Through Another’s Eyes

[godofmystory]

This blog is mainly my creative outlet since i prefer to keep a separate place for stuff like this. It’ll mainly contain fandom stuff, book commentary and the odd artwork that I make. It’ll mostly ba a casual place for me to spill my feelings and ideas without getting too serious.

Feel free to ask me questions and/or recommend any good books you find! I also answer most moral or advice-based asks but no political asks will be answered. Though feel free to open a debate with me as long as it’s a friendly one.

I usually prefer adventure or crime fiction, with minimal romance (unless it’s lgbt and non-established relationship). I also take manhwa and manga recs with the same conditions as stated above.

My other blog @phsycodesi will be for more serious and political things from now on.

[thecaffeinebookwarrior-deactiva]

Resources For Writing Deaf, Mute, or Blind Characters

Despite the fact that I am not deaf, mute, or blind myself, one of the most common questions I receive is how to portray characters with these disabilities in fiction.

As such, I’ve compiled the resources I’ve accumulated (from real life deaf, mute, or blind people) into a handy masterlist.

Deaf Characters:

Deaf characters masterpost

Deaf dialogue thread

Dialogue with signing characters (also applies to mute characters.)

A deaf author’s advice on deaf characters

Dialogue between deaf characters

Mute Characters

Life as a Mute

My Silent Summer:  Life as a Mute

What It’s Like Being Mute

21 People Reveal What It’s Really Like To Be Mute

I am a 20 year old Mute, ask me anything at all!

Blind Characters:

The 33 Worst Mistakes Writers Make About Blind Characters.

@referenceforwriters masterpost of resources for writing/playing blind characters.

The youtube channel of the wonderful Tommy Edison, a man blind from birth with great insight into the depiction of blind people and their lives.

An Absolute Write thread on the depiction of blind characters, with lots of different viewpoints and some great tips.

And finally, this short, handy masterpost of resources for writing blind characters.

Characters Who Are Blind in One Eye

4 Ways Life Looks Shockingly Different With One Eye

Learning to Live With One Eye

Adapting to the Loss of an Eye

Adapting to Eye Loss and Monocular Vision

Monocular Depth Perception

Deaf-Blind Characters

What Is It Like To Be Deafblind?

Going Deaf and Blind in a City of Noise and Lights

Deaf and Blind by 30

Sarita is Blind, Deaf, and Employed (video)

Born Deaf and Blind, This Eritrean American Graduated Harvard Law School (video)

A Day of a Deaf Blind Person

Lesser Known Things About Being Deafblind

How the Deaf-Blind Communicate

Early Interactions With Children Who Are Deaf-Blind

Raising a DeafBlind Baby

If you have any more resources to add, let me know!  I’ll be adding to this post as I find more resources.

I hope this helps, and happy writing!  <3

[thecaffeinebookwarrior-deactiva]

Updated with more resources, specifically for characters who are blind in one eye.

[leuke-rants]

Why in those rofan stories ...the female lead are so passive, meek and weak? Even if they are "the best sword woman ever" everyone can bully the lady even if she is powerful, there always men who tries to take advantage of her and she is always reliant on the ml.

This must be a popular trope ...but I hate it.

There are two reasons for this:

1) The author wants you to feel sorry for the fl so they give her a tragic backstory and a tragic present. By making everyone hate the fl and making her life hell the authors create a "shield" so that you can't criticise the main character. The meek and passive personality is there to make the fl seem even more helpless so you can feel more bad for her

2) The author wants you to like the ml but because said ml has no personality or likeable traits they need to make him seem like a catch. The authors will create a r@pist character whose only purpose is to drool over the fl and are so comically evil that in comparison the ml looks better. The ml will often come and rescue the fl despite her being a "badaas girlboss" because the majority of rofan stories are self fulfilling fantasies. A lot of authors, and readers, dream of having a hot and handsome man save them and sweep them off their feet so the ml has to save fl matter gow strong and competent the main character is.

[mikeellee]

Thank you for the answer and I agree. I just want to share this vision. I do want a rofan story that breaks the cliche.

Fl does kill monsters ever sense she is a child. She has muscles and thanks tonher upbringing she really can look at a person and see their weakness.

A prince or duke or whatever wants to marry her. A political marriage of convenience. She accepts as he promises (and delivery) financial help to her people.

Very well, this fl goes to the high society to be his wife for one year as it is written down in their contract.

The ladies of the court aren't happy this bjg catch chosen a nobody and ....time to bully her.

If you ever saw the Nanami scene in Shibuya....you know what happens.

Fl takes the hair of the ringleader and goes all Nanami on her.

The bully who wants to marry the man...is now really questioning her sexuality now.

"name of your squad and location!"

[godofmystory]

Me every time I see a villainess/FL duo that aren't related: KISS. YURI. TOXIC YURI. ENEMIES TO LOVERS YURI. DOOMED YURI. TRANS YURI. RIVALS YURI. YURI.

[mikeellee]

I dont want doomed Yuri...I want this bully of a noblewoman, who was hellbent on bullying and terrorizing this new woman bc "she married Duke McDreamy" and is having the biggest gay panic ever.

I want the FL to go full Nanami on her. Grabbing her hair and saying, as she is having a pstd flashback, "Name of your squad and leader," bc if you Koreans love to make the FL "the best sword woman ever who killed monsters since she was a baby," FOLLOW UP.

This is a woman who should be seeing a bunch of bullies going "hihihihihi she doesnt know this thing" and shows how she faces MUCH WORSE.

[godofmystory]

Honestly your ideas are so PEAK. Also there are a million ways to make this a doomed yuri with a shit tone of context.

This take actually reminds me of Penelope Escart, the original one not the transmigrated one. Like that woman pulled out a crossbow bc they put mosquitoes in her tea XD

[leuke-rants]

Why in those rofan stories ...the female lead are so passive, meek and weak? Even if they are "the best sword woman ever" everyone can bully the lady even if she is powerful, there always men who tries to take advantage of her and she is always reliant on the ml.

This must be a popular trope ...but I hate it.

There are two reasons for this:

1) The author wants you to feel sorry for the fl so they give her a tragic backstory and a tragic present. By making everyone hate the fl and making her life hell the authors create a "shield" so that you can't criticise the main character. The meek and passive personality is there to make the fl seem even more helpless so you can feel more bad for her

2) The author wants you to like the ml but because said ml has no personality or likeable traits they need to make him seem like a catch. The authors will create a r@pist character whose only purpose is to drool over the fl and are so comically evil that in comparison the ml looks better. The ml will often come and rescue the fl despite her being a "badaas girlboss" because the majority of rofan stories are self fulfilling fantasies. A lot of authors, and readers, dream of having a hot and handsome man save them and sweep them off their feet so the ml has to save fl matter gow strong and competent the main character is.

[mikeellee]

Thank you for the answer and I agree. I just want to share this vision. I do want a rofan story that breaks the cliche.

Fl does kill monsters ever sense she is a child. She has muscles and thanks tonher upbringing she really can look at a person and see their weakness.

A prince or duke or whatever wants to marry her. A political marriage of convenience. She accepts as he promises (and delivery) financial help to her people.

Very well, this fl goes to the high society to be his wife for one year as it is written down in their contract.

The ladies of the court aren't happy this bjg catch chosen a nobody and ....time to bully her.

If you ever saw the Nanami scene in Shibuya....you know what happens.

Fl takes the hair of the ringleader and goes all Nanami on her.

The bully who wants to marry the man...is now really questioning her sexuality now.

"name of your squad and location!"

[godofmystory]

Me every time I see a villainess/FL duo that aren't related: KISS. YURI. TOXIC YURI. ENEMIES TO LOVERS YURI. DOOMED YURI. TRANS YURI. RIVALS YURI. YURI.

[godofmystory]

Normalize using the Crying Child's canon name (Dave)

[pastelchaos242]

Anyways here’s my tsaritsa design but I can’t draw so I used Gacha life

Anyways here’s her with and without the veil

[godofmystory]

You🫱🫲Me

Using Gacha cause we can't draw

[hollowwhisperings]

bronya impact ftw

[godofmystory]

She's so Solo Leveling coded lmao.

[godofmystory]

Today my sister asked me what my favorite genre/trope was and it spiraled into me making a post about my fictional tastes lol. Have fun.

So in general, one of my favorite tropes is actually the amalgamation of fourth-wall breaking, alternate universes, and hyperawareness of the truth of the world, that the character is just that, a character. And no, I am not talking about the concepts I am talking about it existance as being an actual part of the story/plotline/lore/gameplay. My recent obsession with reincarnation manhwas and Honkai Star Rail is a good example. I tried to track where I started liking the thing and everntually landed on my 2020 obsession with undertale, and more specifically WD Gaster. I don't know exactly why I felt like I liked the fourth wall breaking so much but it became a near obsession after a while and still is.

Second, The multiverse, or alternate universes. Sort of like is used in Spiderman throuht the spiderverse and the Loki Series, I loved the recently popular trope of parallel/alternate universes long before It was used beyond comic books like in DC.

Now, the last one, a hyperawareness or the truth of ones existance as a story book character... Can be easily traced back to (a) something I thought up on my own in the middle of the night wondering if I was living in a world created for someone else, and (b) Ever After High. I don't think I need to explain this and I won't unless I get an ask or smth (pls pls pls-).

And as for my love of historical reincarnation manhwa... Lets just say I blame my eight year old self's only exposure to media being indian soup opera for at least three years and leave it at that.

And yes, my obsession with villains. Logically, I think it sprouted from a andgsty teen need to live out my frustration and not nice thoughts some how without hurting people irl and just gravitating towards villain!au fics or just works where characters were seen as or acted evil. One of my favorite villains are villains who genuinely think they are doing the right thing but aren't and were never given the chance to. I can trace the beginning of my villain obsession back to the girl who was also my bi awakening, Azula. She gave off a righteous air that said she believed what she was doing was for the best and honestly I only watched ATLA for her tbh lol.

And even more than that... Villains who could have been great heroes who cracked under the pressure, societial or otherwise. Ah, villain arc Varian, oni!Lloyd and villain!Izuku, they could never make me hate you.

But related to the one above is also my love for "prophacy hero" characters like Percy Jackson, Lloyd Garmadon and Harry Potter mostly bc I want them to be like fuck destiny I'ma do my own thing or just suffer bc everything they do is predetermined.

And finally, the Desi genre. Not that popular at all and I avoid overly romantic works and stick to adventure, which cuts down the amount by a LOT. My introduction to it was through 'The palace of Illusions which I prompty wanted to burn after reading, but all of Amish's books brought me back to life. I fucking love you, Ram series omg 100% relatable in an indian eldest sibling way.

[crowttore]

Are you currently suffering from The Character?

[godofmystory]

Every single day. Can't fucking get rid of em.

[videnrambles]

MHA Ideas I'm really liking rn

Izuku is publicly revealed to be All Might's sidekick/successor (Razzmatazz my beloved)

Soft Dadmight

feral Izuku who will throw a brick at someone

protective dadmight who will throw a brick building at someone

i fucking love dadmight okay

non-hero student Izuku

Izuku who has some "old people" hobbies (cooking, sewing, kniting, etc)

Gaming buddies Izuku and Shigaraki

Dad for one

Izuku being a quirk nerd

Izuku and AFO being quirk nerds together

Stories that have realistic ages. Izuku is not becoming a vigilante at 8 years old people, I know 8 year olds and they can't even tie their shoes.

Young super genius Izuku who still acts like a kid.

[godofmystory]

GUYS GUYS LISTEN. It's technically confirmed notlw that Paimon ISN'T Asmodeus (keeper of the heavenly principles). In a cutscene of the new world quest 'A Long Day In The Mountains' when we leave the upper level area after Melanta dies we can see Asmodeus watching us with her weird portal thingies. The important thing here is that Paimon is ALSO THERE.

Thus, Asmodeus has been crossed off the long list of 'who the actual hell is Paimon' along with 'failed moon sister'. That just leaves the Heavenly Principals, Celestia and the AI mentioned in the traveller's new skin description... Which could also all be the same thing. Hoyo is really catching me off guard with these story lines.

[bnhaobservation]

BNHA Chap 1 vs Chap 419/423

There's a jarring contrast between how BNHA starts and how it ends, between the Hero Midoriya was at the start and the Hero he became at the end.

Remember?

In chap 1 Midoriya sees his bully, Bakugou, being possessed by the Sludge Villain. If the Sludge Villain takes control of Bakugou and his Quirk he'll become even more powerful and will harm even more people and Bakugou, as said before, is Midoriya's bully so not a good person. Midoriya has also experienced an attack from the Sludge Villain so the latter is clearly Midoriya's enemy and someone whom he know how much harm he could make.

Yet, Midoriya sees him in troubles and jumps into action to try to save HIM. He doesn't know how and he is not doing this to save others from the consequences of the Sludge Villain possessing Bakugou, he is not even doing this because he has something against the Sludge Villain. He just wants to save Bakugou because he needs saving.

It is not the Sludge Villain who needs to be destroyed, it is Bakugou who needs saving.

Flash forward to chap 419/423.

Midoriya sees Tomura, being possessed by AFO. Tomura is clearly not happy with this but... who cares?

This time Midoriya jumps in... to destroy AFO, which means in the process he will destroy Tomura too but it is not a thought that do so much as brushing his mind. We know Tomura is not completely death yet because AFO has to silence himself but Midoriya doesn't think at how to save Tomura.

He is there to smash to bits AFO and he does, by murdering Tomura as well in the process.

This time it was AFO who needed to be destroyed, who cared if Tomura needed being saved, saving his soul (sort of) was enough.

It is a complete turn over of how the story started, and it is why a part of the fandom doesn't like it, because it seems a betrayal of the origin of the story, of how people were lead to expect Midoriya would become the greatest Hero by saving, saving his bully and not just destroying the Villain.

(And yes, All Might smashes the Sludge Villain but doesn't kill him, differently by how things go with AFO).

In the end saving wasn't anymore saving of the (negative/Villain) character that was taken captive by a bigger Villain, saving was just murdering the bigger Villain along with the one he took captive so that tons of nameless civilians readers didn't particularly care about could be safe... because managing to take him captive again didn't feel good enough.

AFO needed to be murdered and Tomura with him so that the civilians could be saved.

It is a possible ending but honestly I side with the ones who are unsatisfied due to it. To me Midoriya was much more of a Hero when he jumped into action to save Bakugou than when he murdered AFO and Tomura along with him.

Of course others might feel differently but I just had to share this. Sorry about it.

By the way THIS IS NOT AGAINTS MIDORIYA, this is AGAINST HORIKOSHI'S DECISION TO HAVE HIM DOING SO.

If this is the evolution Midoriya has to go through to me it felt like a betrayal of his original character and spirit, a downgrading of him as a Hero instead than an upgrading. Again, this is just me, feel free to think differently but really, I don't like Horikoshi's decision.

[godofmystory]

Personally I think it would have been such a great parallel too, for Izuku to go from saving his bully who was being used like a 'puppet' at the start, to him saving shigaraki from AfO who was also using him at the end.

[peachespuff]

Where my Izuku fan girlies or guys that hate Bakugou, hate bkdk, hate the name Deku, hate how Izu is treated by the story and Fandom, and thinks he deserved better at??

So far I only really met like 2 people. Surly there's more of y'all right? Where are the fans that actually love him for him and not because of stupid shipping? I swear sometimes it feels like me and just a few people want to see him happy, be confident, be AWAY from Bakugou, and just be his silly sassy self.

[chryza]

Debating silently showing this to one of the flight attendants while boarding

[chryza]

I SHOWED IT TO MY FLIGHT ATTENDANT WHEN HE GAVE ME MY COOKIES AND HE LAUGHED SO HARD HE TOOK MY PHONE TO SHOW IT TO THE OTHER FLIGHT ATTENDANT

[twisted-fates-zine]

The twisted fates zine is finally here!

We're excited to present to you the official release of Twisted Fates: A Ninjago roleswitch au. The zine features 100+ pages of content from our talented creators, depicting the heroes as villains and the villains as heroes.

The zine can be downloaded for free on itch.io!

Twisted Fates: A Ninjago Roleswitch au by Cecilia

This zine was a passion project from all of our contributors so please show love to everyone involved! We sincerely hope you enjoy this zine

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