Sleeping Beauty AU where the princess was born on a Leap Day, so when the evil fairy curses her to prick her finger “on her 16th birthday”, her family realizes that’s not the same thing as her 16th year of life and she’ll actually be in her 60′s when it happens.

By the time the Royal Counsellor has finished speaking the King looks slightly less like he might faint and the Queen actually looks a little hopeful.

“Are you certain?” she pressed.

“Absolutely,” the Counsellor assured her. “I had one of my clerks take notes during all the fairy’s speeches for the exact purpose of studying their phrasing.”

“What,” the King blinked. “Even the good ones?”

The counsellor sniffed. “Especially the good ones.”

“So…so we can truly argue that it is the birthday that counts and not the passing of the years?” asked the Queen, colour returning to her cheeks.

“Indeed!” the Counsellor said with a smile. “So if my math is correct your daughter will be sixty-four when the curse enters into effect.”

“That is hardly what I would call a long and prosperous life!” the King protested.

“Ah, but it does give her Royal Highness the Princess a lot more time to find this contractually necessary one true love,” his Counsellor explained. “Quite a reasonable amount of time I would say, if she happens to be of a romantic and monogamous persuasion, of course.”

The royal couple looked equal parts relieved and bewildered.

“But there’s no need to worry about that just yet,” the Counsellor said comfortingly. “And besides. Times are moving on. That is the entire reason we have the High Court of Magical Justice. Why, just last month a transformed prince was kissed back to human by his platonic life partner after successful litigation against the original layer of the curse! It is riveting caselaw.”

“…this is a good thing, yes?” the King ventured.

“Very good,” the Counsellor nodded.

“Well then!” Her Majesty the Queen beamed. “In that case, I say we continue the celebrations!”

“Quite right, Your Majesty, quite right,” the Counsellor said with a bow. “If you need me, I shall be in my study.”

It is a tenet of contract law that the meanings of contractual language are construed against its drafters. I think it makes perfect sense to interpret the language of curses against their casters as well.

Better curse breaking through semantic specificity.

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trying to prove something to my dad

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Day 8 of Auctober!

Non-speaking people are often looked down upon simply because they don't speak. Not being able to speak doesn't mean they're not people just like you and me. There are so many amazing non-speaking creators out there!

Be carful, there's only one right answer.

They should start selling them right after Hanukkah ends to prepare for next year

Man the first person who makes like taishiro merch is gunna corner the whole market

Flashback Friday: Originally posted June 10th, 2020

It's not uncommon for me to either trip over my words, forget words or mess words up. It can be really frustrating and embarrassing, but nothing makes it worse than being mocked or yelled at for it.

Closed triads will not spare you from having to unlearn toxic monogamy. I think there is a misconception, especially amongst newcomers to polyamory, that as long as their partners were only dating people they were also dating, they’ll never be jealous. After all, they can’t be scared that their metamour is going to steal their partner away if their metamour also has a romantic reason to stay. Toxic monogamy says you must constantly be defending your partner from the attempts of the world to steal them from you. As long as the only person with romantic or sexual access to your parnter is also your parnter, you can have several partners without having to unpack that defensive mindset, you can just switch to defending them as a pair. 

But it doesn’t work like that. If you don’t unpack toxic monogamy, even your closed relationships won’t survive. Toxic monogamy won’t spare you because your relationship is closed. You’ll feel jealous when they’re having alone time together, you’ll feel uncomfortable when they kiss each other if they don’t then immediately go over and kiss you, toxic monogamy will whisper in your brain late at night that your partners love each other more than they love you, strangers will tell you that your partners are one day going to leave you to be monogamous and if you haven’t unpacked why that’s bullshit, you’re going to believe it, even if only a little. There is no way of being polyamorous where your own toxic monogamy will declare you one of the good ones. You must unpack it now or when you are finally in that relationship you’ve always longed for, you’ll fuck it up. 

"You have so much potential!"

On the topic of degrading things that well-meaning people tend to say to people with disabilities:

These can seem innocent, and sometimes it can be a benevolent thing to say. But when you hear it all the time, it becomes degrading.

When everyone you encounter is willing to acknowledge your potential, but no one is willing to acknowledge your accomplishments, it’s hard to believe in yourself. When all people see is your potential, it can be as though they are saying “don’t worry, it’s ok that you’ve never done anything worthwhile, you will someday.”

Hearing that year after year from people whose opinion you value is corrosive. It can make it really, really hard to see that you’ve ever done anything or that you have any abilities that count.

But, everyone in this world has accomplished things that are worth noticing. You are not an exception. You have done things, and the things that you have done matter. Even if nothing you do has radically changed the world. Even if you haven’t out-competed anyone. Even if you’re far below grade level, or unemployable, or struggling greatly. Even if you can’t get out of bed most days or at all. You have done things, and you deserve to have them respected.

If you are working with, supporting, or close to someone with a disability, make sure you are acknowledging their accomplishments that they have already made. Don’t just reassure them that they will do things some day. They have already done things, and they deserve to have their accomplishments respected.

And if you are a disabled person, remember that your accomplishments are real even if no one notices them or takes them seriously. The people who have taught you not to value your accomplishments are wrong. You have done things. Honor them.

occoris said:

You should probably just never say this to anyone, I think. About someone, maybe (because sometimes it’s true. It is very possible for people to waste potential) but definitely never TO them.

I’m not even disabled in the sort of way that would cause this kind of behavior (and my mom has the same disabilities that I do so she was always careful to not be mean about it) and i STILL got a fair amount of “you could do anything if you just put your mind to it,” which is especially frustrating when nobody bothers to help you learn how to do those things that they think you can do- they just expect you to figure it out, and you don’t, because nobody is helping you, they’re just lamenting how you COULD do it because you’re just not TRYING hard enough and you’re wasting all your potential-

And then you can’t do those things (for the same reason) and you’re just left feeling like nothing you do is ever good enough.

realsocialskills said:

I mostly agree. The only reason I think it’s ever positive is that I’ve occasionally had good experiences with people showing me that I actually can learn to do things that others have taught me that I am hopelessly incapable of doing.

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