SO close

yes :)

If you'll believe it it was literally a joke in the gc and I decided to give it complete sincerity

I do appreciate how every time a nymph is on screen they're described in a way that feels unsure of their sapience, whether they possess some true intelligence or if they're just REALLY good at pretending

Hi! Zeus Constant can be read alone but I generally recommend reading Hades Calculus first for how the themes reveals are layered.

Palatability is ultimately the enemy of the liberation because when the going gets tough, they're burning books that even smell gay much less the ones that show queer people as complex, realistic, both kind and cruel, as well as defiant towards the social technologies of patriarchy.

intent to subvert, invert, or criticize those genre conventions or the hero's role and so on then this just presents a fairly milequetoast "gay people are just like you" effect. it's a lot more interesting to me at least to go further and challenge the system that produces such a hero, such a genre

This is not to say that gay books don't have a place in the ecosystem. It's still important to have introductory material. But I'm just always going to be more interested in how much deeper we can go. It's fine to replace the hero of some genre with a queer character or woman, but if there's no

Palatability is ultimately the enemy of the liberation because when the going gets tough, they're burning books that even smell gay much less the ones that show queer people as complex, realistic, both kind and cruel, as well as defiant towards the social technologies of patriarchy.

At a time when queer people are being monstered and the west is backsliding into fascism, to homo+transphobia. I'm blessed to be part books that reclaim this grotesquerie of queerness to make critiques of these reactionary narrative trends and the systems that uphold them.