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Canary in a coal mine. Canary in a coal mine. Canary in a-

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“Imagine having a child that refuses to hug you or even look you in the eyes”

Imagine being shamed, as a child, for not showing affection in a way that is unnatural or even painful for you. Imagine being forced, as a child, to show affection in a way that is unnatural or even painful for you. Imagine being told, as a child, that your ways of expressing affection weren’t good enough. Imagine being taught, as a child, to associate physical affection with pain and coercion.

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This is one of the many things I love about the Addams Family, and the main thing that resonates with so many people I think, including me.

Here we have Uncle Fester in season 2 talking about his (departed) brother Clump, that has never been mentioned before. And everybody is listening attentively and with great interest... Because they don't know the story and they probably didn't know about Clump either!

Not so many episodes ago, someone asked Uncle Fester what was his surname anyway... He confessed he didn't know. Uncle Fester doesn't know his surname!

This happens again and again! And not only with Fester. Everybody's placement on the family tree is dubious.

I realize this is made for comedic effect, but the implications are beautiful.

"But how can that possibly be?", you ask. "Hadn't it been established that Fester was Morticia's uncle?"

Well yes and no! You see, it changes from episode to episode.

Because it doesn't really matter!

The "Family" in "Addams Family" doesn't have the usual meaning. Family means "people we love and have history with". Hence the myriad of cousins and uncles of different races, nationalities or even species, all wildly different.

Blood relation is completely irrelevant in the Addams Family. The Addams Family is a found family, an assortment of weirdos drawn together by their shared interests, pathos and aesthetic sensibilities.

It is impossible to drawn an accurate Addams Family Tree. This is by design! It doesn't' matter! And it shouldn't matter!

The Addams family is, deliberately, and inversion of the nuclear family, an antithesis. It's horizontal, democratic, without hierarchies, it's open, it has no definite borders, the relations among members are fluid, and the glue that holds it all together is love not blood.

There are hybrids and monsters in the family, people from different races and sizes and colors - Morticia is coded Jewish, Gómez is canonically "Castillian" (read Spanish/Latino), Itt is Itt, etc, etc -It is all a huge metaphor! The Addams family is hybrid, international, interracial, immigrant, queer, weird and proud of it... in the US of the 1960's!

And it should be even more now!

This is why it is so shocking that there are no canonically queer characters in Wednesday (2022)! It makes no damn sense!

(Yes, I know, Eugene's moms -background characters irrelevant to the plot, an afterthought to fill a quota...)

It says a lot about how conservative/evangelical American TV has become over the last few years.

Netflix, you cowards!

Make the Addams Family queer and weird!

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Universal trans/enby experience of getting uncanny valley'd by your own reflection. Like. It's here. It should be me. It looks similar. Tere's something WRoNg.

#nonbinary #struggles #who is that person in the mirror #chill my dear reflection im getting the right hair back #hopefully you will stop looking wrong #on so many levels

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Meowlevolent Day 5: Sleeping

Cheating since I did this one on Sunday which worked out since I’m a bit too busy today to work on it lol.

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I’m proud to identify as morosexual. I’m attracted to dumbasses and dumbasses exclusively. A guy asked me what the Spanish word for tortilla was once and now I dream of kissing him under the moonlight

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The ladies ever, I have been binging this podcast and I am in love with these two so so much

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Beginning of a bad game ad I just saw

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Malevolent brain worm has infected me

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human john!!! wanted to try to draw him and got a little bit carried away I um... kinda like big scarred men with thick eyebrows yk

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I start all of them, listen to 4-5 eps (if they are not long), if I'm not terribly hooked - move on to return later. If I AM hooked... Well, I've listened to the entire MAG in less than a week and inhaled Malevolent in like 2 days.

It's like the books when I was a child/teen, find a series and read like 5 books in 4 days with barely any sleep and ignoring homework 🤭

me: has four unfinished podcasts i need to listen to

also me: what if i start listening to a new podcast!

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Someone seems to have actually caught feelings huh

#callowmoore

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Callowmoore friends, how ya doing?

#i'm feral #critical role #bells hells #fearne calloway #ashton greymoore #fearne x ashton #callowmoore

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this is definitely what the other bells helps saw!!: beautiful art by @seasalt_fam on twitter

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You’re just fucking great.

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Spoilers from Critical Role C3E50 I found out that Ashton x Fearne is called WildRock on tumblr?