#when they call her ''the spell'' its basically deadnaming degendering and dehumanizing all at once | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

calypsolemon · 5 months

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truly love the energy that is bonzle being pretty solidly gendered as a woman despite being a nonhuman transgender allegory. I'm not entirely against the whole "they're nonhuman so of course their gender is nonbinary" thing bc we all project our transgender experiences in different ways, and obviously I'm not saying if you see bonzle as some other gender that you'd be wrong, but like. It's nice seeing a cartoon character be coded not just as trans, but as a trans woman/girl, and it not be like yknow. A horrible joke or something.

#it especially gives depth to how specifically people degendering her/deadnaming her is directly tied to objectifying and de-personifying her #it's exactly the sort of allegory I like - one that wraps its metaphor and what the metaphor is representing in the same package #when they call her ''the spell'' its basically deadnaming degendering and dehumanizing all at once #and conversely when someone calls her bonzle its gender and personhood affirming #dragons rising spoilers #bonzle

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