#Mr. Cardboard

[catfindr]

[fretbored34]

Tbf this meme is far superior than any window

[nobody-did-nothing-wrong]

So I know we’re all obsessed with like the stream crash and Athena (beloved)

WAS NO ONE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE ‘where is he’ ‘where is he’ IN LEGENDARY????

We don’t even have King yet and I’m going to be feral when it comes out

[scr1bbler-dribbl3r]

Soo, i started this little project this weekend. Im making an Mr puzzles cosplay! Im so proud of this and my best friend has supported me while ive done this and im so thankful of that. Anyways the silly's almost done! I'll show the results when done! B)

[i-may-be-an-emu]

Love love LOVE when a character is going through something and they turn on the radio and the song that comes on directly relates to their situation and the character just looks so Done and they keep changing the radio station but every song is the same kinda thing

[sarnie-for-varney]

Holmes is a plant dad, confirmed

[the-great-kraken]

i can't stop thinking about super strength as an allegory for dyspraxia

it sounds a little counterintuitive, since super strength usually comes with connotations of peak physical ability, but i think outside of the obvious there's a lot of really fascinating slightly more subtle overlap

a lot of characters with super strength are often shown to be clumsy - if mainly for comedy purposes. they'll misjudge their own strength and break whatever they're holding or throw things a comical distance or a friendly nudge will send an ally through a wall.

while dyspraxia obviously doesn't work exactly like this, the experience of attempting to have my body do one thing only to have it respond unpredictability and, depending on context, sometimes destructively, is altogether too real.

the archetypal example of super strength is superman, and his iconic 'i live in a world of cardboard' speech really illustrates that a core aspect of his strength is the requirement to constantly limit himself and adjust the way his body works, or else risk devastating consequences - essentially masking. he has to be constantly vigilant and aware of every action so he can try and ensure that his body responds Correctly. as much as the stakes are clearly much higher for superman than your average dyspraxic, that’s a very relatable feeling for me.

this can also make for some interesting commentary on accessibility, since the world around him isn't built for him to interact with safely. strong characters struggling to use certain more breakble objects is a pretty regular gag, and depending on the nature of the story, it's fairly common for their genius friends to build versions of objects that are reliable and safe for them - essentially giving them proper accommodations they couldn't otherwise access.

this struggle to interact with the world around them is often shown to worsen when under emotional stress - think mr incredible throwing his boss through a building and breaking his car door. for me, this is very common, as it becomes more difficult to focus on my movements when distracted, and it's always worse when because i'm upset, exhausted or frustrated.

this last point has less to do with existing tropes and more to do with what i think could be an interesting direction to take characters like this. as a dyspraxic person, i often feel a disconnect between what i view as Me and what is My Body. when i attempt to do one thing only to end up doing another, it can feel like my mind is an entirely different entity to my body. i think pushing a superpowered character in this direction could be incredibly compelling, and could be easily combined with the classic internal conflict of "am i my secret identity or my super alter ego?" (for anyone curious this is why i'm so attached to luther from the umbrella academy. his ape body took on a life of its own in my head since the show did nothing with it.)

but yeah, a lot of classic super strength tropes are very relatable for me, and i think with a little push could make for an absolutely brilliant disability metaphor. i've been toying with this as a concept for a while, but i've never quite managed to put a proper character framework on top, forget a plot, so i figured i'd try to get it out of my system for a bit with a tumblr post instead

[cardboard-aliens]

[ambitions-of-an-eccedentesiast]

local pipsqueak gets startled by his own voice, more at ten.

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[rogloptimist]

continuously thinking about this clip of a eurosports segment on primoz’s ski jumping career

the section from his former coach is particularly interesting, i’ve seen so many articles where people assume his career ended with his fall at planica but he actually continued jumping for 4 more years and the way those years are discussed here needs to be dissected imo

[parasitoidism]

seriously though why does atlus hate smtiv. what did flynn do to them

[ipsen]

ishida in tokyo ghoul:

ishida in choujin x:

[noritaro]

the yassification...

[johnbottoms]

I support women's wrongs but not penelope featherington's wrongs. what she did to marina is unforgivable in my book like hellllloooooooo

[schnaf]

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