The specter of ill-defined harm to hypothetical children will always be a wedge that they drive between you and your principles. See that shit coming. Your real friends aren’t majority shareholders in making you believe you can jack off so wrong it blows up a school.

If you’re a trans public figure who sells out the “bad ones” for a cookie you are worse than the enemy to me. Lowest circle is for traitors. Without solidarity for the scary inconvenient freaks your word is an unwatched weapon and your heart is a dead mall.

Okay between a trans author’s essay being read in bad faith as saying the exact opposite of what it said and another trans artist getting dogpiled for defending a “problematic fetish,” I think I gotta log off for a few days to remember the world is large and mostly not quite this stupid

Incredible how much fascinating trans literature is happening right now. I feel like I could constantly read exciting and enriching and soul-nourishing stuff for the rest of the year without ever needing to touch anything by a cis person

Someone should invent a better way out than through

Bring in Al Columbia cowards

I like the dude making perpetual stew because he’s pretty bad at cooking and kinda bad at making videos and he lives in a shed and has no idea how to capitalize on his popularity

I know I know It’s serious

the ultimate goal

I want so badly to see a bunch of Remedios Varo paintings in person

Oh shit I’ve only seen one of these so far but Decorado is a run-don’t-walk situation. Precious few films have haunted me like that one

Going to the trans meetup even though you’re tired and anxious and depressed: beautiful, life affirming, a heroic act of self love Suddenly vanishing from the trans meetup because the “get out” switch flipped in your brain without warning: beautiful, life affirming, a heroic act of self love

I went long on this topic! www.wigwagmag.com/vol-28-the-s...

Attempted some research on mics/techniques for quiet vocals with a loud band. Found a Reddit thread where everyone was like, “Well first off we can all agree the quiet vocalist is incompetent.” I am forever discovering that a brand-new-to-me kind of stupid has already achieved near-hegemonic status

More journalists and media workers were killed in 2025 than in any other year since the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) began collecting data more than three decades ago.* Two-thirds of the journalists killed were by Israeli forces.*

Aaron being the "trust and safety co-lead at Twitter" for well over a year after Elon bought the website and ended all rules against the harassment of trans people and mass-unbanned Nazis really just says it all here. he's on their side!

Not exactly intentional but this is exclusively queer shit, that’s fun

Quote with the last 4 games you’ve played

Insane how much better Dimension 20 is when they’re not playing D&D

Artists’ growth is their business. If I read a review of my work that had the tone of giving me direct (unsolicited) “constructive” criticism I would hate that critic more than one who trashed me. Critics don’t know better than the artist or the audience. Their value has nothing to do with authority

The work tells you what it’s trying to do. Don’t rely on anything external. If you reach the end and remain unsure, talk about that. Guess out loud. If forced to score it, score on craft and on the pleasurability of your uncertainty. If you don’t enjoy any types of uncertainty don’t review art.

Yo this book is insane? It’s just constantly daring me to form a coherent opinion about it

I simply cannot imagine getting worked up about any Starfox character designs but kind of especially not these

They suspended @cara.city for this!!! Dogshit website run by absolute babies. It is a Serious Violation to point out that the head of trust and safety’s pants fell down and everyone saw his little red ass and laughed

Hey girl you ever had they/them dick it’s like boydick and girldick had a babydick

Maybe Tony is gonna be really good and I know looking trite is a trailer’s job but boy does the trailer look trite compared to what I’d hope for Dominic Sessa, and Matt Johnson, and Bourdain

Two-Headed Boy pt 2 - Neutral Milk Hotel Frost (C) - Sunn O))) Footprints - Warning Weightless & Horizontal - Jesu Predatory Wasp - Sufjan The Good that Won’t Come Out - Rilo Kiley Sawdust and Diamonds - Joanna Newsom Suha - Xiu Xiu Dark End of the Street - James Carr Danny Boy - Jackie Wilson

Without downloading anything new, where are you, mentally?

I just read Nevada and Frisk so I do think obsessively detailing the interior can be electric. Nevada has gaps, obvious truths the narrators deny, but Frisk not so much. Maybe part of the issue is authors imagining characters so simply that everything is tellable? The character as a solved equation?

Remember when Shudder announced they had The Devils “uncut” and everyone reported this claim and then it wasn’t uncut? And hardly anyone talked about that? I will not believe any version is uncut until I see the words “rape of Christ” in the promotional materials

My favorite food is my birthday

I’ve been hoping weird artsy Oppenheimer Nolan would show up for The Odyssey and I feel like I might have caught a slight whiff of that in the trailer but it could be wishful thinking

Platner can eat a million rotten dog dicks but if you’re big mad about the people who are gonna hold their noses and vote for him I think that’s at least 50% because being mad is your hobby

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It was 2024 but the funniest time anyone’s ever been mad at me was when I posted a joke about wisdom teeth feeling abandoned. Someone called it “an infohazard for autistic people.” Someone else called me “a cruel person.” Mentioned it briefly in my new essay: www.typebarmagazine.com/the-tweet-as...

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I love how disappointed Charles Dickens looks in every picture. Total mood.

ME: So do you see how, in context, your question about the purpose of consciousness reveals a solipsistic view of other people as props? Which is a telling foundation for many of your stated beliefs? RICHARD DAWKINS: If you won’t let me out of this cage can I at least have some water? ME: No,

It’s really cute that The Search for Spock and The Voyage Home both have scenes where characters just watch the previous movie

Incredible to see someone sincerely attempt the “just following orders” defense in 2026 as if it’s just common sense. To then be informed of the historical context of that particular idea, react like you’ve legitimately never heard of it, and loudly decide it doesn’t matter? Baby that’s art to me.

Favorite first-time watches of April 2026

I’ve heard Design for Living is having a moment now and that’s good but I wanna be a hipster and say I watched this with my folks in 2022 as a semi-random pick on Criterion Channel, none of us had heard of it, I organically fell deeper and deeper in love as it went, and the ending was a joyous shock

I really thought I liked 70s movies a lot but apparently I don’t?

Metal Machine Music is so beautiful. Maybe best listened to one side at a time, but that’s fine and normal. Dumb that some reviews call it atonal when it’s so very pretty. Weird that my opinion isn’t a cliche by now. I know I’m not *alone* but folks should be sick of hearing how Good Actually it is.

Realizing I’m gonna have to cultivate tunnel vision to survive on Goodreads. Saw a review like, “The sentences were long and I got confused a lot. Trash! This is supposed to be feminist?? Umm, women die in it. It’s bad when women die.” The devil made these people to torture me specifically.

My 10 favorite films, off the top of my head: Mulholland Drive Kiss Kiss Bang Bang The Sadness I Saw the TV Glow Straight Up Design for Living Drowning by Numbers Tampopo Dellamorte Dellamore Silent Night Deadly Night

My friend Sinead is having a hard time. I’m very slightly more visible on here than usual today so if anyone sees this and can chip in to help a cool trans woman out I’d appreciate it. ko-fi.com/jen94937

My latest essay is out today! Give it a look, and check out the rest of the new issue too. Typebar is cool as hell

I like how The Edge of Space-Time casually calls space “queer,” both meaning “strange” and evoking the idea of “queering.” The queer resists and confounds traditional modes of understanding. To be queer is to queer; to be a problem (good kind). May we all embrace our illegible selves.