did u go protest today
good evening officer
step aside Finn, you already have Nico the Catboy, give me a chance with heeerrrrr
This is what it feels like when someone infodumps to me. By the way
Edit to add caption:
[desc begin: a six panel comic featuring an everyman character sitting on a couch with an autism creature loafing on the back of the couch. The creature jumps down to the seat and lies their head on the person's leg, much to their delight. Desc end.]
I hate how, when legislation and technology become threats to the disabled community, especially the physically and severely disabled, abled people freak out about spillover happening to them.
And it's extra shitty that its usually other minorities who, as usual, don't so much as mention us
Elon's stupid brain chips were announced and the Internet went nuts with 'he's trying to cure autism and other neurodivergencies!'
Meanwhile, Musk's human guinea pigs were phtsically disabled people, paralysed people.
Trump was elected and I didn't hear a word about the fact that he legitimately thinks we should die.
And now the UK has green-lit euthanasia because a fragment of mostly abled people campaigned for it and I just saw a fucking post about 'oh no, they're going to start killing trans, Black and poor people now'
As though our government isn't actively targeting disabled people between this and their decimation of our benefits.
If you're on disability benefits, you can't have more than £6000 savings. Over that triggers them to look at your bank account and then start deducting a percentage of your benefits every £250
It's a good thing medical equipment is so cheap.
The only place I hear anything about disabled people is in disabled spaces, and for other minority communities who talk a big game about intersectionality, that's pretty fucking shit.
(open pages for better image quality)
the moment I heard elphaba's delivery of "there's a girl i know..." in i'm not that girl i knew i had to draw this comic, i strongly recommend listening to it while you read for the full experience!
this comic is a companion to this piece (which was inspired by glinda's delivery of the same line in the i'm not that girl reprise).
pages 1-4 are from elphie's pov, pages 5-8 are from glinda's.
prints of individual pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
flower meanings in order of appearance: