shaking six year old me by the shoulders YOU WERE RIGHT. YOU WERE RIGHT ABOUT LOVE AND ABOUT FAIRNESS AND ABOUT SHARING IS CARING. YOU WERE RIGHT. THE ADULTS DON’T KNOW ANY MORE ABOUT TRUTH THAN YOU DO. KEEP BELIEVING IN THE FAIRIES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GARDEN. NOTHING IS “JUST THE WAY IT IS”. I AM SORRY THEY EVER CONVINCED YOU TO FEEL SHAME. YOU ARE REAL AND A PART OF THIS WORLD. YOU WERE RIGHT.
Honestly, there’s a line in Legend of Mana that was one of those formative lines that stayed with me throughout my life and all my subsequent ten playthroughs of that game, which is:
Children are always a little bit outside of the flow of history. They
always have ideas on how they can make up for the adults’ mistakes. Your
childhood memories will help you throughout your magic career.
Which I always interpreted as “hold on to the idea you have as a child that you can do everything better than the grown-ups can, because otherwise, nothing will ever get done better.”
Wow I can’t wait for Beyond the Spiderverse when Miles returns and introduces his parents to the crew.
“This is Gwen, my girlfriend, her boyfriend Hobie, who is also my boyfriend because monogamy is capitalist construct designed to enforce heteronormativity, and Pavitr, who’s sometimes also our boyfriend when he’s not with his girlfriend.
Not much we can do right now for college applicants of color, indebted graduates, or lgbt people facing discrimination from businesses, but we CAN donate to the Navajo water project https://www.navajowaterproject.org/
