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one of the most gut-wrenching feelings is watching someone you feel close to start doing things entirely alien to you, but it never seems *that* out of character for them. you know what’s going to happen, you know they’re making compromises that will turn them into someone you can’t love, but they don’t care. and they’re shocked when you don’t follow them.

what i love about nick medina’s horror is that he seamlessly blends societal and supernatural monsters, so you’re never sure what the immediate threat is. these characters are all suffering from severe mental health concerns, but their priorities are based on what they see: they see mysterious deaths and disappearances.

there really haven’t been any new hits from the alt-right christians on homosexuality since the 1960s.

love the term “in monster drag”

and this is why elvira: mistress of the dark is crucial monster queer text

my pre-Michael viewing read

medina’s characters develop through how they perceive each other—meaning everyone is beautifully mysterious, inconsistent, and real. i’m able to make connections the characters can’t from their positions, and there’s so much they see amongst themselves that i still don’t know.

ok so dorian is like if wilde’s idealism met douglas’ egoism

“professional sissy” is the name of my memoir

oscar, you devil… had me in the first half, ngl.
whether it’s intentional or not, i’m back on board with this toxic bl

exploring the homosocial triangle, the homosocial/homosexual continuum, and the ways homosexual intimacy is repressed and displaced through a heterosexual protagonist couple and semi-censored violence.

This is what I mean when I say audience interpretation of a film (reception/decoding) is equally important to that of its creators’ intentions (production/encoding)!!

DAYUMMMMMM

A reasonable conclusion, but the facts are a lil off…

YOU TELL ‘EM, CLAUDIA

and now we encounter a similar problem to octavia butler’s fledgling.
didn’t wanna think about it then, and i still don’t now.

lestat has not done a single box breathing exercise in his immortal life and it shows

i’d kill for a good butch4butch book

so white people need super sight to recognize black people as humans. good to know, anne.