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Just setting up my profile. Big fan of Alt Culture, Transfem and I want to try out other forms of social media that wont be "an aggravation news feed" or some form of competitive streak. I have other Social Media accounts on Dreamwidth, SpaceHey, Instagram, LiveJournal, Newgrounds and Neocities. If you're interested, I will share my profiles with you
oh dang the most important review of all just came in
Shoutout to everyone in Star Trek fandom who gives the alien species more interesting and diverse anatomy differences than simply 'they have funky ears' or 'they have cool spots', especially sexual and reproductive anatomy that realistically could/would never be discussed in the shows. Shoutout to everyone who headcanons Bajorans with animal ears and tails, Cardassians with lizard tails and anatomy, Klingons with two dicks to match their other redundant organs, Trills with sex tentacles, Borg drones with cybernetic pussy. I love all of you and your creativity.
I got the wonderful opportunity to see Labyrinth on the big screen last week (thank you Fathom Events) and I think this time around really helped me nail down one of the things that makes this movie so special to me: the ending message.
A story with a somewhat childish sixteen-year-old girl who immerses herself in magic and fantasy worlds who goes through a journey and a transformation and comes out the other side more mature could very easily have ended with the message of "Now that the adventure in the fantasy world is over, our heroine has grown and matured enough to leave magic and fantasy behind and become an Adult."
But Labyrinth doesn't do that.
Labyrinth says: "You might grow up a little. You might put away your costumes and your music box and your crown. You might give your teddy bear to your little brother. But that doesn't mean you have to leave it all behind. Every so often in your life, for no reason at all, you might need a little magic back in your life. And your friends in the fantasy world will always be there for you."
"Should you need them."
if you are fat and hairy i have great news for you. you are smoking hot sexy. your natural allure is off the damn charts. carry on.
the grocery store should be open 24/7 but they should let the employees go home and just trust us
like idk there's just something crazy about waking up every day and deciding to spend your time debating the merits of other kinds of fiction and calling the people who like that fiction illiterate, when you yourself can't recognize loaded language, speak in nonstop logical fallacies, can't read statistics, and resort to ad hominem attacks. who, exactly, is the literate one here?
I have a headcanon that the creature is transfeminineā¦ thereās an allegory there for me that I connect with a lot. Being created as and expected to be one thing, and justā¦ not being that at all. Maybe I just watched the movie with a transgender eye but it just feels so fitting to me.
YOU'RE NOT ALONE ANON PUT HER THERE š¤š¤š¤ i've been on the nonbinary creature train since i first read the book about a decade ago but it took the 2025 film for me to really see the transfeminine possibilities. there's this bts photo (hi robert englund!!) of the fake bodies they used for victor's construction of the creature and some of them are women plus there's this quote from the artbook where oscar isaac says: "This is at the core of the film and of course the book: the feminine energy swirling within all of it. There was something beautiful and feminine about the way Jacob moved, the way he operated.ā
then of course there's the white streak in his hair which to be fair is supposed to show that the creature is literally made from different people but also i don't think it's that much of a stretch to suggest that it's also meant to evoke elsa lanchester as the bride.
frankenstein in all its media iterationsāwhether intentional or notāhas always carried some sort of transgender allegory or metaphor or not even subtext but actual text. for me what makes gdt creature so beautiful is that i've seen people apply literally everything to him whether it's a nonbinary, intersex, trans, or genderqueer reading. because while he is continually searching for his own identity despite being "the other" (a concept which a lot of queer people have and still relate to) he's also meant to reflect us the audience. which is why the final shot of the film is mirrored; the creature saw himself in the people he interacted with, meanwhile the audience sees themselves in him.
adding onto this point in terms of the film, i saw someone suggest that he gravitates more to mimicking women like elizabeth, the medusa head in the tower, the little girl in the cottage, even the old man can be seen as tiresias the blind prophet of apollo who is depicted as both a man and a woman. i LOVE this analysis and agree with it to a point since the creature is also able to mimic the men in his life like victor who is manic and aggressive and short-tempered. of course this ties into the main theme of the film which is how we end up taking after our parental figures (everything good and bad and it's up to us whether we want to continue the familial cycle or break it) however i think you can also make the argument that the creature struggles with his inherited toxic masculine traits along with him being more open to healthy femininity.
(i don't have the book on hand with me at the moment but i'm pretty sure there's a page where the creature tells victor that he essentially reflects and gives back what humanity shows him. if he's treated with love and kindness, then he's loving and kind in turn. if he's treated with nothing but violence and loathing, then he gives that violence and hatred back in spades)
NOW obviously the film is not trying to say "men bad, women good". it's tempting to jump to that conclusion but it also suggests a weird gender essentialism and doesn't really engage with the film below a surface level reading. yes victor's mother was loving and gentle but she's also the sole proprietress of the frankenstein name which had financial stakes in slave plantations presumably in haiti.
william takes part and thrives in a system that is held up by imperialism, industrialization, and warmongering without ever questioning it but he's also literal sunshine in a human body who loves his brother and treats elizabeth as an equal (and is a bit of a pushover understandably so).
elizabeth is the first to empathize and understand the creature but she also comes from a place of privilege (despite acknowledging the wrongdoings of her family) and doesn't see anything disturbing with victor's experiments at first until she realizes that one is being mistreated and abused by him. she also treats smaller undesirable and misunderstood creatures like insects with care but is gleeful when she suggests to victor that they trap a butterfly.
then there's the old blind man who should be the patriarchal figure of his family but we see him as more of a gentle and patient caretaker to his granddaughter than her own parents.
keep in mind that all of these characters are shown from the perspective of victor and the creatureāwho both have their own biases, misconstrues, and lapses in memoryābut it shows that human beings have complicated, multifaceted, and contradictory personalities regardless of biological gender. a man can embrace his child, tend to his wounds, calm him down, and educate him but he can also physically beat him when he doesn't behave the way he wants him to (something that unfortunately A LOT of queer, trans, disabled, and neurodivergent people can relate to...) or a woman can be nurturing but also benefit from privilege built off the backs of human exploitation.
that was a bit of a tangent lmao BUT the creature can absolutely be viewed as transfeminine. you can also apply a transgender reading to the rest of the frankenstein trio!! victor constantly wearing his mother's gloves and her colour after her death, elizabeth feeling trapped and lacking personal choice ("the one gift god granted unto us") then only managing to find that connection through mutual scientific interests with another man then followed by someone who could be a man but appears odd and disquieting like herself. i've also always seen elements of mary shelley in all three, especially victor and the creature.
this is my extremely long winded way of me saying that i agree with you anon!! and i love that by the end of the film, 2025 creature is able to embody healthy masculine and feminine traits based off the people he had in his life. hopefully in his immortal life he can finally transition š
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The rise of androgyny and unisex fashion in the 1970s was apparently responsible for the introduction of a sex marker in passports.
Oh wow so me saying "no government documentation should ever include a gender marker for any reason" has been right all along. For exactly the reason I stated when people were giving me shit for not supporting x markers on documents.
The most terrifying part of having memory issues is when you can feel something from 5 seconds ago be thrown out the window and there's an empty hole where it once was. You remember that you forgot something.
help a queer artist stay housed over the summer!!
hey y'all my job put me down to 5 hours a week & i just had my wallet stolen.
as i struggle to get all my documents replaced I could really use the help with rent ($800) & bills ($400)
anything and everything helps!
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only have a couple of weeks for my goal! anything is appreciated!!
people's inability to just look shit up is so baffling. I see a post about a wrongful conviction that happened in Florida, the man was freed but then the appellate court overturned the decision so he went back to jail. Horrendous.
One of the comments says, "the appellate Court? sounds like the wizard of oz if there's no name. who?" (literal copy+paste) so I respond that it was the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, since I know that's the Court of Appeals presiding over Florida.
they reply, "so annonymous like the wizard of oz"
??? bitch, no. I literally just handed you the information to Google, how are you this incapable??
I'm ngl I do think it's kind of funny how every time mcr goes back on tour a bunch of teenagers decide they want to cancel gerard way. I just want to know what they think they'll accomplish? they can't deplatform him, he doesn't use social media. they're never gonna successfully get people to stop buying mcr tickets. what's the goal. what's the purpose of cancelling the hermit who goes outside twice a year
time to work on my comic. I wanna get a few pages done! so far I have four pages completed already so I wanna get more work done!thank you everyone for loving Hitch and Hitomi!
it's actually fun working on a comic because the end result can be rewarding plus my art style gets more coherent as it goes on (I HOPE) I'm just so excited especially if I make it print!!!I wanna make comics and zines
Edvard Munch, Moon lys (Moonlight) Europe; Norwegian c. 1893 Oil on canvas; dimensions: 140.5 x 135 cm
Got thrown out of the tarot reading for counting cards. fuck this place
