girl who is a boy who is a girl who is a boy

my name is Izzy (18) I write (sometimes), draw (a lot of the same guy!) and generally chill

[anywherewo1f]

gotta get the new one in here ehehe

old one here, for funsies

Commissions (open)

[cloudedcomet]

I think if you understand TADC as a deeply personal and direct story centering on transness, emotional/self repression, the inner complexity of cruel people, ego, control, self-destructive tendencies, second chances, and what it means to live a meaningful life, all filtered through the core vision of one person, you'll find a raw expression of all those things, an experience being shared. You'll find a story that is consistent in its theme, subject matter, and quality throughout. Not something impossibly esoteric or flawlessly sophisticated, but a story that puts every piece it needs to into place. A story that completes itself, that says what it needs to and leaves a mark after it does.

Conversely, if you understand TADC as a story to take every single aspect, moment, outcome, and detail totally literally rather than in tandem with the thematic signficance it communicates. Or were looking for a more lore-driven story. Or were hoping for a more rounded exploration of its world and characters, a hollistic dive into the premise it sets up rather than a story barreling towards a specific end goal/a very pointed thematic stance. You're gonna end up disappointed with what you got.

And this is not a moral judgement, I don't think any expectation is at all more correct than another. I actually think my last point is probably even the most fair stance to have. Especially if you don't engage with any secondary material and just look at the show itself, since it doesn't totally establish Jax as a core focus until later in its run. Some storylines do feel very sidelined.

But if you view the show for what it was meant to be rather than what it was expected to be, I personally think it was rather beautiful. Not perfect, not the pinnacle of cinema, but as a trans woman, it was meaningful to me, dearly so. I feel like the standards its being held to aren't totally reasonable. I think it's a story that deserved to be told as it is, I think it's human.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

major turn off in fiction is when the author invokes the horror of like, Christian conservatism and then, surprise! the real horror wasn’t christofascism, it was actually demons all along!

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

ooooh there’s a cult? really? and you’re borrowing your religious trauma from growing up culturally Christian in America? and the reason it’s scary is because there’s a literal actual supernatural demon? I could just smash my fingertips with a jewelry hammer for the next four hours actually

[sizzlingcandyj3llyf1sh]

“source?” the mold in my water bottle told me

[unabashedfandreamland]

@robert-smirke-official

[anonomouslyabanana]

yeah i'll be your dog but this is a professional relationship first and foremost. I mean we can have sex too but

[anywherewo1f]

Guys help im having delusions of grandeur HELPPP HELP MEEEE

[anywherewo1f]

This would be like s1 Jonathan, before the worms, ill do post worms later

[anywherewo1f]

More Johnny boy!

[anywherewo1f]

This would be like s1 Jonathan, before the worms, ill do post worms later

[anywherewo1f]

More Johnny boy!

[anywherewo1f]

This would be like s1 Jonathan, before the worms, ill do post worms later

[anywherewo1f]

If anyone would like to discuss.. there seemed to be a kind of theme of time being set up at the beginning of obsession?

Like, paraphrasing, I just saw it, but Ian saying like "you have nothing but time" then the focus on Bears cat clock a little later?

I dont feel like it carried through but I felt like there was something there?

That and I feel like they were always showing the time at night, with the bedside clock and the phone n stuff

[atyourperil]

is anyone here ready for fat transgender summer can we give it up for fat transgender summer

[pixeljade]

[anywherewo1f]

Commissions!!

Take a look at my menu why dontcha

Prices are in USD, paid via PayPal, venmo and Kofi, cant wait to hear from you!

[anywherewo1f]

Ive had a lot of big feelings lately and I wanna turn them into art i just have to wrangle them down first

[balaclava-trismegistus]

fun game to play with fashion. look at a celebrated outfit being worn by a conventionally attractive person. now ask yourself "what if it was on a fat guy?"

[balaclava-trismegistus]

congratulations. now you're thinking about a fat guy. [true ending]

[cabinette]

Archival assistants fighting the cold!

[anywherewo1f]

Jon being the one to go “maybe in another life, we could have done it all normally” and MARTIN being the one to tell him its unrealistic makes me so fucking insane.

because NO. Martin was the one in love with him all that time, he had the brunt of ALL of it, jon didnt respect him like he did the other two. Martin knew he didnt have a chance how things were.

then.. things changed, it was horrible but they changed, and suddenly he had a chance, suddenly it was jon chasing him, Jon being the one to ask him to gouge out their eyes and run away together.

Jon being kinda the more romantic of the two kills me, in a fucked up way tho, see above the gouging of eyes

Anyways I think if The Horrors weren't a thing they had to worry about, Martim would be endgame and sasha would have made a wonderful archivist

and yknow, it is actually so hard for me to visualize any version of jon and martin that get together without the fears. Like i genuinely believe it wouldn't have worked any other way

[anywherewo1f]

Im like a single ep away from finishing TMA

I started listening like. Yeah three years ago, and I had already known how it was going to end before I ever started (martin fanart heavily inspired my one oc)

Anyways after I finish up i think ill start from the beginning? I think itd be cool to rlly pinpoint my fave bits and pick out my top 5 or ten episodes

The only thing abt restarting is it takes so long for martin to show up :(