So Weird Was SO GOOD! - Animorphuckery: Disability Part 2/Interview With an Anifan

Animorphuckery: Disability Part 2/Interview With an Anifan

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05/02/22 • 72 min

So Weird Was SO GOOD!

Travis, aka @WlkngCntradctn, has the coolest Twitter bio ever:
"Bi/Pan white cis male poly kinky quadriplegic therapist published philosopher/author semi-professional origami artist and canonical Animorph."
After reading that I just HAD to hear everything he had to say about Animorphs, and sure enough, he was full of great things to say.
Topics include: Avatar The Last Airbender & Korra, disability, grief and acceptance associated with becoming disabled, various forms of privilege, The Trolley Problem, The Prisoner's Dilemma, Spiderman 2, the therapeutic uses of pop culture references, Don Quixote, Logan, elder care, and more.
NOTE: This episode (and most other episodes of Animorphuckery) contain full-series spoilers. If you followed Travis here from Animorphing Time and are reading the books along with them, wait a few weeks; you're almost there!

Previous Episode

Animorphuckery: Disability and Ableism in Animorphs... There's a Lot.

CW: This episode discusses the misguided belief that disabled lives are not worth living or preserving. If now is not a good time to be in that headspace, please have a wonderful day listening to something else <3
Animorph topics include: the Auxiliary Animorphs (obviously!), no wheelchair ramps at the yeerk pool, yeerks/taxxons/gedds/nothlits/oatmeal-poisoned-yeerks as allegories for disability, Vecolism, Loren as the only good amnesia representation in all of literature, morphing technology as a miracle medical cure, and the incessant desire to morph into a grizzly bear to beat ableist doctors over the head with your own severed arm.
Disability topics include: strokes, POTS, EDS, MCAS, hypothyroidism, mono, seizures, spinal taps, mystery diagnoses, invisible illnesses, deadly allergies, COVID, brain fog, and several doctors who really should have been beaten over the head with a severed arm by a grizzly bear.
Read Shannon's (AMAZING!) short story in the "Nothing Without Us" anthology, which does NOT end with a doctor getting beaten to death by a grizzly bear with a severed arm but I promise you you'll like it anyways: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51796332-nothing-without-us

Next Episode

Animorphuckery: Trauma: War is Hell. So is Childhood.

GET IN, SHORMS, TODAY WE ARE FACING OUR TRAUMA.
How traumatized were each of the Animorphs before the war? How about after? What methods exist for reducing the impact of traumatic events? Why does the Animorph fandom seem to be so full of people who had shitty childhoods? Join us as we analyze each character's (modified) ACE scores before and after the war and learn about the healing power of shorms.
Safety warnings:
- This episode talks about some heavy shit. If you are not in a mental place where you can be doing that right now, please don't.
- We are not professionals; we are just people who have learned a thing or two while trying to get our own shit together. If you feel you need a professional, please seek one out.
Learn about ACE scores here:
https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/fastfact.html
Learn about preventing ACEs here: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/preventingACES.pdf
A Question of Hope: https://intranet.bixbycenter.ucsf.edu/resources/files/Video_A%20Question%20of%20Hope_Background.pdf
The Body Keeps The Score:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693771-the-body-keeps-the-score
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23129659-adult-children-of-emotionally-immature-parents
If you haven't sustained enough emotional damage, check out this worksheet and measure it against the Animorphs' parents. Or, even worse, your own:
http://curioushealing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/ACEIP_exercises.pdf