this just made me realize… pretty much all of the monsterfuckers I know have some sort of disability or are LGBT+ (tho most of the LGBT+ ones also have disabilities; the rest might idk). I’m trying to think of one who doesn’t fit either/both categories and I’m coming up blank.
This is a REALLY good article about why monsters mean so much to trans folks, and it just… it says what I’ve never been able to articulate as a trans man who resonates with monsters.
Friendly reminder that the original monster movie “Frankenstein”, the sequel “The Bride of the Frankenstein” which has heartbreaking single line after unrequited love (after the Bride rejects Frankenstein because she can see what he is), and the original film adaptation of “The Invisible Man” where all directed by James Whale who was an openly gay man in 1930s Hollywood.
LGBTQ and disabled people have been seeing themselves in the “other” or “The Monster” since the early days of cinema.
This chain made me remember a picture I was drawing for the pride month several years ago but never finished. My sona finding themselves out as a monstrous deity of destruction is legit an allusion of me being lgbtq+ and suffering from the feeling of being wrong and being ashamed of my nature. It’s so relieving to see I’m not the only one who sees monsters like that. And YES, I fully agree that all of this is tied.
(Also, this was the real dialogue between me and my mom. And this is what basically inspired me in the first place.)
