Anna N

I adore Courtney Milan. And Alexandria Bellefleur. And my gateway, Sarah Maclean's "The Season" in high school. And I usually read/review FF, but A.J. Sterling's How To Find A Nameless Fae was my absolute favorite romance of 2025 (The Devil She Knows was a close second), and it was M/F 💚

Share your couples art 🖤

Black and white photo of Udo Kier in a suit

Udo Kier has passed away at 81. A singular screen presence, Kier had a long history in the horror genre, starring in films including Mark of the Devil, Andy Warhol's Frankenstein, Blood for Dracula, Blade, Feardotcom, Rob Zombie's Halloween, and Dario Argento's Mother of Tears.

A packet of Mexican origin coffee and a paperback Everyman edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein on a maroon velvet cloth

Getting ready for movie night with friends 💚💚💚💚💚

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

Ted Chiang:
"The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."

Who needs sleep when there are BIPOC vampires to enjoy? 👀

Could always use more lesbian popcorn comedies, tbh.

New review up! Lee Lai's Cannon is one of the absolute best comics I've read this year. Very topical, too.

Needed this today.

My parents both lived on farms. They don't now, but my mom has made friends with a local farmer and buys milk from them because store bought "doesn't have enough fat for butter". She boils it religiously. I was visiting once and poured some she hadn't boiled on cereal - she made me toss the cereal.

Or Animal Man by Morrison. There are points where it’s depiction of the realistic tolls of superheroism go darker than Watchmen, despite the overall brighter tone. The DC recs are not exactly lesser known, but imo they attempt deconstruction and broader complex themes like Watchmen did.

- Saga by Vaughn/Staples
- Swamp Thing by Moore
- Enigma by Milligan
- Truth: Red, White & Black by Baker/Morales
- Poison Ivy by Wilson/Takara
- Grendel by Wagner
- Doom Patrol by Morrison

- Worm by Rodriguez
- Feeding Ghosts By Hulls
- Abandon the old in Tokyo by Tatsumi
- Sabba Khan’s 2 books

Coming soon: FUNeral Home: a 30 Page One-Shot Comic A story about chosen family, processing grief, and sapphic assassins. It's not burying your gays if your gays are burying everyone.

FUNeral Home is now LIVE on kickstarter! 💀⚰️

Our epic fun time oneshot of sapphic assassin shenanigans from myself, @cerealpancake.bsky.social @longtalljodie.com and Kiela Sibal!!

Hope to see you at the FUNeral 🥹♥️

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Literally watching this right now 🦖🦕💚💙

New review up! Very chuffed about this one. It has a pseudonymous work by Lorraine Hansberry! Anda messy butch on butch story that will delight fans of Sal Jiang's Black and White 🤭

Side view photo of J. Carino‘s Looking Back (2025) painting. Oil and Acrylic paint on linen. 40 x 30 inches, showing upper half of figure in green with warm colored shadows lying next to water, also painted in shades of green.

Close-up photo of J. Carino’s American Progress (2025) painting. Oil and Acrylic on Linen. Close up shows donkey walking and man carrying wood on a background of oranges and browns with yellow slightly abstracted sunflowers heart them, next to a flowing river depicted in whorls of white and black. The close up is taken so the river takes up half the vertical photo and the man and donkey the other half.

Off-center photograph of J. Carino’s Flood (2025) painting. Oil and acrylic on linen. 48 x 48 inches. Shows a man painted with brown skin carefully, tenderly carrying a baby donkey through a flooding river, with a tree and the bank painted on the upper corner.

The Yossi Milo Gallery in NYC has a beautiful exhibition on through 08/22 of J. Carino‘s most recent paintings.

Witch Hat Atelier? It’s the other big one I own physical copies of. Art is also very beautiful.

This year the Graphic Medicine Awards comprised three categories. The winning titles were Boum‘s The Jellyfish (Pow Pow) for Best Long Form Comic; Sunflowers, by Keezy Young (Silver Sprocket) for Best Short Form Comic; and Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding, by Maia Kobabe and Dr. Sarah Peitzmeier (Penguin Random House) in the newly introduced Best Educational Comic category.

ICYMI: The winners of this year's @graphicmedicine.bsky.social awards:

Long Form: The Jellyfish by @boum.bsky.social

Short Form: Sunflowers by @keezyyoung.bsky.social

Educational: Breathe by @redgoldsparks.bsky.social and @sarahpeitzmeier.bsky.social

Coverage:
www.comicsbeat.com/here-come-th...

Hellblazer or Enigma. Both by Peter Milligan?

Ok, since this IS apparently a thing now, allow me to list/thread just a few places where people can read speculative poetry - for free!

[ butchfemme carmilla ] “Let us look again for a moment; it is the last time, perhaps, I shall see the moonlight with you.”

New review! Low fantasy lesbian goes on a questing Bildungsroman after getting cursed.

I grew up reading Amar Chitra Katha and very old school Spider-Man. The color work in this was such a delightful trip down nostalgia lane, though the panels are bigger w/ more room to breathe than in those series

Cutting Medicaid means costs are shifted to providers. When patients lose coverage, they turn to ERs for care they can’t afford. Hospitals eat the cost, pass it on to insurers, and your premiums go up.

Medicaid cuts mean a worse health care system for EVERYONE.

Invisible Beauty | A Magnolia Pictures Film | Directed by Bethann Hardison and Frédéric Tcheng | Own it on DVD or Digital HD The essential memoir of fashion pioneer Bethann Hardison, INVISIBLE BEAUTY shines a spotlight on one of the fashion industry’s most influential icons who, as a pioneering Black model, modeling agent a...

If you have a chance, please watch the documentary. It’s a moving portrait of a remarkable life and career. It’s currently on Hulu, and both Hoopla and Kanopy, if you get those through your local library!

Cover of Sophie Gilbert’s Girl on Girl: How pop culture turned a generation of women against themselves, on pink floral bedspread

On chpt 2 of @sophiegilbert.bsky.social’s book and recalling Bethann Hardison’s “Invisible Beauty”. There’s a chilling moment on the shift to girls from behind the Iron Curtain. Showed, not told, how intersecting vulnerabilities left them more exploitable than adult models with literal agencies.

This is so well deserved. Their work is profoundly unsettling and also well written and rooted in compassion even as it excavates pain. A rare combination.

Copies of Worm by Edel Rodriguez, Born a Crime by Trevor Noah, Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hull, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, What is Home Mum by Sabba Khan, A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi on a pink floral bedspread.

I’ve been reading these lately. I keep them nearby on my shelves because they are examples of an artist using their craft to tell their story, and their history. Poetry, illustration, manga, comedy and even architectural design. These books remind me why art matters, why craft and intention matter.

Monster Manor Book Fair 13-15 June 2025 Monster Manor Book Fair is on now - don't miss out! Get 118 DRM-free eBooks for $25, and directly support queer and trans creators.

Monster Manor Book Fair is on now - don't miss out! Get 118 DRM-free eBooks for $25, and directly support queer and trans creators. #BookSale #DiscountedBooks #LGBTQIA