elilla @elilla@queer.party

hello comrades!♡ I’m a Brazilian trans woman living in Germany 💕

Intend to post: selfies; trans issues; reviews of books I’m reading (mostly fantasy); comments on comic books; agitprop.

I like linux, nail polish, revolution, linguistics, made-up languages, makeup, antifa, calligraphy, #bujo, intersectional veganism &c.

My account about linguistics & academia is @melissaboiko

#introductions #introduction #germany #bochum #nrw #linguistics #transgender #vegan #selfies #mtf

A noir whodunit with an intergenerational theme. MC is a young vegan queer woman whose father is an old-fashioned butcher. The cross-generation dynamics are reflected in the murder she finds herself investigating—a thing of the past, a woman forgotten, a memory being lost by her grandmother.

Colourist Loughridge does a fantastic autumn-red palette throughout: it’s a story about ruby, meat, blood.

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A full hand: Trans author, trans MC, trans theme. It is also about magic—not the fantasy kind, the ‘occult aficionado’ kind. It is hard to talk about it without spoilers, but has to do with the feeling that the past identity is like a different person, with memory, regret.

Of Visaggio’s various trans-related offerings, I found this to be the strongest so far.

#transgender #comics #review

“I had been a Marxist for many, many years. But I was not only concerned, now, with economic exploitation. I was also concerned with social domination. And Marxism gave me no adequate method or response to this kind of question. Anarchism did.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL74E2993578EFFC22&v=I2r4xu3oJxc

#bookchin #anarchism

anyway do you know what day is it queers?

that’s right its first quarter! 🌛 meaning I resume progesterone on single dose, building up to double on full moon 🔮

#transgender #hrt #mtf #syncwphases

trans representation hits all the good points for me: the character’s gender is plot-relevant, but does not define them, they’re as human and flawed as the others, and generally just are part of the story without transness being either brushed aside or being A Big Thing.

side note—trans rep in comics is getting pretty good these days! makes a girl happy.

my partner once noted some maybe self-harm behaviour: I am heavily affected by angry online discussions (like days feeling awful) & somehow I tend to get myself into those exactly in moments of high stress and anxiety.

I think of what she said cause I did that. Complained about bad experiences with transphobic/white defensiveness in a forum, which of course is basically baiting the defensive people to double down. & I got a bad deadline in 2 days, I regret this bitterly…

I have a natural dislike for grimdark and downright revulsion for isekai. But this is so expertly done, in writing and art, that I’m forced to love it. It’s about fantasy and RPGs, and critical in the best sense of the word. It’s Gillen so thoroughly researched—I enjoyed learning about the pioneer fantasy work of Charlotte Brontë+siblings, especially learning about them *in* fantasy. The afterword essays are consistently great reads.

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liberating pictures from my insta:

this was totally involuntary, gf pointed it out 🙈

#transgender #mtf #selfie #velma

to avoid writing my paper, I wrote a short-short story on reddit on a whim. then this happened 🙈 pls don’t encourage me ppl

(https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/e4vilr/wp_you_made_a_deal_with_the_devil_to_be_the/f9gi2xe/?context=3 )

Iraqi protester sitting on chair seized from government.

good morning lovelies

netflix Andromeda Shun is Bad. femboy representation is v important. anti-violence, non-competitive, empathetic, emotional boy representation is very important. when I identified as that boy, Shun was important to me. if they wanted female protagonists they should have flipped Ikki or Seiya, not the one precious example of a femme-coded man.

my mind knows all that, so I wish I could stop my silly brain from feeling like "oh I'm so happy for sister, HRT is doing great by her"

#saintseiya

There's always been some tension under the surface of superhero comics: glorification of police/extrajudicial violence; of police generally; racist undercurrents in "inherent super-iority"; rage rather than restorative justice, etc.

I'm in ep. 2 of the series and I am appreciating how they drag this all out and put a lampshade on it. Bit annoyed at unnecessary sex scene, but I think the uncomfortable police violence is supposed to feel uncomfortable.

#review #watchmen

look I'm a delicate flower of a sweet girl ok. all I want is to bring about happiness, sparkles and joyful gaytimes.

it is 100% not my fault that y'all make those happy noises when bound + spanked.

playing on pink+black, but didn't turn out like I wanted...

#nailpolish

also kudos to comrade who baked vegan waffles for the meeting #praxis

went to an anarchist book club today. talking to comrades IRL is a balsam for the soul! my political life has been way too online…

maybe it took me too long to realise that politics isn’t just, or even mainly, about intellectual discussions, debates, and polished arguments to answer everything. I think right now we need less canned answers and more community.

group (in Bochum) is https://schwarzerub.blackblogs.org , hosted by @kostnixladen

#anarchism

While all actors were great, Ann Dowd – who also does Aunt Lydia in the TV series – performance is just stellar. I would dare say it made me engage emotionally with the character more even than I would have if reading on printed format.

The sequel to Handmaid’s Tale. I’ve heard this described as a ‘romp’ and it’s hard not to use the term. A total page-turner, quite different in mood and structure from the original. Almost a spy thriller.

I feel like many authors mellow with age and feel like being nicer with their characters (e.g. Tolkien). This book feels like a gift for all the readers who have been waiting so long for a ‘what’s happened after that’.

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