btw. your search for the most morally upright and ethical piece of media that has the most correct “representation” will destroy your ability to find the most profound and beautiful and human of stories. and may even destroy the stories themselves before they are created. if you even care.
stopping at an understaffed, overcrowded fast food restaurant while on a road trip and crouching over your phone with your chicken sandwich at a corner table like a weary adventurer eating a bowl of unidentifiable stew at a nameless inn, the only one for miles of moor and wood, taking in the chatter around you but speaking to none before pulling your cloak back up over your head and taking t' the road once more
Kicking the door in at a Popeye’s connected to a gas station to ask the most grizzled and battle-scarred customers to join me on a suicidal quest
Leaning over the counter of the TacoTime in Rexburg Idaho, asking if the 16 year old Mormon girl there has heard any rumors.
ALTyou guys just say sentences
I mean it is sorta counter cultural to admit you're a swifty on tumblr these days
no it isn’t. hope this helps
Do NOT keep this hidden in the tags
when gerard way sings "the broken, the beaten, and the damned" and when kermit the frog sings "the lovers, the dreamers, and me" they're talking about the same people btw
One funny thing to me about across the spiderverse was that like. You KNOW Hobie doesn't fuck with cops. You KNOW he was standing there like chewing on the inside of his cheek Not saying anything really really insensitive about Miles' dad. Spider-punk went the whole film without oinking at anybody I think his restraint is commendable
Miles, 15 years old, likes his dad: we can't just let people die c'mon guys!
Everyone else: I understand but please listen it's part of the timeline we can't change it without destroying the universe--
Hobie standing over there fidgeting with a pin on his vest that says "ACAB" on it:
[ID: tags from @avengerphobic that read "#hobie brown #he has blue shoelaces which means hes killed a cop so im sure he was like screaming on the inside #spiderverse spoilers" /end ID]
Hobie, quietly: I'd kill your dad myself to be honest
Miles: what?
Hobie: nuffink
Important to note that in the comics he has not only killed cops (he lives in an ultrafascist universe where the cops have venom symbiotes) he also cut off the president’s head with his guitar
Extremely swag thank you
One note: "cut off" sounds like he's got a blade in his guitar, but he doesn't. It's a blunt instrument. He just swung it hard enough to overcome the strength of his neck and rock-em-sock-em'd him
AWESOME
I feel like every girl needs to know a transwoman at some point because it entirely changes your perception of womanhood and it's amazing. Because of misogyny a lot of girls can see womanhood as a cage, so the know someone who sees it as liberating and beautiful and something to be coveted is a fantastic and eye-opening experience.
I was walking around Walmart with one of my trans friends and I was lamenting how boys always get the cool shirts, while she just responded "Yeah but girls get pretty things" and that really changed how I saw women's clothing.
Seeing a transgirl revel in the way her skirt twirls when she spins around. Giving her your own makeup and going dress-shopping with her. Learning to see womanhood as a magical thing instead of a cage men put you in... it's beyond words
This isn't to say that transwomen only exist for cis approval by the way. I'm just saying that my experiences with transwomen have been eye-opening and transformative. But don't expect trans people, or any queer person for that matter, to teach you something. They're not here for consumption
one of my father's closest friend is a trans woman who had gender affirming surgery in thailand back when it was nearly impossible to get it done in my country. she went through male puberty and presents rather masculine; very deep voice, stereotypically masculine clothing and hobbies, loves cars and mechanics, she's also an archer. undoubtedly one of the coolest people i know.
i remember being very confused by her. my vague memories go back to little four/five year old me visiting her flat, hearing her deep voice call us from the top of the stairs and thinking "why does she sound like a man?" and that's how i got to know her: tall, muscular, deep voice, very angular face, calloused hands and doing all of these things which tv and my grandparents had told me were for boys only.
but never, not for one moment, did i doubt her womanhood. and yes, my parents told me on a regular basis that i could do anything boys could, that i didn't have to do the girly things if i didn't want to, but she showed me.
i was shy and impressionable and wanted to fit in, but i was also one of the few kids who did not seperate between "girl stuff" and "boy stuff" in elementary school. i wholeheartedly believe that getting to know this woman as early in my life as i did saved me from being a pushover and a pick me beyond seventh grade.
womanhood is not what corporations and conservatives want you to think with it. yes, girls get all the pretty things, but they don't have to be pretty. they can be tall and buff and car mechanics and archers. none of this makes them any less of a woman than pretty girls with pretty nails wearing pretty dresses.
thanks zoe. you rock.
