#oh right bc of the lytic ask

[shiverandqueeef]

hey do you guys remember when green day released the explicitly anti-war anthem 'american idiot' back in 2004 as a direct response to all the post-9/11 jingoistic AMERICA HOORAH songs flooding the radio at the time and how it contained the lyrics:

Well, maybe I'm the faggot, America I'm not a part of a redneck agenda

and the point was to use a slur that got right to the core of the conservative propaganda that framed being anti-war as effeminate, weak, un-american? and to take that slur and be like fuck yeah i am and this faggot is going to stand up for what they believe in fuck you

and gay rights activists were mad about it? like how dare this straight man use a gay slur green day is homophobic actually and we should make that the dominant narrative in the discourse and never ever talk about the war stuff

and meanwhile all three members of green day weren't even straight? the lead singer was openly bisexual. billie joe armstrong is very much a faggot. fuck you.

[iiusia]

For the distracting ask game: 19, 22, 25, & 26: would you ever want to publish a poetry chapbook/manuscript/collection/etc?

19. Favorite candle?

unfortunately dont like candles bc i have a very sensitive nose </3 inherited from my dad. which is also why i cant do perfumes LOL

22. Something you want to see?

i want to go to a concert !! could be for an artist i like could be an orchestra IDC !!!! i just need 2 go somewhere and have the music surround me (domt know if this counts as See really but 2 me it does)

25. Talk about something you love?

oh I'm going to be such a nerd and talk about microbiology LOL anyways idk if uve heard but bacteria are developping more and more resistance to antibiotics and we are slowly but surely heading to an eventuality where the antibiotics we have right now will just Stop Working. which is bad thumbs down. BUT!! well theres a bunch of different ideas but my personal favourite is phage therapy. phage comes from the word bacteriophage which is a virus For bacteria. it injects its genome into the bacteria and forces it to multiply it. SO!! theoretically (not theoretically its been done). you could use them to kill bacteria (if its lytic)! and stop an infection! its sooo interesting to me forevrr and ever and ever i would LOVE to do my lab stage about this <- is physically restraining herself from giving too much detail

26.

i have. naur idea. i mean i have Thought about publishing but also not really... more of just wouldnt it be neat. and then not doing anything about it actually. i dont know if id WANT to?????? mostly because i wouldnt want to do it without telling my parents and i kinda dont want my parents to read my poetry LOL . so. idk. would be cool. maybe when im older.