Us: *starved from lack of representation in our favorite novels*
Rick Riordan: Heard y’all wanted some representation so here an African American girl raised in the 1940’s lol
Us: OH MY GOD YES THA-
Rick Riordan: Oh lets give her an awkward yet badass Chinese-Canadian boyfriend
Us: OH MY-
Rick Riordan: Oh, here’s a Native American girl daughter of Aphrodite with a movie star dad
Us: I-
RR: What about a smol sassy Latino boy that will soon become your favorite character?
Us: AWW-
RR: Oh wait, here an lil emo Italian sad boi and his sunny optimistic boyfriend
Us: WH-
RR: Here’s a badass native Latina who takes no shit (we all know she gay af for Thalia but we must wait)
Us: Oh-
RR: Y’all wanna hear about the queen of bisexuals Apollo?
Us: I’m-
RE: What about an old, non-sexualized lesbian couple with an incredibly romantic backstory??
Us: Wait-
RR: OH WAIT! Do you want a badass Muslim girl who follows tradition Muslim values but doesn’t let it stop her from living a normal life? Oh, and she’s also in a healthy arranged marriage don’t worry
Us: H-
RR: How about a gender-fluid and transgender child of Loki with a lovely taste in fashion?
Us: Wait hold o-
RR: What about a deaf elf who uses sign language to communicate but is still a valuable character?
Us: But-
RR: Oh, and here’s two biracial siblings that look nothing alike but they’re related, trust me
Us: *shocked*
RR: OH! I ALMOST FORGOT! Literally all theses characters are dyslexic, but it’s ok because it’s possible to live a full life even with disorders like dyslexia.
Us: *faints from the tidal wave of representation thrown at us*
@peachiposts Ehhhhhh, as an Arab girl playing a game happening in a fictional but arab place, I have some thoughts a lot about the way my culture is depicted 💖🤙🤙
#how the fuck did they get that close without a cop or white dude Approaching*
update: on the full length youtube video they did, in fact, have a white dude yell ‘he’s a native Virginian!’, because of course. From a car, because of course.
This is actually done for legal reasons. If Chad was excluded from the will entirely, he could make the case that he was supposed to be included but was forgotten, and get a big chunk of the estate. By explicitly giving him $1, it shows he wasn’t forgotten so he doesnt have a case.
i learned that there was an early 1900s act named “Sober Sue”, who’s draw was she never smiled. A theater offered $1000 to any one who could make her laugh, attracting big comedians. Crowds came out to watch them try, and fail, giving them a free show. Later it came out that Sue suffered from facial paralysis (x)
And then, for a second, it seemed like maybe we could survive the child,
and then, 5 miles under the capital city, an evil homunculus was like, “I have a huge transmutation circle and I’m going to kill everyone to become god!” And before we could say
anything, the child was like, “If you even fucking look at Amestris,
I will punch you to death with my fists. I dare you to do it. I want
you to do it. I want you to do it so I can take my unresolved daddy issues out on you, I’m
so fucking crazy.”
Sometimes it’s not a bad thing, just surprising. Like, “Today the child did alchemy without a transmutation circle,” and everyone is like, “Huh, I didn’t know he could do that.”
The creepiest days are when you don’t hear from the child at all. Those are the days when everyone is like “I think the child has finally calmed down,” and then the child is like “I just uncovered a government conspiracy. I went in that secret lab and snuck in there with my tiny body. I have a tiny body, but don’t you tell me that, or I’ll fuck you up,” and you’re like “That’s what I thought you’d say, you tiny fucking child.”
And then for a second we’re like “Maybe the government will fire the child,” and the child is like “I have dismantled the government.”
“i am a monument to all your sins” is such a fucking raw line for a villain it’s amazing that it came from halo, a modernish video game, and not some classical text or mythos
Thor is like a jock from school who everyone thought was average at best with school. But then one day someone just “Wait a second, he’s in all advanced classes,” and everyone realises that he’s never done anything to make people think he’s not super smart- he’s just so nonchalant about his smarts people didn’t notice