I didn't like it at first back when I read it but when I started to realize that it was more of a horror comedy than a capital-H Horror story I started to groove with it better.

Meiko Kaji is a gift ❤️‍🔥

It's nosing its way into multiple books territory 🫠

The gay sword and sorcery book I'm writing keeps getting bigger and it's making me nauseous

Tim Curry in drag as a creepy old lady

Happy birthday to the star of my favorite Tales From the Crypt episode...

Come Back From San Francisco YouTube video by The Magnetic Fields - Topic

Mood
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Close up of an orange cat with a derpy look on his face

It's this little freak's birthday

Three shelves worth of stacked vintage mass market paperback books

Decided to arrange all my mass market paperbacks on the same shelf, way more work than I was anticipating

Paperback cover of Wax & Wane by Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin. Cover depicts a medieval drawing of a dog headed man in black and white.

Anybody who hasn't read Wax & Wane (or anything else by Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin for that matter) should remedy that yesterday.

Oh no, what are the weird views? I read one collection by him and enjoyed but know nothing about him.

What really pulls this together for me is how well you also nailed the tone of the novel. Suddenly now I want to re-read Moby-Dick.

One of their best releases 🔥

Colm Meaney as Villefort's dad who can only communicate through blinks

It may have been a bit of a Column A/Column B situation with him. "Why isn't everybody as excited about my imaginary alphabet as I am?! Also please don't read too deeply into Sam's choice to spend eternity with Frodo in the Grey Havens rather than spend eternity in the afterlife with his wife."

My honest to goodness take on Tolkien's pushback on biographical readings is he didn't want the conversation to evolve into a discussion of how queer it is.

Brainwyrms by Alison Rummfitt
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
F*ggots by Larry Kramer
Rent Boy by Gary Indiana
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

Show me some of your favourite lurid paperback horror novel covers.

Here are a few of mine.

A black and white engraving of a woman sitting up in bad while a large demonic creature looms over her

My cat demanding breakfast every morning

An all timer for me. A play within a movie, an all gay love triangle, lavish Edwardian costumes, drag, high melodrama, beautiful cinematography.

Have you seen Lilies?

Also they load up their editions with annotations on historical context and literary allusions which I found helpful.

I usually go for Pevear and Volokhonsky. Supposedly they give the most accurate translations, though I've heard complaints from Russian speakers that they lose some of the lyricism of some of their subjects in pursuit of literalism. I liked their Brothers Karamazov tho

Yeah that part i always found weird too

Obviously there's more nuance to that and even the anti-war stance isn't exactly correct. The US is kinda still grappling between condemnation of very real atrocities and empathy for a bunch of kids forced to be there by the government because they were poor basically.

Overly simplified average American view:

Conservatives: our boys fighting the good fight for freedom, the US did nothing wrong, therefore respect the vets.

Democrats: our boys fed into the meat grinder and forced to commit psyche-damaging atrocities against their will, therefore respect the vets.

Honestly the best of his bricks. Made me laugh and cry numerous times. Some of the prose is so beautiful it literally sucked the breath out of me.

Not really, he said that's what Stahli would do (because Stahli is a kind of a bad person and his relationship with Bingus is low-key problematic)

This movie is not a masterpiece by any means but it's great to look at and has some of the coolest costume designs in high fantasy movie history.