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and i was making small talk with the cashier, oh what’re you doing? nothing much just going out for the new IT

and he’s like oh is that what the shirts for? and i realize i’m wearing a tee shirt with my own art on it of a clown. just whatever i grabbed out of the laundry. total accident. so i’m like haha no just a coincidence. then my phone starts going off and my ringtone is goofy clown honking

Veneziano:

Can't use golems in your fantasy world because they're beings that belong to Judaism and you aren't Jewish? Try using elementals!

Can't use w*nd*goag in your story because they're monsters from Native beliefs and you aren't Native? Try wraiths or forest spirits!

Can't use Skinwalkers, either? How about changelings, The Thing-type aliens or faeries?

Don't want to use Christian biblical angels? Try eldritch monstrosities from another world.

Don't want to namedrop La Llorona, Hachisukisama or the Cupecabrah? How about old-fashioned undead, zombies or ghosts?

I mean if you're gonna use a creature like Wendigo or a Golem, make the effort to do some research about them so you can get a clear idea how they are represented in said culture.

I'm not saying that using creatures like that are inherently offensive per say, but its kind of a bad choice to use beings from a religious belief or culture that have already been misinterpreted heavily in media. Chances are, people who make the diluted and incorrect depictions of these monsters probably said the exact same thing.

using golems as your fantasy "monster" is inherently antisemitic.

they're not only specific to jewish folklore, but they are benevolent. they're protectors of the jewish people from those intending to harm us.

Honestly? Ship whatever the hell you want as long as it's not illegal. You're 100% valid for whatever you like, as long as the ship is not breaking any laws yk? (Pedophilia, incest, abuse, ect)

Here's where the issue is. Underage. Here's my hot take: both characters are minors. Say you are a minor, and you write about two fictional minors your age cuddling or going out on dates. That's 100% okay! That's fine and cute and that is a valid ship! What's not okay: writing sexual content of minors, even if you are a minor (and if you're a full grown adult, what the hell!) is not okay at all!!

I think Reddie is a good example for this. Back when Chapter One came out, Reddie was an extremely popular ship. Kids were writing these fluffy fanfics about these characters getting together and confessing their feelings and all that soft stuff, and it's something they could cling and relate to because the author was also a minor. Nothing wrong with that at all! But, of course, people started to write smut, and write these characters performing sexual acts and guess what? That's disgusting! These characters are minors! There's nothing wrong with fluff, it's cute and innocent and there's nothing bad about it. The line is crossed when people write about minors having sex or doing anything sexual.

How I see all of this: ship whatever you want, as long as it's not illegal. If it's underage, stay away from the smut. Hell, I've got a few of those ships myself (reddie, jalph, iideku) and all I've ever read is the cutest, softest shit you can find on AO3 because guess what: they're minors. Anytime I saw smut tagged on a post I felt like gagging.

As a teen, it’s normal to gravitate towards more teen based fandoms because the characters face problems that are more relatable. It’s also normal for teens to want to see these characters in situations realistic to the teen experience, and teens do do the hanky spanky.

The movie begins. The audience is rife with anticipatory giggles. Some lady in the back row loudly says “can we be quiet now, please? let us watch the movie in silence” in a displeased Russian accent. 

We will inevitably disappoint her

In the first 5 minutes, while crying with laughter, I decide this movie is actually about a human who gets genetically engineered into a cat and is exiled to a furrykin community.

5 minutes after that, I think about how good a movie this would be if it was hand-drawn animation and not CGI people-cats, and I become absolutely furious

Mice and cockroaches have human faces and bodies. The audience is screaming.

This film comes VERY close to having a dog on screen. I start sweating in dread of what it might look like. The dog is never shown.

None of the humor is funny

During the slow parts I start to imagine other celebrities in full cat CGI to amuse myself

Cat Idris Elba sexily Thanos-snaps another cat out of existence. Audible confusion ripples through the audience.

The cats do some extremely horny body work involving their tails. The audience is making disgusted noises. Several people yelp “oh NO” very loudly

At the end of a song, the throng of cats start “applauding” by slapping their hands on the ground and saying “meowmeowmeowmeowmeow”. This instigates a fight-or-flight response in me so strong that I nearly bolt out of the theatre.

During an awkward silence the camera cuts to a cat making a “yikes” kind of grimace and the whole theatre laughs because that is the exact emotion we are all feeling

A cat helicopters into the ceiling and is vaporized by cat Idris Elba. A man in the audience yells “GOTTEM!!” at the top of his lungs

Most cats are naked but somehow cat Idris Elba manages to be far more naked than all of them. The audience is screaming, again

Memoriiiiiiies. All alone in the moonliiiiiiight. “Please,” begs the Russian lady in the back of the theatre, sounding defeated, “don’t laugh. Not now.”

The actor who plays the main character gray cat who never gets a song explaining who he is (I am told he is Munkustrap) is DEAD SERIOUS about this role. He is a PROFESSIONAL. He is feeling being a cat so hard. Look at his face at literally any point (but especially during the final epilogue song) and I guarantee he will be having an intensely invested serious face journey. His shoulders must be aching from carrying this entire film.

PLEASE don’t act like this in theaters, what is wrong w y’all?