kazoomusic: professorsparklepants:siderealsandman:cephalotodd: rick riordan off the shits rick r
kazoomusic: professorsparklepants: siderealsandman: cephalotodd: rick riordan off the shits rick 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. Yes, but he literally planned it that way, knowing that learning disabilities in a white male child wouldn’t raise any red flags at the publishing house. He intentionally waited to include things that would until they couldn’t do much to stop him …every single child in that series that had a godly parent had ADHD? at least when it was just? with the greek gods? like thats a canon thing from what I recall. They are all the ADHD my dudes -- source link