I keep thinking about that Kurt Cobain thread that asked what if the Wachowskis had died before they came out? There were already trans people trying to claim the Matrix before they did. It’s a series that resonates with a lot of trans people. But cis people would be fully insisting that it was disrespectful to try and make that claim posthumously or that people were just projecting themselves into the text; that the text is by default Not Queer and has no reason to be analyzed that way.
I really liked that post too. that author has a good voice and was persuasive. Not sure i believe it, but i don’t hate the idea. Just wish Kurt could have been happy.
l’ve been reading this one webcomic for years, goblins. (Are webcomics popular? Have you heard of it?) The author is currently going through transition but was an egg at the start of the story. Rereading the comic after her coming out is amazing, with so many parallels to the wachowskis matrix about ‘choice’ and identity that only became obvious (to me) afterwards.
This just tells me who you are will break down the doors and declare itself regardless of one’s will, so you might as well make friends with yourself before it does.
It also makes me think about how the dev who made Celeste was an egg at the time. But when she came out she was like “yeah this was about me being trans, I just didn’t realize at the time I wrote it”
i hadn’t thought about goblins in years, until a week ago with this post which just hammered me over the head with all the shit i was reading in high school
yeah, it really resonated with me in ways i know for a fact would never be recognized if the wachowskis hadn’t come out. queer reads of anything that isn’t explicitly and unarguably queer (and even things that are!!! i had someone try to wokely argue to me that utena was a completely cishet show on this website!!!) are at best tolerated, but usually shouted down for being
Tbf, Utena is ambiguous before the movie. It’s got a lot of gay vibes going on but literally no one ever expresses any attraction toward anyone of the same sex at any point. The gay stuff is all in the vibes, symbolism and whatnot.
when you say stuff like this, you give people the wrong idea about the show and then they go watch it and end up being really disappointed. That’s my experience
I keep thinking about that Kurt Cobain thread that asked what if the Wachowskis had died before they came out? There were already trans people trying to claim the Matrix before they did. It’s a series that resonates with a lot of trans people. But cis people would be fully insisting that it was disrespectful to try and make that claim posthumously or that people were just projecting themselves into the text; that the text is by default Not Queer and has no reason to be analyzed that way.
I really liked that post too. that author has a good voice and was persuasive. Not sure i believe it, but i don’t hate the idea. Just wish Kurt could have been happy.
l’ve been reading this one webcomic for years, goblins. (Are webcomics popular? Have you heard of it?) The author is currently going through transition but was an egg at the start of the story. Rereading the comic after her coming out is amazing, with so many parallels to the wachowskis matrix about ‘choice’ and identity that only became obvious (to me) afterwards.
This just tells me who you are will break down the doors and declare itself regardless of one’s will, so you might as well make friends with yourself before it does.
It also makes me think about how the dev who made Celeste was an egg at the time. But when she came out she was like “yeah this was about me being trans, I just didn’t realize at the time I wrote it”
The color scheme alone gives it away!
i hadn’t thought about goblins in years, until a week ago with this post which just hammered me over the head with all the shit i was reading in high school
didn’t know that about goblins, that’s cool
Thanks for that link, that was a trip. I read (and dropped) a lot of these old gems
yeah, it really resonated with me in ways i know for a fact would never be recognized if the wachowskis hadn’t come out. queer reads of anything that isn’t explicitly and unarguably queer (and even things that are!!! i had someone try to wokely argue to me that utena was a completely cishet show on this website!!!) are at best tolerated, but usually shouted down for being
Excuse me???
i was flabbergasted, it was wild
What next, did they also think Yuri On Ice was straight?
i don’t know, probably! there’s more onscreen gay kisses in utena (the show) than there are in yuri on ice!
God I’m so curious to know what their reasoning was