The apotheosis is upon us.

explain your gender in 10 words or less without using boring words like “male”, “female”, “nonbinary”, “masculine”, “feminine” or “androgynous”.

no matter how mad you are you never use some things in arguments

-mental illnesses

Adding this one when his life is saved:

I know this post is about Sonic’s politeness and grattitude, but I think it’s also nice to add a reminder that he’s also pretty gentlemanly.

these double their meaning in the japanese versions of the games, where, ironically, sonic doesn’t use polite speech at all.  he doesn’t use “-san”, polite forms for any of his sentences, like ending with a “masu”, “desu”, or using a proper “watashi” to refer to himself with strangers, and most notably: he addresses everyone as “omae”. for a note, “omae” is a casual pronoun. it’s like saying to your teacher ,“yeah, no problem man!” or to an elderly person “dude, you’re really vibing!”. it essentially puts you and the people you’re addressing on equal footing. it’s the kind you use with your friend when you find them at your part time job to let them know, “hey, i’m not gonna put on my ‘how can i help you today’ face with you, don’t worry about it.” sonic addressing everyone as “omae” this can be seen as rude in japanese culture, where you’re meant to call strangers by last name +-san, to speak with a polite persona unless you’re with friends. but it makes a lot of sense for sonic. he hates rules, hates titles, and hates inequality. him using “omae” puts everyone on the same level as he is. equals.

i’ve been thinking a lot about the insane dehumanization of north koreans lately (they’re not allowed to smile, they’re all brainwashed, they would let their family die to save a picture of their “dear” leader etc) so here’s another post with pictures from the dprk of north koreans just… being people

as always i highly recommend this easily accessible youtube documentary called the haircut/we went to north korea to get a haircut