CBrachyrhynchos @cbrachyrhynchos@lgbt.io

I am gradually trying to get past my shopping phobia.

Sweet! Thrifted a denim jacket with ruffles. Need to replace the buttons and maybe I'll tear the sleeves off.

Portal fantasy where the lead character is a fantasy war horse, sucked into a world of goofy psychedelic centaurs.

And while they kept that aspect of the costume party relatively low-key and deniable, the inclusion of people doing Belle Epoque butch and drag was very much appreciated by me.

Diana, on the other hand, doesn't quite know what to do with the revelation that her beloved great-aunts were practically married for years, or her denial of what was apparently right in front of her face.

But, I have my suspicions that Diana isn't entirely straight either.

One of the reasons I find Cole so relatable is that the series doesn't give him a meet-cute scene where he realizes he's gay by meeting The Boy of His Dreams.

Instead, he starts from a position of estrangement with performative masculinity and family expectations. His life is changed, not by a meet-cute, but by meeting an elderly lesbian widow at a queer costume party. His first expression of identity isn't, "I like...," it's "I am like you."

And Aunt Josephine's response isn't to promise love or an ordinary life. It's that the people he chooses to come out to can become the strongest of allies.

(Which was something I really needed to hear right then.)

I kind of like that the series has a lot to say about sexuality and gender roles without doing anything more explicit than practice play kissing.

Oh good finally some payoff regarding all the gendershit that they had been dumping on Cole.

I'm kind of jealous of how he gets to come to terms with being gay(*) through kindly adults who are open about how they love. Not getting that until after I was sexually active kinda fucked with my head.

(*) Historical liberty in terms taken.

Papi in many ways is directly contrasted with Stan. Stan keeps Angel a secret and when his life falls apart, asks Angel to "go stealth" in suburbia. Papi shows up for house family dinners, balls, and ACT-UP protests.

One of the things I feel Pose addresses with the groomsman toast scene is that "straight-passing" bi/pan people have complex relationships with heterosexism that come out through our relationships with legal systems and extended family.

Finished the unicorn, and found a nice horror-themed alphabet pattern that gives me plausible deniability for goofs. Is it inexperienced or intentionally grungey?