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Actually, you are enough. Even if you don’t work. Or study. Or go out. Or have friends. Or have family. You’re enough because you exist and your existence is enough to be enough because you are not a product. You are not a sum of output. You are not a task to complete. But because you are something the universe wanted and put here even if you’ll never understand why. Somewhere in the cosmos your existence makes a difference, even if it’s not the way others existences do.
yk what i hate though. is when i find a meme and im like THIS IS SO [cool intimidating mutual i never talk to] I SHOULD SEND IT TO THEM but then i remember ive never talked to them ever and so i cant just like give them a meme out of the blue and so the meme just withers and rots in my camera roll 😔
Reblog if a mutual who's never spoken to you can randomly send you memes that made them think of you.
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Once in art school I shared some photos I took of a well known professional pinup model I'd been working with and this girl I knew - she was pretty smart, a year or two younger than me, queer - was like "oh, yeah, that looks great, I love that she has a realistic body, not super thin, meat on her bones"
and tumblr I shit you not the model in question was 5 foot 1 and 99 pounds with A cup titties
she was so petite I literally photographed her with a doll to make a statement about her age and bodytype. I was blown away like O.O
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I don't know who I'm saying this for, but when one is drawing characters with cleft lip and/or palate, it is important to recognise that clefts go through bone as well as soft tissue. The reason why I'm saying this is because a lot of people just draw a normal face and then draw a line through the lip and put a gap between two teeth.
Because people with clefts have missing bone, the topology of the face is completely different to a regularly formed person's. This still applies to repaired clefts, to what extent depends on the original severity of the cleft and the success of the surgeries + orthodontics.
(I am going to use the word "cleft" by itself several times for the sake of brevity, please know I am referring to maxillofacial clefts every time. Clefts can occur outside of the maxilla, where they are known as craniofacial clefts, I will not be covering those right now.)
I find diagrams like this to be misleading, as they present the cleft like a thin "cut" in an otherwise fully formed head.
This is a more accurate visualisation of the condition, a cleft is more like a "gap" or "chasm". Tissue, both soft and hard, that would've been present in this gap is missing completely. That's skin, bone, muscle, teeth, and everything else.
People with clefts will often have a bone taken from usually the hip to be added to the upper jaw, to substitute for the absent material. People with clefts are also often missing adult teeth. Cleft repairs take a very long time, and that's under accessible healthcare of relatively high quality. The missing bone in the upper jaw causes most with maxillofacial clefts to have underbites, because the upper jaw is too short. Underbite correction is often the very last major surgery to be carried out. It is often done in the early twenties, because bones have stopped growing in length by that point in most people's lives. It is important to pay attention to the age of your character with a cleft. I don't expect you to have planned out an entire medical history, but the structure of a face with a maxillofacial cleft changes dramatically throughout early life. I think the underbite is the biggest thing I want to see more in people's cleft characters; remember the underbite caused by a cleft is due to a short upper jaw and NOT a long lower jaw.
For unilateral clefts, the nostril on the side of the cleft is smaller than the other, unless the cleft stops a while before reaching the nose. The cleft-side nostril also often has compromised breathing ability, causing many with clefts to rely on breathing through the mouth instead. People who are still going through treatment can have a fistula connecting the inside of the mouth and the nasal cavity. This fistula causes trouble with eating and drinking, as material passes into the nose and food can clog the fistula up. On the bright side, it can allow for the very cool party trick of being able to drink through the nose or eject fluids through the nose from the mouth. The deformed shape of the mouth affects pronunciation as well, since the jaws don't align as they should, people with clefts have to "cheat" to perform certain sounds. The voice also often sounds nasally because of increased airflow into the nose.
Even though the clefts are maxillofacial, effects can extend to the ears. People with clefts often get frequent ear infections especially as children, some have a flattened ear canal on the side of the cleft, and some have impaired hearing and may require hearing aids.
So I kind of forgot what the point of this was, but I just often see clefts treated by artists without them as a superficial detail that you can plaster onto a character's face with no structural changes. It is important to consider the underlying bone structure and how that affects the facial surface, and if the character is undergoing repairs how far along they are.
Hello. Is there a list of anything that you want to see more in mute/non-speaking fictional characters? Are there any tropes/stereotypes that i need to be wary of? Thanks!
Hi!
We would love to see:
All sorts of AAC methods (high tech, low tech, and no tech)
Disabilities other than "functionally abled but magically just can't speak", like cerebral palsy, autism, intellectual disability, language processing disorders, situational mutism, apraxia, etc.
On that note, if your character can't speak because their tongue got cut out, which seems to be the major reason to have a nonspeaking character in fiction, that will affect their quality of life in a lot of ways other than being unable to speak. Commit to actually portraying that, please. Or just pick another reason they don't speak!
Fewer characters who are hearing and use sign language. Not that it never happens, but it makes up the vast majority of sign language representation in fiction and pop culture, despite being a very small percentage of actual signers in real life.
If you want a signing character, please consider making a Deaf character! (Think about how easy it is if you already have a character translating what your signing character is saying: just have them interpret spoken language too. You're now like 3/4 of the way to having solid Deaf representation.)
Nonverbal characters who are physically capable of making noise, like grunting, laughing, squealing, etc. even though they can't actually speak. These sounds can be communicative or non-communicative.
Or using echolalia, accidental mouth words, or other non-communicative speech in the case of autistic or intellectually disabled characters!
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already said a bit, but different reasons for nonverbal nonspeaking (if 24/7) & mute! like because physical / anatomical difference, neurological, motor speech, language, cognitive / intellectual, neurodevelopmental, etc! ALS, tracheotomy & not candidate for speech valve, cerebral palsy, craniofacial differences, apraxia & various presentations of nonverbal nonspeaking autism & intellectual disability & rarer developmental conditions, & more! echoing on please no “basically nondisabled except Just Can’t Speak”
nonverbal nonspeaking characters with other nonverbal nonspeaking friends! who nonverbal nonspeaking bc similar disability but similar n different experiences ! different disability (maybe VASTLY different disability) but also with similar experiences!!
AAC learning curve! most people won’t be able pick up any AAC & be instantly fluent in it. this may be possible for people w already good cognitive & language & motor abilities & already literate n using spelling / typing based AAC, but that not majority of AAC users, & especially not if we talk abt symbol based AAC, which person just described will still take a long while to learn to comfortably use & see as own voice. and, plus, lots of disability that cause people to need AAC, often also impact AAC use, like intellectual / cognitive abilities, language abilities, motor abilities, visual, illiterate or learning to read learning language, etc.
wider variety of high tech AAC! text based & symbol based, but also like switches! scanning! eyegaze / eye tracking! head tracking! etc!
characters where cannot communicate independently or AAC not perfect fix! need communication partners, need partner explain what they communicating to others, need them explain things to self, need prompting, need modeling, etc. or cannot make grammatically correct sentences with good social back n forth exchange no matter communication method. or cannot communicate with language at all. or AAC too slow to use n get frustrated n refuse to use, etc.
in general more realistic details of nonverbal nonspeaking experiences! AAC taking time, not being perfectly understood, charging device, other symptoms of disability that also cause nonverbal nonspeaking, etc. like AHA can still communicate with my mouth full take that!!! but alas can’t when hands dirty or full or occupied (if use direct access via fingers) n can only vaguely gesture n noise. or eye gaze AAC struggling under bright sun or low light, etc.
^ & especially nonverbal nonspeaking joy! AAC joy!
& intersectionabilities! like a nonverbal nonspeaking character who come out as trans by change their voice on AAC ;)
accidentally made it half abt AAC, but also: nonverbal nonspeaking experiences beyond AAC!!!!!
- nonverbal (24/7) AAC user
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I will reiterate over and over again that chronically ill and disabled people have always existed. We have evidence Neanderthals took care of members of their community who became disabled after a serious injury or were born with disabilities like Down Syndrome. Yes, many more illnesses ‘just killed you’ before modern medicine but the lack of modern medicine meant there were even more people struggling with chronic ill health. Institutionalization and the stigma around discussing disabilities and illnesses is the reason you think there were fewer people with disabilities and chronic health concerns, not reality. Bad backs, bad lungs, bad stomachs, mobility issues, poor eyesight, poor hearing, countless other things that range from mild annoyances to serious life-limiting disabilities. We have always existed. Pretending like there was a time in history where a sizable portion of the human population wasn’t chronically ill or disabled is historical revisionism.
We should always be thinking “How do we make the world better for disabled people and how can we prevent acquired disabilities like post-viral chronic illness and lifelong injuries from things like motor vehicle accidents?” and not “How do we stop disabled people from surviving and existing in public?”
‘Survival of the fittest’ never referred to survival of only the most healthy and robust individuals, it is about an organism’s ability to adapt. Humans are social creatures. You can be the most genetically sound and physically fit human being on earth and if you break your leg and there is no one to help you, you die. Caring for our most vulnerable, sick and/or weak community members is a core part of what it means to be human and if we didn’t not have that drive, we’d go extinct.
as a severely mentally ill 14 year old, I remember thinking “the medical system would treat me better if I was physically ill and not mentally ill” and then I coincidentally developed multiple chronic illnesses and found out that actually they dgaf even when you’re essentially bedridden
The medical system would tread you better if you were acutely ill and not chronically ill.
I dunno man, not if you’re fat or a woman or a person of color or visibly queer or profiled as a drug user or homeless or you have no insurance. Other than that, maybe.
To all of our brave service members trapped on the USS Lincoln right now, from the bottom of my heart I would like to say LOL.
“Navy sailors are killing themselves because they’re trapped on a busted ass raggedy ship with no soap and bad food.” And not because they’re tools of American imperialism fighting a monstrously cruel nothingburger war? Okay.
It is crazy to see politicians and random public figures come out and be like “Yeah, destroying Iranian infrastructure and bombing children is whatever but you can’t treat our brave little soldiers like this!”
Just remember: they do not give a fuck about you and would be completely willing to leave you there to rot and die if the optics weren’t so bad.
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So uh….some dude apparently recreated Adobe Photoshop feature-for-feature, for FREE, and it runs in your browser.
Anyway, fuck Adobe, and enjoy!
Give credit to the 30-year-old who worked on this for free and offers this service for free!
WHAT?!
I study graphic design and my tutor recommended and used this in his classes at art college last year, it’s so good it has SO many features for free, I really recommend it, even if you’re just trying to learn the basics of PS, such a wonderful thing <3
I use this and it’s fucken great. No bullshit. Really works. Sometimes the world is kind.
ch5 talk sprite redraws :-) a selection of faves
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