pumbaa from the lion king has flatulence issues that are beyond his control and is socially isolated and rejected for it. this rejection drives him into the arms of a (male) meerkat. in this post i will discuss the themes of the lion king that represent pumbaa’s inherent queerness and his disability, how it interacts with the savanna, and how him and timon both queer norms and subvert them by making their own rules in their relationship and living outside of a society that rejects them. i will also discuss how pumbaa’s ailment is weaponized later on in the movie, when he defeats the hyenas with an aspect of his identity that had been used against him.
Concept: a bunch of high school Satanists get drunk in the local graveyard and try to conjure a demon, but they’re using one of those “reconstructionist” ritual books that gets its sources all mixed up, so they end up with a minor Mithraic fertility spirit that hasn’t spoken with humans in like 1700 years instead. By the terms of its binding it’s not allowed to leave until it’s ensured a successful harvest for its summoners, which is a problem, because none of these goobers have ever raised so much as a houseplant; if it wants to go home, it’s going to have to teach them how to garden – whether they want to learn or not!
“Five high school sophomores were arrested today on charges of operating an illegal pot growing business behind the Home Depot on I-95. The 200-foot-tall plants, which police could see from their station…”
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