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I would love some better disabled-snark icons, as this is the only one I have right now, but alas for I lack good source images. :(

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skywardprodigal

I will look.

I can only think of one person I know of who's disabled and meets my standards for hella photogenic, and, there's not that much of him on the interwebz that I've found. :(

I'll keep an eye out though.

:)

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denise

Oh my goodness, that is photogenic.

(Edit to add: I do have two pics of my awesome wheelchair, although not with me in it! If you could do something with that (cropping out the apartment in the background, heh) with "no, you can't push" or "hands off" or "thanks, i can drive" or some similarish text...)

Edited Date: 2009-04-08 11:35 pm (UTC)

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skywardprodigal

:)

If you bump off the .htm bit from the url, you'll get the few photos I've gacked of him.

My thing is posting pictures of pretty people of color/nonwhites. :D

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denise

I approve of your thing and wish to subscribe to your newsletter!

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skywardprodigal

When I mirror poc-daily I'll let you know. :)

Edited Date: 2009-04-09 01:01 am (UTC)

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skywardprodigal

Who makes it and what's the model? Also? Swank.

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denise

It is the Quickie Revolution in "pearl pink" (which I love, omg, my wheelchair is hot pink), and it is a godsend. The wheels come off and it folds up like a lawn chair, so it fits in lots of places (including airplane overhead bins!) and is way more stable than a side-to-side folding chair, while the lack of armrests means my elbows aren't bowed outward when I'm propelling myself and the lack of push handles means fewer idiots with no sense of boundaries try to grab me and push me because they want to be 'helpful'. (Verdict so far in about a month and a half of use: one person tried to take over and push, and I gave him quite a talking-to.)

It has been quite the experience using it, let me t ell you. Half the people around me leap to be helpful -- holding doors, offering assistance with things at heights, etc -- in a very friendly and pleasant and not-at-all-agency-denying fashion. Half the people around me suddenly behave as though I'm invisible.

(Amusing anecdote: before the chair, I was walking with a cane. I would get death glares a lot, since i moved very slowly and would hold people up, etc. For unrelated reasons, I decided I wanted to shave my head -- I was tired of dealing with all my hair -- and suddenly, the number of death glares dropped like a rock. My working theory: people think I'm dying of cancer or something!)

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skywardprodigal

Thank you for the link. I will play with 'shop and see what I can do with it. That is so awesome that it fits in overhead bins. The lack of armrests should give you more upper body freedom of movement, yes? And you don't have to compensate for having your range of motion cut off in a weird way. I think most wheelchair arm rests are nasty on shoulders.

And yay on fewer idiots manhandling you about like you're their waiting for them to do you.

Half the people around me leap to be helpful -- holding doors, offering assistance with things at heights, etc -- in a very friendly and pleasant and not-at-all-agency-denying fashion.

How cool. Gallantry?

Half the people around me suddenly behave as though I'm invisible.

I would find that withering.

My working theory: people think I'm dying of cancer or something!

LOL

And all of a sudden, you're a person worthy of some kind of respect? Oh, wow. Heah.

As to the hair... \o/

I think if you can carry off skin and you're a woman more power to you. I have so many scars on my scalp from various chemical procedures I've inflicted on myself/have inflicted I admire a lady who's got an unblemished scalp.

I'm also googling disabled hotties. Not so much with the hits.

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denise

Yeah, the armrests are good for people who are being pushed, not so much with the people who are propelling themselves! If you have to hold your elbows over the armrests, you wind up with awful aches and pains really quickly. And my biceps are spaghetti enough from having to push a hundred and seventy pounds of me and twenty-five pounds of chair, I don't need any more. :)

How cool. Gallantry?

I think so! Or just people taking a second to be helpful and friendly, which makes me happy. The part where the other half of people suddenly think I don't exist is kinda withering, yes -- if my girlfriend is there with me, for instance, there are lots of people who'll talk to her about me instead of to me, things like, "Does she need such-and-such?" to which I always reply, "She's right here." But the random kindnesses of strangers who don't suck is always nice to counterbalance the idiocy of people who do.

Here, have a pic of me without hair :) I was nervous about what I'd find under there, but I figured, hey, it's just hair, it's a renewable resource, if I hate it it'll grow back eventually, right? I've got a couple of scrapes and scars and stuff, but it just gives me character. (That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.)

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skywardprodigal

If you have to hold your elbows over the armrests, you wind up with awful aches and pains really quickly.

No doubt. Stuff shifts and tenses in the wrong way. *wince*

Geez, you push and pull nearly two hundred pounds around with just your arms? Owie.

Or just people taking a second to be helpful and friendly, which makes me happy.

\o/

Oh, wow, your hair is black. Lucky. Character is awesome. Not as obviously awesome without an eyepatch, sadly. :/

I have a picture of me somewhere... Hmm...Here!

I like my hair. I think I hit the jackpot.

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denise

Oh yeah, I had a comment conversation thread going on here ... (oh my god my inbox is where things go to DIE these days)

The pushing-and-pulling thing isn't bad, because mechanical advantage gives it a ton of work -- I can actually stop on a dime, which is really awesome, and my turning radius is pretty good, too. But yeah, it's a workout!

Your picture link did not work for me :( That's the link for managing it yourself, not for giving to other people, woe!

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skywardprodigal

I had a comment conversation thread going on here ... (oh my god my inbox is where things go to DIE these days)

LOL

No worries here. I just came up with bases for possible icons for you. No text yet.

I have yet to separate your pretty chair from its surroundings in the pictures you linked to earlier. :(

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denise

Oh man, I love those! Particularly #1 and #5.

I think #5 is a good candidate for "I can push myself", don't you? And #1 I think doesn't need any text at all, it's awesome all by itself. :)

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skywardprodigal

I'm glad you're digging them.

I'm partial to textless icons. I think all could work ass they are. Hee. I'm glad you dig the 1st. Here are two other variations of 1:

Edited Date: 2009-04-13 10:36 am (UTC)

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ladyjax.livejournal.com

I may still have my copy of Soap Opera Digest with Mitch in it from when he was on Port Charles with Debbie Morgan. They were extremely hot together.

He was also on the cover of New Mobility around that same time.

Here's part one of their first time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LE30PXl73M

I rewatched that scene until my tape ran thin.

You might be able to find pics of his stints on "Judging Amy" and "Las Vegas".

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skywardprodigal

Ooh, if you have it, please to scan it. :D

I have watched the video. OMG, they were gorgeous and engaging. Wow. Um. Yeah.

Here's part one of their first time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LE30PXl73M

*fans self*

Two of us, one of us disabled, and with the photogenic hotness. Wow. As for Debbie...She does not age. It is amazing. LOL. I LOVE her.

I rewatched that scene until my tape ran thin.

I bet.

:D

You might be able to find pics of his stints on "Judging Amy" and "Las Vegas".

Thank you!

An aside: how's your romance-fantasy-elf quest novel going, and, um, remember that discussion about book contraband? Is that still in the works or have you reconsidered that?

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ladyjax

The romance-fantasy-elf thang actually has a couple of lines but I probably won't visit it again until the summer simply because I have fic I'm committed to but it's still simmering.

I'll dig through my boxes and see if I can find the Soap Opera Digest. I tend to keep things forever which means it's in a box where it would be....safe.

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rydra_wong

I can only think of one person I know of who's disabled and meets my standards for hella photogenic

I commend the photos in this thread to your attention:

http://www.rockclimbing.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=2128250

Vijay Viswanathan.

(Yeah, yeah, climber, I know, I own my biases *g*.)

(See also the pics here and elsewhere in their gallery.)

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skywardprodigal

He is hotness. Thank you.

*hugs*

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rydra_wong

*g* I saw the photos in my morning's browsing and thought of you immediately.

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zvi

If you could think of an appropriate icon for a Cool Hunter, I would appreciate it. I don't have any thoughts except for a terrible Diamonds (in the rough)/ice metaphor, so I place myself in your capable hands.

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skywardprodigal

Ooh, yes, you are a hunter of cool. I will think and plot and go through my pics.

:D

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spiralsheep

Matthew Henson! African American and significant early polar explorer: google images.

::goes to dig up better images::

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skywardprodigal

YOU ARE SO EASY TO LIKE.

THANK YOU.

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spiralsheep

Or Barbara Hillary the first black woman to reach the pole... at the age of 75: google images.

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skywardprodigal

These are bases of Matthew Henson.

I am drawing blanks (still) regarding a hunter of cool.

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zvi

Perhaps to go in the opposite direction, with someone who is clearly overheated? While #3 is a good image, I confess, I was hoping for something a whee bit sexier.

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smilingslightly

Hello!

Would something with this image of Eamonn Walker and *Glee* or *Joy*, etc., or really whatever that expression says to you, be of interest?

And how did I not know about the dailies website?! Guh. What an amazing collection/resource/inspiration.

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skywardprodigal

Hi!

Nice picture of Eamonn. I will see about it.

I dunno. Maybe you didn't know about it because none of your flist posted about it? Maybe you should post about it and set a better example? :D