#Not used to such mobile characters

[ink-the-artist]

Video game I saw in a dream. It was in this low poly style like an older video game. You play as this character I think was meant to be a lamb, or maybe a weird mix of a lamb a mouse and a rabbit, (while not really looking like any of those things) and you’re running away from a wolf. Your objective is to last as long as possible before the wolf catches and eats you.

The house you’re running in is endless and bizarrely put together like most building interiors in dreams are (like the infinite toilet dream dimension on Reddit lol) the layout of the house is pretty detailed, you can stop and hide in places like closets or bins while the wolf looks for you, you can go up and down stairs and into rooms etc.

You never actually know where the wolf is or how close it is to you until it appears in your line of sight, it makes no noise and the game gives you no way of knowing where it is, and it’s pretty unpredictable it doesnt move at a consistent pace. When the wolf catches you there’s an animation showing it eating your character

[k0nstanta]

left hand doodles again

[ki1ldeer]

It’s been one of those weeks, pass the comfort zone drawing of my comfort oc !!

[threnodians]

✨ the duality of aventurine ✨

[cripplecharacters]

Hi, bit silly but I'm writing a disabled character, who switches between using a wheelchair and cane and I've been writing him for a few years now and I can't actually come up what makes him disabled. Not sure what works or what "condition" would make sense for him? He's an ambulatory wheelchair user I know that, sometimes uses a cane but largely in the rough draft he prefers his manual wheelchair.

Any references or ideas? Sorry if this comes off weird or bad

Hello!

There are quite a few disabilities that can cause him to use a wheelchair and cane. They can help with things like chronic pain, instability/weakness in one or both legs, balance or coordination issues, and general mobility issues.

Some conditions that immediately come to mind include:

Arthritis

Cerebral Palsy

Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS)

Fibromyalgia

Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder (HSD)

Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

Muscular Dystrophy

A balance disorder, such as vertigo or Meniere's Disease.

A past injury, such as an injury to the legs or a spinal cord injury.

Because of certain factors such as your character's sex, age, and previous life experiences, he may be more likely to have some conditions over others. Additionally, some of these -- such as cerebral palsy or spinal cord injuries -- only match his specific situation in more mild forms, so make sure to keep that in mind!

Cheers,

~ Mod Icarus

[puppyvenom]

“dumb crip’s just too damn slow” not matthew’s crutchie. NEVER matthews’s crutchie. he was barrelling across the stage with purpose at all times. he could fucking MOVE. he did NOT come to fuck around he came to be speedy as shit and i love him so dearly

[bonefall]

i'm ngl depicting thunder's prosthetic as a burden is pretty uncomfortable even if it is something some amputees experience because like. there's a huge stigma around prosthetics already you know? it's like having a parent forcibly strap a child into a wheelchair when they don't need it and having a horrible experience with it and that being your only character in a wheelchair. some full-time wheelchair users do resent their wheelchairs but when that's the only time you're bringing it up at all it feels like you're playing into our society's perception of wheelchairs and mobility aids in general as useless and best and divine punishment at worst. idk do let me know if i'm wording this wrong because i really do love better bones! it's just that this detail is... strange.

I mean, I'm open to feedback if that's not something I should do-- but I do actually have other characters in prosthetics and mobility aids! A lot of them! Thunderstar's actually the only one who ends up rejecting his own, because I also wanted to depict that it's bad to force a device onto someone who does not want one.

Especially in circumstances like Thunder Storm's, where that sort of device would be actively unhelpful for his lifestyle. It might help in open field environments like moorland, but then I got more feedback and realized that it would just make a lot of unwanted noise in a forest (since cats have carpal whiskers to help them figure out where to place their paws). Then I figured it was a good way to show how BB!Clear Sky doesn't actually listen to his son's needs and acts differently when he's not "grateful" enough for his gift.

But he's far and away from the only one with a mobility aid or prosthetic!

I haven't figured out Frog entirely yet, but he's going to be the first cat with a "wheelchair" type device, to set up a long line of cats through the generations improving on it (Probably not much more than a reinforced canvas or durable leather, as this was the age of very early flax processing)

Wildfur's the next in the big advancements, even making the Great Journey in his own and getting a side story based around Littlecloud and Cinderpelt collaborating over this

The device is then improved upon by Jessy for Briarlight, giving her a level of independence and confidence that she needs to finally cut her mom out until she learns how to behave

Deadfoot has a brace for his front paw because the joint is loose (it was based on a friend's carpel tunnel bracelet) which is affectionately referred to as The Bonker; his name is also now an Honor Title (Old name: Hoprunner) for inventing a battle move by distracting with his good paw, and then SLAMMING his other limb down hard on his opponent. It's called "deadfooting."

I think mobility devices are super important, usually massively improve quality of life, and I just enjoy designing them, so the choice to portray Thunder Storm's as negative was a very deliberate one that I did in response to what I thought was a desire in representation. Even the fact it's a hind-leg prosthetic was thought out, since those have a much higher satisfaction rate in humans than hand prosthetics, but in a cat would probably be the opposite.

Still, I'm not missing a limb, so now with all of that context presented, do you still think the same thing? Should I just add even more limb prosthetics to make the ratio of satisfied prosthetic users vs Thunder Storm even steeper?

Sunlit Frost is actually going to have a bite on his good paw go septic (the other side has permanent damage from the fire). I could have that paw get amputated and have Thunderstar "return the favor" for how Sunlit Frost created the prosthetic he rejected by helping him build his own. A pawsthetic, if you will

OR would it be better to just remove the subplot of Thunder Storm grappling with/rejecting a prosthetic that is unfitting for him entirely, and have all prosthetics be 100% treated as positive in the narrative?

[transmasccofee]

thinking yet again about Saiki‘s’s final choice in the series being “I’d rather live with my powers than die without them” bc that is seriously the single best ending of a disability narrative I’ve seen. Fuck.

[drawfee-quot3s]

i was gonna draw pink panther or snagglepuss

yeah, you can't say snaggle[BLEEP] on youtube anymore

- julia + jacob

[spiritsonic]

I think it's really fun how you left a cameo of Sequoia & Charley from Ensouled in Tangle & Whisper! Do you think we'll be seeing cameos of original characters of yours like Vennie or Sicily in Ensouled to come full circle? :)

A lot of the Ensouled cast are already (very distanced) expies of the GOTF cast, so they're kind of already in there. Beyond the overlap in personalities and motivations some have retained visual elements. A quick rundown:

Sequoia-- Sicily. Have the same earrings

Zinnia-- Vennie. Same hair color and a similar name

Monty-- Shadow. These two are more akin in vibes

Luka-- Sonic. Blue hair, eye shape, feature necklace

Charley, Sugar, and Mr. Flood are new, and loosely based on historical figures.

But speaking of cameos I do have this :)

[until-the-house-shakes]

When the fanfic mentions offhandedly that Remus (or James) uses a cane to get around❤️❤️

[ickyguts]

Just a fun refsheet I made for funsies with a collage to boot. I really like drawing the two in contrast, and man, drawing hands is fun.

[creativesplat]

a little doodle of my favourite fire emblem guys (modern au!)

[uncanny-tranny]

I promise you can speak about and denounce undesirable behaviour without attributing it to some in-born, immutable, unchanging trait that you must "civilize" away.

In this specific instance that inspired this, you really don't need to attribute bad behaviour that's done by a man with unchanging character traits. This isn't even solely about men, because doing this affects everyone, men included.

"Men needed to be civilized out of behaving this way!" Who are you expecting to be doing the civilizing and why? This is just defending the idea that women are responsible for training up men - the millenia-old idea that a man's failings are actually a woman's fault, not his.

As a man, I am responsible for my actions. You don't need to dehumanize me in order to preserve your misogyny and your need to hate a group of men. Don't get me wrong, this rhetoric absolutely is not good for men to face. It especially targets men who have experiences with marginalized identities. If you're on my page, you know that this is something I deal with personally, have personal stakes in that affect my life daily. I just also think we really need to remember that this issue exists in a context where women and other folks will inevitably be punished as a direct result of these ideas as well.

I need to make that last part emphatically clear: even if this rhetoric (somehow) only hurt men, it would still be wrong. It would still be wrong! I want to - as a man - remind people (especially those who already have decided to dehumanize entire groups of people) that nobody is safe from being exempt from punishment due to this rhetoric.

[vagun1ka]

i have finished watching g-witch and Belmeria is person I relate the most to.

[theaceofshovels]

Womp womp 👎