Really? Y’all are seriously going to claim that it’s “homophobic” to be concerned about an 11 year old boy dancing for the enjoyment of grown ass men at an adults only event in exchange for money?
Bitch, many of the people calling this shit out are LGBT themselves. Because it’s fucking creepy.
Allow me to reiterate. An 11 year old boy performed in drag at a gay club for men several times his age, at an event that was explicitly for people aged 21 or over, in exchange for money. You seriously don’t see anything wrong with that? This is the kind of shit that homophobic pundits would use against us.
YOU SHOULD BE OUTRAGED ABOUT THIS! THERE’S NOTHING GOOD ABOUT THIS SITUATION! THERE’S NOTHING THAT SHOULD BE CELEBRATED HERE!
And here’s for anyone that still wants to pretend none of this is problematic in any way.
Here is the kid sitting next to Michael Alig. Well known methhead who was a drug addict/party personality in the 80s and served time for murdering his own friend with a hammer and cutting him into pieces.
In front of a painting that says “rohypnol”, a date rape drug.
Honestly, if this was a girl doing this for an audience of straight men, this would be on national news and in court in three seconds
Someone please save this kid
I was happy with this kid marching in the pride parade with responsible adults around him, this is something else entirely….
this child has a website where you can “book” him. why is there a description of his basic features? why is there a subject field? BOOK HIM FOR WHAT? HE’S 11 YEARS OLD.
That description is incredibly creepy… Why do they need to know his height and weight and hair colour??
you know why…
2019 is the year we save this fuckin kid
lets do it i’m in poor kid
God I’m so glad people are actually acknowledging how fucked up this is because everyone on instagram is like “uwu well it’s his life let him do what he wants” NO?? HE IS A CHILD??? IMAGINE ALL THE SHIT THAT GOES ON BEHIND THE SCENES??? THIS IS NOT OKAY??
it really is next to impossible to write realistic sibling dialogue, I just passed my brother on the stairs and instead of greeting each other like human beings I said ‘born survivor’ and he said ‘youtube rewind. let’s set it to rewind.’ like you ain’t gonna find that shit in a novel
aw man writing siblings is so wild because sometimes you just can’t portray it
me and my little brother don’t even greet each other - if we pass each other on the stairs or in the corridor, we jump into ridiculous fight stances then feign karate chopping and slapping each other (stopping just before we make contact) whilst making “HIIIYA” and “POW” noises for a solid 30 seconds, then silently walk off and continue what we were doing
and then sometimes he’ll either just do the Had To Do It To ‘Em pose when I enter the room or dab as a greeting
exactly! I have three younger brothers and the original post was just about the oldest, the middle one and me usually do some kind of elaborate dab also, and a lot of the time when I see the youngest I just yell his name like a wrestling commentator…siblings have a different language
There’s this girl at my school and she’s really nice and I remember sometime last year at one point she would carry a clicker around and click it everytime she had a happy thought/something good happened/she laughed etc. It was always kind of cute how you’d just hear the little click every once in a while throughout class it always made me smile knowing that it was bc something made her feel happy idk
she was training herself to be happy oh my god
does it work???? Imagine feeling yourself slipping into depression and you just click a few times and your brain says “wait, this is the sound of happiness I have to release serotonin”
She fucking Pavlov’d herself, the absolute madwoman
Role swap au where Zuko was the Avatar who got frozen for a hundred years, so when he’s rescued from the ice instead of a goofy twelve year old Katara catches this mysterious teenager with long hair and a cool scar and a fucking DRAGON
Katara: BOY???? HOT BOY?????? HOT TEENAGE BOY?????????
Zuko: *speaks*
Katara: nevermind I hate him
How does Aang factor into this? I ask because the more I think about it the more I want him to somehow be trying to capture the Avatar.
Aang is 112 years old, decided he was going to be Zuko’s airbending teacher, and refuses to take no for an answer
Aang: Aw, the new Avatar doesn’t want me. Aang: *gets out a weighted net* Time for Plan B then.
JDJSHJABDBFJSH
Look, you know how you keep a net from falling on you? YOU AIRBEND IT, SUCKA. Air comes right after fire in the cycle so it’s not like the guy has any other options. Do you want a flaming net falling on you? No? Then learn to airbend. Or this tiny old man will cart you away like a trussed turkey and lecture you about the power of laughter, going with the flow, opening your chakras, and other hippie shit.
Sokka, slouching against a fence, not moving: Oh nooooooo, that creepy old man stole the Avataaaaaaaaaar. Sokka, sitting down on the ground: We should dooooo something. Sokka, pulling out his lunch: Otherwise he might actually learn something. That would be teeeerrible. Katara, indignant rage coursing through her body: Sokka!!!!!!!! We have to go look for him!!!! Sokka: Might! Actually! Learn! Something! Katara! Katara: *wavers* Katara, also sitting down: We have to go look for him…. *gets out her own sandwich* But, maybe after lunch.
I love that this transforms Aang’s role in the full Team Avatar familial situation from the baby of the family to the Grandpa with weird hobbies
My brain, immediately after the “Aang won’t take no for an answer” post:
Aang: I’m gonna ride him! *jumps on Zuko’s shoulders*
Actually, I thought a bit more about this: If Aang is “grandpa figure who won’t fucking stop teaching Zuko to be a better and more spiritually fulfilled person,” then what is Iroh doing?
And then it hit me.
Iroh: *sitting in a teahouse at a paisho table* Iroh, deadpan: I must capture the last airbender. Iroh: It is the only way to make sure the powe rof the Avatar won’t be turned on the Fire Nation. Iroh: Only then will I be redeemed in the eyes of the Fire Lord for my failure at Ba Sing Se. Iroh: … Iroh: Anyway, it’s your turn.
About half of the B plots are just Iroh finding new ways to feign incompetence and bad luck so that his political watchdog can’t prove that he’s letting Aang - and by extension Zuko - get away.
Sometimes Iroh plays paisho with Aang, whose entire disguise during these games consists of a painfully fake mustache.
AANG WAS THE OTHER PLAYER IN THAT SCENE OF COURSE IT’S PERFECT (the moustache is just a bit of Appa’s fur tied in a string)
Ok, but now I’m also imagining the whole subplot with Zhao in season one being about him trying to humiliate Iroh. Except he knows pretty well that Iroh would completely destroy him in an actual confrontation so he’s too afraid of provoking him and always ends helping him in the end. And Iroh know it as well and keeps with spectacular failures (like hiring a crew of definitely not pirates that definitely will not steal his ship at the first occasion) just to annoy him.
Iroh: Joke’s on you Admiral Zhao; I don’t care about my reputation! *effortlessly rebuffs all of Zhao’s plots anyway*
Has someone written this on archive? I would read the crap outta it.
hot take: the word “queer” exists as both a slur and an identity, and to say otherwise is erasure of both the struggles that people went through getting harassed/etc by people who called them that, and the struggles and activism that went into people reclaiming the word for themselves.
it’s called giving other people respect. if they’re uncomfortable with the term, then don’t force them to accept it, but if someone else is using it as an identity, don’t force them out of it. trauma is not an excuse to be an asshole