Queer Love, Part 2

Queer love is raucous.

Queer love receives a standing ovation as it walks down the aisle together, wearing different but complementary suits.

Queer love will never Leave, rather Call and Answer on Every Subway Car, even if it isn’t Easy, even when You Run Away. Silverball.

Queer love is New York Cake.

Queer love is commitment to the bit.

Queer love is color and light.

Queer love is the sound of a throat tightening before a sob, a fondly shaken head, words with the same meaning if not the same phonetics.

Queer love will always get you water when you need it.

Queer love has friends who will drop everything to bring your dreams to life.

Recent Gigs

Since my last update I have provided additional voices for the following shows, available on Crunchyroll:

• The Ancient Magus’ Bride: Season 2, Episode 13

• The Kingdoms of Ruin: Episodes 2 & 3

Consume!

Warning, warning, children in danger.

“The Promised Neverland” manga delivers upon some very ambitious goals. Over the course of 20 volumes, Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu slowly, steadily escalate the story from a very insular, personal narrative (“I want to keep my friends from being eaten”) to a truly epic conflict (“I want to overhaul society’s foundation at the expense of the ruling’s class’s comfort”) and then BACK down to a simple, emotionally-driven ending (“I want my family to live freely and happily.”)

That build and descent is key, and the main reason why the anime adaptation just doesn’t work. It MEANS something to see all the building blocks to Emma’s success fall into place, to see all the times she could have failed, to have the world’s details and rules drip into your brain like they’re rationed out.

Also, a bonus? No romance in this one. For those of you looking for that.

Performance(s) of the Week

As anticipated, this show is a delight.

“I’m in Love with the Villainess” is a fun watch simply because its two main characters are Grade-A weirdos plopped in a situation that brings out their worst personality traits. Hannah Alyea does a fantastic job of portraying Rae as a little gremlin who is eager to apply her powers of hyper-focus for good or evil while maintaining a measure of likability that is ESSENTIAL for the audience’s goodwill. Lindsay Sheppard, similarly, explores Claire’s constant struggle to maintain control with grace and aplomb, absolutely living in the instances when the ground is pulled from underneath her.

Great chemistry that comes from a freedom to make these characters their own. That’s what I’m getting, and am excited to keep watching as the season wraps up.

My Brain Wastes My Time As I Try My Darndest to Make Plans

I should change the world.

I should write, direct, and star in my own work.

I should get a life coach, an acting coach, a process manager.

I should post more on social media.

I should delete ALL of my social media profiles, including this newsletter.

I should dye my hair.

I should start dating again.

I should adopt FOUR more cats.

I should apologize to that one person for being weird around them over a year ago, but like in a COOL way in case they haven’t been thinking about it as much as I have.

I should get an MFA.

I should leave the frickin country.

I should work really really hard so I can buy a house where all my friends can live together, wait would that make me their landlord, oh no.

I should meditate. In the mountains.

I should refine my diet.

I should throw a house party.

I should