flicker @ flicker @kbin.social

Mentally ill woman, adult, works for DIDDs (US).

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Thank you.

I think that is exactly why that problem persists. Among a certain subset of the population, there is no need to look further. Why assume that there's a deeper message there?

Which is why it's always so frustrating when you see someone arguing that you should only be able to vote if you serve. (Yes, this really happened to me.)

I love the way the smoke seems to be coming off of the top of it...

Whoever down voted this has no sense of humor.

Ah. The Starship Troopers problem.

It has been so, so long since I last saw the Time Cube. Thank you.

Where can I play this game?

Man I had to reread that headline like five times. "How was the man, who was killed, rebuking anyone?"

Context here would help. MewTwo here was born after horrific genetic experimentation and the moment depicted was MewTwo learning that just because his "father" was an unconscionable monster doesn't mean that MewTwo is justified in waging war on all more privileged creatures. It isn't their fault he was made in a lab to subjugate the world, so it's not the circumstances of his birth that dictates that everyone else should pay.

10/10 name! Are you a Name Rater?

Love that the blood is represented.

Period poops finally getting their horrible, horrible time to shine.

I really wish this was labeled with a warning. Scared the hell out of me.

I'm a pokemon breeder. You never get to fight me because I'm always telling you whether there's an egg or not, but if you got to see my perfect IV, perfect EV, perfect nature team, every single one is shiny.

And a side effect of all that needless effort is that I'm frickin loaded.

My appearance is the Alolan girls' (braids, cowboy hat, overalls).

Need a better, less kinky name for me though.

The demon core doesn't really scare me because at least everyone there knew about the potential for harm.

I'm in awe of the pylons.

Your comment made me look it up and now I also what the fuck

I would watch this soap opera.

Be good to you, friend. Hope we cross paths elsewhere.

I know! How enlightened and humble that answer was!

From Wikipedia:

Frank Oz, who previously performed as Bert, stated Bert and Ernie were not gay, saying,

    
"They're not, of course, a gay couple. But why that question? Does it really matter? Why the need to define people as only gay? There's much more to a human being than just straightness or gayness."[17][18]


  

Sesame Street went on to clarify further, stating:

    
"No, Bert and Ernie aren't gay - they're 'best friends'".[19]


  

The Gaystar News reported that fans reacted negatively to this assertion. Frank Oz later tweeted in September 2018

    
A last thought: If Jim and I had created Bert and Ernie as gay characters they would be inauthentic, coming from two straight men. However, I have now learned that many view them as representative of a loving gay relationship. And that's pretty wonderful. Thanks for helping me understand.[20][21]


  

So, I would say they weren't intended that way from the start but only because the writers didn't think to do so. Frank Oz is a great reference for these things, and if he says "I love how you see them as representation" then that's good enough for me.