for me the really sad thing about the window we get into Alecto at the end of Nona is how beautiful she felt as Nona. How perfect, how happy, loved and loving and unafraid of death Nona was and how ugly, broken, unhuman and in pain Alecto feels in the body John made her
I’ve seen people say the found family trope is queer because it’s about “choosing” rather than being “given,” and while that’s true, I think there’s another reason people often gloss over or misunderstand:
found family is queer because the labels don’t always fit.
sometimes a character falls somewhere between a brother and a cousin. sometimes they’re a big brother, a father figure, and a weird uncle all at once. sometimes they’re a sibling when a third character is present, but a parent when they aren’t. sometimes any attempt to label them just falls short.
often when a lot of people are fighting over what traditional family role a member of a found family is, I find myself thinking, “maybe you’re all right, and all wrong, too. maybe there isn’t just one label. maybe it’s a found family, so it’s queer.”
This most recent Death Grips tour has been a fucking disaster because people don’t know how to fucking act. I think it was the Philly show where some girl got her neck broken by some asshole who was just fucking beating people in the pit, and some dude whipped his cock out and pissed on the floor like it was a joke while his buddies also got way too rough. And apparently, just a few days ago, they fucking walked off stage because the audience was throwing glowsticks and water bottles and shit at them. And, from what I’ve heard, they came back out because they wanted to perform, and they got pelted again. Stupid fucking irony-poisoned too-cool-to-care shitheads are fucking ruining these shows treating them all like goddamn jokes. Going to the show is, itself, a performance for these people. It’s a canvas for them to be the funniest person at the show, they have to be seen being the funniest, kookiest, wackiest person at the show by recreating an outfit they saw in a meme. I legit wonder how much of this is from tiktok brain poisoning and shit, because death grips shows were never even close to that bad. When I saw them at first avenue in 2015, some dipshit kid jumped off the balcony into the crowd, and then he got dragged outside by like five security dudes. That was it. The rest was great. Nothing happened at Skyway in 2017. What the fuck changed? One of my friends saw Machine Girl with 100 Gecs a while back, and she said they were largely the same. Don’t know how to fucking act in public. Every goddamn time I see one of those “playing beyblade in the pit” videos, or something similar, I just feel so fucking bad for the artist performing. This shit sucks so fuckin much. Fuck you if you’re That Guy.
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