Noelle

hi, call me Noelle! 25 | any pronouns | bi/pan Terfs, Nazis, and racists can shove it

[wowwforever]

I hate that ‘bad dream’ just means ‘nightmare’ instead of ‘shitty quality dream.’ I had a bad dream last night. It wasn’t scary it just didn’t make a lot of narrative sense

[imimmortal4-deactivated20170713]

[dollopheadedmerlin]

I have … a tip.

If you’re writing something that involves an aspect of life that you have not experienced, you obviously have to do research on it. You have to find other examples of it in order to accurately incorporate it into your story realistically.

But don’t just look at professional write ups. Don’t stop at wikepedia or webMD. Look up first person accounts.

I wrote a fic once where a character has frequent seizures. Naturally, I was all over the wikipedia page for seizures, the related pages, other medical websites, etc.

But I also looked at Yahoo asks where people where asking more obscure questions, sometimes asked by people who were experiencing seizures, sometimes answered by people who have had seizures.

I looked to YouTube. Found a few individual videos of people detailing how their seizures usually played out. So found a few channels that were mostly dedicated to displaying the daily habits of someone who was epileptic.

I looked at blogs and articles written by people who have had seizures regularly for as long as they can remember. But I also read the frantic posts from people who were newly diagnosed or had only had one and were worried about another.

When I wrote that fic, I got a comment from someone saying that I had touched upon aspects of movement disorders that they had never seen portrayed in media and that they had found representation in my art that they just never had before. And I think it’s because of the details. The little things.

The wiki page for seizures tells you the technicalities of it all, the terminology. It tells you what can cause them and what the symptoms are. It tells you how to deal with them, how to prevent them.

But it doesn’t tell you how some people with seizures are wary of holding sharp objects or hot liquids. It doesn’t tell you how epileptics feel when they’ve just found out that they’re prone to fits. It doesn’t tell you how their friends and family react to the news.

This applies to any and all writing. And any and all subjects. Disabilities. Sexualities. Ethnicities. Cultures. Professions. Hobbies. Traumas. If you haven’t experienced something first hand, talk to people that have. Listen to people that have. Don’t stop at the scholarly sources. They don’t always have all that you need.

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

happy 10 years of spiders georg everyone

[mikkeneko]

“average meme lasts 5 years” factoid actually just statistical error. average meme lasts 30 days or less. Spiders Georg, which started on this day 10 years ago, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[realmarysue]

Happy 13th anniversary to Spiders Georg!

[dogwithglasses]

Bougar

[satyrradio-deactivated20250513]

Bougar

[unexplained-events]

For the first time, a giant 20″ red leech was filmed slurping down a blue earthworm which was 27″ in length. The footage was captured by BBC filmmakers for the series ‘Wonders of the Monsoon.’

SOURCE SOURCE

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

[mercurymascara]

[bonniebugsy]

This is the opposite of the clip of the inbred anime girls trying to play basketball like infants.

[maswartz]

[dogpuppy]

[nyanbinary-perineum]

leaning in and telling a clowngirl in a quiet voice that what she just said was Really funny and then giving her a little kiss on her nose and her bowtie spins

[hemipenal-system]

adds a trans woman to your inventory

[lillythetransbian]

*takes her out of my inventory*

*kisses her gently on the forehead*

*pets her hair and puts her back safely in my inventory*

[hemipenal-system]

adds a trans woman to your inventory

[hemipenal-system]

you can equip her in your secondary weapon slot instead of a pistol. she doesn't shoot anything but you can pet her and she'll blush and you'll get a little bit of a speed and primary fire rate buff because now you're in a good mood

[pansyfemme]

“never kill yourself” is such a funny phrase to me that i think it’s accidently started working. its like an affrimation. say ‘never kill yourself’ enough times as a joke and maybe you won’t try to kill yourself over minor inconviences anymore

[landmineblogging]

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[jesse-is-spiralling]

[not-terezi-pyrope]

It's freaky how the brain will just plasticly learn novel motor output interfaces on the fly. It's almost like instead of hard coding a control scheme for anatomy that changes every few million years the strat that brains went for was to be openly reconfigurable to fit around whatever its nerves seem to be hooked up to via observed feedback.

I think they've done tests on this by getting people to pilot novel bodies in VR. But you don't tend to notice it day to day until something weird happens like just now. I was reading a paper book and it had a line of text blacked out as if redacted. Instinctively I go to move my cursor over the black line to see if I can read any text if I highlight it.

Except it's a book and not my computer screen, so the cursor my brain thinks it's moving across my field of vision in front of me doesn't exist. At the same time, my right hand is making a bunch of small involuntary movements next to me. I didn't intend to move it and didn't even notice it was moving until I saw it with my eyes. What I intended to move was my Cursor, something that my brain had learned to understand that it has, and the way it moves this is by actuating the muscles in my right arm, an action that is entirely disconnected from any intent to move my arm, which is a different thing.

I love being a pattern atop this eldritch mess of neurons, it's great

[pfaugh]

father I cannot click the book

[thedarkqueensreblogs]

Tags from Miss-wizard

[katieaki]

It Happened to Me

[beardedmrbean]

[sludgebitch]

no! next question

[sludgebitch]

you're going to see this a lot. you're going to see it more and more. this is the point at which they start attacking trans medical care for adults and this is how they're going to do it. push back the second you see it every time

[bruno-has-definitely-deactivate]