Apropos of nothing, but it just came to me: when someone, especially an abled person, tells me "don't romanticize disability", it feels like a landlord saying "don't you dare paint the walls a non-ugly color."

Like thanks, I LIVE here, I'm making it nice for ME.

Brb writing another 100,000 words of elaborate self-gratifying "in pain all the time but, like, in an extremely fucky way."

also may I just say, this thread helped me & my writing partner launch a new project because we were deciding what to do and I showed the above tweet to her and was like: "this, yes? " and then brainstormed ways to do exactly that