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“Find me a house where no one can ever come. I like talking to you, but to no one else in the whole world.”

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Lytton Strachey wr. c. September 1925

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I just know that when Romeo and Juliet premiered two ye olde girlies in the pit at intermission were like didst thou see the sparks betwixt Tybalt and mercutio… aye and not from their swords alone!

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Megan Fernandes, “May to December,” in I Do Everything I’m Told

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“I love you. Infinitely and inexpressibly. l've woken up in the middle of the night and here I am writing this. My love, my happiness.”

Vladimir Nabokov, a letter to Vera (January 19, 1925), featured in "Letters To Vera"

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“When Mary Magdalene meets the resurrected Jesus, she looks right at him, but does not recognize him, “supposing him to be a gardener.” Only when he addresses her does she realize who he is. She turns toward him. John does not describe the action, only the dialogue, so it is left to us to imagine what leads Jesus to say, in the Latin that has become metonym for the scene as a whole, Noli me tangere, usually translated as “do not touch me” or “do not hold me.” The noli me tangere encounter is another one artists cannot resist. There are myriad arrangements of Jesus and Mary Magdalene: his hand stretches out in refusal, she kneels, he bends, they both stand, they look at each other, one looks away. Almost always she reaches for him. Sometimes she makes contact. The multitude of portraits reflects the ambiguity of the simple phrase, which opens a range of possible relations. Perhaps he rejects her touch because he cannot bear the shock of intimacy, divided as they are by the fact of the resurrection. Perhaps, even as he speaks, he touches her, to hold her away from him. It’s possible, the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy argues, to translate the phrase as “do not wish to touch me.” If you do, then it becomes an exhortation to love the death too, because it is intrinsic to every life. Meanwhile, Mary’s hands hang in the air. Resurrection is Dante’s eternal rotation, “spurred on by flaming love”: it is the ongoing allegiance to keeping in sight the appearance of disappearance. It is living as if. It is a game of hands, an everlasting reaching after what escapes, what you love.”

— Elisa Gonzalez, in “Minor Resurrections: On failing to raise the dead”

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Allen Ginsberg, from a letter to Peter Orlovsky

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You go to your friend’s house and Jeff Bezos is there. You’re like “are you insane? That’s Jeff Bezos, he’s evil, we need to throw him out” and your friend tries to convince you that no poor Jeff Bezos has amnesia and is in a lot of trouble so you have to help him. This is insane to you but you’re in love with your friend so you’re like okay…and then Jeff Bezos regains his memories and runs off to live out his queer love story. You’re like “well that was INSANE wasn’t it? Let’s go do boozy brunch to get over it and also I might be in love with you”…..but your friend/love of your life is like “this is awkward but I’m actually the new CEO of Amazon”…….that would be terrible wouldn’t it? Well something really similar happened to my good friend crowley

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Yes, the end of S2 was absolutely heartbreaking, but there's no reason to act like this is the end of everything. The story obviously continues, and even if there's no S3 and Neil Gaiman has to deliver it to us via a monthly newsletter like a modern Charles Dickens, we will get a resolution.

It would have been a huge injustice to all the emotions and complications built up between Crowley and Azi over literal centuries if the admitting of their feelings was easy. There are so many problems they have to overcome first, both internal and external. It will be interesting to watch them overcome these problems. Learning to communicate, compromise, meet in the middle.

Relationships are complicated, even if you aren't pre-destined to be mortal enemies. Trust the process. I truly believe the end will be worth it. That the pain of now will make the resolution far more satisfying.

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Aziraphale's "You're being silly" lives rent free in my head.

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whorish behavior

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— Virginia Woolf, Flush

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“I’m always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.”

Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

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If I got a penny for each time I watched David Tennant unexpectedly kiss a man on screen I'd have two pennies but I still cannot believe that it happened twice.

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