Kinda wild that FOUR WEDDINGS & A FUNERAL is celebrated as a fizzy romcom classic when it’s actually a melancholic & unsparing critique of a hetero culture that callously took the institution of marriage for granted while queer people were losing their would-be-spouses to AIDS
ursula le guin was cooking when she described rowling as “stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative and ethically rather mean-spirited” and ever since i read those words i haven’t been able to stop using them to describe so many other things