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In addition: Let me know if you want to continue any threads from here! I’m happy to keep old ones or start new ones.

Moving Nate to @psykicks for the time being. Trying to make this tumblr thing easier by having one (1) blog.

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Moving Nate to @psykicks for the time being. Trying to make this tumblr thing easier by having one (1) blog.

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Moving Nate to @psykicks for the time being. Trying to make this tumblr thing easier by having one (1) blog.

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Moving Nate to @psykicks for the time being. Trying to make this tumblr thing easier by having one (1) blog.

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Current mood: wondering if I should move all of my muses to my multi.

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Hardison will be like "I know a place" and then break into Nate's apartment and refuse to leave

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Go on anon and tell me what you don’t like about my muse or how I Rp.

After all constructive criticism helps people grow as writers.

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Tips on writing sign language

Disclaimers: while I have been learning ASL (American Sign Language, I am not yet fluent. Also, I am not deaf. Both of these things being said, I have been learning ASL for nearly a year and I’ve been doing independant research about the language itself and the Deaf community. What I’ve listed below are things that I have learned from my own personal experience signing, what I’ve learned in my ASL class, and what I’ve learned from my independant research.

1) When you write signed dialogue, use quotation marks and everything else you would use for any other type of dialogue. Yes, I know they didn’t do that in the Magnus Chase series, but many Deaf readers were made uncomfortable at the choice to depict sign language as not speech. Establish early on that the character signs and then use tags such as “xe signed,” or “hir motions were snappy with irritation.”

2) Without facial expressions, someone’s signs are going to be almost meaningless. All of the grammar is in the face, as are some descriptors. For example, if you can’t see a character’s face, and you’re only looking at their hands, the signs would be the same for the statement “Xe doesn’t have dogs.” and the question “Does xe have dogs?” 

3) There is no such thing as fluent lipreading. The best lipreaders in the world can only understand about 70% of what’s being said, and factors such as darkness, the presence of mustaches, lack of context, and a bunch of other common things can easily lower that ability. If someone’s lipreading, they’re taking little pieces of what they can lipread, and stitching together context and other details to get a general picture of what’s going on, but there’s still always going to be holes.

4) If you’re writing a character who can’t hear, know the difference between deaf (lowercase d) and Deaf (uppercase D). The medical term for not being able to hear anything is deaf. People who use their deafness as part of their identity are referred to, and refer to themselves as Deaf. They are part of the Deaf community.

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Harmonia Rosales

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I sort of think that Parker is a grounding influence on Nate.

Let me explain.

Sophie, Eliot, and Hardison all express concern when Nate is going too far, but they're usually warning him long before things get dangerous. Parker, however, is different. Parker has a much higher threshold for danger, so when she's concerned, when she calls him out- it's serious. Parker also doesn't have a filter, and may not notice things like other people's character flaws until they become relevant to her.

So when Parker mocks Nate for being a control freak, or forgetfulness (often induced by alcohol), he knows he's crossed a line because she's not being cautious, she's pointing out some harm he's doing to himself or others.

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ableism in the rpc

     okay so. i’ve been in the rpc for several years and i’m so tired of seeing a lot of really gross ableist shit that people seem to love doing with their muses, so i decided to make a post about it!

     also, please note this is pretty much JUST about stuff i’ve seen people do with their muses, and not the inaccessibility i’ve seen rampant in the rpc - that’s an entirely different post that i will in all honesty probably end up making.

     general disclaimer that these are only my experiences, and i am by no means the end all be all of disability knowledge or whatever. if you are physically disabled and/or mentally ill and there is something you’ve seen someone do with their muse that is ableist, please feel free to add it on!

stop saying shit like “crippling anxiety”/“crippling depression” because cripple is a slur specifically against physically disabled people. if something isn’t physically disabling, it isn’t crippling.

“psychotic” doesn’t mean evil. your muse isn’t “psychotic” because they like to kill people, they’re just a dick.

stop using psychosis for shock value/edginess. and the same goes for all of the “scary” mental illnesses. it’s gross when you do that.

also don’t give your muse a disability just to be shocking, that’s also…really gross. if you’re going to give your muse a disability (and by all means, please do! please normalize disability, we’re one of the largest minorities in the world and so deeply underrepresented) please be respectful about it. do your research.

stop using the word “psycho” if you’re not psychotic. as with cripple, it is a slur.

honestly if you’re not psychotic don’t even touch psychosis, you’re not going to be able to understand and yall always end up making it so edgy and scary or whatever. quit that shit.

if you have a muse who is disabled in canon, and you give them a modern verse, they better be disabled in that verse. i don’t give a shit if their disability comes from a trauma that would not exist in a modern verse, do something else. it’s such bullshit to be like “well my muse wouldn’t have been in the fight that caused loss of limb so therefore they aren’t disabled in their modern verse” or some shit like that’s. ableism. that’s erasing a canon disability stop doing that.

you’re a writer i have full faith in your ability to come up with a reason for your muse to be disabled in a modern setting. and if you really can’t think of a reason, either come to me and i will gladly help you, OR you just…don’t need one. you don’t need a reason to be disabled, i promise. you can just have your muse be disabled.

do not write your character being “cured” of their disability that’s fucking disgusting. i don’t care if there would be a way for them to be “cured” in canon, it’s literally tying into eugenicist propaganda to say that disability is something that needs to be “cured”

if you’re abled, do not outright say or imply that your muse feels less human because of their disability. there definitely is a lot of internalized ableism that can cause that, but as an abled writer, you cannot understand what that is like, and you should not be writing it. it literally just comes off as ableist when you do it.

also don’t outright say or imply that your muse IS less human because of their disability like…what the fuck.

also like… mentally ill people and physically disabled people do both face ableism, but the ableism isn’t… the same? it’s definitely similar but i’ve seen a lot of abled mentally ill people talk over physically disabled people and even like. turn conversations about ableism that physically disabled people face into conversations about their mental illness. don’t do that.

     if you’ve done any of these things in the past, or incorporated them into your muse, don’t just feel bad about it. fix it. i have full faith that you can rectify your mistakes without making a huge deal out of it.

     if you’re abled, you are allowed and in fact encouraged to reblog this. i’m tired of seeing ableism in the rpc and i’m tired of disabled people being the only ones talking about it.

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"People tell me I'm mean, but I'm just gonna say when you grow up in Boston around Irish-Americans, you learn not to take a lot of shit. I broke Billy O'Connelly's nose for saying Jimmy Ford wasn't my real father and I hate the bastard."

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I hate the lighting in this show.

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American Gods | Mr. Nancy [x]

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Anansi’s Monologue in American Gods (2017-) S02E04 - Part ¾

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“Those who would assume the responsibility of representing black people in this country must be able to throw off the notion that they can effectively do so and still maintain a maximum amount of security. Jobs will have to be sacrificed, positions of prestige and status given up, favors forfeited. It may well be—and we think it is—that leadership and security are basically incompatible. When one forcefully challenges the racist system, one cannot, at the same time, expect that system to reward him or even treat him comfortably. Political leadership which pacifies and stifles its voice and then rationalizes this on grounds of gaining “something for my people” is, at bottom, gaining only meaningless, token rewards that an affluent society is perfectly willing to give.”

— Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) & Charles V. Hamilton, “White Power: The Colonial Situation,” Black Power: The Politics of Liberation