[image description: Three photos of different styles of double-breasted jacket. The first is a U.S. Navy Admiral uniform, the second is a military marching jacket with shoulders and rope brocade, the third is Anne Hathaway from Twelfth Night in a gentleman's garb. /End desc]
"One mind trying to envision everything that could happen, everything that could go wrong, everything that one ship of humans could ever need to say to another. There is something tender about the tendency toward thoroughness. And then something grave about how the language effloresces, absurdly, into such dark specificity."
the thing about gay bdsm dynamics is they will make explicit what is implicit in normative cisheterosexual dynamics and then those complicit in cisheterosexuality will act all scandalized about seeing themselves in the funhouse mirror