Guys, it's getting published. www.crossedcrowbooks.com/shop-crossed...

I've been in a crisis for weeks. People have been telling me all the same things about how I'm too hard on myself, how it's not too late, etc, Last night someone said they felt I was inhabiting Kierkegaard's authentic self, and I immediately felt better. Which I guess is on brand

Washington Post staffers writing a round robin article about how they can't work out what One Battle After Another is about is the ultimate on-brand behaviour.

I just finished the Mae Martin cult brainwashing/prison school show Wayward on Netflix. And it was OK, but also: how is it that a 100min film can create characters who grow and engage you and still stick a satisfying ending while a miniseries three or four times as long doesn't manage to do that?

Damn straight.

The current kerfuffle about the Rapture is based on a prediction that it'll begin with Rosh Hashanah in Jerusalem. That's approximately 4pm BST, or 11am in NYC. But please note that Rapture Ready's Rapture Index has no mention of this, and also that I looked at Rapture Ready. Ugh.

He wanted me dead, but god damn it, he did it without cussing or shouting, and doesn't that count for everything?

So basically they thought they'd have a Horst Wessel and instead they got an Ernst Rohm

If I don't believe in the death sentence, I don't believe in the rightness of extrajudicial killings. I would be a hypocrite to suspend that principle, even for someone as evil as Kirk. But mourning a monster like him would also make me a hypocrite. I don't get why this is so hard.

What do you do when an evil man is murdered? What do you say?

This is so sad. A warm, generous, kind, witty, intelligent and elegant soul.

Seeing all the racist shit going on right now and being egged on by the media is making me genuinely fearful for so many people. I was up last night crying because my stupid brain was like "What if someone went for the family of that kid who told you about his Hey Duggee board books yesterday?"

Just heard that John J Johnston has died. If you moved in Egyptology circles or Hammer nerd circles, you probably knew of that lovely, sweet man. Stylish, decent and impeccably dressed. My heart goes out to the husband he leaves behind.

Seeing people's online reactions to the current political climate is a fantastic way of working out who doesn't actually care if you live or die.

“This isn’t a thing, you don’t have even one example”

Completely agree. It's bizarre, selfish, antisocial behavior

Have just been to see Together (Michael Shanks, 2025). It's a movie with some excruciating, gut churning moments that I could only watch through my fingers. Also, loads of hilarious body horror that made me absolutely *cackle* in glee. What? Yes, I am all right. Why do you ask.

Maybe I should start posting legendary bits from Prediction Magazine. Here's a letter from November 1966's Occult Question Time. Prediction, indeed.

I contributed to this under my deadname (the essay was done about three years ago). If you're interested in Robert Downey Sr, The Twilight Zone, Putney Swope or an important era in US film history, curated by @kierlajanisse.bsky.social, this is your book. www.indiegogo.com/projects/tru...

Love and Rockets is great isn't it? That's the post.

When you're reading Julia Kristeva and you just think, Can you not just switch to skimmed, sweetie

Can confirm, works

I have completed and sent to the publisher my Atlantis book.

Kneale for the win

Fair point. Bug really slaps.

This Is the Hope Diamond of shitposts. Crystalline. Perfect. Full of many-faceted reflections. Utterly cursed.

It is MAD that an incident involving a priest fucking with people with the collusion of a yeti is somehow more warranting of good journalism than genocides, mass kidnappings, or the democide of the disabled.

To anyone who says that journalism is a lost cause, check this story out -accurate reporting an in depth look at what happened, follow up questions. this is better than the shit that the New York Times writes for sure

I'll bet the Milgram experiment would have produced very different results if there was a disinterested yeti in the room.

I don't comment much on news, but I don't think I've seen anything stranger than this for a while now. www.pillarcatholic.com/p/yeti-blood...

A human at Patreon saw it, realIsed the system's mistake and put it back, so that's a happy ending.

Apparently Patreon decided that because I talk about a thing I'm endorsing it, and yanked this post for "violating community standards". Media literacy is in a fucking miserable state.

An analysis of Mysterious Skin (2004), one of the most powerful pieces of queer cinema I know. And by the way, if you want to back my Patreon, it's only $1US a month, and I need your support more than ever. www.patreon.com/posts/132591...

Know when you slag something off about yourself? It makes other people with that characteristic feel just as shit as if you'd said it directly about them. It also leaves people who like you as angry as if someone else had said it to you. Kill the bigot in your head.

Yeah I'm courting fate but you know what, I smashed a mirrorball one time and I reckon my years of bad luck are sorted, thanks

Did you know that we as trans people don't have to redo Gender Wars shit? The dudes rock, the dolls rock, the theys rock. The only important distinction right now is are you cool or are you a cop.

Saw a couple of episodes of Suits for the first time last night, and yes, it's the show that everyone knows because it's got Meghan Markle in it but seriously, it is the *gayest thing I have ever seen*. I spent the whole two hours staring at the screen saying out loud, "Do they KNOW!?"

I generally avoid sharing things about the politics of the day. But this, this is important. www.damemagazine.com/2025/04/29/w...

OK so. This month, my royalties from Patreon plummeted by 15%. Same number of US Dollars, much lower value. In a couple of months I predict I'm going to see my PoD royalties from the US go the same way. Point being, we're all going to feel this.

Apparently Temu is pretty much destroyed through so there's that I suppose

This is my brilliant idea for a Nigel Kneale sitcom.

Movie you've watched more than six times using GIFs. (No franchises)

Friendly bystander running interference is also a great idea if you feel safe to do so.

The human rights cards thing didn't sit well with me and I couldn't articulate why, but this is why.

*cough* Cronenberg *cough* George Miller *cough*

I'm looking for work again! I'm moving in the next couple weeks. This is good, but I'm going to need a hand sorting out my finances. If you've got any short term work that can pay quickly, I'm up. These are the things which have kept me afloat in the last 12 months: 1/

It's Maundy Thursday - a day marking a promise, a betrayal, and despair in the Christian calendar. Why not mark it with What Saints Fear, my short story collection about clerics experiencing those exact things? Featuring: - relic cult factories - addictive demons - saints on the run #booksky 💙📚

My plan for dealing with this ruling in practice is to just carry on as before until I'm stopped and I think that should be the plan most other trans people in the UK carry on with while we find a way forward.