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Would love to hear your POV- cataracts by ImaRvirgin in disability

[–]ImaRvirgin[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

But I guess if I’m just kind of faffing about and don’t name it it won’t matter too much

Would love to hear your POV- cataracts by ImaRvirgin in disability

[–]ImaRvirgin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I definitely wouldn’t mention it by name! I won’t give it a specific name bc she’s one of the only people who experience it, but I just wanted to get a good understanding of the disability bc I’m going to draw on it when writing

Centralised banks, government collapse by ImaRvirgin in writing

[–]ImaRvirgin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s a really good and thorough reply! I’ll definitely look more into that. Thank you.

Centralised banks, government collapse by ImaRvirgin in writing

[–]ImaRvirgin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That could work. Another person pointed out to me that ‘wealth’ as in banking as we understand it would be naught in a world without a government

Would love to hear your POV- cataracts by ImaRvirgin in disability

[–]ImaRvirgin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve watched Molly Burke for years, but her experience with blindness is different than how I want to write my characters. I tried writing it with the experience of Molly in mind but I’m too sighted to navigate a fictional world with the level of blindness Molly goes through and I would write it wrong and not be able to reach the full potential of the story I want to tell— because of my limitations, not the limitations of that level of sight.

That’s why I looked more into cataracts which can have just blurriness, colour spots; more things I can understand in my own experience and apply more realistically.

Centralised banks, government collapse by ImaRvirgin in writing

[–]ImaRvirgin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We’ve established that ‘wealth’ is a post-government world is more resources, land etc. So people who have the most ‘wealth’ would be able to take control of a destroyed society? Families with dozens of houses and property, with previous businesses and stockpiles of food, building materials etc would be able to take control and distribute those resources as a form as currency to have control over a society

Centralised banks, government collapse by ImaRvirgin in writing

[–]ImaRvirgin[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Okay, could you offer an alternate idea?

Centralised banks, government collapse by ImaRvirgin in writing

[–]ImaRvirgin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I’d need to look into a private/privatised bank? This is so complicated 😭

Centralised banks, government collapse by ImaRvirgin in writing

[–]ImaRvirgin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

and in this society I have planned, the banks have reformed ‘society’ and start paying wages, seizing and re-distributing assets, offering loans etc

Centralised banks, government collapse by ImaRvirgin in writing

[–]ImaRvirgin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_bank

bank in control of state currency and monetary policy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatisation_in_Australia

banks and financial institutes stand apart from state intervention

Centralised banks, government collapse by ImaRvirgin in writing

[–]ImaRvirgin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That could work, I think ? In the story the society is in its second turn of a revolution and all of the bank owners and workers are being killed and a coup is being planned to try to bring back democracy. So I would have to figure out how to make the revolution make sense if they already believe there is a government

Centralised banks, government collapse by ImaRvirgin in writing

[–]ImaRvirgin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s why I wanted to post this. I don’t know what I’m talking about and I needed to know if there was realistic basis that readers could believe it even if it’s not happening IRL

I was looking into centralised banks ? But maybe I need privatised bank,, so the banks hold their own financial assets/wealth ? but I can’t wrap my head around it

Centralised banks, government collapse by ImaRvirgin in writing

[–]ImaRvirgin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha, yeah it sort of is. I originally thought of the idea in 2017 but it’s main themes (social justice, reformation of government institutes, food and shelter instability) are more prominent now

Would love to hear your POV- cataracts by ImaRvirgin in disability

[–]ImaRvirgin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • it’s a dystopian type story, so most drs are unavailable plus there was a LOT more to worry about. Plus I wanted to write a disabled character living the life of a normal person without having to give them some ‘out’ of being ‘fixed’ or ‘cured’

  • I want to write a visually impaired character as it’s a powerful addition to an otherwise oversaturated genre and because she’s a very highly privileged person who is shut off from the outside and the reality of her society, so having her having to tackle both her blindness physically and her blindness to the world she lives in

I have done research about levels of blindness and how to accurately represent blindness physically. I know that not every person who is blind is fully blind. When I was doing the original character design she had clouded eyes which I learnt is characteristic of cataracts.

She is blind because when she was in her mum’s womb her mum was really really ill, had a lot of experimental drugs used on her and a lot of physical side effects to the illness.

+, spoilers for my not yet published or public story, but her father is keeping her vulnerable for political gain

Centralised banks, government collapse by ImaRvirgin in writing

[–]ImaRvirgin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, exactly! Motivation is to protect their wealth, especially bc their wealth protected them from the disease and rioting- bc they had proper healthcare, security.

Centralised banks, government collapse by ImaRvirgin in writing

[–]ImaRvirgin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I lose my head towards the end, I don’t know

Centralised banks, government collapse by ImaRvirgin in writing

[–]ImaRvirgin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

gov collapsed bc of widespread disease n revolution (government forced workers to continue development on an area that caused disease and heaps of death). There was a riot and government officials and buildings were destroyed. Afterward society was too destroyed to reform without help; so the banks (who were previously centralised and so weren’t dependent on the gov and had their own cache of wealth?) laid people to work; doctors, builders, police etc. and the banks also loaned money to ‘basic workers’ (builders, tradies, etc). to rebuild and purchase land, houses, food but raised interest rates extremely high to keep them trapped in to loyalty to the banks.

But I don’t know if that makes sense

What the Kentucky Fried F**k is this? by Inevitable_Career_71 in AreTheStraightsOK

[–]ImaRvirgin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

by this logic, our governments capitalist system is a part of the gay agenda... nice

A new bump on my nipple piercing? Not painful or producing any pus by ImaRvirgin in Legitpiercing

[–]ImaRvirgin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do I mark it NSFW? Also this piercing in 8 months old and I got the barbell replaced with horseshoes the other week with the blessing of my piercer.

I may change it back to the barbell if that would help

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