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literally just let the trans girl be a dragon princess. she deserves it.

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cripplecharacters

You talked about how schizophrenia impacts speech, and I was wondering if it impacts sign language in the same way? I have a character who's schizophrenic and uses sign language due to trauma to the throat so I was just wondering

Hi!

Yes, schizophrenia will impact sign language production too. Language troubles in schizophrenia tend to stem from disorganized thinking and related negative symptoms rather than any physical problems, so that affects all forms of language, including sign languages.

Your character might sign non-fluently, string seemingly random or unrelated words together, sign words that they don't mean to say, have difficulty with facial grammar aspects if those are present in your character's sign language due to flat affect, or sign slurred (too fast or too slow, too large signs, unclear handshapes), for some ideas of how language production issues may appear in signing characters.

As an aside, I'm not a big fan of characters using sign language solely because of a throat or vocal cord problem. It's over-represented in media when that actually represents a very small number of signers. Many people whose only physical disability is vocal damage will use alternate methods of communication like text to speech rather than learning sign language, especially if that damage occurs in adulthood, because sign language is heavily stigmatized and discouraged, and it is a totally new language that can be difficult to learn, especially if someone has other disabilities that impact functional communication.

If you want other ways to have a signing character and don't want to make them Deaf (though please consider that!), you could try: vocal apraxia/childhood apraxia of speech, being CODA and only growing up around sign language so struggling with speech or vocal language, or having some forms of facial palsy or nerve damage, for some ideas. Though note for all of these, speech/speech-language therapy will likely be a doctor-recommended treatment before they ever recommend learning or regularly using sign language, unless they end up with a really good speech therapist. (At least in the case of a CODA, they will already know sign language, but the hearing world will expect them to learn and use speech rather than sign most of the time.)

Mod Rock

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Book review: Rainbow! by Gloom and Sunny

Second read, I don't remember where I got it. It took me like a couple hours. It's a graphic novel and was published in 2024.

Main characters in most to least favorite: Boo, Mimi, Milo, Clarice.

"What are you doing?" "Catching a star so it doesn't float away." "Okay. Did you get it?" "Mhm."

As a psychotic person, Boo is really relatable. I'm not sure if she's intentionally psychotic (it says explicitly she has trouble distinguishing daydreams from reality, but the way this is presented can feel between deep thoughts to hallucinations). I like that this isn't treated as really scary, although the ways the other characters talk about her in regards to that is sometimes demeaning.

Every outfit Boo wears is pink white and blue, in memories of her younger self her face is blacked out, and she doesn't want to tell Mimi her "real" name. I know what you are.

I love the art style a lot. It would be so much better though if the hair type options were more varied than thin straight hair, thick straight hair, or locs.

Mimi is really cool. I wish there were more scenes with her, I think since they're friends now she'll hopefully be more prominent in the second volume.

Oughh we're doing parentification due to parental addiction? You can just at me, god.

The balance between silly and serious is really nice, they don't take away from each other at all, which I really appreciate.

Yessss a fat main character and the storyline isn't even about her being fat!! And she has stretch marks!!

For the tests, it passes all but the Ali Nahdee test because it doesn't qualify for it.

8/10. Here's the Storygraph for it!

#rebob #reading #book review

absolute shame that transphobia has kept people from exploring the narrative & thematic possibilities of transition tbh. it's this very personal journey that is directly linked to somebody's sense of self, has many visual indicators for change, coming of age, etc - how is miserable character transitions as they become more confident not a common trope? well, i know it's because cis people, and even some other trans people, don't see transitioning as the beautiful and normal process it is, but you know what i mean. i hope to see this rectified in the coming years. by 2035 we need at least 10 eggs being published per month

#rebob #writing #writing trans characters #trans representation #lgbtqia #queer

lets make bad art together

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the-quasar-hero

“Why does this character have to be Black?”

Why shouldn’t they be?

“Why does this character have to be a woman?”

Why shouldn’t she be?

“Why does this character have to be gay?”

Why shouldn’t they be?

“Why does this character have to be trans?”

Why shouldn’t they be?

“Why does this character have to be disabled?”

Why shouldn’t they be?

“Why does this character have to be fat?”

Why shouldn’t they be?

#rebob #writing

it bothers me when someone brings up misogyny in shounen anime and people shrug it off with "its designed for teenage boys, what can you expect." like well. idk i think its actually pretty important that shows for teenage boys are normal about women. i mean i think all media should be normal about women but teenagers are impressionable i think we could put a little bit of feminism in the teenage boy shows. it might do some good. you never know.

and this isnt just about shounen i just mean like. if you're excusing misogynistic writing with "well it wasn't written for girls" then i'm seriously questioning your approach to all this.

#rebob #misogyny #media criticism

i think we should start openly mocking male creatives who can't figure out how to write women. like actually i think it's embarrassing that it took elliot page transitioning for christopher nolan to give him a good role. why did it take like ten years to get the first female lead in a marvel movie? why is it a Known Fact that stephen king can't write women? why is 50% of the population omitted from large ensemble works? i asked my friend to name a movie directed by a man with a majority female cast and he said ghostbusters 2016. ghostbusters. ghostbusters. g

#rebob #writing #misogyny

whump-until-wretched

Whump drabbles, 41/100: vain

The boot was aimed at their head. Whumpee swallowed. They watched, as in slow-motion, Whumper picking up their foot, bringing it back, then forward.

“WAIT!” Whumpee squeezed their eyes shut, but the impact never came. They peeked; the boot had stopped mid-swing. Whumper crouched and rolled Whumpee on their back, smiling victoriously.

“Finally,” they said. “Ready to talk?”

“Nah, not – not really.”

“Sorry?”

“It’s just… Do you mind kicking me here?” Whumpee turned their head, exposing their right cheek. They grinned, wiping blood from their lips as they turned back to meet Whumper’s stunned face. “Left is my good side.”

#rebob #big text #shaking their jar rn

alittlebitofwhump

Defiant Whumpee is slouching against the concrete wall, covered in fresh bruises and blood. They don't have the energy to move at all and everything hurts. Still, they didn't break. They didn't give a kick during the beating. Didn't scream. Didn't cry. Didn't beg. Didn't make a single sound.

It's driving Whumper crazy that they can't get a reaction out of Whumpee. After yet another unsuccessful torture session they storm out of the basement. In their anger they don't pay attention to the low doorframe and bang their head against it, hard. "Ahh!" They yell out.

Whumpee chuckles.

Whumpee chuckles.

The first sound that Whumper gets out of Whumpee, and it's a chuckle of amusement because of Whumper's pain.

Whumper sees red. They turn around, more enraged than they have ever been in all their life.

"Oh you're gonna regret this," they snarl, an almost murderous look in their eyes.

Whumpee quickly whipe the smirk from their face, willing their eyes not to betray what they feel deep inside.

Crap, I've done it now.

#rebob #writing #shaking their jar rn

Picture books I've read my little siblings semi-recently

Amelia Earhart by Wil Mara: I pulled up the Internet Archive copy on the computer to read to them. Published in 2014. I think it did a good job of helping them learn about her. They weren't the most interested in it, though. 3/5

How Do Dinosaurs Learn To Read? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague: Published in 2003. My dad bought it for them at Walmart. Very nice, I love when kids books have a rhythm, and the art style is so fun. They definitely needed the reminder of how to properly treat books too lol. 5/5

The House On Haunted Hill by Slade Stone: My grandma's friend gave it to them. Published in 2022. They both thought it was pretty good but my little brother was kinda disappointed that it was more silly than scary. 3/5

#rebob #book review

Kids book review: Gemma And The Ultimate Standoff by Shana Muldoon Zappa and Ahmet Zappa

Read this to my little siblings one chapter per night, so it took us a little over two weeks. When I was in sixth grade my E.L.A. teacher gifted it to me. It was published in 2016.

It's so cute and the worldbuilding is really fun. I love the design of the book. It was a little hard for them to follow along, but that's probably because this is almost the last book in the series when we haven't read any of the previous ones lol. Both of them want us to get the other books in the series now. My little sister really liked Gemma's mission and my little brother really liked the reveal at the end.

4/5

#rebob #kids book review

it is actually quite easy to indicate a female character is trans in your art if you put your mind to it (read: study how fat redistribution due to hrt works)

#rebob #writing #writing trans women #writing transgender characters #writing transfem characters #trans representation #trans woman representation #lgbtqia #queer

Manga review: My Hero Academia volume 6 by Kōhei Horikoshi

First time read. It took me around an hour and a half. My dad bought it for me at Walmart. It was published in 2016. The genre is fantasy.

Class 1-A in order of most to least favorite: Asui, Aizawa, Todoroki, Bakugo, Ashido, Tokoyami, Jiro, Ida, Kirishima, Koda, Shoji, Yaoyorozu, Aoyama, Uraraka, Sato, Hagakure, Ojiro, Sero, Midoriya, Kaminari.

"This taiyaki... It's... Me!!" "No, it's not. What's wrong with you?!"

- A lot of the characters are pretty cool as concepts, there just needs to be more diversity. There are tons of new pro heros introduced in this book, and we couldn't have one that isn't light skinned? And no I'm not counting the caricature of indigenous people as racial diversity. The complete lack of even a single explicitly Black person is astounding.

- Carries over all the same ableism and misogyny from the last volume I reviewed.

- I forgot how happy Aizawa and Asui make me. They appeared and I was instantly going yippieeeee. They're so cool, everyone needs to pay attention to them. I wish they got more page time.

- I really wish the women pro heros were allowed to be actual heros in the way the men are. Even Manual, the character made specifically to be boring and do nothing, is giving out actual hero advice and shown to genuinely worry about the student he's mentoring. Meanwhile, the women pro heros are basically just there to gawk at. The only one that isn't objectified is Thirteen, which I'm not sure is even a woman in the manga.

- Gunhead is a trans woman. to me

- The doodles put on the blank pages are so silly.

- The scene when Midoriya says his hero name is Deku is such a reaction image. Bakugo fuming while Uraraka is sitting there so happy. I bursted out laughing.

- Tomura is so annoying. Like not even as a villian just as a person he's annoying, half of the scenes with him are literally just him throwing a fit. It makes me laugh almost every time he speaks.

Doing the tests for this volume and all volumes leading up to it like I did last time, meaning it passes all of them and still isn't applicable for the Ali Nahdee, sick dog, or Vito Russo tests.

6/10. Here's the Storygraph for it!

#rebob #manga review

Challenge to authors. Could you get more tolerant with the idea of your protagonist characters being disabled

Maybe I am a little tired of every injury being a small problem that’s easily overcome. Maybe I’m tired of every concussion being for the purpose of a small jump in time and to move the protagonist easily and leave them temporarily incapacitated. Maybe I’m exhausted of characters joking about bullet wounds like it’s as mild as a scrape on the knee, and not something that is incredibly deadly and can leave someone permanently disabled.

Why is it that the unbelievably dangerous scenario always ends with the characters scratched up, but relatively alright? Every time? Every single time? Why is it that the worst thing that might happen to a protagonist is scarring (but in a tragic and badass sexy way, and nothing that isn’t appealing), and maaaaybe some PTSD.

“It’s for storytelling purposes,” yeah okay and maybe I’m absolutely exhausted of it being for storytelling purposes, for the drama, for whatever. Think for me on why consequences are not allowed to exist in your story. Why is it that the protagonist always manages to heal from devastating wounds perfectly in record time? Why are they just okay after having all the bones in their fingers broken? Why do you pride yourself on your realism, but get cold feet when a character has a severe concussion for the thousandth time?

Maybe I would be more accepting if this wasn’t the case for almost every single story. But my patience is being worn down.

#rebob #writing #writing disabled characters #disability representation #shaking their jar rn

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