“You feel the bulge in his pants” - implies that you are feeling some guy’s penis, may be sexy depending on context
“You feel the bugle in his pants” - implies that this guy has a military horn in his pants, invites confusing questions like why does he have that and how big are his pockets
Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???
for real though, those DO NOT WATCH OR YOU'LL CORRUPT YOUR CHILDREN lists put out by conservative christian family groups is where I find all the stellar tv shows. Like, shit I didn't know half of those existed, thanks for finding them for me, gonna go watch 30 hours of gay tv now!
For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.
So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?
Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?
Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.
Same as the journalists describing Black Rock City as all naked. Same as the right-wing religious culture warriors describing television as entirely mixed-race and gender non-conforming. Not because it's even vaguely true, we know that, but because they haven't gotten over their discomfort over the last one by the time the next one comes along. The anger, not the stimulus, is the part that's continuous, so their mind lies to them that it's "all" the thing they can't get over.
Similar effect for the presence/proportion of women in things, by the way: https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/how-17-equals-496-the-amazing-multiplying-women.htm
These are all gay as hell i’m so sorry also warning yapfest
• Transman does not pass whatsoever with his hair being kinda outgrown and has permanent hunched over posture
•Wears his binder 24/7 and it hurts his back a lot
•genuinely likes cars both because having a masculine interest affirms him and also because he thinks they are cool
•obviously much shorter than the other addisons
• Somehow manages to talk too little or too much at the wrong times generally just has a hard time knowing social cues
• Wobbly voice going from loud when he’s excited to quiet and flat when he’s upset
• Pretty awful sales from being an overall poor salesman causing him to be lower income (his apartment is shit)
• Loves to draw strives in creative fields but the business man lifestyle of addisons doesn’t leave much room for that
• Feels isolated from the addisons both by being queer and not having the same profits as them
•NEVER corrects someone when they misgenders him even if it is another one of the addisons
•Both craves the idea of getting approval from the other addisons to the point he started resenting them when he didn’t get the praise he needed
• Complicated relationship with the addisons and would rather not talk to them about any of his feelings then be misunderstood
•Romanticizes his loneliness “i’m not lonely i’m independent!”
•tends to ramble about things he likes
•picks at his feathers on his hands when he’s upset
•had a crazy one week relationship with jevil it was awful
•High temperament does not show it often
•No one in my life will ever truly love me as a man people around me won’t accommodate to something as small as my pronouns how could they ever truly love me even the people i’m supposed to be most alike i don’t fit in with how could i ever hope that i would be loved as i am
•Touch starved in a “I avoid all physical contact even small touches with anyone” Kind of way
• makes no sense to the lore of deltarune but i LOVE the idea of him being a mettaton fan seeing mettaton and it being one of the first realizations that you can be a successful queer person and be admired
•Cut his hair much shorter and passes better
•becomes friends with swatch around this time and gets HEAVY gender envy from them
•Spamton likes swatch a lott more as a friend than swatch likes him I think spamton partly knows this
•becomes a lot louder with his ego i’m the one in queens mansion i’m the one who got chosen to be a big shot mentality
•wears platform shoes to make himself taller
•Puts on an act most of time emphasizing the loud aspect of his personality while keeping the more anxious parts hidden from the public
•Thinks queen is fun but knows he’s only around because he’s successful
• Doesn’t talk as much to the addisons thinking that’s all in the past he got to get away
•terrified of over sharing at all
•Feels like he can only relax when he’s alone in his room back in the mansion
•Trusts the benefactor
•does NOT like the idea of being emotionally or physically close to anyone at all
•Definitely hates tenna when he first meets him this guys an amplified version of all the things i hate in myself and he’s a control freak
•is a control freak
•I have realized i’m only what i can provide for others if i leave first by always keeping one food outside the door i surely won’t get hurt
•Died his hair black completely cutting off his idea of being an addison
•Extremely good on stage because the benefactor takes over for him
•ego so big he’s compensating for something
•Genuinely starts to like tenna after awhile causing him to become a little weary of the benefactor knowing tenna is supposed to die
•As much as he complains about it he likes working with tenna he likes tenna similarity’s and differences to himself
•Doesn’t let himself draw as much with “i didn’t earn this” feeling creeping in more forcing himself to stay to the more numbers part of TV world
•Enjoys wearing red knowing it’s tennis signature color kinda making him feel like he finally belongs to someone
•has the craziest most vulnerable confessions when he’s drunk
•Tenna works down some of the physical affection walls he has put up spamton constantly pretending like he isn’t extremely new to intimacy
•lies about his experience with almost everything
•being a man in his eyes means being a stereotype i run a car business i am strong and don’t show my emotions a lot i like alcohol and money is the main thing on my mind
•secretly likes fruitier drinks
•gets started on medically transitioning as soon as he physically can pretending like he’s cis if questioned
•awful boss very specific instructions
•no one is allowed near the phone
•HATES pda
•has a hard time verbalizing his affection towards tenna much more likely to do little things he knows tenna is specific about
•every time him and tenna do anything emotional or intimate he waits for tenna to say it was all a joke and that he pranked spamton but it never comes
•still pulls his feathers out when he’s stressed but does it in less noticeable spots than his hands
•has screamed out at least 10 minimum wage workers before and will do so again
•has gotten pretty used to being in physical pain it comes easy to ignore
•avoids mirrors
•i personally think everything about his puppet era is the benefactor telling spamton fuck you for dare disobeying my plan
•you were already shorter than all the addisons? your even shorter now! the black hair you wanted so much it’s permanent. you wanted glasses like swatch? you can have the poor eyesight too! tenna loved when your face would get red? you have permanent blush on your face now
•i like the idea of him still wearing the same blazer as the bigshot era but it’s been so worn he’s had to stitch it together multiple times
•crazy joint pain
•has started drawing again because of the amount of freetime he has but is much worse at it than before
•blames himself more than tenna it’s just easier to live with tenna being the one at fault
•picks at his sleeves instead of feathers now
•touch starved in a “i’ll take whatever physical affection i can get because i know it’s going to get stripped away from me eventually”
•hordes anything he gets out of desperation
•has a cardboard box he pretends is tenna and cuddles up to a little closer at night
•smells like shit
•jealous and angry at all of the addisons
•passes now but at what cost
•fully believes this is all deserved that it was his fault for questioning the system and wanting to be more that if he wasn’t less silly and conformed to his role in society both with his gender and his income that his life would have been significantly better
•even while being aware of this he doesn’t really regret it the deal is what led him to meeting tenna tenna was his freedom someone who loved his too loud laugh and his obnoxious quirks after the show was over even if it’s been taken from him
•still loves tenna under all the resentment
•peak gender moment is becoming a massive robot that shoots lasers or something
•gains weight as a sign of becoming healthier for the first time in his life
•ralsiel made him the sweater
•his hair is poofier from being washed more often
• started dealing with his joint pain instead of ignoring it
•realizes not as many people in castle town hate him as he thought
•doesn’t really initially consider that tenna would ever want to be with him again romantically
•ecstatic about supporting the lighteners and taking down the prophecy
•has a hard time communicating sometimes from being censored but kris helped him learn a little sign language
•when tenna wants to be close with him again dead as almost has a breakdown but keeps it in
•has a significantly more hard time crying after everything
I can't remember where I read it last week, but the person discussed how when we think of chattel slavery in the US, we tend to think of massive plantations of cotton or tobacco, with one very rich white master or mistress with lots of land and lots of enslaved people. But we very rarely think of the many families that had just one or two slaves, in smaller homes.
Because it's not like you had to pay them, so once your family owned someone, they owned them and their descendants indefinitely. Could you pay and eventually free em- sure! You could also send them anywhere you want for any labor you want, could have an enslaved woman bred for more children, or maybe save up and buy new slaves and sell the old. Like cattle (thus, chattel slavery).
So it's interesting that many people go "oh well it's not like my family owned slaves!" Because like, one, how do you know that? Have you ever actually asked your grandmas about their grandmas? How many of your family members grew up with mammies? Have you ever asked? I wonder how many people have actually done the digging for the truth (or was it easier to just benefit). Because I've talked to my grandma, who picked cotton in the sea islands. She had to have been doing that for someone in the 1930s and 40s!
And two, it's easy to think that because your family (or someone else's) didn't own sprawling stolen land and generational blood money like a plantation owner, that it wasn't as important. But... It was. That was still someone's entire life. That was a person, whose labor benefitted and saved a family money that could be used in other ventures. How often do we think of them?
that poll going around of the guy who thought "people only eat tofu as a bit because they're deranged vegans" or whatever really crystalizes something that i have never been able to precisely say - which is "a nonzero fraction of people who start picky-eater discourse just happen to precisely hate those foods which are not from north america and refuse to introspect on this whatsoever"
In contrast some people say "there aren't any picky eaters in Asia 🙄" but this is laughably untrue. I have a cousin in India who refused until his 20s to eat anything in a sauce. as you can imagine in India this was difficult. he basically had to pick things out of curry and wipe them dry
A funny little detail about the Justice Axe is the ""Legend"" that Gerson gives about it...
The way that he words it makes it sounds like the Axe itself bestows a great magical power unto its user directly, as like an innate function it has, and that seems to be how Susie takes it as well….
But instead it turns out that “whoever wields it will have great magic power” actually means that the wielder of the Axe will improve their Magical abilities through perseverance and training. It’s literally a twist of reinterpretation and reading between the lines… just as Gerson is trying to encourage the Heroes to do about The Prophecy.
White people do reblog without going "I'm white but—" "As a white person—". If you have a story about another Black or brown person's experience, then share it without drawing attention to your whiteness, or share what made you laugh in the tags and move on.
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