get rid of it

all of it –

IT’S MARCH

Uh… It’s still May…

It’s august

It's September...

IT’S MARCH

Uh… It’s still May…

It’s august

«Time wasn’t right. It was moving too fast. I was 19, and then I was 20. I felt like one of those dolls asleep in the supermarket. Stuffed. And then I was 21. Like chapters skipped over in a dvd. I told myself this isn’t normal. This isn’t normal. This isn’t how life is supposed to feel.»

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.

Bill might’ve let him win the first time, but other times, Bill plays by his own rules (which are next to nonexistent)!

mingo carioca