#re: gender at least

[eliotquillon]

just finished the rwrb movie and although i really enjoyed it (and was kicking my feet giggling the whole time) i do have a couple of major criticisms, some of which i think aren’t really the movie’s fault because they had to fit a whole book into 2 hours, but some of which left me kind of disappointed:

-i feel slightly icky that bea and nora got their screentime SIGNIFICANTLY reduced even after june got cut entirely (which i was upset about, but did understand). i loved zahra and adored her on screen but i do think it’s very odd that she is pretty much the only major female character in this movie since bea was nonexistent and nora got permanently spirited away to pez’s bed or something sometime during the second act

-it felt like a lot of the internal conflict in alex and henry’s relationship was very unbalanced and henry heavy - alex’s neurodivergence was erased, his bi epiphany was barely even an epiphany, and him not being explicitly kicked off the campaign after ellen finds out about him and henry essentially killed his whole subplot about realising he doesn’t need to have everything achieved at thirty and deciding he wants to apply to law school instead. which wouldn’t have been terrible but on the flipside it felt weird that we didn’t see very much of henry’s family considering how much they affect and shape his fear of being outed and his feeling of being in a glass cage - e.g bea’s treatment by the media during her active addiction (which was entirely erased), the extent of the tension between him and philip. felt like henry’s pov scenes were a super wasted opportunity for that and we were mostly just being Told about all of these things

-i am not actually that mad about oscar and ellen still being together lol but i felt like in the scene with oscar smoking the cigar on the balcony they were kinda building up to there being significant strain in his and ellen’s relationship that just wasn’t explored. especially since it’s clear oscar would never be able to be president because he’s not a natural born citizen + the sacrifice of his career for ellen’s is so much bigger now that he’s first gentleman in this version

-pacing in general was a bit off but the worst offender was the fact that there was a complete time skip between the alex henry confrontation/reconciliation and the outing. so much of the tension and desperation from that outing scene comes from the fact that the risk of it happening was slowly increasing throughout the book and it felt almost inevitable (the elevator cctv being leaked, henry having to fake date june) and honestly making it so abrupt weirdly reduced a lot of its impact for me

-similarly i actually completely understand why the richards plot / rafael luna plot was cut (i suspect republican election interference hits a bit too close to home after 2020) but my god was miguel a lame fucking villain and him being queer and hispanic erased a lot of the original commentary about racism and homophobia that the richards plot lent itself to. like in general this movie was a lot lighter than the book which is fine! but for a movie where the main subplot is a presidential election So Much of the political themes were heavily neutered or cut to the point that it seemed like the pressure on henry and alex’s relationship was disproportionately coming from henry’s side when in the book it was more balanced

again on the whole i really really loved this movie and i knew going in that certain changed were going to be made. and i hope more movies get made like it! these r just my Thots and i may change my mind when i rewatch it with my friend tomorrow

[fruitageoforanges]

my conspiracy theory is that part of daemon’s strained relationship with baela in f&b (not sure to what extent they’re going to go down that route in the show, especially as they seem to be somewhat butchering baela + rhaena) is due to gender envy.

[seilon]

I just realized I didn’t really announce this despite it being a Big Deal but. finally got a top surgery date and secured it with a big ol deposit. august 5th. kinda hard to process in a way

[outlying-hyppocrate]

fun fact about timeline 777! all changels (that is, mature changelings; over the age of 40) use the gender-neutral honorific mg., which comes from the change-latin word magisthre. changelings are referred to as misthrys, or simply m. in short form.

[sammysodatime]

transfem sam headcanons? <33

YAYYYY okay so if i'm being honest i don't have a ton of Specific headcanons fleshed out for her largely because, sad as it makes me, i can't imagine her actually coming out within the context of the show/how things play out (or rather, i can't imagine her STAYING out if she did). transfem sam, to me, is functionally canon in the sense that i know and perceive the truth but i'm not even sure if sam knows it herself, and if she does, i'm not sure if she'd ever be able to be open about it (think about that post that's like "i think i'm nonbinary but i have a job (saving the world) so i can't worry about that right now"). i actually make myself sad thinking about it. but a bitch can dream:

i feel like most people (from what i've seen) assume she'd have started putting the pieces together at stanford and i agree with that; finally having the ability to do some real personal introspection on her own means she'd be able to work on figuring out Who She Is outside the confines of hunting/family life

i tentatively headcanon her as bisexual, or maybe a bit closer to homoflexible. i also feel like she's probably not one for labels in that respect but that's My Take. technically not gender-related but related to queer sam interpretations

i do think she'd be pretty GNC. years of prioritizing function/utility over fashion probably doesn't wear off easily. i doubt she'd be super into dresses, but i could see her really fucking it up in a maxi skirt

i think jess would have been very supportive, whether sam was out prior to them getting together or afterwards. tallest and most stunning lesbian couple on campus etc. honestly this is probably one of the most important things to me regarding transfem sam because it has potential to mesh with canon AND it makes me feel warm and fuzzy to think about :')

i feel like this is kind of sparse, but again, most of my thoughts re: transfem sam are kind of limited by canon. more than anything she makes me a little sad.... but she's so very important to me. the way she interacts with women, the way she's treated by other characters/the narrative.... at some point it gets super easy to go from "this character is woman-coded" to "this character is just a woman"

[arodrwho]

octavia butler GOOD

[bottomvalerius]

Kinda starting to hate the “boy cat” “girl cat” duality on the clock app

[sweetalnazar]

a potential hot take, but ngl og Asra 'uses all pronoun, gender isn't real' energy is so sooooo much better than wet meow meow 'he/they Asra'

[rawliverandgoronspice]

One thing I really like is that the whole Unhallowed Vespers trilogy (so Litany, Descant and Antiphon) is that is really served as my brainstorming test grounds for Thralls.

There are ideas in there I realize I don't like as much as I thought in hindsight, or conflict with other stuff I decided I'd rather pursue instead, and I get to have explored them before committing to those in a more long-form kind of project --or some that are too subtle or complicated to be carried out outside of writing (mostly thinking of a ton of Ganondorf character details, some things about gerudo culture that I want to tweak, characters that are getting axed because We Don't Have Time, etc).

On the contrary, there are things I set up in there I never actually got to explore, and I get to pull out that thread in here instead (basically every single of the hylians' character arc roughly, Nabooru, even Impa in a way). It's pretty weird and interesting to revisit the same core ideas twice, but in a different medium and with different character arcs in mind starting off the same thing.

[autistic-shaiapouf]

I should start rb'ing the pride art I've done, those wings, happy pride moth, and that post I made colorpicking the nonbinary flag from Pouf's main color palette

[isitovernow-ootw]

beginning to wish i was exposed to queer internet spaces a bit later so i could have just existed for a while, its really hard to think about my gender when I haven't spent a single period of time not analyzing it since i was 13

[thecruellestmonth]

#'cain made me perfect' perfection is so much a part of who cass thinks she was MADE to be. undergirding all of those initial 25 issues is

#the association of perfection with death. she cannot be a 'perfect killer' because she will never kill again. so this time she will be #perfect for a year and then die. because perfection is now tied with death for her

#also in terms of cass being asian surrounded by white people calling her perfect #the way this arc is such a PERFECT (pun not intended) deconstruction of the model minority myth #what are the effects on mental health of making an asian girl think she's perfect?? very bad it turns out

#i wish people who made cass perfect in fanon would really understand the context of her perfection in canon #its never supposed to be a good thing!! it's always in service of someone else!!! (tags by @casscainmainly)

I've noticed a word that gets thrown around in regards to Cass in Batgirl 2000 is "perfect." It's how Bruce and Cain both see her, what Babs calls her and what Cass would literally die to be the moment she wasn't. There's something heartbreaking about it. How she's defined by her perceived perfection to the point where she'd rather have a year of being perfect instead of a lifetime of not.

Then, when fanon casts her as perfect (albeit in a different way) all I can think is of how she never really escapes that. Perfection looms over her even now.

[doublestandardlove]

ok uhh...i realized something yesterday that's actually pretty funny i'm sure i'll laugh later but

those weird moments and thoughts i've had about guys that i knew wasn't attraction but couldn't figure out just what it was?

gender envy;-;

that guy in my english class i thought was so perfect that the only way i could describe how i felt when i saw him was that I wanted to "steal his skin?" (weird ik) yep gender envy in the weirdest way

that one post about junior that people keep liking😭 yeah that's gender envy right there

it clicked for me yesterday when i couldn't stop looking at this guy at my work call. i wanted to be him so badly. everything about him just sat on him right, his clothes, his hair, his tattoos, i wanted it so badly

i also should've realized when i shortened my name to sound more androgynous and felt betrayed when anyone who knew me by that name called me my full name (once they accidentally found out ofc)

so uhm...

[elainemorisi]

the ubiquitous impulse to mirror mostly-accurate (afaik) rhetoric re: trans genders onto cis genders is just... so bad, I'm gonna be honest. yes, cis people should have an affirmative sense of their own gender, that's probably good practice for all people. no, I really don't think the specifics/experience of that affirmation is... remotely... similar... actually. I'm actually pretty sure the experiences are meaningfully different

[uumumuu]

Seeing Saw in the theater was soooo fun and the audience was all super hot people :)