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(long overdue for this request I got almost 2 months ago oops, but!! this felt like a good way to break back into doing MCD things hehe) hope you like it :] im gonna be doing more MCD angst oooooOoo get hype
So my family has a Gay Pirate Plate.
Stay with me.
We do not know how the hell the Gay Pirate Plate was first acquired. This being a point of contention is actually pretty plot-relevant; the saga of the Gay Pirate Plate began with my grandmother and her sister, who, for some ungodly reason, both BADLY wanted the Gay Pirate Plate and believed it to be rightfully theirs.
I should back up, firstly, to establish: The Gay Pirate Plate is the cheapest, tackiest, ugliest plate in existence.
It is in no way a collectorโs item. It is physically impossible for it to complement anyoneโs decor, because the colors in it are garish. Itโs just a ceramic plate with a gay pirate painted on it, and the painting is, this cannot be emphasized enough, extremely bad.
(How do we know the pirate is gay if heโs just posing on a plate? Listen. Fully 100% to stereotype, but he is. He is gay. Thereโs an energy. That pirate is a flaming homosexual. That pirate has sex with men and does it frequently. That pirate is fucking gay, all right, he just is.)
Anyway. The point is that this is an extremely cheap and ugly plate with a poorly-executed painting of pirate on it who is like a nine on the Kinsey scale.
My grandmother and her sister fought a blood feud over this plate for their entire lives. It would be on the wall in my grandmaโs house, and then her sister would visit, and then it would be gone. Sheโd visit her sister and the plate would be on the wall and her sister would pretend it had always been there. She would steal it back, hang it up, and, when her sister visited, pretend it had always been there. This continued for DECADES.
When the sister died, the Gay Pirate Plate lived triumphantly in my grandmotherโs house. And then my grandmother died. And my aunt, who had lived with her and been her carer throughout her life, rightfully inherited their house.
We visit my aunt after the funeral and stay with her for a week or two.
Me, my sister, and our dad. Her brother.
The three of us look at each other. We donโt say anything. We studiously avoid making eye contact with the Gay Pirate Plate mounted proud and ugly on the wall. We notice one another studiously avoiding looking at it. We notice one another noticing. We say nothing. We come to a silent consensus. We pack up to leave. We get in the van. Our aunt comes out to say goodbye. I loudly announce I need to use the restroom before we leave. She obviously stays outside to continue talking to my dad.
I take down the Gay Pirate Plate, stuff it under my oversized sweatshirt, go outside, and get in the van. She happily waves goodbye as we drive off.
Two days later my dad gets a phone call that opens with hysterical laughter and โYou FUCKING ASSHOLE did you seriously STEAL THE PLATEโโ
Anyway. The gay pirate plate lives in my dadโs house currently.
But heโs trying to get me and my sister out to visit him. And plate mounts are cheap.
Unmute !
What is it about water that just makes drinks taste like the flavor is a small light in the distance that's getting further away the more water you add
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to those who want to help transgender people in Russia, please consider donating to centre-t; a bill has recently been passed that forbids medical transition and will have extreme consequences on quality of life that is already steadily declining
Gotham City was real but Batman was still fictional, and Gotham got all its revenue from Batman-related tourism. The constant Batman gift shops were fun at first but soon became grating.
THE KING IS HOME!!!! FINALLY.
and so so traumatized