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its not a "native version of nonbinary" or a "native version of bigender"

thats not what it means, that’s not what it’s ever meant

two spirit is an pan-tribal term coined by indigenous people in 1990, for indigenous people, to replace the term berdache, an offensive term that white settlers applied to indigenous people that fell outside of the western lens of gender and sexuality

two spirit isnt a "native version of nonbinary" because two spirit doesnt inherently mean someone is nonbinary. some of us are, but so many two spirited people arent. many people in our community also choose specifically not to label themselves with terms like nonbinary, gay, bisexual, etc, and solely use two spirit or another term from their tribe or language

we can be anything and everything and nothing you've ever imagined

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The first time he cheated death, Sisyphus had just angered Zeus by revealing the location of the Asopid Aegina whom Zeus abducted. Which is super valid, fuck Zeus.

Sisyphus knew that Zeus would send the god of death Thanatos after him, so he prepared a trap and trapped Thanatos in the chains meant for him.

After that, nothing on Earth was able to die so long as Thanatos was in chains. Which meant no animals could be sacrificed to the gods. This angered the gods, who made Sisyphus' life so miserable with pain and illness that he would beg for death. And so he released Thanatos.

But then came the second time Sisyphus cheated death. As he was dying, he asked his wife to dump his naked corpse in the middle of the public square. Denied a proper burial, his soul ended up on the far side of the river Styx, unable to cross.

He complained to Hades and Persephone about how his wife disrespected him, and begged them to let him return briefly to the world of the living to scold her and make her bury him properly. They agreed, and Sisyphus returned to life. He then embraced his wife, and refused to return to the Underworld.

It's only when he finally died of old age that he was sent to Tartarus and punished with the boulder.

I don't remember where I've seen it, but I like the interpretation that Sisyphus doesn't have to push the boulder. He can choose to stay in Tartarus and rest. But he was promised that if he managed to push the boulder to the top of the mountain, he'll ascend to Elysium.

And Sisyphus, in his stubbornness and cleverness, refuses to give up on a challenge.

Hey artists, C. Spike Trotman, founder of Iron Circus Comics, just posted an invaluable thread on depicting different types of black hair. I’d do the thing where you screencap the whole thread and post it but it’s just too long (which is great because it’s a whole lot of useful information!) Give her a follow while you’re there.

this'll kinda act as a notes page for my own good and for those interested. this is simply what i notice and what i personally make of it so apologies if i end up being wrong.

the big theories: sylvia and the clerk are helping gerard plan an escape from the inside, the peru show is a time before long live, the clerk is many different people.

-first and foremost, i'm a big fan of the theory claiming that the peru show was set on a timeline before the first leg shows. keep this in mind when reading.

-the clerk is a man of many faces and is working with gerard to plan their escape

-marianne and the secretary may be the same person, as marianne is not found during this show and the secretary is not found during the shows from the first leg (i believe). they also happen to look strikingly similar. in the promo you see the secretary with a guide dog and in the first leg shows, we see marianne needs help getting around since she's blind.

-sylvia is also helping TBP escape?

-sylvia may be a witch? idk how much i really believe this one but during her verse of mama, gerard says "this is the part of the show where we do magic," and from the first leg, we know that some sort of magic is at play because when marianne sang, she could see "everything". gerard claims that sylvia is their magic assistant and that she assists in all "magic spells". we then are told we're gonna make her disappear.

-also during this, gerard says "with the powers vested in me by the great guizot"... francois guizot was a french politician who was known for expanding public education and his leadership of the doctrinaires. his work with the doctrinaires lead to the fight for old monarchies to work with the new ideas of the french revolution and balancing freedom with power

-at the end of mama, sylvia takes the dagger from gerard possibly meaning that she's helping them from the inside of the system. obviously we don't see sylvia herself disappear but with the handing over of the dagger, i now interpret "making her disappear" as a metaphor for making the dictatorship disappear since she definitely has some role in it.

-pierrot may be the clerk's dad? i think this to be true because of the letter that's read on stage in a father's voice reading "sadly, there's nothing I can do for you, all my love, dad". and the fact that the clerk holds a bear dressed as pierrot as he dies makes me believe that may have been his father who was sent away to "gubrick".

-with the theory of the peru show being set before any of the first leg shows, pierrot in the first leg of the tour may actually be the clerk dressed as pierrot to disguise himself to help TBP escape

-during mama, gerard used to say the "dagger" verse was a secret the gentleman told him in prison. in peru, before the verse, he says an old friend told him the story. he says this friend told him he liked his shoes to which he replied "you don't got any fuckin shoes at all!" this almost makes me wanna think the gentleman and the patient are the same person

-before sleep, we see the clerk and gerard drawing an outline of gerard's body just like in the first leg shows. we also see them play maybe tic tac toe and hopscotch on the outline. I interpreted this as them passing time together in prison and disguising the fact that they're planning an escape. me thinks that the tic tac toe marks represent gerard getting stabbed and the hopscotch represents pierrot tossing him around on stage.

-during sleep, the screens show the clerk, the man from the promo with the flower and the red tie (still not entirely sure who he is), a woman who looks like the secretary/mariannne without sunglasses, and another man who i can't quite place. gerard also appears on the screen at some point which makes sense if they're all working together. but when gerard does appear on screen, the clerks original image turns into how he's presented at this particular show, in almost a prison outfit. there's also an image of an ear, a recording device, and an eyeball which i think means these characters have inside ears that they are using to assist the black parade. there's also a few screens that show different angles of a brain but that really just confirms the brainwashing theory from the first leg a little more. BUT TOWARDS THE END. SOMETHING CAUGHT MY EYE. I BLIEVE WE SEE THE DICTATOR BEING BURNED. WE ALSO SEE THE CLERK GETTING BRAIN SURGERY FROM THE GUY FROM THE MAIN SCREEN. i'm gonna make a separate post about sleep with pictures but that's worth mentioning. there's so much.

-BUT THEN, the clerk dies on the hospital bed also making me believe he is the same person as the patient, also noted with how him and gerard interact with each other during the "dagger" verse

-it also adds up in my mind because of the fact that during cancer, gerard danced around with the gentleman. but in the first leg of the tour, there was a laugh track played during cancer leading me to believe that there's a plan of faking one's death possibly set in place.