#the nostalgia hits so hard

[its-anime-zing]

I revisited an old fav and all the feels came back... 😭😭 Now I'm even sadder at the size of the fandom with each passing year.

Oh, and hottake (?): I prefer the dub. 😋

[yoongsjimin]

finally started sousou no frieren and it got me sobbing like every ep

[chloesimaginationthings]

Are you more of FNAF or Jojo? (Ofc you will then say, I can be both-)

Why pick when they are so similar/hj

[miss-sternennacht]

[mintjeru]

i'm kissing every production i.g employee and furudate-sensei for giving us the haikyuu dumpster battle movie. lives were changed. i cried real tears. there's no doubt that i'll be back for the next movie.

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[royalarchivist]

Mike: Jump using the paraglider on top of the fire.

YD: ???

Mike: Jump, jump, jump! Jump on top of the fire!

YD: On the fire? 😰

Mike: [Punches her into the fire]

Mike teaches YD how to use her paraglider by taking the phrase "trial by fire" literally. 🔥

[greatgoddyke]

pony posting

[all-my-ocs-are-evil]

Grojband, but as a band from an early 2000s shoujo manga

[trashybread]

I wasn't gonna drink today but man i miss dsmp like a mf

[boringkate]

I watched Lena Dunham's Sharp Stick (2022) with a babe last month. Which I absolutely loved!!!

It's never explicitly acknowledged, but the main character is clearly supposed to be (despite the producers claiming otherwise) in some way neurodivergent. Or something. She's meek and impossibly sexually naive (to the point where me and the girl I watched it with had initially assumed the character was intended to be a child). Apparently they had approached an autism sexuality advocate to work as a consultant for the film before backpeddling.

Trans girls tend to be autistic.

The main character also had a hysterectomy (as did Lena Dunham).

Trans girls tend to be infertile.

She's shown taking estrogen.

Trans girls tend to take estrogen.

She becomes obsessed with porn and begins having one night stands with random men from the internet in hopes of finding validation by proving her sexual desirability.

Trans girls tend to do that shit.

It ends with her realizing and leaning into her impregnation fetish (while getting fucked by the one black guy she knows who had just brought over some 40s and called them homies and also while her black step sister's hands unexpectedly drift in from off screen to hold her because even when she managed to push it off to the last second Lena Dunham is incapable of being chill and normal about race).

Trans girls can't go ten seconds without making the same joke about how if you don't think you can get a trans girl pregnant then you just aren't trying hard enough (and the frequent fetishization of black men in trans and especially neighboring sissy communities can't really be denied).

Also the bartender is played by Tommy Dorfman (a trans woman) with it being her first time playing a character with a girl name.

But I'm not trying to suggest it's intentionally a movie about the tgirl excperience. That would be silly. Really the takeaway should be that (no matter how varied women's lives may be) we (trans women and cis women etc) can still always find common ground and shared excperiences. We're all in this together.

But anyways I was looking at Lena Dunham's Instagram yesterday (I've been off and on again rewatching Girls, so she's stayed on my mind).

One post features the music video she directed starring famed trans girl Hari Nef.

Another post shows that she recently read trans boy Elliot Paige's memoir Paige Boy.

Another post shows a conversation she had with Jon Bernthal (on his podcast) where she explains the word cis to him and talks about having also explained it to her husband (this is the only clip from her appearance on the podcast that she chose to post).

BTW did you know that she was an executive producer for the 2021 show Genera+ion (which I recall featuring a trans boy actor playing a cis boy character who gets a girl pregnant).

Fascinating!

Meanwhile. Ten years earlier. In 2013 (a year into my transition and a year before Time declared that we've reached the trans tipping point) an episode of Girls features a doorman telling one of the titular Girls that "a tranny walked in last time and he was just walking around the floors, but it was nothing." (lmao)

UPDATE: s05e02 features a "did you just assume my pronouns" bit. (in a way that felt reactionary and gross because the theyfab saying it was an absurd hipster barista that the audience isn't intended to sympathize with)

UPDATE UPDATE: s06e02 features the leader of a group for women entrepreneurs saying "For those of you asking on our Facebook if the group is open to trans women: The answer is: We don't know. Okay?" (which I thought was fun)

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE: s06e03 (the literal next episode) "I even went to a couple of hookers and one of them had a dick."

[tanktop-lou]

yeah❤️‍🩹

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[nyx-aira]

Am I feeling teary eyed because Bojan is at the Madrid pre party now and I'm getting nostalgic for esc23 again? Maybe...

[fireflameproductions]

How I feel when I hear the hit era roll call

[broadwayinabox]

You know why live theatre is so fucking magical?

Because everyone has to be present together.

No fucking phones, no talking, no hitting pause… none of that.

We just don’t do that as a society anymore. Even at concerts everyone wants to capture the moment instead of experience it. Everything is at our leisure, everything is replayable, everything is stored with the intent to revisit a moment we never really lived in the first place. But, for the most part, theatre audiences all quietly agree to enjoy the show uninterrupted.

You sit your booty in that tiny little chair with hundreds of other people in their tiny little chairs and you form a community that lives in this one performance at this one moment in time and you all experience together. No matter how subtle the differences from show to show, yours is uniquely yours and if you miss something it’s gone forever.

Theatre DEMANDS your attention and for 2+ hours you remember that you’re capable of giving it, undivided.

[skitskatdacat63]

Having certain music tied to specific experiences is so:

Every time I listen to anything off Zaba, I have such an insane longing for Death Stranding its so intense AAGHHHH