seeing people on shows use canes incorrectly!! OMG YOU WILL HURT YOURSELF. STOP DOING THAT.
YES OMG STOP IT. This is one of my biggest pet peeves; people who know me irl probably have heard me rant about it. They make sure that the character walks funny to show that they’re really disabled or whatever, even though the WHOLE POINT OF CANES is to let you walk as normally as possible so you don’t screw up your body.
And this is actually legit damaging because no one tells you how to use a cane. Usually, you just get one, and then you use it the way you’ve seen other people use it, and if you only see people on TV with canes…you’re gonna use it wrong.
sorry to jump all over your post this just annoys me so much and your post came up first in the cripple punk tag so
If possible could you detail correct cane usage somewhere for anyone who might need it? (I understand if it’s a visual sort of instruction)
When I began using one, I looked on youtube for how-tos. It’s definitely necessary because, yeah, if people go by what they see on tv, they will likely start using it wrong and it’s really difficult to undo learning it that way.
Basically all there is to remember is that you use your cane alongside the opposite leg– not like the cane is affixed to the leg it’s closest to. If I’m holding my cane with my left arm, it’s following the right leg.
Anyone have an infographic? I do not.
here’s one i found! it’s a little confusing bc it starts at the bottom and you read upwards.
here’s two for stairs:
Here are a few!
Here is a very short video about using a cane. It’s very specific. I will say, though, that she mentions that “you’ll hear different people say different things” re: using a cane affixed to your “bad leg” but I gotta say, I’ve never heard a medical professional tell anyone to use a cane any other way than the way described in the video.
If you use a cane like Dr. House on House (for example), YOU WILL HURT YOURSELF.
I use my cane for balance, but I still use it as if I had a bad leg like described above. Sometimes the “good” leg will be bad and I’ll have to figure out how walk with the cane in my left instead of right hand.
What I’m saying is that this is the correct use of a cane even if you use it for different reasons than included in this post.
Making sure your cane is the correct height is also very important! Dr. House’s cane is TOO SHORT. He also uses it by holding the handle against his hip and pushing the tip out away from his body. This causes you to have lean to the side with every step. You will throw your back and/or hips out of alignment if you walk this way. Leaning to the side on your cane will also cause damage to your hand and arm joints.
Your cane should sit comfortably in your hand, should remain vertical when you’re standing still, and the height should allow your elbow to bend a little when you’re holding it standing up straight. If your elbow is fully extended when holding your cane at your side, it is too short.
^ all of this. i legit did research on how to walk w a cane before i got one. because otherwise… yeah. and i dont do it *perfectly* because sometimes it just doesn’t work with the ways my body allows me to move, but i never do that for more than a few minutes at a time.
and yeah. when tv people use canes in ways that will fuck up their bodies. im pissed. because i did have to go off google to correctly walk with one
This project was my mistress while writing The Biker and the Songbird and it is finally done! But summaries and tags are tricky creatures so until I get them wrangled I thought I’d share some snippets.
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Geralt knows he wasn’t entirely successful in schooling his features when Triss leans against the bar, a smile he knows to be nervous at. “So, Blue Eyes gracing us tonight?”
Marx looks to her, lip curling before he can shift it into a shrug, “Broke up with him.” His mouth twists as though he means to say more but remembers Geralt and thinks better of it. Without so much as a thanks he plucks his drink from the bar and saunters off.
“Careful, you almost had an expression there,” Triss teases Geralt before she turns and starts refilling her tray.
But that’s the problem, Geralt can’t have an expression, not over Jaskier. There were lines Geralt refused to cross, ones that he toed as the White Wolf but never crossed and this was one of them.
the thing all sherlock holmes adaptations get wrong is making the guy an irredeemable asshole who treats everyone like shit . not only is it not reflective of the original stories they miss that “nice, smart, well mannered dude who snorts coke when he needs to think” is possibly the funniest character ever devised
I feel like the modern equivalent is that guy you think is super well put together until you find out exactly how much red bull he ingests on a regular basis.
Modern Sherlock is that very nice English Professor-seeming guy who you bring a problem and while walking from the door of his office to his desk he starts explaining the entire solution you need
And upon reaching his desk he’s like “Excuse me one moment.” and pulls out one of those huge Monster canisters they legally aren’t allowed to make anymore, cracks the whole thing, chugs it, takes a deep breath, and then nods at you and is like “Alright, and then what you need to do is…”
Imagine how much better the dynamic of bbc sherlock could have been if they did this.
why even modernize it to energy drinks??? coke didn’t go anywhere. we still have coke. energy drinks aren’t NEARLY chaotic enough.
Its is more like you hiring some guy to do private investigation about how your husband maybe cheating on you and Sherlock comes to your house high as fuck. Walks into your living room and without taking a moment to even talk to you or sign any paperwork, he turns around—pupils as big as god—and just says
“Its your best friend Brenda. I’ll email you the invoice.”
and walks right out of your house.
Because when it was written cocaine was legal and even considered healthy and useful by some laypeople, even though doctors knew it wasn’t, and Watson was always trying to stop people from encouraging Sherlock’s addiction because HE KNEW BETTER.
So consider this, Holmes, at 2am, desperately searching the flat for the stashes of NOS cans, only to keep coming up with passive aggressive pamphlets about the dangers of caffeine overdose.
Watson wakes up to a stench like Satan’s ass to find Sherlock sitting by his bed with a re-heated pot of cold brewed Deathwish Coffee that had been hidden in the back of the toilet tank (brewing) for five months. Sherlock is trying to say he’s proud of John’s cleverness in finding most of the stashes, but he’s passed into the fifth dimension and all John gets is a creepy vibrating grin and a sound like a shaken cat.
TLDR, Sherlock did die when he fell off the Falls, but he was so coked up his body didn’t stop moving until like a decade later.
Sherlock as one of those cryptid types the baristas talk about (there’s a post floating around somewhere) who comes in and orders a venti with as many shots as they are legally allowed to add, plus a few more for good measure (and a hefty tip) and then adds energy drink on top of it before chugging the whole thing, to the absolute horror of the cafe staff.
This is the kind of Sherlock Holmes discourse I demand on my dash. Bring me more!
Further discourse! Everyone is missing the fact that Sherlock used cocaine to “escape from the commonplaces of existence” when he didn’t have a case. The drugs are a substitute. Which means that when you hire him he’s stone-cold sober and JUST AS WEIRD.
So it’s more like realizing that your flatmate with the caffeine/sometimes drug death wish will only chill the fuck out when he has some strange mystery to unravel, so you spend your free time scouring reddit posts that might actually feature a real missing person. Or a ghost. You really don’t care which at this point. When you finally find something your flatmate is THRILLED and straight up stops eating because he thinks he can survive on intellectual curiosity alone, and yeah that’s not good, but it’s better than what he was doing to himself before. Your success is comparative, okay? You stick around for the meeting partly because you’re curious, partly because this is your home too remember, and partly because you’ve found that writing up these insane excursions helps pay off your student loans. Your Patreon is thriving. The entire time your flatmate is interviewing this poor SOB he keeps breaking into manic grins and you’re kicking him under the table, trying to help him remember that others aren’t happy about a death in the family. Halfway through he pulls a cigarette from a stash in his smelly bedroom slipper, offering the client one and yeah, that’s very nice, but… no. No thank you. He’s dressed impeccably and has a violin worth millions just lying on the floor, but the flat as a whole looks like a tornado just blew through and there’s something growing on the walls beside the makeshift lab. Is he rich? Dirt poor? Impossible to tell based on the surroundings. The entire time he rattles off observations about the client not at all related to the case and his continuing good mood depends entirely on how impressed the guy is. If he mentions “magic tricks” or “I saw that on Youtube” you’re prepped for damage control.
By 8:00pm you’ve finally convinced your flatmate to look up from his research and go half on a pizza, but the second it gets there he shrieks in excitement and runs out the door, demanding that you follow with your legally dubious gun. You apologize profusely to the delivery guy and double his tip, begging him not to call the cops. No, not because you’re afraid of arrest, you just know the head of the local precinct and he’s a pain in the ass.
You run after your flatmate knowing damn well you have to be up early tomorrow because despite maintaining a private practice you stilldon’t make enough to get your own apartment.
You are living your best life.
That last post…nailed it
Reminder that most of Sherlock Holmes is now in the public domain.
Like…. just saying.
Personally I see Sherlock as ADHD and no one will ever convince me otherwise
I mean — it’s textbook hyperfixation/understimulation right there — I Also forget to eat and sleep and do Human Things when I’m vibing with whatever makes my brain go, and I Also take (medically prescribed) stimulants when I need to think. AndAlso adhd understimulation makes mundane existence an agony that one will do nearly anything to escape but at least in the modern day we have things like video games and netflix so it’s a little easier to actually get that escape without y’know completely self-destructing along the way (Sherlock Holmes plays Among Us to fill the void between cases change my mind)
And while it’s entirely legit that a modern ADHD sherlock might self-medicate with energy drinks and home-brewed toilet-tank-coffee, I’d LOVE to see an adaptation where Sherlock just. has a prescription?
So instead of hunting down his secret Bad Habit Stash, John could be like “hey, sherlock- the pharmacy called, your meds are ready” and then sherlock would be all “LATER JOHN IM ON A CASE RN I DONT NEED THEM” and John’d be like “sherlock no that’s not how that works”
And then later once the case has been solved and the existential agony of understimulation sets back in, Sherlock could be like “hey John pass me my meds” And John might be “sherlock you already took them this morning I saw you” “yeah but they’re not working yet” “dude it takes time for them to kick in” “sure sure OR I could just take more. I missed some days y’know I gotta catch up” “sherloCK NO I am a DOCTOR that’s NOT HOW THAT WORKS” And then sherlock heaves a gigantic sigh and grabs a can of RedBull that’d been stuffed between the couch cushions and John like swats him with a shoe or something because SHERLOCK NO do you KNOW what that stuff DOES to your HEART PLEASE STOP
[Video Description: TikTok user @bow_asintakea_rawn talking to the camera and speaking in different backgrounds. The words they say are above them in writing, along with the occasional emoji.
“Tips for when you get hearing aids! Also Hearing writers, this is so you don’t embarrass yourselves. You are now the Wicked Witch of the West. Rain is now your enemy. Good luck. Hearing aids go in boxes.”
They open a small black box that fits in their hand.
“Not pockets. Don’t put them in there. You know how you hate hearing your voice in recordings? You’re gonna have a new one. Can you wear glasses and hearing aids?“
They put on a pair of sunglasses. These remain on in every outdoor setting throughout the rest of the video.
“Yes. Next question. Probably a good time to note: you will get slightly scared of bees. Films are so much better if you can hear the music in them. Prepare for a period of physical adjust-oof-ment.”
They stumble a little.
“You will become incredibly clumsy. Dunno if you know this, but hearing aids”
They hold one up.
“- or at least mine - are color-coded. Red goes in your right and blue goes in your left.”
They hold up an alcohol wipe packet.
“Nothing alcohol-based. They will destroy the protective lining.”
The words “(of most molds)” are added at the end of the second sentence in the words on screen.
“No one touches the hearing aids. If you have to handle my hearing aids you will handle them like they’re forensic evidence. No touchie! I can’t believe I have to say this - but I can’t wear them in the shower.”
They turn on the shower a moment before switching to the next scene.
“And most importantly, hearing aids don’t work for everybody. They just happen to work for me so do whatever makes you happy and what makes you comfortable. Peach out.
I live! The pandemic may not be over, but I’m done letting it sap my creative energy. So, starting off with some concept illustrations … here’s Angie and Way from PLUNGE, on their journey between Angie’s escape pod crash site and Way’s aquatic settlement home.
Actually I’m kinda excited to see what a Boiling Isles prosthetic looks like.
Because you can’t tell me the crew isn’t going to take this advantage to make something cool for Eda.
If I’m right about the pacing we’re probably not going to get it in the second special. But I feel like they’re going to take advantage of it for the final special.
They have the chance they’re going to make it memorable.
We’re finally going to get to see an aid on screen.
Like I am actually really excited for this.
And this isn’t even my disability.
One of the St. Epiderm students in Eda’s Requiem has a prosthetic leg. So prosthetics are already established on the Boiling Isles.
2. Maybe Alador could built something cool for Eda? As a way to make up for everything. He definitely has the technical know-how.
Ah you and @pixxyofice both pointed them out to me at the same time. Honestly forgot I think.
And yeah it would be cool to see Alador turn his skills around for good
[ID: a digital painting depicting a thin vampire with dark skin and short natural hair, wearing an elegant purple and gold dress and a fat human with tan skin and very very long curly brown hair, in a ruffly white dress. She has a medieval style prosthetic on her left leg with a wooden foot. They are floating in the center of the image in front of a golden decorative arch. The background is in purples and blues and depicts trees and bushes and flowers and mushrooms and rolling hills! There is also a brightly glowing moon in the star speckled sky. The overall feel of the image is really cool and calm and inviting.]
Timofey (Markus) and Demian. A ghoul (vampire thrall) and his domitor, a young blind vampire and sorcerer of the Tremere clan. Demian is a character that I play in several chronicles (with some differences, of course), Tim, if present, usually acts as an important NPC companion, guide, etc.
This was not planned right away, but an interesting chemistry came out between the characters … “Blood bond”, someone will say. “Perhaps,” I reply.
Demian - a young blind vampire from the Tremere clan - and his pet owl. The ritual learned from the mentor allows the young man to sometimes see through her eyes.
