Dean: What The–? C’mon, Sam. This Is Bullshit, Let’s Go.

Right. I feel incredibly awkward doing this, but Tumblr - I need writing advice.

Basically, I’m writing a story, and one of my characters is blind in one eye. I recognise that life with partial blindness is different to fully sighted life. However, I’m fully sighted, and I don’t want to accidentally make mistakes or offend anybody. So... I have some questions. If anybody with knowledge about any of this can answer anything, or throw in extra info, that would be great!

First off, a little background about my character. He was born fully sighted, but got into a fight at 16, and got stabbed in his left eye. He survived the attack, but even with heavy surgery, he wound up blind in his left eye, whilst his right eye can see perfectly well. He’s now 19 years old, and has a job as a hacker/computer specialist/hacktivist. Now, for the questions!

1: Is there any way that being partially blind heavily affects day-to-day life? I know that depth perception would be heavily impaired or completely gone, because of biology, but I have a feeling that there’s more to it, and it’s different from full blindness/impaired eyesight in both eyes. So, I’m just checking on this.

2: Would any adjustments have to be made to living spaces to accommodate him? (He currently lives on the road/out of his car, if that affects anything. On the same note, could he actually drive? Because of the depth perception.)

3: Are there any other effects that partial blindness has on one’s life that I might be overlooking? Like, emotional effects, mental wellbeing, etc etc.

4: Would it be an effective idea for me to buy an eyepatch and cover my left eye with it for one or two weeks, or is that incredibly offensive and not a good idea? I might edit or follow up on this post with more questions in the future if more arise. Please tell me if I’ve been offensive here, or made mistakes with phrasing, tags, anything! I don’t want to accidentally be rude! Thanks in advance for any advice people might be able to give. :)

Hello! I was wondering if you had any links or tips for writing characters with distinct regional dialects?

Writing Accents and Dialects

Dialogue in fiction: How to write authentic dialects and foreign accents

How to Write Accents and Dialects

How to Give Your Character an Authentic Dialect

The Do’s and Don’ts of Dialects

Writing Dialogue in Accents and Dialect

The Uses and Abuses of Dialect

Dialogue: Writing Dialects and Accents

When Can You Include an Accent and Dialect in Your Dialogue?

Accents and Dialects

Writing Dialects

How to Write Accents and Dialects

Dialect and Contractions in Fiction

Writing Dialect in Fiction: a History and Study

Effective Dialogue: Accents and Dialects

How to Write Dialects, Accents, and Slang

Talking the Talk: Writing in Dialect

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it’s the 21st day of the 21st year of the 21st century.

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So, to SPN blogs... I get it that you want to enforce the fact that the fandom will stay together after the show ends next year. I get that you want to talk about what happened. I get that discussions are going on. I get it. That's fine. However, a lot of us (Including me!) are still incredibly emotionally raw from the news. Some people might not even know, and have only just heard about it from this post. Some of us just want to curl up and cry, and don't give a single flying fuck what anybody else has to say about the news. So basically, I get what you're trying to say/do. But maybe wait with the inspirational text posts and the gifsets and the discussions and the "OMG LOOK AT THIS!!!" until the people who are emotionally raw feel that they can log onto Tumblr and take a glance at their dash and not burst into tears, all without having to block tags that includes things that they might actually want to see. You get me? From 2020 onwards, Supernatural is gone. We won't see Sam and Dean, or Castiel, or whoever your favourite character is... Ever again. We won't see a singular glimpse of any of them on our screens outside of Netflix and reruns, ever again, unless by some miracle, we get either a movie, or a reboot of the show. And that's powerful stuff. I'm a teensy-tiny blog with few original posts and mostly reblogged stuff, but if you see this, please take this to heart. I can't log onto Tumblr now without seeing SOMETHING to do with the show ending on my dash, and it just makes me want to curl up and cry because I get so emotional. I can bet you that there are other people who feel the same way. So, I'm begging you, anybody who posts SPN-related content... Either tag your posts clearly as related to SPN ending so that people don't have to block the whole Supernatural tag, or don't post anything to do with it for a while. Okay? Okay.

What sort of stuff should people submit in junk responses, exactly? Will just random keysmash do?

[Tweet from the FBI at 5:47pm EDT on June 1, 2020: The FBI is seeking information and digital media depicting individuals inciting violence during First Amendment protected peaceful demonstrations: fbi.gov/violence]

The FBI has set up an online tip site to collect information on “unlawful violent actions” going on at protests in the U.S. Please help flood the system with junk responses so the FBI can’t use this tool to track down and punish protesters! You can submit a junk response here or by calling 1-800-225-5324.

Some details:

You can submit multiple responses

You do not have to be in the U.S to submit something

The form asks for but doesn’t require you to fill out personal information

Even though the page is meant to be collecting photo/video files, you don’t have to upload any (although doing so will make your response more time consuming to weed out!)

Messing with surveillance tools like this has been shown to be effective this week already. Support the protesters who are fighting for and with you! Black lives matter!

Posting at 12:30pm EDT on June 2.

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Jack Harkness and English

Random thought about Jack Harkness :D

So Jack comes from the 51st century, right? Even if his native language is called English (which I highly doubt), it sure isn’t 21st century English and he can’t understand or speak it. He probably speaks some universal language well enough as well as his native language. But he was a Time Agent, which means his job included interactions with people from other time and other cultures and they all certainly didn’t learn a new language every few missions. So the Time Agency used translators. But was it transplanted or something in his Vortex Manipulator? For all we know, Jack could actually be speaking another language all day long, and hear his own language in response.

But he does say things like “Ianto I need to hear those beautiful Welsh vowels” (or something like that), so he hears accents. I’m not an expert on hypothetical future implanted translator (I know, deception) and they could very well manage to translate accents, but let’s assume that by that time Jack is speaking fully English and hears the Welsh accent in English sentences (so he has a translator he can turn off on his Vortex Manipulator.)

What’s interesting is: that would mean that he actually had to learn English.

Now, do I want to imagine Jack asking someone to write everything he says and recording himself somehow and once alone he stops the translator and listens to try and see which words are which? You bet I do! Jack having trouble with English and questioning words like pineapple, really? Jack having a complicated mother language and finding English conjugation to be a big joke. Jack wondering what a coma is because it sure didn’t exist for him.

Yes, I want Jack very confused at the English language :D

• Use the hand you write with.

• Make a fist with your thumb outside, not tucked inside. If it’s tucked inside your fist, when you punch someone, you might break your thumb. The thumb goes across your fingers, not on the side.

• Don’t be like in the movies—don’t aim for the face. Face punches don’t usually stop people, and you can miss when they duck their head or break your hand on their jaw. If you want to get away quickly, or end a fight, aim for the chest, or the ribs. If you really want to do some damage, e.g., you’re being attacked, aim for the throat, which will make it hard for your attacker to breathe for a hot minute.

• When you punch, you want to aim and hit with your first two knuckles. Not the flats of your fingers, and not your ring or pinky knuckles, which can break more easily. You can use your weight, if you’re on your feet, to add wallop, and spring into a punch with your feet and torso.

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I do. I think he deserves it. Like really.