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21 | they/them | lesbian a place for fan art and other silly things, enjoy!

[ehohadele]

from that one behind the scene photo 💔💔❤️‍🩹

[flower-workss]

Legolas drawing from a while ago ❣️

[solcarow]

obligatory readings

[leafatlaw]

I love how fully I saw the tv glow leans into the more violent metaphors in transitioning. How you have to kill your past self, how you have to kill the kid you were. How you have to bury them and walk away with bloody hands. And that’s something trans media shys away from because, it isn’t palatable to the cis audience, you also have to appeal to. You have to make sympathize with you. It is difficult to sympathize with a murder.

But that’s why isttg excels in its horror genre. A place where queer people have always been and where blood and gore is commonplace. Where you can stand as bloody as you want and no one bats an eye.

Trans-ness isn’t always pretty or easy or comfortable. It rarely is in my experience. And to see a major movie show that, in all its uncomfortable gross glory is awe inspiring.

It’s never too late, grab a shovel.

[sanguinifex]

You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.

Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.

Kill the censor in your head.

[ashintheairlikesnow]

When we choose to avoid history because it's Problematic or Says Bad Things, we are choosing to divorce ourselves from understanding how we came from that time to this one, which makes it even more likely for the cycle to repeat, with no one but a few people with shelves of old books aware that it's happened before.

[inap-cho]

I saw the tv glow

[softest-butch]

[flower-workss]

What if I really was someone else… very far away on the other side of the television screen?

[babadork]

I Saw the TV Glow (2024)

[karmelarts]

so much of the horror genre is informed by the metaphor of queer/transness as monstrousness. especially emphasizing the amount of horror that depends on the audience's repulsion at seeing a human body changing into a new, other body. I Saw the TV Glow is about the horror of NOT transitioning. the horror of static. the horror of looking into yourself and being terrified of what you see. the horror of seeing who you are and choosing to do nothing about it. the horror of looking away. and by god is it terrifying.

[teejay-kaye]

I saw the TV glow and I don’t think I’ve ever had such a visceral movie experience. I want to choke on this move like Tara choked on the dirt. Take my egg tooth razor blade and split open this skin of mine. See the static beyond. Feel my heart beat, because it’s not too late, it’s not too late, it’s not too late.

[axiomvfequality]

what if i really was someone else?

[beidak-art]

it's always been inside you

[hauntingyourself]

Jonathan my good friend Jonathan Harker

[lizormianillustration]

whatever was left, that was ours for a while.

sunrise - louise glück

[pathologising]

ok well im going to build a good future for myself whether i like it or not

[ionomycin]

My favorite pieces this year