Fantasy … defines the limits of reality… The critical promise of fantasy … is to challenge the contingent limits of what will and will not be called reality. Fantasy is what allows us to imagine ourselves and others otherwise; it establishes the possible in excess of the real; it points elsewhere.

— Judith Butler, Undoing Gender, page 29 (via jujutsu-with-zizek, wingsandfins) (via aidsnegligee)