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I actually think Joan deserves to be an amoral, pleasure-seeking hound, just sayin'.

Weh, I am in love with Sparrow.

Idk Joan, you play the lumbering cis fool pretty well as-is. This backstory from Sparrow, it's kind of on-the-nose, but it is nice, I think. Not everybody utterly fuckin sheds their whole life when Gender.

I cannot believe Joan is starting a piss psyop.

I don't think I understand Joan all the way.

Thinking for a sec, I kind of don't like how Sparrow is positioned in this. We haven't got a lot from them, so they kinda feel like solely an instrument for Joan's being weird about womanhood. Not that her being weird is bad, just that they have 0 agency about anything, in narrative terms.

This whole scene is just... like, on the one hand Joan makes fucking WILD assumptions about Sparrow that probably get in the way of her thinking, but on the other hand this is clearly a massive moment for her. Maybe something good will happen?

Joan has very comical ideas about what various queers do and do not like in their women, as if this feral street rat of a folk guitatist has zero appeal to a passing Sparrow...

"Sparrow liked women. That was good. But certainly the woman in question was young and queer and cute, not rangy and rough-edged, frightening colleagues with her abject, phone-free life."

This stuff with the shitass guitar has me in mind of that one KT Tunstall quote, about the cockishness of guitars generally. Like, for all the fear she had of revealing some Gender to the superfan, here she is slashing away for the kids...

I BELIEVE IN THE JOAN THAT CAN BE A GOOD ENOUGH PERSON FOR SPARROW!!!