Pet photos, please. I'll start.

I'm not saying anything clever or unique but I still need to say it. Fuck Ice. Fuck them for giving power and a gun to the worst person in your high school. Fuck them for murdering that lady. Fuck them for kidnapping my friend and leaving his wife and kids struggling to survive without him.

this is the Fox News signal that Good deserved to die

Everyone needs to watch this.

No words. None.

Don't post a lot about current events, but when I was a kid living on 45th and 9th in NYC, we had this one homeless guy who hung out in a doorway across the street from our apartment building. (1)

Don’t know who credit image to, but

Are the Straights Ok? - Part gazillion. (Spoiler: pretty fucking far from ok.) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/s...

Congratulations on your Lefty Award 2026 nomination, dear #Queer #Crime #Writers @lesliekarst @roboslerwriter #lgbtqia #queercrimewriters #books #leftcoastcrime2026

Film & TV get the credit but for the 1960s Japanese ninja craze, an era before VHS or cable TV reruns, movies and shows come and go and can't be seen again. In reality it was BOOKS, whose pages were endlessly pondered by fanatics, that made mass fandom academic. vintageninja.net/ink-paper-an...

Not really a self-help guy, but I'm an Oliver Burkeman fan. I'm reading his latest, MEDITATIONS FOR MORTALS, a chapter a day as he suggests. And this essay is packed with useful advice about how to go into the new year. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Northtown Books in Arcata is an absolutely incredible bookstore. Several years ago I met the folks who are running it now and their passion for running a welcoming local space was so infectious. This fire is utterly awful. If you can afford to kick in a few bucks to their fundraiser, please help.

On a scale of one to obsessively-reorganize-everything-in-the-house, how are we all feeling this morning? Just me then?

Ok so Fellow Travelers is a series, and not exactly noir but milk galore. #milknoir adjacent maybe? I need a ruling, @maybejed.bsky.social

The best time to leave Twitter was years ago and the next-best is now.

(Stares in New Yorker.)

transgender for everyone this new year

Cock Soccer? (Which is both my new band name and my million dollar idea to cash in on the popularity of Heated Rivalry.)

I have 6 gift subscriptions to my Patreon for queer people who can't afford it. DM me if you're interested. First come, first serve.

Apropos of my previous post.

My heartwarming message of optimism going into 2026:

NEW COCKTAILS & CRIME. The year, such as it was, in review. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-88...

2026 Prediction Out: Big spoon/little spoon. In: Big Shroom/little shroom.

🚨SLIME MOLD GRAD STUDENTS!!!🚨

The last newsletter of the year: Oops, I left my gender in 2025. buttondown.com/christafaust...

My life is very wild and exciting, ok? Anyway, have some more fungus.

I created a YT video of this list of Helpful Things to Do for Your Parents or Aging Relatives with everyone's brilliant additions across social media, plus things I realized I'd forgotten to include. Feel free to share it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7II...

We need to talk about Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella. Unhinged headwear! Crossdressing crossbow competition! Foot fetish fodder! But, aside from all the bare feet, there was also a lot of kink-teasing.

These "think"-pieces are always very funny to me because it's like "straight white guys can't catch a break in publishing" and here I am, a straight-presenting white guy, who is doing pretty well. Gonna say the quiet part out loud: In most cases the issue is probably the writing, not the writer.

The Butt of Orlac! www.thecut.com/article/i-go...

MISSISSIPPI RIVER MISCHIEF and other great titles from Bold Strokes for $4.95??? Such a steal!! www.boldstrokesbooks.com/offers/4097-...

STILL mad about Broguiere’s Eggnog getting reformulated.

Lady V and I in our gay apparel. Happy holiday to all you wonderful perverts!

For starters, no. Also what the actual fuck, Facebook?!? More like: Dark Megaforce, Inexplicable Hipster, Legoperson and Douche Brothers.

Compliments of the season, kids. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-25...

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

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Hope everybody has a great Holiday!

More like "eat cookies and deny Christ" up here at the Fausthaus. In related news, I miss you @lamaupin.bsky.social !

More fungus? MORE FUNGUS!

This season is rough. If you're dealing with people-pleasing, the stress of being overscheduled & asked for too much, being alone, seasonal depression, grief, difficult relatives, tricky situations, etc., I recorded a Winter & Holiday Video Pep-Talk of Affirmations: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HopA...

People might say that pre-ordering my book for someone would make for a lousy Christmas present. But! Not only will it gift your loved ones a sizzling piece of neon noir that may well end up chiseled on the tombstone of the American Empire, but it will also reach them about delaying gratification.

Same, Elliot.

Never been asked to apologize for being white, straight, or for saying Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, or Happy Hanukkah. Things I've been asked to apologize for: being a woman, disabled, educated unmarried, threatened/harmed by men, choosing not to drink, not having children, & wearing a mask.

Him: Hey sweetie ... oh wait, what is the nonbinary version of sweetie? Me: Well it's sweetie for feminine, sweeter for masculine, and sweetx for nonbinary. Him: OK ... sweetx

Did you people not see The Brood? slate.com/technology/2...

Dear Instagram Algorithm, Do you think maybe the reason why I, a small person who wears primarily unisex clothing, am looking at photos of plus-sized goth girls in corsets on your app might not be an interest in "fashion?" Love, Christa "Definitely Not a Pervert, Why Do You Ask?" Faust

BRB gotta go do some fashionable gothic weightlifting with my dog. Also, Reading is Fundamental and #transrightsarehumanrights🏳️‍⚧️

Really excellent thread about the differences between a gay TV romcom using the world of professional hockey as its pretext and the actual world of gay professional hockey players.