That all I have to do
all I’d ever do
connect the disconnected part:

(That idea of ‘you’ I see in my heart
when looking in the mirror completely unaware
like I’m on a hidden camera in my underwears)

29 June 2004 @ 12:01 am THEY THAT GRANT so awhile watching the new Cinderella trailer (the one with hillary duff) i heard someone say, "it would have been better if the black woman playing the fairy godmother had been a gay male character instead" so i think to myself, is that because some part of us has been taught that fairy godmothers must be some person from a marginalized place? an old woman, a black woman, a gay man? does a "fairy godmother" represent just another tool to gain privilege over the downtrodden? not only do they have nothing of their own to speak of, they have to give you more from their magics! they are outside the gift, they bestow it, never to receive. one of the stories about various gods told throughout neil gaiman's "american gods", focuses on a present day NYC taxi driving jinn or genie. the jinn makes love to another middle eastern man and whispers in his ear "i do not grant wishes"…i loved that gaiman held the anger of gods against man and let it burn through his dialogue; the kind of writing that makes you question who lost paradise in the first place, us or them? Which brings me to my real question or even ponderance, what if many of the tales of fair folk, dwarves and etc. were just the stories of oppressed to extinction peoples who faded into folktales? Gaiman kind of explores this but I'm interested in learning more about who else has written like things or if i should try my hand at writing my own…

You’re either the type of person who holds the ladder for others or the type who climbs it. Right?