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THE OWL HOUSE - LUZ'S NEURODIVERGENCE

I know when people talk about representation in the Owl House, they mean the big stuff, the queerness. And yeah, Thanks to Them has a lot of that, and it was great, but there's one moment in the episode that particularly stuck with me.

THIS SCENE

THE NEURODIVERGENT REPRESENTATION

This is something I've seen people on tumblr talk about a lot. About how the school system isn't designed for everyone's brain, and it shouldn't be a measure of who is the cleverest, or who puts in the most effort, or who is the most worthy.

Luz is clever. Just not at the kind of subjects they teach. And even when she is, it comes and goes, or she can't focus and applies herself too little, or too much and just generally can't operate on the level they require from her 100 percent of the time.

The fact that they finally outright say it, the reasons she's been struggling in her own world, and point out her difference in such an obvious way makes me so happy.

Because think about it. Think about it the way you think about Amity and Luz asking each other out onscreen, or Raine's pronouns. There are children out there right now too young to voice themselves on the Internet, who sit around and watch this show.

Children who might be struggling in school, and see themselves in Luz. Children whose struggles and stories are finally being voiced, and who are being shown that it's okay to feel this way. You're just like this character here. You were built to excell somewhere else and it's okay that you are.

It's satisfying and sad. Real life children won't get to escape to the Boiling Isles, but they might see this scene, and push aside the narrative that they are a failure. That they'll never be more than the problem child.

All because of this wonderful show which voices, inspires, and represents people who have been waiting for it their whole lives.

Please don't think I'm trying to discredit the LGBTQ+ or poc or any other kind of rep in the show, I love it all, I just really wanted to talk about this side of it.

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“did you hate living with me that much?”

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Adrien Brody in The Darjeeling Limited (2007) dir. Wes Anderson

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The Brothers Bloom (2008) Rinko Kikuchi as Bang Bang

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“We had a two-week rehearsal period, and during that time I had to learn to look like I could play piano and guitar, juggle, and skateboard. That was tough, because I had never been on a skateboard in my life. Brody is a skateboarder and he gave me lessons. The thing I really had to learn was card tricks. People think that with CGI it’s someone else’s hands, but that was all me. It took me about four weeks to learn, and I had to practise every day. When I started, I couldn’t even shuffle a pack of cards.” — Rachel Weisz on preparing for The Brothers Bloom (2008)

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Rinko Kikuchi in The Brothers Bloom (2008).

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Adrien Brody as Luca Changretta in Peaky Blinders

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Adrien Brody in The Darjeeling Limited (2007) dir. Wes Anderson

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—I collect hobbies. I see someone doing something I like and I get books and learn how to do it. —Anything interesting?

Rachel Weisz in The Brothers Bloom (2008) dir. Rian Johnson

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15/? costume design: The Brothers Bloom by Beatrix Aruna Pazstor

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@realisaonum asked: Brick or The Brothers Bloom?

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The Darjeeling Limited (2007) dir. Wes Anderson

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adrien brody in the darjeeling limited

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The Darjeeling Limited (2007) dir. Wes Anderson

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we cannot let andrew garfield loose around any more tall men

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yeah like horrific trauma n stuff but literally imagine the ego boost of surviving a saw trap .

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LUCA CHANGRETTA’S CAR, BIRMINGHAM

There’s been an accident.

Why don’t you move it out of the way?

What?

I said, why don’t you clear it so that we can get past.