A lot was going on in this morning’s trailer for the new Ghostbusters, but we don’t remember what any of it was because Kate McKinnon strutted onscreen looking like the cutest butch lesbian ever, and, like the rest of the Internet, we lost our minds.
Mark it down: 3/3/16, the day the entire internet had a Kate McKinnon-induced sexual awakening.
— Allison Adler (@in_a_partydress) March 3, 2016
As the engineer Jillian Holtzmann, McKinnon strolls into our lives with giant safety goggles, combat boots, and her no-fucks-given roots showing. Even if you’ve somehow missed McKinnon’s habitual brilliance on Saturday Night Live, this is a face that’s impossible to ignore:
God, Kate McKinnon is amazing in the new Ghustbusters trailer. pic.twitter.com/7OKALMJAy3
— Gerrit Thompson (@gerrit_SF) March 3, 2016
And then there was the wink.
We are here for this. #Ghostbusters pic.twitter.com/QhfOJa66lm
— Tumblr (@tumblr) March 3, 2016
i don't wanna do work i want to lie down on the floor and watch kate mckinnon wink at me all day
— kate kush (@k8kush) March 3, 2016
@retconning Also I'm having a full on Kate McKinnon SITUATION. that wink? LICKING HER GUN?! WHAT?!?!
— .jes. (@pomegranateink) March 3, 2016
Kate McKinnon's sly smile in this I'm still hikjsfhglkjsdfhgalsf
— very tired (@AlannaBennett) March 3, 2016
There’s even already fanart, because of course there is:
As you’ll notice, a lot of the people losing their minds over Kate McKinnon’s powers of seduction aren’t dudes. If there’s a god of Hollywood, McKinnon will surely be a queer character. That wink is too precious to waste on only half the population.
anyway lighting candles on my shrine of 'please be canonically queer' characters for Kate McKinnon's Holtzmann & @CharlesSoule's Poe Dameron
— Katsian Andor (@dogunderwater) March 3, 2016
And there’s another burgeoning campaign to which we are paying attention—Kate for young Han Solo:
I think Ghostbusters has solved your Young Han Solo casting problem, there. https://t.co/f6sZs7OOXB
— Chris Thursten (@CThursten) March 3, 2016
Let’s face it: With that hair, that jacket, and that smirk, she’s already closer to the casting than this guy or any of these guys.
Plus, you know the only thing that could make Star Wars better is a Han Solo who can really rock a blaster backpack.
Screengrab via Sony Pictures Entertainment/YouTube