wish i'd brought my laptop to work so i could take advantage of some righteous indignation to write something up... i suppose longhand will do for now, though
finished foundation! time to read foundation (and empire)
that they absolutely only let her into the band bc they find out she has a dick and so "doesn't count" as a woman (since the lead guitarist refuses to be in a band with a woman bc they always lead to drama)
this is her btw and uhh she rules okay.
i'm thinking about this bc i was telling a friend about the manga Bremen, which is one of the earliest positive depictions of a trans woman i can remember seeing and feeling something towards... but the circumstances of that character in the manga are... not great.
a hard thing about growing up trans is that for most of the 20th century, almost every depiction of trans women was at best deeply flawed and at worst actively malicious. but when you're young and new you don't get to choose which media hits you just in the right spot at the right time to imprint deeply on you, so i, at least, ended up with these characters, movies, comics which meant a lot to me but which hurt other people i love
i never know how to describe female prisoner scorpion to ppl bc if you just explain the plot, it sounds like a bog-standard exploitation film. which i mean. is not entirely inaccurate. but it’s also so GOOD
I have made 31 tiny chickens! 1cm long apiece, 3d printed and hand painted. We're going to be visiting my parents out of town for Easter, and I'm going to hide them all over their house without them knowing... One is gold. She's special.
I wonder what the cottonwoods know that I do not