the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability

Some thoughts.

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Stuff like this always makes me remember how sensationalized the ​“hide your kids, hide your wife” video was, also known as the “bedroom intruder meme” 🗿.

No shirt, no bra, completely bare torso, just like cis men are allowed to

It's about desexualizing breasts and "female presenting nipples" and not being criminalized for our bodies if we want to go topless because it's a million damn degrees out. This was a popular growing movement that was still widely known a decade ago!

Because tell me why people were dogging on an indigenous transgender man for pointing out the similarities between settlers back in the day forcing indigenous men to cut their hair to conform to what they thought was “civilized” in a white, European society vs. transmedicalists online claiming that you have to confrorm to societies standards of what a man or woman are (which, are oftentimes Eurocentric), otherwise you’re a trender.

White people only see racism as being a big meanie, which means that they’re only calling you racist because they think you’re being mean to them personally; reverse racism is just a way of them creating a fake narrative that they’re somehow oppressed because they think that being called racist is the meanest thing a person could say to them

I legit remember when an old white mutual of mine tried to say that a book was racist against white people because she felt like the book was saying that all white folks are racists and she viewed that as a stereotype against white people; once again this proves how white people are more scared of being called racist than actually doing something racist that hurts Black and brown people

He asked: "Oh, was she the only son or something before *waves hand*?" and I was like, warily, no she has two brothers. And he responded with a great deal of confusion: "Then what's their problem?!?!"

When he found and married my mom, he was nearly 45 and they had so much trouble conceiving that he went to a Guanyin temple supposedly "magical" for praying for children. When I was born (not a son, also an only child until now), my mom said, "when you prayed at the temple did you ask for a son?" He said, "Aiya, everyone is asking for sons, so I said any gender is okay. If I asked for a son, maybe we wouldn't have gotten a child because Guanyin's son quota is already used up. Do you want that to happen?" My mom laughed for days about "son quota" and continues to tell people about it today, but her honest answer was: "Any child is okay."

Jokes on them. They didn't specify a gender, so Guanyin Ma gave them a non-binary child!

More seriously: my dad doesn't care about sons. When I told my parents that I wouldn't marry or have children, I thought he might be disappointed, but he wasn't. Then again, maybe I should have expected that, given he tried to become a monk at 18 🤪 I think he said the thing about sons to poke fun at people who care too much about sons because he frankly thinks it's all a bit ridiculous. In his eyes, a child is a child, so what's the point in caring about gender? If the child "changes" gender, does it make a difference?

in Coco, Hector is a musician and song writer and he writes a song for his daughter. in the song, he asks his daughter to remember him while he's away and reassuring her that he's always with her, even if they're apart. the song is meant to be sang "simply, tenderly", as stated on the music sheet that Hector made. i can't watch the end scene in Coco without crying because the song is just that beautiful [Hector's version]

in the movie, Ernesto de la Cruz kills Hector and steals his songs due to his own greed. he turns the song into an upbeat, flashy performance, the meaning twisted into a romantic love song where Ernesto is saying goodbye to a lover [Ernesto's version]

what started out as a slow, sentimental song about love for a daughter was turned into something that lost complete meaning. now if we compare that to Stevie Wonder's song, Isn't She Lovely, and what Goose did with it, we see that the comparisons are strikingly similar

the funniest part is that this happens in Coco and is obviously meant to be a very very bad thing he did. not just because he stole the song, but also the song's original meaning. which, when you pour your love and soul out into a song, that's a really fucked up thing to do... which is also what Stevie Wonder did, considering he writes most of his own songs

Fandoms/Material Ice Doesn't Want* to Answer Questions About

Homestuck

Hazbin & all related material

South Park

My Little Pony & all related material

The Amazing Digital Circus

People who spoil media in my asks without a warning (if I say go ahead, or if you at least put a warning, feel free! But y'all could at least ASK me before starting!)

He called a "fulfilling experience."