I felt like this specific moment needed to be shared
I work in an ER and we see suicides all the time. And we get at least 3 suicidal ideations a night. We all care about you. I promise, we do. A team of complete strangers who have worked 3+ 12 hour shifts this week who are being screamed at all day and night and probably haven’t had lunch and trust me, we still love you and care about you.
We had a 16 year old patient last night who we couldn’t save. We were in that room with this patient for over an hour, we did everything we could. And let me tell you, we all cried. The EMT’s, the nurses, the doctor. We all huddled together in the doctors dictation room and cried.
I went through the rest of my shift with smudged mascara and tracks on my cheeks.
I remember the names of all the patients that have taken their lives on my shifts.
I remember squeezing the hands, smoothing the hair, kissing the foreheads, and wiping away the blood and the vomit of every patient that has left me too soon.
I can still see every face that I have zipped into a body bag.
Trust me, someone cares about you. You have never met them yet. You don’t ever think about them. They are never remembered when you talk about heroes and role models.
But someone loves you.
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Hm. As a hearing person, it’s not my place to speak authoritatively, so d/Deaf and HOH people feel free to correct me, add on, etc, but I haven’t seen many people talking about this and I think we should. From what I’ve seen, we as Supernatural fans could do a little bit better with portrayal of sign language and Deafness (primarily in fic) with regards to the character of Eileen. This isn’t regarding any specific person, but I’ve seen a few ficlets on my dash where there’s a note like “just assume all dialogue is being signed at the same time so Eileen can understand!” or the fic itself has Eileen read lips the whole time. With just a little bit of googling one can easily realize that’s not the ideal way of communicating for a d/Deaf person, and we owe the character more respect than the show gave her.
Here’s an article on SimCom, or simultaneous communication, which is what the show usually has Eileen (or Sam) use, and why it may not be as good as it seems to hearing people. https://blog.ai-media.tv/blog/what-is-simcom
Here’s a few guides to writing d/Deaf characters in general, that I found just with a few google searches:
https://disabilityinkidlit.com/2017/05/19/asl-writing-a-visual-language/
https://kathymacmillan.com/2014/02/27/10-things-writers-need-to-know-about-american-sign-language-and-deaf-culture/
And for people who like to stick to tumblr: https://concerningwolves.tumblr.com/post/169084548979/faq-on-writing-signed-language (and their blog tag for #sign language)
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look. look at this beautiful sword meme. i’m going to cry
when u have so many things u want to draw that it becomes overwhelming so u just do nothing
“I’m going to collect 100 of each chem. Psycho. Jet. Hydra. Turbo. Buffout. Mentats. Alcohol. Med-X. Hotkey them all. And try to do all the chems as fast as possible. What’s the worst that could happen?“
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hey so protip if you have abusive parents and need to get around the house as quietly as possible, stay close to furniture and other heavy stuff because the floor is settled there and it’s less likely to creak
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