My bf studied japanese in high school and often says "gambate!" (not sure of spelling) to be like. encouraging. I think it means roughly "let's get this bread." However, as someone who took spanish in high school, it always sounds like a command to me. And as near as I can tell, in spanish it would mean "go shrimp yourself."
making my own version of emh bc of the recent shit, i do not support jeff koval !!!
new names for some of the main guys , bc i said so bc i like the characters but dont vibe w uh, ya know
So Noir is from the 30s and he's SUPPEEER anti-fascist but he doesn't know anything about anti-capitalism cause you know WW2
So one day Hobie rocks up to HQ wearing a shirt that says 'Eat the Rich' and Noir is like ????????
He looks at Hobie and goes 'Cannibalism, fella?????'
And Hobie is like 'bruv THAT'S the message you gathered from that phrase????'
H: "It's a metaphor."
N: "What in the blazing days could that be a metaphor for?"
H: "Capitalism???????
Like Noir is on board he just doesn't want to eat people.
Cheat Code #2 for accommodating disabled characters in sci-fi/fantasy:
How you aid a disability depends on if it's a new development or had always existed.
i.e.: If someone's lost their legs to a griffin biting them off last week, giving them steampunk prosthetic legs is a good aid. There's something they can't do, that they very recently could, that they need to learn to work around. The prosthetic legs still need an adjustment period to learn how to use them, but your character knows how legs should work and can figure it out more easily.
If someone lost their legs because, as a child, they wandered away from the space field trip and got partially eaten by a carnivorous plant, then it depends. Prosthetic legs can technically work, but the longer the character was without legs, the harder it'll be to re-learn how to use them. You might want to go with bionic legs for short distances, but a hover chair for daily use.
If someone was born without legs, then prosthetic legs are more hindrance than they're worth. Your character has never had legs, and has no idea how they're supposed to work.
Imagine if you're in a world of centaurs; you're given prosthetic hind legs, and now expected to be able to climb up cliffs with the grace of a mountain goat. It's a whole new skill you'd have to learn, and you would get annoyed with it very fast; how are they supposed to sync with the legs you already have? How are you supposed to balance? You can't feel anything, you don't know how much space it occupies.
Someone who's always been disabled doesn't need the thing they were born without, they need aid that lets them do what everyone else can in a way they're familiar with. If your character has always been deaf, glasses with subtitles appearing on them are infinitely more useful than aids that let them hear, because hearing when you've always had silence is going to have a steep learning curve and be ridiculously overwhelming.
Your rule of thumb?
Try to give them something they're used to.
Note: This is different with very small children, because they're already learning how to use every part of them. If a toddler in your sci-fi was born without legs, they can be taught to use bionic legs at a very young age, but it has to start early or it'll run into the problems above.
My sister doesn’t think that ace guys exist cause people she talks to irl insist that it’s impossible/super rare. I for one know plenty of ace dudes but I wanna show her that they’re not anomalies or anything.
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Cheat code for writing disabled characters in sci-fi/fantasy without eliminating their disability:
Don't change humanity, change what's available to humanity.
i.e.: If your magic removes/fixes a defect or your sci-fi lets you select for traits at birth, that's changing humanity. That's altering a fundamental aspect that real humans live with, and distancing your fictional version of humanity from the real deal by cutting out a portion of it that your setting deems "undesirable."
If your magic/sci-fi aids a defect (like magic netting that acts as a brace, or a wheelchair with wheels that transform to fit the environment), then you're taking humanity as we know it and saying "wouldn't it be cool if we had these tools?"
Don't change what makes us human, change what humans can create.
"Have you ever heard [name of song]" I mean, probably? You need to understand that as a rule I am not aware of the titles of things. I spent the better part of a decade knowing the tune of "Welcome to the Black Parade" by heart from all the radio play but having no idea what it was called because the phrase "black parade" only appears once in the lyrics, and honestly, it's easy to miss!
it’s so difficult being someone who needs to talk to themself in public. there is no way for me to avoid looking “crazy” when im constantly shouting or whispering to myself or jerking my neck. i wish people understood this doesn’t mean im dangerous. people with many different mental illnesses or disorders face this issue as well and all situations deserve more compassion. treat people who talk to themselves loudly or quietly, continuously, repeatedly, or with pauses, the same as anyone else.
I’m actually willing to take the music discussion a bit further. Yes, a lot of people’s internal bias stops them from listening to certain genres (rap, funk, reggae, gospel, ska, just to name some examples) but I think some peoples racism is so ingrained it will even stop them from listening to musicians that are vocally pro black. And if it doesn’t stop them, they will go out of their way to ignore and erase what they don’t want to see. A great example of this is Hozier. He makes it a point to cite the predominantly black genres down to the specific black artists he takes inspiration from and I have seen people claim he’s inspired by Florence Welch. It is maddening to watch people strip art of its history just because they don’t like it.
Another great example is paramore, a band a lot of people hate still. Sometimes I wonder if it’s just because their frontperson is a woman, or if it’s because paramore unapologetically loves their black audience and has now leaned more into their black influences in their last projects. I don’t know. Food for thought.
you can improve literally any word by adding “girl” in front of it btw. girlscared. girlnormal. girlweird. girlsilly. etc. girl can be such a beautiful focal point of anyone’s vocabulary
By the way, people who have tics are allowed to go anywhere that other people go. We’re allowed to go to the movies. We’re allowed to go to church. We’re allowed to go to the library. We’re allowed to ride public transportation and fly on airplanes. These are public spaces. We’re not being rude or inappropriate or unfair to other people, and we can’t help having tics, it’s not our responsibility to hide at home all the time because other people find us annoying. We are allowed in “quiet” spaces just like everybody else.
“women love inherently different from men…oh but btw trans women are still women and included in this!!:)))” you are still boxing people into 2 distinct immutable categories
just a reminder that the reason people ask for color text not to be used (or at least for a plaintext version of it) is because its an accessibility issue. it isnt just "i dont personally like it", its visual impairment issue, a screen reader issue, a migraine issue, an eyestrain issue, etc. we are asking for plaintext for accessibility, not just because of aesthetic preferences
autism it never die earplugs are my favorite guy quiet im wanting more tell the world stop the roar
I actually do think it's cool when "older" lgbt people id with "newer" terms tho. Like everyone knows it's cool to be a 19-year-old genderqueer transSEXual but it's also cool when people are on here in their 40s being catgender and stuff. I think people still have a gut reaction towards microlabels, xenogenders, neopronouns, etc as Cringe but realize that this is a bad way to think about other people, and try to justify other people being "cringe" in their minds by going "Oh they're just kids, it's fine." But it's not always gonna be just kids! The Internet expands people's access to language and this includes "older" people finding and identifying with newer lgbt terms, yes, even the ones for cringey teens lol
I actually do think it's cool when "older" lgbt people id with "newer" terms tho. Like everyone knows it's cool to be a 19-year-old genderqueer transSEXual but it's also cool when people are on here in their 40s being catgender and stuff. I think people still have a gut reaction towards microlabels, xenogenders, neopronouns, etc as Cringe but realize that this is a bad way to think about other people, and try to justify other people being "cringe" in their minds by going "Oh they're just kids, it's fine." But it's not always gonna be just kids! The Internet expands people's access to language and this includes "older" people finding and identifying with newer lgbt terms, yes, even the ones for cringey teens lol