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Resources For Writing Deaf, Mute, or Blind Characters

Despite the fact that I am not deaf, mute, or blind myself, one of the most common questions I receive is how to portray characters with these disabilities in fiction.

As such, I’ve compiled the resources I’ve accumulated (from real life deaf, mute, or blind people) into a handy masterlist.

Deaf Characters:

Deaf characters masterpost

Deaf dialogue thread

Dialogue with signing characters (also applies to mute characters.)

A deaf author’s advice on deaf characters

Dialogue between deaf characters

Mute Characters

Life as a Mute

My Silent Summer:  Life as a Mute

What It’s Like Being Mute

21 People Reveal What It’s Really Like To Be Mute

I am a 20 year old Mute, ask me anything at all!

Blind Characters:

The 33 Worst Mistakes Writers Make About Blind Characters.

@referenceforwriters masterpost of resources for writing/playing blind characters.

The youtube channel of the wonderful Tommy Edison, a man blind from birth with great insight into the depiction of blind people and their lives.

An Absolute Write thread on the depiction of blind characters, with lots of different viewpoints and some great tips.

And finally, this short, handy masterpost of resources for writing blind characters.

Characters Who Are Blind in One Eye

4 Ways Life Looks Shockingly Different With One Eye

Learning to Live With One Eye

Adapting to the Loss of an Eye

Adapting to Eye Loss and Monocular Vision

Monocular Depth Perception

Deaf-Blind Characters

What Is It Like To Be Deafblind?

Going Deaf and Blind in a City of Noise and Lights

Deaf and Blind by 30

Sarita is Blind, Deaf, and Employed (video)

Born Deaf and Blind, This Eritrean American Graduated Harvard Law School (video)

A Day of a Deaf Blind Person

Lesser Known Things About Being Deafblind

How the Deaf-Blind Communicate

Early Interactions With Children Who Are Deaf-Blind

Raising a DeafBlind Baby

If you have any more resources to add, let me know!  I’ll be adding to this post as I find more resources.

I hope this helps, and happy writing!  <3

once again, the time for jokes, people,

black people, please take care of yourselves. please take care of your health. please take care of your mind. please take care of your spirit.

i understand if your soul is not at peace. i understand if you are exhausted. just, please take care of yourselves in these dark, hateful times and surround yourself with people who understand why.

#people touching me out of no where

put your most primal personal fear in the tags?

a modern au catradora 

How I draw skin Part 2: DON”T DRAW NATIVE PEOPLE WITH RED SKIN!!!! A tutorial

For the first tutorial on how I draw skin, see the post here.

But seriously, I’ve seen too many drawings of Native characters with literal red/pink skin to count so just in case some of you are having troubles with drawing Native people, I’ve provided a guide for you. Please take my swatches if it helps!! and no more red skinned people, please <0<

Disclaimer: this tutorial is mainly about the artistic depictions of Indigenous Peoples in North America, where the slur and redskin caricature originated, but it would still be racist to draw other non-North/Central/South American Indigenous groups like this so…..don’t.

based on this: link sorry but i had to draw this JSAJSA

"The Jedi and his Ranger" ~Kalluzeb~

A crazy AU me and @hixystix were talking about. I think they may be writing it, so I'm super excited. Basically a freshly-knighted young Jedi Zeb, assigned a young Antarian Ranger in lieu of a Padawan, at the start of the Clone Wars -all the way until Order 66 and beyond. Rangers are legends stuff, but also looks like new canon! XD so excited!

why did kallus show up at zebs place in the modern au? its beautiful btw

thank you so much!!

so in the AU, hera and kanan are foster parents for sabine and ezra, zeb is their roommate and all three adults work at the same community center that hera runs

kallus a lawyer is sent by the gov to try to remove their foster licence (officially because kanan+hera are fake married, really because they’re political activists)

shenanigans happen, zeb and kallus end up bonding after a car accident in the middle of winter where zeb carries him to hospital

kallus becomes a whistleblower and starts leaking info on the task force run by thrawn

he gets found out, and since his phone and car and flat were all work perks, ends up without a place to stay in the middle of a rainstorm: that’s when he shows up at the ghost crew’s door, all wet and miserable