#transgender sitcom

[thatonedudeinthecorner]

Oh, to open a psychic detective agency with your boyfriend and then not only gain a second boyfriend but also a girlfriend….IN 2006?!??????

[mapsofnonexistentplaces]

going to kill my elf why are you two stuck in a shitty anime. become free

shes so cute also

[top-scar-maverick]

You hearda trans seinfeld

Now get ready for autistic cheers

[notsocheezy]

Brain Curd #116

Brain Curds are lightly edited flash fiction - practically first drafts - posted daily (haven't missed one yet!) and sometimes written with the express intention of being terrible… but, you know, in an endearing way. Please like and reblog if you enjoy - the notes keep me going!

Lily sipped carefully at her mocha cappuccino and recoiled. It was still too hot. She set it down on the cafe table, where she sat opposite Alice.

“I swear my tongue burns easier than it used to.”

Alice nodded, her face buried in a book. “Mmm-hmm.”

“Like, is that a thing? Does HRT make you more sensitive to heat?”

“Sure.”

“I mean, look, I’m not gonna say this is a dealbreaker or whatever. It’s real nice having tits. But I would have appreciated a warning.”

Alice snorted and turned the page.

“Are you even listening to me?”

Alice waved her hand. “I’m sure they’ll take it back if you still have the receipt.”

Lily put her elbow on the table and rested her face on her hand. “Despite everything, I still have no idea how to talk to women.”

Alice laughed so hard, tears began to escape her eyes. She set the book aside and wiped her face with a napkin as she caught her breath. “Were you saying something?”

“Probably not. What are you reading?”

“This is the funniest thing I’ve ever read. Have you ever heard of James Siegfried?”

“The sitcom guy? Who hasn’t?”

“He just released an autobiography, and it is awful. It’s like he’s never written a word in his life. I’m just getting to the part where they start filming the pilot, and already I’ve found like a dozen typos. Plus, he’s got a real woe-is-me attitude, while also presenting himself as the second coming of Desi Arnaz.”

“I always thought Lucy was the funnier character.”

“Yeah, but Siegfried could never compare himself to a woman.”

“How does such a deeply untalented man make such a classic show?”

“He downplays it in the book, but his co-writers did practically everything.”

“Huh.” Lily blew on her coffee and took a small sip. “I guess it must be hard to write a sitcom all by yourself.”

Passable. Episode One: The Virgin is coming soon to NotSoCheezy.com as the first Writer's Block - a collection of Brain Curds with the whey squeezed out. Stay tuned!

[louisironson]

trans woman hawkeye fic got me crying in the club

not mine just a fan of it. like a lot. yeehaw

[prommytheus]

hey new icon

[heyy-its-kris]

New HeyyItsKris 2 Video Out Now!

i ran out of ideas for a youtube poop so i made this instead

[pansy-placebo]

I've been obsessing all day over the idea of a story (I think a TV show, like a heartfelt sitcom) where most of the cast is neurodivergent. I'm still hashing out the details; I haven't picked a "main" character yet and just about everything is a WIP. I've marked places of extra uncertainty with these (?) so I if I ever come back to this I can go over them again. If anyone reads this, please feel free to chip in with any ideas you have.

⚠️Trigger warning: ⚠️

Parental abuse and custody are mentioned, drugs mentioned (mainly weed), addiction mentioned, mental health discussion, as well as bad landlords and autistic meltdown. Nothing goes into detail but if you don't want to deal with the mention of these topics, then flee!

This is what I have so far.

Jack and Markus have been friends since art(?) college and now live together, play games together, and make PowerPoint presentations for eachother. Their house is a wreck because both of them hate cleaning, and it's actively falling apart because their landlord is an asshole.

Jack(?) is VERY ADHD but works around it quite well. Though he's highly extroverted, he often sits in his room or studio making art(? Or music?) about his hyperfixations and special interests.

He's endlessly enthusiastic, a golden retriever in a human's body, though sometimes he puts his foot in his mouth and ends up making situations worse when he's trying to help.

He has many friends who come and visit him and Markus often.

Markus(?) is an AuDHD transmasc who's trying and failing to scrape is life together. He happily listens to Jack about his latest hyperfixations, though he tends to drift off into his own world and ends up missing huge chunks of what Jack just said.

He has support needs which aren't currently being met in their entirety, mainly in terms of executive dysfunction, and he's always felt like the outsider, socially riding on Jack's coattails to make friends. He writes short stories and poetry with his abundant free time and joins in the local uni societies (which are open to non-students) to socialize. He has many things he wants to accomplish, but due to his support needs not being supported he can't do it, leading to him feeling like a constant failure. He's also very mentally ill and needs therapy and medication.

Lilly is an autistic STEMM tgirl who's either working on her masters or otherwise works in academia, possibly as a lab tech. She's only been on E for a year or so and isn't interested in surgery. She and her sister, Chloe, were raised by her auntie because their parents were awful, so their auntie got custody. Lilly rarely talks about her parents, simply referring to them as "the donors". She seems outgoing but finds it difficult to connect to people on a deeper level, partly because she's scared of unmasking around them. She has meltdowns daily, but nobody ever sees them. She's incredibly caring, and has a strong sense of social justice.

Lilly and Chloe's auntie is a lovely supportive woman. So far, her main fault is being so Christian she believes that Lilly is still a virgin who has never so much as heard of weed.

She meets Marcus/Jack (how? So many options, I haven't decided yet), and she and Jack immediately hit it off discussing mutual (special) interests. They start dating pretty much immediately. Going forward, they act as foils for one another, but stay bonded because they'll be the Power Couple of the show, helping eachother through tough spots

Chloe is Lilly's younger sister. She has medium support needs; she uses text-to-speech to communicate and uses mobility aids to get around. She's a teenager who really wants a partner but hasn't found the right person. YET.

Static(?) is a non-binary drama(?) student who is an absolute wreck of a person. They're constantly switching uni courses, are perpetually indecisive, fall in love at the drop of a hat, at high risk of addiction and tend to run headlong into things without thinking them through. Like Jack, they accidentally make things worse when they're trying to make things better; like Markus, they need help they aren't getting.

Anyway, those are the characters and ideas I have so far. Still playing with them and I don't know if this will ever go anywhere. But I thought that unlike my other ideas, which I come up with and then let go into the void, that I'd at least put them somewhere.

[notsocheezy]

Brain Curd #40

Brain Curds are lightly edited flash fiction - practically first drafts - posted daily and sometimes written with the express intention of being terrible… but, you know, in an endearing way. Please enjoy.

Brayden took a pained swig of his black coffee, which he drank purely for aesthetic reasons, and rubbed his head. “Let me get this straight…”

“You?” said Alice. “Never.”

“You want me to fuck that virgin, blindfolded, to settle a bet?”

“Yeah.”

“How is it that you so easily,” he fluttered his hands like a butterfly, “let things like this exit your mouth?”

Alice took another sip of her matcha. “I like to have a variety of things in my mouth. Something has to leave eventually.”

“And you,” he pointed at Sarah. “Aren’t you supposed to be homophobic?”

“I’m trans.” She replied.

“But you’re religious.”

“It’s not my soul on God’s chopping block. You were going to have sex anyway.”

Brayden paused. “I can’t argue with that.”

“Look, it’s simple.” Alice put her hand on his shoulder. “We flip a coin - heads he gets vag, tails he gets tail. Then we ask him which hole he thinks he was in.”

Brayden smirked. “What about heads he gets head?”

“That’s not part of the bet.” Alice shook her head.

“Wait!” Sarah daintily slammed her hands onto the table. “We have to do it in the butt first!”

“What does the poophole loophole have to do with our bet?” Alice replied. “It’s like you said, you aren’t going to hell for his sluttery.”

“You’re forgetting the whole point! If you start the virgin in the front hole, he’ll know immediately that something is different when you move to the back!”

“So you admit he’ll be able to tell.”

“Yeah, we’re going back-to-back here!”

“Back to front.”

“Front to back.” Brayden added. “Stink to pink is how you get an infection.”

“Stay out of this.” Alice put her hand to his face. “You can’t just change the terms of the bet willy-nilly, Sarah.”

“That was my nickname in high school,” Brayden replied.

“What we’re really trying to determine,” Sarah said, exasperated, “is whether a guy can tell he’s not in the intended hole. You always hear guys say they missed! That they didn’t know they went the wrong way! What we need to do is have him go in the back and tell him he’s going in the front.”

“Is that ethical?” Brayden asked.

“That completely demolishes the integrity of this experiment!” Alice crossed her arms. “Forget it!”

The three sat in silence for a moment. Brayden took another sip of bitter coffee and looked at the test subject, mopping behind the counter. “He’s kinda cute, though.”

Lily, the fourth member of the group (though first if you’d asked her), entered the cafe and saw her friends sitting at their usual table. She rushed over and sat down.

“Guys, guys, guys! You won’t believe what just happened to me on the train!”

“If it were me,” Brayden replied, “I’d say the answer was hidden in the question. ‘Guys, guys, guys’ running a train.”

“In public?” Sarah asked, shocked.

“No, but there would be cameras.”

“It wasn’t anything like that,” Lily blushed. “I saw this cute trans girl sitting alone, so I sat next to her…”

Alice rolled her eyes. “You always do fall for the clocky ones.”

“Anyway, we got talking and we have a lot in common. She gave me her Insta.”

“Are you going on a date?” Sarah took a sip of her melting frappe. “That’s so cute. Love at first sight is adorable.”

“Well, yeah, I did ask her out actually, to a kink club. She said yes.”

“For the first date?!?”

“You just don’t understand T4T lesbian culture, Sarah. Of course for the first date. You can’t go to dinner with someone until you know you can hold a conversation.”

Alice nodded. “It’s true.”

“But there’s a problem! I looked at her Instagram, and…” Lily put her hands on her cheeks. “She’s cis!”

[the-pea-and-the-sun]

conjuring an alternate dimension version of the looney tunes show in my mind where bugs is a washed up celebrity in LA and daffy and porky are out of work actors a la its always sunny on tv and the show follows bugs' transition journey

[hisham962]

45 Sitcom Stars And Their Shocking Look Now

[x-v4mp3y3lin3r-x]

sorry i can't reply to your message rn can't you tell im busy writing boy meets world fanfiction

[palisman273]

Cheers reboot but with a queer main cast

Sam is openly pansexual. He mostly prefers women but his attraction to men won't be played for laughs, it'll just be treated as another part of his casanova behavior.

Diane is straight, but she's also a trans girl. (Originating from a headcanon that I think she's a trans girl in the OG show too). She tells Sam when they first meet and tells the rest of the gang casually in later episodes. Besides the occasional bigot, no in the bar discriminates against her for it.

Norm is a heteroromantic asexual (Much like how I think of him in the original show)

Cliff is non-binary and a bi disaster. They're still the bar's butt-monkey but no one makes fun of them for their sexuality and no one misgenders them, not even Carla. Speaking of which.

Carla is a heteroflexible cis woman. She hates Diane with the additional fact that the latter can't get pregnant and envies her. That said, she never misgenders Diane nor invalids either.

Woody is a a panromantic asexual. Kelly will genderswapped as a cis gay male.

Frasier is a bisexual trans guy.

Lilith is omnisexual.

Coach is a straight ally.

Gary is a lesbian cis woman.

[rocketkart95]

I have a story

So there I am, doing sparky shit for a friend, replacing a few receptacles and a GFCI on my birthday (that I don't observe)

My mother, grand parents, and lil brother call for well wishes. Cool!

My phone rings again and it's from my father. We haven't spoken in probably a year, not from anything bad. We're just both bad at checking in

My other brother is transitioning! Neat! She/her pronouns and get her new name. Awesome!

My 2023 bingo card didn't have my father saying the phrase: "I believe the kids say my egg cracked"

Caught me completely off guard. She/her pronouns and new name. Awesome! Similar name as the wife. That's funny.

That meme where you ask if daddy can pass the salt so both father and spouse reach for it just hit a whole new level I never even imagined.

Holy fuck that's funny

3 hours later were playing Magic: the gathering (don't judge me) and the wife hands me a new deck where Slicer is the commander. Cool!

Game one, turn 4 and Slicer is my opponent's ring barrer (lord of the rings) when someone leans back in their chair and says "never thought I'd hear a transformer is a ring bearer" when the situation finally hits me

So I stand up and holler to the other end of the room

"Wife, my love, did you hand me a transformers deck on the day of my mom's transition?"

She froze, processing, and burst out laughing. She completely forgot. Just a happy little accident

Now that's funny

So the new meme is "really? On the day of my mother's transition?"

[luunamoona]

the way community handled queerness is honestly so peak. like, there're 3 main moments i can think of in the show where queerness was apparent and mentioned: advanced gay, queer studies and advanced waxing and britta's pitch in emotional concequences of broadcast television.

in advanced gay, the cornelius hawthorne is seen as a villian for having traits like being abusive towards his son, pierce, him being really racist and him being homophobic. this acknowledgement of homophobia being a bad thing is definitely good for the early 2010s, as many shows treated being queer as a joke back then. also cornelius being fucking murdered at the end of the episode solidifies the fact his actions were deemed immoral and he therefore had his comeuppance.

community only ever uses queerness as a punchline in the context of troy and abed's relationship, the punchline usually being "look at how romantic these 2 friends are how silly", which could be seen as homophobia as the same context with a man and a woman would be treated differently by the showrunners as it'd be turned into a romantic subplot.

the next example i have is from queer studies and advanced waxing. having the dean tell richie and carl that he "isn't openly anything and gay doesn't begin to cover it" is much more progressive than many other media at that time, and even now, as they'd usually have the queer character just be gay for convenience. this need for convenience is commented on in the episode with richie and carl basically coercing the dean into adopting a label that is inaccurate but convenient for his straight peers. back to my previous point, presenting queerness as being more complex and having more nuance than just gay and straight is something that is very useful to queer viewers as it presents an option beyond these 2 ends of the spectrum. unlike what other shows may do with this concept, community treats it seriously, showing the dean's inner conflict with presenting with an identity that isn't his, with lines like "i feel sick". (also side point, the line "i make gayness look like mormonism" goes so hard)

finally, there's britta's pitch in emotional concequences of broadcast television. in this, the dean protests britta's decision to make him transgender and not "all this other stuff". something i love about that scene is the ability to critique queer represention without insulting it. as a trans person, i've seen a good amount of transphobia is television. this isn't one of these times. being able to have trans identity be a part of the punchline without it being insulted is something that is apparently very hard for screenwriters of sitcoms to do, so i commend them for being able to do that. as well as this, this scene acts as a criticism of how basic queer representation in media is, how they like having one distinct, easy to understand label to give their token character, ignoring "all this other stuff". it's telling us that, like in queer studies and advanced waxing, queer idenity isn't black and white, it's a wide spectrum of identities that comes in many, many different colors.

all in all, community's representation of queerness and how it treats insults to queerness is something a lot of other shows should try to strive for. in my opinion, it has some of the most nuanced takes of queer identity and representation out of any sitcom that doesn't have queer people as a target audience. it feels very fitting, since the show is literally called community and it about a group of misfits who bond over their shared messed up-ness. this show is all about finding your people and accepting everyone, as pierce says in for a few paintballs more, "flaws and all". i think the showrunners had an impression this show would speak to a lot of queer people and i love that they were able to make us feel welcome just as greendale does to the study group.

[punkitt-is-here]

hi punkitt. im extremely depressed because i can never have nasty t4t sex with Elaine from seinfeld. this is my confession. however my New Year’s resolution is to have nasty t4t sex with a real human person who is not a character from an old sitcom. im telling you this bc in my eyes you’re like the patron saint of nasty t4t sex. anyways wish me luck + hope your 2024 is nice and fun and full of good memories. and nasy t4t sex if you want that

im giving you my divine blessing to have sloppy gay transgender sex this year. make it happen, champ.