I shoulda listened

Me, a year back, seeing people making snippy posts about the whole "Pennywise is a gay icon" thing: FFS, let people fucking have fun, it's a scary clown and some people are into that, sometimes marginalised people look at the forces that eat them from the inside and go "lmao same" and it's not that deep.

Me, now, seeing people uncritically complain about how Pennywise, the force that eats marginalised people from the inside, furthers homophobic, misogynist violence: never mind, people having fun is bad, apparently

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I shoulda listened!!!

Like I don't get it, was there something they changed for the first movie that made it register as "empowering" to queers or...

EDIT: Like!! This is one of the reasons I don't watch horror and know a lot of marginalised people who don't like horror! Because horror is fundamentally disempowering, and I don't enjoy reliving my distress in fiction in the way horror does it. I dislike feeling like a victim, essentially.

So for me, the concept of "empowering horror" is a fucking oxymoron to begin with. What did you expect a narrative about bad things happening to marginalised people to feel like other than visceral and bad?

Tomorrow will be all about eating cake and lying down

Praise be, I cleaned my whole house.

... I mean I dusted and vacuumed and did the dishes and put away the piles of garbage on the floor, but that counts as cleaning. I even washed the bathroom floor and did a few loads of laundry.

And I'm cooking food, because I went shopping yesterday for ingredients. Even the dishes are done.

(My apartment is so much nicer like this, but it did literally take me the whole day, so, no wonder it's always a disaster here :'D)