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Peerless patter / Exquisite ennui Tom Lehrer remembered by Jennie Rose Halperin; new fiction from Colin McGowan

TIL that the late Tom Lehrer invented an immortal cocktail recipe. This is the kind of thing I subscribe to @flaminghydra.com for

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Tom Lehrer Adjourns The musical satirist Tom Lehrer died at 97 last month, and though he claimed to have stoked rumors of his premature death to “cut down on his junk mail,” it still felt like it came too soon. By his ow...

My thing runs alongside a fine Tom Lehrer obit from @littlewow.online. flaminghydra.com/tom-lehrer-a...

Gay Smut Salvation Problem: You are a writer who has spent most of the last ten years writing about very evil people, and you are witnessing their triumph, and you don’t have any money, and you don’t have any leads, and...

OK, I am convinced to subscribe to flaming hydra

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The Pleasure of Your Company Over westward steelworks sizzling like diner flattop griddles the setting star’s glare pours through arches of summer flowers and falls as bloodsplatter across the first few rows of waiting guests. “...

For the morning crowd: I published new fiction at Flaming Hydra. RIYL: bad weddings, large lakes, crushing inevitability. flaminghydra.com/the-pleasure...

Cool and hilarious getaways with @camoot.bsky.social

And a pleasurably creepy dystopic tale from @milesklee.bsky.social and Mads Gobbo

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WHAT a WEEK. Thank you for your faithful support of Flaming Hydra! We wish you a cool drink by an uncrowded pool!

The Ambassadors I inspected the water’s surface for scum, leaning slightly to block the light, pressing two fingers against my forehead to see if this time they might sink through the skull. There would be a dinner p...

ALSO TODAY: Some exciting short fiction from @milesklee.bsky.social and Mads Gobbo! “Press the call button, summon the guards. Move your finger and this will be over, the evening saved. So I told myself. Curiously, I did not move.” flaminghydra.com/the-ambassad...

The Window Unit Wanderer Salutations, weary travelers! Camoot here. I created my travel blog, The Window Unit Wanderer, to inspire solo travelers who want to follow their wanderlust to wherever the window unit blows. Here are...

TODAY: (a little late whoops) Amy Chu with some pleasantly cool vacation destinations you may not have considered! “Despite the throngs of tourists, however, nothing rivals the roaring air at the public library.” flaminghydra.com/688cf10a1a5c...

The Ambassadors I inspected the water’s surface for scum, leaning slightly to block the light, pressing two fingers against my forehead to see if this time they might sink through the skull. There would be a dinner p...

Delighted to say we have a sneak preview of DOUBLE BLACK DIAMOND in @flaminghydra.com! One of our favorite stories in the collection, never seen before, and by subscribing to the newsletter for the fantastically low price of $3 a month, you will get dozens of amazing writers in your inbox:

Lustful solace / Faraway fellowship Reading therapy with Talia Lavin, and Brian Hioe on obstacles to solidarity

Fellow Hydra @swordsjew.bsky.social is extremely good in today’s @flaminghydra.com

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If you don’t subscribe to Flaming Hydra, you should. It’s well worth $3 a month!

The Pleasure of Your Company Over westward steelworks sizzling like diner flattop griddles the setting star’s glare pours through arches of summer flowers and falls as bloodsplatter across the first few rows of waiting guests. “...

ALSO TODAY: Some lovely short fiction from @csmcgowan.bsky.social. “Preparing to marry him to a stranger at the less-good beach, which contains no memories, she has been sick with a feeling of false return, familiar dreams running at half-speed” flaminghydra.com/the-pleasure...

The Pleasure of Your Company Over westward steelworks sizzling like diner flattop griddles the setting star’s glare pours through arches of summer flowers and falls as bloodsplatter across the first few rows of waiting guests. “...

New fiction @flaminghydra.com‬. Walked around thinking about this for half of June and a slice of July. It’s a good one; it’s important to me. flaminghydra.com/the-pleasure...

Tom Lehrer Adjourns The musical satirist Tom Lehrer died at 97 last month, and though he claimed to have stoked rumors of his premature death to “cut down on his junk mail,” it still felt like it came too soon. By his ow...

TODAY: @littlewow.online on the recently departed musician and satirist Tom Lehrer. “Now, as the American empire continues to crumble under the weight of a new brand of fascism, Tom Lehrer’s music continues to provide some insight.” flaminghydra.com/tom-lehrer-a...

Lustful solace / Faraway fellowship Reading therapy with Talia Lavin, and Brian Hioe on obstacles to solidarity

I felt this heartbreak from @swordsjew.bsky.social on despair, exhaustion and escapism right down to my toes. flaminghydra.com/issue-371/?a...

Lustful solace / Faraway fellowship Reading therapy with Talia Lavin, and Brian Hioe on obstacles to solidarity

Fantastic essay from @swordsjew.bsky.social today at @flaminghydra.com, paradoxically exhilarating literary criticism plus howling despair, I just love it

'Gay Smut Salvation'

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Another absolute gem, this time from @swordsjew.bsky.social. Fam if you’re not on the @flaminghydra.com train, you’re missing the most excellent collection of fire breathing glorious resistance in writing out there right now. ✊🔥✊🔥

And @brianhioe.bsky.social!! The @flaminghydra.com fam can’t miss 🤩🤩.

You seem confused but luckily I’m here to show you out!

The piping hot attention you ordered! Served fresh! That’s the Flaming Hydra difference!

This person wants everyone to know they conflate “being Jewish” with “supporting genocide” everybody!

Gay Smut Salvation Problem: You are a writer who has spent most of the last ten years writing about very evil people, and you are witnessing their triumph, and you don’t have any money, and you don’t have any leads, and...

i wrote about gay porn and escapism and despair for @flaminghydra.com, the world's best art collective that im part of

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Thanks @swordsjew.bsky.social for this. I keep trying to come up with a succinct explanation for why this is so good it got me to post when I am usually just a lurker, but don’t even know where to start (& why I’m not a writer), so just thanks, and I hadn’t read two so two more to escape into

like sam, i have been watching friends and their children in gaza slowly shrink from starvation. i will consider at some later date the deeper implications of all this.

Wrote about some of the dilemmas of solidarity--it is, unfortunately, impossible to know every place in the world and that can lead to mistaking enemies for allies. And what does it mean to care for a place you may, in fact, have no connections to, which is inherently abstraction?

Suspect Solidarities Not too long ago, I organized an event with a Rohingya activist friend who was passing through Taiwan on vacation. It made me happy to be able to connect her to local Burmese activists; they were most...

ALSO TODAY: @brianhioe.bsky.social on some of the thornier issues that accompany activism and solidarity. "It is entirely possible that through ignorance, I may mistake an enemy for a friend, another vulnerability that complicates the struggle of coalition building." flaminghydra.com/suspect-soli...

Lustful solace / Faraway fellowship Reading therapy with Talia Lavin, and Brian Hioe on obstacles to solidarity

TODAY: @swordsjew.bsky.social on reading smutty queer novels in a time of global desperation, " a withdrawal from the world so total that you can’t stop, it feels like gambling, or drinking, or any other compulsion, you read books like you’re chainsmoking." flaminghydra.com/issue-371/#g...

Try again! 🙏

With a view to getting a bit of relief from the daily horrorshow, there's a new poll today for @flaminghydra.com subscribers of Movies that Are Fun

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