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[flawlessbeautyqueens]

Katie McGrath photographed for San Diego Comic-Con 2017 Portraits

[bebx]

*me writing fic*

me to me: don’t use the word eyes, you just used it in the previous sentence. use something else

my inner me to me: no, don’t call eyes orbs, it’s cringey

my deeper inner me to me: call them face balls

[thesassyducks]

I love sleepy ducks 😍 

(Source)

[givethispromptatry]

“What did I do to deserve this?”

“Sometimes things just happen, my dude.” He shrugged. “Fate doesn’t control everything. Sometimes shit just happens and there’s no reason for it.”

[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.

[transromansanders]

I needed this for… reasons

[gryphsdeadbones]

oh yeah just a psa from ur local asian dude again: try not to call characters of color ‘rats’/ ‘rat bastard’ bc thats kinda racist (see: ww2 propaganda)

especially when ppl’s interpretations of a white character is not white (example:  my freemind design)

dont do that shit. dont justify using derogatory racial terms.

this is a general statement to everyone bc i think ‘rat bastard’ phrase is going the rounds everywhere again. 

thank u!! 

(u can reblog but dont argue ty)

[gryphsdeadbones]

important additions:

dont use rat insult in regards to jewish characters or latino/hispanic characters either

shit like calling them rats, roaches, lizards, snakes- all really fuckin bad. 

feel free to add on!

but again, don’t interact if you want to argue or whine about how much you want to use the word ‘rat’ against people so bad. just because you’ve never heard it before or haven’t experienced it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist

[biglawbear]

Here's the thing about shows like South Park and Family Guy that make their money off of being edgy and offensive. They fundamentally reduce their viewers' capacity for empathy. If I found a joke funny, and you found it offensive, you're just too sensitive. This is directly related to the ride of the alt right and the election of trump. In this essay I will

[oceanfoxo]

OP WHERE'S THE FUCKING ESSAY

[biglawbear]

So instead of writing the essay this is exactly what I'm talking about. This shit reduces your capacity for empathy. If you can't understand why people are hurt by a simple joke, nay, think that's the whole point... How the hell are you supposed to feel for someone when they come to you complaining of ACTUAL oppression? It's the foot in the door phenomenon. A little oppression isn't too bad, cuz it's funny, right? It hardens your heart against others

Somebody actually wrote this essay already. It's a Twitter thread about how the alt right recruits teenage boys by getting them to post slightly offensive memes... And then when they get called out and don't understand why the alt right channels their anger at feminists and women and people of color and liberals. According to this thread, boys are being "set up"

Read the whole thread at the link above this is just a snip

"offensive" shows like Family Guy are a precursor to the alt right and you can't change my mind

[biglawbear]

Y'all this shit so basic even Spongebob one it. It's not about being too sensitive. It's normalizing abuse through comedy that's a foot in the door to greater oppression.

[gummywormy]

this put into words what makes me so uncomfortable about these shows

[toastbutteregg]

THIS IS THE CUTEST

[mirdania]

there is not a single role chris pratt does that jack black couldn’t do better

[assiraphales]

at the people saying jack black couldn’t play star lord: why? no really, go ahead and tell me. I think I know the answer but I want to hear you say it.

[heyatleastitsnotcancer]

Chronic illness psa of the day: do NOT wear any sort of neck or back brace without it being prescribed by a doctor and professionally fit. An ill fitting brace can worsen or even cause spine issues. Especially don't do this if you don't have a diagnosis yet to know if a brace would even actually help or end up hurting you. Please, just don't wear one without it being fit and prescribed. Don't hurt yourself further for temporary relief.

[apocalypse-gang]

The problem shouldn't be: "there aren't allowed to be stories where gay people experience tragedy" the problem should be "stories shouldn't confine gay people within the tragedy genre, nor should the tragedy be that the characters are gay"

[theavengers]

[deepwaterfiction]

Text: For twenty four hours, we are transformed into birds. It used to be a curse on a quiet town. Now we’re a bustling city, and it’s the best day of the year. 

[genvy]

i haven’t stopped thinking about this since last night

[larygosomens]

[yuhengwanye]

@ileolai:# WHY DOES AZIRAPHALE LOOK LIKE HES BEEN FED THRU A WOODCHIPPER THO # LIKE HIS CLOTHES ARE JUST SHREDDED # IN CLOSER SHOTS YOU CAN SEE WHAT LOOKS LIKE HASTILY SEWN ON PATCHES # MEANWHILE CROWLEY IS READY TO POSE FOR AN EDITORIAL 

Due to a wildly misspent youth, I can actually answer this one! The answer is that they’re actually BOTH dressed for a Vogue editorial - the difference is that Crowley’s actually up-to-date and is wearing expensive clothing for the Graeco-Roman Mediterranean, while Aziraphale’s wearing expensive clothing for the nomadic Ancient Near East.

Aziraphale’s overcoat looks so ragged and patched because it’s lots of tanned skins sewn together - you can see it better HERE. He’s wearing the same linen clothing with golden beads at the neck that he wore in Mesopotamia three thousand years ago, but he’s added the skin coat and a turban. More skins = more animals. More linen = more work. Along with the gold, a very long tunic, a long coat (WITH SLEEVES), and a turban of a lot of material all indicate that Aziraphale is dressed very expensively, but very expensively for a Canaanite nomad in 3000 BCE. However, by 33 CE, the major indicator of wealth wasn’t the amount of material being used in clothing: it was the dye the material was coloured with. We think of black being a minimalist, ascetic colour, but right through to the Middle Ages, black was one of the most expensive clothing colours because of the sheer amount of dyes used to achieve it. Crowley’s veil and sash in particular are a deep black - that’s a large amount of dye that’s being used! (Crowley’s veil is also very sheer, meaning it’s either very fine linen or even silk, which was around in the West at this point but was desperately expensive) The difference between Crowley and Aziraphale in this scene is actually demonstrated by my very favourite Biblical mistranslation. Genesis 37:3 reads, “Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a ketonet passim.” This phrase is only used twice in the Tanakh, here, and to describe Tamar’s clothing in 2 Samuel 13:18-19. More importantly, this is the only use in the Torah. 

From context, we know that this item of clothing was special. In the English-speaking word, this is the “coat of many colours”, the “amazing technicolour dream coat”. But passim is more likely to mean “to the extremities” (i.e. hands or ankles), thus meaning a long coat, or a coat with sleeves. JUST LIKE WHAT AZIRAPHALE IS WEARING. 

When the Torah was being translated into Greek in Alexandria in about 250 BCE (the Nevi'im and the Ketuvim are translated later, often using whatever precedents for rare words were set by the translators of the Torah), the translator comes across this rare adjective, and thinks, “Fucked if I know what that means.” And they know from context that this coat is special and expensive, and they live in a world in which colour and dye are the main things that makes clothing special and expensive, so they write in poikilos (multi-coloured), and move on to the next sentence. 

tl;dr: Both Crowley and Aziraphale are well-dressed in the Crucifixion scene, Aziraphale’s just out of fashion by two or three millennia.

[argentconflagration]

I cannot believe that the costumers– knowing, surely, that only a miniscule fraction of the audience would be able to appreciate it– went through the trouble of ensuring that, true to form, Aziraphale was dressing wildly out of date.

[ughmerlin]

make me choose ↳@onceandfutureprat asked: gwaine or lancelot

[chibird]

We can never predict life’s ups and downs, or which way it’ll turn us next. But despite not always going as planned, life finds a way to bring us to where we’re meant to be. 

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