In The Few Years Since Ive Started To Travel This World, Id Found Myself Changing. Id Begun To Believe

“In the few years since I’ve started to travel this world, I’d found myself changing. I’d begun to believe that the dinner table was the great leveler. Now… I’m not so sure. Maybe the world’s not like that at all. Maybe in the real world, the one without cameras and happy food and travel shows, everybody - the good and the bad together - are all crushed under the same terrible wheel. I hope… I really hope I’m wrong about that.”

Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain dir. Morgan Neville (2021)

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One thing about Wallace, since he & Winona were once an item (see the manga series, especially), wouldn't he be either bi or had lost interest in women overtime?

god wallace pokemon was always gay but they really amped it up in the remakes huh

Vietnamese comics = truyện tranh or mạn họa

Vietnamese animation = hoạt hình or hoạt họa

Could somebody be a paramedic if they were missing a forearm?

Y’know, sometimes a question comes along that exposes your biases. I’m really, really glad you asked me this.

My initial instinct was to say no. There are a lot of tasks as a paramedic that require very specific motions that are sensitive to pressure: drawing medications, spreading the skin to start IVs. There’s strength required–we do a LOT of lifting, and you need to be able to “feel” that lift.

So my first thought was, “not in the field”. There are admin tasks (working in an EMS pharmacy, equipment coordinator, supervisor, dispatcher) that came to mind as being a good fit for someone with the disability you describe, but field work….?

(By the way, I know a number of medics with leg prostheses; these are relatively common and very easy to work with. I’m all in favor of disabled medics. I just didn’t think the job was physically doable with this kind of disability.)

Then I asked. I went into an EMS group and asked some people from all across the country. And the answers I got surprised me.

They were mostly along the lines of “oh totally, there’s one in Pittsburgh, she kicks ass” or “my old partner had a prosthetic forearm and hand, she could medic circles around the rest of her class”. One instructor said they had a student with just such a prosthesis, and wasn’t sure how to teach; the student said “just let me figure it out”, and by the end of the night they were doing very sensitive skills better than their classmates.

Because of that group I know of at least a half-dozen medics here in the US with forearm and hand prostheses.

So yes. You can totally have a character with one forearm, who works as a paramedic for a living.

Thanks again for sending this in. It broadened my worldview.

xoxo, Aunt Scripty

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Thankful someone actually from the group is taking the time to address an age old question surrounding the people. From what can be gathered, much of the success tends to stem from making the most one can make if facing a risk of being exiled & having to make do with jobs that were at some point either deemed lowly or otherwise undesirable. When faced with these kinds of prospects, the association with said jobs would tend to happen. The confusion & misrepresentation between the native people groups has become such a running joke that it became long since tiresome & unfunny, but similar such problems of the Jewish kinds (which btw are simply referencing in the land based names where the groups have been sent away to & since creolised to from their ancestral lands in Southwest Asia) are almost just as severe including in the food (at least in the 'western' world), being basically limited to such delis, poor food memories, & the occasional eastern Mediterranean spots. Unfortunately, the persecution faced is a likely factor to the misrepresentation of the Jewish cultures as a whole that doesn't link to the main migrant groups to make it to the 'western' world.

Thanks YouTube this seems really normal

i know hearing people on this website love to pass around those posts with links to free sign language lessons but you know you need to actually put effort into learning about Deaf culture, too, right?