#it's just not what is being described

[tuttle-did-it]

David Tennant for Prime Minister, please.

edit- Since this is getting so much attention, edited to include descriptions of screenshots.

This woman has lost her fucking mind.

Jo, are you okay?

[vintrage]

fire cannot kill a dragon BITCH

[jamierthanyou]

"you only say you're autistic because you want to feel special and different" actually finding out i was autistic made me feel significantly less special and different. before i was autistic i was Strange and Unpredictable in some sort of Unknowable way which Surely meant i was Predestined for Greatness (like storybook character). now im just some fuckin autistic guy like any other. i significantly prefer it this way btw

[that-queer-blob]

Agreed. Though I am a bit happy that they didn't drag adhd and dyslexia explicitly into the show?

(woops, this got... long. none of this was said against you, op, i agree with your post that making the show deal with ableism against schizophrenia but doing that by making mist-hidden monsters stand-ins for hallucinations or delusions is not the move the writers thought it was, and, in my opinion, that crude and forced comparison between those things is really similar to how RR tried to represent ADHD and dyslexia in the books whilst also claiming that they were basically superpowers to demigods with the only apparent downsides being forgetting things occasionally, not being able to sit still, and having trouble spelling things. there's a lot more to these disabilities that the people trying to write them don't know and it shows.)

For 2005, PJO was good, in the intent to show that ADHD and dyslexia weren't just made up to excuse laziness or something someone chose to have and rather than simply being born that way. But that's where the good kinda ends. RR basically just took his son's symptoms and slapped them onto every single demigod (except for Frank for some reason) and called it a day.

Any level of research into ADHD or dyslexia will tell you that that's not how that works, and then you still have to deal with the fact that it's not really affecting the characters at all. (I am NOT talking about the stupid demigod power thing. Mental disabilities do not give people superpowers). We occasionally get a reminder of "oh, I have adhd so I can't sit still and I lose pencils a lot" or "I can't read that sign" or whatever but it's always done in passing. It doesn't have a lasting effect at all on these characters.

And going back to the whole superpower thing, I rarely see anyone talk about how weird it is that this fandom talks about ADHD and dyslexia like they are actual powers. Read how they're described in the damn wiki:

If I removed the context of PJO from this, would you think that these descriptions were a dead-ringer for ADHD and dyslexia? (Also, large aside, the fuck do you mean "divine ancient greek" and "mortal languages"? What the fuck do you think the Ancient Greeks spoke? Are they not mortals anymore or something?)

I truly think that it would have been better to remove the characters being ADHD and dyslexic from them being demigods. If something were written now that had to excuse including mental disability by intrinsically linking it to that character being supernatural or divine in nature, I would not be surprised to see people calling it out. I don't see why we shouldn't with something that is still in the media zeitgeist, even if it was written nearly 19 years ago.

And that isn't nearly everything. I could write freaking essays about this. Why is it that every demigod (except Frank for whatever the fuck reason) knows that they have ADHD and dyslexia? How did they get diagnosed? Percy knew before he knew he was a demigod yes, but that's not going to be the same for every demigod, especially AFAB demigods during the 2000s and 2010s. Why the hell did RR think it was okay to say "oh medicine is bad and monsters are the ones who try to force them on you to get rid of your superpowers" in the first few chapters of the freaking first book? And why the hell does Frank, despite everyone claiming before that every demigod has fucking ADHD and dyslexia not have fucking ADHD and dyslexia??? And why the hell did RR think that it was okay to follow up with him saying "wow, adhd and dyslexia is so cool, i wish i had them!"

I would slam my head against a wall if I didn't have a headache already from this.

Things i hate about the PJO show

I bet you thought this was gonna be a joke about how i love this show and actually don't hate it.

But i want to murder whoever did lightning. Why is the only thing i can see of Annabeth her jacket and not her face? And Grover just isn't there Like it's not even racism cause half of the time you can't see Percy.

Also is it schizo rep instead of dyslexic adhd rep now? because if so, it's a very interesting stance. I.e. like it shows the problems with ableism that people with schizophrenia face. But at the same time, you know making the demigods see things that are "really" there but people don't believe them, is ... iffy

[ittybittyremy]

"While all this is happening, Orym has gone full shell shock mode. He's not talking anymore. He's going to go slump down onto a rock and is listening to all the debating at this point and he doesn't know what to do. He's been so sure for so long, and doesn't know what to do. Going in feels so wrong to him. But he hears the logic that it's only a matter of time before someone or something, a day from now, a year from now, six months from now. And just let's them figure it out, because he's took all his energy to make it to this point."

- Liam, C3E118

[raepliica]

priest guy sending mixed signals, what is he up to?🤨🕶🤏

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[benevolenterrancy]

Scholarly peak is catching up on recent literature

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I'm a doctor, not a miracle worker.

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[claraoswalds]

This is a brand new science for me, and I love it. The language of luck. 'Cause what is a coincidence but a form of accident? Two things bumping together unexpectedly. Like you and me.

[puppyudderly-dreamy]

ok babies! time to learn what dogwhistle means, can anyone tell me what dogwhistle means? thats right! a dogwhistle is a rhetorical strategy that obfuscates less popular rhetoric of an ideology in order to spread it to wider culture and signal subtle agreement with the ideology, and often they are hidden through obscure or seemingly nonsensical quirks of linguistics or culture. now can anyone tell me what to do when you think the tranny is being too annoying about a dogwhistle that you've arbitrarily decided is not real even though she clearly and calmly explained it to you? that's right! you keep reminding her that you think she's dumb and talk down to her like she doesn't understand anything and she's overreacting, good job! you successfully "unintentionally" signaled to terfs that you are susceptible to conversion

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Hot take, I really don’t think we should assign human morals onto animals and call them bad or evil. Fishblr has internalised this idea really well with sharks, and I think that’s good! Sharks don’t deserve all the fearmongering they suffer from in media. But… can we please remember to extend this to other animals too? Even to intelligent animals like dolphins (most commonly bottlenose dolphins) and orcas. It seems to be a counter to pop culture’s tendency to show dolphins as complete angels when they partake in some messed up things, but like…. Dolphins are still animals? They may be able to recognize themselves in mirrors and they may have language and culture and know how to use tools but their intelligence is still on the level of a human child (and how empathetic are those!!??). I see people talk about how evil dolphins are but I never see people talking about other animals the same way, like, why aren’t sea otters and their “evilness” the topic of discussion? :/

[tea-cat-arts]

Shen Yuan getting transported into pidw isn't "the system punishing him for being a lazy internet hater," but instead representative of "step 1 of the creative process: getting so mad at something you decide to go write your own fucking book" in this essay I will

[lunacias]

She's feeling a swell of an emotion at confessing all of this. She works to get it under control. /// Although he can't understand her, HAYWARD, too, is choking up a little at the sound of PAIGE's voice.

[wotchernewt]

best scarian dynamic is when grian treats every vaguely romantic interaction like 4D chess while scar is completely checked out of all of that. head empty staring dreamily eating the imaginary pieces like it's a candelit dinner while grian is doing a death note monologue.

[lyinginthesnow]

thinking abt that line in dundee when logan says shiv makes boogie men out of the clothes she dumps on her bedroom floor. always has.

[tmos-time]

okay wait maybe i will doodle conceptual werepire erisol late as hell and even let it post to tumblr in a way you have to click it to properly read. as a treat