Every time we vend at Pride, there are times when I have to fight breaking down.
It's probably not when you'd expect. Yes, I get misty at the Big Moments and the Conversations, and we have those every time. I love seeing the parents who are buying their kid's first Pride item, the trans girls spinning in skirts they just bought, the curve of fresh scars across a chest that's clearly seeing sunlight for the first time this summer. I love it all. I devour every minute of it.
But it's the parents who hand their kid a $20 or tap their Apple watch on our card reader and look slightly bored that get me, sometimes.
My G-d. It's not scary, it's not overwhelming, it's not tense and nervewacking. It's boring to them.
2 weeks ago, my brother tells me, my parents used the right name and pronouns for me through an entire dinner with Jake and his partner.
I turned 47 three days ago.
Today, a parent looked bored escorting their teenager around at Pride.
....I don't actually think the lego movie is outdated 😭
It's a wonderful movie that I will never regret watching. Same goes for its sequel.
But even so, that's an opinion. Not everyone thinks the lego movie is great, and some think it's outdated.
The point was not "the lego movie is also outdated" it was "let people enjoy what they want to enjoy, the time at which the movie/game/show/etc was released or was most popular does not dictate whether or not a person can enjoy it"
Anyway, I'm not one for drama or arguments with strangers online, so once this is posted, you will be blocked. Toodles!
english's pronunciation rules are absolute bullshit poopoo made up crap but one of my favorite side effects of this in written english specifically is like. altering the spelling of a word in such a way that it's technically pronounced the same. but reads very differently when your eyes go over it in written form. and that sort of dissonance between the proper spelling and the altered spelling producing the same basic sounds in your brain creates an unprecedented level of comedy.