Category: thoughts on stuff
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Dhalgren’s Bellona: The Ruins of Morning
“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).
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Dhalgren’s Bellona: Prism, Mirror, Lens
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…
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Gender in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – Chapter 8 of 1831 Edition
[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…
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Sex, Romance, and Relationships in “Saiki K”
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…
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His Dark Materials: Disability in “The Subtle Knife”
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.…
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Disability in “Iron Widow”
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.
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Disability in “Dragons: Race to the Edge” (Season One)
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.
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mystical queerness: why i love messy representation (yes, this is about a fanfic)
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…
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Suburban Queerness in “Torchwood: Serenity”
“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…
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Wonderstruck (2017)
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.
tired, gay, and bored 