• gundambigtex [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    It took about 5 minutes for my friends to go from respectively using his pronoun to building strawmen out of issues of him continuing to play Vanya in Umbrella Academy , that it's a good thing his wife is showing support because she doesn't have a choice she would be scathed alive (her being with a man, now, is the theory I guess), and just worry signaling nonsense. Such shit.

    • ADamnedFool [any]
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      4 years ago

      you have to hope they aren't too online. Presumably they're clear on their relationship. To paraphrase a bit from Atlanta, gender is kind of a continuum and not an either or thing and you can have fun with if you want. Elliot being male now doesn't mean he has to grow a lumberjack beard and get jacked so like he could easily continue on as that character. Like Cate Blanchett did a fine job as Bob Dylan

      Second season was kind of weak so I won't care if it doesn't come back though.

      • gundambigtex [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I like the example from Schitt's Creek, where David said 'he likes the wine, not the bottle' in terms of his sexual preference being a queer character but in the show having had relations with a woman and a man

        • ADamnedFool [any]
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          4 years ago

          There was a similar bit in a series of fantasy novels called the farseer trilogy or something like that where a character of indeterminate gender is in love with the main character who is very cis and kind of hapless and he's like but are you a lady. And the person responds what does love have to do with plumbing. Being vague as you might read it some day.

          • vertexarray [any]
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            4 years ago

            The real fantasy is having enough patience to bang cis people who are that dense