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“Do not do this, Madison. Taking the lives of innocent people is not the answer. There must be something in you that’s still good.”
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003) dir. McG
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"Our first day"
look at them, same faces :D
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I ended up really loving the fun sewer dog man in Sun Haven. We are dating now. I made him pizza c:
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Customer: :3 DMV: SILLY Verdict: DENIED
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I can’t afford another bond with the wrong soul.
what if the wrong soul was inside you all along change your ways motherfucker put out the energy you want to attract if you're a broke-ass scrub with a record and a pill habit, you're gonna pull Chris the tweaker with a Devil whispering in their ear tattoo. If you're crazy, you gonna get crazy right back. Be the best version of yourself you can possibly be before you even think about love. Go to therapy. Fix your shit
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Source: imagination
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By Miriam Marlene Waldner
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Anonymous asked:
How should you write/draw burn survivors? I know this isn't a drawing blog but I don't know of one that I could ask this question to.
Hello!
I'm not a burn survivor myself, so I'll mostly talk about facial differences/visible disability in general and link some stuff made by burn survivors.
First thing, I think it's important to remember that being a burn survivor changes a lot of things - not only appearance. Very important part is the psychological one but I'm not a burn survivor so I will just let the resources linked below speak.
From the physical aspect, burns can also come with: chronic pain, limited range of motion due to scarring, tightened skin, problems with regulating temperature, itching, skin irritation, and even different nutritional needs during the initial healing process.
There is also specific everyday care associated with burns - something you basically never see in fiction. That could be things like occupational therapy, physical therapy, skincare (like heavy moisturizing and scar massaging), wearing sunblock, wearing splints, or stretching to prevent contractures or tightness.
There are also different types of burns and they (unsurprisingly) differ from each other - for example electrical burns have a much higher rate of amputation than any other type. Chemical burns can cause eye issues. A burn caused by a fire in a closed space might result in a brain injury due to smoke inhalation. A much larger portion of people than you (probably) assume have survived burn injuries as small children, and if they were young enough they might not even remember the event at all, unlike older people who might be very affected by the trauma.
Experiences of a person with 80% body surface burns, a person with quadruple amputations from an electrical burn, a person with a facial burn, and a person burnt very recently will be different from someone who has a 5% body surface 2nd degree burn in a spot that’s usually hidden, who has lived with their burn for a decade - despite them all being burn survivors.
When it comes to more thorough research, I recommend going through Phoenix Society’s and Face Equality International’s websites to learn more about both real burn survivor’s perspectives, and face equality as a social justice topic. I think the 3rd link puts it very well when talking about burn survivors being represented in fiction: “Most likely, these characters were not created by someone with lived experience. The result is an increasingly garbled game of telephone [...] To avoid contributing to this false narrative, embrace research as part of the process. Explore interviews, first-person accounts, and articles from reliable sources.”
I personally think that the links below should be mandatory reading for writing not only burn survivors, not only people with facial differences, but visibly disabled people in general - because the treatment we get is often so similar the advice still holds up just fine. And if you don't plan on writing any of these, you should still read them to see how prevalent of a problem ableism in media is.
The main sentiment that you will read from basically any first-hand source is that if you're writing the burn survivor to be either:
- evil (just throw the whole character away. please.)
- a guy with the "World's Saddest Most Tragic Backstory Ever and It's So Sad and Tragic" (because he revealed he has a scar.)
- a helpless victim who is there to be The Helpless Victim
...then you're already doing it wrong and need to make some major changes.
From our blog's reblogs and posts you might want to look at tips for writing a visibly different/disabled character and tips on drawing people with facial differences. Neither are specific to burn survivors but cover the topic of visible disability and facial differences.
Now for tips on drawing burn survivors (that weren't included in the last link);
- Reference real people. 99.9% drawings of burn survivors seem to go through the same "increasingly garbled game of telephone" that Niki Averton mentions with how burn survivors are written, in that the newer the drawing, the less in common it has with how real people with burns look like because people reference from each other and none of them ever think to actually check if their depiction is accurate. If you just google "burn survivor" you will very quickly notice that burn survivors don't have that damn red overlay layer put on top of their skin. It just doesn't look like that, and basic research (aka Google Images search) will tell you that - and still, people color a hand with bright red and think that's how it looks like (it doesn't.)
- In the same vein, maybe don't just draw an able-bodied person and then put some scarring on top (or maybe do exactly that. No burn scar and no burn survivor is the same and there are people that fit what I just described... but hear me out for a second). Think about how scars interact with their features - do they have both of their ears? do they still have all of their hair? do they only have parts of their eyebrow? do they have all of their fingers? can they move the same as before their burn, or are their scars limiting their joints? do they have stretchmarks from the weight loss that post-burn hypermetabolism causes? Lots to think about. Take into account what type and thickness of burns your character has.
- Ditch the mask trope. Just ditch it. There's no need to cover your character's scar from the world unless you as the author think it requires to be hidden, is too scary to show, or other ableist trope that seems to always come up with drawings of visibly disabled people, especially burn survivors. The one exception I will mention is a transparent face orthosis/mask (TFO) that facial burn survivors might wear while awaiting a skin graft early after their injury. But as name suggests, it's transparent and doesn't work for the awful "ohh scary facial difference better cover it up and only reveal it in some hyper dramatic scene!!" trope because you can see right through it. (I will also mention that TFOs are a very modern thing. Your medieval burn survivor wouldn't be wearing one.)
- No "body horror", no "gore" tags or trigger warnings or whatever. That's a human being. If you feel the need to warn your followers before they see a disabled person existing, you're better off not drawing them.
Some last notes;
Throughout this ask I used the term "burn survivor" rather than "burn victim" because that is, to my knowledge, the general community preferred phrase. Individual opinions will differ (because no group is a monolith) but "burn survivor" is generally the safest term to use and probably the best if talking about a fictional character.
Similarly, I used "facial difference" rather than "disfigurement". Just as the above, opinions will differ on what is the best to use but I personally, as someone with facial asymmetry and a cranial nerve disorder, heavily prefer the term "facial difference" over "disfigurement". (I am in this case The Individual Opinion Differing because you can notice that in the links above, facial difference and disfigurement are used interchangeably. The general community uses both, some people have specific preferences. I'm some people.) When talking about a fictional character, "facial difference", "visible difference" and "disfigurement" are all probably fine. Just stay away from calling a person "deformed".
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When you tell Astarion that your favorite feature of his are his wrinkles---the smile lines in particular---he nearly faints on the spot, jaw-dropping in utter disbelief as he stares at you in horror.
"I do not have wrinkles."
"You also can't see yourself."
"I know enough to know I'm a vampire! An immortal being! Aging, is below me, and I'll remain forever youthful while everyone else develops those wretched creases."
Despite his words, his finger reaches to rub at his skin inquisitively, as if he's feeling for any imperfections. It's cute, you think. He doesn't seem to agree.
Snorting, you roll your eyes playfully. "You asked me what physical aspect I liked about you most. You have your answer."
"Yes, something beautiful."
"It is beautiful."
"Darling," he says, squinting. "Nobody thinks of wrinkles when asked what they seek in a partner. Haven't you seen Jaheira put all those herbs on her face while our younger companions sleep blissfully beside her? The price of time, they call it."
"You're not young either."
He gasps, feigning offense. "I am--physically, that is."
You sigh, shrugging as you reach for your brush on the bedside drawer, ignoring his helpless tugs to bring you back to bed. "Fine then. I like your eyes."
"Well now it doesn't feel as sincere."
You deadpan, whipping your head around to shoot him a tired glare, but he's already broken out into a grin. Wordlessly, he sits up, plucking the brush out of your hands and shifting so you're situated practically on his lap. Slowly, he begins to brush the knots out of your bedridden hair, and you stare out the window, basking in his presence. His hands feel soft as they brush against your shoulder.
It's nice to indulge in moments like this from time to time.
The peaceful silence is broken as he sets down the brush.
"What about it do you find so alluring?" he asks, pooling your hair into one of his palms. He reaches for the string loosely hanging around his wrist with the other. "Other than the fact that I wear it flawlessly."
"They're easier to see when you're smiling," you mumble. "Your smile's always been a charm of yours, as fake as it was when we first met."
He pauses momentarily, only resuming to tie your hair a split second later. "And now?"
"It's a real smile," you reply. "So I like it."
He blinks.
Then, Astarion pushes your hair to one shoulder, leaning to rest his chin on the crook of your shoulder. "...I didn't realize there was such a sentiment in your answer."
"Will you stop complaining about looking old now?"
"I can't guarantee that, even if all the gods above were to will it," he grins, and it earns a stifled laugh on your part. "But...I suppose I don't despise the answer as much..."
You turn your head a tad, luring his face closer to yours with a finger on his chin. "I wouldn't be so sure. I'm very convincing, I hear."
"Are you now?"
You nod, holding either side of his face in your palms now. "If I must convince you of the beauty I see in you, then I will."
He kisses the inside of your hand. "I'm sure you will, darling."
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Lalique amethyst glass buckle
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“I still haven’t figured out how to sit across from you, and not be madly in love with everything you do.”
— William C. Hannan
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Oh!! I took this for myself but in case some of you were wondering about the tillable earth on meadowlands farm type (ignore the barn and silo, but the coop is in its default place) and no one's shared this yet, here ya go.
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kevin and neil podcast headcanons
I love kevin and neil having an exy podcast so much but imagine if they each do accents for them. like the bit is them keeping up an accent the entire time. kevin does an irish accent and neil alternates between so many different accents flawlessly that exy fans are like ?? what even IS his real accent?
one of the fan favorite episodes was when neil was (failing) to imitate kevin’s Irish accent and they kept getting distracted because that’s the ONE accent neil has struggled with and kevin is so happy that he’s better than neil
but bc this is kevin and neil, they still mostly stick on topic! it’s just broken up with silly accent time
notable guest appearances!
matt is a fan favorite because he is so laughably bad at all accents he tries but he does them with such confidence. it’s very endearing
andrew and aaron refuse to accents, instead only speaking in another language. when it’s just andrew he does german, but he does russian if aaron is there so only neil understands him. even if kevin and neil try to say something in french they still respond in german/russian and it ends up just being complete nonsense for a good part of their answers
jean does a very convincing american accent. for some reason his best accent is a southern accent?? many fans did not survive hearing jean say, “bless your heart”
jeremy, on the other hand, does a french accent (his matches a lot with jean because he based it on jean’s!)
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Types of Amnesia
Diagram created by me
General criteria for amnesia:
- Memory loss
- Confusion
- Inability to recognize familiar figures/places
- Difficulty recalling names or places
- Not remembering where you went
- Worser ability to remember things that had happened
- Generalized Amnesia Where a person completely forgets everything about themself and have no recollection of what, where, and who they spoke to. This can describe a blackout switch and may still recognize who they are.
- Localized Amnesia Where a person is unable to recall a specific/series of event from the whole, which creates an incomplete picture of the situation. For example, remembering childhood but not the abuse.
- Selective Amnesia Where a person only lost some and retain the rest, forgetting parts yet not all of them. This can describe greyouts as it grasps some information/sensory yet not enough to tell what exactly happened. One example is playing the phone and unable to recall what occured, only to jump its memory right to being at bed.
- Emotional Amnesia Where a person has an intact memory and it's details on what had happened, but do not remember what the event feels like (e.g. was scared, happy, etc.). One description is that you're watching something that didn't happen to you, because you don't feel like being in the scene itself.
- Continuous Amnesia Where a person fails to retain full parts of the event/day, for a set period of time (can vary from minutes to days) and create an accumulative, small bits of selective amnesias, continuously, leaving many gaps in a chronological timeline. This usually happens in times or stress, or abuse.
- Fragmented Amnesia Where a person has an unrelated, and/or disjointed memories that does not go with the timeline's order, creating confusion and difficult to grasp the cohesive picture of what truly happened. Emotional amnesia may be present in this type. Bonus for systems:
- Amnesia barriers Where a person fronting is not able to recall other alter's memories, which is a form of retrograde amnesia and compartmentalization. Because the fronter will only retain any information before switching out with the next one, the rest experiences anterograde amnesia as it cannot form and remember those memories, unless being coconcious or cofronting (even though, this is not always guaranteed).
Take notes that amnesia can still happen outside system things due to comorbidities like anxiety disorders or depression, this does mean systems are bound to experience more amnesia compared to non-systems folks out there.
Do you have any discussions about this? Or would like to describe your own way of seeing these different types of amnesia? Or have more to add? Feel free to tell them here!
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i've been informed that this is the texas flag. i am very sorry to texans and americans in general i am but a lowly canadian and i just kind of thought it was a fun reimagining of the american flag with only one star. for some reason.