WEBSITES NEEDING PHONE NUMBER ARE NOT TRUSTYWORTH AND IS AGANIST PERSONAL ONLINE SAFETY

I have something I need to talk about. I need to talk about making sites or discord servers needing to have phone number does two things. One it discriminates against those who can’t afford the latest hot mobile phone. and can only get a cheap almost 90s flip cell phone which probably does not have text message feature. The second and last thing is I believe the making people using their mobile phone number to verify themselves, or whatever- literally flies in the face of the online safety rules where we are NOT suppose to give out “personal information online”? I mean seriously we teach kids this as young as 4 years old! And then do the exact opposite ourselves?! Heck when my computer is down I can’t even access my own accounts on Google and what not on other computers because they don’t recognize my account because I’m not on my main computer. The only way I could access Google on a relatives’ computer is by having a phone which can do QR code which I don’t have.

On Tuesday, February 27th, 2024 there was some HUGE update for Sims 4. And some of the mods got updated or in Deadpool’s MC case it got hot fixes. I was not aware of Pateron become a bit more Prudish so to speak so I was really confused about why the Sims 4 MC Woohoo mod wasn’t on Pateron. So when I tried to join MC discord to ask and I got the nasty surprise that now in order to join you need to “verify a phone number” which means someone in my position who doesn’t have the hotest mobile phone that can support SMS. I can’t even talk to a Mod about this on the discord without being part of the server. I did leave a message for the owner on X (formerly twitter).

IT just we’re constantly telling our children we shouldn’t be putting personal information out online but now because almost every website requires you to “Verify” your phone number doesn’t that contradict what we tell our children to do? Since in my book-phone numbers still count as personal information. And now I don’t know if the MC support discord ever get rid of that requirement if I can ever trust them again because of the needing personal information

Websites and other places need to stop requiring these things because to some people like myself it makes the website or other service be untrustworthy and I don’t want to spend time or energy with them if they do stuff like this.

PLASTIC STRAWS ARE SOMETIMES THE ONLY ACCESSIBLE OPTION FOR DISABLED PEOPLE WHO NEED THEM

Lets gets this out of the way and I know I’m yelling but PLASTIC STRAWS ARE SOMETIMES THE ONLY ACCESSIBLE OPTION FOR THE PEOPLE WHO NEED THEM OTHER FORMS OF STRAWS ALL HAVE SOME KIND OF INACCESSIBLITY ISSUE FOR PEOPLE.

Paper straws can’t be used in hot drinks because like pasta and rice straws they melt very quickly in hot water. Paper straws I know are not good in cold drinks like a Tim Horton’s Ice Capp drink because they get soggy which means you can’t finish the drink-there’s a reason why I joke that Tim Hortons should be offering spoons with their Ice Capps. Paper straws as well as other biodegradable straws are way too easy for someone with with limited jaw control to bite through which defeats the whole purpose of the straw.

Pasta or Rice straws beside the issue above of melting in hot drinks. Not so sure about cold drinks- there is also the issue of people who have CD or are trying to be gluten-free that Pasta, Rice have Gluten in them. Or there’s some other kind of allergy risk

Metal or steel straws are not flexible for people so that someone with low motor control need someone to bring the straw up to their mouth in order for them to drink from it. Or if its made of metal or even glass a disabled person might hurt themselves if they fall forward all of a sudden. The Metal or steel straws need to be washed and not every disabled person have the ability to do that.

A lot of these straws are very expensive for disabled people and we’re already thought of as an after thought. It also means being forced to bring their own straws with them means they can’t be spontaneous in a day if their friends want to go out to drink because what if they forget their own straws and the business has no alternatives that they can use?

A doctor once responded to a question that was “What did Disabled people do before Plastic straws?”. I think the conversation was on Twitter but anyway the answer the doctor gave was “they aspirated the liquids into their lungs and died” technically you could say plastic straws were an example of curb-cut technology they’re made for some forms of disabilities and then it spread to the “normies” (ie non disabled people)

Instead of forcing disabled people to have to deal with bringing their own straws the business making straws need to be talking to disabled people to find a straws that work with them. Restaurants you should over both paper and plastic straws- and if you’re a slow-food restaurant have their server ask which kind of straw they want like they would ask if they want normal Coke, diet Coke: Earl Grey Tea, Green Tea, Black Tea, etc.

Is it time for Disney to create disabled protagonists?

I’m wondering if it’s time for Disney to create more disabled protagonists. The company already has people of different cultures. We have Native Americans in Pocahontas, Romiani with Esmeralda, African-Americans, with Tiana, Colombians with Mirabel, and Asians with both Muslan and Raya, that makes it already a diverse group, and having disabled characters would make the group even more diverse (and not all the disabled protagonists have to be white). And before you say Nemo is disabled-first that’s Pixar, and second-that Nemo isn’t the main protagonist his Dad Marlin is. And don’t mention Daredevil either-one that’s Marvel related and second-I want a disabled progtanists who doesn’t rely on “super powers” and isn’t a super hero. Not so sure what to think of Quasimodo or Elsa though. This post might be a bit rambling and going off topic now and then but let’s get down to business to defeat ableism.

Growing up with some of the Disney movies beside cherry picking parts of the Disney princesses, I identified with-(Ariel’s red hair, or Belle like reading)- the closet movie I got to in a sense feel represent was 1996’s Hunchback of Notre Dame. Even at the age of 6 I know I was “different” from my classmates. Basically I was an outcast, unlike my classmates-like the outcasts of the movie. Even though now I can also identify as a sort of cross between Lilo (of Lilo and Stitch)- and Elsa’s powers (aka “special needs”) from Frozen.

The only disablied characters so far have been villians who happen to be pirates of some kind. Captian Hook from Peter Pan and also the futuristic Long John Sliver from Treasure Planet who is a cyborg. But in the pirates’ cases they got their disabltiies later in life.

I can’t think of any example of characters from animated Disney or Pixar movies of a character having a temporary disablitiy not counting the “Sleeping Curse” (Snow White/Sleeping Beauty) or being turned into a bear (Brave). Well there’s also is Ariel’s temporary muteness (The Little Mermaid). Those kind of “disablities” you would actually want to cure. I can think of one live-action one which was based upon a book Johny Treamine. In the book Johnny Treamine he doesn’t get his hand fixed until after the story ended. Well in the movie it happens at least 30mins into the film.

And apperently the characters in Enchanto apperently have mental health problems of somekind like Abula has PTSD and I have no clue what the others characters (Tia Pepa for instance) are experiencing.

But there’s seem to be a great progess in disablited represenation. In 2021’s Luca there’s a supporting character who was born with limb difference. He has a great sense of humour about it which able-bodied people either are catious about making limb (or whatever the disablity is) jokes or over doing it to the point that it annoys the disabled person. There’s going to be another character with a disablity in the upcoming WISH film that Dalihia, the unoffical leader of Asha’s friend group of seven teens, has a musclar disablity so that means she has to walk with a cane. I have just found out that the voice actor for Dahilia also has muscalr disablity and uses a wheelchair. So that’s bonus points as well.

I don’t think it would be that hard to great blind, deaf, or other kind of disabled heroines. We do know that Disney is excellent at doing research for their films. Wether its bringing in animals for Bambi (1942)and The Lion King (1994), to actually going to the country they’re doing a film on going all the way back to the Three Callberos. To connecting with the cultural and people to make movies- a espcially big deal for Lilo and Stich, Moana/Vallias, Raya and the Last Dragon, Enchanto and presumbly WISH as well which is set off the Iberian Peninsula and for the opening song they have used Castendas, as well as some other instruments from around the area.

I have heard that sometimes they take the voice actor’s requests into consideration that apperently out of the 13 (soon to be 14) offical Disney Princesses that only one of them- Tiana is Left handed and that’s was only became the actor Rose (last name) request Tiana to be left handed because Rose herself is left hand. She litereally insisted (twice even!) to make sure thaat Tiana actually looked likea real African-American woman and not Caucasian interpretation of it. The first time was for The Princess and the Frog while the 2nd time was for Ralph Breaks the Internet Beside that that sometimes the animators replica something that the actor does. That when Paige O Hara was voicing Belle for Beauty and the Beast – O’Hara had a habit -of moving her hair which kept falling in her face and the animators incooperate that into Belle’s character. Apperently the Arinna Debose, the voice actor for Asha, the Main Character of WISH when she was vocing Asha she kept dancing around in the recording booth to the point the animators decided to include the dancing into Asha’s character.

Because they’re very throughly on checking carefully about culture about a place and how that sometimes even changes the movie how interesting would it be to have a world either fantasy or a half-fantasy and half something else like Turning Red that takes place in the real world and show a disabled person living their live and being able to go on adventures with supports of some kind. I would find it awesome if there was a fantasy Medvial Ages school and they had something like educational assistant helping the disabled progtangist with like writing or something. They might have to invent an small early version of a comptuer that could help the character write if writing by hand is a problem. Or a fantasy-medival version of a physiotherapist or other kind of supporting programs like speech thepary, or occupational thepary.

But if they do make up a character with a disablilties based on actual people with disablities the main thing that at the end of the movie the disablity does NOT and I repeat does SHOULD NOT be taken away from the character it was part of whom they are espcially if they’re as Lady Gaga puts it “born this way” (Note: don’t screw disabled people over twice like a show did with Molly Burke forgot the name of the show but it was losely based on her but she got screwed over twice-once with not being cast as the main part and then again being screwed over as a blind advisor).

In conclusion these are my thoughts on why Disney should included disablities and how they’re are the perfect company to even start to having animated disabled protaganists in their films and not just as supporting characters but as the hero or heorine of the story the progtaganist. themselves.

The Story by Matt Guion with added details by Celo

This story was told years ago on Matt Guion’s Bandgeek8408′ youtube channel. Even though the event is not said in the story its suppose to commerate the 9/11 but it could be anything that either we lived through or we remember or only know the story-in other words we can be one of the groups in the story.

THE STORY

John told the story every year. The story was never the same. Some years he would be jovial light-hearted, he would make jokes and find humor in the story. Some years John would be more solemn, add weight to the story-emotions would run high on those nights. Some years the story would have lots of details and some years it would be short and to the point. Some years it sounds like John was reading this story and some years he would…. stumble and …choke but every year he would tell the story and every year they would listen. 

There were those who, like John, had lived the story and knew it best-they could have told the story themselves, but they all agreed John told it best. There were those who remembered the story who hadn’t experienced it but remember bits of it in the fringes of their memories. They’re younger then those who had lived the story.

Finally as time went on there, emgered another group-those who had neither lived or remember the story but who only knew the story because they heard it from John every year. Though they came to know the story as well as those who lived or rememered it-the story meant something different to them. To those who only knew the story and hadn’t lived or rememer it-the story was a ceremony-a chance to gather every year to listen to make notes of the changes in the story-added details, tone-but over time. they began to ask “Why do we have to need too still listen too the story when we already know it?” “Why do we have do this gathering every year?” “What’s the point?” Every time the older members of the gatherin would respond the same way “You must continue to hear the story so it might not be forgotten”

One year it finally happened, John became too old to tell the story. They gathered just the same even though they knew John would not be telling the story. They sat together and wait for what they did not know. Some of the older folks-those who had lived the story made some fa–ltering at-empts to te-ll the story, but these ultimately failed eventually, they all went home, and the story went untold.

Every year the gathering grew smaller and smaller those who knew but had not live or rememer the story were the first to stop attending, then those who remembered the story, and eventually even those who had lived the story stop coming to the gathering. The story continued to go untold though they all still remembered the story and could have told the story if they had wanted too-as time went on, they began to miss the gathering and the story.

One night, Sofia,-one of those who only knew but hadn’t lived or remember the story, was putting her own child, Alex, to bed-Alex did not know the story, had never attended the gatherings. Sofia has told Alex many bedtime stories over the years but not the story and yet that night when Alex asks-it was the story that came to mind. So for the first time since John stopped telling it-the story was told. Other parents told their children and the story came back to life.

It was not the same as it was before and it never would be. The details of the story would change from generation to generation and the story would never be the excatly same way twice and yet the story lived on, not through a yearly gathering, or a cermony, but in the very fabric of culture, in the very being of people-the story could not be forgotten.

Impractical of a historical life simulator series

Wanring: I might use a bit of racist lanuage.

I used to have a dream of a historical life simluator series. It would start off as you’re born a random baby (boy/girl) in a hunter-gather era and you live and die and your born again as a random baby and then eventually after X amount of generations you would get into the Mesopotamia so you would have in some order (I can’t remember the right order) be born into eventually all of the following (some a number of times)-Summerians, Babloyian, and Ayssian. With at least Babloyian you would have different “classes” (priests, Royaltly merchants) of people compared to during the hunter-gather time. Then you would and then be borne into Ancient Egypt (both before and after the Upper and Lower Egypt were not together and then together). Then you could be born into Ancient Greek either as a Philosopher (Socrates, Aristole,etc), or a royalty (can’t name any royals of the top of my head from Ancient Greek besides in myths) or as slaves, or whatever is left over. Of couse getting nearer to the end of Ancient Greece you could be born as (future) Alexander the Great or Ptolemy (or any other of Alexander the Great’s other generals). Also about this time I believe you could also be born as THE Julius Casear or Brutus, or any other person. Then you would get into the Middle Ages so you could be born as Willian Ist of England (or even before then, you could be born as Alfred the Great) or someone else (like a serfs, etc until the Plague) or someone who becomes the pope, or merchants. You get the idea that it goes to te modern day. The series would try to focus on all countries not just European/Western World countries- so in Japan in one era you could become a Samuri, or in any of the Asian countries you could become a wife or concuinbine of the Ruler. Or be born as someone who becomes a merchant,etc. Besides not being able to program at all. There’s a long list of impraticals for why its not just happening.

Some impractical of such a life-sim game are the following.

1.Where do you stop the historical series? Like as recently, as I believe last week in other words the Titan disaster there’s history in the making. Not to mention last Sept when the Queen Regent of England and the Commonwealth Queen Elizabeth II died.

2. For some people let’s use William Shakespeare you would have to make-up what happened between the time he left his family in Stratford-upon-Avon and went to London and when he sort of became famous for his plays in about 1592

3. a) How do you deal with the lanuage which is different in a time period like in the 1840s and before you have bad lanuage for Native Americans inside of calling them Natives they’re called “injuns” like in Tom Sawyer calling the theif and killer “Injun Joe” or “Indians” and also in the 1930s-1950s white people talking about Black people as both the N words (Negro and Nigger). Or in the 19th century people calling all East Asian folks “coolies”.

3. b). Along with Racist lanuage you also have issues like in the 19th century of Minstrel shows which had white people put coal on their face to make them look black. Disney got a lot of flack for this with the crows in the 1940s animated Dumbo movie. Which was made even worse when you consider the name of the lead crow (Jim Crow).

4. In some countries there’s stuff that been hushed up like in China the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre or in Germany, the government doesn’t really like talking about the Nazi/Hoclausts-so that even the Nazi flag is banned from Germany. So people who are Neo-Nazi there have to use the U.S. Southern Conferdate flag from the American Civil War between 1861-1865 to sure their hate basically. That’s not even counting slavery, or how North American (Both the U.S. and Canada) kidnapped Native children and either put them into Residental schools, or in the 1950s through the 1960s put them into families which didn’t look like them at all)

5. In some cases we might learn 5, 10, 20 years down the line we might learn new information about someone from history so that would mean that we would have to go back to the game and re-program for that person from what we thought we know about him to what is new.

6. One major problem is that getting closer to the present (ie 80s, 90s-2020s) some point you’re going to have to be born as somene who is still alive either a former Disney star (Lohan, Duff, Labuff, Levato), or someone else entirely like maybe even moi?

So those are my reasons for why I don’t think a historical simulator game series could ever be made. What do you guys think about my thoughts on this particular subject?

Paralives and East Asian eyes and Yellowface

I follow a life-sim game that is a work-in-progress. Te game is called Paralives. They have a pateron and every so often they unlock a Pateron post for non pateron. On Thursday the team opened up a post from December which is called ” making Paras of diffent Ethnicities. One of the paras looked to be East Asian inspired.

Now to go back to the East Asian inspired Para. I’m concerned about people talking the eyes “TOO FAR” Like YELLOW FACE too far when the game comes out. I know some Asians do have angular eyes but that’s one thing but what about people making racist decptions of Asians like the ones that been in movies from like Mary Pickford in 1915 movie to Jame’s D’arcy in Cloud Alatas (2012)?

Yellowface is simliar to Blackface -like the one people accused Disney of having followed in stuff like Dumbo (1941?) movie and The Jungle Book from the 1960s. But its when a white person darkens their skin colour and add prothestics to look like they are Asian to either dramitize or villianize Asian characters. Here’s are a few examples of movies one being in the last 10 years or so..:

1915-Mary Pickford

1930s: Chan movies

1940s:-Katherine Hepburn

1950s-Marlon Brando

1961- Breakfast at Tiffany’s with Mick Rooney- the most famous example of “Yellowface”

and James D’Arcy in Colud Atlas in 2012

When I mentioned my concern on first Paralives discord and then on another sitre that’s not related. People either accused me of being racist one or ‘seeing racism that’s not there”. I’m not saying that the Devs of Paralives made a racist caritcuture of East Asian-I’m just concerned about people going TOO FAR once the game comes out. One person didn’t understand what is racist about angular eyes and said I’m the racist one for seeing something that’s not there. That was just the Discord. On the not related forum-someone accused me of “Only being interested in a certian types of racism” because I play Hogwarts Legacy and in the Harry Potter series the goblins who are bankers in the series are caricatures of Jewish people. Its like the person missed part of the game which mentioned that goblins were also metal workers and artists which as far as I know-are not caricatures of the Jewish folks. Oh and also the goblins were made in the studio which was behind Paralives

Its not that I’m asking for the game never to come out. I’m just want the Devs to be aware that people might take the angular eyes really “TOO FAR“. That I think like someone else mentioned on the forum that the Paralives/Steam should have an EULA argemment with the people who will play the game once its out is aware that if racist caricatures are uploaded they might be removed or something like that from the STEAM gallery

SimLit Darkness inspired by Disney Darkness?

I’m starting to wonder if my Swanson SimLit Darkness is inspired partly by the Disney Darkness (Toon bondage, abuse, torture, threat, capture and almost drownings-not in that order of characters) from the Disney media.

I know I always had a fondness for playing kidnapping games with my toys (Fisher Price Original Little People, and by baby dolls) and I think occasionally Lego pieces when I was playing by myself-which was much of the time at home since my sister was so much older then me. in my late teen years and early Young Adult years I just assumed it had come from reading too much Nancy Drew and Tom and Liz Austen Mysteries (the latter being a Canadian Teen siblings amateur detective series)

I guess between my 2nd and 3rd attempts or something like that of writing my Swanson Legacy (which I’m rewriting for the 4th time) I discover a website which was talking about not just about Snow White and the 7 Dwarves and the dropped plot for The Prince in that movie. As a kind of three-page tribute at the end of the last page of the Snow White talk is devoted to abuse, toon bondage, capture, drowning, threat and torture in Disney media (which in my case is mostly movies) aka The Disney Darkness- the three pages talking about this Darkness is called Disney Dungeons. So I’m been wondering if my SimLit Darkness is partly or heavily inspired by the Disney Darkness?

The following except for the last two paragraphs are taken word by word from the pages of the Disney Dungeon. I only updated it here to include Tangled (2010) and Frozen (2013) since the last movie mention in it is the Pixar movie UP (2009).

In the era of slient films a common thing of the time was the popular Damsel in Distress-ie: tying a woman to a train track and things like that. An obvious example of this is in 1914 Perils of Pauline. In the 1930s Disney comics and in the 1933 “The Mad Doctor” short that Mickey Mouse (and later other characters like Donald, and Goofy) turns that trope on its head with it being Dude in Distress instead.

Sure Pinnchio (1940) didn’t have any actually bondage but being locked up and deprived of his freedom (and Stromboli’s threatening the boy isn’t too far away from real child abuse). Geppato is one of the many male Disney characters whom survived drowning after he was eaten by the whale

Then we have Dumbo (1941) Mrs. Jumbo gets locked AND chained up for protecting her son from a bully at the Circus.

In one of those package films we have “Peter and the Wolf” with the wolf ending up being tied up.

Next is Brer Rabbit being tied up in the animated potions of Song of the South

In the last package film ( The Adventures of Mr Toad and Ichbod Crane) the former toad is sent to jail with a ball & chain. and when he escapes he’s jumps into the river or lake and almost drowns.

psychological abusive is present in Cinderella (1950).

and in the 1951 movie Alice in Wonderland a lot of the male card guards and rose painters are sent off to get the head lopped off.

then in 1953 in Peter Pan – the Lost Boys and the two Darling children-the first human characters (as opposed to the Mickey and other animals) to be tied up are tied up TWICE in the movie- once by the racist depictions of Native People and then again by the pirates. Tiger Lilly is the first human female character to be suffered being tied up to suffer a drowning. Wendy is 2nd female character being tied up with the Lost Boys and the brothers-but first to Walk the plank.

Minor note: Peter himself gets captured in the sequel Return to Neverland and experiences abuse himself.

Lady and the Tramp (1955) continues with the typical animal bondage- collars, chains, muzzles and a dog pound resembling a gloomy prison.

Sleeping Beauty (1959) kept and soften a lot of the originally dropped plot from the 1937 Snow White movie. Ie: Prince Phillip could sit and stand with his chains unlike what was planned for The Prince.

101 Dalmatians (1961) well kidnapping of 15 Dalmatian puppies. And that the Cruella didn’t care how the 99 puppies are killed by Cruella’s henchmen just that they are to be killed

skip ahead a bit – there’s a gloomy prison scene in 1973 Robin Hood and I’m not entirely sure, but I think in the climax of the same movie We think Robin Hood is drowned?

The Rescuers (1977) might not have featured bondage but an attempt to drown a little girl. Not to mention the suggested violence between Medusa’s temper, the gun, and her crocodile pets *

We’re going to skip over Fox and the Hound (1981) and go Straight to The Black Cauldron (1985) is really dark and brings back- bondage, prisons, and grisly skeltons. Pig Keeper Taran and Princess Ewlonley are tied up once but the comic bard Flewddur Flam to the point that he’s tied up on one of the posters for the movie!

Then we have The Great Mouse Detective (1986) which has about the most seen death traps in one movie with Basil and his sort of Watson friend being tied up on a mouse traps with a lot of death traps around them set to go off.

Then we have Whom Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) the titular character and his human-looking wife are tied up and hoisted several feet up during the climax while the male hero deals with a certain threat to a man’s privates. Mind you they did cut out a scene where the male human hero (not Roger) gets a pig head tatooed over his own human head.

in 1988 another movie- Oliver and Company had a kidnapping of Jenny and in the climax when the cat and the dogs (including Jenny’s family dog) and the dogs’ owner Fagin working together to free Jenny whom is tied up after being kidnapped. **

And in the 1990 Rescuers Down Under (the sequel to the 1977 The Rescuers) had so much kid bondage and violence of Cody (human friend), that the people in charge at that time had to tell them to cut a lot out of it and apparently they did so clumsily

And in both The Little Mermaid (1989) and the The Little Mermaid II, Eric gets pulled underwater (and held) by eels. And his daughter Melody has a much more gruesome experience in almost drowning by being imprisoned in an underwater grotto But apparently Melody inherited her father’s knack apparently for holding their breath for a long time.

Beauty and the Beast (1991) doesn’t have any actually bondage but there IS the lack of freedom in various part of the movie. Maurice being thrown into the dungeon by the Beast, and then Belle taking his place. And then later on Belle and Maurice both being locked up in their own cellar.

In the midequeal Belle herself survives a drowning only to be thrown in the dugeon by the Beast.

Then in Aladdin (1992) we have Aladdin being chained in a prison somewhere. And then much later not only is Aladdin or I should say Prince Ali- is manacled, has a ball chain (aka Mr. Toad), and he’s gagged as well and he’s thrown off a cliff to be drowned. Making a mention as Jafar-as-Sultan not only has the real sultan strung up as a Marionette but Jasmine is shackled at first and then later (after Aladdin shows up) imprisoned in a hourglass and the risk of dying if she doesn’t get out before the sand crushes her.

the next movie with bondage is 1995 Pochantas John Smith is kneeling down after being captured with his hands behind a pole in a tent and he’s to have his ‘brains knocked out” the next morning. When Smith is leaving to go home to England to be healed the movie’s villian, is chained and gagged.

Minor note- Thomas a minor character is another character whom almost drowns-but the only one whom almost drowns because of a realistic experience and not because of threat by a villian or an accident

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) has a very high amount of bondage. Quasimodo being tied up during the Festival of Fools, and we hear Judge Claude Frollo take delight in the whipping of someone off-screen at the Palace of Justice, and then we have Phobeus and Quasimodo being tied up and almost hanged in Courts of Miracles. And then we have Quasimodo being chained up and Esmerlda being tied up to be burned at stake not to mention the other tons of Romas and Phobeus- being in “cages” surrounding Esmeralda’s stake. if I remember correctly? Of course, there is psychologically abuse which happens in the 18+ years of being in Frollo’s guardianship. Then in Hercules (1997) there is sort of bondage in the form of something (can’t remember what vines maybe) with Megra being tied and gagged before Herc makes a deal with Hades.

Then in Tarzan (1999) Tarzan and Jane, and Mr. Porter get captured and imprisoned by the villian Clayton.

And then if we fast forward to Tangled (2010 ) – we have not only similar psychological abuse as in The Hunchback of Notre Dame but during the climax Rapunzel is chained up and gagged- I think she’s the only animated gagged character, that managed to free themselves of the gag And then Flynn is chained up “just in case he has any ideas in following” them (since of Rapunzel’s promise)

and then the last film to sort of feature bondage is 2013 Frozen with the glove chains in the prison of Arendelle castle which Elsa breaks free of shortly before the climax of the movie.

Here’s a link to where I got my information for most of what I have in here only rephrased it for myself

http://www.kennetti.fi/sw_scariest7.html

*Note the original plan for The Rescuers was for Cruella to be the villian of the movie as a sort of sequel to 101 Dalmatian which explains why Madame Medusa has such crazy mad driving skills like Cruella.

**Note: Oliver and Company were suppose to be an sequel to the 1977 The Rescuers basically I think it was to see what Penny had been up too since being adopted by a family.

GAMES STORES SHOULD SELL PC GAMES AS WELL!!

GAMES STORES LIKE GAMESTOP, BEST BUY, WALMART SHOULD SELL PC GAMES AS WELL AS GAMES FOR CONSOLE PLAYERS! THEY COULD GET MORE POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS BY SELLING TO ALL GAMERS AND NOT JUST PART OF THE GAMER POPULATION!

I’m been playing Sims for awhile. Later then most fans. But after I think it was Get to Work- might have been Get Together . The only way to get Sims 4 packs for people in Canada is for people whom are either underage or for reasons don’t or can’t use their bank card online due to the risk of hacking- is having either parent (if under age) or aka a family member to buy packs from online. It might make them (the latter) feel like they aren’t an adult Origin cards don’t exist up here and cards one might bring back from U.S. don’t work in Canada. And apparently Steam cards also don’t exist anymore in Canada due to code reasons. It made me very upset when I learned that from Gamestop back in November. And once I ever get down with my SimLit. I want to expand my repertoire of video games from Nancy Drew/Sims series to other games.. but due to reasons.. I would need to ask an older adult to buy them from Steam and that makes me feel less like an adult vs. if I go into a store and buy PC game with my own money makes me more like an adult.

Now I have been in game stores a couple of times. But recently (even pre-Covid) that PC section of the store has become basically non-existent in favour of console games- ie Xbox Games or PlayStation 5 games. Yes i can understand that the game stores might feel they might be stuck with a lot of PC inventory. But they could also get more customers for also appealing to potential PC customers whom for reasons (whatever the reason) either can’t or don’t use bank cards online or without adults/older adults’ help as well as their normal cliental of console gamers

So to get back to the point.. GAMES STORES LIKE GAMESTOP, BEST BUY, WALMART SHOULD SELL PC GAMES AS WELL AS GAMES FOR CONSOLE PLAYERS! THEY COULD GET MORE POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS BY SELLING TO ALL GAMERS AND NOT JUST PART OF THE GAMER POPULATION!

my kidnapping dreams are back but with a twist

In the late 2000s and early 2010s I would have kidnapping dreams. To the point of the fact that in one of the two dreams, that the Scooby Doo gang (cartoon version) appeared in that Daphne said in the 2nd dream, that I was kidnapped more often then her original cartoon self. Mostly I would be tied up or something not counting for that weird triple-part dream was a cross of a bunch of “I have Your Index” tropes from TV tropes and The Muppet movie (1979)-which I was like chained up instead. That doesn’t count the few dreams I had when I was Nancy Drew-including I think some weird “sequel” to several of Nancy Drew games

Now the dreams are back for some weird reason have no idea but this time with a twists. The first one happened last year two months after the pandemic started. Main point I had to recuse the three characters (Ralph, Vanellope and Fix-it-Felix) from the First Wreck it Ralph movie from some kind of person who looked to be Vanellope’s twin but wasn’t and I think the two of us had some “bad blood” Anyway in the 2nd part of the dream after Harry Potter helped me (I had to borrow his Motorcycle due to Ralph’s size) I had this sort of “Voldemort” connection of sorts with this “enemy” and they wanted to give myself in-and I guess I did because the last thing of that dream I remember was a dreamself who was tied up.

But back to the point-now the dreams are becoming more frequent and for some reason the kidnappers always want me to come to them and not try to take me by force. Either that or I’m “play-acting” being kidnaped person on a stage (or in a gym) but mostly it’s the former. I mean I am into mysteries and fairy-tale-like sacrifices but this is getting ridiculous. Like last night’s 2nd dream (the first one had something to do about being at an elementary school booksale) -I was once again a willingly kidnapped person and then I was led to a table with some other people (I can’t remember if they been kidnapped or not willingly or otherwise) and we ate-while I had to be fed since my hands were behind my back. But like I said the kidnapping dreams are getting ridiculous anyway. Anyway why would I be a willingly kidnapped person only them to fight my bounds that sounds silly doesn’t it?

Accessibility Issues

Dear Molly,

I’m really sorry about the title but I couldn’t think of what else to call it. I only found out about your channel through Paralives’ Reddit. Even though on another site Not Always Right someone mentioned you there. I been watching your 2016-2017 videos currently and I just finished watching the speech about accessibility issues you did at Western University. I would have tweeted you an accessibility issue I discovered for myself but I thought it was a better idea to write this blog so your phone or computer could read it to you instead. I’m not psychically disabled even though I’m near-sighted and hard of hearing in my left ear due to my own rare condition.

I have seen a lot of accessibility issues. But I have also seen (and technically to be honest, participate in) the ‘curb side effect”. But the main thing I want to mention is in normal times I normally go to bowling and also go to a day-program which provides lunches. So for both those things I need money right? It means that I would have to make a stop every three months or so at the bank. I have notice that both at the bank’s ATM and some POS (Point-of-Sale) machines but mostly Bank’s ATM have keypad covers which means I can’t see without having to bend (You would barley come up to my shoulders basically to get an idea of how tall I am) over to try to see where the the first row of keys are which is really important because of my PIN having at least 3 of those first rows of keys in it. I rather be able to see them even though I know where they are on the keypad.

Some accessibility issues things I have seen due to taking part in of the “curbside” effect. I’m like you am from Ontario, Canada. But from the other half of the GTA from where you grew up. So when Mom and I go into Toronto to see a play at one of the Toronto’s theatres or go to Royal Ontario Museum- we mostly take a bundle buggy-it’s kind of like a personal shopping cart. So of course we have to use the accessible Go Train car for our bundle buggy. The parents and I used the same accessible Go Train car for both our Fall 2018 and 2019 trips to Ireland and Germany instead of hiring one of those airplane services since our luggage is wheeled. It’s a real pain trying to get suitcase up on one of the normal cars-I had that experience one and don’t care to repeat it.

First one: We (Mom and I) heard once on train trip into Toronto how during the Ex, that a woman in a wheelchair with a service dog wished that there were two accessible cars during those times due to the “after” effect of the curb side effect being that families with strollers taking up most of the accessible Go Train space.

Second thing I have seen which is technically an accessibility issue-back when there was still the old Go Train concourse that after you got on the 1st elevator to get to the VIA level to get to the 2nd elevator to get up to the platform- that Elevator number 2 was hidden and someone in a rush wouldn’t be able to get to it in time or could hurt themselves. Actually, another time (from the story above) Mom and I were going to be on the train home and a woman barley made it and was concerned she might have broken something due to the rushing of having to get up to this platform. That wasn’t even counting the long walk down the ramp to the first elevator!

Back when Toronto still had World’s Biggest Bookstore-I always thought the exit doors were a bit of a peculiar angle as well as If I remember correctly-accessible button was on like the right hand side of the metal dectors and the door was like right in the middle. I thought that a person in a wheelchair would never be able to deal with that in time to get out the door.

At a mall in Durham Region area (I will just say PTC), in 2019 Mom and I went to see a movie in the movie theatre attached/not attached to the mall (there’s no entrance through the mall like there used to be with a different mall in Durham region (OC)-I noticed that the accessible button there was way too far away from the doors need that in my opinion by the time the person turned around to get out the doors they’re closed again.

Back in late October I went out to get some “Mac and Donald“, and I had a several hours’ worth of brain farts of “Why does McDonald’s have the old soda fountains?” (I had back from Dec 2019-Feb 2020 been using a similar old fashion soda fountain at a different McDonald’s location in town)- I guess because some other (Fast-food) places I have been (Subway in Stratford, Ontario), Wendy’s, and Harvey’s (as well as what I knew as the AMC theatre in town) all have the Free-style Coke machines. But I was having this major brain fart till like 4pm that day when I finally remembered about the lawsuit in the States about those Free-Style Coke machines not being like you said not accessible for the visually impaired. Even though supposedly for the Subway’s one there supposedly is an app for the Free-Style Coke machine which I think is audio. Well the old soda fountains you can do it by feel-which is accessible for blind people. During the Dec 2019-Feb 2020 I hadn’t thought about how in accessible the touch-screen kios at McDonald’s was not accessible. But now I think of it in retrospective.

One more thing I could think of is that there’s a huge liability issue which is also technically an accessible issue. In streets in my town, there been construction work and on one street sometime between August and Sept the one street they finished doing put a stop sign in. But the stop sign is basically RIGHT in front(?) of a slanted tactile pavement curb side so someone who is blind or a person in a wheelchair, or even an able-bodied person who might be totally absorbed in their phone could walk/run into that because of it.

That’s all I can think of for today but I’m a huge supported of accessibility for everyone. I recall two stories from the Toronto star one from 2010 and another from 2013 where disabled people were denied to have their dog either help them (in a buffet line) or be in a restaurant with them. Even though neither animal was an ESA nor was the disabled person blind. The first one the person had spinal muscular atrophy, and had been to this one Chinese(?)Buffet restaurant before with no problems. But when the woman with her friend got up and was going to go to the buffet line they were told “service dogs weren’t allowed in the buffet line do to “health reasons” but the health inspector said that service dogs are the exception to no dogs in the buffet area. But due to the public scene that the woman’s friend had, they were asked to leave the restaurant. The excuse was another customer had dog allergies when they saw a dog in the buffet area. In the 2nd case it was a hearing service dog and one of two Spring Rolls location (due to the first one another service dog story popped up at a different Spring Rolls location) but the main story a hearing impaired man when he tried to go to one Spring Roll’s location was he could either eat upstairs, or leave his hearing service dog (“tied up”)outside and he had “friends to help him”. They ended up eating at Jack Astor’s which had no problem and he had/has a Ontario Tribunal case. Another person, a woman, with mobility issues said she was denied service at the Atrium on the Bay’s Spring Roll location. First she was told she couldn’t bring in her special skills service dog but then they gave her a table and served her table but then “closed off the area” around her until the dog left. And when she complained they did nothing so she boycotted the chain. So once things get back to normal I kind of wish to see the media double checking to see if either the Spring Rolls locations or the Chinese buffet place remembered about the Ontario disability laws, or did they just do the “claim they’re will have diversity training” due to the bad publicity they got and as soon as media went “bye-bye” they “forgot” about it? If I make any sense?

But I had watched last night your “guess the candy” challenge video and when I logged off for bed-I decided to see if I still had a Kit-Kat bar and an Aero bar from Halloween just to feel them. I could feel the rounded edge of the Aero bar as well as feel the divot in the Kit-Kat bar. I did have to feel the Aero bar a 2nd time to feel the bumps(?) in the bottom since I forgot to do it the first time. I did recall the one time I had a Coffee Crisp bar and remember how solid it felt. Also because of some of your other videos (ie: smelling challenge ones). I been smelling my food a lot or even my drink mixes when I put them into my water.

I’m still have a many videos to go through of yours but I really enjoyed what I’ve seen. So I’m probably will enjoy the rest of them. But I just wanted to share with you my one issue of an accessibility issue for me is. the keypad covers. on Bank ATM’s

Sincerely

Celoptra/MadameLee/PrincessofEllabur