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minawithlettuce · 1 year

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'fuck you my child is fine' Your child heavily relates to Tori Spring, no your child is not fine.

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i-hear-a-sound · 8 months

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leftism leaving peoples bodies the moment people with facial/bodily deformities exist

#social justice #deformity #disability #ableism #leftism #leftist #sorry for posting this randomlt but I really don’t care this shit makes me unbelievably mad.#y’all will go “i love fat ppl i love neurodivergent ppl i love (the widely portrayed positively in media) disabled ppl”#and the moment you see someone your mind already has deemed “ugly” in any way you act up. fuck off you ableist cunt.#i can maybe count with 2 fingers the amount of times people with facial or bodily differences have been portrayed #positively in any media. one was in a kids book that got a movie a few years ago.#and the other was that one pretty poignant David lynch film I THINK.#anything else. it’s fucking garbage and it shows on so many fuckers on this website

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deanpinterester · 3 months

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actually giving this its own post. i just think it's really funny that for being "nothing like the movie", the show sure dealt with gabe's petrification in the exact same way, right down to it being an after-credit scene and it being an accident

#uhhhh me #pjo show crit #for all the attempts to give sally agency THIS is the moment they suddenly decide to leave sally out of it?#when her willingly giving gabe the head is literally the culmination of her arc in the first book?#her finally being in a position where she can choose to save herself from gabe?#if they didn't want to do it because they were afraid it would be too scary for kids then fine whatever #the fact that it's the exact same as the movie though. that's. something

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niyana-the-ambiguous-mobian · 1 month

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I remember hearing about this film when it was in production, but I thought this was going to be a fully animated film and not a live action/animation hybrid that’s a…”sequel”?? I say that since Harold is an adult rather than a child now, kinda reminds me of what they did with 2010’s Alice in Wonderland by having that be a continuation of the OG story versus being a remake of the story.

Idk, this is Carlos Saldanha’s first live action movie and he is a cool director so I guess we’ll see what happens.

#I’m trying so hard to be positive about this yall have no idea XD #How many people remember Harold and the Purple crayon?#I know my generation kinda do but what about the younger generations?#I barely watched the cartoon as a kid but I remember reading the books a bit….#idk #harold and the purple crayon

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fromtheseventhhell · 5 months

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"The Starks are going to hate Dany because her father killed their grandfather and uncle"

The Starks thinking about Rickard and Brandon:

#asoiaf #house stark #daenerys targaryen #if they were going to have a conflict based on that then they would actually think about them in their POVs😭#sorry but not even Ned hates the Targs over what happened so it makes no sense that his kids would hold a bigger grudge #an actual potential conflict is Dany being (rightfully) angry at Ned for his alliance with Robert #you know something that's actually been built up in the story and we see how she feels on the topic #vs. /let's assume the Starks will be angry cause I would be angry in their position even though they've literally never thought about it/#normalize making predictions based on the actual books and not just assumptions based on vibes uwu #cleaning out my drafts prepare to be terrorized

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queerism1969 · 1 year

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kiddie-boi · 1 year

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I wrote a kids book!

its about a more positive version of my experience growing up autistic and having a "strange" smile

hope you like it! and if you do please share! Id like to be able to make it a real life book one day and I can only do that with your support 💚

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electricmaimer · 4 months

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"i dont care if people who havent read the books get spoiled for the show" <- words of a person i now want to bite and yell at

#BE FUCKING NICE #A LOT OF THEM ARE CHILDREN??? THEY EITHER HAVENT GOTTEN AROUND TO READING THE BOOKS BECAUSE THEY DIDNT HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO YET #OR #ADDITIONALLY IT IS 2023. THE WORLD IS DIFFERENT AND MEDIA IS BEING ADAPTED FOR NEW GENERATIONS #TRY HOLDING SOME WONDER AND JOY IN YOUR HEART AND THINK ABOUT HOWW FUN IT IS TO EXPERIENCE A STORY FOR THE FIRST TIME #STOP SPOILING SHIT ON PURPOSE IT MAKES ME WANT TO COMMIT CRIMES❤️#literally dont be a spiteful dick and stop ruining things for fun or because you want to gatekeep and have a superiority complex #fuck uou i would personally give ANYTHING to get to experience this story for the first time again #and watching people ruin in in real time for people experiencing it for the firdt time. i hate you #ypure all extremely selfish and shortsighted for doing this whole 'yeah but the books have been out for forever.. :/' bs #absolutely giving yourself away as a fucking clown with no ability to gain anything positive from shared joy. get well soon #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #pjo show #percy jackson show #pjo tv show #eeanpost #ALSO THE FUCKING AUDACITY FOR THE FANBASE OF A BOOK SERIES ABOUT KIDS STRUGGLING WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES TO YELL AT PEOPLE FOR NOTREADING #DO YOU FUCKING HEAR YPURSELVES ???? WHAT THE FUCK??? THE STORY IS MORE ACCESSIBLE NOW. THAT IS A GOOD THING. HTJSJJTJFJG

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prncsslulu · 1 month

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25 days of agere moodboards: day three — inspired by your fav kids book ❥ the baby blue cat who said no.

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kermit-coded · 7 months

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i will never be able to put into words how much the percy jackson books mean to me... they were a formative experience and they truly helped shape me into the person i am today, so the fact that we're finally getting a good live action makes me feel unwell...

#i will be SO insufferable when this comes out #also the riordianverse in general was my introduction to a lot of different people and cultures #first positive exposure to gay and trans people #first positive exposure to muslim/nonchristian folks #it helped me learn about the world around me #and i know they arent perfect but god they mean so much to me #so im sobbing fr that theyre getting it right...#the bit in tkc where carter mentions that his dad told him that he needs to dress well bc otherwise he's going to be seen as a threat as #a black man in america #the parts in mcga where samirah talks about her faith #specifically when she has magnus take watch for her while shes praying #and alex's whole introduction and the exchange about his/her prounouns #specifically magnus going ''wouldnt it be easier just to go by they/them'' and alex saying ''easier for who?''#all live rent free in my head #as a queer kid stuck at catholic school and surrounded by conservative adults these books saved my life #pjo tv show #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson disney+#soda speaks #riordanverse #pjo

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bonebabbles · 3 months

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wait im sorry. ive never read past the first book of dotc and all my knowledge of it really just comes from your blogs. wh. why did the erins decide to include sexual violence in warriors? like. that seems a little. too much? like all im hearing of dotc is just. terrible shit. i like reading more angst/serious stuff (i wanna say darker but not in the way "dark media" usually means on this site) but this feels like WAYYY to much for a book series meant for kids....... what were they thinking??

I legitimately do not understand what people like about DOTC. You can go back to where I started this re-read, and you can visibly watch my charitability drain as the project goes on.

It feels like literally everything that people say they like about this arc is not there, while they've completely forgotten or misremembered SERIOUSLY awful shit

And now, listen. I'm a huge fan of xenofiction, which is a genre that is full of kid's and teen's media, but I do love more adult fiction. I love nuanced themes, dark subjects, and complicated plots.

DOTC's message is just plain odious. None of what it sets out to say is worth saying, and it's borderline incompetent at even saying it to begin with.

What they want to say with Clear Sky and Slash is that Clear Sky isn't "evil." He's a "fundamentally good person," and all of his intentions were good, so he learned a valuable lesson from all the abuse and murder. To say this, they CONTRAST him to Slash, a REAL evil person, who just loves hurting kids and harassing women. Clear Sky is good because he is not "real evil" like this fake, cartoon caricature we just made up.

There was absolutely zero need for them to write Slash the way they did. They really want you to be distressed for Clear Sky as his wife is assaulted in front of him and hauled off while kicking and screaming, and they decided the best way to do that was pregnant woman pinning face licking. Sexual violence is an easy way to disgust and anger an audience, simple as that.

As a kid you may not realize how messed up it is (though the asks I get on this blog are a testament to how many kids did, but didn't have the words to express their discomfort) but as an adult with your critical thinking on? It hits different.

#I do think there are books for kids which can handle these topics well #because the sad reality is... well. kids go through things they shouldn't have to #And it's *good* when they can find material for their age that addresses it in a respectful way #but wc is NOT that series.#These subjects are not handled tastefully or tactfully #and ive said it before and ill say it again #but what KILLS me about clear vs his two foil villains is that real abusers act like Clear.#They don't act like the other two.#Clear is SO real. Sometimes it feels like being ported right back into that position again #With a bunch of adults trying to force me to spend more time with that abuser #I know these excuses. I've heard them all.#And I've HEARD them make up some insane strawman to justify why the abuse done to me wasn't so bad #Much like what this story is doing with its two late-book villains #so it hits man.#Anyway stick around and we'll get to the scene. It's in this book towards the end

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intothestacks · 2 years

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Adventures in Librarian-ing

This week I read And Tango Makes Three (a picture book about Central Park Zoo's gay penguins that raised an egg) to the Grade 1s and a class of Grade 3s.

In one class, when I got to the part where the zookeeper decides that Roy and Silo must be in love

one of the kids gave a delighted surprised laugh and went "Wait, are they gay? Are these gay penguins?"

"Yup!" I replied, "And they're real penguins too. This is a real story."

Cue the hubbub of kids chattering at the discovery that gay penguins are a thing.

"Gay penguins!" they marveled over and over.

One of the kids started getting visibly upset, "Guys, stop it! That's a bad word! Stop saying the G-word!"

"It's not a bad word," their classmates assured them, perplexed.

"Anyone can be gay," a classmate explained, clearly trying to be helpful.

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dangerous-advantage · 6 months

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[Image ID: A four-by-four alignment chart on a white background with text descriptions to the left and to the top of the squares.

The top left description reads, "seems like they'd be good at parenting." The top right description reads, "seems like they'd be bad at parenting."

Then, from the top down, to the left of the squares, the other set of descriptions reads: "excellent child rearing instincts," and "never trust them with a child in your life."

Each of the four squares contains an image of a different character. At the top left is an image of Lan Wangji of the Mo Dao Zu Shi donghua. He sits between the descriptors "seems like they'd be good at parenting," and "excellent child rearing instincts."

In the top right square sits an image of Wei Wuxian, also of the Mo Dao Zu Shi donghua. He sits between the junction of "seems like they'd be bad at parenting" and "excellent child rearing instincts."

In the bottom left square is an image of Xie Lian from the Tian Guan Ci Fu manhua. He occupies the square with the captions, "seems like they'd be good at parenting" and "never trust them with a child in your life."

Finally, in the bottom left square, sits an image of Hua Cheng from the Tian Guan Ci Fu manhua. He occupies the junction between "seems like they'd be bad at parenting" and "never trust them with a child in your life". /End ID]

#look ok #i see all the cute little fics with xl and hc talking about becoming parents and etc etc #and that's cute! that's adorable!! let them be happy!!!#but. you have to admit ok. hualian need to work through their own problems #like c'mon. xl picks up like AT LEAST three kids in the book and then proceeds to forget about one on his shelf for a while #just kinda. stands judgmentally with his hands on his hips about guzi and qi rong (it's really funny though don't get me wrong)#and after finally re-capturing lang ying he's like 'i'm gonna guardian you!' and then a whole bunch of shit happens and uh well #ly turns out to be the ghost of some kid xl traumatized 800 years ago come back for vengeance (L)#which means xl traumatized him multiple times lmao #we aren't even touching qi rong and lang qianqiu which YES i know the latter wasn't xl's fault and i am fully aware that the situation with #qi rong is and was complicated. BUT. come ON man can these poor kids never catch a break? the one kid he DIDN'T accidentally traumatize #turned out to be obsessively in love with him so like maybe this is for the best?#anyway i also just don't think they'd be... genuinely interested in a commitment like that? like hc would go along with anything xl wants #but he doesn't seem the type to be interested in kids (he's mostly just interested in xl)#xl isn't off the hook either ok #people bring up hc's treatment of e'ming but xl isn't exactly a saint to ruoye. i dont blame the guy he's got a lot on his mind #but he's also very.... absent #plus with the responsibilities of their respective positions all their extra time is like. spent on eachother jk?#this isn't to say xl doesn't *like* kids or anything i just don't think he would want to be a full-time parent lmao #also they DEFINITELY have their own issues with themselves as kids and i'm afraid that might translate into like. parenting #meme #tgcf #mxtx meme #tgcf meme #xie lian #hua cheng #lan wangji #wei wuxian #wei ying #lan zhan

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prans-micellar-water · 2 months

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Fucking in love with Mercedes Lackey for making Dirk, the soulmate love-interest of the main character of the novel, just shit ass ugly. Nearly repulsive to look at. I can’t think of many authors today who have the stones to make their characters gross looking

#When did we as a society stop making a big deal about loving people even if they’re ugly #I remember as a kid that it was drilled into me that personality was always more important than looks #while nowadays there’s such a focus on ‘everyone is beautiful omg 😍 even if you think you’re ugly you’re beautiful omg’ that #we’ve forgotten that being beautiful shouldn’t fucking matter. Like 1. ‘Ugly’ and ‘beautiful’ are such subjective concepts that we should #do away with them completely and 2. Ugly people deserve love and happiness #like. No one is going to be able speak society’s beauty standards away in our lifetimes so we might as well strive to simply care less #Mercedes Lackey ily you did more for ugly/weird-looking-people rights in one book than the whole entire body ‘positivity’ movement #arrows of the queen

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champagnemoon · 11 months

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rich conservative women screaming for women living in poverty to forget about education and have babies at 18 is so darksided Lmao like there’s such sinister levels to it

#especially when education is the key for most women to have a chance at social climbing #like Candace Owens knows the only way she got her billion Prager U husband is by finessing her way into his circles #and holding off on having kids until she was in a prime position #once they get their bag they want to burn the rule book

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gideonisms · 1 year

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Prev post I do think though that all three books critique the dynamic of having someone in power over you in a religious sense because they're pointing out how for anyone given that level of power, their personal hangups and desires become inextricable from the position that they hold and that position is a position that easily lends itself to abuse. so to have the conclusion of that be "but when it's a hot girl it's fine" just doesn't really mesh with the rest of this setup and I think regardless of what harrow says at the end of ntn, it's actually way more complicated than just choosing another deity

#but maybe i'm wrong #i do trust muir to bring the nuance like this isn't a critique so much as it me going.#well these books don't engage with religion as a positive force that much do they #harrow's thing for the body is more complicated than just religious reverence #it's like. she is obsessed with the thing that shatters the world in which she lives #i'd mostly read it as harrow wanting an end to the setup john has in place because she doesn't fit easily within it. but she's also #tied to that system to the extent that she can't separate herself from it. so she wants to destroy herself #born wrong you know? that's a very like. gay kid in the church vibe #idk #interested to see what atn does with that

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