life update:

the ticklish business of securing what you can

four books to get to know me

far too many people without tattoos or any connection to the body modification world are out here posting haughty takes about tattoos and tattoo culture for my liking

first post in a new series I'm working on

David Bowie was right, I do wonder sometimes about sound and vision

Hotshot Peasant Has Window

the whale beyond also rose

Few artists’ entire body of work have meant as much to me over the course of my life as Drew Struzan’s has. With his gift every movie felt epic & important whether the artwork was framed in the movie theater lobby or sitting on the video store shelf.

YOU DON’T HAVE TO LIKE THE PROTAGONIST OR SEE YOURSELF IN THEM FOR A BOOK TO BE “GOOD”

Diane Keaton was so good on THE YOUNG POPE that I still regularly think of her standing in the bamboo grove beside Silvio Orlando, or her sudden terror in running from him when he professes his love. Rest in peace to one of the greats.

the alien queen bsky.app/profile/blur...

Age verification isn’t stopping at porn sites. It’s spreading to YouTube, TikTok, social media, app stores, and more. These laws turn the internet into an ID checkpoint. Join FSC in the fight! www.freespeechcoalition.com/join

tossing like slumberers in their beds; the ever-rolling waves but made so by their restlessness

Spencer Davis Group needle drop an all-timer

And porn. If you're touting "science" about the damaging effects of pornography you're carrying water for right-wing orgs that for ten years have pushed anti-porn (anti-masturbation) pseudoscience as a justification for censorship of sex and sexuality online. Porn is not "a public health crisis."

Well, well, what’s signed, is signed; and what’s to be, will be; and then again, perhaps it won’t be, after all.

shana tova! may the new year bring justice and liberation and a free Palestine 🖤

Judy Cuevas putting her own translations of Baudelaire poems in her historical romance novels so that the Venn diagram of my interests could become a circle labeled THIS RIGHT HERE

Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea?

rip home state hero!

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

worthy of the convolutions of a DuJauc plot!!

I love reading about people reading Black Silk for the first time 🖤 www.feliciadavin.com/ticklishly-p...

never not thinking about Morrow Fields scarrstuff.com/2025/07/28/a...

Stuns me every day that in a time of rapidly expanding authoritarianism, we are willing handing over to the government unprecedented tools for censorship and surveillance, and trusting that they won't abuse that power. www.wired.com/story/the-ag...

hi! 😃 i couldn't help but notice that scrolling is sapping your will to live! may i offer u a video essay in these trying times? youtu.be/Bdj14_jdumI

Every day my friend Sama'a struggles to feed her family in the ruins of Gaza. Please give what you can to help them.

all miserable events do naturally beget their like

I wrote about a complicated book I think of often scarrstuff.com/2025/07/05/b...

mid-year media update favorites followed by dislikes Spring and Summer, German 17th century, Samuel H. Kress Collection books War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (obviously) Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by Mohmmed El-Kurd Unrepentant Whore: The Collected Works of Scarlot Harlot by Carol…

a quick recap of Volume II and the passages that stuck with me scarrstuff.com/2025/06/29/s...

in which I go too long on Black Silk

his torn body and gashed soul bled into one another; and so interfusing, made him mad

the reread continues!

on my way to get “goofed” (I am going to A Goofy Movie 😎)

Begging journalists to stop parroting right-wing propaganda in their headlines. HB3225 isn't about "sexually explicit books" — it's all-encompassing censorship of any resource and literature that so much as acknowledges masturbation, sexuality or sexual assault. It's a ban on sex ed.

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We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve picked up North American rights for @weard.moe’s epic-in-the-making CASTRATION MOVIE — and — it’ll be having its U.S. festival premiere at Frameline next month. More info: www.muscle-distribution.com/films/castra...

beginning with Starlit Surrender!

it’s time to reread Judy!

🖤 May Day means solidarity with ALL workers, including sex workers, incarcerated workers, undocumented workers, criminalized workers, and disabled workers. When we say “an injury to one is an injury to all,” we’d better fucking mean it. 🖤

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God came upon him in the whale, and swallowed him down to living gulfs of doom