A Weird Pilgrim

i do in hindsight really love the concept of complaining about adaptational changes in a 3000 year old oral tradition of which there isn’t really a definitive version so much as a surviving one that is also the most adapted story of all time. my chud forebears in Roman Britain throwing rocks at a bard going nah nah nah the last one said some different other shit at that part you gotta do it again is a comforting image to me

the medieval peasant is a sort of mythological archetype that mostly exists to win arguments about the problems with modern society

I realize this is bc every trans women who is v vocal on social media, especially twitter, is like a 1-2 yrs on E babytran, but I kinda hate the trope of "pretransition we build up our career as much as we can, and then see how much survives post transition" like idk I was still a grad student on either side of that divide and I was not rly more functional as a weird alienated dude than I was as a weird loudmouthed tranny. Like idk if I told 21 yr old me we would take way too long to finish our PhD but end up with an ok but not great full time instructor gig I would have been like oh cool I was worried I would have had to become a high school teacher or move back to Florida with my mom

why do people need to be domesticated animals for petplay,. u r my lion i bought you illegallu and you are trying to kill me. go