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i think a lot about when i went to a disabled students' meet in my first year at university. the lift to the room was broken and i was the only person there with mobility aids. everyone stared at my crutches when i walked in. they looked awkward or confused mostly.

idk anything about yinglets or the whole thing about how they speak/type but my main takeaway is that stuff like this is the reason physically abled people don't feel comfortable/safe in disabled spaces/communities bc of how neurodivergent people complain about how hard it is for them to remember to include us and make accommodations for us. like you do realise a lot of us physically disabled people are neurodivergent too right.

i don't really want to be involved in the conversations surrounding it really bc my god some people are vile. but it is very upsetting that things like this seem to be a common trend. and maybe it is hard to learn to remember to tag something, but just bc something's difficult doesn't mean it's not worthwhile. it is worth taking effort to take the time to give other people our basic needs.

that's the thing that irks me the most i think. why is other people's fun and comfort always prioritised above physically disabled people's actual basic fucking needs and accessibility.

... It's because of deep thinking like this that it irritates me when I see medieval Ireland being portrayed in simplistic terms, as though everyone was sitting around a fire telling stories about gods and heroes; as though the stories which emerged from medieval Ireland are folk tales without authors. These writers thought so carefully about words, and wrote with a consciousness of having meaning layered upon meaning, that to reduce it all to 'mythology' feels like an insult. The tendency to romanticize it seems disrespectful to writers who valued precise engagement with words and what they signify.
The sophisticated grammatical terminology attested in Old Irish shows how writers subjected their own language to the same rigorous analysis as Latin.

Elizabeth Boyle, 'Fierce Appetites'

we're so back 😎 i read bits of the john collis celts book in my first year and i've been meaning to read celtic from the west and the atlantic celts since then too. also the atlas looks cool i like maps :) no idea how long the university library will let me borrow books for over the summer though lol. i got a book on ulster nationalism and one on gorsedh kernow, but that was about all i could fit into my bag before it got too heavy for me 😔😔😔