#though I'm sure a book about Dionysus will make it go even farther

[welcome-to-the-end-of-eras]

I have so many thoughts on the way The Mars House will portray queerness because it's so radically different from the way Ms. Pulley has done it in the past, almost the exact opposite. For starters, it's in a future where queer people are accepted and respected members of society; Gale being openly nonbinary and important enough to be negatively impacted by their views on "offworlders" to the point where they have to fake a marriage, is blatant proof of queerness being valid and accepted. In the description of the book ALONE. The closest we have gotten to proof of queerness at all in the description of a book is when the back cover of tlfop references Six as both Thaniel and Mori's daughter, and even that is incredibly subtle to the point where you'd only notice if you knew the books. Up until now, queerness in Natasha Pulley's books has been subtle and underlying, understood but not said, but now the characters have a chance to be openly queer and express themselves more and I think that's a really nice change of pace. And we finally have an explicitly trans character!!! That's so cool!!! She had kind of implied Valery not aligning with the gender binary at the end of thlovk, but now we have a character who is openly opposed to it and I think it's going to be really interesting. Idk y'all I'm just really excited.