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Shit Slytherins Say: #162

There are approximately 1,010,300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough of them together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair.

girls don’t want a boyfriend, girls want to be able to info dump to you about their wip and for you to ask questions👍🏼😁

me laughing and reblogging every single post about writers procrastinating on tumblr and never writing:

Wise words from the Schwablin Queen Creatives, take note

girls

Because only Doctor Who and Sherlock are worth watching

why are the hot ones always gay

Because straight people are ugly

Are you a “can’t write dialogue” writer or a “can’t describe anything” writer

So I'm genuinely curious, you say that cis people getting cast in trans roles is discriminatory- which I get- but wouldn't casting transgender people in movies about transgender people require them to be de-transitioned for the first part of the movie? Surely that would cause dysphoria? Also, in the case of the Danish Girl specifically, it might be difficult to find an actor of Eddie Redmayne's calibre in the tiny pool of transgender actors. Although Scarlett Johansson can go to hell.

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Oliver Phelps had to act as if his twin brother, who he had known since birth, who was his BEST FRIEND, had died in his arms. It was incredibly emotionally exhausting for him, but he did it. Because he’s an actor.

I’m an actor. I have had to act a whole bunch of emotionally straining scenes, but I did it because I knew what I signed up for. It is not for you, nor is it for any cis director to tell us what we can and can’t handle, and it CERTAINLY isn’t for a cis person to pretend to know that struggle.

Y’know there are plenty of trans people who haven’t transitioned yet, right? Believe it or not, I’m not even on Estrogen yet, and I’ve been out as trans publicly for two and a half years.

Lots of trans people are used to dysphoria, and lots of trans people don’t even consider it that debilitating any more. Many trans people don’t even get physical dysphoria!

Finally, but most importantly, movies featuring trans characters don’t need to be about their transition. It’s a creepy and intrusive way to look at us and our bodies to only see our value through stories of our transitions. Give me trans superheroes, trans action heroes, trans romance leads, trans political thrillers. Give me anything but Eddie Redmayne putting on lipstick as part of his wife’s force feminization fetish.

I really find it interesting how you critique Johansson for her part, but for some reason, Redmayne is immune to this because he’s an actor of a certain “calibre”. Let’s get something straight: neither Redmayne nor Johansson is good at acting, but Johansson has DEFINITELY been in more high profile movies, so I seriously can’t see you blaming her but exusing Redmayne for anything besides a harsher standard on women.

That being said, yes, they’re both proper scumbags for taking these parts. I don’t care how “high-calibre” they are when a) neither of them can act and b) how do you suppose they became high-calibre besides through, you know, being cast?

There are thousands of trans actors in the world. I have met many. I AM one and I co-star with TWO MORE in a webseries for fuck’s sake. It is the choice of cis moviemakers to ignore the talent that we have – Michelle Hendley played the MAIN PROTAGONIST of a movie about a trans woman, a role which she was perfect and amazing in, and since then, the most noticeable things she’s done have been played a 1-line drugdealer in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and made a Twitch account where she plays Street Fighter sometimes. All because cis people refuse to recognise trans talent.

Trans people barely get any roles. That’s why there are less “high-calibre” trans actors. I can name five trans female actors of the top of my head. Can you? Can anybody in Hollywood?

There is NO excuse to hire cis people in trans parts.

yes I’m back with the Merula moodboards

if you dont reblog this youre straight