u/Opposite-Trainer-639

Simple 2D drawings, thick lines. Birds are basically just a circle with a cone attached and stick legs. I remember this vividly from my childhood, but I've had no luck Google'ing it. There is a song playing in the background with nonsense words (ba-buh ba-dub buh-duh, stuff like that, I can't believe I'm typing this out - anyway) and the king (who isn't a bird i think) has to go around pulling levers to the drawbridge etc to prevent them. I'm fairly certain there were other similar videos like this on the channel with different plots, one I think was in some kind of factory. I watched these around late 00's 2010's. The silly music was a mainstay. Perhaps also the simply drawn birds. This is all I can recall about it, really.

i was talking to a coworker. i'm not out at work. i'm talking about how my brother and his partner recently had a child. she replies "oh, so you're an uncle now!" and it made me think about how exchanges like that are common, but also kinda weird.

like, there's no new information in her statement, we've known each other for 2 years. i've been male presenting all that time. the new information is "my brother is with child" but for some societal reason she needs to connect the dots of "oh, your brother is with child now - and you're a man - therefore you are a man with a brother with child!". like why do we do that unnecessary gendering constantly. i can think of many other similar contexts, often specific ones like this. she told me about her vacation, it's not like my only reply was "oh, so you are a woman who was on vacation" it just makes no sense to my autistic, dysphoria-addled brain. other times gendering seems more voluntary or omittable, but specific contexts like this it's like something that's like polite to do. dunno if i'm making sense