juntos e shallow now

but this movie is also strangely up to date with the current tech experience and humour?

Katie's "cznt wsit" being autocorrected to "can't wait!!"

"who knew tech giants didn't have our best interest at heart?"

"why is that feral hog on your lap" "that is a dog"

the obvious parallel between pal labs logo and amazon's logo

two?? himbo robots??

tapping into the specific terror that a Furby brings only to introduce an army of Furbies who speak in cute chirps and low noises which translated into things like "let the dark harvest begin" and "i must return to the darkness now" and their supreme leader, the Biggest Furby Ever Created

one of the himbo robots going "you saved my life. are you my mother now?" and lin actually being like "yeah sure hello children"

"place me on the table i wish to flop around in a blind rage"

"what a suck-up. YeS mY QuEeN"

"it’s almost like stealing people’s data and giving it to a hyper-intelligent AI as a part of an unregulated tech monopoly was a bad thing." *deadpan look* "yeah that wasn't your best thought"

THOSE VIDEOS THAT POPPED UP ON YOUTUBE WHEN HE WAS TRYING TO BROADCAST MONCHI'S THING??? "DEREGULATE TAPIOCA"??? SURREAL CAT HEAD OPENING??

Katie's entire monologue about how important families are and how their worth fighting for and cutting to the phone being on sleep mode hnngghfhfhf

"it took me 28 minutes and a lot of tears, but i can now almost use a computer"

linda and her fucking RAW entrance "I have made the metal ones pay for their crimes" "haha mom's scary now :D"

"you’ve inspired me to follow you on instagram" "you don’t follow me alrea-" "you're welcome"

FEATHERED DINOSAUR ACCURACY

"brother, what is death?" *somber, deep music starts playing*

the. funcking dog

like it had its slapstick comedy moments and i was honestly kinda bored in the beginning but then it hit us with quintessential... tumblr humour. which was so fucking random and not what i was expecting

Not too long ago, my friend Bella came out as aromantic to me, and now I’ve got some things to say.

I was the one who told her what aromantic means, because I was explaining different sexual orientations to her. I remember saying, “Asexualiy is when you have romantic attraction, but no sexual attraction.”

Bella immedently, without missing a beat, asked, “Is there an opposite to that?”

I asked what she meant, and she asked if there was a term for sexual attraction but no romantic attraction. I told her about aromantics. She got weirdly quiet, then excused herself.

Not two weeks later I was heading to my boat. I was supposed to meet Bella and another one of our muteral friends there for a day of fishing.

As soon as I was in earshot, I saw Bella storming off the boat, and our other friend standing there like an idiot. Boi had no idea what was happening.

Anyway, Bella isn’t looking where she’s going and walks smack dab into me. That’s when I realized she was crying. Puffy red eyes, wet cheeks, the whole nine yards… And if you know anything about Bells, she does not cry. Ever.

She’s been through some serious crap in her life, and she does not cry. She’s tough as nails. Bella has a steel core. She does not not cry. I’ve seen her fall off a roof and break her arm before, not a single tear. I can’t stress this enough, Bella. Doesn’t. Cry.

So seeing her in tears shook me. I took her by the shoulders and escorted her somewhere more private where we could talk. We ended up in the women’s restroom, which was weird as fuck for me, because haven’t been in a woman’s rest room for years. Luckily it was empty, and I’m realistic, I know I don’t pass so well, so I don’t think anyone would have said anything anyway.

Before I can even ask her what’s wrong she hugs me around my middle and burys her face in my hoodie. Then, in a voice I can only describe as traumatized, she says, “I think I’m broken.”

I’ve never seen her in so much pain, and Bella and I are CLOSE. She’s one of my dearest friends. She’s like my little sister, but if she’s like my sister, our other muteral friend is like her twin. He and Bella have know each other WAY longer, they’re practically inseparable. They come as a pair. They’re a duo. They’re a package deal.

Appearently, said muteral friend asked Bella out and forcefully kissed her. She shoved him off, and told him she’s aromantic, which she only recently figured out. She wasn’t ready to be out, but this muteral friend left her no choice. She tried telling him no, and he didn’t listen. Bella saw no other option.

Quote on quote, this is what he said to Bella. “That’s okay. You just haven’t dated me yet. We’ve been like, unofficially together for years. You’re probably just freaked out that it’s finally going somewhere.”

After that I’m not 100% clear on what happened, but apparently Bella kept saying no Nd trying to explain herself, but he kept insisting he could ‘fix her.’

Eventudally she started crying and stormed away. That’s when I found her.

Keep in mind, this was her first experience coming out, and her best, closest friend insisted he could fix her and forcefully kissed her. I found out later he also implied corrective rape would ‘solve the problem.’

Bella was traumatized. She’s still traumatized. I tried to make her feel better by buying her an aro pride shirt, and taking her go a local LGBTQ+ hang out. I wanted her to be around like minded people, so she could see she wasn’t broken, and her identity deserved to be respected.

Instead of a warm, welcoming environment… The first thing someone said to her was, “This place is for REAL lgbt people. You don’t belong here.” He also implied she wasn’t human.

Just think about that for a minute. Her first experiences with being an out aromantic have been limited to;

A person she trusted more than anyone forcing himself upon her, claiming she was ill, and needed to be fixed. (Raped.)

Sobbing in my arms in the women’s restroom because she thought she was broken and defective.

Being told she wasn’t welcomed in LGBTQ+ spaces and called inhuman.

This isn’t what I want for her. Bella deserves better than this. She needs a support system, not all this crap. I’ve spent the past week trying to undo all the damage exclusionists, arophobes, and people she trusted did.

I didn’t put up with it as a teenager really into sci-fi, I didn’t put up with it from the dude bros in game and comic shops, and I certainly won’t stand for it in my LGBT+ community.