There Were So Many Signs - Blog Posts

People really should have realized that there was something wrong with me when in 9th grade, I was given an assignment where I had to create a utopia, and instead I created a post apocalyptic nightmare where I was the only one left alive with the rest of humanity destroyed by nuclear war

As a kid, I bought this soundtrack with my own piggy bank money after seeing the movie in theaters. It is one of the first things of any note I probably ever purchased.

I played Part Of Your World so many times over and over again while singing with it that the tape broke. I remember sobbing after it broke.

It was decades later I realized I was trans, but even back then, something about that song called to me and resonated with my entire being.

I can't listen to the song without singing along. And I can't sing the song without crying. It was one of the most formative pieces of media I consumed as a kid. It, along with the film My Fair Lady, are my cultural touchstones. My subconscious always knew I was trans. It just took a long time for the rest of my brain to figure it out.

“Ariel sold her voice for legs just because of a guy“

Meanwhile Ariel with legs;

Ariel already loved the human world long before meeting Eric (you don’t get a collection like hers overnight) and when she finally got a chance to explore it, she took it.

Ursula made it more about Eric than Ariel ever did.