Azolotl

NOW. It is important that you know Green Day was primarily a 90s band. This is important because it means they came of age in a time period where we were trying to reclaim “faggot,” and among the counterculture—which, again, was Green Day, they were a pop/punk fusion—it WAS within-the-community reclaimed. If you read a lot of queer zines from this period you’ll see it used routinely. Dan Savage’s advice column originally ran under the name “Hey, Faggot,” which he himself had chosen. There’s a section in the musical RENT where the characters refer to themselves as “faggots, lezzies, dykes, cross-dressers too,” and while Jon Larson himself was straight he was writing as someone who was in daily contact with these cultures. Pride parades from the time often have it on at least one sign. This was not unusual language.

This is part of the background from which American Idiot was born. It came out in 2004, and while the queer movement was losing a little steam in the counterculture direction at that point (although not as badly as it has today, good lord), this was still an ongoing thing. I was hearing it as late as 2009.

This was, indeed, Billie Joe challenging the mainstream that had come to love Green Day: maybe I’M the faggot, did you think of that? We haven’t just supported queer artists, I AM a queer artist. Fuck you.

This whole album is political commentary. It’s practically a time capsule of Everything Wrong With The Bush Years, including Bush’s attempt to put “marriage is one man and one woman” in the Constitution. (This is why, as a Jew, I don’t object to the lyric “seig heil to President Gas Man.” It’s a pretty succinct takedown of the Islamophobia he stoked as a way to justify war with Iraq.)

So SING that “faggot,” and do it with your whole chest. It’s a word of anger and protest and taking back autonomy with your own two bloody hands.

The day Megumi meets his  Divine dogs is also the last day he sees his dad, or so he thinks.

Headcanon that one of the most common games between the children of the Zenin clan is to make shawdow  puppets (and is also used as a way to detect Ten shawdow users technique)

-Jason Todd was RIGHT to push that homicidal drug dealer down the stairs.

-It was a GOOD THING that Felipe Garzonas died (however it happened).

-Jason Todd was RIGHT to kill Captain Nazi.

-SOMEONE should have killed the Joker (and someone did—Dick Grayson), and the only thing Jason did wrong was trying to force Bruce to be a part of it.

Tidus is trans now and Jecht accepts that his child is a man but thinks that a part of the man card process is toxic masculinity.

Auron has no idea about Tidus being trans until he catches him washing blood off his sheets at 3am and had to take him to the doctor because Tidus was just like “no auron chill, I’m fine.” because he had no plans of actually coming out to Auron because it was on a need to know basis and the only one that needs to know is him.

Tidus manages to avoid anyone in the Aurochs finding out. He might tell Wakka but that’ll be sometime way after Wakka’s racism arc.

But he tells Yuna not long after the big laugh, and she’s honored to be trusted with this knowledge. Little does he know that this isn’t even close to the biggest secret between them. But without that mental block, they grow closer.

Rikku is she/they and she and Tidus bond over gender.

And then when Tidus finds out he’s a dream manifestation of the memories of the original Zanarkand he’s pissed because the memories remembered the original sport ball man as being AFAB enough for it to manifest in the dream.

So legally, Shuyin is also trans and he and Lenne died because he didn’t utilize his powers and call Yevon transphobic for trying to make his girlfriend a weapon.

«Because you’ll be right here with me, where they can’t reach you.»

Atlus, when we finally getting that Metaphor dancing game? (i remember why I never do illustrations, this took WAY too long)

“Native people used to live in this National Park” No. They still do.

“Native people used to tell these stories-” No. They still do.

“Native people used to use this plant as a natural remedy-” No. They still do.