Looks like our baby Elliot has been cast as baby Kaz.
I love Kaz and I love that he's getting the attention he deserves because that kid is incredible, but I just want to cry because HE IS OUR BABY ELLIOT AND HE SHOULD GET TO KEEP BEING OUR BABY ELLIOT 🥺😭😭
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Tired and on a train right now but im thinking about raiden sooo much. I love mgs2 its a horror trans allegory to me
Raiden is so transfem imo. Shes been forced into this masculine roll her whole life and it comes to a head in mgs2 when shes placed in the huge role of solid snake. Now snake himself doesn’t even embody this huge macho persona hes made out to be. “The perfect soldier” solidified by shadow moses and only “corrupted afterwards. Raiden is forced to take on this overwhelming masculine role, a test subject meant to be the next generation of unstoppable strong men.
Raiden’s story is one of a struggle with self identity and being able to live a life for himself, and this can be read trans or cis, but its so so interesting for me to read it as trans. Going along with the headcanon that solid snake is transmasc, taking control of his genes as “the failed twin” and forging his own life; his speech to raiden at the end of mgs2 feels like an older trans person giving advice to someone who hasn’t realized themself yet. Live your own life, find out who you are, we dont determine what the next generation is all we can do is bring them into a better more understanding world. Dont try to be me and dont let them force you to be me. Its ok to not be masculine. (Sidenote this speech and the one at the end of mgs1 is what makes mgs4 so out of place and terrible but thats another conversation)
Anyway long story short i really love raiden as transfem. I think it fits well with her storyline, making her own identity, and breaking away from this deadly masculine roll shes been forced into her whole life.
Wrapping back around to mgs2 being a horror game to me, it feels like the culmination of a psychological horror story. Cant site specifics rn cause i havent been through the whole game in a while, but raidens story feels like a constant disconnect of identity (for trans and trauma reasons). Mgs2 is a scheme created specifically to shatter Raiden into the mold they want for her. Psychological horror meant to make her question her personality, her reality, and her choices. That can be used as a very good allegory to going through the most internally violent depressive depersonalization period before coming to terms with your identity.
Setting aside the rest of her story for a minute, i think after mgs2 she takes a little while to figure herself out. She was already a little femmy before and doesnt change much. Imo shes transfem nonbinary specifically. I think she prefers to be a bit androgynous it makes her feel good. But she gets more comfortable with openly wearing more fem stuff, and allowing herself to be more vunerable with herself and others. She gets happier :) she figures it out
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they’re in the middle of a lawsuit and he’s walking around looking like this?????? 😭
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sorry but i can’t stop thinking abt how sab s2 fucked literally every character arc 😭 like NO ONE was safe
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well kaz brekker could never be cassel sharpe. not to me. for one simple reason and it’s that i didn’t know kaz in ninth grade 🙄 and perhaps even more importantly. leigh bardugo is not as good a writer as holly black. but that is neither here nor there. xoxo beth
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i have this huge metal thing in my mouth now i am GOING TO STAR BITING. i cant move my tongue to the left without feeling Huge Scratchy Metal Thing. im dying methinks
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killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing killing
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ep. 4 shadow and bone spoilers...
WHY THE FUCK IS HALF OF CROOKED KINGDOM HAPPENING RN?????? ik that they're trying to pack as much in as they can just in case the show isn't renewed but all the plots are just so messed up.
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