#anyways tldr Amalthea transmasc bc idk who else would tweak that hard over being forced to take on the form of a woman against her choosing | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

trueknave · 2 months ago

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“A mare? A mare?!” You’re so transmasc Amalthea

Amalthea the last unicorn ftm allegory the moment that she’s forced to exist as a human woman—IN a woman’s body—she falls into despair and nearly loses her sense of self. When she comes back to being a unicorn, she’s permanently altered by the fact that she’s been the only unicorn to know the sense of sadness and grief that came from that experience. Is this anything.

#sorry grew up w this book & movie #means a lot to me and I’ve been ruminating on how to read Amalthea and unicorns overall my entire life #I think unicorns in the context of the last unicorn stand to be read as allegories for a lot of things #but specific to queer allegories as a category I think they read pretty clearly as transgender in nature #Amalthea being read as ftm to me is not just projection towards these two specific instances #she has a deeply unhappy song about her changes in quote unquote becoming a woman #ultimately she doesn’t want it—she’s not happy and hasn’t once been #and I think the nail in the coffin for her being read as such is the fact that all of it was meant to protect her from imminent death #and then a vehicle to learn more of the fate of the rest of the unicorns #essentially a facade that she hates #though she reads as a ftm allegory to me I view Amalthea more as a representation of dysphoria and a more ambivalent state in a lot of ways #I will also say that I think Molly reads as a trans woman to me and idk if that was intentional #Molly has so much respect & understanding & compassion for Amalthea and there’s this connection between women and unicorns historically #their bond means a lot to me and their scenes together break my heart because Molly seems to be the only one who truly understands-#-the terror Amalthea feels in being trapped in a body that doesn’t belong to or fit her #anyways tldr Amalthea transmasc bc idk who else would tweak that hard over being forced to take on the form of a woman against her choosing

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