M. Lopes da Silva

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There is no excuse for anyone in 2026 to use substack.

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Take it easy, but TAKE it

I’m drunk. I think a guy tried to pick me up at a bar but got turned off after I started gushing about Night Visitors (1987) lol

Oh no you’re writing my thoughts out, only gender-swapped lol

One of my most cherished classes is my 18th century novels course where the primary learning objective is "learn how read long novels." We did a "couch to 5k" approach to attention span and note-taking.

An illustration of an opossum holding a sign that says abolish ICE.

Stand up, fight back.

A group, one of many, holding candles in honor of a community member executed by an unaccountable paramilitary invasion force

This is Minneapolis.

Literally every corner along Lake St. packed with people holding candles, many singing, honoring a person who by all accounts was an absolute gem of a human, whose life was tragically stolen by a fascist, paramilitary occupation force.

This is literally my neighborhood.
Fuck ICE. Fuck these fucking nazi scumbags.
Do em like Mussolini.

TUBI or not TUBI? lolzzzzzz that's right THE PEOPLE'S JOKER is now available to watch for FREE on TUBI! We also just dropped a bunch of new merch at the yeyostore (check it below). It's the best day of your life!

Tear. That. Shit. Out.

the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.

I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Ready to Use the Good Pencils I wrote this post on January 2nd. Decided to publish it today even though it feels discordant: sometimes we need a few strange notes in the song. A dear friend of mine casually mentioned that they …

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Whenever I see someone write the date out on a dated page: you see that January over there? Fuck that January. New January’s in town.

Working on a story that will be the third story in my worms-in-the-brain series. The first was “The Same Thing That Happened to Sam”, published in Your Body Is Not Your Body. The second was “A Cockroach in the Brain”, published in Infinity Mathing at the Shore and Other Disruptions.

SFF Reviews promoting genAI in SFF writing

Every post from @sffreview.bsky.social - which I’ve now blocked - reads like genAI, and based on their posts, is an outlet no one should support in any way.

A Holiday Spent Alone So I need to make a confession – I actually spent my holiday with a couple of cats – so the definition of “alone” here is being applied solely to the physical presence of human beings for the purpo…

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[Image: Two slides with a light blue background. Slide 1 text: "Trans Survivors Zine: Relationships. the fireman by M. Lopes da Silva. 'I can still hear the bells jangling / telling me to get ready / telling me to text them check in make sure / they’re not angry or upset be ready / to soothe or put out fires be ready / they were always burning / so how could I be on fire? / how could I be so irresponsible as to burn, too?' forge.tips/zine."]

[Image: Slide 2 text: "About the Writer. M. Lopes da Silva. M. Lopes da Silva (he/they) is a polyamorous, bisexual, and non-binary trans masc author and artist from Los Angeles. He writes pulp and poetry, and lectures about the political power of desire and disruption. His poetry can be found in Eye to the Telescope, The Dread Machine, and Electric Literature. Weirdpunk Books released his collection of heartbreaking and exquisite trans and queer horror stories, Infinity Mathing at the Shore and Other Disruptions, in March of 2024. Instagram: @authormlopesdasilva; Bluesky: @mlopesdasilva.bsky.social. forge.tips/zine." FORGE logo.]

In relationships where we are anticipating someone else's emotions and crises, how can we care for our own? M. Lopes da Silva's "the fireman" follows this metaphor: the labor of putting out fires while our own burn too. forge.tips/zine

Connect with M. at @mlopesdasilva.bsky.social!

This weekend, I officially wrapped up my part-time gig & I’m doing my best to not let this ruin my holidays (I can just start really freaking out on January 2nd lol). But subs — both free & paid — help me keep going with my writing so any shares/subs are greatly appreciated. Thank you! 🖤🖤🖤

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Creating a list of horror works by trans authors (books don't have to have trans characters--the list is based on authorship): pagebound.co/lists/cc73e5...

I'm pausing to edit, but if you have suggestions that aren't already there (including self-recs), let me know!

Infinity Mathing at the Shore & Other Disruptions - M. Lopes da Silva | Weirdpunk Books A non-binary model discovers that an artist is attempting to paint their soul. Glitter-vomiting deer take over the streets of Los Angeles. A trans man drives out to the desert to investigate rumors of...

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My apologies. That wasn’t my intention.

Ideally, yes. However in practice, queer people can still be attached to harmful ideas of sexual compulsion/expectation and practice them (to the benefit of no one).

Queerness is beautiful, but queer sex is not immune from SA/sexual compulsion, nor does it work as a substitute for therapy.

Conflating newness with progress is bullshit. Just because AI is new doesn’t mean it’s “our future” or inevitable. Arsenic wallpaper was new. Hydrogen dirigibles were new. Now they’re nothing but history lessons.

People keep saying that AI is inevitable. Like Bartleby, I'd prefer not to... We "have to use it!" My response to that is simply... WHY? Why is it being pushed so much and into so many things? Once you've gotten people to cede their decision making to an algorithm, eventually they'll stop thinking for themselves. Why would I outsource thinking for myself to a machine? I have a brain.

"You have to use AI."

...why?

I call it “a journaling ecosystem” because I just added duckweed to it.

Today at Tia Chuchas in Sylmar, California. Join me at 5PM for a reading of The Fib. I've also signed 20 copies, which the bookstore will be gifting to folks who stop by!!

Hey, folks, please consider grabbing a copy of this anthology. I hope to keep it going.

Our first author announcement for SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION is @tashise.bsky.social with Drawn to Death, a tale of cartoonish cruelty felt from both sides of the animator's table.

Welcome also to @mlopesdasilva.bsky.social with their vivid and unsettling poem, the animators.