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Interviewer: What do you think about starting an initiative on campus here at UK, to be more inclusive to women who have penises? So we can put urinals in the womens restroom for them.

Student: Sounds fantastic.

Interviewer: Oh, does it?

Student: Yeah.

Interviewer: What about- Let’s take it one step closer, y'know more- for inclusivity here on campus, but free tampons and pads in the mens restroom for men who have periods?

Student: Sounds great.

Interviewer: Ok- You dont see anything wrong with those statements?

Student: No.

Interviewer: What men do you know with periods?

Student: I generally use- ones like in Willy T* have pads, I use them pretty often.

Some tribal owned grocers that ship:

Bow and Arrow (Ute Mountain)

Native Harvest (White Earth)

Red Lake Fishery (Red Lake)

Wozupi (Mdewakanton Dakota)

Ramona Farms (Gila River)

Tanka Bars (Oglala)

Indian Pueblo Store (Pueblos)

Twisted Cedar Wine (Cedar Paiutes)

Ute Bison (Ute)

Seka Hills Olive Oil and Vinegars (Yocha Dehe Wintun)

She Nah Nam Seafood (Nisqually)

Sakari Botanicals (Inupiaq)

Honor the Earth (?)

Nett Lake Wild Rice (Anishinaabe)

Passamaquoddy maple (Passamaquoddy)

BONUS: coffee :)

Yeego Coffee (Navajo)

Spirit Mountain Roasting (Yuma Quechan)

Birchbark Coffee (Anishinaabe)

…oh? What’s in the suitcase, Shag?

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…yes.

Thank you, Zombie Island.

Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Studio Ghibli, 1987)

some hypothetical movie posters

recently some friends and i worked on a bit of a demo for a simple dating sim/mystery game in which i did the art for all the characters and fully indulged in the robosexual part of me haha, here are the six love interests slash suspects. ( @theazonelayer​ did the programming, @innuendocrescendo​ did the writing. )

left-to-right we have robella ravishing, clank westmetal, razzberri pi, spark mcking, russ-t, and major mal-function!

i’ve been instructed to warn everyone that it’s still very much a work in progress but if there’s interest we would love to work more on this! (you play as the greyscale detective in the middle there)

You can’t see it from the other side, either. It also cost about $20, and I can’t recommend it enough. Easy to travel with, too! Great for Air BnBs!

it doesn’t just say, “look we made two of them gay! we’re so progressive,” and then just move on.

they don’t shy away from what seems to freak out disney/marvel/so many others: constant reminders throughout the movie that two men are in love.

joe winks at nicky over dinner, when nile wakes up from a nightmare joe and nicky are obviously the only two sharing a bed, joe declares his love for nicky in a speech following a homophobic remark, every time one of them wakes up the first thing they do is check on each other (and touch each other when possible), they lean their heads together when they’re cuffed to reassure each other, they flirt with each other, they “avenge” each other, and they kiss on screen.

they get to be a real couple on-screen instead of just being a prop to prove how progressive the movie is. they get the touching, the spoken lines, the reminders that straight couples in movies get.

them: “I want to literally kill these people so that they stop existing”

But that doesn’t mean it’s ignored. Jefferson singing “looking at the rolling fields, I can’t believe that we are free” while being surrounded by his slaves, hit me SO HARD the first time I actually saw the footage bc WOW what a colossal piece of shit.

Laurens interlude hit me equally hard, but not primarily bc of Lauren’s death - which is sad - but bc of the line “the surviving members of this regiment have been returned to their masters”.

But after that interlude? Alexander says “I have so much work to do” and throws himself into his work and Non-stop tells us about all the millions of things he did - and speaking out against slavery is exactly none of them. It’s what the Laurens we see in the musical was all about and yet Alexander only ever speaks out against slavery either, in Act 1 when Laurens is pushing him to do so, or in Act 2 when he can use it to get a sick burn on Jefferson.

That burn btw? “’We plant seeds in the south, we create’ yeah keep ranting, we know who’s really doing the planting” nice callout there but you know what happens like 10 seconds later?

“You wanna pull yourself together”

“I’m sorry these virginians are birds of a feather”

“Young man I’m from virginia so watch your mouth!”

This is subtle, but the fact that Washington tells Hamilton to stop down talking virginia after Hamilton just called the South out on slavery? It’s still telling.

Then there’s Eliza’s line in the end “I speak out against slavery, you could have done so much more if you only had time”. And that has me thinking, again, okay but he was constantly writing wasn’t he? We’re told and shown repeatedly that Hamilton did, as they say, The Most. He could have absolutely spoken out against slavery more and on that, note? So could Eliza. She names it as one of the things she does here, in the end, right alongside telling the stories of the soldiers Hamilton fought with and Washington.

Hamilton doesn’t hold your hand and walk you through history and tells you “hey these people founded the USA but they were also horrible people”. It instead tells you the story of Hamilton and it tells it to you through Hamilton’s and Burr’s eyes - deeply flawed people who don’t find all that much wrong with slavery or at least not enough to make it a priority.

So yes. Maybe if you go into it not already knowing that these were not good people, you might get the impression that Washington was really cool and maybe the musical should have done more to make it clear that he wasn’t, that’s not for me to say.

But idk, I’m not entirely sure how to formulate this, but the fact that you can enjoy this show and enjoy it a second time and then finally start catching the subtle and not so subtle ways (and really the having the video along with the audio makes a huge difference) the fact that SLAVERY IS A THING is woven tightly into the background, in the way many of the ensemble members clearly portray slaves, not only during What did I miss, but throughout the second act, the way it’s portrayed as “oh yeah it’s there but we’re only mad about it when Jefferson does it and even then, not like, a lot” it sickens you, it punches you in the gut, it drives the point home, that fuck, that entire time was fucked up, how was that not all of y’all’s first priority, wtf Alex why would you ever let those people be returned to their Masters, Laurens died for this?!?!