Hunter Felt 🏳️‍⚧️

@hunterfelt.bsky.social

"Rachel Getting Married" LARPER. Writing about music, comedy, sports and pop culture (email hunterfeltblog@gmail.com). "Doll with problems." I'm my own Manic Pixie Dream Girl. Pic is a younger and cuter me. 18+

In 1986, just getting prescribed hormones as a transgender person was a years long ordeal. Even in the most liberal mainstream workplaces, being gay and/or trans had to be a secret.

wild to me that the common understanding of t4t is that it's largely a safety thing when in my experience trans spaces can significantly worse about ignoring boundaries and rampant oversexualization as cis spaces tend to be

I was talking to a college student today about the passing of the matryoshka doll from Grant Morrison and Rebis to Rachel Pollack and Kate Godwin to me and Galaxy and how much that means to me as someone who was a teenager who read those old DOOM PATROL comics and realized she wasn't alone.

Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@planetx.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One of the cool things about DC are the legacy characters. Characters who are connected not necessarily by family or circumstance, but by a shared history and view point. A line of creators who inspired the next, each a part of the larger story.

Panels from DOOM PATROL (Vol2) #23, by Grant Morrison, Richard Case, Scott Hanna, Daniel Vozzo, and John Workman. 

The first panel is a closeup of nonbinary character Rebis.
Rebis: THE DOLLS ARE VERY BEAUTIFUL, DAN. I'D LIKE TO TAKE ONE AWAY WITH ME.

The last panel is a close up of a matryoshka doll.
Rebis: THAT'S IF YOU DON'T MIND.

Okay, here's a joke. I used to be annoyed at seeing fictional nerd groups where there was the token female nerd. The one who would half-heartedly play Dungeons & Dragons but not really be into it. I was a high school nerd and my friend group had no such person.

The rest of my family and most of my nerd friends growing up knew the two Highlander movies front-to-back but I was either reading or on the internet or listening to music or some combination whenever anything "Highlander" related was happening. That was not my thing.