The aliens are gonna be so confused when humans first board their ships and start doing this, and by GOD I hope at least one of them is going to have a camera when it happens.
my company pays me to space out staring into the mirror in the bathroom at work long enough for the motion detecting lights to automatically turn off because somebody has to do it
#adaptations really do often underplay how much#pride and prejudice#darcy’s ‘unexpected’ proposal#is basically the ‘did you just flirt with me’ ‘have been for the past [few months] but thanks for noticing’ meme#like this scene#or the one where Lizzy and him are ALONE in the Collins’ house talking about women marrying and moving far from home#& he’s trying to suss out whether she’d be cool with marrying him and living far away from her own home#and she is like ‘well obviously it’s fine if you have enough money to afford the travel’ and he’s like ‘oh?!? and uhhh…#you’re not super attached to your home yourself are you? like you’d be fine with not constantly visiting [your weird embarrassing family]?’#SHE IS SO CLUELESS
The 1980 adaptation had fun with Surprise Encounter! Darcy:
Elizabeth: Hey, I walk here. (Telling him so he won’t come again)
Darcy: Oh, you walk here. (SHE WANTS ME TO WALK WITH HER!)
when gerard way sings “the broken, the beaten, and the damned” and when kermit the frog sings “the lovers, the dreamers, and me” they’re talking about the same people btw
So I think an important bit of perspective to keep, as a trans person, is that you don’t have requirements for being your gender, you have options.
And the distinction makes a big difference, because options are something you can pick, see if it works for you, and abandon it if not. And you don’t feel incomplete/not trying hard enough/left out if you can’t do some options, for whatever reason (money/disability/society/just don’t wanna).
And when I say options, I mean everything from coming out to pronouns to hormones to clothes to makeup to surgery and much more. All these things are options you have. Not requirements to be your gender.
And similarly, because they’re options, there’s nothing wrong with you choosing more or less of them than your fellow trans peoples. You’re not more or less trans than them.
Shit, I’m going to start thinking about my cis masculinity this way, I like this.
Yeah I didn’t say it in the original post, but this 100% applies to cis people too. Your gender is yours, how much and what you need to do for that gender is up to you.
Hi, my name's Morgan, I enjoy puns. I have that social capacity of a potato, actually more like a sweet potato. But I love to try! Always here to talk and also would take drawing prompts if I could draw.... woops
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