“The higher you go, the further it is to fall. That’s life, right? So it’s very important to appreciate and enjoy what you have, and to share it with others. As you can see, I am surrounded by very good people, my friends and people they have brought into my life, so it’s very enriching and it continues to be good.”
Up until I was about 26 I was an absolute agent of chaos. I can typically manage to talk my way into and out of most things and absolutely ran with it. Some of the things I achieved include:
Stealing all the toilet paper in my high school as my own personal senior prank
Bluffing my way onto a US Army base
Having my own file with the US Army (from years before I bluffed onto post)
May or may not have defrauded the US Army
Riding most public transport for free
Having the absolute run of my high school because any time they pissed me off I told them my family had lawyers on retainer (and my school did a ton of shady shit, ie no heat during an entire Virginia winter on purpose)
Shop lifting a book on the history of fashion the size of a kindergartner
Adventures of the sexual kind that involved the base commander’s desk and an active Army shooting range
I feel like my largest accomplishment was getting an entire convention center to change their rule book, tho.
Summer of 2003, I went to Otakon for the 2nd year in a row. (I was heavy into anime in high school) It also fell on my 17th birthday (which is a different series of stories including being given free shit and being chased by a dude in a Noh Face costume) Back in the days of yore, “love bubbles” were a bfd in anime.
Also in 2003 a new type of bubble was marketed to kids called Catch-A-Bubble came out.
They were made with plastic and when they eventually deflated, they left a thin plastic residue. Can you see where this is going?
I had the bright idea of buying a shit ton of catch a bubble and passed them out to my friends. When ever we were bored or waiting between events, we’d stand on the 2nd floor of the con center blowing bubbles into the crowd while screaming “love bubbles! Love for all!” We did this for all 3 days, even during the otaku rave (I had hot pink sailor moon raver pants, they were amazing and I miss them). That plastic residue was everywhere, and since we blew them from above, that meant ontop of really tall things too.
When we went back the next year, we did it again, for about 20 min until security came, informed us bubbles were banned and confiscated all 30 of my bubble tubes.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
i remember those bubbles and this was absolutely the best possible use, thank you
Out of all the comics to address discrimination within the LGBT community, The Flintstones wasn’t what I expected. But here we are.
Issue #4.
Fred and Wilma are facing discrimination from the people of Bedrock for their monogamous lifestyle, which goes against the free-for-all fuckfest that is the norm in the prehistoric society. A clear metaphor for same-sex couples.
They go on a getaway trip with a bunch of other married couples. But on the trip, they discover the trip leader, despite preaching acceptance for married couples and being a trailblazer of social reform, has his own prejudices. Specifically against same-sex couples.
In the next two pages, Fred explains why they’re ought to care about more than just themselves when it comes to preaching tolerance and rights.
I love how the gay couple is named Adam and Steve.
Why the fuck does Fred Flinstone look like… *Gestures* that?! Listen, I have enough going on in my life I do not need to add “thirsting over god damn fucking Fred Flinstone” to that list.
wupacing 