#personal injuries

[ehssafetynewsamerica-blog]

Fireworks Safety Infographic

Every year, thousands of people are injured badly enough to require medical treatment after fireworks-related incidents, with many of the injuries to children and young adults. While the majority of these incidents are due to amateurs attempting to use professional-grade, homemade or other illegal fireworks or explosives, less powerful devices like small firecrackers and sparklers can also cause…

[bashzzey]

[Act 6 2hats ending spoiler sdjkgh]

Turtleneck bros 🤍 I imagined them having such convo at the first moment when Loop takes off their cloak :]c

it was supposed to be simple drawing, but I got carried away whoops lol :3c

Also have Loop drawing I did on phone earlier too :0c

Sassy smug goober 🤍

[incorrectbatfam]

One thing I rarely see in injury and chronic pain fics is the grief that comes with missing out on stuff you love because you can no longer do them without hurting yourself. Writers who have been disabled their whole lives (or at least a long time) tend to forget that not all disabled people are used to being disabled. For able-bodied characters, especially athletic ones like vigilantes, a serious injury could mean a jarring change that includes giving up the things that mean the most to them.

I was physically fine until I was 18. Back then, my sense of self was entwined with interests that required a lot of movement and dexterity. I started doing MMA in middle school for self-defense. I loved parkour and even had a few hundred subscribers on my old YouTube channel. I learned to shoot and was gifted my first gun when I was 16. I took up multiple instruments. You get the idea.

My motorcycle accident fucked up the joints on my left side—my knee and shoulder especially, but also wrist to an extent. When it first happened, I thought I'd be on crutches for a bit but things would eventually get back to normal. The pain didn't go away even after I got rid of the crutches but I figured it was just residual and I should do what I'd been doing before. It's why I turned to substances—to block the pain and do what I love, but that's another topic. I didn't recognize my injury as a disabling thing until the end of the pandemic, when I put my parkour channel on an indefinite hiatus because it was seriously wearing my body down. It might sound silly to you but I was devastated. It's like if Spider-Man wasn't allowed to swing from buildings. It took me a long time to make peace with losing that part of me.

Another piece of that grief is even when you can do stuff, it's not the same because you have to exclude certain aspects of it for your own health. It's like the Robin that died and came back wrong. I can't use certain gym equipment and I have to tell my sparring partners what to avoid. I don't go to the shooting range much now because I can't extend my arm and hold a rifle for the amount of time it takes to aim without it starting to hurt. I'm a drummer, but I need breaks throughout the setlist and I can't do anything too fast or complex with the pedals, which means I can't play some of my favorite songs and my band is limited in what we write and perform. I can't take my motorcycle on road trips without frequent rest stops. Making accommodations helps physically, but emotionally, they're not always easy to accept because that means accepting the pain as a long-term disability rather than a temporary setback.

This got super long because I think it's unexplored in fics so some tips for creators:

First, learn how the body works and how stupidly fast and easy it is to get hurt. Mine was on a residential road because I didn't pay attention for 0.2 seconds

Learn the difference between internalized ableism and being upset over becoming disabled. I think a lot of writers skip over the feelings someone would naturally experience because it can be construed as ableism. Let them be in denial, sad, angry, etc. upon finding out because acceptance almost never happens right away. That's different from being a dick to themselves or others based on disability

Also, not everyone uses the same labels or has the same vocabulary to describe themselves. Different characters will have different ways of describing depending on their personality, level of knowledge, where they come from, and their relationship with their disability. I still don't really call myself disabled since I don't have it as bad as others so I tell people what happened instead (anyone who says "differently abled" will receive a different ability from me in the Denny's parking lot)

Think about how they cope with their new disability. Do they realize it's a disability right away? Do they talk to someone? Search desperately for a cure? Numb the pain? Turn to alternative methods? Do they worry about something else first, like money? Do they develop something else because of it, like a mental illness? Again, coping poorly is not ableism

What stays the same and what changes? I think about the difference between Forrest Gump and Lieutenant Dan after they were both wounded in battle

If they have a passion they can no longer pursue, it doesn't make much sense for them drop it so readily. Maybe they find a way to continue with accommodations (a good place to get creative!). Maybe they try and push through anyway. If they do ultimately resign, include the thought process and internal conflict behind it

[communistfries]

So you know how astarion was a magistrate...

(astarion screenshot by @cheekylittlepupp!)

[lawyersinaustralia]

Personal injury compensation is a legal remedy that seeks to compensate a victim for losses incurred due to another party’s negligence. The compensation can cover various expenses, including medical bills, lost wages, pain and suffering, and property damage. The goal of personal injury compensation is to make the victim whole again, as if the injury had never occurred.

[arcanegifs]

ive been obsessed with this one frame for hours

[kittykatninja321]

My less popular opinion (and what I believe to be implied by the art in Lost Days) is that rather than waking up in a fully grown body Jason didn’t actually complete his puberty until after his Lazarus pit dip while he was on his murder tour. Imagine you’re tied up in a basement in Berlin getting interrogated by a teenager and his voice is cracking the entire time and if you laugh he’s going to shoot you

[mipmoth]

Reunion but MAIM KILL INJURE

They're fine now

[dyke-in-crisis]

tattooneedle anyone?? commissions patreon

[egophiliac]

Hi HAVE YOU SEEN MALLEUS NEW YEAR SSR

once again innocently checking the new schedule only to be hit directly in the face with that famous Twst right hook

M-MY KEEEEEEEEEYS

[violent138]

Things the Batkids do when they're so injured that they physically cannot go on patrol:

Try to make their bed mobile while in skeletal traction. Keeps them occupied for a bit (Bruce purposefully dismantles whatever the last person made and hides all the data on it)

Take over the Bats' communication links and act like a coach on the sidelines, losing their minds

Brush up on languages

Card games with Alfred (they all feel fortunate they have Bruce’s money to cover their losses)

Learn fun new knife tricks

Complain to their mostly super-powered friends, who pretend to get it

Crack cases and nearly break something else when they have a eureka moment

Research technologies to speed up healing and repeatedly call Lucius to know where he's at with tissue regeneration

Wonder what Alfred does all day and fail at spying on him

Freak out

[tenderjock]

I’m with you, my love The lights shining through on you Yes, I’m with you, my love It’s the morning and just we two

[punksalmon]

some more early-established stepdad buck

also these tags on the last post (credits @anirudhpisharody ) that i haven't been able to stop thinking about..........

[grandwretch]

a scene with absolutely no context just hit me v intensely out of nowhere but. imagine a world where Steve's dad is just a little more powerful, a little darker, than in canon. and this mr. harrington doesn't know his son has spent the last five years fighting for survival, so when he finds out steve has been running around with the munson boy, he thinks it'll be an easy fix. steve has always been a soft sell.

he gets a call from steve, his son's voice giving him no time to even answer: "you pull that shit again, I'm sending the next one home in a body bag."

before he can even put down the phone, dial tone already ringing on the other side, he gets the message that the heavy he sent to intimidate eddie munson is in their medic's office with two spiral fractures and a shattered kneecap.

maybe steve could have gone into the family business after all.

[hallowshumour]

Bite the bullet 💥🩸👁

[frownyalfred]

Bruce would probably throw himself infront of Alfred if someone pulled a gun I think

But Alfred would be dammned if he let his son take a bullet for him

Or even more angsty: they keep throwing themselves in front of the other and forget in their panic that bullets can ricochet and ricochet THROUGH someone else and into you so even the best self sacrifice play ends up with the bullet that killed Alfred lodged in Bruce’s arm…..