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"It's not fair. I would do anything. Why does it have to be the one thing I can't change about myself?"

Heartbreak High have done it again. Ca$h Piggott is the most beautiful asexual representation. I have never related to anything more. He is trying so hard, but he's staying true to who he is.

And that is so important to see.

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HEARTBREAK HIGH (2022 - ) Season 2, Episode 1

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me for the past year or so

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Will McDonald & James Majoos as Ca$h & Darren Rivers Heartbreak High (2.04)

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Storm meets Forge

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Hi drawing comic babes in 80s fitness outfits is my new favorite thing

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is this anything

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Just so everyone is on the same page. In episode 3 we had:

Morph comfortably walking in on butt-naked Logan

Goblin Queen serving cunt

Disheveled titties-out Magneto.

As a queer person, I can confidently say we won with this one fellas. Good time to be alive.

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Ok so there's a criminal lack of discourse around this new, amazing, beautiful, heart-warming series called A Kind of Spark. I dont usually write long post nor meta nor join in discourse writing, but since there's so little about it here I am!

The series is based on a book by Elle McNicoll, which is also called A Kind of Spark, and its absolutely amazing. The author herself is autistic, and she wrote beautifully and truthfully. Reading the book felt like a healing experience. I sobbed, I laughed, I stopped to just think about what I just read... It was truly incredible.

But I actually watched the series first, because I found it first and it was love at first sight. It doesn't follow exactly the book, but I nevertheless loved every single episode. The actresses are autistic themselves, and seeing autistic, female characters played by autistic actresses and depicting autism as something that is not the usual stereotype, and showing it's different for every individual? Like. My hearth was already so full!

There is autistic burnout, meltdowns, overstimulation, special interests, hyperixations... It's all so accurate and well done!

BUT!

Something I loved even more was that IT'S NOT a story about autism. The autism just happens to be there, because the protagonist and her older sister are autistic, so it's in how she experiences the world.

The story is about Addie, the main character, finding out about the witch trials that happened in her town, about how these "witches" were just women who were different and therefore accused by a world who didn't understand them, nor tried to understand them. She is absolutely heartbroken about it. So, she decides to convince the town council to make a memorial for them, to apologise to them, to recognise they were real women treated unfairly and that they're not forgotten.

It's not a smooth path. Ableism and the tendency to like "nice things" instead of kind and truthful things are great obstacles.

There is also the parallel story about the mystery of one of the "witches", of whose Addie has the diary, and who simply disappeared on her trial, and nobody knows what happened to her. A mystery Addie is set to discover.

The atmosphere is magical, the mystery intriguing, and we have an autistic female character in the 1500s flashback. I MEAN.

Every character is well written and fleshed out, autistic and neurotypical. The ableism Addie and her sister, Keedie, have to face is heartbreaking and feels very real, but also recongized as horribile and the perpetrators are found guilty and punished in the end. The family of the two girls is absolutely heartwarming to see, they're understanding and supportive, and you can see all the little details about the house that make it perfect for two autistic people to live in.

There are a lot of characters to love, and every single one of them feels real. There are also characters I hated, and they felt terrifying real too.

In conclusion, PLEASE go watch it!!! More people need to watch it and more people need to talk about it!!

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Same, but quite different.

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I'm currently watching A Kind of Spark. I absolutely love the book and it's super special to me so I'm really happy about the TV series.

These are all the things I've loved so far

Addie stimming, it just makes me feel so seen and safe whenever I see it. Lola blue plays her beautifully

Every scene in a library or place with books. The quiet just captures the beautiful feeling of stepping into that place and the fact that they aren't rushed just makes them feel exactly how I think they should and exactly how libraries make me feel as someone who's special interest is in reading

Frank. He's a legend and I love him even though he wasn't in the books

Keedie, is absolutely gorgeous and almost perfect to how I imagined her

Nina is amazing as well and the actress plays her so well even though she said it was difficult masking all the time

The scene in episode 4 with keedie and nina in the clothes shop made me quite emotional and I think it was really great even though it wasn't in the book

A neurodivergent writer and 3 neurodivergent actresses in lead roles. They've worked so hard for this show and it's beautiful to finally see it

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“What if I become him and I don’t even know it?”

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I watch this show for One Character The rest are a cool addition tho

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Boar at a Wellspring

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