Slutty Dorothy shoots a rifle LIKE A BOSS

Posted on 24 May 2011 by campylobacter

About campylobacter

I’m an equal-opportunity pervert (multi-shipper) who enjoys the full range of fanart and fan fiction, from OTP het-ships to slash (f/f & m/m) to “multiples”. Although I prefer reading porn, I also love AU, crack, UST, fluff, badfic (unintentional and parody), crossovers, and (OMG!) even noromo Gen fic. I don’t hate on any characters or ‘ships, although you will often find me ranting about poorly-written, OOC fanfic regardless of pairing. I'm a veteran of The X-Files fandom since 1998, and a post-series Stargate SG-1 & Stargate Atlantis fan since 2009.
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21 Responses to Slutty Dorothy shoots a rifle LIKE A BOSS

  1. franthewndrhrse says:
    24 May 2011 at 8:15 PM

    My best friend is going blind. 😦
    What’s going on? I’m asking and I’m nosy — my son has a genetic condition that causes blindness. He’s almost legally blind at 17.

    Reply
    • campylobacter says:
      24 May 2011 at 8:56 PM

      has had more than 10 eye surgeries since 1994. 3 vitrectomies, 3 lens replacements, retina re-attachment, at least 5 laser “sand-blastings” of an artificial lens. Steroids injected directly into her eyes, gone blind twice, has a permanent macular degeneration in her right eye and thus a large fuzzy area smack in the middle of it. Severe photophobia, night blindness, internal eye hemorrhaging, disintegrating ligaments inside her eye.
      The condition is genetic. 😦
      I’ve been reading her posts and emails and it tears me apart that the more frequent occurrence of typos in them aren’t the result of carelessness, but increasingly impaired eyesight. She’s so scared. Her latest (13th) eye surgery was to fix a lens “stuck” to her retina. They “scraped” it off to remove it and the vitreous before adding a new lens into the anterior section. But her vision hasn’t improved. It’s worse, and she can only read on a monitor if the type is huge, the background is black, and the text white.
      I’m crying just thinking about it.

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      • franthewndrhrse says:
        25 May 2011 at 1:27 AM

        Yikes. You and your friend have my sympathies. The surgeries sound painful. Has her optic nerve been damaged?
        I wish I had words of wisdom, but I don’t. My father was blind.
        Growing up, I didn’t think much about it as he did so many things for my sister and I, just not things that involved seeing. I worry more for my son because as an adult, I DO think about the difficulties.

      • campylobacter says:
        25 May 2011 at 7:19 AM

        I don’t know about her optic nerve. All those eye procedures squick me so much that I can’t keep track of everything.
        How has Franboy coped with his visual impairment? Does he adapt well to assistive technologies, or attempted to learn Braille?

      • franthewndrhrse says:
        25 May 2011 at 7:39 PM

        franboy is muddling through. He doesn’t need adaptive tech as of yet, but at some point he will.
        I asked about the optic nerve because there are some amazing things going on with research. Not that your friend wants more surgeries.

  2. franthewndrhrse says:
    24 May 2011 at 8:15 PM

    My best friend is going blind. 😦

    What’s going on? I’m asking and I’m nosy — my son has a genetic condition that causes blindness. He’s almost legally blind at 17.

    Reply
    • campylobacter says:
      24 May 2011 at 8:56 PM

      has had more than 10 eye surgeries since 1994. 3 vitrectomies, 3 lens replacements, retina re-attachment, at least 5 laser “sand-blastings” of an artificial lens. Steroids injected directly into her eyes, gone blind twice, has a permanent macular degeneration in her right eye and thus a large fuzzy area smack in the middle of it. Severe photophobia, night blindness, internal eye hemorrhaging, disintegrating ligaments inside her eye.

      The condition is genetic. 😦

      I’ve been reading her posts and emails and it tears me apart that the more frequent occurrence of typos in them aren’t the result of carelessness, but increasingly impaired eyesight. She’s so scared. Her latest (13th) eye surgery was to fix a lens “stuck” to her retina. They “scraped” it off to remove it and the vitreous before adding a new lens into the anterior section. But her vision hasn’t improved. It’s worse, and she can only read on a monitor if the type is huge, the background is black, and the text white.

      I’m crying just thinking about it.

      Reply
      • franthewndrhrse says:
        25 May 2011 at 1:27 AM

        Yikes. You and your friend have my sympathies. The surgeries sound painful. Has her optic nerve been damaged?

        I wish I had words of wisdom, but I don’t. My father was blind.
        Growing up, I didn’t think much about it as he did so many things for my sister and I, just not things that involved seeing. I worry more for my son because as an adult, I DO think about the difficulties.

      • campylobacter says:
        25 May 2011 at 7:19 AM

        I don’t know about her optic nerve. All those eye procedures squick me so much that I can’t keep track of everything.

        How has Franboy coped with his visual impairment? Does he adapt well to assistive technologies, or attempted to learn Braille?

      • franthewndrhrse says:
        25 May 2011 at 7:39 PM

        franboy is muddling through. He doesn’t need adaptive tech as of yet, but at some point he will.

        I asked about the optic nerve because there are some amazing things going on with research. Not that your friend wants more surgeries.

  3. anna_sg1 says:
    24 May 2011 at 11:09 PM

    That gif is amazing and badass. *saves*
    EDIT – I posted without reading. So sorry about your friend, hon’. ♥ 😦

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  4. anna_sg1 says:
    24 May 2011 at 11:09 PM

    That gif is amazing and badass. *saves*

    EDIT – I posted without reading. So sorry about your friend, hon’. ♥ 😦

    Reply
  5. thothmes says:
    25 May 2011 at 7:12 AM

    The kindest thing you can do for your friend, (I mean besides the obvious things like investigate screen reader programs and things that will allow her to mouse over text and have it “read” aloud, and that sort of thing where your sightedness will make the time spent less than it would for her) is to make sure she is very careful with her hearing. We have a family friend who was blinded in a car accident in her 30’s, and who took up her life again and continued to raise 5 children and see to their needs, and pursue her own interests as they grew, but now in old age she is losing her hearing, and her life is closing in on her.
    I am so sorry that she is going through this, and I send you a virtual hug. The nice thing about love is that it never runs out, so pass the hug on to her.

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    • campylobacter says:
      25 May 2011 at 8:16 AM

      Thanks! I’ll make sure she gets hugged as much as possible. 🙂 Please pass on a hug to your friend who’s confronting growing silence in her world of darkness.
      It’s all been making me re-think how I write the HTML for images, too. There’s some good tips in this DW entry for adding concise description to the ALT attribute:
      http://lightgetsin.dreamwidth.org/308442.html

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      • thothmes says:
        25 May 2011 at 8:20 AM

        Thanks for the link. I’ll be sure to look it up soon, when I am no longer Hideously Behind.

      • campylobacter says:
        25 May 2011 at 8:31 AM

        Here’s the most salient piece of advice from the entry:
        “A tree,” is not a good description. “Tree, fall, gold,” is a great description.
        The comments to the entry are basically PREACHING TO THE CHOIR.

  6. thothmes says:
    25 May 2011 at 7:12 AM

    The kindest thing you can do for your friend, (I mean besides the obvious things like investigate screen reader programs and things that will allow her to mouse over text and have it “read” aloud, and that sort of thing where your sightedness will make the time spent less than it would for her) is to make sure she is very careful with her hearing. We have a family friend who was blinded in a car accident in her 30’s, and who took up her life again and continued to raise 5 children and see to their needs, and pursue her own interests as they grew, but now in old age she is losing her hearing, and her life is closing in on her.

    I am so sorry that she is going through this, and I send you a virtual hug. The nice thing about love is that it never runs out, so pass the hug on to her.

    Reply
  7. campylobacter says:
    25 May 2011 at 8:31 AM

    Here’s the most salient piece of advice from the entry:

    “A tree,” is not a good description. “Tree, fall, gold,” is a great description.

    The comments to the entry are basically PREACHING TO THE CHOIR.

    Reply

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