thequeerwithoutfear:

i know marvel didn’t intentionally write matt murdock as a bitter crip hero but guess what they fucking did and they can just try to pry him from my cold dead hands 

did they mean to write a character who is unapologetically disabled, who is so far from innocent and vulnerable and is in fact fucking furious, whose literal weapon is intrinsically tied to his disability? no but here he is, scarred and bloody and grinning 

they definitely didn’t mean to write a character who became a superhero because systemic and interpersonal ableism meant he had fewer avenues for helping people in his day-to-day life, who is so fed up with being forced into this mild-mannered persona for survival that he fights dirty in secret, but GUESS WHAT 

he isn’t an “overcoming disability” character. he’s living within, fighting within, being a hero from within disability, fighting specifically from a position of disability. they tried to write a supercrip, whose disability is not really a disability at all and is in fact his superpowers, but they fucked it up!! and instead, they wrote a character whose power lies in his application of his skills and knowledge and experience living in his own disabled body!! you did that marvel!! no take backs! fuck you!