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sideblog to jinnazah

[absollnk]

Can we talk about this kid

[rubykgrant]

That is just how it felt the first time you got a gameboy and played Pokemon

[a-trex]

[metalgearheritageposts]

MGS Heritage Post

[vampantheon]

on the topic of disabled characters, though, i think a LOT of artists give characters mobility aids that their character wouldn't actually benefit from using.

i'm sort of having a mild brain fog moment rn so i can't fully articulate what i'm on about, but i think a lot of able-bodied artists view things like canes and crutches as interchangeable. and they often don't know enough about the wide range of mobility aids to make an informed decision about what their character might actually use based on their disability

i also think that aids like walkers and rollators are sort of viewed as "cringe" on some level, and many people view them to be "just for old people," so many artists will opt for giving a character who has full-body pain and fatigue a cane (which, in many cases, can potentially WORSEN full-body pain) instead. and a lot of people don't realize that most wheelchair users are able to walk, so they don't consider it an option for characters with chronic pain

[vampantheon]

idk it's kind of frustrating. i've genuinely never, ever seen a character that uses a rollator before. not once. i cannot name a single one. i know of multiple ocs who are described to have full-body pain, dizziness, and fatigue that are drawn as cane users and are never shown with wheelchairs or walkers, though

[vampantheon]

it's also sort of sad? i've been diagnosed since i was twelve years old, and i only heard of rollators LAST YEAR. and that was only because i saw one irl and immediately asked what it was. i wonder how many disabled people out there don't even know it's an option solely because they're completely underrepresented online and in media

[vampantheon]

if you're a creative with a disabled oc, PLEASEEE check out this link. it's a very nice and detailed guide for telling which mobility aids suit someone's needs best. it's incredibly important to make the right choice for your character! mobility aids tell you a LOT about someone's lived experience. picking the right one will communicate to your audience #1 what your character goes through #2 that you UNDERSTAND what your character goes through!

[tall]

[sudaca-swag]

the countries they're calling the racist hellholes vs the actual racist hellholes

[sudaca-swag]

westerners twisting facts to fit their tiny insulated worldview omg "this bad thing that never happened in this savage country is definitely like this bad thing that actually happened in my much elevated civilized one" sorry for forgetting this is the idiot website again it won't happen again

[dogpuppy]

[tomb-mold]

alone in my room voguing like nosferatu

[tomb-mold]

me alone in my room

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

HELPPPPP

[charlesoberonn]

Reminds me of Jason Kander, former Missouri Secretary of State. When he went to the VA hospital to treat his PTSD, he told the nurse that Obama told him he should run for president, and she thought he was delusional.

[charlesoberonn]

Correction: It was worse. She asked him how long he's been hearing voices.

[therapyhorrorstories]

I think I'm gonna make this my go-to story. It's not the worst I've ever heard, which is an asset because people won't believe you if you tell them the actual bad stuff those people do. And it just perfectly sums up the casual arrogance everyone working in mental health seems to have. The way they treat you as inherently Lesser for being in their care.

[therapyhorrorstories]

If they can't even handle basic, easily verified shit like "I'm a lawyer" they are never going to believe you when you tell them that you know how to manage a condition you've been dealing with for decades better than they can or will.

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

And then there's Alexander Morris, who was put in a straitjacket, called racial slurs, and denied treatment for his potentially life-threatening heart condition when he told them he was the lead singer of the band he was lead singer of.

Four Tops singer sues hospital alleging racial discrimination after he says he was placed in a ‘restraining jacket’ | CNN

The lead singer of the Motown group the Four Tops has filed a federal lawsuit against Ascension Macomb Oakland Hospital in Warren, Michigan,

[plum-soup]

There are multiple parts of that article that are Jae droppingly awful but this one really gets me:

They almost let this man die in a straight jacket simply because they were too racist. And then when they realize their "mistake", they tell him that his life is worth a 25$ supermarket gift card. Of course he's suing them for $75,000 as he should but like. Can you imagine how insulted he must've been. The 4 Tops were one of the top Motown bands of all time. You can be at the top of the music scene and still, they'll kill you because you're black. And they'll use fake claims about mental illness and "aggression" to justify it

[genderkoolaid]

& to be clear: none of this is good for anyone. actually delusional people, people who actually hear voices or see things, do not deserve to be treated like this. there is nothing about a person harmlessly believing something fantastical (or which sounds fantastical to you) that requires you to put them in a straightjacket and drug them or deny them necessary drugs. Black mentally ill people do not deserve to be tortured and murdered in a hospital for being Black and mentally ill.

this kind of system is a weapon which can be pointed at anyone. in order to prevent shit like this from happening, we also need to deconstruct how we view mentally ill people, including people who are delusional and hallucinate, and what we view as "reasonable" or "necessary" when it comes to such people.

[doberbutts]

Black people- including famous black people- have been arrested for "breaking and entering" their own homes due to a neighbor witnessing them unlocking their own house door with their own house key and calling the cops. College professors, celebrities, politicians, and everyday people such as my own father.

It's common enough that young black kids are told to keep any identifying information on them at all times just in case someone reports a black kid breaking and entering by walking into the house they've lived at since they were born. Because that has happened.

When you add mental illness and the healthcare industry into the mix, things only get worse from there. To be clear, you don't need to be black or mentally ill to be treated poorly by a doctor or nurse that's decided they know you better than you do. But it sure doesn't make things easier.

And people have died as a result- or have we already forgotten the death of Adriana Smith who went to THE HOSPITAL SHE WORKED AT AS A NURSE reporting severe headaches and was dismissed as exaggerating and imagining the severity, only to be declared brain dead upon arrival less than 24 hours later and artificially kept alive to force her dead body to carry her baby to term- which couldn't even happen and they had to remove him via C-section anyway.

These are related problems. And until we fix the root cause, they will keep happening.

[alexseanchai]

[image 1: Tumblr reply by thepolterheist: "lol I read an interview w a lawyer who was briefly in inpatient and he told a nurse he was a lawyer and she put “delusions of grandeur” on his chart"]

[image 2: a paragraph from the linked article, which reads: "The lawsuit states Morris was offered a $25 gift card to a supermarket as an apology by the hospital, but he refused the offer."]

[isuggestrevolution]

i have a suggestion

[fictionadventurer]

Why does the Netflix Little House on the Prairie trailer show them living in a small town? With shops and schools and cottagecore festivals? In the book that's explicitly about them living alone on the prairie with no house visible from where they are?

Everyone wants to adapt the South Dakota books, but no one adapts the South Dakota books! They're living in a town in those ones! Laura's going through a coming-of-age arc! You have a stable cast of characters! If you want the name recognition, you can title it Little Town on the Prairie! It's an actual book in the series! Even people who only know the show will see the connection! Why do people keep warping the early books out of shape to get their small-town family drama when the later books are right there?

[lilaccatholic]

My (slightly unhinged) thoughts on the first episode of the new Little House show:

Why is Ma's hair down when we're leaving the Big Woods?? Caroline Ingalls wouldn't be caught dead with her hair down in public

How old is Mary??? She looks waaaaay older than Mary should be here

Glad we're keeping with the tradition of Pa being hot. Real life Charles Ingalls had a scraggly beard, and yet in the tradition of oiled up, shirtless Michael Landon, I'm fine with this

Yeah this is definitely suffering from Hallmark hair, but I'll deal with it so long as in a few seasons they give me a truer depiction of Almanzo

Not sure how I feel about them trying to include a friendship between Laura and an Osage girl, because it feels a bit like trying to whitewash the Ingalls family's very complicated relationship with Native Americans in real life

OH MARY SO WOULD HAVE SNITCHED ON LAURA FOR SO MANY THINGS BY NOW, ESPECIALLY THE SHOVING

W H A T are these bonnets and why do they look 3D printed 💀

Ugh, I don't like this antagonistic bent they've given Laura and Mary's relationship, especially because part of what infuriated Laura so much about Mary until Mary lost her sight was Mary's very prideful goodness. Mary wouldn't be openly unkind to Laura, because it would go against her ethos of being a "good girl"

...now be serious with me about this random wolf attack. This is Little House, not Yellowstone 1883. Was this in the book? I don't remember a gun wielding Caroline facing down a pack of angry wolves in the book

I'm very much enjoying all the singing, especially where they take songs directly from the books

I appreciate how they have Pa and Ma being so affectionate with each other. They're clearly very in love in the books, so it's nice that was carried over

Do NOT enjoy the Mary crushing on random boys subplot. That wouldn't even be on her mind

The Osage man whose name we haven't been given yet 👀. Well hellooooooo

Everyone's eyebrows are too nice and it's distracting me. I am however keeping notes to give my aesthetician next time I get mine done

The story of this Osage family already has me hooked

Oh so we're just dropping a giant log on Caroline now. Okay then.

Making Laura a storyteller is sort of a baffling choice. I see why they did it, but it undermines the beauty of her learning to be descriptive after having to "see" for Mary

No one came to say goodbye???? What the hell???? That's PATENTLY untrue

Real life Caroline would have already set the girls to washing dishes and collecting buffalo chips instead of all this carrying on lmao

Oh so Carrie WILL be in this lol

Dr. Tan is also incredibly good looking. Like. Just saying that for the record. I'm starting to think this will fill the "hot people in inaccurate period clothing" void for a while

Awww Charles is being very sweet

I'm not mad at them suggesting that Caroline has dealt with multiple pregnancy losses because if you consider the time period and the struggles the Ingalls girls had with having children later on in life, it makes plenty of sense

Okay so they've made Mr. Edward's hot, too. And also crazy. I can fix him.

Okay but when IS Jack coming back????

It's very funny to me that they're creating moments of danger more in line with the first tv show instead of, you know, the actual dangers the Ingalls family faced

Caroline, girl, I get why you left everything behind for this man, that's all

What is this "everything that happened"? Why is the government whipping up a frenzy and incentivizing people to "settle" the west not motivation enough??? Are they doing the "running out on their debts" thing NOW? Because that would be a...choice

I feel ABYSMAL every time Caroline mentions giving Charles a son

Now in what universe is Caroline telling Charles to sell her books. Absolutely not.

As an aside, I really wish we'd gotten to see more of the wagon journey. That was always my favorite part of the book

I think this show could have really benefited from narration from a mature Laura, ala Call the Midwife with mature Jenny narrating. We lose a bit not being in Laura's head for everything. My dream adaptation opens with an older Laura setting out to memorialize her family (as irl Laura did), then fading into the story as she begins writing. It would also help keep that idea that these are characters based on real people, sure, but this IS still a story

That shot of Charles playing the fiddle in front of the campfire is gorgeous

It irks me when they have Laura wear blue even though I know that's irrational lol. Blue was always Mary's color in the books!!!

These costumes are very Generic Historical Prairie. They're...fine, but I mourn the fully costumed version that lives in my head. Laura may have hated sewing, but she described clothing with such loving detail in her books that I long to see it fully realized

JACK!!! JACK IS BACK!!!

Oooooh I actually really enjoy them hinting at the eventual need to leave Kansas because the government *doesn't* come and kick the Osage off their land. We know it's coming, but the reality of it hitting Charles is delicious

And that's episode one! I'll maybe be back with episode two, but at the very least, this has been fun. For book accuracy, I'd give it a C, but for enjoyment watching it's an A-. This show is pretty to look at so far, and the deviations from the source material are engaging enough that I'm not as irritated by them as I thought I'd be. That averages this out to...about a B-? Yeah, that seems fair for the first episode.

I think this adaptation is going to fill a similar niche as Anne With An E or the 2019 Little Women, where you can either take this as its own thing as something that respects the source material but doesn't seek to adapt it perfectly, or be peeved about them having the wrong kind of ribbon for the time period. As you can see from the above, I fall somewhere between the two!

[fictionadventurer]

It turns out that my standard for liking a new Little House adaptation is "use more book scenes and actual history than the 1970s TV show", and by that standard, the Netflix show is a success! They mentioned family members from the Big Woods! And the Civil War! And the fact that Pa is illegally on Osage land! We get Carrie as a baby! I was willing to forgive it a lot.

If anything, the adaptation was too soft on the Native American issue, which is surprising, since I'm coming from a context where the discourse is about little else.

I didn't like much of the small town stuff. That is not for this book! But it's a cozy period drama tv show, this is what they do, I guess.

It's got that too-glossy cinematography where the soundtrack gets in the way too much.

Some of the modern-sounding dialogue had me rolling my eyes ("We came out here to be the best versions of ourselves"? Really?), but mostly in a "real people don't talk like that" way, which could be partly because I watch so little modern screen media these days.

The expansions mostly feel like they aren't trying to fix the books or history, but just to bring up context that a child Laura (or even 1930s Laura) couldn't know about.

Apparently '70s Nellie had a cameo? And I didn't even recognize her?

Laura's hat was stupid. It would be so much cuter and more accurate to have her little bonnet hanging down her back.

When they had Mary in blue and Laura in red, my heart swelled. That's them!

Also! Loved that the china shepherdess showed up.

It's hilarious that they made Mr. Scott young and hot.

The kid acting had that same weird feel that it did on Anne with an E. Where everyone's a bit too hushed and overdramatic.

The moment I saw the title card that looks like a clothbound book, and heard the opening fairy tale narration, I knew I could forgive it a lot. It seems to understand that this is a story first and foremost.

Like, in context, the line from the trailer about how "making it out here alone is a myth" isn't a commentary on the books, it's a character commentary on the fact that it's weird Charles took his wife and young daughters out to the middle of nowhere all by himself. The show's better than the trailer made it look.

Anyway, it turns out I'm willing to give an adaptation a lot of wiggle room when I also think of it as an homage to the '70s series.

[writerxwren]

These books were my Roman Empire as a kid and when I tell you I am SEATED

[didanagy]

LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE (2026)

dev. by rebecca sonnenshine

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

[awed-frog]

When an archer is shooting for fun He has all his skill. If he shoots for a brass buckle He is already nervous. If he shoots for a prize of gold He goes blind Or sees two targets – He is out of his mind.

His skill has not changed, But the prize divides him. He cares He thinks more of winning Than of shooting – And the need to win Drains him of power.

Zhuang Zhou (369 BC - 286 BC)

[nosiidam]

AND THE NEED TO WIN DRAINS HIM OF POWER

[urk-m]

[jame7t]

it’s fun to stay at the Y

M

M

[yahenni]

M

*smacks the side of my boom box to get the cd to stop skipping*

[capt-mal-reynolds]

C

[edgarallanpoultry]

YOUNG MAN

[shark-tranny]

A

[irishfry]

THERES NO

[gamergal-ds]

It’s fun to stayy at the Y

[transfeminine-anarcho-post-egg]

UONG MAN

[lordhavemercyyyyy-deactivated20]

MOTHMAN

STEAL A MAN OFF THE GROUND I SAID MOTHMAN

[visceralvermin]

[thedogeveryonehates]

[moniquill]

[gunsandfireandshit]

[olderandwiserer]

Dildos?🤗

[gunsandfireandshit]

No ❤️