Recent Zazzle Designs (and the anger that's inspiring them):

[capri0mni]

So -- it's art-making month over in Live-Journal land, and while I went in thinking I'd make a new something for my Chimer(i)gons store (nearly) every day, and really boost my inventory, it hasn't worked out that way.

But, since the start of the month, I now have four (4) new designs, and I thought I'd share them (it's been a while, hasn't it?). Image links are behind the cut, with brief descriptions of the products' mottoes (I've tried to write detailed descriptions on each item's product page, in the store):

Shirt Motto: "Autism Spectrum: Broader than a rainbow -- Listen, Learn, Respect"

Autism Spectrum -- light by Chimerigons
View more Autism T-Shirts

Shirt Motto: "My Responsibilities: (With a list)"

My Responsibities by Chimerigons
View other Cure pity T-Shirts

Shirt Motto: "1 in 278 people live with Cerebral Palsy."

Cerebral palsy stats by Chimerigons
Start making t-shirts on zazzle

Shirt Motto: "Wishing I could walk is BORING. I wanna shoot FIRE from my eyes.

Wishing I could walk by Chimerigons
View more Cartoon T-Shirts

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Designs I want to do in the future:

• "Cerebral Palsy is a Broad Umbrella" With a picture of a broad umbrella with a whole crowd of differently-postured people underneath (and maybe the word "normal" falling down as if it's rain around them). That was going to be today's daily art. But it turned out to be more complicated than a one-day project.
  
  
• "Dear Pity Junkie: I'm not here to be your fix" I'm not sure what sort of graphic I could put with that that isn't ableist against those who require lots of drugs. Maybe just the words, and no graphic?
  
  
• "Bitter Cripple! (I'm cool with GOD. It's YOU I'm pissed at!)"
  
  
• "I don't 'suffer' from anything (but you, Honey, are getting on my last nerve!)"

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In other news, the Virginia State Assembly cut funding for home assistance for the disabled and elderly to 56 hours a week, and now, kids won't be able to have personal aides with them in school past kindergarten (even if they need someone trained in administering, oh, say emergency anti-seizure medication within 90 seconds to save their lives). So Audrey is now having to rethink her livelihood, and J's mother is seriously considering homeschooling him. However, the latter development is mostly because all his teachers and therapists are obsessed with "fixing" his weaknesses rather than developing his strengths. Right now, they're obsessed with getting him to cut paper with scissors, and won't teach him anything else until he masters that -- even though he is now able to finger paint quite well, and that skill could be expanded to writing and using a computer mouse, and heck -- making really nifty art (speaking of art-making month).

And this is why, my friends and readers, when you conduct a survey of "children's" developmental disabilities, their population seems to suddenly explode when you bother to look outside the classroom...

-- Sigh --



So yeah, the disabled are the first to get their rights to life curtailed and the last to get their civil rights protected.

Comments

[brewsternorth]

Regarding the Pity Junkie t-shirt, you could have a graphic of a spanner/wrench, to play on the multiple meanings of the word "fix" (as though someone with CP is a "broken machine" that needs mending).

[capri0mni]

Ooh. That's an idea.

I was also thinking maybe a graphic with a "broken heart" patched up with a bandage, or something.

[smw]

I want the "My Responsibilities" shirt badly. Unfortunately another thing that currently falls under the "responsibilities" category is "not spending money". hmph.

[capri0mni]

Yeah. Sigh.

And one reason why I decided to put things up for sale is to get a bit of pin money, at least, to spend.

OTOH, that design won't be going anywhere any time soon.

Thanks for letting me know it struck a chord.

[smw]

Well... I'll have to think on it. It would be going to a good cause, after all. ;)

[capri0mni]

No rush. You're a good cause, too, you know. Things will turn around for each of us, eventually, I'm sure...

Besides, pin money is only one reason I set up the store. Another reason is to satisfy my designing-swag lust without spending money at crafts and art-supply stores (and without worrying about making a mess I'll have to clean up before dinner). If, every once in a while, someone besides me is moved to buy what I make and take it out in public, then that's the proverbial icing one the Awesomecake.

[smw]

I've got a safety net in the form of generous housemates, but you can only put so much pressure on other people, y'know? So: yes, self-sufficiency in the future is something I choose to believe in. I'll add you to my positive thoughts roster. *wry grin*

That is all over a lovely sort of hobby.

[capri0mni]

That is all over a lovely sort of hobby.

I like it.

Starting in my teens, or thereabouts, my mother starting lobbying for me to go into advertising, based on my love of coming up with slogans and snarky one-liners.

But I couldn't stomach the idea of being a cog in the Corporate Machine. I suppose, some 30-odd years later, this is my compromise.

(Oh, and positive thoughts are always welcome. :-)

[annaham]

I love all of those design ideas.

[capri0mni]

Thanks!

[spiralsheep]

I love them all. :-)

[capri0mni]

Thank you! :-)