Every week I watch Lou Wilson perform the most stunning, tender depiction of a teenage boy's struggle against compulsory heterosexuality, and he has no idea he's doing it.
Whenever I see someone refer to "Victorian era-" for places outside the UK I'm tempted to start saying shit like "Han Dynasty era Rome", "Soviet era Australia" etc
i never feel a bigger disconnect from other trans people than when some of them talk about deadnaming fictional characters like it's the same thing as deadnaming a real person. like some people thought it was 'offensive' or 'questionable' to have a scene in the star beast where rose gets deadnamed by some kids from her school and like idk i guess that my own experiences and life are Offensive and Questionable because that resonated v. much with me and my own experiences and was imo the peak of the trans stuff in that episode. or the genuinely horrific way people treated the devs of the red strings club for having a villain deadname a trans character when it was literally drawn from the experiences of one of the team. fictional trans people aren't real and if an author wants to make that character's deadname part of their life like many many trans people's deadnames are part of theirs, i think that's fine and good.