The Courage to Withstand¹

this picture is so funny to me divorced from context. i think more amusement centers should just remind you of your mortality

can't stop thinking about this movie tbh..

so much of the horror genre is informed by the metaphor of queer/transness as monstrousness. especially emphasizing the amount of horror that depends on the audience's repulsion at seeing a human body changing into a new, other body. I Saw the TV Glow is about the horror of NOT transitioning. the horror of static. the horror of looking into yourself and being terrified of what you see. the horror of seeing who you are and choosing to do nothing about it. the horror of looking away. and by god is it terrifying.

Fuck.

this is an endorsement

four trans people walk into a movie theater …