A revealing thing about some negative responses to ‘The Woods All Black’: people who treat the embodied sexuality in a book about queerness, religious oppression, and bodily/erotic autonomy as somehow “unnecessary” or extraneous or even as offensive to them personally—

because they’re totally unable to perceive of queer sex as an equally necessary part of the art, the narrative, and the themes. Like, they see the word “hole” and their reading comprehension shuts off entirely. The sex scenes are in fact doing heavy lifting in the story context!