bi-aroace disabled mentally-ill trans teenager rambles about whatever they think of
Looking at flawed media with hope for the future.
“Here I am and am no I. This circle in all, this change changing in winterless, a dawn circle with an image of, an autumn change with a change of mist. Mistake two pictures, one and another. No. Only in seasons of shortlight, only on dead afternoons. I will not be sick again” (55).
Dhalgren is a 1975 science-fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany, a gay, dyslexic, dysmetric author best known for works including Babel-17 (1966), The Einstein Intersection (1967), Nova (1968), and Dhalgren, although he has written many more books and essays. Dhalgren is thought of by many as being an exploration of his neurodivergency in a way…
[Written for my IB English Literature class.] Justine, as one of the few women so far introduced in Frankenstein, is important to read into from a feminist perspective. Elizabeth, one of the other significant women, is viewed by Victor as his possession due to her adoption as a “gift” to him. As Victor already clearly…
So, after ages of being told to watch it, I’ve finally started The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. And, of course, I have thoughts. Kusuo Saiki was born to a passionate married couple, who were originally loving but soon grew to seemingly hate each other. Both of his parents consistently manipulate their son’s psychic powers…
I’ve written about the second season of the TV adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, so I think it’s only fair that I write about the second book. The show is a close adaptation in many ways, but it’s been a while since I read the trilogy, and I’m curious about how it compares.…
Iron Widow is a 2021 young adult fantasy novel by Xiran Jay Zhao (they/them). It’s an imaginative futuristic retelling of the story of China’s only female emperor, Wu Zetian. It’s particularly notable for Chinese and queer representation, but I’d like to highlight the disabled representation presented by Zetian.
Dragons: Race to the Edge was an animated TV show based on DreamWorks’s How To Train Your Dragon films. It’s a Netflix original and ran from 2015 to 2018, with six seasons.
Today, I made the choice to re-read “let’s get mischievous.” God, it was beautiful. “let’s get mischievous” is a DC (Tim Drake/Bernard Dowd) fanfic by CreamofTomatoSoup, an author on Archive of Our Own. It was published on December 1st, 2021, but it feels like it was just yesterday. It’s their most popular work, having 878…
“Serenity” is the twenty-ninth episode of the Big Finish Productions audio drama series inspired by the TV show Torchwood. In it, bisexual couple Ianto Jones (called “Ifan”) and Jack Harkness (called “Ken”), both men, go undercover as a married couple in the “ordinary” gated community Serenity Plaza in search of an alien sleeper agent from…
Brian Selznick adapted his 2011 novel “Wonderstruck” into a screenplay, which then became a film directed by Todd Haynes. Rose, a deaf girl, was played by a Deaf actress, Millicent Simmonds; Ben, a boy who starts out deaf in one ear and later becomes fully deaf, was played by a hearing actor, Oakes Fegley.
BBC’s Torchwood is a TV show spin-off of Doctor Who that ran from 2006 to 2011. One of the lead characters, Captain Jack Harkness, has been described by creators at differing times as both omnisexual and bisexual, and it’s not ignored on-screen. That’s part of why I decided to watch this show.
In 2017, Dynamite Entertainment published the comic miniseries James Bond: Felix Leiter. This was the first time Leiter ever had a solo story. The cover of the collected edition shows Leiter holding a gun with two hands, with the more visible one being a (rather unrealistic-looking) prosthetic. One Amazon reviewer praises it for avoiding the…
Wonderstruck is a 2011 “novel in words and pictures” about two deaf children, Ben and Rose, with their stories taking place fifty years apart. Rose’s story is told in pictures and Ben’s in words.
Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising Sequence is a fantasy novel series published between 1965 and 1977. Surprisingly, her books feature an albinistic protagonist, who makes his first appearance in the fourth book, The Grey King, originally published in 1975. Part of what made The Dark is Rising stand out to me when I read…
I’m writing this as I watch the first episode of Pure, a 2019 HBOMax original show about a woman with primarily-obsessive OCD (“Pure-O”) with taboo intrusive thoughts. It was cancelled after one season, presumably due to low ratings, the uncomfortable subject, or simply a lack of viewers. One of the first scenes of the first…
The stage adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie has a long and convoluted history. I recently watched a performance of the 2012 remake, and I can say confidently that I loved it.
I haven’t made a post in a few days – not that anyone is here to notice. Finals season is coming up and I’ve just started watching DC’s Doom Patrol, about which I have a lot of thoughts but no words.
DC and Webtoon’s collaborative comic Batman: Wayne Family Adventures has shown just how much the internet loves the Batfamily’s domestic dynamics. A recent two-part episode centered on the Batgirls showed me why I, personally, love it.
Earlier today, I was reading the collected volume of the first two arcs of Grant Morrison’s Batman and Robin, helpfully titled Batman Reborn. Queerness was present in it from start to finish, to the point where it was difficult for me, personally, to separate that from the rest of the story.
His Dark Materials is a middle-grade fantasy book series and, more recently, an HBO TV series. It follows Lyra Silvertongue’s quest across worlds to understand Dust – her world’s name for dark matter.
I’ve been thinking a lot about my relationships in the past couple of days, for a few different reasons, and something that’s stood out to me is simply the fact that I don’t know what makes different relationships different. Other people seem to be able to tell, but I don’t. I do, though. I’ll explain.…
I watched Netflix’s I Am Not Okay With This a couple weeks ago, finishing it the day my Netflix subscription expired. It was wonderfully queer, wholly teenager, and very mentally ill. But it didn’t need a renewal.
I watched Team StarKid’s 2016 musical Firebringer less than a week ago and I can’t stop thinking about it.
you ever just have something and need to talk about it but you can’t figure out how? that’s me right now. I don’t think anyone will really mind if I just rephrase things I’ve said before on Discord and see where that takes me, right?
tired, gay, and bored 