Funny How Depending On Who's Saying It And Where, The Words "dark Fantasy" Could Mean That The Work Contains

i saw a post a while ago expressing negative emotions about my own private idaho not having a happy ending (noting that iirc i think op acknowledged understanding that there was a reason for that and i am not attacking op either way, and this isn't really about Them in particular but a broader statement about how the movie is received and talked about) and i have been chewing on my thoughts for a while and i feel like in a sense river phoenix was very correct to express annoyance with people classifying it as a "gay film" (he said something along the lines of "you wouldnt say (x movie i forget) is a movie about heterosexual oil rig workers") and though the characters' sexualities are a more than incidental part of the film i feel the way people often zero in on the queerness of the narrative and relationship between the protagonists at the expense of the movie's portrayal of say, sex work, homelessness, and disability as well as how heavily the movie thematically revolves around class constitutes a kind of erasure. (of course a lot of this is a byproduct of the time period the movie was made and even the circumstances of today, the media coverage wasn't ever going to see past the fact one of the protagonists was explicitly Not Straight.)

the fact that though the movie portrays scott as genuinely suffering under the cards he was dealt, he has options that mike and the rest of the homeless characters do not, and the fact he returns to his upper class life at the end of the movie is very much central to the narrative and the politics of the film. i think to define the movie around the ambiguous relationship between scott and mike does the movie a huge disservice tbf, not that it isn't important

Hey you know what just occurred to me

identical twins are never different sexes because they come from the same pair of gametes

So there are a couple of possibilities with Vax and Vex: - They're actually semi-identical twins, which is massively rare - They're fraternal twins that just happen to share an uncanny resemblance - Elves have Something Weird going on with their sex chromosomes - One of them is trans 👀 - Absolute handwave (the boring option)

“What? Like, a disabled protagonist? How would that even work? How could someone with a disability be the hero in an action show?” local anime trash boy wonders while sitting next to his box sets of Full Metal Alchemist, showing no hint of irony or self awareness. 

love the fact that Nick realizes he is bisexual while watching Pirates of the Caribbean, because with Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom, the movie has been enlightening bisexuals since 2003 and I am glad that a piece of media has finally acknowledged it

Betsy Braddock Butterfly Sun 🦋

Jubilee & Betsy 🎆🦋 '-and they were roommates.'