I have never known a world without SpongeBob, and I hope I never will. It’s the biggest honor imaginable to now be a part of that world and give kids the same spark and zest for life that these guys gave me—I would be a much different person without him. Happy 25th, boss!
To all the people who think aspec people aren't LGBTQIA+ because we aren't "discriminated against enough", here's a lovely list of reasons why you need to educate yourself:
- We suffer from dehumanisation, people actively devaluing or even erasing our humanity because of our identities (The voidpunk community is heavily supported by aspec people because of this)
- We suffer from self hatred due to feeling as if and being told we are broken, that no one can be happy unless they're in a romantic/sexual relationship, because of allonormativity and amatonormativity that actively damages our mental health
- Amatonormativity shapes laws that put us at an active disadvantage, such as giving married people financial and legal benefits
- Aspec people have been victims of conversion therapy, correctional rape, a lower quality of life, and other effects of being a marginalised and oppressed group
- We suffer from our identities being pathologised and deal with medical stigma because of this, causing many of us to feel unwelcome in and even avoid health care settings
- We suffer from our identities being erased, which can range from people completely denying our existence and people equating it to celibacy, to an almost complete absence of aspec representation in the media (It's been getting better lately, especially for alloaces and aroaces, but I have yet to ever see a canon aroallo character, and representation for those on the spectrum rather than in the extremes is often ignored)
- YOU are creating a hateful, exclusionary space in a community meant to be about inclusion. The same thing that happens to us happens to bisexual people, to polyamorous people, and other identities that are "disputed." In a community meant to be about rejecting the norm, YOU are shoving us out because we don't fit the norm of being LGBTQIA+. Because we're not enough like you.
These are only a few examples of aphobia that people like me deal with. Discrimination and oppression against aspec people stretches far beyond this.
But even if it didn't, it is disrespectful and harmful to everyone involved to gatekeep membership in the community based on oppression and discrimination.
We aren't LGBTQIA+ because we experience oppression. We are LGBTQIA+ because our existence alone goes against heteronormativity and other societal norms forced upon us.
Scanned a very rare Rayman 3 magazine called The Rayman Zone, and I screenshot some very interesting snippets! Couldn’t get all of them, sadly, due to some pages being too cropped to read.
Ain’t that the truth. 😆
Now, I have NEVER seen this image before! Likely around the release of his first game.
Ever heard of Quake Arena 3? Well, neither have I, but it apparently has a Rayman skin.
André’s name was originally gonna be Wallace.
Page is cropped and I can’t read a damn thing. I think it suggests that the fans, back then, thought Rayman had brown eyes, when they’re really supposed to be dark blue. With his recent SOH design, this fact sure aged like milk.
Oh, I can agree. 😏💕
Word search! Knock yourself out! And I love how the bottom words are completely random and have nothing to do with Rayman. lol
Have another game! But if you can’t connect to 5, that’s on you.