where do you live now? i wish you were here.

“The Secret Garden is bad disability rep because it ends with Collin walking!” Cool, you didn’t actually read the book, did you? Because Collin doesn’t start walking because disabled people “need to get better” but because he’s breaking free from the extreme infantilization that he was subjected to his entire life. He starts walking because everyone in his life told him he couldn’t and to not bother even trying. He starts doing things for himself because he grew up being told all he was going to do was get sick and die, to the point where they hid him away and his father didn’t want to see him to reduce the hurt of his sons eventual death. This book isn’t about disabled people getting better, its about letting disabled people live a full life despite their illness

also to those of y’all saying colin wasn’t disabled: he shows very clear signs of depression and anxiety caused by parental neglect. he has real cptsd. those invisible illnesses are disabling and helped cause the immense executive dysfunction he also has !!

One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands out and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun--which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so. And one knows it sometimes when one stands by oneself in a wood at sunset and the mysterious deep gold stillness slanting through and under the branches seems to be saying slowly again and again something one cannot quite hear, however much one tries. Then sometimes the immense quiet of the dark blue at night with the millions of stars waiting and watching makes one sure; and sometimes a sound of far-off music makes it true; and sometimes a look in someone's eyes. -Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

hot girl spring is out. mary lennox spring is in. get in loser we’re frolicking in the garden; we’re talking to birds; we’re getting lost in the heather; we’re wandering gothic manors in the dead of night and discovering secret cousins concealed in attic bedrooms, we’re jumping rope

my favorite little known secret garden fact ever is this: brian roper played dickon sowerby in the 1949 adaptation of the secret garden and was 19 (playing a 12-year-old). he played dickon, the EXACT SAME CHARACTER, THREE YEARS LATER, AT 22 YEARS OLD in the 1952 television series adaptation.

do y'all also have mutuals whom you’re actually a fan of? like everytime u see them on your dash u just,,,,, “u go mutual that’s my mutual!!!!! i love u mutual!!!! i can’t even believe we’re mutuals i don’t deserve u!!!! keep being u mutual!!!”

It's so funny to me the way multiple adaptations of "The Secret Garden" are so uncomfortable with the idea that Colin takes after his mother. They keep changing it so that MARY is the one who reminds her uncle of his dead wife instead! Because she's... a GIRL, I guess? And they think that would be less weird for some reason? Haha! Like... children CAN look like their opposite sex parent! That's a perfectly normal outcome of the genetic lottery! Real life isn't "Lady and the Tramp"! My goodness.