Peter Falk sketching in his Beverly Hills home in 1984.

RIP

RIP Sam Neill. We talk a lot about Isabelle Adjani’s terrifying & layered powerhouse performance in POSSESSION. Neill is just as seismic. Made me never want to be put in a situation where i gotta get divorced. Whole thing really feels like watching someone kill it all over love.

Anyway, Wendy Carlos is still alive and that's wonderful 💜

marriage is really funny and fun i feel like if you have the opportunity to try it you should. also it’s one thing the queer theorists were absolutely right about and no matter how woke you are it’s gonna eat you alive with compulsory heterosexual narratives and it sucks shit

important to revisit the words of the Founding Fathers on this day

At my most hopeful, I like to think I’m living in a way that, when I croak someday, people will sigh and say “she was a complicated woman.”

Okay, my ACTUAL take on all this transsexual Discourse™ is that we never should’ve stopped calling ourselves “sex changelings.”

This is 47. I embody Summerween. Turned in edits on RAVENFIELD HALL yesterday (Gothic Historical Young Adult Romance inspired by du Maurier + lots of ghosts) so you should pre-order it as YOUR present for MY birthday! (25% off via B&N until tomorrow! 🖤) tinyurl.com/ravenfieldbn Pre-orders = Love!

what trans youth need is the right to change sex. it doesnt help trans kids that the most popular argument in "support" of them is that most of them do not change their sex. i need cis ppl to make peace w the idea that more kids would change their sex if anyone would actually let them

being a trans woman on a day to day basis really is wild,, it's like vacillating between "it's so over, i'll be dead by 2030" and "i'm literally the hottest woman alive, i already killed god, i created the big bang, i can literally fuck spacetime so hard that the gravity waves will hit andromeda"

The best superhero is Swamp Thing because sometimes Swamp Thing wanders around a planet a galaxy away as he has an existential debate with a copy of himself he made out of azure soil and sometimes Swamp Thing fights dracula at a gas station

Drinking game: do a shot every time 1994’s INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE includes a “my friend” in the dialogue in an attempt to make it less gay

Links here where you can donate to support a trans woman who is facing felony charges for defending herself against fascists.

Watching BOUND is a bad idea when you are a lesbian finally considering getting back into the dating pool because it gives you ideas like “buxom women will love me more if i get greasier and better at stealing”

This is correct. They are arguing that because trans people have now had so many rights taken away (thanks to them) no-one should be allowed to transition because they'd then have fewer rights.

some of Werner Herzog's advice for filmmakers from his Heart of Glass post-screening Q&A: "Look out - where are the enemies, spot the enemies." "Form gangs, form rogue cells, form it, and go out and do it." and the storyboard is "the instrument of the coward."

Things are changing. A trans cinema for us, by us.

Marjane Satrapi died today & the world lost a powerful and eloquent voice. I met her almost 20yrs ago and spent an afternoon w/her drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes. I loved her. She was only 56. That monsters live to 100 proves to me of the absence of god. filmfreakcentral.net/2008/04/satr...

A few shots from the Persepolis print we screened last year for Women’s History Month (a whole weekend of Strictly Brohibited programming). Revisiting this on the big screen with a more expanded worldview (after first seeing it in college), such a memorable and impactful experience. What a loss…

Reading Persepolis was a transformative experience for me. Growing up in the 80’s in the US, Iran was always presented as this country of monsters who wanted to kill us. But this book humanized the Iranian people in a meaningful way and left me embarrassed I’d succumbed to propaganda.

An important read. web.archive.org/web/20260603...

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Madeline Kahn as Lili Von Shtupp in the outrageous comedy classic, Blazing Saddles (1974) Directed by Mel Brooks. "Let's face it I'm tired."

"mmMm cis pEoPLe getting SURGERY or HORMONES is just gender affirming care!" feels spiritually the same to me as "did YOU KNOW transmisogyny affects cis women too???" empty gotcha that still forefronts cis experience, a glib workaround for just talking about how we deserve control over our own lives

her name was juniper blessing, and a blessing is what she was.

i saw a video of that girl that was murdered in seattle singing and it's breaking my whole fucking heart in half. what are we even supposed to do.

Camp Miasma playing at Cannes feels like a victory for every single trans person working in the film industry. That's how it feels to me. I am so happy for Jane & I hope it playing there opens up more doors for trans artists in the future. Here's to more films made by trans people playing at Cannes!

Sure, poly relationships can be complicated, but they can also be quite rewarding

Happy Mother's Day

Oh hey, I am once again going to talk about lack of distress tolerance, specifically for shame, and how it ties together AI, the “male loneliness epidemic,” Trumpism, and yes, people’s indignation that anyone might think they’re a bad person for continuing to buy Harry Potter merch.

yeah so this new kink ive been getting really into is where the girl likes me and i like her and we both enjoy having sex with each other because we wanted it to happen. yeah not sure what that’s called but it’s so hot right? kinda fucked tho. i think i might be too far gone. this might be illegal

thunderstruck sounds like a song the gremlins from gremlins would make if you locked them in a Guitar Center

wow, castration movie anthology ii is on kanopy, libraries rule www.kanopy.com/en/product/j...

an Ohio honey-hunter, who seeking honey in the crotch of a hollow tree, found such exceeding store of it, that leaning too far over, it sucked him in, so that he died embalmed

Okay, can we just talk about how this is the greatest three minutes in the history of cinema?

30 years ago today, Principal Skinner purchased fast food to disguise as his own cooking at an unforgettable luncheon with Superintendent Chalmers. #TheSimpsons episode “22 Short Films About Springfield” first aired April 14, 1996.

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

anytime i'm catching shit from god and His church, the state, medicine, the near entirety of human culture produced thus far, the populace, it's like yes, this sucks, but it is also correct. there was never going to be peace between us. fuck you ! ha ha!

Once again, Snake Plisken is on point.

Oh god, I’m at the point in my forties where I’m relating to Eagles songs. Oh fuck oh shit mayday mayday mayday

(I wordlessly undress down to sleepwear and get into bed, exactly the way I always do.) My girl (looking at me with yearning and indignation): Don’t try that on me. I know all your tricks. Slut.

This is really all they have left. "We have a pointless and criminal war pushing gas prices through the roof and the global economy to the brink but at least the government isn't treating trans people like they're human beings" will be the entirety of the midterm message.