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Ibrahim Moustafa @ibrahimmoustafa.bsky.social · 1d

I made a Master Splinter to go with my custom turtles! YouTube link below!

youtu.be/g4MbfqJJ5gk?...

Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 1d

I love audio books, but I definitely have this issue as well. I was listening to some history courses about places whose histories were not familiar to me, and I could barely hold those names in my head and probably wouldn't recognize them in writing

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 1d

Murphy: so anyway we invented a made-up trans backstory for ed gein
Murphy: but we were real careful not to make it transphobic
Murphy: you can definitely trust me, the creator of nip/tuck, to handle this topic sensitively
Murphy: or my name isn't ian brennan!
Murphy: no wait i mean ryan murphy

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 1d

Even in the context of the show it didn't really happen. He imagined the conversation.

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, shit! I loved this game as a kid.

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 1d

Well, strap in

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 1d

There's a lot of time to kill when you're chained to a desk most of the time

Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 1d

Just finished Ed Gein on Netflix with @ramonvillalobos.bsky.social
A truly baffling and grotesque (derogatory) piece of media

Laurie Metcalf as Ed Gein's mom's ghost telling Ed Gein (who is now also dead and hallucinating) "You really made a name for us Geins,"

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 1d

Sure, but they never corresponded, and they obviously only included him because of those surface level details.

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 1d

Ian Brennan is the sole writer and showrunner for this season, but they often collaborate on projects, but I have to imagine Murphy had some level of involvement with this season.

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 1d

Well in the last episode Richard Speck shows up with full on breasts wearing women's underwear in prison...

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 1d

The final episode is Mind Hunter fanfic

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 2d

looool
Not only have they not at all tried to avoid indulging in transphobic tropes, they have gone out of their way to make it as transphobic as possible.

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 2d

I also forgot they are constantly calling him a gynephilliac, which I'm not aware of meaning anything other being attracted to women, but it seems like they're using it in place of "autogynephillia"...

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 2d

I knew it was going to be trash, but I wasn't expecting it to seem like they made things more transphobic on purpose.

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 2d

She's been mentioned throughout the series, but then they concoct a scene where they talk by ham radio while he's in the psych ward.

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 2d

Can you imagine, they said they included Christine Jorgensen in order to AVOID being transphobic? Meanwhile, they've gone out of their way to purposefully tie the "true story" to all the movies that ran with transphobic narratives inspired by Ed Gein.

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 2d

Having Ed Gein talk to Christine Jorgensen about being trans while they play a recreation of THE SCENE from Silence of the Lambs, and then have her tell him he's not trans by paraphrasing a line by Janice Raymond is certainly a choice

Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 2d

This new Monster season is like what if Ed Gein's life was actually an adaptation of Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs and not the other way around.

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 2d

Charlie Hunnam as Ed Gein making a weird face saying "Drinking wine and eating these sinful cold cuts."

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 2d

This new Monster season is like what if Ed Gein's life was actually an adaptation of Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs and not the other way around.

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 3d

Ready Player One predicted the future

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 5d

Sure. I wonder if they just made it with the assumption that these 3 will be the only ones they ever get to. If not, they might not even need to recast that kid for later stories.

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 5d

This is kind of a fool me once situation. He's also said he's not writing any more of these novellas until he finishes Winds of Winter.

Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 5d

Also, the story involves characters leading up to a plotline that was almost entirely cut from Game of Thrones.

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 5d

I'm going to be watching this new Knight of the Seven Kingdoms show, but it's so funny HBO is doing this again. Only 3 of the 12+ novellas they're based on have been written.
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(I'm not one of these weirdos that yell at GRRM for being late, but it is funny)

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