#They slash Them

[revengeghoulette]

Dad Jokes

Phantom: Hey Rain, how does a non bianary person kill people?

Rain: mm? how?

Phantom: THEY / THEM!

Rain: *throws closest item to him*

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[clementiiny]

happy pride to all my knife enbys <3

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[wickedcinnamonroll]

I just watched They/Them and it was fucking perfect

This won’t be a detailed review or anything I just really wanted to share my thoughts cause I’m already seeing posts saying to boycott it and it makes me so upset to see people misunderstanding this movie.

(And to people saying to boycott it cause Blumhouse made it: were y’all saying the same thing about Halloween or Halloween Kills? Or The Invisible Man? Or Get Out? Or Ma? Or Freaky? Split is an awful Ablest movie I 100% agree and saying Blumhouse produces everything isn’t an excuse for their hand in making that, but if anyone should be blamed, it’s Shyamalan. He wrote, directed and produced it while They/Them is made by completely different people so it’s unfair to punish it for the actions of another director who worked with the same production)

Let me start off by saying yes, it was absolutely difficult to watch at times thanks to the in universe homophobia, transphobia, biphobia (both acted out by others and internally), abusive actions and language, the death of an animal and if those things trigger you, you don’t have to watch this movie and I don’t blame you for not wanting to watch something triggering. That being said, that is not an excuse to spread misinformation about what it is or isn’t just based on the trailer and summary.

This is not a movie made with the soul purpose of making and hurting/killing queer characters. This is a movie exploring the horrors of gay conversion, the unique struggles we go through, queer friendships and relationships and taking actions into your own hands to defend yourself and others. Queer characters are insulted and hurt by the camp counselors to show how evil they are and spoiler alert: all of the homophobic camp counselors and only one gay camper die (and I believe the way it was handled was for the most part pretty good). People saying it’s not a gay revenge movie are just wrong. Perhaps a spoiler but the slasher is absolutely doing this to take revenge on the counselors and to make them pay for what they’ve done to gay kids.

The slasher isn’t treated/viewed as just as bad as the counselors or worse (though they are arrested but honestly just a commentary on how fucked the legal system is and vigilante stuff). The gay characters don’t call them a monster for what they’ve done, only that they don’t want to join in their vigilante work and instead try to return to normalcy, which is completely understandable. As much as I’d love to kill a homophobe, the idea of actually ending someone’s life is fucking terrifying so I can fully relate to the main nonbinary character not wanting to spill the blood of another person.

Speaking of the gay characters, I thought they were all amazing, likable, relatable and realistic. I was extremely attached to them and felt their joy and pain and fear and it was a relief when they all survived. They weren’t all perfect and that’s what makes it so great. You have one or two gay characters who, despite being gay, hold partially transphobic beliefs or didn’t get people’s pronouns correct right away, showing the very real existence of inner community conflict and that yes, gay people can be transphobic or not understand the struggles trans people go through.

I can speak for myself at least when I say I’m so happy this movie exists. It further inspires and motivates me to work on my own queer horror story.

#they/them #they/them movie #they slash them #they slash them movie #sorry for any weird spacing #typing this on my phone

[khaoray]

What I Watched in 2022 ⤖ 53. They/Them (2022)

I've been fighting to be me for so long. I'm tired of fighting. I just wanna be.

#they/them #they slash them #horroredit #horrorgifs #filmedit #cinematv #dailyflicks #fyeahmovies #*gifs #*2022 #this would've been 100x more enjoyable if the kills actually happened on screen #but alas

[spookytuesdaypod]

nbc please contact me urgently i have ideas about a they/them sequel i think you’ll want to hear

#they slash them #m3gan #m3gan movie #theo germaine #quei tann #spooky tuesday

[defenestrates-you]

my thoughts are very messy but. the they/them movie is not queer torture porn. it's queer resistance, it's queer healing. it's a movie about the micro aggressive ways queer people are belittled and talked down too, it's about the horror of conversion therapy camps, and most importantly (slight spoilers for the ending)

it's about choosing to heal yourself instead of devoting your time to attacking your attackers.

#they/them movie #they slash them

[azuremist]

From what I’ve seen about that horror movie, They/Them, the team is really amping up the horrors of conversion therapy, and showing how much or a terrifying place it can be. The horror derives from the way that queer people are treated, and how normalized our fear and us being in danger is, on top of how dangerous ‘conversion therapy’-type rhetoric really is.

I dig it.

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[cormancatacombs]

Hey while everyone’s (rightfully) bitter about First Kill getting canceled, let’s not forget to support other queer horror works like They/Them!

It’s not perfect but it’s a good mix of harrowing & heartfelt 🏕

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[wizardnaturalist]

I keep seeing people in the tag say that the ending of They/Them was disappointing bcs it frames people who take revenge on their oppressors as just as bad as the oppressors themselves, when that is not at all the reading I got from it

Angie became a killer because those camp counselors Made Her That Way, just as surely as they made Gabriel and Sarah and Zane. That's part of the horror, that their personhood was so thoroughly condemned and rejected that they had nowhere else to put everything that hurt them except onto others. Angie was rendered incapable of healing from what was done to her and reconciling who she is because of the hatred that Owen and Cora instilled within her. There was nothing else she could do but lash out, as that was what was ingrained in her, she just managed to turn that violence around at what had hurt her, instead of who they told her to hurt. And is that not tragic? That her chance at a normal life, at health and joy and safety were stolen from her?

And note that Jordan never condemns her. Never calls her a monster or says shes "just like them". They only say that they cant be what she has become, that they dont have that violence and hatred withing themselves.

And in my opinion, that is a success. Angie saved them before they were unsalvageable. She allowed them to leave that camp intact.

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[logancomix]

They/Them (2022)

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[loverboyinthekitchen]

i had so many thoughts about they/them (2022) and i really think i on't ever stop talking about this movie – not because it's particularly great, just because it is So Much (when i watched it with a friend we were taking breaks very very frequently) and i decided to write a paper about it!! before you read the paper, read this first:

i wrote this paper because i think people are misunderstanding this movie.

overall i do not think i recommend this movie as a horror movie because i do think you need to be informed that this movie has some pretty grisly elements (animal death, electroshock, some other psychological stuff) that you should definitely approach with caution but if you are looking for a deep emotional reaction this might be the place to find it? of course, its not going to be everyone's thing.

i think there are conversations and critiques that can only take place after you have seen this movie – the actual traditional horror plot is shoddy, and should be talked about as well because it is definitely not without flaw, but it is not the source of the horror in this movie

frankly, the body paragraphs in my paper could easily be expanded into their own papers, and i definitely shoehorned my thoughts about this movie a little – BUT, i strongly stand with everything i said.

please please read and tell me what you think!! i would really really love a larger conversation about this honestly i'm just really excited about my paper heehee

#they/them #they slash them #horror movies #horror genre #horror #they/them movie #2022 horror #art #movies #queer culture #queerness #theo germaine #queer #lgbtq community #validation please? #engagement please? #reblogging again #emotional reactions to art

[nooowestayandgetcaught]

ngl i think angie phelps from they/them movie was right though 💅🏻✨ i love my killer queen

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[loudestcloud]

One of the few things that I didn't like about They/Them was that the WLW sex was quiet, soft and had music over it but the MLM sex was loud, not very cinematic and rough. It kinda rubbed me the wrong way to have them be so close together and be so different. I know it probably wasn't meant to given the amount of queer people involved in this movie, but it felt like 'WLW sex is always gentle and sweet and MLM sex and rough and fast', if that makes sense. Why did they mute the girl's moaning but keep the boys? Then you have the fact the girls are lit in soft summer sun with slow and beautiful shots of their body with close ups vs the boys fuck in a dark barn and moan shown by about 3 base shots then its over. I get the story telling of it and why it was shot that way for the plot but it felt weird. Idk, I'm Asexual and could just be reading it over too much because in sex repulsed.

#they/them #they slash them #they/them movie

[wesninskijr]

They/Them was so good and I'm sorry if you've hatewatched it or whatever bc it's a perfect queer catharsis movie lol like how can you watch that whole movie and think it's not. Angie literally got her revenge and all the kids survived and got to live their lives as themselves. The camp counselors are obviously the villians like? How do you come to such bad conclusions thinking it somehow demonized the kids

#they/them #they slash them #thanks for tuning in

[spookytuesdaypod]

“they slash them” more like me slashing stu/toby and veronica/kim in the forest scenes

#they slash them #monique kim #anna lore #austin crute #cooper koch #spooky tuesday

[defenestrates-you]

the slasher bits in they/them served the film more for providing levity and release from the psychological horror and the emotional trauma. i definitely don't think of it as a full slasher film because the kills were relatively painless and short with no chase scenes, no big tensions builds, nothing.

i still liked it as a horror/drama. I liked the character growth and the relationships and the final message.

#they slash them #they/them movie #i am not a horror fan btw