In case anyone finds it helpful because mobility aids are horrifically expensive and inaccessible…

And for those people who have access to mobility devices but might benefit from a second chair they can abuse without risking expensive damage…

Erik Kondo has made a website, Open Source Innovations, that details plans for DIY wheelchairs. These wheelchairs can be made from common materials like wood, plastic, and pvc. They are lightweight and can be custom fit to the user allowing from the same degree of movement you would get from a custom chair. And they are durable and easily repairable. (he has been stress testing his latest design by dropping it down stairs, dropping it out of a car, launching it across a driveway, and throwing it off a deck). Its 12lbs and I think he said its was in the $200 ish range for parts.

He also is working on cheap, open source, accessible designs for beach chairs, off road chairs, motorized attachments (think smart drive), and so on. Plus he skateboards in his wheelchair. Cool dude, helpful info, pass it on.

It's incredibly sad people have to resort to this, but it's a damn good resource. Use it. Spread awareness. Maybe one day people with physical disabilities won't need DIYs like this. But until then, reblog and share.

After spending Thanksgiving with an aunt in a wheelchair who is trapped in her house because her mobility scooter needs a part replaced that they can't get for months, I agree that mobility aids are inordinately difficult to access and disgustingly overpriced. If you have money and want to change the world for a person, please donate to wheelchair charities.

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

oh shit

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

Y'all know what to do Tumblr.

I'M DOING AN EXPERIMENT

To prove something to a friend, please

REBLOG IF YOU THINK ASEXUALS BELONG IN LGBTQ+ SPACES

LIKE IF YOU THINK ASEXUALS DON’T BELONG IN LGBTQ+ SPACES

:)

REBLOGGING SO HARD.

Muscle memory fighting so hard not to like and Reblog and ONLY REBLOG OMG

Mood. I usually Like and Reblog, but not this time

Just reblogging

must reblog only its so annoying nto liking but ill do it

i almost liked it before i read and it said “like if you DONT…” and i jerked my hand back like it was on fire

This has probably been done before by someone with more swag than me but SVSSS AU idea:

Shen Yuan is reborn as one of Binghe’s many forgotten wives in his harem, he makes it his mission to divorce this demon emperor no matter what, turns out PIDW has extremely elaborate (and weirdly horny) super fleshed out divorce laws (because a lot of the members of Binghe’s harem were already married or betrothed) that make it impossible for Shen Yuan to divorce the demon emperor, this will not stop him from trying.

Shen Yuan becomes the top expert in divorce law for demons, mortals and cultivators alike! He personally may not be able (yet) to get his divorce (this is airplane’s fault) but he is giving consultations left and right, divorce has skyrocketed and it is all Shen Yuan’s doing!

Binghe is just fascinated by this wife who’s name he doesn’t even remember just getting really in to wrecking other people’s marriages one day all of a sudden, he hasn’t laughed this hard ever really, this silly wife of his is truly a treasure and can make him smile genuinely like he had lost the ability to do.

And Shen Yuan remembers that this wife never had a name and was always referred to by a title. He asks the System and is told that she has no name and that the user could use his own. He possibly wanted to say to leave it at that, and then he enforces a law stating that if the husband does not give his wife a name within a certain period of time, the marriage is annulled and he must compensate his wife for damages. The divorce is canceled if the couple has papapa. Luo Binghe tries everything to get the name, from searching for the name where he met her to entering her dreams. Shen Yuan, knowing his abilities, took advantage of another wife plot where they said how to annul them. Then Binghe finds the law and uses a papapa plant to win, and Shen Yuan tries again. Several years later and several children later, many tell him to give up, and others find it funny because he always falls for obvious traps. So he doesn't want to get divorced, right?

Some colored sketch commissions that I’ve done this month - super pleased with all of them! 

Commissions Info Here