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Being disabled is expensive and I don’t think abled people (unless they live with a disabled person) realise how expensive it is. Even the people who are fourtunate enough to get full benefits (and many people don’t even when they are entitled to it and need it) and state support are still struggling and can’t afford everything they need.

And yet, Disabled people still have to deal with people saying how lucky they are or how unfair it is that they get “all that extra money” when in reality they are struggling and can’t afford all the care or accessibility they actually need.

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tag the oc who totally just pretends that they like to drink black coffee

#...... #Waverly

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tag the oc who drinks black coffee

#ainsley

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Please never feel bad for knowing what's going on/not being surprised by what happens in your story. You're the writer, you're supposed to know what's going on.

#writeblr #writing #writing reference #writing reminders #important

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tag the oc that has a binder

#oh op congrats!!! #I remember when I ordered my first binder #I was so scared but so excited #I couldn't wait to see myself in a way that made me happier #I hope you experience the same happiness I did <: #Ainsley #Ainsley's absolutely had one for a v long time #They probably don't wear it much; dysphoria rarely hits them #But every so often when it gets bad. They throw it on. #They fought w themself p hard over their body! Bc they noticed that wearing a binder was making a few things a bit more tedious #Specifically w their urban exploration hobby #Waverly #Waverly also wears one #They wear it to their classes--where they try to present more masculine #but the second they're around their friends they're like ''hey rip this off of me ik yall won't perceive me as anything but what I am'' #markov #Markov also wears one. He actually has like? #This edgy hot topic boy exterior going on. All edgy and rude. #Hell he goes by MOLOTOV. LIKE THE FLARE. #But he has binders that are in his boyfriend's favorite colors #Which are mostly pastel purples and blues #He prefers the half top binders; Ainsley prefers the full; Waverly... Depends on the day #(Waverly uses a wheelchair and trust me sometimes a full torso binder is a NIGHTMARE in a wheelchair)

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The creator said they were too lazy to ink and colour but I really like the sketchy look anyway

Picrew by @/kaitotties on Twitter

#picrew #thats cool!!

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tag the oc who likes romance

#OMEN... they're a sucker for it!!!! #omen

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tag the oc who likes horror

#AINSLEY #Ainsley LOVES horror #they take a lot of comfort in liminal spaces #they still get unnverved by horror movies and scary videos sometimes-- #SOMETIMES #but usually they're bored to hell and back #like they can pick apart most ''true paranormal horror'' videos #also they're romantically interested in a monster #he looks like a human mostly but #he's not!

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What kind of movies does your OC enjoy watching?

#oh ainsley loves horror movies but they get so frustrated #they're very unfiltered about it towards killian and mulch #they like to rant abt the ableism in the horror genre and will actively pause a movie to turn to killian and/or mulch and aggressively rant #which is like. the mood. like I'll stop horror movies to rant abt ableism to my partners #but this ain't abt me #omen LOVES brightly colored kids movies #they specifically vibe with coco and a few others #selkie ADORES cheesy cheesy romantic movies. they don't like the ones where there's a lot of stupid drama. they're like #more of a love conquers all #waverly hates horror movies ironically enough; they don't really watch many movies tbh? so they don't have a preference #Felix loves ones that are just... warm. if there is a good friendship or romance he loves it. #neri........ falls asleep during them she just doesn't like them enough at all. she's more into webcomics/webnovels/etc.

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Which OC desperately craves attention?

#Ainsley

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How to Kick a Reader in the Gut

Disrupt the reader’s sense of justice. 

This generally means setting a character up to deserve one thing and then giving them the exact opposite. 

Kill a character off before they can achieve their goal. 

Let the bad guy get an extremely important win. 

Set up a coup against a tyrannical king. The coup fails miserably.

Don’t always give characters closure. 

(Excluding the end of the book, obviously)

A beloved friend dies in battle and there’s no time to mourn him.

A random tryst between two main characters is not (or cannot be) brought up again.

A character suddenly loses their job or can otherwise no longer keep up their old routine

Make it the main character’s fault sometimes. 

And not in an “imposter syndrome” way. Make your MC do something bad, and make the blame they shoulder for it heavy and tangible.

MC must choose the lesser of two evils.

MC kills someone they believe to be a bad guy, only to later discover the bad guy was a different person altogether.

Rejection is a powerful tool. 

People generally want to be understood, and if you can make a character think they are Known, and then rip that away from them with a rejection (romantic or platonic) people will empathize with it.

MC is finally accepting the Thing They Must Do/Become, and their love interest decides that that’s not a path they want to be on and breaks up with them

MC makes a decision they believe is right, everyone around them thinks they chose wrong.

MC finds kinship with someone Like Them, at long last, but that person later discovers that there is some inherent aspect of MC that they wholly reject. (Perhaps it was MC’s fault that their family member died, they have important religious differences, or WERE THE BAD GUY ALL ALONG!)

On the flipside, make your main character keep going. 

Push them beyond what they are capable of, and then push them farther. Make them want something so deeply that they are willing to do literally anything to get it. Give them passion and drive and grit and more of that than they have fear.

“But what if my MC is quiet and meek?” Even better. They want something so deeply that every single moment they push themselves toward it is a moment spent outside their comfort zone. What must that do to a person?

Obviously, don’t do all of these things, or the story can begin to feel tedious or overly dramatic, and make sure that every decision you make is informed by your plot first and foremost. 

Also remember that the things that make us sad, angry, or otherwise emotional as readers are the same things that make us feel that way in our day-to-day lives. Creating an empathetic main character is the foundation for all of the above tips.

#tips #advice

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what are these super cool flowers

#Omen

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Sometimes interacting with writeblr is really difficult. Sometimes you don’t have the energy to send questions or participate in games and that’s okay! It’s perfectly fine to leave asks unanswered or to not check your notifications for a while. Writeblr is an opt-in experience, not opt-out, and you have to opt-in to every interaction you make.

If you don’t have the time or energy to interact (or if you just plain don’t feel like it), that’s okay, even if you made promises. There’s no guilt required.

Writeblr will continue on without you. Be apart of the community on your own terms and only on your own terms. We will be ready once you want to come back.

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yeah...

#writeblr #writeblr meme #fanfiction #fanfics #writing #im torn ):

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#NDISJXISNXISNXSNN

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Hey. Hey. Make more young characters with canes. Make them use walkers. Make them use wheelchairs—make them ambulatory wheelchair users (“part time”), make them full-time. Make them put their hearing aids in or take them out. Make them use sign. Make them put on/take off their prosthetic. Have them reach for their crutches. Have your characters stim. Have your characters express vocal/physical tics.

These things also don’t have to be a source of angst or agony for your character. Make these occurrences casual. Make them normal. This is a part of their life. Just something they do.

#writeblr #writing disabilities #writing #writer #hi! I’m disabled. I use a wheelchair. #My wheelchair makes me so unbelievably happy. why? because it lets me get out of the house without being in excruciating pain! #let your characters be casually disabled #make them experience a wide range of things and emotions! make them badass and disabled! make them take medicine in scenes! let it be SHOWN #that they are disabled!!! please!!!!

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“I need you to do a favor for me.”

“Okay?”

“When I die, give this to him.”

“I thought you couldn’t die?”

“I thought that too, but I don’t think I’m getting out of this one alive.”

#prompts