Mar 13, 2025
i sexually identify as an attack helicopter - isabel fall // what happens next - max graves
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i sexually identify as an attack helicopter - isabel fall // what happens next - max graves
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i will never forgive so many people, so many big famous successful authors, for crucifying Isabel Fall because they smelled a chance for clout
some collage pages from my most recent zine titled amalgamated bodies
Isabel Fall, I sexually identify as an attack helicopter. Clarkesworld. 2020.
Yesterday I finally read "I sexually identify as an attack helicopter" and holy shit. I think it's my favorite piece of short fiction ever. My girlfriend and I spent four hours doing a close reading of it and poring over the details (and it was one of the best dates I've ever had).
It has everything. It's a beautiful tone poem about gender. It's a scifi short story about how fucked up it would be if the government could fuck with the parts of your brain pertaining to identity. It's a dystopian work about climate change and the US military industrial complex. It's a scathing indictment of a particular flavor of queer person who will proudly champion lgbt rights but whose activism stops before challenging capitalism and imperialism. It has an utterly sexless passage about sex, followed immediately by a multi-page action scene about piloting a helicopter and working in effortless tandem with your perfect counterpart to shoot down a missile and escape danger which drips with more eroticism than your average literotica story could dream of mustering. It's an emotional and character driven story about a married couple breaking up when one of them decides to transition.
It's really really good and if you haven't read it, you really have got to. I've been mad about what happened to Isabel Fall since I learned about it, but I'm so much madder now. I have no respect whatsoever for the so-called "critics" who decried it when it came out. From the very first moment, it's so very obviously written by a trans woman with so many interesting thoughts and feelings about gender, that in order to miss it you either have to have not read the story at all, or else you would require such a myopic and surface-level view of gender along with such a lack of reading ability and imagination that I simply would not trust any of your literary opinions at all.
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I sexually identify as an attack helicopter by Isabel Fall
post-mechsploitation
honest to god i don't expect anyone to see this but. fuck it. this burner account's gotta stand for something.
i genuinely want to see what ''mechsploitation'' or ''dollposting'' or whatever the fuck we're calling this could evolve into if we move past JUST smut. I'm really sorry but a lot of us are just sad bitches (i mean this affectionately to puppygirls) that want to have sex in the giant robot while an emotionally manipulative attractive woman tells them how cute they are. This goes against the genre progenitor Helicopter Story's ethos of a work of queer fiction meant to upset and provoke dialogue rather than be cozy slop.
Mechsploitation, i worry, will become like Booktok for trans women.
i believe there is something called 'post-mechsploitation' that will be realized by those more creative than i. Just as the original japanese art movement of mecha used the robot extending the will and spirit of the marginalized protagionist as a narrative device to tackle diverse topics fresh in the minds of the postwar sci fi nerd such as adolescence, political corruption, sexism, idealism vs cynicism, radicalism vs reform, etc. i genuinely believe we need to make an honest attempt at emulating this diversity if we are to consider ourselves truly mecha inspired. Else it's just two trucks having sex.
This isnt to say 'sploitation media is bad, or that smut is bad! not at all, but we need 'trans people with giant robots' to be explored deeper and with more themes in our fiction besides sex and dysphoria.
"An airplane wants in its very body to stay flying. A helicopter is propelled by its interior near-disaster." —Isabel Fall, "Helicopter Story"