wait. is there any canonical reason to believe that the person who dared Ben to eat an entire jar of olives was Bea? in OLIVES he implies it happened when he was 14, which is, if i recall correctly, the Year That Beadick Could Have Happened But Did Not. and, well. he’s essentially spent an entire vlog episode comparing her to olives so
i always interpreted the reference to being 14 as the explicit switch over moment to he’s actually talking about beatrice now (since it was indeed the year it could have happened but didn’t) rather than that’s when the olives dare happened. but there’s nothing to say it couldn’t be both, and no matter when it happened i LOVE the idea that bea dared him to eat the olives because thematically it’s so satisfying (and also could explain why he happened to think of that as the analogy)
“against my will i am sent to eat this entire jar of olives. oh and get myself a girlfriend”
For those who were wondering WHERE is this, it’s the “Quartier Gay” at Montréal (province of Québec, in Canada)
🤎❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
It’s a really cool city and I love living there ngl
I miss the gay balls… I walked under them to get my groceries for two years. I confessed to my first girlfriend while walking under them. They made me feel at home in the Village and proud to be queer.
This whole thing was installed in summer 2011. The first few years, they were all pink, but in 2017 they got updated to the rainbow version from the picture. The installation was supposed to be temporary, but everyone loved it so much that they kept putting it back every summer for nine years . In the end, Claude Cormier (the artist) asked to have it taken down so other artists could use the space.
They sold the rows of balls to the public in 2019, and my mom actually got me one! It’s one of my favorite things I own.
