Benjamin Larned 🍉

YES that opening scene is a masterpiece

CALIFORNIANS!

you can help make our state better and safer for trans people RIGHT NOW by telling Newsom he needs to sign these bills!

We need you!

If you're in LA and want to see the films, here's a link for tix:

www.eventbrite.com/e/the-unseen...

A bearded man screams beneath an ominous mountain ridge, surrounded by darkness

Official poster for I LOST SOMETHING IN THE HILLS, which screens at the Philisophical Research Society this Sunday as part of their program The Unseen!

Anyway props to NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD for just flat saying "in times of crisis your supposed protectors reveal themselves as the racist lynch mobs they always were" 57 years ago

reading Absolute Pleasure/revisiting Ligotti's stories, and editing a demented Gothic novella for submission 😈🎃👻

had a very demoralizing experience with this zine, pls drag them 🙌

A city bursts inside of me My head becomes heavy from bloom. The lake leaks out of my eyes. I'm pregnant with families. They spill onto my toes and set up tents. I can hear crying on my kneecaps. At night, a train shivers with longing.

Thrilled to have three tiny poems up on @havehashad.com!

www.havehashad.com/hadposts/amp...

Here’s one:

Transgender Dystopia Blues One especially dystopian week in the life of a trans person in 2025 USA. Things are getting worse.

An essay about death threats, censorship, loss, and the silence of cis people. All of these events happened in one week. I'm exhausted.

www.rosalarian.com/post/transge...

I'm 30 minutes into watching Lost Boys for the first time, and there's no heterosexual explanation for every single moment of this so far. Every single person looks like someone in my friend group and my friend group is queer as hell.

Michael Lerner in the film ANGUISH (1987). A worried looking man in stark shadows stands askew in a void of darkness, fists raised to chin level

A woman lit in green leaves a movie theatre audience. On the screen, another movie theatre audience is watching a black and white film.

A cut-out black and white image of a woman's eye fastened to a pendulum. it is in motion.

Michael Lerner, a man in glasses and a dark coat. he's lit in red from the side and his glasses reflect light so they glow

Watched ANGUISH (1987) and was shocked to basically find a meta-textual horror masterpiece. How has a movie this hypnotic, stylish, anxiety-inducing and weird gone so long without so much as a blu-ray release. If you can find a copy, go in knowing nothing.

I feel like I've been kicked in the head by a horse in the best way possible. When low-budget indie horror filmmakers have a strong clarity of vision and the moxie to pull it off, there is nothing that even comes close in terms of that exhilaration and raw fucking power

Iconic 🙌

It's been a little while since I've written a theoretical piece about Transness in cinema, or about transness in general. This one is about ghost stories, phantoms, and feeling embodied through disembodiment. It would be revealing to to screen FRAGMENT OF SEEKING in front of I SAW THE TV GLOW.

don't threaten ME with a good time...

Amazing cover art by @rosalarian.bsky.social

Me, a bearded white man, holding a copy of Absolute Pleasure

The title page to my essay "Who Lives in the Old Dark House?"

My contributor copies of ABSOLUTE PLEASURE arrived today from @margotatwell.bsky.social l and @feministpress.bsky.social ress - a dream come true!! Can't wait to read all these wonderful takes on one of my favorite movies

eternally grateful for the mind of CMM

easiest boycott 👌

It's pub day for ABSOLUTE PLEASURE! It's such a thrill to get to share this incredible collection of essays by 25 brilliant, funny, earnest, thoughtful, talented writers with the world.

#RockyHorror #RockyHorrorPictureShow

Absolute Pleasure — Feminist Press Margot Atwell Queer writers reflect on the complicated legacy of  The Rocky Horror Picture Show .

Absolute Pleasure is out today!! immensely honored to be featured in this tribute to one of my favorite movies 🧡🖤💋

www.feministpress.org/books-overfl...

new short story up today with beloved @hexliterary.bsky.social. It's about tiny jackets and everything else

Despicable conduct from DC and @safety.bsky.app . They should be ashamed

"PoLiTiCaL vIoLeNcE iS oNLy OkAy WhEn wE dO iT tO yOu."

Call your reps. We know that Dems will throw trans people under the bus even without the govt shutdown on the line. They need to hear from everyone but especially cis folks that this is not acceptable.

The Fan by David Marino In his youth, The Fan experienced joy. This was his first mistake. Now, The Fan anticipates the arrival of the newest incarnation of The IP. The new incarnation is a Bold New Direction for The IP a...

"In his youth, The Fan experienced joy. This was his first mistake."

Absolutely SMITTEN to feature a new @davidmarinowrites.bsky.social story this week! If you've ever been The Fan (I've been The Fan), then you won't want to miss this incredible look at the cult of IP and fandom! Go get it!

All-time favorite feel-bad read

If you haven't read Koja you need to go in the hole