It's That Time Of Year Again! HAVE FUN

it's that time of year again! HAVE FUN

Hate that me pointing out that spiderverse isn't safe is being misconstrued into people thinking I hate it.

I loved the first movie, my head got fuzzy at points but I could still watch it. I mourned for my friends who couldn't because the animation was beautiful and the story touching. I worried for those who had to avoid the internet due to bad tagging.

I need sunglasses and the room to be bright as hell to watch just the trailers of the second film. I can't fully appreciate the art because more than anything I'm mourning the people who would love to see it but can't. I'm scared for the bad tagging again.

Bright glitchy colors give me debilitating migraines. For some it's deadly seizures.

We have every right to be upset that one of the most popular films right now is inaccessible to us to certain degrees. We have every right to be upset that there was NO WARNING on these triggers.

Accessibility is important: in food, housing, jobs, and art. You can make art that triggers migraines and seizures but God damn it, it's not that hard to warn people about it.

If your enjoyment of a film is ruined by a warning then you're a fucking loser. People's lives are more important than your movie, sorry but it's true.

Btw

trans people, genderqueer people, nonbinary people, polyamorous people, aro-spec and/or ace-spec people, intersex people, bigender people, questioning people, 2-spirited people, people whose gender and sexual orientation does or doesn't fit with our current volcabulary and/or is a combination of experiences (regardless how diverse or specific or seemingly ""contradictory"")........

I love you all.

You're all wonderful. You all shine. My world is made better and more beautiful with you being here. I used to view identity in binary boxes and thought, wow that's a lot to explore. But you've all shown me that I've only been looking at a few flower pots--that in fact, there is an infinite garden out there, a sea of flora, all lovely and dazzling in their own way. A garden that forever expands, forever has more to discover, and forever made more beautiful by its every single individual part.

I see you. I Want to see you, however you are, however you want to be seen. I want you to live as you, and for you to love you. I want you to be happy and your stories told. I want you to be safe.

I want to thank you for being you. You make the world all the richer.

it also made me very sad at one point one of the kids said her dad was being hateful towards drag queens and that he had a very skewed/incorrect view of what a drag queen was and wouldnt listen to her and told her she was “too naive” when she tried to explain

and i replied “if i remember correctly when youre at this age it seems adults will wave off any of your life experiences even if they lack their own because they refuse to see those younger than them as their own people” and EVERY SINGLE KID AT THE TABLE turned and said EXACTLY

and i was like. oh. so i wasnt alone in that. but also. i dont have to BE that. im not doing that. im listening and actually talking to them. i hope that there are older people in their life doing the same.

um. i dont know how to say. please listen to the children in your life. its true sometimes youll know better but, often times they have perspectives we may miss and dismissing them hurts everyone in the end. we have so much we can share and learn together.