Luke :)

The ILL system is honestly one of the most incredible parts of libraries. You can get a niche book published by a gay small press in 1989 signed by one of your idols (lol) and it’s FREE

The title page of the 1989 edition of Idols by Dennis Cooper, signed by Cooper

Omg my ILL request finally came in all the way from Wichita and it’s signed 😱

The Bathysphere Book by Brad Fox

6. The Bathysphere Book - Brad Fox

Sometimes you come across a book that seems designed in a lab to appeal specifically to you

!!!

“Meander, Spiral, Explode” by Jane Alison leaning against a window. There’s snow outside.

5. Meander, Spiral, Explode - Jane Allison

In 2026 I am going to start calling people feckless and wretched

No amount of intention / attention ever feels enough when listening to Vashti… she is simply too good

Girlmode - Magdalene Visaggio and Paulina Ganucheau

4. Girlmode - Magdalene Visaggio & Paulina Ganucheau

Very sweet! Will keep this rec in my back pocket for teens at work

A picture of the page of the book with the name “Pickle Puss Armstrong” highlighted in yellow. Pickle was allegedly a rum runner for a pirate themed bar during prohibition and was also paid to sweep glass after bottle throwing competitions at the bar.

Pickle Puss Armstrong, you will always be famous

Last week we were all woken up at dawn by three foxes screaming and wrestling in this same spot!!!

Three deer in a shady spot in the grass. Two are curled up and sleeping, one is more alert

The girls are back :) you’d think they’d like a nice sunny spot but they’re all squarely in the shade

finally some good news

A screenshot of the audiobook Liarmouth: a Feel-Bad Romance by John Waters

3. Liarmouth - John Waters

YouTube video by Dog Faced Hermans - Topic Jan 9

youtu.be/wPPuDfZVKqQ?...

I read Train Dreams and also watched The Watermelon Woman (1996) right at the end of the year, so we can go ahead and add those

The book “Love is a Dangerous Word: Selected Poems” by Essex Hemphill sitting on my lap on the bus

2. Love is a Dangerous Word - Essex Hemphill

A screenshot of the audiobook Nobody Move by Denis Johnson

Starting a reading thread for the year :)

1. Nobody Move - Denis Johnson

A graphic with a bright red background. In the center is a framed, black and white picture of Rukmini on an altar. The text reads: IDOLS. Due by Feb. 7. Seeking trans writers. Fiction, essays, poetry, art.

REMINDER! We are open for submissions until Feb. 7 for our next anthology, IDOLS. See our previous posts for more prompts, ideas, and manifestations about the theme 🥀

Three deer laying in the grass

One deer sitting in the grass. Its ears are tagged

I just had a feeling they’d be here today…

A flyer with a green background and a black and white portrait of Martha P. Johnson. She is smiling at the camera and has a crown of flowers in her hair. The text reads: seeking trans writers! Due by February 7th. IDOLS: fiction, essays, poetry, art.

A flyer with a green background and a black and white picture of an older Sylvia Rivera sitting in an armchair and smoking. The text reads: Lilac Peril Issue 02: IDOLS. Idolization = transformation.

A flyer with a green background and two black and one photos. One is of Leslie Feinberg raising hir first and speaking into a microphone. The other is Rupert Raj lounging back on a bed, wearing only shorts. The text reads: How do trans people idolize other trans people? Our lovers? Our leaders? Our celebrities? When does an ancestor become an idol? What does idolization do—does it help us or disappoint us, save or betray us? See also: Happy Birthday, Marsha! (2018), Tourmaline We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan, 1961–1991 Laverne Cox on the cover of TIME magazine The best friend you have a crush on

A flyer with a green background. A black and white picture frame surrounds the text: General Guidelines. - Send work to submissions@lilacperil.com - 2500 words or less - Black and white art only - Include a bio - Acceptance includes a small honorarium and a free copy of the finished book Full details in the caption

Submissions are OPEN for Issue 02: IDOLS!

Send your best work on saints, celebrities, heroes, and fixations to info@lilacperil.com until February 7

Full details in original post (linked below)

Four deer relaxing in the grass

:)

Duane Kearns Puryear, holding his panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt. It reads, in block letters: "My name is Duane Kearns Puryear. I was born on December 20, 1964. I was diagnosed with AIDS on September 7, 1987 at 4:45 PM. I was 22 old. Sometimes, it makes me very sad. I made this panel myself. If you are reading it, I am dead..." There are several great resources to learn about Duane, his advocacy, his family, his panel, and the politics of memory and re-creation, especially this one by The Dallas Way: http://www.thedallasway.org/stories/written/2021/9/19/duane-puryears-and-the-quilt-panel Duane Puryear died in 1991.

It's your birthday, Duane.

Ok I actually meant Tigers Blood not Saint Cloud lol

A list of books, white text in black background - I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman - Devil House, John Darnell - My Favorite Thing is Monsters (1 & 2), Emil Ferris - Enemy Feminism, Sophie Lewis - Root Rot, Saskia Nislow - A/S/L, Jeanne Thorton - Casanova 20, Davey Davis - Walking Practice, Dolki Min - Ghost Wall, Sarah Moss - Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body, Megan Milks - Black Flame, Gretchen Felker. Martin - Crawl, Max Delsohn - Fleischerei, Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin

A list of films, white text on a black background - Wild At Heart (1990) - Scavengers Reign (2023) - Dead Ringers (1988) - BloodSisters (1995) - Alice (1988) - The Elephant Man (1980) - Perfect Blue (1997) - Point Break (1991) - Tampopo (1985) - When the Cat Comes (1963) - Paprika (2006) - The Doom Generation (1995) - eXistenZ (1990) - Pig (2021) - Mulholland Drive (2001) - Parting Glances (1986) - Mysterious Skin (2004) - The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau (1968-76)

A list of albums, white text on a black background - Heavy Metal, Cameron Winter - I Hate Jazz, Mike Krol - Black Eyes, Black Eyes - II, Pure Adult - The Holey Bible, Florry. - 3D Country, Geese - Untenable, Bad Moves - The Idiot, Iggy Pop - Those Deep Buds, Dog Faced Humans - Ursa Minor, Nana Grizol - Saint Cloud, Waxahatchee - Point the Flashlight and Walk, Told Slant - Etran de L'Aïr (Live on KEXP)

Favorite books, films, and albums of the year in no particular order :)

Representatives from the Church of Satan handed out surveys as people were exiting The VVitch (2015) when I saw it in college

I saw Happiness (1998) alone at AFI this year. Someone in the back laughed so hard at ….let’s just say a certain scene starring Dylan Baker…. that everyone else in the theater became palpably upset. You could cut the discomfort with a knife

deer thread deer thread deer thread

This will be fun :) dew drop is the best bar in the city baby

Vanity plate idea: TRAUMA