Compassion is Punk-Rock as Hell

like, i wish i could just enjoy Shrek 2, it's a great movie overall, but every time i remember that movie i think of the scene where there is a long drawn out bit of all the characters making fun of, being disgusted by, and intentionally embarrassing Pinocchio for wearing women's underwear. i remember how i felt watching it when i was growing up, how every time a sense of terror filled me as i sat there trying really hard not to think about the fact that i used to wear girl's clothes in secret and imagining what horrible things might happen if anyone ever found out. i still get a little scared remembering the scene. meanwhile, i've seen many queer tme media critics do glowing queer analysis of the Shrek films while never mentioning the scene at all.

Futurama is a great show, and i love to do re-watches of it every so often. but everytime i do, i have to skip the Bender getting a sex change so he can cheat in the Olympics episode, and be reminded that to this show that i love, i and people like me are a joke and an object of disgust and suspicion. meanwhile, i've been around as tme friends just kinda absent-mindedly have the episode playing as they binge the series and only skip the episode once i walk into the room, notice it, and make a comment to the effect of "oh great, it's this episode."

Star Trek DS9 is a fantastic show that i need to watch more of, and one of my roommates has been doing a re-watch of the entire series that i occasionally catch glimpses of. i generally like what i've seen, but recently an episode came up where i guess Quark gets a sex change or something and there's a whole scene of characters cracking jokes at his expense and it made all of us very uncomfortable. not my friend's fault, mind you, he literally exclaimed "oh no, i forgot it was this episode" as soon as the scene started, and ended up fast-forwarding past the episode's big transmisogyny moment as soon as he could find the remote. this is more to point out how easily moments like that can just kind of happen no matter what you're watching, and how much it sucks that basically all tv, movies, and video games are a veritable minefield full of transmisogyny landmines ready to explode right in your face. it's nearly inescapable, especially if you're watching something older.

Animation is getting done.

A little rough but honestly it's coming along nicely