Status Updates From The Blackwater Lightship

The busybody neighbors on the gay brother with AIDS: "He'll never get a wife if he doesn't fatten up a bit."

It is astonishing the number of things these women find more important than their family member dying of AIDS

Oh whatever Helen, your mom has been awful to these guys the whole time and you know it and now you think he's gone too far?

"Her mother was best left alone, tolerated and kept at bay, because nothing now would change her or improve her. It was too late."

I do think it's funny Helen has just met these men but she's insisting Paul come pick her up in an hour

Lily is so self-absorbed I want to kick her into the sun

I'm glad I'm not the only one confused by Helen's bullshit

I'm really enjoying Paul's story about being Catholic gay married in secret

Declan's mother's first reaction to the news he has AIDS seems to be how it will affect her

Perfect example of cold reading

Helen seems especially susceptible to flirting

Yes, Helen has a frustrating way of not understanding what's important here. I can only assume it's not just because she's straight but also because of family dynamics

Helen seems nice enough but her being annoyed about not being introduced by name to the doctor and that Declan wants her to tell her mother he has AIDS certainly indicates she's making this more about herself at the moment. Also we got through an entire opening chapter where nothing happened and now we're here...

Yes he thinks of her as an outsider and has replaced his family with friends, it's easier to be with his queer family than be an outsider in his own

I appreciate the subtle hesitation when having to speak to Helen about her brother being in the hospital and the reticence to tell her why

Apparently nothing turns her on more than only getting four hours of sleep and cleaning up after her husband

She woke up the morning after a party and cleaned everything up. He didn't wake up until she was done and said, " you should have left it for me." Instead of telling him how useless he is she says it was already done and now he has time to pack for his trip...

He just suggested the Oedipus complex is opposite for gay guys