tinycog

Behold, a dragon.

WILDLY SUCCESSFUL MAGPIE

“scientists don’t want you know” is a phrase that always cracks me up because if you actually meet a scientist they will be shaking and crying like an overstimulated chihuahua with the need to let you know

(getting a taste of my own medicine) actually this is okay. Is this what you guys have bene whining about? Jesus christ

interview with the vampire, the novel, treats homosexuality in a pretty bog standard way for 70s american media—a grotesquerie too unseemly to be addressed by name, whose practitioners are either helpless but still disgusting victims who rightfully want to die to kill the disease inside of them, or gauche, subhuman predators who reach grisly ends as a result of their perversion. it goes through the homophobic traits noted in chapter three of the celluloid closet like a checklist. and then not that long later the vampire lestat has a completely revised view of homosexuality, treating gayness and gay relationships with a kind of clumsy, eager voyeurism, titillation where before there was only artistry and disgust. something happened between 1976 and 1985 that resulted in anne rice’s fujoshi awakening

was it star trek ii: the wrath of khan (1982)

It was likely the birth of her gay son Christopher in 1978.

you’re suggesting that he came out of the womb and then immediately came out as gay

No, only after watching Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982).