The Air Just Fully Punched Out Of My Lungs. Do You Think Parrot Begged Wato For This... Do You Think

Can I feel…

magic?

this ask is mostly about twitter people, who might never see this, but i genuinely hope they do. this may help a few on tumblr to open their eyes as well, so i will send this message.

a lot of people are being extremely hateful to zam, consciously and unconsciously.

consciously is by assuming he's white, cis, straight, and all of those privileged labels apply to them. he's not white. and if you can read subtext, or look up some clips, you can assume he might not be straight, and maybe not even cis. has zam ever said to the camera "i am a cis straight man and wish to be represented as such"? no. please, stop assuming when you don't know someone.

when you read an anon here, what do you assume? who do you think *I* am? am i cis? trans? maybe i'm straight. maybe i'm pan. maybe i'm aro. maybe i'm a white woman living in the us suburbs, maybe i'm some poor college student living in malaysia. you do not know shit about anyone, and this includes streamers.

a lot of people, unknowingly, or i'd rather think they don't know it, are extremely transphobic about zam. not just in thinking he's cis (what if he's questioning? what if, hear me out, he's trans and doesn't want to come out? what if zam CANNOT come out?) but also by laughing about his attire.

zam, on the realm, wears a dress. zam says "i am the princess of yellow kingdom!". zam has long hair. zam, in presentation, is a woman- a princess. in stream, when asked for pronouns, zam said "any tbh, like i mostly use he/him but i dont really care" (paraphrased).

and people are confused- a man in a dress? everyone says he's foolish's son, and yet, zam proclaims proudly to be a princess. and for some reason, a lot of people's reactions are to ridicule him.

"Get a better wig" Owen wrote. Now, I don't think Owen understood what he wrote there. But this is transmisogyny. There is no debate about it. You tell someone you perceive to be a man in a dress to get a better wig, because this "disguise" just doesn't fit right. Imagine if Zam came out as a trans woman right now. How the fuck would you imagine she'd react? Imagine now that zam might be going through gender stuff. How do you imagine zam took this?

And people on twitter are the worst about it. Why the fuck do you need to wear a fucking suit to be "locked in on lore"? Why is a dress seen as silly and frivolous? Is it because anything "girly" is unserious? Are all women unserious? Or is it because Zam is perceived as a man, and therefore, a man in a dress isn't serious? Is it just misogyny or transmisogyny? Spoilers, it's both.

Zam constantly refers to herself on the realm (and beyond it) as a "single mother", the "princess of yellow", or had a title like Busy Woman (changed later to Busy Princezam - likely because her family knows her youtube account and would ask questions that she cannot answer safely).

I recommend to everyone to read this article, of a trans woman talking about her experience being a trans woman, growing up as such, and why she stays in the closet.

https://medium.com/@jencoates/i-am-a-transwoman-i-am-in-the-closet-i-am-not-coming-out-4c2dd1907e42

And if you can't read all that, here's to me, the most impactful lines of this article:

"What I look like is this: a boy. A boy who has inherited a little more body hair than he can fight back, even in the places where he’s allowed to. A boy many ciswomen look at and say “you look like you like Mac DeMarco, ha ha.” (I do.) “I bet you read Jonathan Franzen.” (I don’t.) “I bet you like Breaking Bad.” (It was pretty good.) “I bet you are a self-proclaimed male feminist ally but don’t read women authors.” (Fuck right the fuck off.)

These women have explained to me, with self-righteous anger, with smug superciliousness, what a transwoman is.

Part of me wants them to go through my books—wants them to see where the raised, blurred stipples are, which pages of which books are warped by tears going back over a decade.

Most of me wants them nowhere near my books or anything else of mine.

I am twenty-four years old and I don’t know what to do. Without reservation, I embrace the theory of intersectional feminism. I need it — we all do. But do I want to join social circles that won’t have me until I disclose my most private experiences? That will leave me on permanent probation or tell me to shut up until I lay bare every year of dissociation and dysmorphia and dysphoria?

Do I need to be inspected and dissected by the people who laughed at me in order to receive my credential?"

Think before you say shit. Also, to anyone feeling attacked: be better. If you have said transphobic things, if you have done these kinds of actions, you can change. You are not set in stone. You can learn from this. It sucks to think you did bad, but it doesn't make you a bad person.

What makes you a bad person is doubling down on harmful words and beliefs, upholding them to save whatever misplaced pride you hold, thinking admitting you were wrong is humiliating. It's not. Apologizing and trying to do better next time, opening your mind and heart to others and their struggles, listening and learning - this is important. Especially when you are young. Don't take the path of terfism, accept you were and did wrong, and try to not let it happen again.

We all slip in the mud sometimes. You just gotta get up and go wash yourself instead of wallowing in it.

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Parrotx2 fanart! I just recently started watching unstable universe and I watched his video on all of lifesteal smp and I really enjoy his stuff so :)

Gallery of hermits with weird setups. (As shortlisted by Mumbo)

my reblogs are so nice to me im gonna cry i love you guys :')

how is scar both the worst and best minecraft player of all time. he didn’t know mobs can climb up ladders and created a completely avoidable situation where he’s spawnkilled immediately but he also runs across the entire nether unharmed. no one does it like him

[Day 251]

From one of the streams before :D

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laurie please talk me us about pvpciv parrotx2 thats literally my wife my wife needs to be talked about more laurie please talk to me talk to me pleaseeeeee

inhales. exhales. you asked for it

OKAY YEAH LETS TALK ABOUT PARROT. Parrot's kinda been on my radar since he first appeared in PvPCiv but I lowkey didn't fully put together how completely insane his character actually is until around the time the Wemmbu traitor theory came out and I made my irl theory board (yes, I have string and a corkboard. Long story). I was working on Parrot's section and started thinking about him and then i was like oh. oh. so let's talk about him!!

MAJOR WARNING FOR PVPCIV SPOILERS BEYOND THIS SENTENCE.

so i think the first thing I properly realized was how completely martyr-coded Parrot is. At the point things are at he genuinely feels like he's a walking flag for the future dead and curse that stupid fucking bird for putting himself in these situations but AUGHH. staying on topic. The thing that gets me about Parrot as a character, is that if you think about it, Parrot is the survivor of not one, not two, but THREE genocides that we know of as of last episode. First one being whatever the sword civilization did in the past to everyone else (which, granted, Parrot may or may not have been alive for but certainly seems to have been raised in the aftermath with the weight of it), the second one being the ongoing slaughter of the current swords, and the third one being of his own culture/civilization. and if that!! wasn't enough!! well

On TOP of that inherently fucked up fact, Parrot's also in a position that pretty much guarantees he won't ever be fully accepted by either of the civilizations he has ties to. He's been cast out by the bows for defending the swords, but the swords are never going to fully accept him because he's not a natural born sword and therefore is perceived as part of the group that's currently canonically slaughtering their newborns for a longer life. What the fuck. And to put even more weight on that fact, as of the episode that dropped Sunday we know now that Parrot's defending of the swords wasn't just a morally righteous move on it's own: he's defending essentially the children of the civilization that committed a genocide against his people in the past. It's an infinitely complicated and heartbreaking situation that really makes me want to-- anwyays. anyways.

and it only gets worse from here!! Because hey, why don't we talk about the part where we now know Parrot and Seawatt know each other but it seems that Toph and Parrot don't know each other or at least don't seem to know who each other are. That scene is so infinitely fucked up: it's two bows, both of whom are at heart trying to be pacifists or search for another solution, but they're fighting each other because in the world they live in, they don't even realize they have a choice anymore. On top of that Toph not knowing Parrot confirms Toph to be a young bow (and an argument could be made that he's a foil to Evbo but that's a whole side of shit i should NOT be getting started on) and that also makes the whole. everything more upsetting.

you think i'm done? no. i still have more to say about fucking parrot. why don't we talk about the hostage situation with zam? at first, i thought that the other diamond swords didn't know that Parrot wasn't a sword when they chose to save Parrot and let Zam go free. But then, I remembered Parrot's video journal and realized that they've gotta know. Thing is, Evbo doesn't think they do -- and thinks at least Ferre would kill Parrot if he knew. that leads to a whole rabbit hole about the reasoning for keeping Parrot alive and letting Zam go free, most of which ties back into the Wemmbu Traitor Theory and the idea of analytical care that canon child Evbo isn't going to notice, but to stay on track I want to bring up the fact that in the most recent episode, we hit on something so deeply fucked up about Parrot's sense of worth and self.

we literally see parrot considering going down to the diamond level, because he thinks he's a liability. Parrot's considering sacrificing himself to the diamond swords because by staying up above, he's just a sitting duck to be used by someone with ill intent again. it's a deeply dark scene, with some lowkey suicidal implications and the concept that parrot doesn't think he's worth anything anymore if he can't protect the few remaining swords by staying on the iron level. and then toph shows up and we see that fight begin but STILL. and parrot also says "they might send me outside to be forced on-" forced on WHAT?? we don't know! which could dip into the ongoing question i have about what the hell is outside of PVPciv over those sandy hills but again i should not be set loose to rant about that. he drives me insane!! i feel insane!!!

so in conclusion parrot is a tragic tragic character that feels to me like he's in the perfect setup to die before the series ends (or toph. or both of them lowkey) and i'm completely, entirely casual about it

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unstableversary day 1: secret (ps: look at the red strings…🤫)