who'd be interested in following me live-tweeting the original Ender Quartet? Especially interested in (what I remember to be) the books' homosexual undertones and the central place it holds for radical empathy, with critical distance through an existential lens.
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Ender's fight with Bonzo is so homoerotic that I picked up on it at 14.
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Like, they're both naked, it's hot and steamy, both are slick with soap and sweat. Card's writing is never more visceral than when depicting male bodies making skin-to-skin contact.
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honestly i think maybe that's what I found in Card: a fellow self-hating queer looking to overwhelm that self-hatred with intelligence and compassion for everyone but yourself.
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