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Munsi 🏳️‍⚧️

@munsi.bsky.social

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Your nonbinary wine aunt! They/Femme, and I tweet about writing, transition, lefty politics, old indie bands, X-Men, and depression! https://letterboxd.com/MunsiMunsi/

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Munsi 🏳️‍⚧️ @munsi.bsky.social · Aug 1

Nonbinary, but in a "everyone over 50 in my life assumes I'm a dude doing something with gender that they don't understand, and everyone under 25 assumes I'm a transwoman who doesn't give a shit about passing" way.

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Munsi 🏳️‍⚧️ @munsi.bsky.social · 5h

Walter White after watching 400 short videos about which he feels nothing: I am the one who TikToks

Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️‍⚧️ @kiraculous.net · 6h

walter white in a giant chicken suit: i am the one who bok-bok-boks

Lexi’s Chainsaw Massacre @surrealhousewife.bsky.social · 6h

walter white, whipping out a guitar and tearing off a face-melting solo: i am the one who rocks

Munsi 🏳️‍⚧️ @munsi.bsky.social · 17h

The Predator movies were also fun! And it’s not too late for you to cuck around and watch every Predator in October!

Munsi 🏳️‍⚧️ @munsi.bsky.social · 18h

One fun thing about the weather getting more wintery is that I immediately become like three steps more masculine, because my winter wardrobe was all purchased last year and transition is an ongoing process 😅

Munsi 🏳️‍⚧️ @munsi.bsky.social · 18h

It’s good advice tho!

Munsi 🏳️‍⚧️ @munsi.bsky.social · 1d

Understandable, yeah. I loved it, but even I gotta admit it was a three year story told in five

Munsi 🏳️‍⚧️ @munsi.bsky.social · 1d

Nah, double down with me! On the whole it was frequently good, and often very interesting!

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Munsi 🏳️‍⚧️ @munsi.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, for the record, "I'm glad it happened" is VERY different from "It didn't outstay its welcome" 😜

Love you too, somebody loves every era, I'm quite confident, and it's probably fine, normal and healthy we don't all love the same ones the same amount

Munsi 🏳️‍⚧️ @munsi.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, sometimes a gal gets "nonbinary icon" tattooed on their wrist in Krakoan because that era is drawing to a close right as she's going through a major life change of their own!

They made big moves, I like big moves! ☺️

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Munsi 🏳️‍⚧️ @munsi.bsky.social · 1d

YES! Krakoa era was more good than bad, and I'm glad it happened! (she said with a krakoan tattoo on her wrist, to the surprise of literally no one)

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Munsi 🏳️‍⚧️ @munsi.bsky.social · 1d

X-Men thrives when there's meaningful forward momentum and change to the status quo, even when the stories themselves don't always necessarily work. This is a lesson Marvel learns every ten years or so, and then fights tooth and nail to forget.

X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 1d

What's an opinion about X-Men that'll get you sent to jail? Is Jean really interesting or really boring? Should Logan have stayed dead? Do you think a certain x-mens outfit is positively horrendous even though people seem to love it?

The Brood Saga is better than Dark Phoenix imo 🤷

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Munsi 🏳️‍⚧️ @munsi.bsky.social · 1d

Damn right! I'm a good person, with a good heart and a fat ass, and I deserve such fine things!

Munsi 🏳️‍⚧️ @munsi.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, they knew we'd show up for the titular fight regardless and didn't bother giving us anything else.

Munsi 🏳️‍⚧️ @munsi.bsky.social · 1d

As someone working to be both dumber and prettier, maybe I'll enjoy it on that vector? 😅

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Munsi 🏳️‍⚧️ @munsi.bsky.social · 1d

I get that. I mean not the only reason to not like that movie, but absolutely top five.

Munsi 🏳️‍⚧️ @munsi.bsky.social · 1d

That might be it! They did not show up with a movie that worked, but they did show up, and the first AvP didn't feel like they were doing that, to me!

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Munsi 🏳️‍⚧️ @munsi.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, it might be! I only tagged that it was absolutely that, for me, upon this rewatch, because it was my first rewatch post-egg-crack and I'm more aware of that now!

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Munsi 🏳️‍⚧️ @munsi.bsky.social · 1d

HOW DID THIS FRANCHISE START WITH BACK-TO-BACK-MASTERPIECES AND END UP HERE?!??!?!?!?

Munsi 🏳️‍⚧️ @munsi.bsky.social · 1d

I get that, a certain amount of cynicism is kind of baked into the franchise but it was especially strong with this one. But I do like the King/80s format pretty well, tho, and the original AvP made me feel actively bad. I'm hoping Prometheus picks things up some, tho, the middle films are a slog

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Munsi 🏳️‍⚧️ @munsi.bsky.social · 1d

It would be insane for me to say "We're back, baby!" about AvP: Requiem, because we are by no means back, but I'm liking this better than AvP, and probably on par with Resurrection, if I'm being honest.

It's laid out like a Stephen King novel from 1982, and I like that, that's fun to me!

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Munsi 🏳️‍⚧️ @munsi.bsky.social · 1d

There's mounting evidence that I will not be on my grind often, going forward, and we need to do our best to have a good attitude about that.

Munsi 🏳️‍⚧️ @munsi.bsky.social · 1d

Here's my thing: AvP is a 2004 sci-fi action movie in the style of it's time. I don't know that there's anything specifically wrong with it, as a sci-fi action movie from 2004, it's fine?

It doesn't feel like Alien, tho, in some fundamental way. Resurrection felt like an Alien movie. This doesn't.

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Munsi 🏳️‍⚧️ @munsi.bsky.social · 1d

(probably not great that the Alien/Human hybrid in Alien: Resurrection is triggering my dysphoria, right? like, not gonna unpack it, but it's probably not a GOOD thing as such...)

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Munsi 🏳️‍⚧️ @munsi.bsky.social · 1d

I always believed in you! Well done!

Munsi 🏳️‍⚧️ @munsi.bsky.social · 1d

Alien: Resurrection is a beautifully shot movie that also manages to be shockingly dumb. Joss Whedon wrote the script, and it shows.

That said, the underwater sequence remains eerie and gorgeous, and there are moments where this almost becomes a good movie. Never quite gets there, tho...

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Munsi 🏳️‍⚧️ @munsi.bsky.social · 1d

So, I've been invited to a bachelorette party early next year, which is lovely but also triggering my imposter syndrome about whether I deserve to be there? Anyway, I'm filled with a tonne of contradictory feelings about it, but I only cried a little, because I'm very brave and also strong.