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Riz's dad dies when Riz is only nine years old at the decent age of 38. It's double the amount of time anyone expected him to live.
When Pok Gukgak was born, he didn't scream and instantly the room knew something was wrong. Pok Gukgak was very, very unwell and there was nothing anyone could do to change that. At first, he was given just a few days to live, and when he beat that milestone a few days more. And then a few more.
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Or: What if Pok Gukgak did simply die from being sick?
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- Part 30 of Disability a Day
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Riz has always loved griffins. It was a special interest of his since he was a kid- a small bean of a child. He’d always been obsessed with them, gathering and clinging to books, graphics, stuffed animals, and stickers depicting them.
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Or: Riz meets Baxter.
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- Part 24 of Disability a Day
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They’re making mugs. Or not making mugs. That probably takes a whole lot of work, and none of them are creative enough for that. They’re painting mugs, designing custom mugs. That’s more accurate.
Maddie had insisted on it, saying it would be nice for their new place to have a sort of housewarming gift to themselves and that their interests were so different so if they did an activity together it would at least then match. Pete and Cody had agreed, sucked into Maddie’s energy and they ended up a pottery painting place decorating mugs.
Cody’s… isn’t going well. He’s never been an artist in general and the shaking of his hands doesn’t help. But he’s with his partner and his partner’s partner so he's having fun anyways, trying to decorate the outside of his mug.
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Or: Cody paints a mug and is self-conscious about his symptoms.
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- Part 5 of Disability a Day
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Maddie brings it up two years into dating, when they’re looking after Cat for the evening.
“Have you ever thought about kids?” she asks, and Pete almost drops Cat. In fact he does drop Cat, so startled and caught unaware but he whisks up a cloud that she lands in, giggling and fine. He sets her down, and she toddles over to some blocks before plopping down and banging them together. A figure twists in the corner, bubblegum pink but Maddie hasn’t commented on it so it’s certainly a hallucination and not part of the dream realm.
“What?” Pete manages around a racing heart and ringing in his ears. The figure twists, and suddenly holds a pink bundle in its vivid arms.
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Or: Pete can't have kids. He can't.
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- Part 20 of Disability a Day
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Sklonda hates IEP meetings. She feels bad for hating them because Individualized Education Plans are one of the best ways her son gets services but they never not infuriate her. She always ends up exhausted and upset after them, no matter how much progress has been made. But again, it’s how her son gets services and there are good things that come from them, there are, so she packs up from work early and heads to her son’s school just after noon.
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Or: Sklonda, Riz, and Jawbone go to an IEP meeting.
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- Part 21 of Disability a Day
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Kingston knew he was sick. The redness around his port, the sweating- he knew. He wasn’t a nurse for nothing, he could recognize the signs of an infection. He just didn’t think it was bad enough for him to pass out mid battle and end up in the hospital.
Oops. His bad.
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Or: Kingston has a short hospital stay.
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- Part 28 of Disability a Day
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The Bloom, more than anything, is a time of change. It makes sense, one flower blooming, and then another, all furiously exiting a long winter together. It then makes sense that, in turn, The Bloom is a time of change for people. For K. P. Hob maybe than any other.
K. P. Hob has learned that he is autistic.
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Or: Hob works on accommodating his autism.
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- Part 14 of Disability a Day
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Riz’s first game on the Owlbears is a hot, sweltering day, everyone in the stands sweating as they cheer and jibe at the teams. Kristen Applebees with pale skin, red hair, and a multitude of freckles is no exception. Jawbone had shoved a sunhat on her before she left and Adaine and her traded sunscreen back and forth and she stayed hydrated she did, she really really did.
But three days later and in the middle of a flare. A flare that started the morning after the game.
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Or: Kristen has a flare up. It ends with her in the hospital.
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- Part 31 of Disability a Day
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“Cody you are low,” Kingston shouts, “Sit down.”
“What?” Cody calls from across the way from where he smashes his sword into some sort of goopy goo thing. Really gross that’s for sure.
“You’re low!” Kingston calls back.
Pete looks over, shooting a magic blast behind him at another goopy goo as he observes Cody.
“I feel fine,” Cody protests.
Pete watches as Cody’s body shakes and sweat beads on his forehead, sword trembling in his hand as his skin pales. Sure. He’s fine.
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Or: Cody's blood sugar decides not to cooperate.
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- Part 23 of Disability a Day
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Adaine pees herself. This is a simple fact of life, a fact she is trying to think neutrally on.
Adaine has always been embarrassed about her incontinence, and she chooses not to think about it.
There's a lot of ableism Adaine grew up surrounded by that forced itself inward and there's parts of Adaine that will struggle to accept her disabilities for the rest of her life due to that. But the incontinence is the hardest to accept, probably because until her teens it had never been framed as a disability.
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Or: Adaine has always struggled with incontinence. Slowly the internal battle gets easier.
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- Part 16 of Disability a Day
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When Kingston was 14 years old he took a basketball to the head and was in the hospital for a month. It’s what happened after that stuck with him.
Post Concussion Syndrome can last days, months. For Kingston, it's been over thirty years and he still feels it. There’s only been one more consistent thing in Kingston’s life: being Black.
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Or: Years after his concussion, Kingston has a bad day.
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- Part 11 of Disability a Day
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His entire life, Gorgug was told to get a dog. When he was five, when he was ten, when he was fifteen, when he was twenty. It got exhausting after a while, people assuming that they knew best for him just based on a diagnosis. It ignored the large remaining vision Gorgug had when he was younger and his cane skills when he was older and really, it had never sat right with him. He never got a dog growing up.
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Or: Gorgug gets a service dog.
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- Part 10 of Disability a Day
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“What's up Coach?” Fabian asks, coming to Gorthalax’s side. The other team's captain and coach are there with him, as is the ref.
“Fabian,” Gorthalax says, “I was just explaining that you were indeed the team captain and playing today.”
“Oh,” Fabian frowns, “okay.”
He's not quite sure why Gorthalax is explaining that, but it's true. So why is Fabian here, in this conversation?
“Son,” the ref says, and he lilts his voice up so it's soft as he speaks to Fabian. “Is that true, you play for this team?”
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Or: Another team has an issue with Fabian playing for the Owlbears.
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- Part 15 of Disability a Day
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“Hey Riz, what do you want to do with Dad today?” His mom asks, and Riz turns to his dad.
“Dad,” he presses.
“Yup,” his dad agrees, “rare day off for me, just you and I hanging out today kiddo.”
“Dad me,” Riz presses. He smiles at the words next to each other and shakes his hands wildly, fingers flying as they dance in the air. He shrieks his joy and his dad covers his ears but chuckles. His mom smiles from her own spot at the counter.
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Or: Riz and his dad spare a rare day together.
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- Part 19 of Disability a Day
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They're going to kick Pete out. They’re- they're going to kick him out. Pete, well he tried his best but it wasn't good enough and he keep fucking things up and he's just a fucking drug addict and they're going to kick him out.
He's not going to be part of the team anymore, not going to be allowed to help out with the magical aspects of their city even though he's the vox phantasma because well, they have the vox populi, do they really need Pete?
No, they don't.
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Or: Pete stops taking his meds, the symptoms of psychosis worsen.
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- Part 18 of Disability a Day
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It was a bad night. A night full of voices and whispers and taunts. The ceiling above him seemed to move, creating faces with dark cutting eyes that would stare and watch him the entire time. Their gaze was firm, strong and held him tightly making it impossible to look away. Evan had stared back until his eyes burned and watered, and then some.
Or: Evan has a high symptom and low spoons day.
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- Part 4 of Disability a Day
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Aelwyn still remembers the day that Adaine had her stroke. She had been six years old when Adaine had fallen to the ground and not gotten back up. Her little sister had been rushed to the Fallinel healers by her parents who had snapped at her to stay where she was. Aelwyn had waited and waited and waited for them to return. When they did, Adaine was never the same.
Or: Aelwyn reflects on her sister who grew up disabled and herself, who has recently become disabled.
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- Part 7 of Disability a Day
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Evan comes back, blinking rapidly as he tries to focus. Memories swim last him and he unsteady reaches for them, missing them as they twirl like mist. He centers himself, grounding slowly as he breathes deep and even does so makes the most of memories pass by him even more.
He's sitting on the floor, leaning on the couch. K, Jammer, and Sam are all curled around the coffee table, at his side. They make subtle glances in his direction that make him instinctively bristle, but none of their gazes linger as they continue talking.
K holds his hand, rubbing smooth circles in the back of his palm. He twitches his fingers, giving the clasp a gentle squeeze. They turn to look at him.
“Who was fronting?” he asks which is a pretty standard question when the memory gaps are this big.
Or: During a bad brain day, Evan paints his nails with his friends.
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- Part 3 of Disability a Day
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“What are you doing?” Kristen asks Riz, sliding up to his side at the counter of Mordred Manor.
“Waiting,” he replies shortly. Kristen nods, and takes the seat next to him.
“Wait for what?” Kristen says, pressing his disappearance from the group sleepover.
“Phone call,” Riz answers shortly. His tail lashes behind him and he click-clacks his claws on the counter, listening to the way the sound echoes. It soothes an itch in his brain that he didn’t know was there.
Or: Riz waits for a phone call. Kristen waits with him.
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- Part 17 of Disability a Day
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Fig slams a final note down in her guitar, a sound that goes ricocheting through the arena as everyone cheers and Fig almost collapses right then and there. But she doesn't. Instead she breathes and bellows out “thank you Bastion City,” and exits stage left, Gorgug right in front of her.
The moment they're behind scenes, Fig collapses into a chair, heaving breaths. A water bottle is pushed into her hands and she takes it, swallowing deep gulps as her legs shake and tremble. She pants, exhales, and wipes the sweat out of her eyes. She puts everything into her performances, and her body knows it. She shifts her position and her hip protests at the movement, flaring pain across her side. She winces, and someone else slides her some ibuprofen.
Or: After a Sig Figs show, Fig hurts.
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- Part 12 of Disability a Day