leave me where i am, i'm only sleeping

baby housefinch,

baby pygmy falcon 1,

and baby pygmy falcon 2,

i’m not going to sit here and say the 2026 script was perfect because i have issues with pretty much every character portrayal in it, but it does baffle me that people don’t think winston’s ralph is the strongest adaptation of the character. what really gets me, though, is how often his inaccuracies are spotlighted compared to everyone else’s

i know i talk about this a lot, but it does feel a little off that people seem far more interested in pointing out winston sawyer’s departures from the novel than the inaccuracies in the other characters. take the scene where piggy and ralph have their lines swapped. people are quick to point out that ralph loses the "that was murder" line, but almost no one talks about what that change does to piggy. piggy loses one of his defining moments too, yet the conversation almost always centres on ralph

that doesn’t mean people are wrong to point out the change because i agree with them, but i don’t think it’s unreasonable for me to get defensive over a portrayal of mixed ralph and ask why the conversation stops there for some people. if the standard is that characters should keep their defining moments, then that same standard should apply to piggy, whose defining moment was also rewritten. (and don’t even get me started on the other character’s inaccuracies)

Bc so many ppl focus on the idea of telling A Trusted Adult, but even a well-meaning individual can fuck up and let abuse fall through the cracks or not know what to do

Whereas if a child tells LOADS of adults AND other kids, there's far less opportunity for an abuser to do damage control

Consistently telling their story and spreading it around disempowers the abuser to control and coerce the flow of information, or to utilise gaps and weaknesses in systems of reporting or welfare to isolate the child

My Florence upgrade needs to be studied