GOD MADE TRANS PEOPLE FOR THE SAME REASON HE MADE GRAPES BUT NOT WINE WHO ARE WE TO DENY THIS DIVINE ALCHEMY OF THE SELF?
daniel lavery, “something that may shock and discredit you”
[image id: a cropped picture of a few lines out of daniel lavery’s book, “something that may shock and discredit you”. the text reads, “going. as my friend julian puts it, only half winkingly: ‘god blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason god made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in on the act of creation.’” end id]
i would rather say “i love you” too much than too little, yk? i would rather yell “i love you” across a parking lot at 8:40 pm than to quietly go home, i would rather scream at my friends that “i love you” before i turn a corner, i would rather live in a world where my friends yell “i love you” back at the top of their lungs because life is so insufferably long but its also so so so short and i just. i would rather tell my people that i love them a ridiculous amount than have them not know,
“I wanted a happy queer couple. I felt the audience needed to see, here are two people who, if not for this, probably wouldn’t have found each other. They have what they have because they have this gift. They meet killing each other, and only within that discovery that they can’t do it are they able to put down all this bullshit about religious hatred, about these cultural mandates, and look at each other and be like, ‘You know what? You are magical to me. My blessing isn’t that I get an eternal life. My blessing is I found you.’”
— Greg Rucka on the importance of Nicky & Joe’s relationship in The Old Guard
