I'm still thinking about I Saw the TV Glow and I'm sure I'll still be thinking about it for a long time.
In a world that constantly tells trans people what if you'll regret transitioning?, it's refreshing and incredibly important to have art that tells us what if you'll regret NOT transitioning?. And even more importantly, it tells us there is still time.
It's a haunting masterpiece.
shark tank idea: annotated playlists.
perfect for yearning girlies that want to note exactly how that specific boygenius song reminds them of that one time their crush tucked their hair behind their ear.
perfect for nerds making playlists for their oc’s and want to share why the lyrics “roundabouts and washing lines/we do each others laundry in our hearts sometimes” perfectly encapsulates their character’s love interest.
anyway i am not taking criticism, open to offers from spotify or multimillion dollar app developers.
yeah this language has 3 words for love that language has 8. i love that english has one word for love! it doesnt matter we are just friends, i love you! you are my mom and u have scarred me deeply and i love u! u are the poptart i ate without toasting first and i love u! we felt a feeling that can only be described by vague but deep connectedness, and all of it is called love!
smth smth u can take the rat out of the desert but u cant take the desert out of the rat smth smth
absolutely frothing at the mouth that humans named their planets after their old gods like. they saw stars that were a little too big and different to be stars and were like hey, we know those guys, they used to rule our lives and dole out fates and now they are just specs to our naked eyes. what.
g(renda/n)ma/paw
when you go to the gender clinic you can ask about being buried alive left to scream and claw at the lid of your coffin until you emerge into your real body & your real name but idk if it's covered by insurance
Ok also I think the reason I Saw The TV Glow is so powerful (and everyone is making jokes like it got them to start hrt) even beyond its fundamental message of hope and There Is Still Time etc is because as a trans person there are so many people and medias that will ask you the question What If You're Faking It. What If It's Not Real. And ISTVG is the first media I've seen that asks What If You're Not? What if you're not and you keep going on like this?
And it gives that question a name and a physical presence and a weight and an aesthetic and a horror. It's like TV static. It's like falling asleep on the car ride home. It's like living with a light inside you crawling to get out. It's like suffocating to death. It follows that thought to its logical conclusion and, in a frankly extremely painful and hard-to-watch but deeply needed way, excruciatingly draws out what that looks like. Suspended animation. Stasis. A life that is not your life.
It says that choosing not to transition is still a choice.
rip Bunny Corcoran, you would have loved chatgpt
if you abandon gender hard enough you can unlock the secret state of nirvana where all clothes give you the thrill of crossdressing
Who makes the porn bots. Where do they come from. What do they hope to achieve.