After many a shovel-swinging adventure throughout the Valley of Landurr, it's always nice to kick back and relax at a billowing campfire with the friends you've made along the way.
'I flirted with the idea that instead of being trans that I was just a cross-dresser (a quirk, I thought, that could be quietly folded into an otherwise average life) and that my dysphoria was sexual in nature, and sexual only. And if my feelings were only sexual, then, I wondered, perhaps I wasn’t actually trans.
I had read about a book called The Man Who Would Be Queen, by a Northwestern University professor who believed that transwomen who were attracted to women were really confused fetishists, they wanted to be women to satisfy an autogynephilia. And though I first read about this book in the context of its debunkment and disparagement, I thought about the electricity of slipping on those tights, zipping up those boots, and a stream of guilt followed. Maybe this professor was right, and maybe I was only a fetishist. Not trans, just a misguided boy.
About a year later, on the Internet, I come across a transwoman who added a unique message to the crowd refuting this professor. Oh, I wish I remember who this woman was, and I wish even more that I could do better than paraphrase her, but I remember her saying something like this: “Well, of course I feel sexy putting on women’s clothing and having a woman’s body. If you feel comfortable in your body for the first time, won’t that probably mean it’ll be the first time you feel comfortable, too, with delighting in your body as a sexual thing?”'
Listening to a podcast interview with the directors of Treasure Planet, and one of the most fascinating things is when they talk about how the '90s Disney animation climate was all about making these prestige animated films with stories that could have been done in live action (Hunchback, Pocahontas), and these guys fought to make films that could only be done (or at least be best done) with animation. Because it's kind of the inverse of their current philosophy of making everything live action even if it's a story that's better in animation. So anyway if the live-action Treasure Planet thing is really happening, it's like spitting in the face of this movie's intent.
and they were partners!
oh my god they were partners...
Do you ever think about how in the original Treasures of knowledge game, Carmen and Jules were partners at ACME and probably had all sorts of adventures together? do you?? because i do, all the time
(Explanation of terms and locations under the cut)
Galaxy: A system of planets
The "Solus" planets (Angler Planet, Eris Planet, etc.): Planets that aren't tethered to a galaxy-- they occupy their own space in the Etherium's vast gaps between galaxies
Nebula: Large, conspicuous galactic trails that help ships navigate through the Etherium.
Abyss: Uncharted "waters". They are denser, darker parts of the Etherium that are deemed much too dangerous, and nearly impossibly to navigate or chart.
Do you have a habit of devouring anything you read? Do you have a fiery passion for stories? Is your library card singed? You might just have a case of Book Wyrms! Feel fabulous feeding your fantastical desires with this fine fashion statement!
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Also, sorry the captions are so unorganized. I made this all in shitty clipchamp and editing the auto-captions in that was NOT easy and I could not find an option to manually transcribe this dumb video. This was the best-looking I could make them...