I see how it is. Rihanna can wear a shiny, completely transparent dress in public and everyone loves it, but when I did it, I was “wasting saran wrap” and “ruining Easter, Daniel.”
This post is transmisogynistic. Literally you could have just left out the name and it would have been a harmless joke but, alas, man in a dress punchline, hilarious
ten years on I’m finally comfortable publicly making fun of this person who called me transmisogynistic for using my own name to refer to myself in a joke post, because they thought the joke was that I was a man wearing women’s clothing, and not that I showed up to a religious holiday with my dick fully visible. Happy easter, everyone!
In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.
You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.
#I'm fucking crying#this is an instant classic#this is the next meme#i can't believe I'm here to see a baby copypasta nary two hours old#I can't#lol#i laughed way too hard#iconic
by disagreeing with me on this topic, you're aligning yourself with everyone else who disagrees with me, which includes the Chaos Death Cult, and they chaos kill people so....
Hey do y’all remember when Boeing fucking killed a guy last year. And we all said “huh I guess Boeing fucking killed a guy” and then went on with our lives. And everybody knew that Boeing had fully just fucking executed a guy and nothing came of it. Like there was no police investigation no justice no nothing. Like literally EVERYBODY knew that Boeing had full on murdered a guy to silence him and there wasn’t any consequences for them. Kinda crazy.
trans mascs in the global south and in countries where they have absolutely no freedoms or rights to autonomy are also generally not competing with your she/pup ass to be The Best Feminist On Social Media Evar . they are just trying to fucking survive another day
'hey we've been spying on you and tracking your every move. it's a culmination of state of the art technology and an unprecedented invasion of consumer privacy. a room full of men with made up jobs bent their will toward decades of constructing this system, defending it in court, and tirelessly innovating new ways to aggregate more data about you'
and the end result is
'yeah so uh we saw that you recently bought a car. so here's an ad for that car'
like no i'm good actually. you might be aware that i already have one
i've been trying to organize my thoughts on this scene for ages. i'll just step through what happens one piece at a time. this is gonna be a huge post. i have no way of not making this a huge post. ryuu's chest is cute, huh?
so first, kazuma screams at the top of his lungs. while i may have joked in the past about kazuma not being able to let barok have ONE moment of ryuu's sympathy without bursting in to chew the scenery and hog the spotlight, and while i may or may not still think it's extremely fucking funny, this is also the rational response to what's happening to kazuma and in fact he should scream more.
his wrongfully accused (ish) dead dad is in front of him in the form of an eerily realistic wax sculpture being called a hideous monster by his boss who is also the guy who got his dad convicted and executed, and also his best friend and his former assistant who thought he was dead for months are totally credulously absorbing his boss's story, and also he just remembered he had a bunch of plans and obligations in england that he was supposed to have started on months ago. what can you really do but scream.
he then lays eyes on ryuu and gets a surprisingly vulnerable look on his face:
kazuma doesn't really say anything. he's still absorbing what's happening. here's his best friend standing before him, wearing his armband and his katana, flanked by his judicial assistant, living his life. kazuma has seen ryuu working in and out of court the past couple of days and it's not like he's forgotten that, he just has context now.
this ryuu is unlike the one he stuffed in a suitcase nearly a year ago. ryuu has blossomed into the kind of lawyer kazuma knew he could be -- kazuma knew it long before anyone else -- and he's done it entirely without kazuma's help. (he's in kazuma's shoes, and he's filling them just fine. he didn't need kazuma. susato didn't need kazuma, either. this…is an absolute horror. kazuma has not processed the horror yet.*)
i didn't need to include so much of ryuu's face here but i just love the emotion we get to see on him too much to cut those. kazuma might be waking up to a world where everything's gone wrong, but ryuu loves kazuma like nothing changed. i just...the love of ryunosuke naruhodo really gets me, you guys...
susato calls his name and kzm turns his attention to her and says this:
it really says a lot about kazuma that this is where he goes with it first. he's relieved that his two people are okay. he's proud of what they've accomplished. he's grateful to susato for supporting ryuu -- for keeping his silly ass afloat when ryuu was dragged here without a plan. those are the first things he expresses; it's more important than any of the other bullshit he has to deal with now. whatever comes next, he loves these people.
kazuma addresses susato as his assistant rather than as a sister here; i've talked about this a bit before, and i know other people have different interpretations (which is fine!) but i view this as a realistic reflection of their actual relationship. adult/adolescent male adoption in japan was (and to some extent still is) often something akin to a business decision rather than the formation of a full-on surrogate family bond. just after this scene, susato frames their relationship in a way that seems in agreement with that. susato and kazuma don't use words like brother and sister. she specifically decided to train to be his assistant. he thanks her in her capacity as his former assistant for helping ryunosuke.
that doesn't mean their relationship isn't warm (i did say he loves her, and clearly vice-versa; she's been hunting for the truth about his "death" on her own for months) but he's not snubbing her by not treating her like a sister here, in my opinion. he's showing the kind of gratitude that she would have hoped for, if a bit curtly. (he DOES sort of snub both her and ryuu by the end of the scene, i just think this isn't it.)
(also note ryuu politely holding back and letting them talk. what a good boy.)
kazuma proceeds to thank ryuu specifically for taking care of karuma and nothing else. which may be a gentle way of asking for karuma back.
ryuu is happy to return the sword of course. ryuu has a few things to say here; kazuma doesn't answer him at all. i think the *horrors from above are sinking in. ryunosuke is living kazuma's intended life, and living it without the morally dubious aspects to which ryuu wasn't privy and to which kazuma is still committed. susato more or less asked ryuu to do this, which kazuma doesn't know yet. they both decided on this as a tribute to kazuma -- to try to live out his legacy and carry on his dreams -- but as a result, someone else has taken over kazuma's dreams and only left him with his ugliest baggage. ryuu took what kazuma built for himself. it's a betrayal of a kind, and ryuu's treating kazuma like a long-lost friend; what is kazuma supposed to say or feel?
tgaa has a lot to say about mentors and mentor tropes. in this case, the trope is that the mentor has to die for the protagonist to level up. so what happens when the mentor comes back and finds that the protagonist never needed him and can already do everything he ever did?
(ryuu would disagree; he DID need kazuma's guidance, kazuma set him out on this journey, and the kazuma in his head has been helping him along the whole time. but kazuma knows he is NOT the kazuma in ryuu's head, because he's been lying by omission all along.)
kazuma's response to the wax figure reveals just the first little hint of his lies of omission, and ryuu doesn't exactly react calmly:
kazuma cutting the waxwork is the part i have the least to say about. it looks very cool. he is, of course, furious to find his dead father was put on display as some kind of horror show for the gawking racist idiots of london for years. i feel for tusspells but i support kazuma's right to cut that shit in half. (she probably fixed it in no time.)
(ryuu and susato going "oh, he's a little fucked up...")
at this point, kazuma has realized that his friendship with ryuu has changed in a difficult way for him, and he can't pick up where they left off even if ryuu could; his partnership with susato can't resume, either, and he has a couple of very grim missions to figure out how to address before he can really face them. there's no sense in trying to find a way forward with his friends until after he's done…well, whatever he's going to have to do; i don't think he's begun to sort that out yet. so yes, he snubs them:
and goes to hide somewhere and scheme.
poor susato and ryuu had imagined a different kind of reunion, i'm sure. they must have thought all three of them would leave together, but kazuma does not give them a chance. it's hurtful. he may feel betrayed by them, but they've done everything they could FOR him. i'll pick that back up later.
notably absent from this entire scene: barok, who has literally been right there the entire time, saying nothing and staying out of it. he doesn't step up to protect the wax figure. i suppose seeing the professor get sliced doesn't upset him any, though he's the one who'll have to answer to tusspells. (he's going through his own shock here, which i will also pick back up in the next post.) i think it's interesting that there are angles from which barok SHOULD be visible here and he's just not. that was probably a matter of limiting the number of 3d models in the scene, but it's also kind of poignant. he's not part of this and he knows it.
