#elliot page

[steadynightruins]

[transramblings]

Actually I'm not done talking about Elliot Page. You know that tweet that's going around that goes like "I always thought he was a terrible actor and hoped he would get better after transitioning but he is still bad" and people are touting it like it's peak ally behavior and I really don't get how they can't see how it's blatently an excuse to shit on him but woke? He's not a bad actor. He's never been. Even if you thought so before, how would you judge the difference? He's been in two badly reviewed seasons of the umbrella academy and five minutes of the odyssey, because transitioning just so happens to be bad for your career? Moot point bc he is not and people are just foaming at the mouth to be cruel to him without being accused of transphobia and it's clear as day.

[sidgenochronicles]

incredible crossover

[this-is-trans-joy]

I think one of the main things I want people to take away from my Elliot Page post is that too many people online will see a character that haunts the narrative and thinks that makes them a well-rounded, complex character without thinking why the Dead Wife trope is specifically called that, why female characters usually take on that role, and why Elliot Page being given that role is not a sign of Nolan respecting his male identity more than his pre-transition identity. People on this website will decry misogyny without even noticing the misogyny right in front of them, because in their minds it doesn’t exist when it’s happening to a trans man. Nolan literally gave Elliot Page one of the most classically female roles in cinema history and everyone said “that’s fine” because the role happened to be a man. A young man more importantly, when Elliot Page is a grown ass 39 year old, but no one has ever treated him like an adult in his fucking life so I don’t see why that would change now.

[theunmarkedtombstone]

Scenes I Haven’t Stopped Thinking About Since I Watched Them [11/??]

JUNO (2007) dir. Jason Reitman

[melodiesandmicroscopes]

I’ll concede that the final season of Umbrella Academy wasn’t that good, but one of my favorite throwaway bits is that Viktor has been dumped by every girl in his town but clearly not because he’s trans, he’s just bad at dating

[invaderhogtwopointohno]

The Oddessy (2026) having its central theme being that the moment society allows justification of an immoral action that violets civic, moral and ethical law, even if it reaches the outcome needed to achieve a goal- there is no ability for that society to take back that justification- to its future detrament. The symbolism of the Trojan Horse also burning, indicated to Odysseus that while he won the battle, he sacrificed the rest of the world by making it okay to cross a line.

[magicaldogtoto]

People accusing Christopher Nolan of making The Odyssey “woke” for including an actor like Elliot Page is very telling to me, because at no point in the film is Page’s character stated to be trans in-universe. We see flashbacks of his character as a child and by all accounts, Sinon is meant to have been a cis boy in the narrative of the film.

Which makes it clear that detractors aren’t upset at the idea of Nolan including a trans character in the film—he didn’t—but that they’re upset at the idea of a trans person existing in real life.