thank you for sharing these thoughts:) totally agree it's a desert out there in terms of trans stories and a lot of them are just tragedies too, we need more radically hopeful/optimistic shit imo.
regarding the "deliberately intended message"
... personally for me when it comes to art, authorial intent is literally the last thing on the list of shit that matters about the work. I don't really care what the intended message of anything is, what matters is what I and others get out of it. how it relates to me. I'm completely death of the author brained. that's how I personally feel and I know other people can hold very different views when it comes to art which is also valid.
Yeah I should clarify, I don't usually give a fuck what the author says, it's more like "you can read amything into a text sure, but is there one that's more supported by the text?" I guess. That's probably still a little too literal, thanks to whoever invented Autism probably. Death of the author is always cool and funny.
I strain constantly to try to comprehend things and I'm really fucking stupid, so I'm basically the worst possible person to be dedicated to this sort of thing. But actually it's not, I mean more representation in visual media is needed but I've got like 57 trans related novels, novellas, graphic novels and so on to read, on top of 36 already read and maybe like 100 more in my general tbr. My life's work and I am shit at it.
thank you for sharing these thoughts:) totally agree it's a desert out there in terms of trans stories and a lot of them are just tragedies too, we need more radically hopeful/optimistic shit imo.
regarding the "deliberately intended message" ... personally for me when it comes to art, authorial intent is literally the last thing on the list of shit that matters about the work. I don't really care what the intended message of anything is, what matters is what I and others get out of it. how it relates to me. I'm completely death of the author brained. that's how I personally feel and I know other people can hold very different views when it comes to art which is also valid.
Yeah I should clarify, I don't usually give a fuck what the author says, it's more like "you can read amything into a text sure, but is there one that's more supported by the text?" I guess. That's probably still a little too literal, thanks to whoever invented Autism probably. Death of the author is always cool and funny.
I strain constantly to try to comprehend things and I'm really fucking stupid, so I'm basically the worst possible person to be dedicated to this sort of thing. But actually
it's not, I mean more representation in visual media is needed but I've got like 57 trans related novels, novellas, graphic novels and so on to read, on top of 36 already read and maybe like 100 more in my general tbr. My life's work and I am shit at it.