Reblogs got disabled on this post screenshotted below because people were being shits. But it reminded me of something I've wanted to see for a while. If I could have free creative license and budgeting to produce an anime, or cartoon of some kind i'd really like to see sort of a trans coming of age story structured, kind of like how the anime High Score Girl is structured. What I think is really great about that show, is that it's a coming of age story that just so happens to also be a romance story. Rather than a romance story that just so happens to be also a coming age story, which is what we usually get in my experience. A
The relationships in it are a big part of the emotional core. But the show is about growing up more than anything. I mean the main love interest literally moves away for like a season or 2, I can't remember exactly hiw long. And when that happens we just linger on that time. We don't time skip to when they next meet. We watch the main character be ssd and lonely that his friend mkved away, deal with how that affects him, make new friends and .lve on, and love his life in spite of what he lost. Only then do they ultimately reconnecting with her like... years later?Several episodes, maybe even a full season or two, later.
And personally, I'd really like to see a show like that following a midle schoolish aged "boy" making friends and connections, losing those connections, seeing people enter and exit "his" life. And there would definitely be subtext and hints for keen eye viewers to pick up on that our mc might be a little different, but it wouldn't be until a season or a season and a half of storytelling had come and gone before the main character had any sort of realization that she was actually a girl. And from there, the show would continue to be about the things that it had been about, you know, growing up and early adolescent romance, gaining and losing people, suffering heartbreak and realizing that life does just go on. That we do eventually get over it, and we do eventually move past it. About how we change as time passes, and how our lives aren't entirely about romance or identity? They're also about our passions, the things we like, our special interests.
And while all that story unfolds, our main character is a trans girl, and she would be going through her transition, and facing the challenges that a girl goes through as she transitions and slowly grows into herself. And that would take place over the course of multiple seasons and in story years.
So much queer media is only about being queer and, of course, as OP pointed out, hatching or coming out as an end point, instead of what it really is: which is the beginning of a new chapter. And I'd really like to more stories treating it that way. Stories that's aren't about being queer until they are, because that's how life is when you're queer. Life isn't about being queer, until it is. And then it's especially about being queer for a little while. Then, it is still about being queer, but it's also about a ton of other things too.
I want more stories that are about people who juat so happen to be queer. Especially stories about girls who just so happen to be trans. Especially especially about girls who just so happen to be trans, and also just so happen to like other girls, maybe even other girls who just so happen to be trans.
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