Mar 28, 2022
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plural culture is being the only damn person in this godforsaken system who does pluralkit work
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hello givem e the serious thoughts about movies abt trans ppl and movies for transp pl
@multi-lefaiye asked: Hi hello I would be Interested in your thoughts on the trans characters vs trans movies post
@wherearetheplants asked: hihi second ask fo the day i wanna hear ur thoughts on that other post
i got all these asks literally in the span of 3 seconds skdhkjsdfhk. i am glad my thoughts are wanted here
so my Serious Thought is essentially that it's really, really bad that "media for trans people" and "media with trans people in them" does not have very much overlap, and really in general, "medias for queer people" and "media with queer people in them" does not have much overlap, at least in popular media.
The depiction of queer people in media, especially popular film, never actually seems to be for queer people. You know that comic where the butch lesbians go "why are there no people like us on TV?" in reference to a TV generic straight couple, then years later go "why are there no people like us on TV?" in reference to a TV generic lesbian couple? Yeah.
Queer people in so much media are... declawed, I guess. Playing into the respectability politics look of "we're just like you!". There is rarely any reference to queer history, queer culture, queer complexity. It's just two men who are married but functionally act like any straight couple, or a token lesbian, or a trans woman described with the whole "was a man now is a woman" thing.
Most of those characters are not queers. They're LGBT, don't get me wrong, and they are technically queer, but they're not queer queer. They don't have any interest in breaking down binaries, questioning society's laid-out rules, fucking up the system. They just want to be treated like cishets. Gay as in happy instead of queer as in fuck you.
Don't get me wrong; LGBT characters in TV are important. To reference that specific post that sparked this, trans people are portrayed in a way that explains us to cis people like said cis people are 3 years old, a very basic and easy to swallow depiction. LGBT+ people exist as any other people as an act of normalization and it helps queer people who didn't realize queer was an option. But... it's just? Not for the rest of us?
Because if you already know you're queer, you're not going to actually get much from being taught what bisexual means. It's nice to see, but it's not super... idk, easy to deeply connect to. And I genuinely think movies that don't have a single canon queer character but are about being labeled a freak and proud of it are more queer and more for queer people than ones that just show some middle class white gay couple with 2 kids and a dog.
That's where the "movies that aren't about trans people but definitely for trans people" part comes in, because they're the next best thing to movies that are about trans people and for trans people. If I can't have both (though we really need ones that are both), I'd rather have one that's at least for me, whether the creator meant it to be or not.
A movie about self-examination and changing yourself to be happier, even in the face of adversity? Queer film! It doesn't matter if the MC is cis or not. A show about discovering something about you that is deeply hated (like, say, being a magical being), and saying fuck you, that's who I am? Queer show! A book about finding friends who love you for all your eccentricities and all your parts that don't quite fit in? Queer book!
Because even if it is not specifically about being a lesbian, or bisexual, or trans, or asexual, or whatever, that media is queer. When you're queer, you spend a lot of time just being who you are in the face of a world that hates you. Media that shows similar journeys is always going to be deeply, deeply queer because of that.
hi i have synthesia so my brain assigns tastes + colours to people. you taste like peach juice spilled on hot tarmac in the afternoon in summer. i dont know why it's that specific. your colours are 9F22B5, E8C580 and 21D185
i checked out the colours and i think u nailed my fav ones omg !! i absolutely love the taste one too thats awesome as hell. thanks for this it rlly made my day
@4bsent-damascus replied to your post “please frank. just show me a hors”
what the legitimate fuck is this frank. "oh god you dont even know" is right what the fuck is that on 'tumblr 1'
It's tumblr's UI, which I think basically means that they're trying to make tumblr into something that can be understood by non-users, which is a noble goal. They don't need to worry about keeping old users, and the "old users" thing just seems like a kind of aesthetic that some people like, as I don't.
I don't really care about aesthetics, so it's just the tumblr stuff that bothers me. I think my "frank's tumblrinas are great" side is basically aesthetic-inclined, so if I'm the "real" tumblrinas are the ones I don't like because they're trying to make tumblr more aesthetically appealing to outsiders, maybe I'm not the real tumblrinas
That said I'm always happy to take the blame for aesthetics if people want to blame anything for Tumblr being like that
also helo do u think i should make a writing side blog to post abt my ocs
yes you should!!
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https://nicola-writes.tumblr.com/post/692851314547408896 2, 8, 10 and 11! (or just one if u want)
ty for the ask! i'll answer this forrrrrrrrr uh Angel. I haven't said much about them lately (<- is lying) (does not shut up about Angel)
2. What do strangers notice about them first?
How long it takes them to be noticed in the first place. Angel is incredibly good at being invisible until they'd rather not be, and a lot of people are surprised to put together that "hey, wait, I actually have seen you before, you just barely registered to me".
8. How much jewelry do they wear, and do they have a favorite or distinguishing piece?
she doesn't wear jewelry in the first book except when she has to go to fancy events, but after the first book she's constantly wearing glass shards as earrings. said glass shard earrings only don't cut her because they are extremely magic and will later be extremely plot relevant. to say the least
10. What is a weird quality that they have (ie their hands are always cold, they’re always hungry, they snort when they laugh, etc)?
they're never, ever warm. You could have like 4 blankets stacked on top of them and at the very least their fingers will still be cold. This is directly related to the fact that her most used forms of magic are death and shadows.
11. What color do they look strikingly good in?
green! fun fact Bea (love interest ish character) sees them in a green suit-dress-thing in book 1 and just about dies on the spot
"Jon lets out a long-suffering sigh, bordering on a groan. “I’m not looking forward to running under this weather.” At this, the wind howled, as if offended by Jon’s valid comment."
request from @4bsent-damascus, paragraph 30!! for a bit of context, theyre on a long car ride and theres a storm outside. not very safe to be driving when you cant see the road with all the rain yknow?
what do you think
about what, 4D?