he said Professor X, Oracle, and the Thinker. And that made me pause and I won’t lie, it upset me. It felt degrading. I got kind of angry at him and it got a little heated.

Because what he was saying is: the smart one in the wheelchair that never actually joins the battle because their body is too frail? Those are the only good disabled characters? The ones who still need to be protected and treated tenderly and are physically weaker?

Do we only exist when you can view us as some subhuman lesser other that you can take pity on?

But it’s not only my friend who thinks this way.

I’ve seen quite a few arguments online about people who don’t think Edward Elric is disabled, despite being an amputee.

Who don’t think Cyborg is disabled, despite the fact that his entire power set is due to a life support and mobility aid device.

And my friend was shocked that I, and many other disabled people, find these depictions of strong and confident and capable disabled people empowering. He fully expected that I would find those depictions offensive.

And that’s when it really hit me.

The issue is not that characters like Bucky or Toph or Daredevil are bad representations of disabled characters.

The issue is that people don’t perceive them as disabled. They’ve internalized this belief that disabled people have to be weak and delicate and fragile and in some way physically inferior.

They’re only considered disabled if they’re tragic and/or weak. Or ugly. People love to project a tragic subhuman otherness onto disabled people who are ugly.

If they’re cool and badass that confuses them. That doesn’t fit with the narrative that’s been built in their heads.

The idea of a competent, confidant, and strong disabled character, especially a cool disabled character is just so completely foreign to them that they don’t even consider it.

Now I’m not saying that depictions of disabled characters like Oracle or professor X are bad or harmful. We need representation of disabled people who aren’t strong and don’t have superpowers and maybe don’t feel particularly empowered. That’s a genuine representation of many disabled people.

It just isn’t the only one.

I think the issue with disabled representation is not that it doesn’t exist (as I’ve seen many abled people online claim in our defense) but that we need to shift the way we think of disabled people so we stop overlooking a lot of the really cool and badass and awesome disabled characters we do already have.

So if you read this far through this essay, please stop for a moment and consider the preconceptions you have about disabled people.

Have you ever overlooked a disabled character because they were strong, powerful, charismatic, or, (God forbid!) SEXY?

And if so, I’d ask you to take some time to examine in yourself why you don’t think of disabled people as being able to be those things.

Mod Izzy

it is sad that i know all of these,

sadder that the fandom being shit is half the list.

alright utdr fandom boomers sound off. i want u all to tell me which of these old ut things u remember

stronger than you sans version (+ the frisk and chara response versions too)

the plethora of sans-centric aus that seemingly popped outta nowhere (u are not allowed to bitch abt them on this post)

matshat giving the pope a copy of undertale

gaster theories and "fun value"/rng chance encounters

the sans is ness "theory"

ppl constantly fighting abt frisk and charas genders (theyre nonbinary btw)

underlust (for those of u who know: dont say shit. for those who dont know: dont look it up /srs)

duncle sans au

pta sans au (tfw lindas lemon squares are shit)

sixbones + handplates au

disbelief papyrus

the entire fandom treating chara like they are literal satan

dadster aus/gaster being sans and papyrus's dad theories

ppl bitching abt flowey even tho hes a child. and ppl shipping him with frisk and chara for some reason

everyone being physically incapable of being normal abt toriel

floweypot aus

glitchtale

the bad apple video

other fandom boomers feel free to add on, this is just what i remember

okay let’s be fond. reblog this with your favorite post/art/fic/poem/etc made by the person you reblogged it from!

spamton is cheating because capitalism.

sans is cheating because he doesn’t really care.

jevil is cheating because he wants to piss somebody off.

the three genders.

they’re all cheating

I want AUs of games and stuff that is literally just that game plus OLD_DATA. (I would like fan work of inscryption itself more but still)

what you wanted to play Mario? well Luigi found something in a golden block and now you are playing dolls with him in his now silent mansion.

wanted UNDERTALE? well flowey thinks you would like to play a board game that feels faintly like the layout of new home.

may i just mention how happy I am for inscryption OCs? all of them so far have been amazing.

inscryptong oc. meet the scrybe of disaster venidette.

and it is glorious.

Ngl, Deltarune chapter 2 feels like Toby Fox threw the 06 Snapcube fandub at an AI and told it to make a video game script, and the result was Deltarune chapter 2.

The humor and even some of the dialogue just feels like that.

Oh yeah, there's also a Sonic reference during one of the battles.