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Meet Smudge the table cat

https://instagram.com/smudge_lord

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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.

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This is absolutely true

From Olivia Gatwood’s book, NEW AMERICAN BEST FRIEND.

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“I swear to you Dean, they came off the game! I just went to grab a drink and… Oh gosh they’re coming with way!”

“Wait, Y/N? Ok, we’re coming back just… We’re coming.”

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“because her daddy couldn’t hate her that much. And he never said anythign nice to her. Y/N was alone. And we never saw it.”

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beach day!!  ⛱

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they’re just so cute

Aziraphale and Crowley: favourite scenes in no particular order [2/?]

The Book: At Tadfield Manor

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Annelyse Gelman, from “The Pillowcase” in Everyone I Love is a Stranger to Someone

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Y/N: Okay, time for a break *lays down on the concrete*

Sam: We walked a block. A BLOCK

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“Borrow it? Why do I feel that I won’t see my precious scorll again if I do that?”

“Then come with the scroll and we’ll tell you what we need. Like this, you keep your scroll, and we can use it.”

“…Tell me why do I became a hunter artefact source again?”

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“You don’t look surprised.”

“It’s Y/N, nobody can stop this hunter, no matter how hard they try.”

“So… At least we have our information.”

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14x12 is gonna be like

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When Castiel is not in an episode…

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“Nick here is just an improvisation. Plan B. He can barely contain me without spontaneously combusting.”  — Lucifer, 5.03.

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14x12 is gonna be like

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dean winchester + burgers 🍔