Reblog If You Understand And Have Felt The Pain Of Your Glasses Never Being Clean No Matter How Many

Reblog if you understand and have felt the pain of your glasses never being clean no matter how many times you wipe them

legit torn between "make Ostin autistic because he's my favorite and I'm autistic" and "but that just reinforces 'autistic savant' stereotypes" and then I remember Jade Dragon exists and like "you know what let's rewrite her a bit too"

Yea I feel your pain. There are characters i sometimes want to headcanon something but it reinforces stereotypes and I’m like “I love you you and it would be so cool to have that representation! But then you’re gonna be stereotypical and I don’t want to perpetuate that.”

I also kind of wish Jade dragon was more involved in the story. It felt like she was treated more as an object in the story rather than a person. And I wish she was brought back later, she had a lot of potential.

What the fuck was up with that bit about the black-ops team in HfJD thinking the kids were reincarnated thunder deities by the way? they didn't need that, and it doesn't come up again, so it's just another weird bit of racial politics in MV along with the whole 'noble savage' tribe Tessa's with in Ampere and then the Tuvalu stuff that probably hangs as the biggest Actually Uncomfortable Thing over the series

Honestly! The mildly racist undertones throughout the series just makes me feel icky! And that’s my least favorite part of the books. I think that’s honestly why many people say it just feels like a “ more conservative Percy Jackson”

No clue what was going on with the black-ops team thing that was weird! And I kept thinking it would be plot relevant and then it kept… not being plot relevant. Didn’t need to be there! Toss it out!

Don’t get me started on Tessa’s whole thing with the indigenous tribe. That was extremely inaccurate representation and honestly also didn’t need to be there.

I was also really bothered about Ostin’s weird Asian fetish thing? Like, thankfully they moved passed THAT in particular but, like, ew. And then he made that comment in book 7 about how (paraphrasing) “well statistically Asian people have the most similarities when it comes to eye and hair color- and I’m sitting here like “was that a necessary comment?” Because it was supposed to be about how Ostin doesn’t understand how to interact with women but- no one would say that. Like, NO ONE, would say that. And especially not to there ASIAN girlfriend! There’s obliviousness and then whatever you call that. It just felt kinda tone deaf and I was uncomfy!

I didn’t necessarily hate all the Tuvalu stuff because I think a lot of it was supposed to be showing how cruel Hatch was by invading a peaceful place and Hatch made blatantly racist remarks. But that was all for, like, showing how much he sucks. But there were times when I felt the Tuvaluians (I hope that’s the right way to spell that) became just a stereotype of “primitive native culture” and I wasn’t a fan. Yea it’s great to have native culture represented but i doubt much research went into accurately portraying there culture.

I don’t know I’m white so like, I don’t want to make statements on behalf of anyone so if I’m wrong let me know, but I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who noticed this.

ALSO! I don’t want to say that Richard is racist. I’m not in a place to say that and it’s quite possible that this is all just out of ignorance. But the story would have benefited from a sensitivity reader

The difference

You must me aware.

When I recommend Gregor The Overlander I do so because it was an amazing book! It was well written and thought out, with interesting characters and great pacing.

when I recommend Michael Vey I do so not because it’s well written and in terms of quality is pretty much the opposite of Gregor The Overlander. But because I miraculously still greatly enjoyed it! My hope is that you might start reading, get hooked on the first few books that are actually pretty good, and therefore be too far gone to stop and subsequently become obsessed too. And now I have a new person to obsess over this niche thing with.

My OC Rainbow, I love him so much!

Did anyone order some mudwing siblings?