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 glanced at some reviews and people are saying it as a positive thing that Tyler is trans and this fact is clearly acknowledged in the narrative but it's not central to it at all, the story has nothing directly to do with his transition
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Replying to @arthur_affect
It just seems like, and maybe I'm misunderstanding the mechanic, if the narrative is about memory, limiting things to memories of the last couple of years is super limiting
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
I don't think it actually is limited to the last few years, looking at reviews It's just that the memories are shown from first person POV and are limited to brief snatches of events each sibling personally witnessed
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
There’s a trans guy on my tl playing through it and there’s definitely, like, 10/11-year-old flashbacks, including to before the MC knew he was trans
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Also there’s at least some flashbacks of him in attempted girlmode in his teens, the guy was commenting on shift in character model + VA paired with consistent subtitles
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(And from here it sounds like the mom’s a fairly faithful read on the kind of transphobe with the white supremacist leaning “but this bonus human uterus I was entitled to control! I mean, my baby girl I must protecc uwu” subtype, but I saw less of that.)
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The clip I just saw is of the mom flipping out because Tyler wants to cut his hair short, yes
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chrysopoetics
Ok so what I'm hearing is this is literally the same as TLOU2 but everyone's giving them kudos just bc they didn't include a deadname I fcked hate things
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @chrysopoetics
Well, no, both siblings lived to adulthood and seem to be doing okay in life, their mom just disappeared or died or something
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