We'd have less stupid fucking articles about smoothgroins or looksmaxxing or whatever the hell if everyone got more communist

Yellowstone is cozy fiction for divorced Republican dads

Israel's bombing campaign continues into Eid, shattering families and taking lives very close to where Sama'a and her family live. Please give what you can to help them stave off hunger and disease. chuffed.org/project/1575...

Sooo there's a Kindle giveway for Muñeca www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent... People and NPR have both mentioned her... cynthiasaysboo.wpcomstaging.com/reviews-press/ and she comes out next week and you can read an excerpt here... www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...

I reviewed the hatefully brilliant OBSESSION, a nasty and deeply scary horror flick with a jaw-dropping central performance by Inde Navarrette. patreon.com/posts/159047...

My completely ordinary copy of B.R. Yeager's Negative Space. I'm black so we don't be keeping cursed fetishes in this house. Other than B.R. Yeager's Negative Space

Having now actually read the most recent thread about Bluesky is Le Echo Chamber, it's funny to me that, in this case, OP had a fundamentally reasonable observation about the different experiences site to site that they could not help but package in the most navel-gazing and bizarre possible framing

There are two prominent queer films which use the color blue as a symbol, one of them has it in the title, and the one that uses it better is the one that doesn't

I wrote about killing Grogu for @defector.com

no hell hot enough

"What IP do you want to write for?"

Since the concept is being misunderstood and misused, let's talk about what "third-sexing" means as a mechanism of transphobia. I built on an idea first discussed in @juliaserano.bsky.social's "Whipping Girl" that discussed how, interpersonally, cis people refuse to acknowledge our genders.

“... what gets us the world that we want starts right now with a mass militant radical labor movement – one that uses the withholding of labor as a tactic to shut down parts of industries, whole industries. We can do our own version of the strait of Hormuz.” #film #communism #culture #capitalism

I am once again listening to Bitches Brew

Driving through Richmond, Virginia in the longest car you've ever seen: The fuck y'all know about this?

I have the kind of walking that makes benches become men AND women. And they're all gay

every hard part of a video game i'm currently stuck on is total bullshit, unfair, dogshit. every hard part of a video game i've already completed is really well balanced, beautifully choreographed. like a dance, really

every crew has a homeboy who seems just as hoary old Armilus to have been born from sexual union with a stone - half-lame, half-blind, half-leprous, bald, fun at parties

Today been wild. Thank you to everyone who showed love to that essay.

Things like this make me reflect again on how, while I’ve always been a vehement defender of transformative fandom—especially fanfiction—and still write a lot of fanfic myself, increasingly my fanfic writing is being done *outside* fandom as a social thing, and there are reasons for that

The end of Game of Thrones was the end of engaging with "fandom" for me forever. A mind virus of idiocy. As a freelancer I can pick and choose what I do to an extent, but it is possible to engage with art without addressing "fandom" in any way, positive or negative, and I recommend it. (Vive Lestat)

This one took a while to write. Put out an essay about the links between fandom and consumerism, and its effect on how we interpret fiction. Hope y'all enjoy!

Is there even a debate to be had as to whether The Batman is the best Batman film?

Magen's newsletter is a consistently great read and, if you like any of what I've put out there, you'd love her stuff.

Please say her name The final insult is how much less visibility murdered Black and Indigenous trans women in particular get Our grief will never be good enough and is so much less than the dead deserve But please see them and remember them for a moment, especially when the media cycle doesnt

Passively watching Critical Role C4 while I'm writing some stuff (don't judge me. I have to let my inner theater kid out or else they try to get me to film TikTok skits) and these niggas on the Reddit kill me. There's a post complaining that the DM says "um" too much!

The English language is actually pretty cool. Shame about its history

Reactionary literary discourse seems to be people complaining about the state of contemporary literature while bragging that they read no contemporary literature

Counterpoint: see the attached article.

Poetry Foundation should have a comments section

Furries are the only distinct "internet" subculture which has persisted into the modern day. Emo fell to the wayside, goths aren't as prevalent anymore, etc. What's up with that

I ain't been posting for a few days and it's because I relapsed on Warframe. Just keeping y'all in the loop

Once again -- I'm not sure why everyone is more worried about the tattoo than the murders of brown people overseas. Oh, wait a minute -- I am sure of why that is! Silly me!

"Jonathan Ross, who was only placed on three days of administrative leave for shooting Good in the arm, head, and chest, is back in both an administrative and investigative capacity, facing virtually no consequences for killing an innocent woman in broad daylight." newrepublic.com/post/209615/...

If there is any sense at all in using the term “Great American Novel” then Beloved is the great American novel. I will die on this hill

This fucking rocks. I haven't been doing a lot of earnest posts recently so I gotta say: this really, really fucking rocks

You can tell Slavoj Zizek thinks he matters

You can tell Slavoj Zizek thinks he matters

Happy #LesbianVisibilityDay from an indie lesbian author! If you're looking for lesbians to read about, consider my novella about a lesbian vampire and her toxic ex, or my novel about a butch4butch romance in a dark fantasy dystopia🖤

This is all Klay Thompson's fault

I have prepared this simple, easy to understand infographic to facilitate your purchasing decision:

William Faulkner was the #1 guy at naming books so it's pretty cool that the books were also really good

Almost no one cares if you have them blocked.

oh yeah this is a really good book and ESPECIALLY in terms of correcting what i think is a kind of nearsighted "omg gamergate is the source of all our current political problems" to "this is one surfacing of a very old, nasty undercurrent in nerd culture, which in turn reflects general culture"

They might take my Marxist card away for this, but there are times where I feel that "revisionist" is used by Marxists the same way "tankie" is used by liberals. All connotation, no precise critique

THE CULTURAL MARXISM CONSPIRACY OUT NOW