Fangirling

In the first act of the film, Juan tells Chiron the story of a woman who once told him, “Running around, catching up all that light, in moonlight black boys look blue. You blue,” and he unofficially gives that nickname to Chiron. From then on, the color blue represents that little kid inside of him, his queerness, his true self. It’s a hint at the complexity inside of his hard outward character. And once he becomes a drug dealer, mirroring Juan, he goes by Black.

My favorite little detail is in this scene. They’re in the car together driving over to Kevin’s place, and Kevin looks just about ready to eat him alive. And Chiron goes; “What you looking at me like that for?” He gets all flustered and laughs for the first time since we’ve met this adult version of him.

to the trans women and fems who aren’t beautiful

to the trans men and mascs who aren’t handsome

to the nonbinary people who aren’t attractive

you don’t need to be attractive to be valid. you can be ugly or unattractive and still be just as trans. do not let beauty standards make you think otherwise

someone urinated into the ballpit while it was empty and posted it in the tag

this is not a joke