Benjamin Larned 🍉

This goes doubly for queer creators. I guarantee you that even if you have nothing racier going on than longing looks and perhaps holding hands, if you write anything other than straight, gender conforming, and preferably white characters, they WILL come for you too.

Submissions close tomorrow!
December 4th is the last day to submit to Variant for our winter issue. Still time to send your poems, flash/micro series, or short stories to us! ✨️

variantlit.com/submit/

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100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…

Amazing to see ABSOLUTE PLEASURE on lithub's 100 Notable Small Press Books list!!! @margotatwell.bsky.social

lithub.com/100-notable-...

this story scared the daylights out of me as a child

Weird fiction

Sama'a's account has been deleted again. This concerted action against Palestinians fighting for survival on the part of Bluesky's moderation team is pure, unalloyed evil. Please give what you can.

tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily

this book is an excellent romcom antidote 🤌

I think my favorite romantic comedy is The Lighthouse.

Kiowa Gordon confronting a zombie soldier in Blood Quantum

Beatrice Dalle covered in blood, from Trouble Every Day

Doomed family prays over dinner in The Witch

Michael Gambon eats a corpse in The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

colonial meat day moodboard

Fuck STRANGER THINGS (on Netflix)

Noah Schnapp (plays Will Beyers) is a Zionist, racist, and genocide supporter.

He’s made horrible comments and been allowed to keep his job whilst they fired Susan Surandon and Melissa Berrara for speaking up for Palestine.

Can you sum up your gender in 4 fictional characters?

My Children Lost Their Mother—Don’t Let Them Lose Life Too Hello, my name is Sherif Samir Abdullah.I am 38 years oldA father of three children:

I was breaking, and you became the strength that pulled me back to life. Your support didn’t just save me it changed my children’s future. We still need you. Please don’t let go of us. Your presence keeps us alive. Bring us to life again .. 🍉🫂🤍🕊😕
Donation .. Share .. Pray 🙏

two acceptance emails today, which eldritch god do I thank for this?? 🎉

😭 why is this true though

recently had a dream that was fully cel-animated like a 70s children's program, in which I was slowly turning into a chaos gremlin lol

My solution was to not make arguments in favor of Israel, but I guess I'm just built different

Curiosity is sexy

Generative A.I., the thing that drives our whole economy right now, is a perfect metaphor for the abject failure of imagination on the part of the powerful. Generative A.I. has no imagination and offers no new insights. It's a mere predictive engine that uses statistics to find the most likely next thing. What's the next word in a sequence, the next pixel in a picture? This is the opposite of imagination, which is so often about finding the least likely thing, the startling incongruity. I worry that so many of us are outsourcing our imaginations and our whole creative selves to these stochastic parrots.

Excellent speech by @charliejane.bsky.social about imagination in service to society. Great stuff.

buttondown.com/charliejane/...

Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand wrecked my sleep for a night or two 🙌

#Shocktober Saloum (2021) - AMAZINGLY sweaty. Love a military vs supernatural film. Digs deep into local Senegalese lore to create a genuinely unique adversary. I really dig the central threesome and the filmmaking is beautiful, but I do wish the supporting cast got a little more characterization.

Observing Trans Day of Remembrance 2025 Remembering those we’ve lost over the past year.

Good evening all. For this year's Trans Day of Remembrance (TDOR), TFR remembers three transfeminine authors who passed away this year: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (78), Valerie Amelia Thompson (38), and Michelle Duff (85) 🖤

We also remember 367+ victims of anti-trans violence and suicide 🕯️

#tdor

Copied from Equality Florida:
We hold space, grief, and love for every life taken — including Girlalala, a 21-year-old Black transgender woman who was brutally murdered in Broward County just days ago.
#TransgenderDayofRemembrance

A still from Pan's Labyrinth. In an underground cavern with a carven monolith, a tree-like faun stands across from a girl in a nightgown.

rewatched Pan's Labyrinth for the first time in 10+ years and it's even more exquisite than I remembered. perfect viewing for the times, and the faun is a top 5 creature design

Horror’s lack of respectability is a strength of the genre. It gives us freedom and prevents (some of) us from taking ourselves too seriously

Still, fruitlessly, holding out for a second season of Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet Of Curiosities. There are so many stories that would make an incredible episode of an anthology horror series.

An old travel poster for Palestine.

Hold on, friends! It's going to get spooky! To celebrate 10k followers, I'm answering your questions about Palestinian folklore here in this mega thread.

Just watched Save the Green Planet, can't WAIT for this

genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died