Transfem horror protagonist who realizes she’s a woman because she’s the Final Girl
[Image ID. A three panel digital comic.
Panel 1. Shows five teens in a wooden cabin with boarded up windows. One o them sits with their head in their hands, thinking “Oh no, nerdy guys don’t survive slasher films! I’m fucked!”
Panel 2. Later, a masked killer sits over one of the teen’s body with a knife. behind them, the door is kicked open with a bang, revealing a silhouette . “Hey asshole!”
Panel 3. The nerdy teen from panel one. She is now wearing a skirt, a rainbow bracelet, pink cat years, and a blood splatter. Holding up a baseball bat, she says, “I’ve realized some things.” End ID.]
modern heroine for the modern era, final T-girl
@cipheramnesia if anyone on this site knows of a horror movie like this I’m guessing it’d be you
movies where someone hears an important message only once and retains all the details….
girl if that were me, we’d be fucked. I have to reread emails like 4 times.
if it were me having to repeat my dead father’s instructions on destroying the death star:
I was in a college psych class, and the teacher was doing some kind of exercise about memory, patterns, and retention. He began with, “for instance, if I asked you what number the first letter of your name is in the alphabet, you wouldn’t be able to tell me right aw–”
“Ten,” I said.
“What?”
“J. J is ten,” I said again.
He stared at me.
“I happened to learn it while looking at the alphabet when I was five or six, and it just stayed in my brain,” I told him.
Then we did an exercise on retention. “I’m going to tell you a story,” he said, “and then I’m going to send you out of the room for five minutes, and when you come back, you have to repeat as much of the story back to me as possible.”
He told me a long and meandering story with no plot or structure, just a random series of events, place names, actions, etc. Then he sent me out of the room.
I looked at the wall for a while.
He called me back in five minutes later, stood me up in front of the class, and asked me to repeat “just as much of the story as you remember.” Apparently while I’d been gone he’d been telling the class about how eyewitness accounts aren’t reliable because people don’t remember things well after a certain period of time.
So I told his story back to him– not verbatim, but certain phrases were exact– and watched the consternation in his face as I accidentally blew up his (valid! and extensively studied!) lesson about how bad people’s retention is.
“It’s like a song,” I tried to explain to him, and the class. “Or a poem. Every part of the story has a little tag to remember it. I looked at the chalkboard while you were saying this part. My leg itched while you were saying that part. A chair squeaked during the next part. Then I just have to come back and go over all the sensations that I had while you were”
“Sit down,” he said.
I sat.
Turns out I’m Autisms Georg adn should not have been counted
ADHD version: A friend asked, on a field trip, why I knew the scientific name for Caltha palustris, “Well, we did that [one week long] field ID course [three years previously] and we saw it in one of the bogs”.
This, I was informed, is very much not a normal reason to remember the scientific name of a plant for the rest of your life.
It took me five whole years to learn when my partner’s birthday is.
I can remember specific details about games I played over two decades ago that I have not played since.
I once forgot it was my birthday. On my birthday. And when my sister (Who lived several hours away) jumped out of hiding and yelled happy birthday, I looked around to see who she was talking to.
the minutiae of historical people’s lives? yes!
the date I agreed to take a coworker’s shift on my day off? CHECK THAT SHIT FIVE TIMES, MADAM, OR YOU’RE FORGETTING IT
i think what rly gets me abt “the left is hostile to men and that’s why they turn to right wing politics” is that a lot of left leaning communities have serious problems with racism, misogyny and antisemitism (among other things) and yet you don’t see poc, women, or jews turning to fascism en masse bc of it. when people say the left is hostile to men a lot of the time what they seem to mean is that marginalized people in left leaning spaces aren’t always ready to coddle white men’s feelings at every turn and to that i say those men maybe need to grow up a bit