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Just read a body horror story about people turning into giant brains. Kinda missed me, because I’m not really scared of turning into a giant brain? I feel like it’s just another body type.

The whole story is blatantly queer and written for people to whom trans bodies are just more body types.

Apparently, I’m queerer than queer. I choose to count this as a win.

I’m weirdly resistant to body horror, but only if it’s fantastical. Guy’s chest splits open with an axe? I cringe away from the screen. Guy’s chest splits open into a hideous fanged maw? Eh, whatever. Some design choices bother me more than others, like bloodied fangs or holes that look like larva hatched from them, but none of it freaks me out nearly as much as straightforward violence.

 I read a few chapters of Girl That Can See It when it was first translated. I thought all the fantastical body horror was mildly perturbing. I’ve just seen some pics from later chapters, and what the flying fuck is going on in this manga? These monster designs are even scaring me: https://ginnosaji.tumblr.com/tagged/The-Girl-That-Sees-Them

(On the flipside, Mortal Kombat takes straightforward mutilation so far past any point of realism that it doesn’t even bother me.)