#transexual transylvania

[footfetishlamp-prototype7]

Did the doctor ever go to transexual in the galaxy of translvaniya 🤔🤔

[lunaghost13]

I’m IN LOVE with this song. Too bad this concept was never made. Currently reading the script rn

[ilovelouie8]

"Transgender operations on illegal aliens"

THEY'RE ONTO US

[corvid-gremlin-official]

should i cosplay dr frank n furter

[judas-isariot]

Are all Travestite from Transylvania like that ? I wanna go there.

[suscriptorjusticiero]

IS "CIS" A SLUR? (Betteridge's Law: apply directly to the headline)

Lately you can often see around transphobes getting randomly offended that we call cis people "cis" or "cisgender", for some reason that I'm too intelligent to understand. They claim that it is "a slur".

Obviously, this isn't true.

The roots cis/trans are roughly as old as the Latin language and mean "on the same/other side". Since time inmemorial both of them, especially 'trans-', have seen widespread use in all manner of fields, from economy ('transaction') to chemistry ('cis' and 'trans' molecules) to geography ('transatlantic', 'cisalpine', 'Transylvania') to genetics ('cis-acting' and 'trans-acting' elements) to nutrition ('trans fats' in margarine).

According to a bit of quick googling, their use for stuff related to gender expression seems to date to around the 1910s and is credited to either Dr. Ernst Burchard or Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld depending on which sources you read; both of them were German sexologist physicians who wrote about crossdressers referring to them as "transvestite".

If I'm interpreting what I read correctly, it seems that Dr. Hirschfeld was the one who started using "transvestite", and then Dr. Burchard came up with "cisvestite" to refer to everyone else.

You know, just like we use ‘atheist’ for people who aren’t theist or ‘neurotypical’ for those who aren’t neurodivergent.

Hirschfeld is also credited with coining "transsexualism" in 1923, and according to Dr. Harry Benjamin the first use of "transsexual" in public was one of his lectures in 1953. The word "transgender" was coined later in 1965 by Dr. John Oliven.

While the use of the terms "cissexual" and "cisgender" has not been recorded until 1991 by Dr. Volkmar Sigusch and 1994 by Usenet user Dana Defosse respectively, it can be easily argued that, due to the way human language works, both words technically exist since their 'trans-' counterparts were coined. Because, as I said above, the prefixes "cis" and "trans" have been linked together since the days of ancient Rome.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

[vamptastic]

Ohhh dear i am getting FAR too sad about being transgender. Time to watch rocky horror

[athanasiasioraiart]

Reposting with proper daylight photos. Going Home. @officialtimcurry #rhps #drfranknfurter #frank #horror #horrormovies #arttherapy #watercolourpens #doodle #transexual #transylvania #yyjartist #indigenousartist #timcurry #timcurryisbae https://www.instagram.com/p/CpdPMEJvBO4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[evilvalentin3]

💋 FROM TRANSEXUAL, TRANSYLVANIA! 💋

ignore that tye glitter gif gets really angry for one frame i think tumblr gifmaker hates me

[horrorvillaintourney]

HORROR'S NEXT TOP GENDER QUARTERFINALS: Dr. Frank N. Furter (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) vs. Ellen Ripley (Alien)

PROPAGANDA FOR FRANK:

"Obligatory RHPS. This had to be here. My first real adult queer spaces that weren't just me and my gay teen friends was Rocky. It let me be out as trans for the first time publicly. Frank is my idol."

"I feel like it goes without saying."

"They sing a song called “Sweet Transvestite” about how they are a sweet tranvestite from Transexual Transylvania. also she was played by Laverne Cox in rocky horror live!"

PROPAGANDA FOR RIPLEY:

"The character of Ripley was originally meant to be played by a man. also pleaseeee if this competition is a bunch of white guys im going to lose it"

"She is so incredibly butch and cool, she has that butch mechanic thing going on"

"The character was originally going to be a man but Sigourney Weaver killed it at the audition so she was hired and not a single line of dialogue was changed. Also, overall, most of the films leave an implication that gender is not very important to the point of being a practically genderless society. Everyone in these movies is too stressed and too busy working under late, late stage capitalism. My point is that Ellen Ripley is definitely (however unintentionally) agender."

[sillybillytime]

At least until Lestat is

Guys is decided whether a character is "good" or "bad" even useful for understanding a story at this point

[velvetvexations]

I think my Rocky Horror Picture Show experience is definitely very much so affected by having seen a live production instead of the movie first. Most of the cast and crew were transgender, all were some form of queer, and it was one of the first times in my life I was in a space that was majority queer adults. It was the first time I felt comfortable using a public men's bathroom. After having also seen the movie, I don't think I would have had as great an experience with Rocky Horror if I had just seen the movie first, there's something different about seeing it as a live theater production.

oh tho I would like to add, re: my last ask, that I did have an irl friend who had suffered from a LOT of internalized queerphobia and been in the closet, who came out as bi because of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. So the movie has def done that for some people, and that probably saved them from going down a really bad path of alt-right radicalization given what they'd been watching before coming out

I've seen people moan about the poor trans women who sit in discomfort while all their other queer friends laugh at the transmisogyny, and man, I think that just speaks so much to how sheltered people are nowadays because it's like, oh, is this cis guy playing a villainous pervert singing about being a transvestite from Transexual, Transylvania doing you a transmisogyny? Because he was an icon to each and every trans and GNC person that existed, especially AMAB folk, back when it was essentially legal to hunt us for sport in some places.

No, seriously, that's not hyperbole. I mean that literally.

And it's like...call Rocky Horror dated. Sure. It's dated. But acknowledge that every trans woman who currently has gray hair, not to mention the ones who didn't make it, stood up and shouted all the incredibly lame and unfunny jokes with joy that I will never be able to comprehend as humor but can certainly understand as a matter of community and representation.

[manicpixieyandere]

The Leader of a Queer Generation; The Rocky Horror Picture Show

(This is another college essay we are posting for funzies lmao, enjoy!). (Also had to censor it, sorry!).

With the fall of the Hays Code, the queer demographic was finally able to have their own cult classics and media culture. Most prominently was The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Richard O’ Brien) in 1975. For a bit of history. The Hays Code was in effect from 1934-1968. The Hays Code was a rigid set of rules for television and film that stated all delinquent behavior must be punished on screen. If a character did something immoral, they must suffer the consequences, the consequence usually being death. The Hays Code itself outlined what it deemed to be immoral behavior. Among that list was anything remotely queer. This is where many tropes and writing tools were developed such as the “Burry Your Gays” trope or queer coding. The Hays Code was lifted in 1968 and replaced with something similar to our rating system today. So, what did that mean for queer audiences? It meant it was time for them to be the stars!

​For the first time in decades showrunners and movie makers could show queer activity on the small or even big screen! The most notable product of this time period was The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Originally a musical performed onstage in the early 70s that was adapted into a film in 1975. The original musical and movie shared a similar cast, most notably Tim Curry as the main antagonist Frank-N-Furter. Frank was a self described “Sweet Transvestite from Transexual Transylvania” (O’ Brien 1975). The word transvestite was very different than what it means today. In 1975 it was equivalent to Frank telling the characters Brad and Janet (but also the audience) that he was transexual or transgender (as those terms were not in frequent use until much later).

Speaking of Brad and Janet, they are the audience’s “straight man”. To quote David J Getsy “One cannot be queer alone” (Getsy, 2017, para. 2). This is to use the original meaning of the word “queer” as in weird. You cannot be weird if there is no normal, so Brad and Janet are the stand ins for an average American straight couple. Throughout the movie though we see Brad and Janet start to learn things about themselves at Frank’s castle. After Frank has s*x with each of them separately they start to see things differently. Janet becomes more open and lustful with her sexuality making many advances towards titular character Rocky. Janet is also seen making out with another girl, Columbia. Brad while less confident, still learns some preferences he did not know he had that can be considered “out of the norm”. Another popular reading being he was a closeted gay man as well. Brad and Janet learn with the audience that it is ok to explore one’s sexuality and gender identity. While Frank-N-Furter does in fact die, the Hays Code still has no effect here as Brand and Janet get to live out their lives after their newfound discoveries.

Brad and Janet aren’t the only ones who have a good time in the castle. In the “Time Warp” the audience along with Brad and Janet are introduced to Riff Raff and Magenta, a quirky sibling duo. Later in the song the character Columbia introduces herself. She tells the story of how she met Frank-N-Furter and how he changed her life. Later in the movie we are also introduced to Eddie and Rocky. Eddie being a former lover of Frank and Columbia’s. Rocky is the man Frank-N-Furter makes, very Frankenstein esq. In the song “Rose Tint My World” each character performs in a floor show expressing how Frank’s lust and freedom has rubbed off on them. Some like Brad and Columbia have their reservations but choose to wear those rose tinted glasses, while Rocky and Janet are completely accepting of this new found life. Eventually the evening is cut short when Riff Raff kills Frank as well as Rocky and Columbia. Riff Raff does this as he proclaims Frank-N-Furter’s lifestyle was just “too extreme (O’ Brien, 1975).

Just like Brad, Janet, and everyone else in the castle, the real world also has a tradition inspired by Frank-N-Furter (and The Rocky Horror Picture Show). Performance groups acting along side showings of the movie become vastly popular. As did a script of “counterpoint dialogue” the audience would shout during the movie. It was also tradition to throw toilet paper at the screen during certain scenes in the movie (although this one has fallen out of fashion at some theaters, being deemed “rude”). For these events the audience can dress however they want! The idea was to be comfortable and be yourself. This means many people show up in similar fashion to the movie. Gothic, gram rock, corsets, you name it! It is a night of community and fun.

​In 2016 The Rocky Horror Picture Show was remade as a filmed stage musical titled The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do The Time Warp Again (Kenny Ortega, 2016). In this production, actress Laverne Cox was casted as Frank-N-Furter. Cox is a transwoman, marking the first official time Frank-N-Furter was played by an actual transwoman. Laverne Cox is also African American and finally sheds some light on black queers in this production, something sorely lacking in the original production. There are stark differences in the interpretations of the character Curry and Cox portrayed. The outfitting of Tim Curry’s Frank-N-Furter implies shock value by using feminine clothing to show off a masculine body, while Laverne Cox’s costuming is more feminine in nature. Cox’s Frank-N-Furter is still compared to the “straight men” of Brad and Janet but not in an oppositional nature.

​The influence of The Rocky Horror Picture Show still goes on today. There are still many notable screenings of the movie with live actors and scripted audience responses. The 2016 remake was just one production of many put on through the years. Popular media nowadays even references The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Even in places you wouldn’t expect such as kids shows like Phineas and Ferb (Dan Povenmire and Jeff Marsh, 2007). The Rocky Horror Picture Show introduced an audience to queer culture and continues to be a part of said culture many decades later. The way in which this movie carried itself into queer culture signifies its strong se of rhetorical devices such as; ethos, logos, and pathos. The ethos present in the film is that of Frank (who has experience) showing the characters AND the audience how happy they’d be to give into desire and to simply be themselves. This ties into the logos being that these characters do in fact end up happy in their newfound situation, especially Janet. The pathos plays on the fact that all humans have some sort of desire they push down. The Rocky Horror Picture Show uses these literary devices to tell its queer audience for generations to be themselves and have fun!

[deadlivecat]

Just a sweet transvestite from Transexual, Transylvania~

[pisshandkerchief]

I'm the doctor. I'm a time lord. I'm from the planet transexual in the galaxy of transylvania in the constellation of kasterborous. I'm nine hundred and three years old and I'm the man who's gonna save your lives

[foone]

I just realized that for a while I lived in Transylvania County, North Carolina.

And I wasn't out as trans yet! I could have been a "sweet transvestite, from transexual, Transylvania (county)"

I've failed Rocky Horror. I'm sorry, everyone.