it doesn't surprise me at all that the air at ground zero was toxic for much longer than the gov't said. and then i think about every person in gaza & in every nation we've bombed relentlessly who has had to breathe in air like that for days, weeks, months, years. because of us.
my grief over dolly and tim curry is absolutely parasocial but you can't understate the impact that both of those people had for queer people, for women, for people who have always had "weird" interests and big personalities, they were icons for anyone strange