#max-ernest

[iheartbagelz]

chose this song (sugar/tzu by black midi) because i think max-ernest would like it :-] he seems like a math rock guy

[jaydenartemis97]

😋

I figured since I made cass I might as well make Max-Ernest and Yo-Yoji... but urghhh I don't like how they turned out, especially Yo-yo he

[schrodingers-gender-bracket]

Who has more Schrodinger's Gender?

(aka who is simultaneously trans masc, trans fem, AND gender neutral)

Round 1

Max-Ernest (The Secret Series)

Maxwell Klinger (M*A*S*H)

Voting ended onAug 31, 2023

PROPAGANDA

Max-Ernest (The Secret Series)

prime representation of when you're 12 and something is Ambiguously Wrong. the books are about keeping secrets and figuring out how to live your life, and the author has said that the story is in part him processing being Gay in Middle School. Max-Ernest specifically is the one sitting to the side while the other two protagonists have their heterosexual tween romance arc. is he gay? is he hiding that he transitioned? is she hiding that she's a girl? is he just left out of Normal Tween Milestones? he got bounced around to a lot of Specialists (tm) when he was little: "some said he was artistic, some said he was autistic". by the time the books start he's Just Different and living with that. he has contentiously divorced parents and tends to accept his personal life without getting mad about it, and while trying not to have feelings about it at all. he's into stage magic and stand-up comedy. he cuts every hair on his head the same length because he doesn't want any of them to feel like they're being treated unequally. he's just like me for real

god i need to reread these books cuz I had so many trans egg feelings about max-ernest when I was a trans egg

Maxwell Klinger (M*A*S*H)

A character from mash who uses crossdressing as a ploy to get out of the army but then it gets a little genuine and a lot of the characters affirm him as both a man and a woman in a way that reinforces the show’s themes of rejecting gender norms and masculinity as a way of rejecting the american military system.

also, he was canonically offered the section 8 discharge he was going for. but it would have been recorded on his psychiatric/medical record that he was homosexual/transsexual. so instead of being pathologised he kept wearing the most beautiful dresses and being an incredible life saving surgeon.

like that plot is easily read as "i'm not gay!! don't discharge me for that!!" but then why would he have kept wearing dresses?

No, Klinger said "yeah i'm not going to be written down as insane for queer coding myself so i'll just keep doing it on the front lines of a goddamn war with my canonically bisexual friend Hawkeye while we save lives."

at one point as i recall later in the series (presumably after he was offered the section 8) he was gonna go back to wearing his uniform but found it uncomfortable#he is canonically more comfortable in feminine clothing like. take from that what you will

[thattripleabattery]

I love books that are written from the 2nd person where the author just pauses the story to trauma dump on the reader

[surrealisticcereal]

i just want to say this, i have a type of favorite characters. and it's gay losers.

[bring-me-back-to-discworld]

Cass and Max-Ernest will never stop making me feel inadeguate: when I was 13 I could barely tie my shoes and they fucking destroyed Scientology.

[al-val-meadow]

please I need the five other people who like the secret series and have read the bad series to help me

have we decided Anthony is good for our boy?? Have we decided if they lasted or not?? I’m late to this train have you guys made a decision. i like to think he and max ernest are as healthy as two (likely) traumatized boys can be but we know nothing about Anthony.

[toynbeetile]

hello tumblr secret series fandom

@2tercesgolb