Yes, This Is Real. And ENTIRELY Beyond Parody.

This is a real Tweet:

Looking for a book to help resist Trump? Try this gay immigrant Muslim furry romance: https://t.co/0SZcucpNdS pic.twitter.com/VoHjvmsbw3

— Slate (@Slate) January 13, 2017

This is the real headline of the real article posted on that real tweet:

Real Headline: pic.twitter.com/7X3YN9XjLS

— Ashley “Kimber” D. (@RedIsTheNewPunk) October 17, 2018

…woof.

This is our world now, folks.

So let me get this straight…

A good way to “resist Trump” is by reading a romance novel about a gay immigrant Muslim cheetah?

Isn’t that just a good way to prove you’re weird AF?

Kyell Gold’s new novel may lie at the most unlikely intersection in literary history: a gay immigrant Muslim romance involving furries—that is, people who feel a close identification with anthropomorphic animal characters.

Hot DAAAAAAMN that’s a lotta buzzwords.

“I wrote this book in part as a response to the wave of Islamophobia in this country,” Gold explained in an author’s note, “never dreaming at the time that it would crest as it has now.”

Yeeeeeeah.

The Time He Desires is the story of Aziz, a cheetah in a faltering heterosexual marriage who explores the boundaries of his sexuality with the help of a gay fox. Aziz is a Sudanese immigrant, and he engages in a struggle with his desires that will be familiar to queer readers. Gold’s been writing furry romance novels full-time for several years, after bouncing from chemical engineering to business school to zoology. After he was laid off in 2010 with a generous severance package, his husband said, “if you’re going to be a full-time writer, this is the time to start.”

This man writes about the sexuality of Muslim cheetas. Enough said.

WAY TO STICK IT TO TRUMP, Y’ALL. Let’s show ’em what being in the #Resistance is all about!

Cool.