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hihi i'm reggie (he/him) . 16 also . i'm an australian tumblr user & selfshipper . cheers .
he just monked them
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i hc a lot of characters as trans so pronouns may be confusing. especially hado mha. who i refer to solely as nagisa . or hado when i want to get across who he is but dont want to say his canon first name
This post is so funny literally proving OOP’s point. Most of “transfeminist” Tumblr can’t handle how queer people described themselves in the 90’s either. Ntm that at least 50% of these are clearly transfems describing themselves, which it’s pretty fucking transmisogynistic to police the language they’re using. The only possible issue is the use of the h-word if said person wasn’t intersex but it’s the 90’s. All these people sound cool as fuck and would probably call OP a cop
We have got to stop framing our oppression in ways that promote the idea that other people cannot relate to our struggles. Not only does it isolate comrades in the struggle, it actively diminishes recognition of other struggles--often including those even more horrific than what we are at risk of. And this happens especially between Gay and Black struggles.
"when have straight people ever had to check what states were safe for them?" Sundown towns are still a thing. Starlight tours. What states have abortion access? What states have open carry? What states have stand your ground? What states have 3-strike rules? Women, people of color, disabled people, immigrants, and more have had to be abundantly cautious where they travel to. Straight trans people have much more travel risk right now than gay cis people.
It's a new iteration of the same tired question: "imagine if straight people weren't allowed to marry" interracial marriage in the US is younger than my parents. We disgrace people of color by forgetting their history and contemporary struggles, and we abandon queer people of color, Black queer people, by segmenting their overlapping fights.
As lovelyshananigans says, "intersectionality, babes"
a series of really fortunate events. the baudelaire kids learn they have more parents actually, and they get to go live in a nice big library with all their friends and they're all fine and normal and nobody dies
I kinda feel bad for Count Olaf (within reason) as VFD is so deeply ingrained in his psyche that he signs the lists of chores with “an eye” (later established to be the letters VFD). He doesn’t sign his name. He signs VFD. That’s all his identity is. His father is dead because of VFD. He is the way he is because of VFD.
As a huge fan of the books I think part of why Netflix A Series of Unfortunate Events is so successful is that it does something that requires a VERY delicate balance & that’s getting Count Olaf right. Like this scene right here? This is Book!Olaf at his scariest.
The show leans heavily into the over the top comedy of Olaf & I think that makes perfect sense in a visual medium utilizing an actor like Neil Patrick Harris to show Olaf’s over the top theatre obsessed personality with musical performances & outlandish visuals like his crazy costumes.
But unlike the Jim Carey movie which relied SO heavily on Carey’s comedic & over the top style that it forgot the emotional heart of the story, the show never does that.
Even when Olaf is at his most ludicrous, he’s still terrifying. Even at his most idiotic he still has power over the much more intelligent Baudelaires. The show never loses sight of that from the very (bad) beginning & that’s a huge reason why it works.
Getting that balance of morbidly hilarious & absolutely terrifying (& even vaguely tragic but we’re not there yet we’ll talk about that if I get that far this rewatch) is SO so crucial to getting Olaf & thus the entire tone of the series right.
I really appreciate how, right off the bat, The Bad Beginning shows how genuinely evil Olaf is. It doesn’t build to him laying his hands on Klaus or trying to keep Violet as a child bride- it just happens. He’s not a villain ‘driven to extreme lengths’ in the Baudelarie’s story. he’s just evil and always has been to them.
Idk, I find it easy to get swept up in his theatrics and costumes in some of the middle seasons/books and it sort of softens his murder threats. They still feel real, the severity of them just gets lost. But for the first book, when it’s just him in his plain clothes, you are clearly shown how awful he is, so you can’t actually ever forgot what he would do to those kids.
I love how Larry-your-waiter seizes EVERY opportunity to mess with Olaf. Like in TWW when he hands Olaf a drink he didn’t ask for called “the fuzzy navel” and Olaf just looks at in disgust and goes “…What?” And then in TEE when Larry purposefully mispronounces “salmon” a bunch bc he knows it pisses Olaf off but he can’t say anything about it without breaking character.
something I respect about A Series of Unfortunate Events is that it both never talked down to children—either in terms of sugarcoating dark & tragic subject matter or avoiding long words & complex concepts (like, the first book revolves around a child marriage in which the villain forces his adopted daughter to marry him so he can steal her fortune, & relies on explaining multiple legal concepts in family & marriage law)—AND still found a way to mature with its readers, with each book building on the complexity & maturity of the previous one