The thing that is so magical abt Zohran (uh probably just for me personally tho) is how he is painstakingly making NY back into the city Gen Xers fell in love with watching Sesame Street & he intuitively gets how indispensable Curtis Sliwa is to that specific magic
queer is the name of the identity, homophobia is the name of the marginalization. if you’re trying to say someone is not as marginalized, you would say they do not experience as much homophobia, not that they’re less queer. obviously.
A story in which a character discovers their queer identity over time is not queerbaiting - it's telling a QUEER STORY in MULTIPLE ACTS. A straight actor playing a queer character is not queerbaiting, THEY'RE ACTING.
I usually post this image of Ladder 118 each year on 9/11 because for some reason it's always carried the most weight for me. I think it's because 118 -- shiny and swift, standing into fiery danger to save the townspeople -- is a modern image of St. George fighting the dragon.
I don't know how to tell that it's actually very important to know why she killed her kids so situations like these can be easily prevented in the future to avoid more tragedies
my least trad hippiedippy-est opinion is that our national parks are borderline sacred and no amount of money or convenience or human need* should allow for even two square feet of them to be released
one of the twists in real world AI is that, in scifi, it was assumed that the danger would be that we'd raise the machine to the level of a human soul. but to be honest, it seems we're most in danger of debasing the human soul to the level of machine.
she's literally a believer without a church! there isn't enough focus on the fact that she's literally been a Heretic since she was 10. i think there's so much to be said about how that parallels childhood queerness. she chose the woman in the tomb over the man who became God