Arcane: Viktor's Transmasc Metaphors

I remember people trying to convince me that Viktor from Arcane wasn’t also awash with transmasc metaphors and they were trying to say that his actions when first using shimmer was like needing a fix of an illicit drug/drug abuse/“junkie” behavior and I’m just… wow you don’t know anything about injectable drugs do you. Addictive/psychoactive injectable drugs are usually IV route — as in intravenous, into a VEIN, because it’s immediate. The only controlled substance you’re going to be injecting with a huge scary needle into your leg like that is anabolic steroids like, say, testosterone cypionate, which has traditionally used a hilariously/frighteningly large needle gauge because that oil is thick.

Having to figure out how to inject a comically large syringe filled with a super serum into your thigh alone one night is obvious transmasculine imagery, not an illicit drug use imagery. These people wouldn’t see a trans man if he sat on their faces, istg.

Originally posted on Tumblr on April 07, 2022 at brain-depositary