#ask me about it. about that the greek class is just the way bunny rebuilds his own family.

[barnbridges]

my most controversial yet brave take is that yes, queers be obsessed with food is a jab lacking in self awareness at bunny himself and his eating habits, but even deeper than that, it is about julian.

because we've heard the food the corcorans eat, the wacky cake and the quart of milk brought from the walmart of the 80s new england. the half-eaten twinkie charles' eyes were fixated on in that bedroom, avoiding the silent staring pictures of the family, cheap jello shots and shitty financial aid cheesecake.

the real obsession is julian, it's the dinner at camilla and charles', the divine. julian is obsessed with food, julian's presence at dinner sets all of them straight. bunny is obsessed with dinner with julian, straightening out his acts and toasting to living forever. it's the way julian can order them around, when they are all grown men and a woman, and probably relishes in this control.

it's the private dinner at julian's, that even a loser like richard who spent two semesters with him got, that the rest probably have as well.

everything about julian ties into why bunny even wrote the letter to him, and not to the sherrif in hartford or some newspaper or god forbid, his own father. julian's the only person he respects, and the one he resents for using his power to engage in homosocial and homoerotic rituals almost as much as he does himself for the same thing.