#disabled archery

[wizardpigeon]

I HIT THE FUCKIN X LIKE FOUR TIMES TODAY FUCK YEAH

ANGEL AND LAURA EVEN SAID I COULD PEOBS COMPETE IN ONE OF THE COMPETITIONS FOR PPL LEARNING SOON IF I WANTED, LAURA SUGGESTED LIKE, THIS FUCKINT MONTH IM LOSING MY ENTIEE FUCMING MIND WWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[blumineck]

Huge respect to all the disabled archers out there- this is HARD!

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[skys-archive]

If we ever get an HoO tv show, I would LOVE if they gave Jason albinism. It would just be great to have that representation, especially if it was done well.

It wouldn't need to be a big focus and honestly it would be kind of weird if it was, but just little things. He could wear protective glasses, and maybe have him shielding his eyes if there's a time they get knocked off or he has to remove them.

[crazycatsiren]

I'm really glad I can still practice archery on low spoons days.

It's good for muscle and strength building, way more enjoyable than physical therapy, and I can do as much as I'm up for, taking breaks as needed in between. Plus, I love it so much.

[stuffydollband]

I literally couldn’t be paid to give a fuck about the Olympics. Not a big sport person at all, despite becoming a low-key jock as I’ve gotten older. A bunch of able bodied cunts showing off is nothing to me. Unrelatable and uninspiring. The paraolympics though? Yall this is the dopest shit I’ve ever seen. Being disabled can come with so much bullshit, so much hardship, so mate hate and ignorance and invisibility, but to see people like us make a perfect shot with a bow using only their feet? That’s just rad. The Olympics invite me to feel pride for my country, which I’ve never really connected to, but the Paraolympics ignites a genuine pride in me about being disabled. My body is the country I tread the most, and every win here feels like a win for us all.

[sigridstumb]

What, like it's that hard???

I spent a little bit of my unexpected SSDA money on archery gear. A bracer, a quiver, nice leather ones with fantasy-medieval-LotR vibes. I'm not dressing in full cosplay to go practice archery, and in fact I'm not even cosplaying anything in particular. But there is a part of me that is mentally cosplaying some sort of badass archer while I fumble around and miss the target, etc. The mental game, the fantasy of being a fantasy character, makes me happy. So I got a fun quiver etc.

I was talking to my spouse about this and she said she does not do this, and asked me what the appeal was. I thought about it for a moment and said that, well, I'm cosplaying all the time ANYWAY. I have spent over forty years of my life performing slightly different versions of Socially Appropriate Sigrid *all the damn time*. Mentally pretending to be a fictional character -- a specific one from a media property, a specific one I made up, or a vague notional character -- isn't any more challenging than pretending to be me.

This, I think, is how I mask my autism. I pretend to be me, all the time.

[disabled-dragoon]

HEY

GUESS WHAT

Today I got my first archery achievement 🥳[partying face emoji]

[kryoatics]

Maryland Renaissance Faire 08.2022

[ledeckys]

matt stutzman…. ‘the bow just wants to be shot. it doesn’t care who shoots it.’

[m0th-h]

I WANT TO DO MY OLD FUCKING HOBBIES AGAIN

I WILL NEVER STOP MOURNING MY LIFE BEFORE

FUCK YOU FOR BEING UNDER THE FUCKING INFLUENCE

I WANT MY LIFE BACK

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Zahra Nemati

Zahra Nemati was born in 1985 in Kerman, Iran. In 2004, an accident left Nemati with a spinal cord injury. Two years later, she took up archery, and competed in her first National Championships just six months later. She has won five Paralympic medals in archery: three gold, one silver, and one bronze. In 2012, Nemati set a Paralympic record. In 2016, she competed at both the Olympics and Paralympics.

[meimeikyu]

my desperate want to do a physical activity versus my disabilitys FIGHT

[just-eyris-things]

Obligatory "i am in bed and about to fall asleep" propaganda spreading

✨️ Necrobow supremacy ✨️

[sequesteredbhaalspawn]

yay, got my custom portrait working.

Also yes, I cheat and start at level 2. But it's so extra dialog options you get if playing a ranger and I won't apology for that.

[godessofbucky]

Perfect

i learned about the world record for the farthest and accurate archery shot!

Meet Mr. Matt Stutzman. The man who currently holds the world record for the farthest and accurate shot (283.47m)!

But whats mind-blowing is this.

Yes. He was born without arms! The ‘armless archer’ taught himself to expertly use bow and arrow using his feet and shoulders.

He broke the record on 9th Dec 2015. Feeling confident before the attempt Stutzman said “I have a lot of dreams. One of my dreams is to break the world record, and that dream will come true today.

So friends, don’t let a disability stop you from achieving your dreams!

[cy-cyborg]

I'm begging dragonage fans to do a tiny bit of research about arm amputees before loudly shouting their opinions on the inquisitor returning in the next game Please lol.

Apparently, it was confirmed that the inquisitor, your chatacter from the last game (who looses their arm in the final cutscene of the DLC), will return in Veilguard as a customisable character, similar to Hawke, and they will play an active roll in the story. This has caused a lot of people to start speculating on how they'll handle the inquisitor's missing hand, with most people agreeing they'll have to have a prosthetic to be an active part of the story. Which, while I do think this is the rought bioware will take, isn't true, and a part of me really hopes they leave the inquisitor without a prosthetic arm like in the end of Tresspasser

Partially because we already have a companion with a prosthetic (neve) and it would be nice to see some diversity in how amputation is depicted in such a mainstream game, but also because you dont need a prosthetic to fight as any of the main 3 classes from inquisition.

Mage:

mages just need a staff, the game shows them as 2 handed weapons but it's totally beleiveable that it would be usable 1-handed (Neve also uses a dagger-like weapon in the trailer, you can make a "staff" in inquisition that functions more like an energy sword, and the Mage in the chargers uses a staff resembling a bow, so I think it's more that they just need a focus, the shape doesn't matter as much). A knight enchanter may struggle more 1 handed, but I wouldn't write it off as an option with some modifications made to their main staff.

Warrior:

the easiest to justify, because there are several cases of arm amputees fighting with a sword and sheild in history, and while many did have prosthetics, most weren't functional (meaning they were mainly for aesthetic purposes and didn't actually aid the fighter in any way. There were exceptions, like Götz of the iron hand, who's prosthetic was functional, but most were not). The inquisitor looses their arm just above the wrist*, so they still have most of their forearm. Most sheilds strap to the forearm, so it wouldn't take much adjustment to make that work, and you can use the other hand for the weapon. Obviously, two-handed weapons will probably be off the table, though, lol.

*edit to say, as several people pointed out, i got that wrong, my bad 😅. The inquisitors arm is actually amputated through the elbow, the screenshots i was looking at just weren't very clear and it has been a while since i got to trespasser lol. It would still entirely possible to strap a shield to the upper arm though, with some pretty minor adjustments to the existing straps on standard (as in, those used by non-disabled warriors) tall shields, so the point still stands.

Rogue

this is the one people tend to be the loudest about and the one I understand the most. Obviously duel-weilding daggers won't work (unless you give them something like the hidden blades in assassin's creed on their stump side, I guess) but using a single dagger still would, and is a perfectly reasonable approach, given that's how most irl people used daggers. Archery, though, absolutely can work without a prosthetic, despite what people think. Dragonage has crossbows, not something like Bianca (rip) but a small, single-handed crossbow is an option. Even ignoring that though, amputee archery is a thing irl, and not every arm amputee uses prosthetics for it. The bows are modified to be held in one hand and drawn with the mouth using a kind of pully-system built into the bow that I could very easily see being modified into some dwarven-style contraption in game (some double arm amputees use their feet to draw regular bows, but I don't think that would be pheasable in combat).

Like I said, I think bioware will probably go with a prosthetic, but i hope that they don't. Or at the very least, show them with it sometimes and without it other times (the same goes for Neve, no one wears their prosthetic 24/7, I'd love to see them both take them off around the home base, even just occasionally). A lot of arm amputees in particular prefer to go without one, and arm prosthetics in media are some of the worst offenders of the "perfect prosthetic"/"miracle cure prosthetic" tropes. It doesn't count as "diversity" or disability representation if it doesn't actually change anything other than the look of the chatacter, and im really, really desperate for some actually decent amputee representation in games.