Hanami Uzumaki birthday

💖On April 3rd we also have Hanami’s birthday. However, I was away & couldn’t properly work on an edit.

🌸 To slowly get back to the groove & relax at the same time, I worked on the edit I wanted to make on Hanami's birthday.

🍥🌸So have Naruto & Sakura with their lovely children: Shinachiku & Hanami Uzumaki

🌀Soon to be completed with its 3rd member. 😉

🖌️ by @pumiih

#narusaku

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chattegeorgiana

Happy NaruSaku Day 2024

Please enjoy this little mini comic I worked on with @veryblazedreamland 💖✨💖✨

It’s inspired by Joji’s song - Glimpse of Us, which I think fits NaruSaku SO PERFECTLY. What do you think? 🤭

#narusaku

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ohifonlyx33

alexander-james-ink

Why are you distant, beloved? The veil is torn.

#BREATHES IN #NO BUT THIS GIVES ME CHILLS EVERYTIME #THE VEIL THAT HANGS IN THE TEMPLE #THAT ONLY THE HIGHEST PRIEST IS ALLOWED TO PASS THROUGH #ONCE A YEAR #AND THEY’D TIE A ROPE AROUND HIS ANKLE SO IF HE DISOBEYED GOD AND DROPPED DEAD THEY COULD PULL HIM OUT WITHOUT GOING IN #AND THEN JESUS #NAKED AND BLEEDING OUT NAILED THROUGH THE WRISTS AND THE FEET ON A PIECE OF WOOD #EXHALES ONE LAST BREATH #HIS HEAD DROPS #AND THE VEIL RIPS IN HALF #THE UNCROSSABLE DIVIDE BETWEEN GOD AND MAN #THE SIN THAT HELD US APART FROM THE LOVE WAITING FOR US #‘IT IS FINISHED.’ #HE LITERALLY /TORE/ DOWN THE BARRIERS BETWEEN US AND HIM IF THAT DOESN’T MAKE YOU TREMBLE I DON’T KNOW WHAT WILL #JESUS via windsswept

otaku-shipper

It always makes me sad when after I do a favor for a friend without them asking, they’ll say they owe me one in return. I understand that’s how relationships work—the give-and-take. But I also know that when I need it most, I can’t expect them to be there. One, because the years I had have made me into someone who hates to inconvenience others. Two, I hate to bombard someone with the same thoughts over and over again until I exhaust the last of its extract. Three, I hate to force someone to join me in my solitude when they don’t want or plan to. Or when I know they have other people to prioritize. I always find myself at the end of the stick accommodating. Four, because I’m a listener. And most of the time, listeners are not asked if they have something to say too.

The years I had, the friends I have, revealed a pattern I follow and anticipate.

And that’s why it makes me sad.

I cannot ask. They do not ask. So I deal with it on my own. Not expecting any favors to return.

So please don’t say you owe me one. I’ve heard enough of that.

#close friends and their emotional demands have been draining me lately #i need a month break from people lol #personal rant #my Twitter is infiltrated so I can’t rant there hahaha

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#sakura haruno

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cripplecharacters

Where to Start Your Research When Writing a Disabled Character

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So you have decided that you want to make a disabled character! Awesome. But what's next? What information should you decide on at the early phrase of making the character?

This post will only talk about the disability part of the character creation process. Obviously, a disabled character needs a personality, interests, and backstory as every other one. But by including their disability early in the process, you can actually get it to have a deeper effect on the character - disability shouldn't be their whole life, but it should impact it. That's what disabilities do.

If you don't know what disability you would want to give them in the first place;

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Start broad. Is it sensory, mobility related, cognitive, developmental, autoimmune, neurodegenerative; maybe multiple of these, or maybe something else completely? Pick one and see what disabilities it encompasses; see if anything works for your character. Or...
If you have a specific symptom or aid in mind, see what could cause them. Don't assume or guess; not every wheelchair user is vaguely paralyzed below the waist with no other symptoms, not everyone with extensive scarring got it via physical trauma. Or...
Consider which disabilities are common in real life. Cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, stroke, cataracts, diabetes, intellectual disability, multiple sclerosis, thyroid disorders, autism, dwarfism, arthritis, cancers, brain damage, just to name a few.
Decide what specific type of condition they will have. If you're thinking about them having albinism, will it be ocular, oculocutaneous, or one of the rare syndrome-types? If you want to give them spinal muscular atrophy, which of the many onsets will they have? If they have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, which one out of the 13 different types do they have? Not all conditions will have subtypes, but it's worth looking into to not be surprised later. This will help you with further research.

If you're really struggling with figuring out what exact disability would make sense for your character, you can send an ask. Just make sure that you have tried the above and put actual specifics in your ask to give us something to work with.

Here are some ideas for a character using crutches.

Here are some ideas for a character with a facial difference (obligatory link: what is a facial difference?).

If you already know what disability your character is going to have;

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Start by reading about the onset and cause of the condition. It could be acquired, congenital, progressive, potentially multiple of these. They could be caused by an illness, trauma, or something else entirely. Is your character a congenital amputee, or is it acquired? If acquired - how recently? Has it been a week, or 10 years? What caused them to become disabled - did they have meningitis, or was it an accident? Again, check what your options are - there are going to be more diverse than you expect.
Read about the symptoms. Do not assume or guess what they are. You will almost definitely discover something new. Example: a lot of people making a character with albinism don't realize that it has other symptoms than just lack of melanin, like nystagmus, visual impairment, and photophobia. Decide what your character experiences, to what degree, how frequently, and what do they do (or don't do) to deal with it.
Don't give your character only the most "acceptable" symptoms of their disability and ignore everything else. Example: many writers will omit the topic of incontinence in their para- and tetraplegic characters, even though it's extremely common. Don't shy away from aspects of disability that aren't romanticized.
Think about complications your character could experience within the story. If your character wears their prosthetic a lot, they might start to experience skin breakdown or pain. Someone who uses a wheelchair a lot has a risk of pressure sores. What do they do when that happens, or how do they prevent that from happening?
Look out for comorbidities. It's rare for disabled people to only have one medical condition and nothing else. Disabilities like to show up in pairs. Or dozens.
If relevant, consider mobility aids, assistive devices, and disability aids. Wheelchairs, canes, rollators, braces, AAC, walkers, nasal cannulas, crutches, white canes, feeding tubes, ostomy bags, insulin pumps, service dogs, trach tubes, hearing aids, orthoses, splints... the list is basically endless, and there's a lot of everyday things that might count as a disability aid as well - even just a hat could be one for someone whose disability requires them to stay out of the sun. Make sure that it's actually based on symptoms, not just your assumptions - most blind people don't wear sunglasses, not all people with SCI use a wheelchair, upper limb prosthetics aren't used nearly as frequently as you think. Decide which ones your character could have, how often they would use them, and if they switch between different aids.
Basically all of the above aids will have subtypes or variants. There is a lot of options. Does your character use an active manual wheelchair, a powerchair, or a generic hospital wheelchair? Are they using high-, or low-tech AAC? What would be available to them? Does it change over the course of their story, or their life in general?
If relevant, think about what treatment your character might receive. Do they need medication? Physical therapy? Occupational therapy? Orientation and mobility training? Do they have access to it, and why or why not?
What is your character's support system? Do they have a carer; if yes, then what do they help your character with and what kind of relationship do they have? Is your character happy about it or not at all?
How did their life change after becoming disabled? If your character goes from being an extreme athlete to suddenly being a full-time wheelchair user, it will have an effect - are they going to stop doing sports at all, are they going to just do extreme wheelchair sports now, or are they going to try out wheelchair table tennis instead? Do they know and respect their new limitations? Did they have to get a different job or had to make their house accessible? Do they have support in this transition, or are they on their own - do they wish they had that support?
What about *other* characters? Your character isn't going to be the only disabled person in existence. Do they know other disabled people? Do they have a community? If your character manages their disability with something that's only available to them, what about all the other people with the same disability?
What is the society that your character lives in like? Is the architecture accessible? How do they treat disabled people? Are abled characters knowledgeable about disabilities? How many people speak the local sign language(s)? Are accessible bathrooms common, or does your character have to go home every few hours? Do they have access to prosthetists and ocularists, or what do they do when their prosthetic leg or eye requires fixing?
Know the tropes. If a burn survivor character is an evil mask-wearer, if a powerchair user is a constantly rude and ungrateful to everyone villain, if an amputee is a genius mechanic who fixes their own prosthetics, you have A Trope. Not all tropes are made equal; some are actively harmful to real people, while others are just annoying or boring by the nature of having been done to death. During the character creation process, research what tropes might apply and just try to trace your logic. Does your blind character see the future because it's a common superpower in their world, or are you doing the ancient "Blind Seer" trope?

Remember, that not all of the above questions will come up in your writing, but to know which ones won't you need to know the answers to them first. Even if you don't decide to explicitly name your character's condition, you will be aware of what they might function like. You will be able to add more depth to your character if you decide that they have T6 spina bifida, rather than if you made them into an ambiguous wheelchair user with ambiguous symptoms and ambiguous needs. Embrace research as part of your process and your characters will be better representation, sure, but they will also make more sense and seem more like actual people; same with the world that they are a part of.

This post exists to help you establish the basics of your character's disability so that you can do research on your own and answer some of the most common ("what are symptoms of x?") questions by yourself. If you have these things already established, it will also be easier for us to answer any possible questions you might have - e.g. "what would a character with complete high-level paraplegia do in a world where the modern kind of wheelchair has not been invented yet?" is much more concise than just "how do I write a disabled character?" - I think it's more helpful for askers as well; a vague answer won't be much help, I think.

I hope that this post is helpful!

Mod Sasza

#writing hacks

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sourdough-seal

“how did you get into writing” girl nobody gets into writing. writing shows up one day at your door and gets into you

#writethings

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I am slightly superstitious by nature and always listen with pleasure to stories in which there is at least some place for the mysterious.

– Nikolai Leskov, from “The Spirit of Madame de Genlis,” The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories (Vintage, 2014)

#quotable

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throathole

“Lol” hasn’t meant “laughing out loud” in like 15 years… it’s just a word now and more importantly it’s the perfect way to end a sentence lol

throathole

So true… I have never gained anything useful from tone indicators except for learning that some sentences suddenly end in a handjob

#funny

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Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

#quotable

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eemryss

"It was plain to see that my old pet needed someone. But if it were left up to Roger, we'd be bachelors forever." –Pongo, the matchmaker(?)

#Disney #animation

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eemryss

"It was plain to see that my old pet needed someone. But if it were left up to Roger, we'd be bachelors forever." –Pongo, the matchmaker(?)

#Disney #animation

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allamericanb-tch

posting this at the risk of sounding like a pretentious loser

you can learn a lot about a society from its reading choices, and lately, i'm concerned with bookstagram / booktok. there appears to be two dominant genres capturing readers' attention: fantasy and crime / murder mysteries.

fantasy readers are huge consumers. the amazon / barnes and noble wet dream, spending every last dollar on the newest release of six part series. but fantasy novels have always been a regular story in disguise. when you strip away the magic of todays fantasy what are we left with?

today's fantasy stories tend to revolve around taboo themes, especially explicit content. essentially, a form of literary pornography. it reminds me of the joke you used to hear guys say when they bought playboy magazines: "i read it for the articles.”

unlike this new stuff, the essence of series like lord of the rings, the chronicles of narnia, and harry potter lies beyond their fantastical settings. they all delve into the timeless battle between light and dark, and retells the age old narrative of good versus evil, while exploring the nuances of power and the conquest of internal darkness. in each case, magic serves as a narrative tool rather than the central focus.

without passing judgment on the morality, the question is: what does this trend say about our collective priorities in relationships and the themes we find most compelling what is wrong with us? the parallels for crime / murder mysteries are apparent. the fascination with crime, murder, and serial killers raises questions about societal interests and individual takeaways.

as opposed to the timeless and profound themes explored in classic literature, these contemporary genres seem to focus on more immediate and shallow aspects of human experience. i wish our literary interests extended beyond mere escapism and momentary entertainment.

a truly good book is timeless, addressing deeper aspects of society, morality, economics, sociology, mortality, and spirituality.

#society #art