#Save ricky potts

[seraphicloves]

oh how i wish to be in an rtc production (pre 2023 script change, save ricky potts chat)

[get-them-out-of-my-skull-0914]

@june-doe-2025

Prompt 4: Ricky’s Birthday

[honorary-perfectionist]

not a hate post, this post is to merely show that kholby is well… ableist | Fandom

[angelicassassinations]

this is gonna sound so stupid

But I LOVE the idea of tall Ricky.. like, towering over the rest of the choir.

Nobody thinks he's tall because he's always sitting in his wheelchair/hunched over due to his crutches, but once he stands up straight for the first time in the afterlife he's deadass 6'3 (190.5 cm)

[deerdoeb]

I just saw even more fans misunderstanding the ableism on rtc(a.k.a. as not seeing firing of Yannick as ableism, and not seeing a disability erasure as ableism), so here I am, talking about this again

Okay, uh, ALL those things are actual questions I saw

"Why is Yannick's firing ableist? Aren't actors fired all the time?"

Yes, actors get fired all the time, but Yannick was fired specifically because of a problem related to his disability, when they went off stage to vomit blood, not only did several other able-bodied actors leave the stage to vomit and not get fired, but firing someone because of their disability is a crime. Mccarter Theater stage was also not Acessible for people with disability.

"Why are script changes considered ableist? Ride the Cyclone had several other script changes."

Because it wasn't just any change in the script, it was changes erasing Ricky's disability, and they were done mainly by Mccarter/Arena stage (two theaters with the same ableist directors), even if he's "still disabled", it's a terrible representation of selective mutism, and was made by ableist people wanting to remove his disability.

"What can I do if I'm an RTC fan?"

Educate yourself, DO NOT SUPPORT MCCARTER/ARENA, check Yannick blog or Yannick site, or both!! Theres also videos with Yannick that explain it very well like this!!, i'd also recomendo to check this tag, this person explains a lot about the rtc ableism! :)

SIGN THE PETITION.

Oh and just, support Yannick, they do pretty good music!!!!

Ty for reading

[ricky-appreciation-event-2025]

I said I wouldn't set rules for the event, but I think some things need to be stated.

Apart from the no nsfw rule, I wasnt planning on putting any other limits, however, since the whole point of event is that we appreciate Ricky's character, we can't just ignore his disability, or the ableism that happened with his character.

If you really want to appreciate Ricky, then you can't ignore it, his disability is an important part of Ricky's character. So as a fan, you should do something!!

Spread awareness, talk about it!(literally, why is the save Ricky Potts thing so forgotten recently?? Its not over), support Yannick, educate yourself on the subject, you can find info on yannick's blog, yannick's site and even on their YouTube channel, portray Ricky with his disability, search up on that topic of how to portray it correctly(I assure you there are tons of things and people that can help you), you can't stay I silence. Also SIGN THE PETTITION!!!

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[icepoptroll]

Me anytime there’s a new rtc production happening near me

[spac3d0lls]

My dude...disabled ricky has made a statment after the documentary and I literally can't breathe like WHY WAS THIS NOT IN THE DOC

mccarter theater’s behavior regarding #saverickypotts just continues to get worse and worse. the fact that (correct me if i’m wrong) mccarter was asked for a statement in the doc and the theater twisted so much of the story (as confirmed by yannick robin eike’s blog post) is appalling. ride the cyclone is a musical built on trial and error and eventual success. this is only achievable through the ability to admit your wrongs, take criticism, learn, and grow. but in recent years, ride the cyclone, unfortunately, has lost that. never forget your roots.

[cpvnksabm]

hey. rtc bootleg sharers & fans in general

able-bodied ricky warrants a warning /srs

the 2022 rtc script rewrites are incredibly ableist. other people can explain this better than me, and already have, but just to summarize: the deliberate erasure of ricky's physical disability is inherently a problem, and the script's handling of details that were originally caused by ricky's physical disability is downright disrespectful. it's a bastardisation of a character who was important to me and an insult to the disabled rtc fans who could see themselves in ricky.

suffice to say, a lot of disabled fans would really prefer not to see productions that use that script!

i'm not the Bootleg Watching Police, i have neither the desire nor the ability to "cancel" people for being fans of an ableist production. i understand that the world isn't black and white, that bootlegs by nature are pretty limited in their ability to benefit ableist productions anyway, that a lot of rtc fans are okay with just ignoring the ricky-focused scenes in ableist productions if the other 5 characters are handled well.

but it should be a common courtesy to keep in mind that some people - disabled people especially! - can't just ignore the ableism in certain productions, or don't want to!

for a while now i've honestly just been avoiding all rtc productions i wasnt already familiar with. because i was tired of seeing people talk about some new production that seemed cool, and starting to be interested it, only to find that ricky is able-bodied and it feels like a slap in the face. eventually i stopped getting my hopes up because i didn't want to be disappointed.

disabled people in fandom shouldnt have to do that! if you want to be inclusive (and i should really hope you do, what with all the self-identified allies in the fandom and the fact that including & listening to disabled people is part of the musical canon), then you should be willing to put some effort into making sure the fandom isnt hostile toward us, even unintentionally.

on top of that - when ableist productions are able to get popular, and the ableism isn't warned for or discussed, it's hard for disabled fans to know who is actually ableist. when someone makes a long post praising an ableist production without so much as a "it sucks that ricky was able-bodied", i don't know if i can trust them. are they outright ableist, and in favour of the ableist script changes? or are they uncomfortable with that part of the production and just putting up with it because they like other parts? this is another way the fandom can be unwelcoming toward disabled people!

i think a lot of people, especially who have been in the fandom for a couple years now and witnessed the mccarter theatre ableism & the script changes as they were happening, think that this issue has already been discussed enough. we've all agreed that disability erasure is wrong, it sucks that the script changes happened but it's too late now, we can take it as a given that we're all on the same page about this. there's no need to keep talking about this.

this sort of "everyone is obviously already on the same page that this is wrong" attitude is common in response to all types of ableism, and it is bullshit. ableism is common! there are always people who support the ableism, and people who don't understand the issue! it is always important to keep talking about it!

if everyone takes the "other people have already talked about this and agreed that it's wrong, so i don't have to acknowledge it!" approach, then nobody talks about the issue! and i'm certainly not saying everyone has to make a long post analysing the ableist script rewrites and explaining why they're wrong, but the bare minimum is that when you're talking about and sharing ableist productions, you should mention the ableism. so that disabled fans can avoid that production if they want to and so that they know you aren't condoning the ableism.

it's been way too long of this fandom ignoring the ableist script changes because "oh its already been talked about". the discussion never stopped being important. and now there are more and more people joining the fandom post-2022 who don't even know about this issue, because the people that do know are far too content to leave the discussion and awareness in the past.

the #saverickypotts hashtag was not just a one-off effort that is no longer relevant. ricky's neuromuscular disease is still valuable disability representation that i'm willing to fight for.

once again i am not the Bootleg Watching Police. if you don't think avoiding ableist productions is worth it, then you don't have to. but have some awareness of the disabled fans who don't want to see it.

this is a fandom where i regularly see posts talking about the choir's canonical death censoring "die" to "unalive". if you can do that, you can add an ableism warning

[gemsandjunk]

does anyone have access to the mccarter bootleg of rtc w/ yannick? I can only find clips of it :/

[savannahwiththegreenest-eyes]

[get-them-out-of-my-skull-0914]

RTC Rarepair Week day 2: Fav MLM rarepair

Ricky and Noel/ StarryPoets

They get too overshadowed by nisha and spacedolls imo uhh

[honorary-perfectionist]

you may like ricky potts but you will never like him as autistically and obsessively as i do

[theatregorl]

this might be cringe to ask in the year 2025 but would anyone be interested in a tumblr blog Ride the Cyclone rp?

[deerdoeb]

Ok, YAYYY, the petition got more signatures, WHICH IS AWESOME!! THERE IS A CHANCE TO CHANGE ABLEISM IN RTC!!

Also, idk if it's just a coincidence that they were signed after my post, or if it actually got people's attention, whatever happened, ty, I love you all!!!!

[roseredsnow]

*Banging pots and pans*

Ride the cyclone writers are ableist

Don't support it coming to West end, don't support it in general.

When a disabled actor paying a disabled character was fired because of their disability.

Instead of adapting the role to be more accessible they just removed parts of his disability instead.