If someone wanted to make a remake of wizard of oz or willy wonka or snow white and the seven dwarves, what would you say would be the best way to fix the stereotypical depictions of magical or inhuman little people? Would it be to just make them Not little people anymore, make them another creature, or to make them like, people with dwarfism? I've heard some ppl bring up the idea of having dwarves in snow white be actual in-world little people as opposed to a mythical race of 'dwarves', but it seems that would carry its own problematic connotations to extend that to what is clearly a race (munchkins) or a pseudo enslaved/servant populace (oompa loompas) would it be better to just remove these characters entirely or have their roles reprised by non-little people? On the one hand, it seems that many of them do not need to be little people, but on the other hand it seems a shame to remove roles for little people.

(i kind of feel oompa loompas are a bit hard to make work at all given they are explicitely black slaves in the original and clearly carry a sort of enslaved populace connotation in most adaptations, but I'm legitimately curious about munchkins, whose size doesn't seem to matter very much in most stories.)

Hello! My answer is to simply stop retelling these stories. The very fact that we hold onto them so dearly when they're as harmful as they are is a huge problem. We need new stories! Depicting real, complex dwarfism. We need a wide range of disabled characters and better representation for little people - and Snow White is not going to be who saves us. Fixing these stores will not undo the harm they've done. We need to leave them behind and write better pieces.

And we as consumers have done that with so many other pieces of media. We've discovered that they're harmful to a certain group, no longer supported it, and moved on. So why not with little people? Why can't folks give us the same respect?

If you can understand that the oompa loompas are problematic because they were based off black slaves, you can also understand that they were problematic because they were dwarf slaves. The two intersect in the films, and they shouldn't be so beloved in my opinion.

And the answer is not to just recreate these stories without us in them - they were built on our backs and that is their legacy. Sweeping it under the rug wouldn't change the decades of harm they've done and the oppression they're a result of.

Just 👏 stop 👏 making 👏 more 👏 of 👏 them

Leave them behind and make better pieces with LP characters!!! Make them complex and loved and diverse and human!!!

Justice for the Oompa Loompa lady.

The Glasgow Willy Wonka experience is the funniest thing ever

Source on twitter

nice of mr wonka to invite us over for a singular jelly bean and a quarter cup of lemonade eh luigi?

mildly obsessed with that glasgow willy wonka experience fiasco it’s so fucking funny

im sorry i just love them so much

Sooo... I made the Willy Wonka Experience guys in acnh

i imagine they'd give you two acnh apples instead of jellybeans :p

Are you feeling alright? You hardly touched your single jellybean…

The Unknown: keeper of pasadise 🍭

Glasgow Willy Wonka experience brainrot. Can’t stop thinking about it hahahaha

WILLY'S CHOCOLATE EXPERIENCE

Pure Algorithimination

Soupy Garbage Juice

Oompa Loompa doo-ba-dee duns,

From this point on, there are no refunds

I want to believe they ran away together

The Unknown is so interesting to me, the concept, the look, the sheer aura of it. But also it highlights something, the script for the event was made with AI yet the thing thats brought so much joy and beauty from this trainwreck of the event was not the AI images promoting it or the script the actors begrudgingly went throught. Its the human elements that followed.

The actors speaking about the event and interacting with people online

the mountains of fan art of the unknown and the oompa loompas

the litney of memes surrounding it

it really shows how much more natural and joyous creativty and soul human creativity brings to the table. As good as AI tools get, they can't replicate that. They cant replicate the joy sparked in making memes, making art, laughing it up and creating with your fellow beings.

Would AI be able to make Goncharov? maybe but not in the way tumblr created it, not in the shared bouncing off each other for months, not in the organic way of inspiring and reinspiring artists and writers for weeks on end because they wanted to be a part of a collective project.

AI cant take our souls away

Truly mindblowing stuff at the Willy Wonka Chocolate Experience in Glasgow