It's this feeling, like you're about to tear someone apart. Everyone. And then yourself. I felt like that all the time. Or would be groggy from the medicine.
And… back here, at your place, when I saw myself in your clothes, I… I understood that I'm not a normal girl. I mean, that I'm not a girl. That I'm a boy.
That anger went away.
trans culture is watching fanfic on netflix and getting so excited because!!! that's you!!! it's not even just about a trans character/has a vague side character,, it's literally you, a gay trans dude who has never seen any other published content about your identity and it even has a happy ending??? what dimension have you hopped to?? and then you go on the internet and find a) it has hardly any media attention at all, which seems fine and whatever except then b) all of the attention it does have is from people on other parts of the trans spectrum talking about how shit it is because it doesn't accurately represent exactly how they felt??? anyways maybe i'm disproportionately sad about it because it's late and i'm tired but. not gonna lie the wind was really taken out of my sails for this one.
Now that people are finding out about the first Polish adaptation of the Witcher, I can't wait when they realise that the actor who played Jaskier also voiced Shrek in the Polish dub