*thinks about how in the long run it was a song in Hamilton that allowed me to realise I’m trans* lol that’s pretty cringe
Okay but it needs context.
So in 2015, Hamilton came out. And at that point I was lying. A lot. To everyone I knew online. I was unaware I was trans, I thought I was a man, and due to irrelevant circumstances, I had been telling everyone I was a woman for years. Irony, right. Point is, I felt stuck. I felt like I couldn’t come clean without hurting the friendships I’d built up over the years. And it was hurting me, not being able to be more open towards people I considered my friends.
And then Hamilton released. And I was pretty into it, listened to the soundtrack more than a couple times. Some of those songs get stuck in your head. And one night, as I was laying in bed, stressing myself out over my predicament, the particular song I had stuck in my head was ‘Hurricane’. The specific lyrics that matter here are “I’ll write my way out. Overwhelm them with honesty.”
So I grabbed my laptop, wrote about 3 paragraphs, detailing everything I’d done wrong and lied about over the past years, and posted it. And yes, it was messy and painful, but I’d come clean. And in the years that followed, no longer pretending to be a woman allowed me to realize… I preferred being a woman. And I realized I was trans.
The irony here is of course that originally that song was about Hamilton trying to find a way out of getting blackmailed because of his affair because he’s a big thot. But yknow, shit happens.
Princess Peach was really just like “my castle is gonna be a weird museum with maybe some living quarters tucked away somewhere but mostly just magic portals to battlefields and slides” and everybody was like yeah you beautiful binch go ahead
There’s a whole fucking room in the castle that’s just a long corridor with a portrait of bowser at the end. There’s another specifically designed to be a trick of perspective so you run towards a portrait of a goomba that looks like it’s right in front of you but it’s actually far away and huge. There’s a room filled with paintings and then a mirror wall so you can like, see the paintings reflected, I guess?
Princess Peach just has a bizarre series of magical art installations and that’s her house
Like she LIVES there. That’s her HOUSE. She was like “hey toadsworth can we have a giant grandfather clock that if you jump at it it takes you to a magical world inside the clock but depending on what time you jump in the moving parts of the magic clock world will be faster or slower” and toadsworth was like “k lol” in her HOUSE
What I’m saying is Princess Peach is a fucking legend
Years ago, my husband sent an email to Nintendo asking them a bunch of questions about Mario 64; stuff like “How do Bobombs reproduce?” and “Who does the second baby penguin belong to?” and that. I bring it up because one of the fifty-odd questions asked was “Why is there no furniture in Princess Peach’s castle?”
Nintendo of Europe answered every question, so I can canonically tell you that Princess Peach is so rich that she owns two castles, one for furniture and one for all her artwork.
(In case you’re wondering, the answers to the other two are “Through a mixture of gunpowder and love” and “No one. It is its own penguin.”)
not 2 exaggerate but the good place’s thesis of “if the modern pressures of life were removed, we would inherently seek out opportunities to learn and become better and kinder people” is a more interesting and valuable thing to say about society than anything that’s ever been said about cell phones
