911 you have the opportunity to do the funniest thing tomorrow

please. please please. please. you can even send eddie to super-hell, idc. do it. please.

It's a hard episode to watch now, though I don't remember the last time I saw it. One thing that I wonder about is whether Soren was lying to Riker when she told him she wanted to stay. My personal feeling is that she was. She knew what would or could happen to him if he brought her off the planet and wasn't willing to let him make that sacrifice for her.

It's obvious that the story is supposed to be a tragedy, and that the tragedy is that Soren's society doesn't actually give her a choice. In the context of when the episode was written and aired, that was more true for queer folks than it is today. That's something that I think people may not always give enough credit for when talking about this episode (that and I can't remember when the rating boards changed the policy on gays not being allowed to have happy endings).

So it's a tragedy, and part of it is that she was in a position where her only choices were sacrificing everything about herself or sacrificing everything about the man she loved.

It would have been wonderful to get a happy ending there, with Soren leaving with Riker or being rescued by the other people like her. But in some ways, it would have cheapened the story. The way it is, it's a call to think about the ways that society deeply harms queer folks, and the impossible situations we get put in.

But on the whole, the writing for the episode was beautifully done. If I knew more about film I'd say something about the way it was staged and shot as well, because I think that was excellent too.

And as an aside, I really appreciated the little bit of off-screen character growth we get for Worf. It's clear to me that his exchange with his friends at their poker night made him rethink his assumptions and changed his mind. That's a little detail that's actually really important in the episode, because Worf is the most "macho" of the men on the ship.

It’s hard to believe that homes like this even exist in New York City. This 1901 mansion has 12bd. 12ba. and is listed for $33M.

Of course, I made the mistake of asking why everyone calls this one guy Brickaday and it turns out that he worked at a brickyard for 40 years, stealing exactly one brick every day and making no particular efforts to conceal the theft. Nobody thought anything of it until years later he was discovered to have built three houses.

His boss is said to have shrugged and made some remarks about the importance of coming up with a plan and sticking to it.

In 1977, directory Tony Espejo put on Philippine adaptation of the American queer play The Boys in the Band, translated into Taglish (Tagalog/English) by Jose Javier Reyes. The play’s program featured one of the first written examples of Swardspeak - a language created by the queer community in the Philippines to talk to each other without being understood - and even had a glossary to help the audience follow what was being said.

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not all the trans men could have gotten outed, right?

like im willing to bet that there are quite a few men out there who were buried as men