I was able to get an early draft for the season finale episode of A Kind of Spark:
"We won't have to deal with the Witch Hunter anymore."
"How come?"
[The Witch Hunter, as a newt]: "This witch turned me into a newt!"
[A general:] "This sketch has gotten too silly. Stop the sketch! Stop it!"
We're always delighted to have a return visit from the fabbity-fab Elle McNicoll! Our childrens books wizard, Fiona, loved Keedie (a prequel to A Kind of Spark) - out now from Knights Of - signed copies on the shelves! #Edinburgh set and again with neurodiverse characters
#books #livres #ChildrensBooks #LivresJeunesse #ElleMcNicoll #Keedie #AKindOfSpark #neurodiverse #author #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon
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The recording of Friday's conversation with author Elle McNicoll is now online. She chatted with @ferrous for about an hour about neurodiversity, representation and the power of stories, among other things. Enjoy!
#AKindOfSpark #ActuallyAutistic #RepresentationMatters #ownVoices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WNcbeVXCDE
My #autistic daughter and I are so enjoying watching #AKindOfSpark. A beautiful story, with many #neurodivergent cast and crew members. It's on #CBBC and the #iPlayer, and also in the US and Canada.
“I said to the BBC, it has to be autistic-led. There’s this expression: ‘#Diversity is being invited to be party, #inclusivity is being asked to dance’. But what if we threw the party? What if it was our party?” Elle McNicoll.
I feel quite spoiled for #autistic content and characters at the moment:
- I started watching #ExtraordinaryAttorneyWoo and I am LOVING it
- I found #ElleMcnicoll's brilliant #AKindOfSpark in the #library, and devoured it whole - the first #fiction #book
I've finished in years
- I (belatedly) read #HannahGadsby's article about her late-diagnosis #autism (whole sections of which I could apply to my own life with barely a word changed)
- I (very belatedly - only 10 years late) binge-watched #SomeGirls on #BBCIplayer and am already missing the characters - especially #ND Saz
Well done, world - keep it up!
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/mar/19/hannah-gadsby-autism-diagnosis-little-out-of-whack
Sitting in this #pub, feeling a bit delicate cos I've just started #AKindOfSpark by #ElleMcNicoll (which is about an #autistic kid). It's wazzing down, in a bleak #UK #Winter sort of way. I don't want to live in this stupid country anymore. I am not happy.
And then the wurlitzer plays one of my favourite happy songs. #DanceTheNightAway by #TheMavericks. (I know: they're not cool; I don't care.)
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