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bawdiestrhymester · 1 year

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Adam Quinn: Witchhunter

#Ben Willbond #adam quinn #a kind of spark #akos #six idiots #sixidiots #a kind of spark spoilers #thanks for the shit gif quality #these looked much better when i made them

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baynton · 6 months

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hello ben fans, finally i updated my akos gdrive with good quality copies of the show rather than the screen recordings i did after it first aired!

here you go

#ben willbond #adam quinn #a kind of spark #akos #*resources

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lifedistractions · 1 year

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Lord Adam Quinn, witch hunter

#ben willbond #Adam Quinn #a kind of spark #witch hunter #AKOS #it’s the leather costume and the cloak and the sword and the streaks of silver in his sexy beard that make me wish I was a witch

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ramyaknox · 1 year

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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

#a kind of spark #akos #actually autistic #elle mcnicoll

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partiallypearl · 11 months

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“They were real people who lived and died here. They were singled out, and punished just for being different. And we’ve forgotten them... I’m asking the council for a memorial. For the witches of Juniper.”

#addie darrow #a kind of spark #lola blue #gifs #gif #akindofsparkedit #akos #BABY GIRLLLLL #i love her so much #*mine #userzackmartin #heather tag

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standofmdfan · 2 months

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My mums friend, who's son is autistic, recommended my mum 'a kind of spark', which had recently come out on bbc iplayer. I was reluctant to watch it at first, because I thought is was aimed for younger children. After dinner, we usually watch a tv show, and I wanted to watch Horrible Histories. However, my mum was bored of that by then (I did watch it every day at that point. I go through phases) and she said we should try A Kind of Spark. We watched an episode, and I was angry because I wanted to be watching Horrible Histories. However I soon realised that I related a lot to the characters, and I started doing some research on autism. I had my initial assessment last year, and they said I am most likely autistic and I have ADHD although because the waiting list's so long I probably won't be officially diagnosed for another 1-3 years. My mum bough me the book and I loved it, and I loved the series the more I watched of it. And so my mum bought me all of Elle Mcnicolls other books. Elle is an actual legend. And now she's written the Keedie book (she's my favourite character) , which I can't wait for, and A Kind of Spark has a season two. I couldn't be more excited. I'm glad I gave it a go, because it led me to discover so much about myself.

#akos #akos s2 #elle mcnicoll is a legend #a kind of spark #keedie darrow #autism #neurodivergent #i love horrible histories though #and also ben willbond's in it #that made me happy #alexaaaaander victorious fiiiiiighteerrrrr #adventures had to stop cos 323bc saw me drooooooooppppp.... dead

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livebloggingkidshows · 5 days

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Also! New A Kind of Spark season and TNS 9B on the same day? I'm gonna be a mess

#the next step #tns #not liveblogging #a kind of spark #akos

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mcaquila · 9 months

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Character art for a book @spookyscribe and I are working on (and just finished the first draft of!)

Akos is a Dark Elf who is also a god reborn (presumably), and Priya is supposedly the reincarnation of his lover. Akos is 100% into this. Priya is not. There's no way that drama will ensue. It's simply not possible.

#akos #priya #fantasy #original art #concept art #art #artists on tumblr #original character #original characters

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mortaljortlebortles · 11 months

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Keedie Darrow

#keedie darrow #picrew #akos #a kind of spark #georgia de gidlow #cbbc #autistic #autism #autistic character #autistic actress

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original-randomness · 8 months

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Keedie from a kind of spark is confirmed lgbtq+, both good news for annoying gay people (me) (hooray for being gay, and also that close female ‘friendship’ in AKOS was 100% something more), also bad news for annoying gay people (her book is gonna be even sadder with what happens to Bonnie)

#a kind of spark #akos

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bawdiestrhymester · 10 months

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The Faces of Ben: Adam Quinn edition, part two

#Ben Willbond #adam quinn #Lord Adam quinn #witch hunter #akos #a kind of spark #faces of ben

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baynton · 1 year

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once again doing my duty for the ben fans:

a kind of spark is now on my gdrive. the quality really isn’t the best, but i figured that since it’s impossible to access for some people, it would be better than nothing!

#a kind of spark #akos #ben willbond #themthere #them there #six idiots #the six idiots #resources #other resources #it's a great show btw ben or no ben #really enjoyed watching it #*resources

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mylifebeingautistic · 12 days

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book review: Keedie by Elle McNicoll

Set five years before Elle McNicoll's debut A Kind of Spark, this book follows Keedie in her mission to confront the bullies in her school. The book addresses topics such as teenage popularity, standing up for what is right, and complicated relationships between siblings.

Before this book I had already read A Kind of Spark and watched its TV show adaptation, and Keedie was my favourite character of both. So I was very excited about this book from the second I first heard about it. And it didn't disappoint! This book gave me almost everything I could have wished for.

I loved getting to meet Keedie's friends, Bonnie and Angel, who are also autistic, but have different support needs to Keedie. I would have liked to have seen more of them!

Keedie's relationships with her sisters, Nina and Addie, change throughout this book. I thought their dynamics as siblings were written very well. Nina's role in the story was particularly interesting, painting a very realistic picture of what it might be like to be fourteen years old and trying to fit in.

From this point on, I will be discussing spoilers for Keedie. If you don't want to see those, stop reading here!

Firstly, I loved this scene with Keedie and Mr Allison in the library. Keedie tells Mr Allison how she didn't like the books he'd recommended to her, which were all about the main characters having an autistic sibling, rather than autistic people getting to be the heroes themselves.

"Well, I'll be on the hunt for better. The school wants more representation in the library." "Oh, there's some good stuff," I tell him. "Sherlock Holmes. Vincent Van Gogh. Mr Darcy. Jo and Beth March. Mr Dick from David Copperfield." His eyes dance with surprise. "I'm impressed. And they're all autistic?" "Sure," I say, heading for the exit. "They just don't have the paperwork."

I loved this part because it referenced some characters that I also think are autistic. Especially Beth March and Mr Darcy. I've always found them so relatable and thought they would be autistic if they were real and living in a time when they were able to express themselves and get a diagnosis. Maybe I could make another post about book characters I think are autistic. Would you find that interesting?

It crept up on us, this loss of how things used to be. People are now swept up in what other people think of them. From the choking taste of hairspray in the bathrooms to the group chats, something has shifted.

I really liked this description of the change that happens in school as you enter the teenage years. It's such a shame that it happens. Imagine how much nicer the world could be if we were all free to be ourselves, without worrying what others would think.

In the scene where Keedie speaks up for April when she is hit by the snooker ball, I liked how her differences that might be seen as a bad thing by some were useful in doing something good.

Other people have stops in their heads, like the barriers that come down to block a car from driving across train tracks. Other people keep certain words and behaviours inside, the barriers come down and they don't act. They wait. I don't have those barriers. Never have.

When Keedie confronts her sister after Nina's friends bullied Bonnie at the Founders' Day celebration, Nina says this:

"I did nothing!" Nina shouts, suddenly animated. "As usual, I did nothing wrong!"

Which I think is such an important point about how compliance and being a bystander to bullying is actually just as bad as doing the bullying itself.

"Exactly," I say coarsely. "You did nothing."

At the same time, I do feel for Nina, because I remember what it was like to be in her situation. You feel as if you have to go along with the bullies, because if you don't, they will turn on you too. And I'm glad she saw the error of her ways and apologised to Keedie at the end.

At the birthday party, this happens once again:

I silently challenge Nina with a glare. She can make all this go away. She can check her friends. She can take them somewhere else. She can stand up to them, stand up for us, for once. She can make a difference and choose not to be a bystander to her friends and their bullying tactics. But she says nothing.

I thought it was really accurate how in this scene, the type of bullying that Nina's friends use is one that might not seem like bullying to an outsider. Patronising tones, saying horrible things whilst smiling. It becomes worse later, but it is still the type of bullying that is difficult to report. Targets of bullying like this might not tell anyone because of how difficult it is to explain, or they might question whether to report at all, whether the problem is even real or if they're just overexaggerating it. I know this because it happened to me.

"Want to know the worst thing about being autistic? It's not the autism." I throw the napkin down and push back my chair. "It's people like you."

I really liked this ongoing metaphor of the North Star, as Keedie's reason to keep fighting.

If I'm a voyager of sorts, Bonnie is my North Star. I keep one eye on her at all times, no matter the state of the current, and I keep sailing towards it. She's my only North Star and that will never change.

When Keedie tries to give Angel's dad money so that Addie can go to his school, she doesn't have enough. But Angel's dad tells her:

"You be the person you needed at her age. Be her rock. Be the tree that doesn't move in the storm. You can do that, I know you can, you already are!"

I think this really influences Keedie to become the person we know in A Kind of Spark. She realises that she can't change her past, but she can change Addie's future, to make Addie's experience of growing up better than her own.

It's time to stop hunting sea monsters and start rescuing sharks. To keep gazing up at that North Star. Polaris never was just one star in the sky: it looks like a single bright light but it's made up of multiple stars.

Have you read Keedie? What did you think of it? Did you find it relatable in the same ways I did, or in different ones? Let me know in the comments!

#actually autistic #autism awareness #autistic adult #autistic community #keedie #a kind of spark #akos

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ramyaknox · 6 months

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