ghoul thing

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

whenever I wind up as the target of transmisogynistic harassment online, a not-infrequent part of my professional life, I think about the trans women who aren't spiteful cockroach queers like I am, who crumple when attacked, who flee creative scenes, who never make anything again.

😭 ive had one story out to a "no simultaneous submissions" mag for over. 110 days. now.

are you having...... gay thoughts ?
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Sandy hook lighthouse

it is national lighthouse day....

Space Unicorn!

PLEASE REPOST! WRITERS! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26. WE WANT TO SEE YOUR SHINY WORDS! buff.ly/9AyStcb

GORDON RAMSAY: The contestant who will not be moving on, I'm sorry to say...
(Chefs brace)
RAMSAY: ...is Dylan.

(breakaway confessional interview. A seething pile of rats forms the rough semblance of a human mouth)

RATMOUTH: The relief when Gordon called Dylan's name was just unbelievable

and, for the record, when I mentioned comics in the self pub trans horror scene in this essay, i was specifically thinking about "Little Death." thank you for sharing your work.

just want to say that i love this thread and im so glad (and, you know, many other emotions) that my essay resonates with your experiences. i really think there is something special and uniquely queer-trans about erotic horror. or something uniquely erotic-horror about being queer&trans?

“Degenerate” a 2020 serigraph print by PomPoison

In 2020, I was in the printmaking studio, asking myself “What do I want to say with my art?” when I conceptualized this serigraph print series.

Up until then , I had pruned my artistic practice so that I had two separate styles and creative identities:

You’re going to get a lot of rejections and agents will ignore your emails and there will be naysayers around every corner and you’ll get 1-star reviews that are attacks instead of reviews. None of that matters. Keep going. Stay focused. Put in the work. Don’t quit. Go write.

August 19: I'll have a new story in THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT: NEW TALES OF STEPHEN KING'S THE STAND with "Prey Instinct," a story of paranoia and costume changes, edited by Brian Keene and Christopher Golden. September 9: my story "Crepuscular," of parenthood, family secrets, and psychic powers, will appear in ROOTS OF MY FEARS, edited by Gemma Amor. September 23: a non-fiction essay! "The Giant Footprint of Horror" is about me, growing up, and of course Godzilla, in WHY I LOVE HORROR: ESSAYS ON HORROR LITERATURE, edited by Becky Spratford.

My own books A GAME IN YELLOW and TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS aren't all I have creeping along in the next two months 😈

A couple of stories and a personal essay are in there too, and in each case I'm with an utterly mind-blowing collection of talents. I can't wait for you to see 💜

Quebec man warning Canadian boaters after he was detained by U.S. Coast guard, put in jail cell A Quebec man says he is outraged after the U.S. Coast Guard accused him of fishing in American waters and then arrested him before putting him in a jail cell for nearly two hours.

Quebec man warning Canadian boaters after he was detained by U.S. Coast guard, put in jail cell.

The US Coast Guard capsized his boat, arrested him, and threw him in jail for two hours, saying he was fishing in US.

He says he was sure he was in Canadian waters.

International incident?… much?

if you’re not committed in defense of everyone’s rights to erotic expression, pleasure, and desire, as a part of life and art that’s valuable and vital to thriving for so many (especially queer) people… you’re not my colleague or ally. And you need to catch the fuck up real quick.

FYI, the series of reposts around the censorship of Steam, itch.io, and every other corner of the internet and your analog life they can get their hands on is why I am *extremely* firm in my stance that—regardless of someone’s own personal feelings about and relationship to sex and sexuality—

probably my only public statement is gonna be [redacted]

Here’s a short script:
“Hello, my name is _____, and I would like to file a complaint. I find it troubling that Mastercard is blocking content on (the platforms you use) and making it difficult for me to make legal purchases. I am going to stop using Mastercard if this isn’t rescinded and fixed."

omniscient third can be soooo fun dont listen to the haters listen to your instincts

so glad you got so much out of this essay, thank you for your kind words!

thanks for the kind words!

“Enough Rope:” Transmasculine Erasure, Violence, and Reading Trans Horror There was a horror novel kept behind glass when I visited the Chicago Leather Archives and Museum. Poppy Z. Brite, or Billy Martin, is the author of Exquisite Corpse, a disgusting…

so pleased to have an essay in the #lore issue of #bloodletter magazine ! i talk about (gay) trans masc erasure and poppy z brite / billy martin's fierce and heartbreaking essay "Enough Rope." + how horror can soothe bad trans feelings ♡
bloodlettermag.com/enough-rope-...

Call the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office at: 412-350-4401 Sample script to use: “Hello, I’m calling as a concerned community member regarding the case of Darryl Dunn, arrested after the attack at Edgewood Town Center. I respectfully urge the District Attorney’s Office to fully review this case and consider pursuing Attempted Homicide charges. The victim was chased and threatened with death while the attacker was armed with a knife. Black trans women deserve full justice. Thank you for your time.”

There's a call script below, and if you're more of an email contact person, here's the site for that: alleghenycountyda.us/contact/

cn: transphobic violence

Pittsburgh pals, SisTersPgh is asking friends and allies to contact the DA's office and ask them to treat an attack on a trans member of our community in Edgewood earlier this week as an attempted homicide. A fuller statement here: www.instagram.com/p/DMOFgdFRHFD/

*World Fantasy Award nominated novella, THE WOODS ALL BLACK!

really just revealing that he assumes, based on his own behavior (of devaluing women's writing) that all women must be doing the same to him. goes hard goes crazy.

perhaps the lesson here is that if u cant stay afloat publishing fiction then perhaps you are not qualified to talk about it

a lit mag that recently stopped publishing lit is doing ""craft pieces"" instead and like the third one was a guy complaining about how he cant get an agent because most new agents are women......

tldr the orgy scene is everything to me

the unique, irreproducible electric relationships forged through going through abuse and trauma with someone else. livewire connection. and at the same time, or because of that closeness, those relationships being so unsustainable. violent and imperfect themselves.

one day ill be able to write intelligently about gretchen felker-martin's cuckoo reflecting back at me, for the first time, my own feelings about traumatic, queer teenage codependency. one day i will be articulate enough to convey the depths of my feelings.