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pluribus is gonna end with unplurbed zosia going "well that experience changed my entire perception of gender and identity, i go by they/them now" and carol will be like "that's awesome i'm so proud of you" and then they navigate that fucking pronoun roll credits bravo vince

#i would clap and cheer in my living room #pluribus #zosia

carolsturka

Carol, I'm so sorry. You know what we have to do.

#aughhhhhhh #pluribus #carol

being a sports fan comes at a cost. and no im not talking about my team losing im talking about all the incessant betting ads

#tho my team losing sucks too

starlight-blossoms

my fatal flaw is getting into games with way too many DLCs

starlight-blossoms

omg in the sims community whenever theyd add stuff from DLCs to base game and people would say "what about the people who bought it last week for that exact feature" id be like yeah, thats a good point, and also that would be so unlucky it circles back around to being funny. guess what just happened to me.

#its sad bc i only plan to get a few dlcs for this one #my 30 dollars!!#but at least its really funny. i have that going for me #and the dlc does add some cool things #i just dont think i wouldve chosen it over the others without the now basegame feature KJHFGJFKD

ruhrohrexia

if you comment on someones eating habits while theyre eating you automatically qualify for the death penalty sorry i dont make the rules

#if you comment on someone's eating habits PERIOD #my aunt started talking about how my cousin 'eats a lot' according to her #after i had not 30 minutes earlier ate a whole plate of extra fries at the restaurant we went to 💀 i was mortified #i shouldnt have been because objectively it is fine! but you know thats how it goes 😔😔😔

libertineangel

Zoot suits look kinda stupid but I gotta respect the cultural context & symbolism of the things

"Fuck the military and fuck the war, look at all this good uniform-worthy fabric I'm wasting on a fuckoff giant suit" is a very solid basis for a subculture

knxfesck

I actually really love to talk about zoot suits and their associated subcultures. The amount that the silhouettes of the zoot suit have shaped american fashion and trends of oversized clothes is so understated. And, yk, I'm biased as hell, but it is kinda crazy how influential zoot suit culture was

I always love the og zoot suits made by black americans in Harlem, I really like looking at the changes from these clothes from the 30s to some of the more exaggerated renditions from the 40s. It's also so interesting to look at how fast the subculture spread, and especially in the american west integrated with mexican diaspora and pachuco culture to the point that that's what a lot of usamericans associate them with.

⬆️ long wallet chains and pork pie hats were classic accessories for mexican diaspora zoot suiters. Zoot suits/their components were also really popular with women and were a way to symbolize independence and a choice to move away from strict gender roles on top of the existing countercultural message ⬇️

Anyways it's kind of impossible to talk about zoot suits without mentioning the racism and violence that followed them. On top of a zoot suit making someone a target for individual racial violence, the national reaction of white america to zoot suit culture was part of the beginning of clothing and presentation being read explicitly as signals by police and justice systems, and the broad association of youth of color with gang violence through this specific excuse. Gang culture and how it's percieved in the western US and especially California is very influenced by this era. The most famous events from the zoot suit era are the collective zoot suit riots and the media characterization of all mexican american, filipino american, and black american youth as violent anti-american baby gangsters. Which, even if that was broadly true I mean. I'll take the opportunity to be flippant hell yeah??

As a side note, while making more new zoot suits during war rationing was pretty sick, most people weren't buying from the black market tailor shops and just wore what they already owned because the style had been popular for years already. People bought clothes less often to begin with back then. I think that misconception comes from the reasoning white americans gave to go beat up people of color with baseball bats in the street; i.e. it was racial and xenophobic violence to begin with and the nature of the suits themselves has been mushed around a lot to serve different narratives.

More zoot suits! ⬇️