The Unsleeping City’s Pete and the Power of Trans Dreams

This essay is pretty different from my normal kind of posting, but I’m proud of the writing and thought it’d be nice to have it archived here. It was originally written as a class assignment, reproduced here with a slightly less formal citation style. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it! – Lindsey We follow the wind, on a sort of early to mid-December morning in New York City, a city where so many people dream of coming and making a life for themselves. And it’s always felt a little bit like maybe, just around the corner, there’s a little bit of magic.—Brennan Lee Mulligan, The Unsleeping City [1] The third season of popular streaming show Dimension 20, titled The Unsleeping City, opens on a snowy New York City. This is a Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) actual play show, shepherded by game master (GM) Brennan Lee Mulligan, who sets the stage for his table of players by describing the snow falling on a busy city full of people wrapped up in parkas, blowing through tree-lined…