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favcharacterpoll · 7 months

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ROUND 6 MATCH 3: CECIL VS. C!WILBUR

Cecil Palmer from Welcome to Night Vale faces c!Wilbur from the dsmp. @10piecechickenmcnugget get over here sage

Cecil Propaganda:

"Cecil is not only the Tumblr sexyman, he is the first gay protagonist of a podcast that most of us have ever heard. From the very first episode he was unashamedly queer and no one has ever called him out or given him shit for being gay. He is a gay Jewish fashion disaster who is the mouthpiece for an incredibly bizarre town and plays the whole “this horrifying thing is completely normal”thing so well. If Cecil wasn’t there, I think a lot of people wouldn’t have felt so accepted for just being who they were. Cecil is an inspiration and the queer podcast rep we all deserved as we were growing."

"he’s gay. he’s a dilf. he’s ageless. he has been since there’s was nothing and he’s still here after the world ended. he can summon music. his mother is a oracle his father is a tree. his cat is a man who got cursed and also has wings a stinger and poison??? he thinks a tutu and crocs is formal wear and has talked to god and she said ‘I love you. I’m sorry’. he’s definitely guilty of manslaughter from negligence"

"this is the website Night Vale built!"

c!Wilbur Propaganda:

"Accurate depiction of mental health and spiral, handled delicately and deliberately, every piece of his story was thought and planned and in the end he went home to Utah. Thank you lord."

"Please don’t let the name dream smp effect how you feel about this submission, this character is completely unrelated to dream and I’m pretty sure the person who played him has nothing to do with dream anymore. This man single handedly got me through a horrible patch filled with extreme paranoia by also being extremely paranoid. Genuinely really helped me feel seen and I coped a lot by getting invested in this character. I almost cried when he died :("

"He’s so fucking stupid. I could infodump for hours this man transed my gender. Everything has gone wrong in his life. He’s the definition of a bisexual disaster."

"I didn’t fail 10th grade math bc I was thinking about c!wilbur for him to lose round one"

"I mean look at him!! his Minecraft skin is adorable!!!"

"if you people vote for cwilbur i'll draw him in a bikini."

"A VOTE FOR C!WILBUR IS A VOTE FOR GIRLBOYS EVERYWHERE"

"i should not have underestimated minecraft fans they came together"

"Season 1 changed me. I didn’t know minecraft videos could have good acting, dramatic plots, etc. Wilbur was one of the best there. His plot was so interesting with the L’Manburg and the unfinished symphony arcs. He was funny, dramatic, sad… I fondly remember my dsmp days (though I only saw up to like part of Tommy’s exile)"

#polls #wtnv cecil #cecil gershwin palmer #cecil palmer #wtnv #welcome to night vale #c!wilbur #c wilbur #cwilbur #dsmp wilbur #wilbur soot #dsmp #wilbur dsmp

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gabessquishytum · 9 months

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I know literally nobody will relate because I've never met anyone who did but... (Trans) Hob who hates receiving oral sex. He just hates it. It's awkward, somehow doesn't feel good no matter how skilled his partner is, the only saving grace is when the person finally adds fingers to the mix. He loves giving oral, so it's not about "I don't want you to do this to me so I don't have to do it to you". He just doesn't want any tongue down there.

When he and Dream finally start sleeping together, he becomes the master of distraction. If it's looking like Dream might go down on him, he quickly finds a way to distract him away from that. But one day, Dream plans to only eat Hob out until he cums multiple times. You know, since Hob had blown him amazingly so many times and he has yet to repay the favour and show off his mind-blowing skills.

Hob has two options. Either he fakes it, or they talk like two adults and he says that he doesn't like it. But these two, talking? Yeah, right. Because Dream obviously must really want this and he'd be disappointed if Hob said no, so Hob will simply grit his teeth and try to enjoy it. Meanwhile, Dream absolutely notices how nervous Hob is. He assumes Hob is self-conscious about something small like his natural scent or how wet he gets. But when Dream finally gets his mouth down there, Hob makes the fakest porn moan and Dream is like o.O da fuq?

Now, we can add even more stupid into the mix and Dream thinks Hob is faking because he doesn't believe that Dream knows how to make him feel good. But I think there has been enough stupid and the two should just talk, and Hob finally tells Dream that he doesn't enjoy this particular activity and maybe Dream could suck his tits and finger him instead?

Anon, thank you so much for sharing this!! I'm quite sure that you're not the only one who experiences this. Preferences during sex are a deeply personal thing and you should never feel weird about what you like or don't like.

Hob really really likes giving oral sex, whatever the gender of his partner. Its something he's good at, that gives him pleasure, and it's something that he's been able to rely on when he's needed to disguise his transness. No need to get undressed if he's going down on someone!

So he feels guilty! Because what if Dream really enjoys giving oral? What if Hob is holding him back from taking his pleasure? He couldn't bear to do that, surely it would be better to... suffer through it, or whatever? To make Dream happy?

These kind of fucked up thoughts obviously show on his face and Dream knows that something is up. He can see Hob overthinking and spiralling. He at least has enough maturity to call time out on the sex - he would rather die than do something to Hob while he's obviously not enjoying himself, Dream is nothing if not a respectful partner. He just wishes that Hob would communicate with him (yes, he's aware of the irony) instead of saying "I'm fine!" And suggesting that they continue.

Dream really has to dig deep, to get the truth out of his lover. Hob doesn't want to admit this weakness, this boundary. He doesn't want to have boundaries with Dream! He wants to give every part of himself...... (when he's says this, Dream points out that Hob isn't being very giving now, is he? Checkmate).

Once he has the truth, Dream is somewhat relieved but mostly he just wants to convey that he doesn't want to do things that Hob won't like! That's literally a turn off for him! He will keep saying it until Hob understands!!!

And then they cuddle a lot and have tea and Hob’s battered, people-pleasing heart gets a little bit healed.

#the sandman #dreamling #nsft

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hamarhemmo · 2 years

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Hello, I'd like to share some LGBTQ+ JoJo headcanons again.

This time the JoBros:

Robert Speedwagon: He is gay and this is a fact. He got kicked in the face and immediately fell in love. He literally devoted his whole life to Jonathan. I love him. Also I think in some translation/version Joseph comments something about his and Jonathan's suspicious relationship but I might just be imagining that.

Caesar Zeppeli: Just like Joseph, he is incredibly bisexual. Obviously likes women or at least enjoys flirting with them, but he very obviously has a crush on Joseph. This isn't even my Caejose propaganda, this is a fact. Also this is a stretch but Lisa Lisa said that he has commited "every crime short of murder". Do you know what was illegal in 1930s Italy? That's right: being queer. Case closed.

Noriaki Kakyoin: Not gonna lie dude, he got so little screentime that I actually have no idea. Like I don't know how you guys can make anything of his sexuality, he said almost nothing and interacted with almost no one.

Jean Pierre Polnareff: You know the phrase "He's bi but no one wants him"? That's Polnareff.

Okuyasu Nijimura: I feel like he's bi. Though that might just be Josuyasu brain speaking. Like he's a bit too close to Josuke for that to be entirely straight, but also if he is straight, I respect him for being so close with his friends.

Koichi Hirose: I think he's straight and trans (FtM). Like if he was attracted to men, there's no way that his relationship with Josuke and Okuyasu wouldn't be fruitier. He's the token straight friend. Also I'm definitely not projecting my transness into every short guy I see.

Guido Mista: He's definitely bisexual or pansexual. I actually have seriously no explanation, I can just tell from looking at him. I actually kind of feel like he wouldn't care about gender at all but he has way too strong bisexual vibes for me to call him anything else.

Bruno Bucciarati and Leone Abbacchio: I'm putting them together because they're a set in my mind. Like I just can't seperate them. Anyways they're both gay and that's a fact. I can't possibly imagine them dating anyone but each other.

Narancia Ghirga: He feels like a he/they to me. Maybe a cis dude who just uses those pronouns. I'm pretty sure he likes girls so maybe he's straight?

Ermes Costello: A lesbian. Or like lesbian who also like female aligned enbies, I don't know if there's a specific wird for that. I can totally see her dating Jolyne and F.F. so probably polyamorous too.

Foo Fighters: I feel like they're agender but also don't really care what people call them. They'd probably be fine with any pronouns. Also I feel like they're pan, like they're literally just some plankton in a human form, they probably don't even know what gender means. Probably also polyamorous for reasons mentioned previously.

Gyro Zeppeli: Continuing the Zeppeli tradition of being bisexual. I surprisingly don't have much to say about him despite him being like my favourite SBR character.

Yasuho Hirose: Again, I haven't read part 8 yet, but her outfit is in trans colours so you know what that means! She's trans and I don't take criticism.

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yeehanfrf · 11 months

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Week 15 Recs: Loud & Proud

For Week 15, we celebrated the start of Pride Month with the theme "Loud and Proud," for fics about queerness, transness, and Pride events!

Behind the cut, you'll find the fics gathered from the Yeehan community, organized by rating and then alphabetically by title.

General Audiences

Embrace Your Colors by elisabomb (kurama3173) [2,459 words] Reccer comment: "Cole 'bi panic' Cassidy and ow at pride parade. Very warm fic that never fails to make me happy"

Jesse McCree did not have a crush on Hanzo Shimada, because Jesse McCree did not like men. Jesse repeated the thought like a mantra as he smoked his third cigar of the day. He was nearly forty. He knew his preferences. Some people liked the same gender, and he loved a lot of those people, but he just wasn’t one of them. So why, all of a sudden, was his brain stuck on the image of his teammate, fresh out of the shower and in nothing but a small white towel slung around his hips?

Enough by b_ofdale (beesinspades) [1,242 words]

A quiet evening at Gibraltar and a bet sprout an old memory.

Weekend Getaway by Mish_chan [1,495 words]

Cole and Hanzo stop at a bed and breakfast for a weekend of relaxation and Pride. Much Fluff.

Teen and Up

A Distant Promise by SadakoTetsuwan [1,374 words]

The strangest thoughts drift through Jesse McCree's head when he's lying in bed with his greatest love and greatest rival--a distant memory of a promise which is finally coming due.

Shimada Dreams of Sushi by delicaterosebud [24,344 words]

As the owner of a mediocre taco shack with tanking reviews and multiple health violations, the last thing that Jesse McCree needs is competition - competition, specifically, from a sushi bar so popular that it drove every other restaurant in the neighborhood out of business. From the very day that Shimada sushi opened its doors, Jesse had hated that restaurant with a burning passion. ...So how does he end up working for the man who runs it?

Mature

Arrival by midgetnazgul [6,757 words] Reccer comment: "'Arrival' by midgetnazgul (rated Mature) is a WIP, but I love what's there"

Jesse has had a tough life and a long road to really growing up, even into his thirties. Today marks the most profound step he's ever taken, and the hardest: attending Tucson's Pride Festival and being out as completely as he ever has been. His time has come to truly arrive, and he's...not ready, but the closest he'll ever be with Hanzo by his side. And Hanzo could stand to do a bit of growing of his own.

Explicit

Hanzo, Denial is Not a River in Egypt by Eunicorne [2,375 words]

Jesse likes Hanzo. He's glad that Hanzo likes him back. There's only one problem. Hanzo doesn't think he's gay.

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That's it for Week 15! Thank you so much to everyone who submitted a recommendation.

If you happen to find a fic you love using this rec list, be sure to leave the author kudos and a comment! Even "I found this fic because someone recced it" is a lovely thing to say.

Coming up for Week 16: "You Don't Want Sand There," or fics with summer vibes.

In the meantime, you can also check out the Week 14 recs here, or check the full list of past and future themes here.

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#yeehan #yeehan fic recs #yeehan fic rec friday #cole cassidy #hanzo shimada #overwatch fanfiction #author: elisabomb #author: b_ofdale #author: Mish_chan #author: SadakoTetsuwan #author: midgetnazgul #author: Eunicorne #week 15 #author: delicaterosebud

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leatherbookmark · 8 months

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The ask wasn't bait I promise. It's only that some truly weird people exist online and I couldn't really make discern from your tags whether or not you're on of them?

...this sounds almost charming so okay, i'll bite. if i get in trouble, my blocking finger is nimble and well-trained.

so anon is referring to my taggies on this post when they ask,

and the thing abt my tags is that they're a joke. i am sarcastically parroting the main argument some (many.) people have against "incest" and "incest supporters". namely: incest is gross.

you may notice the distinct lack of a specifying word. "irl incest" or "fictional incest"? to antis, there's no difference. same goes for rape, abuse, pedophilia, whatever else is there. if you read or, gasp!, write about them in any context other than "it's gross, horrible and the worst" -- or god forbid, in the context of "it's fascinating" or (!!!!) "it's hot" -- it's no different from you being okay with committing these acts in real life, or at least approving of people who commit them.

about the word "gross"... antis/fandom police/feelings yakuza have a disappointingly poor vocabulary when it comes to explaining why the things they're so vehemently opposed to are bad. i mean, if you ask them about siken's win/cests, first of all you'll get a lecture about how traumatic incestuous abuse is for its victims, and it definitely is, but it has nothing to do with two fictional brothers consensually and fictionally fucking. zero points, failing grade, come again in two weeks. second of all, they'll tell you it's gross. and disgusting. in case you didn't hear: GROSS. and DISGUSTING.

and it's not just incest. it's pedophilia, rape, abuse, harassment, racist, sexist or homophobic behaviours... even things that aren't wrong per se, but could be if only you looked at them through the lens of worst interpretation possible Also Are Gross. why would an adult want to be friends with a child? that's borderline pedophilia. gross.

they just don't have other arguments, "gross" is their first and strongest*. yuck factor, baby! if you told them they're 2mm to the left from conservatives who foam at the mouth at the mere thought of those disgusting gays and transes and their gross gender ideology that they use to groom children left and right, next thing they'll be marrying animals! teaching preschoolers about consent?! yeah, sure! they're teaching kids to masturbate! -- they'd be furious. it's not true! they're normal, not like those freaks! but it's the same mechanism. the exact fucking same mechanism, this thing is weird and unsettling and i don't understand it, gross, disgusting, wrong bad evil we must fight and eradicate it! or just tell people to kill themselves if we're terminally online twitter youth thinking that incest is commonly accepted as a kink (=already an oxymoron, as kink is not commonly accepted).

*maybe aside from "but if young and impressionable children see this, they'll think it's okay!" which. if the young and impressionable children have porny fanfiction as their one and only source of knowledge about the world... i'd say encountering said porn is the least of their problems.

and in case it wasn't clear -- fictional weird porn is not harming anyone. harassing people who ~get off~ to said weird porn and telling them to kill themselves is.

so am i one of those Truly Weird People Existing Online? idk, anon, that's for you to decide. as for me, it's almost 5am and i'm replying to this ask in good faith instead of writing my rps porn fanfic. might as well just stay up the night now. 😔

#answered asks #anonymous #making this one unrebloggable though obviously who wants to harass will harass. shrug emoji. 5am #anons asking you to explain yourself are always fascinating because like do we know each other #are you back-reading my blog. are you a follower who rarely uses tumblr. did you come for c/ql or the kp/op. why do you care whether #i'm a weird person or not. so many questions!#many of which would be easily answerable if only i put my ao3 handle in my bio and didn't private my fics. but ah well

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nedlittle · 1 year

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genuine question: what is wrong with the peyton beachdeath lma trans thread? I know…too much about peyton himself so we don’t need to revisit that, but i’d love to see you rip into some shoddy scholarship and ways to (mis)understand historical queerness

oh god...

i mean aside from people taking the word of a notorious clout-chasing liar and conspiracy theorist at face value...peyton just doesn't understand or even really care about history when it does not directly benefit him. full disclosure i have not read the thread since it was first posted but it is burned into my memory unfortunately, i also don't know a lot about lma as a historical figure

aside from cherry picking quotes from lma's diaries there were no actual sources. nothing from her biographers, no secondary scholarship at all. it was just peyton presenting quotes purposefully stripped of their context in order to further a point that he wanted to be right.

this should be like. queer history for pre-schoolers but people in the past who were or may have been queer understood themselves and their queerness differently than people do today. peyton is incapable of looking at queerness outside of his very specific 21st century lens. could louisa may alcott have been a trans man? possibly! could she have also been cis and/or gnc? sure! could she have simply been writing in both her private and personal lives about how suffocating the experience of being a woman in the 19th century was? yeah. we have no way of knowing which of this could be true, and whether they overlapped at all. queer history exists in shades of possibility. in some cases (and we're going to use trans men contemporary to lma), like those of albert cashier and charley pankhurst, we can pretty definitely say that they were both men; that being a man was essential to their continued survival, that they would have wanted to be remembered as men. in other cases, it's more slippery because the taxonomy we use nowadays to classify ourselves and especially our differentiation of gender identity vs sexual acts is SO recent that it does a disservice to classify all historical queerness with it.

it's insane that there are MULTIPLE notable 19th century trans men in american history at the time lma was living and he still was like no this is not good enough for me i can only emotionally relate to something if i can force my own image onto it. that's really the problem here, not the shoddy history and the deliberately misleading language, but the fact that peyton is seemingly incapable of enjoying or relating to a piece of media or a person if he cannot find a direct comparison to his own life. he did the same oh "(x) was 100% absolutely a trans man if you tell me wrong you're transphobic" thing with katharine hepburn (iirc??) a few years back and this is a personal gripe but having read a 600+ page bio of hepburn that was very generous to several queer readings of her life: lol. lmao even. his insistence of flatting the experience of anyone with a moderately fucky gender into "you're either Like Me or your not" is so purposefully stupid.

like, do all the trans readings of little women you want! i myself made a deranged little women trans post a few weeks ago. but lma isn't a fictional character who you can apply different literary lenses to! she was a real human person whose relationship with her gender we will never fully understand because we were not there. at some point you just have to accept that it is not your business. why are you so desperate for any shred of historical representation that you are willing to exhume the dead in order to out them?

peyton relates to jo march, so he insists that reading jo as a trans man is the only (morally) correct reading. he likes little women but has to make it fit the public view of transness that he is made his personal brand. i actually followed him for longer than i'd care to admit, and it's a trend with any piece of media that he is publicly into that he has to make a character a trans man in order to relate to them.

he also has this deranged idea that any author writing with emotional depth about the """opposite sex""" must have been trans. see the article he wrote for the niche about how must have been a trans man because he gave dido's emotions and the collapse of her marriage to aeneas the same "dignified treatment as any sprawling, epic battlefield scenes." [direct quote] the article is literally called " vergil had a pussy and i'll prove it." no further comment.

one of his "proofs" is that lma was called "lou" by her family, which he then proceeds to call her for the rest of the thread. lou is....a very normal nickname for louisa both now and then. you know what else was a 19th century nickname for louisa? wheezy. imagine that same thread but he calls her wheezy alcott. thank you, good day.

#anonymous #answered #THIS IS SO LONG I'M SORRY #this ask came in immediately after my alarm went off so i had a Long Think in the shower #did you guys know that peyton actually swindled a nyt article out of that twitter thread?#and that as a result he is fucking cited on louisa may alcott's wikipedia page? meesa hate it here #i am not even a big lw fan!! i think it's an interesting piece of media to look at the way it's adapted but that's it!!!#i thought the book was resoundly Fine! i think the way people respond to and reinterpret it is interesting! but i won't die on this hill #i just think that it's none of my or yours or peyton beachdeath's business whether or not louisa may alcott was cis. jesus christ #long post

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uncanny-tranny · 2 years

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Something I saw somebody express, and something I pondered about for a while, was how acknowledging your transness can look

This person expressed the need to prove to cis people that they weren't "delusional enough to see themselves as just as much their gender as cis people are," so they feel pressured into expressing their transness in some way in order to send the message that they are "self-aware."

And honestly? I've caught myself doing this, too - I think a lot of trans people can empathize with this fear and this need. I know I for one have seen what happens when a trans person says, "hey wait! I'm as much a [man/woman/person] as any cis person is!". They're seen as delusional at best and at worse at treated like a threat, something to be discarded of by any means necessary.

Preforming transness is, at least, the shield some people use to protect themselves. So many trans people are acutely aware of how cis people see us - they hear what cis people have to say when they think they're safe from the horror of being around trans people, and it's terrifying. I mean, I've had people tell me directly what they would do if they saw a trans person or what they'd do if they learned a friend was trans or their kid was trans. It's fucking terrifying. It's traumatizing having people express that level of unadulterated hatred toward you.

What can make it worse is that it's difficult to assess how a cis person will treat you if you assert yourself - even by saying, "I'm as much a [man/woman/person] as you are". It doesn't come down to what you do, necessarily, it comes down to how you exist. Thus, it is like you're on constant watch, vigilant of every move you and the people around you move. It's difficult to be openly trans sometimes because it can remind me of all the times I preformed my transness in order to somehow convince people around me that I was "the good one that can be treated with the bare minimum respect."

I definitely think this is why we need to figure out what works best for us. Learning to say, "who benefits from what I'm doing and how are they benefitting? Does this help me or hurt me?" has really been helpful. Who does it help when I am preforming transness? It sure doesn't help me, otherwise I wouldn't feel so bitter about feeling forced into it. Who would benefit from me saying, "fuck it" and doing what I want and need to? Certainly cis people might think they don't benefit, but why should that matter to me? Why should my life be a performance? If I am "delusional," who am I hurting? Am I hurting myself by being able to assess and prioritize my needs? As somebody who has (probably) had delusions before, the way I feel about that and my transness are nothing alike. So, the definition of "delusional" is just "somebody who respects themselves enough to not accept being treated like shit." Pray tell why any of us ought to conform to that, then.

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #transphobia #transphobia tw

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lamp-oil-enjoyer · 8 months

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i don't know how much sense this makes, i don't know if this is a very particular experience of mine or something other people share but as a trans girl who found out about my transness in my teens and i'm now nearing young adulthood

basically it feels like i was never a kid, all the options that i was aware of was to be a boy or a girl, but honestly i was neither, my childhood wasn't happy, but it also wasn't sad, it was just... nothing. i pretty much rejected the boy way from day one, sometimes i tried to fit in but i either got frustrated or simply failed to do so

my childhood is a void with glimpses to what "boyhood" could be, but when i rejected i wasn't offered something else to replace it, i was actively denied the only alternative i knew, the alternative i wanted for me, it really feels like i just never had the full experience of being a little kid, it really feels like i didn't exist before i had a more active struggle with my gender identity in puberty

i hate not only that i was denied the life i knew i wished for, i remember one of the few times i slept over at the house of one of the very few friends i had just wishing we were all girls to do "girl things" and talk about "girl stuff" and watch "girl movies", the lack of those "girl experiences" honestly hurts a lot but it also hurts to know that i had pretty much nothing, i wasn't a boy either

i was mostly alone, isolated and that isolation led to the feeling of the absence of a childhood, i don't know how to deal with this, i learned to deal with my pain of "not being a girl" but i didn't learn how to deal with the pain of feeling like i wasn't anything, not in the sense that i had no gender as a child

i just wasn't at all, i didn't do anything, i basically didn't exist, there's a gap of experiences and memories in my mind that profoundly bothers me, it can be quite disturbing in a way, i can't handle kids at all because honestly despite knowing one day i was one i can't see myself as a child, i can't remember what it means to be a child, it doesn't make sense to me it feels completely alien to my experiences

it truly feels like i was born in the pain of entering puberty and trying to understand what's happening with my body and why i hated it so much while others seemed enthusiastic and happy about it

i don't know if this is just a thing about being trans or if i have some deep hidden trauma i need to uncover but i know for sure that gender has a role in it

#trans #transgender #trans girl #transgirl #trans woman #idk dude i just wanna see my therapist but it's 5 am on a saturday #ngl im just posting this to tumblr because that's what i do when i can't deal with my own emotions

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favcharacterpoll · 8 months

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ROUND 3 MATCH 23: GARFIELD VS. C!WILBUR

Garfield from Garfield faces c!Wilbur from the DSMP. Who do you like more? garfield should win i think it would be funny

Garfield Propaganda:

"you know him you love him he most likely greatly influenced your humor as a child. its everyones favorite monday hating lasagna loving cat"

"HELL YEAH, MAKE SURE GARFIELD STAYS WINNING!!!!!!"

"garfield sweep please and thank you i appreciate it"

"to shreds you say"

c!Wilbur Propaganda:

"Accurate depiction of mental health and spiral, handled delicately and deliberately, every piece of his story was thought and planned and in the end he went home to Utah. Thank you lord."

"He’s so fucking stupid. I could infodump for hours this man transed my gender. Everything has gone wrong in his life. He’s the definition of a bisexual disaster."

"I didn’t fail 10th grade math bc I was thinking about c!wilbur for him to lose round one"

"I mean look at him!! his Minecraft skin is adorable!!!"

"if you people vote for cwilbur i'll draw him in a bikini."

"A VOTE FOR C!WILBUR IS A VOTE FOR GIRLBOYS EVERYWHERE"

"i should not have underestimated minecraft fans they came together"

#polls #garfeild #garfield #garfield the cat #garf #jim davis #garfield comic #garfield cat #c!wilbur #c wilbur #cwilbur #wilbur soot #dsmp #dsmp wilbur #wilbur dsmp

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dakotadawn · 2 years

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Ok thank you for explaining. It makes sense appealing to self interest, it’s awful that not even that works. I really worry that the trans community will suffer a major backlash at some point because of their behaviour. It probably won’t affect hetero dudes who have agp fetishes and can just go on “boy mode” again but it might hurt homosexual transsexuals, especially poor/marginalised ones.

Yeah. Some people like Debbie Hayton are AGP but have actual sex dysphoria, but it seems like a lot don't (think Yaniv types). Its always going to be the actual transsexuals with actual dysphoria hurt by any pushback the gender activists cause, because they can just drop their transness and we can't. I've also noticed insane trans activism causing blacklash against non-transsexual gender nonconforming people, and even against gay people. Trans activists being insane just pulls everyone else down with them TBH.

Whenever I see blatantly misogynistic behaviors from trans activists, MtFs specifically, I feel compelled to (and often do) pull out this quote:

"I understand. I truly do. Being trans is difficult. But you have to realize these women have done nothing to you. What you are feeling is your male socialization and entitlement. Being raised male, we are taught how to view women. It is very difficult to recognize these influences let alone eliminate them, but it can be done. It has to be. It is the most important part of transition. The rage you may feel toward women for questioning your identity or actions is your male socialization. Men are taught we are entitled to certain things, and frankly women are not. The next time you feel angry towards a woman, the next time you want to tell a woman to “die in a fire” or “suck your girldick” I want you to think about why you feel that way. I want you to think about how masculine that feeling is, and I want you to walk away. Just close the window and let it go. You’ll find that the first step towards transitioning away from masculinity is to stop acting “like a man.” "

-Diana of Gender Apostates, "Transwomen and Narcissistic Rage"

Echoing Diana's words, I'll tell them: Please, stop that. That feeling you feel, think of how masculine it is. It should make you dysphoric. If you have any real dysphoria, if we are at all the same, you'll try to transition away from your male socialization. Its the most important step in our quest to leave manhood behind.

But most of them don't listen. They're nothing like me. They claim on the surface level to identify *as* women, but they don't at all identify *with* women. They live the lives of privileged men and I'm sure they drop their trans identity when its convenient for them, probably not even really transitioning hardly at all.

As for poor and marginalized homosexual transwomen, I have to say you're absolutely right, and I'll refer to a quote from Miranda Yardley:

#dakota answers!#asks #anon asks #tirf #swerf #miranda yardley #gender apostates #trans discourse #transsexual #feminism

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morbinn · 8 months

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vent kinda a lot

my mom is a t3rf and she outright refuses to accept that i’m trans and she likes posts comparing trans activists to n*zis and there’s nothing i can do to change her mind because she’s been making my transition all about herself.

she publicly complains about me and goes out of her way to read news and articles that are anti trans just to fuel her denial.

i no longer love her. all i see when i look at her is an evil woman who takes pleasure in ridiculing happy trans people and goes to her husband and claims she’s doing this all in good faith because she’s concerned about me. bullshit it’s in good faith.

if she was so worried and concerned, she would look at sources that confirm transitioning is okay and safe and beneficial. if her heart was genuinely in the right place, she would not indulge in bullying trans people online just because they’re balding and are happy regardless.

my dad is… in the middle. he thinks there can be extremists on both sides. but he’s reasonable enough. he listens when there is science at least. he doesn’t fly into a blind rage when he sees my binders and makes passive aggressive comments. cough cough. mom.

my only hope is convincing my dad. he wants me to be evaluated by a professional to make sure i really am trans and it’s not something else which is fair enough. i think i’ll be okay with him once that happens. he wont deny me of my transness, i hope.

my mom has been contacting a detransitioner who is very against trans people. she outed me on a public account with her full name. she has violated my privacy time and time again and she didn’t even think to wonder if i felt okay with it. if i was okay with strangers receiving videos of me for them to “evaluate” whether or not i’m really trans.

once i get diagnosed, i don’t even know if she’s going to support me. she’s probably going to whine about gender ideology or woke psychologists confirming children’s delusions. whatever. if she still has an issue with me and my dad doesn’t, will he defend me? i don’t know.

if this whole debacle ends a 20 something year marriage because she refuses to stop being a bigot? ouch. but she would have brought it on herself. i refuse to be the scapegoat just because i want to be me.

#tw vent #personal vent #transmasc #trans vent #i need to know i’m not alone in this #mommy issues???

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mxbutchtwink · 2 years

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I've been thinking about my gender more often lately and I keep circling back to this post I saw YEARS ago when I first joined Tumblr (the gay website, as I suspected I was gay). I followed a lot of LGBT accounts and one of them had posted something from a mogai/xenogender account. It started off with a flag I had never seen before and unfortunately cannot remember any of the details about it, and went on to describe what the flag stood for. It was for a gender experience described as when someone, "Does not identity as being cisgender, but also does not identify as another gender" (roughly). I don't think anyone has quite understood me as much as that post.

The rest of the post was of course, people making fun of it. "Oh you're just a Cis person who doesn't like to be called Cis," or "Trenders just trying to steal resources," And so on and so forth, you know the whole transphobic waltz by now. I of course believed these things, any newfound joy or understanding of myself was crushed immediately as I learned what was right and what was wrong from internet discourse blogs. I was new to being gay, I didn't want to be one of the Bad Ones.

But still, years after this whole thing, I still think about it. If I could describe my gender I would say it's something similar to that. I am by no means cisgender, I don't feel at home performing or being perceived as the gender I was assigned at birth. But as far as transness goes, most people have an idea of what gender they are. It might change, sure, a trans woman might find out they're nonbinary later in life, I've seen butch lesbians become trans men become genderfluid people become stargender demifluxes, but there's always a name for that.

I don't think there's a name for what gender I am, I don't think it exists. That's not to say I don't have a gender, or that I want to coin a new name for one. I've already tried that, the label lasted about a week. When I think about the future I want for myself, I picture how things would be as a man or woman and it's dull. Not impossible, not unlivable, but unfulfilling and lackluster. Picturing myself as a nonbinary person makes it brighter, but not by much. Even genderfluidity, the label I've been using for a while now, doesn't give me what I need. None of these futures really make me happy.

I've found pronouns and clothes and a hairstyle and a presentation that make me happy. And though I'm not as far along as I'd like to be in my transition, the progress I've made makes me happy. I smile when I look in the mirror now. I've never really been good at putting things into words, but I think the more I try to dissect and label my gender, the more I miss out on being myself. Sometimes I call myself a man or a girl or nonbinary, in the long run it doesn't really matter to me. I am what I am, and what I am does not have a name. I am ok with that. I do not identify with my birth gender and I simply do not identify with anything else (nothing that's been described yet at least).

If any part of this resonates with you I would love to hear your experience, while navigating gender is not a new thing to me, I can't say I'd be good with advice. What I can offer is an open ear and a shoulder to lean on, please feel free to reach out to me. Thank you for reading my rambles.

#text post #trans #gender

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wild-at-mind · 1 year

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CN sexism, transphobia

Something that’s been really troubling me is how I feel about menopause with regards to wanting to transition. The concept of going through menopause fills me with absolute dread and I want to make sure I transition before it gets to that point so I don’t go through it. But no one likes or wants to go through menopause, so if someone (very invasively) told me ‘you would rather transition rather than go through something nobody likes or enjoys but that is natural? What makes you so special that you should get to skip it?’ I wouldn’t exactly have an answer. It’s only as I get older that I’ve become aware of the effects of menopause on cis women, the immense stigma on it, and in particular the potential cognitive side effects. I would say that menopause awareness is maybe a few steps ahead of transition awareness but make no mistake, it is not very much ahead! I honestly hate seeing transmasc people on here using that argument that ‘everyone cares about [x] when cis women going through menopause have it’ (e.g. vaginal atrophy)- that argument signifies too much time reading ridiculous things TERFs are saying and not enough listening to what regular people deal with. (You don’t have to compulsively read what TERFs are saying online.) Because menopause is chronically under-cared about in our society and the tides are only just very slowly turning on it.

I don’t think I’m special so I shouldn’t have to go through menopause. But as someone who has always been very detatched from their own body I also don’t have a very good handle on what dysphoria looks like for me, so I could say it’s ok for me to say this because menopause would make me dysphoric, but I can’t honestly say that I know that. In fat activism there is the idea that a thin person saying ‘I support all fat people, including you the listener, but I don’t want to get fat myself’ is still fatphobic. And I agree- people do not need to say stuff like that to their fat friends! But in the same way I could say ‘I support anyone going through the menopause but I don’t want to go through it’. And in that case it’s ok for me to say that because I’m trans, or something? It may not be the same thing, but it still bothers me. They are both about someone’s personal relationship to their body. I’ve always hated the idea that an individual’s transness says Something about society, because we are just individuals, but there are other times when activists use this logic in an approving way. (Maybe the answer is that oppressions aren’t comparable, or something.)

I feel I can see a future for myself as a man, and I never could see a future before. Not because of anything dire, but because I just couldn’t. I thought about everything no more than a few months at a time. It would be so easy to read my words above in an incredibly biased way and use it for a transphobic screed, about how I would transition to avoid misogyny, in just the same way some transphobes insist all trans people are just hyper obsessed with gender roles. But at the same time, why sould they care so much about what I do with my body? I only get one life, we all do, and I’m rapidly approaching middle age and it’s scary to get older and still have so many uncertanties and so few people I can trust with them. But I do know that if I went through menopause just for them, the opinion havers, I would get nothing but misery. There’s no reward for suffering. (And I would say I wouldn’t want to support of people like this, but let’s face it, there would be no support from them.)

#transmasc #trans man #menopause #transition #some things: i know not everyone gets menopause symptoms #my mum says she did not and that this means i may not #but i can't count on that because 85% of people do have symptoms apparently #i'm 33 and that scarily is approaching middle age #i'm thin and the part about fat activism above-to be clear i 100% support fat activism #and i agree that thin people need to stop acting like getting fat is so terrible #for the post overall please engage me in good faith #because it is 100% intended in good faith #i'm happy to discuss but don't want to argue

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becaexists · 1 year

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Gonna vent for just a second because I literally have no one to talk to about this so y'know turning to the internet as one does

All over my social medias like Twitter and tiktok (I know they're bad but sometimes they're designed to trap you) everyone is talking about Brianna Ghey, the 16 year old trans girl that was murdered on Saturday. She was a year younger than me, I have friends that are the same age, and all I have seen all day because I've been travelling thus had nothing better to do than to stare at my phone, is so much of the same thing, the same kind of posts, just talking about how this sweet young girl was murdered, potentially out of hate for our community but they're "not sure", and it is really fucking getting to me.

I know it sounds selfish as hell to because it sounds like "oh there was a trans girl murdered and I have to complain about seeing it everywhere" but it's not that, it's the things people put in and under the posts about it. So many of the people trying to spread awareness are trying to be reassuring by saying shit like "to trans youths, we stand by you, this should not be happening" but that doesn't help, because I'm terrified out my fucking mind that if I start trying to be myself, I might get fucking murdered too. What's worse is all of the horrible things transphobic people are saying, like "she's a boy", and "she deserves it" and "example of what should happen to all those trans freaks" because those are actual things I've read today.

And it's not just her case specifically, it's the constant despair I feel as a trans person where my right to exist are constantly being questioned by the only government I've ever known. I open twitter and see stories of how trans rights are being stripped back all over the western world, how people were abandoned by family after coming out as trans, about how being trans is so incredibly awful with little silver linings of "at least you're yourself". So I open tiktok to distract myself, where I see more people talking about the same things, about how the people in government hate us so fucking much. This whole corecore thing is important to highlight the awful shit but when that's the only thing you're seeing with maybe a few cat videos and stupid family guy or movie scenes while someone plays with slime makes to split them up it really makes you feel nothing but despair.

I just wanna get away from it all. I want people to stop talking about it but that's not exactly what I want? I want it to have never happened. I want to live in a world where these things don't happen. I want to live in a world where I can leave the house without being terrified of being hatecrimed or murdered for being who I am. I didn't come out as a trans guy until this year even though I knew for ages I wanted to be a guy, I didn't come out because if I came out in high school, my "all girls" high school where I was already severely bullied for being autistic and queer, I would be fucking dead right now, either from being murdered like she was or from suicide, which I was so so so fucking close to doing after some girl publicly berated me for asking one of my teachers to not call me my deadname (I was going for a fem NB approach to my transness at the time and thought that Bee was the start of something much more fitting for me) because she was right, no one would ever see me as anything other than some pretty but unpopular girl trying to somehow both escape the torture of womanhood and make myself more intriguing

If I could choose anything else, I would. I would not be trans. I would be a regular teenage girl who likes parties and stupid roadmen and skipping lesson to smoke and vape. But I'm not. And my mum, my own mother, has said "if you would choose not to be this, why don't you? Why don't you just go back to being my girl?" And I want to. But I need to be a boy to live. If I don't transition, I might just die from all the self hatred of what I have to pretend to be. I just can't do it.

Sorry this was long, I just have many many emotions and if I said this anywhere else I might just be on the receiving end of some of the same stupid shit people are saying about Brianna. I hope she finds peace somewhere where there isn't so much hatred.

#I just want it all to go away #I want to exist #I've ingrained it into as many things as I can so I don't forget it #I am beca #and I exist #personal vent #trans vent #vent post #again sorry for the long post #nowhere else I can say this #parents don't care #brothers are dickheads as most teenage boys are #my friends are all miles away and asleep #so yeah internet #Idk how to tag these things so if you want me to add a tag just message me or ask me or smth idk #don't worry I'm not gonna kms #gotten pretty good at self regulating this shit so I'll be fine in the morning

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thotbugatti · 1 year

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A Love Letter to Twitter

This is going to sound really stupid but I’m prepared for that. Are you? I have been on twitter in many forms since the beginning of 2014. That’s almost 9 years. Over that time, I have made countless connections, discovered unbelievable content creators and comedians; learned a lot about the world and myself. Because of twitter, I’ve been able to become the person I am now.

At the beginning of the pandemic, I, along with probably many other people, really struggled with my sense of gender identity as well as sexuality. I wasn’t going to school, wasn’t going to work; I was stuck in isolation with nothing but drowning thoughts of who and what I might be. At first, I thought I was non binary. That didn’t fit. Could I have been trans? Yes, actually, that’s exactly what it was. Suddenly, my world opened up even more. I was finding trans people on YouTube first, then I discovered an intricate community of other trans women on Twitter. Connecting my experiences with them and realizing more and more that many of the things they experienced were also things I experienced with or struggled with, that really did something for me. Suddenly, I didn’t feel so alone. All thanks to twitter.

On one hand, it might seem so silly to be upset about the loss of something so trivial as twitter, yet I am. Many others probably are as well but don’t want to admit that. I do. When you lose something that has been part of your life for so long, you’re bound to. If it does indeed die, I am going to miss it so much. I’m going to miss the people tho, not the platform itself. For all intents and purposes, twitter is a house of popsicle sticks held together by rubber bands and stick glue. I think had Elon Musk never even stuck his toes into purchasing twitter, we might have it for many years to come. But he did, and here we are. I’m going to miss the people. I love so dearly being able to connect with others from all over the world in a way that doesn’t feel so unbelievably one sided. With something like TikTok or Instagram, something that isn’t almost entirely text based, it feels as though you’re not interacting with a person. It feels more as if you’re interacting with the vision of a person. It’s worse with YouTube and TikTok, where there are, more than likely, billions of hours of videos that you end up just endlessly watching and scrolling past. Even with tumblr, while I am having fun with it, I feel it’s so hard to find exactly what I want to see, to find the people who I want to follow. I’m not sure how it is on the webpage, but the for you tab on this app just doesn’t seem to work. Things that were there last week still permeate at the very top. I want to be able to scroll, I want to be able to read what people are saying, I want to be able to find the most up to date news. I feel that that is a very uniquely twitter experience, and we’ll likely never see anything like it again. That’s very sad to me.

Transness is a very isolating and lonely experience. You might run across a trans person in real life, but it’s not a common thing. Even if you did, how likely are you to actually talk to them? Ultimately, you probably end up walking right past each other, maybe sharing a glance or a small smile, but nothing more. You’ll probably never see them again. This is my experience living in a very rural area. My high school had one trans person (not including myself because I didn’t know at the time). I often think about her, wondering how she managed to do it. If you live in a city like Chicago, New York, LA, San Francisco, wherever, you’ll come across more trans people to be sure. If you’re still in college, same situation. For many of us who aren’t in school anymore or live in the middle of nowhere, we aren’t very common. Twitter. Twitter opens up that world for many of us (or tumblr idk ymmv).

There’s part of me that still believes that twitter won’t die. Elon Musk will sell it off before he crashes and burns because, at the end of the day, he cares more about his money and his ego than he does anything else. There’s another part of me that is standing on the deck of the twitter ship, watching the iceberg grow ever closer. It’s sad, and it’s scary. Maybe it’ll be a good thing, but I can’t help but wonder what could come from the downfall. Maybe I’ll be able to actually get some work done. Maybe there will be less relative negativity in the world. Or maybe more anti trans and anti lgbt legislature will silently pass, with nothing around for people to bring light to the bigotry that blights this country.

So, Twitter if you do hit that iceberg, if you do sink, it’s been an honor. If it doesn’t however, I’m going to look like a big goober for spending over half an hour of my time writing a big long post about it while sitting on the floor at work. 🖤

#twitter

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falsebooles123 · 1 year

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Finding The First Gay Kiss - Diary of a Big Ole Gay 1/7/23

Edit: Yes I know that I published this three days late, suck my dick.

Hey Whores, Today I am sad, not because of movies but just because being unemployed is depressing and I am someone who deals with ... that sort of thing.

(also thank you tumblr for checking on my mental health, you real for that)

I don't like to talk about my depression because honestly its not that bad like compared to some peoples, like I can always get out of bed in the morning, I'm not suicidal. Its just sometimes even when everything in life is fine I just have no energy and I want to cry for no reason. or I sleep for 10 hours everynight and I still feel tired.

and I know that my pain and sickness is valid as much as everyone elses but I feel that I'm stealing valor for being someone with like mild depression symptoms. What I'm saying is that I'm a fake emo.

(go on fuck me emo boy go on fuck me emo boy, wait what was I doing...)

Its Day 4 of the job hunt and I'm typing this up before I go job hunting today but its just so hard when life sucks not to catasphize I hate this feeling of freefall, of feeling like you have slipped off of the tight rope of life and you are just falling

falling

sure at any moment you will either hit the net or feel every single bone in your body break simultaniously. The body eletric, a petit mort of estatic orgasmic pain before nothing.

and I know that that isn't true, i know that I am capable that I am strong, that I am more then the obstucles that get put in my way. and even if thats not true I could always be a nihilist and know that the human desire to keep on keeping on will keep my mortal flesh in pained wretcheness for awhile longer.

Well now that i was a little emo about this shit lets actually talk about the movies I watched this week. BTW I rented a bunch from my local library so thanks taxes.

Glen or Glenda (1953) dir. Edward D. Wood Jr.

Glen or Glenda is something else. On its surface its almost the transsexual Anders Die Al Aldern, complete with a psycologist and plee for sympathy, on the other hand it is a bizarre acid trip of imagery that is impossible to discribe outside of 1940s experimental film, on the third hand it is a anderson-esque autobiography work where wood confronts his own desires for transvesticism to the point that it greatly misreads the room.

This film greatly misunderstans transness, it conflates crossdressing, (which is presented as a fruedian fetishism for lace and fur), with being trans and it doesn't spend a lot of time exploring either of these ideas well. Psuedo-anaylsis is applied to find the roots of their GNC and tbh a lot of this films messaging is outdated.

However I have also had the good fortune of reading a book on the subject, (the name escapes me and I'm to lazy to look it up), and a lot of the way that transness is discussed is period accurate. A lot of people that were getting medical care, (including the influential christina jorgensine), were doing so because of hormone inbalances or because they were intersex. transmedicalism has been the bread and butter of trans health care and while I absolutely don't support it political for a variety of reasons it is the framework people had at the time. The notion of gender identity or even dsyphoria, (are modern transmedical metric)), are woefully modern.

that being said it should also be noted that a lot of people really didn't care about the distinction insofar as it purtained to being part of the queer community. The desire to be GNC was seen in itself enough and our distictions of queer identity are also more modern in the same way that before the 1970s bisexual wasn't a weirdly used label or the notion of asexuals, (who were under the bi umbrella), didn't politically branch off until the 1990s or later.

I don't want to excuse the politics of this film but I do think it is a queer work, dealing with one mans experience of bigotry and trying to heart-felt make an acceptance piece. The fact that this film is so deragated, not by a trans audience, but by a mainstream one, to me comes off as aggresively queerphobic.

I am not going to say that this film gets to be in the cult status of problematic faves like RHPS or its even more problamatic cousin Hedwig and the Angry Inch but I do think that it is being cut from a very similar cloth.

The Detective (1968) dir. Gordon Douglas

At some piont around the 60s and into the 70s Crime Prods went into this almost ACAB era, where instead of explicet copaganda, (y'know like the post-9/11 stuff), they were shown as almost anti-villians and this film is no different.

Usually this gets compared to Serpico or Victim, I don't watch a lot of '60s films so it reminds me of Cruising(1980) which came out later on.

Basically ol blue eyes is a third generation pig and he's investigating the murder of a gay man. but see hes one of the good guys because he doesn't think its nice to call the queers f*ggots, oh and be clear the pigs are very homophobic in this. they love calling us fags and fudgepackers and fairy queens and who the fuck knows what else.

But see Sinatra is a good guy so he only emotional abuses his unfaithful wife a little, and also totally didn't beat a confession out of a innocent man and get him sent to jail.

Its differcult with these films because on one hand pigs are pigs and its at least honest but on the other hand these films do glorify this violence. I don't know i'm not a film scholar, (I say as I write my academic ass essay on this subject).

I do want to rewatch Cruising at some point one causes its very hot.

(i literally had to type in the year and director because tumblr won't let me search for Cruising. What if I want to see a man get sucked off in the bushes tumblr-bumbly thats my progative)

and second because the film I feel has a more neutral idea of cops. I think that depicting them as all racist pigs and all good guys as a gun is a disservice. Being the jack boot thug of the regime is obvious a moral gray area and while I refuse to sympathize with shit like "The boy in the stripe pajamas" I do have some interest in see people deal with a corrupt system.

Rope (1948) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

There Lesbians Harold.

so first before I discribe this film let me first discuss how gay the origins of this are. For those not in the know Rope is based off of a 1929 play Ropes End, (well in the broadway run), which in turn was inspired by the case of Leopald and Loeb.

There were two young students, (teenaged at the time I believe), who murdered a 14 year old boy because they had read too much nietzche

Not only were the two murderes but it turned out that they were indeed gay lovers, with the sexual relationship feeding into the more toxic dom/sub aspect of the killing team, (OK I watched a lot of criminal minds and they fit the model to a tee).

this of course was tawdry and shocking and of course it feeled the fucked up imaginations of people and so the gay codependence of these two murderers found there way into Ropes End which dramaticised the events.

This was then picked up somewhere by Alfred Hitchcock and given to Arthur Laurents, also gay, (btw according to wikipedia he got set up with his partner by Gore Vidal of all people).

Also both of the main actors in this John Dall and Farley Granger were MLM. Another fun fact was that the Prof, (who was explicitely a daddy in the play), was originally offered to Cary Grant, a man who has never been accused of liking other men. He turned it down supposedly to the queer intonations of the work, (I want to be clear that Grant has stared in other queer works but thats not the point).

Laurents discusses in Rope Unleased (which was nicely enough included as an extra on the DVD I borrowed from the ibrary), how the whole movie was about "It" and everyone was in on it. And it kinda is.

The Murder scene is sexual, with the men holding up Davids prostate body, one with there hands around his throat, the other having his hand inside the jacket feeling his heart beat slowly stop. This death is in someway Le Petit Mort.

Laurents says once again in the doc

"Hitchcock was fascinated by the fact that they were gay murderers, if they were gay he wouldn't care, if they were murderers, but both"

(I'm paraphrasing here)

and this film conflates murder with sex in a way that is palpable. The body becomes almost this symbol of there homosexuality something that can be revealed and outed. Theres another prescient quote by Dom Prof along the lines of

"You Know Phillip, I wish I could come Straight out with what I know

Unfortunetly I don't know any, I merely Suspect"

and lets be clear there is a lot of lines in this work that have that kind of double meaning.

This Movie is gay, it is so fucking gay and everyone knew what they were doing. Good Shit.

Michael (1924) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michael as has been stated before on this blog is based off of the 1902 novel by Herman Bang. This film is a lot more explicet in the plot probably for the fact that this film wasn't mostly lost. Theres more drama with the characters and overall its basically about a guy whose boyfriend/little starts getting bamboozled by this scammer and ruins his life because of it. Its in a weirdly weird way Its about toxic queer love but like in a way thats not problematic. Which is nice.

What I mean by that is that in modern queer storys tend to have a lot of gay trauma, its a lot of repression and homophobia and people being called faggots and dying of aids.

(you get what I'm getting at)

However in this film its more that these gay people just have like a toxic relationship that has fuck all to do with being gay. Its straight people nonsense but for people who are not straight. Which is honestly kinda refreshing.

#diary #queercinema #FirstGaykiss #Transphobia #Homophobia #Slurs #Queerphobia

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