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QuestionAnyone see MerPeople on Netflix?
I’ve been watching this quirky, fun and at times beautiful docu-series, and one of the people they’re featuring is a TIM.
He goes by “he/him”, but he’s also nonbinary, somehow.
He’s the absolute worst. Everyone else is boring to interesting, but this guy is just the most narcissistic, obnoxious person on the whole show.
Every time he’s on the screen, he’s wearing or doing something ostentatious to try to draw attention.
He has this really cringey bad song & music video that he’s trying to peddle to go professional, bc he thinks someone is going to buy that ridiculously bad thing. He won’t get a real job, and just pan handles when he wants money, and leaches off of his friends.
And of course they put him in the top 10 in a competition, bc he’s so “stunning and brave”.
And even though he didn’t win the top place, he still got a “special” prize they added at the very end and he also got an all expenses paid vacation, even though no one else but the top spot was supposed to. Even second place didn’t…
He’s so much like every other trans person I’ve ever met, except for a single one.
Why are they just the worst?
Me post lockdown. I've part forgotten how to dress myself and part stopped giving the last bit of a shit about what people think are well matched outfits.
I’m just glad to be back where there’s actual changes of season so I’m not stuck in dreary tee shirts all the time, and where there are places to go (okay mostly hospital appointments so far, but still) so it’s worth putting on something nice!
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Yes! More due to climate and there being anywhere to go for me (the town I lived near before was tiny, now I’m in a regional city) than lockdown. Restrictions here have been lifted, masks are only for hospitals and public transport now. I can’t imagine what it was like during the worst of it, or for people in much harder-hit countries. I know the second lockdown in Melbourne was hard on my friends there.
My favorite small detail about the Labyrinth is how clouds of glitter sometimes announce Jareth's arrival XD
Mine is all the real chickens, they really were the stars.
Did you ever watch Return to Oz?
I have not! Is there a good chicken presence?
In that film (and the book it's based on of course), instead of Toto, Dorothy has a chicken companion named Billina. Billina is from Dorothy's farm and gains the power of speech in Oz, and is played using a very realistic puppet... and a live chicken, depending on the shot. The film is kind of dark and twisted, in that '80s way that was popular at the time, but it's so worth it just for Billina alone. She carries the film. She gets a happy ending, too, opting to stay in Oz rather than "go back to that dust bowl".
It sounds amazing! I will totally be watching this and join the Billina fan club.