reading at this in october!! be there or be thought a square xx

i did! it was not as useful as i’d hoped!

TC Mangan: A Feast of Tongues

btw i have a new story out about america. it is indeed named after a los campesinos song

www.stillpointldn.com/articles/tc-...

may films - notorious (1946, 4 stars) - mission impossible (1996, 2.5 stars) - dog movie (2024, 4 stars) - sinners (2025, 4.5 stars) - bound (rewatch, 1996, 4.5 stars) - humanist vampire seeks consenting suicidal person (2023, 3.5 stars) - final destination (2000, 2 stars) - blade ii (2002, 4 stars) - phantom thread (2017, 5 stars) - do you remember the trees? (2025, 3.5 stars)

watched the first mission impossible with intentions of following through but rated it so poorly i spent the month just watching whatever really. then the same with final destination

honestly i think it's more than i'm capable of

when i write a story i try to have something at least a little odd or formally surprising in it. current story's conceit is that i am attempting to imagine what it is like to be cishet

travelling back in time and telling myself not to agree to dogsit in the west country the same week the prince charles is premiering THE SHROUDS

gundam on tuesdays. poker face on thursdays. doctor who on saturdays. weekly tv is back baybeee

inventing a special kind of soap for trans women on patches called Gunk-B-Gone

honey don't! trailer dropped and she's keeping her terrible southern accent. we won

had enough of the apps i'm gonna start going to readings and telling people they have a strong authorial voice

one thing about doctor who is that it loves the liberal world order

april films - invasion of astro-monster (1965, 3 stars) - the souvenir (2019, 4 stars) - vertigo (1958, 4.5 stars) - the souvenir part ii (2021, 4.5 stars) - last swim (2024, 4.5 stars) - blade (1998, 3.5 stars) - enthusiasm (1930, 4 stars) - may december (2023, 4 stars) - the hole in the wall / bîraxane (2022, 3.5 stars) - castration movie anthology i: traps (2024, 5 stars) shorts - kino-pravda 1 (1922) - kino pravda 2 (1922) - minus one (2024)

becoming both a hogghead and a vertov enthusiast. and then also castration movie

"i'm so hot" feminism and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

trying to improve my writing and get some of it published while also trying not to write like i have an MFA

had a dream last night of such obvious symbolism that i’m actually annoyed at my subconscious for its lack of creativity

it turns out the real ‘shape of punk to come’ was ‘sixty quid tickets to definitely our last shows ever we mean it this time for real’

Really pleased to share this podcast I recorded with Sophie (@reproutopia.bsky.social) about a month ago. I think our conversation was fairly interesting but the idea of listening back to it gives me the horrors so you'll have to find out for yourself!

thinkpieces-review.co.uk/podcast/epis...

outing myself as a bad literary critic and a bad anarchist because i still get bakunin and bakhtin mixed up on the regular

stagediving at the sunn O))) show but the crowd parts and i hit the cold hard concrete, bleeding out slowly to the crushingly slow riffs. attaining nirvana in that moment

march films - the hunger (1983, 4 stars) - the working class goes to heaven (1971, 4 stars) - i am cuba (1964, 5 stars) - the beyond (rewatch, 1981, 4 stars) - the house by the cemetery (1981, 3.5 stars) - investigation of a citizen above suspicion (rewatch, 1970, 4.5 stars) - mickey 17 (2025, 3.5 stars) - scream 2 (1997, 4 stars) - pickpocket (1959, 5 stars) - property is no longer a theft (1973, 4 stars)

unfathomably vindicated by showing two different minor italian films to people and having them love them. i have TASTE

i'm not like other trans girls (colin the caterpillar plush instead of a blåhaj)

finished deep space nine last night. they simply do not make em like that any more!!

a photograph of an a5 zine printed on white paper, on top of a silver laptop covered in stickers. the zine is titled ‘Is There A Transgender Text In This Class?’ and the cover describes it as ‘a zine about teaching trans fiction & poetry’ by Tom Leger and Riley MacLeod. it was printed by Topside Press

just leveraged the full resources of my university to print one (1) copy of a zine i found on the wayback machine. the high is unbelievable

💖💖🎂🎂

Donate to Maddie's Gender Affirming Healthcare Fundraiser, organized by Blake Harrison This fundraiser exists to make facial feminisation surgery (FFS), laser… Blake Harrison needs your support for Maddie's Gender Affirming Healthcare Fundraiser

i met maddie in passing about ten years ago and since then she's become such an important presence in my life, more than i think she knows. probably i'm not the only one who feels this way! perhaps you'll join me on her birthday by giving what you can to her fundraiser for gender affirming care?

writing a literature thesis is probably one of the top ten stupidest things to be doing in this historical moment. and yet

in the future of "everything for everyone" there's no more academia. the narrators include a footnote explaining what it was because they live in a society where knowledge production is decentralised and free to all. that's been on my mind a lot the last few days

The Trans Cult Who Believes AI Will Either Save Us—or Kill Us All What the Zizians, a trans vegan cult allegedly behind multiple murders, can teach us about radicalization and our tech-addled politics.

it probably says nothing good about me but i'm kind of fascinated by this stuff. feels like a william gibson novel leaking into the real world

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

"I don't know if it's true, but I was told by someone that at the Cyberpunk conference in Leeds one of the very well-known 'hard' sf writers was talking about the drift of science fiction away from science towards pseudo-literary territory, and he said with horror that the epitome of this drift was Rachel Pollack winning the Arthur C. Clarke Award. So perhaps," she muses, "the way my publishers need to publicize my work is to say it produces horror in traditional sf writers. Yes," she advises me. "Say I'm notorious."

rachel pollack <333
(from her interview in interzone issue #50 august 1991)