daredevilkink | Discussion/Off-Topic Post #1

I make this mistake all the time haha, reminders are always helpful <3

Not the mod, but I'm just thinking...I think this is a good idea and I'd like to take part, but I don't think it should be during the freeze? Like I think that time should just be dedicated to filling prompts. Also did you mean the mod should pick a prompt from the meme? Wouldn't that mean some prompts would end up with loads of fills?

I would definitely love to see more daredevil writing challenges around though <3

OP here. I meant that the mod could pick a prompt, or any other idea that hasn't necessarily shown up as a prompt. If the mod did pick a prompt, I think it should be one that hasn't been filled yet. Or just come up with an original idea. It wouldn't have to be complicated. It could be "here's the first sentence, carry on," or even just one word like "rain."

I was once in a fandom with a writing challenge, and after the first time, the winner got to choose the idea for the next one, although that was in a forum where we were all registered users.

And the idea about the timing being during the freeze was just that, an idea of timing. It could be any time. We could have them once a month, or once every two months, on the 1st, or the 7th, or the 15th, or whatever.

ayrt

I didn't get that vibe off of it, but thank you for your opinion/experience. :-)

You do you, anon!

I'm a trans*woman, and I don't find always-a-girl!(character) to be offensive at all.

OP's opinion is not the law on the matter. I really don't agree with accusing people of being transphobic over what amounts to be semantics.

I read that too, but I don't trust it. The exact phrasing was 'part of Matt's life' that doesn't mean anything specific...

OP of original post: I should have put girl!(character) and boy!(character) in the picture. But I didn't think of it and didn't have the space.

The problem with using always-a-girl! ambiguously is that in different fandom circles it is going to have a different cis or trans common meaning. And cis people who have never seen it before will probably thing it means cis girl where as trans people who have never seen it before will think it means trans girl. So... basically the way you want to use it is kind of impossible because the people reading it won't reliably come away thinking this is what that notation means. If that makes sense?

That's kind of the issue with it. Since these fandom words evolve as they get more widely used it's kind of hard to use one as vague and unintuitive as always-a-girl! as a pose to girl! to mean what you want it to mean. Readers are going to bring their own baggage to it.

Which, besides the common usage of it being transphobic, is why I think the simplest most straightforward notation is best. While I like rule!63 calling gender-swaps that is confusing and inaccessible as hell. And using that notation can be kind of elitist when we assume everyone knows what we are talking about. If that makes sense?

The simpler the less room for confusion and misinterpretation the better.

Lol, I don't think I've ever done that as I've been writing in American fandom for years and my spellchecker is actually set to US English, but that's not the only Brit pick I have with some stories, there are loads of English phrasing a dotted about. Is it really a problem though? We have writers who speak English as a second language and sometimes some of them will phrase something oddly either because they learned British English in school or as a result of how their own language is spoken. Doesn't bother me a bit, same as americanizations cropping up in, say, Sherlock or Harry Potter fic.

Thank you.

OP

It's a rather old post that I'd wished I'd shared on here when I originally wrote it a few months back when this was a more prevalent issue in the fanfiction being made.

The issue isn't that people write Matt as not agreeing with me and how I feel about text to speech, it's that they write Matt as feeling the way they, a sighted person who has limited experience with text to speech, feels about it. And it's glaringly obvious.

I could have just left it at "Matt would most likely be really familiar with text to speech and not bothered by it's existence" because we do see him using it with his phone and his alarm clock and even studying in college. But instead I added all of the issues with my text to speech that bother me so that these people who are not familiar with it can incorporate those instead of just saying "It sounds tinny / fake / whatever" and leaving it at that. Which, as I pointed out (at least if I remember correctly) is fairly false for the character considering how much text to speech has improved.

Matt would not compare text to speech to human speech, he would compare it to the text to speech of a decade ago.

Does this make sense?

The pet peeve isn't that people are being ableist (And I'll have to reread the original post to see why someone might think that's what I said. Other than the fact that I am talking about my lived experience as a disabled person). But really it's that able writers should give their disabled characters realistic and plausible reasoning for their feelings about whatever assistive technology the character uses. And I, and the people in the tags, where just trying to help with that.

So I find the responce to it very weird. Maybe it's because I made this thread thing as an after thought when posting the more pressing, still a problem one about the notation always-a-girl! but, hey, *shrugs* what are you going to do?

I hope this clears some things up?

OP: When did I call people using the notation transphobic? You can call a notation problematic or transphobic without attacking the people using it and I, and the people who looked it over for me, think I handled it fairly well.

Like... transphobia exists in language or "semantics" and I don't think pointing that out is a bad thing.

And since I guess I'm willing to be "that guy" the asterisk after trans is transphobic.
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=trans*+offensive

My explanation of it, if you don't want to follow that google link is that trans PERIOD covers non-binary trans people because non-binary trans people are trans. Throwing in an asterisk, which in common usage denotes and exception to a statement, not an inclusion, means one is saying that trans doesn't include these people but trans* does.

Also, cis people have been using it for ages to say that non-binary people aren't really trans. I won't bring up how it's been used to hurt transwomen because I would think you would be familiar with it but if I remember correctly that second link on google explains it pretty well.

(OP) As an EMT, I expect that you'd have much better resources to answer this one than I would.

But my big kit includes:
disposable gloves
CPR mask
Thermometer
Sphygmomanometer
Glucometer
Bandage materials (including bandage scissors - at least two pair)
OTC meds for pain, inflammation, and allergies as well as low dose aspirin
L.A.W. (liquid antacid and water) to treat pepper spray or other mild acids
Sunscreen
Instant cold packs
Hand warmers
Cheap plastic ponchos (useful to keep from contaminating your clothes)
Lots of bandannas (useful as easy to carry face-masks)
Water (as much as you can carry - for wounds and hydration)
Granola bars
Honey
Penlight
Flashlight (mine's a solar-powered/hand-cranked flashlight/emergency radio)
Box-cutter

If I were knowingly going into a urban disaster area with only OTC gear, off the top of my head, I would also bring rope, a headlamp, bolt-cutters, cheap aluminum curtain rods (for splinting), at least two smallish tarps, and a least one extra flashlight (maybe several smaller ones). I would wear galoshes (even without natural flooding, damaged water mains can lead to sublevel flooding anywhere), and I would bring heavy work gloves, several extra pair of socks and at least one change of clothes.

All of that said, with a major disaster, a big thing to think about beyond wounds is environmental dangers. With any large urban disaster, you WILL end up with fires. What season it it? Is exposure to extreme temperatures or other weather dangers a potential threat? Downed electric lines and contaminated water are big threats. Smoke and/or airborne debris. Structural damage to buildings which is a very dynamic situation long after the initial disaster.

If any of that makes you go WTF? Please ask! I'd love to get your feedback as well.

(OP) :D

This is great. I also think I can follow along with why you would bring most of these and a whole list of reasons why each would be applicable. I'm still not sure what level of detail I want to go into for the actual treating hurt people part.

(I also had to look up Sphygmomanometer because we just called those blood pressure cuffs.)

Would you bring just one of those fold up and disposable CPR masks or multiple? Or are you talking about a different kind of CPR mask?

If your apartment area or what ever had a defibrillator with good batteries that seems to be in working order would you bring that as well? I mean yes, stealing, but since we're working under the assumption that the area you live in is at least partially evacuated eh...

Structural damage is going to be I think the biggest thing to deal with. It's also pretty plot relevant. (The character ends up getting trapped under something that's collapsed at one point.) Seasonly isn't something I've worked out so much yet.

Also, more for anyone reading along, one might decide to do this when an area is being evacuated because there are always going to be people who don't follow instructions or, in my opinion, more pressingly, illegal immigrants who don't think they can evacuate because doing so might require paper work they don't have as well as the ability to speak fluent English. As well as the disabled and elderly who might also be left behind in am emergency like this.

While international trade law technically recognizes Jack Daniels as a bourbon, the company itself doesn't. Jack Daniels is a Tennessee Whiskey. The only other well known Tennessee Whiskey is George Dickel, but less known labels include Collier and McKeel, Benjamin Prichard's, Davy Crocketts, Short Mountain, Clayton James, Cumberland Cask, and ... probably a few others.

While Tennessee Whiskey is identical to bourbon in its make-up (mash that's at least 51 percent corn) and how it's aged (in new, charred oak barrels), it has further restrictions not only on where it can be manufactured (only in Tennessee, obvs) but also on its aging (only in Tennessee AND no more than a county away from the place it was manufactured) and filtration (must be filtered through charcoal).

Aaaand... that all has nothing to do with the question and is probably more than anyone else ever wanted to know about Tennessee Whiskey. :D

Sorry. I come from a long line of Tennessee bootleggers. We're passionate about our local booze.

AYRT

Okay, sounds good :D

(OP) I personally have this mask set: http://www.redcrossstore.org/item/5000SGI?gclid=CM-KpvbahccCFUE7gQodNigLVQ I probably wouldn't bother with more (unless you had a handful of the flat barriers). CPR isn't really going to be your friend if you can't get your patient to a hospital.

If I had room to carry a portable defibrillator and there was one at hand, sure. But if I was pressed for space or weight, I'd leave it. It's usefulness is limited to a single type of cardiac dysrhythmia, and again the likelihood of survival of anyone that you had to use it on would be next to nil without access to advanced care.

I didn't mention hand sanitizer. I'd bring it too, and maybe pedialyte.

Regarding evacuation, all of your reasons are excellent, and there are a lot of other reasons people don't leave in evacuations: fear of looting, inability to transport loved ones (including pets), lack of transportation to evacuation sites (especially if roads &/or public transport are already compromised), some people also just might not get the evacuation order (I've missed some major news due to my unusual sleep-wake cycle on account of shift work).

Ah! Hand sanitizer!

Yeah, I wasn't even thinking about CPR from the hospital side of things (Why? IDK why, my brain is weird) but, while it seems rather said, it does make a lot of sense.

What would you do if you missed a like, major evacuation? (alien invasion major) Just wondering.

I'm not going to run something like that at the moment, but you have a couple of options:
1) I make a Writing Challenges post where people can organise and run that kind of thing while still on the kink meme. It could also be for writing sprees or pledges to write x amount of fills or whatever you like.
2) Someone makes a separate community for Daredevil writing challenges, and I make a post promoting it and you can advertise occasionally on the discussion post.

Let me know if either of those would do!

Separate from that, I would be willing to run a small thing during the prompt freeze to add a low-stress element of competition and accountability to the fill fest and encourage more writing? With points for the number of fills & total word count you do. The only prize I could offer is... being the first prompt on the new post, I guess. And the satisfaction of winning. If people want it?

OH! Also "why honey?" I thought I asked "why honey?" but erm. I looks like I forgot.

^^^
Same, I actually stopped writing in the BBC Sherlock kinkmeme because I got ripped so badly for my Americanisms once. I really don't feel like it's a big deal at all. I mean sure, every once and a while it's weird and jarring but during those inedences I think readers should remind themself that the author put hours and hours into this work for free. And, in that light. It's not biggy.

(Also, remember 50 shades of gray? It was full of britishisms and it got published. Not that that's the only or biggest problem with that book, but still.)

(OP) If someone is hypoglycemic and unconscious, the sugar from the honey will be absorbed by the gums.

If I still had access to my transportation, I would head to a superstore to stock up on gear. I'd cautiously investigate to see if there was somewhere I could help with a reasonable expectation of not making myself into someone else for others to rescue. If I could help, I would. If I couldn't help, I would hole up somewhere until an organized rescue effort was underway, at which point I would join it.

If there were aliens trying to kill me, and I couldn't escape, I guess I would fight aliens and probably get killed. I'm no pushover, but neither am I a superhero.

^(OP)

Cool! That is not something they taught me in EMT school.

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