Episode 3 of Baymax is SO important for all of the reasons that people a lot smarter and more articulate than me have been saying, but i also want to mention it’s absolutely hilarious and I want to consensually kiss on the mouth whoever came up with the concept of Baymax in the menstrual health aisle. The double meaning period joke was corny but did in fact have me laugh out loud. Hats off to all who worked on ‘Sofia’
Little known peice of trans Masc rep is from the last of us part 2.
In this there is a character named Lev who is a part of the seraphites. It is explained that before he went by Lev his name was Lily, a very typical girl's name.
So it his HIGHLY likely that in this game Lev could be considered, canonicaly, Trans!
rant about gay chars(travis phelps) and fem writers
me watching ppl write travis with a female reader, knowing he's a canonically gay character.
chat that's erasing rep, not saying it's as bad as whitewashing but it's essentially the same thing
females HE'S NOT FOR YOU!!! if you like him romantically just write drafts of him n you? make fanart?
and if u dk how to write male x male, then js don't write travis? it's like cis ppl trying to write trans chars and honestly js making rep worse
but, again, my bias of being a trans mlm aside, i can't stop you. it's just, i hate watching fem ppl erase canon gay rep js bc they find the char attractive.
and yes, ik it's not actually "erasing rep", as it's still canon. it's just very frustrating and id appreciate if writers just left gay chars with their gayness
AGAIN, i CANNOT stop you from writing male(gay char) x female, this is just a rant/vent.
Genuinely, the mere thought that OPLA may have accidentally confirmed that Crocodile is trans is making me go absolutely apeship (also this being accidentally "revealed" by Luffy's actor saying things he shouldn't say is such a Luffy Thing To Do, it's absolutely amazing)
But I swear to god if I see one more news article or YouTube video titled "OPLA made Crocodile A WOMBYM?!??!?" I am going to nuke this entire planet out of orbit
like. genuinely sorry if this is like, out of line, and i’m not gonna name the post i saw because i don’t really want to start anything and it’s just someone expressing frustration so of course i’m not gonna try and police them, but i kinda feel like you can say “i wish there were more trans women in x media” without saying “they say there’s trans rep but the only trans rep they have is afab/trans masc”
i think ppl kinda miss the point of why pink femme girl power aesthetics are empowering to some women, and this isnt specifically about the barbie movie bc i havent seen it so idk how its gonna pull the whole thing off, but it has definitely sparked a lot of discourse around this. but its not about "telling girls its ok to be feminine" because of course the society already pushes femininity onto women. its just that women are devalued, and women are devalued no matter what they do, however femininity is FOR women and it is because of that association with women that femininity is also devalued (regardless of gender, but even when performed by women). it is an expectation, but it is taken for granted. like for example it is expected for women to do makeup and care about fashion, however it is simultaneously taken as something shallow and frivolous to have as an interest or hobby, and people who point out that it actually takes a lot of skill and artistry are dismissed and brushed off. and again this is a skill that is just expected that all women will have! and celebrating femininity, in for example movies like legally blonde, is saying that no, there is inherent value in this thing, there is inherent value and skill and use in having traditionally feminine hobbies, feminine women had to work and femininity doesnt make someone lesser. and when we accept these as their own skills, hobbies, interests, hopefully we can also separate them from womanhood, and we can accept women as, yknow, their natural state. femininity is an action and it has value but women should damn well opt out of it if they want to.
Gatsby and I may have been nothing to men like Tom Buchanan, but men like that did not know that we were as divine as the heavens. We were boys who had created ourselves. We had formed our own bodies, our own lives, from ribs of the girls we were once assumed to be.
i'm pretty much no longer that interested anymore to post not fandom related original ocs of mine anymore cuz other trans ppl will just look at them and assign whatever gender they think they are every time and it's gotten so annoying to me that i'd be happier if i just never shared them ever again <3
There's not enough love or rep of trans men who are feminine, trans men with bigger breasts, trans men that are fat, trans men that have PCOS, trans men that have skin conditions, trans men that have longer hair, trans men that wear dresses, trans men that are also nonbinary, trans men who aren't white, etc... So this one is for all the trans men out there that are under appreciated and under represented. I'm kissing you on the forehead and I'm also your mom/dad/parent now.