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transpeculation · 7 months

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The fact that hell’s directory of angels tells any demon who has had any interactions with Aziraphale to immediately report to Crowley is such a funny detail. They really have been playing the long game.

#Changed his name? Yuck!#more evidence for my trans reading #go2 #crowley good omens

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transpeculation · 9 months

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actually I’m still thinking about this.

I do understand that by “reading comprehension” anon meant textual analysis, but, that isn’t what reading comprehension means.

Reading comprehension refers to the literal meaning of text. That’s text as in writing, not ‘a text’ as in a piece of media.

But criticising “reading comprehension” is a popular tumblr joke used about people who wildly misinterpret text posts.

So, anon decided that was an appropriate thing to accuse me of based on a different interpretation of what happened (off screen!) in a tv show.

I said that I didn’t like the ending of a queer storyline and anon decides it’s appropriate to accuse me of thinking all queer stories have to be depressing to be valid.

Based on nothing.

You can just let people have different opinions about things.

You don’t have to accuse me of being a senseless queer traitor just bc I mentioned disliking the resolution to a fucking tv show.

i'm sorry you're this bad at reading comprehension. you can get better. i believe in you

i am sick to gd death of the "colin being able to do what he explicitly said he wanted to do is Actually Bad. i am very smart" narrative. like, i'm really sorry that you think queer stories have to be depressing to Be Valid or whatever, but the rest of us are tired of being everyone else's tragedy porn. he's not out now. he's not a Spokesperson For Queer Athletes. paying a slight bit of attention to the text would tell you that no one noticed, and as someone who's been on large sports fields for years, that's actually really fucking common in the aftermath of a huge game. like, just use an ounce of common fucking sense jfc

hahaha omg wtf

um no i don't think it's clear at all in the text that no-one noticed?

it's literally just not adressed at all

I'm sure you're right that in real life no-one would notice but it's a tv show and what people are gonna read into it is that he's come out.

#reading comprehension #rude anons #putting ''reading comprehension'' on the high shelf with the rest of the tumblr buzzwords #not that it matters but i have actually studied literature at university level. my reading comprehension is fucking fine thanks #im not exactly an expert but i do know the basics

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transpeculation · 9 months

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hey op - I feel like you aren’t really understanding that what you said is just factually wrong.

People aren’t disagreeing because of discourse.

It just literally isn’t true that John Smith could possibly have been motivated by that because he never once killed off a love interest of Constantine’s.

It has nothing to do with fridging because he never fridged anyone.

He never thought “Christ I have to keep coming up with birds for this guy to shag and get killed, maybe if he’s into blokes too I can switch it up a bit.”

We know this because he wrote one issue in which John didn’t even have any new love interests.

He didn’t come up with any “birds for this guy to shag and get killed” ever that just didn’t happen.

He couldn’t possibly have made Constantine bi to diversify his love interests because he never made him a male love interest.

Do you understand?

More discussions of "fridging" and female representation in comics need to bring up how the writers made John Constantine bisexual specifically so they could have more variety in lovers killed to advance his story

(80s Vertigo was horror, remember, and the basic narrative loop was John being smooth and witty with his plots right up to the point where the stuff he's set in motion starts horrifically killing loved ones and innocents)

#i'm not trying to be mean im just really confused by what is going on here

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transpeculation · 9 months

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personally I don’t want to know Crowley’s deadname angel name

#this is a joke btw im not trying to imply ppl are being problematic for speculating #click See all for a secret #go2 #crowley #crowley good omens #good omens 2 #the crowley is raphael theory is super awkward for me bc raphael is my fucking name #also im seriously considering changing my middle name to anthony #for completely unrelated personal reasons #and im trans #so if raphael theory becomes canon people are going to think i named myself after him

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i'm sorry you're this bad at reading comprehension. you can get better. i believe in you

i am sick to gd death of the "colin being able to do what he explicitly said he wanted to do is Actually Bad. i am very smart" narrative. like, i'm really sorry that you think queer stories have to be depressing to Be Valid or whatever, but the rest of us are tired of being everyone else's tragedy porn. he's not out now. he's not a Spokesperson For Queer Athletes. paying a slight bit of attention to the text would tell you that no one noticed, and as someone who's been on large sports fields for years, that's actually really fucking common in the aftermath of a huge game. like, just use an ounce of common fucking sense jfc

hahaha omg wtf

um no i don't think it's clear at all in the text that no-one noticed?

it's literally just not adressed at all

I'm sure you're right that in real life no-one would notice but it's a tv show and what people are gonna read into it is that he's come out.

#ted lasso #colin hughes #love calling ''not kissing your bf in public'' tragedy porn wtfff #yeah i know he said that's what he wanted but it's pretty clear that he got the important part of that by coming out to the team #i dont think an ending without the kiss wouldve been all that tragic actually

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transpeculation · 9 months

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trans crowley manifesto

so re: transness in good omens. if we’re talking about explicit canon either all or none of the angels/demons are trans depending on how you’re defining it

they are all sexless and seem to choose their own gender presentation. probably you could categorize them all as agender

but I would argue that thematically Crowley is the most trans.

evidence:

1. presents as, at different times, both a man and a woman, explicitly in the show.

male: Mr. Anthony J Crowley.

female: Nanny.

2. tends to dress more androgynously than most other angel/demon characters.

I’m not going to provide evidence for this; other people have done much more/better analysis of Crowley’s costuming than I am capable of.

3. Explicitly denies being a man to a human character. (!!)

“you’re a good lad.” / “I’m not actually. Either.”

That quote is pretty important and I don’t think it’s unintentional that it was Crowley and not Aziraphale that got this line. Though we understand that angels do not have gender, we do see them performing what looks like gender. Crowley and Aziraphale both create human male personas to blend in with the humans. I suspect default demon/angel attitude to gender identity would be to not care how they are viewed by others. This moment shows that Crowley cares enough about his gender to bother telling an acquaintance (someone he seems to like) that his gender identity is not male.

It is also the writers reinforcing the coding of Crowley as trans, which comes with his androgynous gender presentation.

4. is the only character in the show to have explicitly chosen his own name (!!).

we never learn his deadname angel name

we don’t know how he came by the name Crawley, but we do know that he chose Crowley (and Anthony J.!!) himself.

5. i think there’s some interesting parallels between falling from grace and transition.

When they fall, demons seem to change name, physical form (Crowley got his snake eyes), and social role.

it doesn’t work as an analogy, but it isn’t meant to (it would not be good if the angels were cis and the demons were trans lol - but that’s not what I’m saying).

5.5. when viewed as a type of transition I think there’s some really interesting stuff going on with the way Crowley and Aziraphale view his demon-ness differently. Analysing all their interactions through this lens needs it’s own post but in general:

i wouldn’t say Crowley thinks of his fall as a good thing (he says “I didn’t mean to fall” and seems a little bitter that he was cast out just for asking questions) but he also doesn’t seem to regret it. he doesn’t think there is anything wrong with being a demon. we know that he’s not an evil person, but he doesn’t seem conflicted about working for the “bad guys” the way Aziraphale is conflicted about being friends with someone on the other side. (He hates the demons, of course, but he also hates the angels.)

Aziraphale thinks all their problems would be solved if they were both angels. Crowley seems offended by the suggestion. There isn’t anything wrong with who he is.

#go2 #good omens season 2 #good omens 2 #crowley #crowley good omens #good omens 2 spoilers #go2 spoilers #good omens spoilers #go #when i say ''most trans'' im discounting trans human characters and characters who use they/them pronouns as options #this is just bc they are minor characters or their gender identity isn't important in the show #if you think that's an unfair way of categorising it thats fine i dont really care about the superlative i was just going for persuasive

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transpeculation · 9 months

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this blog is now about how trans Crowley good omens is

#good omens season 2 #good omens 2 #go2 #Crowley #good omens #go #crowley good omens

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transpeculation · 9 months

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made a couple of popular ted lasso posts but I stopped hyperfocusing on it around the time of the finale. Sorry to anyone who followed me for that lol

Anyway basically I think Colin kissing Michael on the pitch was an unbelievably bad decision which retroactively made Colin's whole storyline worse.

#ted lasso #colin huges

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transpeculation · 10 months

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@criticalspell commented “people may choose to have a masectomy for non-gender reasons (such as breast cancer), and its a pretty common thing for women in remakes of old cartoons, etc, to have their breast size reduced for censorship reasons. i dont think its explicitly a reference to only trans issues, and imo highlights both of their misogyny more than anything else”

Can’t reply bc this is a sideblog so I’m responding in a reblog.

So, I want to clarify that I’m very much aware that people might have a mastectomy for lots of reasons - hence why I said that cis people can get them. I understand that the phrasing I used “if they want to” is misleading (if you’re getting a mastectomy because you have to for medical reasons it’s not necessarily that you want to) but that was just me being flippant.

But either way, I disagree. Yes, censorship would be a cleaner comparison, because censorship is what is literally depicted.

But if they were trying to talk about that, why did they talk about “mutilation” and “women’s rights”?

How does it have anything to do with misogyny? Censorship of breasts in cartoons IS misogyny and the boys would be right to criticise it as religious conservatism. The iasip gang are not always depicted as being in the wrong, but I feel like it’s pretty clear in this episode that you are not meant to take their side.

I agree that the scene highlights their misogyny, because it shows them getting upset at not being able to perv on a teenage girl character because her breasts were removed. But that is characterisation, not a political stance.

I hope it isn’t the political stance of the episode because then the message would be: “it is a good thing to censor women’s bodies in children’s media so that children are not exposed to sex.” Which would be an incredibly conservative stance.

Of course you could be right about it being a mixture of things they are trying to say in this scene, in fact I’m sure that you are.

But you’re just going to have to trust me that the language they use “mutilated this poor woman,” “lopping off tits,” “everyone’s gone crazy; this is nuts!,” “women’s rights,” is an obvious reference to the current ongoing moral panic about trans people, trans kids, and trans healthcare.

The fact that it isn’t quite explicit is actually something that also bothered me. It felt like something you would only pick up on if you were “in the know.” That initially frustrated me, because I was concerned that without explicit references to trans surgeries, they might accidentally reinforce a disgust reaction to trans bodies.

Now, thinking about it, I wonder if they felt unable to be explicit about it specifically because of the current ongoing moral panic about trans kids.

okay so I just watched the new ep of it’s always sunny.

It’s set in a knock-off/parody Chuck. E. Cheese place and the episode depicts the gang getting angry that things have changed since they were children.

These tend to be safety precautions and changes to bigoted stereotypes/jokes/behaviour.

For example, one of the characters was previously a disablist caricature, and Dee is upset that he no longer speaks with a stutter (Frank uses the r slur).

There’s an idea that older generations are always going to be upset about attempts to change things to be more progressive (with the gang obviously going overboard in their disgust/reaction).

Frank keeps bringing up his experiences of the place in the 50′s, which horrify the others for its overt racism and misogyny. But then the rest of them criticise the place for no longer doing the bigoted things they loved as kids.

So, as always, the gang is in the wrong here. Still, there was a bit that bothered me.

One of the animatronics, a teenaged girl, had originally been designed with realistic breasts. These had been sanded down and replaced with bubble wrap.

Dennis and Charlie react with disgust and Charlie says that “they mutilated this poor woman.”

Initially Dennis suggests that this is the work of the “god damned libs,” but when Charlie suggests that it could be religious conservatives, Dennis agrees that “lopping tits off feels like a religious move.”

So. They’re talking about top surgery, right?

They must be. The language is too specific otherwise.

But this is not a trans character. Not a real person who can make this kind of decision. Not a personal choice by somebody exercising bodily autonomy.

This is an object which was censored, presumably to protect any kids who might accidentally (or even purposefully) see the animatronic topless.

This isn’t acceptance of trans people; it’s a safety precaution.

So, the analogy doesn’t work, right? They can’t be saying “trans people should be allowed to lop their tits off if they want to.” Because there aren’t any trans people! There aren’t even any cis people (who should, of course, also be allowed to lop their tits off if they want to).

The message can only be: “people who are disgusted by this are old-fashioned, ignorant, and misinformed.”

Old fashioned, because that is the theme of the episode. The characters are upset that times have changed.

Ignorant and misinformed because of course, if you know anything about lopping off tits, you know that religious conservatives are (usually) very much opposed.

Dennis also says: “this is a sad day for women’s rights.” This could be a reference to terfs?

He, (who is currently perving on an animatronic teenaged girl) is positioning himself as an advocate for women’s rights by criticising “lopping off tits.” So, the joke is that he’s a hypocrite. He positions himself as a defender of women (and people he perceives as women) while actively harming them.

Idk. It’s not bad exactly, but it bothers me that it’s a reference to trans bodies without actually mentioning or depicting trans people.

I feel like it’s a problem that iasip has with all the issues it tackles. It lacks a certain clarity. It knows who it’s making fun of but it’s not entirely sure what the “right” position is.

It’s always making fun of racists - but is it antiracist? It makes fun of transphobes - but does it support trans liberation?

#iasip spoilers #iasip analysis #iasip #transphobia

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