Annie in wonderland

What is media?  When I started this blog, I didn’t know what I was doing or how I was going to go. And I found myself at a loss of what to write about due to the NDIS (The National Disability insurance scheme) being such a hot-button topic at the time. However, I widened the scope to include media; focusing on disability representation and how disability is discussed in popular media.   This led me to think about the simple question What is MEDIA? This to me is a great question as it has changed in recent years, media is separated into several different categories: TV, Newspapers, Radio, Books, Magazines, and then Websites. Traditional media has a long history of bringing those in power to account for their actions in a democratic country the media should never be the enemy of the people, this is when it becomes propaganda.   A tool that has a long history of changing behaviours and mindsets to suit a narrative, of the organization or sponsor behind it, starting with ...

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...

  Heavenly fire and the consequences of dealing without consent. This has been an interesting post to think about as it deals with some very heavy topics that are still very much hot-button topics in the disability community. So We see that Heavenly fire is an off-the-books clave program, that people have died for so we see that there is an issue with this at times as we discover it is a program that Aldertree is running very illegally.   ShadowhuntersSeason 3, Episode 17 | Helen Sabotages The Heavenly Fire Supply | Freeform -YouTube   As we discover he is just as bad as valentine in that he wants to rid the world of down worlders and we see that he is trailing it to put it into the water supply in NY and that this would then clans NY and then the world as the Shadow hunters have the time and resources to do so to clans the world of down world. But we do see that it is “off the books,” and that it is experimented on with prisoners and we see that they aren’t...

Trigger warnings for talking about self-harm This is a continuation of the series about Jace and Alec as I seemed to find that I didn't think I had a good handle on this relationship. It seems to be so complex and again when Clary comes into the world things change for everyone so we see that Jace was in with Izzy about the mission to save Melorne a Seeley  from the city of bones, and we see that Alec can't control his anger towards Jace as Part of the vow that they took was, to be honest with each other and Jace has been lying to Alec he has been going behind his back putting the institute at risk and at this point, Lydia is in charge so Alec is feeling frustrated lost, and angry at his closest friend essentially ditching him for a girl that he barely knows. We see that Jace knows that Alec was in love with him and that under all of that masking he is scared. However, this is the point where Alec is straight down the line and will act by the Law as we know that the shadow hunt...

   Warning this contains a discussion about self-harm and attempted suicide.   So this is a continuation of the posts about Alec and his Mother Maryse lightwood, they have quite a rocky relationship and it is difficult to see this and how it affects him as it really does affect him quite badly at times. However with her progression into a really well-adjusted human she can face the consequences of her actions and admit that she has been wrong in the past, it is one of the hardest things for a person to do.  So this will focus on the relationship development in season 3 as it is where they have the strongest relationship in the show and can heal from the wounds they gave each other to become successful adults, whether in the mundane world or in the Shadow world.  In researching the posts focusing on Maryse I now realize that it's really that it's a combination of both the world and the situations that they are put into as we see that Mary was trying to prote...

Image by  Clker-Free-Vector-Images  from  Pixabay   I am starting to branch out a bit into some more diverse media like this blog evolves and I mature as a writer as I was talking to my parents ( yes I live with my parents but am in the process of moving)  and an ad for the Australian Big brother was on and I was actually looking for some research for another blog post and it hit me that Big Brother and it's related reality TV shows are actually a massive trial of the Stanford prison experiment in reality framed as a harmless TV competition yet we see the same tactics play out and the behaviors' mirror it.   https://7news.com.au/entertainment/big-brother-australia/big-brother-sobbing-tullys-epic-window-meltdown-finally-explained-amid-major-twist-c-7094547   These maladaptive behaviors are the manipulation of a situation to a person's personal advantage, and power plays on people who don't have assertiveness about them.  I know that there was ...