Persistentplums

girls yearn for popular media with a butch as a main character

racism literally bleeds through the cracks of everything and if you dare to even barely point it out everyone will kill you

racism runs so deeply in people that if you call it out you are calling out them, and instead of sitting down and examining their own racism they lash out at you for being sooo meansies to them. you don't even have to be talking about anyone's racist behavior in particular because it makes racists so uncomfortable they will come forward themselves and act like you're targeting them specifically. it's okay when they do it because they're doing it in the correct way, in the nice way! they don't mean it like that. in fact they're actually being progressive. you're the cruel one for acting like their racist behavior is racist. you're the problem if you're bothered by their comfort racism. you're the bitchy colored person who makes eeeverything about racism when it so clearly isn't. i'm fucking sick of this.

*turns my attention inwards* mmmmm. no *turns my attention back outwards* oh god

turn your attention to The Character

rusty's ego being a persiflage of Pinocchio's Gepetto, a character who embodies the spirit of a loving father, carefully and willingly crafting and wishing for his own son, but instead of his own sons (who appear malformed in this level of his psyche) Rusty's ego is trying to build and repair a puppet of himself as a boy instead, insinuating that, the part of Rusty interacting with the world and managing his emotions is constantly stuck trying to fix his childhood self and the emotions that it comes with, never giving up on wanting to be "a real boy" or just a normal boy in Rusty's case. Oooooh im gonna be sick.