Citations:disaster

English citations of disaster

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• 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:

  You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.

  Before, I had only imagined the wretchedness of my desolated home; the reality came on me as a new, and a not less terrible, disaster.

  I saw unhappiness deeply impressed on his countenance, but he endeavoured to welcome me cheerfully; and, after we had exchanged our mournful greeting, would have introduced some other topic than that of our disaster, had not Ernest exclaimed, "Good God, papa!

with sexualities

disaster bi, disaster bisexual, bisexual disaster: "(LGBT, Internet slang) a bissexual person who is unsuccessful in most aspects of their life, especially as a character

• 2020, Gavin Gaddis, "Podcast Corner", News4U, September 2020, page 39:

  From a disaster-bi traffic controller to a sarcastic artificial intelligence, Pseudopolis Station's got some wacky folks doing their best not to break too many things (most of the time).

• 2021, Zeb Wells, Dawn of X, Vol. 12, unnumbered page:

  You're such a potent concentration of "disaster bisexual" that I fear your chaos is contagious.

• 2021, De'Angelo Epps, "Fighting Games Like Mortal Kombat Have Come a Long Way", Wired, 23 April 2021:

  Presented as canonically bisexual, she became the stereotypical “hypersexual, predatory, disaster bisexual” we’ve seen in so many pieces of fiction.

• 2020, "Birds Of Prey Is Pure Bisexual Disaster Energy", Cinephilia Magazine, June 2020, page 13:

  From not being able to sit in chairs "properly" to the overuse of finger guns to unseasonably cuffed jeans, bisexual disaster energy is the spontaneity of someone who doesn't fit in a nice clean box.

• 2020, Kang-Yeh Lee, "Homoeroticism in Contemporary Fashion Advertising", thesis submitted to Aalto University, page 54:

  On Queer Eye star Antoni Porowski’s drag makeover YouTube video, one of the most upvoted comments reads ‘being attracted to Antoni AND Eva Cado [his drag persona] at the same time as the bisexual disaster I am’ (paprika schildkroete, 2019).

• 2021, Mairghread Scott, quoted in Nick Romano, "How King Shark went from DC's aquatic demigod to The Suicide Squad's goodest boy", Entertainment Weekly, 5 August 2021:

  "It was really important to me that we make clear that John Constantine is a bisexual disaster, so we had to explicitly reference someone. […]

others:

• 2021, Ben Kahn, Rachel Silverstein, Renegade Rule, Dark Horse Comics (→ISBN)

  To us! The ol' college disaster gays. And they said skipping class to play video games was wasting our futures!

• 2018 January 1, Genevieve Iseult Eldredge, Derailed: Novella 1.5 – The Circuit Fae Moribund Prequel, GirlyEngine Press, →ISBN:

  Genevieve Iseult Eldredge (she/they) tells slow-born, science-fantast stories about disaster lesbians who can't decide whether to kiss or kill each other. Sometimes, they do both.

• 2023 April 18, Carlyn Greenwald, Sizzle Reel: A Novel, Vintage, →ISBN:

  " […] disaster lesbian to fix." " Of course." I pause, give her hand a squeeze, and pull away." Is there a disaster lesbian?" I ask. She smiles. "There's a disaster everything." She puts Eustace's face to hers. "Aw, you don […]

• 2023 June 6, Simon James Green, Gay Club!, Scholastic Inc., →ISBN:

  […] disaster lesbian,” and while I'm not sure that's an official identity on the LGBTQ+ spectrum, I do get what she means, since I feel like a disaster gay most of the time. It's a feeling of not quite fitting in, not quite getting it right […]

• 2022 May 10, Elle Spencer, A Long Way to Fall, Bold Strokes Books Inc, →ISBN:

  ... disaster lesbian is what we all need in a romance.”—Hsinju's Lit Log […]

• (Can we date this quote?), Allison Dykes, Wizardry and Myths, Allison Dykes:

  "... disaster lesbian on her, she got a good swig of a meal.” “I am not a disaster lesbian.” I grumped. “Oh, honey,” Zoey said as she swayed out of the room. “You don't realize how bad you have it.” “Well,” Mei said as she picked up her […]

• 2018 March 27, Genevieve Iseult Eldredge, Ouroboros: Book 2 - The Circuit Fae, GirlyEngine Press, →ISBN:

  ..., reviewers, bloggers, family, and friends for reviewing, blogging, tweeting, and talking up my disaster lesbian faerie princesses.