#tip toe

Do you ever think it's coming back? All that shit from the '90s? We were despised, but you read the stuff online now, it sounds just the same. Do I think it's coming back? Yeah. It's back, you fucking idiot. Right now, it's here.

Cause the thing is you see, when I came out as trans for the first time 15 years ago, oh it didn't go down well. Went back in the closest. Small town. It was frowned upon. Family, friends, school, it was a big no. Years ago, I came out again, so loud and proud. I was loud, I dressed loud, I laughed loud. Wonderful years.

the weird black and white epilogue stuff of how everyone moves on from this gay man being lynched, w a focus on the criminal element rather than… you know, the social ones? idk. so much violence on screen

and esp like. the fact that the heterosexual women, the two terfs who are very explicitly interested in lashing out at queer men and blaming them rather than hetero men and lashing out at trans women, are treated as friends and victims rather than???? as enactors and supporters?

RTD's fucking thing of like "well lots of us are friends with terfs" and it's like. well that's because you're trying to say that leo doesn't see the writing on the wall, but the reason you write characters like that repeatedly is bc you're also a moron with his head in the sand

idk. russell t davies has a real fetishistic tendency to repeatedly write about violence experienced by gay men whilst not admitting to the fact that MOST of that violence is either experienced by queer men of colour and/or trans and gnc people, or including those elements to the hate

and so he portrays these horrific scenes of drawn-out onscreen violence where it's simultaneously like "nothing we could have done" but also like. always blaming queer ppl for not doing enough to report it or whatever rather than the straight ppl doing the violence

and at the same time has like, the characters of colour and trans characters present to lecture the audience but never be the main targets even though like they are the main targets IRL.

idk. really good performances but a disappointing like, plot and weird "message"

left a poor taste in my mouth all around. like i'm not trying to be funny, but sometimes when you do a story like this about brutal homophobic violence, it actually IS more impactful when you let the queer people live

but RTD only thinks it's a real Impactful Story if we die