My other hot queer media take of the day is that I have close to zero interest in Tell Me Why specifically because of the much touted lack of deadnaming It's supposed to be about memory and flashbacks Of a teenager in the present day
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As in, the teenagers are flashing back to the past But the one who is trans is never deadnamed As I understand this means that the space of flashbacks is limited to only a couple of years JUST TO AVOID DEADNAMING
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
It wouldn't just be to avoid deadnaming, would it? It would be to avoid actually showing them pre-transition Which isn't an automatically bad thing to do, of course, but I think the argument "We're tired of seeing the before and after" is a stronger argument than the other
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I mean, except in games that's not a trope. Even the negative trans stereotypes from the bad old days like the elf sex worker in Dragon Age didn't show her before transition I literally don't know that it's ever happened in games
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
There was that game Caroline, I think? IIRC there was something with a trans woman side character for whom the "good" ending has her not transitioning, which is much more objectively bad
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Catherine. I'm not sure if that counts exactly, that effectively functions as s detransition? Which is a whole other can of worms. In any case, Atlus games go in their own box of shame and are not tropes
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It's not "her good ending" It's the ironic new ending for Catherine's route, where Catherine falls so hard for Vincent she alters reality so she can be Vincent's real true love (and not an evil succubus trying to get his soul) by going back in time and incarnating as a human
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excuse me? I actually LIKED the "full devil ending" where vincent becomes a totally sex god down in hell, banging cathering on her dads back as other succubi stare in awe at his prowess. It at least fucking WENT for its BS
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Both new endings are ironic (and optional) You get an ending where Catherine becomes more Katherine than Katherine, where she goes back in time and she becomes your childhood sweetheart and you have a suburban life with four kids etc
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And you also get an ending where Katherine becomes more Catherine than Catherine She wakes up and realizes she's been stuck in a rut, disgusted at herself for letting your cheating on her hurt her this badly, and becomes a gorgeous runway model who's totally out of your league
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Plutoburns and
New Katherine decides she's not ready to settle down either and playfully tells Vincent she wishes him the best in his new life of freedom while she pursues hers and may the best hunter win
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VINCENT: *sigh* just get whatever monologue you have rehearsed out of the way so we can get this over with KATHERINE, runway modeling: you stupid old man. You don't get to rush this
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