I like stories

The direction and editing here matters. Their ‘breakup’ is Vi holding Caitlyn’s hand while Caitlyn is trying to climb up from Jenna’s temple. In this scene, Vi is walking away and Caitlyn comes back down to where Vi is, pulls her hand back and now beats her/immobilizes her so that Vi comes back to exactly the same spot they were before. A fight interrupted. They pick up exactly where they left off. When they were both moving on assuming the other one hates them.

This took alignment in direction, editing, and writing and it is brilliant! As is their weird banter, the use of ‘cupcake’, how Cait is processing the scene/event.

Healing Hands

long may I reign

Pope Leo is letting American bishops entirely ban trans healthcare for both minors and adults in all Catholic-owned hospitals and clinics, and stop coverage for trans healthcare through Catholic-affiliated health insurance plans!!

People are having surgeries, for which they were on waitlists for years, suddenly cancelled. Hormones no longer covered, their clinicians no longer able to prescribe them. Considering in some states Catholic-owned healthcare organizations make up to a third of the market, as it were, this is a HUGE issue.