"Normal" is just a fiction. It's not even a well-thought-out one.
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Yeah I was pretty bored last night, and I guess my mate was too
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Oh, Steve. How can you be so nice and yet so dumb?
Yeah, settle in, this is going to be another “Disability In The Avengers” post.
Because in the end, this whole polite fiction where you pretend the disability doesn’t exist? That’s not for the sake of PWDs, that’s so the able people can feel better. Someone with a normative body and neurotype can forget that disabilities even exist as long as the polite fiction is maintained, while the PWD will never have that luxury.
Steve, of course, isn’t actually “normative”. He has in the past had all kinds of infirmities and could easily have been classed as disabled himself, but he was always neurotypical and his physical issues are cured and more than cured. Now he’s sort of “hyper-able”, physically superpowered with no (direct- the whole frozen thing is a pretty big problem, but that’s a matter of circumstance) drawbacks. So there’s kind of a guilt factor here, especially since what happened to Bruce happened while he was trying to replicate Steve’s results. Of course Steve would like to be able to pretend it away. Of course he reaches for that polite fiction when they interact.
He means well. He thinks, well, I doubt I’d want to talk about it if it were me. But he’s not helping.
I’m not bashing Steve or anything here. A lot of other characters are worse about this than he is, and after the big fight, when he sees the value of the Hulk as part of Bruce, I doubt he’s going to keep doing this. It’s just a really interesting dynamic to me, Steve as hyper-abled, Tony with his socially-acceptable physical problem, and Bruce, who is… Bruce.
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You are good at something, stop lying to yourself. You’re good at breaking down comic book plots, cooking ramen perfectly, making your friends happy, knowing the time without looking at a clock, getting the perfect ending at RPG’s, or figuring out the twist ending to movies. Don’t let society tell you your talents are meaningless because they don’t serve an economical purpose. Your talents reflect your interests and passions, and what’s important to you is important.
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Dear every manufacturer of women’s clothing, ever:
Faux pockets are an abomination. If you’re going to bother putting pocket flaps on something, add the G-d damn pockets.
No love,
Jilli
And make the pockets deeper, you soulless bastards.
JESUS CHRIST THIS
JESUS
CHRIST
THIS
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okay now we’re getting a crash course in why tony and bruce’s first meeting is the greatest fucking thing
because think about how everyone else greets him with this obnoxious feigned ignorance of the hulk’s existence
like, natasha has an entire squadron outside at the ready but feels the need to pretend they’re just having a friendly chat, and fury does not say a word about loki’s prison being intended for the hulk but it’s so obvious banner’s mere presence there is conditional and with EVERYONE AT THE READY TO RESTRAIN HIM IF NECESSARY BUT THEY’RE WILLFULLY PRETENDING THIS ISN’T THE CASE
no buddy you’re just like the rest of us
and steve pulls that “see the person, not the disability” bullshit on him when banner directly questions him about the hulk: “is that the only reputation I have?” — “only one I care about.”
hint: if you really didn’t care about it, you’d be comfortable talking about it.
banner, for his part, keeps trying to provoke them into some kind of honest response! he deliberately shocks natasha because he can’t stand the “just you and me”, and her fear is the most acknowledgment he gets of the hulk until he meets tony. otherwise it’s this horrible elephant in the room. he tries to crack away at their resolute denial — “they want to put me in a pressurized metal container?” and no response — but gets nowhere. it’s no wonder the man is always angry.
then then then tony waltzes in and shakes his hand looks right at him and “I’m a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster” WITHOUT EVEN BEING PROMPTED BY THIS POINT BANNER HAS GIVEN UP ON ANYTHING BUT SANITIZED POLITENESS
tony is the kid who points on the street and says “hey, what’s wrong with that man?” it’s a shame, how people grow out of this. tony says hello not just to banner, but to hulk, because they’re inseparable. tony is the first person who fails to encourage bruce’s self-compartmentalization, who rejects the ‘person with unfortunate hulk problem’ construction. you’re tiptoeing, big guy; you need to strut.
“thanks.”
hint: if you really didn’t care about it, you’d be comfortable talking about it.
This for-fucking-ever. I have all kinds of feelings about Bruce Banner and disability, guys.
They all think they’re doing the right things, really they do. People like Steve figure you probably don’t want to talk about it. He tries to treat Bruce as if there were no Hulk. But… you can’t do that. Refusing to talk about the Hulk when the subject comes up is a kind of evasiveness that he certainly wouldn’t be employing if there really weren’t a Hulk. That’s some divide-by-zero stuff right there, trying to pretend this thing away is an inherently nonsensical act.
Bruce isn’t exactly trying, at this point, to get acceptance for the Hulk. He has quite a bit of (the equivalent of) internalized ableism going on. It keeps him from understanding Tony’s frank acceptance at first, but he does like it and he definitely doesn’t like the evasive bullshit. His outburst at Natasha is “Stop LYING to me!”, and it’s when Fury tries to downplay the fact that they built a cage for him that he drops the “hey guys, did you know I shot myself in the fucking head?” bombshell.
Now, if this weren’t so long already, I might try to form some meta about Tony and disability, what with his heart thing, and how that maybe informs his approach, but instead I’m just going to go try and hunt down some more Science Bros fanwork, because there will never, ever be enough of Tony teaching Bruce to strut.
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PERFECTION
ABSOLUTE PERFECTION
This is madness.
THIS IS TOPH.
-shrinks back-
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you see this right? you think no one would care if you died? no one would notice. Well you’re wrong. I would. and so would so many other people. The girls in your school who didn’t always acknowledge you? they’ll blame themselves. The boy or girl that rejected you? they’ll blame themselves. Everyone will go around saying what a beautiful person you were and how they didn’t see the signs, when really, everyone saw the signs. I promise you, people think you’re beautiful, someone loves you. People are afraid to admit defeat about their feelings. Somebody wants you, somebody needs you. Your mom, your dad, your grandma, your sister, your brother, your best friend? they need you. For all you know, you could be their rock, without you, they might just die. You affect everyone around you, your actions, the things you do. Your smile, might just make someone elses day. Your laugh, might be music to someones ears. So please, listen to me. Put down the pills. Put down the gun. Put down the rope. Put down the razor. You’re strong, you’re beautiful and i believe in you.
Things that don’t help suicidal people:
- Guilt trips
- Pressure
- Suicide-themed posts with no trigger warnings
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tw ableism
protip
when someone calls you out on being ableist
DON’T!!!!! say “that’s retarded”
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Reblog if you say “fuck” more than 5 times a day.
Fuck yeah…. That’s one.
Do internet communications count as “say”?
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omg perfect.
HAHAHA YES!!! PROOF!!!
This will always be my headcanon. Even Word of Arakawa will not convince me otherwise.
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