Annie in wonderland

    So this is going to be a really interesting post to write as I have covered the topic before but it is a very complex argument to be had around disability and representation in the media. I have the blog post on what is media, but for this post, I am going to narrow it down to   TV, books, and podcasts.   This is so by establishing it as entertainment media we see that people are looking for diverse content but what about the disabled community do we see ourselves represented on screen the answer is not really. We see ourselves presented in a very inaccurate way and at times as a trope being inspiration porn the term that was coined by Stella Young, [i] and it is at times hard for people's mental health as this overcoming and warm and fuzzy, and easy to share content is easy but we don’t see the struggles of disability represented well I know that some dated shows were ahead of their time.   Then we get into the News media that is now inextricably linke...

  Ecco Park Podcast   Episode 5 6. Intermetamorphosis • Echo Park (spotify.com)   This is a great podcast and we are starting to see that the podcast is gaining massive traction and the plot is picking up traction. We are seeing that the Clones where researched and genes where manipulated towards explosive anger.   We see that James Clone is able to get hold of the research and get his way into the labs that they had in working with Clones. His source is unable to wake up as he is a drug addict due to the pressure that his parent’s have put on him to achive he works for the LA PD as a consultant. Being a migrant James does experience is very similar to most people of Asian descent they pressured by their families to be high achievers this is a cultural phenomenon that we see play out in many in many tropes across the media, in having a look at Ecco Park, we say that it is produced by Harry Sean junior an actor of agent descent that has had this experience he...

4. Hero Complex - Echo Park | Podcast on Spotify So this is a really interesting podcast and I am getting into it. To me, it harks back to the days of the old school radio plays, that we see had great writing and this does as well. We are seeing what can only be considered to be culture clashes and a lack of understanding of the culture that the clones live in. We see that James discovers that Terrence has been hiding things from him just like he is hiding things from Terrance. I see that this is an interesting issue because their relationship was always based on a mutual understanding’s situation.     But we see that there is conflict when there isn’t all the information put on the table. It does become a transactional relationship and this does put a strain on things in the relationship as James is essentially using his clone to keep his job as he is an addict, it’s a way of him “checking out of his life,” I see that it would be much better to deal with the situation...

  Mia and what happens when you have a lack of support part 3 So we see that Mia was a character in the Show and not the book, we see that she has had to be independent from   a very young age, we see that this is something that people who don’t trust easily have and we see that people need to trust and to tell people the truth. To the people who you care about. We see that Mia, with Simon, doesn’t trust him and we see that she doesn’t tell the whole truth. This isn’t lying but it’s a huge issue,   that we see that both Simon and Mia have trust issues because of the way that they become downworlders, so suddenly,   We see that she is in a “prison of her own mind,” in projecting her fears onto people. [i] We also see that she has gone through a massive amount of trauma, in Jorden and this is a metaphor and we see that Jorden does own his mistakes.   This is huge for a man to own his mistakes. So in owning their mistakes is great it shows some accountabili...

  Ecco Park Part two 2. Imposter Syndrome - Echo Park | Podcast on Spotify This is a very interesting podcast and this is the second episode in the series and we see that it’s a very interesting podcast and that James a source for Terrance – his Ecco as the clones like to be called, we see that they are able to form a relationship. However we see that this relationship is very one sided and the James has been using Terri for clean samples, however we see that the clones have there own politics and that the ability to hide from the police, as we see that Ecco Park where the Clones live is closely monitored.   Due to the fact that they are actually targeted by them and we see that this is an issue, for them that they are targeted. We also will discover that the are seen as second class people in the eyes of the police and I see that this is a very real world issue, an issue that we see in many first world countries that the police are stretched with resources and tha...

1.        Addictive Personality - Echo Park | Podcast on Spotify This is a podcast that I will be covering on the Blog and YouTube channels. It’s quite an interesting podcast to listen to and it is in the thriller genre. I like it because it harks back to the days of the old school radio plays and you had to wait till the next week to find out what happened. It is set in the future where human clones have been given their human rights and I find this interesting that it’s clones that have human rights, this infers that most other oppressed groups have been given their rights as well, however, at times in today's society we see that they don’t have human rights and most countries only respect them on paper, not in practice. It focuses on when a clone meets his “source,” so we see that the clones have their own language and culture and that this is respected by the establishment. However, we see that people are mixed on both sides about the clones and...

 This is going to be a very difficult post to write and for people to possibly read. Please be aware that it could be quite triggering for some people as it will be talking about abusive relationships, stalking, and control of others. I am focusing on Mia today as she is quite an interesting person in the Shadow world as she is a Downworlder and not only is she a downworlder she is studying and working her way through college online. ( this is TV Mia as she wasn’t in the books) We see that she is strong and independent but also that she didn’t get there alone and has gone through a lot. From her teen years until now she wasn’t cared for until Luke found her when she was found bitten by a werewolf (Jordan) and left to turn. This is difficult for her to process as it was her boyfriend (Jordan) who got bitten as well and he didn’t know how to tell her so simply ghosted her (he stopped communicating with her) and left her to turn alone. Even though he had stopped speaking to her,...

If you give a mouse a cookie. (1) If you give a mouse a cookie | Read Aloud | Storytime - YouTube   This on the surface is a great kid’s book, however, it shows, what could be called the slippery slope fallacy. So, it is about to do we have free will.  Something that is up for massive levels of debate and people has dedicated their whole lives to trying to solve this question there are many thoughts on this and many different schools of thought. It also goes into in a very small way moral responsibility to others.  It is about a mouse that is freely given a cookie, yet there are more and more requests. On the person who freely gave the cookie to the mouse, given that the cookie was given willingly I do ask the question about does the person that is giving the mouse a cookie understand the consequences of his actions. This goes into the Law of unintended consequences, this law being that you can’t always see the consequences of your actions and that at times these acti...