can you kill me calmly?

🏳️‍⚧️ TRANSGENDER DAY OF VISIBILITY 🏳️‍⚧️

I’m thinking specifically of the episode with the blackout in season 2. Kevin was being Kevin here- Shenangians, jokes, bullshit, etc. and while there was still a laugh track & the normal “plot” of the sitcom world, the lack of lighting in these scenes made a difference to how the characters reacted to him. They were much quicker to call him out- and not in the jokey sitcom world “stingers” that usually happen when the lighting is on. characters (especially Sam) were just done with his behavior. This even escalates right until the moment the power comes back on and the sitcom world (with its sitcom lighting) is violently re-established. Suddenly they find the generator, and though the characters are still grumbling, it is in a much milder, pacified way. Kevin is the star again.

Wondering if the drop of the lighting is supposed to highlight how much more powerful the *framing* of Kevin’s behavior is than the laughter. (The lighting representing the framing). People are dicks all the time & laugh at shitty behavior, but it’s the subtle bending of reality that really alters our culture

Alison's accent becomes thicker, as does Paddy's, and exaggerated when we're in the sitcom world and i just think it's an interesting little detail and also plays on how sitcoms so often exaggerate how characters talk like some of the lines that they say in the sitcom world you would never catch yourself actually saying in day-to-day life

- Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom (2012).

The novel is a fictionalized memoir of the author's childhood as a Goan Catholic in Mumbai, India, living with a mother who had bipolar disorder.

hello i write a substack. if u like it u can send me some. or at least read it and share it if u like it. that's all. money doesn't matter much but it does. i am in a bad bad kinda place lol i can't even afford a cab rn. but more than anything, do read what i write if possible, because i want to make something out of my nothings and everythings.

i wish i had more to offer in exchange. i can still do ur hw, or anything. yknow how it is. proofreading. poetry. i will help you with whatever possible wherever whenever. that's what i have always tried to do.

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