ÖALKSDJFÖA PARENTS.

So my parents took the ill-advised roadtrip. They made it safely to New Mexico and are staying in a hotel, since my grandfather's house isn't sufficiently handicapped accessible for them (or there weren't enough guest rooms since Crunchy Aunt et al are there at the same time?). Now I get this in email from my mother:

The weather here is very difficult for David.  He is almost sick daily form the heat, and there is nothing we can do that does not involve going out in it. It is scary.

Call me crazy, but is there not, in fact, something you can do when you're an invalid vulnerable to high temperatures in a hot, dry environment that makes you sick if you spend time in the sun? Yes? You can, in fact, stay inside in the damn air conditioning. I know it's sucky, but when you're severely crippled in all sorts of ways, and old and fragile, there is just less shit that you can do! Their refusal to accept reality in this respect is just childish, to my mind. "We're not going to let my injury prevent us from roadtripping (even though we don't have an entire adult who is competent to drive in the family)", "we're not going to let my injury prevent us from spending all day outside in the desert in summer (even though my brain is physically incapable of regulating my body temperature properly)", "we're not going to let my injury prevent us from air travel (even though my immune system is weak and I'm particularly vulnerable to lung infections)". What next? "We're not going to allow my injury to prevent me from going through this doorway (even though it's not as wide as my wheelchair)"? That's the kind of thinking that leads to wheelchair-shaped outlines where the doorway used to be!

I can feel a faint throbbing in the physical centre of my rage (the one in my chest. The one in my head is more for badfic). I think I'm going to lie down and fume.

Badfic Summaries of the Day

1. Summary: Gerard is a bitty man, living with his mother in his basement and never leaves the house. Who knows him enough to bring him letters everyday and who’s that desperate to make a bitter man happy? [I'm a bitty man, and I'm also evil, also into caaaats!]



2. SummaryMpreg. Both of them a parent to 3 children (all boys) and currently Frank(momma) pregnant with the couple fourth child.



3. Summary: Brendon and Ryan have been lovers in Pompeii for several years, and they're not aware of it yet, but they are living through the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. ["Baby? Oh, I didn't see you behind this mysterious could of smoke in the livingroom. What's up with that, anyway?"]



4. Summary: "Ryan, I'm pregnant," Sophia confessed. Ryan shot out of his chair only to realize that he had no idea why. He must have looked pretty stupid; just standing there, staring at the girl like she had grown an extra head. Technically, she was growing one in her stomach.



5. Summary: AU. After years of homophobic remarks finally get to Frank, he decides to do something drastic and attends a seminar which guarantees to turn him straight. At the seminar, he meets Gerard Way, one of the group’s “success” stories. The pair become close and a sticky situation becomes a hell of a lot stickier. [I know this is horrible, but I kind of want to read this one.]