most of all I want the actors to be young because I want them to really hit us with the fact that these are little kids. that these are elementary schoolers fighting for their lives every day, and that they lose way too often. in the movies we saw adults acting as teenagers and thought nothing of it, that's every movie these days. but I want the pjo show to show us an 12 year old trying desperately to kill medusa. I want them to show us a seven year old annabeth, a first grader, running away from home and ready to fight of a hellhound the size of a dump truck with a hammer. I want to see percy, fresh out of grade 9 and looking it, going straight from a day at the beach with his friend to a life-or-death war mission where not everyone makes it out. I want an adaptation where being a demigod is cool, yeah, but it's also awful because percy is five foot nothing with still chubby cheeks and he's being told it's not likely he'll live to graduate high school.
HOW DO I RESPOND TO PEOPLE ASKING TO PLATONICALLY DATE ME HELP
I’m trying to teach a lesson to my homophobic mother, so every url that reblogs are likes this will be written down and posted all over Niagara Falls
Dear hearing aid providers: stop only advertising your hearing aids for old people - from a deaf 19 year old who’s used hearing aids since she was 7
I had a dream where I was sent to an alternate universe and I had to murder all my immediate family or I would be stuck in an eternal time loop where I get murdered. I vividly remember stabbing my mom and brother then slicing my dads neck by the raspberry’s while our dog watched over while glowing. Then I had to hunt down my grandpa and talked with him for longer then I have in real life. Then my alarm woke me up. I remember feeling really apathetic throughout the dream and when I woke up. Also there was a guy that looked like the teacher from victorious that was stuck there too and he was really freaked out at first then just napped in our pantry for the rest of the dream
Japanese Severus Snape gets summoned by Hayate Ayasaki.
Ah Christmas, the day I feel guilty for everything. Fun.
It just kills me when writers create franchises where like 95% of the speaking roles are male, then get morally offended that all of the popular ships are gay. It’s like, what did they expect?
((i know scrolling through and reblogging long posts can be annoying sometimes, but if you have the time please read through and reblog because i’m sick and people need to know about this))
this movie is called music and it’s about a supposedly about a nonverbal, austistic girl named music. the problem? music is played by maddie ziegler
maddie is neurotypical (individuals of typical developmental, intellectual, and cognitive abilities,) ie: she is NOT on the spectrum and NOT disabled. so there’s the first issue. but then we get into sia’s response to the whole thing which ends up being worse somehow
people are obviously and rightfully upset with maddie’s casting.
so what was sia’s response to the criticism?
“oh well, we tried”
now i work as a paraprofessional in an elementary school and many of our students are on the spectrum, nonverbal, disabled, or some combination of all three and/or more. sometimes working with students with disabilities can be challenging but the biggest lesson i have learned in the last 3 years is that there are always ways to be ACCOMMODATING because it often is a LOT more difficult for the student who is neurodiverse than the adult who is neurotypical. i have seen tremendous growth when working with students with educational and social disabilities when they are given the appropriate accommodations, patience, and understanding.
the actress sia and this team worked with probably did find the whole situation daunting and stressful, because like the fucking movie says in the trailer, her brain is DIFFERENT FROM OURS. if this movie was really about spreading awareness about disabilities, they would have accommodated to the actress so that she could work stress free and feel safe and if they couldn’t figure out how to do that, they shouldn’t have made the fucking movie at all
sia also manages to criticize sex workers and people struggling from addictions at the same time during her “defense”
let’s see what else?
oh the movie is not accessible
there are no also no fucking captions for a movie supposedly about disabilities
oh and autism speaks is involved too which sia justifies “not knowing how garbage they are” on a MOVIE ABOUT A GIRL WHO IS ON THE SPECTRUM HOW FUCKING STUPID DO YOU HAVE TO BE
this one actress states that she and many other austistic actors said they would be a part of the movie short notice
to which sia had to say this
i’m not trying to be a proponent of cancel culture but this is fucking DISGUSTING. sia is trying to justify her actions with ableist bullshit. she’s upset that people are judging her movie “before they’ve seen it” when it’s CLEARLY NOT WORTH SEEING because like many people have pointed out, this movie is NOT an accurate portrayal of disabilities, not accessible, the people involved clearly didn’t put the effort and time into making something that actually brought any kind of awareness, and all of this boils down to sia and her team being a bunch of ableist who weren’t willing to put in the effort or time.
imagine having such a large platform as these celebrities have and creating an ableist, garbage piece of media that only polarizes and discriminates even further and then acting like you’re the victim in the situation. i’m DISGUSTED, APPALLED, ANGERED, and OUTRAGED and you should too.
people on the spectrum matter, nonverbal people matter, people with disabilities matter, neurodiverse people matter.
while we do our social justice thing to shut down racism, sexism, homophobia, etc, let’s remember to shut down ableism as well because it fucking matters too
They/them, bisexual, random things will be posted, you will be disappointed, bnha
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