Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

« In the fall of 1979, a woman entered Classics Bookstore intending to purchase The Joy of Cooking and mistakenly picked up The Joy of Gay Sex. »

if a new game came out today which tried to portray the 90s or 00s it would do it as a bit or aesthetic (see: Murder by Numbers [still a good game]) but pokémon remakes are remakes of how the 90s and 00s portrayed themselves

despite the joking tone i do think continuing to re·encode images of the past is a meaningful and worthwhile pursuit, and there isn’t a whole lot of it in New Media outside of pokémon video game remakes

how will children understand the desire to get a television interview in a time before streamers and youtube if they never play gen iii or iv

if they don't do another remake of gen ii then how will kids learn what the radio is

do the periods line up with the in-universe chronology? absolutely not

i'm okay with pokémon game remakes primarily because each one is a period piece

nintendo doesn't want me to name my slakoth “tired dyke” but i do what i want

i should probably be a good little dyke and come out 😩

i’m pretty sure this was a harsh on sedgwick lol

read a thing yesterday which was like “treating F/F and M/M as equally queer just allows these dang fujoshi theorists and their boys love queerdom to dominate the scene” only the 80’s and 90’s lesbian and gay theorist version

and trans people need to plan for THAT future, which is OUR future

because transness predates queerness and it will postdate this current intellectual interest in the various potentialities it offers

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 😒