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Depends, would you feel better if you stepped back for a bit?

Blind Jack of Knaresborough sounds like an absolute mad lad. Apparently he got a woman pregnant and ran off with her He basically: - raced horses - gambled at cards and dices - swam across rivers for shits and giggles - went hunting and shot birds - got a gig transporting supplies for...

Dang! I’ll check him out! Edit; Right, he sounds like an absolute mad lad. Gonna buy his biography. He’s basically Amos with a few extra layers. 😂

Today I Learned: https://partnersforsight.org/tracing-the-origins-of-the-white-cane-richard-edwin-hoover/ The Hoover Method — the sweeping and tapping of the white cane you see blind folks do. it was first developed for blinded veterans of WWII. There’s your Memorial Day factoid!

Meep

Alas no. It’s just Boston and Cambridge.

A blend of loyalists and rebels, with some neutral.

1775, Dunbrooke, just an hour or so from Boston proper, at the start of the Revolutionary War.

That is possible. Honestly, if I were a blind man in the 1700s, I’d be doing it anyway to help me navigate the world better. I suppose I can still keep it — just don’t call it the Hoover method (the terminology for the tapping/swinging in an arc you see blind people do.)

Goddamn it... I wrote my entire history fiction book with my blind main character in 1775 using… a method of cane moving (y’know, how the blind would swing their cane side to side or tap?) that wasn’t introduced until the 1940s. Meaning… Amos would either be holding it at an angle in a...

Ooh, what kind of game you playing?

TMW you realize you…have no idea how to tie two separate threads together in your writing. 😭

Sounds like a plan!

Right, I’m just saying that the AI will craft a long-winded reason of why it thinks your idea would work but it’s up to you to not take it at face value. You can take bits and pieces of it and mix it up for your own idea, but the AI must never be the driving force behind it all.

They all have disabled characters and the themes revolve around resilience, determination, and the ability to rise above the odds.