I Was Gonna Sleep Last Night But Instead I Binged The Last 7 Episodes Of TMA S2 And Oh My God

I was gonna sleep last night but instead I binged the last 7 episodes of TMA S2 and oh my god

reactions for the last 3 eps are under the cut to avoid spoilers for anyone who hasn’t got there yet!

Ep 78

the table and the Not!Them and that delivery company and another link to all the spiders??? such an insane episode!!

I really hope Sasha isn’t dead but it’s not looking good

omg Jon do not try and do this on your own istg

“It is remarkably easy to buy an axe in central London” IM TRYING NOT TO LAUGH WHILE MY FAMILY ARE ASLEEP.

WAIT IS THAT MICHAEL?? AND BREAKING THE TABLE WAS A BAD THING??

Ep 79

OH I KNEW TIM WAS UP TO SMTH YES MY DUDE

“We can’t just leave him””yeah, we can” CAN YALL STOP ARGUING SO LOUDLY ITS GONNA ATTRACT NOTSASHA. OH SHIT MICHAEL

“Will I become the Archivist and rob(?) the eye of its pupil?” I can’t really tell what it’s saying but hmm ik The Eye is something and the Archivist is its student, assuming a word play on ‘pupil’ there??

Ep 80

NO SASHA CANT BE DEAD 😭

JURGEN LEITNER WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE??

“Hardly a book, barely 12 pages” Leitner is such a book snob lmao

the attack on Leitner’s library is interesting in how it correlates with a bunch of the other statements — is this several of The Fears joining up to attack together??

oh no - Gertrude had 3 assistants that all met unpleasant ends? And then ‘somehow’ Jon ends up with 3 even tho Martin wasn’t supposed to be an assistant and now one of them might be dead? So it’s like history repeating itself??

the lore drop is so interesting - Leitner and Gertrude we’re gonna destroy the Archives??

WAIT WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK AM I LISTENING TO??? IS ELIAS BEATING HIM TO DEATH?? THE SOUND EFFECTS OMFG — the eeriness of just the dripping. Jon’s “oh” like yeah

10/10 season, totally worth sacrificing my sleep for

if there are no spiders then yes

but only if I’m also taking a magnetic tape recorder with me to record my statement

Hey guys, would you go through this door?

Asking for a friend

Notorious rambler Andrew Dennis Biersack attempts to remember how he got on a topic of conversation in the first place

For me it’s kinda complicated. As a gay man I’m generally represented a lot but there’s the discourse around most LGBTQ+ media being centred on coming out stories (don’t get me wrong, I do like watching those because it hits home but still) and only some shows (ex. Dead Boy Detectives) that treat it the same way straight relationships are treated - as normal.

As a transgender gay man, however, there is very little representation I’m aware of. I follow a bunch of writers on social media who aren’t published yet but would have that rep, but in general there’s only 1 instance I can think of which is Miles McKenna playing the role of James in the Goosebumps TV show from last year (and while he is trans I’m not sure it was stated whether his character was). And that’s not even getting into the complete invisibility I tend to feel from the news side of media as a trans guy. I mean, the “debate” over trans women needs to stop, I’m completely with that, but it still annoys me when they say “trans” they mean trans women.

As an asexual gay trans guy, yeah. Could not give you one example of ace rep I’ve come across, so I definitely don’t feel represented there

LGBTQIA+ people, do you feel like you are represented in the media? (Tv, movies, books, etc.)

Yes and it's mostly accurate or positive.

Yes, but it's both positive & negative or accurate & inaccurate.

Yes, but it's not accurate or positive.

Kind of/it's complicated.

No, not at all.

I was homeschooled and didn’t have much media/internet access until I was 11 and went to high school so it never came up then. Then, I developed my first crush on someone in my class, but we were a same-sex school and I hadn’t quite hit gender crisis yet since I hadn’t really hit puberty. I thought I was bi at first, then I realised I liked guys as well and so thought I was pan. In the span of the following year I confessed and got rejected, had some weird unhealthy obsession phase that eventually made me realise I wasn’t actually crushing on this person, hit Gender Crisis and it kind of became this whole mess. Then I realised I didn’t actually want to be in a relationship with a girl, and actually I’d never wanted to be in a sexual relationship with anyone — this was helped by my younger sibling starting to come into the time of being physically attracted to people and how much that contrasted with how I felt. Add in the fact that the whole concept of sex really grossed me out, and I eventually landed where I am now, as a gay, sex-repulsed asexual trans dude :)

It took a long time to figure everything out and I went through several different labels — bi, pan, demi and panromantic — probably in part because even the concept of people being LGBTQ+ was new to me, and I have always struggled with figuring out what it is I’m feeling (I’m 95% certain this is alexithymia possibly associated with being autistic but I’m very much new to looking into that and am not diagnosed). But looking at people’s experiences and comparing that to how I felt really helped.

@ asexuals, how did you guys figure out you were asexual?

okay I’m just getting towards the end of s2 but I lurk enough in the tag to know there are some kind of overarching entity things called The Fears-

is this related to the TMA tagline, “make your statement, face your fear”??? so, every single statement that has to be recorded connects to one of them, even the more one-off ‘monster of the week’ ones??

idk it could be coincidence but the thought struck me at 4 in the morning when I couldn’t sleep so naturally was thinking about this show