"And wasn't it Destruction who told Orpheus how to get to Hades?"

As glow in the dark covers go, it's not too bad.

As glow in the dark covers go, it's not too bad.

@avclub-c0f8dbb69a6e71545459f9b88e475c47:disqus I read "August" as different than what you say here.

@avclub-c0f8dbb69a6e71545459f9b88e475c47:disqus I read "August" as different than what you say here.

@Noah_Cruickshank:disqus I always took the similarity and conflict between Dream and Desire as having at least something to do with their positions among the Endless. That's vague, but what I mean is this.

@Noah_Cruickshank:disqus I always took the similarity and conflict between Dream and Desire as having at least something to do with their positions among the Endless. That's vague, but what I mean is this.

Huh. I'm transgender, and his/her Nagel influence notwithstanding, I always viewed Desire, while reading, as someone who keeps just barely leaning one way or the other over the line between male and female. And the clothes s/he wears usually seem to be on the side opposite of where s/he is currently at.

Huh. I'm transgender, and his/her Nagel influence notwithstanding, I always viewed Desire, while reading, as someone who keeps just barely leaning one way or the other over the line between male and female. And the clothes s/he wears usually seem to be on the side opposite of where s/he is currently at.

It really is a reading context dependent story, isn't it? But that often winds up being true of a lot of stories of progressive intent when read decades after they were first published.

It really is a reading context dependent story, isn't it? But that often winds up being true of a lot of stories of progressive intent when read decades after they were first published.

"My problem is and continues to be that by making the forces arrayed against Wanda literally supernatural, it makes the suckiness of being trans a fundamental fact of life and something that it's impossible to change."

"My problem is and continues to be that by making the forces arrayed against Wanda literally supernatural, it makes the suckiness of being trans a fundamental fact of life and something that it's impossible to change."

I actually never made as direct a connection between the Cuckoo and Wanda until I typed that parenthetical. There certainly are parallels I was aware of. But I hadn't thought of the Cuckoo as in some way emblematic of the trans experience. It's an interesting idea.

I actually never made as direct a connection between the Cuckoo and Wanda until I typed that parenthetical. There certainly are parallels I was aware of. But I hadn't thought of the Cuckoo as in some way emblematic of the trans experience. It's an interesting idea.

Agreed. Definitely a huge difference.

Agreed. Definitely a huge difference.

Much as I like the story, Hazel and Foxglove just going along with Thessaly is one scene where I think Gaiman may make a misstep, for precisely the reasons you describe here. On the other hand, from the perspective of my own trans experience, the way Wanda evaluates herself against the women's actions, and turns that…

Much as I like the story, Hazel and Foxglove just going along with Thessaly is one scene where I think Gaiman may make a misstep, for precisely the reasons you describe here. On the other hand, from the perspective of my own trans experience, the way Wanda evaluates herself against the women's actions, and turns that…

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