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SonicFox5000 Vs UK Parliament [PvP]
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SonicFox5000 Vs UK Parliament [PvP]

Read to the end for a cool TikTok video

Ryan Broderick
May 3, 2019

First, Some Drama

Twitter avatar for @SonicFox5000
FOX | SonicFox @SonicFox5000
LMAO UK parliament talked about my terf tweets today that were taken down earlier! @joannaccherry apparently thinks teleporting fullscreen from a sand trap and chopping Sonya or doing the fatality as intended in Mortal Kombat is hateful conduct to women lol
6:21 PM ∙ May 1, 2019
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If you haven’t been following the drama going on right now between SonicFox and UK parliament, here’s what you need to know:

  • Dominique “SonicFox” McLean is a self-described “black queer furry” E-sports player who, by all accounts, is one of the best Mortal Kombat players on Earth.

  • And, yes, he regularly plays in a blue fox fursuit.

  • He also hates TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists).

  • The UK is currently embroiled in another one of their huge blowups over trans rights. It is a big thing there.

  • This week a Scottish MP named Joanna Cherry started reading a bunch of SonicFox’s tweets in parliament.

  • Cherry thinks that Twitter should make “sex a protected class.” Part of that protection, apparently, means that people shouldn’t be allowed to tweet aggressively about TERFs.

  • During a Human Rights Committee, Cherry played a SonicFox video where his character delivers a fatality on a female Mortal Kombat character and captioned it “This is what I do to TERFs.”

  • Twitter appears to have taken down the video.

All of this, though, is just window dressing for…

Twitter avatar for @daisybanaisy
❀ Daisy @ Exams ❀ @daisybanaisy
Well, one good thing to come out of the whole @SonicFox5000 TERF situation is that a printed picture of Lily from Zombieland Saga holding a gun and saying "shut the fuck up TERF" was held up in UK parliament today I'm crying
Image
7:03 PM ∙ May 1, 2019
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To be clear, this is the meme being held up:

Twitter avatar for @daisybanaisy
❀ Daisy @ Exams ❀ @daisybanaisy
Here's the full image she was holding up lmao (Lily is one of the first canon trans characters in anime btw!!)
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7:05 PM ∙ May 1, 2019
5,815Likes1,182Retweets

2019 never stops 2019-ing.

Twitter avatar for @blipstress
professional now, not weird violet @blipstress
i think SonicFox might be the protagonist of the weird cyberpunk novel we are living in
7:01 PM ∙ May 1, 2019
29Likes10Retweets

Next, A Weird Thing

Here’s a WikiHow tutorial called “How to Clean Gunk from Your Cat's Eyes”. It’s pretty great. It suggests using tea bags.

Now, A Quick Language Lesson

An anonymous Tumblr user recently asked a Latin teacher for some advice.

“how exactly could one ask for feet pics in latin? i messaged the pope on twitter but he wont respond so im thinking that he might if i ask him again but in latin,” the anonymous user asked.

The Latin teacher, thoodleoo, appears to have not answered. Weird.

But don’t fret! Another user named cacilius-est-pater reblogged the post and stepped up and took a shot at translating:

“If you want to demand them: mitte mihi picturas pedum (‘send foot pics’), and if you want to be a little more polite about it because, you know, it’s the Pope, maybe something like mittas mihi picturas pedum, si placet (‘could you send foot pics if that’s alright?’)”

Glad that’s settled.

Finally, A Sonic Update

Twitter avatar for @TannerLPer
Tanner of the Brave Pose @TannerLPer
*sniff sniff sniff* Awww yeah I smell some gamer girl feet! *skitters towards your feet on all fours* M'lady please I've been so good
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3:03 PM ∙ Apr 30, 2019
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I can’t believe we have to put up with this shit until November. What’s worse is that even though Sonic director Jeff Fowler has pledged to changing the design of the character, we still have enough footage of this Sonic that the internet will be forever cursed by it. Sonic’s human teeth will out-live us all.

Twitter avatar for @Hello_Tailor
Gavia Baker-Whitelaw @Hello_Tailor
[Sonic the Hedgehog movie pitch meeting] Jim Carrey: [chanting] teeth, teeth - Director: teeth, TEETH Paramount execs [pounding the table]: TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!
Twitter avatar for @runwithskizzers
Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers
WHY ARE HIS TEETH SO HUMAN https://t.co/qanTExwjJI
1:30 PM ∙ Apr 30, 2019
42,188Likes9,989Retweets

Oh, Wait, A Last-Minute Addition

Shout out to @spamofthemic on Twitter. Who, 13 minutes before I was about to send this out today, sent me this absolutely incredible Reddit post from r/me_irl. I won’t spoil what it is, but the top comment on it right now is, “i never knew just how much i needed to see this piece of art untill i saw it. thank you.” Looks like it comes from this tweet. Enjoy.

P.S. here’s that really good TikTok video I promised you.


***All typos in this letter are on purpose actually***

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