(Not enough mental energy / spoons for a full write-up, but we're doing a thoughtdump to get this out of our mind, and possibly return to it another time.)

The Nightmare Before Christmas is a queer, neurospicy, and possibly trans+ allegory.

• Christmas is a confusing neurotypical, cis het holiday.
• Hallowe'en is a quirk, neurospicy, queer and trans+ holiday.
• Jack comes across like neurospicy (likely AuDHD) theatre kid, who's burnt out and maybe hasn't yet realised they're trans+.
  • Jack recharges by being alone (so likely not solely ADHD).
  • Jack feels out of place, even among other neurodivergent peers (possibly other queer and/or ADHD theatre folk).
  • Jack can't explain what they're feeling (alexithymia).
  • Jack's Lament highlights their depression, malaise, and struggles (including arguably around gender).
• Jack latches on to the idea of Christmas and wants to be like that for themselves.
  • Jack thinks this will make them happy (What's This? song).
  • Jack doesn't understand it, but tries to do it regardless (Jack's Obsession song).
  • It's basically Jack trying to be something they're not (cis het neurotypical).
• Sally represents Jack's trans+ fem self.
  • Jack ignores Sally, despite the many signs she keeps giving him, and doesn't understand her fears over the venture.
  • Sally's not sure that Jack will ever listen to her (Sally's Song).
• Jack eventually crashes (literally and figuratively), realising how foolish and damaging their actions were.
  • Trying to be someone else made them realise how important it was to be themselves, and how much fun that can be if they embrace it (Poor Jack).
• Jack's true happiness comes when they realise that Sally had been right all along and that they should have listened to her.
  • By accepting Sally, Jack becomes complete (Finale / Reprise).
  • It reminds us of how Neo's love for Trinity in The Matrix is an allegory for Neo accepting that they're trans (self-acceptance; self-love).

These are very raw thoughts, but needed to get them out before our mind imploded under the weight 😅

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• Post on ways to help folks cope with the heat, especially in places not designed for high heat (especially prolonged heatwaves)
• Researched post on overlap between symtoms of RSD and certain MH conditions
• Memes
  • Doctor Who - [cis people] don't do that!
  • Others that we can't remember right now

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More notes to ourselves

• Write something about the adaptation of Paris Lees' What It Feels Like For A Girl.
  • How painful certain parts of it feel when they hit a nerve.
  • How othered we feel from the experiences of trans people who recognised, accepted, and embraced their queerness young, engaged in queer party culture, and then realised they were trans.
• Try to do a trans voice Friday recording again, even if it ends up being another rant about voice training and dysphoria.
• Update folks on NHS gender clinic, complaint, and IFR stuff.
  • Also provide update on GP, IFR, and VFS.
• Possibly make a trans meme from a bit from a recent Doctor Who episode.
• Possibly discuss job hunting and benefit shite.

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Note to selves

Update driving licence and passport when possible.

The photo on those (pre-GAHT and hair removal) increasingly doesn't look like us any more 😅

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Note to self/selves: go through posts using the DIYHRT hashtag, then do any of:

• Answer questions.
• Boost where requested.
• Like posts.

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Really need to actually look up our notes tomorrow and write up posts. Need to write up:

• Rant about voice training survivorship bias.
• Rant about HRT being delayed for trans youth.

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Note to selves: write a vent post about survivorship bias in voice training.

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