Hm. As a hearing person, it’s not my place to speak authoritatively, so d/Deaf and HOH people feel free to correct me, add on, etc, but I haven’t seen many people talking about this and I think we should. From what I’ve seen, we as Supernatural fans could do a little bit better with portrayal of sign language and Deafness (primarily in fic) with regards to the character of Eileen. This isn’t regarding any specific person, but I’ve seen a few ficlets on my dash where there’s a note like “just assume all dialogue is being signed at the same time so Eileen can understand!” or the fic itself has Eileen read lips the whole time. With just a little bit of googling one can easily realize that’s not the ideal way of communicating for a d/Deaf person, and we owe the character more respect than the show gave her.
Here’s an article on SimCom, or simultaneous communication, which is what the show usually has Eileen (or Sam) use, and why it may not be as good as it seems to hearing people. https://blog.ai-media.tv/blog/what-is-simcom
Here’s a few guides to writing d/Deaf characters in general, that I found just with a few google searches:
https://disabilityinkidlit.com/2017/05/19/asl-writing-a-visual-language/
https://kathymacmillan.com/2014/02/27/10-things-writers-need-to-know-about-american-sign-language-and-deaf-culture/
And for people who like to stick to tumblr: https://concerningwolves.tumblr.com/post/169084548979/faq-on-writing-signed-language (and their blog tag for #sign language)
Hey. I dunno what writer needs to hear this, but,
*kisses you on the forehead*
Other fandoms to the fallout fandom:
sorry im late but
this was gonna be a tutorial and i guess it still is but if anything it’s just a really long and drawn out “essay” on drawing people with epicanthic folds. one of my biggest pet peeves is people drawing asian people exclusively with the same type of eye they’d give white people or anyone else who typically doesn’t have the fold! however i know that most people are taught with the standard white person eye (google image search for “eye” and it’ll all be pictures of white people’s eyes) so learning to draw epicanthic folds is a consciously learned thing.
therefore i bring you this, which attempts to break the mechanics of epicanthic folds down into something that’s a bit easier to digest and implement in your own art!
style can be argued i guess but it’s not that hard to stylize eyes with folds if you do proper observation and research. eyes with epicanthic folds are as diverse as eyes without so it’s not like you have to adhere to a strict model for them (although many people think that you have to) and all it takes to distinguish the two in stylized art (and even in semi/realism once you think about it) is a few lines! like i said this is a learned process but it’ll make your asian characters (and characters of other races even) a bit more interesting and believable.
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Has this been done its probably been done whatever idgaf u can leave a complaint in the complaints box but I DONT CHECK THAT SHIT
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Thank you Max for everything that you do. You make so many people happy and cheer us up on our darkest days, we can’t thank you enough.
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