Saffyre Falkenberg

Disabled English PhD candidate 👩🏻‍🏫 | Researches YA/children's lit & disability 🤓 | Intersectional feminist 💪 | 💖💜💙 | #BLM | she/her | K-Pop stan

[Saffyre Falkenberg @SaffyreF]

I found out my article in @chlatweets came out! 🥰 https://t.co/YqexpuQLat

[Saffyre Falkenberg @SaffyreF]

The bill bans any explicit material with no literary, artistic, educational, etc. value, and joke’s on them because there is an enormous body of scholarship on romance fiction and much of this fiction is seriously studied in college courses, so

[Saffyre Falkenberg @SaffyreF]

I know there’s a million terrible laws and turns of events happening right now, but I just read Oklahoma SB 593 banning all explicit material including “open-door” romance novels…

[Saffyre Falkenberg @SaffyreF]

Was not prepared for the “nightmares about ableism” portion of writing my diss 😅

[Saffyre Falkenberg @SaffyreF]

Writing for my diss about the ways disabled people are left behind in disaster scenarios, and Emmett Everett is weighing heavy on my heart tonight... Rest in power, friend.

[Saffyre Falkenberg @SaffyreF]

I’m so excited for trans players to see themselves represented in the CC 🥰 It’s about time! 🏳️‍⚧️ #RepresentationMatters

[Saffyre Falkenberg @SaffyreF]

In 2019, I spoke at a conference about queerness in @dragonage. I was asked if I thought there would ever be a trans player character, & I said I was hopeful given the trajectory of the series. To the woman in the crowd who asked: we were right to hope 🥰
#DragonAgeTheVeilguard

[Saffyre Falkenberg @SaffyreF]

Dragon Age has ALWAYS been queer. Yes, even in Origins. If you don’t know that, it tells me you didn’t spend any time chatting with your companions at camp and therefore missed the point of the game: the relationships you develop with the characters as you move through the story

[Saffyre Falkenberg @SaffyreF]

The predictions I made for DA4 in my MA thesis in 2018 are slowly coming true 🤓

[Saffyre Falkenberg @SaffyreF]

I will finish the first draft of my dissertation before this comes out. I’m speaking it into existence

[Dragon Age @dragonage]

Enjoy this sneak-peek at tomorrow's Gameplay Reveal!

Rook and Varric arrive in the stunning - and seedy - city of Minrathous. Little do they know what dangers await. Tune in tomorrow to find out: https://t.co/UGVqA1ZiTE #DragonAge

[Saffyre Falkenberg @SaffyreF]

Some things never change 😂 4 years later and I watched Summer Game Fest still hoping for a release date 💀

[Alice Wong 王美華 @SFdirewolf]

2 years ago on this day I had a series of medical crises that changed my life forever.

It costs $840/day for additional care I need. It is unsustainable. This is structural ableism.

I am crowdfunding again so I can live in the community
https://t.co/3bJX5Gt4PQ

🎨 @jtknoxroxs

[Saffyre Falkenberg @SaffyreF]

I know I’m probably in the minority here, but I actually love my gray hairs? They’re so shiny and pretty.

[Saffyre Falkenberg @SaffyreF]

@DrSamiSchalk Even with the exhaustion, nightmares, and pain, though, it ultimately helped me heal and process what happened in a way I wasn’t able to in talk therapy 3/3

[Saffyre Falkenberg @SaffyreF]

@DrSamiSchalk Getting triggered. And very rarely get triggered any more.

I will say, the sessions exhausted me, so I wasn’t able to work or do much else afterwards that day. Sessions can also be very emotional and painful, and I had horrible vivid dreams about the trauma on session days 2/

[Saffyre Falkenberg @SaffyreF]

I find it really interesting that the disabled protagonists in the novel my class is engaging with are 13-14 year old girls and yet almost all the essays refer to them as women

[Saffyre Falkenberg @SaffyreF]

gamers with connective tissue disorders… how do you play your Switch Lite without it pulling your fingers all out of place? I’m on a major SDV kick but my finger pain has skyrocketed

[Saffyre Falkenberg @SaffyreF]

yo @Grammarly, does your AI hallucinate? because students just trying to check grammar/spelling need to know if so

[Alice Wong 王美華 @SFdirewolf]

♈️ It’s Aries season, bitches! My birthday is coming up and instead of gifts I am encouraging my friends to donate to @RipMedicalDebt to help erase medical debt in the US. So far I raised over $6000!

Each dollar donated will erase $100!!!!

https://t.co/MyXIEXvjuv