“Nice Does Not Mean Good”

i don't usually make these kinds of posts but in the tags tell me what symbolic imagery you associate yourself with i'm curious. personally i associate myself with dogs, eyes, the color red, and wings.

Songs that I assign to each scrybe:

keep in mind that these songs were found through chance, so I have no fricking clue who any of the artists are.

Grimora: Savages by Marina and the diamonds

-song about how humanity will often struggle to do the right thing, and that the easy route is constantly chosen even when it's wrong. perfect song for grimora to sing before deciding that deletion is the better option.

Magnificus: We Don't Have To Die by Sarah Barrios

-song about fearing death, even as you realize it's preordained. I imagine this song playing over the whole of mag's life from trapping the students to being deleted. the softer bit at the end would be mag's afterlife where they get to run a campaign with the other scrybes after so long being the only one without a takeover.

Leshy: ...how do you even BEGIN to describe this guy? Like he is more cryptic then the beasts he captures and you get like 2 minutes of him being honest and then he dies. no song, let me know what you guys think of.

P03: Pity Party by Melanie Martinez

-"they hurt me and they hate me so let's get drastic" is basically the most P03 thing out there. though this song wouldn't be sung when anybody is around, it would definitely play in the background of P03 screaming and going apesh*t.

please tell me what song you would give to Leshy, and if you have an inscryption OC/scrybesona then be free to assign a song to them in the tags!

Who DOESN'T love Luz Noceda?!

Undertale au concept: it's an alternate timeline like dr is, but ut!chara is there. the story progresses as Chara is given more and more time to reflect and have a character arc. (this would be under the "Chara is somebody with issues" umbrella rather than the "Chara was always a psycho murder bastard that likes to kill people complexity who?" umbrella. by following the perspective of Chara, we slowly can find a way to help them as they are the only unsavable character in undertale.

reblog to drop a car battery on a post below

you ever have a cool fan content idea, then think to yourself “ok so if I post this then people will come to my house and write ‘cringe’ on my forehead”, but also know that that won’t happen, and the idea will not leave your head?

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's so weird to me that everyone on this website is a human person outside of their weird internet niche so rb this with a random bit of your lore

4/11/22: Roots

Narrator: Leshy

You: None

We spent so long separated

Nothing in between

Always just so far apart

One would expect us to change

and be far different

but some things really do stay the same

We can't escape our roots

They keep us alive

Giving us water

and grounding us to the same place

But the machine is still different from the tree

We always only had one thing in common

Our roots grow from the same place

and everything else changed

There's one place we came from

and one place we share

our roots will always be there

Request from @kyoshi-with-a-gun: "why P03s game mirrors Leshy's, despite the multitude of directions it could go."

Note: I'll add a bottom section if the poem is based on a request, to confirm that a submitter's request is answered. Otherwise, the poem will be left up to interpretation. (Idea from @modronoid)