alexseanchai:professorsparklepants:siderealsandman:cephalotodd:rick riordan off the shitsrick riorda
alexseanchai:professorsparklepants:siderealsandman:cephalotodd:rick riordan off the shitsrick riordan made his bones with pretty vanilla YA fantasy and then when he was too successful to stop hit em with the Muslim valkyries and the genderfluid homeless teenagers Rick Riordan’s “vanilla YA fantasy” series was written for his son with ADHD and dyslexia because there weren’t any books about kids with learning disorders. He “made his bones” on representation, you just didn’t notice because disabled people don’t count.[image: tweet by camphalfblood, containing a screenshot of a comment addressed to Rick Riordan, which Riordan has highlighted portions of in yellow and marked substitute phrases in connected boxes. these are transcribed separately below:tweet: “Here you go, random commenter. I fixed it for you! And thanks for your concern, but I am quite happy with my sales! #AllKidsDeserveRepresentation”.original comment: “If you had less gender dysphoria in your ‘kids books’ you might sell more … remember, it is parents who buy them.”comment with Riordan’s phrases substituted: “If you had zero acknowledgement that some kids are not straight and cisgender in your books that include marginalized people I don’t want my children to know about until they are eighteen, you might appease homophobic adults who think gender identity is contagious… remember, it is parents who model bigotry for their kids.”] -- source link