What both Longhurst and Hartley-Brewer failed to notice was that, by trying to universalise the incident as an attack on, as they said, “the freedom of all people”, they were attempting to both whitewash and straight-splain Orlando.

It seemed I was too excited for sleep, too warm, too young.

I love the subtle beginning to the fic, so that you don't realize it's Mirrorverse until the start of the third paragraph, where everything goes a bit askew.

Be a philosopher ; but amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.