Pseudo-beefed my lower back on a Romanian deadlift yesterday and now I'm Nosferatuing up the stairs to my office stooped at a 45 degree angle. Might have to ask students to meet by sitting on the floor because I can't look straight in front of me T_T

I’m sorry but let me unbury this lede: *the genAI industry is literally the financial engine that is powering the fascist regime in the United States* I hadn’t even made this connection and now I’m even more horrified by this tech than I have ever been. Boosterism == fascism, literally

Pedagogy:

this is your annual reminder to please take off your hetero-imitative frogskin and dance to a lesbian/gay spirit

Mainstream American art/literature is allergic to any kind of drama that isn't mediated through sex. It seems to feel that any other expression of deeply-rooted personal messiness is melodramatic. Interesting landscape to confront if you're a writer whose sexuality is inherently fetishized.

I've taken up strength training again, but in a gay way. Being in Western Mass, I found an outrageously gay gym with almost no effort. I'm talking "there's an old rescue dog hanging out by the front desk" gay. "Progress flag hanging from the back of the squat rack" gay. "Macrame owl decor" gay.

Add/drop period at the start of this semester is gonna kill me. I'm good at locking in and hyper-focusing on one / a few things, not dealing with 900 moving parts. It'll settle down in a couple of weeks into some kind of routine, but goddamn! Goddamn!

Went to see My Chem in Boston last night and took the rail in. There was something great about a train traveling half the width of the state, taking on a new horde of black-clad, blood-spattered miscreants at each stop along the way.

I beseech the other writing girlies to tell me -- how do I decide what project to pursue next? There's "the book about the fucked up sisters" and then "the weird fantasy novel" and I feel equally excited about both? Also, both have "An Animating Question" (my big criteria for starting).

Saturday night miseries: 1. I never learned how to use social media other than how I used LiveJournal as a teenager (i.e. - badly). 2. I don't think I've ever been "in community" with anyone. I must be doing something wrong but I don't know what it is. Probably these two things are related!

a picnic of milk and wild strawberries (2022)

raise your hand if you're not in NYC but you're following the mayoral election out of a desperate need to believe that good things are possible

Wouldn't you rather take the hands of strangers and break bread, find new lovers, create art together, than this endless, cruel stupidity in service to imbecile money cultists?

I think this reveals one of the emotional underpinnings of all this shit: the people profiting from suffering want to be told that they are good and kind and smart for doing so. Explains the popularity of sycophantic AI, the "but no one USED to get mad at me for using slurs" attitude, etc.?

Diana is the victim of a hate crime and needs our support. A group of youths threw acid on her at a train station in South Philly. Let's make sure she has everything she needs.

[creeping out of the sewer] oh it’s pride month already? did i hear two for one shots available for any gay that simply scrambled out of a liquid morass unimaginable to the human mind

Q for trans horror folks: are Sleepaway Camp II and III "interesting for gay reasons" like the first one or are they "just slashers"? Trying to decide if I wanna buy the Shout blu-rays. For context, I have a high tolerance for / enjoyment of "bad representation," so that's not a factor.

finally, the switch 2’s first Big RPG

New England people: what is the NE equivalent of Cook-Out? Cook-Out is a southern fast food chain where you can get great late night trash food / shakes in unwise proportions. I am not exaggerating when I say that it's the kind of place that treats items like quesadillas and corn dogs as *sides*.

Just thrown into the sea straight up with no wrappings or bindings or anything. At the VERY most like, set adrift on a raft during a storm. I hate both tight spaces and fire so none of the usual, please. RE: grief (if there is to be any), I prefer animalian howling over rational articulations.

The bullfrog in a tweed suit whose land I live on, came by to tell me they were busy planting this year's carrots. He proudly told me he still employs two gardeners, as his father did, though "only one maid." He then observed the rising spring sun and said "it's all diminishing."

Clair Obscur is fun enough, but every time I play one of these games clearly inspired by the early translated Final Fantasies/Chrono Trigger, all I can think is, where are the freaks? An RPG party used to be a vampire with a prosthetic hand, a robot with a cat on its head, a genderless swamp cook

I second this and it's one of the reasons her great Frankenstein essay goes so hard. There's something to be said for having a "worthy foe." I'd rather spend a week deep-reading Raymond, Mary Daly, or Camille Paglia than think about a clown like Rowling a single time.

Weird synchronicities on the final push to turn draft 2 of the novel into draft 3. First, I resolved a major structural problem by finding a note on my desk from six months ago that said, "you could do [thing that ended up fixing it], but no," and thinking, "why the hell not? That's great."

I recently found out that MLB The Show 2024 finally lets you play as a woman, so I've been living out my alternate timeline career of playing catcher for mine and Joe Shlabotnik's favorite team, the Tampa Bay Rays:

Long have I said this, but so far as I know, not a single person I've recced it to has actually read it. People seem to have this weird block about this series that I don't get.

First page of a new autobio comic -- based on feedback from a friend, I feel compelled to clarify, "yes I'm okay." If I weren't okay, I wouldn't be able to write or draw! That's when you need to worry! This is me making fun of myself! [end disclaimer]

Things I will defeat today: - my demons - all the non-believers - the plans that they have made

My sale is on Steam now too - 50% off Kaiju Big Battel: Fighto Fantasy, 36% off Walthros: Renewal. My wife lost her job and mine's not going well and there's all the usual *gestures towards everything* Thank you!! #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart store.steampowered.com/search/?deve...

This is honestly what made me kinda come to hate reading philosophy after once loving it / getting a degree in it. There is so much debate (in ethics in particular) that intentionally forecloses obvious ethical solutions as a condition of the debate.

"Departmental Holiday Photo Shoot" fit just dropped:

A Promise: if I ever have enough money to buy leisure time, I'll write a Wide Sargasso Sea-style novel about the dick-sucking bear from The Shining.

Thanks to FOGLIFTER PRESS, I have a new story out in their Fall journal (8.2). It's called "FLOODLAND" and is about being gay and sad in the south, baptism, Dungeons and Dragons, and an unfortunately attractive dork named Gary the Satanist. Please check it out! foglifterjournal.com/product/fogl...

Dude at the Wendy's made fun of my voice, called me a man, made fun of my mask, and then gave me the wrong sandwich.

Reposting my final comic for the Nib, on 90s homophobia, Nan Goldin, and blue hair thenib.com/blue-hair-no... the Nib's last day of publication is tomorrow!

I break my lurking silence to bring you afternoon decadence: waffle fries, kimchi, chicken, sharp cheddar, a fried egg, topped with some Japanese BBQ sauce, sriracha, and a chipotle aioli.

Long have I said this! Long will I continue to say it!

Burt Ward cat food arc, unfolding now at a grocer near you

this was a good ice cream date with my dear @keeva.bsky.social , last year

death of the author? wow. I didn’t know that. you are telling me now for the first time. she led an amazing life. what else can you say? whether you agreed or not, she was an amazing woman who led an amazing life. I am actually sad to hear that. I am sad to hear that

Definitely have noticed this shift and, in some parts of the south at least, it feels like a recent phenomenon. I definitely remember my uncle sitting me down as a kid and telling me to never trust the police, etc.

Made a shirt design (tank tops only) for my partner's wrestling persona, the Okeechobee Wildman:

I am unreasonably excited about a new translation of "The Brothers Karamazov" dropping this week. I keep having nerd-style thoughts like, "I wonder how ironically distanced the narrator will be THIS time," and "how will he convey the heartbreak of true belief in the Grand Inquisitor's diction?!?!"

hey guys i would like you all to come to the WORLD TRANS FORUM in brooklyn featuring the wonderful JORDAN TIERNEY + guest hostess @intermittentcat.bsky.social ! I will not be there bc I'm teaching, but I'LL KNOW IF YOU DIDN'T GO. O_O (please spread the word even if it's against the rules on bsky)

A full year into my MFA is a hell of a time to realize I have no idea how to write stories.

“structural racism is largely built on white society making WILDLY, wildly untrue assertions & then demanding we play along or face violence”

sunk cost falussy