Kurt was Trans and Nobody’s Tellin me Different

no U are not anyones “yandere girlfriend” you are a white girl with cat ear headphones who calls herself mizaki chan

This post makes people so angry op is in witness protection

I’ve seen Tumblr being a broken mess before but this post really takes the cake. OP doesnt have a name. If you look in the notes half the reblogs are just colons. I’ve seen people say clicking on OP’s blog brings them to an entirely random one, and that they couldnt exit it. You’ve got people investigating OP, and white girls getting all defensive. One of those heritage posts blogs is there. If I wanted to show someone peak Tumblr and what its like on here I’d just show them this post.

There’s no URL because this is a message from god

emperor kuzco was clearly gay

hes 19, with unlimited power, and he ain’t got a gf. the only time we see him interact with any women his own age is when he’s rejecting like 7 of them rapid fire. he pretends to date pacha in a gag that lasts like 10 solid minutes. listen to me god damnit

Okay, but just in case anyone is coming to tumblr dot com for my hot takes on 20+ year old kids' movies: Kuzco super WAS gay (or at least coded as such) and of course, I didn't get it until I watched it as a gay grownup.

He is played obviously camp and dramatic, for a start, and there is the aforementioned "hate your hair/not likely/yikes yikes yikes/let me guess you have a great personality" summary dismissal of all his potential brides. Then he spends dinner asking Yzma about Kronk ("so he seems nice? He's what, in his late twenties?") and otherwise being slightly obsessed with him.

Then there is the whole Adventure of Doom with Pacha, him being ever huffy about the Kiss of Life, and then the restaurant gag where Kuzco takes to playing Pacha's fake wife and dressing up in ladies' clothing with great gusto (reinforced by the waitress' "bless you for coming out in public" remark when Pacha says they're on their honeymoon). Then when he is finally de-llamafied, we don't see him paired off with the obligatory girl from the lineup earlier, as might otherwise be expected in a Disney movie. Instead he is still single, but goes to found family it up with Pacha, Chica, Kronk, etc, which dare we remark is a very queer trope.

In short, I have no idea how a Disney movie with no white people (all the characters are Indigenous/people of color), a gay king, cross-dressing jokes, and the most offbeat plot of all time actually ever got made (can you imagine the Family Friendly Mouse doing that today? Let us also talk about Kronk because he is a brilliant deconstruction of both toxic masculinity and the musclebound henchman stereotype.) Other than that this was the Chaos Hour of animated movies in the late 90s/early 2000s, and yes.

So yes. There you have it. I will not be taking criticism at this time.

In response to the question “How did a movie like this get made at all much less by fucking Disney?” there was a recent Vulture article that outlines the whole shit show of a history behind this film according to everyone (writers, directors, VAs, Stings) involved. The gist of the story is that they fucked up making a whole, true-to-form Disney musical that never came to see the light of day SO BADLY that Disney switched directors, locked the writer’s room, and didn’t review a single script until weeks after the film was in theaters.

Please, read this article if you have some time. This story is wild, and involves directors being pitted against each other Bake-Off style and a shockingly intimate documentary created by the wife of Sting who, himself was heartbroken by the decimation of the songs he wrote for the film including cutting a fantastic Yzma villain song sung by Eartha Kitt that is SO DAMN GOOD but would not ever have fit the more nailed-down Yzma we would eventually come to know and love. It’s so catchy though, I’m doubling up on calls to action but please listen now:

holy shit read the article. it’s worth it and completely batshit

This is fucking insane

I've never adequately appreciated the batshit brilliance of this joke, I've taken it for granted

Oh my god it's not even close LOL

criticisms of monogamy as a social construct that has historically been used as a form of social control aren't asking you to disregard the boundaries you have around your consensual relationships in the 21st century but they ARE asking you to maybe reconsider your violent knee-jerk reaction to the notion of infidelity or perceived infidelity in other people

#yes#people who don’t get the point of this..#like for example I am a lawyer and I can tell u that historically in this country a wife cheating was pretty officially treated as +#a mitigating factor if her husband murdered her#our legal system of marriage is created to deem women as a man’s property who exists to bear him legitimate children.#cheating is treated as the ultimate betrayal because legally the woman muddies the waters of legitimacy of current or potential future kids#therefore extreme reactions by the man are treated as justified#this isn’t saying cheating is fine in your specific monogamous relationship#but the institutional abhorrence of nonmonogamy — informed or secret — is patriarchal and allowed to be violently enforced tags via @shivroysdivorcelawyer​

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Viago is the nosiest snake in the entire world, I swear. Whenever I'm doing anything in the snake room he is pressed against the glass watching me

sometimes neurodivergence questions will be like ‘do you find activities more enjoyable when they are activities you enjoy’ and it really makes me wonder if this ‘neurotypical’ thing has just been a big practical joke all along

‘do you find it disruptive to your focus when your focus on a task is disrupted suddenly and without warning’ this CANNOT be diagnostic criteria. they are playing us for fools

"Do you find it difficult to make yourself complete dull or unpleasant tasks with no immediate benefits or rewards?" Not at all Margaret, I'm actively excited to take part in bad activities I don't like that make me feel bad

I have so much affection for these models of mundane things found in Middle Kingdom tombs. What a beautiful glimpse into the every day lives of people 4000 years ago.

oh my god, how could I forget my favourite

mama cow, so round

oh this fucks severely

Lawd

According to the comments, the band is known as Chili Dawg and the Pound. This guy is 23 years old. He was performing in Nashville, TN, at Tootsie's Orchid Lounge. He was booked on a DUI more or less right after this gig.

The song is a cover: "Beer Never Broke My Heart" by Luke Combs

oh, do not even get me STARTED on how utterly fucked up the entire foster care system is, because dealing with that bullshit is currently my entire job.

but put extremely shortly: it is a system that punishes poor people for being poor. it is demonstrably racist and ableist. behaviors that, in poor people, are grounds for having your kids taken away – using drugs, not keeping the house clean, being in DV relationships in front of the children, missing a doctor's appointment – are ignored in rich and middle class people. it is rarely used for cases of outright abuse, and even then, state intervention is no guarantee that the kids will be in a safer situation.

My dad and I once had a disagreement over him using the adage "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

I said, "That's just not true. Sometimes what doesn't kill you leaves you brittle and injured or traumatized."

He stopped and thought about that for a while. He came back later, and said, "It's like wood glue."

He pointed to my bookshelf, which he helped me salvage a while ago. He said, "Do you remember how I explained that, once we used the wood glue on them, the shelves would actually be stronger than they were before they broke?"

I did.

"But before we used the wood glue, those shelves were broken. They couldn't hold up shit. If you had put books on them, they would have collapsed. And that wood glue had to set awhile. If we put anything on them too early, they would have collapsed just the same as if we'd never fixed them at all. You've got to give these things time to set."

It sounded like a pretty good metaphor to me, but one thing I did pick up on was that whatever broke those shelves, that's not the thing that made them stronger. That just broke them. It was being fixed that made them stronger. It was the glue.

So my dad and I agreed, what doesn't kill you doesn't actually make you stronger, but healing does. And if you feel like healing hasn't made you stronger than you were before, you're probably not done healing. You've got to give these things time to set.

oh okay. heart steps right out of my chest and falls down the stairs

Transcript:

I’m about to expose the men. Whenever you ask a man’s height, he’ll add an inch. So if he’s 6 foot, he’ll say he’s 6’1 and if he’s 6’2, he’ll say he’s 6’3.

Not me though. I subtract 4. I say I’m 5’9. Especially when there’s other men in the room. And then I just watch them panic. Not only have you exposed his lie, but now he thinks he’s 5’3.

What I do is not a crime, but it should be.

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