#wish I were different

[aroaceleovaldez]

reminder that the only reason the "ADHD is actually demigod BATTLE STRATEGIES" and "dyslexia is DEMIGOD BRAINS HARDWIRED FOR ANCIENT GREEK" things exist in the PJO universe is because it's a very direct reference to early 2000s teaching/parenting techniques for neurodiverse and disabled children, which aimed to frame childrens' disabilities and hardships as a "superpower" or strength so that the children would feel more positively about their disabilities or situations. This technique has fallen out of favor since then for the most part since more often than not it just results in kids feeling as though their struggles are not being seen or taken seriously.

Yes, demigods are adhd/dyslexic (and sometimes autistic-coded) in the series. This is extremely important and trying to remove it or not acknowledge it makes the entire series fall apart because it is such a core concept. Yes, canon claims that their adhd/dyslexia is tied to some innate abilities, which is based on an outdated methodology. It's important to acknowledge that and understand where it comes from! But please stop trying to apply it to other pantheons in the series like "oh, the romans have dyscalculia because of roman numerals!" or "the norse demigods have dysgraphia for reasons!" - it's distasteful at best.

A better option is to acknowledge the meta inspiration for why that exists in the series, such as explaining potentially that Chiron was utilizing that same teaching methodology to try and help demigods feel more comfortable with their disabilities and they aren't literal powers. In fact, especially given Frank, there's implication that being adhd/dyslexic isn't a guaranteed demigod trait, which means it's more likely to be normally inherited from their godly parent/divine ancestor as a general trait, not a power, and further supports the whole "ADHD is battle strategy" thing being non-literal. It also implies the entire greco-roman pantheon in their universe is canonically adhd/dyslexic - and that actually fits very well with the themes of the first series. The entire central conflict of the first series fits perfectly as an allegory about neurodiverse/disabled children and their relationships with their undiagnosed neurodiverse/disabled parents and trying to find solutions together with their shared disability/disabilities that the kid inherited instead of becoming distant from each other (and this makes claiming equivalent to getting a diagnosis which is a fascinating allegory! not to mention the symbolism of demigods inheriting legacies and legends and powers from their parents and everything that comes with that being equivalent to inheriting traits, neurodiversity, and disabilities from your parents).

anyways neurodiversity and disability and the contexts in which the series utilizes representation of those experiences particularly during the 2000s symbolically within the narrative is incredibly important to the first series and the understanding of what themes it means to represent. also if i see one more "the romans have dyscalculia instead of dyslexia" post in 2023 i'm gonna walk into the ocean.

#pjo #riordanverse #percy jackson #analysis #meta #adhd #dyslexia #also this symbolism recontextualizes the relationship between demigods and their godly parents so much #particularly Percy and Poseidon and the whole ''I'm sorry you were born thing'' like DAMN that's an ENTIRE DIFFERENT IMPLICATION #honestly in general the first series' meta analogy of being a demigod as symbolism for being neurodiverse/disabled ROCKS SO HARD #that's SO COOL and im SO SAD NOBODY EVER TALKS ABOUT IT #i could write a whole essay on that alone like COME ON GUYS #can we PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE THIS I WANNA TALK ABOUT THE COOL DISABILITY METAPHORS.... #anyways i didnt proofread this cause. re: dyslexia so if it doesnt make sense dont worry about it #i can try to explain further in supplementary posts if people so wish

[lotus-pear]

whatever happens, please don’t break

#god not a fucking DAY goes by where i don’t think of that one interview and this quote #does anybody have it word for word? please? i’ll pay you #literally every single time i think about how kunikida as w character was MADE for dazai. specifically to share his suffering #i actually sob into my hands because that means they were both destined for tragedy together and the long dark road they will walk #will at least not be lonely. because they have each other. they are each other’s light in the darkness. #DO YOU UNDERSTAND #bro the fact that kunikida is painfully aware of the imperfection of the world and how he still continues to fight for his ideals #paralleling dazai who finds humanity beautiful but cannot become attached bc he feels alienated from emotion #THE WAY THEY COULD HELP EACH OTHER????? SICK SICK SICK I AM SICK #i love kunikidazai sm i wish more ppl could see the potential #but some of you aren’t ready for the sheer perfection of their dynamic #also i’ve noticed that i am only capable of drawing dazai properly when it’s with kunikida what’s up with that 💀 #and sorreyy i know their height difference isn’t THAT big but i didn’t realize until i was halfway into the coloring 😔💔 #osamu dazai #dazai osamu #kunikida doppo #doppo kunikida #kunikidazai #knkdz #kunizai #lotus draws

[elderwisp]

𝔬𝔣𝔣 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔥𝔢𝔞𝔡, 𝔡𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢 𝔱𝔦𝔩 𝔶𝔬𝔲'𝔯𝔢 𝔡𝔢𝔞𝔡

#must be the season of the fish ♓︎ #i wish i had his birthday somewhere i'm so mad i lost all dat info #pls this song is still a banger after 14 years #2010s indie bands were built different #finally found an eyebrow piercing to sit on his brow correctly it's over i'm dead #i knew he would be too powerful with one what did i expect #guards!!! after him!!! #oc: atlas #tw blood #simblr #my sims #show us your sims #ts4

[kagoutiss]

grandpa & his slimy widowed bf love loses

#stardew valley #stardew valley spoilers #sdv #sdv spoilers #mister qi #mr. qi #grandpa #god i wish we. knew his name so i could stop just calling him Grandpa asfhdfdggsdfgs #farmer #at the very end just trying to eat their salad #anyway to me this is how these 2 are/were. back when they were porsntially business partners or w/e #like. morally bankrupt businessman/conman/CEO. and his ray of sunshine farmer who is also insane but in a different way #wwwwww i cant do a tag essay but yeah goodnighttt

[elftwink]

to preface this post i am anti-advertising i think we should explode the entire industry but it's sooo funny when you people make posts like "and they don't even work!!" like. sorry to be the bearer of bad news but yes they do. that's why we have to put up with so many despite everyone hating them and thinking its annoying. because they actually work really well and make a shit load of money

#it actually would be way better if they didnt work and made no money bc businesses would abandon them #this isnt like stocks where everythings abstract and is essentially gambling (i dont understand stocks) #like ppl in the ad industry create things. that make a tangible and quantifiable impact on the business #which is then used in further ad planning. it is NOT all smoke and mirrors #like its fake in that the industry is not providing a necessary service the way like. grocery stores are #but its not the level of fake where everything is abstract like theres deliverables #moreover there is an extensive body of academic work specifically on how to make ads more effective #ALSO i think some of u views ads like. as if they have a win condition. which is you buy product #but in current advertising this is pretty rare and comparatively ineffective #which is why you see MANY ads which dont seem to be selling anything in particular. or which have nothing all to do with the product #the 'win' condition for THAT kind of ad is something more like 'viewers remember our name' #like. ex i would say ads for temu have not been effective on me bc i havent bought anything from them #but temu probably thinks they were SUPER effective on me because i talked abt them like 5 different times at work #and i do in fact know exactly what the company does and what they sell #and they were able to capitalize on the reputations of existing companies (wish shein etc) to build their own brand #good idea generator

[wilsonsmcgillsweatshirt]

"Deep inside, Wilson believes that if he cares enough, he'll never have to die."

What the fuck were the House writers on

#how am i supposed to live laugh love in these conditions #this quote is attempted murder #i cant live like this #This also puts the scene were Wilson tells House he wishes he was more of an asshole into perspective #“i wish i had been more a selfish jerk” “youd still have cancer” “atleast id feel like i deserved it” #because wilson spent his whole life helping people because some part of him genuinely believed that he would live a very long good life #as long as he was doing good and helping people #but in the end none of it mattered and in his mind he wasted his entire life being overly good when he couldve just lived how he wanted #because in the end it didnt make any difference #brb sobbing #thats why when people act like wilson is the devil for saying that to house i lose 5 years of my life #house md #house #greg house #james wilson #gregory house #hilson #hate crimes md #hatecrimes md #wilson #housemd

[waterberry-strawmelon]

Henry Oak saying “I’m a polyamorous white guy, of course I know Dungeons and Dragons” proves yet again that Will Campos is the funniest person on this fucking podcast

#dungeons and daddies #dungeons and dads #dndads #will campos #henry oak #i could add more tags but whatever. I’m fucking DYING I literally started cackling in the middle of the sidewalk #I WISH I HAD SOMEONE TO SCREAM WITH ABOUT THIS!!!!!!! #(Also unfortunately I’m reminded yet again that season 1 is just inherently funnier and more entertaining than season 2. #I get a lot of people are die-hard for season 2 but I just can’t get through it—it’s like slogging through a tar pit most episodes #and I think that’s cuz for me personally the dnd podcast has to be funny first and emotional second #and season 2 feels like the reverse #Like. The season 1 pc’s were BUILT to be funny #But the season 2 pc’s were built to expand on the season 1 narrative. See the difference? #ANYWAYS this bonus episode reminds me I’ll always have season 1 :’D #And the bonus content #And whatever they do after season 2 (assuming it gets better haha!) #mine #just some thoughts

[icewindandboringhorror]

I know this is just a silly bad quality random screencap of a screencap that I found on facebook lol, BUT it's a succinct enough image to easily describe the concept in a quick/accessible way hopefully :

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(and of course, feel free to elaborate in tags, etc.! (especially elaborating about other senses as well.. can you "hear" in your mind just as well as you can "see"? taste? etc.) It's an interesting topic to me, as someone who's like a 4.5 at MOST lol. I'm curious what option will be the most common :0c )

#tumblr polls #hrmm... a little poll perhaps.. about a subject I find interesting.. since this image came across my facebook today #still really not feeling that well. no longer shaking violently and such but I still feel weird and weak much more than usual #They did say my markers for like infection or inflammation were elevated but that they werent sure of the cause so hopefully #it's nothing too serious. they did also say a lot of different things can cause that thing to be higher than normal but didn't go into spec #fics of what. maybe some of them are relatively benign or something. I still havent felt much back to normal since #I got really sick that one time though. I feel fine on and off but then little bouts of feeling weird and sick happen. hrmmm #ANYWAY.. looking for small ways to be productive. such as little doodles on evil ipad or editing game videos #or posting polls or cat pictures or some other like not very labor intensive things #I WISH I COULD FOCUS on writing HHRGGhh... I need to finish my game.. it would be so freeing.. a project that's been looming #over my head for like 5 years even though througouht that 5yrs I've probably spent a total of 3 months working on it lo.. ANYWAY #I still partially really cannot beleive that people CAN see stuff in their heads. There's always part of me that's thinking like. well mayb #e everyone DOES see the same exact thing but we just describe/conceptualize it so differently that we think we're talking about #different things when we're really not. But I have been assured by people I've talked to about it that they can GENUINELY really see #stuff in their heads like as vivid as an actual picture in real life or something. And the other senses are neat too. Like for exmaple I #can hear in my head much better than I can see imagery. I still CANNOT hear vividly like as if I were listening to actual music out loud.. #but I think it's developed more than my sight. AND interesting how this varies the creative process. a friend I was talking to on the phone #said they write by literally just watching stuff play before them like a movie. where my process is COMPLETELY different. AND that affects #the content/what details we focus on as well as our individual styles of writing have differences that can be traced back to that.. hrmm

[lunarin64art]

That feeling when he can't stand to see you that way, no matter what you do, no matter what you say😩😭💔

#scott pilgrims precious little life #scott pilgrim vs the world #spvtw #spto #scott pilgrim #wallace wells #lisa miller #scollace #kim pine #natalie adams #envy adams #don't rlly know if I like how this turned out but oh well;;; #hope its obvious that this is based on the song “Scott Pilgrim” which the creation the comics were inspired from #the lyrics always make me think of Wallace and Lisa's feelings for Scott every time I hear it #ofc you could also relate it to Kim especially since the singers voice kind of reminds me of her #but overall the lyrics fit these two much better since Scott never truly “saw them that way” despite how long they've liked him #and they always seem happier to see him compared to Kim #Im surprised tho that I havent yet seen anyone draw these two together now that their dialogue parallels have been acknowledged more lately #also tho I wish more people pointed out that they both got cucked by red heads LOL #and Kim and Envy actually do look really similar when scott first meets them #makes me wonder if Scott subconsciously went for Envy since she reminded him of Kim (which would be fitting given that you could argue that #Envy dated Scott because he reminded her of Todd. Since he and Scott are confirmed to be meant to be seen as similar to one another #so much so that even their first and last names rhyme #last thing I'll add tho is that while Wallace and Lisa are very similar even personality wise #the one big difference is that despite that whole conclusion on vol4 of Scott not cheating on Ramona with Lisa because he loves her #the writers apparently think it would be “organically correct” for him to have an affair with wallace LMAO #but I guess we shouldn't be surprised since Wallace and Ramona are both in the front of the official valentines art which is clearly #a deptiction of Scotts wet dream or smth (oh and you could also argue that Wallace and Lisa parallel on that art since they're both #shirtless with white socks.. which could be a reference to how lisa wears skimpy clothes for Scott and Wallace often only wears boxers #to like sexually frustrate Scott for fun or smth

[suiheisen]

the core + their 1000th game wedding vows

#anyway here is a monster post #imagine loving your colleagues this much. wish that were me. #go to work. fall in love. #many of these were existing gifs i didn't want to recolour so sorry for the differences ;___; #kris letang #evgeni malkin #sidney crosby #pittsburgh penguins #hockey #long post #my favourite type of post #nhl

[odetokeons]

diversity win! the local satanic cult leader is bisexual!

#bicon papa emeritus III (real) #tobias created terzo's character for the bisexuals (me) #He Is mv terzo in particular hits different #the baptism scene in particular makes me go FERAL #god i wish that were me (about both him getting to hold all of those pretty ladies and about the ladies being held by him) #the bi panic is real #papa emeritus iii #papa emeritus terzo #he is #meliora #ghost #ghost bc #the band ghost #ghost band #tobias forge #shitghosting

[wispforever]

#Naruto #Madara Uchiha #Hashirama Senju #hashimada #I really wish we would've gotten to see more of their fight after they were reanimated #too bad that was the part in the manga where kishimoto gave up on himself #ugh love them #madara being so different that hashirama sees a stranger #and is unable to understand why he can no longer get through to him the way he used to #babe he's 80 years older than you'll ever know #this is not the man you thought you killed #madara has lost everything by the end of his real life #when he's reanimated he's completely abandoned his humanity #finally gets to let some of that anger out #love him so much #good for him

[markscherz]

Hey check this out

Dryophytes versicolor doing the loaf thing. Excellent frog.

#I wish I had known when I was a tiny kid living in Ohio that there were treefrogs around #I would have lived my life differently #gosh I love treefrogs #Dryophytes #Dryophytes versicolor #answers by Mark #the-isopodcalypse

[marleneoftheopera]

Official photos from the Love Never Dies China Tour!

#similar to madrid i wish there were some photos taken of the alternates #but anyway #these are lovely #i like that each production gives us some slightly different takes on the standard poses #manon taris #luke mccall #niall sheehy #britt lenting #olivia barnett legh #love never dies #love never dies china tour #phantom of the opera #the phantom of the opera

[buttercup-barf]

Been looking into Super Mario RPG recently... Guess which new guys are my favouties.

#super mario rpg #super mario rpg legend of the seven stars #geno smrpg #mallow smrpg #they are so. fucking cute. that whole game is so cute - it's a total 100% serotonin-filled joyride from start to finish! #i never had a console to play it on but the playthoughs i watched made me grin so much. and who didn't grin? #literally all i heard in all of those three playthroughs were just sounds of joy it's peak fun and whimsy and now i also wish for a sequel #HA. WISH. LMAO #they're wearing different shoes because i am the god of this world

[echofades]

You’re fine. No, you’re fine. - DEAD TO ME | 3.05 | We Didn’t Think This Through

#dead to me #deadtomeedit #judy x michelle #wlwgif #wlwsource #judy hale #michelle gutierrez #dead to me spoilers #photoset #they're so soft :(( #and they deserved more #I mean I get it they were on different paths and the end was always just going to be jen and judy #but I wish we'd seen michelle finding out what happened at the end or something #idk instead of her just disappearing and never being mentioned again #anyway they have no right being this sweet and I'm glad they had this