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queer-edmundpevensie · 5 months
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Shoutout to artists with disabilities whose symptoms are an obstacle to their craft. Who draw but their tremors keep them from being able to pull a straight line. Who would spend hours making art if their carpal tunnel and joint pain would let them. Who stare longingly at guitars and pianos but know the instrument's not compatible with their misshapen, webbed, or missing fingers. Whose neurological disease makes it impossible for them to memorize sheet music or play lines. Who have vivid, glorious stories living in their heads that their aphasia won't let them put so clearly on paper. Who spent more time in waiting rooms and hospital beds than rehearsals and recitals. Who resent their bodies for not letting them portray what they see in their minds.
You are not any less of an artist. Your talent is immeasurable. Your creativity is divine. I'm sorry this world wasn't built for you and me, but that doesn't mean we can't still make something beautiful with our lives.
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hellishrebukesystem · 10 months
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Do you like obsessive relationships? Folk Horror and The Gothic? Are you interested in shows such as Supernatural, Yellowjackets, The Stand, and movies such as Midsommar, Carrie, and Saint Maud?
Boy do I have the collection of poetry for you!
SEWN, TOGETHER, ANEW is a collection of poetry about an obsessive and codependent relationship that has ended--it deals with themes of cannibalism, religious trauma and religious horror, and the apocalypse. It is a collection of art and poetry which brings together the feelings of yearning, isolation, and desperation that can really only be possible when it is the end of your world.
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cy-cyborg · 7 months
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Tips for writing and drawing disabled characters: you're allowed to have fun with it
I get a lot of people responding to my posts/videos on writing and drawing disabled characters that, while they never outright say it, kind of imply to me that people are interpreting those posts as:
THIS IS THE OBJECTIVE ONE AND ONLY WAY TO WRITE CHATACTERS WITH [Insert disability here] AND IF YOU DONT INCLUDE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE POINTS AND SUGGESTIONS IN SOME CAPACITY, YOUR CHARACTERS ARE BAD AND YOU ARE BAD FOR MAKING THEM!
And just ....no that's not my intent lol. So let me make it abundantly clear: with a few exceptions, my content is just suggestions, mainly aimed at making your characters feel more realistic and/or grounded, or demonstrating certain ideas. If thats not the vibe you want, or the suggestions are clashing with the tone of your work, you don't have to include them. Still consider the advice, make sure the reason you think it doesn't match isn't based on stereotypes or assumptions, and if it's not, and you still don't think it fits, don't include it.
If it doesn't make sense to include a chapter about how your character is struggling with debilitating phantom pain in an otherwise really light-hearted, cozy slice of life comedy, then don't add it. This isn't to say that your character's disability shouldn't have any effect, but pick ways that fit the tone. For example, instead of dealing with debilitating pain, maybe your chatacter is out camping, they take off their leg to relax but oh no, a stray dog mistakes the metal pole for a bone and steals it, making your chatacter have to hop after them. When they catch them and get their leg back, they decide to adopt them! Hjinks and cozyness ensues
That actually does sound adorable, I might save that for later lmao
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Or just small things, the same way you might show an able bodied chatacter getting ready for their day, show a disabled chatacter doing the same, but adding in the extra steps. Do what works with the tone.
This also isn't to say the advice can't be used in more fantastical settings. Most of what I write is fantasy and sci-fi, and while I don't use all of my own advice in those settings (because not all of it is relevent) I do use a lot of it, depending on the character in question. The main character in my sci-fi comic voidstar, Xari, for example, has been a double leg amputee for a long time and that, combined with the setting means not all of the standard advice about writing amputees is relevent to them. They don't struggle with pain or have trouble adjusting to prosthetics because it happened a long time ago and the medicine/tech in their world is better, but there's other ways it effects their daily life in ways fitting for the lighter tone in chapter 1. the intro sequence shows them running and jumping and being active, but also shows they use a wheelchair sometimes and a bit later in the chapter, crutches, depending on what they're doing. It also effects how they interact with people: late in the chapter someone makes a weird comment about their legs, and Xari uses it as a chance to mess with them and have some fun.
All this is to say don't be afraid to be a bit looser with the advice if the story you're writing has a lighter tone and just have fun. My content is there for those who want to use it, but it's not the "only objective way" to handle those subjects.
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bones-ivy-breath · 3 months
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Marrying Outside the Faith by Anya Krugovoy Silver, from The Ninety-Third Name of God
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Hey!
I read your story on Archive of our own and it's really good, like, I enjoyed it a lot. But I gotta say, I think you should re-evaluate your characters. You're kinda appropriating deaf culture and that's not cool. If you're not deaf, maybe you shouldn't write about it, you know?
You should probably take the story down and change the characters or something. Just my two cents.
UH??????
IM SORRY WHAT?
Bro idk if you didn't know, but I am hard of hearing. Like? I have hearing aids... And what culture am I taking away from?? Especially if I am a part of that "culture".
I really hope this is some sort of fucked up joke or something cause this is just weird.
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chronicallydragons · 1 month
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I love writing, and I love the process of writing but it’s SO rude that the story doesn’t just come out perfectly the first time. Or the second time. Or the 249,469,726th time.
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youngchronicpain · 6 months
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For the next three days there is a "stuff your kindle" event on Amazon where a bunch of romance novels will be free to purchase!
The website above has a list of the books that are available. There is even a category of books written by disabled authors!
Make sure you purchase the books for 0 dollars instead of clicking the "read for free" button for Kindle Unlimited, which is not free. You don't have to have a Kindle to read the books. You can read them on the kindle app on your phone, tablet, or desktop.
Happy reading!
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kaonarvna · 3 months
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One of the things that always makes me a little sad about being a disabled artist is just——not always being able to realistically participate in the fun activities/prompt lists/"(insert ship) week" type things because my body just doesn't work like that, especially not with a full-time job on top of self care. Even a month, two months, sometimes just...isn't enough.
I have the ideas, I have the plans, I have full intent and yet—my body can't do it sometimes. The mind is willing and eager, desperate and pleading. But here is the body, disoriented and full of wet sand where all the connective tissue should be. I just want to be able to do the things I enjoy, but my body was damned from the start. I just want to do something for pleasure, even an hour a week. I'm begging.
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thecripicon · 1 year
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For my endeavour of putting more disability representation in fanfictions, here is CHAPTER 2 of Step by Step.
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the-dragons-gem · 8 months
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Introduction!
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Hello! I´m Percival and I´m hoping to publish my own fantasy book. I´ve been working on this story for many years and I expect it´ll take a few more before it´s ready to publish. The story will revolve around three queer main characters and dragons, saving an elder dragon and defeating evil. It's about helping when you don't have to.
 If that sounds at all interesting, I would appreciate if you´d follow along! once I´ve finished writing and editing this book, I´m planning to sell hardcover versions, but I will also publish it online entirely for free!
If you have any questions, I´d be happy to answer ^^
(this post will be edited with more info as i figure out what i should add)
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If you are interested in getting a dm or E-mail to inform you when the book is published, please contact me! It will be available digitally for free or in hard-cover for a price.
world anvil:
https://www.worldanvil.com/w/5Bvelik5D-red-ghost?fbclid=PAAaZly5UdVZLJtScqS1yhgR7XBaotfl79PfohY_dnR1UngxvR_ycgsezcffw
discord link here: (THERE MAY BE SPOILERS)
(Velik is the name of the world my book is set in, at least for now. i might change that)
Instagram:
https://instagram.com/the_dragons_gem?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA==
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ididit-allofit-foryou · 9 months
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hard pills
  The back-ache days and too-long nights  are becoming unbearably heavy, gouging  my eye-bags deeper with every fall  of the sun. I can only hold so much under  my tongue without swallowing–  and I don’t want to taste  the truth that this might be forever;  that all my tomorrows will be a battle  to keep my eyelids from dropping;  that every time I rise from my prison-bed  slumber I will have a clock  on my spine counting down at slipping-slide  speeds to the time I have to return.  The brain fog chews at my mind,  the fatigue eats at my soul.  I can’t take this! I want to live! Let me be!  I just want to be okay.  I’ve never known peace  in my life, and just when I just began  to look it in the eye, my body started to crumble.  What good is a life you can’t live?  What good is a sharp  mind when it can’t cut through the smog?  I’ve been dealt a losing  hand, again, and again, and again. I don’t want  to give up the hope I just found,  but I feel so helpless. Everything costs  too much, including consciousness.  Every time I move, a joint pops.  Every minute I spend upright  is another hour lying down.  Math doesn’t add up here, and the clocks  turn too quickly. How does a bird fly  when there’s no air?
This is a poem I wrote about my experiences with chronic illnesses, including chronic fatigue, POTS, and chronic pain. I thought I would share it for disability pride month! You can find it, and more like it, in my latest poetry book, KNOW ME!!!
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smoking-witch · 10 days
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I'm writing a novel trilogy. A Sherlock Holmes story, in three acts. It's absolutely definitely fictional and not autobiographical in any way.
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cy-cyborg · 7 months
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This is just a reminder that you don't need to have perfect or even good grammar to be a writer.
There are authors with learning/intellectual disabilities out there who's disabilities stop them from fully understanding even "basic" grammar.
There are authors who write in languages other than their own who aren't quite fluent yet that find English grammar strange and hard to understand.
There are authors, yes even today, who didn't have access to even a good education.
There are authors for whom some grammar rules just never clicked, for no clear reason.
Grammar (and spelling) isn't the be-all-end-all most important skill when writing. It does help, but you can still tell the story you want to tell, it might just mean you need some extra help and need to take more time to get there, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Tell the stories you want to tell. Worry about the grammar later.
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bones-ivy-breath · 5 months
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Marrying Outside the Faith by Anya Krugovoy Silver, from The Ninety-Third Name of God
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thatwritergirlsblog · 9 months
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🏷 For July only, you can get the To Wear A Crown ebook for only 99c at all retailers!!! 🏷
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chronicallydragons · 2 months
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Me, rereading my book, briefly forgetting **I** am the author and wrote them not kissing when they totally should have: LET! THEM! KISS!
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