i feel like it's absolutely crucial in the social justice world to take "he a little confused but he got the spirit" and similar sentiments/situations as a Win. intent is so much more important than saying it right the first time! if someone is approaching with scuffed language and incorrect terms but they're visibly being as polite as they know how, that person is a friend and should be treated better than what their words might invite in someone else's mouth.

Imagine if you asked a baker to make you a chocolate chip cookie and instead of doing that they started with an oatmeal raisin cookie and then spent millions of dollars to genetically engineer flatter, rounder raisins that look more like chocolate chips. I guess that would be kind of a neat thing they were able to do and maybe it would be helpful in some other situation but I probably wouldn’t feel like they’d made me an actual chocolate chip cookie.

That’s kinda how I’m feeling about this “De-Extincted” Dire wolf thing

so much of the horror genre is informed by the metaphor of queer/transness as monstrousness. especially emphasizing the amount of horror that depends on the audience's repulsion at seeing a human body changing into a new, other body. I Saw the TV Glow is about the horror of NOT transitioning. the horror of static. the horror of looking into yourself and being terrified of what you see. the horror of seeing who you are and choosing to do nothing about it. the horror of looking away. and by god is it terrifying.