Smeaglewantsauserthatisnottaken - What Am I Doing Again-

Do y’all ever wonder if Dutch and Hosea knew they were going to raise an absolute UNIT like Arthur? Like he was once a skinny and rambunctious 14 year old street orphan and they took a chance on him and fed him as he grew into a fucking BEAST who is arguably bulkier than the two of them combined, and has become the main brawn of the gang.

This is basically just an Arthur Physique appreciation post but GOD DAMN.

would writing a character with sight in only one eye have differences from writing an abled person?

Yes. The character would experience issues with depth perception and limited visual field. They could still drive, could still have good aim, but it wouldn't come as naturally to them as someone who has both eyes to map out distance and angle.

Losing an eye is a type of amputation, and the cause/event might be traumatic or emotionally difficult to talk about. Or they might be the gallows humor type and making jokes about it left, right, and center.

Prosthetic eyes require maintenance and care the same way any mobility aid or prosthesis does. That's a step of daily care that fully sighted people will never experience.

Some people choose unusual, non-matching prosthetic eyes for fun the same way someone might choose colored contacts. Others choose not to wear a prosthetic eye.

gojo's gonna take one look at this child and LUNGE for a purple out of pure instinct 😭 Never wear your hair down megumi

🤜🏻👊🏻 mahoraga help me

Peace be with you.

damn. guess who just got CLOCKED

whatever I'll post my addendum to it anyway

I have seen people comment both on here and elsewhere that some PoC characters are that in name only. And have heard people say that a "black person would never say that" that hispanic girl is a reskinned white girl. I recognize that when some writers use PoC characters as mouth pieces to talk about that ethnicity, but it seems to be a more social outlook in some cases that is hard to put a finger on.

On POC Characters not being “authentic” enough

I’m here for fixyourwritinghabits’s response to the POC would/wouldn’t accusation.

X people do not all act, react, think or live the same, so you’re right to raise your brow at anyone saying “Nah, Black people don’t do so and so.” But what you will want to look at is if this claim is valid in relation to your particular character. 

So let’s take talking back to one’s parents. Let me generalize and say in the Black community, this might be something that’s not gonna happen so often and there’s lots of jokes about how shocked Black people are to see how their White friends are allowed to say certain things to their parents that would get them personally in trouble with their Black parents. 

Observe:

But not every Black person or family is the same. You might have a Black character who would talk back and whether drama ensues or not is up to the development you created with your characters.

It’s a strange thing to balance, achieving alleged “Authenticity” vs. avoiding stereotypes, but it can and is done when you realize that people are influenced by not just their identifies as Black, Latinx, or otherwise, but personality, social class, family lives, and so on.

~Mod Colette

dbh stands for dashcon ball pit horror

soapghost headcanons sleep edition

ghost:

sleeps in complete darkness. has blackout curtains and unplugs/shuts off all his electronics before going to sleep. sleeps in complete silence. if you didn’t know better you’d think you were walking into a cave

hates sleeping. it makes him feel vulnerable but he also think it’s an impractical waste of time

sleeps on a twin sized mattress. curls into a ball when he sleeps

always too hot

the first time soap slept in his bed ghost got a foot lodged in his side and he ended up on the floor and got no sleep that night

light sleeper

there’s at least one knife under his pillow at all times. sometimes he hides more between the mattress and the frame

talks in his sleep

refuses to sleep around anyone else because he has trust issues. will force himself to go days without sleeping unless soap is around

locks the door to his room at the same time every night to make him feel safer

has at least two weighted blankets that he’s folded in half to make them seem heavier but they’re still not heavy enough for his liking

loves it when soap lays on him/rests his head on his chest

soap

soap sleeps with the curtains half drawn and always has something playing in the background

wears earplugs when he sleeps ?? don’t ask me to explain it’s just something he would do

s p r a w l s out as much as he can. sleeps on a king sized mattress just because he likes having the space

has led strip lights on the walls but never changes the color from red and he keeps them on the lowest setting because it’s easy on the eyes at night and he knows ghost won’t mind it

the first time ghost slept in his bed he woke up the next morning crying because he had slept really well and that scared him (trauma responses abhorred <3) and soap didn’t understand it at first and thought he had done something wrong

a literal ice cube. loves to snuggle with ghost at night to warm himself up & gets sad when ghost isn’t around to keep him warm

sometimes finds himself sleeping On Top of ghost like a baby sleeping on somebody’s chest

never knows how it ends up happening but he doesn’t complain about it ever because he loves it

wears socks in bed

one time a civvy kid brought him a little beat up raccoon stuffed animal & he sleeps with it very night (it lowkey reminds him of ghost)

keeps a stack of various books on his bedside table to read at night when he can’t sleep

soap snores so effing loud

ykw hell yeah

lil doodle from the other day born out of an overwhelming annoyance that for some reason body hair is associated with masculinity despite Everyone Having It. so why not draw a cute hairy girl about it

[image description: a drawing of a tan-skinned woman with brown and blond dyed hair pulled into a ponytail and copious body hair and stubble. she is smiling and doing a peace sign gesture with her hand. next to her is text saying "body hair has no gender!" end id]