Sasquatch is nonbinary

Remus Lupin is an aspiring author with crippling social anxiety. His best friend is Lily Evans, a polyamorous Pagan who wants to become a therapist. Elsewhere rich party boy James Potter is living his life free of any cares, accompanied by his snarky photographer best friend, Sirius Black, who doesn’t believe in love. Fate brings them all to Godric’s Cove, a tourist trap on the Southern Oregon Coast.

This is a story of dreams, hope, grief, and joy. A tale about finding your place in the universe and building community. It’s about unity in hard times and the healing power of love. It’s a tale that spans decades and continents as Remus, Lily, James, and Sirius find love and find each other to build a family of their own.

In short: It’s an epic yet intimate friends-to-lovers polyamory domestic AU.

6 years and nearly 400k words later, my Poly Marauders story is complete. It’s definitely a slow burn but more because of the focus on friendship rather than endless angsty pining.

2016 felt like the year that would never die. 

2016 felt like the year that would never die. 

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and not only that, but in regards to his sexuality, that he can be attracted to women and date women, and sort of defy that expectation, but also date men and enforce that being feminine of course doesn’t mean you’re gay, but being gay is never a bad thing, and being feminine and gay isn’t “conforming to stereotypes”. 

there aren’t really any shows that do that, that portray overt femininity in men without it being degrading, and there are certain moments about this unique role that david has that stand out to me, like when david alexis and moira all decided to go get manicures with david’s money and left johnny alone, the joke wasn’t that david wanted to do the “girly” thing and get a manicure, it was that johnny didn’t. Or the times when jocelyn asked david to talk to a gay teen, or roland asked david to help him pick out an outfit for jocelyn, they had an expectation of him to be like a gbf and just naturally do these things expected of him, but at the end of the day the humour is that david is stubborn and doesn’t get along with people, and is very protective of his ego, and his similarities to alexis and moira are something more tied to his class than his sexuality. 

And we get that lovely contrast with him and patrick, that patrick doesn’t behave the same as david, and he doesn’t fit the image of what a gay man typically looks and acts like because he grew up presumably middle class and was with women his whole life, but we get little glimpses that patrick has his own feminine side, that he volunteered to play mary in the christmas pageant, he’s dramatic and sensitive, and the entirety of his arc during cabaret is him coming into his own skin.

and with david and patrick there’s that sort of self recognition through the other, that while they come from different backgrounds, they see in each other their desire to be loved and their desire to start over, and i think that discovery we make about david through patrick allows us to see david’s mannerisms and style in a new, more sympathetic context, and gives us more than we could possibly have asked for in complex portrayals of gender nonconforming characters. 

Noah Reid

Columbia City Theatre, Seattle