Ah. Wonderful.

Idk man it’s so easy to get bogged down in all the bullshit online but when my then-6 year old cousin found out I was trans he said “ok” then corrected my grandma when she misgendered me. I was once the third between a gay man and a lesbian. Two lesbians once invited me back to their place when I presented as a man. I met an AMAB nb butch who looked strikingly to outsiders like a cis man and it was one of the more sapphic experiences I’ve had. I nervously wore a boydyke shirt to pride and got 3 different cis-looking femme folks tell me they loved my shirt. I once told a trans group at a protest that any pronouns were fine for me and one person said “wow, I’m impressed and intimidated by people like that. I don’t know that I could be that chill with pronouns.” I once told a GNC friend I wished I could wear a type of “opposite” gender clothing after I had already transitioned and so it would be associated with my AGAB and he said “You could just do it.” I’ve had cishet men fight cops for me before. The first time I had a doctor ask me if my name was different than what was on my forms I had to try not to cry. Last week, a phone call with a doctor’s office where I am generally cis passing asked unprompted if my name listed is what I want to be called. It touched me then too. I told a lesbian friend once I felt like my attraction to men AND women both felt gay. She said “makes sense.” And we moved on. I go by different pronouns in different circles. I’ve had gay women love my facial hair. I’ve had gay men like my tits. It’s all out there, I promise. It can be hard to find it but I promise there is community like you and community who likes you. And it’s more messy and beautiful than tumblr discourse makes it out to be.

Loving the Willow show, especially since, unlike a lot of Disney stuff that has First Gay Character, Kit is allowed to be flawed

Like, DEEPLY flawed. Actually, it isn't unlike Glimmer from She Ra and the princesses of power. Kit is your typical rebellious princess, but when she gets out into the world, that belief that She is right and everyone else is wrong, doesn't immediately go away. Especially not when her brother could be dying every second they delay.

Madmortigan may have left before they were old enough to truly know him, but she and Airk have both inherited traits from their dad. They're both ultimately noble souls with the hearts of true heroes, but Airk is a skirt-chasing womanizer scared to death of commitment, and Kit is a self-absorbed prat whose every snarky word makes Willow wanna shove a tree up her ass. Her relationship with Jade isn't some sapphic fairy tale, at least not yet, because Jade has to constantly drag kit kicking and screaming into doing the right thing and by episode 2 you can tell she's getting REALLY sick of it.

Willow doesn't just fully embrace the queerness of its lead, it also embraces that queer people are just as complicated, messy, and kinda shitty as everyone else.

I am LOVING this show

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stars-obsessed

2 years ago

This is important to me ok