hoh nancy wheeler
(tagging @netflixnormalthings for their awesome research and screenshots and @lumaxramblings bc we had Many discussions abt hoh nancy)
so a few weeks ago i made this post, about nancy not wearing earplugs and using the shotgun (and guns in general over the seasons) and how this affected her hearing. but then it really did get me thinking: why don't we see more content about hard of hearing nancy wheeler?
i see hoh steve all the time, which is fair! steve has gotten his fair share of head trauma and no doubt has problems from this. (and i do love hoh steve! don't get me wrong!) but i rarely see anything about hoh nancy, even though she has consistently dealt with firearms since season 1 without the proper ear protection.
just for reference: whispering is around 30 decibels, normal speaking voices around 60 db, and anything above 70 db for extended amounts of time will start to damage the ear, and anything over 120 db will cause immediate damage to the ears.
for reference: in season 4, nancy fires the shotgun four times while blasting vecna out of the window. in season 3, she fires hoppers shotgun a few times during the fight at the cabin, and this doesn't include firing at billy or the fireworks they all set off inside starcourt (which, should've given them all a little hearing damage, if we're honest).(fireworks decibels + info under the cut!) nor does it account for the times she shot at the demogorgon in season 1.
anyway, the point is: there is no way that nancy is not hard of hearing. firing a shotgun once without protection is enough to blow your hearing out, but four times? and it's not even the first time she's dealt with firearms. she's shown to be one of the most, if not the most, proficient with guns. noise induced hearing loss is a very real thing, it damages the hair cells within the ear--these cannot grow back. and shotguns breach the threshold where just one close and sudden exposure can cause instant and permanent hearing loss.
there isn't much else for me to say here, this was really just a comprehensive guide, or even "proof" that nancy should be hard of hearing, or at least a wider accepted headcanon than it is. give me nancy, who, after even season 1, starts to have a hard time hearing what other people are saying, and learns to read lips instead. give me stubborn nancy who won't admit that there's anything wrong, that she can hear just fine, thank you, and she doesn't need help. i know nancy typically has the best hearing out of the main cast, usually the one who hears the danger first, but i don't know...it just seems more plausible to me for nancy to be hard of hearing.
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i've had a sims flop era just like this before where i wasn't happy with anything i made it was this awkward mid-point between my old sim style and my current where it seems like i was trying to do my current sim style but couldn't quite do it right so ig it's experimenting time🧍♂️
i was just going through my archive to see if there was a specific turning point (you know how sometimes you scroll to the bottom of an artist you like's instagram and start going backwards and sometimes you can see the exact piece where their art style shifted into theirs) but i actually don't see one here. it was right around when i started trying to render which i guess helped me build my preferences and my knowledge of lighting/composition/colors, but idk how or what i'm even going for nowadays 🤨 i'm gonna commit to getting out of this rut though. but that means a temporary this is the fall break i like these next few posts i want to like how they look
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Chapters: 16/?
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Sokka/Zuko (Avatar), Aang/Katara (Avatar), others to be tagged later - Relationship
Characters: Sokka (Avatar), Zuko (Avatar), Aang (Avatar), Katara (Avatar), Toph Beifong, Jet (Avatar), Suki (Avatar), Kyoshi Warriors (Avatar), Iroh (Avatar), Jee (Avatar), Hakoda (Avatar), Bato (Avatar), A bunch of OCs, Long Feng, Joo Dee (Avatar), Azula (Avatar), Mai (Avatar), Ty Lee (Avatar), Ozai (Avatar), General Fong (Avatar)
Additional Tags: Violence, Blood and Injury, War, Minor Character Death, Rape/Non-con Elements, Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault, Attempted Sexual Assault, Major Character Injury, Amputation, Implied/Referenced Suicide, possible major character death, themes similar to the first two books, Sexism, Racism (like has already been written in first two books), dark themes, Human Trafficking, Slavery, Just a lot of dark war-like themes, there will be a battle, Torture, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Injury Recovery, Healing, Underage Sex, Underage Drinking, Animal Death, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Warnings each chapter, Hopefully some healing for Zuko finally, no promises, but that’s the goal, Reunions, hopefully a happy ending, Sokka gets some healing too, Non-Consensual Drug Use
Series: Part 3 of Leaving It All Behind
Summary:
-This is the last book of the series LIAB, please go read the other two books before this, or you will be very confused-
Zuko has been taken by the Earth Kingdom army to who-knows-where, and Sokka is determined to get him back.
But he can’t do it alone.
With Suki and the Kyoshi Warriors by his side, Sokka is headed to Ba Sing Se to find Katara and Aang so they can go rescue his fire bender.
Things aren’t as easy as he had hoped. Corruption, lies, and unknown horrors await them inside the city’s walls. None of this is helping Sokka’s mental well-being.
Hakoda and his men face a problem of their own as Azula approaches with the intentions of making it rain fire.
Sokka and Zuko will both find themselves having to reintegrate back into a life they thought they left behind, with people they hardly remember. It isn’t easy for anyone, especially when they don’t recognize the person standing in front of them.
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I know there’s a lot of interpretations in this fandom for how Heart got blinded, so I’d like to throw my theories into the cauldron.
This is probably gonna be a longer infodump so be prepared I guess !!!
I have a strong feeling that it was Mind. As you (probably) know, Mind is referred to as the Sun or with sun imagery throughout the album. With this in mind (pun not intended), the lyric “Choose to sit safely out of the sun away from rays so blinding to the eye” in THA supports this theory. I’ve seen various headcanons in the CJFS discord about how this could’ve happened. I kinda like the idea of Mind stealing Soul’s trident out of rage and stabbing Heart, but I’m still not too sure.
Soul could’ve also done it. Likely as punishment for the Juno Incident. We know how violent he can get, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Heart got impaled with the trident.
During the Juno Incident, the bullet ricocheted off of Mind’s metallic skin and back in to Heart’s face. Or maybe he was just holding the gun backwards like a doofus.
This’ll probably sound really stupid but I have a more abstract take on how he could’ve blinded himself. This was my first ever theory i got when I heard THA for the first time. Heart describes presumably what blinded him as “beautiful light”, which leads me to believe that the bright light is symbolic of him letting himself feel intense emotions to prove his point. By stepping into this light, did he intend to return blinded???? This isn’t really clear, but nonetheless I don’t think it really worked in his favor.
I’ve been thinking way too hard about this. Please send help.
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