Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

i think the queer project still is relevant and i wish people would work harder to keep it alive rather than dusting it under the rug and making transness the Next Big Thing

(which btw has always been the relationship between gays and transness but that’s a longer digression)

it’s hard not to feel like it is relatively more privileged queers taking advantage of the cultural currency that transness has now without participating in or giving back to the actual trans community more broadly

the logical argument is sound: if you are queer, then you disrupt the gender binary; if you disrupt the gender binary, then you are trans

but the effect has been to both deflate and distract from the political project of the queer movement and to politicize, intellectualize, and ideologize the visceral and embodied trans experience

not sure i’m entirely a fan of the trans umbrella just replacing the queer umbrella as it did

i can’t tell if this is offensive or hilarious

Milky Chance made another Trip Tape and nobody told me 😒

it’s pretty rare for me to read a story and say “‘Ocarina of Time’ did it better” but there you go

if more authors asked this very simple question the world of english literature would be in a very different place

the problem is they’re asking the wrong question. the issue is not one of finding the correct vocabulary or phrasing. the question is how to capture what vocabulary and phasing are, by their very nature, unable to touch

i don’t think they’re unaware. i think they’re fully cognizant and it shows in their reliance on trope and pathos. they try to get around the issue by powering quickly through it with a vague directness that hopefully leaves the reader to fill in the gaps. but it is illusory and thin, and once the screen is punctured, one finds an empty room behind

“i don’t understand why it isn’t working!”

writers be like, hey you know this thing which is notoriously inept at capturing depth of feeling, i think i am going to pin everything on that

stop trying to convey emotion with language

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@SportsGoblin seattle has always been full of baseball fans they're just usually mildly embarrassed by the fact