rare danny phantom post from oana?? more likely than you'd think

very important bonus:

so ok in deep space nine they HEAVILY code the genetically enhanced people as neurodivergent (imo they all read quite clearly as autistic coded like, specifically, but most of them also seem to have other neurodivergency going on on top of that) and on one hand it kind of really sucks and is one of the biggest fuckups in the show in terms of like. representation. bc it’s sometimes played for some sort of shitty comedy and also plays into the autistic savant stereotype which nobody likes.

however also with that big “THIS KINDA SUCKS” disclaimer out of the way , there’s also some other things about how it’s handled that i want to also discuss bc they’re either interesting or actually good or just fucking weird and the combination of “this is good” and “this sucks” and “what the absolute hell were they even trying to do here” has resulted in me not being able to stop thinking about it.

first of all the number one thing that i think is actually really good about it is the very blatant and obvious “we need neurodivergent doctors for neurodivergent people” subtext that i’m not even sure it’s accurate to call subtext, it may just be text. NEVER have i seen that as a message in any show, the closest i have seen are shows where there’s a neurodivergent doctor but the reason the show considers that great is that the doctor in question can come up with novel ideas for helping neurotypical patients with unrelated issues. but it is really important - we do need neurodivergent doctors!!!! it makes a MASSIVE difference in pretty much the exact way depicted in the episode - neurodivergent doctors treat neurodivergent patients like people and engage with them on their own level and can relate to them and understand what they’re going through. star trek really said “maybe some of these patients who are ~difficult cases~ aren’t actually difficult cases and don’t need some kind of novel special procedure or whatever, they just need someone to fucking respect them for once.” and it extended that compassionate and humanizing perspective to neurodivergent people who had extremely visible and debilitating symptoms. brilliant incredible ahead of its time i just wish that it wasn’t weighed down by other Problems In The Episode. and since i figure i ought to throw in my two cents, i think this is a valuable enough message that it makes up for the flaws of the episode overall even though they are so glaring.

second of all the other thing i think is Actually Really Good about it is bashir being neurodivergent already before augmentation (they pretty much explicitly state he had some sort of learning disability) and how his parents’ attempt to “fix” him was NOT a good parenting move but instead, even though it DID make him fit in more with society and “fix” his symptoms, was a massive violation of his personhood that severely damaged his sense of self and pretty much destroyed his relationship with his parents. they weren’t evil or hateful parents - they really did want what was best for their son - but because of their ableism they couldn’t understand that what he really needed was to be accepted and respected for who he was, and to have his needs accommodated, not to be changed. neurodivergent kids get put through traumatizing and harmful “therapies” by parents who really do love them and would never intentionally harm them just like this all the time in real life. i really liked that his parents were dealt with sympathetically and it was made clear that they really did mean well, but despite that, he didn’t have to accept any justifications for what they’d done and his father ended up facing real consequences for it and accepting that it had been wrong.

this is a continuation of the bit about bashir being neurodivergent already, but i felt it needed a paragraph break - the other thing about the way being augmented by his parents in an attempt to stop him from being neurodivergent impacted bashir as a character that worked really well is that it DIDN’T stop him from being neurodivergent, it stopped him from outwardly appearing neurodivergent super obviously. it’s made very clear that even though he doesn’t have the same symptoms he had as a child, he’s still neurodivergent and instead of freeing him from any kind of burden, the treatments he was subjected to have condemned him to a life of masking forever. once again this is something that is the actual goal of many “therapies” for developmentally disabled people (fuck you aba), AND it’s something that a lot of neurodivergent people end up self-enforcing even if they’ve never been through these abusive therapies. bashir has to hide his neurodivergency to avoid making others uncomfortable and to protect his career, and it takes a clear and painful toll on his wellbeing even though it allows him to become a successful doctor. he makes it very clear he’d have rather lived his life without being forced into this box in the first place, even though now that he’s in the box he doesn’t want to get back out of it since being his authentic self now, after all the years of hiding, would put everything he has at risk. a lot of us do grapple with that and i don’t often see it portrayed at all.

now onto stuff i cannot slot neatly into “this is great” or “this sucks.”

on an actual serious level it is not good but i personally find it extremely hilarious, like as a concept, that in the sci-fi future of star trek, they invented a procedure to give your kid autism and then banned it because it makes your kid smarter and stronger than all the other kids and maybe he’ll take over the world. i’m drafting my world domination plan right now as we speak so watch out, i will destroy the government with my autism beam attack.

i have a lot of mixed feelings about lauren. on one hand, the way she’s written is often very flat and sometimes kind of creepy, and i wish she was dealt with with more nuance and depth. on the other hand, having a character who is not only disabled but institutionalized and nevertheless presenting her as beautiful, sexy, and capable of wanting and having romantic and sexual interactions is kind of nice in the face of the rampant desexualization experienced by disabled people.

the federation’s broad anti-augment stance is interesting in a show that generally presents the federation as being over most other types of discrimination. i think it’s intended to be up for audience interpretation whether the federation policies about augments are good or bad. personally, i think that it’s FLAGRANTLY bad - it isn’t the choice of a child whether to be augmented! it certainly makes sense for the procedure to be illegal considering both the risk of it being used for eugenics and the nature of it as a horribly violating procedure, but the consequences should not fall on the genetically enhanced person, but rather on whoever did that to them. i wish we’d seen more pushback against the federation’s policies and more examination of what they meant for augmented people.

the treason plotline being connected to all this was baffling to me. i am not necessarily against it on a principle level - “neurodivergent people will engage in high stakes treason and espionage in order to solve the world’s most fucked trolley problem” is so silly that it isn’t really a message i’m worried about - but i felt like it wasted the potential of the episode to go in plenty of other, more impactful directions. i would’ve much rather seen it end with the augments and the federation coming up with a better arrangement for their treatment and living situation - either to integrate into mainstream society or to find a way to improve the way they’re treated at the institution so that they are respected, listened to, and have their needs met better. ideally i would’ve really liked if we saw them all end up with different solutions, like maybe some of them would want to leave the institution and make a life for themselves outside it but others would want to stay, but with more autonomy and respect within the institution.

jesus christ episode 5 of arcane was so fucking good

qocc oc challenge - august 20th | new plot bunny → collette torres in scream (the series)

collette has a pretty normal life in lakewood, as far as lives in lakewood go. between hooking up with her childhood best friend, skipping all of her classes, and crushing on george washington high school's biggest loser, she's pretty much like any other teenager. well - until a masked slasher shows up and starts taking out her friends one by one.

good grie what is happening in hatchetfield

The director of D.P. is also the general producer of weak hero i KNEW there was a connection between those two!!

Just read a quote from the "showrunner" of 9-1-1 that said

""" I personally have always seen [Buck and Eddie] as a great friendship. But I think the struggle with the Buck and Eddie relationship is, we write a thing and we have an idea in our head of what the scene means and what those lines mean and an intention behind it, and then it goes out into the world. People may receive it in a way that we had not expected or that we had not planned on, and I'm not gonna tell people that they're watching the show wrong because people see what they see. But I think that they're very good friends, and in a lot of ways, they are family, and I think that's where they are right now. """

And I haven't watched this show yet, on purpose, but honestly all I could think of after watching this was chandler and monica from friends. The writers had no intentions of them being a couple. They joked about it over the years,and then did a season cliff hanger where they slept together in London, and fans FLIPPED. so they decided to play with it next season, and fans continued to absolutely love it. So mondler became the ship of friends. Ross and Rachel didn't get together til the absolute end of the show. We got to see mondler grow together as a family.

So my point in this was that just because you didn't originally see that in the characters you created/directed/whatever, doesn't mean that things don't change. Similarly, irl friends that fall for each other after years of knowing each other.

I haven't seen the show to know whether or not I ship it personally, but I've seen gifs for years now and I'm sure I would. Yes two guys can and should be shown as supportive friends more in shows. But being lovers doesn't stop you from being friends. It's another evolution of a wonderful friendship. It's not "making everything gay" or "being political" it's writing such a good story that those two people would be perfect for each other, even if the characters didn't originally see it coming. It's not even them being gay all along or whatever. They just fell in love. They trust each other. They can raise a child together, and support each other. That's all.

rewatched the man who would be king 58 dead 723 injured

Does anyone else occasionally see a news update from someone and just turn into a feral animal over it? Asking for a friend

9 of your favourite tv shows

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tagging @thesamestarlight @2manyfandoms2count @omnishamblegreg and anyone else who wants a go

Does anyone else constantly just get random feelings of nostalgia for a time that wasn't even that long ago, maybe it was a random song or other piece of media you remember enjoying last summer, or a food you ate in the spring a couple years back. The furniture in your house got rearranged again and it reminds you of the things you were doing in your life last time your house looked like this. Maybe it's completely random and brought on by seemingly nothing. You just randomly feel like it could be last summer or something.

whyyy is it that everytime i really need to get my shit together with school i gain a new interest that then proceeds to have a vice grip on my mind

Me: I'm gonna check out the Riddler tag for art. WAIT HE'S WHAT IN HARLEY QUINN

Me, already watching 3 or so shows: I'm gonna rewatch HoA s2

i have never experienced brainrot this bad for anything ever and i’m suffering why does ml do this to me?!?!? like yeah i’ve been addicted to playing ff//14, but it didn’t emotionally and mentally damage me in the way this children’s show is and i’m honestly losing my mind i’m not okay i’m not okay i’m not o-

6, 19, and 23

6. Episode of tv or webisode that defined the year for you? [Every TV show I watched this year suddenly flees from my brain.] Um. The Psych bigfoot-documentary-found footage episode was pretty fun. Idk. Nothing I watched this year really stood out to me tbh.

19. What’re you excited about for next year? I'm not sure. I'm very excited to go home in early January and get some goddamn rest but that's just the usual end-of-semester exhaustion, not something specific to the year. I'm graduating college, but that's more terrifying that exciting. I guess... my senior exhibition? Whatever that will even look like. And being back in the US in general will be nice. Having all the comforts of home again instead of this shitty student housing.

23. If you could send a message to yourself back on the first day of the year, what would it be? Apply to that thing earlier dumbass and don't waste your time waffling about whether or not to do it, just commit, it'll be manageable and totally worth it. Also you're Gonna wanna get your accommodations paperwork redone by ur PCP in May because the college fucking lost whatever it was they last had on file for you <3