Iain Edwards

Generally speaking, the minute you see the word “Fabio” attached to an article about romance other than as history, you can throw the entire thing into the garbage. It’s a sneer, designed as communication from one person who thinks romance is stupid to another.

PINHEAD: You opened the box... we came. Now your accountability process begins...

I’m not arguing with no account defending AI. My grandmother lives in an area being environmentally compromised currently by an ai data center. I remember the color of the lake before they built it and the sludge I see in it when I go to see her. Shut the fuck up about “the benefits of AI” forever.

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

I Was Going To Make a Double-Feature Recommendation, Now I Just Feel Gross Ceci n'est pas du content. This is my second blogpost. In the last few weeks, I've amassed a sprawling list of future articles, started an account on NetGalley in the vain hopes that one day someone ...

I wrote about #DarrenAronofsky, his genAI monstrosity, and the hellishness of trying to hack it as a creative in 2026

we should recommend straight movies the way some people recommend gay movies. if you enjoyed bridgerton why not check out the piano teacher

(very upset snail) this is a waste of my slime

posting my writing online always feels like the part of The Phantom of the Opera where he pops up out of nowhere and says “I HAVE WRITTEN YOU AN OPERA…”

You’ve heard of John Wick.

But have you heard of…Gay Wick?

At this point, I think the entire publishing industry needs to have a serious conversation about the degree to which the last 15 years have increasingly seen book promo become an online venture, and what that means now that entire social media and digital platforms are getting torched overnight. 🧵

On this day in Canadian Horror History, VIDEODROME was released in 1983.

we should recommend straight movies the way some people recommend gay movies. if you enjoyed bridgerton why not check out the piano teacher

DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression.

CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?

DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.

C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?

DR: Now look

Join Max Gold, Billy Martin (ahh!), and me next week at the kickoff event for the Queer Horror Conference, sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Library System! I'm delighted to take part in this conversation. Registration is required but free!
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something sort of embarrassing about telling people you’ve started a newsletter/blog. like describing a rash to a doctor, but with less dignity

reading austen is important for a number of impractical life skills but mostly in how to call someone a wanker to their face in the 18th century — "I send no compliments to your mother" — the recipient would carry that around for 20 years and then kill themselves

This guy’s in love with you Tal Lavin watches some movies

today i wrote for @flaminghydra.com about how movies should be gayer (and stop drafting actresses for 5 line parts to prove main characters aren't gay for each other) flaminghydra.com/issue-491/#w...

charlotte brontë had a tendency to make the daddies in her ddlg fantasies also feel very babygirl in some ways to the point that i would consider it a defining feature of her dynamics vs. other writers of the gothic. like heathcliff or maxim de winter could spit in rochester’s mouth by comparison

Joyride: A Memoir-Dissection of David Cronenberg's 'Crash' Roughly three years after I lost control of my mother’s car and crashed it into a tree in the median of a two-way road, I forced myself to watch David Cronenberg’s Crash for the first time.

i wrote about watching david cronenberg's crash as a person who is triggered by car crashes.

well, boys, it begins

I wrote about how the success of the story feels, to me, a little bit like getting some revenge.

uhhhhhhhhhhh watch this spacr