this game is fucked up because, for as much of a train wreck as all these girls' lives are, i wish i could be in that train wreck.
or maybe thats not entirely correct. theres something romanticized about the lives these characters live. not in the horrible shit that happens to them or in how they inflict upon themselves, but in how they love and fuck and fight with a degree of freedom and community that not a lot of us have. i certainly dont. i know two trans women in my whole damn city, and i havent been on speaking terms with one of them for a month. most of my irl friends are cis people who just dont get it. not the gender stuff, but all of it. the characters in loner dog are their own group. they form together into a flaming ball of disaster hurtling towards a tragic end, but that disaster is a fettishistic transsexual disaster. its not the slow and painful death brought on by cis people, but a brilliant flash of light, beautiful as it burns, and treasured as it fades in our memories.
i want to be LONER DOG. i want to escape my twenties. do these have to be mutually exclusive?