i remember when leelah alcorn died in 2014. loads of people drew art to her in tribute. and it was sort of an unspoken rule to draw her how she had wanted to appear, with long hair etc, rather than the short hair her parents forced her to get
transphobes just focus on drawing caricatures that look as ugly and 'degenerate' as possible. self hating trans person art isn’t here to look ugly per se, it just is trying to highlight every insecurity that exists
except the former line is not in iambic pentameter which is what emily wilson was writing in? can you even read ancient greek? how are you to judge how good each translation is?
"I hope straight White men get full creative control over video games, movies and TV shows."
amazing how soy the right has become. everything is pop culture. everything ultimately boils down to their consoomer products. everything is a grievance over their heckin games
i think what annoys me about this is less the discussion of whether kurt could have been trans and more the imposition of identity upon him
like we don’t know if kurt would have identified as binary, nonbinary, a femboy; we don’t know know about pronouns etc
unfortunately a lot of teachers seem to forget that what for them is a random day they will forget about as soon as they go home, will be defining memories for children that will be with them for the rest of their lives
i love it when people say to be shit like "skyrim is such a good rpg! you can make so many decisions that affect the entire world" and then you look at those decisions and it's just changing the colour of the armour guards wear and adding a different guy to the throne
when people talk about twitter having contradictory opinions they are talking about usually two separate groups who have nothing in common but get blended together in the wilderness of social media