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lowkey the grossest feeling is learning a trans persons deadname
when you see/learn a trans persons deadname
I’ve brought a precious gift for you too. This slave! Especially bought for you. He has the guile of a wolf and the agility of a cheetah. He will serve you in every way possible.
I honestly thought this was a cut scene from Assassin’s Creed
I am the king having a squeeing clapping shitfit in the second to last gif.
So clearly I need to watch this Bollywood movie immediately….
This is called Padmaavat! I know literally nothing else about it other than it came out this year.
Today’s episode of the Steven Universe Podcast was extra long and extra special, because we talked about the season 5 finale, Change Your Mind. I got to speak with @rebeccasugar, @joethejohnston, @ghostdigits, @ianjq, @ben-levin and Matt Burnett about all kinds of stuff regarding the finale. Please give it a listen!!
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Thanks so much for your support!!!
Rebecca confirmed on the podcast that Rainbow Quartz 2.0 goes by he/him and they/them and Sunstone goes by she/her and they/them. Discourse is canceled now because you’re BOTH right and nb people can go by more than just they/them.
cis people don’t get too excited this doesn’t mean Rainbow 2.0 is a male gem
i was playing pokemon blue on stream earlier at 350% speed and i got to thinking
what if the reason nobody in the pokemon world has any good teams is because its considered a dick move to have a proper team comp
like culturally everyone is like “haha pick the pokemon you want! if you’re happy with three geodudes, thats you and your life!” and then you’re supposed to just have a friendly battle with any other pokemon trainers and whatever pokemon they just happen to have
like the average trainer is probably just walking around with a growlithe because that’s their pet, or a hiker has three geodudes because the geodudes help him with hiking. and if this pet owner and geodude hiker meet, you’re supposed to have a friendly battle but nothing too serious
now imagine the 10 year old kid that has six pokeballs on their belt comes up. you’re like “haha, we’ll have a friendly battle!” and you throw out your geodude
and they throw out a fucking gyarados, and it one-shots your geodude
and then you throw out your pidgey you have because the pidgey helps you navigate mountains because you’re a hiker
and then electricity crackles around the gyarados and a thunderbolt flies off of this giant dragon and evaporates your pidgey
so you’re down to your last pokemon. you tell them you’re gonna send out your bulbasaur. the ten year old is like “oh okay in that case i’m gonna pull out my vulpix.” like not only is this kid walking around with an amped-up super dragon, but theyve also got multiple pokemon specifically for making type advantage counter-picks?
this kid’s a fucking asshole! really, kid? what are you trying to prove here? this is a friendly match between strangers for fun! why are you composing real-ass competitive teams? what a fucker!
i mean if you look at how npc’s talk about their pokemon, they’re service animals mostly. some of them are just pets. apparently they really enjoy sparring, so you let them battle other people’s pokemon for socialization, it’s like going to the dog park.
hell yes i’d be mad if i took my chronic pain support chow-chow to the dog park and some asshole with four rottweilers and a husky was like SIC EM THUNDERNUTS even if my dog enjoyed the tussle at first.
look, kid, the paras helps me weed the garden. it’s not a special forces attack paras. it’s just a bug that eats dandelions. please calm down.
This is precisely why Cooltrainers are exiled to the mountains
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Reporter Lucy Ford did her dissertation on Legally Blonde and she gave it to Reese Witherspoon. This entire video is amazing. (x)
Oprah nor Mindy has seen legally blonde lmaoooo
THEY LOOK SO CONFUSED. THEY LITERALLY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THIS IS ABOUT OMG THAT’S SOME REPTILIAN SHIT RIGHT HERE.
“Birds evolved from dinosaurs.” While this statement is technically true it isn’t very useful and thus is a misconception of the relationship among avian, dinosaurs, and reptiles. Not only did birds evolve from dinosaurs — birds ARE dinosaurs.
You know the gays love a reveal and she’s giving us everything we wanted
I’m sweating just watching this.
she deserves an award
lol nyc queens are so extra.
the whole dk/hbomberguy/glineham saga is just one psychic gut punch after the next. like, “oh, a midlevel lefty youtuber is playing donkey kong to own the transphobes. this owning was catalyzed by one transphobe telling people in the uk not to give money to a charity that provides support to trans kids. the lefty youtuber started streaming, made over $200k for the charity, and had guests on the whole time. these guests included a us congresswoman, who confirmed she is not only a gamer girl BUT she also has feet, one of the most famous government war crime whistleblowers in america, and a guy who can imitate donkey kong perfectly and said “trans rights!” in dk’s voice for the delight of all viewers. meanwhile, the transphobe is Big Mad on the internet.”
i don’t care about what aoc’s or chelsea manning’s or hbomberguy’s or contrapoints’s politics are in this case. they’re providing real, material aid to trans children. this is just wonderful.
Don’t forget the guy who can imitate DK, Grant Kirkhope, isn’t imitating, because he’s the first officially videogame voiced DK and main composer for and voice actor for mainy DK games.
Donkey Kong is canonically an outspoken trans ally.
“Trans rights!” -Donkey Kong
now that Season 5 is over, can I just say
I love Pearl’s arc in this season?
It’s implied in the aftermath of Steven sacrificing himself to Homeworld that–after realizing that doing what Rose would have wanted and doing right by Steven might be mutually exclusive–Pearl chooses Steven. It’s as a direct result of this that, in Gemcation, she tells him that she wants to tell him everything, and then in A Single Pale Rose, she figures out a way to do it. And her emotion afterward isn’t framed as angst at disobeying–it’s framed as relief. In Reunited, she’s finally able to admit to herself, “I do it for me!” And in Change Your Mind, she comes off as free–in a way that has always been an aspiration for her, but that I don’t think we’ve ever actually seen. It’s as if she’s finally accepted Rose’s death (symbolized, perhaps, by her new form?)
It’s as if, in choosing Steven in the here and now over her memory of Rose at the beginning of the season, Pearl chose life, even in the midst of the tremendous loss she feels and continues to feel. She chooses life–and in this way, is finally able to accept her loss, and is finally able to be free.
I’m just so proud of her.
Okay, I’ve been stewing on this arc–and Pearl’s arc throughout the show and pre-canon–and I want to add on to this a little bit. I’ve written a bit about this in a few places-both meta and fic (for the latter, mainly Cycles and my new piece Moving On), but something I think is clear is that Pearl’s relationship with Rose, especially after Pink Diamond became Rose all the time, wasn’t just about love. (Though the love is real, even if it originally developed at least in-part out of Pearl’s programmed devotion to her Diamond.) Her relationship with Rose was also about identity.
Pink’s “shattering” also represents a shattering of the paradigm of Pearl’s entire existence and identity-framework. She was Pink Diamond’s Pearl…and now, without that, what is she? And that’s terrifying. And to cope, I think, she makes a shift. She loves Rose Quartz already, so she decides–perhaps subconsciously–that that is her new identity. What is she? She’s someone who loves Rose Quartz.
And she keeps this identity for the next five thousand years. It’s why she’s so threatened by Greg–he represents a threat to her being able to enact that identity. And even after Rose dies to give birth to Steven, this is her identity, though now how she enacts it is by honoring Rose’s memory in every way possible. In the extended intro, while Garnet and Amethyst both mentioning fighting for something, Pearl says only: “I will fight in the name of Rose Quartz and everything that she believed in.” What does she, Pearl, fight for? What does she want? It doesn’t matter. Only what Rose wanted did.
This is also the answer to the question she asks herself in “It’s Over Isn’t It,” as to why she can’t move on. Because to “move on” from the sense of immediate grief that she’s still holding would again represent the destruction of her identity.
But, like I said, Steven’s sacrifice at the end of Season 4, when Pearl realizes that she might have to choose between honoring Rose’s memory and doing right be Steven, she chooses Steven. In realizing that she wants to choose Steven, she realizes that she is capable of wanting. She is even capable of wanting things that are in direct contradiction to what Rose wants.
In Gemcation, when she tries to tell Steven the truth, she says:
“There are things that are impossible for me to explain. But I want to. I–”
And then, in A Single Pale Rose, after Steven finally does know the truth, she says:
“I’ve wanted to tell you for so long.”
Pearl wants. She’s wanted. She has desires all her own. And if that’s the case, she realizes, if she has desires independent of Rose, she must also have motivations independent of Rose, as she realizes (with a little help from Steven!) in Reunited:
“I do it for me!”
What is she fighting for? She finally has an answer. She’s fighting for herself.
And if she has motive–if she can fight for herself–she must have a self!! One that’s independent of Rose. And we finally see that embodied in her new form–and her utterly new contentment–in Change Your Mind.
And if that’s the case, Pearl is finally, finally truly free to be herself. She’s free to discover and create who she is. She’ll never stop missing Rose or loving her, but missing and loving Rose is no longer all she is.
Ugh I’m so proud of her!
The more I think about it, the more it occurs to me that this is like the exact opposite of what Ruby learns in The Question before deciding to ask Sapphire to marry her.
Ruby tells Steven:
“Sapphire was always there with me. I feel her smile just like it was mine. And now…gah! That’s lame, right? I came here to be my own Gem, but I’m still thinking about what she’d like, what she’d want! All. The time.”
It’s not a perfect parallel—there are marked differences in the relationship between Ruby and Sapphire and that between Pearl and Rose. And there are marked differences between Ruby and Pearl themselves. But here, too, Ruby seems to think that “being one’s own Gem” and being in love and like actively concerned with the desires and needs and wants of the person one loves are mutually exclusive concepts. For Ruby, she’s decided she wants to be her own Gem, and feels like she therefore can’t let go of that love. Pearl had the opposite problem–the love was non-negotiable, and she’d thought that meant that she couldn’t be her own person.
In both scenarios, and in different ways, it’s Steven that helps each of them realize that you can be your own person within a relationship. That these things aren’t mutually exclusive.
Season 5 is just big for everyone finding agency and selfhood in their relationships with others!!! yay!
(There’s more I wanna think about parallels between Ruby and Pearl and their relationships @meskime gets at this a little in their incredible fic goodbye to the river joining the creek, but this seems like an less-tapped-than-it-might-be well…)
I think the real reason that lesbians move so fast in their relationships is because we’re all touch starved and really stupid. Like have you ever met a lesbian that isn’t touch starved and stupid? I sure am touch starved and stupid.
Lesbian pokemon love story!
So today i brought this book because why tf not:
And then i noticed:
Jigglypuff wrote a love letter!!! And pidgey got to deliver it!
ONO PIDGEY DROPPED IT
YESSS SHE FOUND IT!!!!
WHAT LICKYTUNG YOU RUDE LITTLE SHIT
TF LOOK WHAT YOU’VE DONE
!!!!!!
♡ SHE GOT THE LETTER ♡
!!!
“Forth, Eorlingas!” Mum told me if I could find the flag of Rohan for her, she’d fly it on her ranch. I had this shipped to her, and I finally got to see it flying in person. So proud!
