Banal

this pride, i learnt about the Palestinian trans woman Oscar Al-Halabiye, dancer and resistance fighter against the israeli occupation in Southern Lebanon. she named herself Oscar after Lady Oscar from the "The Rose of Versailles", a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Riyoko Ikeda.

Because I want to be there when the sheltered princess explodes into the fiery queen she's meant to be.

“There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will.”

Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we drop before we die, or we die vicariously and unharmed, and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book, and resume our lives.

Is it clear who the terrorist is?