stop saying “gen z brought back bush-era purity politics” i grew up in the bush era and even then people weren’t saying that you’re a sex addict for having boring marital sexual congress in the same house as your children. this is just plain unhinged
Literally almost every millennial I know has a memory of accidentally walking in on their parents or hearing their parents having sex. It’s fucking normal. Human beings have sex. Your parents fuck. Get over it. Being weird about it isn’t healthy.
the thing is if taylor swift actually were a lesbian it would actually be really tasteless to publicly speculate about it and essentially try to out her against her will, but on the other hand she definitely, definitely isn’t, so the “TS is a lesbian” theorists are morally in the clear by sheer virtue of how factually wrong they are
Thinking about how Mahito’s father parallels the pelican’s story. They both care about their children and want them to have a better future but at the same time they do things that unknowingly harm them. The pelicans eat the warawara to fly, so their young lose that nature to fly themselves. Mahito’s dad builds airplanes, the same thing that killed Mahito’s mother and will no doubt be used to kill someone else’s mother too during the war.
It’s about grief. It’s about family. It’s about war. It’s, “You don’t have to walk the same path your ancestors did.” It’s “Your lived experience builds a world as deserving of your attention and care as your inner world” and “You inherited a flawed world, and you are flawed, and that is still beautiful” and “I made this beautiful thing and it’s ending and that’s just how it goes, but wasn’t it beautiful?”
It makes me think about the worlds we make within ourselves and how they can be entrancing and wonderful even as they lead us to walk deeper into ourselves and away from those around us. It makes me think about connection, about how love can be so flawed sometimes but it is still something we need to hold onto. It asks “What if the monsters never asked to be monsters?” and “What if things can die before they’re even born?”
It’s about not being afraid of fire, not being afraid of endings, not being afraid of the world falling apart, of pain, of walking away, of reconciling, of finding new family and new love even as you mourn and miss what you lost.
It says, “Beautiful, wonderful things end, but afterwards, you can go home.”
I swear to god that green day has had this exact same “scandal” like five times now.
Once again learning that the band famous for multiple songs in which they say some variation of “we’re faggots and we hate america” are in fact faggots who hate america. Very disappointed.
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