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I had the best drink today, it was half orange juice half sprite and strawberry puree shalen in the orange juice it was really good

Man do i love frozen stawberries that i crushed up in sugar

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Man do i love frozen stawberries that i crushed up in sugar

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A general cane guide for writers and artists (from a cane user, writer, and artist!)

Disclaimer: Though I have been using a cane for 6 years, I am not a doctor, nor am I by any means an expert. This guide is true to my experience, but there are as many ways to use a cane as there are cane users!

This guide will not include: White canes for blindness, crutches, walkers, or wheelchairs as I have no personal experience with these.

This is meant to be a general guide to get you started and avoid some common mishaps/misconceptions, but you absolutely should continue to do your own research outside of this guide!

The biggest recurring problem I've seen is using the cane on the wrong side. The cane goes on the opposite side of the pain! If your character has even-sided pain or needs it for balance/weakness, then use the cane in the non-dominant hand to keep the dominant hand free. Some cane users also switch sides to give their arm a rest!

A cane takes about 20% of your weight off the opposite leg. It should fit within your natural gait and become something of an extension of your body. If you need more weight off than 20%, then crutches, a walker, or a wheelchair is needed.

Putting more pressure on the cane, using it on the wrong side, or having it at the wrong height will make it less effective, and can cause long term damage to your body from improper pressure and posture. (Hugh Laurie genuinely hurt his body from years of using a cane wrong on House!)

(an animated GIF of a cane matching the natural walking gait. It turns red when pressure is placed on it.)

When going up and down stairs, there is an ideal standard: You want to use the handrail and the cane at the same time, or prioritize the handrail if it's only on one side. When going up stairs you lead with your good leg and follow with the cane and hurt leg together. When going down stairs you lead with the cane, then the good leg, and THEN the leg that needs help.

Realistically though, many people don't move out of the way for cane users to access the railing, many stairs don't have railings, and many are wet, rusty, or generally not ideal to grip.

In these cases, if you have a friend nearby, holding on to them is a good idea. Or, take it one step at a time carefully if you're alone.

Now we come to a very common mistake I see... Using fashion canes for medical use!

(These are 4 broad shapes, but there is INCREDIBLE variation in cane handles. Research heavily what will be best for your character's specific needs!)

The handle is the contact point for all the weight you're putting on your cane, and that pressure is being put onto your hand, wrist, and shoulder. So the shape is very important for long term use!

Knob handles (and very decorative handles) are not used for medical use for this reason. It adds extra stress to the body and can damage your hand to put constant pressure onto these painful shapes.

The weight of a cane is also incredibly important, as a heavier cane will cause wear on your body much faster. When you're using it all day, it gets heavy fast! If your character struggles with weakness, then they won't want a heavy cane if they can help it!

This is also part of why sword canes aren't usually very viable for medical use (along with them usually being knob handles) is that swords are extra weight!

However, a small knife or perhaps a retractable blade hidden within the base might be viable even for weak characters.

Bases have a lot of variability as well, and the modern standard is generally adjustable bases. Adjustable canes are very handy if your character regularly changes shoe height, for instance (gotta keep the height at your hip!)

Canes help on most terrain with their standard base and structure. But for some terrain, you might want a different base, or to forego the cane entirely! This article covers it pretty well.

Many cane users decorate their canes! Stickers are incredibly common, and painting canes is relatively common as well! You'll also see people replacing the standard wrist strap with a personalized one, or even adding a small charm to the ring the strap connects to. (nothing too large, or it gets annoying as the cane is swinging around everywhere)

(my canes, for reference)

If your character uses a cane full time, then they might also have multiple canes that look different aesthetically to match their outfits!

When it comes to practical things outside of the cane, you reasonably only have one hand available while it's being used. Many people will hook their cane onto their arm or let it dangle on the strap (if they have one) while using their cane arm, but it's often significantly less convenient than 2 hands. But, if you need 2 hands, then it's either setting the cane down or letting it hang!

For this reason, optimizing one handed use is ideal! Keeping bags/items on the side of your free hand helps keep your items accessible.

When sitting, the cane either leans against a wall or table, goes under the chair, or hooks onto the back of the chair. (It often falls when hanging off of a chair, in my experience)

When getting up, the user will either use their cane to help them balance/support as they stand, or get up and then grab their cane. This depends on what it's being used for (balance vs pain when walking, for instance!)

That's everything I can think of for now. Thank you for reading my long-but-absolutely-not-comprehensive list of things to keep in mind when writing or drawing a cane user!

Happy disability pride month! Go forth and make more characters use canes!!!

Please please please tag your x reader fics with a singular x reader tag. I cannot filter all of the characters from every fandom i enjoy.

Hey anyone who reads, I have a poll for you!

Tapatio doritos fucking slap.

Especially if you use sourcream as a dip

Everyone should eatch the old gaurd its so good. Like i will always rewatch it and read historically accurate fanfiction abt it

stream the old guard on netflix

My first recommendation is

This is one of my favorite fics of all time. It is crossposted on ff.net. its super long but there is a podfic if it that i will link at the bottom. Also there are notes in every chapter that gives you everything Vathara was looking at to make the chapter.

SUMMARY

"Dragon's fire is not so easily extinguished; when Zuko rediscovers a lost firebending technique, shifting flames can shift the world..."

WORD COUNT

704,200

CHAPTER COUNT

91/91

PODFIC

Ask me any questions you want abt this

I am now gonna be that guy who reccomends fics. Lmk if yall want fics from these fandoms

BNHA

Harry Potter

Voltron

Naruto

ATLA

Marvel

MDZS

Stranger Things

The Old Gaurd

These are the fandoms i read from the most but i do have some smaller sample sizes from other fandons.

You could draw like bats swarming someone?

I should practice drawing more. Reblog this with a thing I should draw and I’ll draw it within a day, max. 100% serious. The drawings won’t be good. I’ll do them anyway.

Hey, could you do me a favor?

Could you just RB this?

The little RB statistics chart is so pleasant and stimmy to look at and I want to see what it looks like when it gets really REALLY huge because it makes me think of some deep sea lifeform

I am a little high right now on the fourth of july and i cant really read things too well rn and i feel like i cant move my legs. Also i cant type or slell

I miss playing genshin impact.

My life would be so much better if i could morally stand it to play the game. But I cant. The blatant racism in the game is too fucking much that its a wonder anyone plays it. I love the animation and story, fir the most part (liloupar im lookinf at you you racist bitch), but there are no people of color and those that have anything darker than bleached paper white are bad guys and they even incorporated it into story arcs that you have to play thriugh to get access to part of the map. They even make your character agree with the rascist shit. And thats not fucking okay.

Tbh so helpful

I forgot I have to be active here so here’s my Twitter tutorial on how to draw folds I made a while back to help a friend!

Finally caved and got the app instead if just going

Chrome-》tumblr.com-》login

Ifk how to feel abt it yet

hell yea man me too

phineas and ferb really said “how many characters can we make autistic” and the answer was “yes”

oh gee discord should I try adding numbers? should I try that???? should I try adding numbers to the end of my username so that it's individualized and only mine???? should I try adding numbers??????????

candlelight vigils to me are cool but they dont really feel like a protest, just a way to honor those who did protest or those weve lost. Protests are easy if they are nonviolent, just disrupt the flow of your governments or bosses day to day and you ddid it

If you can't wash it off, paint over it, replace the item, or buff it out, turn a message of hate into one of love! I would never condone someone to do this discreetly and in mere seconds with a quickly concealed permanent marker, for example on a public bench or bus stop. Certainly not anything like whipping out a tat machine and adding to an unconscious white supremacist's existing tattoo. That would be illegal! :) And, dear followers, I would never encourage you to do something that's illegal. So, please only use this when someone has defaced your personal property to avoid breaking the law! Because that would be illegal, and following in the law is always in everyone's best interest. :) .... :) reblogs and even reposts definitely welcome

At least in tennessee you can get married as a minor with parental permission and have been for a while. Like my mom got married at 14 or 16 im not sure but a concerning age consider my father was 7 years older than her

Republicans are garbage.

Mmmmm art

that one extremely homoerotic painting of a babylonian man listening to a babylonian twink playing babylonian harp. that one

so true

So I love dark Percy but I don’t understand why Annabeth always disapproves?? Like she’ll definitely support him or even be first to turn dark

Percy: I feel so guilty for choking Akyhls

Annabeth: Why? She literally tried to kill us? It was a be or be killed situation and frankly the world would be better without her

Plus, Annabeth’s been in this world since she was 7. It’s just that no one actually thinks she’s being serious cause she’s supposed to be the rational one

Annabeth: I am going to murder the gods -

Piper: Let me know how it goes

And you know how Percy keeps getting into trouble with gods? Annabeth’s the same. If not worse

Piper: Percy literally treated Bacchus like he was nothing

Annabeth: Oh did he now? He should have treated him like dirt. Also I can’t believe he did it without me how dare he -

And you know how Annabeth’s literally redesigning Olympus? She’s going to use it to her advantage.

Annabeth: Yeah so this statue is going to blow up at 5 am during the winter solstice and this one is going to turn everything nearby to ice -

Percy: I’ve never been more in love with you

In conclusion: dark annabeth

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recruitment season by jenny nuo is out and oh my god my life has never been better

Jenny nuo is my hero and her music is so good and they are all so relatable adn a;lksdhf;jhsadfgklj;asdhfg

also she has a discord!