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“You know I’m married, right?” “And to all appearances tragically heterosexual, yes.”
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a sign font that is a little too close to Comic Sans for comfort.
Jump scare
Go team. Do the thing. Win the points.
Gay sports!!
He’s 5 feet 10 inches
You mean 6’1?
Alex considers going and drowning himself in his stupid shower because he is the literal worst,
The alex in question is me
I think it’s stupid to say that men can’t give certain gifts to other men because they’re too ‘feminine’ or too ‘gay.’ Not to mention how problematic it is to imply that ‘feminine’ or ‘gay’ are somehow bad things.”
But he still misses him. Misses the only childhood friend he’s had. The only person he’d trusted until he met Jeff. The past is a powerful force, though, because Alex did love James once. Loved him in the way young, lonely people love—too fast and with too much of themselves, and Alex remembers. And remembering hurts.
“And on the eighth day,” Cody intones, eerily similar to the pastor at Cody’s church back home, “the Lord made hockey asses. And Eli felt one. And it was good.” “Hallelujah,” Eli agrees.
“You’ll be okay, kid.”
“Calculus is homophobic,” Eli mutters. “What?” Alex says. “How?” “I’m gay, and it inconveniences me.”
Por qué todos mis nietos deben enamorarse de gringos? Ay, al menos él es lindo.”
“I was so lonely before you. Except I didn’t even realize I was lonely. I thought that was the way I was supposed to be.”
*Insert “All I’ve Ever Known” by Eva Noblezada in Hadestown here*
