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In depth Lilo & Stitch headcanon about public perception of the aliens:

Kokaua Town is aware there's Something going on with Jumba, Pleakley, and the experiments. Not aware that they're aliens yet, but some of these weird dogs speak like people! (Reuben, Slick, Heckler, Nosy).

Due to Jumba's... public Jumba-ness... people might have pieced together the whole "illegal genetic experiment" thing. Like, oh yeah, this weird man definitely did some illegal shit with animal genes. Maybe they think he's hiding out from the law and that's why he moved in with the Pelekais so quickly.

Nosy goes "they're aliens!" to the Jamesons, and the Jamesons probably end up thinking that Nosy meant illegal aliens- as in, people who immigrated illegally, and in this case for Jumba to hide from the law in his home country. Which is obviously Russia, based on his accent.

Maybe the moms in the PTA look at Pleakley with pity because it can't be easy having to uproot your entire life to move to another country because your husband is on the run from the law. Her weird mannerisms and confusion about everything? "Oh, she's just foreign."

Pleakley's gone out in public in male outfits sometimes, disguised as a human man. In the Christmas episode, he even goes out without a wig. So she's definitely visibly queer. But I doubt anyone brings it up. There might be some gossip behind her back, but to her face, everyone treats her as whatever gender she's going as today.

If Pleakley ever slips up and refers to Jumba as her roommate instead of her husband, well, of course they're not legally married. Gay marriage isn't legal in Russia, and it wasn't legal in Hawaii until 2013, about a decade after the series takes place. And Pleakley is visibly queer. So... yeah, makes sense.

The Pelekais are native Hawaiian, so it's clear Jumba and Pleakley aren't biologically related to them. Due to Stitch's obvious status as one of the experiments, however, it's generally assumed the two met the Pelekais through Lilo's genetically modified dog being Jumba's creation. Which is true, except Stitch isn't actually a modified dog, and Jumba isn't actually a Russian immigrant.

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Absolutely wild to me how sometimes you don't even realize the way you'd been taught to perceive things as a kid was kinda fucked up, actually, until decades later.

Example:

As a kid, I constantly lived in fear of damaging shit in my parent's house. The walls. The floors (especially the floors. The wood was beautiful. Shiny. But so easy to scratch). The cabinets.

As a sixteen-year-old, I once took my car to the dealership after work and paid a very dear sum of $250 ($10/hr cashier salary) to fix a slight scratch in the paint because I knew if my father saw it there would be hell to pay. It didn't matter that I parked far out, like I'd been taught, and someone scratched it anyway. It was my fault. I failed in my duties as a steward of my vehicle.

Every time I scratched a rim on a curb while parallel parking or got a door ding or, god forbid, didn't wash and vacuum that car every weekend, it was treated like some sort of moral failing.

Last year, when my husband and I first moved into our house, he scraped the side of our car when parking in our (Very Narrow) garage. When he told me, my first instinct was to be afraid for him. Like something terrible was going to happen to him because of this mistake. I urgently reassured him that it was okay, it was an accident, I wasn't mad. Baffled, he was like, "Yeah? I know? Like, thank you for the reassurance, but I'm only a little annoyed, I'm not upset. It's just a car." And I had to take several minutes to process that. It's...just a car.

We keep the car tidy. We maintain it. But we wash it maybe 4x a year. We only vacuum it after dirty road trips or when the dog hair starts to get annoying. It has scrapes and dings and the leather seats have stains. But that's ok. Because it's just a car.

This morning, I realized that a small rock had gotten embedded in the felt foot on one of our bar stools. Neither of us had noticed. There are now scratches on our beautiful hardwood floor. My immediate response was fear accompanied by a heavy measure of paralyzing guilt. "I'm so sorry," I told my husband, "I should have noticed. I'll figure out how to fix it, I swear. I can probably sand down that section and match the stain and--"

"Whoa, hey," he said. "It was an accident. And it's fine. Floors are going to get damaged. They're floors. We live here. There was damage in places before we even bought the house, remember? It's not a big deal. It's just a floor." Right. It's just a floor. Right.

My husband's mom is visiting and this afternoon, as I was sitting in the kitchen looking at the scratches on the floor, I offhandedly asked her if my husband had ever broken or damaged anything as a kid. "Of course," she said. Household items. A TV. A wrecked car during his teen years. I asked how she punished him.

"Why would I punish him for things like that?" she said. "They were all accidents."

Right. Of course. Right.

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look! the moonlight shows us for what we really are. we are not among the living, and so we cannot die — but neither are we dead.

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i love seeing cardinals and bluejays together i’m always like “hehe.. evil siblings”

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giant redwood trees really are so cool, they just have something incredibly special going on. it's hard to describe if you haven't seen them

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Honestly bizarre that tomatoes get all the flack for “not being a vegetable” because they're technically a fruit when:

A) There are a ton of fruits that get categorised as vegetables. Like this also applies to pumpkins, squashes and cucumbers.

B) The fucking mushrooms are standing there at the back of the crowd in this witch trial, trying to look inconspicuous because they somehow got into the vegetable club with no fucking controversy despite the fact that they're not even plants.

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I did it. After a lifetime of using light mode on all my devices, I switched to dark mode. My eyes just can’t take it anymore, and after a few days of using it, I decided dark mode was actually kind of cozy and nice. So it was time to update my light mode art with a new version!

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I was teaching kids today and they got fixated on the usual ‘are they dead now?’ question when I was talking about historical figures. So I was just like ‘Yes, they’re dead now, everyone who was alive in the 1800s is dead now.’ and then one kid was like ‘Except for you’.

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Superman says fuck ICE. Be like Superman

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The worst part of human adulthood is being your own zookeeper

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sometimes I randomly remember that Mr Ratburn from Arthur is gay married to a chocolatier and a sense of calmness and prosperity washes over me like a wave 

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sometimes I randomly remember that Mr Ratburn from Arthur is gay married to a chocolatier and a sense of calmness and prosperity washes over me like a wave 

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what i love about the dc absolute universe is that it’s not an edgy version of these characters, they’re not attempting a “what if your favourite hero was a bad guy”. no, instead it tells us that the circumstances in which these heroes become are so different and sometimes so adverse and YET they choose to be heroes, they choose kindness, compassion, justice and truth. That it doesn’t matter how you’re brought in to the world, it matters what you do when you have the opportunity and circumstance to do better. at its core that’s exactly what wonder woman, superman and batman represent.

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Gabby Kinney ily

All the joy in the Wolverine bloodline got funnelled down to one menace of a girl.