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It's Dracula Daily time again mfs

Time to reconnect with my good friend Jonathan Harker as he begins his business trip

#Dracula Daily #Dracula Daily 2024 #Terra blogs

I finally got my hands on Hunger Pangs by @thebibliosphere and I'm so pumped to read it

#hunger pangs: true love bites #terra blogs

The way Obi-Wan's voice breaks a little when he tells Tala the base is also a tomb

#terra blogs #obi wan kenobi #obiwan kenobi #obi wan kenobi spoilers #obiwan kenobi spoilers #MY HEART #ugh #it huuuuuuuuuuuuuuurts

"Let us defy destiny together"

Sephiroth out here askin' Cloud to, essentially, rule the world with him, huh?

#terra blogs #final fantasy vii remake #ff7 remake #ffviir #ff7r #Sefikura #I've played this game before so i knew it was coming #but still #might replay it *again* and blog the whole thing #i like doing shit like that

Watching the new Mike Flanagan show, The Midnight Club, and unlike the other 3 I am doing the smart thing and I'm not watching it in the dark or right before bed.

#the midnight club #terra blogs #at last I've finally learned #still maybe shouldn't be watching these shows at all #they send me into palpitations at least twice each time #but it is still less stressful on my heart this way

Hey! I hope this is an okay ask — i wanted to ask a person that actually has Cerebral Palsy — if it’s not okay or you’re not feeling up to answering, feel free to delete from your inbox or ignore!! /genuine

I’m an able bodied writer who is writing a fantasy character who has Cerebral Palsy, and something about them is that their species has electronic powers. This characters body internalised their electrics, and uses them to power the characters muscles. This effectively minimises the strain on their muscles, making it easier for them mobility-wise.

Of course, their electrically-powered muscles don’t stop their Cerebral Palsy from affecting them, and they often stay sitting in their back brace and use crutches if they’re going somewhere further than the house.

I wanted to ask, is there anything else i can do to keep this character real, without reducing them to their disability or making their disability something that doesn’t affect them because of their supernatural abilities? I haven’t seen any writing tips/guides from people with cerebral palsy, so i don’t know where else to look!

Hi anon! This a totally okay thing to ask; I’m sorry my response took so long, I wanted to think it over and give you the best answer I could.

So, the thing about cerebral palsy, as I’m sure you probably already know, is that it’s really varied. Even if two people have the same type of cerebral palsy, there’s no guarantee that it’ll effect them in the exact same way, so I would ask more than just me if you can. My experiences aren’t universal.

Anyway. Back to the point of your ask.

So, avoiding making the powers (which sound super neat, by the way) cancel out the disability: Let the character have bad days. Days where the symptoms flare up more than usual. Using myself as an example, I have spastic diplegia CP; some days I don’t have a lot of spasms, (not obvious ones at least, they do still happen) and I can move somewhat easily. Then other days, I’m spazzing every five minutes, I’m slower than usual and I feel clunky and my balance is nearly non-existent. Maybe on those days, your character’s powers don’t work quite as well as they normally do?

As for not reducing them to just their disability, my best advice? Give this character a hobby not related to disability. I’m serious – I’ve lost count of the number of people who assume I don’t, or can’t, have hobbies just because I have cerebral palsy and use mobility aids. It doesn’t matter what it is, but they should have one. My one addendum is that it would have to be physically feasible (ie, someone with cerebral palsy probably wouldn’t have something like marathon running as a hobby, even with powers). That’s not to say they can’t talk about cerebral palsy and having it, because they can and they should, but it shouldn’t be the only thing they talk about, you get me?

I hope this helps anon!

Gonna tag @brightlotusmoon as well (I hope you don't mind!) since they probably have more advice.

#terra blogs #terra answers asks #cerebral palsy

*loud noise, vaguely like a crash or someone colliding with something*

*beat*

Roommate X: Terra??

Me, confused, thinking I misheard: *opens my bedroom door, peers out looking for X*

X: Are you okay?

Me: Yeah? Are you okay? I thought that noise was you, like the bathroom door got stuck or something and you had a Time getting it open.

X: I thought it was you.

#terra blogs #I mean that was a fair assumption #there's a loud noise in the middle of the night that sounds like a crash?#check on your disabled roommate first to make sure it wasn't them tripping or something