katt, migrating 🌟 🌈 @starkatt@awoo.space
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I'm a leftist trans gay fox girl. More than one thing can be true at a time. I believe in agency, subjectivity, and beauty.
In my day job, I'm an apprentice electrician.
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Joined Apr 2017
I've taken to using "appellation" to refer to the same thing, but I don't know if that's actually technically correct; maybe it's just making things worse
I'm currently rather annoyed that "epithet" has come to be a synonym with "slur", since the more traditional meaning/concept is actually pretty great.
...I do have one in my display name here, after all :p
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@starkatt In high school I had 2 dinosaur stuffies I named Trotsky and Lenin and they were lovers so... Obviously it's canon
Shipping Trotsky/Lenin: a great idea???
So it turns out I like durian instant coffee mix enough to go to ebay
and import some from Malaysia after running out of my first supply.
It's good!
catdad toots the matrix
@tcql@octodon.social A lot of this might seem a stretch, and a number of the specifics kinda are, but watching this movie as a trans person you can *definitely* feel it, especially in the interactions between Agent Smith and Neo.
catdad toots the matrix
@tcql@octodon.social No worries :)
catdad toots the matrix
@tcql@octodon.social There's a *lot* out there if you search, but this article is a pretty dang comprehensive rundown.
https://www.themarysue.com/decoding-the-transgender-matrix-the-matrix-as-a-transgender-coming-out-story/
catdad toots the matrix
@tcql@octodon.social Hey so have you read any of the stuff about how The Matrix is a trans narrative?
Mastodon really seems to have a knack for preview-cropping images right to the boobs.
@what@mastodon.social That's... kind of cool actually.
They do feel pretty portentous.
@what@mastodon.social I haven't and that makes me kinda sad 'cause owls are really good.
A real big chunk of my media analysis toolkit is stuff I learned thanks to my HS English teacher, and I'm really grateful for that.
Pulling apart the implicit arguments of a work isn't actually that complicated most of the time, but it does take a lot of practice.
That's ultimately what media analysis is. Looking at what's trying to be communicated, what's actually being communicated, and how the communication is being done.
And I ultimately believe there's nuance and implicit argument going as far down as you want to look, leading into more and more basic cultural assumptions and norms. Stuff that we're so used to it's universally unquestioned.
Every piece of media, every story in existence, is inherently an argument that certain beliefs about the world are true.
It's worth paying attention to what those arguments are.
I read the first volume of The Wicked + The Divine.
It's like a freight train to the face.
Which I suppose is rather the point.
Useful keyboard shortcut while typing in compose windows: ctrl-A highlights the entire text. Good for deleting or editing.
...okay I *guess* technically there's a trans pride flag always flying on the flagpole outside our house.
Like, wearing a rainbow cape levels of visibly queer.
I don't own a rainbow cape.
@sev@witches.town Yessss I endorse this.
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Moving to @starkatt
I'm a leftist trans gay fox girl. More than one thing can be true at a time. I believe in agency, subjectivity, and beauty.
In my day job, I'm an apprentice electrician.
Please introduce yourself when sending a follow request if we haven't recently chatted. Interacting with me is encouraged even if I don't follow back. I'm here to get to know people, not be a fountain of Content.
🕯️
Joined Apr 2017
