#crossdressing is just fun

[zieatsramen]

The Flying Tiger alien collection is so cool actually

They didn't have the whole collection to the one I went (no tote bag or plushie (⁠-̩̩̩⁠-̩̩̩⁠-̩̩̩⁠-̩̩̩⁠-̩̩̩⁠_⁠_⁠_⁠-̩̩̩⁠-̩̩̩⁠-̩̩̩⁠-̩̩̩⁠-̩̩̩⁠) ) but they had this cool like hour glass but with liquids that I ended up getting because it was kinda cheap huehue

Also got a friend a few gifts for her birthday but since they suddenly changed the whole plan last minute I won't be attending because I can't 🦅

Gonna make my sister deliver and film it though

Also they have no Mcr CDs yet I'm gonna lose my miiind 🎶

Will check in over a month again, hopefully they have the three available albums 🕺

[transfemmbeatrice]

beatrice muchadoaboutnothing is a trans woman: a brief treatise

thematically, i think in a play about the social vulnerability of women, having a character be a trans woman just makes sense as a way to provide depth to that idea. specifically, i love the concept of beatrice's view of men being informed by her own experiences as a closeted trans woman (it's amazing what people will say in front of you when they think you're one of them) and as someone later facing sexism and transmisgoyny.

usually when someone does a trans reading of this play/character, they look at beatrice's famous speech about wishing she was a man and interpret her as a trans man, which is perfectly valid! but this idea started for me with the simple thought that i wanted an out and accepted trans character to play with rather than a closeted one who cannot transition, just as a matter of personal preference at that particular time and with this particular text. but then i kept thinking.

as above, the concept of beatrice reading men for filth in the context of having lived among them is great. the "oh god that i were a man" speech is extremely disparaging of men and what they claim to be vs how they actually wield their power. what she wishes is that she had the power that men have automatically in her society--felt all the more keenly because there was a time when she was able to wield that power and she gave it up to be happy, to be herself, to be free in a different way. (here is where i sometimes imagine beatrice regretting ever transitioning, believing that her own happiness and health is less important than having the power to protect hero's happiness and health, because i love angst.) but now that the worst has happened, she is reduced to begging a man for help and it's demeaning and infuriating and tragic.

i also love turning on its head the line "i cannot be a man with wishing, therefore i will die a woman with grieving." being a trans person, dealing with internalized transphobia, knowing that transitioning will put a target on your back, wishing you could just be the gender you're born as--but no amount of wishing will make her not a woman. i think she loves herself and her gender but the play is focusing on points of conflict so that's what i'm talking about here.

in a play about misogyny, the vulnerability of women, and the hypocrisy of men, a trans woman has a unique perspective on both masculinity and femininity both as genders and places in society. (in the ideal version, i think john would be a trans man to mirror this experience, but that would require him to be rewritten to have actual depth and personality and all that is a different essay). there is also just a particular kind of strength that comes from having to carve out and defend your identity in that way which i think fits her very well.

lastly, a couple of other miscellaneous things from the text that can tie in:

beatrice recounting "a double heart for his single one" meaning both "i loved him twice as much as he loved me" and "i loved him as two people: [birthname] and beatrice"

benedick insisting he wouldn't marry her even if "she were endowed with all that Adam had left him before he transgressed." Adam, not Eve. in MY illustrious opinion, this is benedick saying "i don't care HOW big her dick is i'm NOT gonna marry her."

[ivywing]

I think everyone should participate in a little gender fuckery. As a treat

[thatskindasapphic]

Love how every once in a while some random bigot appears in the LU tag. Go find a different webcomic or something if the fanbase being mostly queer bothers you so much. ANYWAYS EVERYONE IN LU IS QUEER AND TRANS!!! BE AFRAID!!!

[mariocki]

A final selection of Pat Troughton's varied looks in The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (ITP, 1955 - 1956)

[dwtdog]

i know he just tweeted yesterday but i miss dreamie

GWAH ME TOO :((( maybe he’ll tweet again and give us some more little crumbs

[faithdeans]

mmm fucking with my gender bc who cares!

[volfoss]

Genuinely how Hoshie is written in Atom: The Beginning is so infinitely frustrating. She's a character that really barely appears in the original series and had no backstory other than her role as Umatarō's wife and Tobio/Atom's mother, and I was so excited to learn she was in ATB. Or was until I actually read it. In ATB, she's very largely only there to appear a few times as his love interest and has really no reasoning FOR feeling that way nor any character traits outside of that. I'm still before the time skip chapter wise (and have some hope she will get more development after that time skip), but to ME to take a character that is that underdeveloped and you have an opportunity to really add a lot in there and don't? It sucks. It focuses so much more on the other characters that really do not have as much importance in the long run of the series (mostly original characters) and a lot of how the women are handled in ATB can be really rough a lot of the time (Ran as the exception, she's great, but it feels a lot of them are just there to be sexy set pieces. The way that they hyper sexualized Pink's traditional Vietnamese outfit is one of the worse examples of this (as you could write off the "sexy robot girls from Lab 1" thing as criticism of it, but in that case there really isn't much excuse to bring in) and while I'm glad it's not as prominent w Hoshie (because they quite literally draw her as a child and then have her show up later having gone through puberty, so thankfully they didn't get bad with it), it is still so bad. Like why do we have this character that is instrumental to the source material (as he said he based ATB as a sequel to Chronicles of Atom, where she is very important for that one volume and for Atom as a character after he is sold to the circus) and very not developed and all that is done w her is on par with how Naruto tried to develop romantic relationships (girl is in one sided love with the male protagonist and barely appears). You could have done so much, and so much that could have really helped develop the relationship in the future and helped flesh her out as her own characters with her own interests. She had a personality in the original and here, it is just being blushy and fawning over the protagonist and it is genuinely kind of insufferable.

[tincansamurai]

i'm too shy to post sexy pictures so enjoy this heavily referenced sketch of kaz in the shit i feel like wearing after 40 hours of being perceived as Man

[chadsuke]

Comics Read in 2023:

Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill Vol. 5 by Agakishi K., Ren Eguchi, & MASA (2020)

Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill Vol. 6 by Agakishi K., Ren Eguchi, & MASA (2020)

Ooku: The Inner Chambers Vol. 1 by Fumi Yoshinaga (2005)

Sleepless Vol. 1 by Sarah Vaughn, Leila del Luca, & Alissa Sallah (2018)

Sleepless Vol. 2 by Sarah Vaughn, Leila del Luca, & Alissa Sallah (2019)

Otonari Complex Vol. 1 by Saku Nonomura (2016)

Otonari Complex Vol. 2 by Saku Nonomura (2017)

Bibliophile Princess Vol. 1 by Yui Kikuta (2019)

Mother's Contract Marriage Season 1 by Siya & Choo Hyeyeon (2023)

[ID: Covers of the aforementioned. End ID.]

[lupinshanshin]

[gargoyleofhumankindness]

i completely forgot that nobby nobbs starts crossdressing in one book and in the next one still is

[tomoyoo]

AS A WOMAN i feel like these encapsulate the worst parts of furuba for me 👍

[shadkyo-aa]

a silly thought i had, kyoya will go along with tamaki's plans, and other shenanigans, but he will do it with the straightest face imaginable. he takes it sooooo seriously, like. if they're gonna be doing dumb stuff, they might as well at least do it right, y'know? idk, it's cute, methinks.

[diamondnokouzai]

[daisyachain]

Don’t ask what I was doing but for me I don’t like crossdressing in my romances not because I’m a killjoy, but because the point of a romance should be that it’s a rake in the grass. Centuries of heterosexism and misogyny have ingrained in people that for a girl, any boy is a potential mate, and vice versa. Even when you’re five you’ve got that knowledge in the back of your head. It’s a preprogrammed wet blanket over any kind of friendship or relationship that develops between two people—if you’re interested in somebody of the designated gender, it’s not because you like them, it’s because you’ve got no framework to interpret them outside of attraction.

So, the thing that’s appealing about a romance is where the expectation is not there. Where the relationship has to stand on its own; where the connection is so strong it forces people to unpick their own assumptions, overturn their worldviews, risk their own identity or safety to be with another person. Where even realizing what’s happening is a struggle and an accomplishment. The crossdressing trope doesn’t work with that because it cheats that. The romantic interest is forced top-down per the above rule. The one character doesn’t actually like the other, they just react instinctively to presentation and it’s booooring