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. :)
In S8 whilst Castiel was going around helping people, don’t tell me that he didn’t hang around top suicide spots to stop people from ending it all.
Don’t tell me that he didn’t tell the trans and/or queer teen whose parents love God more than their own child that God is gone and never coming back.
Don’t tell me that he didn’t comfort the depressed teen who’s just been dumped by their boyfriend/girlfriend, that he didn’t tell them that there’s so much worth living for.
Don’t tell me that he didn’t teach the student with anxiety who continually worries about demons all the tricks to protect themselves against those sons of b*tches.
Don’t tell me that Castiel didn’t save hundreds of people from suicide, because he damn well did.
Where was the rape joke? It’s been a few years since I last watched AOU, but now I need to know so I can point it out to people.
okay, so i saw a post on my dash about the aou scene with thor and tony, and i obviously didn’t want to comment on the post, so i’m writing my piece here.
age of ultron was trash. that movie was garbage and joss whedon and his mannist bullshit perpetuated most of that movie. otherwise, we wouldn’t have so much sexism, so much deterioration of characterization, so much alpha masculinity between the superheroes.
tony making a rape joke. in which universe would tony stark make a rape joke????
thor (a god) lifting a human up by his neck in front of his friends and his friend’s lack of reaction.
natasha’s entire arch with bruce
all of these scenes illustrate just how much joss whedon doesn’t understand the character’s he’s writing. he wants a macho showdown between thor and tony (parallel to his first movie), he wants macho men all sitting around and laughing at rape jokes, he wants minimize natasha’s entire character into being a broken mary sue because she can’t have kids (because adoption doesn’t exist).
joss whedon is trash, his writing is trash, and every problematic thing that happened in aou is joss whedon and thanos looking ass.
You guys are so screwed now!
Say what you will, but Tony Stark is the only mortal who ever made Thanos bleed
spn meme || seven outfits
Hey, so, this might be an unpopular opinion, but no matter how bad the police are, anyway: Reform, not abolish.
A lot of people on Tumblr are talking about how awful the police are right now, and I'm not saying that no change needs to happen, but I recently saw a post outright calling to abolish the police force, and, well... That'd be a disaster. Guess who investigates when somebody's house is broken into? When somebody's pet is stolen, or somebody is kidnapped, or hell, in most cases, when somebody is hurt or killed? The police.
There definitely needs to be change. We need to change the way that police are trained all over the world, we need to fire all current police officers. But that's just to make way for a new era. And to prove it, I have a little ancedote for you all.
About a year ago, I (A 15 year old girl) was sexually abused and exploited by an older man online. I was 14 when I was coerced into sending nudes and doing sexual roleplay with this man for three months, and I had been groomed for two years prior. This man had a feeder/feedee kink, and my health still suffers for my unhealthy attitude towards food. I am hypersexual. June 22, 2020 is my one-year anniversary of getting out. Why am I telling you this?
Because the police helped.
They did what they could to find this pervert. They couldn't manage it, since he was in the USA and I live in the UK, but not for lack of trying. If there had been no police force to do that, I would be much further back in my recovery.
Granted, I might not fully understand. I am white. I'm not rich, but I'm not poor either (Well, my family is, anyway). I fully support the people protesting for their rights. I acknowledge that the police force needs to change. I acknowledge that police brutality exists. That the minorities that the police are abusing deserve better. But the way that people talk about the police, the military, and 'Bootlickers' really makes me nervous sometimes. We need a police force, in some capacity. Not the one we currently have, but something. So please: Call for reform, not abolishment.
Thanks.
Sam Winchester + Mystic Weapons
Sam Winchester kills the Pagan God Beau with the Hammer of Thor
Sam Winchester kills the Prince of Hell Ramiel with the Lance of Michael
Sam Winchester kills the Alpha Vampire with the Colt
R E B L O G T H E P I G E O N .
Tony: I don’t want to screw this up. I’m scared, Stephen.
Stephen: I know, Tony. I am too. We aren’t perfect but we are learning and that’s the beauty in our specific journey.
Tony: ..together?
Stephen: Together.