#it’s incredibly ableist to pair off your disabled character with a healer/doctor

[illputdownmyrootswhenimdead]

hmmm i just saw some Bad Fandom Content

#was looking at pjo content bc i was Thinking about nico again lol #stumbled upon some s0langelo content and decided to look at some fics #and WOW a lot of this stuff is just blatantly fucking ableist #when i was active in the pjo fandom i generally didn’t read other people’s fics #and while i knew there were elements of ableism in the books i thought the fans would do it Less #but. VERY much not so #it’s incredibly ableist to pair off your disabled character with a healer/doctor #a healer/doctor who isn’t even nice to said disabled character and ignores his boundaries #and who abuses his position of authority as a healer/doctor to bend the rules in really unpleasant ways #literally so many s0langelo fics are just savior fantasies and it’s really gross #i noticed these elements in the books but it never clicked how gross they are #and the fandom takes it extra far by majorly infantilizing nico #which is uhhhhh. idk if i even need to say it but that’s a really bad thing to do to a disabled character #(the fandom also ignores the fact that nico canonically has chronic fatigue and probably chronic pain as well) #(idc if rr hasn’t made it explicitly canon nico regularly passes out or needs to rest after using his powers at all) #it’s such a weird bad ship and most people handle it poorly #and yet it’s like the second most popular ship. hate it here #listen i used to like it! it could be cute! but rr and the majority of fans make it creepy and weird and ableist #it makes me so so annoyed that will demanding that nico do certain things and trying to exert power over him through ‘doctors orders’ #yeah yeah let’s just have this very disabled character have his medical agency taken from him by his doctor bf #that’s fine and not something that happens irl constantly #anyway it made me upset #generally the way the books and the fandom treat nico makes me sad. #im gonna take him and put him on the top shelf. #dove talks #yes im talking about pjo in 2023. sorry