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asexual-means-no-attraction · 1 year

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How did you come to the conclusion that you were trans and that transition would be right for you? If you don't want to tell it publicly I understand

Buckle up for a long post lol.

Long story short:

It was a long process involving lots of body image issues, research, and ignoring the problem to even accept the idea. And then even longer to decide what was right for me with transitioning.

Long story long:

As a kid I had a whole temper tantrum about wanting to be a boy. This isn't unusual even with cis kids. My parents got me ice cream and told me I can do anything a boy can (tho they were at a loss when I talked about being able to pee standing up). As a little kid I didn't have the words or mental ability to explain what it was I was experiencing. I just knew I wanted to be a boy. But without having a good reason I decided I was ok being a girl.

That was that for a long time. I just put the idea to the back of my head and ignored it. From there it was just a series of body image issues. Which again, isn't rare for cis people. Especially young girls.

I was very much a tomboy growing up. It's not that I didn't like girly stuff, cuz I did. But it always made me uncomfortable in a way I couldn't explain. It took a lot of effort to wear the pretty pink dress that I liked. Cuz I did like it. I love flowing dresses and clothes with big flowers. I love how certain styles of clothes fit on people's bodies. It's just so nice to look at and wear. But if I saw a mirror or looked down at myself I got spiked anxiety. I hated it. I didn't want to be there anymore. I wanted to take it off. I couldn't do it.

But when I wore clothes that covered me completely I was fine. I enjoyed boys clothes because they didn't have weird cuts and the T-shirts had big designs that didn't lay directly on my chest. I was big into girl scouts so I was rolling around in the dirt every other weekend.

With kid TV shows always showing the tomboy secretly liking girly things and being self conscious about it, I figured that was what I was experiencing. It's very easy and common to think dysphoria is literally anything else, especially body dysmorphia or body imagine issues in general.

I left it at that all throughout puberty. I hated my chest, but then again, I thought it was just my body image issues. And wearing a bigger shirt made me feel comfortable. I was able to go to school and make friends. I was happy and enjoyed myself. I was comfortable with the discomfort I had towards my body. And so I ignored it. And I ignored it. And I ignored it.

At the end of high school I finally had to address one of the problems I had. Ie. My sexuality. My dysphoria (unknown at the time) made me believe I was asexual. The idea of dating was very off putting. I didn't like being called 'girlfriend' and thinking of kissing someone made me wanna vomit. But by the end of high school my feelings towards 2 specific friends was stronger than my aversion. And after a lot of writing out my feelings through random characters I made up I figured out that what I felt was indeed attraction. I still didn't like the idea of kissing, but the idea of dating was nice. So I started id-ing as a lesbian and went on with my life.

Come college I participated in a drag show my freshman year. One of my roommates did some makeup to give me a beard and I already had a suit. The entire night people called me by my now legal name, and called me a man. I wasn't able to explain it then either, but the feeling I had that night was incredible. It wasn't just a "haha this is fun being called male." It was like I was finally myself. I was more comfortable in my body than I ever had been before. The only thing that changed was how people perceived me.

After that I couldn't stop thinking about it. Thoughts that I had previously ignored were now crowding the front of my mind. For a year I was silently obsessing over that night. I did research about drag and it wasn't until about 6 months after the drag show that I even considered being trans. Because I always thought I was comfortable being female. I had never experienced being male before, so there was no way for me to compare the two.

A good comparison: imagine you're on a train going through a tunnel. You're fine in the tunnel. You have nothing to complain about. You're content. But then you exit the tunnel and you see an amazing view. You didn't think that a view like this was possible. You were fine just being in the tunnel your whole trip but now you don't want to ever go back into the tunnel.

^^^ now you gotta be careful with comparisons but they can be helpful. And I think that one gets the idea of how I was feeling across.

I was content as a girl, but once I experienced being male I didn't want to go back. My body image issues got worse every single day. It was harder to ignore them. I finally decided to buy a binder and cut my hair. I still didn't think I was trans. But I thought it might help. And just hearing a few friends say they thought I was a boy from behind, or being called sir on accident by people was a joy. Even if they corrected themselves afterwards it was still nice. I felt, for a moment, like I was seen.

I ended up making a blog on Tumblr (not this one) where I typed out my feelings. I have a lot of side blogs and a few are for different emotions (a blog for when I'm happy vs sad for example). I ended up typing a lot of extremely depressing shit on that blog. Not quite suicidal stuff but boarder line. Like I said. My body imagine issues were still getting worse and this along with several friendships falling apart (including one with one of the girls I had a severe crush on) caused a bit of a depression spiral. I was feeling terrible.

On that blog I also talked about possibly being trans. I actually used a cake reference (cringe I know). I don't remember the exact wording but the idea was that I like vanilla cake but I love chocolate cake more. I'd be ok eating vanilla but I'd always choose chocolate over vanilla. The idea being that I was ok being a girl (I wasn't. I was just used to being uncomfortable) but I'd prefer to be a boy.

Looking back, a lot of what I said definitely pointed at being trans. I just had a hard time accepting it. By chance, one of my friends (now gf) found my blog. It was a complete coincidence. After scrolling through it she realized that it was weirdly familiar until she got to a post were I actually had a photo of me in a binder. Even though I didn't have my face in the photo she was able to recognize me and my dorm bathroom. The shit I had on that blog was depressing and extremely concerning. And naturally, she flipped.

I woke up at 5am to her crying about how she doesn't want to make me eat vanilla cake and asking if I'm ok. She was extremely supportive but very worried. She was in the middle of researching trans stats and just read about the high risk of suicide. We've known each other since we were 12 and she felt bad for not noticing anything.

After a long cry fest from both of us I finally opened up to someone about how I was feeling. I also finally started accepting the idea that I was in fact trans. After that I slowly started coming out to more people. I started seeing a therapist. And after another few months talked to my Dr about how transitioning worked.

I got a referral to a specific LGBT department. They got me an appointment, though I had to wait a few more months. At first I thought all I would want was top surgery. I've always hated my chest so I thought that even if I realized I wasn't trans, this is something that I wouldn't regret.

I was nervous about hrt because I was already so sweaty and hairy. And I genuinely hated shaving. I didn't want to shave my face. I just wasn't sure how much of those changes I actually wanted. But the more I thought about it, the more I actually did like the idea. It was more so that I was so comfortable being uncomfortable in my body that it was hard to imagine what WOULD make me comfortable.

About a year and a half after I officially came out I started hrt. I decided to hold off for another year for top surgery since I couldn't afford it at the time. And I found that I actually did enjoy shaving my face. And I liked how much more hair I got. I didn't like the sweat or my hair thinning. But I was very happy with everything. Plus I finally started to realize I did in fact like kissing lol. Imagining myself as a girl with people wasn't appealing. But seeing myself as a man was actually enjoyable. Dysphoria be a bitch lol.

I got top surgery a few months before I graduated college. And a few months after graduation I got my name changed legally. Still working on everything else.

So technically I guess, I realized I was trans through slowly discovering myself and learning to process my feelings. There wasn't a sudden "I'm 100% sure" moment. I took it slow and figured myself out. And now that I have medically transitioned I am significantly happier and more comfortable in my body. I wasn't sure if I would ever feel this way. And I never knew I could feel this way. But the night I felt like I was actually myself at that drag show is nothing compared to how I feel now. Things got a lot better. Not just because I transitioned but also because while I was processing and accepting myself, I also worked on setting better boundaries, being more on tune with my feelings, and trying to be a better person overall. All that combined has made me happier than I ever knew possible.

Tips:

Each step in your journey is yours to take. It's ok to wait. It's ok to rush. It's your decision. Let yourself make a choice at your own pace. What worked for me might not work for you. We're all different. But if what I wrote above feels familiar, take that as a chance to explore. You don't have to be 100% sure to test the waters.

Talking with someone helps more than you'll ever realize.

Remember that you don't have to know everything right now. Nor do you need to focus on it 24/7. It's ok to take a break or focus on other parts of yourself.

I hope that's the kinda thing you were looking for. If not, feel free to send another ask.

#Long post #Personal #Trans story #Ask #answered

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truecorvid · 3 years

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thinkin bout..... they/he pronouns...........

#im so noncommittal though I don’t let myself experiment with stuff which is stupid I know but like #idk lol #it’s like all throughout high school I was IDing as a lesbian but the whole time I was also going in circles about #whether I liked guys too but I wouldn’t even allow myself to consider experimenting with changing labels For No Good Reason #so I was just in my head about it and never talked about it to anyone except for my therapist #and it caused me a lot of strife!#and so I don’t want to do the same thing with my gender + how I express it etc #but well. hm.#I guess this post is me taking a tiny step to not do that bc so far I truly have only talked about it with my therapist #but now I am imparting it onto whoever reads this. here. take my gender thoughts take them I don’t want them anymore #anyways changing my bio is too scary for right now so I’ll just post about it and go #fuck I’ve forgotten my personal posts tag. oh well

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It's 2021, and I'm watching Buffy for the first time.

The Virgil on my Buffy journey is my long-distance girlfriend, who has loved the show for years. We just finished season 4, and I wanted to write about my favorite episodes so far. I suspect some of my faves are beloved by most fans, but others are weird, personal picks. Buffy fandom, please don't come for me.

I thought this post would be short but I was wrong.

Hono(u)rable Mentions: "Band Candy" S3E6 and "Halloween" S2E6

Both these episodes have fun premises where the Scoobies run around Sunnydale after it was upended by zany, chaotic dark forces. "Band Candy" is fun for devil-may-care teen Giles. "Halloween" is fun for 18th-century-ditz Buffy. These are both very good, and are the sorts of episode I can imagine happily rewatching in the future. I just have more to pontificate upon for the other episodes on this list.

10. "Ted" S2E11

I can’t say I enjoyed this episode, but it did take me for a wild ride. Probably nobody else has strong feelings about this weird story where Buffy's mom dates a stereotypical cheesy family man, who turns out to be a controlling abuser, who turns out to be a robot. I remember shouting at the screen, "Did Buffy just kill a human man?? Is it okay in the moral logic of this show for Buffy to kill a human if he's a direct physical threat to her??" I knew Buffy would have deeper stories than the monster of the week formula we'd seen so far, but this early in season 2, I had no idea when or how that would happen. This was the episode that finally taught me that Buffy is largely not interested in moral ambiguity, or in exploring what it means to be good or bad. Except for season-defining exceptions like Faith and Angel, evil characters are simplistically, essentially evil. But it was wild to believe for a moment that Buffy murdered her mom's abusive boyfriend and would have to live with the consequences.

9. "Helpless" S3E12

When Buffy tries to be genuinely scary, it succeeds with aplomb. The premise of this episode is dumb and contrived ("Giles has to remove Buffy's powers without her knowledge for a seeeecret test by the Watcher's Council") but the chase and fight in this episode are some of the most tense and spooky scenes of the whole series so far. Buffy's vulnerability makes the stakes feel real in a way few other episodes manage. And Buffy's victory is all the more satisfying because she can't punch her way out of this problem, she has to be smart and creative. The fridge horror, of course, is that Giles would endanger her like this in the first place, but that gets sorted out over the emotional arc of the next few episodes.

8. "I Only Have Eyes For You." S2E19

Another spooky episode, this one a classic ghost story of forbidden love ending in murder - but with the twist that the ghosts possess people's bodies to have them reenact their final moments. I love stories about breaking a doomed-to-repeat cycle. I love weird shit like the snakes manifesting in the cafeteria. And I really loved the choice to have Buffy and Angel come to understand their feelings about their own relationship by embodying these ghosts - especially how they embodied different genders than their own to better fit the "roles" of the haunting story, thus subverting the expected pattern. I found this episode clever, poignant, and effective.

7. "Who Are You?" S4E16

"Faith and Buffy switch bodies" is a wild premise, but the real joy of "Who Are You?" is watching Sarah Michelle Geller being an extremely talented actress for 45 minutes, portraying a totally different character. Watching Faith confronted by kindness and love from Buffy's mom, Riley, and her friends, then getting launched into an existential crisis over it is so great. Also, I just dig a good church fight.

6. "Hush" S4E10

As stated above, love an episode that reminds me that these people are talented actors! Featuring demons that render all of Sunnydale unable to talk, we get to watch great physical comedy right next to tense, silent fight scenes. The visual creepiness of the Gentleman and their straight-jacketed weird little helpers is hard to beat. "Hush" is such a clever episode that it ascends monster of the week status to become almost Twilight Zone-esque. Also, for the first time, Buffy sees Riley doing his Initiative thing, and Riley sees Buffy being the Slayer, but they can't talk about it?? That's good shit.

5. "The Wish" S3E9

Both "Something Blue" and "The Wish" feel like the writers decided to use fanfic premises on their own show... so obviously I like them a lot. But getting to watch a dark timeline AU with interesting world-building and attention to detail, a hilarious and horrifying Cordelia POV, AND a smirking kinky vampire Willow? Hello?? And the fact that the Wishverse comes up again in "Doppelgänger" (another truly fun episode) only improves my opinion. I imagine this is the kind of episode fans simply love coming back to.

4. "Restless" S4E22

This David Lynch-ass dream sequence was a weird choice for a season finale, but an extremely ambitious and cool episode. I should say up front that I love David Lynch-ass dream shit. There were creative and well-executed scene transitions as characters moved seamlessly from one dream room into another. Several memorably neat shots - Willow running between endless curtains as she tries to get onstage, Buffy alone in a vast desert with a weirdly high camera angle. And I got myself all excited thinking that the First Slayer would maybe become a different kind of antagonist - maybe not even fully revealed in this episode, or maybe an Id-like aspect of Buffy herself. But I forgot Whedon gonna Whedon, so the First Slayer had to be someone Buffy could punch in the end. And the First Slayer is sadly yet another primitive-themed, emotionally-stunted character of color for this show. Most of her lines in this episode are literally voiced by a white woman speaking for her, and of all the dumb quips to make, Buffy had a line about her hair being unprofessional? Also, I'm a lesbian, so the fact that the most explicit act of intimacy between Willow and Tara this show has allowed us to see occurs in Xander's horny dream sequence... it’s unforgivable, Joss. This episode was one of my favorites ever, deeply marred by some bad writing choices.

3. "Lovers Walk" S3E8

Spike, perhaps the best non-Willow character in this show, is back in Sunnydale, a hilariously heartbroken mess of a man, hell-bent on getting his former girlfriend Drusilla back. (Drusilla left him for a fungus demon.) So Spike breaks into a magic shop to get ingredients for a love spell, where he runs into Willow, who is getting ingredients for a de-lusting spell, because she is worried she and Xander will be too thirsty to behave appropriately in public with their actual partners, Oz and Cordelia. This is a hilarious moment just to exist. This is all the episode needed to do to satisfy me. But the fact that Spike then kidnaps Willow, and it ends with tragic stakes of everyone's relationships coming apart, not to mention me genuinely thinking Cordelia was dead for a minute there - wow. Chef’s kiss. The episode is balanced shockingly well between Spike being an ominous villain, and being the sort of lovable semi-evil (more gremlin-like) side character he'll become in season 4. What a wild ride.

2. "Graduation Day" S3E21-22

I'm counting this two part season finale as one because it's my list and I'll do what I want. "Graduation Day" feels like a quintessential Buffy episode executed to perfection. It has Buffy reaffirming her position as a moral heroine, sacrificing her own blood to save Angel's life even when she thought she had to kill Faith to save him. It has Buffy and Faith (or Buffy/Faith, as I prefer to think of them) getting to square off in a dramatic, tough fight. It has a lot of Mayor Wilkins, a character I truly adore for some reason. Nothing like a public administrator who plays mini golf in his office, wants you to chew with your mouth closed, and will kill a graduating class of high schoolers to gain immortality. The catharsis of the whole school getting to fight back against evil, instead of just Buffy against the world - a real joy. This episode misses the top spot for two reasons. "A special vampire poison and the only cure is the blood of a Slayer" is too contrived for me to let slide, and also I had to see Cordelia and Wesley kiss.

1. "Becoming" S2E21-22

Buffy’s season finales really do have good stories and satisfying payoff. First off, Buffy starts this episode by punching a cop and fleeing from the law. Later, Spike also punches a cop. A.k.a., Buffy said blue lives don't matter. Second - I haven't gotten a chance to comment on this yet, but all throughout season 2, evil Angel is such a joy to watch. As regular Angel, David Boreanaz makes exactly one face ("I am a kicked, angsty puppy") and bless his heart, it gets so tiresome. As evil Angel, he is so expressive, dynamic and terrifyingly creative in his badness. And I love his weird threesome energy with Spike and Drusilla. But also, it's so hard to watch Buffy suffer as she deals with her evil boyfriend doing evil things. Her ultimate choice in this episode, to kill Angel even as Willow's spell restores his soul, gave me some real big feels! Also, this episode marks the first moment of Willow doing big, plot-shifting magic on her own, solidifying her transformation from computer nerd to witch!

Also, shout-out to the many good smaller moments in this episode: Spike making awkward small talk with Buffy's mom, Buffy constantly dunking on Principle Snyder, and Giles being tortured by visions of Miss Calendar (RIP Miss Calendar, I was your biggest fan.)

"Becoming" is an excellent season finale and the kind of Buffy episode I imagine I will want to re-watch in the future just for nostalgia's sake.

#buffy the vampire slayer #guess i will tag this and just engage in pvp if it happens #buffy fandom in 2021 i don't know you but please be nice #this was fun to write #i guess i do like this show!

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diariosdelirio · 3 years

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discovering i was a lesbian in 2020

when i started high school in 2014 i considered myself straight. i had no bisexual or gay friends, i had only seen gay people on the tv, usually portrayed in different, sometimes negative or exaggerated, stereotypes (usually the “flamboyant gay best friend” and “man-hating lesbian”.) i considered myself an ally to the community, but that was it.

in 2015 i kissed a girl friend of mine during a truth or dare, which ended up being my first kiss. i had two guy friends who were openly gay, and knew a girl through some friends who was bi. after some thinking and a few more pecks w girls, i was proud to call myself bisexual.

throughout my high school years i didn’t date at all. i had several guy friends who were into me, but the thought of going out with them or being alone with them made me extremely nervous. i felt slightly panicked and i would blush, thinking “this is what butterflies” must feel like. but they never asked me out, and i never made a move myself.

fast-forward to 2018, during my gap-year. i was at a smaller house party, got very drunk, and ended up outside laying on a trampoline with a kinda cute guy under the stars, and it felt a bit like one of those movie moments. except that when the guy kissed me (my first longer kiss w a guy) i felt so extremely and utterly bored. no passion, no excitement, just boredom. i also felt that negative nervousness from years before, just slightly uncomfortable. we ended up talking the rest of the time.

i panicked a bit after this, reading the lesbian master doc on my way to work, thinking “wow this seems so incredibly accurate to me.” but i was no where ready to admit to myself i was a lesbian. my attraction to men felt like some sort of safety, something to lean back on. and then at new years, i got asked out by another guy, and the entire date (a few days later) i was on edge the whole time. when he walked me home, i didn’t think of anything else but “will he expect a kiss when we part ways?” and there was that nervousness yet again. i still continued to id as bi, thinking it was the unfamiliarity of the guys that made me nervous. maybe i had to be friends first? maybe knowing them well enough would soothe my anxieties? yeah that was probably it. i definitely liked guys.

2020 however, was definitely an eye-opening year. on a whim, i dm’d a twitter mutual on international lesbian day to ask her about her own lesbian experiences, and she told me about them and sent the lesbian master doc to me. i read it at 2AM at night, close to tears, feeling like i couldn’t lie to myself anymore. but i also felt scared. i’d always thought lesbians knew of their aversion to men early on, that if i were one i would’ve figured it out a long time ago. i also started realising i had some intense lesbophobia to unpack, finding it uncomfortable to call myself a lesbian. this was something i continued unpacking for months, reading up on lesbian experiences, finding comfort and pride in seeing amazing lesbians on twitter, tiktok, on tumblr. i wrote to one of my best friends from uni, the first lesbian person i’d known in real life, and she was so sweet and supportive.

in august 2020 i wanted a last “test”. i got drunk and made out with a guy friend from high school, one of the few guys i’ve probably felt fully comfortable around. i thought “if i don’t feel Anything kissing him, i will know for sure.” he was someone i’d had a crush on a few years back, or so i thought. a few seconds after kissing him the first thought that popped into my head was “yeah i’m definitely a lesbian.” and then i spent the whole next day journalling about it, stuck in a german town. i realised that some men were pretty to look at, some of them were nice people who i could see as friends, but i would never want to be kissed by one, go on dates with one, or be in a relationship with one. i told some of my friends of my discovery, i told my sister. i think at this point my mother kind of knows too.

just a few weeks away from new years, i finally feel comfortable with calling myself a lesbian, and the moment i fully embraced that i felt a huge weight lift off my shoulder. the weight that was in my gut, making me nervous around all those guys in my past, i realised they were warnings. love should never feel uncomfortable. and now i know that i will never have to be with a man, date a man, or marry a man. and looking back on the past now, there were definitely female teachers i had crushed on, classmates. i remember this girl in my class 1-5 grade, how cute i thought she was and how i really wanted to be her friend. the signs were all there, but i didn’t know the option of being with a girl was there. now, 15 years later, i know. and it makes me beyond happy.

i wish i had known that lesbian experiences are so vast and varied, and maybe my story will help even one person on their own journey 🧡🤍💖 love you!

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Glee: 10 Sue Sylveter Quotes That Are Still Hilarious Today

Not only is Sue Sylvester hands-down the funniest character on Glee, but she is also quite arguably the funniest character in television history. Practically every word out of this woman's mouth causes our abs to hurt from laughing so hard. (Sue would probably appreciate the workout.) From her constant digs at Will Schuester's hair to that one time when she married herself, every scene with Sue has us in tears due to how hard she makes us crack up.

Here are 10 of Sue Sylvester's most hilarious lines from Glee that will totally make your day.

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10 I SMELL FAILURE... OH HEY WILL!

One of the funniest and most interesting relationship dynamics on the show is Sue's love/hate relationship with Will. The two are always bickering and they are constantly at each other's throats, yet you can clearly tell that the two share an enormous amount of respect for one another.

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Throwing hilarious insults at each other is just how they roll and the series wouldn't nearly be as fun if it wasn't for their back and forth relationship. In the end, we discover that Sue and Will care for each other deeply, yet in the meantime, they'll have a blast trying to one-up each other.

9 YOU ARE ABOUT TO BOARD THE SUE SYLVESTER EXPRESS. DESTINATION? HORROR!!

What can we do to board this so-called Sue Sylvester express?

The lines coming from this character are always downright hilarious but what makes them even funnier is Jane Lynch's flawless delivery each time. It is nearly impossible not to burst into laughter at every word out of her mouth and this is all thanks to Lynch's perfect comedic timing along with her incredible energy that she puts into every scene.

This woman always manages to steal the spotlight and that is why she is hands down the most iconic character in the entire series.

8 I WILL NO LONGER BE CARRYING AROUND A PHOTO ID. KNOW WHY? PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW WHO I AM.

If you don't know who Sue Sylvester is by now, you best be ready for a whole world of trouble. Sue Sylvester may just be the cheerleading coach, but she owns Mckinley High more than the people who actually run the school. Sue is a character who is larger than life, and although Rachel Berry is set out to be the fame-obsessed starlet, we all know Coach Sue is the real star here. Step aside, Glee kids. Sue's destined for the spotlight.

7 IF I WERE OUT TO GET YOU, YOU'D BE PICKLING IN A MASON JAR ON MY SHELF BY NOW

Sue is not just mean. She is a straight-up villain. Cross paths with the coach and smile at her the wrong way? You will probably end up rotting in a mason jar in her garage hours later. All we can say is good luck people of Lima, Ohio. You're in for some serious trouble if you don't plan on giving Sue exactly what she wants. Usually, she doesn't ask for much- just eternal glory, that's all. It's not like she's asking for the world, people...

6 I'M GOING TO ASK YOU TO SMELL YOUR ARMPITS. THAT'S THE SMELL OF FAILURE, AND IT'S STINKING UP MY OFFICE.

There is one thing that Sue Sylvester can't stand, even more than The Glee Club and Will Schuester's hair. The thing that she will not tolerate the most is failure. This woman can smell failure from a mile away and she refuses to let it reek up her office, let alone any path she comes across.

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Coach Sylvester is disgusted by anyone who does not consider themselves to be a "winner" and that is why she hates The Glee Club so much - because they seem to embrace their "loser" status. They even have their own original song called "Loser Like Me". It makes Sue "literally want to throw up in Will's mouth".

5 I DON'T TRUST A MAN WITH CURLY HAIR. I CAN'T HELP BUT PICTURING BIRDS LAYING SULFUROUS EGGS IN THERE, AND I FIND IT DISGUSTING.

It's honestly amazing how creatively talented Sue Sylvester is when it comes to her quick-witted and imaginative insults thrown at Will Schuester's luscious locks. We would not be opposed to an entire book dedicated to all of her digs at his hair, which "looks like he just put lard in it". How does she come up with this stuff so quickly? So effortlessly? She may despise the arts, but even so, she probably has more creative talent while coming up with these insults than all the members of The Glee Club combined.

4 HOT CHEETOS HAVE BEEN PROVEN TO RAISE ENDORPHINS AND MAKE KIDS HAPPY, AND I CAN'T HAVE THAT.

Sue is extremely strict when it comes to dieting and staying fit for the Cheerios. Her idea of a perfect meal would probably consist of a protein shake mixed with whey powder and Will Schuester's tears. It wouldn't consist of anything that raises endorphins because happiness is a waste of feeling in Sue's eyes.

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It most likely causes a lack of productivity and anything that keeps people from rising to the top is shameful to the cheerleading coach. Basically, anything that brings children happiness should basically be banned for good. And that's how Sue "C's" it!

3 IN THE PAST I'VE FANTASIZED ABOUT WAKING UP WITH WILL'S HEAD ON THE PILLOW NEXT TO ME, EXCEPT NOW I PICTURE IT ATTACHED TO THE REST OF HIS BODY.

Fans were shocked during the episode "Funk" when Sue fell for Will's attempts to seduce her. The cheerleading coach started to catch feelings for the glee club teacher and it all became a total disaster from that point on. Remember Will's cringy seduction performance to "Tell Me Something Good?" It took talent on Lynch's part to keep a straight face throughout that scene. When she writes about her attraction towards Will in her diary, she states " true love always springs from true hate." Sounds like a healthy foundation for a relationship.

2 LOVE YOU LIKE A SISTAH!

(To Will): "I'm reasonably confident that you will be adding revenge to the long list of things you're no good at, right next to being married, running a high school glee club, and finding a hairstyle that doesn't make you look like a lesbian... Love you like a sistah."

Can this woman possibly get any funnier? Seriously, every time this woman shows up on set she delivers. Her charm and perfect delivery helped Glee become the successful series that it still is to this day.

*Sigh*. If only her character could get a spinoff...

1 BY THE POWER INVESTED IN ME BY A WEBSITE, I HEREBY PRONOUNCE YOU SUE AND SUE. YOU MAY KISS YOURSELF.

Remember when nobody in the world was good enough for Sue Sylvester so she married herself in a tracksuit wedding gown? It was easily one of the biggest highlights in the series and hands down the funniest and most unexpected moment. Yet now that we think of it, is there anyone on this planet that's good enough for Sue? The answer is probably no. Sue is perfect in every way and no one can make her as happy as she makes herself. Now that is true "relationship goals".

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selfiecharmedlife · 4 years

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RE: Bit

Over the past few years, I have been getting into horror movies. The potential of the genre to be political, subversive and overtly queer keeps me wanting to pry my fingers open just a little bit whenever I get too scared. Which is why I was so excited when I first heard about the movie “Bit” making rounds and winning awards on the festival circuit. I was promised a film starring a trans actress playing a trans character in a movie about lesbian vampires. The trailer even promised that the film would talk about gender! When it showed up on streaming platforms recently, I added it to my list with a quickness. Spoiler synopsis in the next paragraph so skip that if you care.

Laurel is a trans teenager that has just graduated high school in suburban Oregon. While she figures out her plans, she goes to spend the summer with her brother in LA. During her first night, she goes out to a club with her brother and falls in with a group of cool lesbians who happen to be vampires. After an awkward hookup with one of the women, she is bitten but the leader of the group, Duke, stops the feeding before she dies causing her to become a vampire. Laurel wakes up in a dumpster the next morning and goes through the awkward “why does the sun hurt” phase before reuniting with the cool lesbians. They offer her a choice to either take “the cure” or become one of them. She does and becomes a cool vampire lesbian. Along the way, she learns Duke’s backstory of having been enslaved by an elder vampire named “The Master” who she ultimately burned to death. She saved his heart though and eating it piece by piece allows her to access his powers including the same mind control that he used to enslave her. Laurel refuses to feed, which bothers the increasingly controlling Duke, until her out on control hunger causes her to nearly kill her brother feeding on him during an argument. She goes back to the group begging for “the cure” only to find it never existed. A fight between her and the other girls ultimately leads to The Master’s resurrection only for the girls to defeat him again. The film ends with Duke being thrown in vampire prison and Laurel poorly reassuring her now-turned brother that it’s going to be ok and she wants to make a world where everyone is a vampire. The girls, now without Duke, are shown eating pieces of The Master’s heart and the screen fades to black.

It’s a tight low-budget genre film, but it was marketed as an intersectional feminist horror film. As a trans lesbian, the promise of representation was a main driver in me even spending the money to rent it. I was left wanting and increasingly frustrated the more I thought about the movie. First off, Luarel’s trans status is never directly mentioned. There are nods throughout like her having issues getting into a bar with a, I can only assume, pre-transition photo ID. Since the vampires have a rule about never turning a man into a vampire, she asks if that includes her and is quickly reassured that she is a woman. In the opening party scene, a drunk classmate comes up to her to tell her how brave he thinks she is. I picked up on all these nods, but I also could totally see someone watching this movie and completely missing that she’s trans. In an interview, the director stated that he wanted to make a genre movie with a trans character that didn’t focus on how trans they are. That’s all well and good, but you’re also pushing your movie as an example of trans representation without ever directly saying it. If you could easily make this character cis without changing the story, is it still meaningful representation?

Second, Laurel is a shitty person. She’s manipulative, selfish and ignores the people around her. One of the driving issues that leads to her confrontation with her brother is how she has been ignoring her family and friends since moving to LA. Her parents and brother are incredibly supportive of her transition. When she first starts acting strange, her mother doesn’t even judge her for potentially partying too hard. One of her friends, who is coded as a gay man, has a falling out with her because she has been ignoring his increasingly desperate attempts to get in touch with her. While going though his own issues, this rejection by his best friend causes him to attempt suicide. Her brother even admits that he moved to LA because her transition was smothering his ability to get his parents to acknowledge his own issues. Despite that he still does everything he can to support her. At the emotional climax of the film, Laurel deflects, denies and faces no consequences for it. As a trans women that lost friends and family to transition, I couldn’t help but feel like she is a brat.

As a piece of feminism, this film also doesn’t really have much to say past a thin layer of “girl power.” One of the rules of the group is to never turn a man into a vampire. Duke even directly says she wants to turn all the women of the world into vampires so men will know how to be afraid. However, we later find out that Duke has been using the mind control powers she gets from eating her abuser’s heart to influence the choices of the other girls. There could be a message somewhere here about how white feminists can end up reproducing the patriarchy and imposing it on minority women. After all, we find out there never was a cure for vampirism. Duke just decided she wanted Laurel to be part of the group and that was it. If Laurel never had real agency in becoming a vampire then presumably the other women didn’t either. We could even assume that Duke has been “collecting” women of color for her proto-feminist commune in the pursuit of token representation. This would twist would cast Duke as the villain of the film and actually had something to say about intersectional feminism, bodily autonomy and rape culture. However, the movie closes with the other women also eating The Master’s heart and gaining his powers. Laurel’s hollow reassurance to her brother feels empty because she has also violated his bodily autonomy by turning him and perpetuated the cycle. That ending diffuses any charitable reading of this film’s feminist themes despite the director’s insistence that he is a good feminist.

What I find so frustrating is how this movie could have so easily been better. In the back third, Laurel could have had to confront how she has used her trauma and transition to manipulate the people around her. This could mirror Duke’s own manipulation of other women to protect herself from the trauma of having been made a bride of The Master. Even without the life of her brother hanging in the balance, this would have given the ending confrontation between Laurel and Duke actual pathos and a feminist theme. It also would have meant that The Master would never need to be resurrected to be a final boss. The final boss was a gaslighting white “feminist” who had been there the whole time. Instead, Laurel goes on to further victimize her brother and become her own kind of villain. If this movie does get a sequel, I don’t know if I want to see it.

I’m not sure if I can really recommend this movie. After reading an interview with director, himself a straight cis white man, I feel even worse about it. He simultaneously seems to want praise for having cast a trans actor while making a movie where her transness is a minor point. This whole movie could easily have been redone with a cis lead or even heck an entirely straight cast. I’ve written before about how gender and sexuality are inherently political, but he seems to be either unwilling or unable to grapple with that. The result is a movie that feels at odds with itself. Even the director has said in interviews that he was very concerned about “being a guest in the house” and seems preoccupied with staying in his lane at the cost of the film. That restraint does a disservice to the film and produced a missed opportunity to create something actually feminist, actually intersectional and actually interesting.

Highlights from the interview I mentioned.

https://www.vulture.com/2019/08/bit-movie-the-story-behind-brad-elmores-vampire-film.html

Come on dude. You can’t just say it’s a fun vampire movie while trying to situate yourself in the pantheon of queer horror.

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Glee: 10 Sue Sylveter Quotes That Are Still Hilarious Today – Screen Rant

Not only is Sue Sylvester hands-down the funniest character on Glee, but she is also quite arguably the funniest character in television history. Practically every word out of this woman’s mouth causes our abs to hurt from laughing so hard. (Sue would probably appreciate the workout.) From her constant digs at Will Schuester’s hair to that one time when she married herself, every scene with Sue has us in tears due to how hard she makes us crack up.

Here are 10 of Sue Sylvester’s most hilarious lines from Glee that will totally make your day.

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10 I SMELL FAILURE… OH HEY WILL!

One of the funniest and most interesting relationship dynamics on the show is Sue’s love/hate relationship with Will. The two are always bickering and they are constantly at each other’s throats, yet you can clearly tell that the two share an enormous amount of respect for one another.

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Throwing hilarious insults at each other is just how they roll and the series wouldn’t nearly be as fun if it wasn’t for their back and forth relationship. In the end, we discover that Sue and Will care for each other deeply, yet in the meantime, they’ll have a blast trying to one-up each other.

9 YOU ARE ABOUT TO BOARD THE SUE SYLVESTER EXPRESS. DESTINATION? HORROR!!

What can we do to board this so-called Sue Sylvester express?

The lines coming from this character are always downright hilarious but what makes them even funnier is Jane Lynch’s flawless delivery each time. It is nearly impossible not to burst into laughter at every word out of her mouth and this is all thanks to Lynch’s perfect comedic timing along with her incredible energy that she puts into every scene.

This woman always manages to steal the spotlight and that is why she is hands down the most iconic character in the entire series.

8 I WILL NO LONGER BE CARRYING AROUND A PHOTO ID. KNOW WHY? PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW WHO I AM.

If you don’t know who Sue Sylvester is by now, you best be ready for a whole world of trouble. Sue Sylvester may just be the cheerleading coach, but she owns Mckinley High more than the people who actually run the school. Sue is a character who is larger than life, and although Rachel Berry is set out to be the fame-obsessed starlet, we all know Coach Sue is the real star here. Step aside, Glee kids. Sue’s destined for the spotlight.

7 IF I WERE OUT TO GET YOU, YOU’D BE PICKLING IN A MASON JAR ON MY SHELF BY NOW

Sue is not just mean. She is a straight-up villain. Cross paths with the coach and smile at her the wrong way? You will probably end up rotting in a mason jar in her garage hours later. All we can say is good luck people of Lima, Ohio. You’re in for some serious trouble if you don’t plan on giving Sue exactly what she wants. Usually, she doesn’t ask for much- just eternal glory, that’s all. It’s not like she’s asking for the world, people…

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6 I’M GOING TO ASK YOU TO SMELL YOUR ARMPITS. THAT’S THE SMELL OF FAILURE, AND IT’S STINKING UP MY OFFICE.

There is one thing that Sue Sylvester can’t stand, even more than The Glee Club and Will Schuester’s hair. The thing that she will not tolerate the most is failure. This woman can smell failure from a mile away and she refuses to let it reek up her office, let alone any path she comes across.

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Coach Sylvester is disgusted by anyone who does not consider themselves to be a “winner” and that is why she hates The Glee Club so much – because they seem to embrace their “loser” status. They even have their own original song called “Loser Like Me”. It makes Sue “literally want to throw up in Will’s mouth”.

5 I DON’T TRUST A MAN WITH CURLY HAIR. I CAN’T HELP BUT PICTURING BIRDS LAYING SULFUROUS EGGS IN THERE, AND I FIND IT DISGUSTING.

It’s honestly amazing how creatively talented Sue Sylvester is when it comes to her quick-witted and imaginative insults thrown at Will Schuester’s luscious locks. We would not be opposed to an entire book dedicated to all of her digs at his hair, which “looks like he just put lard in it”. How does she come up with this stuff so quickly? So effortlessly? She may despise the arts, but even so, she probably has more creative talent while coming up with these insults than all the members of The Glee Club combined.

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4 HOT CHEETOS HAVE BEEN PROVEN TO RAISE ENDORPHINS AND MAKE KIDS HAPPY, AND I CAN’T HAVE THAT.

Sue is extremely strict when it comes to dieting and staying fit for the Cheerios. Her idea of a perfect meal would probably consist of a protein shake mixed with whey powder and Will Schuester’s tears. It wouldn’t consist of anything that raises endorphins because happiness is a waste of feeling in Sue’s eyes.

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3 IN THE PAST I’VE FANTASIZED ABOUT WAKING UP WITH WILL’S HEAD ON THE PILLOW NEXT TO ME, EXCEPT NOW I PICTURE IT ATTACHED TO THE REST OF HIS BODY.

Fans were shocked during the episode “Funk” when Sue fell for Will’s attempts to seduce her. The cheerleading coach started to catch feelings for the glee club teacher and it all became a total disaster from that point on. Remember Will’s cringy seduction performance to “Tell Me Something Good?” It took talent on Lynch’s part to keep a straight face throughout that scene. When she writes about her attraction towards Will in her diary, she states ” true love always springs from true hate.” Sounds like a healthy foundation for a relationship.

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2 LOVE YOU LIKE A SISTAH!

(To Will): “I’m reasonably confident that you will be adding revenge to the long list of things you’re no good at, right next to being married, running a high school glee club, and finding a hairstyle that doesn’t make you look like a lesbian… Love you like a sistah.”

*Sigh*. If only her character could get a spinoff…

1 BY THE POWER INVESTED IN ME BY A WEBSITE, I HEREBY PRONOUNCE YOU SUE AND SUE. YOU MAY KISS YOURSELF.

Remember when nobody in the world was good enough for Sue Sylvester so she married herself in a tracksuit wedding gown? It was easily one of the biggest highlights in the series and hands down the funniest and most unexpected moment. Yet now that we think of it, is there anyone on this planet that’s good enough for Sue? The answer is probably no. Sue is perfect in every way and no one can make her as happy as she makes herself. Now that is true “relationship goals”.

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