allegory for queerness.

Um, and i i think that with the dyers even with gwen's queerness um and this is kind of all undercurrents and not super explicit but i think that there's a desire to control the narrative um you know i didn't want them to be sort of um i i didn't really want this anywhere a ton in the book of just sort of homophobia just straight up in your face.

Obviously that's something that people experience in life, something that I've experienced.

And I didn't want full escapism from that, but I wanted some escapism from that because to me it wasn't very interesting.

It was like, okay, like garbage next, right? But what I wanted was there to be kind of a more interesting thing going on where it's like, okay, they're not like, you know, just being homophobic to their child, but they are wanting to control the narrative, control their child.

Um, that's always been, uh, the case.

Um, and they want to control their family name, what it means.

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