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Man, post-mortem Aaron is so sad. Even without his family history, the way he couldn't get traction because he couldn't find people to work with fits so well with the themes of the season.

It's happening again, so just to remind everyone:

They are not supposed to automatically redirect you without you clicking them, they are not supposed to cause a pop-up, they are not supposed to freeze your screen.

Else the Puck a liar call;

summer

Thinking about the fact that LaVonte was turned sometime in the 80s, likely during the height of the AIDs crisis. During a time of rampant homophobia which was even more brutal for men of color.

LaVonte’s response to being called gay definitely feels like a man from the 80s, especially from the toxic American Psycho business world. The homophobia of the era, the lack of social acceptance, the HIV/AIDS epidemic being referred to publicly as “the gay plague” — it would have been social suicide especially in the conservative environment of Reagan/Bush 1-era America. His denial seems like a snap reaction out of fear of being discovered. Because it’s not that LaVonte is outright homophobic; he expresses no issue with Madelaine’s sexuality or Maya and Amelia’s. And it goes without saying Lou has no issue playing a queer character. Remember when Squak’s bisexual ass seduced Theodore and Jeremy Renner and couldn’t stop talking about how hot Andhera was? So, by process of elimination, we can conclude it’s internalized homophobia. Whether he and HJ are together romantically isn’t the point; it’s the insinuation that they have an intimate relationship beyond business partners being spoken about openly, even though their behaviour and words make it clear their relationship does go deeper than that.