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reidskitty13 replied to your post: Just to be clear I’m purging ALL Flash related...
They don’t deserve Jesse L. Martian at all he is way to good for them
They really don’t. His talent is wasted on that show.
Let’s be real the wrong team dad died last year.
So the people who are like Vanessa is Filipino , their are Spanish Filipinos . I'm not sure if she is one or not. I can understand people's frustrations if she's not Latina but where was this anger when Arielle Jacobs played Nina? Or Jordan sparks. I love the character Nina and would love to play her but I understand that the show was made for latinas and I'm black.
yeah the only thing i’m upset about is people bashing vanessa but had no problem with those black actresses playing nina even tho she’s a latina role but i’m white so i can’t really voice an opinion on this. the only thing i’ll say is that i have a problem with the hypocrisy of it
reidskitty13 replied to your post “Arrow: how season 1 set up the world”
Felicity being paralyzed and then magically better and the same with Thea in a coma and then magically better bothers me. I have a chronic illness and couldn't walk for four years. I'm now walking, but it's hard and painfully and forget stair that's a big no no and I still have to use a cane some days. They were reckless with the story line and it hurt that they ran over something that could have been great representation. I get the show is in a universe with magic and such but still
I can’t talk about it in personal terms like you just did, but yeah, I’m 100% with you w/ Felicity’s paralysis. It was something that really bugged me too.
What baffles me is that they picked Felicity specifically for that storyline. Out of all the Team Arrow members, she’s the only non-combatant. She can keep doing everything she used to from a wheelchair without much difficulty (just the time to adapt), which wouldn’t be true for all the others. I’m just dumbfounded that they’d choose to explore a disability storyline with the character for which it would have the least practical impact, knowing full well they had no intention of making it permanent in any way.
It felt even more disrespectful toward disabled people (that’s how I see it, I know I’m not talking for anybody here), because they had no actual Doylist reason to make up a magical cure. The only thing it did was hurt the show’s (already greatly suffering) stakes and logic. Injuries are now meaningless, science is basically magic and the whole concept of specialization doesn’t exist anymore (a genius is good at absolutely everything that sounds a bit sciency because They Are Very Smart: mathematics and biology? no difference, I can heal your spine who needs an actual doctor who actually studied medicine lol) - the result of Arrow trying to be Flash by stealing its least appealing, laziest aspects. Anyway, since her character’s role didn’t demand it, I was left with the impression that the reason Felicity walked away from that wheelchair (in one of the most cringe-worthy moment of the entire show if you ask me) is that the writers just didn’t like/felt uncomfortable having her disabled. Which makes me uncomfortable.
It truly could have been wonderful representation? How many shows out there give their hero a paraplegic love-interest who’s also basically the second lead and a badass in her own right? That just feels like a good thing?
To clarify, I would also have been unhappy if it was Diggle or Thea who was paralyzed for only a handful of episodes before getting up again more fit than ever. If you want to do a disability story, then commit to it. It’s a life-changing event for the people who deal with it in real life, and even those who eventually walk again have to basically fight their hardest for it, put in real time and effort. Idk, it feels insulting that the Arrow writers thought they could just show a character struggling with their self-worth for an episode, and feeling down here and there before being cured (completely, suddenly), and that this would be representative of reality. But at the very least, for Diggle or Thea I could have accepted that it could be a severe hurdle for their characters, as in something that doesn’t mesh well with their place in the show (in which case they just shouldn’t have done it, but wtv, if they spent at least a season in a wheelchair or learning to function again at the level they used to, I could have forgiven it).
Wrt Thea waking up from a coma, I’m waiting to see how they deal with it. We haven’t seen much yet, but from what I understand she probably won’t be in next week’s episode (the crossover). After that there’s only one ep before the Christmas break. So it’s possible we won’t see her again (or at least see her better) for a while, and it’s possible she’ll get a real recovery/rehabilitation story. Idk, what do you think?
So I just read a little bit longer and it made me so happy. I have a bunch of chronic illnesses and I always feel so alone.
Oh my god, thank you so much. I am so glad that you enjoyed it. I wanted nothing more from sharing this than to help just one person feel less alone, to help one person feel represented, so this really means a lot to me. Remember that you’re never alone, and I’m always here to talk to if you want. ❤
Prompt: Oliver and felicity ask william for help naming his younger siblings and he suggests Thomas for a boy and Oliver gets choked up.
So I tweaked this a bit, and I don’t think you’ll mind….
“Wow.”
He had never felt so much for one person so quickly. Sure he loved his family, his dad, Felicity, aunt Thea, everyone on team arrow. But each one of them he had grown to love. He learned more about them and found his place among them. But it had been a process. Not this time. Not with his little brother.
“Yeah, he’s pretty cute,” Felicity hummed from her hospital bed. She looked tired, but happy, so happy. “I feel a little biased though.”
“I think it’s allowed,” he smiled down at the baby, putting his hand gently on his chest. “He’s amazing. It’s like it didn’t even feel real yesterday, and now he’s here.”
He loved his little brother. There wasn’t a shadow of a doubt that he wanted to be there for the kid from that point on. He wanted to watch him grow, and teach him all about baseball and volcanoes. William wanted to help him see the world.
His dad came up behind him, wrapping his arm around his shoulder. “So you want to help name him?”
Aunt Thea perked her head up. “You two still haven’t picked a name? Guys it’s not like you didn’t know the kid was coming.”
“We’ve been busy,” Felicity replied. “Besides every name we thought of got vetoed just as quickly.”
“It’s because we know too many people.”
“That’s true.”
William laughed, but his focus was on his brother, and how the kid’s eyes seemed to follow him everywhere. He was sure the kid already knew who he was, he already knew he could count on his big brother.
“I still think Matthew is a great name.”
“Ooh, I dated a Matt once,” Thea mused. “He was kind of a dick.”
“What about Johnathan?” his dad supplied.
“Babe, you know I love John with all my heart, but his own kid is named after him, he does not need ours as well.”
“I’ll be sure to tell him exactly that when he gets here,” his dad teased, dropping a kiss to Felicity’s lips.
“Don’t be gross in front of innocent,” he replied, and then smiled. “Or the baby either.”
Felicity rolled her eyes, but focused back on William. “Come on kid, we both know you’ve got something cooking in that head of yours? What do you think? Who do you think he is meant to be?”
William looked at his brother again, his bright blue eyes and upturned nose. He reached out, his fingers latching on to William and holding him there. So many flashes of them all together, of what their family had grown into, what it would continue to grow into, flooded his mind. And Felicity’s words echoed again. Who do you think he’s meant to be? William didn’t know. He didn’t know which paths his brother would take. What lay ahead for the tiny little squish ball of a baby. But he knew he wanted to see where he’d go.
William looked at his dad then to his aunt. He had heard the stories of their life. How tragedy and pitfalls had become synonymous with the passing of time. He knew who they had lost. Each and every single one of them. And he knew in that moment exactly what his brother should be called.
“Thomas,” he said, looking at Oliver. “Thomas Robert Queen.”
He had seen his dad cry before. That day on the island, many times during the arrest and trial last year. The whole time a few months ago when Felicity went missing. He had seen tears fall from his father’s eyes. But he didn’t think he had ever seen them so happy before.
“I think it’s perfect,” his dad cleared his throat, picking the baby up from his bassinet. “What do you think, Felicity? Does he look like a Tommy to you?”
“I think it’s perfect,” she reached out and squeezed William’s hand. “And he’s going to love that his big brother gave it to him.”
“I hope so,” William leaned into his dad’s side, getting a better look at Tommy. His brother. He was going to protect that kid with everything in him. He would make sure of it.
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reidskitty13 replied to your post: Barry Allen gives me anxiety because he’s always...
I literally arrive an hour before my 11:00 lecture and sit outside in lobby, because Just the thought of being. late make me anxious
Same but with work. I’m always there 45 mins to an hour early. It gives me ease.
reidskitty13 replied to your post: Since it was Berlanti’s idea for the double...
I don’t watch the flash. Except sometimes for Jesse Martin because he’s my man. So what exactly happened?
Well EP Greg Berlanti came up with that double wedding from the crossover between Westallen and Olicity.
Then this week they decided Iris is bitter about it. Because that makes fucking sense.
reidskitty13 replied to your post: AT SOME POINT ONE OF THESE DAMN SHOWS NEEDS TO...
This is why I dipped out of the crossovers they always treat Oliver like trash and it’s so irritating
Like is it so hard for the other characters to be like ‘hey Oliver, thanks so much for you know SUFFERING for years, going through mental and physical abuse, just so the rest of us can also better this world.’
But who am I kidding it’s way more fun to call him crazy and dismiss him as some psychotic, unfeeling, killer.
