art by nina nijsten
i feel like there is always a certain type of trans woman that is allowed to be visible. gotta wear a dress and a lot of makeup, and i have even heard from some trans actresses that they have been asked to lower their voices to be more visibly trans. and of course we all know how trans women in porn are asked to forgo taking their meds for months for shoots.
i of course love dresses but rarely wear makeup. i conform to many things but still have many signs of nonconformity, and its weird that even a small nudge away from the trope isn't visible on the big screen.
of course we all know how trans women in porn are asked to forgo taking their meds for months for shoots.
I uh, didn't know that. Why would they ask that, is it so their junk is bigger? But wouldn't that also make their breasts smaller? I thought that was a lot of the appeal (to their cis audience). I haven't heard much about it, but sadly it doesn't surprise me. Do you have an article/video about it you'd recommend to me?
It's for... Fluid dynamics? I know people in the industry that have said this to me, but I'm sure you could Google around for the sentiment I feel like it's well known?
Ahh, that makes sense. I had forgotten about that. I'm good, I just wondered if there was some big expose piece I had missed, or if linking to it would be easier. Thank you.
Porn fetish of "lesser men" and "lesser women", no one masturbates because they like diversity, same thing with pornography featuring arabs, has to be a dark brown woman wearing hijab.
hollywood thinks all butches are skinny white women with pixie cuts. studs are no where to be seen.
I really want us to come around to the idea that conventionally unattractive people should appear on tv in non-news roles. I want to see the 180cm 100kg transwoman in a love story get their partner. I want to see a fat bald person come out on top and be happy. Im tired of beautiful people in everything
Oh I was just using that as an example. I just want normal-ish people on tv as main characters.
To be clear what I don't want is a Heather Matarazzo type who is better looking than many people being called "ugly". I want normal people so that people can watch actors who aren't the ideal lead happy lives.
Oh absolutely want cis actors. I have wanted this since seeing Steven Spinella win back to back Tonys in the 1990s for Angels in America and realizing despite how incredible he was he wouldn't be on screen much.
I'm not really a huge TV person so this isn't quite the same thing but it's something that's turned me off the new Baldur's Gate 3: all the characters are just too shiny for me. It's something I really appreciate about disco elysium for having their characters looking like
etc, the art style all leaves very little room for conventionally attractive characters (indeed, it's a conscious decision by the designers that the lead duo is supposed to be 'pretty ugly')They are deeply based but when I was just getting into the game the art style made everyone seem kinda grotesque in a really good way :)
they seemed like regular people, it was a nice change of pace
UK TV has toms of people that look normal-ish on TV. I think that's healthy
im reading this book rn and i instantly thought of this too lmao
There's a community theater in my neighborhood that put on shows once a month when it wasn't a zillion degrees outside. All those actors were normie af. We've also got a local wrestling trope that is extremely normal looking.
If you want people that look like you doing art, you can find it.
We can either cast lesbian characters that look like them or they can make themselves look like Catra and Adora.
the sacred names have been uttered, who hast summoned me
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and klaasje everyone looks like shit in the game
